Írd be az igék múlt idejú alakját!
Children learn that the Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell ___________ (invent) the telephone in 1876. But the real inventor ___________ (be) Antonio Meucci, a poor Italian American. He ___________ (share) a workshop with Bell in the 1860s, and ___________ (make) a ‘talking telegraph’ for his wife who ___________ (be) ill in bed, so that she ___________ (can) call him when she ___________ (want) something. But Meucci never ___________ (take) his idea to the US Patent Office, because he ___________ (be) too poor to pay the $250 that he ___________ (need). So on February 14th 1867 Alexander Graham Bell ___________ (take) the invention to the Patent Office instead. Just two hours later another inventor, Elisha Gray ___________ (arrive) with the same idea – too late!
At that time, nobody ___________ (believe) that the telephone ___________ (be) an important invention. Bell’s father-in-law, also a scientist, ___________ (describe) the invention as ‘a beautiful toy’. And it ___________ (not be) before 2002 that the US Congress ___________ (decide) that Meucci was the true inventor of the telephone.
But everyone knows that the Italian Marconi ___________ (invent) the radio, right? Wrong. Actually, Guglielmo Marconi ___________ (steal) his great idea from Nikola Tesla, a Croatian scientist. Tesla ___________ (write) an article in 1893 and in it he ___________ (describe) his important new invention – the radio.
But just two years later, Marconi ___________ (take) the idea to the US Patent Office and soon ___________ (begin) to sell it. In 1909 he even ___________ (win) a Nobel Prize for his invention.
In 1943 Nikola Tesla ___________ (die) in New York, a poor man. That year, the US Congress ___________ (decide) that Nikola Tesla was the ‘true father of the radio’.
