Engineer's Day 2022: Famous Indian Engineers Who Changed the World

By Team Aakash Byju's

Do you know India produces the second-highest number of engineers in the world every year?

Today on Engineer’s Day, let's celebrate 5 such famous Indian Engineers who changed the world forever.

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Sir M Visvesvaraya

He was born on 15th september, 1860, and is known as India’s most genius national engineer, economic expert and statesman.

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Satish Dhawan

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Born on 25th September, 1920, he made his mark as the father of experimental fluid dynamics in India. He was an aerospace engineer and a mathematician by profession.

G.D Naidu

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He was born on 23rd March, 1893 and is known as Edison of India. He is credited with the manufacture of the first electric motor in India.

APJ Abdul Kalam

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He was born on 15th October, 1931. He was an aerospace engineer and was known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missiles and launch vehicle technology.

Chewang Norphel

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He is an Indian civil engineer from Ladakh, born in 1935, who solved Ladakh's water crisis. He put his engineering skills and created artificial glaciers to provide water in dry mountainous regions.