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New digital walking tours of Ingenious Dublin
Press release Tuesday October 16th 2102: on Hamilton Day, the day quaternions were invented in Dublin in 1843 As hundreds of geeks gather in Dublin for the WebSummit… two new city walking tours are...
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1907: was the first portable computer design Irish?
Possibly the first portable computer — more “table top” than “laptop” — was designed around 1907 by an inventive Irish accountant, Percy Ludgate. His invention gets a place in the history of...
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Halloween: Samuel Haughton’s ‘humane hanging’
One of Ireland’s more unusual contributions to civilisation was calculating the humane hangman’s drop. In the good old days, public executions were a popular spectacle, and indeed, the word ‘gala’...
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The Botanic Gardens Podcast Tour : Yellow
The Botanic Gardens Ingenious Ireland Podcast tour: Yellow Addison's 300-year-old walk Do you want to know who lives in one of the fanciest houses in Glasnevin? And hear how early botanical gardens...
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The Botanic Gardens Podcast Tour : Red
The Botanic Gardens Podcast Tour : Red What links the alphabet with Dublin’s National Botanic Gardens and an ingenious Cherokee chief? The historic glasshouses of the Irish National Botanic Gardens...
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Dublin’s weird ‘witch’ bottle
This is a fascinating bottle with a weird story. We learned about it on a tour of historic Aungier St with Dublin City’s architects, archaeologists and conservation officers. Witch bottle, found at...
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A hidden treasure for Science Week!
Maynooth Science Museum, highlight of Dublin City of Science 2012 Do you like a good story? Interested in geeky history and science? Then you’ll love the wonderful museum in St Patrick’s College,...
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JD Bernal and the DNA double helix
The Sage of Science, biography of JD Bernal by Andrew Brown Watson and Crick would never have discovered the DNA double helix in 1953, if it hadn’t been for an ingenious Irish scientist, who was born...
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Up with (Ingenious) women!
Is there something in the air? Because suddenly — and happily — lots of people are interested in Ireland’s historic women scientists. There is a film in the making about two women from the mid-1800s:...
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World’s first guided missile
The world’s first guided missile was invented in the 1870s by an ingenious Irish man, Louis Brennan. Brennan also invented what is probably the first tilting train and an early type of helicopter....
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