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n1) действие; работа2) торговая или финансовая операция; сделка3) разработка, эксплуатация4) технологическая операция; процесс; цикл обработки5) режим работы6) амер. управление
- administration operation
- agency operation
- air-express operation
- air-freight operations
- air-passenger operations
- assembly operations
- automated operation
- automatic operation
- auxiliary operations
- banking operation
- barter operation
- basic operation
- bear operation
- bearish operation
- black-market operation
- boiler-room operation
- bookkeeping operation
- bull operation
- bullish operation
- calculating operation
- capacity operations
- cargo operation
- cargo-handling operations
- cash operation
- census operation
- charter operations
- checking operation
- cheque operation
- clearing operation
- commercial operation
- commission banking operations
- computer operation
- computing operation
- concurrent operation
- congested operation
- consignment operation
- construction operations
- continuous operation
- contract operations
- conversion operation
- credit operation
- current operation
- current account operation
- customs operation
- day-to-day operations
- dependable operation
- deposit operation
- discharging operations
- dock operations
- documentary credit operations
- double-barelled loan operation
- double-shift operation
- efficient operation
- exchange operation
- exploration operation
- export operation
- express operations
- external operation
- fabrication operation
- fail-safe operation
- failure-free operation
- farm operations
- faultless operation
- fiduciary operations
- field operations
- financial operation
- financing operation
- fine-tuning operations
- finishing operation
- foreign operations
- foreign exchange operation
- foreign trade operations
- forward operation
- franchising operation
- full time operation
- full-capacity operation
- fund exchange operation
- funding operation
- future operation
- guaranteed operation
- handling operations
- harvesting operations
- hedging operation
- housekeeping operations
- incentive operation
- independent operation
- individual operation
- initial operation
- insurance operation
- integrated operation
- intermediate trade operation
- international operation
- inventory operations
- invisible operation
- job shop operation
- joint operation
- lending operations
- licensing operation
- loading operations
- loading and discharging operations
- loading and unloading operations
- loan operation
- loss operation
- machine operation
- machining operation
- main operation
- major operation
- maritime transport operations
- marketing operations
- mathematical operation
- maximization operation
- mechanized operation
- merchandising operations
- minimization operation
- mining operations
- monetary operations
- multitask operation
- multiple shift operation
- multishift operation
- no-failure operation
- nonproductive operations
- normal operation
- off-balance sheet operations
- off-line operation
- offshore operation
- one-shift operation
- on-line operation
- onward switching operations
- open-market operations
- open-pit operation
- panel operation
- part time operation
- plant operation
- processing operation
- production operation
- production-scale operation
- production-type operation
- productive operation
- progressive operation
- proper operation
- purchasing operation
- quay operations
- rational operation
- real-time operation
- reexport operation
- reimport operation
- reliable operation
- remittance operation
- resale operation
- rescue operation
- routine operations
- sales operations
- salvage operations
- seasonal operations
- second shift operation
- semi-automated operation
- serial operation
- service operation
- settlement operation
- short-term operation
- slack operation
- small-scale operations
- smooth operation
- smoothing operation
- speculative operation
- start-up operations
- steady operation
- stevedoring operations
- stock exchange operations
- swap operation
- trade operations
- trading operations
- tramp operations
- transfer operations
- trial operation
- trouble-free operation
- trouble-proof operation
- two-shift operation
- turn-key operation
- uninterrupted operation
- unloading operations
- warehousing operations
- operation in futures
- operation of a business
- operation of circumstances
- operation of collection
- operation of economy
- operation of equipment
- operation of an exhibition
- operation of a machine
- operation of multilateral tax treaties
- operation of a plant
- operation of premises
- operations on the stock exchange
- in operation
- under operation
- be in operation
- be out of operation
- begin operations
- bring into operation
- carry out operations
- cease operations
- close operations
- come into operation
- commence operations
- conduct operations
- execute financial operations
- go into operation
- handle operations
- hold up operations
- interfere with operations
- interrupt operations
- monitor operations
- perform operations
- place into operation
- provide normal operation
- put into operation
- put out of operation
- suspend operations
- wind down operationsEnglish-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > operation
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22 management
(mgt; mngmt; man)мен. 1. n менеджмент; управління; керівництво; адміністрація; дирекція; a адміністративний; управлінський; виконавчий; 2. менеджмент; адміністрація; дирекція1. система методів, заходів, дій, необхідних для формулювання, виконання і досягнення визначеної мети діяльності підприємства, організації тощо; ♦ менеджмент включає такі види діяльності: планування (planning), контроль процесу роботи, заохочення працівників, членів і т. ін., координацію завдань тощо; 2. склад осіб, який займається управлінням підприємством, організацією тощо═════════■═════════account management управління службою виконання замовлень клієнтів • завідування рахунками; accountability management програмно-цільове управління • управління методом оцінки ефективності; administrative management адміністративне керівництво; advertising management управління рекламою • управління рекламною діяльністю; assets management управління активами; automated management автоматизоване управління; automated production management автоматизоване управління виробництвом; bottom up management керівництво підприємством з участю робітників • управління за принципом «зверху — вниз»; brand management управління виробництвом товарної марки; business management ділове управління • управління комерційними підприємствами; cash management контроль і регулювання грошових операцій; central management центральне управління; centralized management централізоване управління; channel management управління каналом розподілу; commercial management комерційне управління; company management керівництво фірми • керівництво компанії; computer-assisted management автоматизоване управління; construction management управління будівництвом; contract management контроль і регулювання виконання контракту • контроль за виконанням контракту; corporate management керівництво корпорації • керівництво акціонерного товариства • управління корпорацією; creative management творче керівництво; credit management управління кредитними операціями; data management опрацювання даних; database management управління базою даних; day-to-day management оперативне управління; debt management контроль і регулювання боргів; demand management контроль і регулювання попиту • управління попитом; departmental management управління відділом; economic management господарське управління; environmental management заходи раціонального користування навколишнім середовищем; event management організація і провадження спеціальних заходів; executive management адміністративне керівництво • виконавче керівництво; exhibition management адміністрація виставки; factory management керівництво фабрики • керівництво заводу • заводоуправління; farm management управління сільськогосподарським виробництвом; farm production management управління сільськогосподарським виробництвом; file management управління файлами • управління картотекою; financial management управління фінансовою діяльністю • управління фінансами; functional management функціональне керівництво • функціональний менеджмент • функціональне управління; fund management менеджмент фонду • управління фондом; general management загальне керівництво; general economic management загальне господарське керівництво; goals management програмно-цільове управління • управління методом оцінки ефективності; hands-on management практичне керівництво; higher management вище керівництво • вища ланка керівництва; home management ведення домашнього господарства; human resource management управління людськими ресурсами • менеджмент людських ресурсів; incumbent management керівництво, яке несе відповідальність за що-небудь; industrial management керівництво промисловим підприємством • економіка й організація виробництва; information management керівництво інформацією; interest rate risk management управління ризиком відсотків; internal management внутрішнє управління; inventory management управління запасами • управління матеріально-технічним постачанням; investment management управління інвестиціями • управління портфелем цінних паперів; job management організація праці; joint management спільне управління; line management лінійне керівництво • середня ланка управління • середня ланка керівництва на виробництві; lower management нижча ланка керівництва; manpower management управління кадрами; marketing management управління маркетингом; materials management управління матеріальними ресурсами • управління запасами • управління матеріально-технічним постачанням; matrix management матрична структура управління; media management керівництво служби засобів реклами; merchandise management управління товарними засобами; middle management середня адміністративна ланка • середня ланка управління; monetary management контроль і регулювання грошового обігу • грошово-кредитна політика • контроль і регулювання грошових операцій; natural resource management раціональне використання і відтворення природних ресурсів; nature management природокористування; nutritional management лікувальне харчування • дієтотерапія; on-site management місцеве керівництво; operational management оперативне керівництво; operations management управління основною діяльністю • управління операціями; participative management управління підприємством за участю працівників підприємства; pension fund management управління пенсійним фондом; personnel management управління кадрами • робота з кадрами • добір і розміщення кадрів • трудові відносини; piecemeal management порізнене керівництво • неузгоджене керівництво; plant management управління підприємством • керівництво підприємством • заводоуправління • управління фабрикою • дирекція заводу; port management управління портом; portfolio management управління цінними паперами • контроль і регулювання портфеля цінних паперів • менеджмент портфеля цінних паперів; product management керівництво виробництвом окремого товару • управління продуктом • управління товарним виробництвом; production management управління виробництвом • керування виробництвом; professional management професійне керівництво • професійний менеджмент; program management програмне управління • керівництво програмою; project management керівництво проектом; property management управління власністю; quality management управління якістю; rate management регулювання тарифів; records management оперативний облік; research management управління дослідницькою службою; resource management управління ресурсами; retail management управління підприємством роздрібної торгівлі; retailing management управління роздрібною діяльністю; risk management управління ризиком • управління, націлене на зменшення ризику; sales management управління збутом; sales-force management управління торговельним персоналом • організація роботи торговельного персоналу фірми; scientific management наукове управління; sectoral management галузеве управління; selective inventory management вибіркове управління запасами; senior management вище керівництво • вище виконавче керівництво • вища адміністрація • вища ланка управління • головне управління; service management забезпечення обслуговування споживача; social management соціальний аспект управління; staff management управління кадрами • функціональне керівництво; stock management управління запасами; system management системне керівництво; team management колективне керівництво; technical management технічне керівництво; technical services management управління технічними службами; technology management управління технологією; territory management управління територією • управління збутовою територією • організація роботи на території; time management уміння розпоряджатися часом • управління часом; top management вище керівництво • вище виконавче керівництво • вища адміністрація • вища ланка управління • головне управління; total quality management (TQM) всеосяжне управління якістю • комплексне управління якістю; upper management вище керівництво • вище виконавче керівництво • вища адміністрація • вища ланка управління; venture management цільове управління; waste management використання відходів; works management управління підприємством • керівництво підприємства • заводоуправління • управління фабрикою • дирекція заводу; zero-defects management управління методом бездефектності═════════□═════════management accountancy поточний аналіз господарської діяльності; management accountant; management accounting адміністративна звітність • оперативний облік, який пов'язаний з потребами управління • управлінський облік • виконавчий облік; management accounts адміністративні розрахунки • управлінський облік; management agreement угода з адміністрацією; management and administration організація виробництва і адміністративне управління; management and labour управлінський і виробничий персонал; management audit; management body орган управління; management buy-in купівля контрольного пакета акцій компанії • купівля компанії акціонерами; management buyout викуп контрольного пакета акцій корпорації її персоналом • викуп частини конгломерату для створення самостійної компанії • продаж фірми адміністрацією; management by consensus управління на основі згоди; management by differences управління за відхиленнями (дії керівництва, що відновлюють нормальний процес виробничої діяльності у разі появи відхилень); management by exception управління за відхиленнями; management by interest rates управління шляхом контролю відсоткових ставок; management by objectives (MBO) програмно-цільове управління • управління методом оцінки ефективності; management by results програмно-цільове управління • управління методом оцінки ефективності; management by rules управління за встановленими правилами; management commission адміністративна комісія; management committee адміністративний комітет; management consultancy консультування у справі управління • послуги з управлінського консультування; management consultant консультант у справі управління; management control measures заходи управлінського контролю; management decision рішення менеджменту • рішення управління; management development удосконалення методів управління; management expenses витрати на управління • управлінські витрати; management fee гонорар за управлінські послуги; management game управлінська гра; management group група управління • адміністративна група; management information system (MIS) управлінська інформаційна система; management level рівень менеджменту • рівень управління; management method метод управління; management of assets управління активами; management of bank funds управління банківськими фондами • розміщення банківських капіталів; management of capital управління капіталом; management of consumer wants управління споживчими потребами; management of economic activity управління господарською діяльністю; management of an enterprise управління підприємством; management of foreign economic ties управління зовнішньоекономічними зв'язками; management of liquid funds управління ліквідними фондами; management of production управління виробництвом; management of securities регулювання портфеля цінних паперів; management personnel адміністративно-управлінський апарат • управлінський персонал; management policy політика керівництва • стратегія керівництва; management principle управлінський принцип; management reform реформа управління; management reshuffle перестановка управлінського апарату; management services управлінські послуги; management shakeup перестановка управлінського апарату; management shares акціонерний капітал керівників компанії; management stock акціонерний капітал керівників компанії; management structure структура управління; management tools засоби і методика управління; management unit адміністративний підрозділ; to interfere in the management of втручатися/втрутитися в управління чим-небудь; to take over management приймати/прийняти на себе керівництво • приймати/прийняти на себе управління* * *керівники банку; дирекція; органи управління; адміністрація ( компанії); керівництво ( підприємства); управлінські навички; виконавчі органи; управління; керівники виконавчих органів -
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1. n1) состояние, положение2) pl обстоятельства, условия, обстановка; режим3) условие, оговорка
- abnormal conditions
- acceptable conditions
- actual operating conditions
- additional conditions
- adverse conditions
- apparent condition
- as-received condition
- atmospheric conditions
- auxiliary condition
- average conditions
- basic conditions
- basis conditions
- boilerplate conditions
- boom conditions
- business conditions
- climatic conditions
- commercial conditions
- competitive conditions
- compulsory conditions
- credit conditions
- critical conditions
- debenture conditions
- defective condition
- design conditions
- desired conditions
- dissolving condition
- economic conditions
- emergency conditions
- end-service condition
- end-use condition
- environmental conditions
- equal conditions
- equilibrium conditions
- existing conditions
- express conditions
- extreme conditions
- faulty condition
- favourable conditions
- feasibility conditions
- financial condition
- financial conditions
- first-order conditions
- general conditions
- general conditions of a contract
- guarantee conditions
- housing conditions
- implied condition
- inequitable condition
- inflationary conditions
- insurance conditions
- job conditions
- labour conditions
- lease conditions
- letter of credit conditions
- licence conditions
- limiting condition
- living conditions
- loan conditions
- local conditions
- main condition
- maintenance conditions
- mandatory conditions
- marginal conditions
- market condition
- market conditions
- marketing conditions
- meteorological conditions
- moderate operating conditions
- normal conditions
- obligatory conditions
- operable condition
- operating condition
- operating conditions
- operation conditions
- operational conditions
- optimal conditions
- outside condition
- peak condition
- perfect condition
- permanent condition
- plant conditions
- policy conditions
- poor condition
- practical conditions
- precedent condition
- preferential conditions
- preliminary condition
- prescribed conditions
- prevailing conditions
- prevalent market conditions
- prior condition
- production conditions
- project conditions
- proper condition
- purchase and sale conditions
- queue condition
- rated conditions
- readiness condition
- realistic conditions
- realizability condition
- reasonable conditions
- regular service conditions
- resolutive condition
- restrictive conditions
- running conditions
- safety conditions
- saturation condition
- second-order conditions
- service conditions
- serviceable condition
- shop conditions
- side condition
- site conditions
- social conditions
- soil condition
- sound condition
- special conditions
- special policy conditions
- stabilized production conditions
- stable monetary conditions
- standard conditions
- stand-by condition
- starting conditions
- stipulated conditions
- storage conditions
- strict budgetary conditions
- strict technical conditions
- stringent conditions
- subsequent condition
- suitable conditions
- suitable shipping conditions
- surplus conditions
- suspensive condition
- technical conditions
- technological conditions
- tender conditions
- test conditions
- top condition
- trading conditions
- traffic conditions
- transport conditions
- unequal conditions
- unfair conditions
- unfavourable conditions
- uniform conditions
- unsatisfactory conditions
- unsound financial condition
- unstable market conditions
- usable condition
- use conditions
- usual conditions
- working conditions
- conditions of acceptance
- condition of cargo
- conditions of a contract
- conditions of delivery
- conditions of employment
- conditions of financing
- condition of goods
- conditions of a guarantee
- conditions of a letter of credit
- conditions of life
- conditions of the market
- conditions of marketing
- condition of packages
- conditions of participation
- conditions of payment
- conditions of sale
- conditions of service
- conditions of subscription
- conditions of supply
- conditions of transport
- conditions of work
- as per conditions
- in accordance with conditions
- in damaged condition
- in good condition
- in serviceable condition
- in undamaged condition
- in working condition
- on condition
- out of condition
- under existing conditions
- under the given conditions
- under production conditions
- adhere to conditions
- alter conditions
- attach conditions
- bargain for better conditions
- break conditions
- change conditions
- conform to conditions
- create favourable conditions
- follow conditions
- fulfil conditions
- implement conditions
- impose conditions
- improve conditions
- include conditions
- incorporate conditions
- infringe conditions
- lay down conditions
- make conditions
- meet conditions
- modify conditions
- observe conditions
- revise conditions
- set forth conditions
- stipulate conditions
- superimpose conditions
- violate conditions
- yield to conditions2. vEnglish-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > condition
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25 management
n1) управление; заведование; руководство; менеджмент2) ведение (дел, хозяйства, переговоров)3) правление; дирекция; администрация
- account management
- administrative management
- arbitration management
- asset management
- asset-liability management
- automated management
- automated production management
- bank management
- banking management
- bottom-up management
- business management
- cash management
- centralized management
- commercial management
- company management
- construction management
- contract management
- corporate management
- credit management
- crop management
- day-to-day management
- debt management
- demand-side management
- departmental management
- economic management
- executive management
- exhibition management
- external management
- factory management
- farm management
- financial management
- firm management
- fiscal management
- fund management
- general management
- hands-on management
- higher management
- industrial management
- interest rate risk management
- inventory management
- investment management
- job management
- joint management
- joint venture management
- level management
- line management
- livestock management
- lower management
- manpower management
- marketing management
- material management
- middle management
- monetary management
- money management
- one-man management
- on-site management
- operational management
- operative management
- participative management
- pension fund management
- personnel management
- piecemeal management
- plant management
- port management
- portfolio management
- product management
- production management
- project management
- proper management
- property management
- prudent macroeconomic management
- quality management
- rate management
- records management
- resource management
- risk management
- senior management
- sound management
- staff management
- stock management
- technical management
- temporary management
- top management
- trust management
- upper management
- work management
- working management
- works management
- management of a business
- management of consumer wants
- management of economic activity
- management of an enterprise
- management of a firm
- management of production
- management of securities
- carry out management
- place under external management
- take over managementEnglish-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > management
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26 manager
1) руководитель, заведующий, управляющий, администратор; менеджер; директор•Fidelity, the biggest US mutual fund manager, is set to announce steep job cuts of about 10 per cent of its US workforce. — «Фиделити», самая крупная американская компания по управлению взаимными инвестиционными фондами, планирует значительное сокращение рабочих мест своего американского персонала.
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27 line
[laɪn]n1) строка, строчка, линейкаThe pen moved on down to the next line. — Перо двигалось дальше к следующей строчке.
There isn't a dull line in the whole play. — Во всей пьесе нет ни одной скучной строки.
The article (the paragraph) was cut down to two or three lines. — Статья была сокращена (параграф был сокращен) до двух-трех строчек.
- top line- few lines
- witty lines
- line ten
- line frequency
- line test
- line spectrum
- second line from the top
- line three from the top of the page
- line of print
- line of a poem
- line of symbols
- page of twenty five lines
- above the line
- crowd many facts into a few lines
- drop smb a few lines
- expect a line from him
- jump a line
- jump from one line to another
- keep in line
- miss out a line
- read between the lines
- read every line
- run out a line into the margin
- set these lines in a smaller type2) линия, черта, очертание, стильThe two lines meet/join here. — Две линии здесь сходятся.
The old woman's face was covered with lines. — Лицо старушки было в морщинах.
She was fined for parking on a single yellow line. — Ее оштрафовали за то, что она оставила машину на желтой полосе.
The building has strong, noble lines. — Здание выдержано в строгом, благородном стиле/в строгих, благородных линиях.
- contour line- straight line
- broken line
- horisontal line
- curving lines
- dividing line
- divergent lines
- white line
- double yellow line
- soft lines
- pencil line
- forward line
- finish line
- foul line
- side line
- sharpened lines
- base line
- state line
- city line
- fight lines
- assemble line
- pipe lines
- sewage lines
- plumb line
- clogged fuel line
- straight lines of her dress
- hard savaged lines of his mouth
- line of sight
- lines of the hand
- line of life
- lines in a rock
- lines in the face
- lines of premature age
- remote line of the sea
- line of the mountains
- blue line of the horizon
- hand covered with fine dry lines
- beauty of line in an artist's work
- on goal line
- be the first over the line
- draw a line from A to B
- draw two lines along the margin
- draw a line with a ruler
- make a line
- mark with lines
- run a line on the map3) ряд, очередь, цепь, строй, шеренгаThere were two lines at the box office. — В кассу за билетами было две очереди.
The children were all in line. — Дети выстроились в ряд.
He got first in line. — Он оказался первым в очереди.
There was a long line of cars ahead of us. — Перед нами была вереница машин.
The lines of the enemy gave way. — Ряды противника дрогнули.
- piket line- two lines abreast
- line troops
- line battalion
- line training
- line of trees
- line of policemen
- line of mountains
- line of workers on strike
- prestigeous line of authors
- lines of infantry
- line between these countries
- line of demarkation
- line of defence
- line of march of an army
- line of advance
- line of retreat
- line of aim
- line of fire
- line of battle
- line of departure
- line of contact
- officers of the line
- ships of the line
- in the line of duty
- at the beginning of the line
- arrange smth in a line
- be the first in the line
- drop out of line
- go into line
- be in the front line
- be next in line for promotion
- be in line for action
- break up a picket line
- form into a line
- go up the line
- lay smth out in a line
- march in line
- plant trees in a line
- see whether the wheels are in line
- stand in line for smth
- stand in one line
- step out of line
- suffer defeat all along the line
- have seven men in the line4) линия родства, родословнаяHe is the last of the royal line. — Он последний представитель королевского рода.
He decend in an unbroken line from Bruce. — Он прямой потомок Брюса.
- male line- decendent in a direct line
- come of a good line
- inheritance will go on the female line5) линия связиHe is on the line now. — Он сейчас говорит по телефону. /Он сейчас на линии.
They took the wrong line on the underground. — Они сели не на ту линию метро.
The tickets are sold at all points on the line. — Билеты продаются на всех пунктах линии.
There was silence on the other end of the line. Then her voice came back on the line. — На том конце телефон замолчал, затем на линии опять зазвучал ее голос.
- telephone line- main line
- local line
- single line
- communication lines
- air line
- branch line
- commuter line
- municipal bus line
- outside line
- long-distance line
- fallen power line
- line communication
- line maintenance
- supply lines to enemy formations
- line of force
- last stop on the local bus line
- all along the line
- somewhere along the line
- be on a party line
- do repairs to the lines
- fall from the platform onto the lines
- instal telephone lines in the neighbourhood
- open a new steamship line
- run a line of mail boats
- tie up the bus lines- line is engaged- line has gone dead6) верёвка, канат, провод, леса (удочки)Is your line strong enough to hol (to land) a ten-pound fish? — Ваше леска достаточно крепка, чтобы выдержать (вытянуть) пятикилограммовую рыбу?
- thin line- clothes line
- wire lines
- harpoon lines
- fish line
- end of the line
- hang the laundry on the line
- tie in a slack line
- tie a fish line to a fishing-rod
- line broke7) текст роли, слова ролиThe books are written along the same line. — Эти книги одного плана. /Эти книги написаны в одном и том же стиле.
You have dealt with the subject on the right lines, but your essay is lacking in detail. — Вы правильно подошли к вопросу, но в вашем очерке не хватает подробностей.
In spite of these gaps the broad line of the story remains clear. — Несмотря на эти пропуски, основной сюжет рассказа остается ясным.
- actor's lines- main line of the story
- just a few lines to tell you we are here
- go over one's lines
- learn one's lines8) тенденция, принцип, направление, курс, область деятельностиHe managed to keep the whole party in line. — Ему удалось поддерживать единство всей группы.
You need very strict directions to keep you in line. — Вам нужны очень точные указания, чтобы не сбиться с пути.
- policy lineIt all happened along the line. — Это все произошло на пути/во время пути.
- old propoganda line
- party line
- main line of the plan
- main line of the situation
- something along those lines
- rice pudding or something in that line
- men in the same line
- pay on the line
- on commercial line
- agree with smb's statement down the line
- be on a line with smth
- be successful all along the line
- be in the grocery line
- be in line with the statement
- be on line
- come on line
- be in line
- bring the theory in line with the facts
- change the line of conduct
- come into line with the majority
- do smth on scientific lines
- govern on conservative lines
- increase people's incomes in line with rising prices
- keep in line with the rules
- keep in line with the terms of the agreement
- keep smth on top line
- live below the poverty line
- pass instruction down the line
- reach the end of the line
- get to the end of the line
- set up a commitee on the following
- take a strong line over smth
- follow a strong line over smth
- throw a good line
- one's job is on the line
- paying on the line is cheaper than on credit
- try to bring the whole commitee into line
- population is split along religious lines
- conversation ran along familiar lines
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28 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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