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Nicholas Joseph Callan (22 December 1799 – 10 January 1864) was an Irish Catholic priest and physicist. He was professor of natural philosophy at Maynooth College in County Kildare from 1834, and is best known for his work on the induction coil .
Callan, Nicholas Joseph (1799–1864), priest and pioneering scientist in electrical science, was born 22 December 1799 at Darver, between Drogheda and Dundalk, Co. Louth, third youngest among seven children of Denis Callan, farmer, and Margaret Callan (née Smith). His parents married in the last quarter of the eighteenth century and reared ...
A Genealogical History of Irish Families. 1895. (Crest No. 176 Plate 39.) THE Callan family is descended from Milesius, King of Spain, through the line of his son Heber. The founder of the family was Cormac, King of Munster, A. D. 483. The ancient name was Cullen and signifies “Fairhaired.”. The possessions of the family were located in the ...
Callan Thomas McKenna (born 22 December 2006) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Bournemouth. He is a Scotland youth international. Career. From Fernhill, South Lanarkshire, Skuddy played age group football for Hibernian prior to joining Queen's Park at twelve years old.
George Agar was raised to the peerage as ‘Baron of Callan’ on the 6 th of June 1790. At the Union between Ireland and Great Britain in 1801 he was elected one of the 28 ‘Original Representative Peers of Ireland’ and took his seat in the House of Lords in London. He died a bachelor in 1815 and his title became extinct.
About Callan. Callan was founded by William the Marshal in 1207 and reputedly gets its name from the High King of Ireland, Niall Caille. It is reported that while at war with the Norsemen the High King arrived in Callan to find that its river was in flood. The King witnessed his servant trying to cross the river and being swept away by the fast ...
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Nicholas Joseph Callan b. December 22, 1799, Darver, Ireland d. January 10, 1864, Maynooth (near Dublin), Ireland 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. He
