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Механічний ткацький верстат, ткацьке переплетіння, тканина,
сприятливий, різнична машина, надзвичайно, зупиняти,
блискуча ідея, перепис населення, рахунок, адаптувати,
заощадження, купівля контрольного пакету акцій компанії.

Task 4. Answer the following questions:
1. What was Jacquard`s technology like?
2. What was the idea of the Difference Engine and the Analytic
Engine?
3. Who automated the census in America?

PART 3

Task1. Learn the following words and word combinations:
Trace back, crack a coding system, Lorenz cipher, wired circuits,
vacuum valves, non-volatile, amazing, referred to, despite, bulky,
strictly, integrated circuit, further, fighter jet, release, compatibles,
immensely, floating point operations, beyond all recognition, regard.

Task 2. Make up your own sentences using words and phrases
from the previous exercise.

TEXT 3
THE HISTORY OF MODERN COMPUTING
Modern computing can probably be traced back to the Harvard
Mk I and Colossus. Colossus was an electronic computer built in
Britain at the end 1943 and designed to crack the German coding
system — Lorenz cipher. The Harvard Mk I was a more general
purpose electro-mechanical programmable computer built at Harvard
University with backing from IBM. These computers were among
the first of the first generation computers.

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