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List of Inventions & Discoveries

Invention/Discovery Name of the Inventor Year of Invention Automatic Calculator Wilhelm Schickard 1623 Air Conditioner Willis Carrier 1902 Anemometer Leon Battista Alberti 1450 Animation J. Stuart Blackton Atom Bomb Julius Robert Oppenheimer 1945 Aspirin Dr. Felix Hoffman 1899 Airplane Wilber and Orville Wright 1903 Adhesive tape Richard G. Drew 1923 Bifocal Lens Benjamin Franklin 1779 Barometer Evangelista Torricelli 1643 Barbed Wire Joseph F. Glidden 1873 Blood Group Karl Lansdsteiner 1900s Ball Point Pen John Loud — Bicycle Tyres John Boyd Dunlop 1888 Pedal Driven Bicycle Kirkpatrick Macmillan 1839 Celluloid Alexander Parkes 1861 Chloroform Sir James Young Simpson Cine Camera Wm. Friese-Greene 1889 Circulation of blood William Harvey 1628 Clock Mechanical Hsing and Ling-Tsan 1725 Diesel Engine Rudolf Diesel 1892 Centigrade Scale Anders Celsius 1742 Chlorine Carl Wilhelm Scheele 1774 Dynamite Alfred B. Nobel 1867 Diesel Engine Rudolf Diesel 1895 Electric stove/cooker William S. Hadaway 1896 Electroscope William Gilbert 1600s Electric Fan Schuyler Wheeler 1882 Electric Battery Volta 1800 Elevator Elisha G. Otis 1852 Electric Motor (DC) Thomas Davenport 1873 Electromagnet William Sturgeon 1824 Fountain Pen Petrache Poenaru 1827 Fluorine André-Marie Ampère 1810 Gramophone Thomas Edison 1878 Hydrogen Henry Cavendish 1766 Helicopter Igor Sikorsky 1939 Hovercraft Christopher Cockerell 1959 Hot Air Balloon Josef & Etienne Montgolfier 1783 Helium Jules Janssen 1868 Insulin Sir Frederick Banting 1923 Jet Engine Hans Von Ohain 1936 Lightning Conductor Benjamin Franklin 1752 Locomotive George Stephenson 1804 Laser Theodore Maiman 1960 Light Bulb Thomas Edison 1854 Motorcycle Gottlieb Daimler 1885 Microscope Zacharis Janssen 1590 Microphone Alexander Graham Bell 1876 Machine Gun Richard Gatling 1861 Neon Lamp Georges Claude 1915 Oxygen Joseph Priestley 1774 Ozone Christian Schonbein 1839 Piano Bartolomeo Cristofori 1700 Printing Press Johannes Gutenberg 1440 Parachute Louis-Sebastien Lenormand 1783 Polio Vaccine Jonas Edward Salk – Periodic Table Dmitri Mendeleev 1869 Penicillin Alexander Fleming 1928 Pacemaker Rune Elmqvist 1952 Petrol for Motor Car Karl Benz 1885 Refrigerator William Cullen 1748 Radium Marie & Pierre Curie 1898 Rubber (vulcanized) Charles Goodyear 1841 Rocket Engine Robert H. Goddard 1926 Radio Guglielmo Marconi 1894 Richter Scale Charles Richter 1935 Ship (Turbine) Charles Parsons 1894 Steam Ship Robert Fulton 1807 Steam Boat Robert Fulton 1786 Submarine Cornelis Drebbel 1620 Stethoscope Rene Laennec 1816 Saxophone Adolphe Sax 1846 Sewing Machine Elias Howe 1846 Steam-Powered Airship Henri Giffard 1852 Soft Contact lenses Otto Wichterle 1961 Synthesizer Dr. Robert Arthur Moog 1964 Thermometer Galileo 1593 Theory of Evolution Charles Darwin 1858 Typewriter Christopher Latham Sholes — Transistors John Bardeen, William Shockley & Walter Brattain 1948 Telephone Graham Bell 1874 Valve. Radio Sir J.A Fleming 1904 Vacuum Cleaner Hubert Cecil Booth 1901 Vitamin A Frederick Gowland Hpokins 1912 Vitamin B Christiaan Eijkman 1897 Vitamin C Albert Szent-Gyorgi – Vitamin K Henrik Dam 1929 Vitamin E Herbert McLean Evans & Katherine Scott Bishop Windshield wipers Mary Anderson 1903 World Wide Web Tim Berners Lee with Robert Cailliau  1989 X-ray Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen 1895 Xerox Machine Chester Carlson 1928

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