G. D.

Naidu (Gopalaswamy Doraiswamy Naidu) (23 March 1893 4 January 1974) was a self-made- Indian- Inventor and Engineer belonging to Coimbatore. In spite of the fact that G.D.Naidu had attended only primary school and he was not having any technical or other qualification, he had innovative ideas in scientific applications. G.D. Naidu had invented many electrical and other equipments and he was called Edison of India.

G.D.Naidu contributed his innovative inventions and usages in the following fields: industrial electrical, mechanical, agricultural (Hybrid cultivation) and automobile engineering

Inventions & Later life

G.D. Naidu developed India's first indigenous motor in 1937

along with D. Balasundaram. It was the motor's success that resulted in the founding of Textool by Balasundaram and, later on, Lakshmi Machine Works (LMW). G.D.Naidu's inventions: Rasant' razor with a small motor operated by dry cells, Calculator, Super-thin shaving blades, Distance adjuster for film cameras, Fruit juice extractor, Tamper-proof vote-recording machine and Kerosene-run fan New varieties in Cotton, Maize and Papaya.

Early life
G.D. Naidu was born in a naidu family at

Kalangal,Coimbatore. Began his transport business in 1920, With the purchase of an automobile coach. In a few years, his Universal Motor Service (UMS) owned the most efficient fleet of public transport vehicles in the country. In 1937, the first motor to be produced in India, was brought out from G. D. Naidu's factory "NEW" (National Electric Works) at Peelamedu, Coimbatore

 Naidu's 'Rasant' razor incorporated a small motor operated

by dry cells, was made at a factory in the German town called Heilbronn. 3rd Prize for UMS Razor Company for Razor blades in an exhibition in 1936 in Leipzieg, Germany. In 1935, he personally filmed the funeral of King George V at London. Among the Indian stalwarts that Naidu's camera captured were Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru and Subash Chandra Bose.

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1944,India's first Polytechnic college was build in Coimbatore by GD Naidu in the name of Hope College and later the college moved to another place now it is called as Government College of Technology, the college was name after the then Madras governor Arthur Hope. In 1945, GD Naidu was the principal. He died on 4 January 1974. An Industrial Exhibition is held in Coimbatore, in his name. G. D. Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Coimbatore is named after him.

Personality traits
Innovative

Opportunistic

Determination

Self confidence

Down to earth