Here we discuss the name of scientists or inventors and their inventions. It will help the students in any type of competitive examinations i.e W.B.C.S, I.A.S, PSC, RAIL, Bank, SSC, etc
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Scientist’s / Inventor's Name |
Invention |
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A. Celsius |
Centrigrade scale |
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A.L. and J.L. Lumiere |
Cenema |
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A.L. Breguet |
Watch |
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A.Parker |
Celluloid |
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Adolph Rickenbacker |
electric guitar |
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Alessandro Volta |
Electric Battery |
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Alexander Fleming |
Penicillin |
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Alexanderson |
Radio transmitter |
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Alfred B. Nobel |
Dynamite |
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Alfred Binet |
I.Q. Test |
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Alfred Kinsey |
Human Sexuality |
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Alfred Wegener |
Continental Drift |
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American Viscose Co. |
Rayon |
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Amundson (1912) |
South Pole |
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Anderson |
Positive Electrons |
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Andreas Vesalius |
New Anatomy |
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Andre-Marie Ampere |
Galvanometer |
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Antoine Joseph Sax |
Saxophone |
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier |
Revolution in Chemistry |
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Archimedes |
Specific Gravity |
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Archimedes |
Principle for lever (S.P.Gravity) |
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Archimedies |
Archimedean Screw |
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Arthur Eddington |
Modern Astronomy |
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August Kekule |
Chemical Structure |
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Avogadro |
Avogadro's Hypothesis |
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B. F. Goodrich |
Zipper |
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B. F. Skinner |
Behaviorism |
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Baird |
Television |
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Bardeen, Shockley, Brattain |
Transistor |
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Benjamin Franklin |
Bifocal Lens |
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Benjamin Franklin |
Lightning Conductor |
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Bessemer |
Steel Melting Process |
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Binet |
Intelligence test |
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Bohr |
Electron Theory |
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Bohr and Rutherford |
Atomic Structure |
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Boyle |
Boyle's law |
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Braille |
Printing for the Blind |
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Braun, Dr.Wernher Von |
Space flying |
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Broquett |
Helicopter |
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Bunsen |
Spectroscope |
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C. F. Brush |
Arc Lamp |
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C. Hugyens |
Clock (pendulum) |
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C. Sholes |
Typewriter |
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C.V.Raman |
Crystal Dynamics |
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C.V.Raman |
Raman effect |
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Carl Gauss (Karl Friedrich Gauss) |
Mathematical Genius |
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Carl Linnaeus |
Binomial Nomenclature |
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Carlton Mcgee |
Parking meter |
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Carothers |
Nylon Plastic |
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Cartwright |
Powerloom |
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Casimir Funk |
Vitamin B1 |
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Cavandish |
Rare Gas |
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Cavendish |
Hydrogen |
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Chadwick |
Neutron |
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Chandrasekhar |
Mathematical Astro Physics |
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Charles Babbage |
Computer |
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Charles Babbage |
Difference engine |
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Charles Darwin |
Evolution |
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Charles Darwin |
Evolution (theory) |
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Charles Darwin |
Origin of Species |
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Charles Goodyear |
rubber (vulcanized) |
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Charles Goodyear |
Vulcanised Rubber |
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Charles Lyell |
Modern Geology |
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Charles Macintosh |
Raincoat |
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Charles Macintosh |
Rubber (waterproof) |
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Charles Macintosh |
Waterproof Rubber |
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Charles Sherrington |
Neurophysiology |
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Chester Carlson |
zerox machine |
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Christiaan Huygens |
Wave Theory of Light |
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Christian Barnard |
Replacing human heart |
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Christopher Cockerell |
Hovercraft |
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Claude Bernard |
Founding of Modern Physiology |
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Claude Levi-Strauss |
Structural Anthropology |
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Col. J. Schick |
Razor (electric) |
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Columbus (1492) |
West Indies |
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Conrad Elvehjem |
Vitamin Niacin |
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Copernicus (1540) |
Solar System |
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Coulomb |
Fundamental Laws of Electric Attraction |
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D. T. Smith, E. G. Hendrick |
Vitamin B2 |
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Daimler |
Automobile |
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Dalton |
Atomic Theory |
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Dalton |
Laws of Multiple Proportion |
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Darwin |
Laws of Natural Selections |
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Darwin |
Theory of Evolution |
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Dauguerre |
Photograph |
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David Brewster |
Kaleidoscope |
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David Bushnell |
Submarine |
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Dewar |
Liquid Oxygen |
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Dewar |
Thermos Flasks |
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Dmitri Mendeleev |
Periodic Table of Elements |
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Domagk |
Sulpha Drugs |
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Dr. A.H. Taylor and L.C. Young |
Radar |
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Dr. Alan M. Turing |
Electronic Computer |
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Dr. Lee de Forest |
Film (with sound) |
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Dr. Richard Gatling |
Machine Gun |
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Dr. Wallace H. Carothers |
Nylon |
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Dr. William Stokes, Rene Laennec |
Stethoscope |
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Dr.Hargobiad Khorana |
Deciphering the genetic code |
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Dr.Paul Muller |
D.D.T. |
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Dr.Philip Drinker |
Drinker's Chamber of Iron Lung |
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Dr.Sigmund Freud |
Psycho-analysis |
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E.G. Otis |
Lift |
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Edison |
Incandescent Bulb |
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Edison |
Phonograph |
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Edmund Cartwright |
Power Loom |
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Edward Jenner |
Vaccination |
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Edward Mellanby |
Vitamin D |
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Edward O. Wilson |
Sociobiology |
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Edward Teller |
Bomb |
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Edwin Hubble |
Modern Telescope |
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Eijkman |
Beri - Beri |
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Einstein |
Theory of Relativity |
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Elisha G. Otis |
Elevator |
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Elmer V. McCollum |
Vitamin B |
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Elmer V. McCollum and M. Davis |
Vitamin A |
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Emil Fischer |
Organic Chemistry |
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Enrico Fermi |
Atomic Physics |
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Ernest Rutherford |
Structure of the Atom |
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Ernst Haeckel |
Biogenetic Principle |
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Ernst Mayr |
Evolutionary Theory |
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Erwin Schrodinger |
Wave Mechanics |
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Euclid |
Foundations of Mathematics |
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Euclid |
Geometry |
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Evangelista Torricelli |
Barometer |
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F.Banting |
Insulin |
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Fahrenheit |
Fahrenheit Scale |
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Fahrenheit |
Mercury Thermometer |
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Faraday |
Electricity |
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Faraday |
Induction of Electric Current |
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Faraday |
Law of Electrolysis |
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Francis Crick |
Molecular Biology |
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Francis Galton |
Eugenics |
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Frank Whittle |
Jet Propulsion |
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Franz Boas |
Modern Anthropology |
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Frederick Sanger |
Genetic Code |
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Friese-Greene |
Cine camera |
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Fulton |
Steam boat |
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G. Bradshaw |
Scooter |
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G. Claude |
Neon-lamp |
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G. Ferdinand Von Zeppelin |
Airship (rigid) |
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G. Marconi |
Radio |
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Galileo |
Telescope |
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Galileo Galilei |
New Science |
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Galileo Gallei |
Thermometer |
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Gauss |
Electric Measurement |
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Gay Lussac |
Law of gases |
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George Eastman |
Camera |
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George Gaylord Simpson |
Tempo of Evolution |
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George Westinghouse |
Air Brake |
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Gertrude Belle Elion |
Pharmacology |
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Gottlieb Daimler |
Carburetor |
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Gottlieb Daimler |
Carburettor |
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Gregor Mendel |
Laws of Inheritance |
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Gregory Mandel |
Laws of Heredity |
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Gustav Kirchhoff |
Spectroscopy |
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H. W. Seeley |
Electric Flat Iron |
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H.C.Urey |
Deuterium (Heavy Water) |
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H.W. Seeley |
Electric iron |
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Hadley |
Sextant |
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Hahnemann |
Homoeopathy |
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Hans Bethe |
Energy of the Sun |
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Hans Selye |
Stress Concept |
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Harry Brearley |
Stainless Steel |
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Harvey |
Blood Circulation |
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Heike Kamerlingh |
Superconductivity |
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Heitz |
Electrical Waves |
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Henry Becquerel |
Radio-activity of Uranium |
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Henry Bessemer |
Steel production |
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Henry Great Head |
Life Boat |
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Herbert Evans and Katherine Bishop |
Vitamin E |
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Hermann Fottinger |
Automatic gearbox |
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Hermann von Helmholtz |
Rise of German Science |
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Herschel William |
Uranus (Planet) |
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Hideki Yakawa |
Meson |
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Hippalus |
Scientific astronomy |
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Hoffman |
Aniline Dyes |
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Hopkins and Funk |
Vitamins |
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Hsing and Ling-Tsan |
Clock (machanical) |
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Isaac Newton |
Newtonian Revolution |
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J. Froelich |
Tractor |
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J. Whinfield and H. Dickson |
Terylene |
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J.B. Dunlop |
Bicycle Tyre |
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J.C. Perier |
Ship (steam) |
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J.C.Bose |
Crescograph |
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J.E. Lurdstrom |
Match (safety) |
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J.J.Thomson |
Electrons |
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Jacob Schick |
Electric razor |
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Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier |
Balloon |
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James Clerk Maxwell |
Electromagnetic Field |
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James Hargreaves |
Spinning jenny |
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James Harrison and James Young Simpson |
Chloroform |
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James Harrison, Alexander Catlin |
Refrigerator |
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James Lind |
Vitamin C |
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James Watson |
Structure of DNA |
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James Watt |
Steam Engine |
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James Watt |
Steam engine (condenser) |
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Jean Baptiste Lamarck |
Foundations of Biology |
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Jean Piaget |
Child Development |
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Johann Phillip Reis, Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, Amos E. Dolbear, and Thomas Edison |
Microphone |
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Johann Vaaler |
Paper clip |
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Johannes Gutenberg |
Printing Press |
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Johannes Kepler |
Motion of the Planets |
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John Boyd Dunlop |
Pneumatic Tyres |
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John Dalton |
Theory of the Atom |
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John Harrison |
Chronometer |
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John J. Loud |
Ball-Point Pen |
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John Logie Baird |
Television (mechanical) |
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John Napier |
Logarithmic Tables |
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John Napier |
Logarithms |
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John von Neumann |
Modern Computer |
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Joseph Aspdin |
Cement |
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Joseph J. Thomson |
Electron |
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Joule, James Prescoft |
Measurement of Electrical Energ |
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