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Timeline of Indian innovation encompasses key events in the history of technology in the subcontinent historically referred to as India and the modern Indian state.. The entries in this timeline fall into the following categories: architecture, astronomy, cartography, metallurgy, logic, mathematics, metrology, mineralogy, automobile engineering, information technology, communications, space ...
Single roller cotton gin – The Ajanta Caves of India yield evidence of a single roller cotton gin in use by the 5th century. [66] This cotton gin was used in India until innovations were made in form of foot powered gins. [67] The cotton gin was invented in India as a mechanical device known as charkhi, more technically the "wooden-worm ...
Scientists from India also appeared throughout Europe. [134] By the time of India's independence colonial science had assumed importance within the westernized intelligentsia and establishment. French astronomer, Pierre Janssen observed the Solar eclipse of 18 August 1868 and discovered helium, from Guntur in Madras State, British India. [134]
India has only 140 researchers per 1,000,000 population, compared to 4,651 in the United States. [4] India invested US$3.7 billion in science and technology in 2002–2003. [5] For comparison, China invested about four times more than India, while the United States invested approximately 75 times more than India on science and technology. [5]
The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...
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It was a preliminary version of the full ACE, which had been designed by Alan Turing. Aug 1950: US SWAC (Standards Western Automatic Computer) demonstrated at UCLA in Los Angeles; fastest computer in the world until IAS machine. Sep 1950: GER Konrad Zuse leased his Z4 machine to the ETH Zurich for five years. Z4 was a relay-based machine.
The situation sets up an interesting dynamic that the United States and India both can use to their mutual advantage. Opinion - America should welcome India’s rise as a space power Skip to main ...