INVENTIONS AND SCIENTISTS

INVENTIONS AND SCIENTISTS

A

Adding Machine Blaise Pascal &

William

Burroughs

Air Conditioning Carrier

Air Plane (Jet Engine) Whittle

Air-brake G e o r g e

Westinghouse

Airplane with motor Orville and Wright

Airship Giffard

Airship (Non-rigid) Zeppelin

Aniline Dyes Hoffman

Animal Classification Aristotle (Father of

Zoology)

Anti-polio Vaccine Jonas E.Salk

Antiseptic Surgery Joseph Lister

Arc Lamp C.F.Brush

Artificial heart Michael de Baxey

Art of Printing Guttenburg

Atomic Physics Ernest Rutherford

Atomic Theory John Dalton

Atom-breaking up the nucleus Rutherford

Atomic Numbers Moseley

Atomic Structure Bohr & Rutherford

Atomic bomb Otto Hahn

Automobile (Self Starter) Kettering

Automobile (gasoline) Daimler

Automobile (gears) Benz

Automobile (magneto) Daimler

Automobile (Steam) Nicolas Cugnot

Avogradra’s Hypothesis Avogadro

Ayurveda Atreya

B

Bacteria Leeuwenhock

Ball Point Pen John Loud

Balloon Montgolfier

Barometer Torricelli

Battery & Current Electricity Volta

Beriberi (cause) Eijkman

Bicycle Macmillan

Bicycle tyre Dunlop

Bifocal lens Franklin

Blood Circulation Harvey

Blood Transfusion Landsteneir

Blood grouping Dr.Costella and

Dr.Moss

Brownian Movements Robert Brown

Burglar Alarm Edwin T.Holmes

C

Camera Zeiss

Carburettor Daimler

Cash Register James Kitty

Cells in the plants Robert Hooke

Cell Theory Schleiden &

Schwann

Cement Joseph Aspdin

Chain Drive Leonardoda Vinci

Chloroform James Young

Simpson

Cholera bacillus Robert Koch

Chronometer John Harrison

Cinema Nicolas Lumiere &

Edison

Cinematography Thomas Edison

Clock Pendulum Huygens

Computer (Original Model) Charles Babbage

Computer (electronic) J . G . B r a i n e r d

J.P.Eckert &

J.W.Manchly

Cosmic Rays R.A.Millikan

Crystal Dynamics C.V.Raman

D

D.D.T. D. Paul Muller

DNA (model) Watson and Crick

Diesel Oil Engine Rudolf Diesel

Disc Brake Lanchester

Dynamite Alfred Nobel

Dynamo Michael Faraday

E

Electric Attraction Coulomb

Electric Battery Volta

Electric Current, Induction of Michael Faraday

Electric Energy Joule, James

Electric Lamp Edison

Electric Motor (DC) Zenobe Gramme

Electric Motor (AC) Nikola Tesla

Electrical Resistance Ohm

Electricity, Current Volta

Electrons J.J.Thomson

Elevator brake (lift) Otis

Evolution, Theory Charles Darwin

F

Film (Musical) Lee de Forest

Film (talking) Warner Bros.

Fountain Pen Waterman

Four Stroke Engine Nikolaus Lotto

Flying Shuttle John Kay

G

Galvanometer Sweigger

Gas Engine Diamler

Gas Lighting William Murdock

Geiger counter Geiger

Geometry Euclid

Genetic Code (deciphering) Hargobind Khorana

Gramophone Thomas Edison

Gravitation, Laws of Newton

Gunpowder Roger Bacon

H

Heavy Hydrogen H.C.Urey

Helicopter Broquet

Helium Janssen & Lockyer

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Homoeopathy Hahnemann

Hydrogen Henry Cavendish

I

Inert Gases (Argon, Neon, Ramsay

Helium etc)

Insulin F.Banting

J

Jet Propulsion Frank Whittle

Jet Engine Frank Whittle

K

Kala-a-zar Fever U.N.Bramachari

Kidney Machine Kolf

L

Laughing Gas Priestley

Laser Charles Townes

Lever, Principle of Archimedes

Lift (power elevator) Otis

Lightning Conductor Benjamin Franklin

Logarithms John Napier

Locomotive Richard Travithick

M

Malaria Parasite Dr.Ronald Ross

Machine gun James Puckle

Malaria germs Laveran

Malaria Parasite Dr.Ronald Ross

Match (safety) J.E.Landstorm

Mathematics (India) Ramanujan.S.

Microphone Berliner

Microscope Jansen (improved by

Galileo)

Microscope (electron) Vladimir Kosme

Sworykin

Motor Car Austin

Motion, Law of Newton

Motor cycle Edward Butler

Motor Scooter Greville Bradshaw

Mitochondria C.Benda

N

Natural Selection, Laws of Darwin

Neon-gas W.Ramsay

Neon Lamp George Clande

Neutron Chadwick

Nuclear Fission Otto Hahn

Nuclear Physics John Crockfort

Nylon W.Carothers

O

Origin of Life (artificial) Stanley Millar

Oxygen J.B.Priestley

P

Paints Shalimar

Parachute Andre-Jacques

Penicillin Alexander Fleming

Periodic Law Mendeleev

Phonograph Edison

Photography L.Daguerre

Photography (Coloured) Gabriel Lippman

Pneumatic Tyre Dunlop

Poliomyelitis (vaccine) Jonas Salk

Polythene Fawcett

Pressure Cooker Dennis Papin Robert

Boyle

Printing Press Caxton

Printing for the Blind Louis Braille

Q

Quantum Theory Max Planck

R

Radar Robert Watson Watt

Radio Telephone Lee De Forest

Radio Transmitter Alexanderson

Radio signals G.Marconi

Railway Engine Stephenson

Raman Effect C.V.Raman

Razor (Safety) Gillette

Razor (Electric) Jacob Schick

Rayon Joseph Swann

Refrigerator Harrison & Catlin

Relativity, theory of A.Einstein

Replacing human heart Christian Barnard

Revolver Samuel Colt

Rh-factor Karl Landsteiner

Rubber (latex foam) Dunlop Co.

Rubber (tyres) Thomas Hancock

Rubber (vulcanised) Goodyear

Rubber (waterproof) Macintosh

S

Safety Lamp Humphrey Davy

Safety Matches J.E.Landstorm

Safety Pin William Hunt

Safety Razor Gillette

Salk Vaccine (Anti Polio) Dr.Jonas E.Salk

Seismograph Robert Mallet

Sewing Machine Issac Singer

Ship (Steam) J.C.Pierier

Ship (turbine) Charles Parsons

Shorthand Pitman

Skyscraper Baron Jenny

Solar system Copernicus

Spectacles Venice (Italy)

Stethoscope Rene Lainnec &

William Stockes

Steel (Stainless) Henry Bearley

Space Flying Wernher Von

Submarine Bushell

T

T.N.T. (high explosive) Will Brand

Tank (Military) Swinton

Telegraph William Cook

Telegraph Code Samuel Morse

Telephone Graham Bell

Telescope Galileo

Telescope (Reflecting) Newton

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Television J.L.Baird

Thermometer Fahrenheit

Torpedo Rabert Whitehead

Transformer William Stanley

Transistor W.Shockley &

Bardeen

Tuberculosis bacilli Robert Koch

Tungsten Coolidge

Turbine Engine Charles Parsons

Typewriter Sholes

Tyre (Cycle) Dunlop

Tyre (Pneumatic) Dunlop

U

Umbrella Samuel Fox

Uranium Henry Becquerel

Uranus (planet) William Herchel

V

Vacuum Flask James Dewar

Vaccination (Small Pox) Edward Jenner

Vitamin D F.C. Hopkins

Vitamins Funk

Vulcanisation Goodyear

W

Washing Machine Hurley Machine Co.

Washing Soda Lablanc

Watch (winding) Greguet

Weaving Machine Kay

Welding (Electric) Thomson

Wireless Telegraphy G.Marconi

X

X-ray Roentgen

X-ray tube Coolidge

Xenon W.Ramsay & M.

Travers

Xerography Chester Carison

Xerox Haloid-Xerox

Y

Yellow fever, cause of Reed

Z

ZETA (Zero Energy Thermo Harwell

nuclear Assembly)

Zip Fastener W.L.Judso