SCIENTIFIC PROJECT 3

WEEK 2
SUBJECT: ENGLISH
TEACHER: KAREN MATAMOROS
TOPIC: THE TRANSISTOR: A NEW ERA
1. Read the text, underline and make a list of the verbs in past
tense.
The transistor is an underappreciated invention that changed
the world forever. Believe it or not, it is the crucial component
of
an electronic device. Our televisions, radios, cell phones, and
computers work with them. Televisions used to work with
some
tubes that were slow and used a lot of energy before
transistors
were used.
Three people invented the transistor: William Shockley, John
Bardeen and Walter Brattain. Shockley started working in 1936
on the transistor. Although he could successfully work out the
theory, he could not build a working model in eight years.
Bardeen and Brattain helped him develop the model. Sometime
later, Texas Instruments of Dallas first started commercial
production of some transistors for portable radios in 1954. The
Sony Company of Japan soon acquired the right to produce
transistors and dominated the market. In the 1960’s, Sony
began
to manufacture television sets using transistors instead of
tubes.
Afterwards, vacuum tube technology became obsolete.
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2. Decide if each sentence is True (T) or False (F). If it is false,

correct it to make it true.