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Mysore's Rockets Had Iron Bodies While Britain's Were Still Paper

Mysore's Rockets Had Iron Bodies While Britain's Were Still Paper. Here Is What the Eyewitnesses Actually Wrote, and What They Didn't

Special 77 · Technology / Knowledge Systems · Public

Around 1805 a Man Began a Town Well From the Stones of a Queen's Stepwell. River Mud Saved What He Couldn't Reach. Here Is What the Record Proves, and What the Legend Adds

A Town Well Built From the Stones of a Queen's Stepwell

Special 60 · Engineering / Knowledge Systems · Public

Aryabhata Said the Earth Spins in 499 CE. His Day Was 0.01 Seconds Off. Then India's Best Astronomers Spent 900 Years Un-Saying It

Aryabhata Said the Earth Spins in 499 CE

Special 46 · Astronomy / Knowledge Systems · Public

Portrait of Sir Thomas Munro by Martin Archer Shee beside the words “12,498 schools. Counted by the British.” — his minute of 10 March 1826

In 1826 the British Counted 12,498 Schools in Madras

Education / Indian History · Public Investigation

Panini Wrote a Grammar So Precise That Computer Scientists Noticed. Here Is What They Said, and What They Did Not Investigation thumbnail

Panini's Grammar Is So Precise Computer Scientists Noticed

Special 16 · Linguistics / Knowledge Systems · Public

Before Vaccines Had a Name, India Was Already Preventing Smallpox. A British Surgeon Wrote It Down in 1767. Here Is What His Letter Says. Investigation thumbnail

Before Vaccines Had a Name, India Was Preventing Smallpox

Special 09 · Medicine / Knowledge Systems · Public

In 1816 an English Surgeon Rebuilt Lost Noses and Wrote the Indian Method Into His Own Title. The Line Back to Sushruta Runs by Method, Not by Citation Investigation thumbnail

In 1816 an English Surgeon Rebuilt Noses the Indian Way

Special 08 · Medicine / Knowledge Systems · Public

Zero and Infinity, Bharat's Gift to the World: A Birch-Bark Notebook, a Rulebook From 628 CE, and Two Foreign Books That Named India Investigation thumbnail

Zero and Infinity: Bharat's Gift to the World

Special 06 · Mathematics / Knowledge Systems · Public

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India's 4,000-Year-Old "Dockyard" at Lothal Was First Printed With a Question Mark

India's 4,000-Year-Old "Dockyard" at Lothal Was First Printed With a Question Mark. Here Is What the Bricks Actually Prove

Special 78 · Engineering / Knowledge Systems · Research Access

The 'Leibniz' Series for Pi Was Written in a Kerala Verse Two Centuries Before Leibniz

The 'Leibniz' Series for Pi Was Written in a Kerala Verse Two Centuries Before Leibniz. Was It Calculus? Here Is What the Palm Leaves Prove

Special 76 · Mathematics / Knowledge Systems · Research Access

Britain Fined You £5 for Wearing It. France Banned It for 73 Years. Let Me Show You the Indian Chemistry Europe Struggled to Copy.

Britain Fined You £5 for Wearing It. France Banned It

Special 58 · Chemistry / Knowledge Systems · Research Access

Michael Faraday Tried to Copy Indian Steel in 1819 and Failed

Faraday Tried to Copy Indian Steel in 1819 and Failed

Special 57 · Metallurgy / Knowledge Systems · Research Access

Before Bristol Patented Zinc in 1738, a Valley Near Udaipur Had Been Distilling It for Centuries. 252 Clay Pots at a Time. Here Is What the Evidence Proves, and What It Doesn't

Before Bristol's 1738 Patent, Udaipur Was Distilling Zinc

Special 53 · Chemistry / Knowledge Systems · Research Access

You Were Told the Delhi Iron Pillar Never Rusts. It Does. Its Own Rust Then Guards the Iron, and IIT Kanpur Worked Out How

The Delhi Iron Pillar Does Rust, and Its Rust Guards It

Special 47 · Metallurgy / Knowledge Systems · Research Access

The "Fibonacci" Rule Was Written Down in India 400 to 600 Years Before Fibonacci, and the Problem Behind It Is About 1,400 Years Older Than His Book. It Came From Poetry, Not Math Investigation thumbnail

The "Fibonacci" Rule, in India 400 to 600 Years Earlier

Special 15 · Mathematics / Knowledge Systems · Research Access

Pythagoras's Theorem Was Written Down in India Centuries Before Pythagoras. "Sine" Was Born From a Translation Mistake. Madhava Had the Series Roughly 250 Years Before Newton. And One Popular Claim the Record Does Not Support Investigation thumbnail

India Wrote Down Pythagoras's Theorem Before Pythagoras

Special 07 · Mathematics / Knowledge Systems · Research Access