Smallest cocktail shaker

Who

Paul Bordonaba Areizaga

Where

Spain 

When

Details

A cocktail shaker custom made for Paul Bordonaba Areizaga of the Whisky Museum pub, San Sebastián, Spain, measures just 5 cm (1.9 in) tall with a capacity of 6 cm³ (0.36 in³) The first cocktail mixed produced from it, consisted of a 30-year-old whisky with six small caviar balls (Triple seco) and saffron, costing 150.000pts.

Smallest waist - living person

Who

Cathie Jung

Where

United States

When

1999

Details

The smallest waist belongs to Cathie Jung (USA, b. 1937), who stands at 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) and has a corseted waist measuring 38.1 cm (15 in). Un-corseted, it measures 53.34 cm (21 in).

Smallest manned spacecraft

Who

Manned Manoeuvring Unit

Where

When

February 1984

Details

The Manned Manoeuvring Unit (MMU), used by astronauts working outside the space shuttle, is 1.24 m (4 ft) tall, 0.83m (2 ft 8 in) wide and 1.12 m (3 ft 8 in) deep and weighs just 109 kg (240 lb).

Smallest replica guitar

Who

Harold Craighead and Dustin Carr

Where

When

1997

Details

A guitar carved from a block of silicon and based on a Fender Stratocaster, measured ten micrometres long - 1/20 the thickness of human hair. Made in 1997 in just twenty minutes by scientists at the Cornell University, New York, USA, each of its six strings were 0.05 mm 1/100 in thick, equivalent to 100 atoms laid end to end.

Telephone - smallest

Who

Jan Piotr Krutewicz

Where

When

Details

The smallest operational telephone was created by Jan Piotr Krutewicz, Munster, USA on 16 September 1996. It measured just 47.5mm x 10mm x 21mm 1.8in x 0.3in x 0.8 in.