Monday 20 August 2012

Famous Inventions and Discoveries



Invention/Discovery - Discoverer/Inventor

America  - Christopher Columbus
Solar System - Copernicus
North Pole (Explored) - Robert Peary
South Pole (Explored) - Amundsen

Dynamite - Alfred Nobel
Electron - J.J. Thomson
Incandescent Bulb - Edison
Law of Gravitation - Newton
Printing for the Blind - Louis Braille
Radium - Madame Curie
Theory of Relativity - Albert Einstein
Telegraph - Samuel Morse
Theory of Evolution - Charles Darwin
Telephone - Graham Bell
Radio - Marconi
X-Ray - W. K. Roentgen

Aeroplane - Wright brothers (William & Oliver Wright)
Bicycle - Macmillan
Dynamo - Michael Faraday
Diesel - Rudolf Diesel
Fountain Pen - Waterman
Gramophone - Edison
Helicopter - Etienne Ochmichen
Microscope - Z. Jansen
Motorcycle - G. Daimler
Printing Press - Gutenberg
Pneumatic Tyres - Dunlop
Revolver - Colt
Submarine - David Bushnell
Thermometer - Fahrenheit
Transistor - W. Shockley
Typewriter - Sholes
Television - J.L. Baird
Telescope - Hans Lippershey 

These are some really important inventions always asked in various exams.

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