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  • 1 grade

    [greɪd] 1. сущ.
    1) стадия, этап

    At first it is necessary to determine the grade of the disease. — Сначала необходимо определить стадию болезни.

    2) уровень; сорт; стандарт, норма качества ( продукта или материала)

    high grade — высший класс, сорт

    prime grade / grade A — высшее качество

    Syn:
    3)
    а) степень, ранг, класс, звание
    б) группа людей равного социального статуса, равного звания, одной научной степени (в теории эволюции - живые существа, стоящие на одной стадии развития)
    4) амер.

    John is in the seventh grade. — Джон в седьмом классе.

    б) класс, группа учеников

    Our grade has recess at 10:30. — У нашего класса перемена в 10:30.

    в) ( grades) начальная школа
    г) отметка, оценка

    to make out / give grades — ставить оценки

    to get / receive a grade — получать оценку

    - excellent grade
    - failing grade
    - fair grade
    - mediocre grade
    - passing grade
    5) амер. уклон, склон

    steep grade — крутой склон, крутой подъём

    down grade — под уклон; спускаясь

    Syn:
    7) лингв. ступень аблаута
    8) геогр. высота над уровнем моря
    ••

    to make the grade — брать крутой подъём; взять высоту прям. и перен.; добиться успеха; добиться своего

    2. гл.
    1) классифицировать, сортировать; ранжировать, располагать по рангу, по степени

    He despises Mo, and grades me with her. — Он презирает Мо, и меня считает не достойнее её.

    Syn:
    2) ставить оценку (работе, студенту)
    3)
    Syn:
    б) биол.; = grade up скрещивать, получать гибрид, улучшать породу скрещиванием

    Scientists have been trying to find methods of grading up cattle to provide better meat with less fat. — Учёные продолжают работать над созданием методов скрещивания, позволяющих производить животных с большим объёмным весом мяса и меньшим - жира.

    4)
    а) разрисовывать, раскрашивать так, что цвета плавно переходят друг в друга
    б) плавно, незаметно изменяться
    5) тех. нивелировать, выравнивать
    6) лингв. изменяться по аблауту

    Англо-русский современный словарь > grade

  • 2 grade

    1. сущ.
    1)
    а) мат. градус
    б) общ. уклон, градиент

    slight [steep\] grade — небольшой [крутой\] склон

    2) общ. стадия, этап
    3)
    а) общ. степень, ранг, класс, звание, уровень; качество, сорт

    grade estimation — оценка качества [сорта\]

    Syn:
    See:
    б) общ. класс ( в школе)
    в) общ. отметка, оценка

    to make out [give\] grades — ставить оценки

    to get [receive\] a grade — получать оценку

    Syn:
    г) соц. класс (группа людей равного социального статуса, равного звания, одной научной степени и т. п.; в теории эволюции: живые существа, стоящие на одной стадии развития)
    Syn:
    See:
    Syn:
    2. гл.
    1)
    а) общ. классифицировать, сортировать; ранжировать, располагать по рангу [по степени\]

    He despises Mo, and grades me with her. — Он презирает Мо, и меня считает не достойнее ее.

    Syn:
    See:
    б) общ. оценивать, ставить оценку (работе, студенту и т. п.)
    2)
    б) с.-х. скрещивать, получать гибрид, улучшать породу ( скрещиванием)
    Syn:

    * * *
    1) "грейд", сорт, класс, тип, качество товара в срочной биржевой торговле; 2) класс или разряд служащего в сетке оплаты труда.
    * * *
    категория (персонала): класс (ценных бумаг), содержание металла в руде; Сортность,сорт, качество
    . . Словарь экономических терминов .

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > grade

  • 3 fail

    1. intransitive verb
    1) (not succeed) scheitern (in mit)

    fail in one's duty — seine Pflicht versäumen

    fail as a human being/a doctor — als Mensch/Arzt versagen

    2) (miscarry, come to nothing) scheitern; fehlschlagen

    if all else fails — wenn alle Stricke od. Stränge reißen (ugs.)

    3) (become bankrupt) Bankrott machen
    4) (in examination) nicht bestehen (in Akk.)
    5) (become weaker) [Augenlicht, Gehör, Gedächtnis, Stärke:] nachlassen; [Mut:] sinken
    6) (break down, stop) [Versorgung:] zusammenbrechen; [Motor, Radio:] aussetzen; [Generator, Batterie, Pumpe:] ausfallen; [Bremse, Herz:] versagen
    7) [Ernte:] schlecht ausfallen
    2. transitive verb
    1)

    fail to do something — (not succeed in doing) etwas nicht tun [können]

    fail to achieve one's purpose/aim — seine Absicht/sein Ziel verfehlen

    2) (be unsuccessful in) nicht bestehen [Prüfung]
    3) (reject) durchfallen lassen (ugs.) [Prüfling]
    4)

    fail to do something — (not do) etwas nicht tun; (neglect to do) [es] versäumen, etwas zu tun

    I fail to see why... — ich sehe nicht ein, warum...

    5) (not suffice for) im Stich lassen
    3. noun

    without fail — auf jeden Fall; garantiert

    * * *
    [feil] 1. verb
    1) (to be unsuccessful (in); not to manage( to do something): They failed in their attempt; I failed my exam; I failed to post the letter.) versagen, versäumen
    2) (to break down or cease to work: The brakes failed.) versagen
    3) (to be insufficient or not enough: His courage failed (him).) verlassen
    4) ((in a test, examination etc) to reject (a candidate): The examiner failed half the class.) durchfallen (lassen)
    5) (to disappoint: They did not fail him in their support.) im Stich lassen
    •
    - academic.ru/26215/failing">failing
    2. preposition
    (if (something) fails or is lacking: Failing his help, we shall have to try something else.) in Ermangelung
    - failure
    - without fail
    * * *
    [feɪl]
    I. vi
    1. (not succeed) person versagen, scheitern; attempt, plan scheitern, fehlschlagen, missglücken
    I tried to persuade him to come, but I \failed ich habe versucht, ihn zum Kommen zu überreden, aber ich habe es nicht geschafft
    this method never \fails diese Methode funktioniert immer
    we \failed in our efforts to find a compromise wir haben uns vergeblich um einen Kompromiss bemüht
    he \failed to convince the jury es ist ihm nicht gelungen, die Jury zu überzeugen
    to \fail completely [or utterly] [or miserably] kläglich scheitern
    to be doomed to \fail zum Scheitern verurteilt sein
    if all else \fails zur Not, wenn alle Stricke reißen fam
    ▪ to \fail to do sth versäumen, etw zu tun
    she \failed to arrive on time sie kam nicht pünktlich
    to \fail in one's duty [to sb] seiner Pflicht [jdm gegenüber] nicht nachkommen
    to \fail to attend a meeting an einem Treffen nicht teilnehmen
    to \fail to appreciate sth etw nicht zu schätzen wissen
    3. (not be able to do) nicht umhin können geh
    you couldn't \fail to be impressed by their efficiency man war unweigerlich von ihrer Effizienz beeindruckt
    they surely can't \fail to notice that... es kann ihnen nicht entgangen sein, dass...
    this trick never \fails to amuse the children dieser Trick bringt die Kinder immer zum Lachen
    I \fail to see [or understand] what/why/how... ich verstehe nicht, was/warum/wie...
    4. SCH, UNIV durchfallen
    to \fail on a subject in einem Fach durchfallen
    to \fail dismally mit Pauken und Trompeten durchfallen fam
    5. TECH, TRANSP (stop working) brakes versagen; generator, pump ausfallen
    6. (become weaker, stop) nachlassen; health schwächer werden; heart, voice versagen
    my courage \failed der Mut verließ mich
    to be \failing fast im Sterben liegen
    7. (go bankrupt) bankrottgehen
    8. AGR harvest, yield ausfallen
    II. vt
    1. (not pass)
    to \fail a course/subject einen Kurs/ein Fach nicht bestehen
    to \fail an exam/a test bei einer Prüfung/einem Test durchfallen
    to \fail an interview bei einem Bewerbungsgespräch versagen
    to \fail one's driving test bei der Fahrprüfung durchfallen
    2. (give failing grade)
    ▪ to \fail sb candidate jdn durchfallen lassen
    ▪ to \fail sb jdn im Stich lassen [o fam hängenlassen]
    my courage \failed me mich verließ der Mut
    words \fail me mir fehlen die Worte
    III. n negative Prüfungsarbeit
    John got four \fails in his exams John ist bei seinen Prüfungen in vier Fächern durchgefallen
    is this one a pass or a \fail? hat dieser Kandidat bestanden oder ist er durchgefallen?
    ▶ without \fail auf jeden Fall, ganz sicher
    * * *
    [feɪl]
    1. vi
    1) (= be unsuccessful) keinen Erfolg haben; (in mission, life etc) versagen, scheitern; (campaign, efforts, negotiations, plan, experiment, marriage) fehlschlagen, scheitern; (undertaking, attempt) fehlschlagen, misslingen, missglücken; (applicant, application) nicht angenommen werden; (election candidate, THEAT play) durchfallen; (business) eingehen; (charm, attempts at persuasion etc) vergeblich or umsonst sein

    he failed in his attempt to take control of the company — sein Versuch, die Leitung der Firma zu übernehmen, schlug fehl or blieb erfolglos or missglückte

    to fail by 5 votes (motion) — mit 5 Stimmen Mehrheit abgelehnt werden; (person) um 5 Stimmen geschlagen werden

    2) (= not pass exam) durchfallen
    3)

    (= fall short) where he/the essay fails is in not being detailed enough — sein Fehler/der Fehler des Aufsatzes ist, dass er nicht ausführlich genug ist

    this report fails in that it comes up with no clear proposals —

    4) (= grow feeble health) sich verschlechtern; (hearing, eyesight) nachlassen; (invalid) schwächer werden
    5) (= stop working, be cut off etc generator, battery, radio, electricity, pump, engine) ausfallen; (brakes) versagen; (supply, wind) ausbleiben; (heart etc) versagen, aussetzen

    the crops failed — es gab ein Missernte; (completely) die Ernte fiel aus

    2. vt
    1) candidate durchfallen lassen; subject durchfallen in (+dat)

    to fail an exam — eine Prüfung nicht bestehen, durch eine Prüfung fallen

    2) (= let down person, memory) im Stich lassen; (= not live up to sb's expectations) enttäuschen
    3)

    I fail to see why — es ist mir völlig unklar, warum; (indignantly) ich sehe gar nicht ein, warum

    I failed to understand how/what... — ich konnte nicht verstehen, wie/was...

    3. n
    1)

    without fail — ganz bestimmt, auf jeden Fall

    2)

    (= failed candidate, exam) there were ten fails — zehn sind durchgefallen or durchgerasselt (inf)

    * * *
    fail [feıl]
    A v/i
    1. ermangeln (of, in gen):
    he fails in perseverance es fehlt oder mangelt ihm an Ausdauer
    2. nachlassen, schwinden (Kräfte etc), ausbleiben, versiegen (Quellen etc):
    our supplies failed unsere Vorräte gingen aus oder zu Ende
    3. missraten (Ernte), nicht aufgehen (Saat)
    4. abnehmen, schwächer werden:
    his eyesight failed seine Sehkraft ließ nach
    5. versagen:
    6. fehlschlagen, scheitern, misslingen, seinen Zweck verfehlen, Misserfolg haben, Schiffbruch erleiden, es nicht fertigbringen ( to do zu tun):
    he (the plan) failed er (der Plan) scheiterte;
    if everything else fails wenn alle Stricke reißen umg;
    it never fails das wirkt immer;
    he failed in all his attempts alle seine Versuche schlugen fehl;
    the prophecy failed die Prophezeiung traf nicht ein;
    I fail to see ich sehe nicht ein; I tried to do it, but I failed aber es gelang mir nicht
    7. fail to do sth es versäumen oder unterlassen, etwas zu tun:
    he failed to come er kam nicht;
    he never fails to come er kommt immer;
    don’t fail to come komme ja oder ganz bestimmt;
    he cannot fail to win er muss einfach gewinnen;
    he fails in his duty er vernachlässigt seine Pflicht
    8. fehlgehen, irren:
    fail in one’s hopes sich in seinen Hoffnungen täuschen
    9. WIRTSCH Bankrott machen oder gehen, in Konkurs geraten oder gehen
    10. SCHULE durchfallen ( in an examination in einer Prüfung)
    B v/t
    1. jemandem versagen:
    his courage failed him ihn verließ der Mut;
    words fail me mir fehlen die Worte (to inf um zu inf)
    2. a) jemanden im Stich lassen, enttäuschen
    b) jemanden verlassen (Glück):
    his luck failed him das Glück verließ ihn
    3. SCHULE
    a) jemanden durchfallen lassen (in in einer Prüfung etc)
    b) in einer Prüfung etc durchfallen:
    C s
    1. he got a fail in biology SCHULE er ist in Biologie durchgefallen
    2. without fail mit Sicherheit, ganz bestimmt
    * * *
    1. intransitive verb
    1) (not succeed) scheitern (in mit)

    fail as a human being/a doctor — als Mensch/Arzt versagen

    2) (miscarry, come to nothing) scheitern; fehlschlagen

    if all else fails — wenn alle Stricke od. Stränge reißen (ugs.)

    3) (become bankrupt) Bankrott machen
    4) (in examination) nicht bestehen (in Akk.)
    5) (become weaker) [Augenlicht, Gehör, Gedächtnis, Stärke:] nachlassen; [Mut:] sinken
    6) (break down, stop) [Versorgung:] zusammenbrechen; [Motor, Radio:] aussetzen; [Generator, Batterie, Pumpe:] ausfallen; [Bremse, Herz:] versagen
    7) [Ernte:] schlecht ausfallen
    2. transitive verb
    1)

    fail to do something — (not succeed in doing) etwas nicht tun [können]

    fail to achieve one's purpose/aim — seine Absicht/sein Ziel verfehlen

    2) (be unsuccessful in) nicht bestehen [Prüfung]
    3) (reject) durchfallen lassen (ugs.) [Prüfling]
    4)

    fail to do something — (not do) etwas nicht tun; (neglect to do) [es] versäumen, etwas zu tun

    I fail to see why... — ich sehe nicht ein, warum...

    5) (not suffice for) im Stich lassen
    3. noun

    without fail — auf jeden Fall; garantiert

    * * *
    (exam) v.
    durchfallen v. v.
    fehlschlagen v.
    misslingen v.
    scheitern v.
    versagen v.

    English-german dictionary > fail

  • 4 fail

    [feɪl] vi
    1) ( not succeed) person versagen, scheitern; attempt, plan scheitern, fehlschlagen, missglücken;
    I tried to persuade him to come, but I \failed ich habe versucht, ihn zum Kommen zu überreden, aber ich habe es nicht geschafft;
    this method never \fails diese Methode funktioniert immer;
    we \failed in our efforts to find a compromise wir haben uns vergeblich um einen Kompromiss bemüht;
    he \failed to convince the jury es ist ihm nicht gelungen, die Jury zu überzeugen;
    to \fail completely [or utterly] [or miserably] kläglich scheitern;
    to be doomed to \fail zum Scheitern verurteilt sein;
    if all else \fails zur Not, wenn alle Stricke reißen ( fam)
    2) ( not do)
    to \fail to do sth versäumen, etw zu tun;
    she \failed to arrive on time sie kam nicht pünktlich;
    to \fail in one's duty [to sb] seiner Pflicht [jdm gegenüber] nicht nachkommen;
    to \fail to attend a meeting an einem Treffen nicht teilnehmen;
    to \fail to appreciate sth etw nicht zu schätzen wissen
    3) ( not be able to do) nicht umhin können ( geh)
    you couldn't \fail to be impressed by their efficiency man war unweigerlich von ihrer Effizienz beeindruckt;
    they surely can't \fail to notice that... es kann ihnen nicht entgangen sein, dass...;
    this trick never \fails to amuse the children dieser Trick bringt die Kinder immer zum Lachen;
    I \fail to see [or understand] what/ why/how... ich verstehe nicht, was/warum/wie...
    4) sch, univ durchfallen;
    to \fail on a subject in einem Fach durchfallen;
    to \fail dismally mit Pauken und Trompeten durchfallen ( fam)
    5) tech, transp ( stop working) brakes versagen; generator, pump ausfallen
    6) (become weaker, stop) nachlassen; health schwächer werden; heart, voice versagen;
    my courage \failed der Mut verließ mich;
    to be \failing fast im Sterben liegen
    7) ( go bankrupt) bankrottgehen
    8) agr harvest, yield ausfallen vt
    1) ( not pass)
    to \fail a course/ subject einen Kurs/ein Fach nicht bestehen;
    to \fail an exam/ a test bei einer Prüfung/einem Test durchfallen;
    to \fail an interview bei einem Bewerbungsgespräch versagen;
    to \fail one's driving test bei der Fahrprüfung durchfallen
    to \fail sb candidate jdn durchfallen lassen
    3) ( let down)
    to \fail sb jdn im Stich [o ( fam) hängen] lassen;
    my courage \failed me mich verließ der Mut;
    words \fail me mir fehlen die Worte n negative Prüfungsarbeit;
    John got four \fails in his exams John ist bei seinen Prüfungen in vier Fächern durchgefallen;
    is this one a pass or a \fail? hat dieser Kandidat bestanden oder ist er durchgefallen?
    PHRASES:
    without \fail auf jeden Fall, ganz sicher

    English-German students dictionary > fail

  • 5 Edison, Thomas Alva

    [br]
    b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA
    d. 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.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.
    Further Reading
    M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.
    R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Edison, Thomas Alva

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