General Riddles

I have keys but can't open any lock, I have space but no room. Who am I?
Keyboard

I have just one, but with eight to spare, I am usually friendly, but I sometimes act like I don't care. What am I?
A cat (9 lives).

What invention lets you look right through a wall?
A window

What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the start of every end, and the end of every race?
The letter 'E'.

I have a thumb and four fingers, but I have no flesh or bone. Who am I?

What is as light as a feather, but even the world's strongest man couldn't hold it for more than a minute?
His breath.

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?
A stamp.

Fill in the blanks with a word which makes two different words if you read from both sides: Tim's father has kept his ______ in the ______ for scoring good marks in math.
Reward and Drawer.

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

You can catch me but cannot throw me. Who am I?

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