The car is one of the most recognizeable inventions of the modern era. Without cars there would be no suburbs, car trips, endless drop-offs and pick-ups most parents are all to familiar with. Here are some fun facts about cars and their colorful past.
* The first cars did not have steering wheels. Drivers steered with a lever.
* The New York City Police Department used bicycles to pursue speeding motorists in 1898.
* The first speeding ticket was issued in 1902.
* In 1916, 55 percent of the cars in the world were Model T Fords, a record that has never been beaten.
* The first gas gauge appeared in cars in 1922.
* In 1923, 173 new inventions by women for cars had been reported. Among these inventions were a carburetor and an electric engine starter.
* The first car radio was invented in 1929.
* Buick introduced the first electric turn signals in 1938.
* The Peanuts characters were first animated in 1957 for a Ford Fairlaine automobile commercial.
* Most American car horns beep in the key of F.
* The automobile is the most recycled consumer product in the world today
Car fun Facts
25 crazy , true but unknown facts from the world
1 | 69% Americans use Internet & 5.5% Indians only. |
2 | El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 - the hottest ever measured. |
3 | Plastics take 500 years to break down. |
4 | America has 30.30% airports of the world & India has only 0.70%. |
5 | There are roughly 4,000 known minerals, although only about 200 are of major importance. |
6 | The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles. |
7 | Crocodile only animal & reptile that sheds tear while eating. |
8 | The world’s deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China, more than 830,000 people were killed. |
9 | Angel Falls in Venezuela is the worlds highest waterfall, The water of Falls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). |
10 | The sunrays reached at the earth in 8 minutes & 3 seconds. |
11 | 8.7 million of United State residents who were born in Asia. |
12 | The world’s population has been increased 3.1 billion in last 40 years. |
13 | 180 million nos. of Valentine’s Day cards exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion. |
14 | 3,467 Nos. of confectionery nut stores in the United States, they are among the best sources of sweets for Valentine’s Day. |
15 | 4% people drink cold drink daily. |
16 | Traffic lights are being used before the invention of motor car. |
17 | More than 50 million Americans said they had a disability; for 32.5 million of them, the disability was severe. |
18 | About 40% Proportion of all Valentine card purchases which parents account for. |
19 | First Stock Exchange of America was in Philadelphia & it was established in 1791. |
20 | Girls however are slightly more likely than boys to use home computers for e-mail, word processing and completing school assignments than playing games. |
21 | A normal person laughs five times in a day. |
22 | Approximate 300 million film tickets are sold every year in India. |
23 | In Britain 70% mothers go for work. |
24 | More artists live in California than any other state in the United States. There are 10,000 arts organizations in California. |
25 | Alfred Southwick developed the idea of using electric current & Professionally he was a Dentist (MDS, DDS). |
TEN MYTHS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS
1. Nuclear weapons were needed to defeat Japan in World War II. This is not the opinion of many leading US military figures in the war. General Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II and later US president, wrote, “I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.
It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of ‘face’….”
2. Nuclear weapons prevented a war between the United States and the Soviet Union. There were many deadly conflicts and “proxy” wars carried out by the superpowers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Vietnam War, which took several million lives, is a prominent example. These wars made the supposed nuclear peace very bloody and deadly.
3. Nuclear threats have gone away since the end of the Cold War. In the aftermath of the Cold War, a variety of new nuclear threats have emerged. Among these are the following dangers:
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Increased chances of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists willing to use them;
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Policies of the US government to make nuclear weapons smaller and more usable;
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Use of nuclear weapons by accident, particularly because of decaying Russian infrastructure; and
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Spread of nuclear weapons to other states that may perceive them to be an “equalizer” against a more
powerful state.
4. The United States needs nuclear weapons for its national security. US national security would be far improved if the US took a leadership role in seeking to eliminate nuclear weapons throughout the world. Nuclear weapons are the only weapons that could actually destroy the United States, and their existence and proliferation threaten US security.
5. Nuclear weapons make a country safer. By threatening massive retaliation, the argument goes, nuclear weapons prevent an attacker from starting a war. There are many ways, though, in which deterrence could fail, including misunderstandings, faulty communications, irrational leaders, miscalculations and accidents.
6. No leader would be crazy enough to actually use nuclear weapons. US leaders, considered by some to be highly rational, have used nuclear weapons in war, against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Globally and historically, leaders have done their best to prove that they would use nuclear weapons.
7. Nuclear weapons are a cost-effective method of national defense. The cost of US nuclear weapons research, development, testing, deployment and maintenance has exceeded $7.5 trillion.
8. Nuclear weapons are well protected and there is little chance that terrorists could get their hands on one. In the aftermath of the Cold War, the ability of the Russians to protect their nuclear forces has declined precipitously.
In addition, a coup in a country with nuclear weapons, such as Pakistan, could lead to a government coming to power that was willing to provide nuclear weapons to terrorists.
9. The United States is working to fulfill its nuclear disarmament obligations. The United States has failed for nearly four decades to fulfill its obligations under Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, requiring good faith negotiations to achieve nuclear disarmament. The United States has failed to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and has withdrawn from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
10. Nuclear weapons are needed to combat threats from terrorists and “rogue states.”
The threat of nuclear force cannot act as a deterrent against terrorists because they do not have a territory to retaliate against. If the leaders of a rogue state do not use a rational calculus regarding their losses from retaliation, deterrence can fail
More Details at :
http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2007/10/facts_myths.pdf
