Wordlist
concept – концепция, понятие
to be injected – впрыскиваться
to receive a patent – получить патент
to envision – представлять себе
suitable for practical use – пригодный для практического применения
Answer the questions:
1. When was Rudolf Diesel born?
2. How did he envision an engine?
3. What did he receive a patent for?
4. When did the first engine suitable for practical use appear?
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Nicola Tesla (1856-1943)
Nicola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer. physicist. American inventor Nicola Tesla patented an electricity-generating and distribution system that transmitted alternating current (AC). He developed and applied many other important ideas in the fields of electricity and radio.
The Tesla coil, an induction coil he invented, is used in radio technology and operates at every high frequencies.
Tesla worked briefly for the American inventor Thomas Edison (18471931), but they fell out because they disagreed about the best form of electric current to use for large-scale supply.
In the end, Tesla's alternating current system was favored over Edison's direct current (DC) system.
Wordlist
alternating current – переменный ток
current – ток coil – катушка
high frequencies – высокие частоты
to fall out – распадаться
Answer the questions:
1. Where is Nicola Tesla from?
2. What sphere did he work in?
3. What did he develop?
4. Whom did he work with? What was their disagreement?
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Alfred Bernard Nobel (1833-1896)
Alfred Bernard Nobel was Swedish inventor and philanthropist. He was a son of a bankrupt, but became a millionaire; a scientist with a love of literature. He made a large fortune but lived a simple life. He was cheerful in company, and often sad in private.
A lover of mankind, he never had a wife or family to love him, a patriotic son of his native land, he died alone on foreign soil.
He discovered a new explosive, dynamite, to improve the peacetime industries of mining and road building, but saw it used as a weapon of war.
He was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833 but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father made a strong position in engineering industry. He made a lot of money for his invention of landmine, but later went bankrupt. Alfred came to Sweden in 1863, and started his own study of explosives in his fathers laboratory.