BY:NAILA SHUTTARY

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TECHY FACTS

Ninety-one percent of all adults have their mobile phone within arm’s reach every hour of every day.

There are 6.8 billion people on the planet and 4 billion of them use a mobile phone. Only 3.5 billion of them use a toothbrush.

POSITION OF HORSES IN MONUMENTS

The way a soldier’s horse is portrayed in an equestrian statue indicates how the soldier died!!!!

#1 If all four legs are on the ground, the

‘Hero' got safe out of the battle

#2 If one leg is lifted up, the person on the horse got

injured in the battle:

#3 If the front legs are up high, the rider died in the

battle:

FATHER OF INFORMATION The man known as the

Father of Information Theory, “Claude Shannon”, invented the Digital Circuit –The foundation of the magic that provides us all access to the Internet today - during his master’s degree program, when he was just 21 years old.!!!!!!!

ENGLISH FACTS Of all the words in the English language, the word

‘SET' has the most definition.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

R.S.V.P. stands for a French phrase, "répondez, s'il vousplaît," which means "please reply." The person sending the invitation would like you to tell him or her whether you accept or decline the invitation.

COMPBUZZ The bumps found on the F

and J keys on the keyboard help users correctly position their left and right hand on the keyboard without having to look at the keyboard. For example, without looking at your keyboard you should be able to feel the keyboard and correctly position your left index finger on the F and the right index finger on the J, which then positions all the remainder of your fingers in the correct position

SCIENCE-TECHIE Marie Curie was the first person to win two Nobel

Prizes for Science.

A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.

The Internet is the fastest-growing communications tool ever. It took radio broadcasters 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million, television 13 years, and the Internet just 4 years.

TECHO-TECH

SOCIO

ELECTRO-FACTS A tube light or fluorescent lamp is a kind of light that

uses a combination of electricity and mercury vapourto create light energy.

COMMON WATTAGES:

Ceiling Fan -10W(MIN) 50W(MAX)

Desktop Computer -50W(MIN) 150W(MAX)

Home Air Conditioner-1000W(MIN) 1000W(MAX)

Laptop Computer-20W(MIN) 50W(MAX)

Table Fan-10W(MIN) 25W(MAX)

GOOD TO KNOW We cannot store AC in batteries because AC changes

their polarity up to 50 (50Hz)times in a second. Therefore the battery terminals keep changing Positive (+ve) becomes Negative (-Ve) and vice versa, but the battery cannot change their terminals with the same speed so that’s why we can’t store AC in Batteries.

When a Transformer is operated under basic loading conditions ,its normal life expectancy is about 20 years.

A simple machine is a mechanical device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force. In general, they can be defined as the simplest mechanisms that use mechanical advantage (also called leverage) to multiply force.