It’s also an integral part of Vivid Sydney a yearly festival of lights, music and the arts. At the stroke of midnight, specially placed firing points along the bridge shoot thousands of fireworks into the sky. The bridge plays a part in some of the best annual events in Sydney most notably as the focal point of the New Year’s Eve fireworks spectacular.You’ll be familiar with the analogy of painting the Forth Bridge to describe a never-ending task – this was literally the case for the Sydney Harbour Bridge! As the bridge took so long to paint, at one point the team commissioned to paint it were virtually permanently employed as once the last coat of paint was finished, it was time to paint the next one.Approximately six million hand driven rivets and 53,000 tonnes of steel were used in the construction, and 272,000 litres of paint were used.
The construction of Sydney Harbour Bridge began on 28 July 1923, using the labour of 1,400 workers and was completed eight years later.Here’s our list of interesting facts about Sydney Harbour Bridge – some you might know and some which may surprise you. Connecting the northern and southern shores of Sydney’s harbour, the Sydney Harbour Bridge is an instantly recognisable symbol of Australia, affectionately known as the ‘Coathanger’ by locals.
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For the first time in 2+ years I feel like replacing my laptop (beyond a much recommended SSD upgrade) could be definitely worth it.Sydney is undeniably the best known and most popular of Australia’s cities, packed full of landmarks and world famous attractions. Finally decent integrated graphics and another big leap in efficiency. However, the implications it will carry on mobile PCs this year and in the near future are significant. On that last bullet, even though it sounds a lot like marketing speak, we tend to agree (and apparently you do, too).Īs we found in our review last week, Sandy Bridge is in a lot of ways a continuation of Intel's well laid plan and not a revolutionary chip in terms of raw performance output. The 2nd Generation Intel Core processor family is viewed by analysts as one of Intel's most important product cycles ever.**.So the sand you once stepped on at the beach may be powering your notebook today. The Intel Core processor is printed on very pure silicon, which is refined from common beach sand.The price per transistor has dropped by a factor of about 100,000. Compared to Intel's first microprocessor, the 4004, introduced in 1971, a 32nm CPU runs over 4.000 times as fast and each transistor uses about 4,000 times less energy.If every home in the United States had 30 light switches it would take the new chips about 1 nanosecond to turn on all 3.57 billion light switches.baking a pizza for 45 minutes at 350 degrees (Fahrenheit) is equivalent to running 67 laptops for 50 hours. If you compare the processor to an electric oven. If you equate the power consumption of a laptop based on the 2nd Generation Intel Core processors to an electric clothes dryer, drying one load for 60 minutes is equivalent to running a laptop for 147 hours or 6 days and 2.4 hours.A 2nd Generation Intel Core processor contains 540 million more transistors than the number of registered cars in the European Union, the United States and the Asia Pacific region combined.If a processor were a country and its transistor count was a country's population, a 2nd Generation Intel Core processor would be the third most populated country in the world (995 million+) just behind China and India.
If a car were to have 1 billion parts - compared to the 30.000 they currently have - it would take the most productive car manufacturer 114 years to assemble this car.
For example, we learned that a 32nm transistor can switch on and off over 300 billion times in one second, conversely it would take a human 4000 years to flick a light switch on and off that many times.
Around this time last year we ran a story with some fun facts about Intel's then debutant 32nm manufacturing technology.
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