Alfred Büchi

Alfred Büchi was a Swiss engineer and inventor. He was best known as the inventor of turbocharging. Büchi was born July 11, 1879, in Winterthur, Switzerland, growing up there and in Ludwigshafen. He was the son of Johann Büchi, a chief executive at Swiss industrial engineering and manufacturing firm Sulzer. Alfred Büchi was a Swiss engineer and inventor. He was best known as the inventor of tu.....

Jhumpa Lahiri

Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian. Jhumpa Lahiri, byname of Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri, (born July 11, 1967, London, England), English-born American novelist and short-story writer whose works illuminate the immigrant experience, in particular that of East Indians. Row of colorful books.....

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system. Serbian-American engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) made dozens of breakthroughs in the production, transmission and application of electric power. He invented the first alternat.....

Sunil Gavaskar

Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer representing India and Bombay from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. Sunil Manohar Gavaskar is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer representing India and Bombay from the early 1970s to the late 1980s. Widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen and one of the best opening batsmen in Test cricket hist.....

Jacob Perkins

Jacob Perkins was an American inventor, mechanical engineer and physicist. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Perkins was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon made himself known with a variety of useful mechanical inventions and eventually had twenty-one American and nineteen English patents. Jacob Perkins was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and went to school in Newburyport until he was 12. .....

Edwin J. Houston

Edwin James Houston was an American electrical engineer, academic, businessman, inventor and writer. Edwin James Houston, a U.S. electrical engineer who influenced the development of commercial lighting in the United States. Houston was born July 9, 1847, to John Mason and Mary (Lamour) Houston in Alexandria, Virginia. He graduated from Central High School of Philadelphia (a degree-granting inst.....

Samuel Baker

Sir Samuel White Baker, KCB, FRS, FRGS was an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. Sir Samuel White Baker, (born June 8, 1821, London, Eng.—died Dec. 30, 1893, Sanford Orleigh, Devon), English explorer who, with John Hanning Speke, helped to locate the source.....

Jyoti Basu

Jyoti Basu was an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal state from 1977 to 2000. He was one of the co-founders of the Communist Party of India and a member of the Polit Bureau of the party since its inception in 1964 till 2008. Basu was the son of a physician, and he enjoyed an affluent childhood. He began his studies in Calcutta, at St. Xavier’s School and Presidenc.....

Frank Bunker Gilbreth

Frank Bunker Gilbreth was an American engineer, consultant, and author known as an early advocate of scientific management and a pioneer of time and motion study, and is perhaps best known as the father and central figure of Cheaper by the Dozen. Dhoni has been the recipient of many awards, including the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first player to win the award twice), t.....

MS Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, is a former Indian international cricketer who captained the Indian national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2017 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. Mahendra Singh Dhoni (About this soundpronunciation is a former Indian international cricketer who captained the Indian national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2017 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 20.....

14th Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama, known as Gyalwa Rinpoche to the Tibetan people, is the current Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader of Tibet, and a retired political leader of Tibet. he 14th Dalai Lama[note 1] (spiritual name Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, known as Tenzin Gyatso; born Lhamo Dhondup),[note 2] known as Gyalwa Rinpoche to the Tibetan people, is the current Dalai Lama, t.....

William John Macquorn Rankine

William John Macquorn Rankine FRSE FRS was a Scottish mechanical engineer who also contributed to civil engineering, physics and mathematics. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson, to the science of thermodynamics, particularly focusing on the first of the three thermodynamic laws. William John Macquorn Rankine, a Scottish engineer and physicist and one of the fo.....

P. V. Sindhu

Pusarla Venkata Sindhu is an Indian professional badminton player. Over the course of her career, Pusarla has won medals at multiple tournaments including Olympics and on the BWF circuit including a gold at the 2019 World Championships. She is the first Indian to become the Badminton World Champion and the first Indian woman to earn an Olympic silver medal. She rose to a career high World ranking .....

Vinod Gupta

Vinod Gupta is an Indian-born American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the former chief executive officer and chairman of infoGROUP. Gupta served as CEO of infoGROUP from the time of its incorporation in 1972 until September 1997, and again from August 1998 to August 2008. [9:09 AM, 7/4/2021] +91 95351 00349: Gupta has donated over $50 million to numerous philanthropic endeavours.....

Alluri Sitarama Raju

Alluri Sitarama Raju was an Indian revolutionary involved in the Indian independence movement. After the passing of the 1882 Madras Forest Act, its restrictions on the free movement of tribal people in Sri Alluri Seetarama Raju is brave son of India who laid down his life to free mother India from the oppression of the British. He was born on 4th July 1897. While pursuing his studies at Kakinada,.....

Dankmar Adler

Dankmar Adler was a German-born American architect and civil engineer. He is best known for his fifteen-year partnership with Louis Sullivan, during which they designed influential skyscrapers boldly addressed their steel skeleton through their exterior design: the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri (1891), the Chicago Stock Exchange Building (1894), and the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, .....

S. V. Ranga Rao

Samarla Venkata Ranga Rao, popularly known by his initials SVR, was an Indian film actor, director and producer known for his works in Telugu cinema and Tamil cinema. Rao was popularly known as "Viswa Nata Chakravarthi". Samarla Venkata Ranga Rao (3 July 1918 – 18 July 1974), popularly known by his initials SVR, was an Indian film actor, director and producer known for his works in Telugu cinem.....

Mylswamy Annadurai

Mylswamy Annadurai, popularly known as Moon Man of India, is an Indian scientist working as vice president for Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology, Chairman, Board of Governors, National Design and Research Forum. Mylswamy Annadurai, byname Moon Man, Indian aerospace engineer who held a number of posts with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), including the directorship (.....

C. Kumar N. Patel

Chandra Kumar Naranbhai Patel is an electrical engineer. He developed the carbon dioxide laser in 1963; it is now widely used in industry for cutting and welding, as a laser scalpel in surgery, and in laser skin resurfacing. There are many types of lasers that vary in strength, efficiency and utility. Because the atmosphere is quite transparent to infrared light, CO2 lasers are also used for milit.....

Louis Blériot

Louis Charles Joseph Blériot was a French aviator, inventor, and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraft. Louis Blériot, a French airplane manufacturer and aviator who made the first flight of an airplane between continental Europe.....

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