TECHNOLOGY CHEAT-SHEET

========================== BASIC TECHNOLOGY MANUAL: By SimoTheFinlandized (2021 CE) ========================== ON FLIGHT & AERODYNAMICS: ========================== The Wing Took A Rather Long Time To Come Up With. Just Remember That Aerofoils Are Objects Shaped Such That Air Above Them Progresses Faster Than Air Moving Beneath Them. Slower-Moving Air Has More Pressure, So There Is A Net Upwards Force Going On Here. Attach An Aerofoil Of Sufficient Size To A Machine Capable Of Moving Itself Fast Enough & It Will Fly. You Can Make A Plane By Attaching Two Aerofoils To A Central Body - Add Flaps At The Trailing Edges & You Can Control Where It Goes! ========================== ON SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: ========================== Heat Milk To Just Below It's Boiling Point So It Won't Curdle & 99.999% Of The Bacteria In It Will Be Killed Off - Pasteurization. A Moving Electric Field Produces Magnetism, & Vice Versa. Wrap Copper Wire Around An Iron Core & Run Electricity Through It To Create An Electromagnet. Don't Have Electricity? Put A Magnet Behind A Water Wheel, And Put Your Copper-Wrapped Iron Magnet Beside The Wheel To Get Mechanical Energy Converted Into Electrical Energy - Electric Generators. Don't Have Any Magnets? Simply Heat A Piece Of Iron To Get A Weak One. Look For Black Grains In Beach Sand That Stick Together, Or Examine The Sites Of Lightning Strikes For Magnetic Lodestones. Run Electricity Through Tungsten Wire To Get The Lightbulb. Run Electricity Back & Forth Along A Wire With Enough Power To Invent The Radio. When A Radio Wave Interacts With A Receiving Antennae, The Exact Same Electrical Charge Can Be Recovered. Information Can Be Encoded In Two Ways - In The Charge Of The Electricity (Higher Current Produces Higher Amplitude Wave) Or In The Frequency Of The Electrical Reversals. FM Is More Resistant To Amplitude Decay In Transit. Send Out High-Frequency Waves And Measure When & How They Bounce Back To Invent Radar. Do The Same With Sound, & Oh Man, You've Invented Sonar. Mount A Magnet So It Can Move Freely, & You've Created The Compass. Polaris (The North Star) Is Just About The Brightest Star In The Night Sky, Near The 'Big Dipper' Constellation. Measure How High Up It Appears To Be, & That Angle Is Your Latitude. Quartz Crystals Are Great: Run Some Current Through Them They'll Change Shape! Stop The Current And They'll Resume Their Shape, AND They'll Generate Electricity With A Very Precise Frequency As They Do So. You Can Use This To Make Precision Clocks If You Can Measure The Frequency Via Technology, And With These Clocks You Can Determine Longitude - Just Set Your Clock To London Time, Take The Difference Between London Noon & Local Noon, & That's How Far Away From The Prime Meridian You Are. That's Longitude Right There! Now We Need Some Units: The Exact Speed Of Light Is 299,792,458 Meters Per Second; A Meter Is Defined In Terms Of Light, But If You Can't Measure That Accurately , The Length Of A Pendulum That Takes One Second To Swing From End-To-End Will Do The Trick. Pendulums Tend To Take The Same Amount Of Time To Swing Regardless Of How High You Start Them Off, So Don't Worry About It, Okay? If You Don't Have A Watch On You, A Second Is About How Long It Takes You To Say 'One Mississippi', & The Gram Is Pretty Much The Weight Of One Cubic Centimeter Of Water. ========================== ON HEALTH & MEDICINE: ========================== Germs Spread Disease & Can Basically Live Anywhere - Fight Them With Hygiene & Antibiotics. Wash Regularly To Keep Yourself & Those Around You Clean. Medical Instruments Should Be Cleaned Via Boiling Water - Steam Works Better On Things That Can't Be Washed. The Best Antibiotic Is Penicillin, The Mold "Penicillium Notatum", Found On Food. It's Incredibly Effective At Stopping Infection & Works By Preventing Bacteria From Creating New Cell Walls & Reproducing . If The Penicillium Mold Is Unknown, Look For Molds On Foods That, When Viewed Under A Microscope, Look Like 'Crazy Hands On Long Stalks' - There's Your Penicillium! Viruses Also Spread Disease, But Unlike Germs, Can't Reproduce On Their Own - They Need Host Cells To Do That. Fight Them With Vaccination, Which Allows The Body To Produce Antibodies For A Given Virus That Kills It Before It Even Shows Up. Make A Vaccine By Growing A Culture & Then Heating It - The Heat Kills The Virus; Their Dead Shells Being More Than Enough To Teach The Body How To Fight. Weaker Strains Also Vaccinate Well. You May Be Good For Most Diseases, But We Were The First Generation To Be Raised Without SMALLPOX. COWPOX Are Spots Found On Cow Udders & Are Good Enough To Vaccinate You While Being Weak Enough Not To Kill You. Speaking Of Not Being Killed, Diabetes Is Characterized By Frequent Urination, Extreme Hunger Or Thirst, & Extreme Weight Loss. Without Treatment This Disease Can Be Deadly, But Insulin Can Be Extracted From The Pancreas Of Dogs & Pigs By Tying A String Around The Pancreatic Duct, The Extract Being Injected To Serve As A Miraculous Treatment. ========================== ON CHEMISTRY & MATERIALS: ========================== Don't Forget The Basic Building Blocks Of Matter - Atoms. Atoms Consist Of At It's Core, The Nucleus, The Following: Neutrally-Charged Neutrons & Positively-Charged Protons, Surrounded By A Swarm Of Negatively-Charged Electrons. Atoms That Are Neutrally-Charged Have The Same Number Of Protons As They Do Electrons; Negatively-Charged Ones Have More Electrons, As Positively-Charged Ones Have More Protons. The Number Of Protons In An Atom Determine What Element It Is. The Most Important Ones We'll Focus On Are HYDROGEN (1, H); CARBON (6, C); NITROGEN (7, N); & OXYGEN (8, O). Water Is Made Up Of H2O, While Krazy-Glue Is Made Up Of C5-H5-N-O2. If You're A Woman And You Swallow Progesterone (C20-H26-O2), You Won't Ovulate. Aluminum Used To Be More Valuable Than Gold, And You Can Extract It From Rocks By Dissolving It In Molten Cryolite And Running Current. You'll Find Cryolite In Greenland, Latitude 61.2 Longitude -48.16. Look For Glassy White Crystals. Atoms Can Be Split, Releasing A Tremendous Amount Of Energy & Radiation. Energy Cannot Be Created Or Destroyed, Just Merely Converted. Energy Is Mass Times The Speed-Of-Light Squared (E=mc^2). ==========================