Grammar

1 Look at the chart. Make sentences about Nikola Tesla according to the model. Translate the sentences.

Model: With a stick, Tesla drew a diagramme of a rotating magnetic field in the

sand. Heexplainedto his friend the principle of the induction motor. - With a stick, Tesla drew a diagramme of a rotating magnetic field in the sand, explainingto his friend the principle of the induction motor. – Тесла палкой начертил на песке диаграмму магнитного поля, объяснив (объясняя) другу принцип электродвигателя.

a) He published schematic diagrams of the radio transmitter. Tesla described all the basic elements of the radio transmitter which was later used by Marconi.

b) During the World War II, Claude Shannon was interested in the possibility of building a machine that could imitate the human brain. He worked with Alan

Turing for a few months.

c) In 1909 Marconi received the Nobel Prize for physics. He shared it with Ferdinand Braun.

d) Wiener changed the way everyone thought about computer technology. He influenced several later developers of the Internet.

e) Edison had very little formal education as a child. He attended school only for three months.

f) Tesla organized elaborate dinners. Tesla invited to dinners famous people who later witnessed spectacular electrical experiments in his laboratory.

2 Link the pairs of sentences using after/before … ing.

Model: First Tesla saw a demonstration of the “Gramme dynamo”. Then he

visualized a rotating magnetic field. – After seeing a demonstration of the “Gramme dynamo”, Tesla visualized a rotating magnetic field.

a) First Tesla worked out the whole idea of any device mentally. Then he put the sketch of the device on paper.

b) First Babbage completed a small difference engine. Then he announced his

invention to the Royal Astronomical Society.

c) First Shannon graduated from MIT in 1940. Then he spent a year as a National Research Fellow at Princeton University.

d) In 1931 Marconi began research into the propagation characteristics of still shorter waves. Then he demonstrated his microwave radio beacon for ship navigation.

e) Norbert Wiener was awarded a BA in mathematics in 1909 at the age of 14. Then

he began graduate studies in zoology at Harvard. And in 1910 he transferred to Cornell to study philosophy.

f) First Edison worked in a number of cities throughout the United States. Then he arrived in Boston in 1868 where he began to change his profession from

telegrapher to inventor.

3 Translate paragraph 7 into Russian.