19 Century Wooden Motorcycle from Daimler

In 1885 Gottlieb Daimler built his first bike, wooden bike. The first successful tests of the motorcycle passed November 10, 1885. In addition, in August 1888 Daimler received investment from William Steynveya, who proposed to begin mass production of motorcycles in the U.S..

Since 1891, the Daimler Motor Company, owned by Steinway began producing internal combustion engines for various types of vehicles, including boats. Some of this started the whole auto industry.

Incredible Titanic Paper Craft | RMS Titanic Model

It’s hardly believable that the paper can be used for making the astonishing RMS Titanic model except the little paper figures.

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The incredible Titanic paper craft is created by a Russian ship enthusiast who goes by the name of Henschel. He spent totally two and a half years for the paper model. The RMS Titanic model is primarily made of drawing papers, and moreover, yarns, fishing lines and wires are also used to improve the construction of the paper craft. The surface of the ship model are covered over waterproof varnish to keep the ship from water introduction. Apart from these, the creator added some electrical gadgets for the illumination of the ship such as the small bulbs and LEDs powered by a 6V battery at the bottom of the deck. And the rudder can be controlled by remote control. I think that would be more perfect if Henschel could put a little engine in the Titanic.

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Word first bridges aren't built - they're grown in india

In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built - they're grown.

The living bridges of Cherrapunji, India are made from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree. This tree produces a series of secondary roots from higher up its trunk and can comfortably perch atop huge boulders along the riverbanks, or even in the middle of the rivers themselves.

Cherrapunji is credited with being the wettest place on earth, and The War-Khasis, a tribe in Meghalaya, long ago noticed this tree and saw in its powerful roots an opportunity to easily cross the area’s many rivers. Now, whenever and wherever the need arises, they simply grow their bridges.

In order to make a rubber tree’s roots grow in the right direction – say, over a river – the Khasis use betel nut trunks, sliced down the middle and hollowed out, to create root-guidance systems.
The thin, tender roots of the rubber tree, prevented from fanning out by the betel nut trunks, grow straight out. When they reach the other side of the river, they’re allowed to take root in the soil. Given enough time, a sturdy, living bridge is produced.

The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they're extraordinarily strong - strong enough that some of them can support the weight of fifty or more people at a time. In fact, because they are alive and still growing, the bridges actually gain strength over time - and some of the ancient root bridges used daily by the people of the villages around Cherrapunjee may be well over five hundred years old.

One special root bridge, believed to the only one of its kind in the world, is actually two bridges stacked one over the other and has come to be known as the "Umshiang Double-Decker Root Bridge."

These bridges were re-discovered by Denis P. Rayen of the Cherrapunjee Holiday Resort. Due to his efforts to promote interest in the bridges, the local population has been alerted to their potential worth and has kept them from being destroyed in favor of steel ones. What's more, a new root bridge is currently being grown and should be ready for use within a decade.

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Pencil Carving Art | Pencil Tip Carvings

Pencil - only a tool used for painting, drawing, or putting down notes in the margins. In anyone - yes, but not at the Getty Dalton. This 45-year-old resident of Bridgeport for 25 years turns ordinary pencils into miniature sculptures, without using a magnifying glass

We have already talked once about the so-called "pencil carving, but in the case openwork patterns created from the wood of a pencil. Dalton Getty, on the contrary, the tree is not interested: material for his sculptures is a pencil. Among the works of the author can see the shoes, a church, a bust of Elvis. Not long ago, Dalton created a series of 26 sculptures, where the tip of each pencil, cut out the letter of the English alphabet

Dalton Getty works very slowly. He does not use any special tools: for he needed only a blade, a sewing needle and a very bright light. To protect their vision, the author works for one and half hours a day. One tiny sculpture may take several months, and the creation of the previously mentioned script in Dalton took 2,5 years. "When I tell people how long it takes me to create sculptures, they simply do not believe me, - says Getty. - My patience is simply amazing people, because nowadays everyone wants to be quicker, faster and faster.

By carving yet started to get involved in the age of 8 years. He tried to cut out pieces of the wooden part of a pencil, soap, chalk, but eventually stopped on the graphite. According to Dalton, is the perfect medium: it is soft and not as grainy as wood

Dalton believes that his sculptures are forcing people to stay at least for a few moments to escape from the mad rhythm of modern life and see the beauty in miniature detail
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