My first Magazine SFI Little Book - April Re-print edits included | Page 34

59 1788 - 1871
Londonderry’s James Murray finds
a way to make minerals soluble,
producing the first artificial fertilisers
and inventing ‘Milk of Magnesia’.
61 1774-1857
Navan born Francis Beaufort desiged the
Beaufort Scale for indicating wind force.
62 1810-1881
60 1884-1960
Harry Ferguson began his career as a mechanic and
raced motorcycles but became fascinated by aviation,
becoming the first Irishman to fly. He also solved the
weak link between tractors and ploughs by inventing
a single powerful vehicle.
Irish scientist and engineer Robert Mallet
was a pioneer of modern seismology,
studying the buckling of the earth’s crust.
He also coined the term ‘epicentre’.