Inventions & Discoveries List for State Government Exams

INVENTION AND DISCOVERIES LIST

In government exams like SSC, railway, and state-level tests, questions on inventions and discoveries are common. Here is a list of different inventions and discoveries, along with the names of the inventors:

List of Inventions & Discoveries
Invention/Discovery	Name of the Inventor
Anemometer	Leon   Battista Alberti
Animation	J. Stuart Blackton
Automatic Calculator	Wilhelm Schickard
Air Conditioner	Willis Carrier
Atom Bomb	Julius   Robert Oppenheimer
Aspirin	Dr.   Felix Hoffman
Airplane	Wilber   and Orville Wright
Adhesive tape	Richard   G. Drew
Blood Group	Karl   Lansdsteiner
Ball Point Pen	John   Loud
Bicycle Tyres	John   Boyd Dunlop
Bifocal Lens	Benjamin Franklin
Barometer	Evangelista Torricelli
Barbed Wire	Joseph F. Glidden
Pedal Driven Bicycle	Kirkpatrick   Macmillan
Clock Mechanical	Hsing   and Ling-Tsan
Diesel Engine	Rudolf   Diesel
Centigrade Scale	Anders   Celsius
Chlorine	Carl   Wilhelm Scheele
Celluloid	Alexander Parkes
Chloroform	Sir James Young Simpson
Cine Camera	Wm. Friese-Greene
Circulation of blood	William Harvey
Dynamite	Alfred   B. Nobel
Diesel Engine	Rudolf   Diesel
Electric stove/cooker	William   S. Hadaway
Electroscope	William Gilbert
Electric Fan	Schuyler   Wheeler
Electric Battery	Volta
Elevator	Elisha   G. Otis
Electric Motor (DC)	Thomas Davenport
Electromagnet	William   Sturgeon
Fountain Pen	Petrache Poenaru
Fluorine	André-Marie Ampère
Gramophone	Thomas   Edison
Hydrogen	Henry   Cavendish
Helicopter	Igor   Sikorsky
Hovercraft	Christopher   Cockerell
Hot Air Balloon	Josef   & Etienne Montgolfier
Helium	Jules Janssen
Insulin	Sir   Frederick Banting
Jet Engine	Hans   Von Ohain
Lightning Conductor	Benjamin   Franklin
Locomotive	George Stephenson
Laser	Theodore Maiman
Light Bulb	Thomas   Edison
Motorcycle	Gottlieb Daimler
Microscope	Zacharis   Janssen
Microphone	Alexander   Graham Bell
Machine Gun	Richard   Gatling
Neon Lamp	Georges   Claude
Oxygen	Joseph Priestley
Ozone	Christian   Schonbein
Piano	Bartolomeo   Cristofori
Printing Press	Johannes   Gutenberg
Parachute	Louis-Sebastien Lenormand
Polio Vaccine	Jonas   Edward Salk
Periodic Table	Dmitri   Mendeleev
Penicillin	Alexander   Fleming
Pacemaker	Rune Elmqvist
Petrol for Motor Car	Karl   Benz
Refrigerator	William Cullen
Radium	Marie   & Pierre Curie
Rubber (vulcanized)	Charles   Goodyear
Rocket Engine	Robert   H. Goddard
Radio	Guglielmo   Marconi
Richter Scale	Charles   Richter
Ship (Turbine)	Charles   Parsons
Steam Ship	Robert Fulton
Steam Boat	Robert   Fulton
Submarine	Cornelis Drebbel
Stethoscope	Rene   Laennec
Saxophone	Adolphe   Sax
Sewing Machine	Elias   Howe
Steam-Powered Airship	Henri   Giffard
Soft Contact lenses	Otto   Wichterle
Synthesizer	Dr.   Robert Arthur Moog
Thermometer	Galileo
Theory of Evolution	Charles   Darwin
Typewriter	Christopher Latham Sholes
Transistors	John   Bardeen, William Shockley & Walter Brattain
Telephone	Graham   Bell
Valve. Radio	Sir   J.A Fleming
Vacuum Cleaner	Hubert Cecil Booth
Vitamin A	Frederick   Gowland Hpokins
Vitamin B	Christiaan   Eijkman
Vitamin C	Albert   Szent-Gyorgi
Vitamin K	Henrik   Dam
Vitamin E	Herbert   McLean Evans & Katherine Scott Bishop
Windshield wipers	Mary   Anderson
World Wide Web	Tim   Berners Lee with Robert Cailliau
X-ray	Wilhelm   Conrad Roentgen
Xerox Machine	Chester   Carlson