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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 |
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