Portal:Technology/Did you know/2

... that hurdle technology is a technique where pathogens in a food product are subjected to "hurdles" designed to inhibit or kill them?
... that the Tatara Bridge (pictured) in Japan has the longest span of any cable-stayed bridge in the world?
... that Singapore's 5.4-ton Pegasus is the first helicopter-portable 155mm howitzer with a self-propelled capability?
... that the Chemical Automatics Design Bureau produced the Soviet Union's only operational nuclear rocket engine?
... that Robert V. Decareau was known as "Mr. Microwave" for his research on microwaves in food that led to the development of the microwave oven?