Questions related to inventions, discoveries in the various fields are quite often asked in many of the competitive examinations such as SSC, RRB, Bank, Insurance, etc. In this article we shall a list of Inventions and inventors and discoveries. These are some of the famous inventors and their inventions and discoveries in the history of mankind.
List of Inventions and Inventors, and discoveries
| Invention / Discovery | Inventor |
| Automatic Calculator | Wilhelm Schickard |
| Air Conditioner | Willis Carrier |
| Anemometer | Leon Battista Alberti |
| Atom Bomb | Julius Robert Oppenheimer |
| Aspirin | Dr. Felix Hoffman |
| Airplane | Wilber and Orville Wright |
| Adhesive tape | Richard G. Drew |
| Bifocal Lens | Benjamin Franklin |
| Barometer | Evangelista Torricelli |
| Barbed Wire | Joseph F. Glidden |
| Blood Group | Karl Lansdsteiner |
| Ball Point Pen | John Loud |
| Bicycle Tyres | John Boyd Dunlop |
| Pedal Driven Bicycle | Kirkpatrick Macmillan |
| Celluloid | Alexander Parkes |
| Cine Camera | Wm. Friese-Greene |
| Circulation of blood | William Harvey |
| Clock Mechanical | Hsing and Ling-Tsan |
| Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel |
| Centigrade Scale | Anders Celsius |
| Chlorine | Carl Wilhelm Scheele |
| Dynamite | Alfred B. Nobel |
| Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel |
| Electric stove/cooker | William S. Hadaway |
| Electroscope | William Gilbert |
| Electric Fan | Schuyler Wheeler |
| Electric Battery | Volta |
| Elevator | Elisha G. Otis |
| Electric Motor (DC) | Thomas Davenport |
| Electromagnet | William Sturgeon |
| Fountain Pen | Petrache Poenaru |
| Fluorine | André-Marie Ampère |
| Gramophone | Thomas Edison |
| Hydrogen | Henry Cavendish |
| Helicopter | Igor Sikorsky |
| Hovercraft | Christopher Cockerell |
| Hot Air Balloon | Josef & Etienne Montgolfier |
| Helium | Jules Janssen |
| Insulin | Sir Frederick Banting |
| Jet Engine | Hans Von Ohain |
| Lightning Conductor | Benjamin Franklin |
| Locomotive | George Stephenson |
| Laser | Theodore Maiman |
| Light Bulb | Thomas Edison |
| Motorcycle | Gottlieb Daimler |
| Microscope | Zacharis Janssen |
| Microphone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Machine Gun | Richard Gatling |
| Neon Lamp | Georges Claude |
| Oxygen | Joseph Priestley |
| Ozone | Christian Schonbein |
| Piano | Bartolomeo Cristofori |
| Printing Press | Johannes Gutenberg |
| Parachute | Louis-Sebastien Lenormand |
| Polio Vaccine | Hilary Kaprowsky |
| Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev |
| Penicillin | Alexander Fleming |
| Pacemaker | Rune Elmqvist |
| Petrol for Motor Car | Karl Benz |
| Refrigerator | William Cullen |
| Radium | Marie & Pierre Curie |
| Rubber (vulcanized) | Charles Goodyear |
| Rocket Engine | Robert H. Goddard |
| Radio | Guglielmo Marconi |
| Richter Scale | Charles Richter |
| Ship (Turbine) | Charles Parsons |
| Steam Ship | Robert Fulton |
| Steam Boat | Robert Fulton |
| Submarine | Cornelis Drebbel |
| Stethoscope | Rene Laennec |
| Saxophone | Adolphe Sax |
| Sewing Machine | Elias Howe |
| Steam-Powered Airship | Henri Giffard |
| Soft Contact lenses | Otto Wichterle |
| Synthesizer | Dr. Robert Arthur Moog |
| Thermometer | Galileo |
| Theory of Evolution | Charles Darwin |
| Typewriter | Christopher Latham Sholes |
| Transistors | John Bardeen, William Shockley & Walter Brattain |
| Telephone | Graham Bell |
| Valve. Radio | Sir J.A Fleming |
| Vacuum Cleaner | Hubert Cecil Booth |
| Vitamin A | Frederick Gowland Hpokins |
| Vitamin B | Christiaan Eijkman |
| Vitamin C | Albert Szent-Gyorgi |
| Vitamin K | Henrik Dam |
| Vitamin E | Herbert McLean Evans & Katherine Scott Bishop |
| Windshield wipers | Mary Anderson |
| World Wide Web | Tim Berners Lee with Robert Cailliau |
| X-ray | Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen |
| Xerox Machine | Chester Carlson |