5 INVENTIONS MADE BY INDIANS

AFTER INDEPENDENCE IN THE FIELD

OF TECHNOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION

India has made significant

technological advancement since
gaining independence in 1947. This
presentation highlights five
groundbreaking inventions that
have put India on the global map of
innovation.
 MICROWAVE COMMUNICATION

Jagdish Chandra Bose pioneered the development

of wireless communication with a technological
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
demonstration of microwave transmission in Calcutta.
CSI CIE FRS was
Bose's innovations included developing a mercury
apolymath with interests in
coherer, a component of radio receivers.
Using mercury significantly improved the performance biology, physics, botany
and usability of radio receivers. and writing science fiction.
USB INTERFACE
Ajay V. Bhatt is an
Indian-born American
computer architect who
defined and developed
several widely used
technologies, including
USB, Platform Power
Management
architecture etc.

The USB interface is a ubiquitous standard to connect devices. Ajay Bhatt is the
inventor of the USB standard. He is an Intel fellow, and has won the European
Inventor Award in the Non-European countries category in 2013.
INTEL PENTIUM CHIP Vinod Dham is an Indian-
American engineer,
entrepreneur and venture
capitalist. He is known as
the 'Father of the Pentium
Chip' for his contribution
to the development of
Intel's
microprocessor. He is also
Pentium
The Intel Pentium chip was developed by a team lead by an mentor, advisor, and sits
Indian, Vinod Dham. Dham has developed chips that have been on the boards
used by Intel, AMD and Qualcomm. He is known as the of companies, including
"Father of the Pentium". He started his career in 1971 by joining startups funded through
a Delhi based semiconductor company called Continental his India-based
Devices. fund Indo-US Venture
Dham's innovative approach for developing the chip was going where he is the founding
Partners,
to customers and software publishers, and compiled a list of managing director.
 SIXTHSENSE Pranav Mistry (born 14 May
1981) is a computer scientist
and inventor. He is the former
President and CEO of STAR
Labs (Samsung Technology &
Advanced Research Labs). He is
currently the founder and CEO
of TWO, an Artificial Reality
startup. He is best known for
his work on SixthSense,
Samsung Galaxy Gear and
Project Beyond. Pranav started
his career as an intern in
Mistry is best known for his work on SixthSense. Some of his
Microsoft. Following that, he
other works include Mouseless, an invisible computer mouse; has reportedly worked for
Sparsh, a novel way to copy-paste data between digital Google, CMU, NASA, UNESCO
devices; Quickies, intelligent sticky notes; Blinkbot, a blink , JST. In July 2021, he left
and
Samsung to find a new Artificial
controlled robot. He has also contributed in the development Reality startup, TWO.
of Samsung's NEON.
FIBRE OPTICS Narinder Singh
Kapany was an
Indian physicist best
known for his work
on fiber optics. He
was awarded second
highest India’s
civilian award the
Padma Vibhushan
and noble prize.
Narinder Singh Kapany is known as the "Father of Fibre Optics." Kapany coined the term "Fibre
Optics" in 1956. According to a fortune magazine feature in 2009, a high school teacher had told
Kapany that light could only travel in a straight line. Kapany proved his teacher wrong by
developing fibre optic cables. Kapany has written several papers and delivered lectures in
universities around the world, on the theoretical aspects of fibre optic communication.
 Reference

● https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/happy-independence-day-
7-technological-innovations-by-indians-3686855.html
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narinder_Singh_Kapany
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagadish_Chandra_Bose
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajay_Bhatt
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinod_Dham
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranav_Mistry
 CONCLUSION

India’s technological contributions have impacted

the world in significant ways. From mathematics to
space exploration, India continues to make strides in
innovation and technology.