bloggers agog: January 2009

Saturday, January 3, 2009

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 31, 2009