Inventions
The word “science” is derived from the Latin word “scientia” which means “knowledge.” This material on Famous Inventions, Discoveries and Their Inventors is important for all competitive exams. Science is probably the most important and helpful area of study for the human race. Nowadays in online bank exams questions related to inventions and discoveries are being asked. As inventions and discoveries added to one another, human civilization, technology and science advanced and evolved.
Here we are providing the list of some important inventions and inventors which were asked frequently in the previous examinations. We hope it will be helpful for your upcoming Bank Exams - IBPS, SSC, UPSC and all Competitive Exams.
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List of Famous Inventions, Discoveries and Their Inventors:
List - 1
| Inventions | Inventor |
|---|---|
| Television (mechanical) | John Logie Baird |
| Radio | Marconi |
| Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Electricity | Benjamin Franklin |
| Electric Light Bulb | Thomas Edison |
| Thermometer | Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit |
| Radium | Marie Curie |
| Telescope | Galileo |
| Telegraph | Pavel Schilling |
| Electromagnetic Theory | Heinrich Hertz |
| Theory of Relativity | Albert Einstein |
| X-rays | Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen |
| Cosmic Rays | R.A. Millikan |
| Automobile | Ferdinand Verbiest |
| Penicillin | Sir Alexander Fleming |
| Insulin | Frederick Banting |
| Magnetic Tape | Fritz Pfluemer |
| Raman Effect | Sir C.V. Raman |
| Airplane | Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur) |
| Steam Engine | James Watt |
List - 2
| Invention | Inventor |
|---|---|
| Bohr Model | Electron Theory - Niels Bohr |
| Boyle | Boyle’s Law : Robert William Boyle |
| Dalton | Atomic Theory : John Dalton |
| Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev |
| Transformer and Electric Motor | Michael Faraday |
| Geometry | Euclid |
| Structure of Atom | Ernest Rutherford |
| Law of Gases | Gay Lussac |
| Electromagnetic Field | James Clerk Maxwell |
| Motion of Planets | Johannes Kepler |
| Principle of relativity | Galileo Galilei |
| Newtons Law of Motion | Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton |
| Electron | J.J. Thomson |
| Photon | Albert Einstein |
| Theory of Atom | John Dalton |
| Blood Groups | EKarl Landsteiner |
| Quantum Mechanics | Max Born |
| Quantum Theory | Max Plank, Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein |
| Law of Conservation of Mass | Antoine Lavoisier |
| Age of the Earth | C.C. Patterson |
List - 3
| Invention | Inventor |
|---|---|
| Heliocentrism | Aristarchus of Samos : Nicolaus Copernicus |
| Heliocentric Model | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| Periodic law | Mendeleef |
| Venn Diagram | John Venn |
| Vierner Scale | Pierre Vernier |
| Atomic Number | Mosley |
| Law of Motion & Gravitation | Newton |
| Laws of Electrical Resistance | Ohm |
| Nuclear Reactor | Enrico Fermi |
| Fuel Cell | William Robert Glove |
| Celluloid | Alexander Parkes |
| Hydrogen Bomb | Edward Teller |
| Computer Architecture | John Von Neumann |
| Logarithms | John Napier |
| Theory of Evolution | Charles Darwin |
| Transformer | Otto Blathy |
| Cinematography | Edison |
| Stethoscope | Rane Laennec |
| Thermo Flask | Dewar |
| Battery | Alessandro Volta |
| Barometer | Evangelista Torricelli |
| Camera | Steven Sasson |
List - 4
| Invention | Inventor |
|---|---|
| Analytical Engine | Thomas Edison |
| Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel |
| Helicopter | Broquet |
| Dynamite | Alfred Nobel |
| First Computer | John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert |
| Lift | Otis |
| Guitar | Adolph Rickenbacker |
| Light Emission Diode | Nick Holonyak and Oleg Losev |
| Laser Printer | Gary Starkweather |
| Mobile Phone | Martin Cooper |
| Micro Scope | Zacharias Janssen |
| Microwave Oven | Percy Spencer |
| Printing Press | Johannes Gutenberg |
| Video Games | Ralph H. Baer |
List - 5
| Invention | Inventor |
|---|---|
| Larry Page | |
| Mozilla | Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross |
| Mark Zuckerberg | |
| Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone | |
| Microsoft | Bill Gates and Paul Allen |
| Internet | Vint Cerf |
| Shiva Ayyadurai | |
| Apple Computers | Steve Jobs |
| World Wide Web (WWW) | Sir Tim Berners- Lee |
| IP Address | Robert E. Kahn |
| Micro Processor | Federico Faggin |