a) 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.
b) First Tesla’s patents expired. Then the military understood the usefulness of remote-controlled vehicles.
c) First he foretold the coming of radar in New York in 1922. Then he gave a practical demonstration of its principles.
d) First Marconi received his Nobel Prize in Physics. Then Tesla refused to receive his.
e) First the world came to regard radio as a commodity not a miracle. Then he died and left that world behind him.
f) 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)
Vocabulary
| disconnect | irresponsible | illiterate | infinite |
| illogical | disadvantage | careless | unfinished |
| impossible | incomplete | unproductive | misunderstood |
| unfortunate | impatient | dislike | unreal |
| useless | mistake | unpublished | inaccuracy |
a) fascinated with (1)
b) intended to (1)
c) operated (2)
d) visualized (2)
e) improving (3)
f) led to (3)
g) supplied by (4)
h) foresaw (6)
i) attempted (7)
j) spark (8)
k) conceived (11)
l) expired (14)
4 a) with b) - c) for d) on e) with f) –
5 to specialize in a field of science; to visualize a device; to design dynamo; inefficiency of lamps; severe disadvantage; to minimize power loss; perfect partnership; to figure out the principle; to foresee interplanetary communication; to announce a discovery, to proclaim priority; terrestrial stationary waves, man-made lightning; to mentally work out; to make improvements to/to improve a device; to draw a sketch; to conceive an invention; to refuse a prize
