Unit III. Participle II

Famous People

Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov (1853 - 1939)

Vladimir Shukhov is often referred as the Russian Edison for the quantity and quality of his pioneering works. He was a brilliant structural engineer. Besides the innovations he brought to the oil industry and the construction of numerous bridges and buildings, he was the inventor of a new family of doubly-curved structural forms. These forms, based on non-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry, are known today as hyperboloids ot revolution. Shukhov developed not only many varieties of light-weight hyperboloid towers and roof systems, but also the mathematics for their analysis. The Shukhov radio tower, also known as the Shabolovka tower is a 160-metre-high free-standing steel framework hyperbolic tower in Moscow, which was built between 1919 and 1922 as a transmission tower for the Russian broadcasting company. Among Shukhov's projects were: an oil pipeline, a superior design for oil-tanker barges (mostly for the Volga river). Shukhov invented a new water pipe boiler in two versions: horizontal and vertical (the famous “Shukhov’s steam boilers”.) Their full-scale production began in 1896. Shukhov designed complete water-supply systems for the cities of Tambov, Kharkov, Voronezh and many others. In that age of mfectious diseases his water-supply systems literally saved thousands of lives.

Read the following sentences. State the voice and the tense forms of the predicates. Find participle II in each sentence and explain the use of it. Translate the sentences into Russian.

1. The equipment needed for the experiment was carefully checked.

2. When properly insulated the wire may be used under wet conditions.

3. For further details you can read the paper presented by Brown.

4. The pyrometer used in industry is a device measuring temperature.

5. The task set was not an easy one.

6. The algorithm chosen in this study is a simplified version of Wagner’s model.

7. The results obtained showed the stability of the system.

8. When arranged properly the device works without breakdowns.

9. Every body located on earth is pulled downwards by the earth.

10. The nucleus formed by the emission of the gamma-rays may be unstable.

11. The temperature of the liquid obtained remained constant.

12. All the isotopes now produced by reactors can also be made in a cyclotron.

13. Metals do not melt until heated to a definite temperature.

14. The nucleus formed by the emission of the gamma-ray may be unstable.

15. Cooling followed by heating gave good results.

· Read the following text. Find the predicate in each sentence and state the voice and the tense form. Which of the sentences contain participle II? Translate the text into Russian.

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