高中英语配套课件：选修8Unit3Period1(人教,课标通用).docx

? ENGLISH n ? ENGLISH n 英语 Unit 3 Inventors and inventions 经典有约，高考无忧 经典有约，高考无忧 HUATIMEIWENXINSHANG 》话题美文欣赏 Here are some of the most popular inventions according to a survey among our readers: 1. The Telephone The telephone is an instrument that converts voice and sound signals into electrical impulses and send them to a different location by wire, where another telephone receives the electrical impulses and turns them back into recognizable sounds. In 1875, Alexander Graham Bell built the first telephone that transmitted electrically the human voice. 2? The Computer Here are many major milestones in the history of computers, starting in 1936, when Konrad Zuse built the first freely programmable I | | | | computer. 3 ? The Automobile In 1769, the very first selfpropelled road vehicle was invented by French mechanic, Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. However, it was a steampowered model. In 1885, Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an internalcombustion engine（内燃机）.In 1885，Gottlieb Daimler took the internalcombustion engine a step further and patented what is generally recognized as the prototype of the modern gas engine and later built the worldfs first fourwheeled motor vehicle. 4? The Steam Engine Thomas Sa very was an English military engineer and inventor who, in 1698, patented the first crude steam engine? Thomas Newcomen invented the atmospheric steam engine in 1712. James Watt improved Newcomen's design and invented① what is considered the first modern steam engine in 1765. 5? The Light Bulb ②Contrary to the popular belief, Thomas Alva Edison didn't "invent" the light bulb, but rather he improved upon a 50yearold idea.In 1878, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, an English physicist, was? the first person to invent a practical and longerlasting electric light bulb (13.5 hours)with a carbon fiber filament. I ?阅读短文，判断正(T)误(F) TOC \o "1-5" \h \z ? Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb. ( ) ? A milestone，as you read in the 2nd