Television (1920s)
Motor Car ( Late 19 th Century)
Photography ( Early 19th Century)
Telephone (1876)
Computer (20th Century)
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Great inventions


Радионова Анна Алексеевна
Кемеровский профессиональнотехнический колледж

2. 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.


4. Motor Car ( Late 19 th Century)

With television, the car is probably the most
widely used and most useful of all leisureinspired inventions. German engineer Karl
Benz produced the first petrol-driven car in
1885 and the British motor industry started in
1896. Henry Ford was the first to use
assembly line production for his Model T car
in 1908. Like them or hate them, cars have
given people great freedom of travel.


6. Photography ( Early 19th Century)

Leonardo da Vinci had described the camera
obscura 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.


8. Telephone (1876)

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


10. Computer (20th Century)

The computer has been another lifetransforming 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, icons, computer games and word
processors, and the Internet and e-mail have
transformed communication and information.



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