Engineering and Technology Trivia

  • The name of the first airplane flown at Kitty Hawk by the Wright Brothers, on Dec 17, 1903, was Bird of Prey.
  • The world's first landing field for UFOs was installed in Ares, France on 15th August 1976.
  • Delag, the world’s first airline, was established on October 16, 1909, to carry passengers between German cities by Zeppelin airships.
  • Ferenc Szisz from Romania, driving a Renault, won the first Formula One Grand Prix held at Le Mans, France in 1906.
  • Chevrolet was founded by Louis Chevrolet in 1911, but was sold to General Motors in 1917.
  • To escape the Earth's gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.
  • The first FAX machine was patented in 1843, 33 years before Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone.
  • It takes 4,000 gallons of fuel to get a jumbo jet off the ground.
  • The first modern traffic light was put to use in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914.
  • The crawler, the machine that takes the Space Shuttle to the launching pad moves at 3km/h
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