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5 камера
( помещение) camera, ( в камерно-столбовой разработке угля) bord, bowl, box, cabinet пищ., case, cell, chamber, compartment, enclosure, room, stall, ( шины) inner tube, ( шины или рукава) tube резин.* * *ка́мера ж.1. ( помещение) chamber, compartmentгерметизи́ровать ка́меру1. ( уплотнять) seal the chamber2. ( создавать положительный перепад давления) pressurize the chamber2. ( внутренняя оболочка шины) (inner) tube3. ( внутренняя часть фотоаппарата) camera4. горн. chamberка́мера Бо́йса — Boys rotating lens-type cameraброди́льная ка́мера — fermentation roomбурова́я ка́мера — drill chamberва́куумная ка́мера — vacuum chamberва́куумно-косми́ческая ка́мера — space chamberва́рочная ка́мера ( для вулканизации шин) — curing bagвентиляцио́нная ка́мера — air-ventilation chamberвзрывна́я ка́мера горн. — blasting chamberка́мера Ви́льсона — (Wilson) cloud chamberка́мера Ви́льсона, диффузио́нная — diffusion cloud chamberвла́жная ка́мера — moist chamberводоприё́мная ка́мера гидр. — water intake chamberвозду́шная ка́мера — wind chamberка́мера вса́сывания ( в насосе) — inlet chamberвулканизацио́нная ка́мера — vulcanization [curing] chamberвысо́тная ка́мера — altitude chamber(высо́тная) ка́мера воспроизво́дит усло́вия, существу́ющие на больши́х высо́тах — an altitude chamber simulates conditions up to extreme hightsвытяжна́я ка́мера — exhaust chamberка́мера глазирова́ния пищ. — glazing chamberка́мера глуши́теля — baffle chamberка́мера горе́ния ( в печи) — primary furnaceка́мера грохоче́ния горн. — grizzly chamberгрязева́я ка́мера — mud chamberка́мера давле́ния — pressure vessel; pressure chamberдезактивацио́нная ка́мера ( для обработки после поражения радиоактивными веществами) — decontamination chamberдезинфекцио́нная ка́мера — disinfectorдекомпрессио́нная ка́мера — decompression chamberка́мера деле́ния яд. физ. — fission chamberка́мера деле́ния, многоэлектро́дная — multiplate fission chamberдели́тельная ка́мера яд. физ. — fission chamberдистилляцио́нная ка́мера — distillation chamberдиффузио́нно-конденсацио́нная ка́мера — diffusion (cloud) chamberка́мера для дожига́ния ( отходящих газов) — combustion chamberка́мера для запа́рки поча́тков текст. — cop steaming boxка́мера для испыта́ния в солево́м тума́не, коррозио́нная — salt-spray chamberка́мера для окра́ски распыле́нием авто — (paint) spray boothка́мера догора́ния ( в печи) — secondary furnace, secondary combustion spaceка́мера дожига́ния ав. — reheat [afterburner] chamberдожига́тельная ка́мера ( в печи) — secondary furnace, secondary combustion spaceдробестру́йная ка́мера — shot-blasting chamberка́мера дробле́ния1. горн. crusher chamber2. ( щековой дробилки) breaking spaceдугогаси́тельная ка́мера ( в выключателях-автоматах) — arc chuteдутьева́я ка́мера ( в печи) — wind boxзаглушё́нная ка́мера ак. — anechoic [echo-free] chamber, dead [free-field] roomзагру́зочная ка́мера1. loading chamber2. с.-х. feed chamberзака́лочная ка́мера — hardening [quenching] chamberзаря́дная ка́мера горн. — charging room, battery (charging) roomизмельчи́тельная ка́мера с.-х. — chopper chamberионизацио́нная ка́мера — ionization [ion] chamberионизацио́нная, воздухоэквивале́нтная ка́мера — air-equivalent ionization chamberионизацио́нная, возду́шная ка́мера — free-air ionization chamberионизацио́нная, двойна́я ка́мера — back-to-back ionization [double ionization] chamberионизацио́нная, дифференциа́льная ка́мера — differential ionization chamberионизацио́нная, и́мпульсная ка́мера — pulse ionization chamberионизацио́нная, интегри́рующая ка́мера — integrating ionization chamberионизацио́нная, компенсацио́нная ка́мера — compensated ionization chamberионизацио́нная, напё́рстковая ка́мера — thimble ionization chamberионизацио́нная, прото́чная ка́мера — flow-type ionization chamberионизацио́нная ка́мера с электро́нным и́мпульсом — fast ionization chamberионизацио́нная, тканеэквивале́нтная ка́мера — tissue-equivalent ionization chamberионизацио́нная, экстраполяцио́нная ка́мера — extrapolation ionization chamberискроулови́тельная ка́мера метал. — spark condensing chamberка́мера иску́сственного кли́мата — environmental [climatic] chamber, climatizerка́мера ка́бельной ли́нии — cable line cellкиносъё́мочная ка́мера — motion-picture [cine] cameraкиносъё́мочная, люби́тельская ка́мера — amateur cine cameraкиносъё́мочная, многообъекти́вная ка́мера — multiple-lens cameraкиносъё́мочная, мультипликацио́нная ка́мера — animation-cartoon cameraкиносъё́мочная, подво́дная ка́мера — underwater motion-picture [underwater cine] cameraкиносъё́мочная, регистрацио́нная ка́мера — instrumentation cameraкиносъё́мочная, ручна́я ка́мера — band-held motion-picture [hand-held cine] cameraкиносъё́мочная, скоростна́я ка́мера — high-speed cine cameraкла́панная ка́мера — valve chamberкоагуляцио́нная ка́мера — coagulation tankка́мера коксова́ния — coking chamberкомпрессио́нная ка́мера — compression chamberконденсацио́нная ка́мера — (Wilson) cloud [condensing] chamberка́мера кондициони́рования — conditioning chamberкопти́льная ка́мера — smoking [smoke] chamber, smoke-room, smoke cabinetка́мера котла́, водяна́я — heater of a boilerлучева́я ка́мера ( для электроннолучевой плавки) — beam chamberка́мера манипуляцио́нная ручна́я ка́мера ( для работы с радиоактивными веществами) — glove boxка́мера молоти́лки, приё́мная — feeder houseмолоти́льная ка́мера — heating chamberморози́льная ка́мера — freezing room, freezing chamberка́мера нагнета́ния ( насоса) — discharge [pressure] chamberнапо́рная ка́мера ( насоса) — discharge [pressure] chamberнаправля́ющая ка́мера ( для ленты видеомагнитофона) — concave guideнасо́сная ка́мера горн. — pump chamber, pump roomнизкотемперату́рная ка́мера — cold chamberка́мера облуче́ния — irradiation chamberка́мера оку́ривания — fumigating chamber, fumigator roomосади́тельная ка́мера — settling chamberоса́дочная ка́мера — settling vesselотжига́тельная ка́мера — annealing chamberка́мера отрыва́ющего аппара́та с.-х. — stripping chamberотсто́йная ка́мера — settling chamberка́мера охлажде́ния ( топки) — secondary furnaceка́мера очё́са с.-х. — combing chamberпарова́я ка́мера — steam chamberпека́рная ка́мера — baking chamberплави́льная ка́мера — melt(ing) chamberка́мера подава́теля комба́йна — feeder houseка́мера подогре́ва двс. — (pre)heating chamberпомо́льная ка́мера метал. — grinding chamberпоплавко́вая ка́мера тепл. — float chamberка́мера предвари́тельного прессова́ния с.-х. — precompression chamberпредсоплова́я ка́мера ( летательного аппарата на воздушной подушке) — plenum chamberпрессова́льная ка́мера с.-х. — bale [baling] chamberка́мера прессова́ния ( в литье под давлением) — pressure chamberприё́мная ка́мера1. inlet chamber2. с.-х. feed chamberпромы́вочная ка́мера — washing chamberпропа́рочная ка́мера — steam-curing chamberпряди́льная ка́мера — spinning cellпузырько́вая ка́мера яд. физ. — bubble chamberпузырько́вая, «чи́стая» ка́мера яд. физ. — clean-type bubble chamberпускова́я ка́мера ракет. — precombustion chamberпылеосади́тельная ка́мера — dust-collecting chamberпылеотдели́тельная ка́мера — dust-separation chamberразгру́зочная ка́мера1. с.-х. discharge chamber2. тепл. balancing chamberразря́дная ка́мера — discharge chamberраспа́рочная ка́мера рез. — steam-softening chamberка́мера распредели́тельного устро́йства эл. — switchgear cellраспыли́тельная ка́мера1. spray [atomizing] chamber2. двс. jet chamberрасшири́тельная ка́мера — expansion chamberреверберацио́нная ка́мера — reverberation chamberрентге́новская ка́мера — X-ray cameraрентге́новская, порошко́вая ка́мера — powder X-ray cameraка́мера сгора́ния — combustion chamber… происхо́дит прога́р ка́меры сгора́ния ркт. — …then the combustion chamber burns up [burns out]удаля́ть нага́р из ка́меры сгора́ния двс. — de-gum the combustion chamberка́мера сгора́ния, вихрева́я — high-turbulence [vortex, swirl-type] combustion chamberка́мера сгора́ния, кольцева́я ( газотурбинного двигателя) — annular combustion chamberка́мера сгора́ния ма́ршевого дви́гателя — sustainer [cruising] chamberка́мера сгора́ния, противото́чная — reverse-flow combustion chamberка́мера сгора́ния, прямото́чная — straight flow [direct-flow] combustion chamberка́мера сгора́ния, сверхзвукова́я — supersonic combustorка́мера сгора́ния со стабилиза́торами пла́мени — can combustorка́мера сгора́ния с плё́ночным охлажде́нием — film-cooled combustion chamberка́мера сгора́ния с турбулиза́торами пото́ка — baffle-type combustorка́мера сгора́ния, тру́бчатая — tubular-type [can-type] combustion chamberка́мера сгора́ния, тру́бчато-кольцева́я — canular combustion chamberка́мера сгора́ния, поворо́тная — swiveling combustion chamberсеменна́я ка́мера с.-х. — seed vesselка́мера сжа́тия двс. — compression chamberсмеси́тельная ка́мера — plenum [mixing] chamberсмесите́льная ка́мера карбюра́тора — mixing tubeсоплова́я ка́мера тепл. — steam belt; nozzle chamberсортиру́ющая ка́мера ( масс-спектрометра) — sorting chamberка́мера спектро́графа — spectrograph cameraспира́льная ка́мера ( гидротурбины) — spiral caseстереофотограмметри́ческая ка́мера — stereometric camera, photogrammetric stereocameraстерилизацио́нная ка́мера с.-х. — sterilizing boxсульфитацио́нная ка́мера пищ. — sulphitation chamberсуши́льная ка́мера — drying cell, drying chamberсуши́льная ка́мера непреры́вного де́йствия дер.-об. — continuous kilnсуши́льная ка́мера периоди́ческого де́йствия дер.-об. — intermittent kilnтелевизио́нная (передаю́щая) ка́мера — television [TV] cameraповора́чивать телевизио́нную ка́меру в вертика́льном направле́ний — tilt the cameraповора́чивать телевизио́нную ка́меру в горизонта́льном направле́нии — pan the cameraтелевизио́нная, переносна́я ка́мера — portable pick-up TV cameraтелевизио́нная, репорта́жная ка́мера — field TV cameraтелевизио́нная ка́мера с бегу́щим лучо́м — flying-spot TV cameraтелевизио́нная, студи́йная ка́мера — studio TV cameraтелевизио́нная, цветна́я ка́мера — colour TV cameraтелевизио́нная, чё́рно-бе́лая ка́мера — monochrome TV cameraто́почная ка́мера тепл. — furnaceтороида́льная ка́мера ( ускорителя частиц) — toroidal chamber, doughnutка́мера увлажне́ния дер.-об. — humidifying chamberувлажни́тельная ка́мера пищ. — humidifying chamberуравни́тельная ка́мера — singe tankуспокои́тельная ка́мера ( аэродинамической трубы) — plenum chamberферментацио́нная ка́мера пищ. — fermentation roomфорса́жная ка́мера ав. — afterburnerка́мера форсу́нки ав. — nozzle chamberфотографи́ческая ка́мера — (photographic) cameraфотографи́ческая, зерка́льная ка́мера — reflex (photographic) cameraфотографи́ческая ка́мера кругово́го обзо́ра — all-sky (photographic) cameraфотографи́ческая, лу́нная ка́мера астр. — moon (photographic) cameraфотографи́ческая, широкоуго́льная ка́мера — wide-angle (photographic) cameraфоторепродукцио́нная ка́мера — process [reproducing] cameraка́мера хлопкоубо́рочной маши́ны, приё́мная — cotton receiving chamberка́мера хлопкоубо́рочной маши́ны, рабо́чая — picking throat, cotton picking receptacleхолоди́льная ка́мера — refrigerating chamberхолоди́льная, сбо́рная ка́мера — sectional coolerка́мера хране́ния багажа́ — cloakroom, luggage roomцикло́нная ка́мера — vortex chamberшвицева́льная ка́мера кож. — sweat pitка́мера ши́ны — tyre (inner) tubeка́мера ши́ны, автомоби́льная — automobile (inner) tubeка́мера ши́ны, велосипе́дная — bicycle (inner) tubeка́мера ши́ны, самозакле́ивающаяся — self-sealing (inner) tubeка́мера шлаковика́ — slag chamberшлюзова́я ка́мера — sluice [lock] chamberщитова́я ка́мера горн. — shield chamberэкологи́ческая ка́мера с.-х. — environmental cabinetэлектроли́тная ка́мера — electrolyte chamberэмульсио́нная ка́мера яд. физ. — emulsion chamber, pellicle stack -
6 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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