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100+ Famous Discoveries and Inventions
Famous Discoveries and Inventions
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We have compiled the list of 100+ famous discoveries and inventions. We have added life changing invention and their inventors with the Country and Year of the inventions on this page. Please check below for the Discoveries and Invention’s list –
List Of 100 Famous Discoveries and Inventions
| Invention | Inventor | Country | Year |
| Thermometer | Galileo | Italy | 1593 |
| Knitting Machine | William Lee | England | 1589 |
| Telescope | Hans Lippershey | Netherland | 1608 |
| Calculating Machine | Blaise Pascal | France | 1642 |
| Pendulum Clock | Christian Huygens | Netherland | 1656 |
| Pressure Cooker | Denis Papin | France | 1675 |
| Steam Engine | Thomas Newcomen | England | 1712 |
| Mercury Thermometer | Gabriel Fahrenheit | Germany | 1714 |
| Parachute | Louis Lenormand | France | 1783 |
| Power Loom | Edmund Cartwright | England | 1785 |
| Sewing Machine | Thomas Saint | England | 1790 |
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| Invention | Inventor | Country | Year |
| Electric Battery | Count Alessandro Volta | Italy | 1800 |
| Steam Locomotive | Richard Trevithick | England | 1804 |
| Bicycle | Karl von Sauerbronn | Germany | 1816 |
| Camera | Joseph Niepce | France | 1822 |
| Digital Calculator | Charles Babbage | England | 1823 |
| Electromagnet | William Sturgeon | England | 1825 |
| Photograph (permanent) | Joseph Niepce | France | 1826 |
| Match | John Walker | England | 1827 |
| Blast Furnace | James Neilson | Scotland | 1828 |
| Revolver | Samuel Colt | USA | 1836 |
| Telegraph | Samuel F.B.Morse | USA | 1837 |
| Vulcanized Rubber | Charles Goodyear | USA | 1839 |
| Safety Match | Gustave Pasch | Sweden | 1844 |
| Sewing Machine | Elias Howe | USA | 1846 |
| Safety Pin | Walter Hunt | USA | 1849 |
| Bunsen Burner | Robert Bunsen | Germany | 1855 |
| Refrigerator | Ferdinand Carre | France | 1858 |
| Washing Machine | Hamilton Smith | USA | 1858 |
| Rapid fire Gun | Richard Gatling | USA | 1862 |
| Dynamite | Alfred Nobel | Sweden | 1866 |
| Typewriter | Christoper Sholes | (USA | 1867 |
| Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell | Scotland | 1876 |
| Phonograph | Thomas Edison | USA | 1877 |
| Microphone | David Edward Hughes | USA | 1878 |
| Fountain Pen | Lewis Waterman | USA | 1884 |
| Motorcycle | Edward Butler | (England | 1885 |
| Vacuum Flask | William Stanley | USA | 1885 |
| Electric Transformer | Schuyler Wheeler | USA | 1886 |
| Gramophone | Emile Berliner | Germany/USA | 1887 |
| Motor-car engine | Gottlieb Daimler & Karl Benz | Germany | 1887 |
| Kodak Camera | George Eastman | USA | 1888 |
| Zip fastener | Whitcomb Judson | USA | 1892 |
| Wireless | Guglielmo Marconi | Italy | 1895 |
| Safety Razor | King C. Gillette | USA | 1895 |
| Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel | Germany | 1897 |
| Submarine | John P. Holland | Ireland/USA | 1898 |
| Tape Recorder | Waldemar Poulsen | Denmark | 1899 |
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| Invention | Inventor | Country | Year |
| Aeroplane | Wilbur & Orville Wright | USA | 1903 |
| Tank | Ernest Swinton | England | 1914 |
| Automatic Rifle | John Browning | USA | 1918 |
| Television | John Logie Baird | Scotland | 1925 |
| Rocket (liquid fuel) | Robert H. Goddard | USA | 1926 |
| Jet Engine | Frank Whittle | England | 1930 |
| Nylon | Wallace Carothers | USA | 1935 |
| Radar | Robert Watson Watt | Scotland | 1935 |
| Auto-digital Computer | Howard Aiken | USA | 1944 |
| Microwave oven, | Percy Spencer | 1946 | |
| Electronic Computer | J. Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly | USA | 1946 |
| Transistor | John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & William Shockley | USA | 1948 |
| Long Playing Record | Chester Carlson | USA | 1948 |
| Solar Battery | D. Pearson, C. Fuller & G. Pearson | USA | 1954 |
| Contraceptive pill | Gregory Pincus & others | USA | 1955 |
| Videotape recording | A. Poniatoff | USA | 1956 |
| Laser | Theodore Maiman | USA | 1960 |
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| Invention | Inventor | Country | Year |
| Radium | Marie and Pierrie Curie | ||
| Adhesive Tape | Richard G. Drew | ||
| Blue Jeans | Levi Strauss | ||
| Basketball Game | James Naismith | ||
| Barometer | Torricelli | ||
| Bismuth | Valentine | ||
| Celluloid | A.Parker | ||
| Cement | Joseph Aspdin | ||
| Chronometer | John Harrison | ||
| Crescograph | J.C.Bose | ||
| CAT-Scans ( Diagnostic X-Ray systems ) | Robert Ledley | ||
| Dynamo | Michael Faraday | ||
| Electric Lamp | Thomas alva Edison | ||
| Electric razor | Jacob Schick | ||
| Electro-cardiograph | William Einthoven | ||
| Existence of isotopes | Frederick Soddy | ||
| Four blood groups | Karl Landsteiner | ||
| Glider | Sir George Caley | ||
| Law of gravitation | Sir Isaac Newton | ||
| Laws of floating bodies | Archimedes | ||
| Manganese | Gahn | ||
| Microscope | Aaton Van Leewen Hock | ||
| Nickel | Cronstledt | ||
| Nuclear reactor | Enrico Ferni | ||
| Nylon | Dr.Wallace H.Carors | ||
| Ory of relativity | Albert Einstein | ||
| Radio valve | Sir J.A.Fleming | ||
| Radioactivity | Henry Bacquerel | ||
| Rayon | Sir Joseph Swann | ||
| Refrigerator | J.Perkins | ||
| Safety matches | J.E.Lundstrom | ||
| Sodium | Sir Humphry Davy | ||
| Spinning frame | Sir Richard Arkwright | ||
| Steam engine | James Watt | ||
| Stethoscope | William Stockes | ||
| Vulcanised rubber | Charles Goodyear | ||
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