The world’s first computer programmer- Ada Lovelace

The world’s first computer programmer lived in the 1800s. Yes, it is true. Ms. Lovelace worked on mathematician Charles Babbage’s early general-purpose computer and was able to have the first algorithm be processed by a machine.  The field of computer programming was born. It might not have been the hottest field in the 1840s, but today it develops the software and applications that we use to run our cyber lives. Programming is how humans and machines communicate, and that abstract idea was born well over 100 years ago, thanks to Ms. Lovelace. If you thought your computer programming 101 class was tough to pass, just remember Ada Lovelace.

Interesting Facts About Dr.Babasaheb Amedkar

All we know about Dr.Babasaheb Amedkar is a known personality to design the constitutional rules or a leader of specific boundary structure made in India.

But to be honest it’s not so easy to score a class I degree and achieve where the domination against a specific community is in practice.

Let’s have a look about facts that commonly not discussed: -

-         Only an Indian who top in top world 1st talented person, according to Cambridge University, England 2011.

-          Noble prize with Title "Dr. Ambedkar is my Father in Economics".

-          For three years, he fought to get the 'Hindu Code Bill' a women's Rights’ passed.

-          Below listed laws for womens have been framed by him when the time no one gave power to women even if they are from so called upper society, (laws for Women labour's in India -1946).

o   Mines Maternity Benefit Act,

§  First Maternity Benefits Act passed in India in 1929 by the Bombay legislature.

o   Women Labour welfare fund,

o   Women and Child, Labour Protection Act,

o   d. Maternity Benefit for women Labour,

o    Restoration of Ban on Employment of Women on Underground work in Coal Mines,

o   Equal pay for equal work irrespective of the sex.

(We All remember only KaviManyu Bharathi for writing Tamil poem’s on women empowerment forgetting the man to made effort to realize that women is equal to man and made it to be strong in action through enforcing the law.)

-          Voting Rights To All Indian and all Women: He set the democratic ‘Adult franchise(Mostly the Right to vote was given only to those the rich, the landed and the tax payers.)

-          Conceptualized the reserve bank of India.

-          His Ph.D thesis, "The Problem of the Rupee- Its Problems and Its Solution” was the reference tool and guidelines for the RBI Act 1934.

-          Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar book, "Thoughts on Linguistic States", was written in 1955. His ideas were proved right and his assessment of the creation of new states in the federal polity is relevant in post-Independent India.

-          India's 1st Law Minister. Only an Indian whose photo in London Museum along with Karl Marx.

-          He incorporated the wheel of Dhamma chakra also known as 'Ashoka Chakra' in the Indian national flag and the Lions from an Ashoka Pillar at Sarnath was adopted as National Emblem.

-          Chief adversary to the Indian National Congress.

-          1st Ph.D in Economics and 1st double doctorate in Economics in South Asia.

-                                            Dr.Ambedkar was instrumental in creating and outlined the projects,

 o   Damodar Valley project ( the first multipurpose river valley project in India ) in 1944 on the lines of Tennessee Valley Authority,

 o   Bhakra-Nangal dam ( India's biggest multipurpose river valley project, Highest gravity dam in India ),

 o   The Sone River Valley projects and

 o   Hirakud dam ( Longest dam in India )

- He only initiated and was behind setting up the Central Technical Power Board (CTPB) on 8th November 1944 for power system development, hydro power station sites, hydro-electric surveys, analysing problems of electricity generation and thermal power station investigation which was subsequently merged with CWPINC and became Central Water and Power Commission (CWPC) in April 1951.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:-

1.                  B.A - (Politics and Economics) Bombay University in 1912. 

2.                  M.A - (Economics - For his thesis ‘Ancient Indian Commerce’) in America in 1915.

3.                  Ph.d - (Economics - For his thesis ‘The evolution of provincial finance in British India’) in Columbia University, America in 1917

4.                  D.Sc - (Thesis - ‘Problem of the Rupee - Its origin and its solution’) in London School of Economics in 1923.

5.                  M.Sc – (Economics – For his thesis ‘Provincial Decentralisation of Imperial Finance in British India’) London.

6.                  Bar-At-Law - Gray’s Inn in London, 1923. Political Economics - Germany.

7.                  LLD - (Honoris) Columbia University, New York, For his achievements of leadership and authoring the Constitution of India.

8.                  D.Litt - (Honoris) Osmania University, Hyderabad, For his achievements, Leadership and writing the constitution of India.

Can refer to the below link for more details
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-lesser-known-facts-about-Dr-BR-Ambedkar

Henry H. Rogers

Henry Huttleston Rogers (January 29 1840 – May 19 1909) was a United States capitalist, businessman, industrialist, financier, and philanthropist. He was one of the key men in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust


In the spirit of Horatio Alger, "Hen" Rogers, a child of working-class parents, amassed a fortune such that he was listed in a 1996 study as one of the 25 all-time most wealthy individuals in United States history.

As a youth, Hen Rogers was only an average student. He carried newspapers and he worked in his father's grocery store as a teenager. He was in the first graduating class of the local high school in 1857. He then hired on with the Old Colony Railroad as a brakeman, working for several years and saving his money.




In 1861, 21-year-old Henry pooled his savings of approximately $600 with a friend, Charles Ellis. They set out to western Pennsylvania and its newly discovered oil fields, where the young partners began their small Wamsutta Oil Refinery at McClintocksville near Oil City. The old Native American name "Wamsutta" was apparently selected in honor of their hometown area of New England, where Wamsutta Company in nearby New Bedford had opened in 1846, and was a major employer. The Wamsutta Company was the first of many textile mills that gradually came to supplant whaling as the principal employer in New Bedford.




Rogers and Ellis and their tiny refinery made $30,000 their first year. This amount was more than three entire whaling ship trips from back home could hope to earn during an average voyage of more than a years' duration. Of course, he was regarded as very successful when Rogers returned home to Fairhaven for a short vacation the next year.
 
 
 
Rogers conceived the idea of long pipe lines for transporting oil and natural gas. In 1881, the National Transit Company was formed by Standard Oil to own and operate Standard's pipelines. The National Transit Company remained one of Rogers' favorite projects throughout the rest of his life.
 
East Ohio Gas Company (EOG) was incorporated on September 8, 1898, as a marketing company for the National Transit Company, the natural gas arm of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. The company launched its business by selling to consumers in northeast Ohio gas produced by another National Transit subsidiary, Hope Natural Gas Company.
 
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/henry-h-rogers/seeking-his-fortune.html