List of Austrian inventions and discoveries
Austrian inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented or discovered partially or entirely by a person born in Austria. In some cases, their Austrianess is determined by the fact that they were born in Austria, of non-Austrian people working in the country. Often, things discovered for the first time are also called "inventions", and in many cases, there is no clear line between the two.
The following is a list of inventions or discoveries generally believed to be Austrian:
Astronomy
- Cosmic ray, discovery by Victor Francis Hess (nobel prize)
Chemistry
- Alkaline battery by Karl Kordesch jointly co-inventor (together with Canadian Lewis Urry)
Cori cycle
- Cori cycle by Carl Cori and Gerti Cori
- Soman by Richard Kuhn (nobel prize), works on carotenoids and vitamins
Geology
- Continent Gondwana by Eduard Suess
- Tethys Ocean by Eduard Suess
Information technology
Media, Film and Television
Medicine
- Main blood groups by Karl Landsteiner (nobel prize) co-discovered with Alexander S. Wiener
- Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
- Rhesus factor by Karl Landsteiner
- polio virus. co-discovered by Karl Landsteiner (with Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper)
- Hand disinfection/washing hands by Ignaz Semmelweis
Military
- Blow forward (Steyr Mannlicher M1894)
- Glock Polymer-frame semiautomatic handguns
Physics
- Density functional theory by Walter Kohn (1998 nobel prize of Chemistry)
- Schrödinger equation by Erwin Schrödinger
- Pauli exclusion principle by Wolfgang Pauli
Toys
- Altekruse Puzzle by Wilhelm Altekruse
- Snow globe by Erwin Perzy[1]
Transportation
Miscellaneous
- The Turk, a chess-playing automaton and Wolfgang von Kempelen's Speaking Machine by Wolfgang von Kempelen
See also
- English inventions and discoveries
- Science in Medieval Western Europe
- German inventions and discoveries
- American inventions and discoveries
References
- Soteriou, Helen (23 December 2013). "Company that invented the snow globe". BBC News. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
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