The contribution of Indian dalits to rocket technology

Ultimate Dalit wrote:In one of the earlier battles between Tipu Sultan, the great ruler of Karnataka, and the British the latter were completely devastated by a peculiar weapon used by Tipu: long range rockets. These rockets were made by dalit artisan-technologists with no formal training but they completely devastated and demoralized the British and forced them to retreat.

harharmahadev wrote:

Ultimate Dalit wrote:In one of the earlier battles between Tipu Sultan, the great ruler of Karnataka, and the British the latter were completely devastated by a peculiar weapon used by Tipu: long range rockets. These rockets were made by dalit artisan-technologists with no formal training but they completely devastated and demoralized the British and forced them to retreat.

That's not possible ... unless you mean that dalits were strapped with explosives and catapulted into the British army.  Dalits were the long range rockets.

Ultimate Dalit wrote:

harharmahadev wrote:

Ultimate Dalit wrote:In one of the earlier battles between Tipu Sultan, the great ruler of Karnataka, and the British the latter were completely devastated by a peculiar weapon used by Tipu: long range rockets. These rockets were made by dalit artisan-technologists with no formal training but they completely devastated and demoralized the British and forced them to retreat.

That's not possible ... unless you mean that dalits were strapped with explosives and catapulted into the British army.  Dalits were the long range rockets.

Read this:

http://www.nal.res.in/pdf/pdfrocket.pdf

harharmahadev wrote:

Ultimate Dalit wrote:

harharmahadev wrote:

Ultimate Dalit wrote:In one of the earlier battles between Tipu Sultan, the great ruler of Karnataka, and the British the latter were completely devastated by a peculiar weapon used by Tipu: long range rockets. These rockets were made by dalit artisan-technologists with no formal training but they completely devastated and demoralized the British and forced them to retreat.

That's not possible ... unless you mean that dalits were strapped with explosives and catapulted into the British army.  Dalits were the long range rockets.

Read this:

http://www.nal.res.in/pdf/pdfrocket.pdf

I read the entire article.  It clearly states that the rockets were invented long before Tipu.  There is evidence that rockets were used in 11th/12th century.

Tu bhi na ....typical dalit.  

Ultimate Dalit wrote:The range of the indian rockets of Tipu Sultan was later found to be twice the range of the contemporary British rockets. This investigation was done by a British rocket expert who then went about studying the design of the Indian rockets so as to improve upon the range of the existing British rockets

harharmahadev wrote:

Ultimate Dalit wrote:The range of the indian rockets of Tipu Sultan was later found to be twice the range of the contemporary British rockets. This investigation was done by a British rocket expert who then went about studying the design of the Indian rockets so as to improve upon the range of the existing British rockets

The British rocket expert must have been a dalit.  

Ultimate Dalit wrote:

harharmahadev wrote:

Ultimate Dalit wrote:The range of the indian rockets of Tipu Sultan was later found to be twice the range of the contemporary British rockets. This investigation was done by a British rocket expert who then went about studying the design of the Indian rockets so as to improve upon the range of the existing British rockets

The British rocket expert must have been a dalit.  

His name is given in the article whose link i gave. It is Sir William Congreve.