Shankar Abaji Bhise
Dr. Shankar Abaji Bhise was an Indian scientist.Details
Shankar Bhise was born in a Marathi CKP family in Bombay on 29 April 1867. His father was the Sardar Amin of Surat. At the age of six, his curiosity led him to examine the workings of a clock that was situated in a statue and which caused the statue's eyes to move in harmony with the swinging of its pendulum.
Bhise has to his credit 200 inventions, for about 40 of which he took patents. In 1910, Sir Ratan Tata set up the Tata-Bhise invention syndicate in order to finance Bhise’s inventions. Among his inventions were a washing compound and type-caster machines, including the Bhisotype which could output 1,200 characters a minute.
