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Inventors and their great inventions.
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New inventions are appearing every day to make our lives easier, longer, warmer, speedier and so on. But only a few inventors design a new machine or product that becomes so well-known that the invention, named after its creator, becomes a household word. Here are eight famous inventors and the inventions that are named after them:
Great Inventors. • Alexander Graham Bell • Akito Morita • James M.Spangler • John Logie Baird • Nicephore Niepce • Bill Gates • Orville Wright • Sergei Korolyev
Their great inventions • Telephone • Personal Stereo • Vacuum cleaner • Television • Photography • Microsoft-DOC • Airplane • Artificial satellite
Alexander Graham Bell • In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell, an American engineer, invented telephone
Akito Morita • Akito Morita (Japan) developed the first personal stereo-Sony Walkman
James M.Spangler • In 1908 James M.Spangler from the USA built the first vacuum cleaner
John Logie Baird • John Logie Baird from Scotland invented television in 1926
Nicephore Niepce • Nicephore Niepce from France pioneered photography in 1829
Bill Gates • In 1981 Bill Gates • (USA) created Microsoft-DOC (Disk Operating System)
Orville Wright • Orville Wright built the first airplane in 1903
Sergei Korolyev • Sergei Korolyev(Russia) designed the first artificial satellite in 1957
Some inventions • The first Russia's automobile was designed by P. A. Frez and E. A. Yakovlev. By May 1896 the car had been built. • In 1945 the Nobel prize was given to Alexander Fleming for penicillin [,pem'silin] that had been discovered in 1928. • The first gas stove had been made long before the first electric stove appeared • In the middle of the 19th century, although it had been tested, the sewing machine did not interest very many people. • In 1928 Richard Drew perfected the Scotch tape, which had beeninvented by Jim Kirst from the USA in 1923. • The first ballpoint pen was produced in 1940 though it had beeninvented by L. Biro, a Hungarian artist and journalist, in 1905. • In 1996, Japanese scientists created a solar powered car calledDream. To create it they used solar cells, which had been developedin the middle of this century.