Inventions and Inventors

inventions and inventors


Let’s know inventions and inventors

Look around you. What do you see? A computer? A phone? Books? Clothing?

Once upon a time, none of those things existed. Someone invented each one of them. Someone saw a problem, and, through brainstorming and (usually lots of) trial and error, came up with a solution to it. Or they took someone else’s invention and saw a way to improve on it or use it for something other than for what it had been designed. Or they created a process for completing an action more simply.




People who discover new methods of doing things or technology which improve our lifestyle are called inventors. The new technologies which they develop are inventions. Many inventors worked on a number of inventions. Others made discoveries which later were developed into new or better inventions by other inventors or were part of a team that combined their inventing. Here is a list of them. You may use alphabetic index or search box to find an invention or inventor quickly.


All | A B C D E F G H I J L M N P Q R S T V W
There are currently 55 Inventions in this directory
Air Brake
George Westinghouse

Air conditioner
Willis Carrier

Airplane
Wright Brothers

Alternating Current (AC)
Nikola Tesla

Atomic bomb
Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller et al

Automobile
Karl Benz

Barometer
Evangelista Torricelli

Camera
Nicéphore Niépce

Carburetor
Luigi De Cristoforis & Enrico Bernardi

Centigrade scale
Anders Celsius

Cosmic Rays
Victor Hess (but the term ‘cosmic rays’ first used by Robert Millikan

Diesel Engine
Rudolf Diesel

Dishwasher
Josephine Cochrane

Dynamite
Alfred Nobel

Electric Generator
Michael Faraday

Electric Light Bulb
Thomas Edison

Electricity
Benjamin Franklin

Electromagnetic Induction
Michael Faraday

Fuel Cell
William Grove

Galvanometer
Johann Schweigger

Helicopter
Igor Sikorsky

Internet
Lawrence Roberts

Jet Engine
Frank Whittle

Laser
Theodore H. Maiman (first demonstrated)

Laser Printer
Gary Starkweather

Lift
Elisha Otis

Machine Gun
Sir Hiram Maxim

Magnetic Tape
Fritz Pfleumer

Mobile Phone
Martin Cooper

Neon lamp
Georges Claude

Nuclear Reactor
Enrico Fermi

Penicillin
Alexander Fleming.

Plastic
Alexander Parkes

Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg

Quantum mechanics
Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan

Radar
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt

Radio
Guglielmo Marconi

Railway Engine
George Stephenson

Refrigerator
William Cullen (later Oliver Evans)

Rocket Engine
Robert Goddard

Seismograph
John Milne

Steam engine
Thomas Newcomen

Submarine
Cornelius Drebbel (later) David Bushnell

Submarine (Military)
Yefim Nikonov

Telegraph
Samuel Morse

Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell

Telescope
Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen; later Galileo

Television
John Logie Baird

Thermometer
Galileo Galilei

Transformer
Michael Faraday (later Ottó Titusz Bláthy)

Transistor
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley

Typewriter
Christopher Latham Sholes

Video Games
Ralph Baer

Watch
Peter Henlein

Wave mechanics
Erwin Schrödinger

Please share, if you find the above post useful. If you have any suggestions or if you want to know inventor/s behind an invention that is not listed here, please comment below, on the comment section.

You must try this Brain Game – Fire Ball Sort


Fire Ball Sort - Brain Game

Install the app now from playstore
get Fireball Sort from playstore