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  • 1 estudio

    m.
    1 study.
    ha dedicado muchos años al estudio del tema she has studied the subject for many years
    estar en estudio to be under consideration
    estudio de campo field study
    estudio de viabilidad feasibility study
    2 study (oficina).
    3 studio (Cine, Rad & TV).
    los estudios de la Metro the Metro studios
    estudio de grabación recording studio
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: estudiar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) study
    2 (encuesta) survey, study; (investigación) research
    3 (apartamento) studio flat (US apartment), bedsit
    4 (sala) studio
    1 (conocimientos) studies, education sing
    \
    cursar estudios to study
    dar estudios a alguien to pay for somebody's education
    dedicarse al estudio de algo to study something
    estar algo en estudio to be under consideration
    hacer estudios to study
    tener estudios to be well-educated
    estudio de grabación recording studio
    estudio de mercado market research
    estudio de televisión television studio
    * * *
    noun m.
    3) den
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=investigación) study

    estudio de desplazamientos y tiempos — (Com) time and motion study

    bolsa 9), plan 2)
    2) (=actividad investigadora) study
    3) (=análisis) [de intención de voto, edificio] survey

    • estar en estudio — to be under consideration

    4) pl estudios (=educación) education sing

    • cursar estudios de algo — to study sth

    • dejar los estudios — (Escol) to drop out of school; (Univ) to drop out of university

    • tener estudios — to have an education, be educated

    5) (=erudición) learning
    6) (Arte, Mús) study

    un estudio de piano — a study o étude for piano

    7) (=lugar de trabajo)
    a) [en una casa] study
    b) [profesional] [de artista, arquitecto] studio; Cono Sur [de abogado] office
    c) (Cine, Radio, TV) studio

    estudio cinematográfico, estudio de cine — film studio

    estudio de fotografía — photographer's studio, photographic studio

    8) (=apartamento) studio, studio flat
    * * *
    1)
    a) (Educ) ( actividad)

    primero está el estudio — your studies o work must come first

    b) (investigación, análisis) study
    c) (de asunto, caso) consideration

    está en o (RPl) a estudio en el Parlamento — it is being considered in parliament

    2) ( lugar)
    a) ( de artista) studio; ( de arquitecto) office, studio; ( de abogado) (CS) office
    b) (Cin, Rad, TV) studio
    c) ( en casa) study; ( apartamento) studio apartment
    3) (Mús, Art) study
    4) estudios masculino plural (Educ) education

    estudios primarios/superiores — primary/higher education

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    1)
    a) (Educ) ( actividad)

    primero está el estudio — your studies o work must come first

    b) (investigación, análisis) study
    c) (de asunto, caso) consideration

    está en o (RPl) a estudio en el Parlamento — it is being considered in parliament

    2) ( lugar)
    a) ( de artista) studio; ( de arquitecto) office, studio; ( de abogado) (CS) office
    b) (Cin, Rad, TV) studio
    c) ( en casa) study; ( apartamento) studio apartment
    3) (Mús, Art) study
    4) estudios masculino plural (Educ) education

    estudios primarios/superiores — primary/higher education

    * * *
    estudio1
    1 = studio.

    Ex: The author describes the design of the new studios which aim to be as flexible as possible.

    * estudio de cine = film location, film studio.
    * estudio de grabación = recording studio, sound recording studio.
    * estudio de música = music studio.
    * estudio de radio = radio studio.
    * estudio de televisión = television studio.
    * estudio discográfico = record studio.
    * filmar en el estudio = film in + the studio.
    * grabar en el estudio = film in + the studio.
    * rodar en el estudio = film in + the studio.

    estudio2
    2 = review, scholarship, study [studies, -pl.], work, calibration, surveying, analysis [analyses, -pl.].
    Nota: Proceso de estudio de un todo para encontrar sus partes esenciales y las relaciones existentes entre ellas.

    Ex: The review is supported by a complete list of LIPs completed or in progess at Aug 88, followed by references to their reports.

    Ex: The most important of the functions of librarians is the collection, preservation and affording access to the materials of scholarship.
    Ex: A study of the major general schemes reveals a wide gulf between theory, as outlined in the previous chapter, and practice, as reflected in the major schemes.
    Ex: The Classification Research Group (CRG) has been a major force in the development of classification theory, and has made a major contribution towards work on a new general classification scheme.
    Ex: This requires careful calibration of reader response and the use of as many quantitative indices as possible.
    Ex: The author describes one effort made to counter this trend, through the surveying of the records of a library and the identification of materials to be preserved.
    Ex: The operation of investigating a whole with the aim of finding out its essential parts and their relationship to each other is known as analysis.
    * abandonar los estudios = drop out (from school), drop out of + school.
    * ámbito de estudio = scope.
    * área de estudio = study area, study area.
    * asignatura de estudios = curriculum subject.
    * beca de estudio(s) = study grant, education grant.
    * bolsa de estudios = bursary.
    * campo de estudio = field of study.
    * centro de apoyo a los programas de estudios = curriculum material center.
    * centro de estudios = study centre.
    * comisionar un estudio = commission + study.
    * compañero de estudios = co-student.
    * con estudios = schooled, educated, educated.
    * con estudios superiores = highly educated.
    * con un nivel de estudios alto = well educated [well-educated].
    * dejar los estudios = drop out (from school), drop out of + school.
    * desarrollo del plan de estudios = curriculum development.
    * disciplina de estudio = field of study.
    * diseñado para el estudio = curriculum-oriented.
    * diseño de planes de estudios = curriculum design.
    * edad de finalización de los estudios = terminal education age.
    * encargar un estudio = commission + study.
    * en el estudio = at study.
    * enseñanza a través del estudio de casos = case-teaching.
    * espacio reservado para el estudio = study space.
    * estudiante de bachiller que abandona los estudios = high-school dropout.
    * estudiante que ha completado los estudios secundarios = high school graduate, high school leaver.
    * estudiante universitario que abandona los estudios = college dropout.
    * estudio académico = academic study.
    * estudio basado en un cuestionario = questionnaire survey.
    * estudio bibliométrico = bibliometric analysis.
    * estudio cartográfico = ordnance survey.
    * estudio cinematográfico = film location, film studio.
    * estudio clásico = classic study.
    * estudio comparativo = correlation study.
    * estudio crítico del estado de la cuestión = review.
    * estudio cualitativo = qualitative study.
    * estudio cuantitativo = quantitative study.
    * estudio de alcance = scoping study.
    * estudio de arquitectos = architecture firm, architectural firm.
    * estudio de caso = case study.
    * estudio de impacto = impact study.
    * estudio de impacto en el medio ambiente = environmental impact study.
    * estudio de la productividad = time-and-motion study, time study, motion study.
    * estudio del estado de la cuestión = survey.
    * estudio de los himnos = hymnology.
    * estudio Delphi = Delphi study.
    * estudio de mercado = market survey, market research, marketing audit, consumer research.
    * estudio de seguimiento = follow-up study.
    * estudio de usabilidad = usability study.
    * estudio de uso = use study.
    * estudio de usuario = reader survey, consumer survey, customer survey.
    * estudio de usuarios = user study, marketing audit, user survey.
    * estudio de usuarios de la biblioteca = library user study.
    * estudio de viabilidad = demonstration project, feasibility study.
    * estudio epidemiológico = epidemiological study.
    * estudio geológico = geological survey.
    * estudio local = area study.
    * estudio longitudinal = longitudinal study.
    * estudio piloto = pilot study, pilot test.
    * estudio por simulación = simulation study.
    * estudio regional = area study.
    * estudios = academic background, course of study, educational career.
    * estudios africanos = African studies.
    * estudios afroamericanos = black studies.
    * estudios culturales = cultural studies.
    * estudios de administración = management studies.
    * estudios de auxiliar administrativo = information administration.
    * estudios de gestión = management science.
    * estudios de la mujer = women's studies, gender studies.
    * estudios de la paz y los conflictos = peace and conflict studies.
    * estudios de licenciatura = graduate work, graduate education.
    * estudios de literatura clásica = classical studies.
    * estudios del medio ambiente = environmental studies.
    * estudios de secretariado = secretarial studies.
    * estudios de tipografía = typographical studies.
    * estudios empresariales = business studies.
    * estudios en el extranjero = study abroad.
    * estudios europeos = European studies.
    * estudio sicométrico = psychometric study.
    * estudios literarios = literary studies.
    * estudios relacionados con las misiones religiosas = missiology.
    * estudios sobre la mujer = women's studies, gender studies.
    * estudios sobre paz y conflictos = peace and conflict studies.
    * estudios sociales = cultural studies.
    * estudios socioculturales = cultural studies.
    * estudio topográfico = surveying.
    * estudio universitario = academic study.
    * finalización de los estudios = graduation.
    * finalizar los estudios de BUP = complete + high school.
    * grupo de estudio = study circle.
    * habitación de estudio = private study, study facilities.
    * institución para el estudio y la conservación del patrimonio cult = heritage organisation.
    * libro de estudio = study book.
    * materia de estudio = subject of study.
    * material de estudio = study material, course material, curriculum material, curriculum resource, study package.
    * mesa de estudio = carrel, study table.
    * mesa individual de estudio = study carrel.
    * metodología de estudio = study skills.
    * nivel de estudios = educational background, level of education.
    * objeto de estudio = subject, object of study, under study.
    * partitura de estudio = miniature score.
    * permiso de estudios = study leave.
    * persona que elabora el plan de estudios = syllabus maker.
    * plan de estudios = curriculum [curricula, -pl.], syllabus [syllabi/syllabuses, -pl.], school curriculum, study plan.
    * planes de estudios = syllabi.
    * primer año de estudios superiores = freshman year.
    * programa de estudio = programme of study.
    * programa de estudios = course brochure, educational program(me), school program(me), study program(me), syllabus [syllabi/syllabuses, -pl.], education programme.
    * programa de estudios común = common core syllabus.
    * programas de estudios = syllabi.
    * realización de los estudios escolares en casa = homeschooling [home schooling].
    * realizar estudios = do + study.
    * realizar un estudio = carry out + survey, conduct + survey, undertake + study, undertake + survey, conduct + study.
    * realizar un estudio evaluativo = conduct + review.
    * reforma del plan de estudios = curriculum development.
    * relacionado con los estudios = course-related.
    * relativo a los estudios de diplomatura = undergrad (undergraduate).
    * relativo a los estudios de licenciatura = grad (graduate), postgraduate [post-graduate].
    * sala de estudio = study facilities, study room.
    * sin estudios = ill-educated.
    * técnicas de estudio = study skills.
    * tema de estudio = study area, under study.
    * terminar los estudios = graduate.
    * tiempo de estudio = study time.
    * unidad de estudio = unit of study, study unit.
    * viaje de estudio = study trip.
    * zona de estudio = study area, study facilities.

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    A
    1 ( Educ)
    (actividad): primero está el estudio y después la diversión your studies o work o studying must come first, then you can enjoy yourself
    2
    (investigación, análisis): el estudio de la fauna de la zona the study of the area's fauna
    realizó un estudio sobre la mortalidad infantil she carried out a survey o study on infant mortality
    le hicieron un estudio hormonal she had a series of hormone tests done
    3 (de un asunto, caso) consideration
    le presentaron un nuevo proyecto para su estudio they put forward a new plan for his consideration
    está en o ( RPl) a estudio en el Parlamento it is being considered in parliament
    Compuestos:
    field study
    market research
    1 (de un artista) studio; (de un arquitecto) office, studio; (de un abogado) (CS) office
    2 ( Cin, Rad, TV) studio
    la película se realizará íntegramente en estudios the movie will be made entirely in the studio
    4 (apartamento) studio apartment o ( BrE) flat
    Compuestos:
    recording studio
    photographic studio
    ( RPl) (oficina) lawyer's office; (grupo) legal practise*
    C
    1 ( Mús) study, étude
    2 ( Art) study
    D estudios mpl ( Educ) education
    estudios primarios/superiores primary/higher education
    está cursando estudios de especialización she is doing her specialization
    se sacrificó para darle estudios a su hijo she made a lot of sacrifices to give her son an education o to put her son through school
    para ese trabajo no hace falta tener estudios you don't need a degree for that job
    ¿por qué dejaste los estudios? why did you give up your studies?, why did you quit school? ( AmE)
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    Del verbo estudiar: ( conjugate estudiar)

    estudio es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    estudió es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    estudiar    
    estudio
    estudiar ( conjugate estudiar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹ asignatura› to study;

    ( en la universidad) to study, read (frml);
    ◊ ¿qué carrera estudió? what subject did he do at college/university?


    c) ‹lección/tablas› to learn

    2 ( observar) ‹rostro/comportamiento› to study
    3 (considerar, analizar) ‹mercado/situación/proyecto› to study;
    ‹ propuesta› to study, consider;
    ‹ causas› to look into, investigate
    verbo intransitivo
    to study;

    debes estudio más you must work harder;
    dejó de estudio a los 15 años she left school at 15;
    estudio para algo to study to be sth
    estudiarse verbo pronominal ( enf) ‹ lección› to study;

    ‹ papel› to learn
    estudio sustantivo masculino
    1
    a) (Educ) ( actividad):

    ◊ primero está el estudio studying o your studies o work must come first

    b) (investigación, análisis) study;


    c) (de asunto, caso) consideration;


    2 ( lugar)

    ( de arquitecto) office, studio
    b) (Cin, Rad, TV) studio

    c) ( en casa) study;

    ( apartamento) studio apartment
    3
    ◊ estudios sustantivo masculino plural (Educ) education;

    estudios superiores higher education;
    quiso darle estudios a su hijo she wanted to give her son an education;
    tener estudios superiores to have a degree;
    dejar los estudios to give up one's studies
    estudiar verbo transitivo & verbo intransitivo to study: estudia para abogado, she's studying to become a lawyer ➣ Ver nota en study
    estudio sustantivo masculino
    1 study: todas las tardes dedico tres horas al estudio, I spend three hours studying every afternoon
    2 (investigación) research
    estudio de mercado, market research
    3 (sala) studio
    estudio fotográfico, photographic studio
    4 (apartamento) studio (flat)
    5 Educ estudios, studies
    (educación) education
    tener estudios, to have an education
    ' estudio' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    geológica
    - geológico
    - grafológica
    - grafológico
    - interdisciplinaria
    - interdisciplinario
    - investigación
    - robar
    - sanctasanctórum
    - cabina
    - concienzudo
    - despacho
    - detallado
    - detenido
    - ecológico
    - elaborar
    - especialidad
    - estadística
    - estudiar
    - examen
    - fondo
    - hispanismo
    - laguna
    - objeto
    - terminar
    English:
    bedsit
    - bedsitter
    - breakdown
    - case study
    - comprehensive
    - consideration
    - den
    - economics
    - ESL
    - ESP
    - horticulture
    - invalid
    - market research
    - pilot study
    - province
    - review
    - rocketry
    - studio
    - studio flat
    - study
    - wide-ranging
    - case
    - curriculum
    - feasibility
    - field
    - investigation
    - market
    - survey
    * * *
    1. [actividad] study;
    ha dedicado muchos años al estudio del tema she has studied the subject for many years;
    estar en estudio to be under consideration
    estudio de mercado [técnica] market research; [investigación] market survey
    2. [investigación] study;
    ha publicado un estudio sobre el tema she's published a study on the subject;
    hacer un estudio de algo to survey sth;
    le hicieron un estudio de la flora intestinal they investigated the composition of her intestinal flora
    estudio de campo field study;
    estudio geológico geological survey;
    estudio de impacto ambiental environmental impact study;
    estudio de viabilidad feasibility study
    3.
    estudios [educación] studies;
    el niño va muy bien en los estudios the boy is doing very well at school;
    al terminar sus estudios en Viena, viajó a París on completing his studies in Vienna he travelled to Paris;
    dar estudios a alguien to pay for o finance sb's education;
    dejó los estudios a los quince años he left school at fifteen;
    tener estudios to be educated
    estudios de posgrado postgraduate studies o education;
    estudios primarios primary education;
    estudios secundarios secondary education;
    estudios superiores higher education
    4. [despacho] study;
    [de fotógrafo, pintor, arquitecto] studio; RP [de abogado] practice
    5. [apartamento] studio Br flat o US apartment
    6. Cine, Rad & TV studio;
    los estudios de la Metro the Metro studios
    estudio de grabación recording studio
    7. Arte study
    8. Mús étude, study;
    estudio para piano piano study
    * * *
    m
    1 disciplina study
    2 apartamento studio, Br
    studio flat
    3 de cine, música studio
    4
    :
    estudios (universitarios) pl university education sg ;
    tener estudios have a degree;
    una persona sin estudios a person with no formal education
    * * *
    1) : study
    2) : studio
    3) estudios nmpl
    : studies, education
    * * *
    1. (en general) study [pl. studies]
    2. (apartamento) studio flat
    3. (de televisión, cine) studio

    Spanish-English dictionary > estudio

  • 2 Edison, Thomas Alva

    [br]
    b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA
    d. 18 October 1931 Glenmont
    [br]
    American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.
    [br]
    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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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.
    Further Reading
    M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.
    R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Edison, Thomas Alva

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