Задание №19198 ЕГЭ по Английскому языку

Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text to your friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to read it.

   The first known robot was created around 400–350 BC by the mathematician Archytas and was an artifi cial bird. Archytas, who is known as the “father of mechanical engineering,” constructed his bird out of wood and used steam to power the movements of the robot. This bird was then suspended from a pivot bar. In its best recorded run, it “fl ew” about 200 meters before running out of steam. This is not only the first known robot, but was also one of the fi rst recorded instances of a scientist doing research on how birds fl y. If you’re not familiar with the man, Archytas was a very famous philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, commander, statesman, and strategist in his day. His many accomplishments include being named the “founder” of mathematical mechanics which we now call mechanical engineering. His mathematical works also heavily influenced Plato and Euclid, among others. Among his mathematical accomplishments is solving the geometrical problem of “doubling the cube.”