Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams:
Physics
Year of Inve
Inventions/Discoveries Name of the Person/Scientist
Discovery
Amplitude Modulation (AM) Reginald Fessenden 1901
Air Brake George Westinghouse 1869
Air Pressure Evangelista Torricelli
Anemometer Leon Battista Alberti 1450
Ammeter Friedrich Dexler 1884
Anode Rays Eugen Goldstein -
Atomic Nucleus Ernest Rutherford -
Battery Alessandro Volta -
Barometer Evangelista Torricelli 1643
Calorimeter Antoine Lavoisier 1780
Cathode Ray Tube Ferdinand Braun 1897
Celsius Anders Celsius 1742
Dynamometer Edme Rednier 1798
Electromagnet William Sturgeon 1825
Fuel Cell William Grove 1839
Inclinometer William B. Melick 1889
Paul Villard (first observed while investigating
Gamma Rays 1900
radiation)
Gravity Sir Isaac Newton 1687
Hubble Space Telescope NASA (Telescope is name after Edwin Hubble) 1990
Induction Motor Nikola Tesla 1887
Large Hadron Collider CERN 2008
LCD Friedrich Reinitzer 1968
LED Nick Holonyak, Oleg Losev 1962
Louis Le Prince, later patented by Thomas Edison in
Kinetoscope -
1889
Magnetometer Sheldon Breiner 1832
Mercury Thermometer Gabriel Fahrenheit 1714
Microscope Zacharias Janssen and Hans Lippershey 1590
Steam Turbine Charles Parson 1698
Transformer William Stanley 1885
Vernier Caliper Pierre Vernier
Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams:
Chemistry
Year of Inv
Inventions/Discoveries Name of the Person/Scientist
Discovery
Acid Albert Hofmann 1938
Aluminum Charles Martin Hall 1825
John Dalton (Theorized), later discovered by J.J Thomson
Atoms -
in 1897
Covalent Bonds Gilbert Newton Lewis 1916
Dynamite Alfred Nobel 1867
Electrons J J Thomson 1897
Hydrogen Henry Cavendish 1766
Inert Gases Sir William Ramsay 1962
Ionic Bonds Svante August Arrhenius 1884
Neutron James Chadwick 1932
Osmosis Jean Antoine Nollet 1748
Oxygen Joseph Priestley, Carl Wilhelm and Scheele 1774
Polythene Eric Fawcett 1933
Proton Ernest Rutherford 1919
pH meter Soren Peder Lauritz 1909
Radioactivity Henri Becquerel 1896
Periodic Table Dmitri Mendeleev 1869
Neon Georges Claude & Paris 1910
Polyvinyl Chloride Eugen Baumann 1872
Synthetic Rubber Fritz Hofmann 1909
Titanium William Kroll 1791
Radium Pierre Curie and Marie Curie 1898
Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams:
Biology
Year of Inv
Inventions/Discoveries Name of the Person/Scientist
Discovery
Anesthesia Thomas Green Morton 1938
Aspirin Felix Hoffman 1897
Anthrax Vaccine Louis Pasteur 1881
Automated DNA Sequencer Lloyd M Smith 1987
Bacteria Antonie Van Leewenhoek 1676
Microbes Antonie Van Leewenhoek and Robert Hooke 1665
BCG Vaccine Camille Guerin and Albert Calmette 1921
Blood Group Karl Landsteiner 1901
Calcium Humphry Davy 1808
Cholera Vaccine Waldemar Haffkine 1892
Cell Robert Hooke 1665
Cell Nucleus Robert Brown 1831
DDT (Dichloro-diphenyl-
Paul Hermann Muller 1940
trichloroethane)
ECG Willem Einthoven 1887
Rubella Vaccine Maurice Hilleman 1962
Hepatitis B Virus Baruch Blumberg 1965
Hepatitis B Vaccine Pablo DT Valenzuela 1986
Homeopathy and Allopathy Samuel Hahnemann 1810
HIV Luc Montagnier 1983
Insulin Frederick Banting and J J R Macleod 1922
Polio Vaccine Jonas Edward Salk 1955
Plague Vaccine Waldemar Haffkine 1936
Penicillin Alexander Fleming 1928
Smallpox Vaccine Edward Jenner 1796
Spiral Structure of Protein Linus Pauling 1951
Kidney Dialysis Willem Johan Kolff 1943
X Ray Wilhelm Rontgen 1895
Vitamin Casimir Funk 1912
Vitamin A Frederick Gowland Hopkins 1937
Vitamin B1 Christiaan Eijkman 1910
Vitamin C Albert Szent-Gyorgi 1928
Herbert McLean Evans and Katherine Scott
Vitamin E 1922
Bishop
Vitamin K Henrik Dam 1929
Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams:
Computer
Year of In
Inventions/Discoveries Name of the Person/Scientist
Discovery
Apple’s IPhone Steve Jobs 2007
Email Ray Tomlinson 1978
Cable Modem Rouzbeh Yassini 1990
C++ Bjarne Stroustrup 1979
C Programming Language Dennis Ritchie 1972
Facebook Mark Zuckerberg 2004
Google Sergey Brin and Larry Page 1998
Laptop Adam Osborne 1982
JAVA Computing Language James Gosling 1991
Microprocessors Stan Mazor, Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff 1971
Python Guido Van Rossum 1991
Webcam Paul Jardetzky and Quentin Stafford Fraser 1991
Search Engine Alan Emtage 1990
Surface Computing Microsoft 2001
Smartphone IBM 1994
Supercomputers Seymour Cray 1960
TCP/ IP Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn 1983
Bill Vogel, Henryk Magnuski, Marion Bond, Lloyd
Walkie-Talkie 1937
Morris, Dan Noble
World Wide Web Robert Cailliau, Tim Berners, and Lee 1989
Yahoo David Filo and Jerry Yang 1994
Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams:
Space Science
Year of Invent
Inventions/Discoveries Name of the Person/Scientist
Discovery
Ballistic Missile Wernher Von Braun 1944
Global Positioning System Ivan A. Getting Roger L. Easton Bradford 1973
Parkinson
Uranus William Herschel 1781
Communication Satellite Arthur C. Clarke 1958
Universe Edwin Hubble -
Solar System Nicolaus Copernicus 1839
Planets Galileo Galilei -
Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams:
Other Inventions
Inventions/Discoveries Name of the Person/Scientist Year of Invention
Airplane Wilbur and Orville Wright, The Wright Brothers 1903
Calculator Blaise Pascal 1642
Electric Bulb Thomas Edison 1879
Fan Schuyler Skaats Wheeler 1889
Newspaper Johann Carolous 1605
Printing Press Johannes Gutenberg 1439
Radio Guglielmo Marconi 1896
Telephone Alexander Graham Bell 1876
Television Philo Taylor Farnsworth 1934
