Advice to collectors of battery-operated toys: Pull out the batteries before storing them. Otherwise, you'll have an oozing mess of battery acid and plastic in a few years, thanks to leaky batteries.
Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982.
A 1999 survey of 25,500 standard English-language dictionary words found that 93 percent of them have been registered as .coms.
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
A bicycle headlight mostly allows others to see you. However, some of the brighter lights do aid nighttime vision. Most lights range in wattage from 2.4 to 20. Police-department bikes in the United States use a minimum of 15 watts.
A chest X-ray is comprised of 90,000 to 130,000 electron volts.
A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a full city block.
A device invented as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero, about the time of the birth of Christ, is used today as a rotating lawn sprinkler.
Advice to collectors of battery-operated toys: Pull out the batteries before storing them. Otherwise, you'll have an oozing mess of battery acid and plastic in a few years, thanks to leaky batteries.
Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982.
A 1999 survey of 25,500 standard English-language dictionary words found that 93 percent of them have been registered as .coms.
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
A bicycle headlight mostly allows others to see you. However, some of the brighter lights do aid nighttime vision. Most lights range in wattage from 2.4 to 20. Police-department bikes in the United States use a minimum of 15 watts.
A chest X-ray is comprised of 90,000 to 130,000 electron volts.
A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a full city block.
A device invented as a primitive steam engine by the Greek engineer Hero, about the time of the birth of Christ, is used today as a rotating lawn sprinkler
A machine has been invented that can read printed English books aloud to the blind, and it can do so at speed half again as fast as normal speech.
A new permanent display is available for viewing at National Air and Science Museum at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.: the gondola from the Breitling Orbiter 3, the first balloon to fly around the world nonstop. After 19 days, 21 hours, and 47 minutes in the air, the Breitling Orbiter 3 and crew – Switzerland’s Bertrand Piccard and Britain's Brian Jones – landed on March 21, 1999, marking the first successful nonstop circumnavigation of the globe in a balloon. The gondola is 20 feet long and 8 feet high, while the balloon itself is the same height as the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
A NUKE InterNETWORK poll found that 52 percent of Internet users have cut back on watching TV in order to spend more time online; 12 percent have cut back on seeing friends.
A standard 747 Jumbo Jet has 420 seats.
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