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Inventions and Discoveries for Banking

& SSC CGL Exam

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#1. Inventions and Discoveries for Banking & SSC CGL Exam - Physics

Inventions Inventors Year

Air Brake George

Westinghouse

1869

Amplitude

Modulation

Reginald

Fessenden

-

Anemometer Leon

Battista

Alberti

1450

Barometer Evangelista

Torricelli

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Cathode Ray

Tube

Ferdinand

Braun

1897

Dynamometer Edme

Regnier

1798

Ammeter Friedrich

Dexler

1884

Calorimeter Antoine

Lavoisier

1780

Inclinometer Rufus

Porter

-

Magnetometer Sheldon

Breiner

-

Telescope Hans

Lippershey

-

Microscope Hans Lippershey

and Zacharias

Janssen

1595

LED Oleg Losev,

Nick Holonyak

1962

Gravity Sir Isaac

Newton

1687

Hubble

Space

Telescope

NASA (named

after Edwin Hubble )

1990

Induction

Motor

Nikola

Tesla

1885

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Kinetoscope Louis Le

Prince

-

Fuel Cell William

Grove

1839

Battery Alessandro

Volta

1799

Steam

Turbine

Charles

Parson

1884

Transformer William

Stanley

1885

Electromagnet William

Sturgeon

1820

Large

Hadron

Collider

CERN 2008

Gamma

Rays

Paul

Villard

1930

Mercury

Thermometer

Gabriel

Fahrenheit

1714

Vernier

Caliper

Pierre

Vernier

-

Celsius Anders

Celsius

-

Air

Pressure

Evangelista

Torricelli

-

Atomic

Nucleus

Ernest

Rutherford

1911

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Anode

Rays

Eugen

Goldstein

1886

LCD Friedrich

Reinitzer

1888

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

Inventions Inventors Year

Polythene Eric

Fawcett

1933

Osmosis Jean

Antoine

Nollet

1748

Electrons J.J. Thomson 1897

Neutrons James

Chadwick

1932

Protons Ernest

Rutherford

1911

Inert

Gases

Sir William

Ramsay

1894

Radioactivity Henri

Becquerel

1896

Periodic

Table

Dmitri

Mendeleev

1869

Oxygen Carl Wilhelm

Scheele and

Joseph Priestley

1773 &

1774

resp.

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Hydrogen Henry

Cavendish

1766

Atoms John

Dalton

1803

Neon Georges Claude

& Paris

Motor Show

1910

Acid Albert

Hofmann

1938

Ionic

Bonds

Svante

August

Arrhenius

1884

Covalent

Bonds

Gilbert

Newton

Lewis

1916

Aluminum Charles Martin

Hall

1886

Dynamite Alfred

Nobel

1867

pH meter Arnold O.

Beckman

1934

Polyvinyl

Chloride

Waldo Semon &

B. F. Goodrich

Company

1926

Synthetic

Rubber

Fritz

Hofmann

1909

Titanium William

Kroll

1940

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Radium Marie Sklodowska-

Curie and Pierre Curie

1898

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

Invention Inventor year

Anesthesia Thomas

Green

Morton

-

Penicillin Alexander

Fleming

1928

Aspirin Felix

Hoffman

1899

Automated

DNA

Sequencer

Lloyd M.

Smith

1987

Spiral Structure

of Protein

Linus

Pauling

Bacteria Antonie van

Leeuwenhoek

1676

Microbes Robert Hooke

and Antoni

van Leeuwenhoek

-

BCG Vaccine Albert

Calmette

and Camille

Guerin

1921

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Blood

Group

Karl

Landsteiner

1900

Calcium Humphry

Davy

1808

DDT Paul

Hermann

Müller

1939

Cholera

Vaccine

Waldemar

Haffkine

1892

Rubella

Vaccine

Maurice

Hilleman

1963

Hepatitis

B Virus

Baruch

Blumberg

1965

Hepatitis –

B Vaccine

Pablo DT

Valenzuela

1986

Polio

Vaccine

Jonas

Edward

Salk

-

Smallpox

Vaccine

Edward

Jenner

1796

Anthrax

Vaccine

Louis

Pasteur

-

Plague

Vaccine

Waldemar

Haffkine

1897

Kidney

Dialysis

Willem Johan

Kolff

-

X ray Wilhelm

Rontgen

1895

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Vitamin Casimir

Funk

1912

Insulin Frederick

Banting and

J J R Macleod

-

HIV Luc

Montagnier

ECG Willem

Einthoven

-

Vitamin A Frederick

Gowland

Hopkins

1912

Vitamin B1 Christiaan

Eijkman

1897

Vitamin C Albert Szent-

Gyorgi

Vitamin E Herbert McLean

Evans and

Katherine

Scott Bishop

1922

Vitamin K Henrik Dam 1929

Homeopathy

and Allopathy

Samuel

Hahnemann

-

Cell Robert

Hooke

1665

Cell

Nucleus

Robert

Brown

-

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

Invention Inventor Year

World Wide

Web

Tim Berners

Lee with

Robert Cailliau,

1989

Search

Engine

Alan Emtage 10 Sept.

1990

Cable

Modem

Rouzbeh

Yassini

-

Webcam Quentin

Stafford

Fraser and

Paul Jardetzky

1991

Smartphone

(Simone)

IBM 1992

Walkie-

Talkie

Dan Noble,

Henryk

Magnuski,

Marion Bond;

Lloyd Morris;

and Bill Vogel.

1940

JAVA

Computing

Language

James Gosling -

Surface

Computing

Microsoft 2007

Iphone Steve Jobs 2007

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TCP/IP

Internet

Protocol

Bob Kahn

with Vint Cerf

-

Email Ray Tomlinson 1971

Google Larry Page

and Sergey Brin

1998

Supercomputers Seymour Cray 1960

Laptop Adam Osborne 1981

C Programming

Language

Dennis Ritchie 1972

Microprocessors Ted Hoff,

Federico

Faggin,

and Stan

Mazor

1971

Python Guido van

Rossum

1991

C++ Bjarne

Stroustrup

1983

Facebook Mark

Zuckerberg

2004

Yahoo Jerry Yang

and David Filo

1994

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

Invention Inventor Year

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Ballistic

Missile

Wernher

Von Braun

1936

Global

Positioning

System

Ivan A.

Getting Roger

L. Easton

Bradford

Parkinson

1995

Uranus William

Herschel

1781

Communication

Satellite

Arthur C.

Clarke

-

Universe Edwin

Hubble

-

Solar

System

Nicolaus

Copernicus

16th

Cent.

Planets Galileo

Galilei

-

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

Inventions

Invention Inventor Year

Newspaper Johann

Carolous

1609

Printing

Press

Johannes

Gutenberg

1440

Electric

Bulb

Thomas

Edison

1879

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Fan Schuyler

Skaats

Wheeler

1882

Airplane The Wright

Brothers, Wilbur

and Orville

Wright

1903

Telephone Alexander

Graham Bell

1876

Radio Guglielmo

Marconi

1895

Calculator Blaise

Pascal

1642

Television Philo Taylor

Farnsworth

1927

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