Science 1: Pioneers of Irish Scientific Innovation
This device, invented by Nicholas Callan, was used to generate electricity.
What is the induction coil?
This scientist developed the equation that explains how quantum systems change over time.
Who is Erwin Schrödinger?
In the mid to late 1800s, Irish immigrants predominantly settled in this state.
What is New York?
This tradition, started by Irish immigrants in Manhattan, involves a parade and wearing green.
What is St. Patrick's Day?
This religion is practiced by most Irish immigrants.
What is Catholicism?
This underwater military weapon was created by Louis Brennan.
What is the guided torpedo?
This physicist first split what type of matter?
What is an atom?
In the 1600s and 1700s, the first wave of Irish immigrants settled mostly in this state because of its relative religious tolerance.
What is Pennsylvania?
The Irish Civil War was fought over this.
What is the treaty between Ireland and England?
Between 1820 and 1860, Irish immigrants accounted for this fraction of the U.S. population.
What is one third?
This concept in physics was introduced by George Johnstone Stoney.
What is the electron?
This person’s discoveries in the 1600s helped explain the pressure-volume relationship.
Who is Robert Boyle?
During Irish immigration to the United States, this neighborhood became known for its predominantly Irish residents.
What is Little Ireland?
Patricia Harty and Niall O’Dowd founded this magazine in 1980.
What is Irish America Magazine?
This was the Irish American entrepreneur who founded the company that would later become McDonald's.
Who is Ray Kroc?
This technique, developed by John Desmond Bernal, can be used to determine the structure of a molecule.
What is X-ray crystallography?
This Irish-American woman became the first woman to pilot a NASA space shuttle.
Who is Eileen Collins?
In 1844, an anti-Catholic and anti-Irish riot that left 13 dead occurred in this U.S. East Coast city.
What is Philadelphia?
This 1863 riot targeted Irish immigrants and resulted in the deaths of over 100 people.
What is the New York City draft riot?
This secondary predatory practice by English landlords pushed the Irish to America.
What is rent seeking?
This device was invented by Frank Pantridge and was a revolutionary life-saving medical technology.
What is the portable defibrillator?
This scientist proved that carbon dioxide is a major contributor to global warming.
Who is John Tyndall?
In this mountainous region of the U.S. East Coast, Irish-Americans make up over 50% of the population.
What is Appalachia?
In this battle that took place on September 17, 1862, during the U.S. Civil War, many Irish immigrants from New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania took heavy losses.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
These two words describe the reputation the Irish immigrants received after their unwelcome arrival to the U.S.
Who are brutes and drunkards?