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The Indian Connection
We all know this beautiful piece of art in Dubai and are awestruck about its structural engineering and construction. The Burj Khalifa was designed by an American and developed by the South Koreans.
But little do people know that its Air Conditioning was done by an Indian company known as Voltas! Wasn't expecting this, were you?
Voltas AC is privately owned by the Tata Conglomerate and not only does the longest man made structure use Indian ACs but so does the largest ship.
In 2014, Voltas was ranked 39th among India's most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisor.
RMS Queen Mary 2
This beauty right here is the largest ocean liner ever built. Build by the French and owned by the British. Its starting price per berth is said to be a whooping 300,000 USD. Top notch materials and design has been incorporated in building the ship. State of the art accessories. This ship is cooled by none other than Voltas!
And not just Burj Khalifa and HMS Queen Mary II, but also Emirates Palace Hotel (Abu Dhabi), 9 out of 15 Common Wealth Games Stadiums, Emirates Mall, F1 Track of UAE, Hong Kong Airport and many such famous locations across the world.
1.Largest Shoe
World’s largest shoe can be found in Turkey standing at 5.5 meters long and 1.83 meters high.A Shoe with the ability to fit over 30 people within it leathery interior.
2.Most No Of Spoons On a Face
Aaron Caissie from Canada, he managed to balance 17 spoons on his face at one time.He achieved this on the set of Lo Show dei Record, in Milan, Italy, on 18 April 2009.
3.Most No of Snails On a Face
In 2007 Fin Kehler had 43 snails put on his face for a total of 10 seconds to break the previous record of 36.
4.Farthest Eyeball Pop
Measured on the set of “Guinness World Records: Primetime” in Los Angeles Kim Goodman popped her eyeballs .43 inches out beyond the confines of her eye sockets.She lives in Chicago, Illinois
5.Stretchiest Skin
Because of a rare disorder known as Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Gary Turner of the United Kingdom can stretch his skin up to 6.25 inches.Gary Turner is an English professional mixed martial artist who fought in the Cage Rage and K-1 promotions. Turner was the K-1 UK Grand Prix champion in 2003 and 2004.
6.Longest Fingernails On Both Hands
This is one of those records that can take several decades to break but Melvin Booth and Lee Redmond made the sacrifice and achieved combined fingernails lengths of 9.05 meters and 8.65 meters.
1.Bill Gates Earns 22,000 Dollars per minute.
This is somewhere around 33 million dollars on a daily basis, and a staggering 11 billion dollars per year! Wow, that’s rich! If he dropped a thousand dollars, it literally takes him four seconds to actually earn them back. It would be a waste of time to pick it up in the first place.
2. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto, however it has the less population than the small country of Bangladesh.
Pluto is 2370 kilometres (1473 miles) across, which can easily fit within Russia’s largest east-to-west radius of 10,000 km and the north-to-south size of 4000 km.
3.Las Vegas casinos have no clocks.
That way, customers tend to spend more time.
4.The Current U.S. Flag Was Designed by a 17-Year-Old for a School Project and he Got a B- grade .
5.Your tongue is as unique and informative as your fingertips.
No two tongues are alike, not even the tongues of twins (say that ten times). Your tongue print or “lingual impression” is not only uber unique, it reveals whether you’re biologically male or female.
6.Kumbhamela : Largest religious gathering on the Earth .
Believed to be the largest religious gathering on earth, Kumbh Mela is held every 12 years. It is thought that 30 million Hindu pilgrims gathered to bathe during the festival in 2013.
7.Rabindranath Tagore also wrote the national anthem for Bangladesh
Rabindranath Tagore is credited not only for writing the Indian national anthem, Jana Gana Mana, but the Bangladeshi national anthem ..Amar Sonar Bangla as well.
He was also offered knighthood by the British but refused the honour after the jalianwala Bagh massacre.
Some inventions which changed world…
Robert was a chemist who used to refine kerosene, but after decrease in petrol price his business slowdown.
One day during his visit to an oil refinery in Pennsylvania, he saw a worker removing some sticky thing from his body, when asked he told him that they used to apply it on burned or cut skin to heal the wound.
Thus, Robert got his “petroleum jelly”
When local chemist didn't show any trust in his product, He even travelled to New York to give live demornstration of this product. In front of large crowd he burned his skin and applied it over. In few years Vaseline was popular worldwide.
2. George de Mestral- (velcro)
George de Mestral was a Swiss engineer, in 1941 he went in woods with his dog for hunting. on arriving back he noticed that Burr seed was clung to his dog's fur and his clothes, he wondered and examined Burr under microscope and discovered that it was covered in tiny hooks and by that he was inspired by Hook and loop method.
He researched for 8 years and named it velcro vel(velvet) and cro(crochet).
A fastener way between buttons and zipper, it is now used in number of items including sandals,bags,toys,cords sweater to upto NASA.
Burr(which gave idea)
One of the most used product..
3. Humphrey O'Sullivan- (Rubber heeled shoes)
O'Sullivan was a young printer in Lowell, Massachusetts during 1895, he had to work on stone floor and had to stand while printing so wooden sole in his shoes and stone floor caused him pain in his feet.
so he bought a rubber mat to stand on while working, his fellow employees kept borrowing that rubber mate from him, because it was too comfortable so, he cut out two pieces of mate in heel size and nailed them to shoes.
He was pleased and astonished by the comfort of this shoes and started making full fledged rubber heels and eventually patented the idea.
In a few years his heels were being shipped all over country, one of his advertisement in newspaper……
4. Edouard Benedictus-(laminated glass)
Edouard a French chemist/scientist once was climbing a ladder and accidentally knock a glass flask of shelf. It fell to the floor and shattered but to his surprise shards of glass still remain in or almost in shape as before.
He was confused and asked his assistant what was in the flask he said cellulose nitrate (liquid plastic). After the experiments a layer of cellulose nitrate remained in the flask prevented glass from breaking.
This gave edouard idea of safety glass/laminated glass on windscreen which has saved so many lives after accidents.
Swedish company Volvo used this safety glass first time in Volvo PV 44 as windscreen in 1944.
5. Percy Spenser-(microwave oven)
He was an American radar Engineer who used to focus on working and building of magnetron because magnetron generated microwave signals which was core mechanism of radar.
One day when he was working a candy bar in his pocket melted at first he was confused and then he understood that it was miracle of the microwaves he put a Bowl of corn and made first “microwaved popcorn”.
Percy continued experimenting and made microwave by attaching a high density electromagnetic field generator to an enclosed metal box.
6.Willis Carrier-(air conditioner)
In 1902 the Willis was given a project by his company buffalo forge to solve a problem of humidity in a lithographic and printing company in Brooklyn, they told him that the problem was that because of humidity in printing room ink would not dry.
He worked several years on this project, one day in garden when he saw moisture droplets on an alluminium pipe, an idea struck his mind.
he used pipe that would carry cold water and beneath them he kept two fan one would throw moist air towards pipe and other one kept moving air circulation of room.
Thanks to Willis otherwise imagine summer in cities like Delhi, Ahmadabad and Rajasthan(state) without air conditioner!!
Present time air conditioner
The Best way to predict future is to invent it- Alan kay