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Library of Congress Building

  • 1 Library of Congress Building

    Вместе с Томас-Джефферсон-билдинг [Thomas Jefferson Building], Джеймс-Мэдисон-мемориал-билдинг [James Madison Memorial Building] и 10 другими зданиями представляет собой комплекс, в котором размещены архивы и службы Библиотеки Конгресса [ Library of Congress]. Находится в г. Вашингтоне на Индепенденс-авеню [ Independence Avenue]. Главное здание в стиле итальянского Ренессанса построено в 1897

    English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Library of Congress Building

  • 2 Library of Congress

    сокр LC, LOC
    Национальная библиотека США, одна из крупнейших в мире. Занимает несколько зданий [ Library of Congress Building] в комплексе на Капитолийском холме [ Capitol Hill, The] в г. Вашингтоне. Основана в 1800, первоначально как служебная библиотека Конгресса. До 1934 выполняла функции национального архива. В настоящее время - наиболее доступное из всех ведущих книгохранилищ мира. Для обслуживания конгрессменов в ее составе создана Исследовательская служба Конгресса [ Congressional Research Service] - многоотраслевой институт, обслуживающий информационные потребности законодательной власти. Насчитывает более 100 млн. единиц хранения: свыше 25 млн. книг и брошюр на 470 языках (русская коллекция - более 800 тыс. единиц), более 36 млн. рукописей, около 200 тыс. эстампов, свыше 10 млн. фотонегативов и диапозитивов, собрание микроформ, кино- и видеофильмов. На Библиотеку возложена функция защиты авторских прав [Copyright Law of 1870], в связи с чем она бесплатно получает по два экземпляра всех выходящих печатных изданий. Вместе с расположенными в пригородах Вашингтона Национальной медицинской библиотекой [ National Library of Medicine] и Национальной сельскохозяйственной библиотекой обеспечивает обслуживание литературой по всем областям знаний. Среди специализированных коллекций Библиотеки - оригиналы Декларации независимости [ Declaration of Independence], Билля о правах [ Bill of Rights], "Статей Конфедерации" [ Articles of Confederation], личные архивы президентов от Дж. Вашингтона [ Washington, George] до К. Кулиджа [ Coolidge, (John) Calvin], фонд изданий и фонозаписей для слепых (Библиотека - национальный методический центр по обслуживанию незрячих читателей). Среди нетрадиционных материалов - пять скрипок Страдивари. В каталоге Библиотеки [National Union Catalog] учитываются все книги, издаваемые в США и Канаде. Публикует ежегодный каталог "Пабликейшнс ин принт" [Publications in Print]. Для повышения оперативности открыты корпункты Библиотеки во многих городах Европы, а также в Дели, Джакарте, Найроби, Рио-де-Жанейро, Токио, Каире. Техническое обслуживание Библиотеки - на самом современном уровне: компьютеры, электронный каталог с терминалами в читальных залах, записи на лазерных компакт-дисках и др. Ежегодно обрабатывается до 1,5 млн. поступлений. Годовой бюджет исчисляется сотнями миллионов долларов.

    English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Library of Congress

  • 3 library

    plural - libraries; noun
    ((a building or room containing) a collection of books, tapes, videos etc: He works in the public library; She has a fine library of books about art.) biblioteca
    library n biblioteca
    tr['laɪbrərɪ]
    1 biblioteca
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    library ticket carnet nombre masculino de biblioteca
    newspaper library hemeroteca
    library ['laɪ.brɛri] n, pl - braries : biblioteca f
    n.
    • biblioteca s.f.
    • escritorio s.m.
    • estudio s.m.
    • librería s.f.
    'laɪbreri, 'laɪbrəri
    noun (pl - ries) biblioteca f

    public library — biblioteca pública; (before n)

    library card o ticket — (BrE) tarjeta f or (Méx) credencial f de lector


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    Cultural note:
    La biblioteca nacional de EEUU, situada en Washington DC. Fundada por el Congreso (Congress), alberga más de 80 millones de libros, en 470 idiomas, y otros objetos
    ['laɪbrǝrɪ]
    1.
    N (also Comput) biblioteca f

    public library — biblioteca f pública

    film 4., video 3.
    2.
    CPD

    library book N — libro m de biblioteca

    library card N — = library ticket

    library pictures NPL — (TV) imágenes fpl de archivo

    library ticket N — carnet m de biblioteca

    LIBRARY OF CONGRESS La Biblioteca del Congreso es la biblioteca nacional de EE.UU. y tiene su sede en Washington D.C. Se fundó en 1800 como fuente de referencia para los miembros del Congreso y actualmente registra también los derechos de autor de todos los libros publicados en Estados Unidos, por lo que recibe dos ejemplares de cada publicación. Posee un fondo inmenso de libros y manuscritos históricos, así como partituras, mapas, películas, grabaciones sonoras y microfilmes.
    * * *
    ['laɪbreri, 'laɪbrəri]
    noun (pl - ries) biblioteca f

    public library — biblioteca pública; (before n)

    library card o ticket — (BrE) tarjeta f or (Méx) credencial f de lector


    ••
    Cultural note:
    La biblioteca nacional de EEUU, situada en Washington DC. Fundada por el Congreso (Congress), alberga más de 80 millones de libros, en 470 idiomas, y otros objetos

    English-spanish dictionary > library

  • 4 Independence Avenue

    Одна из главных магистралей в центре г. Вашингтона. Проходит вдоль южной стороны Эспланады [ Mall, The], простирающейся от Капитолийского холма [ Capitol Hill, The] до памятника Дж. Вашингтону [ Washington Monument]. На Индепенденс-авеню выходят здания Библиотеки Конгресса [ Library of Congress Building], Капитолий [ Capitol], на ней также находятся несколько министерств

    English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Independence Avenue

  • 5 Washington, D. C.

    [ˊwoʃɪŋtǝn di: si:] г. Вашингтон ( округ Колумбия), столица США <назв. в честь Джорджа Вашингтона [*Washington, George]>. Красивый город на Атлантическом побережье, у нижнего течения р. Потомак; много зелени на фоне белых мраморных фасадов правительственных зданий. Крупный политический, культурный и научный центр страны (ок. 2,5 млн. жителей, 3/5 населения — негры). Достаточно пройтись по Моллу, чтобы убедиться, что это — столица мировой державы, призванная внушать уважение. Молл соединяет Капитолий с мемориалом Линкольна, это две мили зелени, отражающейся в прудах, а по сторонам — прекрасные музеи Смитсоновского института и сверкающие мрамором правительственные здания. Много новых построек современной архитектуры, но нет небоскрёбов. По принятому в Вашингтоне положению, здания не должны иметь более 13 этажей (с тем расчётом, чтобы Капитолий оставался самым высоким зданием в городе). Почти половина живущих в Вашингтоне и его пригородах работают в каком-нибудь правительственном учреждении. Вопреки бытующему в США мнению, что с приходом к власти новой администрации меняется значительная часть правительственного аппарата, только ок. 3 тыс. высокопоставленных чиновников лишаются своих постов, остальные продолжают оставаться на своих местах, и население Вашингтона довольно стабильно. Прозвище: «город впечатляющих просторов» [*City of Magnificent Distances]. Житель: вашингтонец [Washingtonian]. Река: Потомак [Potomac]. Районы, улицы, площади: Капитолийский холм [Hill II], основной район достопримечательностей [Major Monument Area], Посольский Ряд [*Embassy Row], Джорджтаун [*Georgetown], Пенсильвания-авеню [*Pennsylvania Avenue], площадь Лафайета [Lafayette Square], Массачусетс-авеню [*Massachusetts Avenue], Эллипс [Ellipse]. Комплексы, здания, памятные места: Белый дом [*White House I], Зелёная комната [*Green Room], Голубая комната [*Blue Room], Овальный кабинет [*Oval Office], Национальный архив [National Archives], Конститьюшн-Холл [*Constitution Hall], Госдепартамент [State Department], Верховный Суд [Supreme Court], Пентагон [*Pentagon], Пан-Американ Юнион [*Pan-American Union]. Музеи, памятники: памятник Вашингтону [*Washington Monument], мемориалы Линкольна [*Lincoln Memorial] и Джефферсона [*Jefferson Memorial], Мемориал ветеранов войны во Вьетнаме [*Vietnam Veterans Memorial], здание Эдгара Гувера [J. Edgar Hoover Building], Смитсоновский институт [*Smithsonian Institution], Национальный музей авиации и космонавтики [National Air and Space Museum], дом Петерсона [Peterson House], Национальный музей американской истории [National Museum of American History], Национальный музей естественной истории [National Museum of Natural History], Национальное географическое общество [National Geographic Society], Музей организации «Дочери американской революции» [Daughters of the American Revolution Museum], «Восьмигранник» [Octagon House]. Художественные музеи, выставки: Национальная художественная галерея [*National Gallery of Art], Галерея Коркоран [Corcoran Gallery of Art], Галерея Фрира [Freer Gallery of Art], Музей и сад скульптур Хиршхорна [Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden], Национальный музей африканского искусства [National Museum of African Art], Галерея Ренвика [Renwick Gallery], Национальный музей американского искусства [National Museum of American Art]. Культурные центры, театры: Центр исполнительских искусств им. Джона Кеннеди [*Kennedy Center], Национальный театр [National Theater], Театр «Арена-Стейдж» [*Arena Stage], Театр Эйзенхауэра [Eisenhower Theater], Театр «Терраса» [Terrace Theater], Шекспировская библиотека Фолджера [*Folger Shakespeare Library], Библиотека Конгресса [*Library of Congress], Театр Форда [Ford’s Theater], «Театральная труппа Фолджера» [Folger Theater Group], Театр Олни [Olney Theater], Центр исполнительских искусств в парке Вулф-Трэп [Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts], Национальный симфонический оркестр [National Symphony Orchestra], Вашингтонская опера [Opera Society of Washington]. Учебные заведения, научные центры: Университет Джорджа Вашингтона [George Washington University], Американский университет [American University], Джорджтаунский университет [*Georgetown University], Хауардский университет [Howard University], колледж Галодет [Gallaudet College]. Периодические издания: «Вашингтон пост» [*‘Washington Post’], «Вашингтон таймс» [*‘Washington Times’], «Вашингтонец» [‘Washingtonian’]. Парки, зоопарки: Молл [*mall I], Ботанический сад [Botanic Garden], парк Рок-Крик [*Rock Creek Park], Национальный зоопарк [National Zoo]. Спорт: Мемориальный стадион им. Роберта Кеннеди [*Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium]; спортивные команды: футбольные «Краснокожие» [*‘Redskins’] и «Федералы» [‘Federals’], баскетбольная «Пули» [*‘Bullets’], хоккейная «Столичные» [*‘Capitals’]. Магазины, рынки. Универмаги: «Гарфинкель» [*Garfinkel], «Хехтс» [*Hecht’s], «Вудвард энд Лотропс» [*Woodward and Lothrop’s], торговый центр «Монтгомери молл» [*Montgomery Mall]. Отели: «Медисон» [‘Madison’], «Хэй Адамс» [‘Hay Adams’], «Ритц-Карлтон» [‘Ritz Carlton’], «Уотергейт» [Watergate]. Рестораны: «Сан-Суси» [‘Sans Souci’], «Монокль» [‘Monocle’]. Транспорт: вашингтонское метро [Metrorail], ж.-д. вокзал Юнион-Стейшн [*Union Station II], Международный аэропорт им. Даллеса [*Dulles International Airport], Национальный аэропорт [*National Airport], автомобильный маршрут вдоль живописных Дымных гор [*Skyline Drive]. Достопримечательности: Маунт-Вернон [*Mount Vernon], Арлингтон [Arlington], Арлингтонское национальное кладбище [*Arlington National Cemetery], загородная резиденция президента США Кэмп-Дэвид [*Camp David]; пригороды Вашингтона: Бетесда [*Bethesda], Чеви-Чейс [*Chevy Chase], Александрия [*Alexandria]. Фестивали, праздники: Праздник цветения вишни [*Cherry Blossom], катание пасхальных яиц [Easter Monday Egg Rolling], Американский фольклорный фестиваль [American Folklore Festival]

    США. Лингвострановедческий англо-русский словарь > Washington, D. C.

  • 6 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.
    [br]
    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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