1. The dates in the texts are all incorrect. Read and listen, and correct the dates. Jeans
Two Americans, Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss, made the first jeans in 1873. Davis bought cloth from Levi’s shop. He told Levi that he had a special way to make strong trousers for workmen. The first jeans were blue. In 1935 jeans became fashionable for women after they saw them in Vogue magazine. In the 1990s, Calvin Klein earned $12.5 million a week from jeans.
Television
A Scotsman, John Logie Baird, transmitted the first television picture on 25 November,
1925. The first thing on television was a boy who worked in the office next to Baird’s workroom in London. In 1927 Baird sent pictures from London to Glasgow. In 1928 he sent pictures to New York, and also produced the first colour TV pictures.
Aspirin
Felix Hoffman, a 29-year-old chemist who worked for the German company Bayer, invented the drug Aspirin in April 1899. He gave the first aspirin to his father for his arthritis. By 1950 it was the best-selling painkiller in the world, and in 1969 the Apollo astronauts took it to the moon. The Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset, called the 20th century “Age of Aspirin”.
