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  Nicholas Callan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nicholas Callan (20 December 1799 – 14 January 1864), an Irish physicist, invented the induction coil in 1836.
Callan was a Roman Catholic priest and the professor of natural philosophy at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, from 1826 until his death.
The Callan Building on the north campus of NUI Maynooth, a university which was part of St Patrick's College until 1997, was named in his honour.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicholas_Callan   (183 words)

  
 Nicholas Callan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Callan was ordained a priest in 1823 and went to Rome to study at Sapienza University, obtaining a doctorate in divinity in 1826.
Callan’s invention of the induction coil was attributed to the German instrument-maker Heinrich Ruhmkorff (1803-1877).
Callan was largely forgotton by the wider world of science mainly because Maynooth was a theological university and science had a low status on the curriculum.
understandingscience.ucc.ie /pages/sci_nicholascallan.htm   (910 words)

  
 Nicholas Callan, National Science Museum, Maynooth
Nicholas Joseph Callan was born on December 22, 1799, the fifth child in a family of six or seven, at Darver, between Drogheda and Dundalk.
On the resignation of Dr. Denvir, Callan was appointed to the chair of natural philosophy in Maynooth in 1826, and he remained in that post until his death in 1864.
Callan sent a replica of his coil to William Sturgeon (1783-1850) in London in 1837, and it was exhibited to members of the Electrical Society there to their great amazement.
www.nuim.ie /museum/ncallan.html   (746 words)

  
 Callan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Nicholas Joseph Callan, Irish priest, scientist, and inventor, was a pioneer in the development of electrical science; inventor of the induction coil, which led to the modern transformer.
Nicholas Joseph Callan was born on December 22, 1799, the fifth child in a family of six or seven, at Darver, between Drogheda and Dundalk, Ireland.
Callan was influenced by the work of his friend William Sturgeon (1783-1850) who in 1825 invented the first electromagnet, and by the work of Michael Faraday and Joseph Henry with the induction coil.
chem.ch.huji.ac.il /~eugeniik/history/callan.html   (1749 words)

  
 Induction coil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term "Induction coil" is also used for a coil carrying high-frequency AC and intended to induce eddy currents to heat objects placed in the interior of the coil, such as in induction heating or zone melting.
The induction coil was discovered during early experiments with electricity, probably by Nicholas Callan in 1836, and further developed by Heinrich Ruhmkorff.
This type of disruptive discharge coil remains in common use as the "ignition coil" or "spark coil" in the ignition system of internal combustion engines.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Induction_coil   (336 words)

  
 Flagship Ventures
Preceding her tenure at Exelixis, Dr. Callan was head of Business Development at Large Scale Biology Corporation (LSBC), where she was a key member of the management team responsible for the company's successful $96 million public offering.
During this time Dr. Callan was responsible for business development across all corporate functions, including pharmaceuticals, genomics, proteomics, and biomanufacturing.
Callan began her career in a research position at BASF Corporation in the U.S., enjoying positions of increased responsibility and eventually being promoted to a global position in business development at headquarters in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
www.flagshipventures.com /news/02052003p.html   (374 words)

  
 InventNetIreland.Com - Famous Irish Inventors
Nicholas Callan was born on December 22, 1799, at Darver, near Dundalk.
In 1823, after his ordination, he went to study in Rome where he was intrigued by the work of Galvani and Volta, two of the key pioneers in the study of electricity.
Callan discovered that the faster that he interrupted the current, the bigger the spark.
www.inventnetireland.com /fii.asp   (3867 words)

  
 KILKENNY
Callan RD, Carrick-on-suir RD and Urlingford RD overlap into County Tipperary; New Ross RD overlaps into County Wexford; Waterford RD overlaps into County Waterford.
Nicholas Dalton, Castleinch Parish, 1834, Brownstown Townland, 4 acres.
Nicholas Dalton, Tullaghanbrogue Parish, Grove Townland, 3 acres.
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Callan Agnes M. Callan Catherine A. 1874 undated 1 Callan Clarence J. Callan Emma A. 1886 1969 1 Wife of Lawrence M. Callan.
Callan Loren J. 1914 1981 M/Schwartz Callan Mary J. Callan Norman P. Callan Patrick J. Callan Peter W. Callan Robert C. 1917 1998 M/Schwartz Callan T. Paul 1912 1999 M/Schwartz Callan Thomas J. 1871 1955 M/Schwartz Husband of Jennie E. Curran Callan.
Colangelo Nicholas 1871 1942 B Colangelo Philomena 1892 1973 1 Wife of Allessandro Colangelo.
ftp.rootsweb.com /pub/usgenweb/ny/genesee/cemeteries/stjosephc.txt   (8109 words)

  
 The Classic Induction Coil, Induction, Coils, HV
Callan thought of his creation as a kind of electromagnet; but what he actually made was a
Callan was not the only one working with ways of increasing battery power by electromagnetic means.
Nonetheless, Nicholas Callan still deserves a measure of recognition; after all, he was working along similar lines with similar equipment in the same year.
www.uoguelph.ca /~antoon/circ/hv/classic/classic.html   (5612 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
Looming behind a giant statue is the highest dome in town, the 230-foot dome of St. Nicholas Church.
It is a green oasis with fountains, statues, a Rococo pavilion, with benches, all arranged with the formal symmetry of the Renaissance.
Dennis Callan is the president of the Hawaii Geographic Society and produces the "World Traveler" television series, shown at 7 p.m.
starbulletin.com /2002/04/07/travel/story1.html   (4088 words)

  
 Publications, National Science Museum, NUI, Maynooth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Nicholas Callan, whose work forms the main focus of the museum.
In this work by a successor to the physics chair at Maynooth, the story of Callan's life is told against the background of his times with copious notes on his teachers, colleagues and pupils.
This "quaint old saint and savant", was the subject of countless stories, some of which are reproduced here and have point for our age.
www.nuim.ie /museum/publications.html   (242 words)

  
 December 22 - Today in Science History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Callan's coil was built using a horseshoe shaped iron bar wound with a secondary coil of thin insulated wire under a separate winding of thick insulated wire as the "primary" coil.
Each time a battery's current through the "primary" coil was interrupted, a high voltage current was produced in the electrically separate "secondary" coil.
By 1837, Callan used a clock mechanism to rock a wire in and out of a small cup of mercury to interrupt the circuit 20 times/sec on a giant induction machine, producing 15-inch sparks (estimated at 600,000 volts).«
www.todayinsci.com /12/12_22.htm   (3248 words)

  
 On a recent visit to Ireland, I was privileged to hold and examine at my leisure, what I consider to be a priceless ...
Many of these exhibits are the inventions of Natural History Professor Nicholas Callan (1799 – 1864), and include very early electric cells and some of the world’s first induction coils.
    A student of Callan, and later himself a professor at the college, was Gerard Molloy, who went on to become an authority on radio and communications.
Among discussions of Callan’s inventions, and the then relatively recent discoveries of Michael Faraday, is a description of the electrolysis of sodium sulphate solution.
mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /anthony_toole/molloy.htm   (1084 words)

  
 GoIreland.com - Genealogy surname search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Callan is usual in Louth and Monaghan where the Oriel sept of Ó Cathaláin are located.
Father Nicholas Callan (1799-1864), one of the most distinguished professors at was a Louth man, while Fr.
of the town of Callan) occurs as a surname: David de Callan was mayor of Dublin in 1280, like de Cashel, de Clonmel, de Naas, de Kildare etc., must be treated as one of the ephemeral type.
www.goireland.com /Genealogy/scripts/Family.asp?FamilyID=473   (314 words)

  
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We do know that one of her sons, Edward Joseph McArdle, married a Mary Jane O'Hare who was the daughter of Margaret's sister, Margaret Mary Callan, and needed a special papal dispensation to do so according to the oral history passed down through the family.
Margaret Callan (of Francis Street) was born around 1831.
par: Mathew (or Thos) Callan and Maryanne Mulligan
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She married (2) PATRICK CALLAN, son of PATRICK CALLAN and ALICE HOLDEN.
KEITH4 CALLAN (EVA3 COOPER, RANDOLPH2, NICHOLAS1) was born in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, England.
NEIL4 CALLAN (EVA3 COOPER, RANDOLPH2, NICHOLAS1) was born December 19, 1949 in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, England, and died March 10, 2000 in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia..
homepage.ntlworld.com /carole.johnson40/NICHOLASCOOPER.htm   (502 words)

  
 DBLP: Colleen Cool
Nicholas J. Belkin, Jose Perez Carballo, Colleen Cool, Diane Kelly, Shin-jeng Lin, Soyeon Park, Soo Young Rieh, Pamela A. Savage-Knepshield, C.
Nicholas J. Belkin, Jose Perez Carballo, Colleen Cool, Shin-jeng Lin, Soyeon Park, Soo Young Rieh, Pamela A. Savage-Knepshield, C.
Nicholas J. Belkin, Pier Giorgio Marchetti, Colleen Cool: Braque: Design of an Interface to Support User Interaction in Information Retrieval.
www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/c/Cool:Colleen.html   (400 words)

  
 HOUSESS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Pierce Aylward, outlawed in 1690 married Ellen Butler, daughter of Sir Richard Butler of Paulstown and acquired Shankill Castle and lands.
(c1850-1900) Nicholas P O'Shee lived from time to time at Sheestown when he had not a tenant there.
House and demesne of Shipton, 77a, 4 mile Callan, 6 of Kilkenny, apply John Waring, Bellevan.
homepage.eircom.net /~lawekk/HOUSESS.htm   (1781 words)

  
 AllAboutIrish - Scientists and Inventors
The largest in the world at the time of its construction, it was used by astronomers at Birr Castle to view Jupiter and the moon but also to conduct research on nebulae and star clusters.
Nicholas Callan (1799-1864), a priest working at Maynooth College, developed new battery technology that using cast-iron and the result was long-lasting and cheap batteries (in comparison to the competition at the time).
He went on to develop the induction coil by wrapping wires around an electromagnet and connecting one of the wires to a battery.
www.allaboutirish.com /library/people/inventors.shtm   (317 words)

  
 Distinguished Scientists of the Past   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Harriet Brooks was born on New Year's Day 1876, and became one the pioneer workers in the new science of radioactivity, a science that had begun in 1896 with the discovery of radioactivity in uranium.
The reverend Nicholas Callan was born near Ardee, Co. Louth and was Professor of Natural Philosophy (Physics) at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, from 1826 until his death.
Born in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Edward Conway graduated in physiology and chemistry from University College Dublin in 1916, and went on to graduate in medicine in 1921.
www.universityscience.ie /pages/distinguishedsci_past.php   (1989 words)

  
 NIDIFFER COLLECTION - WASHINGTON, D.C. DEEDS: FOLDER LISTING CONTINUED
Signed by Henry Naylor and Nicholas Callan, Justices of the Peace, and John A. Smith, Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Signed by Nicholas Callan and R. Burgess, Justices of the Peace, and John A. Smith, Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Signed by Nicholas Callan and Richard Burgess, Justices of the Peace, and John A. Smith, Clerk of the Circuit Court.
www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/fl/f96}9.htm   (3279 words)

  
 Nicholas Woodeson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Nicholas Woodeson spent his early childhood in the Middle East.
Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Nicholas Woodeson
Find where Nicholas Woodeson is credited alongside another name
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 Griffiths Valuation of Ireland - Kilvemnon, County Tipperary
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Bridget Poulacapple East Kilvemnon Tipperary Minogue Edmond Ballyduggan Kilvemnon Tipperary Mockler Catherine Clonagoose Kilvemnon Tipperary Mockler Catherine Mullinahone Kilvemnon Tipperary Mockler Edward Callan Street Kilvemnon Tipperary Mockler Laurence Bawnavrona Lower Kilvemnon Tipperary Mockler Mary Killaghy Street Kilvemnon Tipperary Mockler Michael Clonagoose Kilvemnon Tipperary Mockler Michael, Sr.
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 Department of Experimental Physi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Maynooth has a long tradition of excellence in Experimental Physics.
The inventor of the induction coil, Nicholas Callan, was Professor of Experimental Physics from 1826 to 1864.
One of Callan's most distinguished pupils, Gerald Molloy, did pioneering work in the development of wireless telegraphy, and his international reputation in this field was such that Marconi came to Dublin to attend some of his lectures.
physicsresearch.may.ie /info.htm   (318 words)

  
 NIDIFFER COLLECTION - WASHINGTON, D.C. DEEDS: FOLDER LISTING CONTINUED
The lot was held in trust by Lee for debts owed by Hall to Lee.
Signed by Thomas C. Donn and Samuel Grubb, Justices of the Peace, and John A. Smith, Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Redin, Naylor and Callan were appointed trustees by the court to sell the lot for George W. & Eliza Ann Osborn and the families of William P. & Charles S. Matthews.
www.library.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/fl/f96}8.htm   (3127 words)

  
 Services - Science and Technology
Ireland has been represented in science and technology by such distinguished names as Robert Boyle, the 17th century physicist, John Tyndall (1820-93), who lent his name to a wide variety of scientific and technological discoveries, and Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), who is renowned for his work on transatlantic cables.
While these worked in international circles, others such as William Rowan Hamilton (1805-65), the inventor of quaternion calculus, William Parsons (1800-67), builder of the world’s first great telescope, and Nicholas Callan (1799-1864), the father of battery technology and magnetism, maintained a strong tradition at home.
Ernest T. Walton of Trinity College, Dublin, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951.
www.ireland-information.com /reference/science.html   (483 words)

  
 Diocese of Ossory,R.C., 1836, From Ireland URL http://www.from-ireland.net, ©Jane Lyons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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 Samton Limited publications
The second edition of this highly acclaimed guide.
Comprehensive catalogue of the important collection of historic instruments at St Patrick's College, Maynooth — Nicholas Callan invented the induction coil there in 1836.
The Mind and the Hand — instruments of science 1685-1932
www.irishscientist.ie /p6.htm   (510 words)

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