Wednesday, July 8, 2009

The First Motorcycle

In 1885, a germany engineer was named Gottlieb Daimler composed a combustion engine of his own design to be a vehicle covered by a wood. The vehicle has 4 wheels, included two round wheels for stability (more similiar to excercise wheels), which techically does not make it included into a bicycle. But, historians assume Daimler's vehicle as the first motorcycle in the world.


The son of Daimler, Paul, became the first rider on November 10th, 1885, when he rode the discovery of his father and reached almost 10 km (6 miles).

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Petronas Towers

Two twin buildings of Petronas, those are an oil company owned by Malaysia and multinational company and association firm of Malaysia is two twin buildings of skyscaper which is located in Kualalumpur Malaysia. This part is the part of a big construction which is signed by the sharp increase country economic in 1990, those buildings build in north part of hightech business zone, in Malaysia. This petronas towers are built by cement columns which is supported by steel covered by stainless steel and glass with design based on geometric patterns that come from traditional Islamic architecture. The towers designed by an Argentina-American architect whose named is Cesar Pelli is included one of the highest building in the world which height reaches 452 m. The buildings of 88 floors is connected at 41-th and 42-th floors by a fly over bridge, and every tower is limited by tower peak of height 74 m. At the lower level, the petronas towers also has a concert hall which is the place for musical concert and business reference library of Malaysia. The building of this tower is finished in 1997 which is higher than Sear Chicago tower as the record holder of the highest before. But in 2003 Petronas towers is beaten of its height by Taipei 101 tower.


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