Vedic Ion Engine Department of Aeronautical Engineering, MLR Institute of Technology  In 1895 on a beach in the city of Mumbai  (Bombay, Maharashtra, India), Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, a  Sanskrit scholar, proved that heavier-than-air flight was  indeed possible. Talpade put his knowledge of Sanskrit at the  disposal of his creative intellect and constructed an aircraft  according to the description given in the  rig-veda. it is  reported that this flying machine gained an altitude of 1500  ft. most aptly, he called his aircraft the "Marutsakha"- friend  of the wind. The engine now being developed for future use  by NASA, by some strange coincidence, also uses Mercury  bombardment units powered by Solar cells. not only had the  idea of an Ion Engine been conceived long before Dr  Goddard, but it had also been materialized in the form of  Talpade's Marutsakha Aircraft. Scientific thought began in  Vedic civilization earlier than in the West; we should not  ignore that fact ...
 
 
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