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It also does not include not a new idea, indigenous alternatives, low-cost alternatives, technologies or discoveries developed elsewhere and later invented separately in India, nor inventions by Indian emigres or Indian diaspora in other places. Changes in minor concepts of design or style and artistic innovations do not appear in the lists.
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 ...
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (1977) History of Science and Technology in Ancient India: The Beginnings with a foreword by Joseph Needham. Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and culture, Volume 4. Fundamental Indian Ideas in Physics, Chemistry, Life Sciences and Medicine
The early centuries immediately before the common era saw the Buddhists and the Jains of India adapt the stepwells into their architecture. [7] Both the wells and the form of ritual bathing reached other parts of the world with Buddhism. [7] Rock-cut step wells in the subcontinent date from 200-400 CE. [10]
4. Post-it Notes. Who: Spencer Silver, American chemist When: 1980 How it was created: While working on discovering a strong adhesive, Silver created low-tack glue that stuck to objects but could ...
An image from John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy, the first modern explanation of atomic theory.. This timeline of chemistry lists important works, discoveries, ideas, inventions, and experiments that significantly changed humanity's understanding of the modern science known as chemistry, defined as the scientific study of the composition of matter and of its interactions.
But his first automobile, made in 1896, was powered by ethanol, had four bicycle wheels, and went at a top speed of 20 miles per hour. The vehicle resembled a horseless carriage. The vehicle ...
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]