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Reading Comprehension Old Inventions

Old inventions such as the telegraph, film camera, typewriter, and vinyl records were developed in the 1800s to communicate and enjoy music and media. Cassettes and VHS tapes that used magnetic tape were popular ways to listen to music and watch movies from the 1970s-1990s until being replaced by digital formats like CDs, DVDs, and MP3 players. Technologies evolved from unreliable floppy disks and black and white TVs to more advanced devices, but some old formats are still appreciated for their unique qualities and experience.

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Reading Comprehension Old Inventions

Old inventions such as the telegraph, film camera, typewriter, and vinyl records were developed in the 1800s to communicate and enjoy music and media. Cassettes and VHS tapes that used magnetic tape were popular ways to listen to music and watch movies from the 1970s-1990s until being replaced by digital formats like CDs, DVDs, and MP3 players. Technologies evolved from unreliable floppy disks and black and white TVs to more advanced devices, but some old formats are still appreciated for their unique qualities and experience.

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Old Inventions days we use MP3 players or smart phones.

30 years ago
people were very excited when they could first walk
A. Music Cassette along and listen to their favorite music.
Music cassettes which inside have a G. VHS cassette
ribbon of magnetic tape were mostly
used in cars up until the mid-1990s, Similar to Music cassettes in
and before that in the 1980’s with how they worked, but much
Walkmans and at home. You could buy them with music bigger, VHS cassettes were used
on them, or buy ones and record your own music onto for watching movies on your TV
them. These have been replaced by MP3s and CDs. with a VHS player called a VCR.
There were many rental shops
B. Black and white TV to rent movies, or you could record your favorite TV
Early TVs could not show color, and it shows from the TV. These days DVD players have
was not until 1954 that the first color replaced them.
TVs were introduced. They were very H. Typewriter
expensive, so most people really did
not have color TVs until the 1970s. We now have large Typewriters were invented in the
LCD TVs which are much larger and have a clearer 1830s and were used up until the
picture. 1980s, when they were replaced by
computers. Many journalists and
C. Floppy Disk writers used them, but they are not
The floppy disk was a way of storing and as convenient as computers.
moving computer data. They were very I. Vinyl record
unreliable and could not hold much data.
These days they have been replaced with USB Dating from around 1890 Vinyl
sticks and DVDs. records have tiny grooves and a
needle on the record player reads the
D. Telegraph and Morse code music. Vinyl records are still used
This technology was developed in today. Many DJs and music lovers still
about 1837 and was used from the prefer their sound to a CD or a MP3. Vinyl records come
1850s for at least one hundred years. in three common sizes and have three possible speeds.
This technology has been replaced by Questions
email and the internet, and before that by the FAX
machine. 1. Which four items were invented in the 1800s?

E. Film camera D, E, H and I

The film camera was also developed in 2. Which two items use a Magnetic ribbon tape?
the 1830s, from ideas that had been A and G
around for hundreds of years before.
These days we use digital cameras and 3. Which two items are still popular today?
smart phones to take pictures, but some people still
B and E
think film looks better and use film cameras today.
4. Which item was very unreliable?
F. Sony Walkman
C
In the 1980s many people had a Walkman.
You could listen to a store bought cassette 5. Which two items are used together?
on it or make your own cassette ‘mix’ from
A and F
the radio or from another cassette. These
6. Which item was mostly used in cars?

7. On which item could you write a book?

8. Which item has the longest history?

9. Which item helped people to walk and listen to their


favorite music at the same time?

10. What item comes in three possible sizes?

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