unres ... First of all thank you for the PM ...my dear adia 🤗
Akbar and Technology - (Part - 3)
Other Applications of Gearing: Cart-mill & Gun-barrel Boring :
This whole paragraph mentions that the first cart - mill was invented in india during Akbar's reign ... 👏👏 worth appreciating !!!!
But a question, u mentioned that "This invention must have been made in the 1580s during Fathu'llah Shirazi's presence at Akbar's court." ( Adia was this invention made by Akbar himself or by Fathu'llah Shirazi ...??? )
Mills geared to cart-wheels and thus working as the cart moved are known in Europe only from the seventeenth century. (Seems Akbar and his Hindustan was ahead of Renaissance Europe 😉) (Yeah man ...!!! this is such a proud feeling ... damn ... that statement right now is making me feel really proud to be Indian 👍🏼 !!! This marvel personality is driving me insane ...indeed indian's were always ahead of the time 😉... no wonder why brit's were bowled over by "Us Indians" ...😆 )
Handguns and Cannon :
Abu'l Fazl in his short chapter on cannon-pieces (A'in-i-Akbari), attributes to Akbar two inventions which need more than passing consideration. First, 'he had one [cannon-piece] made, which they can easily transport during expeditions by separating the parts. When it needs to be fired, it can be very well assembled together'. The second invention was that 'he imparted to seventeen [cannon-pieces] such unison that one match can fire all of them'. ( @ bold - You cant be serious adia ... 😲 ... woow ... I just cant believe this ...😲 amazing invention 👏👏👏 )
Ship-Building : (I just totally loved this whole para ...❤️)
Sind was annexed to Akbar's empire only in 1591, so that the port of Thatta (with its outer port at Bandar Lahiri) now passed into his hands. Sind lacks timber, and so Akbar had the ingenious idea of building ships at Lahore, some 650 miles distant from Thatta as the crow flies, but linked to it by the Indus river-system. Lahore, in turn, had the advantage of proximity to Himalayan sources of timber. ( So since their was lack of timber in sind he got the idea of building the ships from a place where timber can be easily available & also it can be delivered to the thatta port ... woahh ... !!! what an imagination ... this guy had some serious brain to come with such idea's 👏👏)
Akbar was so interested in sea shipping that he even built a vessel, modeled after a sea-going ghurab (small vessel, galley), to ply on the Jhelam river and the linked lakes in Kashmir. This is said to have caused general wonder among the beholders; and Akbar himself took a ride on it in July 1597 (Akbarnama). ( Adia ... what is this man .. exactly ???... is he a "Superman" or something ... ??? i dont know about other's but for me he is definitely my 16th century superman ❤️ ... hats off ... 👏👏 )
I am completely swept away with this info u have provided adia ...,i am already a fan ... but right now i have become an AC ... 😆
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