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SCIENCE - 2
SCIENCE - 2 UNIT ９ 695

EXERCISES
EXERCISES

1. Read the text and answer the questions. 2. Read the text and write if they are True (T) or
False (F).

The Wright Brothers, Orville
and Wilbur invented the
world’s first successful
airplane. They worked with
printing presses, bicycles,
motors and other machineries
in their shop for years. They
designed, built and flew the
John Logie Baird was the inventor of the mechanical first controlled, powered
television. He was born in 1888. He was educated airplane on December 17,
at Larchfield Academy in Helensburgh, the Glasgow 1903. They started working on making airplanes in their
and West of Scotland Technical College and the bicycle shop. Their first test flight was in Kitty Hawk.
The Wright Brothers kept their invention as a secret for
University of Glasgow, but Baird made major advances
a few years until they showed it to the world in 1908.
in his laboratory, he successfully transmitted the
After that, they founded a company to build airplanes.
first television programme for the BBC. Baird’s other
inventions were a video recording device, radar and 1) They had a bicycle shop.
radio direction finding. He died in 1946 after suffering a ������������
2) After they built their first airplane, they
stroke.
showed it to the world immediately. ������������
3) They flew their airplane in Kitty Hawk
1) When was Baird born? ������������
firstly.
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2) Where did Baird transmit the first television airplanes after 1908. ������������
5) They finished the design of their invention
programme?
in a very short time. ������������
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3) Did Baird transmit the first TV programme for the first airplane. ������������

BBC?
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3. Fill in the blanks with the words below.
4) What were his other inventions?
inventions invented died inventor
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5) When did Baird die? Charles Babbage was an English
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first mechanical computer. His other
6) Who was John Logie Baird?
(3) .............. were the pilot (also
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called a cow-catcher), dynamometer car and
7) Which schools did Baird take his education? ophthalmoscope (a device which is used for examining
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