50 Important List of Invention and their Inventor

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).