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Scientific and Technological Developments

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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

On the model of the London University

Charles Wood's Despatch for the creation of the universities.

Engineering School at Poona

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

Started working from 1900

Foundation of the Solar Physics Laboratory at Kodaikanal J.C. Bose's first scientific paper on the polarization of electric waves by double refraction. Plague Research Laboratory at Bombay with Haffkine as its Director

1896

In 1906, the name was changed to the Haffkine Institute.

Preliminary note appeared in JASB

P.C. Ray's work on mercurous compounds.

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'. 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.

Read at the International Congress in Physics, Paris

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