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77 1899
Cork native, Humphrey O’Sullivan is
responsible for rubber-soled shoes, designed
to aid his sore feet from standing at a
printing press all day at work.
79 1943
Erwin Schrödinger looked at the
physics and chemistry that underpins
living organisms based on a series of
public lectures Schrödinger gave in
1943 under the auspices of the Dublin
Institute of Advanced Studies (DIAS).
78 560AD
In a dispute over who rightfully owned the copy of
a book of psalms, King Diarmait Mac Cerbhaill, king
of Tara, gives the first legal ruling on copyright: ‘To
every cow her calf, to every book its copy’.
80 1891
Tattoo artist and Irish-American
immigrant, Samuel O’Reilly patented
the first rotary tattoo machine for his
parlour in Chinatown.