Discovery and invention facts
Who found or invented it, and when. 650 facts.
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of thermistor to Michael Faraday, in 1833.
Source: Wikipedia: Thermistor (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q175973 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 86 to Charles Messier, in 1781.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 86 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q92258250 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 91 to Charles Messier, in 1781.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 91 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14344 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 89 to Charles Messier, in 1781.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 89 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14337 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 54 to Charles Messier, in 1778.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 54 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13962 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 22 to Johann Abraham Ihle, in 1665.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 22 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q11392 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 95 to Pierre Méchain, in 1781.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 95 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14351 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 93 to Charles Messier, in 1781.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 93 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14347 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 96 to Pierre Méchain, in 1781.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 96 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14354 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 47 to Giovan Battista Hodierna, in 1654.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 47 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13942 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 41 to Giovan Battista Hodierna, in 1654.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 41 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13897 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 65 to Charles Messier, in 1780.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 65 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13986 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 68 to Charles Messier, in 1780.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 68 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14000 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 26 to Charles Messier, in 1764.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 26 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13626 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 73 to Charles Messier, in 1780.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 73 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14009 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 75 to Pierre Méchain, in 1780.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 75 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14014 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 80 to Charles Messier, in 1781.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 80 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14021 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 28 to Charles Messier, in 1764.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 28 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13644 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 66 to Charles Messier and Pierre Méchain, in 1780.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 66 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13992 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 36 to Giovan Battista Hodierna, in 1654.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 36 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13738 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 85 to Pierre Méchain, in 1781.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 85 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14035 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 30 to Charles Messier, in 1764.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 30 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13653 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of intron to Phillip Sharp and Richard Roberts, in 1976.
Source: Wikipedia: Intron (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q207551 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Sculptor Galaxy to Caroline Herschel, in 1783.
Source: Wikipedia: Sculptor Galaxy (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q487221 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of oxycodone to Edmund Speyer and Martin Freund, in 1916.
Source: Wikipedia: Oxycodone (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q407535 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Gambier Islands to James Wilson, in 1797.
Source: Wikipedia: Gambier Islands (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q504043 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of duralumin to Alfred Wilm, in 1908.
Source: Wikipedia: Duralumin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q243558 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Stirling engine to Robert Stirling, in 1816.
Source: Wikipedia: Stirling engine (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q186212 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Hess's law to Germain Henri Hess, in 1840.
Source: Wikipedia: Hess's law (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q220060 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 56 to Charles Messier, in 1779.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 56 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13967 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 55 to Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, in 1752.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 55 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13965 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 46 to Charles Messier, in 1771.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 46 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13910 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 58 to Charles Messier, in 1779.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 58 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13970 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 35 to Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux, in 1745.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 35 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13736 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 69 to Charles Messier, in 1780.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 69 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14002 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 61 to Barnaba Oriani, in 1779.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 61 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13978 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 59 to Johann Gottfried Koehler, in 1779.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 59 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13971 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 88 to Charles Messier, in 1781.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 88 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14048 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 71 to Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux, in 1745.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 71 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14006 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Petri dish to Julius Richard Petri, in 1880.
Source: Wikipedia: Petri dish (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q81714 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Zeeman effect to Pieter Zeeman, in 1896.
Source: Wikipedia: Zeeman effect (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q201805 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Scoville scale to Wilbur Scoville, in 1912.
Source: Wikipedia: Scoville scale (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q207047 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Redonda to Christopher Columbus, in 1493.
Source: Wikipedia: Redonda (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q457261 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Galactic Center of Milky Way to Harlow Shapley, in 1918.
Source: Wikipedia: Galactic Center (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q649112 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of proper motion to Edmond Halley, in 1718.
Source: Wikipedia: Proper motion (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q193223 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Vinland to Leif Erikson, in 1000.
Source: Wikipedia: Vinland (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q192823 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of cloud chamber to Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, in 1911.
Source: Wikipedia: Cloud chamber (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q214634 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Carina Nebula to Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, in 1751.
Source: Wikipedia: Carina Nebula (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q50042 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 18 to Charles Messier, in 1764.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 18 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q11370 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 48 to Charles Messier, in 1771.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 48 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13951 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 62 to Charles Messier, in 1771.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 62 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13980 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 60 to Johann Gottfried Koehler, in 1779.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 60 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13976 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Eta Carinae to Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser, in 1595.
Source: Wikipedia: Eta Carinae (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q12185 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 79 to Pierre Méchain, in 1780.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 79 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14019 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of NGC 4 to Albert Marth, in 1864.
Source: Wikipedia: NGC 4 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q31223 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Messier 29 to Charles Messier, in 1764.
Source: Wikipedia: Messier 29 (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13647 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of glutathione to Frederick Hopkins, in 1921.
Source: Wikipedia: Glutathione (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q116907 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of altostratus to Émilien Jean Renou, in 1877.
Source: Wikipedia: Altostratus cloud (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q202145 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of Bakelite to Leo Baekeland, in 1907.
Source: Wikipedia: Bakelite (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q146578 (CC0)
Wikidata credits the discovery or invention of antineutron to Bruce Cork, in 1956.
Source: Wikipedia: Antineutron (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q156530 (CC0)