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3 component
составной элемент, компонент; составляющая; агрегат; узел; блок, см. тж. elementUN Command component, Military Armistice Commission — группа войск военной комиссии ООН по перемирию
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4 center
центр; пункт; пост; узел; середина; научпо-иселсдовагсльскпй центр, НИЦ; выводить на середину; арт. корректировать; центрировать;air C3 center — центр руководства, управления и связи ВВС
general supply (commodity) center — центр [пункт] снабжения предметами общего предназначения
hard launch (operations) control center — ркт. центр [пункт] управления пуском, защищенный от (поражающих факторов) ЯВ
launch (operations) control center — ркт. пункт управления стартового комплекса [пуском ракет]
tactical fighter weapons (employment development) center — центр разработки способов боевого применения оружия истребителей ТА
— all-sources intelligence center— C center— combat control center— educational center— logistical operations center— logistics services center— operational center— secured communications center— skill development center -
5 office
управление; департамент; комитет; отдел; бюро; секретариат, канцелярия; разг. кабина экипажаJoint Service Cruise Missile Program [Project] office — объединенное управление разработки КР (для ВВС и ВМС)
office of Information, Navy — информационное управление ВМС
office of Research, Development and Evaluation — управление НИОКР ВМС
office of the Chief, Army Reserve — управление резерва СВ
office of the Comptroller, Navy — управление главного финансового инспектора ВМС
office of the Deputy COFS for Research, Development and Acquisition — управление заместителя НШ по НИОКР и закупкам (СВ)
office, Aerospace Research — управление воздушно-космических исследований
office, Analysis and Review — управление анализа и контроля потребностей
office, Armor Force Management and Standardization — управление по вопросам администрации и стандартизации бронетанковых войск
office, Assistant COFS for Force Development — управление ПНШ по строительству ВС
office, Assistant COFS for Intelligence — управление ПНШ по разведке
office, Assistant COFS — управление [отдел] ПНШ
office, Assistant Secretary of Defense — аппарат [секретариат] ПМО
office, Chief of Chaplains — управление начальника службы военных священников (СВ)
office, Chief of Civil Affairs — управление по связям с гражданской администрацией и населением
office, Chief of Engineers — управление начальника инженерных войск
office, Chief of Finance (and Accounting) — управление начальника финансовой службы (СВ)
office, Chief of Legislative Liaison — отдел связи с законодательными органами
office, Chief of Ordnance — управление начальника артиллерийско-технической службы (СВ)
office, Chief of R&D — управление НИОКР (СВ)
office, Chief of Transportation — управление [отдел] начальника транспортной службы
office, Chief, Chemical Corps — управление начальника химической службы
office, COFS for Operations — оперативное управление НШ
office, COFS, Army — аппарат НШ СВ
office, Consolidated Personnel — управление гражданских рабочих и служащих
office, Coordinator of Army Studies — управление координатора разработок СВ
office, Defense Transportation — управление военно-транспортной службы
office, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Air Warfare — управление заместителя НШ ВМС по боевому применению авиации
office, Deputy COFS for Aviation — отдел заместителя НШ по авиации (МП)
office, Deputy COFS for Installations and Logistics — управление заместителя НШ по расквартированию и тыловому обеспечению
office, Deputy COFS for Manpower — управление заместителя НШ по людским ресурсам
office, Deputy COFS for Operations and Training — управление заместителя НШ по оперативной и боевой подготовке
office, Deputy COFS for Plans and Logistics — управление заместителя НШ по планированию тылового обеспечения
office, Development and Engineering — отдел технических разработок (ЦРУ)
office, Development and Weapon Systems Analysis — управление разработки и анализа систем вооружения
office, Director of Development Planning — управление планирования строительства (ВВС)
office, Director of Foreign Intelligence — управление начальника внешней разведки
office, Distribution Services — отдел распределения и рассылки картографических изданий (МО)
office, Economic Research — отдел экономических исследований (ЦРУ)
office, Emergency Transportation — управление чрезвычайных перевозок
office, Employment Policy and Grievance Review — отдел по вопросам занятости и рассмотрению жалоб (СВ)
office, Federal Procurement Policy — управление разработки федеральной политики в области закупок
office, Force Planning and Analysis — управление планирования и анализа строительства ВС
office, General Council — управление генерального юрисконсульта
office, Geographic and Cartographic Research — отдел географических и картографических исследований (ЦРУ)
office, Imagery Analysis — отдел анализа видовой информации (ЦРУ)
office, Information and Legal Affairs — управление информации и права (МО)
office, Information for. the Armed Forces — управление информации ВС
office, JCS — аппарат КНШ
office, Judge Advocate General — управление начальника военно-юридической службы
office, Management and Budget — административно-бюджетное управление
office, Military Assistance — управление по оказанию военной помощи
office, Personnel Manager — отдел кадров (СВ)
office, Services and Information Agency — отдел управления информационного обеспечения
office, Special Assistant for Logistical Support of Army Aircraft — отдел специального помощника по вопросам МТО армейской авиации
office, Special Assistant for Logistical Support of Tactical Communications — отдел специального помощника по вопросам МТО тактических систем связи
office, the Inspector General — управление генерального инспектора
office, the Legislative Affairs — управление военного законодательства
office, Under Secretary of Navy — аппарат заместителя министра ВМС
office, Under Secretary of the Air Force — аппарат заместителя министра ВВС
Personnel, Plans and Training office — отдел по вопросам ЛС, планирования и боевой подготовки
Strategic Objectives [Targets] Planning office — управление планирования стратегических задач (КНШ)
Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Night Observation System office — управление разработки систем наблюдения, засечки целей и ПНВ
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6 CCC
1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Category Cytology And Cytogenetics, контроль, управление и связь (Command, Control and Communications)4) Американизм: Credibility, Confidence, and Contracts6) Военный термин: CARDA Control Center, Calm Cool And Collected, Chaos To Control To Conquer, Civilian Credit Corps, Consolidated Command Center, Cool Calm Collective, Crisis Coordination Center, ceasefire control commission, central computer center, central computer complex, classified control clerk, combat control center, combined coordinating committee, command and control center, command control console, command, control, and communications, communications center console, communications control center, communications control console, complex control center, component change control, Corps Computer Centers (TOS)7) Психиатрия: Citrated calcium carbamide8) Техника: Charming China Cheapie, capacitor-coupled clamp, cause-consequence chart, chlorocholine chloride, closed-cycle cooler, command control center, common control circuit, communications channel capacity, computer communications console, computer communications converter, controller checkout console, cross-current conductance, cyclic check character, cycocel( 2-chloroethyl) trimethyl-ammonium chloride9) Сельское хозяйство: chlorcholine chloride10) Химия: Computer Controlled Combustion11) Религия: Calvary Community Church, Campus Christian Center, Campus Crusade For Christ, Catholic Curriculum Consortium, Christian City Church, Colorado Community Church, Contemporary Christian Center, Канадский Совет Церквей12) Юридический термин: Canadian Criminal Cases13) Бухгалтерия: Credit Card Cheque14) Страхование: care, custody and control15) Автомобильный термин: converter clutch control, computer command control system (GM)16) Грубое выражение: Cant Condone Cocks17) Телекоммуникации: Clear Channel Capability, Вызов с использованием кредитной карты18) Сокращение: CINC Command Complex, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Commercial Corporation, Canadian Committee on Cataloging, Central Criminal Court, Christ Church College, Civil(ian) Conservation Corps, Classification Currents Communicator (newsletter), Combat Control Centre, Combustible Cartridge Case, Combustible Case Charge, Combustible Charge Container, Commercial Credit Corporation, Communications Control Centre, Contemporary Culture Convention, Corporate Customer Contact, Corpus Christi College, Crisis Co-ordination Center (US Secretary of Defense), Customs Cooperation Council, Concourse Computer Center (MIT), Command, Control, and Communications (sometimes C^3)19) Театр: Creation Counter Creation20) Университет: Campus Computing Center, Campus Computing Clowns, Coast Community College, College Credit Certificate, Cook County College21) Физиология: Certificate Of Clinical Competence, Certificate Of Clinical Competency, Cognitive Complexity And Control, Counselling Code Of Conduct, Counting Carbs And Calories22) Электроника: Ceramic chip carrier, Circuit Cross Connect, Convert Character Code23) Вычислительная техника: Computer Control Center, Copyright Clearance Center, Центр по проверке авторских прав США, Cube Connected Cycles (MP), Chaos Computer Club (organization)24) Нефть: карта причин и последствий (отказов; cause-consequence chart)25) Генетика: ковалентно замкнутое кольцо (двухцепочечная молекула ДНК, не имеющая свободных концов; полная "замкнутость" CCC сохраняется даже после денатурации, в нативной форме CCC может быть суперскрученым), covalently closed circle26) Офтальмология: капсулорексис (capsulorrhexis)27) Космонавтика: consolidated control center (объединенный центр управления)28) Картография: Civil Conservation Corps29) Банковское дело: Корпорация подтоварного кредита (в США; Commodity Credit Corporation), безналичные расчёты между провинциальными банками (country check clearing)30) Транспорт: Camaro Custom Club, Cargo Carrying Capacity, Choice Capacity Class, Classic Contemporary And Custom, Climb Climb Climb, Culinary Catalytic Converter31) Пищевая промышленность: Chocolate And Cheap Champagne, Chu Chin Chow, Crispy Carmel Cookies32) Фирменный знак: Canadian Cloning Corporation, Capitol City Center, Cards Convention Center, Caribbean Casino Corporation, Caribbean Conservation Corporation, Carlton Chain Company, Certified Collateral Corporation, Clear Channel Communications, Computer Curriculum Corporation, Consolidated Construction Company, Consolidated Contractors Company, Continental Can Company35) Деловая лексика: Compliment Comment Or Complaint, Corporate Client Council, Customer Competence Center, Customer Contact Center36) SAP. (Customer Competence Center) ЦКК (Центр компетенции клиента)37) Менеджмент: current contract contingency38) Образование: Can Can Can, Chinese Compulsory Certification39) Инвестиции: Commodity Credit Corporation, country check clearing40) Сетевые технологии: cache coherency check, контроль когерентности кэша41) Программирование: Carriage Control Character42) Сахалин Ю: compressor controls corporation43) Химическое оружие: Central Control Console44) Расширение файла: Central Computational Computer, Computer Control Complex, Curtain Call native format Bitmap graphics45) SAP.тех. центр компетенции клиента46) Нефть и газ: Customer Competence Center (ТНК-BP), Change Control Committee47) Военно-политический термин: Capabilities Coordination Cell48) Аварийное восстановление: customer control center49) Фантастика Cosmic Camel Corps50) Общественная организация: Cache Creek Conservancy, Civilian Crop Conservationists, Consortium Of Collective Consciousness52) NYSE. Calgon Carbon Corporation53) Программное обеспечение: Clipper To C Compiler54) Хобби: Country Cooking Club -
7 CSC
1) Общая лексика: Consultant Selection Committee (ADB)2) Компьютерная техника: Client Side Cache, Cross System Consistency3) Американизм: стабилизации хлопчатобумажной промышленности4) Спорт: Crescent Ski Council5) Военный термин: Combat Support Cell, Communications Security Command, Community Support Center, Computer Security Center, Computer Systems Command, Computery Systems Command, Conspicuous Service Cross, cartridge storage case, central security control, certificate of security clearance, change schedule chart, chief sector controller, civil service commission, civilian screening center, coastal spotting center, coastal surveillance center, combat support command, combat support company, command and staff college, command support center, communication switch board, communication systems center, computer service center, conical shaped charge, continuous service certificate, control and supervision commission, conventional standoff capability, course and speed computer6) Техника: Communication Satellite Corporation, Communications Subcommittee, Communications System Center, color subcarrier, communications switchboard console, computer subsystem controller, computer system command, containment spray cooling, contrast sensitivity curve, control system computer, core support cylinder7) Шутливое выражение: Csc Stands For Canadian8) Строительство: Акт приёмки законченного строительством объекта9) Математика: Co-Secant10) Религия: Congregatio Sanctae Crucis11) Юридический термин: Close Supervision Centre12) Автомобильный термин: coolant spark control (Ford), Cell Supervision Circuit13) Грубое выражение: Crazy Sexy Cool14) Телекоммуникации: Common Signaling Channel, carrier selection code (код выбора оператора)15) Сокращение: C.S (Components Ltd (UK)), Cable Supply & Consulting Co (Pte Ltd (Singapore)), Canadian Space Center, Combat Stress Control, Combined Shipbuilding Committee, Command & Staff Course (Singapore), Communication System Control, Compass System Controller, Computer Science Corporation, Computer Sciences Corp. (USA), Computer Software Component, Consumer Service Card, Conventional Stand-off Capability, Conventions Systems Committee (USA), Course & Speed Computer, cold drawn copper, Computer Security Centre, since 1985 - NCSA16) Университет: Chinese Students Club17) Электроника: Common Signalling Channel, Communications Satellite Corporation, управление цветовым пространством (color space control)18) Вычислительная техника: Computer Sciences Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation (Anbieter)19) Нефть: common services console20) Банковское дело: (card security code) код безопасности карты (аббревиатура часто используется в платежных системах на русском языке без перевода)21) Биотехнология: cell-surface capturing22) Транспорт: Container Safety Convention, Cost Of Saved Carbon23) Воздухоплавание: Chief Sector Control24) Фирменный знак: Cablevision Systems Corporation, Contemporary Services Corporation25) СМИ: Continental Sports Channel26) Деловая лексика: Client Support Centers, Customer Service Center27) Образование: Caring School Community, Китайский совет по стипендиям28) Сетевые технологии: Client Side Caching, centralized security controller29) Химическое оружие: Calorimetry Sciences Corporation30) Безопасность: Card Security Code31) Расширение файла: Corel Script32) Нефть и газ: Chairman of Subsidiary Commission for Emergency Situations, Опломбирован в закрытом положении (Car Sealed Closed), КПК - Коммерческий подкомитет (Commercial subcommittee), обсадная труба (м/р "Каражанбасмунай" - пос.старый Жетыбай), председатель КЧС ДАО, председатель КЧС дочернего предприятия33) HR. центр поддержки заказчика (Метран), Customer Support Center, ЦПЗ34) Электротехника: current source converter, преобразователь тока35) Фармация: Clinical Safety Committee36) Общественная организация: Christian Service Charities, Council of Student Chapters37) Должность: Code Snippet Creator, Community School Coordinator, Customer Satisfaction Coordinator -
8 csc
1) Общая лексика: Consultant Selection Committee (ADB)2) Компьютерная техника: Client Side Cache, Cross System Consistency3) Американизм: стабилизации хлопчатобумажной промышленности4) Спорт: Crescent Ski Council5) Военный термин: Combat Support Cell, Communications Security Command, Community Support Center, Computer Security Center, Computer Systems Command, Computery Systems Command, Conspicuous Service Cross, cartridge storage case, central security control, certificate of security clearance, change schedule chart, chief sector controller, civil service commission, civilian screening center, coastal spotting center, coastal surveillance center, combat support command, combat support company, command and staff college, command support center, communication switch board, communication systems center, computer service center, conical shaped charge, continuous service certificate, control and supervision commission, conventional standoff capability, course and speed computer6) Техника: Communication Satellite Corporation, Communications Subcommittee, Communications System Center, color subcarrier, communications switchboard console, computer subsystem controller, computer system command, containment spray cooling, contrast sensitivity curve, control system computer, core support cylinder7) Шутливое выражение: Csc Stands For Canadian8) Строительство: Акт приёмки законченного строительством объекта9) Математика: Co-Secant10) Религия: Congregatio Sanctae Crucis11) Юридический термин: Close Supervision Centre12) Автомобильный термин: coolant spark control (Ford), Cell Supervision Circuit13) Грубое выражение: Crazy Sexy Cool14) Телекоммуникации: Common Signaling Channel, carrier selection code (код выбора оператора)15) Сокращение: C.S (Components Ltd (UK)), Cable Supply & Consulting Co (Pte Ltd (Singapore)), Canadian Space Center, Combat Stress Control, Combined Shipbuilding Committee, Command & Staff Course (Singapore), Communication System Control, Compass System Controller, Computer Science Corporation, Computer Sciences Corp. (USA), Computer Software Component, Consumer Service Card, Conventional Stand-off Capability, Conventions Systems Committee (USA), Course & Speed Computer, cold drawn copper, Computer Security Centre, since 1985 - NCSA16) Университет: Chinese Students Club17) Электроника: Common Signalling Channel, Communications Satellite Corporation, управление цветовым пространством (color space control)18) Вычислительная техника: Computer Sciences Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation (Anbieter)19) Нефть: common services console20) Банковское дело: (card security code) код безопасности карты (аббревиатура часто используется в платежных системах на русском языке без перевода)21) Биотехнология: cell-surface capturing22) Транспорт: Container Safety Convention, Cost Of Saved Carbon23) Воздухоплавание: Chief Sector Control24) Фирменный знак: Cablevision Systems Corporation, Contemporary Services Corporation25) СМИ: Continental Sports Channel26) Деловая лексика: Client Support Centers, Customer Service Center27) Образование: Caring School Community, Китайский совет по стипендиям28) Сетевые технологии: Client Side Caching, centralized security controller29) Химическое оружие: Calorimetry Sciences Corporation30) Безопасность: Card Security Code31) Расширение файла: Corel Script32) Нефть и газ: Chairman of Subsidiary Commission for Emergency Situations, Опломбирован в закрытом положении (Car Sealed Closed), КПК - Коммерческий подкомитет (Commercial subcommittee), обсадная труба (м/р "Каражанбасмунай" - пос.старый Жетыбай), председатель КЧС ДАО, председатель КЧС дочернего предприятия33) HR. центр поддержки заказчика (Метран), Customer Support Center, ЦПЗ34) Электротехника: current source converter, преобразователь тока35) Фармация: Clinical Safety Committee36) Общественная организация: Christian Service Charities, Council of Student Chapters37) Должность: Code Snippet Creator, Community School Coordinator, Customer Satisfaction Coordinator -
9 supply
снабжение, поставка; подвоз; подача; питание; pl. предметы снабжения; материальные средства, материалы; запас(ы) ( материальных средств) ; снабженческий груз; снабжать, поставлять; подавать; доставлятьclass I A supplies (Air/inflight rations) — предметы снабжения подкласса I A (летные пайки)
class I R supplies (Refrigerated subsistence) — предметы снабжения подкласса I R (замороженные продукты питания)
class I S supplies (Nonrefrigerated subsistence less combat rations) — предметы снабжения подкласса I S (незамороженные продукты питания, исключая боевые пайки)
class I supplies (Subsistence and health and welfare items) — предметы снабжения класса I (продовольствие и санитарно-хозяйственные предметы)
class II B supplies (Ground support materiel) — предметы снабжения подкласса II B (наземное вспомогательное имущество)
class II E supplies (General supplies) — предметы снабжения подкласса II E (общие виды предметов снабжения)
class II F supplies (Clothing and textiles) — предметы снабжения подкласса II F (обмундирование и текстильные изделия)
class II T supplies (Industrial Supplies) — предметы снабжения подкласса II T (промышленная продукция)
class III W supplies (Ground/surface) — предметы снабжения подкласса III W (ГСМ для наземных и надводных средств)
class IX supplies (Repair parts and components) — предметы снабжения класса IX (запасные части и компоненты)
class VI supplies (Personal demand items) — предметы снабжения класса VI (предметы личного пользования)
class VII B supplies (Ground support materiel) — предметы снабжения подкласса VII B (наземное вспомогательное оборудование и имущество)
class VII D supplies (Administrative vehicles) — предметы снабжения подкласса VII D (автотранспортные средства административно-хозяйственного назначения)
class VII K supplies (Tactical vehicles) — предметы снабжения подкласса VII K (военные транспортные средства)
class VII N supplies (Special weapons) — предметы снабжения подкласса VII N (специальные виды оружия)
class X supplies (Materiel to support nonmilitary programs) — предметы снабжения класса X (материальные средства для невоенных программ)
common, compatible, operational interchangeable supplies — общие, совместные и взаимозаменяемые предметы текущего снабжения
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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
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