Англійська мова. "Inventors and Inventions"

He was born at Couvray, France. He became blind as a child. In 1824 he developed his own alphabet patterns known as Braille by which the blind could read by touch, based on a French army officer's invention for reading messages in the dark.

He was a Hungarian artist who emigrated to Argentina. In about 1943 he invented the ball-point pen or biro.

He was a London halter who designed the hard round hat known as the bowler in about 1850. It has become the symbol of British male respectability. And you can still see businessmen wearing bowlers in the City, the centre of London's commerce.

He was a car salesman who with the engineer Henry Royce created the world-famous Rolls-Royce car. Rolls died in 1910.

He was a Frenchman who was both a chemist and a biologist. Pasteurisation is a method of sterilising milk by healing it.

He was an American portrait painter who invented the telegraphic dot-dash alphabet known as morse code.

He was a German nuclear physicist. From 1906—1909 he designed a counter for detecting radioactivity. This was the beginning of modern geiger counters.

He was a Manchester textile chemist who, in 1823, developed a rubber solution for coating fabrics which led to the production of waterproof raincoats or mackintoshes.

He was an American gunsmith. He designed a pistol, patented in 1836, with a revolving barrel that could fire six bullets, one after the other. The Colt was the first of its kind. Many "six-shooters" came later.

He was a German engineer who invented the diesel engine in 1897 and so began a transport revolution in cars, lorries and trains.

He was invented some different musical instruments. But saxophone is one of the most popular of them.

He was a well-known German physicist, who discovered X-rays which are widely used in medicine, different branches of science and technology.