The 300-Year Irish Invention Gap

I was looking up Irish inventions yesterday and couldn't help but notice what caused the 300 year gap between the 14th and 17th century inventions. Irish inventions Pre-history Ogham alphabet 14th century Caid (precursor to modern Gaelic football) Whiskey 17th century Irish stew boiling 1616: Modern Chemistry founded by Robert Boyle with the publication of The Sceptical Chymist 1662: Boyle's law discovered by Robert Boyle 1680s: Chocolate milk created by Hans Sloane 18th century 1730: Modern Economics and the concept of an entrepreneur - Richard Cantillon 1752: National Hurling 19th century 1805: Beaufort scale created by Francis Beaufort 1831: Cyanate safety lamp created by William Bickford [sic] 1831: Column still design enhanced and patented by Aeneas Coffey 1832: The Kyanizing process for preserving wood, created by John Howard Kyan 1836: Induction coil created by Nicholas Callan 1843: Quaternion (a mathematical entity) first described by Sir William Rowan Hamilton 1844: Hotwire needle in syringes created by Francis Rynd

A fake Wikipedia-style list of Irish inventions jokes that Ireland invented very little between the 14th and 17th centuries, then suddenly produced many inventions afterward. The punchline is the absurd claim that the gap was caused by “Irish stew boiling,” implying that everyone was distracted by cooking stew for 300 years. It is shared as an absurd historical reaction meme about a suspicious gap or unexplained absence. EN: A fake Wikipedia-style list of Irish inventions jokes that Ireland invented very little between the 14th and 17th centuries, then suddenly produced many inventions afterward. The punchline is the absurd claim that the gap was caused by “Irish stew boiling,” implying that everyone was distracted by cooking stew for 300 years. It is shared as an absurd historical reaction meme about a suspicious gap or unexplained absence.

• @eternalclassic / 33220 2023-05-26