The man, who is credited for developing a Crescograph, was born in 1858.
A crescograph is a device for measuring growth in plants. 
 It was invented in the early 20th century by Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose. 
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, CSI, CIE, FRS ( ; ] ; 30 November 1858  23 November 1937), also spelled Jagdish and Jagadis, was a Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction. 
