To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
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An airplane mechanic invented Slinky while he was playing with engine parts and realized the possible secondary use for the springs.
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Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
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In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
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The oil used by jewelers to lubricate clocks and watches costs about $3,000 a gallon.
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