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17.04.2023 04:32 •  Английский язык

Перепишите вопросы по тексту «Джордж Стивенсон», ответьте на них, переведите свои ответы на русский язык. 1.What was George Stephenson?
2.What is he famous for?
3.When and where was he born?
4.What is his main invention?
5.What are the advantages of Stephenson’s “Rocket”?

George Stephenson was a British inventor and engineer. He is famous for building the first practical railway locomotive.
Stephenson was born in 1781 in England. During his youth he worked as a fireman and later as an engineer in the coal mines of Newcastle. He invented one of the first miner's safety lamps independently of the British inventor Humphrey Davy. Stephenson's early locomotives were used to carry loads in coal mines, and in 1823 he established a factory at Newcastle for their manufacture. In 1829 he designed a locomotive known as the Rocket, which could carry both loads and passengers at a greater speed than any locomotive constructed at that time. The success of the Rocket was the beginning of the construction of locomotives and the laying of railway lines.