Discoveries Flashcards by Bharathi Isaivanan

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Law of inertia and falling bodies

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Galileo (Italy)

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Telescope

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Hans Lippershey (Netherlands)

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Laws of planetary motion

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Kepler (Germany)

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Barometer

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Toricelli (Italy)

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Pressure cooker

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Dennis Papin (France)

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Laws of motion and gravitation

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Isaac Newton (England)

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Steam engine

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Thomas Newcomen (England)

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Mercury thermometer

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G. Fahrenheit (Germany)

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Condensing steam engine

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James Watt (Scotland)

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Electromagnet

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William Sturgeon (England)

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Dynamo and law of electromagnetic induction

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Michael Faraday (England)

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Refrigerator

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F. Caree (France)

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Internal combustion engine

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E. Lenoir (France)

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Telephone

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Graham Bell (Scotland)

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Electric transformer

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William Stanley (USA)

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Electromagnetic waves

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H. Hertz (Germany)

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Quantum statistics

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S.N. Bose (India)

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Scattering of light by molecules

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C.V. Raman (India)

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Cascade process in cosmic radiation

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Homi Jehangir Baba (India)

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Chandrashekar limit, structure and evolution of stars

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S. Chandrashekar (India)

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Ultra short radio waves

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J.C. Bose (India)

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Thermal ionization

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M.N. Saha (India)

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Triple helical structure of collagen

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G.N. Ramachandran (India)

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Electromagnetic theory, light is an electromagnetic wave

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James Clerk Maxwell (England)

X-rays

W.K. Roentgen (Germany)

Law of photoelectricity and the theory of relativity

Albert Einstein (Germany)

Neutron

James Chadwick (England)

Theory of nuclear forces

H. Yukawa (Japan)

Unification of weak and electromagnetic forces

Abdus Salam (Pakistan)

Measurement of electronic charge

R.A. Millikan (USA)

Nuclear model of atom

Ernest Rutherford (New Zealand)

Quantum model of hydrogen atom

Neils Bohr (Denmark)

Wave theory of light

Christian Huygens (Holland)

Natural radioactivity

Becquerel (France)

Wireless telegraphy

G. Marconi (Italy)

Uncertainty principle and quantum mechanics

Werner Heisenberg (Germany)

Wave nature of matter

Louis Victor de Broglie (France)

Cyclotron

Ernest Orlando Lawrence (USA)

Transistor

John Bardeen, W. Brattain, and W. Shockley (USA)

Electronic computer

J. Presper Eckert and John W. Maunchly (USA)

Rocket (liquid fuel)

Robert H. Goddard (USA)

Television

John Baird (Scotland)

Electromagnetism

H.C. Oersted (Denmark)

Aeroplane

W.D. Wright (USA)

Quantum theory

Max Planck (Germany)

Radium

Pierre and Marie Curie (France)

Diesel engine

Rudolf Diesel (Germany)

Principle of buoyancy and lever

Archimedes (Greece)

Expanding universe

Edwin Hubble (USA)