General Knowledge

• Longest Railway Tunnel  -- Tanna, Japan, 13.5 Miles
• Longest Railway              --  Trans Siberian Railway { Riga to Valdivostok, Russia } 

• Longest Railway Platform -- Kharagpur 2,733 ft. [ India ] 

•  The first Railway Line in India was started on :- April, 16 - 1853 between Mumbai to Thane (Erstwhile Bombay) 
•  Everest was conquered first time by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary on May- 29,1953 

                                                        INVENTIONS :- ***

1. Ball point Pen - Invented by John .J.Loud [US] in the year 1888.

    First practical models by Ladisola & George Biro (Hungary) in 1938.

2. Cement - Joseph Aspdin (England) in the year 1824.

3.  Fountain Pen - Lewis.E.Waterman { US } - 1884.

4.  Jet Engine *** Sir Frank Whittle (England) in 1937

5.  Helicopter  *** d'Ascanio (Italy) in 1930

6.  Powerloom *** Edmund Cartwright ( England )

7.  Cinema       *** Augustie Marie Louis - Nocolas Lumiere. & Louis Jean Lumiere (1895)

8.  Film (Talking)  ***  Warner Brothers ( US ) 1926. First Release Don Juan, Warner Theatre 

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