List of Inventions & Investors Name - Summary
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List of Important Inventions and Discoveries:
| # | Invention/Discovery | Inventor |
| 1. | Anemometer | Battista |
| 2. | Ammeter | Friedrich Dexler |
| 3. | Barometer | Evangelista Torricelli |
| 4. | Telescope | Hans Lippershey |
| 5. | Microscope | Hans Lippershey, Zacharias Janssen |
| 6. | Gravity | Sir Isaac Newton |
| 7. | Mercury Thermometer | Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit |
| 8. | Electrons | J.J. Thomson |
| 9. | Neutrons | James Chadwick |
| 10. | Protons | Ernest Rutherford |
| 11. | Dynamite | Alfred Nobel |
| 12. | Radium | Marie Curie and Pierre Curie |
| 13. | Penicillin | Alexander Fleming |
| 14. | Aspirin | Felix Hoffman |
| 15. | Bacteria | Antony van Leeuwenhoek |
| 16. | Cholera Vaccine | Waldemar Haffkine |
| 17. | Rubella Vaccine | Maurice Hilleman |
| 18. | Hepatitis B Virus | Baruch Blumberg |
| 19. | Hepatitis B Vaccine | Pablo DT Valenzuela |
| 20. | Polio Vaccine | Jonas Edward Salk |
| 21. | Smallpox Vaccine | Edward Jenner |
| 22. | Anthrax Vaccine | Louis Pasteur |
| 23. | Plague Vaccine | Waldemar Haffkine |
| 24. | X ray | Wilhelm Rontgen |
| 25. | Vitamin | Casimir Funk |
| 26. | Insulin | Frederick Banting and J J R Macleod |
| 27. | HIV | Luc Montagnier |
| 28. | World Wide Web | Tim Berners Lee, Robert Cailliau |
| 29. | Smartphone (Simone) | IBM |
| 30. | Java Computing Language | James Gosling |
| 31. | Ray Tomlinson | |
| 32. | C Programming | Dennis Ritchie |
| 33. | Language | Ted Hoff,Federico Faggin,and Stan Mazor |
| 34. | Microprocessors | Jerry Yang and David Filo |
| 35. | Solar System | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| 36. | Planets | Galileo Galilei |
| 37. | Printing Press | Johannes Gutenberg |
| 38. | Electric Bulb | Thomas Edison |
| 39. | Airplane | The Wright Brothers |
| 40. | Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| 41. | Radio | Guglielmo Marconi |
| 42. | Calculator | Blaise Pascal |
| 43. | Television | John Logie Baird |
| 44. | Electricity | Benjamin Franklin |
| 45. | Telegraph | Pavel Schilling |
| 46. | Theory of Relativity | Albert Einstein |
| 47. | Automobile | Ferdinand Verbiest |
| 48. | Magnetic Tape | Fritz Pfluemer |
| 49. | Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev |
| 50. | Transformer and Electric Motor | Michael Faraday |
| 51. | Geometry | Euclid |
| 52. | Structure of Atom | Ernest Rutherford |
| 53. | Hydrogen Bomb | Edward Teller |
| 54. | Computer Architecture/Stored Program | John Von Neumann |
| 55. | Nuclear Reactor | Enrico Fermi |
| 56. | Steam Engine | James Watt |
| 57. | Battery | Alessandro Volta |
| 58. | Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel |
| 59. | Helicopter | Broquet |
| 60. | Larry Page | |
| 61. | Mozilla | Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross |
| 62. | Mark Zuckerberg | |
| 63. | Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone | |
| 64. | Microsoft | Bill Gates and Paul Allen |
| 65. | Internet | Vint Cerf |
| 66. | Shiva Ayyadurai | |
| 67. | Apple Computers | Steve Jobs |
| 68. | World Wide Web (WWW) | Sir Tim Berners- Lee |
| 69. | IP Address | Robert E. Kahn |
| 70. | Micro Processor | Federico Faggin |
| 71. | Archimedes screw & Pi | Archimedes |
| 72. | Paper | Cai Lun |
| 73. | Davy lamp | Humphrey Davy |
| 74. | Computer | Charles Babbage |
| 75. | Pedal Bicycle | Kirkpatrick Macmillan |
| 76. | Pneumatic Tire | Edouard Michelin |
| 77. | Atomic Bomb | Robert Oppenheimera |
| 78. | Microchip or Integrated circuit | Robert Noyce |
| 79. | Blood Groups | Karl Landsteiner |
| 80. | Raman Effect | Sir C.V. Raman |
| 81. | Motion of Planets | Johannes Kepler |
| 82. | Theory of Evolution | Charles Darwin |
| 83. | Stethoscope | Rane Laennec |
| 84. | Thermo Flask | Dewar |
| 85. | Camera | Steven Sasson |
| 86. | First Modern Motor Car | Karl Benz |
| 87. | Quantum Theory of Radiation | Plank |
| 88. | Jet Engine | Frank Whittle |
| 89. | Crescograph | Jagdish Chandra Bose |
| 90. | Portland Cement | Joseph Aspdin |
| 91. | Artificial heart | Paul Winchell |
| 92. | Optical Fibre | Narinder Singh Kapany |
| 93. | Radioactivity | Henri Becquerel |
| 94. | North Pole | Robert Peary |
| 95. | Green House Gases | Joseph Furier |
| 96. | Nylon | Wallace Carothers |
| 97. | Laser | Theodore Harold Maiman |
| 98. | Radar | Heinrich Hertz |
| 99. | Fountain pen | Waterman |
| 100. | Homi J. Bhabha | Cosmic rays and Quantum theory |
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