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Important Inventions & Discoveries List for Government Exams

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Important Inventions & Discoveries List for Government Exams

List of Inventions and Discoveries

Given below is a list of various Inventions and discoveries along with the name of the Inventor and the year in which it was invented:

 

List of Inventions & Discoveries

Invention/Discovery        Name of the Inventor      Year of Invention

Mechanical

Airplane                 Wilber and Orville Wright     1903

Bicycle Tyres            John Boyd Dunlop 1888

Bicycle           Kirkpatrick Macmillan       1839

Motorcycle  Gottlieb Daimler     1885

Atom Bomb Julius Robert Oppenheimer        1945

Lightning Conductor         Benjamin Franklin  1752

Bifocal Lens  Benjamin Franklin  1779

Clock Mechanical   Hsing and Ling-Tsan          1725

Fountain Pen        Petrache Poenaru 1827   पेट्राचे पोएनारु

Ball Point Pen          John Loud    

Diesel Engine           Rudolf Diesel           1892

Dynamite      Alfred B. Nobel       1867

Light Bulb     Thomas  Edison       1854

Gramophone Thomas  Edison    1878

Elevator        Elisha G. Otis            1852

Hot Air Balloon       Josef & Etienne Montgolfier       1783

X-ray    Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen        1895

Xerox Machine        Chester Carlson      1928

Telephone    Graham Bell 1874

Thermometer          Galileo           1593

Barometer    Evangelista Torricelli         1643

Centigrade Scale     Anders Celsius         1742

Theory of Evolution           Charles Darwin       1858

Typewriter   Christopher Latham Sholes        

Transistors   John Bardeen, William Shockley & Walter Brattain1948

Electric Battery       Volta  1800

Locomotive  George Stephenson           1804

Microphone Alexander Graham Bell     1876

Microscope  Zacharis Janssen     1590

Machine Gun           Richard Gatling       1861

Printing Press          Johannes Gutenberg         1440

Periodic Table         Dmitri Mendeleev  1869

Radio Guglielmo Marconi            1894

Valve. Radio Sir J.A Fleming         1904

Rubber (vulcanized)          Charles Goodyear  1841

Steam Ship   Robert Fulton          1807

Steam Boat  Robert Fulton          1786

Sewing Machine     Elias Howe    1846

Stethoscope Rene Laennec          1816

World Wide Web   Tim Berners Lee with Robert Cailliau    1989

Radium          Marie & Pierre Curie         1898

Petrol for Motor Car         Karl Benz      1885

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Automatic Calculator        Wilhelm Schickard 1623

Air Conditioner       Willis Carrier            1902

Anemometer           Leon Battista Alberti          1450

Animation    J. Stuart Blackton  

Adhesive tape         Richard G. Drew     1923

Barbed Wire            Joseph F. Glidden   1873

Celluloid        Alexander Parkes   1861

Cine Camera            Wm. Friese-Greene           1889

Electric stove/cooker        William S. Hadaway          1896

Electroscope            William Gilbert        1600s

Electric Fan  Schuyler Wheeler  1882

Electric Motor (DC)            Thomas Davenport            1873

Electromagnet        William Sturgeon   1824

Helicopter    Igor Sikorsky           1939

Hovercraft   Christopher Cockerell       1959

Helium           Jules Janssen            1868

Insulin            Sir Frederick Banting         1923

Jet Engine     Hans Von Ohain     1936

Laser  Theodore Maiman 1960

Neon Lamp  Georges Claude      1915

Piano Bartolomeo Cristofori       1700

Parachute     Louis-Sebastien Lenormand        1783

Pacemaker   Rune Elmqvist         1952

Refrigerator William Cullen         1748

Rocket Engine         Robert H. Goddard            1926

Richter Scale            Charles Richter        1935

Ship (Turbine)         Charles Parsons      1894

Submarine   Cornelis Drebbel     1620

Saxophone   Adolphe Sax 1846

Steam-Powered Airship   Henri Giffard           1852

Soft Contact lenses            Otto Wichterle        1961

Synthesizer  Dr. Robert Arthur Moog  1964

Vacuum Cleaner     Hubert Cecil Booth 1901

Biology

Hydrogen     Henry Cavendish    1766

Oxygen          Joseph Priestley      1774

Ozone            Christian Schonbein          1839

Vitamin A      Frederick Gowland Hpokins       1912

Vitamin B      Christiaan Eijkman 1897

Vitamin C      Albert Szent-Gyorgi          

Vitamin K      Henrik Dam 1929

Vitamin E      Herbert McLean Evans & Katherine Scott Bishop    

Chlorine        Carl Wilhelm Scheele        1774

Fluorine        André-Marie Ampère       1810

Chloroform  Sir James Young Simpson

Aspirin           Dr. Felix Hoffman   1899

Circulation of blood           William Harvey       1628

Blood Group            Karl Lansdsteiner    1900s

Polio Vaccine           Jonas Edward Salk

Windshield wipers Mary Anderson      1903

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