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    Nicholas Joseph Callan (22 December 1799 – 10 January 1864) was an Irish physicist and Catholic priest. He was professor of natural philosophy at Maynooth...
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    called an interrupter. Invented in 1836 by the Irish-Catholic priest Nicholas Callan, also independently by American inventor Charles Grafton Page, the...
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  • Callan, Irish writer, filmmaker, and painter Nicholas Callan (1799–1864), Irish priest and physicist Oliver Callan, Irish radio satirist Paul Callan (born...
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  • Kyan. 1834: The game of Croquet. 1836: Induction coil invented by Nicholas Callan. 1838: Screw-pile lighthouse invented by Alexander Mitchell. 1843:...
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    Biosciences, and Engineering Building, Callan Science Building (named after the inventor of the induction coil, Nicholas Callan), the Iontas Building, the Arts...
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    see wide use was the induction coil, invented by Irish-Catholic Rev. Nicholas Callan of Maynooth College, Ireland in 1836. He was one of the first researchers...
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    physicist Nicholas Callan. Nicholas Callan figure in the study of electromagnetism, inventing the induction coil and Maynooth Battery. Callan is buried...
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  • World Wide Web Edward A. Calahan (1838–1912), U.S. – Stock ticker tape Nicholas Callan (1799–1864), Ireland – Induction coil Spéranza Calo-Séailles (1885–1949)...
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    from a device invented by Charles Grafton Page and independently by Nicholas Callan in 1836. It was widely used around the turn of the century to produce...
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  • Callan is a British action-drama spy television series created by James Mitchell, first airing between 1967 and 1972. It starred Edward Woodward as David...
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  • Wheatstone who popularized it) 1836 Irish priest (and later scientist) Nicholas Callan invented the transformer in Ireland 1837 English scientist Edward Davy...
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  • absolute zero, the temperature at which all molecular motion ceases. Nicholas Callan of Maynooth College invents an improved form of battery. Hippolyte...
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  • James Bowman Lindsay, Scottish inventor (died 1862) December 20 – Nicholas Callan, Irish physicist (died 1864) December (prob.) – Maria Ann Sherwood...
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  • Museum at Maynooth and he oversaw the completion of the transfer of Nicholas Callan apparatus to the museum. He served as curator of the Museum from 1975...
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  • Kaiserswerth, Germany, as an institute to train women in nursing. Nicholas Callan invents the first induction coil. Andrew Crosse's electrical experiment...
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    with the invention of the induction coil, it was in fact invented by Nicholas Callan in 1836. Ruhmkorff's first coil, which he patented in 1851, utilized...
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    October 1816, for which 18 men were executed. The priest and scientist Nicholas Callan (1799–1864), inventor of the first induction coil, was from Darver...
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    electrocardiogram (ECG) Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943) – discovered pulsars Nicholas Callan (1799–1864) – inventor of the induction coil and discoverer the principle...
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  • Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician and academic (d. 1825) 1799 – Nicholas Callan, Irish priest and physicist (d. 1864) 1805 – John Obadiah Westwood...
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    (1586–1650) – Jesuit mathematician; the crater Cabeus is named in his honor Nicholas Callan (1799–1846) – priest and Irish scientist best known for his work on...
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    candidates including botanist Ellen Hutchins, scientist and inventor Nicholas Callan, geologist Richard Kirwan, chemist Eva Philbin, and hydrographer Sir...
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  • Borchgrevink (died 1934), Norwegian Antarctic explorer. January 14 – Father Nicholas Callan (born 1799), Irish physicist. March 21 – Luke Howard (born 1772), English...
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    optics and mathematical physics; also discovered Stokes' theorem Fr Nicholas Callan, (1799-1864) who invented the modern induction coil Charles Algernon...
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    public in Ireland), a large collection of scientific equipment used by Nicholas Callan, and one of two death masks of Irish political leader Daniel O'Connell...
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    explanation of Arago's rotations. The induction coil was first designed by Nicholas Callan in 1836. In 1845 Joseph Henry, the American physicist, published an...
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    2000 W. T. Cosgrave Éamon de Valera John A. Costello Seán Lemass Rev Nicholas Callan Thomas Alva Edison Albert Einstein Marie Curie Galileo Galilei Oscar...
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  • Megan Walsh, singer who joined the singing group Celtic Woman in 2018. Nicholas Callan (1799–1864), scientist who made the first induction coil. Steven Collins...
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  • shortlist candidates were botanist Ellen Hutchins, scientist and inventor Nicholas Callan, geologist Richard Kirwan, chemist Eva Philbin, and hydrographer Francis...
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  • College, Maynooth to train for the priesthood, where the physicist Nicholas Callan gave him scientific interests. He was a priest at St. Mary's Church...
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  • irregularity at the time. While at Maynooth College Denvir taught both Nicholas Callan, the inventor and physicist, and Dominic Corrigan, the noted Irish...
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