Ardaseer Cursetjee
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Ardaseer Cursetjee
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Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia FRS was an Indian Parsi shipbuilder and engineer belonging to the Wadia ship building family. He is noted for having been the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is also recorded as having introduced several novel technologies to the city of Bombay, including gas lighting, the sewing machine, steam pump-driven irrigation and electro-plating. He is presumed to be the first Parsi to have visited America (1851).
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Indian technical pioneer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardaseer_Cursetjee
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2024-03-02T15:04:00Z
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