Inventions and Inventors

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Inventions & Their Inventors

The following table gives the name of inventors and their inventions in short and concise form .Please memorize these for any future KBC (Kaun Banega Crorepati) episode or any other exams or test based on GK

Inventions	Inventor
Air Conditioning	Willis Carrier
Air brakes	George Westinghouse
concept of ambulance	Knights of St. John
anemometer (measures wind speed)	Leon Battista Alberti
first artificial heart first artificial kidney dialysis machine	Willem Kolff
Aspirin	Hippocrates
Astroturf : synthetic grass-like playing surfaces	Wright and Faria of Monsanto Industries
magnetic recording Audio Tape Recording	Marvin Camra
electrified monorail system	Ronald Riley
safety air bags: first offered in the 1973 model Chevrolet	General Motors research team
the first true plastic Bakelite	Leo Hendrik Baekeland
Ball Point Pens	Ladislo Biro
first rubber balloons	Michael Faraday
Band-Aid	Earle Dickson
Bar Codes	Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver , 1952
Barbie Doll	Ruth Handler , 1959
modern baseball	Alexander Cartwright
BASIC (Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)	John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz ,  in 1964
Basketball	James Naismith