21st June 2016
Cars that are fuelled by water
A water-powered car is one of the most attempted inventions in the world.Even though hydrogen is regarded as one of the most efficient alternative fuels, the expense that goes behind producing it is excessively high. As a result, there has always been a need for economic alternative fuels – a need that helped in discovering water as a fuel.
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21st May 2016
Who invented the first practical helicopter and when?
Prof. Henrich Focke, a German inventor, devised the first practical helicopter called the Focke-Wulf Fw 16, which was successfully flown in 1936. By 1938 it set many world records for altitude, speed and flight duration. It could be flown by a pilot after only one hour of pilot briefing.
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6th May 2016
Tribute to Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born American inventor famous for the invention of the telephone. He died on August 2, 1922. On the day that Alexander Graham Bell was buried, millions of phones in America and Canada went dead for one minute as a mark of respect for the inventor.
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