ALL GOING TO plan, there’ll be a welcome moment in the future when you get a Covid vaccine jabbed into your arm.
And you’ll have an Irishman to thank: Francis Rynd, inventor of the hypodermic needle.
He performed the first procedure using one in 1844 at The Meath hospital in Dublin.
He was not the first to use a syringe, and others went on to refine the technology, but Rynd’s invention is credited with laying the groundwork for this.
But it’s not just the syringe. Ireland – with its diaspora doing some heavy lifting here – can lay claim to a number of other inventions.
Test your knowledge on them below.
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