They don’t make them like Jagadish Chandra Bose anymore.
The first person from the Indian subcontinent to receive a US patent, Bose was a pioneer in the field of wireless telecommunication – a field which would eventually lead to invention of the radio, TV, WiFi & cell phones.
The first person from the Indian subcontinent to receive a US patent, Bose was a pioneer in the field of wireless telecommunication – a field which would eventually lead to invention of the radio, TV, WiFi & cell phones.
He invented the Mercury Coherer, a radio wave receiver that was later used by Guglielmo Marconi to build the first operational transatlantic two-way radio that was capable of communicating across 2,000 miles.
And that is not the only achievement under his belt.
And that is not the only achievement under his belt.
A physicist, botanist, and an author, Bose was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1920, becoming the first Indian to be honoured by the Royal Society in the field of science.
All this even though he was not allowed access to science labs under the British rule!
All this even though he was not allowed access to science labs under the British rule!
Bose is also famed for his investigations into whether plants could 'feel' – research that got him into plenty of controversy with other British scientists because he refused to stay strictly ‘within his academic area’ of physics.
Here's the story of Bose’s path-breaking work on the discovery of plant stimuli that drew some startling inferences. thebetterindia.com/76587/jagdish-…
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