GK Question of List of Inventions and Discoveries
1. Air Brake: George
Westinghouse
2. Air Pressure: Evangelista Torricelli
3. Anemometer: Leon
Battista Alberti
4. Ammeter: Friedrich
Dexler
5. Anode Rays: Eugen
Goldstein
6. AtomicNucleus: Ernest Rutherford
7. Battery: AlessandroVolta
8. Barometer: EvangelistaTorricelli
9. Calorimeter: AntoineLavoisier
10. CathodeRayTube: Ferdin and Braun
11. Celsius: Anders
Celsius
12. Dynamometer: Edme
Rednier
13. Electromagnet: William Sturgeon
14. FuelCell: William
Grove
15. Inclinometer: William B.Melick
16. Gamma Rays: PaulVillard
17. Gravity: SirIsaac
Newton
18. Induction Motor: Nikola Tesla
19. Large Hadron Collider: CERN
20. LCD: Friedrich
Reinitzer
21. LED: NickHolonyak,
OlegLosev
22. Kinetoscope: Louis
Le Prince
23. Magnetometer: SheldonBreiner
24. Mercury Thermometer: Gabriel Fahrenheit
25. Microscope: Zacharias
Janssen and HansLippershey
26. SteamTurbine: CharlesParson
27. Transformer: William
Stanley
28. VernierCaliper: PierreVernier
29. Acid: Albert
Hofmann
30. Aluminum: Charles
Martin Hall
31. Atoms: JohnDalton(Theorized
32. Covalent Bonds: Gilbert Newton Lewis
33. Dynamite: AlfredNobel
34. Electrons: JJThomson
35. Hydrogen: Henry
Cavendish
36. Inert Gases: SirWilliam
Ramsay
37. IonicBonds: Svante
August Arrhenius
38. Neutron: James
Chadwick
39. Osmosis: JeanAntoineNollet
40. Oxygen: JosephPriestley,
Carl Wilhelm and Scheele
41. Polythene: EricFawcett
42. Proton: Ernest
Rutherford
43. pHmeter: Soren
Peder Lauritz
44. Radioactivity: Henri Becquerel
45. PeriodicTable: Dmitri Mendeleev
46. Neon: Georges
Claude & Paris
47. Polyvinyl Chloride: Eugen Baumann
48. Synthetic Rubber: Fritz Hofmann
49. Titanium: William
Kroll
50. Radium: Pierre
Curie and Marie Curie
51. Anesthesia: Thomas
Green Morton
52. Aspirin: FelixHoffman
53. AnthraxVaccine: Louis Pasteur
54. Automated DNA Sequencer: Lloyd MSmith
55. Bacteria: Antonie
Van Leewenhoek
56. Microbes: Antonie
Van Leewen hoek and Robert Hooke
57. BCGVaccine: Camille
Guerinand Albert Calmette
58. BloodGroup: Karl
Landsteiner
59. Calcium: Humphry
Davy
60. CholeraVaccine: Waldemar Haffkine
61. Cell: Robert
Hooke
62. CellNucleus: Robert
Brown
63. DDT(Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane): Paul Hermann Muller
64. ECG: Willem
Einthoven
65. Rubella Vaccine: Maurice Hilleman
66. HepatitisB Virus: Baruch Blumberg
67. HepatitisB Vaccine: PabloDT Valenzuela
68. Homeopathy and Allopathy: Samuel Hahnemann
69. HIV: Luc
Montagnier
70. Insulin: Frederick
Bantingand JJRMacleod
71. PolioVaccine: Jonas Edward Salk
72. PlagueVaccine: Waldemar Haffkine
73. Penicillin: Alexander
Fleming
74. Smallpox Vaccine: Edward Jenner
75. Spiral Structure of Protein: Linus Pauling
76. Kidney Dialysis: Willem Johan Kolff
77. XRay: Wilhelm
Rontgen
78. Vitamin: Casimir
Funk
79. VitaminA: Frederick
Gowl and Hopkins
80. VitaminB1: ChristiaanEijkman
81. VitaminC: AlbertSzent-Gyorgi
82. VitaminE: Herbert
McLean Evans and Katherine Scott Bishop
83. VitaminK: HenrikDam
84. Apple’Si Phone: SteveJobs
85. Email: Ray
Tomlinson
86. Cable Modem: Rouzbeh
Yassini
87. C++: Bjarne
Stroustrup
88. CProgramming Language: Dennis Ritchie
89. Facebook: Mark
Zuckerberg
90. Google: Sergey
Brinand Larry Page
91. Laptop: Adam
Osborne
92. JAVAComputingLanguage: JamesGosling
93. Microprocessors: StanMazor, Federico Faggin, TedHoff
94. Python: Guido
Van Rossum
95. Webcam: Paul
Jardetzky and Quentin Stafford Fraser
96. Search Engine: Alan Emtage
97. Surface Computing: Microsoft
98. Smart phone: IBM
99. Super computers: Seymour Cray
100. TCP/IP: VintCerfandBobKahn
101. Walkie-Talkie: BillVogel, Henryk Magnuski, Marion Bond,
Lloyd Morris , Dan Noble
102. World Wide Web: Robert Cailliau, Tim Berners and Lee
103. Yahoo: David
Filoand Jerry Yang
104. Ballistic Missile: WernherVonBraun
105. Global Positioning System: Ivan A.Getting Roger L.Easton Bradford
Parkinson
106. Uranus: WilliamHerschel
107. Communication Satellite: Arthur C.Clarke
108. Universe: EdwinHubble
109. Solar System: Nicolaus Copernicus
110. Planets: GalileoGalilei
111. Airplane: Wilburand
Orville Wright, The Wright Brothers
112. Calculator: Blaise
Pascal
113. Electric Bulb: Thomas Edison
114. Fan: Schuyler
Skaats Wheeler
115. Newspaper: Johann
Carolous
116. Printing Press: Johannes Gutenberg
117. Radio: Guglielmo
Marconi
118. Telephone: Alexander
Graham Bell
119. Television: PhiloTaylor
Farnsworth
120. Adding Machine: Pascal
121. Aeroplane: Wrightbrothers
122. Atom: John
Dalton
123. Bacteria: A.V.Leeuwenhoek
124. Ball-PointPen: JohnJ.Loud
125. Barometer: Evangelista
Torricelli
126. Bicycle: Macmillan
127. BloodGroups: Karl
Landsteiner
128. Calculatingmachine: Pascal
129. Cement: Joseph
Aspdin
130. Chemotherapy: Paul Ehrlich
131. Circulationofthe Blood: William Harvey
132. Computer: Charles
Babbage
133. Continental Drift: Alfred Wegener
134. Crescograph: J.CBose
135. Diesel Engine: Rudolf Diesel
136. Electrons: J.J.Thomson
137. ElectricTram: Fyodor Pirotsky
138. Electromagnetic NatureofLight: James Maxwell
139. North Pole: Robert
Peary
140. Solar System: Nicolaus Copernicus
141. South Pole: Roald
Amundson
142. WestIndies: Christopher
Columbus
143. Dynamite: Alfred
B.Nobel
144. Dynamo: Michael
Faraday
145. ElectricBattery: Alessandro Volta
146. ElectricGenerator: Michael Faraday
147. Electricity: Benjamin
Franklin
148. Electron: Joseph
J.Thomson
149. Evolution(theory): Charles Darwin
150. FahrenheitScale: Fahrenheit
151. FountainPen: Lewis
E.Waterman
152. Gaslighting: William
Murdoch
153. Homoeopathy: Hahnemann
154. Hydrogen: Cavendish
155. Insulin: F.Banting
156. Jeans: Levi
Strauss
157. JetEngine: Sir
Frank Whittle
158. Laser: Theodore
Maiman
159. LaughingGas(Nitrousoxide): Priestley
160. LawsofGravitation: Newton
161. LawsofHeredity: Gregory Mandel
162. LawsofInheritance: Gregor Mendel
163. LawsofMotion: Newton
164. LawsofPlanetaryMotion: Kepler
165. Lift(Elevators): Otis
166. LightningConductor: Benjamin Franklin
167. MachineGun: DrRichard
Gatling
168. Match(safety): Johan Edvard Lundstrom
169. MercuryThermometer: Fahrenheit
170. Neutron: Chadwick
171. NuclearFission: OttoHahn, Bohrand Fermi
172. Oxygen: Priestly
173. Paperclip: Johann
Vaaler
174. Penicillin: Alexander
Fleming
175. PrintingfortheBlind: Braille
176. PrintingPress: Johannes Gutenberg
177. RabiesVaccine: Louis Pasteur
178. Radio: G.Marconi
179. Radium: Madame
Curie
180. RailwayEngine: George Stephenson
181. Ramaneffect: C.V.Raman
182. Revolver: Samuel
Colt
183. SewingMachine: Thomas Saint
184. Shorthand: SirIsaac
Pitman
185. StainlessSteel: Harry Brearley
186. SteamEngine: James
Watt
187. Stethoscope: DrWilliam
Stokes, Rene Laennec
188. StructureofDNA: James Watson
189. Telegraph: Samuel
Morse
190. Telescope: Galileo
191. Television: Baird
192. Vaccination: Edward
Jenner
193. Vitamins: Hopkins
and Funk
194. X–Rays: Roentgen