Well, lets move this east a little to a small Island on the western extremities of Europe....:We might be small but we made a few things too......
The modern submarine[
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Submarines were not put into service for any widespread or routine use by navies until the early 1900s. The turn of the century marked a pivotal time in submarine development, and a number of important technologies appeared. A number of nations built and used submarines.
Diesel electric propulsion became the dominant power system and equipment such as the periscope became standardized. Countries conducted many experiments on effective tactics and weapons for submarines, which led to their large impact in World War I.
USS Plunger, launched in 1902
The
Irish inventor
John Philip Holland built a model submarine in 1876 and a full scale one in 1878, followed by a number of unsuccessful ones. In 1896 he designed the Holland Type VI submarine. This vessel made use of internal combustion engine power on the surface and electric
battery power for submerged operations. Launched on 17 May 1897 at Navy Lt.
Lewis Nixon's
Crescent Shipyard in
Elizabeth,
New Jersey, the Holland VI was purchased by the
United States Navy on 11 April 1900, becoming the United States Navy's first commissioned submarine and renamed
USS Holland.
[14]And of course the best coffee in the world comes from.....Ireland!!Although different variations of coffee cocktails pre-date the now-classic Irish coffee by at least 100 years, the original Irish coffee was invented and named by Joe Sheridan, a head
chef in
Foynes,
County Limerick but originally from
Castlederg,
County Tyrone. Foynes' port was the precursor to
Shannon International Airport in the west of
Ireland. The coffee was conceived after a group of American passengers disembarked from a
Pan Am flying boat on a miserable winter evening in the 1940s. Sheridan added
whiskey to the coffee to warm the passengers. After the passengers asked if they were being served Brazilian coffee, Sheridan told them it was "Irish coffee".
[2][3]Stanton Delaplane, a travel writer for the
San Francisco Chronicle, brought Irish coffee to the
United States after drinking it at
Shannon Airport, when he worked with the
Buena Vista Cafe in
San Francisco to start serving it on November 10, 1952,
[4] and worked with the bar owners Jack Koeppler and George Freeberg to recreate the Irish method for floating the cream on top of the coffee, sampling the drink one night until he nearly passed out.
[5][6] The group also sought help from the city's then mayor,
George Christopher, who owned a dairy and suggested that cream aged at least 48 hours would be more apt to float.
[7] Delaplane popularized the drink by mentioning it frequently in his travel column, which was widely read throughout America. In later years, after the Buena Vista had served, by its count, more than 30 million of the drinks, Delaplane and the owners grew tired of the drink. A friend commented that the problem with Irish coffee is that it ruins three good drinks: coffee, cream, and whiskey.
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