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A journey by train is the cheapest and most comfortable. I had always travelled with my parents. Last Sunday I got a chance to travel alone. My maternal uncle at Allahabad invited us to join the marriage ceremony of his son. My father had no time- So he asked me to go. He gave me some money and many instructions about the ceremonies. I was very glad. I had to go by Delhi Express. I put up my things in a small box and asked the servant to bring a rickshaw for station. I reached the station one hour before the time of arrival of the train. I went to booking office to buy a ticket for myself. There was a great rush. But the people were standing in a queue. I also joined them. At last I purchased the ticket. As soon as I got my ticket, I hired more...

Milk is a liquid food got from animals, like cows, buffaloes, goats and camels. It is white in colour. We commonly use milk got from cows and buffaloes. The milk of goats is good for infants. Milk is very useful to us. It is a wholesome and perfect food. It is the chief food for the infants. It is a food as well as a drink. A man can live only on milk for a long time. If we drink milk along with our regular food, we can be strong and healthy. Many things are made from milk, such as ghee, butter, curd, cheese, cream etc. AH these are very good for health. Different kinds of cakes and sweet meats are made from milk. These are very tasty. Milk is supplied in large cities by villagers of surrounding areas. They carry cans of milk daily in trains and buses. Many more...

A nation cannot prosper if the people are not laborious. Labour is at the source of strength for a nation. A nation that cannot work hard is not respected. A nation of idlers cannot progress and develop. After the Industrial Revolution, the people of Europe learnt to work with tools and machines. They manufactured many things and increased the wealth of their countries. The material prosperity of a country depends on the progress of its agriculture, industry and trade. Ordinary labourers work in fields, mines, mills and factories. Their labour leads to the prosperity and power of the country as a whole. Thus, work is power. For this reason, manual labour is not felt beneath dignity. However in India, the English education at first helped us to become clerks, teachers, lawyers, doctors and some engineers. This education taught the people to feel it beneath their dignity to work with tools more...

The production of aluminum foil via the process of the endless rolling of aluminum sheets cast from moltenaluminum was pioneered at a foil-rolling plant at the foot of the Rhine Falls in the Swiss town of Kreuzlingen in 1910. The plant was owned by the aluminum manufacturing firm J. G. Neher and Sons. The firm had experimented with sheets of pure aluminum, placing them between two heavy, adjustable rollers and filling the interior of the rollers with boiling water. Sheets were passed continuously through the rollers, which were gradually brought closer and closer together until the desired thickness of foil was achieved. Its earliest uses were as wrappers for various tobacco and confectionery products, and with its effectiveness as a barrier to oxygen and light, inhibiting the growth of bacteria, aluminum foil soon supplanted tin as the preferred metal in the wrapping and preservation of foodstuffs. Processes evolved to include more...

"In most Iowa homes this third day of the week  [Tuesday] is reserved for ironing." The Iowa Housewife, 1880 Devices for getting wrinkles out of fabric have been around nearly as long as fabric itself. The Vikings used whalebone smoothing boards, the Chinese filled metal pots with hot coals to press cloth, and, in seventeenth-century England, the screw press was popular. By the nineteenth century, most metal smoothers (irons) had adopted their familiar shape, but ironing boards had not evolved at the same rate as fashion design and ironing was often carried out on tables or boards resting across two chairs. Sleeves, pant legs, ruffles, pleats, pockets, buttons, curved seams—the more details were added to clothes, the more difficult it was to remove the wrinkles after laundering. To help improve matters, inventors turned their attention from irons to ironing boards. The first U.S. patent for an "ironing table" was granted more...

Sir William George Armstrong (1810-1900), the first and last Baron Armstrong of Cragside, was an English industrialist who pioneered the use of hydraulic power to operate a wide variety of machinery, harnessing the power of water to feed the Industrial Age. One of his first inventions using the 'resource of water was an improved rotary water motor, and soon after this innovation he designed a piston engine driven by water. He realized that his invention had the potential to be incorporated into a more' efficient design of crane than those then in operation. The first of Armstrong's hydraulic cranes was built on Newcastle docks in 1846 and was tremendously successful. It utilized the pressure from the town's mains water supply, acting on a piston inside a cylinder, this in turn moving gears that drove the- crane. The design was so successful that the Newcastle Corporation ordered three more cranes, .soon more...

Educational value of travelling cannot be over- estimated. It gives us first hand knowledge of the places through which we pass. We can know their physical features, crops, minerals and natural beauty. It also brings us into contact with different ways of life. These lessons are more interesting and more effective than what we learn from books. Men travel for different purposes. Some men travel for pleasure, some men for business and some for education. In ancient times, travelling was difficult and risky. There were no roads. A traveller had to pass through hills and forests. He had to face the fury of nature, wild beasts, robbers and many other obstacles. But all these could not daunt the spirit of ancient travellers like Fahien, Hiuen Tsang, Ibn Batuta and others.         Thanks to the triumph of science, travelling has now become easy, cheap, quick and pleasant. We more...

“... shaped like a small brick... and could hold the equivalent of about two-and-a-half pages." Astrid Wendlandt, Financial Times It is 1984. Economies are booming, Newsweek magazine declares it "the year of the yuppie," and in the U.K. the Filofax personal organizer is the must have accessory for all young urban professionals. In London, though, Dr. David Potter is planning to make the leather-bound, paper-based Filofax obsolete. Dr. Potter's company, Psion—the name comes from "Potter's Scientific Instruments"—had been in business for a few years already, making games and other software for early home computers like Sinclair's ZX Spectrum. In 1984 Psion entered the computer hardware market, releasing a new kind of handheld computer, the Psion Organiser. It was a hefty device, a rectangular slab of plastic with a small screen at the top and a keyboard protected by a sliding sleeve. It had a clock, a small memory, and it more...

I have neighbours on every side of my house. There are some I like most. There are others whom I do not like at all. Next to our house there live Mr. and Mrs, Sharma. They are not appreciated and liked by anyone in the colony. Both husband and wife are not at all social, they are self centered. I have never seen anyone visiting their house. Mr. Sharma works in some government office. The Sharmas are of typical character. They even do not participate in social functions held in the colony. Mr. Sharma leaves for his office exactly at 9-15 a.m. by his cooler. Prior to his leaving for office exactly at 9 a.m. there is always in uproar of quarrel at very high volume. People of the colony wait for this moment daily. The timing is very punctual; even you can adjust your watches at that time. Exactly more...

I have many friends who are dearer to me than my own life. It is very difficult to name the best choice out of them off hand. My maximum time is spent in the company of Brijmohan  whom I call Briju, but others call him Mirchi. I do not know what type of child they consider him to be but for me he is sweeter than honey. He is one of the best centre-forwards in the hockey team of our school. His only ambition is to bring India on the Olympic map once again in this game. He is an ace sprinter  and when he chases the ball, no one can snatch it from him. He was the captain of the state junior team that participated in the national games. It is surprising to make out how he stands first in different subjects in the class. Most of the players more...