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Scientists are driven by constant curiosity and inspired to find the truth. Their discoveries have made life easy and also motivated several people. If we talk about scientists like Newton, Galileo, C.V. Raman etc. their great minds of science touched us and inspired us to achieve more. Thus questions about their inventions and discoveries are very common in competitive exams.
Let us study this article about some famous scientists and their inventions.
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What are Inventions and Discoveries?
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process. The invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process. It may be an improvement upon a machine or product or a new process for creating an object or a result. Whereas, discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something previously unrecognized as meaningful.
Here's a list:
| Sr.No. | Invention | Person |
| 1. | Aeroplane |
Wright Brothers
|
| 2. | Air Conditioner |
Willis Carrier |
| 3. | Atom Bomb |
Otto Hahn |
| 4. | Braily System |
Louis Braille |
| 5. | Boson |
S.N Bose |
| 6. | Ball Pen |
Loud
|
| 7. | Cinema |
Lumiere Brothers
|
| 8. | Celluloid |
Alexander Parkes |
| 9. | Coloured Photography |
Gabriel Lippmann |
| 10. | Diesel Engine |
Rudolf Diesel |
| 11. | Dynamite |
Alfred Nobel |
| 12. | Discovery of Solar System |
Nicolaus Copernicus |
| 13. | Electric Battery |
Alessandro Volta |
| 14. | Electricity |
Michael Faraday |
| 15. | Elevator |
Elisha Otis |
| 16. | Fountain Pen |
Lewis Waterman |
| 17. | Fahrenheit Scale |
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit |
| 18. | Film & Photographic goods |
Kodak
|
| 19. | Generator |
Piciontti
|
| 20. | Gramaphone |
Thomas Alva Edison |
| 21. | Geometry |
Euclid |
| 22. | Hydrogen |
Henry Cavendish |
| 23. | Homoeopathy |
Samuel Hahnemann |
| 24. | Microbiology, Chemistry |
Louis Pasteur
|
| 25. | Aviation (Jet engine) |
Sir Frank Whittle |
| 26. | Physiology, Medicine (co-discovered insulin) |
Frederick Banting |
| 27. | Physics (induction coil) |
Heinrich Ruhmkorff |
| 28. | Psychology (intelligence test) |
Alfred Binet
|
| 29. | Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy |
Issac Newton |
| 30. | Physics Laser |
Theodore Maiman |
| 31. | Chemistry (Laughing Gas) |
Joseph Priestley |
| 32. | Polymath (electricity, printing, diplomacy) |
Benjamin Franklin |
| 33. | Firearms (Gatling gun) |
Dr Richard Gatling
|
| 34. | Microscope (early development) |
Hans and Zacharias Janssen
|
| 35. | Physics (Raman effect) |
C. V. Raman |
| 36. | Chemistry (discovered neon gas) |
William Ramsay and Morris Travers
|
| 37. | Physics (nuclear fission) |
Otto Hahn |
| 38. | Chemistry (nylon) |
Wallace Carothers |
| 39. | Chemistry (discovered oxygen) |
Joseph Priestley |
| 40. | Biology (evolution by natural selection) |
Charles Darwin |
| 41. | Medicine (discovered penicillin) |
Alexander Fleming |
| 42. | Engineering (pneumatic tire) |
John Boyd Dunlop |
| 43. | Printing (printing press in Europe) | Johannes Gutenberg
|
| 45. | Raman effect |
C.V.Raman |
| 46. | Physics, Chemistry (radioactivity) |
Marie Curie |
| 47. | Engineering (radio technology) |
Edwin Howard Armstrong (Alexanderson's work influenced radio transmission) |
| 48. | Physics (quantum theory) |
Max Planck |
| 49. | Engineering (steam engine) | James Watt
|
| 50. | Medicine (stethoscope) | René Laennec
|
| 51. | Engineering (early submarine) | David Bushnell
|
| 52. | Chemistry (thermos flask) |
James Dewar |
| 53. | Engineering (television) |
John Logie Baird |
| 54. | Astronomy, Physics (telescope) |
Galileo Galilei |
| 55. | Physics (nuclear fission) |
Otto Hahn |
| 56. | Astronomy (discovered Uranus) | William Herschel
|
| 57. | Medicine (vaccination) |
Edward Jenner |
| 58. | Chemistry (vulcanization of rubber) |
Charles Goodyear |
| 59. | Physics (wireless communication) |
Oliver Lodge |
| 60. | Engineering (wireless telegraphy) |
Guglielmo Marconi |
| 61. | Physics (X-ray) | Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
|
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