Hailed as the ‘Indian Edison,’ Bhise was on the cusp of revolutionizing the printing industry with his Bhisotype (a type-casting machine). However, the inability to market it successfully alongside financing problems hindered his efforts. As a teenager, he would spend days reading various issues of the reputed Scientific American magazine, and in fact told one New York publication year later, “I owe everything to the mechanical education I received from that American magazine. "However, he really came of age sometime in the late 1890s, when he won a competition organized by ‘Inventors’ Review and Scientific Record,’ a British publication, by developing the design for a machine that would weigh groceries.
Defeating a whole host of British contestants, the local administration took an interest in his work and helped finance his trip to London, where he sought to attract investors.
Before leaving, he told his friends that he would not come back to Bombay unless he made it or ran out of money. Just before his trip to London, he also came into contact with the then secretary of the Indian National Congress in Bombay and a shrewd businessman Dinsha Wacha, whose letter of introduction got Bhise into contact with a Dadabhai Naoroji, a businessman in London and one of the early heroes of the Indian national movement.