Important inventions/discoveries

List of Famous Inventions, Discoveries and Their Inventors

 

Invention	Inventor
Television	J.L. 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
Bohr	Electron Theory
Boyle	Boyle’s Law
Dalton	Atomic Theory
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	Karl 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
Heliocentrism	Aristarchus of Samos
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
Airplane	Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur)
Steam Engine	James Watt
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
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
Google	Larry Page
Mozilla	Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross
Facebook	Mark Zuckerberg
Twitter	Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone
Microsoft	Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Internet	Vint Cerf
Email	Shiva Ayyadurai
Apple Computers	Steve Jobs
World Wide Web (WWW)	Sir Tim Berners- Lee
IP Address	Robert E. Kahn
Micro Processor	Federico Faggin

 

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