Technology Facts

• 01. A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
• 02. A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
• 03. A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
• 14. A small airplane can fly backwards.
• 05. A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
• 06. About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
• 07. An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
• 08. Any modern jet is capable of breaking the sound barrier.
• 09. Attics were invented in Attica.
• 010. Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
• 011. Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
• 012. Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.
• 013. Energy is being wasted if a toaster is left plugged in after use.
• 014. First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.
• 015. Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
• 016. 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.
• 317. In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
• 018. In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
• 019. It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
  • 020. It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.