Discovery and invention facts
Who found or invented it, and when. 650 facts.
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Brazil to Pedro Álvares Cabral, in 1500.
Source: Wikipedia: Brazil (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q155 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of computer to Charles Babbage, in 1945.
Source: Wikipedia: Computer (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q68 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Uranus to William Herschel, in 1781.
Source: Wikipedia: Uranus (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q324 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of car to Ferdinand Verbiest, in 1884.
Source: Wikipedia: Car (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1420 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of hydrogen to Henry Cavendish, in 1766.
Source: Wikipedia: Hydrogen (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q556 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of oxygen to Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in 1774.
Source: Wikipedia: Oxygen (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q629 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Pluto to Clyde Tombaugh, in 1930.
Source: Wikipedia: Pluto (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q339 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of carbon to Antoine Lavoisier, in 1789.
Source: Wikipedia: Carbon (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q623 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of basketball to James Naismith, in 1891.
Source: Wikipedia: Basketball (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q5372 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of photography to Thomas Wedgwood, in 1839.
Source: Wikipedia: Photography (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q11633 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of aluminium to Hans Christian Ørsted and Humphry Davy, in 1825.
Source: Wikipedia: Aluminium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q663 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of nitrogen to Daniel Rutherford, in 1772.
Source: Wikipedia: Nitrogen (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q627 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of bicycle to Karl Drais and Kirkpatrick Macmillan, in 1885.
Source: Wikipedia: Bicycle (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q11442 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of paper to Cai Lun, in 140 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Paper (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q11472 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of sulfur to Antoine Lavoisier, in 1777.
Source: Wikipedia: Sulfur (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q682 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of lithium to Johan August Arfwedson, in 1817.
Source: Wikipedia: Lithium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q568 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of sodium to Humphry Davy, in 1807.
Source: Wikipedia: Sodium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q658 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Big Bang to Georges Lemaître, in 1931.
Source: Wikipedia: Big Bang (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q323 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of calcium to Humphry Davy, in 1808.
Source: Wikipedia: Calcium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q706 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of neon to Morris Travers and William Ramsay, in 1898.
Source: Wikipedia: Neon (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q654 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of mobile phone to Martin Cooper, in 1973.
Source: Wikipedia: Mobile phone (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q17517 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of magnesium to Joseph Black, in 1755.
Source: Wikipedia: Magnesium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q660 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of silicon to Jöns Jacob Berzelius, in 1823.
Source: Wikipedia: Silicon (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q670 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of potassium to Humphry Davy, in 1807.
Source: Wikipedia: Potassium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q703 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Cayman Islands to Christopher Columbus, in 1503.
Source: Wikipedia: Cayman Islands (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q5785 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of fluorine to André-Marie Ampère and Henri Moissan, in 1810.
Source: Wikipedia: Fluorine (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q650 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of phosphorus to Hennig Brand, in 1669.
Source: Wikipedia: Phosphorus (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q674 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of chlorine to Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in 1774.
Source: Wikipedia: Chlorine (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q688 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of electron to Joseph John Thomson, in 1897.
Source: Wikipedia: Electron (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q2225 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of boron to Humphry Davy, in 1892.
Source: Wikipedia: Boron (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q618 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of piano to Bartolomeo Cristofori, in 1700.
Source: Wikipedia: Piano (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q5994 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of email to Raymond Tomlinson, in 1971.
Source: Wikipedia: Email (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q9158 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of South Pole to Roald Amundsen, in 1911.
Source: Wikipedia: South Pole (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q933 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of argon to John William Strutt and William Ramsay, in 1894.
Source: Wikipedia: Argon (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q696 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of titanium to Friedrich Wöhler, in 1791.
Source: Wikipedia: Titanium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q716 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of chromium to Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, in 1797.
Source: Wikipedia: Chromium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q725 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of volleyball to William G. Morgan, in 1895.
Source: Wikipedia: Volleyball (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1734 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of iodine to Bernard Courtois, in 1811.
Source: Wikipedia: Iodine (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1103 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of arsenic to Albertus Magnus, in 1300.
Source: Wikipedia: Arsenic (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q871 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of cobalt to Georg Brandt, in 1735.
Source: Wikipedia: Cobalt (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q740 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Lake Victoria to John Hanning Speke, in 1858.
Source: Wikipedia: Lake Victoria (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q5505 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of proton to Ernest Rutherford, in 1920.
Source: Wikipedia: Proton (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q2294 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of platinum to Antonio de Ulloa and Julius Caesar Scaliger, in 1557.
Source: Wikipedia: Platinum (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q880 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of manganese to Johan Gottlieb Gahn, in 1774.
Source: Wikipedia: Manganese (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q731 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of nickel to Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, in 1751.
Source: Wikipedia: Nickel (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q744 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of krypton to Morris Travers and William Ramsay, in 1898.
Source: Wikipedia: Krypton (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q888 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of World Wide Web to Robert Cailliau and Tim Berners-Lee, in 1989.
Source: Wikipedia: World Wide Web (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q466 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of barium to Humphry Davy, in 1808.
Source: Wikipedia: Barium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1112 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of vanadium to Andrés Manuel del Río, in 1801.
Source: Wikipedia: Vanadium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q722 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of gallium to Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, in 1875.
Source: Wikipedia: Gallium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q861 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of G/g to Spurius Carvilius Ruga, in 229 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: G (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q9739 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of bromine to Antoine-Jérôme Balard and Carl Jacob Löwig, in 1825.
Source: Wikipedia: Bromine (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q879 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of francium to Marguerite Perey, in 1939.
Source: Wikipedia: Francium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q671 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of selenium to Johan Gottlieb Gahn and Jöns Jacob Berzelius, in 1817.
Source: Wikipedia: Selenium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q876 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of web browser to Tim Berners-Lee, in 1990.
Source: Wikipedia: Web browser (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q6368 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of strontium to William Cruickshank, in 1787.
Source: Wikipedia: Strontium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q938 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of cadmium to Friedrich Stromeyer and Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann, in 1817.
Source: Wikipedia: Cadmium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1091 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of scandium to Lars Fredrik Nilson, in 1879.
Source: Wikipedia: Scandium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q713 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of rubidium to Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen, in 1861.
Source: Wikipedia: Rubidium (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q895 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of xenon to Morris Travers and William Ramsay, in 1898.
Source: Wikipedia: Xenon (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1106 (CC0)