Interesting Technology Facts - Part 2

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

E-mail has been around longer than the world wide web.

Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime.

An interesting similarity among HP, Google, Microsoft and Apple is that they all were started in garages.

Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours.

The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.

On an average workday, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles. 

Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland.  

The normal static electricity shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts. 

About 39,000 gallons of water is used to produce the average car.

Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.

It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce and 13 hours to build a Toyota.

Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.

First four countries to have television: England, the U.S., the U.S.S.R., and Brazil.

The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.

Technically speaking, crystal glass is actually a Liquid that flows very slowly.

Jumbo jets use 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
 
More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
 
If a car is traveling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.