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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Eternal India
encyclopedia
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Scientific and Technological Developments
Remarks
1830
George Everest as the Superintendent of the Great
Trigonometrical Survey.
1832
The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
: in the first volume James -
Prinsep's observation of the transit of Mercury on the 5th May, 1832, made
with a four feet achromatic telescope of 4 inch aperture, mounted equatorially
and provided with a delicate wire micrometer.
Its forerunners: (i) Asiatic Researches
and (ii) Gleanings in Science
1835
Calcutta Medical College
1845
The Grant Medical School at Bombay
1847
Engineering Institution at Roorkee
Later became Thomason Engineering college
1851
Establishment of the Geological Survey of India
Thomas Oldham's efforts
1851
The first telegraph line between Calcutta and Diamond Harbour
By William o'shaughnessy
1853
The first railway line laid
Near Bombay
1854
Charles Wood's Despatch for the creation of the universities.
Engineering School at Poona
On the model of the London University
1856
Engineering College at Sibpur (Calcutta)
1857
Establishment of the first three universities at Calcutta, Bombay & Madras.
Only affiliating and examining bodies
1859
Civil Engineering College at Madras
Establishment of Archaeological Survey of India
Cunningham as Archaeological Surveyor
1867
Indian Museum came into being at Calcutta.
Galleries thrown open to public only
in 1878
1875
Establishment of India Meteorological Department
1876
Foundation of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
By Mahendra Lai Sircar through public
endowments
1881
Publication of the first mathematical paper of Asutosh Mukherji
In the Messenger of Mathematics
1884
Centenary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
In its publications over 500 papers in
mathematical and physical sciences, 560
in zoology, 320 in botany were published
(1788-1882)
1890
Imperial Bacteriological Laboratory at Poona.
Botanical Survey of India formed.
Later shifted to Mukteswar (1893)
George King, the first Director
1895
Foundation of the Solar Physics Laboratory at Kodaikanal
J.C. Bose's first scientific paper on the polarization of electric
waves by double refraction.
Started working from 1900
1896
Plague Research Laboratory at Bombay with Haffkine as its
Director
In 1906, the name was changed to the
Haffkine Institute.
P.C. Ray's work on mercurous compounds.
Preliminary note appeared in
JASB
Recommendation of the Royal Agricultural Commission
emphasizing research on agriculture
Establishment of Imperial Agricultural
Research Institute at Pusa (Bihar) in
1903
1897
J.C. Bose's lecture at the Royal Institute, London,
with his own apparatus.
1900
J.C. Bose's paper, 'On the Generality of the Molecular Phenomena
produced by Electricity on Living and Non-living Substances'.
Read at the International Congress in
Physics, Paris
P.C. Ray's analyses of a number of rare Indian minerals to
discover in them some of the missing elements in Mendeleef s
Periodic Table.
Published in the Memoirs of the
Geological Survey of India
Note
: For Chronology of Scientific and Technological Developments from 1500 B.C. - 16th CenturyA.D. Refer Sec. K —
Ancient
Concepts, Sciences and Systems —
K 5-7