100 most Important Inventions and Discoveries
Published on Jul 21, 2020
Inventions and Discoveries is one of the most important topic of G.K. for banking and government exam. If you look at the question paper, you will find questions from this topic. Here we are giving you list of 100 most important discoveries and inventions for banking and government exams.
Inventions and Discoveries
S.No
|
Inventions
|
Inventors
|
Year
|
1
|
Air Brake
|
George Westinghouse
|
1869
|
2
|
Amplitude Modulation
|
Reginald Fessenden
|
-
|
3
|
Anemometer
|
Leon Battista Albert
|
1450
|
4
|
Barometer
|
Evangelista Torricella
|
-
|
5
|
Cathode Ray Tube
|
Ferdinand Braun
|
1897
|
6
|
Dynamometer
|
EdmeReginer
|
1798
|
7
|
Ammeter
|
FredrichDexler
|
1884
|
8
|
Calorimeter
|
Antoine Lavoister
|
1780
|
9
|
Inclinometer
|
Rufus Porter
|
-
|
10
|
Magnetometer
|
Sheldon Breiner
|
-
|
11
|
Telescope
|
Hans Lippershey
|
-
|
12
|
Microscope
|
Hans Lippershey&Zacharias Janssen
|
1595
|
13
|
LED
|
OligLosev, Nick Holonyak
|
1962
|
14
|
Battery
|
Alessandro Volta
|
1799
|
15
|
Transformer
|
William Stanley
|
1885
|
16
|
Electromagnet
|
William Sturgeon
|
1820
|
17
|
Gamma Rays
|
Paul Villard
|
1930
|
18
|
Mercury Thermometer
|
Gabriel Fahrenheit
|
1714
|
19
|
Vernier Caliper
|
Pierre Vernier
|
-
|
20
|
Anode Rays
|
Eugen Goldstein
|
1886
|
21
|
Polyethene
|
Eric Fawcett
|
1933
|
22
|
Osmosis
|
Jean Antoine Nollet
|
1748
|
23
|
Electrons
|
J.J. Thomson
|
1897
|
24
|
Neutron
|
James Chadwick
|
1932
|
25
|
Protons
|
Ernest Rutherford
|
1911
|
26
|
Inert Gas
|
Sir William Ramsay
|
1894
|
27
|
Periodic Table
|
Dmitri Mendeleev
|
1869
|
28
|
Hydrogen
|
Henry Cavendish
|
1766
|
29
|
Oxygen
|
Carl Wilhelm Scheele And Joseph Priestley
|
1773 & 1774
|
30
|
Atoms
|
John Dalton
|
1803
|
31
|
Neon
|
George Claude & Paris Motor Show
|
1910
|
32
|
Acid
|
Albert Hofmann
|
1938
|
33
|
Ionic Bonds
|
Svante August Arrhenius
|
1884
|
34
|
Aluminium
|
Charles Martin Hall
|
1886
|
35
|
Covalent Bonds
|
Gilbert Newton Lewis
|
1916
|
36
|
pH Meter
|
Arnold O. Beckman
|
1934
|
37
|
Synthetic Rubber
|
Fritz Hofmann
|
1909
|
38
|
Titanium
|
William Kroll
|
1940
|
39
|
Radium
|
Marie Sklodowska Curie And Pierre Curie
|
1898
|
40
|
PVC
|
WaldonSemon&B.F Goodrich Company
|
1926
|
41
|
Anesthesia
|
Thomas Green Morton
|
-
|
42
|
Penicillin
|
Alenxender Fleming
|
1928
|
43
|
Aspirin
|
Felix Hoffman
|
1899
|
44
|
Automated DNA Sequencer
|
Lloyd M. Smith
|
1897
|
45
|
Bacteria
|
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
|
1676
|
46
|
Microbes
|
Robert Hook &Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
|
-
|
47
|
BCG Vaccine
|
Albert Calmett And Camille Guerin
|
1921
|
48
|
Blood Group
|
Karl Lansteiner
|
1900
|
49
|
Calcium
|
Humphry Davy
|
1808
|
50
|
DDT
|
Paul Herman Muller
|
1939
|
51
|
Cholera Vaccine
|
WaldemarHaffkine
|
1892
|
52
|
Rubella Vaccine
|
Maurice Hillman
|
1963
|
53
|
Hepatitis B Vaccine
|
Pablo DT Valenzuela
|
1986
|
54
|
Polio Vaccine
|
Jonah Edward Salk
|
-
|
55
|
Small Pox
|
Edward Jenner
|
1796
|
56
|
X Ray
|
Wilhelm Rongten
|
1895
|
57
|
Vitamin
|
Casimir Funk
|
1912
|
58
|
Insulin
|
Frederick Banting And J J R Macleod
|
-
|
59
|
ECG
|
Willem Eintjoven
|
-
|
60
|
Cell
|
Robert Hooke
|
1665
|
61
|
World Wide Web
|
Tim Berner Lee With Robert Cailliau
|
1989
|
62
|
Search Engine
|
Alan Emtage
|
1990
|
63
|
Cable Modem
|
RouzbehYassini
|
-
|
64
|
Webcam
|
QuentineStafford Fraser And Paul Jardetzky
|
1991
|
65
|
Smartphone
|
IBM
|
1992
|
66
|
Java
|
James Gosling
|
-
|
67
|
Surface Computing
|
Microsoft
|
2007
|
68
|
Iphone
|
Steve Jobs
|
2007
|
69
|
TCP/IP
|
Bob Kahn With Vint Cerf
|
-
|
70
|
Email
|
Ray Tomlinson
|
1971
|
71
|
Google
|
Larry Page And Sergey Bin
|
1998
|
72
|
Supercomputer
|
Seymour Cray
|
1960
|
73
|
C Language
|
Dennis Ritchie
|
1972
|
74
|
Microprocessors
|
Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin And Stan Mazor
|
1971
|
75
|
Python
|
Guido Van Rossum
|
1991
|
76
|
C++
|
BjarneStroustrup
|
1983
|
77
|
Facebook
|
Mark Zuckerberg
|
2004
|
78
|
Yahoo
|
Jerry Yang And David Filo
|
1994
|
79
|
Laptop
|
Adam Osborne
|
1981
|
80
|
Walkie-Talkie
|
Dan Noble HenrykMagnuski, Marion Bond, Lloyd Morris And Bill Vogel
|
1940
|
81
|
Ballistic Missile
|
Wernher Von Nraun
|
1936
|
82
|
Global Positioning System
|
Ivan A Getting Roger L. Easton Bradford Parkinson
|
1995
|
83
|
Uranus
|
William Herschel
|
1781
|
84
|
Communication Satellite
|
Arthur C. Clarke
|
-
|
85
|
Universe
|
Edwin Hubble
|
-
|
86
|
Solar System
|
Nicolaus Copernicus
|
16th Century
|
88
|
Planets
|
Galileo Galilei
|
-
|
89
|
Newspaper
|
Johann Coralous
|
1609
|
90
|
Printing Press
|
Johannes Gutenberg
|
1440
|
91
|
Electric Bulb
|
Thomad Edison
|
1879
|
92
|
Fan
|
Schuyler Skaats Wheeler
|
1882
|
93
|
Airplane
|
The Wright Brothers, Wilbur And Orville Wright
|
1903
|
94
|
Telephone
|
Alexander Graham Bell
|
1876
|
95
|
Radio
|
Guglielmo Marconi
|
1895
|
96
|
Calculator
|
Blaise Pascal
|
1642
|
97
|
Television
|
Philo Taylor Farnsworth
|
1972
|
98
|
Vitamin K
|
Henrik Dam
|
1929
|
99
|
Cell Nucleus
|
Robert Brown
|
-
|
100
|
HIV
|
Luc Montagnier
|
-
|