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Unit 4. Inspiration. Listening - страница 38.

Условие.

A boy was spending his summer holidays on board his father’s ship. He helped repair and maintain the ship’s electrical equipment. He took an interest in electrical engineering. He studied electrical engineering at Saint Petersburg Institute of Technology. Professor Boris Rosing tutored him. In 1910 Rosing and this young engineer, Vladimir Zvorykin, exhibited an early television system. After the October Revolution Zvorykin left the country for the USA. There, in the late 20s, he invented the cathode tubes that made him famous and brought TV to our homes. Another invention of his made colour TV possible.

What did they do? Vladimir Zvorykin

1 The story of modern television begins in 1888 when a boy, Vladimir Zvorykin, was born into the wealthy family of a merchant in the town of Murom. The boy was spending his summer holidays on board his father’s ship. While he was sailing along the Oka River he helped repair and maintain the ship’s electrical equipment, and that is how his interest in electrical engineering began.

2 Vladimir studied electrical engineering at Saint Petersburg Institute of Technology. He was a talented student and attracted the attention of the famous Professor Rosing. He helped Boris Rosing with experimental work on television in Rosing’s private lab. In 1910, Rosing and Vladimir Zvorykin exhibited an original television system, using a mechanical scanner in the transmitter and the electronic Braun tube in the receiver. It was one of the first demonstrations of TV of any kind and quite a successful one at that.

3 V. Zworykin graduated in 1912 and continued his studies of X-rays for some time under Professor Paul Langevin in Paris. During World War I Zworykin served in the Russian Signal Corps, then succeeded in getting a job working for the Russian Marconi company testing radio equipment produced for the Russian Army. Zworykin left Russia for the United States after the October Revolution, during the Russian Civil War.

4 There, in the late 20s, he invented the cathode tubes that made him famous and brought TV to our homes. It took him several years of experiments to turn patents into a working system. The system was ready to be launched at the end of 1934. In early 1935 the new tube was introduced in Germany. Next, it was successfully used at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games as one of several cameras broadcasting the games to some two hundred public theaters. Zvorykin patented the colour TV system in 1928. Much later, in the summer of 1959 at the American exhibition in Moscow, Zvorykin demonstrated a working colour TV set. Vladimir Zvorykin is often called the father of television.

Решение 2.

Что делал Владимир Зворыкин?

Ответ:

Vladimir Zworykin was a Russian-American engineer and inventor, often called "the father of television". In 1910, together with his teacher Boris Rosing, he exhibited an early television system. After moving to the USA, in the late 1920s, he invented the cathode-ray tubes that became the basis for modern television. His inventions made it possible to bring TV into homes. He also patented a color television system in 1928 and demonstrated a working color TV set in 1959.

Владимир Зворыкин был русско-американским инженером и изобретателем, которого часто называют «отцом телевидения». В 1910 году вместе со своим учителем Борисом Розингом он продемонстрировал одну из ранних телевизионных систем. После переезда в США, в конце 1920-х годов, он изобрел электронно-лучевые трубки, которые стали основой современного телевидения. Его изобретения позволили принести телевизор в дома людей. Он также запатентовал систему цветного телевидения в 1928 году и продемонстрировал работающий цветной телевизор в 1959 году.