Recent questions tagged discoveries and inventions

Description : Q.10 Who invented Electric motor? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Ans. William Sturgeon, Emily Davenport, Thomas Davenport, Michael Faraday.

Description : Q.9 Who invented ceiling fans? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Ans. Philip Diehl in 1882.

Description : Q.8 When was MS-DOS invented? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Ans. in 1981 by Microsoft Corporation.

Description : Q.7 When was Macintosh Computer invented? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Ans. in 1984 by Apple Inc.

Description : Q.6 Who invented Electric Chair? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Ans. Thomas Edison in 1888.

Description : Q.5 Who invented the mobile phone? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Ans. Martin Cooper.

Description : Q.4 Who invented the internet? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Ans. Robert E. Kahn and Vint Cerf.

Description : Q.3. Who is the inventor of Ball-Point Pen? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Ans. Ladislo Biro in 1938.

Description : Q.2 Who invented Atomic Bomb? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Ans. J. Robert Oppenheimer with his team in 1945.

Description : Q.1 Who invented Air Conditioning? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Ans. Willis Carrier in 1902.

Description : 10. Who had discovered TB antibiotic streptomycin? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Explanation: Selman Waksman was an inventor, biochemist and microbiologist. He discovered streptomycin and several other antibiotics.

Description : 9. Who is the founder of oceanography? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Explanation:Matthew Maury was known as the father of Oceanography and in his own lifetime he was called as 'Pathfinder of the Seas'.

Description : 8. Who invented coffee filter? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Explanation: Melitta Bentz discovered coffee filter by using a piece of blotting paper.

Description : 7. Who is known as the father of neuroscience? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Explanation: Santiago Ramony Cajal is known as the father of neuroscience and he won the Nobel Prize in 1906 for Physiology or Medicine for his neuron doctrine.

Description : 6. Who discovered the iridium layer and won Nobel Prize also? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Explanation: Luis Alvarez discovered the iridium layer and also he had given a theory that dinosaurs were driven to extinction by the aftermath of a large meteorite impact on Earth. In 1968, he won Nobel Prize in Physics.

Description : 4. The Father of white revolution is -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Explanation: Verghese Kurien was the chief architect who made India the largest milk producer in the world. He also helped in modernising the Anand model of cooperative dairy development and engineered the White Revolution in India.

Description : 5. Who built the first working, programmable, electro mechanical computer? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Explanation: Konrad Zuse built the world's first program-controlled computer.

Description : 3. Who invented the safety break, which stop the elevator from crashing? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Riding in an elevator used to be dangerous business - until Elisha Otis, of Otis Elevator Company fame, invented a device that could prevent a passenger elevator from falling if its rope broke. It debuted ... 160 years ago at the E.V. Haughwout and Company store in Manhattan on March 23, 1857.

Description : 2. Who is known as the father of plastic surgery? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Explanation: Sushruta is the founding father of surgery and plastic surgery. He had also written Sushruta Samhita an outstanding treatise in Indian medical literature and describes the ancient tradition of surgery in India.

Description : 1. Name the scientist who had discovered that some molecules have mirror images? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Explanation: Louis Pasteur discovered that some molecules have mirror images and explained them as left-handed and right-handed versions of a chemical compound.

Description : When was JJ Thomson born? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Sir Joseph John was born on 18 December 1856.

Description : When was Pascline was discovered ? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : In the year of 1642, a french mathematacian had discovered the pascline

Description : Who invented telescope ? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Hans Lipperhey has discovered the telescope.

Description : Who discovered electricity ? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Benjamin Franklin conducted extensive research on electricity in the 18th century, as documented by Joseph Priestley (1767) History and Present Status of Electricity, with whom Franklin carried on extended correspondence.

Description : Who was the founder of Tata Motors ? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was an Indian aviator, industrialist, entrepreneur and chairman of Tata Group. Born into the Tata family of India, he was the son of noted businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata and his wife Suzanne Brière

Description : When was Google invented and by whom ? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : (1998–2017), American search engine company, founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, that is a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet Inc.

Description : Who invented a car company named Bugatti ? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Automobiles Ettore Bugatti was a French car manufacturer of high-performance automobiles, founded in 1909 in the then-German city of Molsheim, Alsace by the Italian-born industrial designer Ettore Bugatti.

Description : who founded the car company named Lamborghini ? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : A MAN A DREAM. Ferruccio officially debuted his enterprise "Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini" at the Turin Motor Show, unveiling a mind-blowing vehicle: the 350 GTV, soon to be acknowledged as a true 12-cylinder masterpiece.

Description : When was Amazon founded ? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : 5th July 1994 is the correct answer

Description : Who invented the safety break, which stop the elevator from crashing? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Riding in an elevator used to be dangerous business — until Elisha Otis, of Otis Elevator Company fame, invented a device that could prevent a passenger elevator from falling if its rope broke. It debuted precisely 160 years ago at the E.V. Haughwout and Company store in Manhattan on March 23, 1857.

Description : Who is known as the father of plastic surgery? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Maharishi Sushrutha... :)

Description : Name the scientist who had discovered that some molecules have mirror images? -Discoveries and Inventions

Last Answer : Louis Pasteur... :)

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