Если сможете! ! read the inventions and put them in order, from the oldest to the new ones/the most recent. a) e-mail b) a pen c) telephone d) typewriter e) walkie-talkie these are just some of the ways of communication that have changed in the last five hundred years. but we know that 4.000 years ago in ancient egypt, people carried letters by hand over hundreds of kilometres. in those days you didn’t need a stamp to send a letter : the first stamp didn’t appear until it costed one penny. nowadays one of these original stamps costs 225 2. an american company-remington and sons made the first typewriter in 1871. all the letters in the word “typewriter” were on the top line on the keyboard, so the salesmen could demonstrate the machine easily. 3. the inventor of the first telephone was a scottish-american teacher called alexander graham bell. in 1876 he showed his new invention at an exhibition in philadelphia. 4. a walkie-talkie is a small two-way radio. the united states army first used them in the 1930s, but they weighed 13,6 kilos so talking was easier than walking. after world war ii, they became popular with policemen. 5. nowadays, you can send messages, pictures and text around the world in a few seconds via a computer using e-mail (or electronic mail). millions of people send and receive e-mails every day.
1 b 4.000 years ago
2 d in 1871.
3 c in 1876
4 e 1930s
5 a 1960-1970s