Past Simple Passive. Ex. 9, p. 136

1. The first TV remove controls ... (use) in the 1950s in the USA.

2. One of the early models ... (develop) in 1952, and it ... (call) "Lazy Bones"

3. In 1996 a sheep called "Dolly" ... (clone) by British scientists from a single cell that ... (take) from a six-year-old female sheep.

4. Clothes ... (hand-wash) by rubbing the clothing with rocks in a river, or by using a wash board before the invention of the washing machine.

5. The first affordable cars ... (produce) by Henry Ford.

6. Text messages ... (use) in Asia and Europe before they became popular in the USA in the mid 2000s.

7. The Internet began in 1969 as The Arpanet data network, which ... (establish) by the USDepartment of Defense and ... (suppose) to link computer networks at several universities and research laboratories un the United States.

8. The first computer ... (develop) in 1848 in Britain.

9. The first skyscrapers ... (build) in Chicago.

10. The first bridge ... (construct) in the city of Babylon in 2200 BC.

11. Some laws on volume ... (discover) by Archimedes.