innovation – WcP Blog | World Culture Pictorial https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog Window to the World, calling for Wind of Wisdom, as common sense is a gift to each soul, as common environment is the inseparable planet, as common desire is to live in a better world. Sun, 29 Dec 2024 01:30:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/wp-content/uploads/forpages/cropped-wcp-blog-world-culture-pictorial-128-128x128-38-150x150.jpg innovation – WcP Blog | World Culture Pictorial https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog 32 32 35-foot Lego Christmas tree took 364,000 bricks and over 3,000 hours to build; Lego carrying the toy industry by “staying three steps ahead” https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/lego-christmas-tree-35-feet-tall-364-thousand-bricks-3000-hours-to-build/ https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/lego-christmas-tree-35-feet-tall-364-thousand-bricks-3000-hours-to-build/#respond Tue, 31 Dec 2024 07:03:00 +0000 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/?p=1095 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/lego-christmas-tree-35-feet-tall-364-thousand-bricks-3000-hours-to-build/feed/ 0 184-m-long double-leaf swing bridge connects banks across long-divided Scottish river, “as much a machine as a structure” https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/moveable-bridge-swings-horizontally-to-let-boats-pass-in-scotland/ https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/moveable-bridge-swings-horizontally-to-let-boats-pass-in-scotland/#respond Sat, 30 Nov 2024 07:10:00 +0000 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/?p=1084 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/moveable-bridge-swings-horizontally-to-let-boats-pass-in-scotland/feed/ 0 Fashion and fuel go bananas: breakthrough can turn agricultural waste into textile while leftovers to power half of rural Pakistan https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/turning-banana-peels-agricultural-waste-into-fabric-and-clean-renewable-fuel/ https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/turning-banana-peels-agricultural-waste-into-fabric-and-clean-renewable-fuel/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2024 07:01:00 +0000 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/?p=1062 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/turning-banana-peels-agricultural-waste-into-fabric-and-clean-renewable-fuel/feed/ 0 94-year-old former Motorola engineer Martin Cooper remembers inventing the cellphone 50 years ago https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/martin-cooper-inventor-of-cellphone-motorola-1973-first-call/ https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/martin-cooper-inventor-of-cellphone-motorola-1973-first-call/#respond Mon, 03 Apr 2023 07:19:00 +0000 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/?p=907 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/martin-cooper-inventor-of-cellphone-motorola-1973-first-call/feed/ 0 Gordon Moore (1929-2023) – Intel co-founder and philanthropist who predicted rise of personal computing in “Moore’s Law” 20 years before PC and 40 years before iPhone https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/gordon-moore-94-2022-intel-co-founder-philanthropist-moores-law/ 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electricity https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/italy-farmers-use-caves-to-store-apples-save-energy-costs/ https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/italy-farmers-use-caves-to-store-apples-save-energy-costs/#respond Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:23:00 +0000 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/?p=830 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/italy-farmers-use-caves-to-store-apples-save-energy-costs/feed/ 0 The 7 Year Dream: Dutch teenager invents world first ocean plastic cleanup system, a floating barrier nearly 2,000ft long to reduce Great Pacific Garbage Patch by half by 2025 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/the-ocean-cleanup-project-great-pacific-garbage-patch-dutch-inventor/ https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/the-ocean-cleanup-project-great-pacific-garbage-patch-dutch-inventor/#respond Wed, 10 Nov 2021 07:23:00 +0000 https://worldculturepictorial.com/wcp-blog/?p=655 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