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Then Gehendra Shumsher got a change to work more freely than before. He
established factories to manufacture arms at Balaju, Jamal, Sundarijal and also
out of valley. To make arms and ammunition he used coal which was found in
Koilabas in Dang and Iron found in different parts of Nepal.

He was very creative. At the end of BS 1956, he imported a motor car of Ford
Company from Britain. Due to his creative character, he studied dissembling each
and every part of motor car in details in order to manufacture the same type of
motor parts in near future. Again assembled all the motor parts and gifted to king
Prithivi Bir Bikram Shah, as he wanted to have the car. He showed many scientific
miracles with the assistance of Muse Thapa. He invented rice mill, water pump
to draw underground water and skin tanning factory. He was the first person
in Nepal who generated electricity from Pharping Hydro Power Station during
the regime of Rana Prime Minister Chandra Shumsher. The total capacity of
electricity generated was 500 KW.
During the premiership of Dev Shumsher he was sent to Japan with his 5 members
team to learn Japanese Technology. He manufactured rifles named as Ge-rifle
after his name. Similarly, he manufactured Bir Gun, Dhir Gun, double barreled
machine Gun, four barreled cannon, small cannon balls and small pocket rifles. In
this way he established himself as a great scientist of Nepal.
In 1963, on the occasion of Dashain festival while greeting Chandra Shumsher,
then Rana Prime minister, bowed down to salute, unfortunately a pistol fell down
from the pocket of Gehendra. Chandra Shumsher imprisoned him and after one
year, in BS 1964 Gehendra died mysteriously at the age of 35. After his death
most of the factories were closed down. The country had great loss due to the
untimely death of a great scientist. His creations are still preserved in Chhauni
Museum, Kathmandu.

Rajesh Poudyal is a scientist who works at NASA Goddard
space Flight Centre since 1996 till the date. He was born on
4 Mangshir 2027 (19 Nov.1970) in Naxal, Kathmandu and
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completed schooling from Himalaya Vidya Mandir and I.Sc from
Amrit Science College. He is working in NASA as Research
Scientist. He is mostly doing research on environment, soil,
Climate, Support for Endangered species etc. Rajesh Poudyal

Dr. Eklabya Sharma is an ecologist and scientist in ICIMOD
(International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development)
with over 30 years of experiences in developing managing
and implementing programmes mainly on Sustainable
natural resources management in the Hindukush Himalayan
Region. He contributed in family system, Natural Resource
Management Environment change and Ecosystem Service.
He published 18 books. Dr. Eklabya Sharma

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