Weird-but-True Facts about Inventions by Arnold Ringstad

Author:Arnold Ringstad
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Child’s World

The first jet aircraft flew in 1939 at a top

speed of 435 miles per hour (700 km/h).

The fastest jet aircraft in 2012, the SR-71 Blackbird, can fly at nearly 2,200 miles

per hour (3,300 km/h).

Many of the

earliest cars were

electric cars.

William Morrison of Iowa invented

an electric car in 1891. Gasoline-

powered cars did not become popular

until after 1908, when Henry Ford

introduced his famous Model T car.

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The fastest vehicle

ever was the Helios 2

spacecraft.

It traveled more than 150,000 miles per

hour (250,000 km/h) in 1976. Helios 2

was designed to fly close to the sun in

order to study it.

The land speed record is 763

miles per hour (1,228 km/h).

It was set by a jet-powered car in 1997. The jet engines

were the same kind found on some fighter jets.

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