10 Amazing Little Known Facts About Technology facts

10 Amazing Little Known Facts About Technology facts

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Human being has done wonders with the progress of technology in the last century. Technology has put spectacular tools and resources in our hands to make our lives ever so convenient. New findings in the technical field are so frequent that it has become hard for many to catch up with the pace of inventions.

As fascinating as these technical wonders seem today, the stories behind them are even more interesting. Here are ten such amazing little known facts about the technology we all use almost every day.

1. QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down the typing speed

People boast about their writing speed on a typewriter or keyboard. It is even a competitive advantage for some jobs to have faster and accurate typing skills. But do you know the current layout of the QWERTY keyboards is the outcome of a solution designed to no fast down the typing speed?

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The initial versions of typewriters made in the 1870s had few technical issues. The metal arms, which hold the characters, used to clash and jam if the keys were pressed in rapid succession or if a typist pressed the adjacent keys simultaneously.

2. Water Integrator — a computer that ran on water

Old computer

                     And digital computer

 

Vladimir Sergeevich Lukyanov built the world’s first computer in 1936 that solved differential equations in partial derivatives. The amazing fact is that the machine was driven by water.

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