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Guinness World Records defines a hoverboard as an autonomously powered personal levitator. In May 2015, the Romanian-born Canadian inventor Cătălin Alexandru Duru set a Guinness World Record by travelling a distance of 275.9 m (302 yd) at heights up to 5 m (16 ft) over a lake, on an autonomously powered hoverboard of his own design. [34] [35]
A self-balancing scooter (also hoverboard, self-balancing board, segway, [1] swegway or electric scooter board) is a self-balancing personal transporter consisting of two motorized wheels connected to a pair of articulated pads on which the rider places their feet. The rider controls the speed by leaning forward or backward, and direction of ...
Guinness Mid-Strength, a low-alcohol stout test-marketed in Limerick, Ireland in March 2006 [63] and Dublin from May 2007: [64] 2.8% ABV. Guinness Red, brewed in exactly the same way as Guinness except that the barley is only lightly roasted so that it produces a lighter, slightly fruitier red ale; test-marketed in Britain in February 2007: 4 ...
Guinness World Records Primetime (AKA Guinness Primetime) is a TV show based on the Guinness World Records, and aired on the Fox television network from 1998 to 2001. [1] It was hosted by Cris Collinsworth [ 2 ] and Mark Thompson and reported on existing record-holders or on new record attempts.
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
Guinness Storehouse is a tourist attraction at St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Since opening in 2000, it has received over twenty million visitors. [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
The Guinness brewery in Park Royal, London closed in 2005. The production of all Guinness sold in the UK and Ireland was switched to St. James's Gate Brewery Dublin. [12] In 2018, Guinness opened its first brewery in 64 years in the United States, in Baltimore, Maryland. [13] The last Guinness brewery in the US closed in 1954. [14]
Arthur Guinness (c. 24 September 1725 – 23 January 1803) was an Irish brewer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. The inventor of Guinness beer, he founded the Guinness Brewery at St. James's Gate in 1759. Guinness was born in Ardclogh, near Celbridge, County Kildare, in 1725.