D ouglas c. Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse
In 1964, the first prototype computer mouse was made to use with a graphical user interface (GUI), 'windows'. Engelbart received a patent for the wooden shell with two metal wheels (computer mouse) in 1970. "It was nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out the end," Engelbart revealed about his invention.
C hester Greenwood, inventor of ear muffs
After wrapping his head in a scarf that was too bulky, Chester Greenwood made two ear-shaped loops from wire and asked his grandmother to sew fur on them. He patented an improved model with a steel band that held them in place and with Greenwood’s Champion Ear Protectors, he established the Greenwood’s Ear Protector Factory.
When was the telephone invented?
Who designed devices that could transmit speech electrically?
Who first patented the telephone?
Who was the inventor of the computer mouse?
How did the first prototype computer mouse look like?
What invention belongs to Chester Greenwood?
How did he invent Ear Protectors?
1 2. How much do you know about inventions? Match the columns. Use some books or Internet.
Заняття 3.2 Досягнення та здобутки видатних українців
1. Read and learn the following words:
research contribution to achieve space electric welding |
дослідницький вклад, внесок досягати космос електрозварювання |
novel dramatist science scientific scientist |
роман драматург наука науковий науковець, вчений |
2. Read and translate the text:
T
he
development of Ukraine science has its beginning since the 18th
century, when the Kyiv Mohyla Academy became a noted research
centre. A great page in Ukraine’s history was the Ukrainian
Academy of Sciences. Its founder was a very talented man with the
world – known name- Volodymyr Vernadsky. The group of famous
people made a valuable contribution into Ukraine’s science from
its first steps. They were noted historians Antonovych, Hrushevsky,
a mathematician Boholiubov, botanists Fomin and Kholodny, scientists
in medicine Filatov, Yanovsky, Bohomolets and others.
The Ukrainian science achieved great success after the Second World War. The Ukrainian scientist Korolyov was one of the noted space designers. Ukraine’s scientists developed the “Vulcan” unit for welding in space. Yevhen Paton and his son Boris are well- known all over the world as masters in the field of electric welding.
T
he
people of Ukraine are proud of their culture too. You must know the
name of the great philosopher Skovoroda. The play “Natalka
Poltavka” by Kotlyarevsky, the historical novel “Taras Bulba”
by Gogol, the “Kobzar” by Shevchenko, the poems by Lesya
Ukrainka are well-known not only in Ukraine but abroad as well. The
three most noted dramatists at the end of the 19th century were:
Starytsky, Kropyvnytsky, Karpenko-Kary. The film director Dovzhenko,
the great opera singer Krushelnytska, Matvienko and Solovyanenko,
Ivasiuk made Ukrainian music culture famous in the world. Ukrainian
literature and arts developed very successfully in the 60s.
Among the most prominent authors were: in poetry Kostenko, Drach, Vingranovsky, Symonenko, Hutsalo, Tiutiunnyk, Shevchyk; in drama: Kolomiyets, Honchar.Stus, Holoborodko, Drozd, Kalynets developed the literature in the 70s. At present Ukrainian books are translated into many languages. Writers have got more freedom over the last years.