Inventors & Business
Professor Frank Pantridge
The 'father of emergency medicine' and inventor of the 'Mobile Coronary Care Unit' & later the portable defribilatorSir Hans Sloane
Physician and collector of natural history items, whose bequeath to the nation provided the foundation for the British MuseumSir James Martin
Co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft company and later inventor of the ejector seat in 1945John Boyd Dunlop
Born in Scotland, he is considered one of the inventors of the pneumatic tyre and set up his business in Northern IrelandAlexander Turney Stewart
AT Stewart moved to America and opened the first department store in the world, the Marble Palace, in New YorkShort SC.1
The UK's first vertical take off and landing plane developed by Short Brothers. Received NI's first Engineering Heritage Award in 2012Show More