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Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > commercial success
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финансовая удача, коммерческий успехАнгло-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь > commercial success
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ам. промышленная полезность (не является доказательством патентоспособности изобретения и не может защитить патент при его оспаривании действительным и первым изобретателем) -
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PATENT TERMS ТНТ №006ам. промышленная полезность (не является доказательством патентоспособности изобретения и не может защитить патент при его оспаривании действительным и первым изобретателем) -
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Общая лексика: коммерческий успех ((the film was) a commercial success – (фильм имел) коммерческий успех) -
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commercial [kə'mɜ:ʃəl]∎ a commercial venture une entreprise commerciale(b) (profitable) commercial, marchand;∎ a commercial success un succès commercial∎ their motives are purely commercial ils ont des motivations purement commerciales(d) (television, radio) commercial2 nounTelevision & Radio publicité f, spot m publicitaire►► commercial agency agence f commerciale;commercial art graphisme m;commercial artist graphiste mf;commercial attaché attaché m commercial;commercial bank banque f commerciale;Finance commercial bill effet m de commerce;Television & Radio commercial break page f de publicité;commercial broker courtier m de marchandises;commercial channel circuit m commercial;commercial college école f de commerce;commercial contract contrat m commercial;commercial directory annuaire m du commerce;commercial district quartier m commerçant;commercial documents papiers mpl d'affaires;commercial law droit m commercial;commercial loan prêt m commercial;Finance commercial paper billet m de trésorerie;commercial port port m de commerce;old-fashioned commercial traveller voyageur m ou représentant m de commerce, VRP m;commercial value valeur f marchande;British commercial vehicle véhicule m utilitaire, commerciale f -
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♦ commercial /kəˈmɜ:ʃl/A a.1 commerciale; del, di commercio: commercial invoice, fattura commerciale; (leg.) commercial causes, cause in materia di commercio; commercial agent, agente di commercio; concessionario; commercial law, diritto commerciale; commercial attaché, addetto commerciale2 ( relativo alla vendita o al profitto) commerciale: commercial value, valore commerciale; commercial television, televisione commerciale; a commercial success, un successo commerciale; His new film is much too commercial, il suo nuovo film è troppo commercialeB n.1 ( radio, TV) messaggio pubblicitario; pubblicità; stacco; spot: a car commercial, la pubblicità di un'automobile2 (al pl.) (TV) pubblicità televisiva● commercial agency, agenzia d'informazioni commerciali commercial art, grafica pubblicitaria; cartellonistica □ commercial artist, grafico (o disegnatore) pubblicitario; cartellonista □ commercial assessor, perito merceologo □ commercial bank, banca commerciale (o di credito ordinario) □ ( radio, TV) commercial break, interruzione pubblicitaria; stacco pubblicitario; spot □ (leg.) commercial court, tribunale commerciale (in Inghil., è un ramo della ► «Queen's Bench Division», ► queen) □ commercial credit, credito mercantile (o di fornitura) □ (leg.) commercial custom, consuetudine di commercio □ commercial design, disegno pubblicitario □ (econ.) commercial farm, azienda agricola □ (fin.) commercial loan, prestito commerciale □ (fin.) commercial paper, titolo (o collett. titoli) di credito negoziabile □ (market., trasp.) commercial set, documenti d'uso ( per la merce) □ ( a scuola) commercial subjects, materie aziendali □ (antiq.) commercial traveller, viaggiatore di commercio; commesso viaggiatore; rappresentante; piazzista □ (trasp.) commercial vehicles, veicoli commerciali □ the commercial world, il mondo degli affari. -
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1. adjective1) Handels-; kaufmännisch [Ausbildung]2) (interested in financial return) kommerziell2. nounWerbespot, der* * *[kə'mə:ʃəl]1) (connected with commerce: Private cars are allowed to use this road but not commercial vehicles.) Geschäfts-...2) ((likely to be) profitable: a commercial proposition.) kaufmännisch3) (paid for by advertisements: commercial television.) Werbe-...* * *com·mer·cial[kəˈmɜ:ʃəl, AM -ˈmɜ:r-]I. adj1. (relating to commerce) kaufmännisch, Handels-\commercial empire Handelsimperium nt\commercial organization Handelsorganisation f\commercial success kommerzieller Erfolg\commercial venture Handelsunternehmen nt\commercial television (advertisements) Werbefernsehen nt; (financed by adverts only) kommerzielles Fernsehen, Privatfernsehen nt4. (available to general public)\commercial product Massenprodukt nt* * *[kə'mɜːSəl]1. adjHandels-; custom also, ethics, training kaufmännisch; language, premises, vehicle Geschäfts-; production, radio, project, success, attitude, farming, whaling, fishing kommerziell; (pej) film, music etc kommerziellit makes good commercial sense —
2. n (RAD, TV)Werbespot m* * *A adj (adv commercially)1. Handels…, Geschäfts…, kommerziell, kaufmännisch, geschäftlich2. Handel treibend3. für den Handel bestimmt, Handels…4. a) in großen Mengen erzeugt oder vorkommendb) abbauwürdig (Ölvorkommen etc)c) mittlerer oder niederer Qualität5. handelsüblich (Qualität)6. RADIO, TV Werbe…, Reklame…:a) Werbefunk m,b) kommerzieller Rundfunk;a) Werbefernsehen n,b) kommerzielles Fernsehen7. kommerziell:a) auf finanziellen Gewinn abzielend:a commercial drama ein kommerzielles Stückb) finanziell (Erfolg etc)B s RADIO, TVa) (Werbe)Spot mb) von einem Sponsor finanzierte Sendungcom. abk1. comedy2. comma3. commander4. commerce5. commercial6. commission7. commissioner8. committee9. common* * *1. adjective1) Handels-; kaufmännisch [Ausbildung]2) (interested in financial return) kommerziell2. nounWerbespot, der* * *adj.kaufmännisch adj.kommerziell adj. n.gewerblich adj. -
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1) ((the prosperity gained by) the achievement of an aim or purpose: He has achieved great success as an actor / in his career.) éxito2) (a person or thing that succeeds or prospers: She's a great success as a teacher.) éxito, persona que tiene éxitosuccess n éxitotr[sək'ses]1 (good result, achievement) éxito2 (successful person, thing) éxito\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto make a success of something sacar adelante algo con éxitosuccess [sək'sɛs] n: éxito mn.(§ pl.: successes) = bonanza s.f.• logro s.m.• lucimiento s.m.• medra s.f.• prosperidad s.f.• triunfo s.m.• éxito s.m.sək'sescount & mass noun éxito mto be a success — ser* un éxito
did you have any success (in) finding a job? — ¿pudiste conseguir trabajo?
he always makes a success of any venture he is involved in — siempre saca adelante sus proyectos con éxito
to meet with success — tener* éxito
without success — sin (ningún) éxito or resultado; (before n)
[sǝk'ses]we're proud of our high success rate in these exams — estamos orgullosos de nuestro alto porcentaje de aprobados en estos exámenes
1. N1) (at task) éxito m (at, in en)congratulations on your success! — ¡enhorabuena, lo has conseguido!
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we have had some success in reducing the national debt — hemos conseguido or logrado reducir en parte la deuda pública•
to make a success of sth, would you say he's made a success of his life? — ¿dirías que ha triunfado en la vida?we have made a success of the venture — hemos conseguido or logrado que la operación sea un éxito
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to meet with success — tener éxito•
to wish sb every success — desear a algn todo lo mejor•
she tried without success to get a loan from the bank — intentó, sin éxito, obtener un préstamo del banco2) (=sensation, hit) éxito m•
to be a success — [product, event] ser un éxito; [person] tener éxito•
a commercial success — un éxito comercial2.CPDsuccess rate N —
the success rate of organ transplants — el índice de transplantes de órganos que salen bien, el número de transplantes de órganos realizados con éxito frm
the police success rate in tracking down murderers — el número de asesinos que la policía logra atrapar
success story N — éxito m
* * *[sək'ses]count & mass noun éxito mto be a success — ser* un éxito
did you have any success (in) finding a job? — ¿pudiste conseguir trabajo?
he always makes a success of any venture he is involved in — siempre saca adelante sus proyectos con éxito
to meet with success — tener* éxito
without success — sin (ningún) éxito or resultado; (before n)
we're proud of our high success rate in these exams — estamos orgullosos de nuestro alto porcentaje de aprobados en estos exámenes
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səkˈses сущ.
1) достижение, удача, успех to achieve, attain (a) success ≈ добиться успеха to enjoy success ≈ радоваться успеху to score a success ≈ иметь успех brilliant success great success huge success resounding success thorough success total success tremendous success unequivocal success unqualified success box-office success commercial success Syn: luck, piece of luck, stroke of luck
2) человек, пользующийся успехом;
произведение, получившее признание и т. п. ∙ nothing succeeds like success посл. ≈ успех влечет за собой новый успех success is never blamed посл. ≈ победителя не судят успех, удача - sudden * неожиданный успех - military *es военные успехи - to achieve * добиться успеха - the plan met with no * план потерпел неудачу - to score a * добиться успеха;
выиграть - to wish smb. * желать кому-л. удачи - I attempted, without *, to persuade him я безуспешно пытался убедить его - the * of the film with the public успех фильма у широкого зрителя процветание, благосостояние - to have great * in life преуспеть в жизни, добиться в жизни успеха тот, кто или то, что пользуется успехом, признанием - to be a * пользоваться успехом, иметь успех - the experiment is a * опыт прошел удачно, опыт удался - he was not a * as a speaker как оратор он не пользовался успехом, он был неважным оратором - the evening turned out a * вечер оказался очень удачным - he was a * as Hamlet он имел успех в роли Гамлета - I count that book among my *es я считаю, что эта книга - моя большая удача > * is never blamed победителя не судят > * signal( военное) сигнал о выходе на рубеж success успех, удача;
to be crowned with success увенчаться успехом ~ (человек) пользующийся успехом;
(произведение) получившее признание;
the experiment is a success опыт удался I count that book among my successes я считаю, что эта книга - моя большая удача;
she was a great success as a singer ее пение имело большой успех nothing succeeds like ~ посл. успех влечет за собой новый успех;
success is never blamed посл. = победителя не судят I count that book among my successes я считаю, что эта книга - моя большая удача;
she was a great success as a singer ее пение имело большой успех success успех, удача;
to be crowned with success увенчаться успехом ~ успех ~ (человек) пользующийся успехом;
(произведение) получившее признание;
the experiment is a success опыт удался nothing succeeds like ~ посл. успех влечет за собой новый успех;
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[sək'ses]сущ.1)а) удача, успех, благоприятный исходSyn:fortune 1.б) успех, достижениеbrilliant / great / huge / resounding / thorough / total / tremendous / unequivocal / unqualified success — громкий успех, ошеломительный успех
to be a success with smb. / in smth. — иметь успех у кого-л. / в чём-л.
to achieve / attain (a) success — добиться успеха
to wish smb. success — пожелать кому-л. успеха
His plan was a success. — Его план удался.
He is a success in every way. — Ему всё удаётся.
box-office success; commercial success — финансовая удача, коммерческий успех
Syn:3) человек, пользующийся успехом; произведение, получившее признаниеThe experiment is a success. — Опыт удался.
I count that book among my successes — я считаю, что эта книга - моя большая удача
She was a great success as a singer. — Её пение имело большой успех.
••Nothing succeeds like success. посл. — Успех влечёт за собой новый успех.
Success is never blamed. посл. — Победителя не судят.
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1) ( relating to commerce) kaufmännisch, Handels-;the \commercial future of the company... die geschäftliche Zukunft des Unternehmens...;\commercial empire Handelsimperium nt;\commercial organization Handelsorganisation f;\commercial success kommerzieller Erfolg;\commercial venture Handelsunternehmen nt;\commercial television ( advertisements) Werbefernsehen nt; ( financed by adverts only) kommerzielles Fernsehen, Privatfernsehen nt\commercial product Massenprodukt nt n Werbespot m; ( TV or radio advertisement) Fernseh-/Radiowerbung f -
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[kə'məːʃəl] 1. adjorganization handlowy; success komercyjny2. n (TV, RADIO)reklama f* * *[kə'mə:ʃəl]1) (connected with commerce: Private cars are allowed to use this road but not commercial vehicles.) handlowy2) ((likely to be) profitable: a commercial proposition.) korzystny, dochodowy3) (paid for by advertisements: commercial television.) opłacany z reklam -
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Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > box-office success
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[br]b. c.1860 Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, Englandd. 1906 England[br]English engineer who developed and manufactured the first commercially successful lightweight tractor.[br]The son of a market gardener, Albone's interest lay in mechanics, and by 1880 he had established his own business as a cycle maker and repairer. His inventive mind led to a number of patents relating to bicycle design, but his commercial success was particularly assisted by his achievements in cycle racing. From this early start he diversified his business, designing and supplying, amongst other things, axle bearings for the Great Northern Railway, and also building motor cycles and several cars. It is possible that he began working on tractors as early as 1896. Certainly by 1902 he had built his first prototype, to the three-wheeled design that was to remain in later production models. Weighing only 30 cwt, yet capable of pulling two binders or a two-furrow plough, Albone's Ivel tractor was ahead of anything in its time, and its power-to-weight ratio was to be unrivalled for almost a decade. Albone's commercial success was not entirely due to the mechanical tractor's superiority, but owed a considerable amount to his ability as a showman and demonstrator. He held two working demonstrations a month in the village of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, where the tractors were made. The tractor was named after the river Ivel, which flowed through the village. The Ivel tractor gained twenty-six gold and silver medals at agricultural shows between 1902 and 1906, and was a significant contributor to Britain's position as the world's largest exporter of tractors between 1904 and 1914. Albone tried other forms of his tractor to increase its sales. He built a fire engine, and also an armoured vehicle, but failed to impress the War Office with its potential.Albone died at the age of 46. His tractor continued in production but remained essentially unimproved, and the company finally lost its sales to other designs, particularly those of American origin.[br]Further ReadingDetailed contemporary accounts of tractor development occur in the British periodical Implement and Machinery Review. Accounts of the Ivel appear in "The Trials of Agricultural Motors", Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England (1910), pp. 179–99. A series of general histories by Michael Williams have been published by Blandfords, of which Classic Farm Tractors (1984) includes an entry on the Ivel.AP -
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[br]b. 13 February 1834 Poznan, Polandd. 11 October 1911 Dresden, Germany[br]German dyestuffi chemist.[br]Caro received vocational training as a dyer at the Gewerbeinstitut in Berlin from 1852, at the same time attending chemistry lectures at the university there. In 1855 he was hired as a colourist by a firm of calico printers in Mulheim an der Ruhr, where he was able to demonstrate the value of scientific training in solving practical problems. Two years later, the year after Perkin's discovery of aniline dyes, he was sent to England in order to learn the latest dyeing techniques. He took up a post an analytical chemist with the chemical firm Roberts, Dale \& Co. in Manchester; after finding a better way of synthesizing Perkin's mauve, he became a partner in the business. Caro was able to enlarge both his engineering experience and his chemical knowledge there, particularly by studying Hofmann's researches on the aniline dyes. He made several discoveries, including induline, Bismark brown and Martius yellow.Like other German chemists, however, he found greater opportunities opening up in Germany, and in 1866 he returned to take up a post in Bunsen's laboratory in Heidelberg. In 1868 Caro obtained the important directorship of Badische Anilin-Soda- Fabrik (BASF), the first true industrial research organization and leading centre of dyestuffs research. A steady stream of commercial successes followed. In 1869, after Graebe and Liebermann had showed him their laboratory synthesis of the red dye alizarin, Caro went on to develop a cheaper and commercially viable method. During the 1870s he collaborated with Adolf von Baeyer to make methylene blue and related dyes, and then went on to the azo dyes. His work on indigo was important, but was not crowned with commercial success; that came in 1897 when his successor at BASF discovered a suitable process for producing indigo on a commercial scale. Caro had resigned his post in 1889, by which time he had made notable contributions to German supremacy in the fast-developing dyestuffs industry.[br]Further ReadingA.Bernthsen, 1912, obituary, Berichte derDeutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, 45; 1,987–2,042 (a substantial obituary).LRD -
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Gen Mgtthe central, and usually the original, focus of an organization’s activities that differentiates it from others and makes a vital contribution to its success. The concept of core business became prominent in the 1980s when diversification by large companies failed to generate the anticipated degree of commercial success. In 1982, Tom Peters’s and Robert Waterman’s book In Search of Excellence suggested that organizations should stick to the knitting and avoid diversifying into areas beyond their field of expertise. An organization’s core business should be defined by the core competences of the organization. -
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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
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success — noun 1 good results ADJECTIVE ▪ enormous, great, immense, massive ▪ considerable, real, tremendous ▪ conspicuous … Collocations dictionary
commercial — ▪ I. commercial com‧mer‧cial 1 [kəˈmɜːʆl ǁ ɜːr ] adjective 1. COMMERCE relating to business and the buying and selling of goods and services: • Oran is a large commercial city on the coast. • protests against commercial development on green… … Financial and business terms
Success (prison ship) — The full rigged ship Success is best known as a travelling museum purporting to represent the horrors of penal transportation in Great Britain and the United States of America between the 1890s and the 1930s.OriginsThe Success was a former… … Wikipedia
commercial — 1 adjective 1 related to business and the buying and selling of goods and services: Our top priorities must be profit and commercial growth. 2 related to the ability of a product or business to make a profit: Gibbons failed to see the commercial… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
commercial — com|mer|cial1 W2S2 [kəˈmə:ʃəl US ə:r ] adj 1.) related to business and the buying and selling of goods and services ▪ Our top priorities must be profit and commercial growth. 2.) related to the ability of a product or business to make a profit ▪… … Dictionary of contemporary English
commercial — I. adjective Date: 1598 1. a. (1) occupied with or engaged in commerce or work intended for commerce < a commercial artist > (2) of or relating to commerce < commercial regulations > (3) characteristic of commerce < commercial … New Collegiate Dictionary
commercial — [[t]kəmɜ͟ː(r)ʃ(ə)l[/t]] ♦♦ commercials 1) ADJ: usu ADJ n Commercial means involving or relating to the buying and selling of goods. Docklands in its heyday was a major centre of industrial and commercial activity... Attacks were reported on… … English dictionary
success — [[t]səkse̱s[/t]] ♦♦ successes 1) N UNCOUNT Success is the achievement of something that you have been trying to do. It s important for the long term success of any diet that you vary your meals. ...the success of European business in building a… … English dictionary
commercial — I UK [kəˈmɜː(r)ʃ(ə)l] / US [kəˈmɜrʃ(ə)l] adjective *** 1) [usually before noun] relating to business a commercial transaction This property is suitable for domestic or commercial use. a) [only before noun] producing goods or services to sell… … English dictionary
commercial — com|mer|cial1 [ kə mɜrʃl ] adjective *** 1. ) usually before noun relating to business: a commercial transaction This land is zoned for residential or commercial use. a ) only before noun producing goods or services to sell: commercial whaling b… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
