Inventions & Inventors in Physics
The following table illustrates the major inventions and their inventors in physics uses −
| Invention |
Inventor |
| Centigrade scale |
Anders Celsius |
| Watch |
Peter Henlein |
| Radio |
Guglielmo Marconi |
| Telephone |
Alexander Graham Bell |
| Electricity |
Benjamin Franklin |
| Electric Light Bulb |
Thomas Edison |
| Thermometer |
Galileo Galilei |
| Telescope |
Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen; later Galileo |
| Telegraph |
Samuel Morse |
| Cosmic Rays |
Victor Hess (but the term ‘cosmic rays’ first used by Robert Millikan |
| Automobile |
Karl Benz |
| Magnetic Tape |
Fritz Pfleumer |
| Transformer |
Michael Faraday (later Ottó Titusz Bláthy) |
| Electromagnetic Induction |
Michael Faraday |
| Quantum mechanics |
Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan |
| Wave mechanics |
Erwin Schrödinger |
| Nuclear Reactor |
Enrico Fermi |
| Fuel Cell |
William Grove |
| Airplane |
Wright Brothers |
| Barometer |
Evangelista Torricelli |
| Camera |
Nicéphore Niépce |
| Diesel Engine |
Rudolf Diesel |
| Helicopter |
Igor Sikorsky |
| Dynamite |
Alfred Nobel |
| Lift |
Elisha Otis |
| Laser Printer |
Gary Starkweather |
| Mobile Phone |
Martin Cooper |
| Printing Press |
Johannes Gutenberg |
| Video Games |
Ralph Baer |
| Steam engine |
Thomas Newcomen |
| Railway Engine |
George Stephenson |
| Jet Engine |
Frank Whittle |
| Seismograph |
John Milne |
| Electric Generator |
Michael Faraday |
| Television |
John Logie Baird |
| Refrigerator |
William Cullen (later Oliver Evans) |
| Carburetor |
Luigi De Cristoforis & Enrico Bernardi |
| Air Brake |
George Westinghouse |
| Atomic bomb |
Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller et al |
| Air conditioner |
Willis Carrier |
| Machine Gun |
Sir Hiram Maxim |
| Radar |
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt |
| Submarine |
Cornelius Drebbel (later) David Bushnell |
| First military submarine |
Yefim Nikonov |
| Transistor |
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley |
| Galvanometer |
Johann Schweigger |
| Laser |
Theodore H. Maiman (first demonstrated) |
| Neon lamp |
Georges Claude |
| Rocket Engine |
Robert Goddard |
| Typewriter |
Christopher Latham Sholes |
