Invention & Inventers, Discovery & Discoverer
Invention, Inventors, Discovery, Discoverer & Years
Numbering : 1 - 50
| Inventer/ Discoverer | Invention/Discovery | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Allbutt | Thermometer (medical) | 1867 |
| John Logie Baird | Television | 1926 (demonstration of moving object televised) |
| Bank of Stockholm | Banknotes | 1661 |
| Frederick Banting & Charles Best | Insulin | 1921 |
| Christiaan Barnard | Heart transplants | 1967 |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Telephone | 1876 |
| Charles Best & Frederick Banting | Insulin | 1921 |
| Ladislao & Georg Biro | Ball point pen | 1938 |
| Dr Thomas Blundell | Blood transfusion | 1818 |
| Louis and Jacques Breguet | Helicopter (first manned vertical lift-off) | 1907 |
| Dr David Brewster | Kaleidoscope | 1816 1817 (patent) |
| William A Burt | Typewriter | 1829 (first US patent) |
| James Chalmers | Postage stamp (adhesive) | 1834 |
| John P Charlton | Postcard | 1861 |
| Georges Claude | Neon light | 1910 |
| W. F. Cooke & Charles Wheatstone | Telegraph |
1837 (patent) 1838 (public demonstration) |
| Denton Cooley | Artificial heart (implant, human) | 1969 |
| Paul Cornu | Helicopter (first free, piloted flight) | 1907 |
| Nicholas Cugnot | Motorcar | 1769 |
| Sir Humphrey Davy | Miner's safety lamp | 1815 |
| Sir James Dewar | Vacuum flask | 1892 |
| Rudolf Diesel | Diesel engine | 1892 (patent for proposed engine) |
| George Eastmann | Camera (flexible roll film)Photographic film (using celluloid) | 1888 1889 |
| Thomas Alva Edison see also Joseph Swan |
Electric light bulb (incandescent filament lamp) (jointly credited with development) Phonograph (commercial) |
1879 (public lighting demonstration in New York) 1878 (patent) |
| Paul Ehrlich | Chemotherapy | 1911 |
| Willem Einthoven | Electrocardiograph | 1903 |
| Adolf Fick | Contact lens (glass) | 1887 |
| Alva Fisher | Electric washing machine | 1908 1910 (patent) |
| Alexander Fleming | Penicillin | 1928 |
| Benjamin Franklin | Bifocal lenses | 1784 |
| Rosalind Franklin, Francis Crick, James Watson | DNA (structure) | 1953 |
| Richard Jordan Gatling | Machine gun | 1862 |
| Henri Giffard | Airship | 1852 |
| King Camp Gillette | Razor (disposable blade) | 1901 |
| Robert Goddard | Rocket, liquid fuelled (first launch) | 1926 |
| Charles Goodyear | Rubber (vulcanised) | 1839 1844 (patent) |
| Wilson Greatbatch | Pacemaker (artificial, implantable) | 1960 (first implant) |
| James Harrison (Australia) see also Alexander Catlin Twining (US) |
Refrigerator (simultaneously) | 1850 |
| John Harrison | Chronometer (marine) | 1735 |
| Henkel et Cie (Germany) | Detergent (household) | 1907 |
| Rowland Hill | Postage stamp | 1837 |
| Felix Hoffman & Heinrich Dreser | Aspirin | 1899 |
| Walter Hunt (US) & Charles Rowley (UK) | Safety pin | 1849 |
| Christiaan Huygens | Clock (pendulum) Engine, internal combustion (gunpowder-fuelled) |
1657 1680 |
| John Wesley Hyatt | Celluloid | 1869 |
| Hans Janssen | Microscope (compound) | 1590 |
| Edward Jenner | Smallpox (vaccine) | 1796 (first experiments) |
| Jack Kilby | Calculator (pocket) | 1967 (patent) |
| Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec | Stethoscope | 1816 |
| Georges Leclenche | Battery (dry cell) | 1866 (patent) |