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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.
Classification: People: By occupation: Inventors: By nationality: Irish Also: Ireland : People : By occupation : Inventors This category lists inventors who originated from Ireland or spent a notable part of their careers in Ireland.
Irish inventors (1 C, 42 P) M. Irish musical instruments (2 C, 22 P) S. Sports originating in Ireland (17 P) W. Whisky (13 C, 38 P) Pages in category "Irish inventions"
This is a list of notable Irish people, who were born on the island of Ireland, in either the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland, and have lived there for most of their lives. Also included on the list are people who were not born in Ireland, but have been raised as Irish, have lived there for most of their lives or in regards to the ...
Louis Brennan (28 January 1852 – 17 January 1932) was an Irish mechanical engineer and inventor. Biography. Brennan was born in Castlebar, Ireland, ...
Robert Boyle FRS [2] (/ b ɔɪ l /; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish [3] natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.
John Robert Gregg (17 June 1867 – 23 February 1948) was an Irish educator, publisher, humanitarian, and the inventor of the eponymous shorthand system Gregg Shorthand. Life [ edit ]
Thomas Grubb (4 August 1800 – 16 September 1878) was an Irish optician and founder of the Grubb Telescope Company. [1] He was born near Portlaw, County Waterford, Ireland, the son of William Grubb Junior, a prosperous Quaker farmer and his second wife, Eleanor Fayle. [1] Thomas started out in 1830 in Dublin as a metal billiard-table manufacturer.