Portal:Technology/Did you know/11

... that Tingmissartoq, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Lockheed Sirius, was so christened by an Eskimo boy in Greenland, and that its name means "one who flies like a big bird"?
... that an electronic gear-shifting system for bicycles can shift faster than a traditional mechanical system and calibrate itself to minimize maintenance?
... that no electricity has been generated by the barge-mounted electric power generating station that was delivered to Ghana in 2002?
... that in 1966, Heinz Waaske created the smallest 135 film camera made to that date, the Rollei 35 (pictured)?
... that Salmson 2, along with the Breguet 14, was the main reconnaissance aircraft of the French army in the First World War?