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Hörverständnis und korrekte Aussprache sind neben einem umfangreichen Wortschatz und sicherer Grammatik die Grundlagen für ein erfolgreiches Englisch. Daher bieten wir Ihnen hier Hörproben zu ausgewählten Artikeln aus engine, vorgelesen von Muttersprachlern. Die Audio-Dateien zum Anhören, Mitlesen und Nachsprechen können Sie sich hier herunterladen.

(Dezember 2011)

CAD turns 50. In 1962, Ivan E. Sutherland programmed Sketchpad, the first drawing software. In a time when computers filled rooms he had to come up with a whole bunch of new concepts to make it work: windows, graphical user interface, pointer device and object-oriented programming.

(September 2011)

Although 'entrepreneur' is a business expression in wide use today, what exactly does it mean? Does it mean the same thing to everyone? Are people born entrepreneurs? Or do they learn to become one while at university?

(Juni 2011)

Who was the first one to circumnavigate the world in a car? The answer should be common knowledge for us engineers, but strangely enough it has fallen into oblivion. The year was 1927, the car an Adler Standard 6, and the driver a young woman: Clärenore Stinnes. This is her story.

(März 2011)

For 200 years now Bell Rock, the oldest offshore lighthouse in the world, has been lighting the way off the Scottish coast. Its construction on a submerged reef has been called one of the seven wonders of the industrial world and started the career of Robert Stevenson, whose family produced 97 lighthouses and one poet.

(Dezember 2010)

Circumnavigating the globe with solar power seems to be a Swiss pastime. Currently, a solar-powered catamaran sailing under the Swiss flag is attempting to find a sunny course across the oceans – with a little help from German technology between the sun and the sea.

(September 2010)

He is probably the most versatile and at the same time least known aeronautical pioneer: Enrico Forlanini excelled in not just one but three aeronautical fields. This is the story of the man who built the first engine- powered helicopter, manufactured dirigibles and invented the hydrofoil boat.

(Juni 2010)

Konrad Who? This is many people’s response when they hear the name Konrad Zuse. Rather strange given the fact that they usually sit next to one of his inventions, a freely programmable calculating machine with fl oating-point arithmetic based on the binary system - or computer for short. The inventor of the computer would have been 100 years old this year.

(März 2010)

Some people start a company and want to stay small. Skilled craftspeople may be happy making astrolabes for a specialist clientele, for example, or making custom-made furniture. Others want their furniture to be available all over the world and be a household name, as is the case with IKEA. But how do you get from being an individual to a global player?

(Dezember 2009)

Every engineer knows and loves those classic illustrations of over-complicated machinery which employ many steps to perform a simple action like pushing a button or delivering a slice of toast. The names of their creators have become household names - except for Germany.

(Juni 2009)

Everyone wants to enjoy their job and, given the percentage of our lives spent at work, it is important that we do so. But what makes work enjoyable? And how can you make sure that your staff or colleagues give their best, and get the best from their work.

(März 2009)

Neumayer III will be Germany's first research station in the Antarctica which is built on top of the ice. To stay there in spite of massive annual snow and ice deposits, engineers had to come up with a design that took inspiration from a cold man in the snow.