Here is the list of Important Inventions & their scientist names i.e. Inventors. In many competitive exams, questions in inventions / inventors are asked. This will help you in your preparation for those tests. Remember this list for your exams preparation.
Invention: Inventor
Invention: Inventor
- Air Conditioning: Carrier
- Air Plane (Jet Engine): Whittle
- Ball Point Pen: John Loud
- Bacteria: Leeuwenhock
- Bicycle: Macmillan
- Bicycle tyre: Dunlop
- Barometer: Torricelli
- Camera: Zeiss
- Carburettor: Daimler
- Cement: Joseph Aspdin
- Cinema: Nicolas Lumiere & Edison
- Computer (Original Model): Charles Babbage
- D.D.T.: D. Paul Muller
- Diesel Engine: Rudolf Diesel
- Dynamo: Michael Faraday
- Electric Current, Induction of: Michael Faraday
- Electric Lamp: Edison
- Electrons: J.J.Thomson
- Evolution, Theory: Charles Darwin
- Fountain Pen: Waterman
- Four Stroke Engine: Nikolaus Lotto
- Galvanometer: Sweigger
- Gas Engine: Diamler
- Helicopter: Broquet
- Jet Propulsion, Jet Engine: Frank Whittle
- Laser: Charles Townes
- Locomotive: Richard Travithick
- Machine gun: James Puckle
- Motor Car: Austin
- Microphone: Berliner
- Neutron: Chadwick
- Nuclear Fission: Otto Hahn
- Polythene: Fawcett
- Pressure Cooker: Dennis Papin Robert Boyle.
- Radar: Robert Watson Watt
- Radio signals: G.Marconi
- Refrigerator: Harrison & Catlin
- Revolver: Samuel Colt
- Sewing Machine: Issac Singer
- Spectacles: Venice (Italy)
- Stethoscope: Rene Lainnec & William Stockes.
- Submarine: Bushell
- Television: J. L. Baird
- Transformer: William Stanley
- TNT: Will Brand
- Tank (Military): Swinton
- Telephone: Graham Bell
- Thermometer: Fahrenheit
- Telescope: Galileo
- Telegraph: William Cook
- Turbine Engine: Charles Parsons
- Tyre: Dunlop
- Penicillin: Alexander Fleming
- Dynamite: Alfred B. Nobel
- X-ray: Roentgen
- Vitamin D: F.C. Hopkins
- Washing Machine: Hurley Machine Co.
- Watch (winding): Greguet
- Welding (Electric): Thomson
- X-ray tube: Coolidge
- South Pole : Amundson (1912)
- Positive Electrons: Anderson
- Galvanometer: Andre-Marie Ampere
- Transistor: Bardeen, Shockley, Brattain
- Atomic Structure: Bohr and Rutherford
- Helicopter: Broquett
- Clock (pendulum): C. Hugyens
- Typewriter: C. Sholes
- Electric Battery: Volta
This will be helping you in increasing your general knowledge.
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