Indian Inventions that Changed the Modern World

Team Hindi

Bharat has been the home of genius inventions since the very beginning of time. In today’s world of global competition, our motherland’s inventions have created buzz in the world and have carved a new path for it to follow.

Right from the days of Aryabhatta’s invention of zero to the cure of cancer today, Indians have made a mark in every field and continue to do so even today.
In the timeline of India’s history, several inventions have not be attributed to their rightful inventors and this has led to people forgetting our rich culture of inventiveness, scientific inquiry and innovation. You might also be under the mistaken assumption that we haven’t contributed any life-changing inventions to the world since ancient times, but the following scientists have proven that India’s Innovative culture is very much alive and thriving.

Let’s have a look at some of the most amazing inventions by Indians:

USB:
A highly recognizable invention but an unsung inventor, USB is the most widely used by people all over the world. This invention standardized the devices so that they could connect to each other and exchange data. Very few people know about Ajay Bhatt, the inventor responsible for Universal Serial Bus. It was developed by him and his team at Intel and it has revolutionized everyone’s lives by creating a standard interface.

Mysorean Rockets:
This fact may surprise you, but Rockets which were iron tipped and metal body were first developed by Tipu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali to be used against the British East India Company. Ingeniously, the propellants were stored in the metal body which gave it long range and higher power. It was a far more advanced technology than the British had ever seen, and afterwards was adapted by them to be used to defeat Napolean.

Chandrashekher Limit:
Chandrashekher limit is the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star. Beyond this limit, the white dwarf star collapses. At the age of 20, S. Chandrashekher had improved the calculation of this number and hence, the limit was named after him. S. Chandrashekher was an Indian born physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1938 for his research in stellar evolution. His findings on the mathematics of stellar evolution has lead to many later theories around the stars of our universe.

Quantum statistics: 
A huge contribution to one of the most complicated subject on the planet, is Quantum Statistics. The discovery of this field turn lead to describing of the boson particles which are named after An Unsung hero of physics, S.N. Bose. S.N. Bose is the pioneer who is the father of quantum statistics. Only when Einstein recognized the genius of S.N. Bose’s research, was it published in a journal. Before that he had faced rejection of his research by other scientists.

Pentium Microprocessors:
Pentium Microprocessors which were at one point associated with every computer were invented by a revolutionary scientist, Vinod Dham, also known as the father of Pentium chip. Intel’s Pentium was at one point a part of every CPU and increased the processing speed and reduced the size. This was an extremely important invention which opened new doors for technology.

Wootz Steel:
India in the ancient times was a pioneer in Metallurgy and even to this day it is a metallurgy hub especially because of the production of the finest quality steel, Wootz Steel. It’s useful properties astonished traders from Rome, Greece and China who considered it so valuable that at one point, instead of gold, Alexander the great was given steel by King Porus. It is carbeurised steel also called crucible steel. It was developed in Southern India. Wootz Steel is still the backbone of almost all industries even today.

Optical Fiber: 
Another highly used invention which revolutionized the communication world, optical fibers have replaced metal wires and cause very little transmission loss. It is widely used in networking and telecommunication because of its flexible properties. It is the reason why we have such advancement in internet speed today. Again very few people know that they were invented by an Indian scientist, Narinder Singh Kapany. He is known as the father of Fibre optics who also coined the term “fibre optics” himself.

Lunar water: 
The discovery of water on Moon is perhaps the most iconic space discovery made in the recent years and it is all thanks to our scientists at ISRO. Based on data recovered by Chadrayaan I, the scientists confirmed discovery in 2009. NASA has thanked India’s contribution in making this important discovery possible.

Indian inventions have been changing the world without our acknowledgement for years. Let us all celebrate our Country’s great hand in revolutionizing the world with innovation by spreading word of our achievements and also contributing our ideas for the betterment of the world.
Jai Hind!