First in Science

• The first president of the inaugural
session of the Indian Science
Congress: Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee in
1914
• Hydroelectric plant: Sidrapong near
Darjeeling, commissioned in 1897,
followed by the Gaganachukki
waterfall of the Sivasamudram Falls,
Mysore Kingdom, built in 1902.
• Place to get electricity: Darjeeling in
1897, followed by Calcutta (now
Kolkata) in 1898 and Kolar Gold Fields
in 1902.
• Man in space: Rakesh Sharma
aboard Soyuz T-11, on 3 April 1984.
He was the 138th man in space
worldwide.
• Woman in space: Kalpana Chawla
aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight
STS-87, on 19 November 1997. She
was a naturalized United States
citizen, and represented the US
during the event. (data by facebook/
cnaonweb
• Test-tube baby: Durga Agarwal,
born 1978
• Scientific Expedition to Antarctica:
1981
• Nuclear Reactor: Apsara, Mumbai,
Maharashtra
• First Genetically Modified Food
Product in India: Bt. Egg plant
Hybrid (Bt. -- Bacilius thuringiensis)
• Satellite: Aryabhata, launched on 19
April 1975
• Satellite dedicated exclusively for
educational services: EDUSAT (data by
facebook/cnaonweb
• Successfully indigenous launch
vehicle: SLV-3
• Prospective space tourist: Santhosh
George Kulangara, proposed in 2009
aboard Virgin Galactic
• Cloned Animal: Bhass, sampura
(data by facebook/cnaonweb
• In 1850, the first experimental
electric telegraph line was started
between Kolkata and Diamond
Harbor. In 1851, it was opened for
the use of the British East India
Company
• 1854: Telegraph service opened to
the Public
• First telephone exchange: On 28
January 1882, Major E. Baring,
Member of the Governor General of
India's Council declared open the
Telephone Exchanges in
Calcutta,Bombay and Madras. The
exchange in Calcutta named the
"Central Exchange", was opened at
third floor of the building at 7,
Council House Street, with a total of
93 subscribers. Later that year,
Bombay also witnessed the opening
of a telephone exchange (data by
facebook/cnaonweb.
• 1902 - First wireless telegraph
station established between Sagar
Islands and Sandheads.
• 1907 - First Central Battery of
telephones introduced in Kanpur.
(data by facebook/cnaonweb
• 1913-1914 - First Automatic
Exchange installed in Shimla.
• 1927 - Radio-telegraph system
between the UK and India, with
Imperial Wireless Chain beam
stations at Khadki and Daund.
Inaugurated by Lord Irwin on 23 July
by exchanging greetings with King
George V.
• 1933 - Radiotelephone system
inaugurated between the UK and
India. (data by facebook/cnaonweb
• 1953 - 12 channel carrier system
introduced.
• 1960 - First subscriber trunk dialing
route commissioned between Lucknow
and Kanpur.
• 1975 - First PCM system
commissioned between Mumbai City
and Andheri telephone exchanges.
• 1976 - First digital microwave
junction introduced.
• 1979 - First optical fibre system for
local junction commissioned at Pune.
(data by facebook/cnaonweb
• 1980 - First satellite earth station
for domestic communications
established at Secunderabad, A.P.
• 1983 - First analog Stored Program
Control exchange for trunk lines
commissioned at Mumbai.
• 1984 - First Underground Metro
Railways System at Calcutta.
• 1984 - C-DOT established for
indigenous development and
production of digital exchanges. (data
by facebook/cnaonweb
• 1990 - First technology park in
India, Technopark, Trivandrum was
launched (data by facebook/cnaonweb
• 1995 - First mobile telephone
service started on non-commercial
basis on 15 August 1995 in Delhi.
Medical science
• First Graduate in Medicine: Surjo
Kumar Chakraborty
• First Ever Rhinoplasty noted in
world/India: Over Ksatji a British
soldier by a Kumhar Vaidya. (data by
facebook/cnaonweb
• First physician in India and second
in the world to perform the In vitro
fertilization: Subhash Mukhopadhyay.