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Thomas McLaughlin (engineer)
Dr. Thomas A. McLaughlin (1896-28 May 1971) was an Irish engineer and one of the key people in the Shannon hydroelectric scheme, the early icon of the Irish Free State. He then established the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) which distributed electricity across Ireland and promoted the rural electrification of Ireland.
McLaughlin studied at University College Dublin and the University College Galway. After qualifying as an electrical engineer, he started working for Siemens-Schuckert-Werke in Berlin in late 1922. He was impressed with the success of electrifying Pomerania, an area in Germany similar in scale to Ireland. McLaughlin promoted the concept of using the River Shannon as a basis for a hydro-electric and electrification scheme. He succeeded in having scheme adopted against intense political opposition.
==Origin and early career==
Thomas McLaughlin was born in Drogheda and was educated at the Christian Brothers school in Syne Street. He gained physics degrees (BSc and MSc) at University College Dublin and was appointed as an assistant lecturer in the physics department at University College Galway where he also studied electrical engineering and gained a BE and Ph.D.
In 1922, McLaughlin obtained a post with Siemens-Schuckert in Berlin, which was particularly active in hydro-electric projects. Professor F.S. Rishworth, the professor of Civil Engineering at Galway, aroused McLaughlin's interest in the possibility of the Shannon electrification by giving him a copy of John Chaloner Smith (son of John Chaloner Smith)'s prize-winning analysis of the average flows from large catchment areas in Ireland.
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