1. Inventors and their great inventions

2. New inventions are appearing every day to make our lives easier, longer, warmer, speedier and so on. But only a few inventors design a new machine or product that becomes so well-known that the invention, named after its creator, becomes a household word. Here are eight famous inventors and the inventions that are named after them:

3. Great Inventors. Alexander Graham Bell Akito Morita James M.Spangler
John Logie Baird
Nicephore Niepce
Bill Gates
Orville Wright
Sergei Korolyev

4. Their great inventions
Telephone
Personal Stereo
Vacuum cleaner
Television
Photography
Microsoft-DOC
Airplane
Artificial satellite

5. Alexander Graham Bell
In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell, an American engineer, invented telephone

6. Akito Morita
Akito Morita (Japan) developed the first personal stereo-Sony Walkman

7. James M.Spangler
In 1908 James M.Spangler from the USA built the first vacuum cleaner

8. John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird from Scotland invented television in 1926

9. Nicephore Niepce
Nicephore Niepce from France pioneered photography in 1829

10. Bill Gates In 1981 Bill Gates
(USA) created Microsoft-DOC (Disk Operating System)

11. Orville Wright
Orville Wright built the first airplane in 1903

12. Sergei Korolyev
Sergei Korolyev(Russia) designed the first artificial satellite in 1957

13. Some inventions
The first Russia's automobile was designed by P. A. Frez and E. A. Yakovlev. By May 1896 the car had been built.
In 1945 the Nobel prize was given to Alexander Fleming for penicillin [,pem'silin] that had been discovered in 1928.
The first gas stove had been made long before the first electric stove appeared
In the middle of the 19th century, although it had been tested, the sewing machine did not interest very many people.
In 1928 Richard Drew perfected the Scotch tape, which had been invented by Jim Kirst from the USA in 1923.
The first ballpoint pen was produced in though it had been invented by L. Biro, a Hungarian artist and journalist, in 1905.
In 1996, Japanese scientists created a solar powered car called Dream. To create it they used solar cells, which had been developed in the middle of this century.