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Irish Inventions

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  • #62
    Ruu
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw6rEx0085Y


  • #63
    fryup
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    the car bomb?


  • #64
    darkpagandeath
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    fryup wrote: »
    the car bomb?

    Was that not an American ? Or being technical the precursor was the Dutch ship bomb ?


  • #65
    VincePP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 982 ✭✭✭VincePP


    Brennan's Bread - invented by old Mr Brennan amd without which there'd be no Tayto Sangwich.


  • #66
    somefeen
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    cdeb wrote: »
    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.

    Offaly also gave us Brian Cowen.....


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  • #67
    Odelay
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    somefeen wrote: »
    Offaly also gave us Brian Cowen.....

    But isn't a Neanderthal is a product of evolution, not an invention?


  • #68
    endacl
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    Bodhrán.
    Hurling.
    Cork.

    One if the above is not a good thing.


  • #69
    corsav6
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    The brown envelope.


  • #70
    Beanntraigheach
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    The Time Machine - invented by me, 70 years from now.

    I came back to see what Ireland was like before WWIII, unfortunately something went wrong and now I'm trapped here!:eek:


  • #71
    VincePP
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    Interesting one -

    John Walker from Kilkenny invented the caterpillar track for moving machinery on rough ground.


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  • #72
    Samsgirl
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    The Blaa


  • #73
    bnt
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    The modern science of Seismology was started by a certain Robert Mallet of Trinity College Dublin in the 1830s, and he even coined the term in an 1846 paper. He wasn't the first to study earthquakes, of course, but before Mallet it wasn't rigorous. He was the first to use explosives to study how shock waves propagated through rock layers, for example.

    The concept of the Boycott might not have been in Ireland, but it was an Irish priest who (reportedly) Verbed the name of an English land owner to describe how the locals treated him. :p

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #74
    M5
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    The Irish invention used worldwide and 1000's of times in this thread is the space between words.


  • #75
    pickarooney
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    Edward Hopper wrote: »
    Sugru. Fantastic stuff.

    https://sugru.com

    Cheers. Couldn't remember the name of that and was looking to order some.


  • #76
    kildare lad
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    the carbomb


  • #77
    Capt'n Midnight
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    kildare lad wrote: »
    the carbomb
    No.

    But we did invent the proxy bomb :(


  • #78
    maudgonner
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    M5 wrote: »
    The Irish invention used worldwide and 1000's of times in this thread is the space between words.

    This is my favourite one yet. I had to Google it to make sure it wasn't a windup.


  • #79
    Capt'n Midnight
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    We invented copyright as the rights holders will keep telling you.

    But they don't mention the 3,000 people killed in the ensuing Battle of Cúl Dreimhne which overturned the decision.


  • #80
    M5
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    maudgonner wrote: »
    This is my favourite one yet. I had to Google it to make sure it wasn't a windup.

    That and Boole, world changing


  • #81
    failinis
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    No.

    But we did invent the proxy bomb :(

    Really? No so positive but interesting. :(


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  • #82
    [Deleted User]
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    Submarine, - not Ireland

    http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-submarine1.htm


  • #83
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,466 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Were we the first to put traffic lights on roundabouts ?


  • #84
    ted1
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    bnt wrote: »
    The modern science of Seismology was started by a certain Robert Mallet of Trinity College Dublin in the 1830s, and he even coined the term in an 1846 paper. He wasn't the first to study earthquakes, of course, but before Mallet it wasn't rigorous. He was the first to use explosives to study how shock waves propagated through rock layers, for example.

    The concept of the Boycott might not have been in Ireland, but it was an Irish priest who (reportedly) Verbed the name of an English land owner to describe how the locals treated him. :p

    I was going to say Robert Mallet, he discovered / invented it on killiney beach.

    http://sciencespin.com/articles/7-blog/109-robert-mallett-ireland-s-father-of-seismology


  • #85
    fryup
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    kneecapping ?


  • #86
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,565 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    It seems we also invented bitter unionists judging by some posts here.


  • #87
    bnt
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    steddyeddy wrote: »
    It seems we also invented bitter unionists judging by some posts here.
    Well, you've got to be careful, I guess, considering Ireland's Colonial past. I thought about mentioning the useful statistical innovations by "Student", an analyst working at Guinness a century about, but the guy behind the name (W.S. Gossett) was English, recruited from Oxford by Guinness, and spent more of his life there than in Ireland. Oh well. :o

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #88
    Water John
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    Its a good one though BNT.


  • #89
    maryishere
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    Ford ( of the car fame) was originally from Co. Cork. Ford invented production line techniques for mass producing motor cars.


  • #90
    Water John
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    Ford, Ballinascarthy's best. See the metal replica on the road to Clon.
    Bit of a stretch to be an Irish inventor though, 2nd gen, I think.


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  • #91
    darkpagandeath
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    maryishere wrote: »
    Ford ( of the car fame) was originally from Co. Cork. Ford invented production line techniques for mass producing motor cars.

    I highly doubt that, for one ford invented mass production of Automobiles. The Automobile frame it will have been somewhere else. I highly doubt Ireland due to inventions of automobiles with internal combustion engines elsewhere.


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