- 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.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
SOME EXZITING FACTS OF TECHNOLOGY....
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Did the Towers collapse like they were designed to???
yes....of course it collapsed in side ways....
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