World Record of ‘typing most numbers in words’ has been achieved by Les Stewart from Mudjimba, Australia.
Mr. Stewart typed all numbers from one (1) to one million (1000000) – in words (not numbers) on his manual typing machine. He used seven manual typewriters and 1000 ink ribbons for typing 19,890 pages during 16 years and seven months.
The World Record of ‘Longest Open Mural Art Gallery’ has been achieved by Purkhauti Muktangan developed by Department of Culture and Tourism, Government of Chhattisgarh from Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
As on Sept 28, 2013; this longest open mural art gallery has length of 8571 (Eight Thousand Five Hundred Seventy One) square feet with hundreds of mural paintings on the outer wall of Purkhauti Muktangan campus depicting the mythological stories of India and tribal of Chhattisgarh.
World Record of creating Floating Cloud in a Transparent Room has been achieved by architects Tetsuo Kondo in partnership with climate engineers Transsolar from Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan.
Cloudscapes; an experiment in creating new types of architectural space located at the Sunken Garden museum; visitors could climb into the cloud container. Visitors could climb through the cloud using the stairs in the room to make them feel as if they’re high above in the sky.
World Record of ‘serving most extensive water menu’ has been achieved by Ray’s and Stark Bar run by Patina Group’s restaurant from Los Angeles, USA.
The menu presented by Ray’s & Stark Bar is a 45-page booklet with 20-item water list that features descriptions of each water varietal, including information on origin, mineral content, and tasting notes. Water menu attributes an entire page for each varietal that is complete with tasting notes, mineral content, bottle price and photos.
The World Record of the ‘largest sea vessel’ in the world has been achieved by the container ship Eugen Mærsk of Maersk Line from Denmark.
Maersk Line is the container division of A.P. Moller – Maersk Group, Denmark. It is the lead ship of a fleet of eight ships of the Mærsk E-class container ships. The newest of this ship series was launched in 2013. The total length of this ship is 399 meters (1,309 ft) in and a cargo capacity of 18,270 TEU containers. The length of the beam of the above mentioned ship is 183 feet (56 m) and the dead-weight tonnage is 156,907. The ship has a maximum speed of 23 knots and the total crew in routine operations is 19.
The world record for being ‘fastest car’ has been achieved by the Bugattifrom Veyron.
Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super sports car is the fastest street legal car in the world. As on set on April 6, 2013, the maximum speed which has been delivered by the Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse was 408.84 km/h (254.04 mph). The Super Sport version of this can go upto the top speed of 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph).
