Great Inventions

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Great Inventions

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1.Read and translate the texts
1.Television (1920s)
The invention that swept the world and changed leisure habits for countless
millions was pioneered by Scottish-born electrical engineer John Logie
Baird. It had been realised for some time that light could be converted into
electrical impulses, making it possible to transmit such impulses over a
distance and then reconvert them into light.

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2. Motor Car (Late 19th Century)
With television, the car is probably the most widely used and most
useful of all leisure-inspired inventions. German engineer Karl Benz
produced the first petroldriven car in 1885 and the British motor
industry started in 1896. Henry Ford was the first to use assembly line
production for his Model Т car in 1908. Like them or hate them, cars
have given people great freedom of travel.

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3. Electricity
The name came from the Greek word for amber and was coined by
Elizabeth I's physician William Gilbert who was among those who
noticed that amber had the power to attract light objects after being
rubbed. In the 19th century such great names as Michael Faraday,
Humphry Davy, Alessandro Volta and Andre Marie Ampere all did
vital work on electricity.

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4.Photography (Early 19th Century)
Leonardo da Vinci had described the camera photographic principle as
early as 1515. But it was not until 1835 that Frenchman Louis
Daguerre produced camera photography. The system was gradually
refined over the years, to the joy of happy snappers and the despair of
those who had to wade through friends' endless holiday pictures.

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5.Telephone (1876)
Edinburgh-born scientist Alexander Graham Bell patented his
invention of the telephone in 1876. The following year, the great
American inventor Thomas Edison produced the first working
telephone. With telephones soon becoming rapidly available, the days
of letter-writing became numbered.

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6. Computer (20th Century)
The computer has been another life-transforming invention. British
mathematician Charles Babbage designed a form of computer in the
mid-1830s, but it was not until more than a century later that theory
was put into practice. Now, a whole generation has grown up with
calculators, windows, computer games and word processors, and the
Internet and e-mail have transformed communication and information.

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2.Are the statements true or false?
1. Television system ravaged the world.
2. American engineer John Baird invented the television system.
3. The first car was invented by Henry Ford.
4. Karl Benz was the German engineer.
5. Cars changed people’s life and gave freedom of travel.
6. The Greek inventor created electricity. It was William Gilbert.
7. Leonardo da Vinci invented the camera and photographic principle as early as
1515.

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3.Distribute inventions according to the countries in which they were invented.
e.g. - The compass was invented in China.
icebreaker,TVset,compass,bicycle,laser,microwave
owen,toothbrush,diesel,paper,earth satellite
vehicle,GPS,firework
Russia
Chine
the USA
Germany

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4.Guess what it is
1.Two wheel transportation invented by Karl Drais.
2.Alexander Graham Bell’s invention.
3.Chinese invention that shows you which direction you are going in.
4.The system that connects computers all over the world and allows
people who use computers to look at websites.
5.Something that has been designed or created for the first time.

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6. Albert Einstein was a great German …
7.An electronic machine that can store and arrange large amounts of
information.
8.In 1885, Karl … developed the first petrol or gasoline powered
automobile.
9.A thing, invented in China in 11th century BC, that you hold
above your head to keep yourself dry when it is raining.
10.Which word did Thomas Edison suggest to use at the beginning
of the first telephone conversation?

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5.Match the scientists to their works.
1) Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
2) Isaac Newton
3) Alessandro Volta
4) Ivan Pavlov
5) Charles Darwin
6) Nicolas Copernicus
a) electricity;
b) dogs getting ready to eat;
c) the animals on the Galapagos Islands;
d) heat and cold;
e) the Earth going round the Sun;
f) the law of gravitation.

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6.The pictures depict the prototypes of modern household
appliances. Guess what it is?
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