Alexander Lyman Holley

Alexander Lyman Holley was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, and founding member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was considered the foremost steel and plant engineer and designer of his time, especially in regard to applying research to modern steel manufacturing processes. Alexander Lyman Holley,an American metallurgist and mechanical engineer.He bought U.S. rights to.....

Mangal Pandey

Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier whose attack on British officers on March 29, 1857, was the first major incident of what came to be known as the Sepoy, Mutiny Mangal Pandey , born in a Brahmin family, was an Indian soldier who played a key part in the events immediately preceding the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857. He was a sepoy (infantryman) in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry regiment of.....

Jerome H. Lemelson

Jerome "Jerry" Hal Lemelson was an American engineer, inventor, and patent holder. Several of his inventions and works in the fields in which he patented have made possible, either wholly or in part Jerome H. Lemelson was one of the most prolific American inventors of all time. His inventions, for which he amassed more than 600 patents, include essential parts of dozens of products in common use t.....

Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra Jonas is an Indian actress, singer, and film producer. The winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant, Chopra is one of India's highest-paid and most popular entertainers. She has received numerous accolades, including two National Film Award and five Filmfare Awards. Priyanka Chopra Jonas (pronounced [prɪˈjəŋka ˈtʃoːpɽa],[1] born 18 July 1982) is an Indian actress, singer, and .....

Nils Bohlin

Nils Ivar Bohlin was a Swedish mechanical engineer and inventor who invented the three-point safety belt while working at Volvo. Nils Bohlin received a diploma in mechanical engineering from Härnösand Läroverk in 1939. In 1942 he started working for the aircraft maker Saab as an aircraft designer and helped develop ejection seats. In 1958 he joined Volvo as a safety engineer. He is credited wi.....

B. Lewis Rice

Benjamin Lewis Rice CIE, popularly known as B. L. Rice, was a British historian, archaeologist and educationist. He is known for his pioneering work in deciphering inscriptions, especially in Kannada, and in Sanskrit inscriptions in the Kingdom of Mysore. Benjamin Lewis Rice's researches were published as the voluminous Epigraphia Carnatica which contains translations of about 9000 inscriptions he.....

K. V. Krishna Rao

General Kotikalapudi Venkata Krishna Rao, PVSM, was a former chief of the Indian Army and a former governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Nagaland, Manipur and Tripura. Gen. Rao was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1942. K. V. Krishna Rao was born on 16 July 1923 in a Telugu Brahmin family to K. S. Narayan Rao and Mrs. K. Lakshmi Rao of Vijayawada. He graduated from the Maharajah's College, Vizianaga.....

Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray

Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray is an Indian geochemist, geochronologist and a professor at the Physical Research Laboratory. Jyotiranjan Srichandan Ray is an Indian geochemist, geochronologist and a professor at the Physical Research Laboratory. He is known for his studies on the geochronology of the Indian subcontinent and his studies have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles; ResearchGa.....

Weetman Pearson

Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray, GCVO, PC, known as Sir Weetman Pearson, Bt between 1894 and 1910, and as Lord Cowdray between 1910 and 1917, was a British engineer, oil industrialist, benefactor and Liberal politician. He was the owner of the Pearson conglomerate. Weetman Dickinson Pearson, a British engineer and a developer of the Mexican petroleum industry. In December 1889 he.....

Sir John Fowler

Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, KCMG, LLD, FRSE was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure. In the 1850s and 1860s, he was engineer for the world's first underground railway, London's Metropolitan Railway, built by the "cut-and-cover" method under city streets. In 1860 he completed the Pimlico Bridge across the River Thames, one of the firs.....

A. Sivathanu Pillai

A Sivathanu Pillai is an Indian scientist who formerly served as Honorary Distinguished Professor at Indian Space Research Organisation and an honorary professor at IIT Delhi in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a Visiting Professor at Indian Institute of Science. Known for: Known as Father of Brahmos Aerospace Awards: Padma Shri; 2002; Padma Bhushan; 2013; Order of Friendship; 2014 A .....

Durgabai Deshmukh

Durgābāi Deshmukh, Lady Deshmukh was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, social worker and politician. She was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and of the Planning Commission of India. A public activist for women's emancipation, she founded the Andhra Mahila Sabha in 1937. Durgabai Deshmukh, Lady Deshmukh (Rajahmundry, was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, social worker and politic.....

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Vijay Shekhar Sharma is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the founder and chief executive officer of financial technology company Paytm. He was ranked as India's youngest billionaire in 2017 by Forbes with a net worth of $1.3 billion. Vijay Shekhar Sharma (born 1978) is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the founder of mobile payments company Paytm. Sharma was ranked as India's young.....

K. Kamaraj

Kumaraswami Kamaraj, popularly known as Kamarajar was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the Chief Minister of Madras State from 13 April 1954 to 2 October 1963. Kumaraswami Kamaraj was a founder and leader of the Indian National Congress (Organisation), widely acknowledged as the "Kingmaker" in Indian politics during the 1960s. He also served as the president of the In.....

Jay Wright Forrester

Jay Wright Forrester was a pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He is credited with being one of the inventors of magnetic core memory, the predominant form of random-access computer memory during the most explosive years of digital computer development. Jay Wright Forrester, an American electrical engineer and management expert who invented the random-access magnetic core .....

Shiv Nadar

Shiv Nadar is an Indian billionaire industrialist. He is the founder and chairman of HCL Technologies Limited and the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar founded HCL in the mid-1970s and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise over the next three decades by constantly reinventing his company's focus. Shiv Nadar is the Founder of HCL Enterprise, a $9.9 billion global organization with o.....

Margaret Murray

Margaret Alice Murray was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist. The first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in archaeology in the United Kingdom, she worked at University College London from 1898 to 1935. Margaret Alice Murray served as President of the Folklore Society from 1953 to 1955, and published widely over the course of her career. Born.....

Eugène Freyssinet

Eugène Freyssinet was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete. Freyssinet was born in Objat, Corrèze, France. Newly graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, two of France's most iconic engineering schools, the young Eugène Freyssinet began his career as a highways engineer. It was 1905 and he was 26 .....

Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. R. Buckminster Fuller was a renowned 20th century inventor and visionary born in Milton, Massachusetts on July 12, 1895. Dedicating his life to making the world work for all of humanity, Fuller operated as a practical philosopher who demonstrated his ideas as inventions that he called .....

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala is an Indian business magnate and stocks trader. He manages his own portfolio as a partner in his asset management firm, Rare Enterprises. During his early life, Rakesh grew up in a Agarwal Family in Bombay, where his father, worked as Commissioner of Income Tax, Bombay. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala's family belongs to Jhunjhunu.. He graduated from Sydenham College[ and thereafter enro.....

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