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  1. My article on the do check out and subscribe for more such posts.

    sadashree.substack.com/p/bhopa

  2. #TodayInHistory German meterologist, geophysicist, Alfred Wegener comes up with his landmark theory of Continental Drift in 1912, where he suggests that all the continents drifted away from one big super continent, gradually.

    #continentaldrift #geology

  3. #TodayInHistory Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse demonstrated the telegraph system using dots and dashes in 1838, this code would be the predecessor for the Morse Code. Vail was also responsible for many innovations like the sending key, relay registers in telegraphy.

    #samuelmorse #morsecode

  4. #TodayInHistory Ford Motors announces an 8 hour workday, as well as setting the minimum wage at 5$ per day, in 1914, one radical step, that shot up it's productivity and proft, forcing it's competitors to follow suit.

    Wall Street Journal on Ford's decision-

    "To apply biblical or spiritual principles into a field where they do not belong ... (Ford has) committed economic blunders, if not crimes."

    Ford doubled their profits, media as usual never get it's right.

    #fordmotor

  5. Sadly his poor health meant Ramanujan had to return back to India, and he passed away in Kumbakonam on April 26, 1920, he was just 32, a beautiful mind, that left the world at a very young age.

    However his wife Janaki Ammal, took up the cause of her husband’s work. Though having no children, she adopted Narayanan in 1950 who later became an officer with SBI. And ensured his work reached public. #SrinivasaRamanujan

  6. In March 1916, Ramanujan was awarded the Doctorate for his research on highly composite numbers. Hardy later remarked that this was one of the most unusual papers he had ever seen.

    Both of them had contrasting ways of working, Hardy followed the Western model of proof and rigor, and was an atheist. Ramanujan was a devout believer and often relied on intuition and gut feeling. It was the perfect mix of East and West. #SrinivasaRamanujan

  7. Some of his friends like Spring, Narayana Iyer, Ramachandra Rao and Middlemast, helped him to send his work for Cambridge University, but he was rejected due to lack of formal educational qualifications.

    In 1913 Middlemast, Narayana Iyer and Ramachandra Rao, presented Ramanujan’s work to British mathematicians. MJM Hill rejected him saying that though he was talented, he did not have a formal educational background, but he gave him valuable suggestions.

    #SrinivasaRamanujan

  8. In 1912, he applied for the post of a clerk in Accounts Dept at Madras Port Trust, with a letter of recommendation from his Maths Professor, E.W.Middlemast at Presidency which ensured he got the job.

    During his spare time, he would still continue his research in mathematics. He was encouraged by his boss, Sir Francis Spring and his colleague, S.Narayana Iyer. #SrinivasaRamanujan

  9. He however wanted a regular job to make ends meet, Iyer felt that a genius like him should not be wasted in clerical jobs. He sent letters to his friends in Madras, one of em was R.Ramachandra Rao, the district collector of Nellore.

    I was struck by the extraordinary mathematical results contained in the notebooks. I had no mind to smother his genius by an appointment in the lowest rungs of the revenue department. -R.Ramachandra Rao on #SrinivasaRamanujan

  10. The book that influenced Ramanujan the most though was Synopsis of Pure Mathematics by G.K.Carr that had around 5000 theorems, when he was 16. .The book a collection of around 5000 theorems, stoked his curiosity, made him explore mathematics much more deeper.

    The following year, Ramanujan, developed and investigated the Bernoulli numbers, calculated the Euler-Mascheroni constant up to 15 decimal places, winning him a new found respect among his peers. #SrinivasaRamanujan

  11. The Man Who Knew Infinity, birth anniversary of #SrinivasaRamanujan today, one of the greatest mathematicians of modern era, a genius like none other, a true maverick.

    The world of mathematics owes a great debt to India , because this is the land from which the basic theories of mathematics have originated. Aryabhatta who contributed the number-place value system and the concept of zero, as well as calculating the area of the triangle.

  12. #TodayInHistory Japanese forces begin the final assault on Nanking in 1937, during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War, the city would fall by December 13, leading to the terrible Rape of Nanking or Nanking massacre which would see close to 300,000 dead, widespread rapes, murders.

    #sinojapan #Japan #china #nanking

  13. Japanese forces begin the final assault on Nanking in 1937, during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War, the city would fall by December 13, leading to the terrible Rape of Nanking or Nanking massacre which would see close to 300,000 dead, widespread rapes, murders.

  14. #TodayInHistory Japanese forces begin the final assault on Nanking in 1937, during the 2nd Sino-Japanese War, the city would fall by December 13, leading to the terrible Rape of Nanking or Nanking massacre which would see close to 300,000 dead, widespread rapes, murders.

    #sinojapan #Japan #china #nanking

  15. #TodayInHistory Luftwaffe bombing raid on the Italian port city of Bari in 1943, devastates the harbor,sinking many ships, as well as releasing mustard gas from one of the cargoes, that claimed more lives. Around 27 ships were sunk.

    #worldwar2 #Italy #italianhistory

  16. was the worst industrial disaster ever in India. The scarier part is no lessons have been learnt after the tragedy, and it is waiting to happen in every city in India.

  17. #BhopalGasTragedy was the worst industrial disaster ever in India. The scarier part is no lessons have been learnt after the tragedy, and it is waiting to happen in every city in India.

    #bhopal #lestweforget

  18. #BhopalGasTragedy was the worst industrial disaster ever in India. The scarier part is no lessons have been learnt after the tragedy, and it is waiting to happen in every city in India.

    #bhopal #lestweforget

  19. #BhopalGasTragedy was the worst industrial disaster ever in India. The scarier part is no lessons have been learnt after the tragedy, and it is waiting to happen in every city in India.

    #bhopal #lestweforget

  20. #BhopalGasTragedy was the worst industrial disaster ever in India. The scarier part is no lessons have been learnt after the tragedy, and it is waiting to happen in every city in India.

    #bhopal #lestweforget

  21. There is a lot more to be said,but the sight of Warren Anderson, the Union Carbide chairman being escorted out of the country, with the help of the Government then, was rankling. In any law abiding country, Warren Anderson, would have been made to face the full force of law and prosecution. Here he got a special flight out of the country with support from the Central Govt.

  22. There is a lot more to be said,but the sight of Warren Anderson, the Union Carbide chairman being escorted out of the country, with the help of the Government then, was rankling. In any law abiding country, Warren Anderson, would have been made to face the full force of law and prosecution. Here he got a special flight out of the country with support from the Central Govt.

    #bhopalgastragedy #bhopal

  23. There is a lot more to be said,but the sight of Warren Anderson, the Union Carbide chairman being escorted out of the country, with the help of the Government then, was rankling. In any law abiding country, Warren Anderson, would have been made to face the full force of law and prosecution. Here he got a special flight out of the country with support from the Central Govt.

    #bhopalgastragedy #bhopal

  24. There is a lot more to be said,but the sight of Warren Anderson, the Union Carbide chairman being escorted out of the country, with the help of the Government then, was rankling. In any law abiding country, Warren Anderson, would have been made to face the full force of law and prosecution. Here he got a special flight out of the country with support from the Central Govt.

    #bhopalgastragedy #bhopal

  25. There is a lot more to be said,but the sight of Warren Anderson, the Union Carbide chairman being escorted out of the country, with the help of the Government then, was rankling. In any law abiding country, Warren Anderson, would have been made to face the full force of law and prosecution. Here he got a special flight out of the country with support from the Central Govt.

    #bhopalgastragedy #bhopal

  26. By December 3 early morning thousands were dead in Bhopal, the worst affected were children, owing to their height, as MIC due to it's density tends to be on ground more. Over 16,000 were claimed to be dead, and around 550,000 permanently affected with some form of illness or other.

    The tragedy was terrible, but what was even worse was that it could have been prevented.

  27. By December 3 early morning thousands were dead in Bhopal, the worst affected were children, owing to their height, as MIC due to it's density tends to be on ground more. Over 16,000 were claimed to be dead, and around 550,000 permanently affected with some form of illness or other.

    The tragedy was terrible, but what was even worse was that it could have been prevented.

    #bhopalgastragedy #bhopal

  28. By December 3 early morning thousands were dead in Bhopal, the worst affected were children, owing to their height, as MIC due to it's density tends to be on ground more. Over 16,000 were claimed to be dead, and around 550,000 permanently affected with some form of illness or other.

    The tragedy was terrible, but what was even worse was that it could have been prevented.

    #bhopalgastragedy #bhopal

  29. By December 3 early morning thousands were dead in Bhopal, the worst affected were children, owing to their height, as MIC due to it's density tends to be on ground more. Over 16,000 were claimed to be dead, and around 550,000 permanently affected with some form of illness or other.

    The tragedy was terrible, but what was even worse was that it could have been prevented.

    #bhopalgastragedy #bhopal