Ishwar Das Varshnei
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Ishwar Das Varshnei
http://www.wikitree.org/index.php?title=Ishwar_Das_Varshnei (died 1948) was the father of the glass
industry in India
. He was born in Aligarh and was the son of Lala Jagannath Prasad and grandson of Lala Gabdamal, famous cloth merchants in Sikandra Rao
. He received the S. B. in Chemical Engineering
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1906 and he was the first Indian student to graduate from MIT.
Known for his dreams and vision of a modern India, he started the first glass factory by the name of Paisa Fund Glass Works in Talegaon near Poona with the help of Bal Gangadhar Tilak
. Later he established the first flat glass factory in Bahjoi
by the name of United Provinces Glass Works, incorporated as a limited liability company in 1916. He was assisted by his wife Vidya Devi Varshnei in times of struggle. An able scholar and industrialist, he was instrumental in starting country level organizations like AIGMF http://www.aigmf.com/aigmf/aboutus.htm(All India Glass Manufacturers' Federation), CGCRI http://www.cgcri.res.in/ (Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute), and IDTI (Ishwar Das Technical Institute).
He died in 1948 and was survived by three of his four sons. The eldest, Bishambar Dayal Varshnei http://www.wikitree.org/index.php?title=Bishambar_Dayal_Varshnei, who died in 1939, is credited with the introduction of sheet glass manufacturing (with the Fourcault process
) to Continental Asia (ex-Japan) in the 1920s.
The I. D. Varshnei Memorial Lecture http://www.cgcri.res.in/incers/lecture.html of the Indian Ceramic Society http://www.cgcri.res.in/incers/ is given in his honor.
Varshney
Varshney, Varshnei, Varshnai, Varshnaya, Varshni, Vrishni or Vrushni are family names from India. They are variant spellings of the name Varshneya, first recorded in the Mahābhārata as used by Arjuna to address Vasudeva Krishna...
http://www.wikitree.org/index.php?title=Ishwar_Das_Varshnei (died 1948) was the father of the glass
Glass
Glass is an amorphous solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica plus Na2O, CaO, and several minor additives...
industry in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. He was born in Aligarh and was the son of Lala Jagannath Prasad and grandson of Lala Gabdamal, famous cloth merchants in Sikandra Rao
Sikandra Rao
Sikandra Rao is a city and a municipal board in Hathras district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.- Demographics : India census, Sikandra Rao had a population of 38,485. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. In Sikandra Rao, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age....
. He received the S. B. in Chemical Engineering
Chemical engineering
Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
in 1906 and he was the first Indian student to graduate from MIT.
Known for his dreams and vision of a modern India, he started the first glass factory by the name of Paisa Fund Glass Works in Talegaon near Poona with the help of Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Lokmanya Tilak –, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer and independence fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The British colonial authorities derogatorily called the great leader "Father of the Indian unrest"...
. Later he established the first flat glass factory in Bahjoi
Bahjoi
Bahjoi is a town and a municipal board in Bhimnagar district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the districtheadquarter of Bhimnagar district.It is in Chandausi Tehsil..-Geography:...
by the name of United Provinces Glass Works, incorporated as a limited liability company in 1916. He was assisted by his wife Vidya Devi Varshnei in times of struggle. An able scholar and industrialist, he was instrumental in starting country level organizations like AIGMF http://www.aigmf.com/aigmf/aboutus.htm(All India Glass Manufacturers' Federation), CGCRI http://www.cgcri.res.in/ (Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute), and IDTI (Ishwar Das Technical Institute).
He died in 1948 and was survived by three of his four sons. The eldest, Bishambar Dayal Varshnei http://www.wikitree.org/index.php?title=Bishambar_Dayal_Varshnei, who died in 1939, is credited with the introduction of sheet glass manufacturing (with the Fourcault process
Fourcault process
The Fourcault Process is a method of manufacturing flat glass. First developed in Belgium by Émile Fourcault during the early 1900s, the process was used globally. Fourcault is an example of a "vertical draw" process, in that the glass is drawn against gravity in an upward direction...
) to Continental Asia (ex-Japan) in the 1920s.
The I. D. Varshnei Memorial Lecture http://www.cgcri.res.in/incers/lecture.html of the Indian Ceramic Society http://www.cgcri.res.in/incers/ is given in his honor.