Victoria Memorial's Fairy Tale
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| attractive looks of Victoria Memorial |
The heart of Kolkata is Victoria Memorial, from all over the globe people come to explore it but its main attraction "Angel of Victory popularly" known as Victoria's fairy" has lost her heritage.
Before that topic some facts about Victoria memorial.
Construction Years- 1906-1921
Architect-William Emerson
Marble Type- White Makrana Marble
Construction Company- Messer.Martin & Co.
Main Attraction- Angel Of Victory
Now some facts about Angel Of Victory. Kolkata's "Angel Of Victory" poised perkily on the dome of the Victoria Memorial.
Made Of- Bronze
Made In- Italy
Hight- 5.9 meters
Weight- 6.5 Tons
The mechanism stops functioning in 1978 because of a thunderstorm. Although it has own protection system to protect the fairy from a thunderstorm, a bowl full of mercury just below the fairy which helps to do the earthing. But in 1978 it was found the mercury disappeared & years of neglect.. had jammed the bearing. The problem has been located it took four months to fix it. But still, they found another problem, from the time of construction it needed the wind of 15 km to revolve the fairy but now it takes 25 km of wind. Now one question comes in mind, will we ever get the chance to see it revolving?
Photo-Collected
Sources-Indiascope news 31/5/1985
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