10 things you probably never knew the Irish invented!

ciarang85

the ejector seat & a cure for leprosy apparently

Jesus Wept

Chocolate milk ftw.

Sindri

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Absolute Zero :P

Second law of thermodynamics.

Current balance.

Induction coil, the thing that makes the spark that makes petrol engines work

Radiotherapy.

Head up display (reflector sight)


Were we the first to put traffic lights on roundabouts ?

Who was responsible for inventing them?


O' Connell invented the modern peaceful democratic civil rights movement and the tactics used by peaceful civil rights movements which were.....peace.....

anthonyos

drunkness

Jesus Wept

An Irishman invented the penalty kick. We will all be toasting him tomorrow when the Italians beat England on penos.

ejmaztec

vard wrote: »

Wasn't it an Irish lad who invented the seismograph?

He also invented the craic.

Creature

It's a massive stretch to claim Ernest Walton invented the atomic bomb. He was one of the first physicists to split the atom, hardly the same thing.

humbert

Creature wrote: »

It's a massive stretch to claim Ernest Walton invented the atomic bomb. He was one of the first physicists to split the atom, hardly the same thing.

Even less impressive since he was working under Rutherford.

razorblunt

Handy footballers and lovely hurlers

qwerty93

Pushtrak wrote: »

Incorrect. It originated in Dublin.

Incorrect.It originated in Kildare. (Leixlip)

mikemac1

Yes, that's correct about Leixlip ^^^^
Was going to post that




Lucozade was invented in Cork
Sudocream was invented in Dublin
John Dunlop invented the pneumatic tyre. He was a Scot but his company was in Belfast and he showed it to the world in a bike race in Dublin. So we'll claim him

Adyx

portumnadaz wrote: »

Out of all those names only two are native irish names.

So? I don't have a native Irish name (it's Norman), does that mean I'm French?

Dravokivich

vard wrote: »

Wasn't it an Irish lad who invented the seismograph?

Developed out in killeney as far as I can remember.

gavmcg92

The humane hangman’s drop: geologist, Quaker and medical man, Samuel Haughton, who realised in the 1860s that a longer drop was needed if a condemned man was to break his neck and die quickly, rather than suffocate slowly at the end of a short rope.

:eek:


also am I correct in thinking that Viagra was invented in the pfizer labs in Cork? :P


Ohhh ohh ohhh! Hold the press! Looks like we invented chocolate ... and ... wait for it ... chocolate milk!

Surprised no one has yet mentioned the submarine. The first practical example of which was developed by John Holland, an Irishman.

We Irish can be surprisingly good at things when we stop hating ourselves for a minute.

Adyx

Deleted User wrote: »

Surprised no one has yet mentioned the submarine. The first practical example of which was developed by John Holland, an Irishman.

We Irish can be surprisingly good at things when we stop hating ourselves for a minute.

It was mentioned several times. It's even in the OP.

gavmcg92

Turns out we invented the rubber shoe too Cork born Humphrey O'Sullivan

Mance Rayder

bnt wrote: »

An Irish architect, James Hoban, "invented" the White House in Washington DC - drawing inspiration from Leinster House in Dublin among others.

Thats actualy true. He designed Belcamp house, now known as Belcamp college near Bewleys beside Darndale/Clarehall. It incorperates his oval office into its architecture. This was to develop into the design for the white house.;)

Mance Rayder

Dracula.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Wind speed measuring. Irish Royal Navy Officer Sir William Beaufort gave his name to the Beaufort Scale.

FISMA

A few other items
- Boolean Algebra
- The Fenian Ram - modern submarine
- The design of the White House - James Hoban
- Boyle's Law

Mance Rayder

FISMA wrote: »

A few other items
- Boolean Algebra
- The Fenian Ram - modern submarine
- The design of the White House - James Hoban
- Boyle's Law

These have all been mentioned several times, Boolean Algebra was invented by George Boole, and Englishman born and reared so we can't claim that one. Algebra is an invention by a man from an area called Chorasmia which is now contained in modern Uzbekistan. He was Persian.

ygolometsipe

An Irish man invented me!

mikemac1

We didn't invent boycotting but we got the credit for the name and took it to a whole new level

Michael Davitt and the good folk of Co Mayo

pirelli

Pushtrak wrote: »

1944?

1929 - Was then used to split the atom. I would speculate, still is 7 years after the war of independence.

Pushtrak

qwerty93 wrote: »

Incorrect.It originated in Kildare. (Leixlip)

Oh yeah? So, what happened? Some massive revisionist campaign?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/famous-brewer-expands-with-national-launch-of-guinness-black-lager-128316313.html
http://www.kgbanswers.co.uk/where-did-guiness-originate-from/2509331
http://www.chacha.com/question/what-country-does-guiness-originate-from

mikemac1

All foreign websites ^^^^^

The posters here know better
Leixlip is correct

Pushtrak

Forgive me if I don't take your word for it.

mikemac1

Well if you are going to quote wikipedia I'll do the same

The town was also home to Arthur Guinness's first brewery in 1755, where he brewed ales until he moved on to St. James's Gate Brewery, Dublin in 1759, where he first brewed Guinness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leixlip

fatherbuzcagney

Rain. Not a 100% sure if the irish invented rain but its the home of it.

IvySlayer

We defintely invented the folding stairs for attics.

Gloomtastic!

Colour Catchers - those little pieces of cloth you stick in your wash to stop your red jocks running into your white shirt. How many times has it not worked

Ellis Dee

I believe it was an Irishman who invented the "patent method" that the Scots use to remove fusil oils from their whisky. He tried to see the gadget to the Irish distillers before he went to Scotland, but they refused to take him seriously ---:):):)

Possibly because his name was Coffey.:pac::pac:

Wibbs

Robert Mallet from Dublin, sometimes called the father of seismology. Invented the name for the emerging science and also came up with the term "epicentre". IIRC he blew up bits of Killiney beach to test his theories. As you do.

Wibbs

Going further back to the "dark ages" it seems we may have come up with tidal mills and without us in those times, preserving, spreading and embellishing knowledge from the Classical world and our own the future of Europe may have looked very different.

Lyaiera

Pushtrak wrote: »

Begrudgery?

I like how it was the second post that said begrudgery in a very ironic fit of begrudgery towards the idea that Irish people invented stuff.

Me? I'm meta all up in this thang.

Capt'n Midnight

Sindri wrote: »

Who was responsible for inventing them?

Lord Kelvin for the thinking stuff

And the induction coil by Nicholas Callan

Capt'n Midnight

We invented copyright infringement

AND winning the battle over it.

Capt'n Midnight

Adyx wrote: »

So? I don't have a native Irish name (it's Norman), does that mean I'm French?

The Normans came from Scandinavia so...

3ndahalfof6

swimming and carrots and leprechauns

frozenfrozen

bb1234567 wrote: »

http://prasannaellanti.com/10-weird-things-you-never-knew-the-irish-invented/

Colour photography,armoured tanks...the atomic bomb:eek: who would of known? we're pretty amazing considering how small a country we are population wise.Anyone here ever even know we invented any of those things..bar guinness obviously.

My dad was telling me he knew the man who designed the casing for the atomic bomb and I thought he was joking! lt. col. sean o' driscoll is the name he said! don't know if that's true or not but I'm starting to believe it now

CamperMan

doubt they were Irish.. sound like British to me

take James Martin..

from Wikipedia

Sir James Martin CBE DSc CEng FIMechE FRAeS (11 September 1893 – 5 January 1981) was a British engineer and together with Captain Valentine Baker the founder of the Martin-Baker aircraft company which is now a leading producer of aircraft ejection seats.

yizorselves

Beer bellies and muffin tops

Capt'n Midnight

CamperMan wrote: »

take James Martin..

from Wikipedia

Sir James Martin CBE DSc CEng FIMechE FRAeS (11 September 1893 – 5 January 1981) was a British engineer

From Martin-Baker.com
http://www.martin-baker.com/Sub-Navigation/History/Sir-James-Martin.aspx

Sir James Martin has been variously described as a nuggety, dynamic, sandy-haired Ulsterman, Churchillian in character, with extraordinary stamina, yet this does not adequately describe this quite remarkable man. Born in Crossgar, County Down, Sir James grew up on a farm in that part of Ireland, among people of sturdy independence. He was a man of strong personality, upright principles, with deep religious convictions, though he was not a church-goer.
..
it is on record that he designed and made a rather specialised road vehicle for a customer in Manchester and, on completion, drove it through the night in order to save the expense of hiring a delivery driver.

dodderangler

I'd say Irish invented the excuse

mikemac1

Seanchai wrote: »

starting with his joining the Yeomans, who violently suppressed the insurrectionists in 1798, in the hope of advancing himself with the British state in Ireland. He held monster rallies at sites like

:eek:

Has this been revised out of the history books?
I've never seen this before, not in all the years of school and talks we did about the great Emancipator



Hold on, how did I quote you and your post is after mine? Freaky!

Seanchai

Sindri wrote: »

O' Connell invented the modern peaceful democratic civil rights movement and the tactics used by peaceful civil rights movements which were.....peace.....

Not this canard. In fact, despite this ridiculous hangover from 19th century ultramontane Roman Catholic myth, O'Connell was quite adept at threatening violence when it suited him - starting with his joining the Yeomans, who violently suppressed the insurrectionists in 1798, in the hope of advancing himself with the British state in Ireland. He held monster rallies at sites like Mullaghmast in Kildare, site of an English massacre in 1578, specifically to remind people of what he called English treachery and rally people around opposing it. He made a point of placing heroes of 1798 on the podium with him and shifting the ambiguity of his language for the audience, rarely failing to embrace and evoke the Aisling millenarian tradition beloved of many when addressing them. In particular, he acknowledged the strength of this tradition among secret societies like the Rockites and was keen not to alienate them as their violence was very useful to him.

More than any other Irish politician, he stoked sectarian tensions with his speeches and the stalwart of his new "democratic" (which, in fact, disenfranchised some 100,000 of the poorest voters as a condition of the granting of so-called Catholic Emancipation, ach sin scéal eile) politics in every parish was the priest from the increasingly Romanised Catholic church of Ireland, an institution which like O'Connell was zealously promoting the end of Irish Ireland and the creation of what O'Connell himself infamously described as "a kind of West Briton". O'Connell repeatedly threatened the British state that if his wishes were not granted the "counsels of violent men" would triumph and the British would face violence.

Despite what most grannies and grandads in Ireland might have you believe, for O'Connell's politics the threat of violence was always in the background and frequently in the foreground with O'Connell essentially threatening: accept my "peaceful" demands or there'll be trouble.

/end history lesson.

Seanchai

mikemac1 wrote: »

:eek:

Has this been revised out of the history books?
I've never seen this before, not in all the years of school and talks we did about the great Emancipator



Hold on, how did I quote you and your post is after mine? Freaky!

hehe. You have prescient posting powers! Yes, very much so - all I was told about in school was that duel with D'Esterre and how O'Connell despised violence so much he wore a glove on his hand for the rest of his life - nobody told us that he despised it so much he joined the Yeomans to carry out violence against the insurrectionists in 1798!

I think it was Fergus O'Ferrall who described Catholic Emancipation as a psychological victory. His would be the standard history of O'Connell and while he acknowledges O'Connell's innovations in terms of mass democracy (something which Alexis de Tocqueville famously also acknowledged) he has no hesitation in noting that O'Connell was not slow in using the violence of secret societies and others to advance his political claims.

Spread

Casillas wrote: »

Eh?

You are the Spanish goalkeeper! Aren't you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iker_Casillas

Zhavey

Nicholas Callan from Dundalk, and his work for the invention of the Induction coil. So, one of the most fundamental things for a car. :P