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    List of Important Inventions & Discoveries

    Given below is a list of important inventions and discoveries along with the name of their Inventors and
    the year in which they were discovered:

    List of Inventions & Discoveries

    Invention/Discovery Name of the Inventor Year of Invention

    Automatic Calculator Wilhelm Schickard 1623

    Air Conditioner Willis Carrier 1914

    Amplitude Modulation Reginald Fessenden -

    Anemometer Leon Battista Alberti 1450

    Animation Emile Reynaud 1892

    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 1784

    Barometer Evangelista Torricelli -

    Barbed Wire Joseph F. Glidden 1873

    Blood Group Karl Lansdsteiner 1900

    Ball Point Pen John Loud 1888

    Bicycle Tyres John Boyd Dunlop 1888

    Bicycle Kirkpatrick Macmillan 1839

    Celluloid Alexander Parkes 1861

    Chloroform E. Soberran 1831

    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 Karl Wilhelm Scheele 1774

    Dynamite Alfred B. Nobel 1867

    Diesel Engine Rudolf Diesel 1895

    Electric stove/cooker William S. Hadaway 1896

    Electroscope Jean Nollet 1748

    Electric Fan Wheeler 1882

    Electric Battery Volta 1800

    Elevator Elisha G. Otis 1852

    Electric Motor (DC) Zenobe Gramme 1873

    Electromagnet William Sturgeon 1824

    Fountain Pen Lewis Edson Waterman 1884

    Fluorine Ferdinand Frederick Henri Moissan 1886

    Gramophone Thomas Edison 1878

    Hydrogen Henry Cavendish 1766

    Helicopter Igor Sikorsky 1939

    Hovercraft Christopher Cockerell 1959

    Hot Air Balloon Josef & Etienne Montgolfier 1783

    Helium William Ramsay 1868

    Insulin Sir Frederick Banting 1923

    Jet Engine Hans Von Ohain 1936

    Lightning Conductor Benjamin Franklin 1752

    Locomotive Richard Trevithick 1804

    Laser Dr. Charles H. Townes 1960

    Light Bulb Heinrich Goebel 1854

    Motorcycle Edward Butler 1848


    Microscope Zacharis Janssen 1590

    Microphone Alexander Graham Bell 1876

    Machine Gun Richard Gaffing 1861

    Neon Lamp Georges Claude 1915

    Oxygen Antoine Laurent Lavoisier 1775

    Ozone Christian Schonbein 1839

    Piano Bartolomeo Cristofori 1700

    Printing Press Johannes Gutenberg 1440

    Parachute Jean Pierre Blanchard 1785

    Polio Vaccine Jonas Edward Salk -

    Periodic Table Dmitri Mendeleev 1869

    Penicillin Alexander Fleming 1928

    Pacemaker Dr. Paul Zoll 1952

    Petrol for Motor Card Karl Benz 1885

    Refrigerator James Harrison 1851

    Radium Marie & Pierre Curie 1898

    Radar Dr. Albert H. Taylor & Leo C. Young 1922

    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 J.C Perier 1775

    Steam Boat John Fitch 1786

    Safety Match J.E. Lundstrom 1855

    Submarine David Bushnell 1776

    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 Peter Mitterhofer 1841

    Transistors John Bardeen, William Shockley & Walter 1948


    Brattain

    Telephone Graham Bell 1874

    Valve. Radio Sir J.A Fleming 1904

    Vacuum Cleaner Ives McGuffey 1869

    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

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