Exercise 3. Look through the text given below and name the people who made an essential input into the automobile industry development. The birth of the car as we know it today occurred over a period of years. Man’s first journey on the road of mechanized transport began with the invention of the wheel in 4000 BC. In the early 1760s the first steam-driven tractor was built by a French Captain, Nicolas Jacob Cugnot. In 1807 François Isaac de Rivaz designed the first internal combustion engine. This was used by him to develop the world's first vehicle to run on such an engine, one that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to generate energy. In 1860, Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir patented the first successful two-stroke gas-driven engine. In 1862 he built an experimental vehicle driven by a liquid-fuel version of his gas-engine, which ran at a speed of 3 km/hour. The next major step forward occurred in 1885 after the four-stroke engine had been devised. In 1885, Karl Benz designed and built the world's first tri-cycle to be powered by an internal combustion engine. In the meanwhile, unknown to him, Gottlieb Daimler was in the process of creating the world's first four-wheel horseless carriage. This car, which was more like the cars on our roads today, first saw the light of the day in 1886.

Перевод задания: Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст и назовите людей, которые внесли значительный вклад в развитие автомобильной промышленности.

Answer: Nicolas Jacob Cugnot built the first steam-driven tractor. François Isaac de Rivaz designed an early internal combustion engine and used it to develop a vehicle powered by that engine. Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir patented a successful two-stroke gas engine and built an experimental vehicle using a liquid-fuel version of it. Karl Benz designed and built the first three-wheeled vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine. Gottlieb Daimler created the first four-wheeled horseless carriage.

Перевод ответа: Николя-Жозеф Кюньо построил первый паровой трактор. Франсуа Исаак де Риваз разработал ранний двигатель внутреннего сгорания и использовал его для создания транспортного средства с таким двигателем. Жан Жозеф Этьен Ленуар запатентовал успешный двухтактный газовый двигатель и построил экспериментальный автомобиль с его вариантом, работавшим на жидком топливе. Карл Бенц спроектировал и построил первое трёхколёсное транспортное средство с двигателем внутреннего сгорания. Готлиб Даймлер создал первую четырёхколёсную безлошадную повозку.