17529 inventors and inventions
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INVENTORS AND
INVENTIONS
1. Match the inventions with the inventors:
1. A television system
a
2. A microwave oven
b John Logie Baird
3. A refrigerator
c Henry W. Seeley
4. A motorcycle
5. An electric iron
6. A dishwasher
7. An electric motor
8. A car
9. A car assembly line
d
2. Who invented the electric washing
machine?
S: Liz, do you have a washing machine at home?
L: Yes, of course. Why are you asking about it?
S: I tried to find information about the
inventor of the electric washing machine.
L: Really? Who invented it?
S: Oh, it’s difficult to say. An American
engineer Alva J. Fisher had a patent of
designing a new electric washing machine in
1910, but there was someone who invented it
before him. The US patent office shows at
least one patent issued before Mr. Fisher's US
patent.
L: How interesting! Have you found who this
machine invented?
S: No, I haven’t. The encyclopedia says that
the inventor is unknown.
L: What a pity!
S: But I know that the first electric washing
machine was sold in the USA commercially in
1907.
Thomas Moore
Percy LeBaron
Spencer
e Gottlieb Daimler
f
Charles Rolls,
Henry Royce
g
Henry Ford
h
i
Michael Faraday
Mrs. Josephine
Garis (W. A.)
Cochran
3. What device are the girls speaking about?
K: What is the most important electric device to you
at home?
S: Well, I think about one. It is very important to
me.
K: What is it?
S: Try to guess. It is very big. Do you guess what it
is?
S: Frankly speaking, I can’t guess.
K: OK, I continue. I use it every day and it is very
helpful. I put there a lot of things brought from the
shop. It helps me to keep everything fresh and
frozen.
S: Oh, of course I know. It is….
5. Are these inventions helpful?
a) The first working airplane was invented, designed, made,
and flown by the Wright brothers, Wilbur Wright (18671912) and Orville Wright (1871-1948). Their "Wright Flyer"
flew for 12 seconds and for a distance of 120 feet (37 m) on
December 17, 1903. The flight took place at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina, USA
b) The first functional sewing machine was invented by the
French tailor Barthélemy Thimonnier in 1830. Other tailors
feared for their livelihood, and burnt his workshop down.
4. What invention is very important to Bob?
T: What is the most important invention to you?
B: Oh, it’s difficult to say. There are a lot of
useful things around us. They help us a lot.
T: Can you name only one of them?
B: Only one? Well, then I think it is my mobile.
T: Why? Can’t you live without it?
B: Well, I think, I can’t live without it, because
I have to communicate with a lot of people very
day on my business. Just imagine I have no
mobile! Do I have to sit in the post-office and
send telegrams to my partners in other cities?
T: Oh, no, it’s impossible!
Elias Howe was American inventor who patented an
improved sewing machine in 1846.
c) John S. Thurman invented the gasoline powered
vacuum cleaner (which he called the "pneumatic carpet
renovator") in 1899. His vacuum was patented on Oct.
3, 1899. It may have been the first motorized vacuum
cleaner.
d) Scissors were invented thousands of years ago
(roughly 1500 B.C.) in Egypt. Scissors were not in
common use until much later, in the 1500's (in Europe).
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Keys:
Ex.1:
1. - b
2. - d
3. - a
4. - e
5. - c
6. - i
7. - h
8. - f
9. - g
