The Birth of Radio Article ( English Learning )

The Birth of the Radio C / 9 / 158 The following passage is incomplete. Fill in the gaps with one of the following verbs in the past. astonish use support receive transmit die adopt start fire recognise believe close form join invent improve show Today we don’t think twice when we turn on the radio, but when a 21-year-old Italian ................... it over 100 years ago no one could believe their ears. One day in 1895 in Bologna, Italy, Guglielmo Marconi .........................the world’s first radio signal. Using a simple radio transmitter and a receiver, he sent a signal from his attic room to his brother who was hidden in a field one kilometer away. When his brother .................... the signal he ..........................a gun. The Italian government ......................no interest in young Marconi’s invention, but his mother ......................he had a good idea. So in February of the following year, she sent him to England to meet her cousin who was a well- known engineer. In England Marconi and his cousin were .......................by two other inventors. In 1897 Marconi .............................Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company in London and .........................to transmit simple radio signals over long distances. In 1899 he sent the first wireless telegraph across the English Channel to France.This meant that ships were now able to send messages from the ship to the shore if they were in distress. Marconi had always .......................... the idea that radio waves could travel round the curve of the earth. By 1901 he had .............................his radio system so much that on 12th December he .............................the world by sending the first radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean. To send these signals he ...........................an aerial flown in the air by a kite. Marconi’s system was soon ............................by the British and the Italian navies. From now on the Marconi Company had the monopoly of wireless communications. Marconi is one of the key figures in the twentieth century. He even ............................ the importance of radar and thought of the idea of sending radio signals out into space. When Marconi ........................in 1937, all wireless stations ...........................down for two minutes as a mark of respect . Complete the notes about Marconi and the history of radio communications. - 1874 = - 1895 = - 1896 = - 1897 = - 1899 = - 1901 = - 1937 =