a) 19th b) 20th 6. Bell recited ... monologue when he was demonstrating the telephone to his guests. a) Hamlet's b) King Lear's PB. Read the text and make up questions to which the phrases below are answers. 1. The 20th century. 2. They made experiments with the human voice. 3. He taught the deaf. 4. It was a cylinder with a membrane and a stylus attached to it. 5. Because Thomas A. Watson knew about electricity more than Bell did. 6. At a big exhibition in Philadelphia. 7. Because he thought that his invention wasn't ready. 8. He asked Bell to demonstrate his machine. 9. It was the first line from Hamlet's monologue. 10. For both the multiple tele- graph and the telephone. W The Man and His Work The story is told that in 1870 one of the experts at the US Patent Office left his job because he felt that everything had been invented and there was no future in it. It happened at the time when the telephone, the radio and television had not yet been invented. And when Edison gave the world the electric light, his invention paved the way to the immense use of electricity in the 20th century. The 20th century also gave us the automobile, the airplane, the helicopter, the cinema, the computer and the nuclear reactor. Two world wars helped to develop the chemical industry to the level that allowed to produce synthetics and other scientific marvels. thot inventions occur as the need arises. From this