Japanese top spins for record length of time

TAKAMATSU, Japan - The high-tech top designed and built by Inosuke Mori, a 69-year-old retired professor, breaks a world record Oct. 24, spinning nonstop for 1 hour, 21 minutes, 35 seconds. The time is 16 minutes, 7 seconds longer than the current record listed in the Guinness Book. The top, which weighs 13 kg and measures 90 cm high and 90 cm in diameter, is substantially smaller and lighter than the top that produced the previous record: 2 meters high and 360 kg in weight.

• Product Code
• ILEA001079784

• Registered date
• 1999/10/24 00:00:00

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• Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

• Media source
• 1999 Kyodo News

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