Innovate Thinking

Do you know…

1.  An aircraft carrier gets about 6 inches per gallon of fuel.

2. The Chinese were using aluminum to make things as early as 300 AD Western civilization didn’t rediscover aluminum until 1827.

3. Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.

4. ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. The original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, and had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC, and 50,000 times faster.

5. The computer was launched in 1943; more than 100 years after Charles Babbage designed the first programmable device. Babbage dropped his idea after he couldn’t raise capital for it. In 1998, the Science Museum in London, UK, built a working replica of the Babbage machine, using the materials and work methods available at Babbage’s time. It worked just as Babbage had intended.

6. The electric chair was invented by a dentist, Alfred Southwick.

7. The first e-mail was sent over the Internet in 1972.

8. The Chinese invented eyeglasses. Marco Polo reported seeing many pairs worn by the Chinese as early as 1275, 500 years before lens grinding became an art in the West.

9. If hot water is suddenly poured into a glass that glass is more apt to break if it is thick than if it is thin. This is why test tubes are made of thin glass.

10. As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by your head.

Cheers!
Patrick