Scientist and inventions Flashcards
(35 cards)
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham bell
Who is the inventor of the lightbulb?
Thomas Edison
Who discovered penicillin?
Alexander Flemming
Who invented the steam engine?
James watt
Who invented the aeroplane?
Wright brothers (Orville wright, Wilbur wright)
Who is credited with the discovery of gravity?
Isaac Newton
Who invented dynamite?
Alfred Nobel
Who invented the electric motor?
Michael Faraday
Who invented the vaccine for smallpox?
Edward Jenner
Who invented the wireless telegraph?
Marconi
Who invented the first mechanical calculator?
Blaise Pascal
Who is known as the father of computer?
Charles Babbage
Who discovered the electron?
Joseph John Thompson
Who discovered the proton?
Ernest rutherford
Who discovered Neutron?
James Chadwick
Who discovered the laws of motion?
Isaac Newton
Who discovered the theory of relativity?
Albert Einstein
Who discovered the electromagnetic theory?
James Clark Maxwell
Who discovered radioactivity polonium and radium?
Marie Curie
Who discovered photoelectric effect?
Albert Einstein
Who developed the first nuclear reactor?
Enrico fermi
Who discovered the periodic table of elements?
Dimitri Mendeleev
Who discovered the law of conservation of mass named oxygen and hydrogen?
Antoine Lavoisier
Who discovered the Boyles law (Gas pressure and volume)?
Robert boyle
