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Important Inventions & Discoveries List Century wise

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

 The Romanian inventor Petrache Poenaru received a French patent on May 25, 1827, for the invention of a fountain pen with a barrel made from a large swan quill.[9]

 

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  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