2 Kuwaitis display their inventions
822 inventors take part in Geneva exhibition
GENEVA, April 12, (KUNA): Two Kuwaiti inventors are partaking in the International Exhibition of Inventions; one displaying a device for doors’ quick unlocking in distressing relief operations and the other publicizing a method for treating oil-contaminated soil.
Hussein bou Mejdad, a firefighter, told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that he had thought deeply and for a long time to invent a tool for opening doors after encountering situations where he and fellow firefighters had to smash doors to salvage trapped people amid raging fires.
The firemen in strenuous relief operations are compelled to break doors causing loud and horrific sound adding to stranded persons’ fear.
“I was inspired by the Almighty to invent the device to open locked doors in no more than 15 seconds without breaking them and with minimum damage,” said bou Mejdad in the remarks to KUNA.
He expressed gratitude to Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) for helping him to acquire a patent for his innovation, already on sale in Oman and Qatar.
For his part, Meshari Al-Mutairi said it had dawned on him to create a method for cleansing oil soaked soil when the Iraqi occupiers torched and damaged Kuwaiti oil installations, forming pools of crude oil and polluting the country’s soil.
The exhibition, scheduled April 11-15, has grouped 822 inventors from 40 countries.