[Commons-Law] Remembering J.C. Bose...

[Hasit seth]

Hi to each one of everyone,

    Have you ever thought about how invention is created in first
place? that how hard it can be? and whether capturing it in IP or
making it public is only secondary to inventing in first place?

    This wonderful piece:
http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/~demerson/bose/bose.html explains just that.
The hero of the story is none other than Jagdish Chandra Bose. The
inventor of radio transmission, chrestograph and many many other
instruments. This site has fantastic pictures of his inventions.
Ladies and Gentlemen, please note the place and time of these
inventions: India (Calcutta, as it then was) and the approx year 1890!
 I can only imagine Bose's difficulties: his starting point was just
few equations, nothing was known about radio transmission, properties
of radio waves unknown, no equipments (he invented the equipment
himself).

    Bose chose to make his work public, unlike Marconi. I cannot help
thinking what would have been India's technical progress had Bose
aggressively pursued commercialization of his radio, semiconductors
and instrumentation inventions.  May be Motorola would be Indirola,
Qualcomm would be Indicom and so on (these companies have done great
research, no offense to their R&D work). Why did this not happen here
in India despite of a such a flying start given by J.C. Bose?

Regards,
Hasit