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• Today VW is the largest automaker in Germany and Europe. • VW invented the first windshield washer in 1961. • In 1965 the six VW plants in Germany contained a total length of 135 miles (217 km) of continuous conveyor belts. • In 1962, the VW accounted for 60% of all imported car registrations in the U.S. • • • • •

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• Some time ago, a spider was called a “cop” and its web was called a “cop web.” Cobweb is considerably easier to pronounce. • A special oil on the body of a spider prevents the spider from sticking to its own web. • Some spider silks are able to stretch up to five times their length without breaking. • It would take 5,000 strands of spider web to made a ribbon one inch (2.5 cm) wide. • It would take 27,000 spider webs to produce a single pound (.45 kg) of spider silk. • The thinnest man-made thread is a gold filament four microns wide, but spider’s webs are as thin as one micron wide. • Some spider webs would reach for 300 miles (482 km) or more if their threads were straightened out. • One spider of the genus Nephila is the only spider in the world known to spin a goldencolored web. • Spiders typically build a web in about an hour. Once started on the job, they won’t stop until it is done. They build the web from the outside in. If you carefully remove the outside half of the web, the spider will continue to build the inside half and then will stop. • Experiments have been done on how amputating a spider’s legs affects its web. Not surprisingly, spiders with missing legs build webs that are smaller, have fewer radii, and contain fewer spiral turns. • Spiders produce a substance surprisingly similar to high-tech, high-strength polymers that humans have been producing for just a few years. Spiders extrude a very strong polymer that is quite similar to today’s polypropylene. Spiders have developed a way of stretching the polymer before it dries so that it will gain even more durability. This is exactly the same process used in manufacturing polypropylene.

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