Friday, December 22, 2006

Elevators

Day in, day out we have been using elevators. Nowadays it is difficult to imagine buildings without elevators. Do we know what makes this elevator work?

Have you ever faced a situation when the elevator door on the floor opens and there is no elevator car ? (like in a terror movie)

How do these elevators work? how are doors controlled automatically and what are the safety measures that are built in a elevator?

Check out here to know how elevators work...
http://science.howstuffworks.com/elevator.htm

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Walking on Water

An interesting forward from one of my friend....

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Photography

Was just browsing and came across a blog with beautiful photographs and quotes on Photography. Few Samples here....



To the complaint, "There are no people in these photographs," I respond, "There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer." - ansel adams


The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again -- since it is life. - william faulkner