20 Technology Facts

20 Technology Facts

1. To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
2. The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
3. Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
4. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
5. Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
6. Surgeons who grew up playing video games make 37 percent fewer mistakes.
7. The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969.
8. Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
9. Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
10. There are only 14 blimps in the world.
11. The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
12. The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
13. The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
14. It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
15. Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
16. A small airplane can fly backwards.
17. A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
18. Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
19. Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
20. Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.

Sources: funfactz.com