- List of Irish inventions and discoveries
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Irish inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques which owe their existence either partially or entirely to an Irish person. Often, things which are discovered for the first time, are also called "inventions", and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two. Below is a list of such inventions.
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14th century
- Caid (precursor to modern Gaelic football)
- Irish 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
- Irish road bowling
19th century
- 1806: Beaufort scale created by Francis Beaufort
- 1813: Clanny safety lamp created by William Reid Clanny[1]
- 1831: Column still design enhanced and patented by Aeneas Coffey
- 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
- 1851: Seismology founded by Robert Mallet (1810 - 1881), Dublin man Robert Mallet 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
- 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
- 1888: Gregg Shorthand created by John Robert Gregg
- 1894: Joly colour screen created by John Joly
- 1897: first military-commissioned submarine created by John Philip Holland
20th century
- 1900 Reflector sight, invented by Howard Grubb
- 1910s: Radiotherapy founded by John Joly
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- Kelvin scale created by William Thomson
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- 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.[2]
- 1965: Portable defribrillator created by Frank Pantridge
- 1967: Pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- 1981: Catalytic Converter created by Joe Kavanagh
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