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Eugene Brennan

(He/Him)
Ireland, Kildare
As seen in: Facebook, Illumination, Medium, HubPages, Dengarden, TurboFuture, WanderWisdom, WeHavekids
Covers:  DIY, STEM, gardening, technology, photography
Doesn't Cover: Politics, religion, current affairs
Ex-engineer and #author of #HowTo guides & tutorials on #STEM #tools #gardening #DIY #physics #math Articles on KilcullenScience.com & HomeGardenGuidebook.com

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Eugene is a qualified engineer with a BSc(Eng) degree in electronics, electrical, control and instrumentation engineering and FETAC certified in industrial automation (mechatronics and pneumatics). He has worked on the development of SCADA systems and data loggers, designing instrumentation electronics and developing telemetry software. He's also passionate about gardening, DIY, mountain biking, photography, electronics and all things mechanical and electrical being an engineer at heart!

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Electricity 101: A Complete Beginner's Guide

Electricity 101: A Complete Beginner's Guide

This guide for consumers and students explains all about volts, amps and watts and how they apply to home app…

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How is Electricity Made and Distributed to Our Homes?

How is Electricity Made and Distributed to Our Homes?

Exploring the multiple ways electricity is generated and transmitted to our homes.

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Rules of Logarithms and Exponents: A Guide for Students

Rules of Logarithms and Exponents: A Guide for Students

Covering bases and exponents, laws of exponents, log to the base 10, natural logs, rules of logs, working out…

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So Your Medium Story Was Plagiarised? What Do You Do Next?

So Your Medium Story Was Plagiarised? What Do You Do Next?

Experiences of a plagiarist hunter... Ever since I started writing articles 10 years ago on the HubPages netw…

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An Adventure in Greece With a Dodgy Suitcase!

An Adventure in Greece With a Dodgy Suitcase!

After disembarking the flight from Athens to the Greek island of Paros, I was annoyed to discover after colle…

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How to Use a Multimeter to Measure Voltage, Current and Resistance

How to Use a Multimeter to Measure Voltage, Current and Resistance

Multimeters are widely used by professionals in several fields including industrial maintenance and testing, …

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Remembering Ernest Walton: Splitting the Atom

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By Eugene Brennan
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On 25th June, 1995, Ernest Walton, our only Nobel laureate for physics died in Belfast at the age of 91. Together with his colleague John Cockcroft, they built one of the first particle accelerators at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge in the 1930s. This ultimately led to what’s generally known as “splitting the atom”. For this work, he was awarded along with Cockcroft a Nobel Prize in 1951.
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Backing Up Medium Stories?

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By Eugene Brennan
| Medium
Illustration by Bing Image Creator. Options for backing up Eugene Brennan · Follow 2 min read · -- I’ve tried several methods for backing up my Medium Articles. One of the most fail-safe and basic is probably to just copy and paste without formatting into WordPad, Word or any of the other various text editors and word processing applications. However this is tedious and time consuming and doesn’t necessarily bring images with it. Also formatting information is lost if a text editor is used.
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Ghostly Happenings in Kildare

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By Eugene Brennan
| Illumination Verified
My grandparents and family were evacuated from the Curragh Camp (A military base in Southern Ireland) during WWII and lived in the tower house at the back of the now Silken Thomas pub/inn. As far as I know, this is one of the remaining towers of a more extensive medieval castle, which no longer exists. I remember hearing that skeletons were discovered when foundations were being dug for the cinema, the latter now forming part of the Silken Thomas premises.
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