Inventions / Discoveries Name of the Scientist /Person

Adding Machine: Pascal 

Aeroplane:  Wright brothers 

Air Brake:  George Westinghouse 

Air Pump: Otto Von Guericke 

Inventions / Discoveries Name of the Scientist /Person
Inventions / Discoveries Name of the Scientist /Person


Airship (rigid): G. Ferdinand Von Zeppelin 

Aniline Dyes: Hoffman 

Antiseptic Surgery:  Lord Joseph Lister 

Arc Lamp: C. F. Brush 

Archimedean Screw: Archimedies 

Atom: Neils Bohr 

Atomic Number :  Mosley 

Atomic Physics: Enrico Fermi 

Atomic Structure:  Bohr and Rutherford 

Atomic Theory: Dalton 

Automatic gearbox: Hermann Fottinger 

Automobile: Daimler 

Automobiles using gasoline: Karl Benz 

Avogadro’s Hypothesis:

 Avogadro 

Bacteriology: Robert Koch 

Bacteriophage: Max Delbruck 

Bakelite: Leo H Baekeland 

Balloon: Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier 

Ball-Point Pen:  John J. Loud 

Barometer: Evangelista Torricelli 

Bicycle: Kirkpatrick Macmillan 

Bicycle Tyre: J.B. Dunlop 

Bifocal Lens:  Benjamin Franklin 

Binomial Nomenclature: Carl Linnaeus 

Biogenetic Principle:  Ernst Haeckel 

Blood Circulation: Harvey 

Blood Groups:  Karl Landsteiner 

Bomb:  Edward Teller Boson S.N.Bose 

Boyle’s law:  Boyle 

Braille: Louis Braille 

Breaking up the Nucleus of an atom :  Rutherford 

Camera:  George Eastman 

Carburetor :  Gottlieb Daimler 

Cash register :  William Burroughs 

Cell Doctrine:  Rudolf Virchow 

Celluloid: A.Parker 

Cement:  Joseph Aspdin Cenema A.L. and J.L. Lumiere 

Centrigrade scale:  A. Celsius 

Chemical Structure: August Kekule 

Chemotherapy: Paul Ehrlich 

Child Development: Jean Piaget 

Chloroform: James Harrison and James Young Simpson 

Cholera Bacillus:  Robert Koch 

Chromosomal Theory of Heredity: Thomas Hunt Morgan 

Chronometer:  John Harrison 

Cine camera: Friese-Greene 

Cinematograph: Thomas Alva Edison 

Cinematography: Thomas Alva Edison 

Circulation of the Blood: William Harvey 

Classical Field Theory: Michael Faraday 

Clock (mechanical) :  Hsing and Ling-Tsan 

Clock (pendulum): C. Hugyens 

Coloured Photography: Lippman 

Computer Charles:  Babbage 

Continental Drift: Alfred Wegener 

Cosmic Rays: R.A.Millikan 

Crescograph: J.C.Bose 

Crystal Dynamics: C.V.Raman 

Cyclotron: Lawrence D.D.T. Dr.Paul Muller 

Deciphering the genetic code: Dr.Hargobiad Khorana 

Deuterium (Heavy Water): H.C.Urey 

Diesel Engine: Rudolf Diesel 

Diesel Oil Engine: Rudolf Diesel 

Difference engine: Charles Babbage 

Electrons: J.J.Thomson 

Laws of Planetary Motion: Kepler 

North Pole :  Robert Peary (1909) 

Solar System:  Copernicus (1540) 

South Pole: Amundson (1912) 

Specific Gravity: Archimedes 

West Indies: Columbus (1492) 

Drinker’s Chamber of Iron:  Lung Dr. Philip Drinker 

Dynamical theory of Heat: Lord Kelvin 

Dynamite: Alfred B. Nobel 

Dynamo :  Michael Faraday 

Effect of Pressure on trough bodies: Meghnad Saha 

Eightfold Way: Murray Gell-Mann 

Electric Battery: Alessandro Volta 

Electric Flat Iron: H. W. Seeley 

Electric Furnace:  William Siemens 

Electric Generator: Michael Faraday 

Electric guitar: Adolph Rickenbacker 

Electric iron:  H.W. Seeley 

Electric Lamp:  Thomas Alva Edison 

Electric Measurement: Gauss 

Electric Motor:  (AC) Nikola Tesla 

Electric razor: Jacob Schick 

Electrical Waves: Heitz 

Electricity: Faraday 

Electromagnet: William Sturgeon 

Electromagnetic Field: James Clerk Maxwell 

Electromagnetic Theory: Maxwell 

Electron: Joseph J. Thomson 

Electron Theory:  Bohr 

Electronic Computer: Dr. Alan M. Turing 

Elevator: Elisha G. Otis 

Energy of the Sun: Hans Bethe 

Equal sign (=)?: Robert Recorde 

Ethology: Konrad Lorenz 

Eugenics: Francis Galton 

Evolution: Charles Darwin 

Evolution (theory): Charles Darwin 

Evolutionary Theory: Ernst Mayr 

Fahrenheit Scale: Fahrenheit 

Film & Photographic:  goods Kodak 

Film (with sound): Dr. Lee de Forest 

Foundations of Biology: Jean Baptiste Lamarck 

Foundations of Mathematics: Euclid 

Founding of Modern Physiology: Claude Bernard 

Founding of Psychology: Wilhelm Wundt 

Fountain Pen: Lewis E. Waterman 

Fundamental Laws of Electric:  Attraction Coulomb 

Galvanometer: Andre-Marie Ampere 

Gas lighting:  William Murdouch 

Germ Theory of Disease: Louis Pasteur 

Glider: Sir George Calley 

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