List of famous inventions and their inventors.
A to Z
Adding Machine : Blaise Pascal & William Burroughs
Air Conditioning : Carrier
Air Plane (Jet Engine) : Whittle
Air-brake : George Westinghouse
Airplane with motor : Orville and Wright
Airship : Giffard
Airship (Non-rigid) : Zeppelin
Aniline Dyes : Hoffman
Animal Classification : Aristotle (Father of Zoology)
Anti-polio Vaccine : Jonas E.Salk
Antiseptic Surgery : Joseph Lister
Arc Lamp : C.F.Brush
Artificial heart : Michael de Baxey
Art of Printing : Guttenburg
Atomic Physics : Ernest Rutherford
Atomic Theory : John Dalton
Atom-breaking up the nucleus : Rutherford
Atomic Numbers : Moseley
Atomic Structure : Bohr & Rutherford
Atomic bomb : Otto Hahn
Automobile (Self Starter) : Kettering
Automobile (gasoline) : Daimler
Automobile (gears) : Benz
Automobile (magneto) : Daimler
Automobile (Steam) : Nicolas Cugnot
Avogradra’s Hypothesis : Avogadro
Ayurveda : Atreya
Bacteria : Leeuwenhock
Ball Point Pen : John Loud
Balloon : Montgolfier
Barometer : Torricelli
Battery & Current Electricity : Volta
Beriberi (cause) : Eijkman
Bicycle : Macmillan
Bicycle tyre : Dunlop
Bifocal lens : Franklin
Blood Circulation : Harvey
Blood Transfusion : Landsteneir
Blood grouping : Dr.Costella and Dr.Moss
Brownian Movements : Robert Brown
Burglar Alarm : Edwin T.Holmes
Camera : Zeiss
Carburettor : Daimler
Cash Register : James Kitty
Cells in the plants : Robert Hooke
Cell Theory : Schleiden & Schwann
Cement : Joseph Aspdin
Chain Drive : Leonardoda Vinci
Chloroform : James Young Simpson
Cholera bacillus : Robert Koch
Chronometer : John Harrison
Cinema : Nicolas Lumiere & Edison
Cinematography : Thomas Edison
Clock Pendulum : Huygens
Computer (Original Model) : Charles Babbage
Computer (electronic) : J . G . Brainerd J.P.Eckert & J.W.Manchly
Cosmic Rays : R.A.Millikan
Crystal Dynamics : C.V.Raman
D.D.T. : D. Paul Muller
DNA (model) : Watson and Crick
Diesel Oil Engine : Rudolf Diesel
Disc Brake : Lanchester
Dynamite : Alfred Nobel
Dynamo : Michael Faraday
Electric Attraction : Coulomb
Electric Battery : Volta
Electric Current, Induction of : Michael Faraday
Electric Energy : Joule, James
Electric Lamp : Edison
Electric Motor (DC) : Zenobe Gramme
Electric Motor (AC) : Nikola Tesla
Electrical Resistance : Ohm
Electricity, Current : Volta
Electrons : J.J.Thomson
Elevator brake (lift) : Otis
Evolution, Theory : Charles Darwin
Film (Musical) : Lee de Forest
Film (talking) : Warner Bros.
Fountain Pen : Waterman
Four Stroke Engine : Nikolaus Lotto
Flying Shuttle : John Kay
Galvanometer : Sweigger
Gas Engine : Diamler
Gas Lighting : William Murdock
Geiger counter : Geiger
Geometry : Euclid
Genetic Code (deciphering) : Hargobind Khorana
Gramophone : Thomas Edison
Gravitation, Laws of : Newton
Gunpowder : Roger Bacon
Heavy Hydrogen : H.C.Urey
Helicopter : Broquet
Helium : Janssen & Lockyer
Homoeopathy : Hahnemann
Hydrogen : Henry Cavendish
Inert Gases Like Argon,
Neon, Helium etc) : Ramsay
Insulin : F. Banting
Jet Propulsion : Frank Whittle
Jet Engine : Frank Whittle
Kala-a-zar Fever : U.N.Bramachari
Kidney Machine : Kolf
Laughing Gas : Priestley
Laser : Charles Townes
Lightning Conductor : Benjamin Franklin
Logarithms : John Napier
Locomotive : Richard Travithick
Malaria Parasite : Dr. Ronald Ross
Machine gun : James Puckle
Malaria germs : Laveran
Malaria Parasite : Dr.Ronald Ross
Match (safety) : J.E.Landstorm
Mathematics (India) : Ramanujan.S.
Microphone : Berliner
Microscope : Jansen (improved by Galileo)
Microscope (electron) : Vladimir Kosme Sworykin
Motor Car : Austin
Motion, Law of : Newton
Motor cycle : Edward Butler
Motor Scooter : Greville Bradshaw
Mitochondria : C.Benda
Neon-gas : W.Ramsay
Neon Lamp : George Clande
Neutron : Chadwick
Nuclear Fission : Otto Hahn
Nuclear Physics : John Crockfort
Nylon : W.Carothers
Origin of Life (artificial) : Stanley Millar
Oxygen : J.B.Priestley
Paints : Shalimar
Parachute : Andre-Jacques
Penicillin : Alexander Fleming
Periodic Law : Mendeleev
Phonograph : Edison
Photography : L.Daguerre
Photography (Coloured) : Gabriel Lippman
Pneumatic Tyre : Dunlop
Poliomyelitis (vaccine) : Jonas Salk
Polythene : Fawcett
Pressure Cooker : Dennis Papin Robert Boyle
Printing Press : Caxton
Printing for the Blind : Louis Braille
Quantum Theory : Max Planck
Radar : Robert Watson Watt
Radio Telephone : Lee De Forest
Radio Transmitter : Alexanderson
Radio signals : G.Marconi
Railway Engine : Stephenson
Raman Effect : C.V.Raman
Razor (Safety) : Gillette
Razor (Electric) : Jacob Schick
Rayon : Joseph Swann
Refrigerator : Harrison & Catlin
Replacing human heart : Christian Barnard
Revolver : Samuel Colt
Rh-factor : Karl Landsteiner
Rubber (latex foam) : Dunlop Co.
Rubber (tyres) : Thomas Hancock
Rubber (vulcanised) : Goodyear
Rubber (waterproof) : Macintosh
Safety Lamp : Humphrey Davy
Safety Matches : J.E.Landstorm
Safety Pin : William Hunt
Safety Razor : Gillette
Salk Vaccine (Anti Polio) : Dr.Jonas E.Salk
Seismograph : Robert Mallet
Sewing Machine : Issac Singer
Ship (Steam) : J.C.Pierier
Ship (turbine) : Charles Parsons
Shorthand : Pitman
Skyscraper : Baron Jenny
Solar system : Copernicus
Spectacles : Venice (Italy)
Stethoscope : Rene Lainnec & William Stockes
Steel (Stainless) : Henry Bearley
Space Flying : Wernher Von
Submarine : Bushell
T.N.T. (high explosive) : Will Brand
Tank (Military) : Swinton
Telegraph : William Cook
Telegraph Code : Samuel Morse
Telephone : Graham Bell
Telescope : Galileo
Telescope (Reflecting) : Newton
Television : J.L.Baird
Thermometer : Fahrenheit
Torpedo : Rabert Whitehead
Transformer : William Stanley
Transistor : W.Shockley & Bardeen
Tuberculosis bacilli : Robert Koch
Tungsten : Coolidge
Turbine Engine : Charles Parsons
Typewriter : Sholes
Tyre (Cycle) : Dunlop
Tyre (Pneumatic) : Dunlop
Umbrella : Samuel Fox
Uranium : Henry Becquerel
Uranus (planet) : William Herchel
Vacuum Flask : James Dewar
Vaccination (Small Pox) : Edward Jenner
Vitamin D : F.C. Hopkins
Vitamins : Funk
Vulcanization : Goodyear
Washing Machine : Hurley Machine Co.
Washing Soda : Lablanc
Watch (winding) : Greguet
Weaving Machine : Kay
Welding (Electric) : Thomson
Wireless Telegraphy : G.Marconi
X-ray : Roentgen
X-ray tube : Coolidge
Xenon : W.Ramsay & M. Travers
Xerography : Chester Carison
Xerox : Haloid-Xerox
Yellow fever, cause of : Reed
ZETA (Zero Energy Thermo
nuclear Assembly) : Harwell
Zip Fastener : W.L.Judson
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