Portal:Technology/Did you know/7

• ... that inventor Thomas Highs was never credited for his invention of both the spinning jenny (pictured) and the water frame, mostly due to his lack of funding to patent the devices?
• ... that the six Charles Tayleur locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway were unsuccessful?
• ... that the Goose Creek Oil Field in Galveston Bay had the first offshore oil wells in Texas, U.S., and the removal of oil led to subsidence of the overlying terrain?
• ... that the first transcontinental trip by a solar-powered vehicle was completed in 1983?
• ... that the short-lived Apple Network Servers were the last non-Macintosh computers manufactured by Apple?