Irish Inventions

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.

Water John

The original father or thinker of the Cooperative movement was a Townsend from Cork.
I believe the father of economics is often attributed to someone from Kerry, can't think of the name. Not Healy Rae!!

cdeb

Richard Cantillon?

darkpagandeath

Would not a lot of this be the principle of an invention. using a number of other inventions to produce a larger one like a sub for example. You know like the helicopter could be argued to have been invented in ancient china as a toy paper one. Not until other inventions made the modern helicopter possible we only had the principle.

Water John

Well someone once put it that, we weren't the greatest inventors in the world but the greatest adaptors. We are very good a tweaking an idea to make it better.

paul71

Ok this without google but wasn't Marconi the Italian inventor of the radio half Irish, I seem the remember that his mother was a Jameson of the Whiskey family and that a good deal of his research funds came from the Jamesons.

11wingnut

martinedwards wrote: »

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

And he invented hydraulics,

Water John

Hydraulics, based on Boyle.
Just showing the links.

cdeb

paul71 wrote: »

Ok this without google but wasn't Marconi the Italian inventor of the radio half Irish, I seem the remember that his mother was a Jameson of the Whiskey family and that a good deal of his research funds came from the Jamesons.

Another good call.

Married an Irishwoman as well.

rubadub

maudgonner wrote: »

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)

In some states in the US prisoners who weigh too much will not be hung as it would decapitate them.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/11225694/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/prisoner-once-found-too-fat-hang-dies/#.Vvb3Zk4VzUI

Rupe shot two Olympia bank tellers to death at point-blank range during a 1981 robbery.
Juries twice sentenced him to death, but higher courts overturned the sentences. In 1994, a federal judge upheld his conviction but agreed with Rupe’s contention that at 400 pounds, he was too fat to hang because of the risk of decapitation.
At the time, Washington’s only manner of execution was hanging.
The main method now is lethal injection, although a condemned inmate can still opt for hanging.
Relatives of victims Twila Capron and Candace Hemmig attended numerous court hearings over the years, hoping to see him executed.

mdebets

60 posts and no one mentioned alcohol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-yQ4s6IBec

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