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4. Read the definitions of the following words. Find them in the text and translate the sentences with these words:

battleship

a heavily armoured warship of the largest type having many large-calibre guns

BA (Bachelor of Arts)

a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences

welder

a special device that joins pieces of metal together

avoid

enthusiastic

wear and tear

loss, damage, or depreciation resulting from ordinary use and exposure

to envision

to picture in the mind, imagine

punch card

a card on which data can be recorded in the form of holes

platter

sound recording consisting of a disk used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the spiral channel

inspiration

a product of your creative thinking and work

refine

improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

bar code

code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser

shutter

something that opens and closes

Task 5. Look through the text again and match the sentences given below:

  1. The digital compact disc, now commonplace…

  1. …began to sketch out a better music recording system - and was inspired with a truly revolutionary idea.

  1. At GE, Russell…

  1. …dark and light, a device could read sounds or indeed any information at all without ever wearing out.

3. Alone at home on a Saturday afternoon, Russell…

  1. …many interests beyond optical data devices

4. He saw that if he could represent the binary 0 and 1 with…

  1. …recent invention is a high-speed optical data recorder / player that has no moving parts.

  1. After years of work, Russell…

  1. …initiated many experimental instrumentation projects

6. Like many ideas far ahead of their time, the CD-ROM found few interested investors at first; but eventually…

  1. … in stereos and computers, was invented in the late 1960s by James T. Russell.

7. His most revolutionary…

  1. …succeeded in inventing the first digital-to-optical recording and playback system (patented in 1970).

  1. James T. Russell has…

  1. .…Sony and other audio companies realized the possibilities and purchased licenses.

6. Answer the questions:

  1. What did he invent at the age of six?

  2. What experimental projects did James T. Russell initiate at GE?

  3. When did he start working as Senior Scientist?

  4. Was he satisfied with the sound quality of phonograph records?

  5. Why did he begin to sketch out a better music recording system?

  6. What system did he envision?

  7. How did the first digital-to-optical recording and playback system work?

  8. Why did the final product imitate the phonographic disc?

  9. By 1985, Russell had earned 36 patents for CD-ROM technology, hadn’t he?

  10. What did he continue to do at his own consulting firm?

  11. What is his most revolutionary recent invention?