12 Great Inventions We Should Thank India For

We all know that India is one of the oldest civilizations in the world with a culture super rich in history, but did you know that some of the things you use every day were invented in this country, from the buttons on your shirt to shampoo ? your shower watch this video till the end to find out what brilliant things we can

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India for and don't forget to subscribe to our channel and turn on post notifications to stay up to date with our updates. Alright, number one, the xero people in ancient times. They had always thought that there

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be some kind of sign to indicate nothing right, their concerns were dispelled in the 5th century AD, when Aryabhatta, an Indian genius of mathematics and astronomy, invented zero as a symbol to represent nothing, did sums , subtraction and a lot of other math operations are much easier.

You can see the oldest zero in existence carved into the wall of a temple in Gwalior, India, if you're not a big fan of mathematics and the invention of zero doesn't seem like anything too important to you. Just think that without it we would have no binary system or computers, how does that zero now number two ruler look to you? the induced civilization of the valley was using rulers in 1500 BC. C. and before they were made of ivory. These rulers were found during excavations in what is today. Pakistan and northwestern India were apparently widely used in architecture with quite surprising accuracy.

They had units corresponding to 1.32 inches that were marked with extremely precise subdivisions within 5,000 inches. Chess number three, this all-time game for intellectuals is also an Indian. Its ancestor's invention was called chaturanga and was a strategic board game popular during the Gupta empire around the 6th century AD. Like the chess we know today, this game had several pieces with different values ​​and capabilities, it also had an important king figure and winning the game depended on the fate of the king, another popular board game that India brought to us is snakes and the stairs. The original version was called makshapot and was invented by a 13th century poet and saint named Gyandev.

The snake represented the vices, while the ladders were the virtues. During India's time under British rule, the game reached England and later the US in plastic surgery number 4 in the 6th century BC. C., an Indian doctor named Shush Ruta created a huge reference book on medicine and surgery. It was one of the first jobs in the world. of his kai shushruta, often called the father of surgery in his home country, described the use of hundreds of medicinal plants and instructions for performing surgical procedures, including nose reconstruction and skin transplantation from a part of the body On the other hand, the original rhinoplasty method that involved taking a piece of skin from the forehead to reconstruct the nose is still used today, but back then nose surgeries were performed to help people who had been deprived of their noses. as punishment for theft or adultery oh how times have changed number five cataract surgery Sushruta not only invented plastic surgery but also performed the first cataract surgery.

He used a curved needle to remove the lens from the affected eye. This revolutionary procedure soon became popular outside India. Patients and doctors from all over the world visited the surgeon to perform the operations and learn. In his experience, the genius surgeon never turned anyone away, he said he got all his knowledge from the god of Ayurvedic medicine, Don von Terry, wireless communication number six When you think of the pioneer of radio communication, Guillermo Marconi, you probably immediately think of comes to mind and that's for good reason, of course, he even received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909 for his groundbreaking work, but Sir Jadish Chantra Bose presented his discovery of radio communication waves to the public in 1895.

He sent an electromagnetic wave at a distance of 75 feet at Calcutta City Hall. The wave passed through the walls, rang a bell and ignited some gunpowder. Marconi used Bose's invention, the mercury coherer, as a template to build his operational two-way radio. Bose never patented his work, so he was only credited with his discovery a century later, number 7, the USB. USB or universal serial bus is a much more recent invention than wireless communication, of course, brought to us by Aj Bott , an Indian-American computer genius who worked as an intelligence engineer in the 1990s and came up with the idea of ​​a universal device port while putting an SD card in his computer, remember those things, the device instantly became a big success.

The robot itself received no money or official recognition for his invention, as he always insisted that it was the result of today's teamwork. The number of USB devices used worldwide exceeds 10 billion items, making it the most widely used computing device. Yoga number eight. Press the Like button. If you have ever tried yoga, I have if you keep practicing it and see the positive changes in your life. then you

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India for it. The first yoga guru was Lord Shiva, also known as adi yoga. The people of northern India practiced this spiritual exercise more than 5,000 years ago.

The word yoga was even mentioned in the Vedas. The oldest sacred text in India. The brahmanas developed further. the art of yoga and documented their experiences in a treatise with more than 200 records. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came up with the idea of ​​celebrating Yoga Day on June 21 and now it is a true international holiday with millions of followers. Number nine. Natural fibers. Nothing feels better. that the contact of natural cotton on the skin, we could have been deprived of this situation if it were not for the brilliant minds of India, unlike the ancient Greeks who were animal skins, the Indians began to grow cotton in the 5th centuries and IV BC They use cotton threads to produce fabrics that soon became a

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success in the Mediterranean and beyond jute and wool they also have their origin in India and flush toilets were one of them, believe it or not, toilets household connected to a complicated sewage system with irrigation and smart channels.

Water management existed in the land of spices more than 5,000 years ago. Shampoo number 11, pure genius, the word shampoo comes from the Hindi word shampoo, which means to massage or knead. The substance was invented in India in 1762 and was originally used for head massages, hence the name. The first shampoo was made from natural oils and herbs. British colonial traders fell in love with the idea and brought it to England. It took years for the original head massage oil to evolve into shampoo as we know it today, but the fact remains a fact. you have to thank the

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ns for the beauty and cleanliness of your hair buttons number 12 this basic garment is at the top of our list so simple but revolutionary the first button was found during excavations in mohenjo-daro, one of the most large from the indus Valley civilization once again, more than 5000 years ago, the buttons were made of seashells and were used as decoration and not to fasten clothing, but they had two holes in the middle from the beginning, are there any Invention on the list that you can't live without?

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