Friday, October 29, 2010

Sepoys of the 3rd Battalion at Bombay. Engraving published in London by M. Darly in 1773

Indian and European merchants trade at the Bombay cotton market, ca. 1870.Reproduced with kind permission of Volkart Stiftung, Winterthur, Switzerland.

The city’s first Metro train with four coaches for the Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar (VAG) corridor arrived at a private port—GTI adjacent to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT). The train has been taken to Metro’s Versova depot. Equipped with air-conditioned coaches, sophisticated video and audio communication systems and a black box, the train has a unique lubrication system that spreads liquid on the track while taking turns, thus keeping noise levels to only 62 decibels. The spanking new silverpink rake, covered in a plastic, was sailed in from Shanghai in China where it was designed and manufactured by CSR Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Co Ltd.

AT Nehru Science Museum, Bombay

I (DR.KURIAN.M.K.)-HAVE DONATED A FEW ITEMS TO NEHRU SCIENCE MUSEUM MANY YEARS AGO- BUT AS I HAVE TOLD THEM NOT TO SHOW MY NAME -NOBODY KNOWS
THESE ARE IN THE AUDIO SECTION("Sound and Hearing Gallery")-OLD RADIO-OLD GRAMAPHONE AND OTHER OLD AUDIO ITEMS OF 1900'S-THE FIRST HINDI GRAMAPHONE RECORD MADE IN THAT PERIOD GIFTED TO THEM-OFFICE CLERK SAYS CANNOT BE FOUND WHEN I ENQUIRED LATER IN THEIR OFFICE!! WELL SOME THING IS STILL THERE -MAY BE-HOPE SO-FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS


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