2013 ingenious-ireland-the ingenious irish-iet-slideshow
- 1. The Ingenious Irish Great Irish scientists & innovators whose ideas shaped the world Mary Mulvihill, www.ingeniousireland.ie IET 23.5.2013 (c) Copyright Ingenious Ireland, 2013
- 3. The father of chemistry Robert Boyle Boyles Law (gas volume and pressure) Experiments with an air pump Modern analytical chemistry Modern concept of an element Litmus tests, for acid, base and neutral Analytical tests for mineral water Assays for gold and silver and salts Formalin as a preservative
- 4. Irish algebra, helped to put a man on the Moon Sir William Rowan Hamilton 1805-1865 1843: invented Quaternion algebra Hamilton also laid the foundations of quantum mechanics.
- 5. A great experimentalist: John Tyndall First proof of Greenhouse gas effect (absorption spectroscopy of gases) First explanation of why the sky is blue First proof of Pasteurs germ theory Champion and populariser of science, Mountaineer & glaciologist Tyndall institutes
- 6. New micro drop analyser based on Tyndalls work on spectrometry
- 7. The worlds largest telescope: 1845-1917 Birr Castle Leviathon, Restored to working order.
- 8. 1845: Revealed the spiral nature of galaxies and nebulae The whirlpool galaxy 1845 Birr 2005 Hubble Space Telescope
- 9. 1846: We invented seismology Robert Mallet Ingenious engineer 1810-81
- 10. R&J Mallet: first seismic atlas of the world Reveals the Pacific rim of fire, 1850s
- 11. George Francis FitzGerald 1851-1901 Radio waves, cosmic snowballs, the speed of light
- 12. Plaque at No 7 Ely Place
- 13. 1892: First electrical measurement of starlight Fitzgerald, Monck & Minchin, 16 Earlsfort Terrace
- 14. George Gabriel Stokes Stokess conjecture Stokess phenomenon Stokess layer Stokess line Stokess law of hydrodynamics Stokess aw of fluorescence Navier-Stokes equations . . . the stokes, the standard unit of kinematic viscosity, is equal to 1cm2/second. Lucasion Professor at Cambridge (Newton and Hawking)
- 15. Thermodynamics and degrees Kelvin William Thomson, Baron Kelvin 1824-1907 His many inventions included an instrument that made the first successful transatlantic telegraph cable possible.
- 16. We split the atom 1951 Nobel physics prize Ernest Walton, with John Cockcroft Experimental accelerator and detector, 1932 Proved e=mc2 Began the atomic era
- 17. Walton plaque, TCD Physics Dept
- 18. Erwin Schrodinger, Nobel prize 1933 The Austrian physicist lived in Dublin 1939-1956 and took Irish citizenship. His book, What is Life?, written in Dublin, inspired a generation of biologists, including Crick and Watson.
- 19. Erwin Schrodinger plaque, 64 Merrion Square
- 20. J.D. Bernal, aka Sage 1901-71 X-ray crystallography of biological molecules
- 21. X-Ray chrystallography Dame Kathleen Lonsdale 1903-71 The structure of benzene and diamond, and other inorganic molecules
- 22. Engineering & technology (Rather a lot of militaristic technology!)
- 23. Steam turbine Charles Parsons 1884 made the 20th-century possible We electrified the world!
- 24. Turbinia, 1890s Parsonss turbine-powered ship . . . and revolutionised transport at sea
- 25. Worlds first guided missile Louis Brennans dirigible torpedo, 1860s
- 26. Mallets portable 36 mortar for the Crimean War
- 27. We changed the face of war The first commercial submarine John Philip Holland, 1890s
- 28. Sir Howard Grubb 1902: The first effective submarine periscope
- 29. The worlds best telescopes Grubb optical works, Rathmines: casting the Melbourne telescope
- 30. We proposed the Suez Canal Explorer Francis Rawdon Chesney Images: www.ulsterhistory.co.uk
- 31. Quality of life (and death). . .
- 32. Artificial fertiliser: Sir James Murray, 1817 He invented a way to make minerals soluble for plants. We revolutionised farming:
- 33. Lightweight tractor: Harry Ferguson, 1930s Manufactured initially by Ford, replaced the horse
- 34. 1991: Rooster potato Teagasc Oakpark Carlow
- 35. Francis Rynd, Dublins Meath Hospital 1843 The hypodermic syringe
- 36. Arthur Leared First exhibited Crystal Palace, London, 1851 1851: The modern stereo, rubber stethoscope
- 37. John Jolys Dublin Method, used radon gas in place of radium 1910-14 First effective radiotherapy for cancer
- 38. John Joly: Colour photography 1890s The steam calorimeter
- 39. Sir James Martin, 1893-1981 Image: www.martin-baker.com Saving military pilots: the MB ejector seat
- 40. 1860: The humane hangmans drop Lucinda Sly, hanged on this trapdoor, Carlow 1835 Rev Samuel Haughton
- 41. And now for something completely different. . .
- 42. What made Guinness great was quality control and statistics . . .
- 43. William Sealy Gosset, Guiness Brewer 1908 Student t test
- 44. We invented whiskey . . . Not once, but twice! In the Middle-Ages, missionaries and Crusaders brought distilling back from the Arab world. The Irish distilled beer, and made the first proto-whiskey
- 45. The continuous, column still the first heat exchange device Aeneas Coffey, 1830 Produced whiskey so pure it was almost industrial alcohol!
- 46. Milk chocolate: Sir Hans Sloane, 1680s The Irish add milk to everything, inventing new industries, such as milk chocolate and Baileys cream liqueur.
- 47. Joe Tayto Murphy 1954 Flavoured crisps
- 48. Were still inventing flavours: Shamrock-flavoured crisps :-)
- 49. Gordon Foster Trinity College Dublin 1960s: The ISBN
- 50. The Penny Black: 1840 Worlds first adhesive stamp. Hard to separate
- 51. Dublin printer Henry Archer The Royal Mail paid him 贈4000 for his patents. 1850 Perforated stamps
- 52. Irish stamp marking 350 years of Boyles Law, in 2012 Now peel and stick -- but still with perforations
- 53. 2009: Sugru, flexible self setting rubber Jane N鱈 Dhulchaointigh www.sugru.com
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