*’At one point during …development there was a dispute about money with the Fenians, and…they stole the sub and towed it to Connecticut.’*
It’s right there in the name..
Thats what I call my mickey.
Blindboy did a podcast about this a few weeks ago.
Museum of sorts about it in Liscannor in Clare.
Almost had one of the most advanced navies in the world there for a minute lol
He built it for the Fenians as a weapon, but when they refused to pay him he sold the design to the US navy.
While they were submarines before this. The modern design of them is based off of this sub. He then sold designs to the U.S./Japan and the UK
There’s a nice monument for him inside the grounds of Scholars Townhouse in Drogheda, Co. Louth. I believe he taught in the old school there before emigrating to America.
Interestingly enough, the Irish have a (sometimes tenuous) link to the modern nuclear submarine in a lot of ways.
Aside from John Holland, you have Ernest Walton who first “split the atom” with John Cockcroft for the reactor
You have Charles Parsons who designed the first compound steam turbine for the propulsion
And finally (and most tenuously) George Boole, who invented Boolean logic for the computer controls and guidance systems,
Interesting topic
Think he went to my school, or taught in it not sure but had summit to do with my school
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*’At one point during …development there was a dispute about money with the Fenians, and…they stole the sub and towed it to Connecticut.’*
It’s right there in the name..
Thats what I call my mickey.
Blindboy did a podcast about this a few weeks ago.
Museum of sorts about it in Liscannor in Clare.
Almost had one of the most advanced navies in the world there for a minute lol
He built it for the Fenians as a weapon, but when they refused to pay him he sold the design to the US navy.
While they were submarines before this. The modern design of them is based off of this sub. He then sold designs to the U.S./Japan and the UK
There’s a nice monument for him inside the grounds of Scholars Townhouse in Drogheda, Co. Louth. I believe he taught in the old school there before emigrating to America.
Interestingly enough, the Irish have a (sometimes tenuous) link to the modern nuclear submarine in a lot of ways.
Aside from John Holland, you have Ernest Walton who first “split the atom” with John Cockcroft for the reactor
You have Charles Parsons who designed the first compound steam turbine for the propulsion
And finally (and most tenuously) George Boole, who invented Boolean logic for the computer controls and guidance systems,
Interesting topic
Think he went to my school, or taught in it not sure but had summit to do with my school