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Inventions and Discoveries
Famous Inventions And Inventors Of India | |
Inventors Name | Inventions |
Prafulla Chandra Ray | India’s first pharmaceutical company. |
Salim Ali | A naturalist who helped develop Ornithology |
Srinivasa Ramanujan | mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions |
C. V. Raman | He was a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1930 for his Raman Effect. |
Homi Jehangir Bhabha | The chief architect of the Indian atomic energy program. |
Jagadish Chandra Bose | pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics. |
Satyendra Nath Bose | Mathematician and physicist; |
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | development of India’s missile and nuclear weapons programs. |
Har Gobind Khorana | A biochemist who won the Nobel Prize |
S.S. Abhyankar | Contributions to algebraic geometry. |
Meghnad Saha | Astrophysicist |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | Astrophysicists won the Nobel Prize in 1983 |
Raj Reddy | A.M. Turing Award-winning computer scientist |
Birbal Sahni | Paleobotanists are known for their research on the fossils of the Indian subcontinent. |
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis | A statistician and physicist who founded the Indian Statistical Institute. |
Famous Inventors And their Inventions List
This table consists of the famous inventions and inventors, with the year of their inventions and the field it is used. How much do the inventions help people in their daily lives?
List of Famous Inventions and Inventors | |||
Invention/Discovery | Name of the Inventor | Year of Invention | Field |
Artificial Intelligence | Alan Turing and John McCarthy | 1950 | Science and Technology |
Air Conditioner | Willis Carrier | 1902 | Science and Technology |
Anemometer | Leon Battista Alberti | 1450 | Science and Technology |
Atom Bomb | Julius Robert Oppenheimer | 1945 | Science |
Airplane | Wilber and Orville Wright | 1903 | Science and Technology |
Adhesive tape | Richard G. Drew | 1923 | Science And Technology |
Bifocal Lens | Benjamin Franklin | 1779 | Science And Technology |
Barometer | Evangelista Torricelli | 1643 | Science And Technology |
Barbed Wire | Joseph F. Glidden | 1873 | Science And Technology |
Celluloid | Alexander Parkes | 1861 | Science And Technology |
Cine Camera | Wm. Friese-Greene | 1889 | Science And Technology |
Chlorine | Carl Wilhelm Scheele | 1774 | Science |
Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel | 1895 | Science and Technology |
Electric stove/cooker | William S. Hadaway | 1896 | Science and Technology |
Electroscope | William Gilbert | 1600s | Science and Technology |
Electric Fan | Schuyler Wheeler | 1882 | Science and Technology |
Electric Battery | Volta | 1800 | Science and Technology |
Elevator | Elisha G. Otis | 1852 | Science and Technology |
Electric Motor (DC) | Thomas Davenport | 1873 | Science and Technology |
Fountain Pen | Petrache Poenaru | 1827 | Science |
Fluorine | André-Marie Ampère | 1810 | Science |
Gramophone | Thomas Edison | 1878 | Science And Technology |
Hydrogen | Henry Cavendish | 1766 | Science |
Helicopter | Igor Sikorsky | 1939 | Science And Technology |
Hovercraft | Christopher Cockerell | 1959 | Science And Technology |
Helium | Jules Janssen | 1868 | Science |
Jet Engine | Hans Von Ohain | 1936 | Science And Technology |
Locomotive | George Stephenson | 1804 | Science And Technology |
Laser | Theodore Maiman | 1960 | Science |
Light Bulb | Thomas Edison | 1854 | Science |
Motorcycle | Gottlieb Daimler | 1885 | Science And Technology |
Microscope | Zacharias Janssen | 1590 | Science And Technology |
Microphone | Alexander Graham Bell | 1876 | Science And Technology |
Machine Gun | Richard Gatling | 1861 | Science And Technology |
Neon Lamp | Georges Claude | 1915 | Science |
Oxygen | Joseph Priestley | 1774 | Science |
Ozone | Christian Schonbein | 1839 | Science |
Printing Press | Johannes Gutenberg | 1440 | Science And Technology |
Polio Vaccine | Jonas Edward Salk | – | Science |
Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev | 1869 | Science |
Penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 1928 | Science |
Pacemaker | Rune Elmqvist | 1952 | Science And Technology |
Petrol for Motor Car | Karl Benz | 1885 | Science |
Refrigerator | William Cullen | 1748 | Science And Technology |
Radium | Marie & Pierre Curie | 1898 | Science And Technology |
Rubber (vulcanized) | Charles Goodyear | 1841 | Science |
Robots | George Devol | 1950 | Science And Technology |
Rocket Engine | Robert H. Goddard | 1926 | Science And Technology |
Radio | Guglielmo Marconi | 1894 | Science And Technology |
Ship (Turbine) | Charles Parsons | 1894 | Science And Technology |
Steam Ship | Robert Fulton | 1807 | Science And Technology |
Steam Boat | Robert Fulton | 1786 | Science And Technology |
Submarine | Cornelis Drebbel | 1620 | Science And Technology |
Stethoscope | Rene Laennec | 1816 | Science And Technology |
Sewing Machine | Elias Howe | 1846 | Science And Technology |
Steam-Powered Airship | Henri Giffard | 1852 | Science And Technology |
Soft Contact lenses | Otto Wichterle | 1961 | Science |
Synthesizer | Dr. Robert Arthur Moog | 1964 | Science |
Theory of Evolution | Charles Darwin | 1858 | Science |
Typewriter | Christopher Latham Sholes | — | Science And Technology |
Transistors | John Bardeen, William Shockley & Walter Brattain | 1948 | Science And Technology |
Telephone | Graham Bell | 1874 | Science And Technology |
Valve. Radio | Sir J.A Fleming | 1904 | Science And Technology |
Vacuum Cleaner | Hubert Cecil Booth | 1901 | Science And Technology |
Windshield wipers | Mary Anderson | 1903 | Science And Technology |
X-ray | Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen | 1895 | Science And Technology |
Xerox Machine | Chester Carlson | 1928 | Science And Technology |
Automatic Calculator | Wilhelm Schickard | 1623 | Computer |
Animation | J. Stuart Blackton | — | Computer Science |
World Wide Web | Tim Berners-Lee with Robert Cailliau | 1989 | Computer |
Aspirin | Dr. Felix Hoffman | 1899 | Biology |
Blood Group | Karl Landsteiner | 1900s | Biology |
Chloroform | Sir James Young Simpson | — | Biology |
Insulin | Sir Frederick Banting | 1923 | Biology |
Circulation of blood | William Harvey | 1628 | Biology |
Vitamin A | Frederick Gowland Hopkins | 1912 | Biology |
Vitamin B | Christiaan Eijkman | 1897 | Biology |
Vitamin C | Albert Szent-Gyorgi | – | Biology |
Piano | Bartolomeo Cristofori | 1700 | Physics |
Ball Point Pen | John Loud | — | Physics |
Bicycle Tyres | John Boyd Dunlop | 1888 | Physics |
Clock Mechanical | Hsing and Ling-Tsan | 1725 | Physics |
Pedal Driven Bicycle | Kirkpatrick Macmillan | 1839 | Physics |
Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel | 1892 | Physics |
Hot Air Balloon | Josef & Etienne Montgolfier | 1783 | Physics |
Centigrade Scale | Anders Celsius | 1742 | Physics |
Dynamite | Alfred B. Nobel | 1867 | Physics |
Electromagnet | William Sturgeon | 1824 | Physics |
Lightning Conductor | Benjamin Franklin | 1752 | Physics |
Parachute | Louis-Sebastien Lenormand | 1783 | Physics |
Thermometer | Galileo | 1593 | Physics |
Saxophone | Adolphe Sax | 1846 | Physics |
Richter Scale | Charles Richter | 1935 | Physics |