<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Engineer </Td> </Tr> <P> Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia FRS (6 October 1808--16 November 1877) born Parsi, an Indian shipbuilder and engineer belonging to the Wadia ship building family . </P> <P> He is noted for having been the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . He is also recorded as having introduced several (at the time) novel technologies to the city of Bombay (now Mumbai), including gas lighting, the sewing machine, steam pump - driven irrigation and electro - plating . </P> <P> Ardaseer Cursetjee was the son of Cursetjee Rustomjee, a scion of the wealthy Wadia family of shipbuilders and naval architects, who was a ship builder at the Bombay Dockyard (today, Mumbai's Naval Dockyard). In 1822, aged 14, Ardaseer joined his father at the dockyards . He is described to have been particularly interested in steam engines . In 1833, aged 25, he designed and launched a small 60 ton ocean - going ship called Indus . This ship would subsequently warrant a mention in his nomination for the Royal Society . In 1834, in the presence of the Governor of Bombay, he had his house and gardens at Mazgaon lit using gas lighting . He married a Parsi girl, Awahbai, and the couple had several children who subsequently became the initial members of the wealthy Wadia business family of India . </P>

First indian to be a fellow of the royal society of london
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