Technology Facts
There are 44 Technology Facts
- A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
- A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
- A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
- A small airplane can fly backwards.
- A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
- About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
- An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
- Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
- Attics were invented in Attica.
- Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
- Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
- Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.
- Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
- First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
- Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
- If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
- In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
- In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
- It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
- It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
- Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
- Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.
- More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
- Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
- Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.
- Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.
- The American Automobile Association was founded for the sole purpose of warning motorists of police speed traps!
- The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!
- The ball on top of a flagpole is called a 'truck'.
- The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
- The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
- The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
- The IRS processes more than 2 billion pieces of paper each year.
- The life boat was patented in 1845!
- The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!
- The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
- The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
- The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
- There are only 14 blimps in the world.
