5 Little Known Indians With Amazing Tech Inventions

India was been a land of many inventions in the past. The number ‘0’, chess, first in medicine (Ayurvedha), first surgery (Sushruta), first to discover and make diamond ornaments, first to extract zinc and a lot many ‘firsts’. However for some reason, lately, Indians are growing more to be a service class population than an innovative one, and so there are not many big inventions to the name of India. And even if there are some real inventions achieved, they do not make it to main stream media, hence stick to their oblivion. Here is a small attempt to highlight some of the little known Indian inventors with amazing inventions.

#5 Ajay Bhatt

Invention: USB

Ajay V. Bhatt is an Indian-American computer architect who helped define and develop several widely used technologies, including USB (Universal Serial Bus), AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port), PCI Express, Platform Power management architecture and various chipset improvements.

5 Brightest Students of India who Won Nobel Prize

Tales of immense pain, infinite sacrifices and courage to overcome unconquerable odds are abundant in the lives of millions of students in our county. Among them, a very few with their raw talent and determination have performed exceptionally well to reach the –pinnacle of success and have brought fame to this great nation. Their academic accomplishments are so imposing that on occasions their CVs looks terrifying. Vision, perseverance, honesty, integrity, respect, and most of all the right to education are the driving force behind their exceptional feats.

Here is a brief overview of 5 exceptional achievers who were extraordinary in studies and went on to win the most prestigious prize known to mankind, the Nobel Prize, and brought great glory to our nation, as listed on Career360.

Important Inventors and Discoverers

Important Inventors

» Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 - August 2, 1922): Invented the first practical telephone following extensive work on elocution and deafness.

» Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (October 24, 1632 - August 26, 1723): Invented the microscope. Leeuwenhoek is also considered as the first microbiologist in the world and the father of microbiology.

» Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC): Invented the Archimedean Screw, used for drawing water out of flooded ships, or from canals for irrigation. Archimedes also discovered the method for determining the volume of irregular objects.

» Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790): Invented the lightning rod and bifocals, among other inventions. He is also famous as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

Born 16 August 1911
Bonn, German Empire

Died 4 September 1977 (aged 66)
Switzerland

Education Oxford and Columbia University

Occupation Economist

Religion Catholicism

Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was an internationally influential economic thinker, statistician and economist in Britain, serving as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades. His ideas became popularized in much of the English-speaking world during the 1970s. He is best known for his critique of Western economies and his proposals for human-scale, decentralized and appropriate technologies. According to The Times Literary Supplement, his 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: a study of economics as if people mattered is among the 100 most influential books published since World War II, and was soon translated into many languages, bringing him international fame. Schumacher's basic development theories have been summed up in the catch-phrases Intermediate Size and Intermediate Technology. In 1977 he published A Guide For The Perplexed as a critique of materialist scientism and as an exploration of the nature and organization of knowledge. Together with long-time friends and associates like Professor Mansur Hoda, Schumacher founded the Intermediate Technology Development Group (now Practical Action) in 1966.

National Inventors Month

National Inventors Month

By Mary Bellis, About.com. Inventors

May is National Inventors Month. A month long event celebrating invention and creativity. National Inventors Month began was started in 1998 by the United Inventors Association of the USA (UIA-USA), the Academy of Applied Science, and Inventors' Digest magazine.

Why have National Inventors Month as a month dedicated to inventors? The answer is to help promote the positive image of inventors and the real contributions they give to this world.

The Greatest Film Personality the Country ever Produced

Satyajit Ray Birthday

Satyajit Ray 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, regarded as one of the great auteurs of world cinema. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist 1948 film Bicycle Thieves during a visit to London.

Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, graphic designer and film critic. He authored several short stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and adolescent. Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fictions, are popular fictional characters created by him.

MAY 1: Remembering Puchalapalli Sundarayya: Great Freedom Fighter, Social Reformer and Parliamentarian

May 1 Puchalapalli Sundarayya Birthday

Puchalapalli Sundarayya (1 May 1913 – 19 May 1985) was a founding member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and a leader of the peasant revolt in the former Hyderabad State of India, called the Telengana Rebellion. He is popularly known as Comrade PS. 

Little known Mathematical Genius from Andhra Pradesh - Lakkoju Sanjeevaraya Sharma

I don’t know how many in Andhra Pradesh leave away in India know about the Mathematical Genius Lakkoju Sanjeevaraya Sharma? He was born blind.

I had the occasion to watch his programme sitting next to him. The audience could not find difficult questions (because they don’t know the answers in many cases!). He answered all questions with ease in seconds and was not happy that the audience could not field difficult and complicated questions like what is the day about 250 years back some month and date! Also the interest calculation of the old system(Prior to decimal system) is very difficult to calculate by present generation. He could do it in seconds.

At the end of an hour long performance he was profusely sweating. 

It is a tragedy such a mathematical genius spent his last years in Stikalahasthi in utter poverty in an asbestos shed. Such is the honour we bestow on Geniuses. Neither the Government nor public (Philanthropists) supported him. Here is his inspiring story: