Nikola Tesla- great inventor

Niagara Falls is one of the most popular tourist spots and there is only one statue in the park- not any politician but an inventor, Nikola Tesla. Generating  electric power at the fall was not commercially attractive for a century as there was no technology to transmit power over long distance. The Niagara Falls Power company offered as much as $100,000/- as prize (Open Innovation challenge?) in 1900 for anyone who could develop a method to evacuate power. This became a reality few decades later by adopting Alternating Current technology contributed significantly by Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla. 

The Indian Abacus

Chinese Abacus , Japanese Abacus- everyone heard of them. But Indian Abacus- little known among general public yet creating wave of excitement among mathematics teachers and students has come from innovator M.S. Nethrapal, an IPS officer with a BTech from IIT Madras and MBA from IIM Bangalore. He invented the e-square-m speed maths and new abacus system which implements all the vedic operations in it.
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Gurtej Sandhu

Gurtej Sandhu is listed among the top 10 prolific innovators, he is ranked fifth with a patent portfolio of 576. He is an alumni of Guru Nanak Dev University ,physics graduate of 1983.
Gurtej S. Sandhu is the engineering manager responsible for directing strategic technology developments at Micron Technology, Inc. He received his degree in electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi and received a Ph.D. degree in physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1990. He then joined Micron Technology, where he has been in a number of engineering and management roles responsible for process technology development, pilot manufacturing and transfers to manufacturing. He has been involved with a broad range of process technologies, such as ion implantation, deposition technologies, plasma processing,
CMP, Litho and front-end and back-end module integration technologies for IC processing.
He has been associated with microelectronics technology for over 15 years and has pioneered a number of process technologies such as CVD Ti, Plasma MOCVD TiN among others, which are currently employed in mainstream IC manufacturing. Moreover, he has been associated with introduction of a number of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) based processes into IC manufacturing. Dr. Sandhu has authored over 75 technical papers .