Vocabulary

1

verb	noun	adjective	adverb
to demonstrate	demonstration	demonstrative	demonstratively
to invite	invitation	inviting	invitingly
to invent	invention	inventive	inventively
to develop	development	developing developed	------------------
to telegraph	telegraph	telegraphic	telegraphically

2 a) developed b) demonstration c) inventive

d) inviting e) telegraph/telegraphy

3

nouns	both	verbs
belief	staff	merge
device	patent	improve
	tour	receive

4

1. proficient

2. intended for

3. expanded

4. reproduce sound

5. astonished

6. merged

7. tremendous

8. was marred

9. possessed

10. a motion pictures

5 a) - b) as c) on d) on, to e) to

6 to take a job, to reproduce sound, self-improvement, to bring international fame, to make a recording, a curious child, to attend school, to spend much of his time reading scientific and technical books, to give a chance, to start a family, bankers

investment, competitor, to teach oneself much, to set up one’s laboratory

Unit 2 Guglielmo Marconi

Reading

3 a) 3 b) 3 c) 3 d) 2 e) 2 f) 1

Vocabulary

1.

-able/ible	-al	-ic	-ful	-ive	-ous
remarkable	historical	historic	successful	intensive	continuous
charitable	commercial	electric	stressful	expensive	ridiculous
responsible	practical	magnetic	eventful	creative	various
breakable	directional			explosive	famous
believable	national				dangerous
	physical
	electrical
	continental
	structural

2 1с 2a 3f 4e 5d 6b

day-light effect

science-based industry

wireless communication industry

long-distance telegraphy

radio telephone link,

high-powered family

3 a) a baby b) a leg c) a building d) hotel e) flowers

5 a) for b) for c) in d) in e) with f) in

6 an unstoppable will to succeed, to transmit radio signal, was educated privately, took a keen interest in, a system of wireless telegraphy, erected permanent station, possibilities of wireless communication, had been equipped with, patented several new inventions, aerial, collaborators, radio beacon, the recipient of many honorary awards, was decorated with, fundamental discovery, to pursue an objective, to establish new science-based industry

Grammar

1. 1. First the shorter-distance public service of wireless telegraphy was established between Italy and Montenegro. Then the opening of the first transatlantic

commercial service between Glace Bay and Ireland took place.

2. First Tesla’s patents expired. Then the military understood the usefulness of remote-controlled vehicles.

3. First he foretold the coming of radar in New York in 1922. Then he gave a practical demonstration of its principles.

4. First Marconi received his Nobel Prize in Physics. Then Tesla refused to receive his.

5. First the world came to regard radio as a commodity not a miracle. Then he died and left that world behind him.

6. First Edison invented a little machine capable of recording sound. Then in 1877 he made the first recording.

Unit 3 Nikola Tesla

Reading

4 rotating magnetic field, induction motor, principle of alternating current, polyphase alternating current system of generators, motors, transformers (alternating current dynamo, step-up and step-down transformers, A.C. motor), Tesla coil, fluorescent light, laser beam, wireless communications, wireless transmission of electrical energy, remote control and robotics (remote operation of robotic devices), Tesla’s turbines and vertical take off aircraft^, radio (radio transmitter), modern electrical transmissions systems, X-ray tubes, terrestrial stationary waves, wireless transmission of electricity, remote-controlled attack vehicles and torpedoes (automation)