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Important Inventions and Discoveries
Difference between Discovery and Invention:
| Discovery | Invention |
|---|---|
| A discovery is recognizing something that already exists for the first time, that nobody has found before. | The act of creation or designing of an object or a service that has not been found before is termed as an invention. |
| Discoveries are usually natural occurrences and are usually present in the world until discovered by somebody. | Inventions are man-made or scientific occurrences of objects that exist due to the willpower and creation of human beings through experiments. |
| Discovery involves the process of exploration of the world around us. | The invention involves the process of experimentation. |
| Discovery cannot be patented. | An invention can be patented by its creator. |
| Discoveries usually occur by accident. | Inventions usually occur in the process of creation. |
| Eg. Christopher Columbus discovered the America. | Eg. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. |
List of Important Inventions and Discoveries with their Inventor’s name and year of invention given below in table:
| Invention/Discovery | Name of the Inventor | Year of Invention |
|---|---|---|
| Atomic Number | Mosley | 1910s |
| Atomic Structure | Bohr and Rutherford | 1800s |
| Automatic Calculator | Wilhelm Schickard | 1623 |
| Air Conditioner | Willis Carrier | 1902 |
| Anemometer | Leon Battista Alberti | 1450 |
| Atom Bomb | Julius Robert Oppenheimer | 1945 |
| Aspirin | Dr. Felix Hoffman | 1899 |
| Airplane | Wilber and Orville Wright | 1903 |
| Adhesive tape | Richard G. Drew | 1923 |
| Binomial Nomenclature | Carl Linnaeus | 1753 |
| Bifocal Lens | Benjamin Franklin | 1779 |
| Bakelite | Leo H Baekeland | 1909 |
| Barometer | Evangelista Torricelli | 1643 |
| Barbed Wire | Joseph F. Glidden | 1873 |
| Blood Group | Karl Lansdsteiner | 1900s |
| Pedal Driven Bicycle | Kirkpatrick Macmillan | 1839 |
| Chloroform | Sir James Young Simpson | 1847 |
| Computer | Charles Babbage | 1822 |
| Cement | Joseph Aspdin | 1824 |
| Cine Camera | Wm. Friese-Greene | 1889 |
| Circulation of blood | William Harvey | 1628 |
| Clock Mechanical | Hsing and Ling-Tsan | 1725 |
| Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel | 1892 |
| Centigrade Scale | Anders Celsius | 1742 |
| Chlorine | Carl Wilhelm Scheele | 1774 |
| Dynamite | Alfred B. Nobel | 1867 |
| Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel | 1895 |
| Electric stove/cooker | William S. Hadaway | 1896 |
| Electric Fan | Schuyler Wheeler | 1882 |
| Electric Battery | Volta | 1800 |
| Elevator | Elisha G. Otis | 1852 |
| Electric Motor (DC) | Thomas Davenport | 1873 |
| Electromagnet | William Sturgeon | 1824 |
| Fountain Pen | Petrache Poenaru | 1827 |
| Fluorine | André-Marie Ampère | 1810 |
| Gramophone | Thomas Edison | 1878 |
| Hydrogen | Henry Cavendish | 1766 |
| Helicopter | Igor Sikorsky | 1939 |
| Hovercraft | Christopher Cockerell | 1959 |
| Hot Air Balloon | Josef & Etienne Montgolfier | 1783 |
| Helium | Jules Janssen | 1868 |
| Insulin | Sir Frederick Banting | 1923 |
| Jet Engine | Hans Von Ohain | 1936 |
| Lightning Conductor | Benjamin Franklin | 1752 |
| Locomotive | George Stephenson | 1804 |
| Laser | Theodore Maiman | 1960 |
| Light Bulb | Thomas Edison | 1854 |
| Motorcycle | Gottlieb Daimler | 1885 |
| Microscope | Zacharis Janssen | 1590 |
| Microphone | Alexander Graham Bell | 1876 |
| Machine Gun | Richard Gatling | 1861 |
| Neon Lamp | Georges Claude | 1915 |
| Oxygen | Joseph Priestley | 1774 |
| Ozone | Christian Schonbein | 1839 |
| Piano | Bartolomeo Cristofori | 1700 |
| Printing Press | Johannes Gutenberg | 1440 |
| Parachute | Louis-Sebastien Lenormand | 1783 |
| Polio Vaccine | Jonas Edward Salk | 1955 |
| Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev | 1869 |
| Penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 1928 |
| Pacemaker | Rune Elmqvist | 1952 |
| Petrol for Motor Car | Karl Benz | 1885 |
| Refrigerator | William Cullen | 1748 |
| Radium | Marie & Pierre Curie | 1898 |
| Rubber (vulcanized) | Charles Goodyear | 1841 |
| Rocket Engine | Robert H. Goddard | 1926 |
| Radio | Guglielmo Marconi | 1894 |
| Richter Scale | Charles Richter | 1935 |
| Ship (Turbine) | Charles Parsons | 1894 |
| Steam Ship | Robert Fulton | 1807 |
| Steam Boat | Robert Fulton | 1786 |
| Submarine | Cornelis Drebbel | 1620 |
| Stethoscope | Rene Laennec | 1816 |
| Saxophone | Adolphe Sax | 1846 |
| Sewing Machine | Elias Howe | 1846 |
| Steam-Powered Airship | Henri Giffard | 1852 |
| Soft Contact lenses | Otto Wichterle | 1961 |
| Synthesizer | Dr. Robert Arthur Moog | 1964 |
| Thermometer | Galileo | 1593 |
| Theory of Evolution | Charles Darwin | 1858 |
| Typewriter | Christopher Latham Sholes | 1868 |
| Transistors | John Bardeen, William Shockley & Walter Brattain | 1948 |
| Telephone | Graham Bell | 1874 |
| Valve. Radio | Sir J.A Fleming | 1904 |
| Vacuum Cleaner | Hubert Cecil Booth | 1901 |
| Vitamin A | Frederick Gowland Hpokins | 1912 |
| Vitamin B | Christiaan Eijkman | 1897 |
| Vitamin C | Albert Szent-Gyorgi | 1928 |
| Vitamin K | Henrik Dam | 1929 |
| Vitamin E | Herbert McLean Evans & Katherine Scott Bishop | 1922 |
| Windshield wipers | Mary Anderson | 1903 |
| World Wide Web | Tim Berners Lee with Robert Cailliau | 1989 |
| X-ray | Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen | 1895 |
| Xerox Machine | Chester Carlson | 1928 |
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