Part one
A.
key words:invent
vocabulary:fax/ calendar/ puppet Mercedes-Benz
1.People in England made the first computer. It was built in 1943. It was made to help England understand secret messages during World War two.
2.Someone in Australia invented the fax machine.After the fax machine was invented,it first became popular in East Asia.
3. Folding fans came from Japan.They were invented in Japan almost 800 years ago.
4.The first car came from Germany. It was invented by Karl Benz in 1885. Benz is still famous. His name is on the Mercedes-benz car.
5.A man in Canada invented the chocolate bar.He lived in Nova Scotia-in the easter part of Canada. He invented the chocalate bar in the 1800s.
6.The first really accurate calender was invented in Mexico. This calender was made about 1,500 years ago. That's when people learned that the year was 365 days long.
7.The first machanical clock was invented in China.It was invented in the year 725-over 1,250 years ago.
8. People think Africans created the first puppets.Actually,no one is true is sure,but puppets were probably created to help tell stories.
B.key words:design patent introduce develop appear born invent creat
Vocabulary:
paper clip/ patent /adhesive/ primer/ cellular phone/ commission /authorize/ subscribe/ credit /wringer /ad/ disposable /diaper/ zipper/ immigrant /galosh /accident prone/ strip /merit /contact lens
Norwegian Pennsylvania Band-Aid Czech
1.The design of paper clips is perfect. There's been little improvement since Norwegian Johan Vaaler got his American patent in 1901.Only about 20% are actually used to clip papers.
2.Post-it is one of the top five best-selling office supplipers.To make Post-its,introduced in 1980,3M had to develope the adhesive,primer,back-side coating and new manufacturing equipment.
3.The first cellar phone was developed in 1937 by Martin Cooper at Motorola, and a test of 1,000 such phones followed in Chicago. The Federal Communications Commission authorized cellular service in 1982, and we haven't shut up since. More than a third of all households in the U.S subscribe.
4.Among those credited with making electric washing machines was Alva J.Fisher. The machines used wringers to remove water from clothes.Truly automatic machines appeard in the 1930s. An early ad for a GE washer read,"If every father did the family washing next Monday,there would be an electric washing maching in every home by Saturday night."
5.Oh,baby, what a convenience!Procter & Gamble's Pampers,born in 1961, were first used only for special occasions. Now the 95% of American parents who buy disposable diapers will spend up to $2100 a child to avoid washing diapers.
6. Zippers were invented in 1913 by Swedish immigrant Gideon Sundrich at Universal Fastener Co. in Pennsylvania. B.F.goodrich first used the word to a fastener on a pair of its galoshes;it was not used in clothes untill the 1930s .By 1341 zippers beat the pants off buttons in the Battle of the Fly.
7.Johnson & Johnson sold $3000 worth of handmade Band Aids in 1921, the year it introduced them. A company cotton buyer, Earle Dickson,had created them at home for his accident prone wife.He then convinced his boss that the strips had merit.
8.Otto Wichterle, a Czech scientist, created the first soft contact lens in 1961. Bausch & Lomb bought the rights to his process for a reported $3 million in 1966.
Part two