Inventions and Discoveries for Banking

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Here’s a list of important Inventions and Discoveries for Banking & SSC CGL Exam. We
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#1. Inventions and Discoveries for Banking & SSC CGL Exam - Physics

Inventions Inventors Year

Air Brake George 1869
Westinghouse
Amplitude Reginald -
Modulation Fessenden
Anemometer Leon 1450
Battista
Alberti
Barometer Evangelista -
Torricelli

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 Cathode Ray Ferdinand 1897
Tube Braun
Dynamometer Edme 1798
Regnier
Ammeter Friedrich 1884
Dexler
Calorimeter Antoine 1780
Lavoisier
Inclinometer Rufus -
Porter
Magnetometer Sheldon -
Breiner
Telescope Hans -
Lippershey
Microscope Hans Lippershey 1595
and Zacharias
Janssen
LED Oleg Losev, 1962
Nick Holonyak
Gravity Sir Isaac 1687
Newton
Hubble NASA (named 1990
Space after Edwin Hubble )
Telescope
Induction Nikola 1885
Motor Tesla

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 Kinetoscope Louis Le -
Prince
Fuel Cell William 1839
Grove
Battery Alessandro 1799
Volta
Steam Charles 1884
Turbine Parson
Transformer William 1885
Stanley
Electromagnet William 1820
Sturgeon
Large CERN 2008
Hadron
Collider
Gamma Paul 1930
Rays Villard
Mercury Gabriel 1714
Thermometer Fahrenheit
Vernier Pierre -
Caliper Vernier
Celsius Anders -
Celsius
Air Evangelista -
Pressure Torricelli
Atomic Ernest 1911
Nucleus Rutherford

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 Anode Eugen 1886
Rays Goldstein
LCD Friedrich 1888
Reinitzer

#2. Inventions and Discoveries for Banking & SSC CGL Exam- Chemistry

Inventions Inventors Year

Polythene Eric 1933
Fawcett
Osmosis Jean 1748
Antoine
Nollet
Electrons J.J. Thomson 1897
Neutrons James 1932
Chadwick
Protons Ernest 1911
Rutherford
Inert Sir William 1894
Gases Ramsay
Radioactivity Henri 1896
Becquerel
Periodic Dmitri 1869
Table Mendeleev
Oxygen Carl Wilhelm 1773 &
Scheele and 1774
Joseph Priestley resp.

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 Hydrogen Henry 1766
Cavendish
Atoms John 1803
Dalton
Neon Georges Claude 1910
& Paris
Motor Show
Acid Albert 1938
Hofmann
Ionic Svante 1884
Bonds August
Arrhenius
Covalent Gilbert 1916
Bonds Newton
Lewis
Aluminum Charles Martin 1886
Hall
Dynamite Alfred 1867
Nobel
pH meter Arnold O. 1934
Beckman
Polyvinyl Waldo Semon & 1926
Chloride B. F. Goodrich
Company
Synthetic Fritz 1909
Rubber Hofmann
Titanium William 1940
Kroll

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 Radium Marie Sklodowska- 1898
Curie and Pierre Curie

#3. Inventions and Discoveries for Banking & SSC CGL Exam- Biology

Invention Inventor year

Anesthesia Thomas -
Green
Morton
Penicillin Alexander 1928
Fleming
Aspirin Felix 1899
Hoffman
Automated Lloyd M. 1987
DNA Smith
Sequencer
Spiral Structure Linus
of Protein Pauling
Bacteria Antonie van 1676
Leeuwenhoek
Microbes Robert Hooke -
and Antoni
van Leeuwenhoek
BCG Vaccine Albert 1921
Calmette
and Camille
Guerin

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 Blood Karl 1900
Group Landsteiner
Calcium Humphry 1808
Davy
DDT Paul 1939
Hermann
Müller
Cholera Waldemar 1892
Vaccine Haffkine
Rubella Maurice 1963
Vaccine Hilleman
Hepatitis Baruch 1965
B Virus Blumberg
Hepatitis – Pablo DT 1986
B Vaccine Valenzuela
Polio Jonas -
Vaccine Edward
Salk
Smallpox Edward 1796
Vaccine Jenner
Anthrax Louis -
Vaccine Pasteur
Plague Waldemar 1897
Vaccine Haffkine
Kidney Willem Johan -
Dialysis Kolff
X ray Wilhelm 1895
Rontgen

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 Vitamin Casimir 1912
Funk
Insulin Frederick -
Banting and
J J R Macleod
HIV Luc
Montagnier
ECG Willem -
Einthoven
Vitamin A Frederick 1912
Gowland
Hopkins
Vitamin B1 Christiaan 1897
Eijkman
Vitamin C Albert Szent-
Gyorgi
Vitamin E Herbert McLean 1922
Evans and
Katherine
Scott Bishop
Vitamin K Henrik Dam 1929
Homeopathy Samuel -
and Allopathy Hahnemann
Cell Robert 1665
Hooke
Cell Robert -
Nucleus Brown

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#4. Inventions and Discoveries for Banking & SSC CGL Exam- Computer

Invention Inventor Year

World Wide Tim Berners 1989
Web Lee with
Robert Cailliau,
Search Alan Emtage 10 Sept.
Engine 1990
Cable Rouzbeh -
Modem Yassini
Webcam Quentin 1991
Stafford
Fraser and
Paul Jardetzky
Smartphone IBM 1992
(Simone)
Walkie- Dan Noble, 1940
Talkie Henryk
Magnuski,
Marion Bond;
Lloyd Morris;
and Bill Vogel.
JAVA James Gosling -
Computing
Language
Surface Microsoft 2007
Computing
Iphone Steve Jobs 2007

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 TCP/IP Bob Kahn -
Internet with Vint Cerf
Protocol
Email Ray Tomlinson 1971
Google Larry Page 1998
and Sergey Brin
Supercomputers Seymour Cray 1960
Laptop Adam Osborne 1981
C Programming Dennis Ritchie 1972
Language
Microprocessors Ted Hoff, 1971
Federico
Faggin,
and Stan
Mazor
Python Guido van 1991
Rossum
C++ Bjarne 1983
Stroustrup
Facebook Mark 2004
Zuckerberg
Yahoo Jerry Yang 1994
and David Filo

#5. Inventions and Discoveries for Banking & SSC CGL Exam- Space Science

Invention Inventor Year

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 Ballistic Wernher 1936
Missile Von Braun
Global Ivan A. 1995
Positioning Getting Roger
System L. Easton
Bradford
Parkinson
Uranus William 1781
Herschel
Communication Arthur C. -
Satellite Clarke
Universe Edwin -
Hubble
Solar Nicolaus 16th
System Copernicus Cent.
Planets Galileo -
Galilei

#6. Inventions and Discoveries for Banking & SSC CGL Exam- Other
Inventions

Invention Inventor Year

Newspaper Johann 1609
Carolous
Printing Johannes 1440
Press Gutenberg
Electric Thomas 1879
Bulb Edison

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 Fan Schuyler 1882
Skaats
Wheeler
Airplane The Wright 1903
Brothers, Wilbur
and Orville
Wright
Telephone Alexander 1876
Graham Bell
Radio Guglielmo 1895
Marconi
Calculator Blaise 1642
Pascal
Television Philo Taylor 1927
Farnsworth

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