Английский для бакалавров. Зарубина Л.П - 28 стр.

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IX. Read and translate the following word combinations:
a period of rebirth; to give rise to; to harness the energy; except for the magnetic
compass; electric power industry; to be transported over large distances; electrical
engineering; professional society; information industries.
X. Read the text ‘The Birth of Electrical Engineering’. Point out the most im-
portant discoveries mentioned in the text.
XI. Answer the questions below. Use the text.
1. What period do historians call the period of rebirth?
2. What age followed the Renaissance Period?
3. What is the development of the Industrial Age connected with?
4. Who invented the first source of continuous current? When?
5. What did Faraday discover in 1831?
6. When did the electric generator and motor become a reality?
7. Who invented an incandescent electric lamp?
8. What gave birth to the telegraph and telephone industries?
9. What new non-electrical information industries were created in the 19
th
cen-
tury?
XII. Translate the words given in brackets.
1. The discovery of the Voltaic cell gave scientists the basis (для открытия
свойств электрического тока).
2. Mankind learned to harness the energy created from the burning of (угля и
нефти).
3. Electric and magnetic energy remained (диковиной).
4. In 1831 Faraday discovered that rotating a conductor in a magnetic field (соз-
дает электрический потенциал).
5. (Развитие энергетической промышленности) was spurred by the invention
of a practical incandescent electric light bulb.
6. The first professional society for (инженеров-электриков было основано в
1884 году).
7. The discovery of (законов электричества и магнетизма) gave birth to two
new information industries, the telegraph and telephone industries.
XIII. Translate the sentences with emphatic construction.
1. It was the battery that Alessandro Volta made in 1800.
2. It was the Renaissance Period which spurred the development of new tech-
nologies.
3. It was in 1831 when Faraday discovered the phenomenon of electro-magnetic
induction.

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