Invention & Inventers, Discovery & Discoverer
Invention, Inventers, Discovery, Discoverer & Years
Numbering : 51 - 100
| Inventer/ Discoverer | Invention/Discovery | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Anton van Leeuwenhoek | Bacteria | 1673 |
| Jean-Joseph Etienne Lenoir | Engine, internal combustion (coal gas fuelled) | 1859 1860 (patent) |
| J C R Licklider | Internet | 1962 (concept) |
| James Lind | Scurvy | 1753 |
| Hans Lippershey | Telescope | 1608 |
| Joseph Lister | Antiseptic | 1865 |
| Johan Edvard Lundstrom | Match (safety, phosphorous) | 1855 |
| Ives W McGaffey | Vacuum cleaner | 1869 |
| Archibald Hector McIndoe | Plastic surgery | 1940s |
| Charles Macintosh | Rubber (waterproof) | 1823 (patent) |
| Kirkpatrick Macmillan | Bicycle (pedal) | 1839 |
| George William Manby | Fire extinguisher | 1813 |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Radio (cross-Atlantic transmission) Telegraph (wireless) first Morse code signals over 2.4 km |
1901 1895 |
| Siegfried Marcus (experimental) | Automobile (internal-combustion gasoline-powered) | c1864 |
| Johann Gregor Mendel | Genetics | 1866 |
| Harry M Meyer Jr & Paul D Parkman | Rubella vaccine |
1965 |
| Joseph-Michel & Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier | Balloon (hot air) | 1783 |
| Gordon Moore and Robert Norton Noyce | Micro-processor | 1971 |
| Giovanni Battista Morgagni | Pathology | 1761 |
| William Morton | Anaesthetic | 1846 |
| Colin Murdoch (NZ) | Disposable syringe, Tranquiliser dart gun |
1956 (patent) 1950s |
| Isaac Newton | Reflecting Telescope | 1668 |
| Joseph Niepce | Photograph (first) | 1826 |
| Alfred Nobel | Dynamite | 1866 |
| Elisha Graves Otis | Elevator (safety) | 1852 |
| Ambrose Pare | Artificial limbs | 1575 (book: Works) |
| Gustave E. Pasch | Matches (safety) | 1844 |
| Louis Pasteur | Anthrax (vaccine) Cholera (vaccine) Pasteurisation Rabies (vaccine) |
1881 1880 1864 1885 |
| Pierre Joseph Pelletier & Joseph Bienaime Caventou | Quinine | 1820 |
| Philips Co. | Audio-cassette | 1963 |
| Gregory Pincus, John Rock, Min-Chueh Chang | Birth control pill | 1960 (approved by U.S. Federal Drug Agency) |
| Grote Reber | Radio telescope | 1937 |
| Regency Electronics | Transistor radio | 1954 |
| Wilhelm Roentgen | X-rays | 1895 |
| Erno Rubik | Rubik's cube | 1977 (patent) |
| Jonas Salk | Polio (vaccine) | 1955 (field trial results announced) |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Serturner | Morphine | 1805 |
| William B. Shockley | Transistor | 1948 (patent) |
| Isaac Merritt Singer | Sewing machine (domestic, production model) | 1857 |
| Percy LeBaron Spencer | Microwave oven | 1945 |
| George Stephenson | Railway (first passenger steam) | 1825 |
| Nikolai Tesla | Telegraph (wireless) | 1893 (public demonstration) |
| Barthélemy Thimmonier | Sewing machine | 1830 (patent) |
| Richard Trevithick | Steam locomotive | 1804 |
| John Walker | Match (friction) | 1827 |
| Lewis Edson Waterman | Fountain pen | 1884 |
| Frank Whittle | Jet engine | 1930 (patent) |
| Orville & Wilbur Wright | Aeroplane (controlled, engine powered flight) | 1903 |