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Structured Questions and Responses 1 7 January
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Read the following text and complete the table that follows.
NEVER LOSE HOPE
Many scientists and inventors have had very humble beginnings
but becameshining examples in society.
John Baird, the inventor of television, disliked attending
school. However
he was a curious student and one of his early inventions was
electricallyheated socks which helped keep feet warm during the
winter.
hile he was still in school !homas "lva #dison, the inventor of
the light
bulb, was considered too stupid to be taught. He made his living
byselling newspapers, fruits and candy at the railway stations and
in trains.
$eorge %tephenson, the inventor of the steam engine, was very
poor. He
earned money to educate himself by mending watches and cobbling
shoesin his spare time. !wo brothers started a bicycle repair shop
to make living for themselves.
!hey created a scienti&c miracle in '()* at +itty Hawk in
the %". !heywere the right Brothers, -liver and ilbur right and
they invented the&rst aircraft.
"lbert #instein, a slow learner, could not talk until he was
four years old.
t was he who came up with the physics e/uation, # 0 M12, that
hadboggled many leading scientists of that time.
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