Номер 3, страница 10, часть 2 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс рабочая тетрадь Юхнель, Наумова

3 Прочитайте несколько неудачных технологических прогнозов из прошлого. Заполните пробелы названиями изобретений из рамки.

Ответ:

1. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." — Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp., in 1977.

2. "There is practically no chance space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States." — T. Craven, in 1961.

3. "A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere." — New York Times, in 1936.

4. "Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible." — Simon Newcomb; The Wright Brothers flew 18 months later. plane

5. "The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty — a fad." — The president of the Michigan Savings Bank, 1903.

6. "The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys." — Sir W. Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878.

7. "The world potential market for copying machines is 5,000 at most." — IBM, to founders of Xerox, 1959.

8. "The idea that cavalry will be replaced by these iron coaches is absurd." — Comment of Aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Haig, 1916. tank

9. "How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense." — Napoleon Bonaparte, 1800s. steamboat

10. "Television won't be able to hold on to any market after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a wooden box every night." — Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 1946.

11. "When the Paris Exhibition [of 1878] closes, electric light will close with it and no more will be heard of." — Oxford professor E. Wilson.

12. "Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die." — Dr D