Premchand

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, better known by his pen name Munshi Premchand, was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature. He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindi writers of the early twentieth century. Premchand, also spelled Prem Chand, pseudonym of Dhanpat Rai Srivastava, was an Indian author of novels and s.....

John Ericsson

John Ericsson was a Swedish-American inventor. He was active in England and the United States. Ericsson collaborated on the design of the railroad steam locomotive Novelty, which competed in the Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which were won by inventor George Stephenson's, Rocket. John Ericsson, a Swedish-born American naval engineer and inventor who built the first armou.....

Henry Ford

Henry Ford was an American industrialist, business magnate, and founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. Henry Ford was an American automobile manufacturer who created the Model T in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the automotive industry. As a result, Ford sold millions of car.....

Mehrotra Santosh

Santosh Mehrotra is a human development economist, whose research and writings have had most influence in the areas of labour, employment, skill development, child poverty, and the economics of education. He was an economic adviser in the United Nations system in New York City, Italy, and Thailand (1991–2006), and technocrat in the government of India (2006–2014), apart from making contributio.....

Henri Fayol

Henri Fayol was a French mining engineer, mining executive, author and director of mines who developed a general theory of business administration that is often called Fayolism. He and his colleagues developed this theory independently of scientific management but roughly contemporaneously. Henri Fayol was a French industrialist, mining engineer, executive, and director of mines. Fayol together wi.....

Ginni Rometty

Virginia Marie Rometty is an American business executive who served as executive chairman of IBM after stepping down as CEO on April 1, 2020. She previously served as chairman, president and CEO of IBM, becoming the first woman to head the company. Ginni became CEO of IBM in 2012 and retired from the company on December 31, 2020. During her tenure she made bold changes to reposition IBM for the fu.....

J. R. D. Tata

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was an Indian aviator, industrialist, entrepreneur and chairman of Tata Group. Born into the Tata family of India, he was the son of noted businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata and his wife Suzanne Brière. J.R.D. Tata created India’s first airline and oversaw the dramatic expansion of the Tata Group, India’s largest industrial empire. After studying in France, Jap.....

C. Narayana Reddy

Cingireddi Narayana Reddy was an Indian Telugu-language poet and writer. Reddy had produced over eighty literary works including poems, prose-plays, lyrical plays, translations, and ghazals. He was also a professor, lyricist, actor, and Rajya Sabha politician. Cingireddi Narayana Reddy, was nominated to the Upper House of Indian Parliament in August 1997. He is deeply interested in medieval Urdu p.....

Jacques Piccard

Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed underwater submarines for studying ocean currents. Jacques Piccard, in full Jacques-Ernest-Jean Piccard, a Swiss oceanic engineer, economist, and physicist, who helped his father, Auguste Piccard, build the bathyscaphe for deep-sea exploration and who also invented the mesoscaphe, an undersea vessel for exploring mi.....

Mullapudi Harishchandra Prasad

Mullapudi Harischandra Prasad, was an Indian politician and industrialist from South India, specifically from Andhra Pradesh. He was the chairman and managing director of the Andhra Sugars Group. Mullapudi Harischandra Prasad (Telugu: ముళ్ళపూడి హరిశ్చంద్ర ప్రసాద్), was an Indian politician and industrialist. He was the chairman and managing dire.....

John Hopkinson

John Hopkinson, FRS, was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE twice in 1890 and 1896. He invented the three-wire system for the distribution of electrical power, for which he was granted a patent in 1882. He also worked in many areas of electromagnetism and electrostatics, and in 1890 was appointed professor of electrical engineering at Kin.....

Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra

Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra (born 27 July 1963), credited as K. S. Chithra or Chithra, is an Indian playback singer and Carnatic musician. In a career spanning over four decades, she has recorded more than 25,000 songs in various Indian languages including Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Bengali, Oriya, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tulu, Rajasthani, Urdu, Sanskrit, and Badaga as well as for.....

Joseph Engelberger

Joseph Frederick Engelberger was an American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur. Licensing the original patent awarded to inventor George Devol, Engelberger developed the first industrial robot in the United States, the Unimate, in the 1950s. He was responsible for the birth of one the most important and impactful industries, gaining him global recognition as the Father of Robotics. Born in Bro.....

Jagdish Bhagwati

Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati is an India-born naturalized American economist and University Professor of economics and law at Columbia University. Bhagwati's research includes international trade and he is an advocate of free trade. Bhagwati attended St. Xavier’s High School and Sydenham College in Bombay (now Mumbai). After receiving a B.A. degree in economics and law at the University of Cambri.....

Somnath Chatterjee

Somnath Chatterjee was an Indian politician who was associated with the Communist Party of India for most of his life, though he had been a non affiliated independent during his last decade. He was the Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009. He served 10 terms in the Lok Sabha (lower chamber of the Indian parliament) between 1971 and 2009, the last of which (2004–09) was as its speaker. Ch.....

Frank Julian Sprague

Frank Julian Sprague was an American naval officer and inventor who contributed to the development of the electric motor, electric railways, and electric elevators Frank Julian Sprague was an American naval officer and inventor who contributed to the development of the electric motor, electric railways, and electric elevators. His contributions were especially important in promoting urban developm.....

Azim Premji

Azim Hashim Premji is an Indian business tycoon, investor, engineer, and philanthropist, who was the chairman of Wipro Limited. Premji remains a non-executive member of the board and founder chairman. He is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry. Azim Hashim Premji is informally known as the Czar of the Indian IT Industry. He was responsible for guiding Wipro through four decades o.....

K. T. Rama Rao

Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao, popularly known by his initials KTR, is an Indian politician serving as the Minister for Municipal Administration & Urban Development, Industries & Commerce, and Information Technology of Telangana. .....

Walter H. Schottky

Walter Hans Schottky was a German physicist who played a major early role in developing the theory of electron and ion emission phenomena, invented the screen-grid vacuum tube in 1915 while working at Siemens,[2] co-invented the ribbon microphone and ribbon loudspeaker along with Dr. Erwin Gerlach in 1924[3] and later made many significant contributions in the areas of semiconductor devices, techn.....

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Bal Gangadhar Tilak, born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence activist. He was one third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate. Tilak was the first leader of the Indian independence movement. The British colonial authorities called him "The father of the Indian unrest." He was also conferred with the title of "Lokmanya", which means "accepted by the people .....

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