Technology

Technology The Rolling Suitcase Was Not Invented Until 1972 When Bernard D. Sadow Put Wheels from a Wardrobe Onto His Suitcase and Added a Strap. December 31, 2022

Technology Breast Cancer Used to be Known as Nun's Disease Due to the Higher Occurance Amongst Nuns. December 31, 2022

Technology Consuming Beer Attracts More Malaria Mosquitoes December 31, 2022

Technology Boeing B17 Pilots Often Accidentally Raise the Undercarriage After Landing, Destroying the Propellors and Damaging the Underbelly because the Undercarriage Lever and the Flap Lever Look the Same. December 31, 2022

Technology Astronaut Scott Kelly Came Back from Living in Space and was Two Inches Taller Than His Identical Twin. December 31, 2022

Technology In an Attempt to Reduce the Cleaning Costs, an Airport in Amsterdam Installed a Picture of a Fly in the Urinals So Guys Can Aim at It and Avoid Splashing. December 16, 2022

Technology Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, has a Hobby of Guessing the Measurements of Objects and Then Checking to See If He was Correct. He Even Carries Tape Measure with Him. December 8, 2022

Technology Apple Created a Custom Mouse and Called It "The Hockey Puck," That Lasted for Only Two Years Before it was Discontinued. This was Considered One of Apple's More Notorious Flops. December 3, 2022

Technology Alarm Clocks Existed Even Before the Snooze Function. Innovators Had to Work with the Standard Gear That Getting the Teeth to Line Up to at Ten Minutes Was Impossible. They Chose to Set it at 9 Minutes and a Few Seconds. November 25, 2022

Technology Steve Jobs Offered Linus Torvalds, the Creator of Linux, a Job at Apple Under the Condition He Stopped Developing for Linux. Torvalds Declined the Job Offer. November 23, 2022

Technology Major Wilbert “Doug” Peterson is the First Space Ace. He Managed to Perform the First and Only Air-to-Space Kill in History by Shooting Down a Satellite with an F-15A Fighter Jet. November 23, 2022

Technology It Took Four Years to Complete the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Project. A Parade was Held in New Your City to Celebrate the Occasion. November 22, 2022

Technology President Carter Oversaw the Installation of the First Computers in the White House in 1978. November 21, 2022

Technology The F-111 Fighter Jet was Used to Transport a Donor Heart Across the Country in Two Hours. The Heart Came from Oklahoma and Was Transferred to New York City. November 17, 2022

Technology Before Shazam Became an App, it was a Telephone Service Which You Could Call to Identify a Song. The Caller Would Then Get a Text with the Details of the Song. November 13, 2022

Technology Glass is Sometimes Recycled into "Glassphalt" or is Used as a Landfill Covering Over Waste Materials. November 12, 2022

Technology The International Space Station has an Amateur Radio Station Aboard Used by Astronauts to Contact Schools While They are in Orbit. During Their Downtime, They Call Other Amateur Operators on Earth. November 11, 2022

Technology Mr. Trash Wheel is an Anthropomorphised Trash Interceptor Who Has Inspired a Series of Trash Interceptors like Professor Trash Wheel, Captain Trash Wheel, and Gwynnda the Good Wheel of the West. November 3, 2022

Technology Galileo Ferraris Invented the Induction Motor and the Three-Phase Power Systems. Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Recognized Ferraris as His Precursor for Inventing the Modern Induction Motor. October 31, 2022