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