You should tell any engineer you know that the word “engineer” comes from a Latin word which means “cleverness”. They will love that! Science and engineering is not just about textbooks and geeks. There are many interesting and cool things to learn. Take a look at some of these interesting facts if you thought that engineering and technology are boring.
William Higinbotham, the inventor of the first videogame, introduced it in 1958. Ada Lovelace, a woman who wrote a paper published in 1843, predicted the first computer programme. She suggested a plan to calculate Bernoulli numbers using a new calculating machine called an “Analytical Engine”.
Did you know that a simple internet search can have an impact on the environment? Google searches produce about 0.2 grams of carbon dioxide. If you search again, the amount produced is similar to boiling a kettle. Google processes around 1 billion searches per day, which is equivalent to 200 tons of carbon dioxide each day.
Tetris was the first mobile game. It was first played in 1994, on the Hagenuk MT-2000 phone made and designed in Denmark by Hagenuk. Motorola’s John F. Mitchell, and Martin Cooper demonstrated the first mobile phone in 1973. It weighed 2 kg. The DynaTAC 8000x was the first commercially-available mobile phone. To find out all about a Multi Network Data Sim for your modern phone, contact Lister Communications
Atari Portfolio was the name of the first palmtop computer released in 1989. The Atari Portfolio was even featured in Terminator 2 where John Connor used the computer to hack an ATM and retrieve a key to Cyberdyne Labs’ vault.
