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1) свет; свеча; лампа; фонарь; маяк2) мн. ч. световая поверхность окна; оконные стёкла3) фрамуга; форточка; окно; стекло оконного переплёта; листовое стекло4) лёгкий; легковесный5) незначительный; неглубокий6) зажигать; освещать•- arc light - area light - artificial light - background light - back-up light - barrel light - beacon light - boom blinker light - boundary light - candle light - casement light - ceiling light - continuous lights - dazzle light - diffused light - dim light - direct light - drop light - electric light - faint light - flash light - floor light - garden light - glazing light - hopper light - impinging light - incandescent light - indicating light - indirect light - lantern light - natural light - opening light - pavement light - pinpoint light - plastic window lights - polarized light - public space light - radiated light - reflected light - reverse light - roof light - scattered light - sidewalk light - stray light - street traffic control lights - top light - traffic guide light - ultraviolet light - warning lightto turn off the lights — гаситьсвет, выключать свет
* * *1. свет2. светильник, фонарь3. световой проём4. фрамуга, застеклённая створка ( окна); форточка; окно; листовое стекло- alarm light
- approach light
- area light
- barrel light
- barricade light
- borrowed light
- borrow light
- ceiling light
- dome light
- emergency light
- fixed light
- garden light
- high-mast light
- hopper light
- indicating light
- lantern light
- natural light
- north light
- obstruction light
- opening light
- pilot light
- roof light
- runway center line lights
- runway edge lights
- runway end identifier lights
- street light
- taxiway center line lights
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2 incandescent gas lamp
English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > incandescent gas lamp
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4 Langmuir, Irving
[br]b. 31 January 1881 Brooklyn, New York, USAd. 16 August 1957 Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA[br]American Nobel Prize winner in chemistry in 1932 who was responsible for a number of important scientific developments ranging from electric lamps, through a high-vacuum transmitting tube (for broadcasting) to a high-vacuum mercury pump for studies in atomic structure, in radar and the stimulation of artificial rainfall.[br]Langmuir took a degree in metallurgical engineering at Columbia University School of Mines, and then a PhD in chemistry at Göttingen University in Germany. For much of his life he carried out research in physical chemistry at the General Electric Research Laboratory at Schenechtady, New York, where he remained until his retirement in 1950. One important result of his work there led to a great improvement in artificial illumination of homes. This was his development in 1913 of a much more efficient electric light bulb, which was filled with argon gas and had a coiled filament. The idea of using an inert gas was an old one, but it was not a viable proposition until a filament that could be coiled became available. Overall, Langmuir's lamp was more reliable than previous designs and gave a brighter light.[br]Further ReadingArthur A.Bright, 1949, The Electric Lamp Industry, New York: Macmillan. Floyd A.Lewis, 1961, The Incandescent Light, New York: Shorewood.DY -
5 Staite, William Edwards
[br]b. 19 April 1809 Bristol, Englandd. 26 September 1854 Caen, France[br]English inventor who did much to popularize electric lighting in early Victorian England and demonstrated the first self-regulating arc lamp.[br]Before devoting the whole of his attention to the electric light, Staite was a partner in a business of iron merchants and patented a method of obtaining extracts and essences. From 1834 he attempted to produce a continuous light by electricity. The first public exhibition of Staite's arc lamp incorporating a fixed-rate clockwork mechanism was given in 1847 to the Sunderland Literary and Philosophical Society. He also demonstrated an incandescent lamp with an iridioplatinum filament. Sir Joseph Wilson Swan recorded that it was attending lectures by Staite in Sunderland, Newcastle and Carlisle that started him on the quest which many years later was to lead to his incandescent lamp.In association with William Petrie (1821–1904), Staite made an important advance in the development of arc lamps by introducing automatic regulation of the carbon rods by way of an electromagnet. This was the first of many self-regulating arc lamps that were invented during the nineteenth century employing this principle. A contributory factor in the success of Staite's lamp was the semi enclosure of the arc in a transparent vessel that reduced the consumption of carbons, a feature not used again until the 1890s. His patents included processes for preparing carbons and the construction of primary cells for arc lighting. An improved lamp used by Staite in a theatrical production at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, in April 1849 may be considered the first commercial success of the electric light in England. In spite of the limitations imposed by the use of primary cells as the only available source of power, serious interest in this system of electric lighting was shown by railway companies and dock authorities. However, after he had developed a satisfactory arc lamp, an end to these early experiments was brought about by Staite's death.[br]BibliographyJuly 1847, British patent no. 1,1783 (electromagnetic regulation of an arc lamp).His manuscript "History of electric light" is in the Institution of Electrical Engineers archives.Further ReadingJ.J.Fahie, 1902, "Staite and Petrie's electric light 1846–1853", Electrical Engineer 30:297–301, 337–40, 374–6 (a detailed reliable account).G.Woodward, 1989, "Staite and Petrie: pioneers of electric lighting", Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 136 (Part A): 290–6 GWBiographical history of technology > Staite, William Edwards
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6 lamp
læmp
1. сущ.
1) лампа;
фонарь;
светильник to light a lamp, to turn on a lamp ≈ включать лампу to plug in a lamp ≈ включать лампу в розетку to turn off a lamp ≈ выключать лампу to unplug a lamp ≈ выключать лампу из разетки neon lamp ≈ неоновая лампа electric lamp ≈ электрическая лампа floor lamp ≈ торшер fluorescent lamp ≈ флуоресцентная лампа incandescent lamp ≈ лампа накаливания kerosene lamp ≈ керосиновая лампа oil lamp ≈ масляная лампа paraffin lamp ≈ керосиновая лампа reading lamp ≈ настольная лампа spirit lamp ≈ спиртовая лампа standard lamp ≈ торшер table lamp ≈ настольная лампа ultraviolet lamp ≈ ультрафиолетовая лампа wall lamp ≈ настенный светильник
2) перен. светоч;
свет, маяк He kept the lamp of hope burning brightly in his soul. ≈ Он сохранял свет надежды, ярко горевшей в его душе. hand on the lamp pass on the lamp Syn: cresset, pharos
3) поэт. светило;
лампада, факел
2. гл.
1) освещать;
светить, сиять прям и перен. Falling stars were lamping the red horizon fitfully. ≈ Падающие звезды, мерцая, освещали багряный горизонт. An evil fire out of their eyes came lamping. ≈ Их глаза светились дьявольским огнем.
2) заниматься освещением Some men were engaged in cleaning and lamping carriages. ≈ Несколько человек было занято уборкой и освещением экипажей.
3) амер.;
разг. наблюдать, следить;
смотреть;
пялить глаза They couldn't have lamped us on the road. ≈ Они не могли заметить нас на дороге. Syn: look
2., recognize, watch II
2. лампа;
фонарь - electric * электрическая лампа - head * (автомобильное) фара - alcohol * спиртовка - * oil керосин, осветительное масло;
(образное) работа по ночам - * house (горное) ламповая - * сommunication (военное) светосигнальная связь светильник;
лампада;
факел светило - *s of night звезды свет (ума, красоты, надежды) ;
светильник (разума) (сленг) глаза, "гляделки" > smelling of the * вымученный( о стиле, слоге) > to hand on the * передавать знания, продолжать дело освещать светить, сиять (сленг) таращить глаза ~ светоч;
to hand (или to pass) on the lamp не давать угаснуть;
передавать знания, традиции, продолжать дело lamp лампа;
фонарь;
светильник ~ освещать ~ поэт. светило;
to rub the lamp легко осуществить свое желание;
to smell of the lamp быть вымученным (о слоге, стихах и т. п.) ~ поэт. светить ~ светоч;
to hand (или to pass) on the lamp не давать угаснуть;
передавать знания, традиции, продолжать дело ~ амер. разг. таращить глаза red ~ ~ = red light red ~ ~ = red light red ~ sl красный фонарь, публичный дом red ~ красный фонарь, горящий ночью у квартиры доктора или у дверей аптеки red ~ красный фонарь как сигнал опасности( на железной дороге) red ~ фонарь у квартиры врача или аптеки light: red ~ = red lamp red ~ ~ = red light light: red ~ = red lamp red ~ красный свет( сигнал опасности на транспорте и т. п.) ;
to see the red light предчувствовать приближение опасности, беды ~ поэт. светило;
to rub the lamp легко осуществить свое желание;
to smell of the lamp быть вымученным (о слоге, стихах и т. п.) safety ~ безопасная лампа, рудничная лампа ~ поэт. светило;
to rub the lamp легко осуществить свое желание;
to smell of the lamp быть вымученным (о слоге, стихах и т. п.) smell: to ~ of the lamp (или of the candle, of oil) быть вымученным (о слоге и т. п.) switch ~ ж.-д. стрелочный фонарь -
7 Welsbach, Baron Carl Auer von
[br]b. 1 September 1858 Vienna, Austriad. 4 August 1929 Treibach, Austria[br]Austrian inventor of the gas mantle.[br]Welsbach studied at Vienna Polytechnic and then at Heidelberg under the distinguished German chemist Bunsen. He carried out research into the rare earth elements and in 1885 succeeded in separating didymium into two earths, neodymium and praesodymium. He observed that asbestos fibres impregnated with rare earths, when strongly heated, gave off a bright light. This was the basis for his invention of the incandescent gas mande, which he patented in 1885. He found that a mixture of 99 per cent thoria and 1 per cent ceria produced the best light. The invention was well timed, for during the 1880s gas light was being challenged by the new electric light and the Welsbach mande gave gas light a new lease of life. It was in wide use by 1900, and in that year it was further improved by the introduction of the inverted mande burner which had a higher light efficiency and better light distribution. For industrial and street lighting, Welsbach and Lucas achieved still higher efficiencies using the regenerative principle. Welsbach sought a use for the ceria waste from the lamps and formed an alloy of 35–40 per cent ceria with iron, known as Auer metal. This material is in wide use as the flint in cigarette and gas lighters.[br]BibliographyArticles in J. Chem. Ed., 1929, pp. 2,051–2, and Chemical News, 1902, pp. 254–6.LRDBiographical history of technology > Welsbach, Baron Carl Auer von
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8 Armstrong, Sir William George, Baron Armstrong of Cragside
[br]b. 26 November 1810 Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne, Englandd. 27 December 1900 Cragside, Northumbria, England[br]English inventor, engineer and entrepreneur in hydraulic engineering, shipbuilding and the production of artillery.[br]The only son of a corn merchant, Alderman William Armstrong, he was educated at private schools in Newcastle and at Bishop Auckland Grammar School. He then became an articled clerk in the office of Armorer Donkin, a solicitor and a friend of his father. During a fishing trip he saw a water-wheel driven by an open stream to work a marble-cutting machine. He felt that its efficiency would be improved by introducing the water to the wheel in a pipe. He developed an interest in hydraulics and in electricity, and became a popular lecturer on these subjects. From 1838 he became friendly with Henry Watson of the High Bridge Works, Newcastle, and for six years he visited the Works almost daily, studying turret clocks, telescopes, papermaking machinery, surveying instruments and other equipment being produced. There he had built his first hydraulic machine, which generated 5 hp when run off the Newcastle town water-mains. He then designed and made a working model of a hydraulic crane, but it created little interest. In 1845, after he had served this rather unconventional apprenticeship at High Bridge Works, he was appointed Secretary of the newly formed Whittle Dene Water Company. The same year he proposed to the town council of Newcastle the conversion of one of the quayside cranes to his hydraulic operation which, if successful, should also be applied to a further four cranes. This was done by the Newcastle Cranage Company at High Bridge Works. In 1847 he gave up law and formed W.G.Armstrong \& Co. to manufacture hydraulic machinery in a works at Elswick. Orders for cranes, hoists, dock gates and bridges were obtained from mines; docks and railways.Early in the Crimean War, the War Office asked him to design and make submarine mines to blow up ships that were sunk by the Russians to block the entrance to Sevastopol harbour. The mines were never used, but this set him thinking about military affairs and brought him many useful contacts at the War Office. Learning that two eighteen-pounder British guns had silenced a whole Russian battery but were too heavy to move over rough ground, he carried out a thorough investigation and proposed light field guns with rifled barrels to fire elongated lead projectiles rather than cast-iron balls. He delivered his first gun in 1855; it was built of a steel core and wound-iron wire jacket. The barrel was multi-grooved and the gun weighed a quarter of a ton and could fire a 3 lb (1.4 kg) projectile. This was considered too light and was sent back to the factory to be rebored to take a 5 lb (2.3 kg) shot. The gun was a complete success and Armstrong was then asked to design and produce an equally successful eighteen-pounder. In 1859 he was appointed Engineer of Rifled Ordnance and was knighted. However, there was considerable opposition from the notably conservative officers of the Army who resented the intrusion of this civilian engineer in their affairs. In 1862, contracts with the Elswick Ordnance Company were terminated, and the Government rejected breech-loading and went back to muzzle-loading. Armstrong resigned and concentrated on foreign sales, which were successful worldwide.The search for a suitable proving ground for a 12-ton gun led to an interest in shipbuilding at Elswick from 1868. This necessitated the replacement of an earlier stone bridge with the hydraulically operated Tyne Swing Bridge, which weighed some 1450 tons and allowed a clear passage for shipping. Hydraulic equipment on warships became more complex and increasing quantities of it were made at the Elswick works, which also flourished with the reintroduction of the breech-loader in 1878. In 1884 an open-hearth acid steelworks was added to the Elswick facilities. In 1897 the firm merged with Sir Joseph Whitworth \& Co. to become Sir W.G.Armstrong Whitworth \& Co. After Armstrong's death a further merger with Vickers Ltd formed Vickers Armstrong Ltd.In 1879 Armstrong took a great interest in Joseph Swan's invention of the incandescent electric light-bulb. He was one of those who formed the Swan Electric Light Company, opening a factory at South Benwell to make the bulbs. At Cragside, his mansion at Roth bury, he installed a water turbine and generator, making it one of the first houses in England to be lit by electricity.Armstrong was a noted philanthropist, building houses for his workforce, and endowing schools, hospitals and parks. His last act of charity was to purchase Bamburgh Castle, Northumbria, in 1894, intending to turn it into a hospital or a convalescent home, but he did not live long enough to complete the work.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1859. FRS 1846. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Institution of Civil Engineers; British Association for the Advancement of Science 1863. Baron Armstrong of Cragside 1887.Further ReadingE.R.Jones, 1886, Heroes of Industry', London: Low.D.J.Scott, 1962, A History of Vickers, London: Weidenfeld \& Nicolson.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Armstrong, Sir William George, Baron Armstrong of Cragside
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9 Hammond, Robert
[br]b. 19 January 1850 Waltham Cross, Englandd. 5 August 1915 London, England[br]English engineer who established many of the earliest public electricity-supply systems in Britain.[br]After an education at Nunhead Grammar School, Hammond founded engineering businesses in Middlesbrough and London. Obtaining the first concession from the Anglo- American Brush Company for the exploitation of their system in Britain, he was instrumental in popularizing the Brush arc-lighting generator. Schemes using this system, which he established at Chesterfield, Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings in 1881–2, were the earliest public electricity-supply ventures in Britain. On the invention of the incandescent lamp, high-voltage Brush dynamos were employed to operate both arc and incandescent lamps. The limitations of this arrangement led Hammond to become the sole agent for the Ferranti alternator, introduced in 1882. Commencing practice as a consulting engineer, Hammond was responsible for the construction of many electricity works in the United Kingdom, of which the most notable were those at Leeds, Hackney (London) and Dublin, in addition to many abroad. Appreciating the need for trained engineers for the new electrical industry and profession then being created, in 1882 he established the Hammond Electrical Engineering College. Later, in association with Francis Ince, he founded Faraday House, a training school that pioneered the concept of "sandwich courses" for engineers. Between 1883 and 1903 he paid several visits to the United States to study developments in electric traction and was one of the advisers to the Postmaster General on the acquisition of the telephone companies.[br]Bibliography1884, Electric Light in Our Homes, London (one of the first detailed accounts of electric lighting).1897, "Twenty five years" developments in central stations', Electrical Review 41:683–7 (surveys nineteenth-century public electricity supply).Further ReadingF.W.Lipscomb, 1973, The Wise Men of the Wires, London (the story of Faraday House). B.Bowers, 1985, biography, in Dictionary of Business Biography, Vol. III, ed. J.Jeremy, London, pp. 21–2 (provides an account of Hammond's business ventures). J.D.Poulter, 1986, An Early History of 'Electricity Supply, London.GW -
10 Edison, Thomas Alva
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications[br]b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USAd. 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 DistinctionsMember of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.Further ReadingM.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.IMcN -
11 Sperry, Elmer Ambrose
[br]b. 21 October 1860 Cincinnatus, Cortland County, New York, USAd. 16 June 1930 Brooklyn, New York, USA[br]American entrepreneur who invented the gyrocompass.[br]Sperry was born into a farming community in Cortland County. He received a rudimentary education at the local school, but an interest in mechanical devices was aroused by the agricultural machinery he saw around him. His attendance at the Normal School in Cortland provided a useful theoretical background to his practical knowledge. He emerged in 1880 with an urge to pursue invention in electrical engineering, then a new and growing branch of technology. Within two years he was able to patent and demonstrate his arc lighting system, complete with its own generator, incorporating new methods of regulating its output. The Sperry Electric Light, Motor and Car Brake Company was set up to make and market the system, but it was difficult to keep pace with electric-lighting developments such as the incandescent lamp and alternating current, and the company ceased in 1887 and was replaced by the Sperry Electric Company, which itself was taken over by the General Electric Company.In the 1890s Sperry made useful inventions in electric mining machinery and then in electric street-or tramcars, with his patent electric brake and control system. The patents for the brake were important enough to be bought by General Electric. From 1894 to 1900 he was manufacturing electric motor cars of his own design, and in 1900 he set up a laboratory in Washington, where he pursued various electrochemical processes.In 1896 he began to work on the practical application of the principle of the gyroscope, where Sperry achieved his most notable inventions, the first of which was the gyrostabilizer for ships. The relatively narrow-hulled steamship rolled badly in heavy seas and in 1904 Ernst Otto Schuck, a German naval engineer, and Louis Brennan in England began experiments to correct this; their work stimulated Sperry to develop his own device. In 1908 he patented the active gyrostabilizer, which acted to correct a ship's roll as soon as it started. Three years later the US Navy agreed to try it on a destroyer, the USS Worden. The successful trials of the following year led to widespread adoption. Meanwhile, in 1910, Sperry set up the Sperry Gyroscope Company to extend the application to commercial shipping.At the same time, Sperry was working to apply the gyroscope principle to the ship's compass. The magnetic compass had worked well in wooden ships, but iron hulls and electrical machinery confused it. The great powers' race to build up their navies instigated an urgent search for a solution. In Germany, Anschütz-Kämpfe (1872–1931) in 1903 tested a form of gyrocompass and was encouraged by the authorities to demonstrate the device on the German flagship, the Deutschland. Its success led Sperry to develop his own version: fortunately for him, the US Navy preferred a home-grown product to a German one and gave Sperry all the backing he needed. A successful trial on a destroyer led to widespread acceptance in the US Navy, and Sperry was soon receiving orders from the British Admiralty and the Russian Navy.In the rapidly developing field of aeronautics, automatic stabilization was becoming an urgent need. In 1912 Sperry began work on a gyrostabilizer for aircraft. Two years later he was able to stage a spectacular demonstration of such a device at an air show near Paris.Sperry continued research, development and promotion in military and aviation technology almost to the last. In 1926 he sold the Sperry Gyroscope Company to enable him to devote more time to invention.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsJohn Fritz Medal 1927. President, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1928.BibliographySperry filed over 400 patents, of which two can be singled out: 1908. US patent no. 434,048 (ship gyroscope); 1909. US patent no. 519,533 (ship gyrocompass set).Further ReadingT.P.Hughes, 1971, Elmer Sperry, Inventor and Engineer, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (a full and well-documented biography, with lists of his patents and published writings).LRD -
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['gləuɪŋ]прил.1) раскалённый, накаленный добела; горячий, пылающийSyn:2) ярко светящийся; яркий, богатый краскамиglowing cheeks and faces like the sun — горящие, как солнце, лица и щёки
Syn:3) горячий, пылкий, страстныйShe wrote of her son in such glowing terms. — Она писала о своём сыне в пылких выражениях.
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1. n поэт. яркость, свет2. a яркий; блестящий; светлый3. a благоприятный, радужный, полный надежд4. a ясный5. a светлый, прозрачный6. a полированный7. a блестящий, великолепный8. a способный, сообразительный, смышлёный9. a весёлый; живой, полный бодрости, оптимизма10. a острый, насторожённыйto keep a bright lookout — быть начеку, сохранять бдительность
Синонимический ряд:1. beaming (adj.) beaming; coruscating; effulgent; flaming; fulgent; glistening; incandescent; lambent; lucent; lustrous; refulgent2. blazing (adj.) blazing; burning; glaring3. brilliant (adj.) brilliant; dazzling; resplendent; splendid4. burnished (adj.) burnished; polished; shining5. clear (adj.) clear; cloudless; crystal; limpid; mild; pellucid; translucent; transparent6. encouraging (adj.) encouraging; hopeful; rosy7. favorable (adj.) auspicious; benign; dexter; enlivening; exhilarating; favorable; favourable; fortunate; inspiring; inspiriting; promising; propitious; white8. glowing (adj.) glowing; light; luminous9. happy (adj.) cheerful; cheery; glad; happy; light-hearted; radiant; sunny10. illustrious (adj.) distinguished; eminent; fair; famous; glorious; illustrious; prosperous11. intelligent (adj.) acute; alert; brainy; clever; discerning; ingenious; intelligent; keen; knowing; knowledgeable; lucid; quick-witted; ready-witted; sharp-witted; smart12. lively (adj.) animate; animated; brisk; chipper; dashing; genial; lighthearted; lively; peppy; pert; rousing; serene; spirited; sprightful; sprightly; unpedantic; vivacious13. vivid (adj.) brave; colorful; colory; colourful; deep; gay; intense; peep; rich; sharp; showy; vividАнтонимический ряд:cloudy; dark; dead; dejected; dense; dim; discouraging; doleful; dull; dumb; gloomy; ignominious; imbecile; joyless; laconic; melancholy; pale -
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лампа, источник светаarc lamp — дуговая лампа, дуговой фонарь
end-of-film lamp — сигнальная лампа «конца плёнки»
flash lamp — лампа-вспышка; импульсная лампа
pilot lamp — сигнальная лампа; контрольная лампа
printing lamp — лампа для копирования, копировальная лампа
speed lamp — лампа-вспышка, импульсная лампа
ultraviolet lamp — ультрафиолетовая лампа, лампа с УФ-излучением
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15 Bevan, Edward John
[br]b. 11 December 1856 Birkenhead, Englandd. 17 October 1921 London, England[br]English co-inventor of the " viscose rayon " process for making artificial silk.[br]Bevan began his working life as a chemist in a soap works at Runcorn, but later studied chemistry at Owens College, Manchester. It was there that he met and formed a friendship with C.F. Cross, with whom he started to work on cellulose. Bevan moved to a paper mill in Scotland but then went south to London, where he and Cross set up a partnership in 1885 as consulting and analytical chemists. Their work was mainly concerned with the industrial utilization of cellulose, and with the problems of the paper and jute industries. Their joint publication, A Text-book of Paper-making, which first appeared in 1888 and went into several editions, became the standard reference and textbook on the subject. The book has a long introductory chapter on cellulose.In 1892 Cross, Bevan and Clayton Beadle discovered viscose, or sodium cellulose xanthate, and took out the patent which was to be the foundation of the "viscose rayon" industry. They had their own laboratory at Station Avenue, Kew Gardens, where they carried out much work that eventually resulted in viscose: cellulose, usually in the form of wood pulp, was treated first with caustic soda and then with carbon disulphide to form the xanthate, which was then dissolved in a solution of dilute caustic soda to produce a viscous liquid. After being aged, the viscose was extruded through fine holes in a spinneret and coagulated in a dilute acid to regenerate the cellulose as spinnable fibres. At first there was no suggestion of spinning it into fibre, but the hope was to use it for filaments in incandescent electric light bulbs. The sheen on the fibres suggested their possible use in textiles and the term "artificial silk" was later introduced. Cross and Bevan also discovered the acetate "Celanese", which was cellulose triacetate dissolved in acetone and spun in air, but both inventions needed much development before they could be produced commercially.In 1892 Bevan turned from cellulose to food and drugs and left the partnership to become Public Analyst to Middlesex County Council, a post he held until his death, although in 1895 he and Cross published their important work Cellulose. He was prominent in the affairs of the Society of Public Analysts and became one of its officials.[br]Bibliography1888, with C.F.Cross, A Text-book of Papermaking.1892, with C.F.Cross and C.Beadle, British patent no. 8,700 (viscose). 1895, with C.F.Cross, Cellulose.Further ReadingObituary, 1921, Journal of the Chemical Society.Obituary, 1921, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry.Edwin J.Beer, 1962–3, "The birth of viscose rayon", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 35 (an account of the problems of developing viscose rayon; Beer worked under Cross in the Kew laboratories).RLH -
16 bright
braɪt
1. прил.
1) а) яркий;
блестящий;
светящийся, отражающий свет;
ясный, погожий;
чистый, прозрачный The long array of bright helmets. ≈ Длинный ряд сияющих шлемов. б) радостный, сияющий от счастья в) подающий надежды, обнадеживающий( о человеке, но не только) Chances of success brighter than any that had offered themselves. ≈ Шансы на победу больше, чем когда-либо случалось. ∙ Syn: brilliant, effulgent, glowing, incandescent, radiant, resplendent, shining, beaming Ant: dim, dull, gloomy, obscure
2) красивый, привлекательный A bright lady, surpassingly fair. ≈ Женщина прекрасная, красоты несказанной
3) яркий, сочный( о цвете, свете) ;
светлый( о цвете табачных листьев особого сорта) bright light brightwork
4) ясный, четкий( о ноте, звуке)
5) знаменитый, прославленный, великолепный The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind. ≈ Из людей мудрейшие, знаменитейшие, пошлейшие. Exhibited a bright example of the most heroic valour. ≈ Показал великолепный пример поистине героической доблести.
6) занимательный, интересный( о разговоре, о предмете беседы) ;
также употребляется по отношению к человеку, который ведет занимательные, увлекательные разговоры;
умный, сметливый (обычно по отношению к младшему поколению) He turned up today as jaunty and bright as a young buck of twenty-five. ≈ Он был сегодня весел и увлекателен как никогда, выглядел этаким двадцатипятилетним "жеребцом". He's a bright specimen! ≈ шутл. Он всем головам голова! bright young thing Syn: sharp, keen ∙ bright-eyed and bushy-tailed look on the bright side of things
2. нареч.
1) ярко( также используется brightly) The spires that glow so bright! ≈ Как ярко сверкают шпили! bright and early Syn: brilliantly
2) перен. ярко, блестяще, великолепно яркость, свет - in the * of the moon при свете луны яркий;
блестящий;
светлый - * star яркая звезда - * day светлый день - * red ярко-красный - * eyes блестящие /ясные/ глаза - * annealing( техническое) светлый отжиг благоприятный, радужный, полный надежд - * future светлое будущее - * prospects радужные перспективы ясный (о звуке) светлый, прозрачный (о жидкости) - * wine прозрачное вино полированный блестящий, великолепный - * reply блестящий ответ - * idea блестящая /великолепная/ идея способный, сообразительный, смышленый - * boy способный /смышленый/ мальчик - * imagination живое воображение веселый, живой, полный бодрости, оптимизма - * to keep * in spite of one's misfortune не терять бодрости духа, несмотря на несчастье острый, настороженный - * to keep a * lookout быть начеку, сохранять бдительность > to look on the * side (of things) смотреть на вещи оптимистически > as * as a button /a new pin, a sixpence/ чистенький, нарядный ярко bright блестящий;
великолепный ~ веселый;
to look on the bright side( of things) оптимистически смотреть на вещи ~ полированный ~ светлый, прозрачный (о жидкости) ~ способный, смышленый;
живой, расторопный ~ яркий;
блестящий;
светлый ~ яркий ~ ярко;
блестяще ~ ясный (о звуке) ~ веселый;
to look on the bright side (of things) оптимистически смотреть на вещи -
17 Brush, Charles Francis
[br]b. 17 March 1849 Euclid, Michigan, USAd. 15 June 1929 Cleveland, Ohio, USA[br]American engineer, inventor of a multiple electric arc lighting system and founder of the Brush Electric Company.[br]Brush graduated from the University of Michigan in 1869 and worked for several years as a chemist. Believing that electric arc lighting would be commercially successful if the equipment could be improved, he completed his first dynamo in 1875 and a simplified arc lamp. His original system operated a maximum of four lights, each on a separate circuit, from one dynamo. Brush envisaged a wider market for his product and by 1879 had available on arc lighting system principally intended for street and other outdoor illumination. He designed a dynamo that generated a high voltage and which, with a carbon-pile regulator, provided an almost constant current permitting the use of up to forty lamps on one circuit. He also improved arc lamps by incorporating a slipping-clutch regulating mechanism and automatic means of bringing into use a second set of carbons, thereby doubling the period between replacements.Brush's multiple electric arc lighting system was first demonstrated in Cleveland and by 1880 had been adopted in a number of American cities, including New York, Boston and Philadelphia. It was also employed in many European towns until incandescent lamps, for which the Brush dynamo was unsuitable, came into use. To market his apparatus, Brush promoted local lighting companies and thereby secured local capital.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsChevalier de la Légion d'honneur 1881. American Academy of Arts and Sciences Rumford Medal 1899. American Institute of Electrical Engineers Edison Medal 1913.Bibliography18 May 1878, British patent no. 2,003 (Brush dynamo).11 March 1879, British patent no. 947 (arc lamp).26 February 1880, British patent no. 849 (current regulator).Further ReadingJ.W.Urquhart, 1891, Electric Light, London (for a detailed description of the Brush system).H.C.Passer, 1953, The Electrical Manufacturers: 1875–1900, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 14– 21 (for the origins of the Brush Company).S.Steward, 1980, in Electrical Review, 206:34–5 (a short account).See also: Hammond, RobertGW -
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[læmp] 1. сущ.1) лампа; фонарь; светильникfloor lamp амер., standard брит. — торшер
kerosene lamp амер., paraffin lamp брит. — керосиновая лампа
to light / turn on a lamp — включать лампу
reading lamp; table lamp — настольная лампа
2) поэт. светоч; свет, маякHe kept the lamp of hope burning brightly in his soul. — Он сохранял свет надежды, ярко горевшей в его душе.
- hand the lamp- pass on the lampSyn:3) поэт. светило; лампада, факел2. гл.1) освещать; светить, сиять прям. и перен.Falling stars were lamping the red horizon fitfully. — Падающие звёзды, мерцая, освещали багряный горизонт.
An evil fire out of their eyes came lamping. — Их глаза светились дьявольским огнём.
Some men were engaged in cleaning and lamping carriages. — Несколько человек было занято уборкой и освещением экипажей.
3) амер.; разг. наблюдать, следить; смотреть; пялить глазаThey couldn't have lamped us on the road. — Они не могли заметить нас на дороге.
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19 white
[(h)waɪt] 1. прил.1) белыйwhiter than white — белее белого, белоснежный
A round white moon that flooded the night with silver. — Круглая белая луна, заливавшая ночь серебряным светом.
2) седой, серебристый ( о волосах)3)а) бледныйto turn white — побледнеть, побелеть
Syn:pale II 1.б) бесцветный, прозрачныйSyn:4)а) белокожий, принадлежащий к европейской расеwhite man — белый человек, человек с белой кожей
б) уст.; разг. честный, почтенный, благородный ( о человеке)Syn:5) снежный, заснеженныйwhite Christmas — снежное, белое Рождество
6) c молоком или со сливками ( о напитках)Syn:7) пустой, незаполненный (о бланке, документе и т. п.)Syn:blank 1.8) незапятнанный, чистый; безупречный, безукоризненныйIt is I whose duty it is to see that your name be made white again. (A. Trollope, Orley Farm, 1861) — Я - тот, кто должен проследить за тем, чтобы честь вашего имени была восстановлена.
Syn:9) одетый в белое; носящий белую одежду10) = white-hotwhite heat тех. — белый накал; температура белого каления
Syn:б) доведённый до белого каления; пламенный, жгучий11) просеянный ( о муке)Ant:whole 1.12) ист.; полит.; = White реакционный, консервативный13) уст. благоприятный, удачный; счастливыйThat was one of the few white days of his life. — Это был один из немногих светлых дней в его жизни.
Syn:••- white man's grave- white night
- white sheet
- white slave
- white squall 2. сущ.1) белый цвет; белый оттенок, белизнаSyn:2) белая краска, белила3) полигр.; = white line пробел4)б) белая одеждаThe Woman in White — "Женщина в белом" (роман У. Коллинза)
в) бельё; бельевой товарIt was raining, that is why women couldn't put their whites out. — Шёл дождь, поэтому женщины не могли развесить выстиранное бельё на улице.
5) = White белый, белокожий человекSyn:7) анат. белок ( глаза)Syn:8)а) белые (фигуры в шахматах, шашках)б) = White игрок, играющий белымив) белый шар ( в бильярде)9) зоол.; = large / cabbage white капустница, белянка капустная (бабочка; лат. Pieris brassicae)10) белый круг, белая точка мишени; "яблочко" ( в стрельбе)Syn:blank 2., bull's-eye11) = white meat 1), 2)12) = white wine белое вино13) полит.; = White консерватор, реакционер14) бот. заболоньSyn:15) уст.; нарк.а) морфийSyn:б) героинSyn:в) кокаинSyn:г) амфетаминSyn:3. гл.1) полигр. оставлять пробелы2) уст.а) белеть, становиться белымб) белить, отбеливать• -
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[læmp]nлампа, фонарь, светильник, лампочка- bright lamp- reading lamp
- kerosene lamp
- neon lamp
- fluorescent lamp
- incandescent lamp
- floor lamp
- ultraviolet lamp
- wall lamp
- street lamp
- car head lamp
- alcohol lamp
- by the light of a lamp
- switch on the lamp
- 1
- 2
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