Презентация, доклад по английскому языку Inventors and their inventions.

longer, warmer, speedier and so on. But only a few inventors design a new machine or product that becomes so well-known that the invention, named after its creator, becomes a household word. Here are ten famous inventors and the inventions that are named after them:

Hungarian convention; Spanish: Ladislao José Biro; 29 September 1899 – 24 October 1985)
In about 1943 he invented the ball-point pen or biro (modern ballpoint pen).

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.
The bowler hat, also known as a bob hat, derby (US), billycock or bombín, is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown originally created in 1849 for the British soldier and politician Edward Coke, the younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Leicester. The bowler hat was popular with the working class during the Victorian era, and later on with the middle and upper classes in the United Kingdom. Later in the United Kingdom, it would come to be worn as work dress by the officers of the Queen's Guards. In Ecuador especially the women of Quechua people have used bowler hats since the 1920s when British railway workers made it famous.

1916.

The bowler hat is a traditional part of womenswear among the Quechua and Aymara peoples of South America

Charlie Chaplin's character "The Tramp"

Louis Braille (4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852), born at Couvray, France, was the inventor of braille, a system of reading and writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired. As a small child, Braille was blinded in an accident; as a boy he developed a mastery over that blindness; and as a young man – still a student at school – he created a revolutionary form of communication that transcended blindness and transformed the lives of millions of persons based on a French army officer's invention for reading messages in the dark. Almost two centuries later, the braille system remains a uniquely valuable tool of learning and communication for the blind, and it has been adapted for languages worldwide.

of the French alphabet, and was only appended to the additional letters with diacritics.

has been honored on stamps worldwide.

Postage stamp, Kazakhstan
2009

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.

Colt 1851 Navy Revolver

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

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

(1766—1843),
a Manchester textile chemist who, in 1823, developed a rubber solution for coating fabrics which led to the production of waterproof raincoats or mackintoshes.

1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter who turned inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of the telegraphic dot-dash alphabet known as morse code. a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of the Morse code, and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.

politician, by Morse. Oil on canvas, 1828, Brooklyn Museum

chemist and a biologist. Pasteurisation is a method of sterilising milk by heating it.

experimenting in his laboratory.

with the engineer Henry Royce created the world-famous Rolls-Royce car.
Rolls died in 1910.