Monday 13 August 2012

Photography & Camera



All camera technology is based on the law of optics first discovered by Aristotle.


Johannes Kepler was the first person suggested the use of a lens to improve the image projected by a Camera Obscura in 1609



Photography word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839. 

Alhazen invented the first pinhole camera, ( Camera Obscura ) and was able to explain why the images were upside down.

Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with camera obscura in 1827.

Louis Daguerre was the inventor of the first practical process of photography.

The inventor of the first negative from which multiple postive prints were made was Henry Fox Talbot.

George Eastman invented film with a base that was flexible, unbreakable, and could be rolled in 1889.

The first digital cameras for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable were the Apple QuickTake 100 camera  the Kodak DC40 camera  the Casio QV-11  and Sony's Cyber-Shot Digital Still Camera (1996).


Friday 10 August 2012

World Area, Educated, Population, River, Dam

Russia has the  Largest area  in the world.

Vatican City has the smallest area in the world

China has the maximum  population in the world.

Pitcairn Islands has the minimum population in the world

Michael Nicholson is the most educated person in the world. He has 27 different degrees, including two associate’s degrees, 19 master’s degrees, three specialist degrees, and one PhD.

United States,  is the most educated country in the world.

Nile River in Africa, is one longest rivers on Earth. Nile River flows along the 6650 km or 4132 miles and flow through nine countries: Ethiopia, Zaire, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan and of course Egypt.


The tallest dam in the world is the Nurek Dam, an embankment dam in Tajikistan at 300 m (984 ft) high.

Wednesday 8 August 2012

Google

Founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University in 1995. 

 They had built a search engine  Back Rub that used links to determine the importance of a individual webpages 1996

Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name they go with Google—a play on the word googol.

Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee.

The first 10 language  are released: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.

Google open  first international office, in Tokyo.

Tuesday 7 August 2012

BOLLYWOOD FIRST FILM

Raja Harishchandra  is first silent Indian film directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke, in 1913


The film reel was 3700 feet long and roughly 40 minutes


The film premiered on 21 April 1913 at the Olympia Theater,


It was first shown in public on 3 May 1913 at Mumbai's Coronation 
CinemaGirgaon,


The first Indian sound filmArdeshir Irani's Alam Ara (1931)


In 1937, Ardeshir Irani, made the first colour film in Hindi, Kisan Kanya.

World Tallest Residential Building Princess Tower


The Princess Tower will hold the title of the world's tallest all residential building in marina, Dubai.

It has 101 floor and 414 m height.

The building was originally proposed at only 90 floors.

The dome is made up of decorative mast weighing in at 110 tons of steel and aluminum.

A real state developer TAMEER, made princess tower

The building has 13 elevators with speed 6m/s and 763 apartments