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
List of Inventions & Discoveries of 15th Century
Printing
Press Johannes Gutenberg 1440
Anemometer Leon Battista Alberti 1450
The earliest anemometer was designed by Italian
inventor and architect Leon Battista Alberti in 1450. His device consisted of a
disk placed perpendicular to the direction of the wind that would spin due to
the wind, the angle of inclination of the disk momentarily revealing its force.
List of Inventions & Discoveries of 16th Century
Microscope Zacharis Janssen 1590
Thermometer
Galileo 1593
List of Inventions & Discoveries of 17th Century
Electroscope William Gilbert 1600
Submarine Cornelis Drebbel 1620
Automatic
Calculator Wilhelm Schickard 1623
Barometer Evangelista
Torricelli 1643
List of Inventions & Discoveries of 18th Century
Piano Bartolomeo Cristofori 1700
Clock
Mechanical Hsing and Ling-Tsan 1725
Centigrade
Scale Anders Celsius 1742
Refrigerator William Cullen 1748
Lightning
Conductor Benjamin
Franklin 1752
Chlorine Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1774
Bifocal
Lens Benjamin
Franklin 1779
Hot
Air Balloon Josef & Etienne Montgolfier 1783
Parachute Louis-Sebastien Lenormand 1783
Steam
Boat Robert Fulton 1786
List of Inventions & Discoveries of 19th Century
Electric
Battery Volta 1800
Locomotive George Stephenson 1804
Steam
Ship Robert Fulton 1807
Stethoscope Rene Laennec 1816
Electromagnet William Sturgeon 1824
Fountain
Pen Petrache Poenaru 1827
पेट्राचे पोएनारु
Bicycle Kirkpatrick Macmillan 1839
Rubber
(vulcanized) Charles Goodyear 1841
Sewing
Machine Elias
Howe 1846
Transistors John Bardeen, William Shockley
& Walter Brattain 1948
Steam-Powered
Airship Henri Giffard 1852
Elevator Elisha G. Otis 1852
Light
Bulb Thomas Edison 1854
Theory of Evolution Charles Darwin 1858
Machine
Gun Richard Gatling 1861
Dynamite Alfred B. Nobel 1867
Periodic
Table Dmitri Mendeleev 1869
Telephone Graham Bell 1874
Microphone Alexander Graham
Bell 1876
Gramophone
Thomas Edison 1878
Petrol
for Motor Car Karl Benz 1885
Motorcycle Gottlieb Daimler 1885
Bicycle
Tyres John Boyd Dunlop
1888
Diesel
Engine Rudolf Diesel 1892
Radio Guglielmo Marconi 1894
X-ray Wilhelm
Conrad Roentgen 1895
Typewriter Christopher Latham Sholes —
Radium Marie & Pierre Curie 1898
Celluloid Alexander Parkes 1861
Barbed
Wire Joseph F. Glidden 1873
Cine
Camera Wm. Friese-Greene 1889
Electric
stove/cooker William S. Hadaway 1896
Electric
Fan Schuyler Wheeler 1882
Electric
Motor (DC) Thomas Davenport 1873
Ship
(Turbine) Charles Parsons 1894
Saxophone Adolphe Sax 1846
Helium Jules Janssen 1868
List of Inventions & Discoveries of 20th Century
Vacuum
Cleaner Hubert Cecil Booth 1901
Air
Conditioner Willis Carrier 1902
Airplane
Wilber and Orville Wright 1903
Valve.
Radio Sir J.A Fleming 1904
Neon
Lamp Georges Claude 1915
Insulin Sir Frederick Banting 1923
Adhesive
tape Richard G. Drew 1923
Rocket
Engine Robert H. Goddard 1926
Xerox
Machine Chester Carlson 1928
Richter
Scale Charles Richter 1935
Jet
Engine Hans Von Ohain 1936
Ball
Point Pen/ John Loud 1888
László C. Biro
— 1938
John
Jacob Loud (November 2, 1844 – August 10, 1916) was an American inventor known
for designing the first ballpoint pen. Loud invented and obtained a patent for
what is considered to be the first ballpoint pen in 1888; however, his
invention was not commercialized and the patent would eventually lapse. The
modern ballpoint pen would be patented later in 1938 by László Bíró, 22 years
after Loud's death.
Helicopter Igor Sikorsky 1939
Animation(film) J. Stuart Blackton — 1941
James
Stuart Blackton (January 5, 1875 – August 13, 1941) was a British-American film
producer and director of the silent era. One of the pioneers of motion
pictures, he founded Vitagraph Studios in 1897. He was one of the first
filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation, is
considered a father of American animation, and was the first to bring many
classic plays and books to the screen.
Atom
Bomb Julius
Robert Oppenheimer 1945
Pacemaker Rune Elmqvist 1952
Hovercraft Christopher Cockerell 1959
Laser Theodore Maiman 1960
Soft
Contact lenses Otto Wichterle 1961
Synthesizer Dr. Robert Arthur Moog 1964
World
Wide Web Tim
Berners Lee with Robert Cailliau 1989
Biology
Circulation
of blood William Harvey 1628
Hydrogen Henry Cavendish 1766
Oxygen Joseph Priestley 1774
Ozone Christian Schonbein 1839
Fluorine André-Marie Ampère 1810
Vitamin
A Frederick Gowland Hpokins 1912
Vitamin
B Christiaan Eijkman 1897
Vitamin
C Albert Szent-Gyorgi – 1930’
It
wasn’t until the 1930’s that Albert Szent-Györgyi discovered the chemical
ascorbic acid—also known as vitamin C. His discovery was among the foundations of
modern nutrition.
Vitamin
K Henrik Dam 1929
Vitamin
E Herbert McLean Evans &
Katherine Scott Bishop
Chloroform Sir James Young Simpson —
Aspirin Dr. Felix Hoffman 1899
Blood
Group Karl Lansdsteiner 1900s
Windshield
wipers Mary Anderson 1903
Polio
Vaccine Jonas Edward Salk – 1955,
Jonas Edward Salk
was an American virologist and medical
researcher who developed one of the first successful polio
vaccines.
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