William Cookworthy

William Cookworthy was an English Quaker minister, a successful pharmacist and an innovator in several fields of technology. He was the first person in Britain to discover how to make hard-paste porcelain, like that imported from China. He subsequently discovered china clay in Cornwall ECookworthy was apprenticed at 14 to a London apothecary, who later set him up in a business, Bevans and Cookwort.....

R. D. Banerji

Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, also known as R D Banerji, was an Indian archaeologist and museum expert. He was the Manindra Chandra Nandy Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture at the Banaras Hindu University from 1928–30. He is best known as the discoverer of Mohenjo-daro, the principal site of the Indus Valley Civilisation. Bandyopadhyay was born in Berhampore of Murshidabad District in .....

Jyotirao Govindrao Phule

Jyotirao Govindrao Phule was an Indian social activist, thinker, anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra. His work extended to many fields, including eradication of untouchability and the caste system and for his efforts in educating women and exploited caste people. Jyotirao Govindrao Phule was an Indian writer, social activist, thinker and anti-caste social reformer from Maharasht.....

Kasturba Mohandas Gandhi

Kasturbai "Kasturba" Mohandas Gandhi was an Indian political activist. She married Mohandas Gandhi in 1883. In association with her husband and son, she was involved in the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. She was very influenced by her husband Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a.k.a. Mahatma Gandhi. Kasturba Kapadia was born to Gokuladas Kapadia, a wealthy merchant, and his wife, Vr.....

Ghanshyam Das Birla

Ghanshyam Das Birla, founder of the Birla empire, was a man of many parts It is often said that the biggest reason for GD's business success was his sixth sense for being in the right business at the right time. Ghanshyam Das Birla, GD, as he was fondly referred to, had financed political parties but only once run for a political office, set up colleges though his own formal education stopped at a.....

Paul Héroult

Paul Héroult was a French scientist. He was the inventor of the aluminium electrolysis and developed the first successful commercial electric arc furnace. Paul-Louis-Toussaint Héroult, French chemist who invented the electric-arc furnace—widely used in making steel—and, independently of the simultaneous work of Charles M. Hall of the United States, devised the electrolytic process for prepa.....

Sir John Hawkshaw

Sir John Hawkshaw, British civil engineer noted for his work on the Charing Cross and Cannon Street railways, with their bridges over the River Thames, and the East London Railway, which utilized Sir Marc Isambard Brunel’s Thames Tunnel. In 1845 Hawkshaw became chief engineer of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, introducing steeper gradients than any previously built. In 1850 he started a pract.....

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel FRS was an English civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", English civil and mechanical engineer of great originality and productivity who designed the first transatlantic steamer, the Great Western. In 1823, he began work with his father, Marc Brunel, on the Tham.....

Sylvanus Albert Reed

Sylvanus Albert Reed was an American aerospace engineer who developed the modern metal aircraft propeller. Reed Graduated from Columbia University in 1874. He worked as an engineer specializing in electrical signals for railroad safety until retirement in 1912. In 1915 Reed experimented with metal propellers using a 10 hp electric engine driving propellers up to 19,000 rpm. He researched propelle.....

Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize One of Mr. Annan's main priorities as Secretary-General was a comprehensive programme of reform aimed at revitalizing the United Nations and making the international system more effective.....

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan is a Chinese martial arts actor, producer, stuntman and singer known for Hong Kong produced martial arts films and Hollywood's "Rush Hour: and its sequels. జాకీచాన్‌ అసలు పేరు చాన్‌ కాంగ్‌–సాంగ్‌. ‘లిటిల్‌ జాక్‌’ అనే నిక్‌నేమ్‌ ఉండేది. అది క�.....

Sherman Fairchild

Sherman Mills Fairchild was an American businessman and investor. He founded over 70 companies, including Fairchild Aircraft, Fairchild Industries, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument. Fairchild made significant contributions to the aviation industry and was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1979. Sherman Mills Fairchild was an American businessman and investor. He founded over 7.....

Donald Wills Douglas Sr.

Donald Wills Douglas Sr. was an American aircraft industrialist and engineer. An aviation pioneer, he designed and built the Douglas Cloudster. Though it failed in its intended purpose—being the first to fly non-stop across the United States—it became the first airplane with a payload greater than its own weight. Douglas assisted Jerome C. Hunsaker in building the first wind tunnel, at the Mas.....

Mir Osman Ali Khan

Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII GCSI GBE, was the last Nizam of the Princely State of Hyderabad, the largest princely state in British India. He ascended the throne on 29 August 1911, at the age of 25 and ruled the Kingdom of Hyderabad between 1911 and 1948, until India annexed it Mir Osman Ali Khan, was the last Nizam of the Princely State of Hyderabad, the largest princely state in British Indi.....

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Senapathy Gopalakrishnan, popularly known as Kris Gopalakrishnan, is Chairman of Axilor Ventures, a company supporting and funding startups, was former executive vice chairman of Infosys, a global consulting and IT services company based in India. He is also one of its seven founders He spent his school days in Government Model Boys Higher Secondary School, Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala. Gopalakrishna.....

Jagjivan Ram

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Surindar Kumar Trehan

Surindar Kumar Trehan was an Indian mathematician who specialised in non-linear stability in magnetohydrodynamics.Prof. Trehan has done significant work on stability of force-free magnetic fields, stability of jets and cylinders and stability of inhomogeneous plasmas. His work on the mathematical treatment of gaseous polytropes in the presence of a magnetic field is a breakthrough in this area. He.....

Carl Wilhelm Siemens

Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens FRS FRSA, anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman. Sir (Charles) William Siemens was a German-English engineer and inventor who devised the “regenerative system” of using waste gases to preheat fuel gases, for the open-hearth furnace used in steel manufacturing. He was also important in the telegraph industry, a p.....

Fazlur Rahman Khan

Fazlur Rahman Khan was a Bangladeshi-born American civil engineer who is remembered for his innovative structural systems, especially in high-rise building construction. Regarded as the "father of tubular designs,'' he was also a pioneer in computer-aided designs . Khan later settled in Chicago, a city that eventually became the base for his ground-breaking structural marvels. He brought a revolu.....

Sam Manekshaw

Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, MC, widely known as Sam Manekshaw and Sam Bahadur, was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal. His military career spanned four decades and five wars, beginning with service in the British Indian Army in World War II. M.....

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