Inventions Flashcards
1
Q
3 Dimensional Hallogram
A
Dennis Labour
2
Q
Adding Machine
A
Blaise Pascal
3
Q
Aeroplane
A
Orville & Wilbur Wright
4
Q
Air Conditioner
A
WH Carrier
5
Q
Airbrakes
A
George Westinghouse
6
Q
Airplane
A
Orville and Wilbur Wright
7
Q
Airship
A
Count von Zeppelin, Henri Gifford
8
Q
Art of printing
A
Johann Guttenbuerg
9
Q
Artificial Heart
A
Michael Debakey
10
Q
Aspirin
A
H. Dresser
11
Q
Atomic Reactor
A
Enrico Fermi
12
Q
Automatic gun
A
Hiram Stevens Maxim
13
Q
Automobile Engine
A
Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler
14
Q
Balloon
A
Etien and Joseph Montgolfrier
15
Q
Barbwire
A
Joseph Glidden
16
Q
Barometer
A
Evangelista Torricelli
17
Q
Bicycle
A
Kirkpatrick McMillan
18
Q
Braille
A
Louis Braille
19
Q
Bubble Chamber
A
Donald Glaser (1952)
20
Q
Carpet Sweeper
A
Melville Bissell
21
Q
Cash Register
A
James Ritty
22
Q
Cathode Ray Tube
A
William Crooks
23
Q
Celestial & terrestrial globe
A
Gerhardus Mercator
24
Q
Chronometer
A
John Harrison
25
Cloud Chamber
CTR Wilson
26
Color Television (1951)
Peter Goldmark
27
Compound Microscope
Zacharias Janssen (Dutch)
28
Contraceptive Pill
Gregory Pincus
29
Cotton Jin
Eli Whitney
30
Diesel Engine
Rudolph Diesel
31
Diode
John Flemming
32
Dynamite
Alfred Nobel
33
Dynamo & Electric Transformer
Michael Faraday
34
Electric Battery (1800)
Alessandro Volta
35
Electric Motor
Michael Faraday
36
Electric Razor
Jacob Schick
37
Electric telegraph
Mesrs Coke & Wheatstone
38
Electric Telegraph
Coke and Wheatstone
39
Electromagnet
William Sturgeon
40
Electromagnetism
Hans Oersted
41
Electronic Computer
J. Presper Eckert, JW Mouchly
42
Elevator
Elisha Otis
43
Escalator
Jesse Reno
44
Esperanto
Ludwig Lazarus Zamenof
45
First man-made satellite launched
Sputnik I
46
First practical steam ship
Robert Fulton
47
first submarine
Cornelis Drebbel
48
First War Submarine
David Bushnell
49
Flashing system of through light out into sea from light house
Robert Stephenson
50
Flying Shuttle
John Kay
51
Food Canning
Nicholas Appert
52
Fountain Pen
Louis Waterman
53
Friction Matches
John Walker
54
Frozen food process
Clarence Birdseye
55
Gramaphone
E Berliner
56
Gunpowder
Roger Bacon
57
Gyroscope
Leon Foucault
58
Helicopter
Igor Sikorski
59
Holography
Denis Gabor
60
Hygrometer
Antoine Baume
61
Incandescent Electric Lamp
Joseph Wilson Swan
62
Income Tax
Maquis de Vauban
63
Integrated circuit
Jack Kilby
64
Internal Combustion Engine
Nicklaus Otto
65
Internal cumbusion engine
Gottlieb Daimler
66
Jet Engine
Frank Whittle
67
Kaleidoscope
David Brewster
68
Knitting Machine
William Lee (England)
69
LASER
Theodore Maiman
70
Lightning Conductor/Rod
Benjamin Franklin
71
Lithography
Alois Senefelder
72
Locomotive
George Stephenson
73
Locomotive
Richard Trevithik
74
Logarithms
John Napier
75
Margerine
Hippolyte Mege-Mouries
76
MASER
Charles Townes
77
Micrometer Screw Gauge
William Gascoigne
78
Microphone
David Edward Hughes
79
Microphone
David Hughes
80
Microscope
A. Janssen and Z. Janssen
81
Microwave Oven (1946)
Percy Spencer
82
Minors Safety Lamp, Electric Lamp
Humphrey Davy
83
Morse code of signals
Samuel Finley Morse
84
Motorcycle
The Michaux Brothers
85
Nylon
Wallace Carruthers
86
Paper
Ts’ai Lun of China
87
Parachute
Louis LeMornaut
88
Pasturization
Louis Pasteur
89
Peanut Butter
George Washington Carver
90
Pendulum Clock, Lens
Christian Huygens
91
Penicillin
Alexander Flemming (1928)
92
Petrol Engine
Karl Benz
93
Phonograph
Thomas Alva Edison
94
Phonograph, Incandescent Lamp, Motion Picture Machine
Thomas Edison
95
Pneumatic tyre
John Dunlop
96
Polaroid Camera
Edwin Land
97
Portland Cement
Joseph Apsdin
98
Postal Stamp
Rauland Hill
99
Power Loom
Edmund Cartwright
100
Pressure Cooker
Dennis Papin
101
Printing Press
Johannes Gutenburg
102
RADAR
Robert Watson-Watt
103
Radio Telescope
Carl Jansky
104
Radio, Wireless Telegraph
Guglielmo Marconi
105
Rapid Fire Gun
Richard Gatling
106
Reaping Machine
Cyrus McCormick
107
Reflecting Telescope (1668)
Isaac Newton
108
Refracting Telescope
Hans Lipperschey
109
Revolver
Samuel Colt
110
Rifle
August Rotter
111
Roll Photographic Camera, Kodak Camera
George Eastman
112
Safety Lamp (Electric lamp)
Humphry Davy
113
Safety Pin
Walter Hunt
114
Safety Razor
King C. Gillette
115
Sewing Machine
Elias Howe
116
Silencer
Hiram Maxim
117
Single wire Telegraph
Samuel Morse
118
Special Theory of Relativity
Albert Einstein (1905)
119
Spinning Frame
Richard Arkwright
120
Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves
121
Spinning Mule
Samuel Crompton
122
Steam Hammer
James Nasmyth
123
Steam Pump
Thomas Savery (England)
124
Steam Turbine
Charles Parsons
125
Stereotyping
William Gedd
126
Stethoscope
Rene Laennec
127
Submarine
Cornelius van Drebbel
128
Tape Recorder
Valdemir Poulson (Denmark)
129
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
130
Television
John Logie Beard
131
Thermocouple
Thomas Seebeck
132
Thermometer
Galileo Galilei
133
Thermos Flask
James Dewar
134
Time Recorder
John Wilson
135
Torpedo
Robert Whitehead
136
Transformer
William Stanley
137
Transistor
Shockley, Brittain and Bardeen
138
Typewriter
Christopher Sholes
139
Umbrella
Samuel Fox
140
Vaccum Flask
James Dewar
141
Vacuum Cleaner
Ives McGaffrey
142
Vulcanization of Rubber
Charles Goodyear
143
Washing Machine
Hamilton Smith
144
Whitworth Rifle
Joseph Witworth
145
Windscreen Wipers
Mary Anderson
146
Wireless Remote control
Eugene polley
147
Wireless Telegraph and radio
Guglielmo marconi
148
Xerography
Chester Carilson
149
X-Rays (1895)
Wilhelm Rontgen
150
Zeppelin dirigible airship
Count Von Ferdinand Zeppelin
151
Zip Fastener
Whitcomb Judson
