Timeline o Erse inventions an diskiveries

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Erse inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques thit awe thair existence aither pairtly or halely tae an Erse body. Aftentimes, things thit are diiskivert for the first time, are cawed "inventions" an aw, an in mony cases, thare isnae clear line atweesh thaim. Thare is a list o sic inventions ablow.

Pre-history[eedit | eedit soorce]

  • Ogham alphabet.[1]
  • Iomániocht (Scuaib/Camán/Ioman) - precursors tae modren Hurling[2]

6t yearhunner[eedit | eedit soorce]

The sacrament o confession Penitential

14t yearhunner[eedit | eedit soorce]

17t yearhunner[eedit | eedit soorce]

  • Erse road bowlin.[4]
  • 1661: Modren chemistrie foondit bi Robert Boyle wi the publication o The Sceptical Chymist.[5]
  • 1662: Boyle's law diskivert bi Robert Boyle.[6]
  • 1680s: European adaptation o Drinkin chocolate - Hans Sloane.[7] Hounaiver, this "adaption" is awfu disputit. Bi the wey o historian Jame Delbougo, the Jamaicans ware brewin “a hot beverage brewed frae shavins o cacao thit wis harvestit fresh, bylet wi milk an cinnamon” as faur back as 1494.[8]

18t yearhunner[eedit | eedit soorce]

  • 1730: The concept o an entrepreneur - Richard Cantillon.[9]

19t yearhunner[eedit | eedit soorce]

  • 1805: Beaufort scale creautit bi Francis Beaufort.[10]
  • 1809: Milk of Magnesia diskivert bi James Murray.[11]
  • 1813: Clanny sauftie lamp creautit bi William Reid Clanny.
  • 1820: 30t Januar, Edward Bransfield diskivert the Antarctic Continent (mainland, islands war discovered earlier).[12]
  • 1820: Modern meat curin an the Bacon Rasher war inventit bi Henry Denny, a Waterford butcher, in 1820[13]
  • 1821: The development of "Extra Stout" beer by The Second Arthur Guinness and others.[14]
  • 1831: Column still design enhanced and patented by Aeneas Coffey.[15]
  • 1831: William Brooke O'Shaughnessy pioneered the cure for cholera through Intravenous therapy
  • 1832: The Kyanizing process for preserving wood, created by John Howard Kyan.[16]
  • 1834: The game of Croquet.[17]
  • 1836: Induction coil created by Nicholas Callan.[18]
  • 1843: Quaternion (a mathematical entity) first described by Sir William Rowan Hamilton.[19]
  • 1844: Hollow needle in syringe created by Francis Rynd.[20]
  • 1846: Seismology founded by Robert Mallet, who used dynamite explosions to measure the speed of elastic waves in surface rocks - pioneering and coining the word 'seismology'.[21]
  • 1848: Kelvin scale created by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin.[22]
  • 1851: Binaural stethoscope created by Arthur Leared.[23]
  • 1856: Icosian calculus discovered by Sir William Rowan Hamilton.[24]
  • 1859: Greenhouse Effect theory proven by John Tyndall.[25]
  • 1865: The first Transatlantic telegraph cable pioneered by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin on Valentia Island.[26]
  • 1866: The Standard drop method of hanging developed by Dr Samuel Haughton.[27]
  • 1874:
    • Electron introduced as a concept by George Johnstone Stoney.[28]
    • Brennan torpedo created by Louis Brennan.[29]
  • 1879: The rules of Hurling first standardised with the foundation of the Erse Hurling Union.[30]
  • 1880: Boycott triggered by Charles Boycott over a dispute with the Erse Land League.[31]
  • 1884: Steam Turbine: Compound Steam Turbine developed by Anglo-Erse engineer Charles Algernon Parsons.[32]
  • 1885: The Cream Cracker was invented by Joseph Haughton in his home in Dublin and first manufactured by William Jacob in his bakery in Dublin.[33]
  • 1888: Gregg Shorthand created by John Robert Gregg.[34]
  • 1894: Joly colour screen created by John Joly.[35]
  • 1894: cohesion-tension theory proposed by John Joly and Henry Horatio Dixon at Trinity College Dublin[36]
  • 1897: Modern submarine design created by John Philip Holland.[37]
  • Saccharimeter created by Rev John Jellet from Cashel, County Tipperary (1817–1888).

20t yearhunner[eedit | eedit soorce]

  • 1901: Reflector sight creautit bi Howard Grubb.[38]
  • 1914: Radiotherapy developit bi John Joly.[39]
  • 1928: Three point linkage, patentit bi Harry Ferguson.[40]
  • 1930: Nickel-zinc battery creautit bi James J. Drumm.[41]
  • 1931: Sudocrem wis developit bi Dublin pharmacist Thomas Smith.
  • 1930s: The first disintegratin o an atomic nucleus bi artificially accelerated protons (spleettin the atom) diskivert bi Ernest Walton et al.
  • 1946: Ejection seat - first live test o a weel-trystit, successfu modren ejection seat developit bi James Martin[42]
  • 1940s: Warld first duty free airport shop at Shannon Airport, creautit bi Brendan O'Regan
  • 1950: Joseph 'Spud' Murphy an his employee Seamus Burke producit the warld's first seasoned crisps: Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar.[43] Companies warldwide war efter the richts tae Tayto's technique.[44]
  • 1954: Clofazimine first synthesized bi a medical resairch team heidit bi Cork man Vincent Barry at Trinity College, Dublin.
  • 1965: Portable defibrillator creautit bi Frank Pantridge.[45]
  • 1967: Pulsar diskivert bu Jocelyn Bell Burnell.[46]

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