Portal:Technology/Did you know/8


 * ... that F.I.B.S. is the earliest backgammon server on the internet and has been actively operating since July 19, 1992?
 * ... that Nicholas Christofilos designed the Astron fusion power machine while selling elevators?
 * ... that the automated tank cleaning machine used to clean oil tankers after discharging cargo was patented by Arthur Butterworth in 1920?
 * ... that the India-sponsored Pan-African e-Network project aims to link all member states of the African Union with each other and India through a satellite and submarine cable network?
 * ... that between 1930 and 1933, the Russian battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna (pictured) carried a Heinkel aircraft catapult?