Airport terminal, one of India’s finest museums India’s latest and largest museum, which may well become the ‘most visited’ in the world, is actually Mumbai’s new airport terminal, T2. ‘Jaya He’, as the museum is called, greets visitors coming to or going from India on...
Unique museum of police wireless sets. GSM and telephone networks can get jammed at the most crucial times, as they did during the 2011 serial blasts in Mumbai. During such times, the police have to resort to their wireless networks. To highlight the important role...
Smuggling wares on display at Alfandega, Goa Housed in the Blue Building, a heritage structure built-in 1800 in Panaji, Goa, is the first Customs and Excise Museum in India. The two-story building got its ‘blue’name from indigo, the dye the Portuguese traded in from here....
End of the telegram era in India After 163 years of acting as a messenger of good and bad news, the Indian Telegram Service came to a stop on July 15, 2013. All over the country, there was a rush to send off the ‘last’...
Do you know “Pune supercomputers among world’s fastest”? At the 2013 International Supercomputing Conference held in Leipzig, Germany, on June 18, 2013, a list of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers was announced. Two of Pune’s supercomputers, ranked 36th and 69th, feature in the top 100....
Hi-tech solar kitchen in Shirdi Shirdi’s famed Baba dressed and lived as a simple fakir (mendicant). He never told anyone his name, so his followers referred to him as Sai Baba. The fire he lit to cook a meal for his devotees still burns and...
How Sugar Is Made? Sugar is one of the oldest products, that man has been able to make from nature. Thousands of years ago, the people of India learnt to make sugar from sugarcane. The existence of such a thing was not to the people...
What Makes A Corn Pop? The children feel most amazed at the ability of even to ‘Pop’. It is a simple affair. Popcorn kernels are small and very hard. On heating, the moisture within the hard shells ‘turns to steam and thus explodes. This is...
How Do We Make Chewing Gum? Chewing gum is made from a gum base, corn syrup, sugar and flavouring. The gum base keeps it chewy in hours. For making bubble gum, still, a more rubbery gum base is called for so that it will stretch...
How A Submarine Manage To Stay Under Water? The fundamental principle that enables a submarine to submerge or to surface is a simple one. Most modern submarines have two hulls or we call them bodies. Water ballast is stowed between the inner and outer hulls....
