Прочитайте и переведите текст. Some New Details About Nobel, Alfred Bernhard (1833-1896)

1. What is the main invention of A.Nobel?

2. What brought the scientist a large for­tune?

Alfred Nobel, an inventor, was A wealthy man and his great fortune was made through his achievements as well as his commercial talents. He was born in the family of the Swedish naturalist and engineer Immanuel Nobel. The family left Stockholm in 1842 to join the father in St. Petersburg. Educated mainly by tutors, young Nobel was a com­plete chemist at 16 and could speak English, French, German, Russian, and Swedish. He left Russia in 1850. Returning to Sweden, Nobel began the manufacture of the liquid explosive*. One day the factory blew up, causing the death of his youngest brother, Emil, and four other persons. The Swedish government did not allow to rebuilt the fac­tory and Nobel, who was called a "mad scientist", began making experiments to find a way to minimise the danger of working with nitroglycerine. A chance discovery led him to improve dynamite. Granted patents for dynamite in Britain (1867) and the United States (1868), he further experimented and developed a more powerful form of dyna­mite.

His world-wide interests in explosives and large holdings in Baku oil fields of Russia made him a wealthy man but reguired him to travel almost constantly. He never mar­ried, but there was a strong belief that he had a wife and that Nobel never established a prize for mathematics because his wife had had a love affair with a mathematician.

Тема устной речи. My working day

I am a geologist (an operator). I am Russian. My name is Mr. Ivanov. My First name is Vladimir. I am a student now. I am a student of the Gubkin State University of oil and gas. We are external students. I study at the department of: electronic engineering, oil and gas piprline construction and transportation engineering, drilling and production engineering, processing engineering, mechanic engineering.

I come from Russia (Orenburg). I work for Gasprom Dobycha Orenburg. It's one of the biggest companies in the world. I am an operator. My main duties include controlling the electronic devices.

On week-days I usually get up at 7 o'clock. I make my bed, open the window and do my morning exercises. Then I go to the bathroom where I clean my teeth and wash myself if I have enough time I take a cold and hot shower. At half past 7 I have breakfast. I usually eat bread and butter, drink tea or coffee. Then I start for my work . I usually take a 33 bus. It take me 40 minutes to get there. I work from 9 to 6 p.m. with a lunch break between I and 2 p.m. At 6 p.m. I go to the University of Oil and Gas. I'm part-time student and I combine work and study. My classes last from 6.30 to 9.30. Then I leave the University and in an hour I'm at home. I have supper and go to bed. My working day is over.