List of Irish inventors and discoverers
The list of Irish inventors and explorers is a list of inventors and explorers from Ireland in alphabetical order of the family name.
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- Francis Beaufort : Beaufort scale
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell : co-discoverer of the first neutron star
- Louis Brennan : monorail that was stabilized by a gyro system
- George Boole : Mathematician, Boolean Algebra
- Robert Boyle : Physicist, Boyle-Mariotte's Law
C.
- Nicholas Callan : physicist, first spark inductor (based on preliminary work by Faraday)
- Richard Cantillon : Economist
- John Clayton : is considered one of the discoverers of natural gas
- Aeneas Coffey : Improving the Column Still
D.
- James J. Drumm : Inventor of the Drumm Battery
- John Boyd Dunlop : inflatable tire
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- Harry Ferguson : inventor of the linked, liftable plow
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- John Robert Gregg : Shorthand
- Howard Grubb : inventor of the reflex sight
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- Sir William Rowan Hamilton : Introduction and Study of Quaternions
- John Philip Holland : Designer of the first practical submarines in the US Navy
J
- John Joly : Physicist and geologist who studied radioactivity and applied it in medicine (radiotherapy) and geological dating
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- John Howard Kyan , Process for the manufacture of paper and wood preservatives.
M.
- Robert Mallet : is sometimes referred to as the "father of seismology" and is credited with the term " seismology "; as well as other related technical terms that he used in his work, such as 'Isoseist map'. The term ' epicenter ' also goes back to him .
- James Murray : "Milk of Magnesia"
O
- Samuel O'Reilly (Ireland / USA), electric rotary tattoo machine
P
- Frank Pantridge (Northern Ireland), portable defibrillator , 1965
- Charles Algernon Parsons : was the first to build a steam turbine powered ship, the Turbinia , in 1894
S.
- Ernest Shackleton : Polar Explorer
- George Johnstone Stoney : Physicist, named the elementary charge electron .
T
- John Tyndall : forerunner of modern fiber optic cables
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- Ernest Walton : Physicist, Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the field of atomic nucleus conversion by artificially accelerated atomic particles