January 30, 2011

Amazing Facts

PencilThe first kind of PENCIL was a bunch of GRAPHITE sticks held together by string. Then someone decided it would be better to push the graphite into the inside of a hollow wooden stick.

JOSEPH RECHENDORFER was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber onto the top of a pencil which makes it real easy to rub out mistakes.

Did you know that the average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil? Amazing fact! Now imagine an eraser that could match it !!!

AirplaneThis is what an old airplane looked like. The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk.

BicycleDid you know the first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along.

BalloonsDid you know the first toy balloon, made of vulcanized rubber, was thought of by someone in the J.G.Ingram company in London, England in 1847.

9 Pin Bowling9 pin bowling was made up in Germany during the Medieval ages.

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