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The following table enlists the major discoveries/inventions and their discoverers/inventors −

Discovery/Invention Discoverer/Inventor Time/Period Image

Roger Bacon (Great

Magnifying Glass 13th Century
Britain)

Johannes Gutenberg
Printing Press 1440 (About)
(German)

Watch (Portable Clocks) Peter Henlein (Germany) 1509 (About)

Optical Microscope (& Zacharias Janssen End of 16th Century

also the Compound (Dutch)
Microscope)

Galileo (Italian) (however,

in 1608, three inventors
namely Hans Lippershey,
Telescope 1609
Zacharias Janssen, &
Jacob Metius invented
that Galileo improved)

Evangelista Torricelli
Barometer 1643
(Italian)

Bartolomeo Cristofori di In the very beginning of

Piano
Francesco (Italian) 18th Century

Steam Boat Denis Papin (French) 1704

Thomas Newcomen
Steam Engine 1712
(British)
 Watt Steam Engine James Watt (Scottish) 1776

Daniel Gabriel
Mercury Thermometer Fahrenheit(Polish- 1714
German)

Achromatic Lens John Dollond (British) 1758

David Bushnell
Submarine 1775
(American)

Bifocal Lens Benjamin Franklin 1770s

Edmund Cartwright
Power Loom 1784
(British)

Gas Turbine John Barber (British) 1791

Electric Battery Alessandro Volta (Italian) 1800

 (Railway) Steam Richard Trevithick
1804
Locomotive (British)

Stethoscope René Laennec 1819

Hygrometer (Crude
hygrometer was invented Johann Heinrich Lambert
1755
by Leonardo da Vinci in (French)
1480)

Electric Motor Michael Faraday (British) 1821

William Austin Burt

Typewriter 1829
(American)

Sewing Machine Barthélemy Thimonnier 1829

(French)
 Dynamo Michael Faraday (British) 1831

Samuel Morse
Telegraph 1832-33
(American)

Revolver (However, the

first Flintlock Revolver
Samuel Colt (American) 1835
patented by Elisha Collier
in 1814)

Kirkpatrick Macmillan
Pedal Driven Bicycle 1839
(Scottish)

Pneumatic Tire Robert William Thomson 1845

(Scottish)
 James Bicheno Francis
(British American) &
Francis Turbine 1848
Uriah A. Boyden
(American)

Refrigerator (In 1805, an Alexander Twining &

American inventor Oliver James Harrison
Evans experimented a (However, in 1859,
closed vapor- Ferdinand Carré of 1850
compression France developed the
refrigeration cycle for the first gas absorption
production of ice) refrigeration system)

Elevator/Lift (for the

Elisha Otis (American) 1852
building)

Richard Jordan Gatling

Machine Gun 1861
(American)

Alfred Bernhard Nobel

Dynamite 1867
(Swedish)

Air Brake George Westinghouse 1872

(American)
 Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone 1875
(Scottish)

Phonograph/
1877
Gramophone

Film/Movie Camera
Louis Le Thomas Alva
(However, movie camera
Edison (American)Prince 1888
was invented by Francis
(French)
Ronalds in 1845)

Electric Lamp/Bulb (by

Thomas Alva Edison
using "a carbon 1879
(American)
filament”)

The First Steam-powered Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

1768 N/A
Automobile (French)

The First Car Powered by

an internal combustion François Isaac de Rivaz
1807 N/A
Engine fueled by (French)
Hydrogen

The First Petrol or

Gasoline-powered Karl Benz German 1886
Automobile

Inflatable Tire John Boyd Dunlop 1887

(Scottish)
 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
X-Ray 1895
(German)

Guglielmo Marconi
Radio Telegraph 1890s
(Italian)

Nuclear Reactor (namely

Enrico Fermi (Italian) 1942
Chicago Pile-1)

The first general-purpose John Presper Eckert, Jr.

Electronic Digital & John William Mauchly 1945
Computer (Americans)

William Shockley, John

Transistor Bardeen & Walter 1947
Brattain (Americans)

Narinder Singh Kapany

Fiber Optics 1960
(Indians)

ARPANET, (the precursor Leonard Kleinrock 1969 N/A

 to the Internet) (American)

Guglielmo Marconi
Radio N/A N/A
(Italian)

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