The largest umbrella measures 17.06 m (56 ft) in diameter and is 10.97 m (36 ft) tall and was made by Max New York Life Insurance (India). The umbrella was unveiled at Ishanya Mall at Pune, India, on 14 August 2010. The umbrella weighed 2200 kg (4850 lb).
The largest ukulele ensemble consists of 2,134 participants and was performed during the Leiland Grow Inc. Ukulele Picnic (Japan) at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan on 28 July 2012. The Ukulele Picnic’s participants consisted of people with varying age range, from small kids to elderlies. Konishiki, a famous former sumo wrestler, joined the event on stage, and was counted as one of the participants.
Gintaras Karosas created a sculpture entitled “LNK Infotree” using 2,903 individual television sets, spanning 3,135 sq metres (33,744.85 sq ft) at the Open Air Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. The sculpture forms a labyrinth with a statue of Lenin in the centre as a symbolic burial of communism. The total weight of the sculpture is 150 tons and 500 litres (132 US gallons) of paint were used.
The largest Van de Graaf generator was built by Dr. Robert J. Van de Graaf in 1931 at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. It was originally used to research high-energy X-rays and atom smashing, but is now on permanent display at the Thomson Theater of Electricity at the Boston Museum of Science, where it is demonstrated every day. It consists of two columns each with a 4.57 m (15 ft) hollow aluminium sphere at the top. Originally the two sphere were oppositely charged which resulted
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The largest vacuum cleaner in the world, unveiled on 30 October 2004 in Anaheim, California, USA, was built on Discovery Channel’s BIG! television show and is 19 ft 5.75 in (5.93 m) tall, 6 ft 4.25 in (1.92 m) wide and 6 ft 11.5 (2.11 m) deep. The vacuum cleaner was a replica of a Dyson. The tyre/wheel diameter was 1 ft 11 1/2 in, The collection chamber was 2 ft 9 in wide and 4 ft 11 in long. The capacity of the chamber
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The world’s largest vacuum chamber is the Space Power Facility, at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Plum Brook Station, Sandusky, Ohio, USA. It measures 30.4m (100ft) in diameter and 37m (122ft) in height. It can sustain a high vacuum of 10-6 ( -6 is superscript, will change once on database) torr and simulate solar radiation using a 4 megawatt quartz heat lamp array, as well as temperatures as low as -195.5C (-320F). It is used to test the performance of spacecraft and space hardware, prior to
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The largest user-generated virtual economy exists in Second Life (Linden Lab, 2003), which saw $567 million (£355 million) worth of in-game transactions take place in 2009. 2011
The final episode of M*A*S*H Goodbye, Farewell and Amen transmitted by CBS on 28 February 1983 to 60.3% of all households in the United States. It was estimated that some 125 million people tuned in, taking a 77% share of all viewing.
The US Navy LSV-2 Cutthroat is the largest unmanned submarine in existence. It is 33.83 m (111 ft) long, 3.05 m (10 ft) wide, and weighs 205 tonnes (451,950 lb). The experimental craft is a 1:4 (25%) scale model of the Navy’s Virginia class attack submarine, which is currently under development. The unarmed Cutthroat is powered by a 2,250 kW (3,000 hp) electric motor, and acts as a platform to test stealth technologies being developed for the Virginia class ships. By comparison, the 3-man Alvin
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The largest underwater painting measured 0.8 m² (8.61 ft²) and was created by Alexander Belozor (Ukraine) at diving site El Mina in the Red Sea, off the coast of Hurghada, Egypt, on 18 December 2010. The painting measured 80 cm x 100 cm (2 ft 7 in x 3 ft 3 in) and depicted a fish in the ocean.