Technology: Age 18

3 illustrated Technology lessons for Age 18.

How a Router Picks the Path A router chooses which way to send each packet using a routing protocol. OSPF adds up the cost of each link an…
Wind to Lamp Energy Chain A wind turbine drives a generator that charges a battery bank. The battery powers an electric motor and a lamp…
From Gears to Microchips Early calculators used hand-turned gears to do arithmetic, while later machines relied on thousands of vacuum …