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February14,
1876 was a day that changes the history of communication forever. On that day a
tall Scotsman, Alexander Graham Bell walked into the New York patent office. He
was carrying the drawing of his invention. The invention was able to transmit
the sound of the voice by wire over long distances. We know this invention as
the telephone. Just two hours late on the same day, another man Elisha Gray
came to the same patent office with “his telephone”. But, unfortunately for
him, it was too late. Bell has gone into history as the inventor of the
telephone.
The
first real telephone call was on March 6, 1876, when bell, in one room, called
to his assistant in another room. “Come here, Watson, I want you.” Watson heard
bell through a receiver which Bell had connected to the transmitter.
After
that bell started his famous company: the Bell Telephone Company. The new
invention quickly became popular. A month after Bell invented the telephone, his
telephone company had sold only six phones! A year and a half later they had
sold 778 telephones. Fifteen years after the invention there were five million
phones in America.
Nowadays
the Bell Telephone Company (later AT&T) is the largest telephone company in
the world.
Telephone.
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– изобретение
February14,
1876 was a day that changes the history of communication forever. On that day a
tall Scotsman, Alexander Graham Bell walked into the New York patent office. He
was carrying the drawing of his invention. The invention was able to transmit
the sound of the voice by wire over long distances. We know this invention as
the telephone. Just two hours late on the same day, another man Elisha Gray
came to the same patent office with “his telephone”. But, unfortunately for
him, it was too late. Bell has gone into history as the inventor of the
telephone.
The
first real telephone call was on March 6, 1876, when bell, in one room, called
to his assistant in another room. “Come here, Watson, I want you.” Watson heard
bell through a receiver which Bell had connected to the transmitter.
After
that bell started his famous company: the Bell Telephone Company. The new
invention quickly became popular. A month after Bell invented the telephone,
his telephone company had sold only six phones! A year and a half later they
had sold 778 telephones. Fifteen years after the invention there were five
million phones in America.
Nowadays
the Bell Telephone Company (later AT&T) is the largest telephone company in
the world.
I.
Circle the correct answers to the questions:
1.
February
14, 1876 was the day when
a)
Morse
invented his code
b)
b)
Bell invented the telephone
c)
Rowland
Hill invented the first stamp
2.
Bell’s
invention was able
a)
To
send letters
b)
To
code the letters of the alphabet
c)
To
translate the sound of the voice by wire over long distances
3.
Elisha
Gray didn’t become the inventor of the telephone because
a)
Bell’s
invention was better
b)
He
didn’t know the address of the patent office
c)
Bell
arrived at the patent office two hours before him
4.
In
1891 there were
a)
778
telephones
b)
Six
telephones
c)
Five
million telephones
II.
Answer the questions:
1.
When
was the first telephone call?
2.
How
many telephones did the Company sell in a year and half after Bell started his
company?
3.
What
is the largest telephone company now?
4.
Who
was an inventor of the telephone?
5.
Where
was the patent office which A.G.Bell carried the drawing of the telephone?
III.
True or false:
1.
A.G.
Bell was born in New York.
2.
Bell’s
invention was able to transmit the sound and the picture by wire.
3.
Bell
is the inventor of the telephone.
4.
In
1876 everyone in New York had his own telephone.
5.
Nowadays
there are five million telephones in America.
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