Forgetting History: Delhi’s “Iron Pillar”
October 21st, 2007
I recently stumbled on this news-item about the development of a new type of corrosion-resistant iron by Prof Balasubramaniam and one of his colleagues at IIT, Kanpur (emphasis mine):
…Indian metallurgists have developed a type of corrosion-resistant iron that construction engineers would love. And vital clues for it came for Delhi’s famous Iron Pillar that has […]
A Sequel to Bamiyan…
October 3rd, 2007
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