Scientific advances in the West inevitably had repercussions on India. Travel was accelerated, with trains, motor cars – even the bicycle! The pioneering work of Louis Pasteur, improvements in instruments like the sextant, used to measure the altitude of the sun, and globes to chart planetary paths – all these contributed to the development of the scientific temper

Travel speeds up with the steam engine…
Travel speeds up with the steam engine…
the automobile…
the automobile…
Louis Pasteur’s laboratory.
Louis Pasteur’s laboratory.
"Astronomical instrument."
"Astronomical instrument."
the bicycle.
the bicycle.