Inventions and discoveries have changed the world drastically. These inventions and discoveries made our life better. Starting from the discovery of fire and the invention of the wheel, the world has seen wonders in the space of inventions and discoveries. The list of Inventions and Discoveries is also an important topic with respect to the General Awareness section.
There are a lot of chances for questions on inventions and discoveries section is asked in various exams e.g. SSC, RRB, Bank, Insurance and other competitive exams and candidates are advised to thoroughly prepare themselves with all these inventions along with their Inventors.
Candidates who are anticipating the release of notifications for various Government exams can check the page for more information as the list below may be updated time to time.
Aspirants preparing for the various competitive exams SSC, RRB, Bank, Insurance etc must note that the Static GK part of the General Awareness section is the most scoring section as the information is to memorize only and no extra calculations or solutions have to be done for questions asked in this section. Thus, it is easier to score more for this part and cover up.
Further, in this article, we bring to you the list of Discoveries and Inventions along with the name of the Inventor and the year in which the invention was done.
In the upcoming SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, SSC MTS and other exams like SSC GD Constable, RRB NTPC CBT 2, and Group D Exams, Static GK questions will be asked to check the general knowledge of the aspirants. Inventions & Discoveries is one of the most important topics of static GK. In the previous year’s exams too, questions have been asked from the topic. Candidates are advised to read the below-given list thoroughly. Though a lot of care has been taken to make the list, however, in case of any suggestions and corrections please help us to update the list.
List of Inventions and Discoveries
Given below is a list of various Inventions and discoveries along with the name of the Inventor and the year in which it was invented:
Inventions and discoveries have changed the world drastically. These inventions and discoveries made our life better. Starting from the discovery of fire and the invention of the wheel, the world has seen wonders in the space of inventions and discoveries. The list of Inventions and Discoveries is also an important topic with respect to the General Awareness section.
There are a lot of chances for questions on inventions and discoveries section is asked in various exams e.g. SSC, RRB, Bank, Insurance and other competitive exams and candidates are advised to thoroughly prepare themselves with all these inventions along with their Inventors.
Candidates who are anticipating the release of notifications for various Government exams can check the page for more information as the list below may be updated time to time.
Aspirants preparing for the various competitive exams SSC, RRB, Bank, Insurance etc must note that the Static GK part of the General Awareness section is the most scoring section as the information is to memorize only and no extra calculations or solutions have to be done for questions asked in this section. Thus, it is easier to score more for this part and cover up.
Further, in this article, we bring to you the list of Discoveries and Inventions along with the name of the Inventor and the year in which the invention was done.
In the upcoming SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, SSC MTS and other exams like SSC GD Constable, RRB NTPC CBT 2, and Group D Exams, Static GK questions will be asked to check the general knowledge of the aspirants. Inventions & Discoveries is one of the most important topics of static GK. In the previous year’s exams too, questions have been asked from the topic. Candidates are advised to read the below-given list thoroughly. Though a lot of care has been taken to make the list, however, in case of any suggestions and corrections please help us to update the list.
List of Inventions and Discoveries
Given below is a list of various Inventions and discoveries along with the name of the Inventor and the year in which it was invented:
Important discoveries in the field of science | ||
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Inventor | Invention/discovery | Date |
Benjamin Franklin | Electricity | 1759 |
Anders Celsius | Centigrade scale | - |
Peter Henlein | Watch | - |
Guglielmo Marconi | Radio | 1895 |
Gabriel Farenheit | Thermometer | 1714 |
Thomas Edison | Electric Bulb | 1879 |
Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen; later Galileo | Telescope | 1608 |
Westinghouse | Air Brake | 1869 |
Reginald Fessiden | Amplitude Modulation | - |
Leon Battista Alberti | Anemometer( wind speed) | 1450 |
Evangelista Torricelli | Barometer | - |
Ferdinand Braun | Cathode Ray Tube | 1897 |
Samuel Morse | Telegraph | 1830 |
Karl Benz | Automobile | 1885 |
Michael Faraday | Transformer | 1885 |
Michael Faraday | Electromagnetic induction | 1830 |
Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan | Quantum Mechanics | 1924 |
Enrico Fermi | Nuclear Reactor | 1942 |
Wright Brothers | Airplane | 1903 |
Nicéphore Niépce | Camera | 1816 |
Oleg Losev, Nick Holonyak | LED | 1962 |
Sir Isaac Newton | Gravity | 1687 |
Alessandro Volta | Battery | 1799 |
Nikola Tesla | Induction motor | 1885 |
Rudolf Diesel | Diesel Engine | 1858 |
Alfred Nobel | Dynamite | 1867 |
Elisha Otis | Lift | 1853 |
Martin Cooper | Mobile Phone | 1973 |
Johannes Gutenberg | Printing Press | 1440 |
Thomas Newcomen | Steam engine | 1698 |
George Stephenson | Railway Engine | - |
Alexander Graham Bell | Telephone | 1876 |
John Milne | Seismograph | 1839 |
Michael Faraday | Electric Generator | 1831 |
John Logie Baird | Television | 1927 |
Blaise Pascal | Calculator | 1642 |
William Cullen | Refrigerator | 1927 |
Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller et al | Atomic bomb | 1945 |
Willis Carrier | Air conditioner | 1902 |
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt | Radar | 1939 |
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley | Transistor | 1947 |
Johann Schweigger | Galvanometer | 1820 |
Theodore H. Maiman | Laser | 1969 |
Robert Goddard | Rocket Engine | - |
Christopher Latham Sholes | Typewriter | 1878 |
Eric Fawcett | Polythene | 1933 |
Jean Antoine Nollet | Osmosis | 1748 |
JJ Thompson | Electrons | 1897 |
Ernest Rutherford | Protons | 1911 |
Sir William Ramsay | Inert Gases | 1894 |
Henri Becquerel | Radioactivity | 1896 |
Dmitri Mendeleev | Periodic Table | 1869 |
Carl Wilhelm | Oxygen | 1773 |
Henry Cavendish | Hydrogen | 1766 |
John Dalton | Atoms | 1803 |
Albert hofmann | Acid (LSD) | 1938 |
Svante August Arrhenius | Ionic Bonds | 1884 |
Charles Martin Hall | Aluminium | 1886 |
Arnold O. Beckman | PH Meter | 1934 |
Fritz Hofmann | Synthetic Rubber | 1909 |
William Kroll | Titanium | 1940 |
Marie slodo | Radium | 1898 |
Alexander Fleming | Penicillin | 1928 |
Monroe Wall and Mansukh Wani | Taxol | - |
William Morton | Anesthesia | - |
Louis Pasteur | Pasteurization | - |
George H. Heilmeier | LCD | 1888 |
Felix Hofmann | Aspirin | 1899 |
Lloyd M. Smith | DNA sequencer | 1987 |
Karl Landsteiner | Blood Group | 1900 |
Humphrey Davy | Calcium | 1808 |
Waldemar Haffkine | Cholera Vaccine | 1892 |
Maurice Hilleman | Rubella Vaccine | 1963 |
Jonas Edward Stalk | Polio Vaccine | |
Louis Pasteur | Anthrax Vaccine | |
William Rontgen | X-Ray | 1895 |
Casimir Funk | Vitamin | 1912 |
Samuel Hahnemann | Homeopathy and allopathy | - |
Robert Hooke | Cell | 1665 |
Robert Brown | Nucleus | - |
Important inventions in the field of technology | ||
Inventor | Invention | Year |
Tim Berners and Robert Cailliau | World Wide Web | 1989 |
Alan Emtage | Search Engine | 1990 |
Rouzbeh Yassini | Cable modem | - |
Quentin straford Fraser and Paul Jardetzky | Webcam | 1991 |
IBM | Smartphone | 1992 |
Dan Noble, Henryk Magnuski et al | Walkie Talkie | 1940 |
James Gosling | JAVA | - |
Microsoft | Surface Computing | 2007 |
Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf | TCP/IP | - |
Ray Tomlinson | 1971 | |
Larry Page and Sergey Brin | 1998 | |
Adam Osborne | Laptop | 1981 |
Dennis Ritchie | C Language | 1972 |
Guido Van Rossum | Python | 1991 |
Bjarne Stroustrup | C++ | 1983 |
Mark Zukerburg | 2004 | |
Jerry Yang and David Filo | Yahoo | 1994 |
Wernher Von Braun | Missile | 1936 |
Ivan A. | GPS | 1995 |
Getting Roger | ||
Bradford Parkinson | ||
William Herschel | Uranus | 1781 |
Edwin Hubble | Universe | - |
Nicolaus Copernicus | Solar System | 16th century |
Galileo | Planets | - |
Galilei | ||
Important Inventions made in India | ||
Inventor | Invention | Year |
Aryabhatta | Zero and the number system | 458AD |
Harappas | Buttons | |
Harappas | Wool and cotton | 4-5th millennium BC |
Diamonds | - | |
Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose | Radio/wireless communication | 1895 |
Sushruta | Cataract Surgery | 5th century B.C |
Tipu Sultan | Rockets | 1780 |
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