Top 100 Famous inventions and their inventors
This article aims to delve into important inventions and their inventors from the perspective of the SSC CGL/CHSL and Banking examinations
Important discoveries in the field of science
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Invention/discovery |
Inventor |
Date |
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Benjamin Franklin |
1759 |
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Centigrade scale |
Anders Celsius |
– |
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Watch |
Peter Henlein |
– |
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Radio |
Guglielmo Marconi |
1895 |
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Thermometer |
Gabriel Farenheit |
1714 |
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Electric Bulb |
Thomas Edison |
1879 |
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Telescope |
Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen; later Galileo |
1608 |
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Air Brake |
Westinghouse |
1869 |
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Amplitude Modulation |
Reginald Fessiden |
– |
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Anemometer( wind speed) |
Leon Battista Alberti |
1450 |
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Barometer |
Evangelista Torricelli |
– |
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Cathode Ray Tube |
Ferdinand Braun |
1897 |
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Telegraph |
Samuel Morse |
1830 |
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Automobile |
Karl Benz |
1885 |
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Transformer |
Michael Faraday |
1885 |
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Electromagnetic induction |
Michael Faraday |
1830 |
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Quantum Mechanics |
Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan |
1924 |
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Nuclear Reactor |
Enrico Fermi |
1942 |
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Airplane |
Wright Brothers |
1903 |
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Camera |
Nicéphore Niépce |
1816 |
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LED |
Oleg Losev, Nick Holonyak |
1962 |
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Gravity |
Sir Isaac Newton |
1687 |
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Battery |
Alessandro Volta |
1799 |
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Induction motor |
Nikola Tesla |
1885 |
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Diesel Engine |
Rudolf Diesel |
1858 |
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Dynamite |
Alfred Nobel |
1867 |
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Lift |
Elisha Otis |
1853 |
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Mobile Phone |
Martin Cooper |
1973 |
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Printing Press |
Johannes Gutenberg |
1440 |
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Steam engine |
Thomas Newcomen |
1698 |
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Railway Engine |
George Stephenson |
– |
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Telephone |
Alexander Graham Bell |
1876 |
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Seismograph |
John Milne |
1839 |
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Electric Generator |
Michael Faraday |
1831 |
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Television |
John Logie Baird |
1927 |
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Calculator |
Blaise Pascal |
1642 |
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Refrigerator |
William Cullen |
1927 |
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Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller et al |
1945 |
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Air conditioner |
Willis Carrier |
1902 |
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Radar |
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt |
1939 |
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Transistor |
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley |
1947 |
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Galvanometer |
Johann Schweigger |
1820 |
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Laser |
Theodore H. Maiman |
1969 |
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Rocket Engine |
Robert Goddard |
– |
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Typewriter |
Christopher Latham Sholes |
1878 |
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Polythene |
Eric Fawcett |
1933 |
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Osmosis |
Jean Antoine Nollet |
1748 |
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Electrons |
JJ Thompson |
1897 |
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Protons |
Ernest Rutherford |
1911 |
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Inert Gases |
Sir William Ramsay |
1894 |
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Radioactivity |
Henri Becquerel |
1896 |
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Periodic Table |
Dmitri Mendeleev |
1869 |
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Oxygen |
Carl Wilhelm |
1773 |
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Hydrogen |
Henry Cavendish |
1766 |
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Atoms |
John Dalton |
1803 |
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Acid (LSD) |
Albert hofmann |
1938 |
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Ionic Bonds |
Svante August Arrhenius |
1884 |
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Aluminium |
Charles Martin Hall |
1886 |
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PH Meter |
Arnold O. Beckman |
1934 |
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Synthetic Rubber |
Fritz Hofmann |
1909 |
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Titanium |
William Kroll |
1940 |
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Radium |
Marie slodo |
1898 |
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Penicillin |
Alexander Fleming |
1928 |
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Taxol |
Monroe Wall and Mansukh Wani |
– |
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Anesthesia |
William Morton |
– |
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Pasteurization |
Louis Pasteur |
– |
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LCD |
George H. Heilmeier |
1888 |
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Aspirin |
Felix Hofmann |
1899 |
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DNA sequencer |
Lloyd M. Smith |
1987 |
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Blood Group |
Karl Landsteiner |
1900 |
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Calcium |
Humphrey Davy |
1808 |
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Cholera Vaccine |
Waldemar Haffkine |
1892 |
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Rubella Vaccine |
Maurice Hilleman |
1963 |
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Polio Vaccine |
Jonas Edward Stalk |
– |
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Anthrax Vaccine |
Louis Pasteur |
– |
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X-Ray |
William Rontgen |
1895 |
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Vitamin |
Casimir Funk |
1912 |
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Homeopathy and allopathy |
Samuel Hahnemann |
– |
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Cell |
Robert Hooke |
1665 |
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Nucleus |
Robert Brown |
– |
Important inventions in the field of technology
|
Invention |
Inventor |
Year |
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World Wide Web |
Tim Berners and Robert Cailliau |
1989 |
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Search Engine |
Alan Emtage |
1990 |
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Cable modem |
Rouzbeh Yassini |
– |
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Webcam |
Quentin straford Fraser and Paul Jardetzky |
1991 |
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Smartphone |
IBM |
1992 |
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Walkie Talkie |
Dan Noble, Henryk Magnuski et al |
1940 |
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JAVA |
James Gosling |
– |
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Surface Computing |
Microsoft |
2007 |
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TCP/IP |
Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf |
– |
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Ray Tomlinson |
1971 |
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin |
1998 |
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Laptop |
Adam Osborne |
1981 |
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C Language |
Dennis Ritchie |
1972 |
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Python |
Guido Van Rossum |
1991 |
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C++ |
Bjarne Stroustrup |
1983 |
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Mark Zukerburg |
2004 |
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Yahoo |
Jerry Yang and David Filo |
1994 |
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Missile |
Wernher Von Braun |
1936 |
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GPS |
Ivan A. Getting Roger Bradford Parkinson |
1995 |
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Uranus |
William Herschel |
1781 |
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Universe |
Edwin Hubble |
– |
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Solar System |
Nicolaus Copernicus |
16th century |
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Planets |
Galileo Galilei |
– |
Important Inventions made in India
|
Invention |
Inventor |
Year |
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Zero and the number system |
Aryabhatta |
458AD |
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Buttons |
Harappas |
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Wool and cotton |
Harappas |
4-5th millennium BC |
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Diamonds |
– |
– |
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Radio/wireless communication |
Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose |
1895 |
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Cataract Surgery |
Sushruta |
5th century B.C |
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Rockets |
Tipu Sultan |
1780 |
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