SOME EXZITING FACTS OF TECHNOLOGY....

• AIRCRAFT CARRIER:An aircraft carrier gets about 6inchs per gallon of fuel.
• COMPACT DISC:Compact Disc read from inside to outside edge,the reverse of how a record works.
• ELECTRIC CHAIR:The electric chair was invented by a Dentist,Alfred Southwick.
• MOBILE PHONES:As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by your head.
• SOUND:Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than air.
• TELEPHONE:There are more than 600 million telephones line today,yet almost half the World's population has never made a phone call.
• TRANSISTORS:More than a billion transistors are manufactured every second.
• RADIO WAVES:Radio waves travels so much faster than sound waves that a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 18,000 km away than in the back of the room in which it originated.
• GLASS:If hot water is poured into a glass that glass is more apt to break if it is thick than if it is thin.Thats why test tubes are made of thin glass.
• E-MAIL:The first e-mail was sent over the internet in 1972.
• WORLD TRADE CENTER:The World Trade Center tower were designed to collapse in a pancake like fashion,instead of simply falling over on their sides.This design saved thousand of lives during the September 11,2001 attack.