Week 5

Gadgets and Inventors

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             Internet was invented by a group of american scientists and military men in 1969. It is used for storing, analizing information, for communication. It's now everywhere.

             YouTube. It was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim in 2005 in the USA. YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos.

             Large Hadron collider is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was invented by scientists from over 100 countries. It was built by 2008 on the border between Switzerland and France.

             Web camera is a vodeo camera which feeds its images in real time to a computer. It was invented in 1991 in Cambridge (UK) by a group of US and UK scientists.

             GPSnavigator is any device that receives Global Positioning System signals for the purpose of determining the device's corrent location on Earth. It was invented by american scientists in the begining of 1990-s.

              Ipod is a line of portable media designed and marketed by Apple (the USA) and launched on October 23, 2001.

              Yota is the trademark of a Russian multination telecommunication services provider. It was invented in 2007 by Russian scientists (S. Sverdlov).

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