17529 inventors and inventions

Who invented the electric washing machine?. S: Liz, do you have a washing machine at home?. S: I tried to find information about the inventor of the electric washing machine.. Fisher ha

INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS

2 Who invented the electric washing machine?

S: Liz, do you have a washing machine at home? L: Yes, of course Why are you asking about it? S: I tried to find information about the

inventor of the electric washing machine

L: Really? Who invented it?

S: Oh, it’s difficult to say. An American engineer Alva J Fisher had a patent of designing a new electric washing machine in

1910, but there was someone who invented it before him The US patent office shows at least one patent issued before Mr Fisher's US patent

L: How interesting! Have you found who this

machine invented?

S: No, I haven’t The encyclopedia says that

the inventor is unknown

L: What a pity!

S: But I know that the first electric washing

machine was sold in the USA commercially in 1907

3 What device are the girls speaking about?

K: What is the most important electric device to you

at home?

S: Well, I think about one It is very important to

me

K: What is it?

S: Try to guess It is very big Do you guess what it

is?

S: Frankly speaking, I can’t guess.

K: OK, I continue I use it every day and it is very

helpful I put there a lot of things brought from the

shop It helps me to keep everything fresh and

frozen

S: Oh, of course I know It is….

4 What invention is very important to Bob? T: What is the most important invention to you? B: Oh, it’s difficult to say There are a lot of

useful things around us They help us a lot

T: Can you name only one of them?

B: Only one? Well, then I think it is my mobile T: Why? Can’t you live without it?

B: Well, I think, I can’t live without it, because

I have to communicate with a lot of people very day on my business Just imagine I have no mobile! Do I have to sit in the post-office and send telegrams to my partners in other cities?

T: Oh, no, it’s impossible!

5 Are these inventions helpful?

a) The first working airplane was invented, designed, made,

and flown by the Wright brothers, Wilbur Wright

(1867-1912) and Orville Wright (1871-1948) Their "Wright Flyer"

flew for 12 seconds and for a distance of 120 feet (37 m) on

December 17, 1903 The flight took place at Kitty Hawk,

North Carolina, USA

b) The first functional sewing machine was invented by the

French tailor Barthélemy Thimonnier in 1830 Other tailors

feared for their livelihood, and burnt his workshop down

1 Match the inventions with the inventors:

1 A television system Thomas Moore

2 A microwave oven John Logie Baird

3 A refrigerator Henry W Seeley

4 A motorcycle Percy LeBaron

Spencer

5 An electric iron Gottlieb Daimler

6 A dishwasher Charles Rolls,

Henry Royce

8 A car Michael Faraday

9 A car assembly line Mrs Josephine

Garis (W A.) Cochran

a b c d

e

i h g f

Elias Howe was American inventor who patented an improved sewing machine in 1846.

c) John S Thurman invented the gasoline powered

vacuum cleaner (which he called the "pneumatic carpet renovator") in 1899 His vacuum was patented on Oct

3, 1899 It may have been the first motorized vacuum cleaner

d) Scissors were invented thousands of years ago

(roughly 1500 B.C.) in Egypt Scissors were not in common use until much later, in the 1500's (in Europe).

(Adapted from http://enchantedlearning.com)

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Ex.1:

1 - b

2 - d

3 - a

4 - e

5 - c

6 - i

7 - h

8 - f

9 - g