Pioneer In Science Exercise 03

Pioneer In Science Exercise 03

• 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.