Seeb Chunder Nandy

Seebchunder Nandy or Sib Chandra Nundy (June 1824 – 6 April 1903) was an Indian Bengali telegraphy official who worked on the first telegraph lines established in British India.

Nandy tested the first line signalling from Diamond Harbour to O'Shaughnessy in Calcutta in a demonstration made to Lord Dalhousie.

Using fishing boats he helped lay 7 miles of underwater cable across the river Padma at a very low cost.

He also used palm trees as posts when he was given charge to lay down 900 miles through East Barrakur-Allahabad, Banares-Mirzapur-Seonee, and Calcutta to Dacca.

He died of plague on 6 April 1903 during an epidemic in Calcutta and the local Telegraph Office was closed for the day.