i'm+still+working+on+it

1) (the state of happening by chance: Whether you win or not is just luck - there's no skill involved.) suerte

2) (something good which happens by chance: She has all the luck!) suerte

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- luckless

luck n suerte

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noun

1 suerte nombre femenino

■ with any luck, he'll be here on time con un poco de suerte llegará puntual

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any luck? familiar ¿qué?, ¿cómo ha ido?

as luck would have it por suerte

bad luck! / hard luck! / tough luck! ¡mala suerte!

better luck next time! ¡otra vez será!

good luck! / best of luck! ¡suerte!

just my luck! ironic ¡qué mala suerte he tenido!

no such luck! ¡ojalá!

to be down on one's luck tener muy mala suerte

to be in luck estar de suerte

to be out of luck estar de malas, tener mala suerte

to push one's luck tentar la suerte

to try one's luck probar fortuna

luck ['lʌk] n

1) : suerte f

to have bad luck : tener mala suerte

good luck! : ¡(buena) suerte!

• azar s.m.

• chamba s.f.

• felicidad s.f.

• fortuna s.f.

• suerte s.f.

• ventura s.f.

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- have the luck of the devil

- it's the luck of the draw

- be down on one's luck

- luck out

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1) alt

2) in playful or friendly mention alt (ugs.)

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2)

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1) (advanced in age: an old man; He is too old to live alone.) alt

2) (having a certain age: He is thirty years old.) alt

3) (having existed for a long time: an old building; Those trees are very old.) alt

4) (no longer useful: She threw away the old shoes.) alt

5) (belonging to times long ago: old civilizations like that of Greece.) vergangen

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- academic.ru/51520/old_age">old age

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[əʊld, AM oʊld]

I. adj

1. person, animal alt

there's life in the \old boy yet! ( esp iron) er steckt noch voller Leben!

to be \old enough to be sb's father/mother ( fam) jds Vater/Mutter sein können

to be \old enough to do sth alt genug sein, um etw zu tun

to grow \old gracefully mit Würde alt werden

to be [a bit] too \old to be doing sth [ein bisschen] zu alt sein, um etw zu tun

to get [or grow] \old/ \older alt/älter werden

to live to a ripe \old age ein hohes Alter erreichen

to seem \old beyond one's years älter wirken, als man ist

2. object alt

\old cheese alter Käse

\old joke abgedroschener Witz fam

the \old part of town [or the \old quarter] die Altstadt

3. after n (denoting an age) alt

Rosie's six years \old now Rosie ist jetzt sechs Jahre alt

4. attr, inv (former) alt, ehemalig

\old boyfriend früherer Freund

in the [good] \old days in der guten alten Zeit

\old job alter [o früherer] Job

for \old times' sake um der alten Zeiten willen

5. attr (long known) altbekannt

with him, it's always the same \old story! es ist doch immer die gleiche Geschichte mit ihm!

\old friend alter Freund/alte Freundin

6. attr, inv ( fam: expression of affection) [gute(r)] alte(r) BRD

good \old Pete! der gute alte Pete!

I hear poor \old Frank's lost his job ich habe gehört, dem armen Frank wurde gekündigt

7. attr, inv ( pej fam)

dirty \old man geiler alter Bock pej vulg, alter Wüstling pej

8. attr, inv ( fam: any)

why don't you put the shoes in the cupboard properly and not just any \old how? warum räumst du die Schuhe nicht ordentlich in den Schrank und nicht immer nur so, wie sie dir gerade in die Hand fallen?

I don't want to eat in just any \old place — I want to go to a romantic restaurant! ich möchte nicht einfach nur irgendwo essen — ich möchte in ein romantisches Restaurant gehen!

come round any \old time you like komm vorbei, wann immer du möchtest

any \old present/rubbish/thing irgendein Geschenk/irgendeinen Unsinn/irgendwas

a load of \old rubbish! ( pej) nichts als blanker Unsinn! fam

▶ to be a chip off the \old block ganz der Vater sein fam

▶ you're as \old as you feel! ( saying) man ist so alt, wie man sich fühlt! prov

▶ there's no fool like an \old fool ( saying) Alter schützt vor Torheit nicht prov

▶ to be as \old as the hills [or as Methuselah] [or as time] uralt [o fam so alt wie Methusalem] sein

▶ money for \old rope leicht verdientes Geld

▶ you can't put an \old head on young shoulders ( saying) man kann einen alten Kopf nicht auf junge Schultern verpflanzen

▶ you can't teach an \old dog new tricks ( saying) der Mensch ist ein Gewohnheitstier prov

▶ to be as tough as \old boots hart im Nehmen sein

II. n

1. (elderly people)

▪ the \old pl die Alten pl

young and \old Jung und Alt

2. ( liter: in past times)

in days of \old in früheren Zeiten

to know sb of \old esp BRIT jdn seit Langem kennen

III. in compounds

a twenty-one-year-\old ein Einundzwanzigjähriger/eine Einundzwanzigjährige

a three-month-\old puppy ein drei Monate altes Hündchen

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1. adj (+er)

1) alt

2) (inf

2. n

1) pl

2)

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old [əʊld]

A adj komp older [ˈəʊldə(r)], auch elder [ˈeldə(r)], sup oldest [ˈəʊldıst], auch eldest [ˈeldıst]

1. alt, betagt:

get old alt werden;

grow old together zusammen alt werden;

I could grow old here hier könnte ich alt werden;

she’s a woman to grow old with sie ist eine Frau fürs Leben;

you’re only as old as you feel (yourself to be) man ist nur so alt, wie man sich fühlt;

she married a man old enough to be her father der ihr Vater sein könnte;

old moon abnehmender Mond;

old people’s home Alters-, Altenheim n; → head Bes Redew, hill A 1, time A 1, young A 1

2. zehn Jahre etc alt:

he’s ten years old;

the second half was only five minutes old when … SPORT die zweite Halbzeit war erst fünf Minuten alt, als …;

a ten-year-old boy ein zehnjähriger Junge;

five-year-olds Fünfjährige

3. alt(hergebracht) (Tradition etc):

an old name ein altbekannter Name

4. vergangen, früher, alt:

call up old memories alte Erinnerungen wachrufen;

the old country die oder seine alte Heimat;

the old year das alte oder vergangene Jahr;

the good old times pl die gute alte Zeit;

it’s like old times es ist wie in alten Zeiten;

Old London Alt-London n

5. alt(bekannt, -bewährt):

an old friend ein alter Freund; → old boy, old master, etc

6. alt, abgenutzt (Gerät etc):

old clothes alte oder (ab)getragene Kleider

7. a) alt(modisch)

b) verkalkt pej: → fogy

8. alt(erfahren), gewiegt, gewitz(ig)t:

old bachelor eingefleischter Junggeselle;

he is old in crime (folly) er ist ein abgefeimter Verbrecher (unverbesserlicher Narr);

old offender alter Sünder; → hand A 12

9. umg (gute[r]) alte(r), liebe(r):

the old woman meine Alte (Mutter, Frau); → bean A 6, old man 1

10. umg (verstärkend) have a fine old time sich köstlich amüsieren;

a jolly old row ein Mordskrach m;

any old thing irgendetwas (gleichgültig was);

I can use any old thing ich hab für alles Verwendung;

come any old time komm, wann es dir gerade passt;

any old how ganz egal wie; → any C 1

B s

1. the old koll die Alten pl

2. adjektivisch oder adverbial:

a) ehedem, seit alters,

b) von jeher;

as of old wie eh und je;

from of old seit alters, von alters her;

times of old alte Zeiten

o. abk

1. PHARM octarius, pint

2. TYPO octavo

3. old

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1) alt

2) in playful or friendly mention alt (ugs.)

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2)

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alt adj.

1) (expend effort on)

2) (use as basis)

3) (try to persuade)

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1. vi

2. vt sep

3. vi +prep obj

1) car, book, subject, accent arbeiten an (+dat)

2) evidence, assumption ausgehen von; principle (person) ausgehen von; (machine) arbeiten nach

3)

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1) (expend effort on)

2) (use as basis)

3) (try to persuade)

while

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mentre cong.

1 (temporale) while, whilst; (quando) as, when: è accaduto mentre eravamo in vacanza, it happened while (o whilst) we were on holiday; mentre stavano giocando, cominciò a piovere, while they were playing, it began to rain; lo incontrai mentre uscivo dal portone, I met him as I was going through the front door; lo videro mentre parcheggiava l'auto, they saw him while he was parking the car; mentre parlava gli tremava la voce, his voice trembled as he spoke; lavora sempre a maglia mentre guarda la televisione, she always knits while watching TV; mentre era povero, nessuno si curava di lui, when he was poor, nobody took care of him

2 (avversativo) whereas, while, whilst: a lui piace viaggiare, mentre io amo la vita sedentaria, he likes travelling whereas I like staying where I am; continua a lavorare, mentre dovrebbe stare a riposo, he's still working, whereas he ought to retire; il contenuto del tema è buono, mentre la forma lascia a desiderare, the content of the essay is good, while (o whilst) the form could be better

3 (finché) while, as long as: fallo mentre sei in tempo, do it while you're still in time; mentre era lui a capo del partito, non ci furono dissidi interni, while (o as long as) he was party leader, there was no in-fighting

◆ s.m.: in quel mentre, (in quel momento) at that moment, (nel frattempo) meanwhile (o in the meantime o meantime) // nel mentre che, (fam.) while.

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1. cong

1) (temporale) while, as

2) (avversativo) whereas, while

2. sm

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1) (nel tempo in cui) while, as

2) (invece) while, whereas

3) (finché) while

4) in quel mentre at that very moment, just then

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mentre

/'mentre/

congiunzione

 1 (nel tempo in cui) while, as; è arrivato proprio mentre stavo andando via he arrived just as I was leaving; puoi passare a prendere il latte mentre torni a casa? could you pick up some milk on the way home?

 2 (invece) while, whereas; a lei piacciono i cani mentre io preferisco i gatti she likes dogs whereas I prefer cats

 3 (finché) while; mentre è ancora giorno while it's still light; mentre sei lì chiudi la porta close the door while you're at it

 4 in quel mentre at that very moment, just then.

SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications

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He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.

At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.

Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.

He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.

Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.

Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.

Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.

In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.

On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.

Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.

In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.

In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.

In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.

In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.

In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.

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A v. i. + avv.

continuare a lavorare; darci dentro (o sotto; fam.)

B v. i. + prep.

1 lavorare a; elaborare: to work on a dictionary, lavorare a un dizionario; to work on the figures, elaborare le cifre

2 lavorare per: He's working on finding a new method of contraception, sta lavorando per trovare un nuovo metodo contraccettivo

3 avere un effetto ( spesso cattivo) su (q.); influenzare; rattristare; addolorare

4 agire, intervenire su (q. o qc.); influenzare; lavorarsi (fam.): I'm trying to work on the boss, sto cercando di lavorarmi il capo

C v. t. + prep.

operare; fare ( un disegno) su; incidere su: to work a nice pattern on a carpet, fare un bel disegno su un tappeto; to work a heart on a tree trunk, incidere un cuore su un tronco d'albero □ (econ.) to work on contract, lavorare a contratto □ to work on one's own, lavorare da solo; (econ.) lavorare in proprio □ (fam.) I'm still working on it, mi sto ancora dando da fare.

1) о человеке to work

2) о механизмах to function, to run, to work

3) об учреждении to be open

SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics

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Having been apprenticed to be an engineer, Woodbury left England in 1851 to seek his fortune in the Australian gold-fields. Like many others, he failed, and after a series of transient jobs found a post as Draughtsman at the Melbourne Waterworks. He then went on to Java, where he practised wet-collodion photography before returning to England finally in 1863. Woodbury settled in Birmingham, where like most contemporary photographers he was concerned to find a solution to the troublesome problem of fading prints. He began working the carbon process, and in 1866 and 1867 took out a series of patents which were to lead to the development of the process that took his name. Woodburytypes were continuous-tone prints of high quality that could be mass produced more cheaply than the traditional silver print. This was an important innovation and Woodburytypes were extensively used for quality book illustrations until the introduction of more versatile photomechanical processes in the 1890s. In all, Woodbury took out twenty patents between 1864 and 1884, some relating to a wide range of photographic devices. He was still working to simplify the Woodburytype process when he died from an overdose of laudanum.

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- academic.ru/87551/gratefully">gratefully

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adj dankbar

I would be most \grateful if you could send us the forms as soon as possible ich wäre Ihnen sehr verbunden, wenn Sie uns die Formulare so schnell wie möglich zusenden könnten

in the end we were \grateful to be alive am Ende waren wir froh, mit dem Leben davongekommen zu sein

I'm just \grateful that I'm not still working for him ich bin bloß froh, dass ich nicht mehr für ihn arbeiten muss

he was very \grateful to her for all her support er war ihr für ihre Unterstützung sehr dankbar

▪ to be \grateful for sth für etw akk dankbar sein; (be glad) über etw akk froh sein

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grateful adj (adv gratefully)

1. dankbar ( to sb for sth jemandem für etwas):

a grateful letter ein Dank(es)brief;

my most grateful thanks go to mein herzlichster Dank gilt (dat)

2. angenehm, willkommen, wohltuend (Rast etc):

be grateful to sb jemandem zusagen

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dankbar adj.

erkenntlich adj. n.

dankbar adj.

utilisable [ytilizabl]

• une carte de crédit utilisable dans le monde entier a credit card that can be used throughout the world

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adjectif usable

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utilisable adj [objet] usable; il est encore utilisable chez nous we can still make use of it.

[ytilizabl] adjectif

1. [objet, appareil] usable

2. [billet] valid

SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics

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The young Eastman was a clerk-bookkeeper in the Rochester Savings Bank when in 1877 he took up photography. Taking lessons in the wet-plate process, he became an enthusiastic amateur photographer. However, the cumbersome equipment and noxious chemicals used in the process proved an obstacle, as he said, "It seemed to be that one ought to be able to carry less than a pack-horse load." Then he came across an account of the new gelatine dry-plate process in the British Journal of Photography of March 1878. He experimented in coating glass plates with the new emulsions, and was soon so successful that he decided to go into commercial manufacture. He devised a machine to simplify the coating of the plates, and travelled to England in July 1879 to patent it. In April 1880 he prepared to begin manufacture in a rented building in Rochester, and contacted the leading American photographic supply house, E. \& H.T.Anthony, offering them an option as agents. A local whip manufacturer, Henry A.Strong, invested $1,000 in the enterprise and the Eastman Dry Plate Company was formed on 1 January 1881. Still working at the Savings Bank, he ran the business in his spare time, and demand grew for the quality product he was producing. The fledgling company survived a near disaster in 1882 when the quality of the emulsions dropped alarmingly. Eastman later discovered this was due to impurities in the gelatine used, and this led him to test all raw materials rigorously for quality. In 1884 the company became a corporation, the Eastman Dry Plate \& Film Company, and a new product was announced. Mindful of his desire to simplify photography, Eastman, with a camera maker, William H.Walker, designed a roll-holder in which the heavy glass plates were replaced by a roll of emulsion-coated paper. The holders were made in sizes suitable for most plate cameras. Eastman designed and patented a coating machine for the large-scale production of the paper film, bringing costs down dramatically, the roll-holders were acclaimed by photographers worldwide, and prizes and medals were awarded, but Eastman was still not satisfied. The next step was to incorporate the roll-holder in a smaller, hand-held camera. His first successful design was launched in June 1888: the Kodak camera. A small box camera, it held enough paper film for 100 circular exposures, and was bought ready-loaded. After the film had been exposed, the camera was returned to Eastman's factory, where the film was removed, processed and printed, and the camera reloaded. This developing and printing service was the most revolutionary part of his invention, since at that time photographers were expected to process their own photographs, which required access to a darkroom and appropriate chemicals. The Kodak camera put photography into the hands of the countless thousands who wanted photographs without complications. Eastman's marketing slogan neatly summed up the advantage: "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest." The Kodak camera was the last product in the design of which Eastman was personally involved. His company was growing rapidly, and he recruited the most talented scientists and technicians available. New products emerged regularly—notably the first commercially produced celluloid roll film for the Kodak cameras in July 1889; this material made possible the introduction of cinematography a few years later. Eastman's philosophy of simplifying photography and reducing its costs continued to influence products: for example, the introduction of the one dollar, or five shilling, Brownie camera in 1900, which put photography in the hands of almost everyone. Over the years the Eastman Kodak Company, as it now was, grew into a giant multinational corporation with manufacturing and marketing organizations throughout the world. Eastman continued to guide the company; he pursued an enlightened policy of employee welfare and profit sharing decades before this was common in industry. He made massive donations to many concerns, notably the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and supported schemes for the education of black people, dental welfare, calendar reform, music and many other causes, he withdrew from the day-to-day control of the company in 1925, and at last had time for recreation. On 14 March 1932, suffering from a painful terminal cancer and after tidying up his affairs, he shot himself through the heart, leaving a note: "To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?" Although Eastman's technical innovations were made mostly at the beginning of his career, the organization which he founded and guided in its formative years was responsible for many of the major advances in photography over the years.

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продолжать (упорно) работать

1) Техника: шлюпочный якорь

2) Сленг: устаревшее, ненужное компьютерное оборудование (Used to describe hardware that is irreversibly dead or useless;obsolete but still working hardware)

General subject: he is still working

( usu. used in response to an inquiry or guess regarding the status, worth etc of s.o. or sth.) you have underestimated and should have assumed better, s.o. or sth. is of higher status, greater worth etc than you think

don't sell me (him, it etc) short