General Knowledge Paper for Postal/Sorting Assistant

Item Name
Name of  Inventor

Mercury barometer
Evangelista Torricelli


Game of basketball
James Naismith


Chemical battery
Alessandro Volta

Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell

Typewriter
Christopher Latham Sholes 

Cellophane

Jacques Edwin Brandenberger

Electric Light  Bulb
Edison

X- Ray 
Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen

Mailbox
Philip B. Downing

Fountain Pen
Lewis E. Waterman

Electric iron  
Henry W. Seeley

Integrated circuit (IC)   
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce

Telescope
Galileo Galilei

JEANS
Levi Strauss

Paper Clip
Johann Vaaler

Safety Pin
Walter Hunt

Sewing machine  
Barthélemy Thimonnier 

Law of gravity  
Isaac Newton

Atom Bomb 
Julius Robert Oppenheimer

Cement
Joseph Aspdin

Clock (pendulum) 
Christian Huygens 

Diesel Engine  
Rudolf Diesel

Gramophone
Thomas Edison

Motorcycle
Edward Butler

Stethoscope
Dr. William Stokes

Telegraph Code 
Samuel F.B. Morse

Airplane
Orville Wright  and Wilbur Wright 

Logarithm  
John Napier 

Method  of world wide web (WWW) 

Tim Berners-Lee

First robot

Karel Capek

Jet engine

Frank Whittle
Vaccine for polio
Jonas Salk





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