Friday 1 March 2013

Inventions and Discoveries



>Anderson—Discovered positive electrons.
>Austin—Motor Car.
>Avogadro—An Italian scientist known for Avogadro’s Hypothesis.
>Bacquerel—Radio-activity of Uranium.
>Baird—Television.
>Baron Napier—Logarithms.
>Bell, Graham—Telephone
>Benjamin Franklin—Invented lightning conductor. 
>Berliner—Microphone. 
>Bessemer—Steel smelting process.
>Binet—Intelligence Test.
>Birbal Sahni—Researches in Botany.
>Bose, S.N.—Discovery of a group of nuclear particles named after him “Boson”.
>Boyle—Boyle’s law; Pressure x volume = constant at a constant given temperature.
>Bohr—Electron Theory, Atomic structure.
>Braun, Dr Wernher Von—Space flying.
>Brequet—Helicopter.
>Bunsen—Invention of the spectroscope.
>Bushwell—Submarine.
>Carothers—Nylon plastics.
>Caxton—Printing Press
>Chadwick—Discovery of the neutron.
>Chandrasekhar—Mathematical Astrophysics.
>Charles Darwin—Theory of Evolution and origin of Species.
>Clarke, Arthur C.—Concept of Geostationary Orbit.
>Curie, Madame—Discovery of radium.
>Daimler—Gas engine.
>Dalton—Atomic theory; laws of chemical combination; law of partial pressures; the law of multiple proportions.
>Davy—Miner’s Safety Lamp.
>Democritus—Greek philosopher, Atomic theory.
>Dewar—Invented cordite, liquid oxygen and introduced thermos flask.
>Diesel—Internal Combustion engine (Diesel engine).
>Dunlop—Pneumatic Tyre.
>Edison—First electric bulb and gramophone.

>Einstein—Theory of relativity.
>Euclid—Science of geometry.
>Fahrenheit—Fahrenheit mercury thermometric scale in which freezing point is –32° and boiling point is 212°.
>Faraday—Electromagnetic induction and laws of electrolysis.
>Fermi—Discovered artificial splitting of atoms.
>Finsen—Discovered curative effect of ultra violet rays; photography.
>Fleming, Alexander—Penicillin.
>Frank Whittle—Jet propulsion. 
>Freud—Doctrine of Psycho-analysis. 
>Fulton—Stream boat.
>Galileo—Telescope.
>Gay Lussac—Law of gases.
>Gauss—System of absolute electric measurements.
>Gillette—Safety razor.
>Good Year—Discovered the art of vulcanising rubber.
>Guttenburg—Art of Printing
>Hahnemann—Founder of Homoeopathy
>Herschel, William—Discovered the Planetof Uranus.
>Hertz—Electrical waves.
>Hippalus—Founder of scientific astronomy.
>Hoffmann—Discovered the first aniline dye.
>Howe—Sewing Machine.
>Huygens—Pendulum clock.
>James Watt—Steam engine
>Jenner—Smallpox Vaccination.

>Kelvin, Lord—Dynamical theory of heat.
>Khorana, Dr Hargobind—Deciphering the genetic code.
>Kodak—Film and photographic goods.
>Lablanc—Manufacture of washing soda.
>Landstrom, J.E.—Safety Matches.
>Lawrence—Invention of cyclotron.
>Lockyer—Helium gas.
>Louis Braille—Perfected his system of  reading and writing for the blind.
>Macmillan—Bicycle
>Marconi—Wireless telegraphy, radio.
>Maxwell—Electro-Magnetic theory of Light.
>Meghnad Saha—Effect of pressure on Radiation through bodies.
>Mandeleev—Periodic Table.
>Morse—Morse system of electric telegraphy.
>Newton—Laws of gravitation; Law of Motion.
>Nobel—Dynamite.
>Oliver Lodge—Physicist. Researches in wireless communications.
>Oppenheimer—Researches in Atomic theory.
>Otto Hahn—Discovery of uranium fission.
>Parkes—Celluloid.
>Parsons—Steam turbine.
>Pascal—Calculating Machine.
>Pavlov—Theory of Conditioned Reflex.
>Perkin—‘Mauve dye’.
>Pitman—Founded the Pitman system of phonographic shorthand.
>Planck—Quantum theory..
>Priestley—Discovery of Oxygen.
>Puckle, James—Machine gun
>Raman, C.V.—“Raman Effect” on polarisation of light and theories on crystals and diamond formation.
>Ramanathan—Molecular scattering of light in fluids.
>Ramanujam—A great Indian mathematician.
>Ramsay—Discovery of Inert gases such as Argon, Neon etc.
>Ray, P.C.—Researches in chemistry..
>Roger Bacon—Gun powder.
>Ronald Ross—Malaria Parasite.
>Rontgen—Discovery of X-rays.
>Rohmkorff—Induction Coil.
>Rutherford—Atomic Research; succeeded in splitting the atom.
>Shalimar—Paints.
>Simpson and Harrison—Chloroform.
>Stephenson—Railway engine.
>Thomson, J.J.—Discovered electron.
>Travers—Discovery of Neon gas.
>Urey—Discovery of Heavy Hydrogen.
>Volta—Current electricity and electric battery.
>W. & O. Wright (Wright Brothers)Aeroplane
>Waterman—Fountain pen. 
>Watt, Robert Watson—Radar.
>Zeiss—Lenses, Camera.

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