- @Amrapali #img-anno http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-23b0c99fdb41c398173d5f69f5c7eb57?convert_to_webp=true {u'shapes': [{u'geometry': {u'y': 0.03551912568306011, u'x': 0.9030927835051547, u'width': 0.04123711340206182, u'height': 0.07103825136612021}, u'type': u'rect'}], u'src': u'http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-23b0c99fdb41c398173d5f69f5c7eb57?convert_to_webp=true', u'context': u'http://testapp.swtr.us/annotate?where=http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-23b0c99fdb41c398173d5f69f5c7eb57?convert_to_webp=true', u'comment': u'Acharya Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose : Father of Radio\n\nSir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a genius polymath who made significant contribution in the field of radio optics, physics, biology, botany, archaeology and science fiction. He was the first person to discover that plant has life and invented the crescograph to measure plants\' response to various stimuli.\n\nHe is considered to be one of the fathers of radio science by IEEE and improved on coherer which is used in radios. Unfortunately he did not get his work patented as his ideology was Knowledge should be free. It was Marconi who used this device to make radios a commercial success and got it patented. In 1909 Marconi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, something which J.C.Bose deserved.\n \nIn a letter to Rabindranath Tagore J C Bose\u2019s wrote:\n\n(In context of his 1901 lecture at the Royal Society, 17th May 1901, reproduced):\n\nA short time before my lecture, a multi-millionaire proprietor of a very famous telegraph company telegraphed me with an urgent request to meet me. I replied that I had no time. In response he said that he is coming to meet me in person and within a short time he himself arrived with patent forms in hand. He made\nan earnest request to me not to divulge all valuable research results in today\'s lecture : "There is money in it -- let me take out patent for you. You do not know what money you are throwing away" etc. Of course, " I will only take half share in the profit -- I will finance it" etc.\n\nThis multi-millionaire has come to me like a beggar for making some more profits. Friend, you would have seen the greed and hankering after money in this country, - money, money - what a terrible all pervasive greed ! If I once get sucked into this terrible trap, there wont\' be any escape ! See, the research that I have been dedicated to doing, is above commercial profits. I am getting older - I am not getting enough time to do what I had set out to do -- I refused him.\n\nOne hundred years back radio was his gift to the world...'} created: Wed, 10 Sep 2014, 08:04 PM UTC