Picture of Aeroplane CORDLESS TELEPHONES

Cordless telephones are one of those minor miracles of modern life - with a cordless phone, you can talk on the phone while moving freely about your house or in your yard. Long before cell phones became so cheap that anyone could afford one, cordless phones gave everyone the freedom to walk and talk within the privacy of their own homes. A cordless telephone is basically a combination telephone and radio transmitter/receiver. A cordless phone has two major parts: base and handset.

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Read the text again and decide if the sentences (1-6) below, are true (T) or false (F).

1. The telephone was invented by Scottish-born electrical engineer John Logie Baird. T/F

2. Cordless telephones are one of those minor miracles of modern life - with a cordless phone, you can talk on the phone while moving freely about your house or in your yard. T/F

3. American Wright brothers made the first flight on aeroplane in 1913. T/F

4. Edinburgh-born scientist Alexander Graham Bell patented his invention of the telephone in 1786. T/F

5. Camera of photography was invented by Leonardo da Vinci. T/F