Discoveries and Inventions Everyday Science One Liner MCQs

Discoveries and Inventions Everyday Science One Liner MCQs

• Galileo was first to discover rotation of earth
• Kohler and Milstein discovered monoclonal antibodies.
• Photography was invented by Mathew Barry
• Albert Sabin invented Polio vaccine (oral)
• Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev (Russian) published his first version of periodic table in 1869.
• X-ray machine was invented by James Clark
• Arthur Campton discovered x-rays and Cosmic rays.
• Chadwick discovered Neutron
• Telescope was invented by Galileo
• Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming
• Noble gases discovered by Cavendish
• Gun powder was first invented in China
• Velocity of light was measured by Michelson
• Archimedes gave laws about Floatation of Bodies
• Balloon fly up in air according to Archimedes’s principle
• Dr. Christian Bernard was first to perform heart transplant in 1967 in cape town(SA)
• First man to receive artificial heart was Dr. Barney B. Clark
• Barometer was invented by Pascal
• Robert Hook discovered Cell in 1665
• Aspirin discovered by Dresser
• Atomic theory given by Dalton
• Atomic number given by Mosley
• Bacteria by Leeunhock
• Blood circulation by William Harvey
• Calculus by Newton
• Co2 by Fishcer
• Chlorine by K. Scheele
• Oxygen by Priestley
• Hydrogen by Cavandish
• Super conductor by Bendnorz and Muller in 1987 and were awarded Nobel Prize
• Cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney.
• Chloroform by Guthrie
• Deuterium by Harlod
• Dynamite by Alfred B. Nobel
• DNA by Watson Crick
• Gene by Johanson
• Chromosomes by Waldyar
• Electric resistance by Ohm
• Electrolysis by Faraday
• Electron by J.J. Thomson in 1897
• Neutron by Chadwick
• Proton by Rutherford
• Positron by Anderson
• Ozone by Echonbein
• Planetary motion by Kepler
• Radioactivity by Bacquerel
• Radium by Currie
• Insulin by Banting & Best
• Human heart transplant by Bernard
• Vaccine (measles) by Peebles
• Vaccine (polio) by Salk
• Vaccine (rabies) by Louis Pasteur
• Vaccine (small pox) by Edward Jenner
• Cause of Malaria was discovered by Ronald Ross
• Adding machine invented by Pascal
• Atom Bomb by Otto Hahn
• Air Brake by George Washington
• Air Conditioning by H. Carier 
• Airplane (with motor) by Wright Bothers
• Airplane (jet engine) by Ohain
• Automobile (electric) by William Morrison
• Automobile (differential gear) by Benz
• Bakelite by Leo Hendricks Backland
• Balloon by Mont Golfer
• Barometer by Torricelli
• Bicycle (modern) by Starley
• Bifocal lens by Benjamin Franklin
• Burner (gas) by Bunsen
• Calculating machine (digital) by Charles Babbage
• Camera (photographic) by Josef N. Niepce
• Carburetor by Daimler
• Cement by Joseph Aspidin
• Circuit breaker by Hilliard
• Computer (electronic) by J.P.Eckert and J.W.Mauckly
• Diesel engine by Rudolf Diesel
• Digital camera was invented by Eastman Kodak.
• Gas engine by Daimler
• Electric fan by wheeler
• Electric flat iron by Henry Sealy
• Electric generator by Hippolyte Pixie
• Electric motor by Michael Faraday
• Motor A.C by Tesla
• Motor D.C by Devin Port
• Electric shaver by W.S. Hadaway
• Electric vaccum cleaner by James Spangler
• Electromagnet by William Sturgeon
• Electron Microscope by Vladimir Zwryin
• Microscope (compound) by Janessen and Leeuhock
• Flying shuttle by Johan Kay
• Gun powder by Roger Bacon
• Gas engine (four cycle) by Otto and Daimler
• Helicopter by Sikorsky
• Interneral combustion engine by Daimler
• Jet engine by Frank Whittle
• Knitting Machine by William Lee
• Lamp (incadecent) by Thomas Edision
• Montgoflier invented balloon.
• Talbot invented photographic paper.
• Dickenson invented paper machine.
• Blanchard invented parachute.
• Colt’s invention is pistol.
• Howe was the inventor of sewing machine.
• Lamp (mercury) by Hewit
• Laser (practical) by Gordon Gould
• Laser (operable) by T.H.Mainman
• Machine gun by Gatling
• Match (safety) by Pasch
• Microphone by Graham Bell
• Motion pictures (camera) by Edison
• Motor cycle by Daimler
• Motor scooter by Bradsha
• Parachute by Garnerin
• Pen (fountain) by Waterman
• Pen (ball-point) John Loud Biro
• Photoelectric cell by Julius Elster
• Piano by Christopher
• Printing press (screw type) by Guten Berg
• Radar by Watson Watt
• Railway (electric) by Werner Siemens
• Razor safety by Gillette
• Razor (electric) by Jacob Schick
• Refrigerator by Ferdinand Carre
• Revolver by Samuel Solt 
• Rifle by August Kotter
• Rifle (automatic) by John Moses Browning
• Rocket Engine by Goddard
• Safety pin by Walter Hunt
• Sewing Machine by Elias Howe and Thomas Saint
• Stainless steel by Herry Brearley
• Stream boat by Abbans 
• Submarine by Holland
• Tank military by Swinton
• Telephone by Graham Bell
• Radio by Marconi
• Telescope (reflecting) by Galileo
• Telescope (refracting) by Newton
• Television (mechanical) by J.L. Baird
• Television (electric) by Fransworth
• Thermometer by Galilo
• Termomter (mercury) by Farhenheit
• Tractor by Robert Keeley
• Transformer by William Stanley
• Transistor by William Shockley
• Type writer by Henry Mill
• Washing machine (electric) by Alva Fisher
• Washing machine (manual) by Hamilton E. Smith
• Welding (electric) by E. Thomson
• Zipper (meshed tooth) by Gideon Sundback
• Celcius devised Centrigrade scale
• Bacteria were discovered by Louis Pasture. 
• Ramsay discovered inert gas.
• Proton was discovered by Goldstein
• Who is credited with the development of polio vaccine? Jonas Salk
• Christopher Cockerel invented what: Hovercraft
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist
• Bardeen and Brattin discovered Semiconductor 
• What was invented by James Dewer in 1872: Vacuum or thermos flask
• Atom Bomb (Uranium Fission) was invented by Otto Hahn in 1941.
• Electron was discovered in 1897.
• Oxygen was discovered in 1774.
• Tomas A Edison was American.
• X-rays and Cosmic rays were discovered by Arthur Compton.
• Printing press was invented by Johann Gutenberg.
• Gramophone was invented by Emile Berliner.
• Blood pressure was discovered by William Harvey.
• Magnifying glass was invented by Roger Bacon.
• Insulin was discovered by Banting.
• Michael Faraday invented Electric Motor in belonged to England.
• ECG invented by Einthogen.
• Columbus Day is observed on 2nd Monday in October.
• In 1774 Oxygen was discovered by Priestly.
• In 1589 William Lee invented knitting machine.
• More than 2000 years ago a Roman Ruler Julius Caesar invented the calendar that we use today.
• Lipstick was first introduced in 1915 in America.
• Zippers were introduced in 1890.
• China was discovered by Marco Polo.
• Sea route from Europe to India was discovered by Vasco-de-Gama.
• Canada was discovered by Jacques Cartier.
• Australia was discovered by William Jon zoon. 
• Parachute was invented by L.S Lenormand in 1783.
• Box Camera was invented by G.Eastman in 1988.
• Electric Generator was invented by Hippolyte Pixil in the year 1832. He belonged to France.
• In 1907 Electric Washing Machine was invented by an American named A.J 1916.
• Motorcycle was invented by Gottlieb Daimler in 1885, he belonged to Germany.
• First person to reach North Pole was Robert E.Peray.
• Dynamo was invented by Faraday in the year of 1831.
• On 14th Dec 1911 South Pole was discovered by Armunden.
• America was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492, he belonged to Italy.
• Sea route to India was discovered by Vasco da Gama in 1498, he belonged to Protugese.
• Sandwich Island (now called Hawaiian Island) was discovered by Captain cook in 1770, he belonged to English.
• Suez Canal was designed by French Engineer Ferdiand de Lesseps in 1869.
• Solar System was discovered by Copernicus in 1540, he belonged to Poland.
• Planery motion was discovered by Kepler in 1600, he belonged to Germany.
• Artificial radioactivity was discovered by Madam Joliet and Irene Curie in 1934.
• Atomic number were discovered by Mosley in 1913.
• Atomic theory was given by Dalton in 1803.
• Who invented wax paper- Thomas Edison
• Atomic Structure was studied by Bohr and Rutherford in 1913.
• Circumference of the earth was calculated by Jean Picard.
• Current Electricity was invented by Volta in 1800, he belonged to Italy.
• Cause of yellow fever was discovered by Reed in 1900.
• Discovery of Oxygen was made by J.Priestly in 1774.
• Deuterium (Heavy Hydrogen) was discovered by H.C Urey in 1932.
• Discovery of Electron was made by J.J Thomson in 1897.
• Dynamite was made my Alfred Noble, he belonged to Sweden.
• Fundamental laws of electrical attraction was made by Coulomb.
• Hydrogen was discovered by Cavendish in 1766.
• Induction of electric current was discovered by Michaed Farraday in 1841.
• Incandescent bulb was made by Edison in 1860.
• Intelligence tests were made by Binet in 1905.
• Laughing gas (Nitrous oxide) was discovered by Priestly.: 
• Chromosomes were discovered by Hofmeister.
• Otto Hahm invented A.Bomb.
• Wright Brothers invented Aeroplane.
• W. Shockley discovered transistor.
• Christian Barnard was pioneer in heart transplantation.
• William Harvey discovered Circulation of blood.
• Ramsay discovered inert gas.
• Aristotle was the first to classify animals into groups.
• Theophrastus is regarded as the father of botany.
• Hydrogen was discovered by Henry Cavandish.
• Proton was discovered by Goldstein.
• Thomson discovered electron.
• Commercial cork is obtained from Quercus.
• Bacteria were discovered by Louis Pasture. 
• In 1803, the English Scientist John Dalton described the atom as the smallest unit of an element.
• In 1897 J.J Thomson discovered electron, negative charges.
• In 1911 Ernest Rutherford, a New Zealander living in Britain, carried out experiment with atomic particles.
• Scientist use enormous machine called particle accelerator to discover and find out about subatomic particles.
• Ernest Rutherford in 1908, with the equipment discovered the atomic nucleus.
• Hans Geiger (1882-1945) invented the Geiger Counter used to measure radioactivity.
• The scientist who designed the first internal combustion engine used to burn low grade fuel.
• Francois Isaac de Rivaz
• The scientist who discovered water: Antoine Lavoisier (Chk)
• Nitric acid__ acid was discovered by Jabbar bin Hayyan.(HCL was also discovered by him)
• What calculating aid was invented by William Oughtred in 1662: Slide Rule
• What was invented by James Dewer in 1872: Vacuum or thermos flask
• Fredrick Sanger discovered which medical life saver: Insulin
• Who invented Scissors-Leonardo Da Vinci
• In 1902 What did Mary Anderson invent-Windscreen Wipers
• The technique to produce the first test tube baby was evolved by Patrick Stepote and Robert Edwards
• Sumiton invented Tank.
• The very first electric light was invented in Scotland in 1835 by James Lindsay.
• The molecular theory of matter was experimentally testified by Robert Brown.
• The theory of inheritance of acquired characters was propounded by J.B. Lamarck
• What was invented by Dr Edward Land in 1947: Polaroid
• Dr. James Watson discovered the structure of DNA in 1953.
• Structure of DNA was given by Watson and Crick.
• Air conditioner invented by "willis H. carrier"U.S. in 1902.
• Camera (photographic) has been invented by "Joseph N. Niepce"France in 1822.
• The scientist who designed the first internal combustion engine used to burn low grade fuel. Etienne Lenoir
• Pioneers in Science
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• Anderson—Discovered positive electrons.
• Archimedes—Discovery of the Principles of lever and of specific gravity; invention of the famous Archimedean screw.
• Avogadro—An Italian scientist known for Avogadro’s Hypothesis.
• Bacquerel—Radio-activity of uranium.
• Baird—Television.
• Baron Napier—Logarithms.
• Benjamin Franklin—Invented lightning conductor.
• Bessemer—Steel smelting process.
• Bhabha, Dr H.J.—Research in Cosmic rays and Quantum theory.
• Binet—Intelligence Test.
• Birbal Sahni—Researches in Botany.
• Bose, J.C.—Invented Crescograph and published many works on plant physiology. He discovered that plants have sense and perception.
• Bose, S.N.—Discovery of a group of nuclear particles named after him “Boson”. 
• Boyle—Boyle’s law; Pressure x volume = constant at a constant given temperature. Boyle was the greatest scientist of England in his time.
• Bohr—Electron Theory—Atomic structure.
• Braun, Dr Wernher von—space flying.
• Bunsen—Invention of the spectroscope.
• Carothers—Nylon plastics.
• Cavendish—Discovery of chemical composition of water; discovery of hydrogen (Inflammable Air); ‘rare gases’.
• Chadwick—Discovery of the neutron.
• Chandrasekhar—Mathematical Astrophysics.
• Charles Darwin—Theory of Evolution; Origin of Species.
• Clarke, Arthur C.—Concept of Geostationary Orbit.
• Curie, Madame—Discovery of radium.
• Dalton—Atomic theory; laws of chemical combination; law of partial pressures; the law of multiple proportions.
• Democritus—Greek philosopher—(Atomic theory).
• Dewar—Invented cordite, liquid oxygen and introduced thermos flask.
• Einstein—Theory of relativity.
• Euclid—Science of geometry.
• Fahrenheit—Fahrenheit mercury thermometric scale in which freezing point is –32° and boiling point is 212°.
• Faraday—Electromagnetic induction and laws of electrolysis.
• Fermi—Discovered artificial splitting of atoms.
• Freud—Doctrine of Psycho-analysis.
• Gay Lussac—Law of gases.
• Gauss—System of absolute electric measurements.
• Good Year—Discovered the art of vulcanising rubber.
• Herschel, William—Discovered the Planet—Uranus.
• Hertz—Electrical waves.
• Hippalus—Founder of scientific astronomy.
• Hoffmann—Discovered the first aniline dye.
• Kelvin, Lord—Dynamical theory of heat.
• Khorana, Dr Hargobind—Deciphering the genetic code.
• Kodak—Film and photographic goods.
• Lablanc—Manufacture of washing soda.
• Lawrence—Invention of cyclotron.
• Lockyer—Helium gas.
• Louis Braille—Perfected his system of reading and writing for the blind.
• Marconi—Wireless telegraphy; radio.
• Maria-Montessori—‘Montessori’ method of teaching children.
• Maxwell—Electro-magnetic Theory of Light.
• Meghnad Saha—Effect of pressure on Radiation through bodies.
• Mendel—Laws of heredity.
• Mandeleev—Periodic Table.
• Morse—Morse system of electric telegraphy.
• Newton—Laws of gravitation; Law of Motion.
• Nobel—Dynamite.
• Oliver Lodge—Physicist. Researches in wireless communications.
• Oppenheimer—Researches in atomic theory.
• Otto Hahn—Discovery of uranium fission.
• Parkes—Celluloid.
• Parsons—Steam turbine.
• Pavlov—Theory of Conditioned Reflex.
• Perkin—‘Mauve dye’.
• Pitman—Founded the Pitman system of phonographic shorthand.
• Planck—Quantum theory.
• Plimsoll—Introduced a line of demarcation on the ships beyond which the ships cannot be loaded.
• Priestley—Discovery of Oxygen.
• Raman, C.V.—“Raman Effect” on polarisation of light and theories on crystals and diamond formation.
• Ramanathan—Molecular scattering of light in fluids.
• Ramanujam—A great Indian mathematician.
• Ramsay—Discovery of Inert gases such as Argon, Neon, Helium etc.
• Ray, P.C.—Researches in chemistry.
• Regnault—Experiments in regard to the physical properties of bodies and their relation to heat.
• Roger Bacon—Gun powder.
• Rontgen—Discovery of X-rays.
• Rohmkorff—Induction coil.
• Rutherford—Atomic Research; succeeded in splitting the atom for the first time in 1918.
• Shalimar—Paints.
• Stephenson—British engineer and pioneer in Railways. He was the first to put a locomotive on the line that was able to draw a train of 31 carriages.
• Thomson, J.J.—Discovered electron.
• Travers—Discovery of Neon gas (Working with Ramsay).
• Urey—Discovery of Heavy Hydrogen.
• Volta—Current electricity and electric battery.
• Pioneers in Mechanical Inventions and Discoveries
• Austin—Motor Car.
• Bell, Graham—Telephone.
• Berliner—Microphone.
• Brequet—Helicopter.
• Bushwell—Submarine.
• Caxton—Printing Press.
• Colt—Revolver.
• Daimler—Gas engine.
• Davy—Miner’s Safety Lamp.
• Diesel—Internal Combustion engine (Diesel engine).
• Dunlop—Pneumatic tyre.
• Edison—First electric bulb and gramophone.
• Faraday—Dynamo.
• Fick—Law of Diffusion—Fick’s Law.
• Frank Whittle—Jet propulsion.
• Fulton—Stream boat.
• Galileo—Telescope.
• Gillette—Safety razor.
• Guttenburg—Art of Printing.
• Hoe—Rotary Printing Press.
• Howe—Sewing Machine.
• Huygens—Pendulum clock.
• James Watt—Steam engine (patented in 1769).
• Landstrom, J.E.—Safety Matches.
• Macmillan—Bicycle (1842).
• Mauser—Magazine of rifle.
• Mercator—Celestial and a terrestrial globe.
• Montgolfier—Balloon (1883)
• Pascal—Calculating Machine.
• Puckle, James—Machine gun
• Shockley—Transistor.
• Sholes—Typewriter.
• Stephenson—Railway engine.
• Swinton—Military tank.
• Torricelli—Barometer.
• Watt, Robert Watson—Radar.
• W. & O. Wright (Wright Brothers)—Aeroplane (1903).
• Waterman—Fountain pen.
• Zeiss—Lenses; Camera.
• Pioneers in
• Medical Inventions and Discoveries
• Banting—Insulin (as a palliative for diabetes).
• Barnard, Christian—Replacing the human heart.
• Brahmchari, U.M.—Cure of Kala-a-zar fever.
• Davy—Isolation of metals by electricity; studied properties of chlorine.
• Domagk—Sulpha drugs as bactericides.
• Eijkman—Cause of Beri-Beri.
• Finsen—Discovered curative effect of ultra violet rays; photography.
• Fleming, Alexander—Penicillin (in 1929).
• Harvey—Circulation of blood.
• Hahnemann—Homoeopathy (founder).
• Hopkins, Frederick Gowland—Vitamin D.
• Jenner—Smallpox Vaccination.
• Koch—Tubercle Bacillus.
• Lainnec—Stethoscope.
• Lister, Lord—Antiseptic treatment.
• Pasteur, Louis—Treatment of rabies; cure of hydrophobia.
• Ronald Ross—Malaria Parasite.
• Salk, Jonas E.—Anti-polio Vaccine.
• Simpson and Harrison—Chloroform.
• Waksman—Streptomycin.