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Let me tell you a quick story. (if you weren't already convinced of my nerdiness, this should do the trick!) When I was a kid, I used to ask my parents the most ridiculously complicated questions (or the weirdest ones) and they rarely knew the answers. So they would direct me to the children's encyclopedia. Sadly enough the "good one" was in English and I couldn't read English yet, at the time. I still looked at the pictures and had my mom translate things for me... ;) Anyway, back then, my biggest dream was of a place that I could go to -- like an information booth in a shopping mall -- where I could ask them any question at all and the person at the booth would know the answer. (How fast does a leopard run? How does a photocopier work?
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?How is chocolate made? Who really shot JFK? -- these were actual questions I kept asking my parents. They bought me books for all but the last one...) So, a booth I could go to and ask them questions and, just like that, right off the bat, they would know the answer to my question. I dreamed of a place like that for *years*. ...and then one day, when I was 26, I realized they had invented it, although it looked nothing like what I thought it would. It's called "the internet" - the one place you can go to and find information about anything that you can possibly wonder about.Anyhow... your post totally reminded me of this. It's a cherished childhood memory, however ridiculous it might sound.
So... um... a question... (actually, I kinda want to ask if I could have a free pass in order to ask anything anytime I like. *giggles*) OK, seriously, here's a question for you: what was the first car to be manufactured and sold? I know the Ford Model T is the first *affordable* car to be made and that's the one most people remember, but... obviously something had to come before "T" anyway, right?
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A cheetah can run up to about 60mph. An ostrich, the fastest bird, can go about 40. Leopards are relatives of cheetahs, but they can't go quite as fast. I think they're in the 40mph range, when going flat out, but I'm not certain.
I trust you know all you want about photocopiers by now. ;)
The chicken or the egg is actually a question of belief. A creationist will tell you that the chicken was created as-is, and therefore came first. A darwinist, however, will tell you that eggs existed long before chickens. If you want to talk specifically about chicken eggs, then you just go back to when chickens evolved. At some point, there was a proto-chicken. A creature very like a chicken, but one evolutionary step away from it. It laid an egg, and out of that egg, a mutant hatched - the first chicken. So, again... the egg came first.
Chocolate creation... Alton Brown did a whole Good Eats ep about that. I'd recommend watching.
JFK... well, anyone who's watched a particular episode of the UK sci-fi comedy show "Red Dwarf" can tell you that JFK was actually shot by a version of himself from an alternate future.
And yes, the internet is awesome in its information-giving powers. All hail the mighty internet.
And, of course. Ask anything at any time. Same rules apply.
On to your actual question...
The stuff above, I answered off the top of my head. This, I actually did some research.
Ford did start with the Model A (and the revamped successor to the Model T was also called the Model A). In between were several production models, but also quite a few prototypes that never made it to the market.
Long before that, however...
According to the Colombia Encyclopedia, there were steam-driven cars built as early as 1789. The first internal combustion engine car, however, was (according to Britannica's concise encyclopedia) the "Motorwagon" built by Karl Benz in 1885 and patented the next year.
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I trust you know all you want about photocopiers by now. ;)
Actually... no. *lol* I mean, I know what it is and I can see how it works, but I'd still have to look up the info to figure out how the heck it actually works. I know I read that in a book when I was a kid - one about all manners of appliances - but the only one I remember from that was the camera. *shrugs* I guess you remember the things you use more than you do the others. (granted, we did have a photocopier at home, but as a kid, I wasn't allowed to touch it!)
About the chicken, I think I should have asked "Why did the chicken cross the street?" instead. That would have been more amusing. But, then, of course, I know the answer to that already: "To boldly go where no chicken has gone before!"
Many thanks for the automotive info. :) ...which reminds me that the F1 season is about to begin. Hee! And suddenly I wonder if there have been cars that could go faster than a Formula 1 race car...mmm... /off to Google.
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Why did Chicken cross Road? Well, this will only make sense if you're familiar with vector math, but... [Chicken] cross [Road] is normal to [Chicken]. But I like your answer, too. *g*
Glad to help on the car thing. And yes, of course there are cars that go faster than Formula 1. F1 imposes limits to keep things fair. But there are rocket cars and all sorts of things. Drag racers don't turn so well, but they go way faster than F1.
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