In exams like SSC, Railway, and other competitive tests, the General Knowledge section often asks about inventions and their inventors. Many candidates get confused with these questions. So, we have provided a list of 50 important inventions and their inventors. We also offer a PDF version to help you with your revision
S. No. | Invention/Discovery | Inventor/Discoverer | Year |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell | 1876 |
2 | Electric Bulb | Thomas Edison | 1879 |
3 | Radio | Guglielmo Marconi | 1895 |
4 | Airplane | Wright Brothers | 1903 |
5 | Printing Press | Johannes Gutenberg | 1440 |
6 | Steam Engine | James Watt | 1765 |
7 | Dynamite | Alfred Nobel | 1867 |
8 | Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev | 1869 |
9 | X-rays | Wilhelm Roentgen | 1895 |
10 | DNA Double Helix | James Watson & Francis Crick | 1953 |
11 | Theory of Relativity | Albert Einstein | 1905 |
12 | Vaccination | Edward Jenner | 1796 |
13 | Penicillin (Antibiotic) | Alexander Fleming | 1928 |
14 | Laws of Motion (Gravitation) | Isaac Newton | 1687 |
15 | Electromagnetism | James Clerk Maxwell | 1865 |
16 | Law of Heredity | Gregor Mendel | 1866 |
17 | Insulin (Diabetes treatment) | Frederick Banting & Charles Best | 1921 |
18 | Computer | Charles Babbage | 1837 |
19 | Television | John Logie Baird | 1927 |
20 | Electron | J.J. Thomson | 1897 |
21 | Microscope | Zacharias Janssen | 1590 |
22 | Light Bulb | Thomas Edison | 1879 |
23 | Atomic Bomb | J. Robert Oppenheimer | 1945 |
24 | Helicopter | Igor Sikorsky | 1939 |
25 | Anesthesia | William T.G. Morton | 1846 |
26 | Cell Theory | Matthias Schleiden & Theodor Schwann | 1838 |
27 | Blood Circulation | William Harvey | 1628 |
28 | Telephone Exchange | Tivadar Puskás | 1877 |
29 | Electric Generator | Michael Faraday | 1831 |
30 | Jet Engine | Frank Whittle | 1937 |
31 | Pasteurization | Louis Pasteur | 1863 |
32 | Sewing Machine | Elias Howe | 1846 |
33 | Barometer | Evangelista Torricelli | 1643 |
34 | Radar | Robert Watson-Watt | 1935 |
35 | Nylon | Wallace Carothers | 1935 |
36 | Thermometer | Galileo Galilei | 1593 |
37 | Thermodynamics Laws | Sadi Carnot, James Joule, William Thomson | 1824 |
38 | Smallpox Eradication (Vaccine) | Edward Jenner | 1796 |
39 | Nuclear Reactor | Enrico Fermi | 1942 |
40 | Camera | Joseph Nicéphore Niépce | 1816 |
41 | Oxygen | Joseph Priestley & Carl Wilhelm Scheele | 1774 |
42 | Solar Cell | Charles Fritts | 1883 |
43 | Stethoscope | René Laennec | 1816 |
44 | Laser | Theodore Maiman | 1960 |
45 | Polio Vaccine | Jonas Salk | 1953 |
46 | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) | Raymond Damadian | 1971 |
47 | Typewriter | Christopher Sholes | 1868 |
48 | Parachute | Leonardo da Vinci (Concept) / Sebastien Lenormand (Demonstration) | 1783 |
49 | Internet | Vint Cerf & Robert Kahn | 1974 |
50 | Quantum Mechanics | Max Planck | 1900 |
15 FAQs about Inventions and their Inventors for competitive exams:
1. Who invented the telephone?
- Answer: Alexander Graham Bell (1876).
2. Who is the inventor of the electric bulb?
- Answer: Thomas Alva Edison (1879).
3. Who discovered the X-ray?
- Answer: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1895).
4. Who invented the airplane?
- Answer: Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur Wright, 1903).
5. Who is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer?
- Answer: Charles Babbage (1837).
6. Who invented the radio?
- Answer: Guglielmo Marconi (1895).
7. Who developed the World Wide Web (WWW)?
- Answer: Tim Berners-Lee (1989).
8. Who is the inventor of the ballpoint pen?
- Answer: László Bíró (1938).
9. Who invented dynamite?
- Answer: Alfred Nobel (1867).
10. Who discovered the principle of vaccination and invented the first vaccine (for smallpox)?
- Answer: Edward Jenner (1796).
11. Who invented the printing press?
- Answer: Johannes Gutenberg (1440).
12. Who is credited with inventing the gramophone?
- Answer: Emile Berliner (1887).
13. Who invented the safety pin?
- Answer: Walter Hunt (1849).
14. Who is the inventor of the periodic table?
- Answer: Dmitri Mendeleev (1869).
15. Who discovered the polio vaccine?
- Answer: Jonas Salk (1953).