{"id":26846,"date":"2015-03-16T03:58:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T03:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/diary\/?p=26846"},"modified":"2021-06-11T10:45:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T10:45:39","slug":"was-shivkar-talpade-the-man-behind-first-airplane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/was-shivkar-talpade-the-man-behind-first-airplane\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Shivkar Talpade the man behind first airplane?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"38520354a5201685ddf480eec688e1a7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9477973674766713\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8885944693\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Airplane is one of the biggest and the most challenging inventions that human beings have achieved. It was December 17, 1903, when the most awaited and the most wondrous thing took place in the history of mankind. The Wright Brothers (Wilbur and Orvile) did something that is believed to be the first of its kind, and that human beings could not even think of it prior to that. They invented the first aircraft that was a breakthrough towards the start of air travel that was about to change the course of human travelling from one place to another.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Image Source : MagnificentMaharashtra.Files<\/p>\n<p>However, there is one theory that suggests that the Wright Brothers were not the first ones to invent a flying machine. 8 years before December 17 1903, something had happened on the Chowpatty Beach in Mumbai, India that makes everybody believe the airplane invented by Wright Brothers was not the first object that enabled human beings to fly in space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shivkar Bapuji Talpade<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-101844\" src=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2015\/03\/Shivkar-Bapuji-Talpade.jpg\" alt=\"Shivkar Bapuji Talpade\" width=\"800\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2015\/03\/Shivkar-Bapuji-Talpade.jpg 800w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2015\/03\/Shivkar-Bapuji-Talpade-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/drprem.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2015\/03\/Shivkar-Bapuji-Talpade-768x538.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>Image Source : hindujagruti.org<\/p><div class=\"38520354a5201685ddf480eec688e1a7\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9477973674766713\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8885944693\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Born in 1864 in Mumbai, Shivkar Bapuji Talpade lived in Mumbai and was a scholar of Sanskrit literature. You must be thinking what is with this man and that too in an article where we are mentioning Wright Brothers and the invention of the first airplane. Well, people he is the man, the Indian scholar who is believed to have constructed the first airplane that flew successfully in 1895, and it was unmanned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marutsakh\u0101 &#8211; first Indian unmanned plane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Image Source : TheForthRight.Com<\/p>\n<p>As Talpade was a Sanskrit scholar, he named his first invention, the first Indian unmanned plane \u201cMarutsakha,\u201d Marut means air or steam in Sanskrit, and Sakha means friend, together Marutsakha means the \u201cFriend of the Wind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flying machines were nothing new for India and Talpade probably took inspiration from the \u201cVimanas\u201d (flying vehicles) that have their description in Hindu scriptures. The fortunate date was December 17, 1903 when Talpade, his wife, his student Pt. S.D. Satawlekar, Mahadeva Govinda Ranade and H.H Sayaji Rao Gaekwad (famous Indian judge and a nationalist), and many other people were present to see a miracle that was about to take place at the Chowpatty Beach. 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