Inventions and Discoveries by Dr. Gaurav Garg
Discovery : A discovery is recognizing something that already exists for the first time, that nobody has
found before. e.g. Christopher Columbus discovered America.
Invention : An invention is creating something totally new with one’s own ideas and development. e.g. how Thomas Edison
invented the light bulb.
Calculator
● The first mechanical calculator was invented by French
inventor, Blaise Pascal In 1642.
Air Conditioner
● Willis Carrier
● Nationality - USA
Atom Bomb
● Julius Robert Oppenheimer
● Nationality - USA
Air Plane
● Wright brothers
● Wilbur and Orville Wright
● Nationality - USA
Blood Group
● Karl Lansdsteiner
● Nationality - Austria
Ballpoint pen
● John J. Loud
● The metal commonly used is steel, brass, or tungsten
carbide.
● Nationality - USA
● Lewis Waterman - Inventor of Fountain pen.
Bicycle
● Kirkpatrick Macmillan
● Nationality – Scotland (United Kingdom)
Diesel Engine
● Rudolf Diesel
● Nationality - Germany
Structure of DNA
● American biologist James Watson and English
physicist Francis Crick
● DNA was 1 st discovered by Frederich Miescher
(German).
● Structure of DNA is double helix.
Dynamite
● Alfred B. Nobel
● Nationality - Swedish
Electric Battery
● Antonio Volta
● Nationality - Italian
Hydrogen
● Henry Cavendish
● Nationality - British
Elevator
● Elisha Otis
● Nationality - American
Fountain Pen
● Lewis Waterman
● Nationality - USA
Insulin
● Frederick Banting
● Nationality - Canada
Radioactivity
● Henri Becquerel
● Nationality - French
Microscope
● Zacharis Janssen
● Nationality - Dutch (Netherlands)
Oxygen
● Joseph Priestley
● Nationality - English
Polio Vaccine
● Jonas Edward Salk
● Nationality - USA
Periodic Table
● Dmitri Mendeleev
● Nationality - Russian
Penicillin
● Alexander Fleming
● Nationality - Scottish
Radium, Polonium
● Marie & Pierre Curie
● Nationality Pierre Curie – French
● Nationality Marie Curie – Poland
Rubber (Vulcanised)
● Charles Goodyear
● Nationality - USA
● Vulcanised Rubber - addition of Sulphur.
Radio
● Guglielmo Marconi
● Nationality - Italy
Sewing machine
● Barthélemy Thimonnier
● Nationality - France
Telephone
● Graham Bell
● Nationality - Scottish
X-ray
● Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
● Nationality - German
Computer
● Charles Babbage
● Nationality - English
Television
● John Logie Baird
● Nationality – United Kingdom
Light Bulb
● THOMAS EDISON
● Nationality - USA
Vaccine
● Edward Jenner
● Nationality – United Kingdom
● He developed the vaccine for Smallpox.
Electron
● J.J. Thomson
● Nationality - British
Proton
● Ernest Rutherford
● Nationality - British
Neutron
● James Chadwick
● Nationality - British
Electric Iron
● Henry W. Seeley
● Nationality - USA
Safety Pin
● Walter Hunt
● Nationality - USA
Telescope
● Hans Lippershey
● Nationality - Dutch (Netherlands)
Theory of Evolution
● Charles Darwin
● Nationality - England
Stainless Steel
● Harry Brearley
● Nationality – United Kingdom
Pixel
● Russell Kirsch
● Nationality - USA
Computer Mouse
● Douglas Engelbart & Bill English
● Nationality - USA
Logarithms & Decimal Point
● John Napier
● Nationality - Scotland
Fermentation (Sugar to Alcohol),
● Rabies and Anthrax Vaccines
● Louis Pasteur
● Nationality - France
Stethoscope
● Rene Laënnec
● Nationality - French
Cement (Portland Cement)
● William Aspdin
● Nationality - British
Laser
● Charles Townes
● Nationality - USA
Braille
● Louis Braille
● Nationality - France
Antiseptic
● Joseph Lister
● Nationality - British
Theory of relativity
● Albert Einstein
● Nationality - Germany
Discovery of the malarial parasite (Plasmodium) in the
gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito in 1897 proved that
malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes
● Ronald Ross was born in Almora, India. (He
discovered that malaria disease is caused by
mosquitoes bite)
● Nationality – British
● French scientist Laveran discovered the malaria
parasite (Plasmodium) in 1880.
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