Irish Inventions

failinis

Off the back of the nice thread, Well that's quite interesting - name inventions created by Irish people.

Commonly known ones include;

• Portable Defibrillator- by Professor Frank Pantridge, Co Down

• Submarine - by John P Holland from Co Clare, preliminary drawings in 1859.

• Nuclear Physics- by Ernest Walton, Waterford, first person to artificially split the atom.

• Rechargeable nickel-zinc battery - by Dr James Drumm, Co. Down.

• Chemistry, pneumatic pump, the first match, a perpetual motion machine, and discovered decompression sickness - by Robert Boyle, Waterford

• Steerable Torpedoand gyroscopically balanced monorail system - by Louis Brennan, Co, Mayo

• Rubber Soles - by Humphrey O'Sullivan, Cork.

• Ejector Seats - by Sir James Martin, Co.Down

• Hypodermic Syringe - by Francis Rynd, Dublin

• Colour photography and radiotherapy for cancer - by John Joly,Offaly.

• Tattoo Machine - by Samuel O' Reilly

• Flavoured crisps - by Joseph Murphy

• Chocolate Milk (and therefore Hot Chocolate) - by Hans Sloane

Then I found while reading:

Sir Samuel Davidson, born in Belfast in 1846. During his life he applied for more than 200 patents and was granted more than 120. He's credited with inventing a mechanical tea-dryer, a particular type of centrifugal fan and a hand-held Howitzer gun.

Anyone have any obscure ones, or just interesting ones?

(A link to back it up may be nice, in case people start disputing, as I know some may have technically been invented earlier but only put into practical use after tweaks by others and all that)

Not really an invention but Duty Free started in Shannon.

whiskeyman

Crisp sandwich

failinis

whiskeyman wrote: »

Crisp sandwich

And your username reminded me - Whiskey as well :P

National Hunt horse racing

diy.i.do

Jumbo breakfast roll

eh i dunno

Moaning about the weather

drunkmonkey

Chef Sauce

Clareman

Irish coffee.
Bitching about the pub being closed on Good Friday and not going any other Friday of the year either.

maudgonner

failinis wrote: »

Off the back of the nice thread, Well that's quite interesting - name inventions created by Irish people.

• Steerable Torpedoand gyroscopically balanced monorail system - by Louis Brennan, Co, Mayo

Brennan was also working on a design for a helicopter. But it never took off (boom boom)

Edward Hopper

Sugru. Fantastic stuff.

https://sugru.com

CelticRambler

Rashers. Invented by Mr. Denny in Waterford (so the legend goes)

failinis

CelticRambler wrote: »

Rashers. Invented by Mr. Denny in Waterford (so the legend goes)

I was reading about that, more to it than that - he reinvented how meat is cured.

Denny patented several bacon-curing techniques and completely re-invented the process of how to cure bacon.
Before this, bacon was cured by soaking large chunks of meat in brine.
Denny decided to use long flat pieces of meat instead of chunks and substituted the brine for dry salt.
Soon after, Denny began exporting to mainland Europe, the Americas and as far afield as India.
The overall quality and shelf-life of the bacon was dramatically increased. It was an ingenious but simple innovation for its time.

Bacon info via here

K.Flyer

Whilst he was a Scot living in Belfast at the time, he moved to Ballsbridge and was buried in Deansgrange Cemetery Dublin when he died.

John Boyd Dunlop

In October 1887, John Boyd Dunlop developed the first practical pneumatic or inflatable tyre for his son's tricycle using his knowledge and experience with rubber, in the yard of his home in Belfast

martinedwards

Harry Ferguson: 3 point linkage on the back of a tractor

as well as the 4 wheel drive system used on Range rovers, landrovers and F1 cars back in the day.

he was also the pilot of the first powered aircraft flight in Ireland

Hercule Poirot

Tayto sandwiches

DEFTLEFTHAND

Francis Beaufort was a Navan man (Beaufort wind force scale)

maudgonner

Rooster potatoes were developed by Teagasc, cultivated to be an all-rounder variety that suited Irish tastes and climate.

They've quite quickly taken a huge share of the market in Ireland, made big inroads in the UK and are gaining market share further afield.

wetlandsboy

Prof Peter Corcoran, lecturer, NUI Galway - red eye reduction and face tracking in cameras. https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/2010/01/27/digital-camera-expert-elected-fellow-of-ieee

StupidLikeAFox

maudgonner wrote: »

Rooster potatoes were developed by Teagasc, cultivated to be an all-rounder variety that suited Irish tastes and climate.

They've quite quickly taken a huge share of the market in Ireland, made big inroads in the UK and are gaining market share further afield.

Excuse my ignorance, but does teageasc get a cut from those sales? Do they "own" the potato, sell the seeds or what way does this work?

maudgonner

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

Excuse my ignorance, but does teageasc get a cut from those sales? Do they "own" the potato, sell the seeds or what way does this work?

I don't really know the details tbh (I'm a potato consumer, not a producer ), but I know they have a relationship with a company that markets & sells seed potatoes here & abroad (IPM).

rsh118

The jumbo breakfast roll, unprecedented in the curing of self-inflicted ailments.

harry Bailey esq

Casting my mind back to primary school in the 80s i vaguely recall irish involment in the invention of the submarine. Philip something or other he was called. Probably disproven now.

maudgonner

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

Casting my mind back to primary school in the 80s i vaguely recall irish involment in the invention of the submarine. Philip something or other he was called. Probably disproven now.

It's in the OP (unless it's a different guy you're remembering). John P Holland from Co Clare.

LDN_Irish

The waterproof teabag, chocolate teapot and inflatable dartboards were all invented by kerry people.

gw80

Crackers, invented by one mr jacobs in Waterford, for the shipping industry

maudgonner

LDN_Irish wrote: »

The waterproof teabag, chocolate teapot and inflatable dartboards were all invented by kerry people.

Ah here, you left out underwater hairdryers!

failinis

Viagra and Milk of Magnesia invented by guys from the North as well.

cdeb

William McCrum invented the penalty in football.

Rhys Essien

Irish-Americans

Louis Sullivan - the modern skyscraper
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan

Henry Ford - the first mass 'cheap' car
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford


Irish-Australian

John O'Sullivan - Wifi
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Sullivan_(engineer)

harry Bailey esq

maudgonner wrote: »

It's in the OP (unless it's a different guy you're remembering). John P Holland from Co Clare.

I picked up the snippet in the mid eighties as a child,decades of hard living tend to 'muddy the waters' a little but I was in the ballpark
so im happy enough with that.

Rhys Essien

LDN_Irish wrote: »

The waterproof teabag, chocolate teapot and inflatable dartboards were all invented by kerry people.

Don't forget the ejector seat for the helicopter.

CrabRevolution

Fr. Nicholas Callan. Inventor of the induction coil, an early form of transformer still used today in the ignition systems of cars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Callan

Harry Palmr

Your petrol car wouldn't get far without an induction coil

maudgonner

A bit morbid, but an Irish man, Samuel Haughton, invented a more humane method of hanging.

Originally people were hanged on a short rope and would be strangled to death. He figured out that if they were dropped from a greater height, the sudden jerk on the rope would break their necks and they died much more quickly. It was called the standard drop method.

It was later replaced by the long drop (which varied the length of the drop according to the person's weight and height - aiming to kill them quickly but not - brace yourselves for gruesomeness - decapitate them)

cdeb

Good call on that one alright.

A little bit off topic, but still interesting, is that the world's first car fatality and the world's first air disaster both happened in Offaly.

MacauDragon

A dub invented the hypodermic needle.

Well done genius.

ToddyDoody

Begrudgery was invented here in the 1400s.

Wibbs

Rhys Essien wrote: »

Don't forget the ejector seat for the helicopter.

Believe it or not there have been several designs for them. Some fired the occupant sideways out of the chopper, another fired explosive bolts that blew the main rotors in sequence and then ejected the occupant as usual.

the groutch

Stira (as seen on The Late Late Show)

monkeysnapper

The DE-lorean Time machine .

amdublin

Sudocrem:
Dublin-based Irish pharmacist Thomas Smith invented the household favourite that is Sudocrem in 1931. Originally marketed as “Smith’s Cream”, it was not available in the UK until the 1970s.




On that topic what the heck is this????
http://mirror.uncyc.org/wiki/Sudocrem

stimpson

George Boole invented Boolean logic which is how digital electronics do all the cool stuff.

darkpagandeath

stimpson wrote: »

George Boole invented Boolean logic which is how digital electronics do all the cool stuff.

Lincoln ??

cdeb

stimpson wrote: »

George Boole invented Boolean logic which is how digital electronics do all the cool stuff.

He was English; didn't move to Ireland till his 30s I think.

I like how he died though -

wiki wrote:

In late November 1864, Boole walked, in heavy rain, from his home at Lichfield Cottage in Ballintemple to the university, a distance of three miles, and lectured wearing his wet clothes. He soon became ill, developing a severe cold and high fever. As his wife believed that remedies should resemble their cause, she put her husband to bed and poured buckets of water over him – the wet having brought on his illness. Boole's condition worsened and on 8 December 1864, he died of fever-induced pleural effusion.

His wife's uncle was George Everest, after whom the mountain was named (and mis-pronounced)

BalcombeSt4

Television, Telephone, Books, Newspapers, Batteries, Swimsuit = All invented by the Irish in Irish underground tunnel.

The flying mouse

Red lemonade ?

stimpson

cdeb wrote: »

He was English; didn't move to Ireland till his 30s I think.

I don't care. He was living in Cork when he wrote his books on algebra and logic so we're claiming him and that's that.

cdeb

Take that, Sky News!

cdeb

Also, I had a notion the hovercraft was invented by an Irish guy, but looking it up on wiki, it seems one of the earlier designs was by a guy born in the Vatican (or what's now the Vatican anyway). Can't be too many of them!

maudgonner

I'm going to throw in the boycott as well.

I'm sure versions of it probably existed before we did it, but we perfected it and we named it, so what the hell.