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Cursetjee is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ardaseer Cursetjee (1808–1877), Indian shipbuilder * Manockjee Cursetjee Manockjee Cursetjee (also Manekji Khurshedji Shroff) (1808–1887) was a Parsi businessman and judge from Bombay, remembered as a reformer and proponent of female education. Life Cursetjee was the son of Cursetjee Manockjee Shroff, and had an E ... (1808–1887), Parsi businessman and judge {{Short pages monitor ...
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Ardaseer Cursetjee
Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia FRS (6 October 1808 – 16 November 1877) was an Indian Parsi shipbuilder and engineer belonging to the Wadia ship building family. 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. He is presumed to be the first Parsi to have visited America (1851). Biography 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 s ...
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