To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
308
More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
55
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
56
Originally, BMW was an airplane engine manufacturer.
69
A toaster uses almost half as much energy as a full-sized oven.
33
If a car is travelling at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the brake.
25
It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
20