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Since the advent of electronic watches that incorporate small computers, digital displays have also been available. A digital display simply shows the time as a number, e.g., 12:08 instead of a short hand pointing towards the number 12 and a long hand 8/60 of the way round the dial. The digital display watch was the newest way to tell time in 500 years.
The first digital watch, a Pulsar LED [8] prototype in 1970, was developed jointly by Hamilton Watch Company and Electro-Data. John Bergey, the head of Hamilton's Pulsar division, said that he was inspired to make a digital timepiece by the then-futuristic digital clock that Hamilton themselves made for the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. On April 4, 1972, the Pulsar was finally ready, made in 18-carat gold and sold for $2,100. It had a red light-emitting diode (LED) display.
Digital LED watches were very expensive and out of reach to the common consumer until 1975, when Texas Instruments started to mass produce LED watches inside a plastic case. These watches, which first retailed for only $20, reduced to $10 in 1976, saw Pulsar lose $6 million and the Pulsar brand[9] sold to Seiko.
Most watches with LED displays required that the user press a button to see the time displayed for a few seconds, because LEDs used so much power that they could not be kept operating continuously. Usually the LED display color would be blue or green. This is because those colors require less power due to qualities which make those colors stand out in the dark. Watches with LED displays were popular for a few years, but soon the LED displays were superseded by liquid crystal displays (LCDs), which used less battery power and were much more convenient in use, with the display always visible and no need to push a button before seeing the time. The first LCD watch with a six-digit LCD was the 1973 Seiko 06LC, although various forms of early LCD watches with a four-digit display were marketed as early as 1972 including the 1972 Gruen Teletime LCD Watch, and the Cox Electronic Systems Quarza.[10][11]
Timex Datalink USB Dress edition from 2003 with a dot matrix display; the Invasion video game is on the screen.
From the 1980s onward, digital watch technology vastly improved. In 1982 Seiko produced a watch with a small television screen built in, and Casio produced a digital watch with a thermometer as well as another that could translate 1,500 Japanese words into English. In 1985, Casio produced the CFX-400 scientific calculator watch. In 1987 Casio produced a watch that could dial your telephone number and Citizen revealed one that would react to your voice. In 1995 Timex release a watch which allowed the wearer to download and store data from a computer to his wrist. Some watches, such as the Timex Datalink USB, feature dot matrix displays. Since their apex during the late 1980s to mid 1990s high technology fad, digital watches have mostly devolved into a simpler, less expensive basic time piece with little variety between models.
Despite these many advances, almost all watches with digital displays are used as timekeeping watches. Expensive watches for collectors rarely have digital displays since there is little demand for them. Less craftsmanship is required to make a digital watch face and most collectors find that analog dials (especially with complications) vary in quality more than digital dials due to the details and finishing of the parts that make up the dial (thus making the differences between a cheap and expensive watch more evident).
2. Answer the question:
1. When did the first digital watch?
2. How much money costs the firs digital watch?
3. What color would be displays?
4. What happened in 1982 year?
5. What produced the Casio in 1985 year?
3. Glossary:
На английском языке
На казахском языке
На русском языке
watch
сағат
часы
display
дисплей
дисплей
prototype
протатип
протатип
plastic case
пластикалық футляр
пластиковый футляр
crystal display
кристалдық дисплей
кристальный дисплей
battery
батарея
батарея
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Present Continuous
Numbers and trends: Saying Numbers:
Years: 1984 nineteen eighty four\ 2002 two thousand and two
Currencies: Ј 3.
Question
To be
Pronoun
Verb+ ing?
1.Complete the sentences with to b
Сomputers Concern You
When Ch. Babbage, a professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, invented the first calculating machine in 1812, he could hardly have imagined the situations we find ourselves in today. Almost
Solar Light by Night
Most people living in towns consider it a usual thin that streets are lit at night. But street lights need a power supply (источник энергии) therefore distant areas with no source of electricity re
Lesson-5-6
1.Suffixes: -er/ -or; -ant/ -ent:
Verb + - er/ -or = Noun
To teach -, -teacher –
To regulate – regulator –
To lecture – lecturer, to speak – speaker, to invent –
Grammar Expressing movement
The rules of the game
1.You play this sport outside with one, two, or more players. You have to hit the ball into a small hole. You mustn’t hit the ball into the water.
2.You can
Glossary
English
Russian
Kazakh
A capacitor
кондинсатор
кондинсатор
insulator
Radio waves in the ionosphere
When a radio wave leaves a transmitting antenna, it travels in all directions. Part of the signal travels along the ground and is called the ground wave. Part of the signal travel through the lower
A region called the ionosphere is reached
a) by tropospheric waves
b) by ionospheric waves
Finish the sentences using the words with the opposite meaning:
1. part of a wave travels at an angle
Lesson12
Grammar defining relative clauses
Defining relative clauses with who, which, where
A cook is a person who works in a restaurant.
A different kind of dictionary
Ambrose Bierce was a 19-th century American author and journalist. His most popular book is probably the Devil’s Dictionary, written between 1881 and 1887. Bierce’s dictionary does not contain norm
Importance of transportation
Many of the world’s major cities were built long before the car appeared and people realized the need to built efficient road systems. Current traffic management problems may be connected with old
Lesson-14
Введение грамматики: Неопределенные местоимения some, any.
A We use some in positives sentences:
I’m going to buy some clothes
II. Consolidation of grammar
2. Look at these sentences.
I’d like some bananas. (plural noun)
I’d like some mineral water (uncount noun).
We use some with both plural and uncount nouns.
Lesson-15
Text: Holiday
In the right place... but at the wrong time!
Tim, 20, student from Manchester. When I was a teenager I went on holiday with my pare
The Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress is the Nation’s library in USA. It serves not only members and committees of the congress, but to libraries throughout the USA and the world and to the scholars, researchers
Modal verbs;May,might
We use might and may+infinitive to talk about a future possibility.
You can also use May I…to ask for permission.
May I use phone?
Grammar ex.
Complete the sente
Lesson-18
Numbers and trends: Saying Numbers:
Years: 1984 nineteen eighty four\ 2002 two thousand and two
Currencies: Ј 3.
SPEAKING
Ask and answer in pairs. the other students in this class
A ask B six How long? questions know your oldest
GRAMMAR
Modal verbs: Should/shouldn’t
Use should/shouldn’t +infinitive to give somebody advice or say what you think is the right thing to do.
You should cut your hair. =
TELEVISION SYSTEM
The television system is considerably more complex than the sound-broadcasting system.
In a typical television system two separate transmitters are employed one for sound channel and the o
Lesson-22
Grammar:Quantifiers
Use too,too much,too many to say more than is good.
Use too+an adjective
Use toomuch+uncountable nouns
Use t
Grammar test
1.We use too with_____________
A)adjective b)noun c)verb d)adverb
2.We use too much+
a) uncountable nouns b) countable nouns c) adjective d)adverb
3.We use enoug
Television
The television set is evidently the most important and popular electronic product of all time. All homes in developed countries have one or more TV sets and in many countries there are considerably
Lesson-24, 25
1.Suffixes: -er/ -or; -ant/ -ent:
Verb + - er/ -or = Noun
To teach -, -teacher –
To regulate – regulator –
To lecture – lecturer, to speak – speaker, to invent –
Lesson-26
Suffix: - ible, - able
-ible
-able
If the root is not a complete word, add -ible.
aud + ible = audible
Examples:
Lesson-27 ,28
Text: A great citizen of the world.
Every day many people visited Thomas A. Edison’s laboratories in Orange, New Jersey. Some of them were young inventors who went to s
Lesson-29
1. Grammar: The Participle.
Participle 1 Participle 2
В функции определения
A lot
Grammar test
1. They want____ to Australia
a) going b)to go c)go d)goes
2. Don`t forget ___ the restaurant
a) to phone b)phoning c)phone d)phones
3. I went to the travel agen
Lesson-31
Text:Super phones
Not long ago it became known that cell phone manufacturers were experimenting with several different designs for the handheld devices that would be linke
Past Simple regular and irregular verbs
1. We use the Past Simple to talk about finished action in the past. We went on holiday
2. We use the infinitive after. Did …? And didn’t for negatives and questions.
EXERCISES
A
Choose the proper word and put it into the blank space:
1. Radio is a popular … of communication.
2. Radio receivers … millions of people to lea
Lesson-34
Text: ELECTRON TUBES
Let us consider electron tubes. Electron tubes in use nowadays are a diode, a triode, a tetrode and a pentode. The main parts of electron tubes are el
Talking via Space
Communication has come a long way from the time when an In ----- beat drum (барабан) in the forest to the time when a cliental ---------- messages from a satellite. In this space age communication
Lesson 37
Passive: be + past participle
Present
Risotto is made with rise It isn’t made with pasta. Is it made with meat?
These offices are clea
GRAMMAR passive
a. Make five true sentences using the words in the chart.
The dishwasher is called Tipp-Ex today.
Disposable nappies was invented by Marion Donovan
More than 55 million n
Grammar test
1. Angela _______ the job
a) offered b) was offered c) offers d) was offering
2. First _______ by Popov
a) was invented b) invents c) is inventing d) invent
3. H
Lesson-40
Is there an End to the Computer Race?
Today the word “electronics” is in general usage. Millions of people have electron watches. There are a lot of various radio and TV s
Glossary
English
Russian
Kazakh
1. Silicon plate
2. integrated circuit
3. chip
4. sophisticated
5. high technology
6. it
Grammar First Conditional
If I miss the bus, I’ll get a taxi.
She won’t be angry if you tell her the truth.
What will you do if it rains?
2. Complete with the correct form of the verbs.
I
Lesson-42
Passive: be + past participle
Present
Risotto is made with rise It isn’t made with pasta. Is it made with meat?
These offices are clea
Grammar test
1. Angela _______ the job
a) offered b) was offered c) offers d) was offering
2. First _______ by Popov
a) was invented b) invents c) is inventing d) invent
3. H
The past perfect
a. Use The Past Perfect tense is used to refer to a non-continuous action in the past, which was already completed by the time another action in the past took place. In the fol
Electromechanical television
The Nipkow disk. This schematic shows the circular paths traced by the holes, that may also be square for greater precision.
The origins of mechanical television can be traced back to the
Glossary
advantage
приемущество
жетістік
a more favourable position or state
entertainment
развлечение
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