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Kasavu is a technique used in handlooms of Kerala, with very fine threads of gold or silver used in weave to make border lines and designs on silk and cotton fabrics. This technique later spread to most of India and the Kasav technique was developed for many other fabrics across India.
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (1977) History of Science and Technology in Ancient India: The Beginnings with a foreword by Joseph Needham. Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and culture, Volume 4. Fundamental Indian Ideas in Physics, Chemistry, Life Sciences and Medicine
Zinc was extracted in India as early as in the 4th to 3rd century BCE. Zinc production may have begun in India, and ancient northwestern India is the earliest known civilization that produced zinc on an industrial scale. [44] The distillation technique was developed around 1200 CE at Zawar in Rajasthan. [34]
A variant called a mundum neriyatum is used more often by women. The mundum neriyatum is a set of two mundus, both having matching kara.The set contains a lower garment similar to those worn by men.
Rabindranath Tagore was the first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize. [1] He received the prize for Literature in 1913.. The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences, [A ...
Kalamkari textile depicting Lord Vishnu's dashavtaras as well as Ganesha and a Śiva lingam, at British Museum.. Kalamkari is an ancient textile printing art form that evolved about 3000 years ago in the state of Andhra Pradesh. [13]
The following is a list of notable unsolved problems grouped into broad areas of physics. [1]Some of the major unsolved problems in physics are theoretical, meaning that existing theories seem incapable of explaining a certain observed phenomenon or experimental result.
Physics – branch of science that studies matter [9] and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. [10] Physics is one of the "fundamental sciences" because the other natural sciences (like biology, geology etc.) deal with systems that seem to obey the laws of physics. According to physics, the ...