Who Knew? Some Fun Facts

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You know those gift-cards you gave your grandkids and they misplaced them, and the ones worth $50 but the recipient only spent like $48 and some change?

The Supreme Court classifies unused gift-card credit as "unclaimed property," and named Delaware one of the few "guardian states" of all unclaimed property, such as stuff you leave when you die and have no heirs.

Well, Delaware took immediate advantage of that guardianship.

Unclaimed property is Delaware's 3rd largest source of revenue, and the unclaimed property that provides the most revenue for Delaware is gift-cards that weren't used before the By-Date, and those too-little to spend gift-card balances. They provide Delaware with Billions of dollars per year!

(Delaware is one of 4 states with no sales tax)
 
The Amphibious Tricycle

This strange-looking machine was built by Mr. Harry Savage, about 1896. Mr. Savage worked at a firm of Agricultural Implement Makers, J. L. Larkworthy & Co., of Sansome Place, Worcester.

The water cycle “sailed” down the River Severn, ca. 1896.

No doubt this employment gave him the skills and the opportunity to build this machine. An elderly lady resident in Worcester recently recalled that when she was a very young girl she remembered watching its inventor and builder “sailing” it down the River Severn, “... as he came riding down the middle of the river he appeared to be high up between two very big wheels and a lot of splash. When the machine came off the river I was given a ride on it whilst water was still streaming off the big wheels.”
 
The 1949 Jet Powered Bike

"Burning ordinary automotive gasoline, a jet engine for commercial use has been installed experimentally on a motorbike which scooted along at more than 70 miles an hour. The miniature jet develops a static thrust of 30 pounds, yet weighs only 8-3/4 pounds. It is a little over six inches in diameter and 51 inches long. No fuel pump is required as the intake air velocity performs the pumping function.

The engine is started with a vibrator coil and air from a small compressed-air tank. It will be used initially for experiments in helicopter and airplane-engine laboratories but later may be installed as a stand-by power plant for gliders and as a power source for racing cars and boats."

 
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