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