IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES ASKED IN EXAM
Electric Battery | Alessandro Volta |
Electric Generator | Michael Faraday |
Electricity | Benjamin Franklin |
Electron | Joseph J. Thomson |
Evolution (theory) | Charles Darwin |
Vaccination | Edward Jenner |
Vitamins | Hopkins and Funk |
X – Rays | Roentgen |
Adding Machine | Pascal |
Aeroplane | Wright brothers |
Atom | John Dalton |
Bacteria | A.V. Leeuwenhoek |
Ball-Point Pen | John J. Loud |
Barometer | Evangelista Torricelli |
Bicycle | Macmillan |
Blood Groups | Karl Landsteiner |
Calculating machine | Pascal |
Cement | Joseph Aspdin |
Chemotherapy | Paul Ehrlich |
Circulation of the Blood | William Harvey |
Computer | Charles Babbage |
Continental Drift | Alfred Wegener |
Crescograph | J.C Bose |
Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel |
Electrons | J.J.Thomson |
Electric Tram | Fyodor Pirotsky |
Electromagnetic Nature of Light | James Maxwell |
North Pole | Robert Peary |
Solar System | Nicolaus Copernicus |
South Pole | Roald Amundson |
West Indies | Christopher Columbus |
Dynamite | Alfred B. Nobel |
Dynamo | Michael Faraday |
Fahrenheit Scale | Fahrenheit |
Fountain Pen | Lewis E. Waterman |
Gas lighting | William Murdoch |
Homeopathy | Hahnemann |
Hydrogen | Cavendish |
Insulin | F.Banting |
Jeans | Levi Strauss |
Jet Engine | Sir Frank Whittle |
Laser | Theodore Maiman |
Laughing Gas (Nitrous oxide) | Priestley |
Laws of Gravitation | Newton |
Laws of Inheritance | Gregor Mendel |
Laws of Motion | Newton |
Laws of Planetary Motion | Kepler |
Lift (Elevators) | Otis |
Lightning Conductor | Benjamin Franklin |
Machine Gun | Dr Richard Gatling |
Mercury Thermometer | Fahrenheit |
Neutron | Chadwick |
Nuclear Fission | Otto Hahn, Bohr and Fermi |
Oxygen | Priestly |
Paperclip | Johann Vaaler |
Penicillin | Alexander Fleming |
Printing for the Blind | Braille |
Printing Press | Johannes Gutenberg |
Rabies Vaccine | Louis Pasteur |
Radio | G. Marconi |
Radium | Madame Curie |
Railway Engine | George Stephenson |
Raman effect | C.V.Raman |
Revolver | Samuel Colt |
Sewing Machine | Thomas Saint |
Shorthand | Sir Isaac Pitman |
Stainless Steel | Harry Brearley |
Steam Engine | James Watt |
Stethoscope | Dr William Stokes, Rene Laennec |
Structure of DNA | James Watson |
Telegraph | Samuel Morse |
Telescope | Galileo |
Television | Baird |