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INVENTIONS OF INDIA
Sainath
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SHIP BUILDINGAs per his diary kept in Spanish Museum, Vasko da Gama, in 1497,saw a three times bigger ship in Jhanjibar and met its Gujarati owner named “Skanda”. Skanda was coming to India. With Skanda’s help Gama came to India and thus discovered way to India.
In 1811, Lt. Walker writes that East India company had an Indian ship “Daria Daulat” which did not require maintenance for 87 years
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• Engineers accorded high priority to the creation of a dockyard and a warehouse to serve the purposes of naval trade.
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• Chess• Snake and ladders• suites
– etc
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• Considered to be the best by greeks.
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• INDIA was famous for its Diamond and Zinc mines.
• 300 B.C.
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• Sugar refineries were first started in INDIA
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• First used as embllishments• Later used to fasten the clothes
– Invented by INDUS valley people using sea shells.
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• Wool• Jute• Plant fibers
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INK
• By burning tar• Primary pigment
was carbon.
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• Cotton Gin is a machine used to separate cotton from the seeds.
• 500 AD– The evidence of this machine was
found through the carvings on Ajanta caves where the pictures of these machines were engraved.
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• Physician sushrut.• Around 2000 B.C.
– Used a curved needle and removed the cataract by pushing the lens.
– The eyes were then immersed in warm butter and were properly covered till they were completely healed.
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• 3138 B.C.• Brahma astra
– Used in kurukshetra war.
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RESEARCH STUDIES
• Australian national university• US department of the interior.
• American institute of INDIAN studies.• University of south dakota.
• Nordic center in India.
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References
• www.history.com• www.bharatgyan.com
• www.edx.org• www.speakingtree.in
• www.omgtoptens.com• Institute of historical studies articles.
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