Important Scientific Invention - I

Scientific Inventions

Invention	Inventor	Year	Country
Acetylene Gas	Berthelot	1862	France
Adding Machine	Pascal	1642	France
Adhesive Tape, Scotch	Richard Drew	1930	U.S.A.
Adrenaline	Schafer and Oliver	1894	Britain
Aeroplane	Orville & Wilbur Wright	1903	U.S.A.
Aerosol Spray	Erik Rotheim	1926	Norway
Air Conditioning	Carrier	1902	U.S.A.
Airplane, Jet Engine	Ohain	1939	Germany
Airship (non-rigid)	Henri Giffard	1852	France
Anesthesia, Local	Koller	1885	Austria
Anesthesia, Spinal	Bier	1898	Germany
Anti-toxins (Science of Immunity)	Behring & Kitasato	1890	Germany, Japan
Artificial Heart	Willem Kolff	1957	Netherlands
Aspirin	Dreser	1889	Germany
Atomic Bomb	J. Robert Oppenheimer	1945	U.S.A.
Atomic Numbers	Moseley	1913	Britain
Atomic Theory	Dalton	1803	Britain
Automatic Rifle	John Browning	1918	U.S.A.
Ayurveda		2000-1000 BC	India
Bacteria	Leeuwenhock	1683	Netherlands
Bacteriology	Ferdinand Cohn	1872	Germany
Bakelite	Leo H. Baekeland	1907	Belgium
Ball-Point Pen	John J. Loud	1888	U.S.A.
Ballistic Missile	Wemher von Braun	1944	Germany
Balloon	Jacques & Joseph Montgolfier	1783	France
Barometer	Evangelista Torricelli	1644	Italy
Battery (Electric)	Alessandro Volta	1800	Italy
Bicyle	Kirkpatrick Macmillan	1839-40	Britain
Bicyle Tyres (Pneumatic)	John Boyd Dunlop	1888	Britain
Bifocal Lens	Benjamin Franklin	1780	U.S.A.
Biochemistry	Jan Baptista Van Helmont	1648	Belgium
Bleaching Powder	Tennant	1798	Britain
Blood Plasma Storage (Blood Bank)	Drew	1940	U.S.A.
Blood Transfusion	Jean-Baptiste Denys	1625	France
Bunsen Burner	R.Willhelm von Bunsen	1855	Germany
Burglar Alarm	Edwin T. Holmes	1858	U.S.A.
Calculus	Newton	1670	Britain
Camera, Kodak	Walker Eastman	1888	U.S.A.
Canned Food	Appert	1804	France
Car (Petrol)	Kari Benz	1888	Germany
Car (Steam)	Nicolas Cugnot	1769	France
Carburetor	Gottlieb Daimler	1876	Germany
Cardiac Pacemaker	A.S. Hyman	1932	U.S.A.
Cassette, Audio	Philips Co.	1963	Holland
Cassette, Videotape	Sony	1969	Japan
CAT Scanner	Godfrey Hounsfield	1968	Britain
Celluloid	Alexander Parkes	1861	Britain
Cement (Portland)	Joseph Aspdin	1824	Britain
Chemotherapy	Ehrlich	1909	Germany
Chemotherapy	Paracelsus	1493-1541	Switzerland
Chloroform as Anaesthetic	James Simpson	1847	Britain
Chloromycetin	Burkholder	1947	U.S.A.
Cholera T. B. Germs	Robert Koch	1877	Germany
Chronometer	John Harrison	1735	Britain
Cinema	Nicolas & Jean Lumiere	1895	France
Circulation of Blood	William Harvey	1628	Britain
Clock (Mechanical)	I-Hsing & Liang Ling-Tsan	1725	China
Clock (Pendulum)	Christian Huygens	1656	Netherlands
Cloning, DNA	Boyer, Cohen	1973	U.S.A.
Cloning, Mammal	Wilmut, et al	1996	U.K.
Compact Disc	RCA	1972	U.S.A.
Compact Disc Player	Sony, Philips co	1979	Japan, Netherlands
Computer, Laptop	Sinclair	1987	Britain
Computer, Mini	Digital Corp.	1960	U.S.A.
Crossword Puzzle	Arthur Wynne	1913	U.S.A.
Cryo-Surgery	Henry Swan	1953	U.S.A.
CT Sacn	Hounsfield	1973	Britain
Dating	Libby	1947	U.S.A.
Diesel Engine	Rudoff Diesel	1895	Germany
Diphtheria Germs	Klebs & Loffler	1883-84	Germany