Harland and Wolff Apprenticeship Begins
Begins a premium apprenticeship at Harland and Wolff after leaving the Royal Belfast Academical Institution at the age of sixteen.
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1889 in Ireland
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Historical records for Ireland in 1889
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Relativity, Theory of
FitzGerald proposes length contraction as a way to explain the null result of ether drift experiments
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