1. Popov`s
"storm indicator", which he demonstrated in 1895, had been the
prototype of modern radio receivers.
2. Great progress has been made in radio
engineering since then.
3. V. I. Lenin called radio a newspaper needing no
paper and reaching all distances.
4. Radio helps to bring remote areas closer
to cultural centers of the country.
5. The importance of radio hasn`t lessened
with the appearance of television.
6. The main TV center is situated in Moscow.
7. Many programmes are transmitted from special TV Theatre.
8. The inventor of
the radio A. S. Popov was born in 1859.
9. He graduated from the Petersburg
University in 1883.
10. The development of television has begun with the work
of Boris Roding.
11. He put forward the idea of using an electron-beam tube to
receive pictures.