World of Engineering

TIL Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has disdain for money and large wealth accumulation. In 2017 he said he didn’t want to be near money, because it could corrupt your values. When Apple went public, Wozniak offered $10 million of his stock to early Apple employees.

World of Engineering Quiz: Which homologous series contains only C-C single bonds?

Correct answer: (9⁹)⁹ = 9³⁸⁷⁴²⁰⁴⁸⁹, which is a number with more than 369 million digits.

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On Jan 24, 1984 – Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.

“But remember this, Japanese boy... airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.” - Hayao Miyazaki

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Historic invention of the day: 1884: Hungarian engineers Károly Zipernowsky, Ottó Bláthy and Miksa Déri intvent the closed core high efficiency transformer and the AC parallel power distribution.

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On Jan 24, 1990 – Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.

Term of the day: Albedo Definition: A measure of the fraction of light reflected from an astronomical body or other object.

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On Jan 24, 1961 – Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost. https://t.co/AtQtNEp6It

Unusual unit of measurement: Gas Mark (Temperature). Gas Mark is a temperature scale, predominantly found on British ovens, that scales linearly with Celsius above 135°C (Gas Mark 1) and scales with the log of Celsius below 135°C.

The correct answer is 110 miles.

TIL: The discoverer of neutron (James Chadwick) was a student of discoverer of proton (E. Rutherford) which in turn was a student of discoverer of electron (J.J. Thomson).

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