Учебное пособие по английскому языку для студентов неязыковых вузов специальности "Государственное и муниципальное управление". Касторнова О.Н. - 21 стр.

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reproductions, his invention quickly died a commercial death. It was not until
the 1980s that the fax became an essential piece of equipment in every
office…too late for Signor Caselli.
Money also helps. The Frenchman Denis Papin (1647-1712) had the idea
for a steam engine
3
almost a hundred years before the better-remembered
Scotsman James Watt was even born…but he never had enough money to build
one.
You also need to be patient (it took scientists nearly eighty years to
develop something which actually worked)…but not too patient. In the 1870s,
Elisha Gray, a professional inventor from Chicago, developed plans for a
telephone. Gray saw it as no more than “a beauty toy”, however. When he
finally sent details of his invention to the Patent Office on February 14
th
1876, it
was too late; almost identical designs had arrived just two hours earlier…and the
young man who sent them, Alexander Graham Bell, will always be remembered
as the inventor of the telephone.
Of course what you really need is a great idea – but if you haven’t got
one, a walk in the country and a careful look at nature can help. The Swiss
scientist, George de Mestral, had the idea for Velcro
4
when he found his clothes
covered
5
with sticky seeds
6
after a walk in the country. During a similar walk in
the French countryside some 250 years earlier, Rene-Antoine Ferchault de
Reaumur had the idea that paper could be made from wood when he found a
vacant wasps’ nest
7
.
You also need god commercial logic. Willy Higinbotham was a scientist
doing nuclear research in the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton. USA.
In 1958 the public were invited to the Laboratory to see their work; but both
parents and children were less interested in the complicated equipment and
diagrams than in a tiny 120cm screen with a white period which could be hit
back and forth
8
over a “net” using some buttons
9
. Soon hundreds of people were
ignoring the other exhibits to play the first ever computer game – made from a
simple laboratory instrument called an “oscilloscope”. Higinbotham, however,
never made a cent from his invention: he thought people were only interested in
the game because the other exhibits were so boring!
Notes:
1. priest – священник.
2. pendulum – маятник.
3. steam engine – паровой двигатель.
4. Velcro – a trademark (торговая марка) for a material used for
fastening (соединение) clothes, bags, or shoes.
5. to be covered – быть покрытым.
6. sticky seeds – липкие, клейкие семена.
7. wasp’s nest – осиное гнездо.
8. back and forth – туда и сюда.
9. button – кнопка.
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         reproductions, his invention quickly died a commercial death. It was not until
         the 1980s that the fax became an essential piece of equipment in every
         office…too late for Signor Caselli.
                Money also helps. The Frenchman Denis Papin (1647-1712) had the idea
         for a steam engine3 almost a hundred years before the better-remembered
         Scotsman James Watt was even born…but he never had enough money to build
         one.
                You also need to be patient (it took scientists nearly eighty years to
         develop something which actually worked)…but not too patient. In the 1870s,
         Elisha Gray, a professional inventor from Chicago, developed plans for a
         telephone. Gray saw it as no more than “a beauty toy”, however. When he
         finally sent details of his invention to the Patent Office on February 14th 1876, it
         was too late; almost identical designs had arrived just two hours earlier…and the
         young man who sent them, Alexander Graham Bell, will always be remembered
         as the inventor of the telephone.
                Of course what you really need is a great idea – but if you haven’t got
         one, a walk in the country and a careful look at nature can help. The Swiss
         scientist, George de Mestral, had the idea for Velcro4 when he found his clothes
         covered5 with sticky seeds6 after a walk in the country. During a similar walk in
         the French countryside some 250 years earlier, Rene-Antoine Ferchault de
         Reaumur had the idea that paper could be made from wood when he found a
         vacant wasps’ nest7.
                You also need god commercial logic. Willy Higinbotham was a scientist
         doing nuclear research in the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton. USA.
         In 1958 the public were invited to the Laboratory to see their work; but both
         parents and children were less interested in the complicated equipment and
         diagrams than in a tiny 120cm screen with a white period which could be hit
         back and forth8 over a “net” using some buttons9. Soon hundreds of people were
         ignoring the other exhibits to play the first ever computer game – made from a
         simple laboratory instrument called an “oscilloscope”. Higinbotham, however,
         never made a cent from his invention: he thought people were only interested in
         the game because the other exhibits were so boring!
                Notes:
                1. priest – священник.
                2. pendulum – маятник.
                3. steam engine – паровой двигатель.
                4. Velcro – a trademark (торговая марка) for a material used for
         fastening (соединение) clothes, bags, or shoes.
                5. to be covered – быть покрытым.
                6. sticky seeds – липкие, клейкие семена.
                7. wasp’s nest – осиное гнездо.
                8. back and forth – туда и сюда.
                9. button – кнопка.


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