Inventions and Discoveries
Inventions/Discovery | Discoverer/Inventor | County | Year |
Geographical | |||
America | Christopher Columbus | Italy | 1492 |
Sea route to India (Via the Cape of Good Hope) | Vasco-de-Gama | Portugal | 1498 |
Sandwich Islands (Now called Hawaiian Island | Captain Cook | England | 1770 |
North Pole (Explored) | Robert Peary | U.S.A. | 1909 |
South Pole (Explored) | Amundsen | Norway | 1911 |
Solar System Planetary Motion | Copernicus Kepler |
Poland Germany |
1540 1609 |
Chemistry & Physics | |||
Atom Bomb | Rutherford | England | 1939 |
Electrical Battery | Volta | Italy | 1800 |
Crescograph | J.C. Bose | India | - |
Crystal Dynamics | C.V. Raman | India | 1928 |
Discovery of Oxygen | J.B. Priestley | England | 1774 |
Dynamite | Alfred Nobel | Sweden | 1862 |
Genetic Code | Dr. Hargovind Khurana | India | 1968 |
Incandescent Bulb | Edison | U.S.A. | 1860 |
Laws of Gravitation | Newton | England | 1687 |
Lightning Conductor | Benjamin Franklin | U.S.A. | 1759 |
Motorcar Manufacture | Henry Ford | U.S.A. | - |
Micro Film | Dr. Fredric | Germany | - |
Printing for the blind | Louis Braille | France | 1829 |
Photography | L. Daguerre | France | 1837 |
Photography (Colored) | Gabriel Lippmann | U.S.A. | 1857 |
Photography (Roll Film) | George Eastman | U.S.A. | 1888 |
Quantum Theory | Max Planck | Germany | 1901 |
Radio-activity of Uranium | Henri Becquerel | France | 1896 |
Radium | Madame Curie | Poland | 1899 |
Sputniks (Artificial Earth Satellite) | Russian Scientists | Russia | 1957 |
Theory of Relativity | A. Einstein | U.S.A. | 1905 |
Telegraph Code | Samuel Morse | U.S.A. | 1832 |
Theory of Evolution | Charles Darwin | England | 1859 |
Telephone | Graham Bell | U.S.A. | 1876 |
Wireless (Radio) | G. Marconi | Italy | 1896 |
X-ray | W.K. Roentgen | Germany | 1895 |
Mechanical | |||
Aeroplane | Wright Brothers (Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright) | U.S.A. | 1903 |
Alcohol thermometer | Fahrenheit | Germany | 1709 |
Bicycle | Macmillan | Scotland | 1842 |
Dynamo | Michael Faraday | England | 1831 |
Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel | Germany | 1897 |
Engine (Railway) | Stephenson | England | 1814 |
Fountain Pen | Waterman | U.S.A. | 1884 |
Gramophone | Edison | U.S.A. | 1877 |
Locomotive Power Steam (Principle of Steam Engine) | James Watt | Scotland | 1764 |
Microscope | Z. Jansen | Netherlands | 1590 |
Power-loom | Cartwright | England | 1785 |
Printing Press | Gutenberg | Germany | 1450 |
Pneumatic Tyres | Dunlop | Ireland | 1488 |
Revolver | Colt | U.S.A. | 1835 |
Sewing Machine | Elias Howe | U.S.A. | 1846 |
Thermometer | Fahrenheit | Germany | 1714 |
Transistor | W. Shockley | England | 1958 |
Typewriter | Soles | U.S.A. | 1868 |
Television | J.L. Baird | U.S.A. | 1944 |
Telescope | Galileo | Italy | 1609 |
Telstar | U.S. Scientists | U.S.A. | 1962 |
Vaccination (Smallpox) | Edward Jenner | England | 1796 |