( 17 Sep, 2014) Inventions and Discoveries Published By : upscgk.com INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES 1 Air Brake George Westinghouse 2 Aniline Dyes Hoffman 3 Antiseptic Surgery Lord Joseph Lister 4 Archimedean Screw Archimedies 5 Avogadro's Hypothesis Avogadro 6 Atomic Number Mosley 7 Atomic Theory Dalton 8 Atomic Structure Bohr and Rutherford 9 Automobile Daimler 10 Balloon Montgolfier 11 Barometer Torricelli 12 Beri - Beri Eijkman 13 Bicycle Macmillian 14 Blood Circulation Harvey 15 Boson S.N.Bose 16 Boyle's law Boyle 17 Braille Louis Braille 18 Breaking up the Nucleus of an atom Rutherford 19 Celluloid Parkes 20 Chloroform James Harrison and James Young Simpson 21 Cholera Bacillus Robert Koch 22 Cinematography Thomas Alva Edison 23 Coloured Photography Lippman 24 Cosmic Rays R. A. Millikan 25 Crescograph J.C.Bose 26 Crystal Dynamics C.V. Raman 27 Cyclotron Lawrence 28 D.D.T. Dr.Paul Muller 29 Deuterium (Heavy Water) H.C.Urey 30 Diesel Oil Engine Rudolf Diesel 31 Discovery of North Pole Robert Peary (1909) 32 Discovery of South Pole Amundson (1912) 33 Discovery of West Indies Columbus (1492) 34 Discovery of Solar System Copernicus (1540) 35 Discovery of Laws of Planetary Motion Kepler 36 Discovery of Specific Gravity Archimedes 37 Drinker's Chamber of Iron Lung Dr.Philip Drinker 38 Dynamite Alfred Nobel 39 Dynamo Faraday 40 Dynamical theory of Heat Lord Kelvin 41 Deciphering the genetic code Dr.Hargobiad Khorana 42 Discovery of Electrons J.J. Thomson 43 Electric Battery Volta 44 Electric Lamp Edison 45 Electricity Faraday 46 Electron Theory Bohr 47 Electromagnetic Theory Maxwell 48 Electrical Waves Heitz 49 Electric Measurement Gauss 50 Effect of Pressure on trough bodies Meghnad Saha 51 Fahrenheit Scale Fahrenheit 52 Film & Photographic goods Kodak 53 Fundamental Laws of Electric Attraction Coulomb 54 Fountain Pen Waterman 55 Geometry Euclid 56 Gun powder Rogei Bacon 57 Gramophone Thomas Alva Edison 58 Helicopter Broquett 59 Helium Gas Lockyer 60 Heavy Hydrogen Urey 61 Homoeopathy Hahnemann 62 Hovercraft Cockrell 63 Hydrogen Cavendish 64 Hydrophobia Louis Pasteur 65 Induction of Electric Current Faraday 66 Incandescent Bulb Edison 67 Induction Coil Rohm Korff 68 Insulin F.Banting 69 Intelligence test Binet 70 In Number Theory Ramanujam 71 Jet Propulsion Frank Whittle 72 Kala-azar Fever U.N.Brahmachari 73 Laughing Gas Priestley 74 Life Boat Henry Great Head 75 Lift (Elevators) Otis 76 Lightning Conductor Benjamin Franklin 77 Linotype Mergenthaler 78 Line of demarcation (ship) Plimsoll 79 Laws of Electrical Resistance Ohm 80 Law of Electrolysis Faraday 81 Law of gases Gay Lussac 82 Laws of Gravitation Newton 83 Laws of Heredity Gregory Mandel 84 Logarithms John Napier 85 Laws of Motion Newton 86 Laws of Natural Selections Darwin 87 Laws of Multiple Proportion Dalton 88 Liquid Oxygen Dewar 89 Mathematical Astro Physics Chandrasekhar 90 Measurement of Electrical Energy Joule, James Prescoft 91 Mauve dye Perkin 92 Machine Gun Dr.Gatting 93 Malarial Parasite Ronald Ross 94 Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Joules 95 Meson Hideki Yakawa 96 Microphone Berliner 97 Microscope Janes 98 Montessori Method Maria Montessori 99 Molecular Scattering of light in fluid Ramanathan 100 Neon Gas Ramsay, Travers 101 Neutron Chadwick 102 Nuclear Fission Otto Hahn, Bohr and Fermi 103 Nylon Plastic Car others 104 Origin of Species Charles Darwin 105 Oxygen Priestly 106 Paints Shalimar 107 Penicillin Fleming 108 Periodic Law Mendeleef 109 Phonograph Edison 110 Phonographic Shorthand Pitman 111 Photograph Dauguerre 112 Principle for lever Archimedes (S.P.Gravity) 113 Phototherapy N.RFinsen 114 Positive Electrons Anderson 115 Powerloom Cartwright 116 Pneumatic Tyre Dunlop 117 Printing for the Blind Braille 118 Printing Press Caxton 119 Printing Types John Guttenberg 120 Psycho-analysis Dr. Sigmund Freud 121 Quantum Theory Max plank 122 Radio-activity of Uranium Henry Becquerel 123 Raman effect C.V. Raman 124 Radium Madame Curie 125 Railway Engine Stephenson 126 Radio transmitter Alexanderson 127 Rare Gas Cavandish 128 Replacing human heart Christian Barnard 129 Revolver Colt 130 Safety Lamp Davy 131 Safety Razor Gillet 132 Salk Vaccine Salk 133 Seismograph Roberts Mallet 134 Scientific astronomy Hippalus 135 Sewing Machine Elias Howe 136 Sextant Hadley 137 Space flying Braun, Dr.Wernher Von 138 Steam boat Fulton 139 Steam Engine James Watt 140 Steam Turbine Parsons 141 Spectroscope Bunsen 142 Steel Melting Process Bessemer 143 Stethoscope Faennec 144 Submarine Bushwell 145 Sulpha Drugs Domagk 146 Theory of Relativity Einstein 147 Theory of Evolution Darwin 148 Theory of conditioned reflex Pavlov 149 Talkies Fee-de-Frost 150 Tank Swinton 151 Telegraphic Code Samuel Morse 152 Telephone Graham Bell 153 Telescope Galileo 154 Television Baird 155 Thermometer Galileo 156 Thermos Flasks Dewar 157 T.N.T. lily Brandt 158 Transistor Shockley 159 Typewriter Sholes 160 Uranium fusion Oho Hahn 161 Uranus (Planet) Herschel William 162 Vaccination Jenner 163 Vitamins Funk 164 Washing Soda Fablanc 165 Wireless Communication Oliver Fodge 166 Wireless Telegraphy Marcony 167 X - Rays Roentgen 168 Zip Fastener W.F.Judson