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Important Inventions & Discoveries for SSC, Railways and Other Govt. Exams 2023
By BYJU'S Exam Prep
Updated on: September 25th, 2023
In the upcoming SSC CGL 2023 Tier 2, SSC CHSL 2023 Tier 2 , SSC MTS 2023 and other exams like SSC CPO, Static GK questions will be asked to check the general knowledge of the candidates. Inventions & Discoveries is one of the most important topics of static GK. As seen in the previous year’s exams too, 2-5 questions have been asked from this topic. Students are advised to read the below-given list thoroughly. Also, you can download the PDF of the complete list from the link provided below.
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Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams: Physics
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Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams: Chemistry
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Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams: Biology
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Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams: Computer
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Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams: Space Science
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Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams: Other Inventions
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Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams: Physics
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Inventions/Discoveries |
Name of the Person/Scientist |
Year of Invention/ Discovery |
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Amplitude Modulation (AM) |
Reginald Fessenden |
1901 |
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Air Brake |
George Westinghouse |
1869 |
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Air Pressure |
Evangelista Torricelli |
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Anemometer |
Leon Battista Alberti |
1450 |
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Ammeter |
Friedrich Dexler |
1884 |
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Anode Rays |
Eugen Goldstein |
– |
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Atomic Nucleus |
Ernest Rutherford |
– |
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Battery |
Alessandro Volta |
– |
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Barometer |
Evangelista Torricelli |
1643 |
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Calorimeter |
Antoine Lavoisier |
1780 |
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Cathode Ray Tube |
Ferdinand Braun |
1897 |
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Celsius |
Anders Celsius |
1742 |
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Dynamometer |
Edme Rednier |
1798 |
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Electromagnet |
William Sturgeon |
1825 |
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Fuel Cell |
William Grove |
1839 |
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Inclinometer |
William B. Melick |
1889 |
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Gamma Rays |
Paul Villard (first observed while investigating radiation) |
1900 |
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Gravity |
Sir Isaac Newton |
1687 |
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Hubble Space Telescope |
NASA (Telescope is name after Edwin Hubble) |
1990 |
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Induction Motor |
Nikola Tesla |
1887 |
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Large Hadron Collider |
CERN |
2008 |
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LCD |
Friedrich Reinitzer |
1968 |
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LED |
Nick Holonyak, Oleg Losev |
1962 |
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Kinetoscope |
Louis Le Prince, later patented by Thomas Edison in 1889 |
– |
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Magnetometer |
Sheldon Breiner |
1832 |
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Mercury Thermometer |
Gabriel Fahrenheit |
1714 |
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Microscope |
Zacharias Janssen and Hans Lippershey |
1590 |
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Steam Turbine |
Charles Parson |
1698 |
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Transformer |
William Stanley |
1885 |
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Vernier Caliper |
Pierre Vernier |
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Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams: Chemistry
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Inventions/Discoveries |
Name of the Person/Scientist |
Year of Invention/ Discovery |
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Acid |
Albert Hofmann |
1938 |
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Aluminum |
Charles Martin Hall |
1825 |
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Atoms |
John Dalton (Theorized), later discovered by J.J Thomson in 1897 |
– |
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Covalent Bonds |
Gilbert Newton Lewis |
1916 |
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Dynamite |
Alfred Nobel |
1867 |
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Electrons |
J J Thomson |
1897 |
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Hydrogen |
Henry Cavendish |
1766 |
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Inert Gases |
Sir William Ramsay |
1962 |
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Ionic Bonds |
Svante August Arrhenius |
1884 |
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Neutron |
James Chadwick |
1932 |
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Osmosis |
Jean Antoine Nollet |
1748 |
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Oxygen |
Joseph Priestley, Carl Wilhelm and Scheele |
1774 |
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Polythene |
Eric Fawcett |
1933 |
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Proton |
Ernest Rutherford |
1919 |
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pH meter |
Soren Peder Lauritz |
1909 |
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Radioactivity |
Henri Becquerel |
1896 |
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Periodic Table |
Dmitri Mendeleev |
1869 |
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Neon |
Georges Claude & Paris |
1910 |
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Polyvinyl Chloride |
Eugen Baumann |
1872 |
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Synthetic Rubber |
Fritz Hofmann |
1909 |
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Titanium |
William Kroll |
1791 |
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Radium |
Pierre Curie and Marie Curie |
1898 |
Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams: Biology
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Inventions/Discoveries |
Name of the Person/Scientist |
Year of Invention/ Discovery |
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Anesthesia |
Thomas Green Morton |
1938 |
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Aspirin |
Felix Hoffman |
1897 |
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Anthrax Vaccine |
Louis Pasteur |
1881 |
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Automated DNA Sequencer |
Lloyd M Smith |
1987 |
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Bacteria |
Antonie Van Leewenhoek |
1676 |
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Microbes |
Antonie Van Leewenhoek and Robert Hooke |
1665 |
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BCG Vaccine |
Camille Guerin and Albert Calmette |
1921 |
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Blood Group |
Karl Landsteiner |
1901 |
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Calcium |
Humphry Davy |
1808 |
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Cholera Vaccine |
Waldemar Haffkine |
1892 |
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Cell |
Robert Hooke |
1665 |
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Cell Nucleus |
Robert Brown |
1831 |
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DDT (Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) |
Paul Hermann Muller |
1940 |
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ECG |
Willem Einthoven |
1887 |
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Rubella Vaccine |
Maurice Hilleman |
1962 |
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Hepatitis B Virus |
Baruch Blumberg |
1965 |
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Hepatitis B Vaccine |
Pablo DT Valenzuela |
1986 |
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Homeopathy and Allopathy |
Samuel Hahnemann |
1810 |
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HIV |
Luc Montagnier |
1983 |
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Insulin |
Frederick Banting and J J R Macleod |
1922 |
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Polio Vaccine |
Jonas Edward Salk |
1955 |
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Plague Vaccine |
Waldemar Haffkine |
1936 |
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Penicillin |
Alexander Fleming |
1928 |
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Smallpox Vaccine |
Edward Jenner |
1796 |
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Spiral Structure of Protein |
Linus Pauling |
1951 |
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Kidney Dialysis |
Willem Johan Kolff |
1943 |
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X Ray |
Wilhelm Rontgen |
1895 |
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Vitamin |
Casimir Funk |
1912 |
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Vitamin A |
Frederick Gowland Hopkins |
1937 |
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Vitamin B1 |
Christiaan Eijkman |
1910 |
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Vitamin C |
Albert Szent-Gyorgi |
1928 |
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Vitamin E |
Herbert McLean Evans and Katherine Scott Bishop |
1922 |
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Vitamin K |
Henrik Dam |
1929 |
Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams: Computer
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Inventions/Discoveries |
Name of the Person/Scientist |
Year of Invention/ Discovery |
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Apple’s IPhone |
Steve Jobs |
2007 |
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Ray Tomlinson |
1978 |
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Cable Modem |
Rouzbeh Yassini |
1990 |
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C++ |
Bjarne Stroustrup |
1979 |
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C Programming Language |
Dennis Ritchie |
1972 |
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Mark Zuckerberg |
2004 |
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page |
1998 |
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Laptop |
Adam Osborne |
1982 |
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JAVA Computing Language |
James Gosling |
1991 |
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Microprocessors |
Stan Mazor, Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff |
1971 |
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Python |
Guido Van Rossum |
1991 |
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Webcam |
Paul Jardetzky and Quentin Stafford Fraser |
1991 |
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Search Engine |
Alan Emtage |
1990 |
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Surface Computing |
Microsoft |
2001 |
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Smartphone |
IBM |
1994 |
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Supercomputers |
Seymour Cray |
1960 |
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TCP/ IP |
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn |
1983 |
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Walkie-Talkie |
Bill Vogel, Henryk Magnuski, Marion Bond, Lloyd Morris, Dan Noble |
1937 |
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World Wide Web |
Robert Cailliau, Tim Berners, and Lee |
1989 |
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Yahoo |
David Filo and Jerry Yang |
1994 |
Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams: Space Science
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Inventions/Discoveries |
Name of the Person/Scientist |
Year of Invention/ Discovery |
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Ballistic Missile |
Wernher Von Braun |
1944 |
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Global Positioning System |
Ivan A. Getting Roger L. Easton Bradford Parkinson |
1973 |
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Uranus |
William Herschel |
1781 |
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Communication Satellite |
Arthur C. Clarke |
1958 |
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Universe |
Edwin Hubble |
– |
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Solar System |
Nicolaus Copernicus |
1839 |
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Planets |
Galileo Galilei |
– |
Inventions and Discoveries for SSC & Railway Exams: Other Inventions
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Inventions/Discoveries |
Name of the Person/Scientist |
Year of Invention/ Discovery |
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Airplane |
Wilbur and Orville Wright, The Wright Brothers |
1903 |
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Calculator |
Blaise Pascal |
1642 |
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Electric Bulb |
Thomas Edison |
1879 |
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Fan |
Schuyler Skaats Wheeler |
1889 |
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Newspaper |
Johann Carolous |
1605 |
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Printing Press |
Johannes Gutenberg |
1439 |
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Radio |
Guglielmo Marconi |
1896 |
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Telephone |
Alexander Graham Bell |
1876 |
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Television |
Philo Taylor Farnsworth |
1934 |
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