Thread: My family roots, one side clear the other side dark.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

When you look at the development of business globally and in the early days the Irish were streets ahead of the Poms, Welsh and Jocks

Go on then. Name a famous Irish invention and inventor....

Pre-history
Ogham alphabet

14th century
Whiskey

17th century
1661: Modern Chemistry founded by Robert Boyle with the publication of The Sceptical Chymist
1662: Boyle's law discovered by Robert Boyle

18th century
1730: The concept of an entrepreneur - Richard Cantillon
1752: National Hunt racing

19th century
1805: Beaufort scale created by Francis Beaufort
1813: Clanny safety lamp created by William Reid Clanny
1820: 30 January, Edward Bransfield discovered the Antarctic Continent (mainland, islands were discovered earlier)
1820-25: The development of "Extra Stout" beer by The Second Arthur Guinness and others.
1831: Column still design enhanced and patented by Aeneas Coffey
1832: The Kyanizing process for preserving wood, created by John Howard Kyan
1834-35: The game of Croquet
1836: Induction coil created by Nicholas Callan
1843: Quaternion (a mathematical entity) first described by Sir William Rowan Hamilton
1844: Hollow needle in syringe created by Francis Rynd
1848: Kelvin scale created by William Thomson
1851: 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'.
1851: Binaural stethoscope created by Arthur Leared
1866: The Standard drop method of hanging developed by Dr Samuel Haughton
1874: Electron introduced as a concept by George Johnstone Stoney
1874: Brennan torpedo created by Louis Brennan
1879: The rules of Hurling first standardized with the foundation of the Irish Hurling Union
1880: Boycott triggered by Charles Boycott over a dispute with the Irish Land League
1884: Steam Turbine: Compound Steam Turbine developed by Anglo-Irish engineer Charles Algernon Parsons. The Parsons family were resident in Birr, Co. Offaly.
1888: Gregg Shorthand created by John Robert Gregg
1894: Joly colour screen created by John Joly
1891: Tattoo machine created by Samuel O'Reilly
1897: Modern submarine design created by John Philip Holland.
Saccharimeter created by Rev John Jellet from Cashel, County Tipperary (1817–1888)

20th century
1900: Reflector sight created by Howard Grubb.
1910s: Radiotherapy developed by John Joly.
1926: Three point linkage, patented by Harry Ferguson.
1930: Nickel-zinc battery created by Dr. James Drumm.
1930s: The first disintegration of an atomic nucleus by artificially accelerated protons (splitting the atom) discovered by Ernest Walton et al
1946: Ejection seat - first live test of a reliable, successful modern ejection seat developed by James Martin
1954: Clofazimine first synthesized by a medical research team led by Cork man Vincent Barry at Trinity College, Dublin.
1965: Portable defibrillator created by Frank Pantridge.
1967: Pulsar co-discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
1970s: Positive end-expiratory pressure technique for treatment of pulmonary contusion - developed by staff at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.

And, while we're at it, Guerrilla Warfare.