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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 12:35 AM
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Indian inventor who lives in penury (BBC)
By Amarnath Tewary
Motihari, Bihar
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Necessity met creativity and in just three days, he made an amphibious bicycle which could easily negotiate the floodwaters.
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An impressed NIF took away his bicycle and offered to get it patented.

But three years later, Mr Saidullah has neither got the patent nor the bicycle.
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After the amphibious bicycle, he developed a key-operated table fan which can run non-stop for two hours, a mini-water pump that needs no fuel and a mini-tractor which can run for two hours on just five litres of diesel.

Now, he claims he's making a helicopter which would cost the equivalent of $62,500 and a car that would be powered by air energy.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7214644.stm
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silverweb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 12:48 PM
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1. Calling all enlightened entrepreneurs....
Calling Al Gore... Sir Richard Branson... Dean Kamen... and others.

This guy should have money to burn. Help him help the world! Give him his deserved home, patents, and a manufacturing plant!

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