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#Otd 1888: #Shantonagh, Co #Monaghan's John Robert Gregg published & copyrighted his own system of shorthand in Liverpool; Gregg Shorthand! Was whispering as child; schoolmaster hit 2 heads together causing hearing loss! See my thread on #IrishInventions! https://t.co/bkVJHV1NzE
I'm starting a new thread on Irish inventions! I'll be going from pre-History to 20th century & covering far more then the few mentioned in the link! I hope you'll be amazed at how many #inventions come from #Ireland! @theirelandguide #IrishInventions https://t.co/87t2Q1QMzI
#Otd 1885: The cream cracker was manufactured commercially by Jacobβs bakery in #Dublin. It was 1st invented by Joseph Haughton, in his home, also in Dublin. See my thread on this & other #IrishInventions! https://t.co/U3YYAKtR4X
@CamdenFtMeagher @tcddublin @UNESCO @BirrCastle 1885: The Cream Cracker was invented by Joseph Haughton in his home in #Dublin & first manufactured by William Jacob in his bakery in Dublin. The name refers to the method in which the mixture is creamed during manufacture. π·: @JacobsSnacks Ireland factory 1910. #IrishInventions
@CamdenFtMeagher @tcddublin @UNESCO @BirrCastle @JacobsSnacks @NLIreland @USNavy @RoyalNavy @EPFL @palaisdecouvert @ucddublin @Cambridge_Uni @wesleycollege @MethodyBelfast @NobelPrize @MrTaytoIreland @MrTaytoNI @taytopark @nuigalway @hrbireland @leprosytalk @FSLnews @QUBelfast 1967: Pulsar discovered by #Lurgan, Co #Armagh's Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell DBE FRS FRSE FRAS FInstP. As postgraduate student, discovered 1st radio pulsars but controversially @NobelPrize in Physics went to her thesis supervisor & another astronomer, not to her! #IrishInventions
@CamdenFtMeagher @tcddublin @UNESCO @BirrCastle @JacobsSnacks @NLIreland @USNavy @RoyalNavy @EPFL @palaisdecouvert @ucddublin @Cambridge_Uni @wesleycollege @MethodyBelfast @NobelPrize @MrTaytoIreland @MrTaytoNI @taytopark @nuigalway @hrbireland @leprosytalk 1965: Portable defibrillator created by #Hillsborough, Co #Down's Frank Pantridge, CBE, MC, OStJ, MD. Educated at @FSLnews, & @QUBelfast where he was Prof. Cardiologist at Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. 1st version in a Belfast ambulance; used car batteries! #IrishInventions
@CamdenFtMeagher @tcddublin @UNESCO @BirrCastle @JacobsSnacks @NLIreland @USNavy @RoyalNavy @EPFL @palaisdecouvert @ucddublin @Cambridge_Uni @wesleycollege @MethodyBelfast @NobelPrize @MrTaytoIreland @MrTaytoNI @taytopark 1954: anti-leprosy drug, Clofazimine (ineffective for TB), 1st synthesised by team led by Sunday's Well, #Cork's Vincent Barry at @tcddublin. 1980 @UNESCO Science Prize. Educated at @ucddublin. Worked at @nuigalway, @hrbireland & @leprosytalk in Zimbabwe & India. #IrishInventions
@CamdenFtMeagher @tcddublin @UNESCO @BirrCastle @JacobsSnacks @NLIreland 1894: cohesion-tension theory proposed by Prof John Joly FRS & Prof Henry Horatio Dixon FRS at @tcddublin. Explains process of water flow upwards (against force of gravity) through the xylem of plants. Water a polar molecule & other intermolecular forces is how. #IrishInventions
@CamdenFtMeagher @tcddublin @UNESCO @BirrCastle @JacobsSnacks 1894: Joly colour screen created by #Bracknagh, Co #Offaly's John Joly. Could not achieve look of "natural colour". Many of his colour slides esp botanical subjects held by @NLIreland. @tcddublin (Engineering & Modern Literature), then Chair Geology & Mineralogy. #IrishInventions
@CamdenFtMeagher @tcddublin @UNESCO @BirrCastle @JacobsSnacks 1888: #Shantonagh, Co #Monaghan's John Robert Gregg created his own system of shorthand, called Gregg Shorthand, in Liverpool. Caught whispering as child, so schoolmaster hit 2 heads together causing hearing loss! #IrishInventions
@CamdenFtMeagher @tcddublin @UNESCO @BirrCastle 1885: The Cream Cracker was invented by Joseph Haughton in his home in #Dublin & first manufactured by William Jacob in his bakery in Dublin. The name refers to the method in which the mixture is creamed during manufacture. π·: @JacobsSnacks Ireland factory 1910. #IrishInventions
@CamdenFtMeagher @tcddublin @UNESCO 1884: Compound Steam Turbine dev'd by Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, OM, KCB, FRS. Son of astronomer William Parsons of @BirrCastle. Made cheap/plentiful electricity possible & revolutionised marine transport & naval warfare e.g. HMS Dreadnought. π·: 2017 Euro. #IrishInventions
#Otd 1792: Birth in #Dublin of Rev Thomas Romney Robinson, astronomer & physicist. Director of the Armagh Astronomical Observatory. Also, the inventor of a device for measuring the speed of the wind, the Robinson cup-anemometer (1846)! #IrishInventions
@CamdenFtMeagher @tcddublin @UNESCO 1880: 'Boycott' entered English language during the Irish "Land War". Captain Charles Boycott, land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in Lough Mask House, near Ballinrobe, Co Mayo was subject to social ostracism organised by Irish Land League! #IrishInventions
1866: The Standard drop method of hanging developed by Dr Samuel Haughton, from #Carlow. Proposed the rope be lengthened (depending on weight), allowing the victim to fall further. Son of a Quaker, but himself a Unitarian he wanted a more humane method. #IrishInventions
Anne Acheson (1882β1962), #Portadown, Co #Armagh sculptor educated @VCBTweets, @BelfastSchArt & @RCA. As a sculptor, she went on to develop plaster of Paris for use in treating limb injuries in #WW1! Video: #WomenInHistory #IrishInventions #lestweforget https://t.co/cSrMtLWi9x
1865: The 1st Transatlantic telegraph cable was pioneered by Belfast's Sir William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin on Valentia Island, Co Kerry. For this work he was knighted in 1866 by Queen Victoria. @Love_Antrim #IrishInventions https://t.co/yPi7sNv3pu
The Steeplechase originated in Ireland! Horses & riders raced from one town's steeple to next! Steeples were used as markers due to their visibility over long distances! Along the way runners inevitably had to jump streams & low stone walls separating estates! #IrishInventions
Here's my thread again on #IrishInventions! I'm only part way through the 19th century & there are SO many more to tweet about! #Ireland #Inventions π¬βπ‘ #ScienceWeek
I'm starting a new thread on Irish inventions! I'll be going from pre-History to 20th century & covering far more then the few mentioned in the link! I hope you'll be amazed at how many #inventions come from #Ireland! @theirelandguide #IrishInventions https://t.co/87t2Q1QMzI
For more Irish Inventions from people like William Rowan Hamilton, have a read of my thread on #IrishInventions that I have started! I'm only half way through the 19th century, and there's many more to tweet about!
I'm starting a new thread on Irish inventions! I'll be going from pre-History to 20th century & covering far more then the few mentioned in the link! I hope you'll be amazed at how many #inventions come from #Ireland! @theirelandguide #IrishInventions https://t.co/87t2Q1QMzI
1859: Greenhouse Effect theory proven by John Tyndall, from #Leighlinbridge, Co #Carlow. Reasoned from experimental observations by measuring radiative properties of specific greenhouse gases. Quote v applicable to attitudes to #GreenhouseEffect! #IrishInventions
1856: Icosian calculus (a non-commutative algebraic structure) discovered by Dublin born, Sir William Rowan Hamilton. He had earlier in 1843 discovered the Quaternion (a mathematical entity). #maths #mathematics #IrishInventions https://t.co/tX3OMMb3pn
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