Fun Facts. 1  Table tennis has been an Olympic sport since 1988. 2  In professional table-tennis volleys, the ball can reach speeds as high as 90 miles per hour. 3  Table tennis is the national sport of China.  Table tennis is the second most played sport in the world, behind soccer.
In medicine this is used to document the patient's exertion during a test, and sports coaches use the scale to assess the intensity of training and competition. The original scale introduced by Gunnar Borg rated exertion on a scale of 6-20. Borg then constructed a category (C) ratio (R) scale, the Borg CR10 Scale. This is especially used in clinical diagnosis of breathlessness and dyspnea, chest pain, angina and musculo-skeletal pain.
Gyroscope Compass: History of Sperry Marine. Biographies on inventor Elmer Sperry and the history of gyroscope compasses. Elmer Sperry-Sperry Gyroscope. Elmer Sperry invented the gyroscopic compass or Sperry Gyroscope.Elmer Ambrose Sperry. Elmer Sperry invented gyroscope guided automatic pilots for ships, airplanes, and spacecraft. year earlier (1851) Leon Foucault invented the Foucault pendulum which he used to measure the Earth's rotation. Among his other achievements: in 1850, Foucault proved that light traveled more slowly in water than in air; and in 1858 Foucault made an improvement to the mirrors used in reflecting telescopes.