FACT

1. A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

2. Einstein received the Nobel Prize for
Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the
photoelectric effect, the phenomenon by which electrons are knocked out of matter by electromagnetic radiation such as light.

3. Marie Curie was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes for Science.

4. One third of the world population has never made a telephone call.

5. The Ericsson Company first produced
cellular phones in 1979.

6. The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo in San Francisco.

7. The Internet is the fastest- growing
communications tool ever. It took radio
broadcasters 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million, television 13 years, and the Internet just 4 years.

8. Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.

9. The first laser was made in California in 1960