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...
When was the first official airmail flight service commenced? Name the nations. Airmail The first AIR MAIL services by flight (official) was made by Henri Pecquet in a Humber-Sommer biplane at the United Provinces Exhibition, Allahabad, India on 18 February 1911. A load of...
When were the first two ‘Supersonic’ airliner services scheduled? Airliners-Supersonic The first SUPERSONIC AIRLINERS in scheduled passenger service were a British Airways Concorde flying Heathrow-Bahrain and an Air France Concorde flying Paris-Rio de Janeiro, both of which took off simultaneously at 11.40 a.m. on...
When was the first round-the-world passenger service inaugurated? How many days did such trips take? First Passenger Service The first ROUND-THE-WORLD PASSENGER SERVICE was inaugurated by Qantas Empire Airways on 14 January 1958, flying the Super Constellation Southern Aurora eastbound from Sydney to London via...
When did the first Trans-Atlantic airline services commence from the US and from the UK? Airline Service-Trans-Atlantic The first TRANS-ATLANTIC AIRLINE SERVICE across the North Atlantic began with the inaugural passenger flight of Pan American Airways’ Boeing 314 flying-boat Yankee Clipper between Botwood, Newfoundland, and...
