We all know the story of Franklin’s famous kite-in-a-thunderstorm experiment. But is it the true story? Read more here – Benjamin Franklin and the Kite Experiment | The Franklin Institute (fi.edu)
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Electrical Tape Colors—Do You Know What They Mean?
FROM NSI – KEY FACTS ABOUT PHASING AND ELECTRICAL TAPE COLORS All these colors of electrical tape aren’t just designed to look pretty—each color has a standardized meaning that help electricians and contractors identify conductors in the field. For finding the neutral, differentiating 1-Phase or 3-Phase systems or identifying high-voltage wires, multicolored electrical tape is…
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Ferrari vs. Lamborghini
Ferrari vs. Lamborghini – In the early 1960’s, Ferruccio Lamborghini was a wealthy Italian industrialist who’s company built tractors. He owned and drove several Ferrari’s but repeatedly broke the clutches. So, he went to Enzo Ferrari and suggested how he could improve his clutch. Enzo Ferrari told him: ‘You are a tractor driver, you are…
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Mark Twain loved to travel and once wrote
Mark Twain wrote – “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”