Stanford made a bet with a friend that when a horse runs, all four of its feet leave the ground. To settle the bet, Stanford hired a photographer to take pictures of a running horse and arrange them in a device that played them as a continuous moving picture, inventing the first film camera. The photos proved Stanford was correct, and he won the bet.
Stanford made a bet with a friend that when a horse runs, all four of its feet leave the ground. To settle the bet, Stanford hired a photographer to take pictures of a running horse and arrange them in a device that played them as a continuous moving picture, inventing the first film camera. The photos proved Stanford was correct, and he won the bet.
Stanford made a bet with a friend that when a horse runs, all four of its feet leave the ground. To settle the bet, Stanford hired a photographer to take pictures of a running horse and arrange them in a device that played them as a continuous moving picture, inventing the first film camera. The photos proved Stanford was correct, and he won the bet.
Complete the passage with the correct tense inof the verbs in
brackets.
Most people……………………….(not know) that there is a
connection between a bet and the invention of the film camera. In the 1870´s, when photography……………………..(be) still a new art,a welthy californian businessman alled Leland Standford, make a bet with a friend. Standford bet that when a horse runs, all four of its feet leave the ground. His friend bet that one foot always……………..(touch) the ground. Stanford, hired a photographer, who placed twelve cameras, around a trace track and took pictures of a horse as it……………..(run).He then arranged the images on a rotation device. As they were turning,……………..(shine)a light through them. The technique made it possibleto see the images as one continual moving picture,and,in fact, led to the invention of the first film camera. These potos have become very famous, and ………………… (appear) in many books about photography. They ………………………(prove) that Standford was right-all four of a horse´s feet………………….(leave) the ground when it runs.Consequently, Standford…………………….(win) the bet.
Solution: do not know- was – made – touches- runs –shone –have appeared – prove –leave -won