This presentation gives a glimpse of info on INVENTIONS made by Ancient INDIANS

1. INVENTIONS OF INDIA
Sainath

2. SHIP BUILDING
As 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

3. DOCK
• Engineers accorded high priority
to the creation of a dockyard and a
warehouse to serve the purposes
of naval trade.

4. GAMES
• Chess
• Snake and ladders
• suites
– etc

5. STEEL
• Considered to be
the best by greeks.

6. METALLURGY
• INDIA was famous
for its Diamond and
Zinc mines.
• 300 B.C.

7. SUGAR
• Sugar refineries
were first started in
INDIA

8. BUTTONS
• First used as embllishments
• Later used to fasten the clothes
– Invented by INDUS valley people
using sea shells.

9. NATURAL
FIBERS
• Wool
• Jute
• Plant fibers

10. INK
• By burning tar
• Primary pigment
was carbon.

11. COTTONGIN
• 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.

12. CATARACT
SURGERY
• 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.

13. PLASTIC
SURGERY

14. NUCLEAR
WEAPONS
• 3138 B.C.
• Brahma astra
– Used in kurukshetra
war.

15. RESEARCH
STUDIES
• Australian national university
• US department of the interior.
• American institute of INDIAN studies.
• University of south dakota.
• Nordic center in India.

16. References
• www.history.com
• www.bharatgyan.com
• www.edx.org
• www.speakingtree.in
• www.omgtoptens.com
• Institute of historical studies articles.

17. THANK YOU