Discovery and invention facts
Who found or invented it, and when. 650 facts.
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Vernier scale to Pierre Vernier, in 1631.
Source: Wikipedia: Vernier scale (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14946576 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of category to Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane, in 1945.
Source: Wikipedia: Category (mathematics) (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q719395 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Vigenère cipher to Giovan Battista Bellaso, in 1553.
Source: Wikipedia: Vigenère cipher (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q55516 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of NGC 93 to William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, in 1854.
Source: Wikipedia: NGC 93 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q698571 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of pickleball to Joel Pritchard, in 1965.
Source: Wikipedia: Pickleball (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q866224 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of credit default swap to William S. Demchak, in 1994.
Source: Wikipedia: Credit default swap (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q624028 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Merneptah Stele to Flinders Petrie, in 1896.
Source: Wikipedia: Merneptah Stele (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q754378 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of postfix notation to Charles Leonard Hamblin and Jan Łukasiewicz, in 1924.
Source: Wikipedia: Reverse Polish notation (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q379695 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine to Kamiya Jutei, in 1526.
Source: Wikipedia: Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q174139 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Mice Galaxies to William Herschel, in 1785.
Source: Wikipedia: Mice Galaxies (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q211449 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Cartwheel galaxy to Fritz Zwicky, in 1941.
Source: Wikipedia: Cartwheel Galaxy (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1208155 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Point Barrow to Carl Ben Eielson, in 1826.
Source: Wikipedia: Point Barrow (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1343019 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of solar cycle to Heinrich Schwabe, in 1843.
Source: Wikipedia: Solar cycle (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q49385 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of value chain to Michael Porter, in 1985.
Source: Wikipedia: Value chain (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q646107 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Stephan's Quintet to Édouard Stephan, in 1877.
Source: Wikipedia: Stephan's Quintet (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q5114 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Mesha Stele to Frederick Augustus Klein, in 1868.
Source: Wikipedia: Mesha Stele (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q724954 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Nuku Hiva to Joseph Ingraham, in 1595.
Source: Wikipedia: Nuku Hiva (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q21064 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of red–black tree to Rudolf Bayer, in 1972.
Source: Wikipedia: Red–black tree (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q506496 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of octonion to John T. Graves, in 1843.
Source: Wikipedia: Octonion (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q743418 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Little Ghost Nebula to William Herschel, in 1784.
Source: Wikipedia: Little Ghost Nebula (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q913140 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Arp 87 to William Herschel, in 1785.
Source: Wikipedia: Arp 87 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1106580 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of B-tree to Edward M. McCreight and Rudolf Bayer, in 1972.
Source: Wikipedia: B-tree (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q677051 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of cotton gin to Eli Whitney, in 1793.
Source: Wikipedia: Cotton gin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1136790 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Kapteyn's Star to Jacobus Kapteyn, in 1897.
Source: Wikipedia: Kapteyn's Star (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1048535 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Paris syndrome to Hiroaki Ota, in 1991.
Source: Wikipedia: Paris syndrome (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1462780 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Lion man of the Hohlenstein Stadel to Otto Völzing, in 1939.
Source: Wikipedia: Lion-man of Hohlenstein-Stadel (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q702658 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Gould Belt to Benjamin Apthorp Gould, in 1879.
Source: Wikipedia: Gould Belt (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q24469 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of jackhammer to Charles Brady King, in 1893.
Source: Wikipedia: Jackhammer (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q19766 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of pendulum clock to Christiaan Huygens, in 1656.
Source: Wikipedia: Pendulum clock (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q41751 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of soliton to John Scott Russell, in 1834.
Source: Wikipedia: Soliton (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q464949 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of traceroute to Van Jacobson, in 1987.
Source: Wikipedia: Traceroute (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q603227 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Cauchy–Riemann equations to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, in 1752.
Source: Wikipedia: Cauchy–Riemann equations (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q622741 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Tycho's Supernova to Tycho Brahe, in 1572.
Source: Wikipedia: SN 1572 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q554280 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Vozrozhdeniya island to Aleksei Butakov, in 1848.
Source: Wikipedia: Vozrozhdeniya Island (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q844667 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of AVL tree to Evgenii Landis and Georgy Adelson-Velsky, in 1962.
Source: Wikipedia: AVL tree (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q300159 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of heat equation to Joseph Fourier, in 1822.
Source: Wikipedia: Heat equation (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q6510488 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Scotch Game to Ercole del Rio, in 1750.
Source: Wikipedia: Scotch Game (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q831778 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of convolutional neural network to Kunihiko Fukushima, in 1988.
Source: Wikipedia: Convolutional neural network (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q17084460 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Basel problem to Pietro Mengoli, in 1650.
Source: Wikipedia: Basel problem (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q810431 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Disko Bay to Erik the Red, in 955.
Source: Wikipedia: Disko Bay (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1135227 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of roller skates to John Joseph Merlin, in 1760.
Source: Wikipedia: Roller skates (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1031639 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Legendre polynomial to Adrien-Marie Legendre, in 1782.
Source: Wikipedia: Legendre polynomials (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q215405 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of mask of Tutankhamun to Howard Carter, in 1925.
Source: Wikipedia: Mask of Tutankhamun (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q9048095 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of broken windows theory to George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson, in 1982.
Source: Wikipedia: Broken windows theory (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q44028 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Stark effect to Antonino Lo Surdo and Johannes Stark, in 1913.
Source: Wikipedia: Stark effect (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q389407 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Blood Falls to Thomas Griffith Taylor, in 1911.
Source: Wikipedia: Blood Falls (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q885118 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Delaware Bay to Henry Hudson, in 1609.
Source: Wikipedia: Delaware Bay (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q738808 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of interrobang to Martin K. Speckter, in 1962.
Source: Wikipedia: Interrobang (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q427676 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Roosevelt Island to Richard E. Byrd, in 1934.
Source: Wikipedia: Roosevelt Island, Antarctica (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q501337 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Sloan Great Wall to J. Richard Gott and Mario Jurić, in 2013.
Source: Wikipedia: Sloan Great Wall (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q497745 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Cooper pair to Leon Cooper, in 1956.
Source: Wikipedia: Cooper pair (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q620057 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of relational model to Edgar F. Codd, in 1969.
Source: Wikipedia: Relational model (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q755662 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Vergina Sun to Manolis Andronikos, in 1977.
Source: Wikipedia: Vergina Sun (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q866007 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of law of mass action to Cato Maximilian Guldberg and Peter Waage, in 1864.
Source: Wikipedia: Law of mass action (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q899494 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of zoetrope to William George Horner, in 1834.
Source: Wikipedia: Zoetrope (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q218273 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Hippodamian Plan to Hippodamus of Miletus, in 2599 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Grid plan (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1256511 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Boltzmann brain to Ludwig Boltzmann, in 1896.
Source: Wikipedia: Boltzmann brain (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q646419 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Penrose stairs to Lionel Penrose and Roger Penrose, in 1959.
Source: Wikipedia: Penrose stairs (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q58914 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of digital economy to Don Tapscott, in 1995.
Source: Wikipedia: Digital economy (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q138461 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Nimzo-Indian Defence to Aaron Nimzovich, in 1914.
Source: Wikipedia: Nimzo-Indian Defence (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q921388 (CC0)