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List of Inventions and Discoveries
Invention/Discovery | Name of the Inventor | Year of Invention |
Automatic Calculator | Wilhelm Schickard | 1623 |
Air Conditioner | Willis Carrier | 1902 |
Anemometer | Leon Battista Alberti | 1450 |
Animation | J. Stuart Blackton | — |
Atom Bomb | Julius Robert Oppenheimer | 1945 |
Aspirin | Dr. Felix Hoffman | 1899 |
Airplane | Wilber and Orville Wright | 1903 |
Adhesive tape | Richard G. Drew | 1923 |
Bifocal Lens | Benjamin Franklin | 1779 |
Barometer | Evangelista Torricelli | 1643 |
Barbed Wire | Joseph F. Glidden | 1873 |
Blood Group | Karl Lansdsteiner | 1900s |
Ball Point Pen | John Loud | — |
Bicycle Tyres | John Boyd Dunlop | 1888 |
Pedal Driven Bicycle | Kirkpatrick Macmillan | 1839 |
Celluloid | Alexander Parkes | 1861 |
Chloroform | Sir James Young Simpson | — |
Cine Camera | Wm. Friese-Greene | 1889 |
Circulation of blood | William Harvey | 1628 |
Clock Mechanical | Hsing and Ling-Tsan | 1725 |
Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel | 1892 |
Centigrade Scale | Anders Celsius | 1742 |
Chlorine | Carl Wilhelm Scheele | 1774 |
Dynamite | Alfred B. Nobel | 1867 |
Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel | 1895 |
Electric stove/cooker | William S. Hadaway | 1896 |
Electroscope | William Gilbert | 1600s |
Electric Fan | Schuyler Wheeler | 1882 |
Electric Battery | Volta | 1800 |
Elevator | Elisha G. Otis | 1852 |
Electric Motor (DC) | Thomas Davenport | 1873 |
Electromagnet | William Sturgeon | 1824 |
Fountain Pen | Petrache Poenaru | 1827 |
Fluorine | André-Marie Ampère | 1810 |
Gramophone | Thomas Edison | 1878 |
Hydrogen | Henry Cavendish | 1766 |
Helicopter | Igor Sikorsky | 1939 |
Hovercraft | Christopher Cockerell | 1959 |
Hot Air Balloon | Josef & Etienne Montgolfier | 1783 |
Helium | Jules Janssen | 1868 |
Insulin | Sir Frederick Banting | 1923 |
Jet Engine | Hans Von Ohain | 1936 |
Lightning Conductor | Benjamin Franklin | 1752 |
Locomotive | George Stephenson | 1804 |
Laser | Theodore Maiman | 1960 |
Light Bulb | Thomas Edison | 1854 |
Motorcycle | Gottlieb Daimler | 1885 |
Microscope | Zacharias Janssen | 1590 |
Microphone | Alexander Graham Bell | 1876 |
Machine Gun | Richard Gatling | 1861 |
Neon Lamp | Georges Claude | 1915 |
Oxygen | Joseph Priestley | 1774 |
Ozone | Christian Schonbein | 1839 |
Piano | Bartolomeo Cristofori | 1700 |
Printing Press | Johannes Gutenberg | 1440 |
Parachute | Louis-Sebastien Lenormand | 1783 |
Polio Vaccine | Jonas Edward Salk | – |
Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev | 1869 |
Penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 1928 |
Pacemaker | Rune Elmqvist | 1952 |
Petrol for Motor Car | Karl Benz | 1885 |
Refrigerator | William Cullen | 1748 |
Radium | Marie & Pierre Curie | 1898 |
Rubber (vulcanized) | Charles Goodyear | 1841 |
Rocket Engine | Robert H. Goddard | 1926 |
Radio | Guglielmo Marconi | 1894 |
Richter Scale | Charles Richter | 1935 |
Ship (Turbine) | Charles Parsons | 1894 |
Steam Ship | Robert Fulton | 1807 |
Steam Boat | Robert Fulton | 1786 |
Submarine | Cornelis Drebbel | 1620 |
Stethoscope | Rene Laennec | 1816 |
Saxophone | Adolphe Sax | 1846 |
Sewing Machine | Elias Howe | 1846 |
Steam-Powered Airship | Henri Giffard | 1852 |
Soft Contact lenses | Otto Wichterle | 1961 |
Synthesizer | Dr. Robert Arthur Moog | 1964 |
Thermometer | Galileo | 1593 |
Theory of Evolution | Charles Darwin | 1858 |
Typewriter | Christopher Latham Sholes | — |
Transistors | John Bardeen, William Shockley & Walter Brattain | 1948 |
Telephone | Graham Bell | 1874 |
Valve. Radio | Sir J.A Fleming | 1904 |
Vacuum Cleaner | Hubert Cecil Booth | 1901 |
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 | |
Windshield wipers | Mary Anderson | 1903 |
World Wide Web | Tim Berners Lee with Robert Cailliau | 1989 |
X-ray | Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen | 1895 |
Xerox Machine | Chester Carlson | 1928 |
