Упр.2 Модуль 8 Culture Corner ГДЗ Spotlight 10 класс

2. Read the timeline and complete the gaps (1–12) with the correct form of the words in brackets. Listen and check.

Michael Faraday was the inventor of the electric motor. Without this, we would not have the technological appliances we take for granted today.

1. Michael Faraday was the inventor of the electric motor.
2. Without this, we would not have the technological appliances we take for granted today.
3. George Stephenson designed a steam train locomotive called the Rocket.
4. Its success encouraged the growth of the railways.
5. The railways played an important role in the Industrial Revolution.
6. His analytical engine established the basic principles of computing.
7. He never completed any of his computerised machines.
8. His detailed drawings were used to build a model of his Difference Engine No. 2.
9. It performed mathematical calculations with remarkable accuracy.
10. Television was a dream of many scientists for decades before.
11. Later, others took Baird’s ideas.
12. They slowly developed television as we know it today.