# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shankar-abaji-bhise
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:47:35.376Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shankar-abaji-bhise"
name: "Shankar Abaji Bhise"
slug: "shankar-abaji-bhise"
description: "Shankar Abaji Bhisey, Sunker Abaji Bhisey, Shanker Abaji Bhise or Sunker Bisey Abaji was a self-taught Indian inventor who was once called by the New York American as the \"Edison of India\". Sponsored by Indian nationalists, he moved to England where his inventions included a type-setting machine for the printing industry, an advertising innovation and so on. He then moved to the US where he designed a modification of the then popular ouija board where the supposed message of the spirit was printed onto a strip of paper. This spirit typewriter was patented in the US on 27 June 1922. He made no money from it but shortly after that he promoted a form of iodine termed as \"atomidine\" as a patent medicine, promoted by the American psychic Edgar Cayce, which earned him royalty and fame. He had nearly 200 inventions to his credit with 40 of them patented."
tagline: "Indian scientist and inventor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sunker_Abaji_Bisey_with_spirit_typewriter.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1867-04-29"
deathDate: "1935-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.04
  momentum:             11.84357541899441
  historical:           4.44428
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Shankar Abaji Bhise"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شانکار آباجی بیسی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "શંકર અબાજી ભિસે"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87"
    title: "शंकर अबाजी भिसे"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0_%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87"
    title: "शंकर आबाजी भिसे"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19881310"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump