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inventio

ns and

discove

ries

have

been

instrum

ental in

shaping

the face

of the

current

modern

world.

We

picked

up 20

such

interesti

ng

findings

out of a

whole

bunch

that will

make

you go,

“I didn’t

know

that”.

1.

Butt

ons

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HISTORY

20 Clever Inventions You

Probably Didn’t Know Were Made

By Indians

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imagesources 1, 2

Buttons

were

first

used in

Mohenj

o-daro

for

orname

ntal

purpose

rather

than for

fastenin

g. They

were

first

used in

the

Indus

Valley

Civilizati

on by

2000

BCE.

2.

Che

ss

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Chess

develop

ed out

of

Chatura

nga,

which is

an

ancient

strategy

board

game

develop

ed

during

the

Gupta

Empire

in India

around

the 6th

century

AD.

Now

you

know

why

Vishwa

nathan

Anand

is such

a pro,

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tarah…

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imagesource

3. P

refa

bric

ated

hom

e

and

mov

able

stru

ctur

e

In 16th

century

Mughal

India,

during

the

reign of

Akbar,

the first

prefabri

cated &

movabl

e

structur

es were

invented

.

4.

Rule

r

Rulers

were

first

used by

the

Indus

Valley

Civilizati

on prior

to 1500

BCE.

Made of

ivory,

the

rulers

found

during

excavati

on,

reveal

the

amazin

g

accurac

y of

decimal

subdivis

ions on

it.

5.

Sha

mpo

o

imagesource

The

word

‘Shamp

oo’ is

derived

from ch

āmpo (

चापँो). It

was

initially

used as

a head

massag

e oil for

the

Nawabs

of

Bengal

during

the

Mughal

Empire

around

1762. It

evolved

into

shampo

o over

the

years.

6.

Sna

kes

and

Lad

ders

imagesource

The

game,

Snakes

&

Ladders

, was

invented

in India

as a

game of

morals.

Later it

spread

to

England

and

eventual

ly

introduc

ed in

the USA

by

game

pioneer

Milton

Bradley

in 1943.

7.

Cott

on

culti

vati

on

(We

clot

hed

the

worl

d,

yay!

)

The

ancient

Greeks

used to

wear

animal

skins

and

were

not even

aware

of

cotton.

But

Indians

were

sort of

cool

and

started

cultivati

ng

cotton

during

the 5th

– 4th

millenni

um

BCE in

the

Indus

Valley

Civilizati

on. The

word

spread

to the

Mediterr

anean

and

beyond

and

soon

everyon

e was

ordering

one

from

Flipkart.

Well,

pretty

much.

8.

Fibo

nac

ci

Nu

mbe

rs

The

Fibonac

ci

number

s were

first

describ

ed

by Virah

anka,

Gopala

and

Hemach

andra a

s an

outgrow

th of

earlier

writings

by

Pingala.

9.

Deci

mal

Syst

em,

Qua

drati

c

for

mul

a

and

Zero

!

It was in

7th

century

CE

when

Brahma

gupta

found

the first

general

formula

for

solving

quadrati

c

equatio

ns. The

decimal

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system

(or the

Hindu

number

system),

which

was a

precurs

or of the

Arabic

numeric

system,

was

develop

ed in

India

betwee

n the 1st

and 6th

centurie

s CE.

10.

Suit

s

Gam

e

The

popular

game of

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originat

ed from

India &

was

known

as

Krida-

patram

(which

literally

means

“painted

rags for

playing”

).

11.

Cata

ract

Sur

gery

imagesource

Indian

physicia

n

Sushrut

a (6th

century

BCE)

had the

knowled

ge of

performi

ng

cataract

surgery.

It

spread

to China

from

India.

Greek

scientist

s would

visit

India to

get

operatio

ns done

and

also to

learn

the nitty-

gritties.

12.

Dia

mon

d

Mini

ng

Worldwi

de,

India

was the

only

source

of

diamon

ds until

the

discove

ry of

mines in

Brazil in

the 18th

century.

Almost

5000

years

ago,

diamon

ds were

first

recogni

zed and

mined

in

central

India.

13.

Wat

er

on

Moo

n

imagesource

ISRO’s

Chandr

ayaan-1

made

the

startling

discove

ry that

our

moon is

not a

dry ball

of

rocks.

The

discove

ry of

lunar

water is

attribute

d to the

Chandr

ayaan

mission.

14.

Rad

io/

Wire

less

com

mun

icati

on

imagesource

We all

know

that

Marconi

receive

d a

Nobel

Prize in

Physics

in 1909

for

contribu

tion to

the

develop

ment of

wireless

telegrap

hy. But

the first

public

demons

tration

of radio

waves

for

commu

nication

was

made

by Sir

Jagdish

Chandr

a Bose

in 1895,

two

years

prior to

Marconi

’s

similar

demons

tration

in

England

.

Sir

Bose

was

posthu

mously

credited

(more

than a

century

later) for

his

achieve

ment.

The fact

remains

that this

discove

ry truly

shaped

the face

of

modern

wireless

commu

nication.

15.

Flus

h

Toil

ets

Flush

toilets

were

first

used in

the

Indus

Valley

Civilizati

on.

These

existed

in most

homes

and

were

connect

ed to a

sophisti

cated

sewage

mechan

ism.

The

civilizati

on was

promine

nt in

hydrauli

c

enginee

ring.

16.

Bina

ry

Cod

e

imagesource

Binary

number

s were

first

describ

ed by

Pingala

(c. 200

BC).

Pingala

is the

tradition

al name

of the

author

of the

Chanda

ḥśāstra,

the

earliest

known

Sanskrit

treatise

on

prosody

.

17.

Ink

Many

ancient

cultures

and

civilizati

ons

indepen

dently

discove

red and

prepare

d ink for

writing

purpose

s. The

source

of

carbon

pigment

used in

Indian

Ink

(called

musi)

used in

ancient

India,

was

India.

Since

4th

century

BC, the

practice

of

writing

with ink

with a

sharp

pointed

needle

was

commo

n in

South

India.

18.

Stee

l &

Met

al

wor

ks

imagesource

Ancient

Indians

were

pioneer

s in

metallur

gy. High

quality

steel

was

produce

d,

almost

two

thousan

d years

before it

was

underst

ood by

the

West.

One of

the

most

remarka

ble feat

in

metallur

gy:

creating

a

seamle

ss

celestial

globe,

was

invented

in

Kashmir

. It was

earlier

conside

red

impossi

ble to

create a

metal

globe

without

seams.

So

thanks

to India,

Iron

Man

can ear

his suit

now.

19.

Fibe

r

Opti

cs

imagesources 1, 2

Named

as one

of the 7

‘Unsung

Heroes’

by

Fortune

Magazi

ne, Dr.

Narinde

r Singh

Kapany,

is

widely

recogni

zed as

the

‘Father

of Fiber

Optics’

for his

pioneeri

ng work

in Fiber

Optics

technolo

gy.

Watch

him

speak

eloquen

tly on

his

entrepre

neurial

journey.

20.

Plas

tic

Sur

gery

imagesource

Yes, you

heard it

right.

Indians

were

pioneer

s in

Plastic

Surgery

too. It

was

carried

out in

India as

early as

2000

BCE.

So, we’

ve

always

been a

cool

country.

History

is

testimo

ny to

it. So

what’s

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