VIII. Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. (2 pts)
Television owes its origins to many inventors. But it was the single -minded determination of an amateur’ John Logie Baird ‘that led (1)…….. the first live television broadcast.
Born in Scotland in 1888 and educated in Glassgow’ John Logie Baird earned a living (2)………a razor-blade salesman. In the 1890s Guglielmo Marconi showed that sound could (3)……..sent by radio waves. Baird became convinced that a similar system could transmit a picture. He spent most of (4)……..spare time working on his ideas in his tiny workshop without any commercial support. He had to use his own earnings to continue his research. In 1924 ‘Baird successfully transmitted the general outline of a figure over more (5)……… three meters. He continued to experiment and (6) ………October 25 ‘1925 transmitted a recognizable image of a doll. He ran down to the office on the office on the ground floor and persuaded one of the boys to come upstairs. (7)………boy became the first living image transmitted by television. Overnight ‘Baird became famous and the money (8) ……..he needed to continue his research was at (9)……...made one from London to New York. He continued experimenting (10) ………spent his last years exploring the possibility of color television.
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