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