Who Invent - Study Material for Departmental Examination - GK

Item Name	Name of  Inventor
Mercury barometer	Evangelista Torricelli
Game of basketball	James Naismith
Chemical battery	Alessandro Volta
Telephone	Alexander Graham Bell
Typewriter	Christopher Latham Sholes
Cellophane	Jacques Edwin Brandenberger
Electric Light  Bulb	Edison
X- Ray	Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen
Mailbox	Philip B. Downing
Fountain Pen	Lewis E. Waterman
Electric iron	Henry W. Seeley
Integrated circuit (IC)	Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
Telescope	Galileo Galilei
Jeans	Levi Strauss
Paper Clip	Johann Vaaler
Safety Pin	Walter Hunt
Sewing machine	Barthélemy Thimonnier
Law of gravity	Isaac Newton
Atom Bomb	Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Cement	Joseph Aspdin
Clock (pendulum)	Christian Huygens
Diesel Engine	Rudolf Diesel
Gramophone	Thomas Edison
Motorcycle	Edward Butler
Stethoscope	Dr. William Stokes
Telegraph Code	Samuel F.B. Morse
Airplane	Orville Wright  and Wilbur Wright
Logarithm	John Napier
Method  of world wide web (WWW)	Tim Berners-Lee
First robot	Karel Capek
Jet engine	Frank Whittle
Vaccine for polio	Jonas Salk
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