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101 reader
noun1) Leser, der/Leserin, diebe a slow/good/great reader [of something] — [etwas] langsam/gut/gern lesen
2) (who reads aloud) Vorlesende, der/die* * *2) (a person who reads a particular newspaper, magazine etc: The editor asked readers to write to him with their opinions.) der/die Leser(in)3) (a reading-book, especially for children or for learners of a foreign language: a Latin reader.) das Lesebuch* * *read·er[ˈri:dəʳ, AM -ɚ]nto be an avid \reader of sth etw leidenschaftlich gern lesen4. PUBLpublisher's \reader [Verlags]lektor(in) m(f)he is a \reader in history at Liverpool er ist Dozent für Geschichte in Liverpoolmicrofilm/microfiche \reader Mikrofilm-/Mikrofichelesegerät nt* * *['riːdə(r)]npublisher's reader — Lektor(in) m(f)
3) (= schoolbook) Lesebuch nt; (to teach reading) Fibel f; (= foreign language text) Text m, Lektüre f; (= anthology) Sammelband ma reader in the Classics "first French reader" — eine Klassikersammlung "Französisches Lesebuch für Anfänger"
* * *reader [ˈriːdə(r)] s1. Leser(in):readers’ letters Leserbriefe4. TYPO Korrektor m, Korrektorin fin für)6. UNIV US Korrekturgehilfe m, -gehilfin f7. US Auswerter(in) (von Fachzeitschriften etc)8. (Strom- etc) Ableser(in)9. COMPUT Lesegerät n, Leser m10. a) SCHULE Lesebuch nb) Anthologie f:a G. B. Shaw reader* * *noun1) Leser, der/Leserin, diebe a slow/good/great reader [of something] — [etwas] langsam/gut/gern lesen
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102 house
1. [haus] ndom m; ( POL) izba f; ( THEAT) sala f, widownia f; ( of Windsor etc) dynastia f2. [hauz] vt* * *1. plural - houses; noun1) (a building in which people, especially a single family, live: Houses have been built on the outskirts of the town for the workers in the new industrial estate.) dom2) (a place or building used for a particular purpose: a hen-house; a public house.) budynek3) (a theatre, or the audience in a theatre: There was a full house for the first night of the play.) widownia, publiczność4) (a family, usually important or noble, including its ancestors and descendants: the house of David.) rodzina2. verb1) (to provide with a house, accommodation or shelter: All these people will have to be housed; The animals are housed in the barn.) zapewnić mieszkanie/schronienie, umieścić pod dachema2) (to store or keep somewhere: The electric generator is housed in the garage.) magazynować•- housing- housing benefit
- house agent
- house arrest
- houseboat
- housebreaker
- housebreaking
- house-fly
- household
- householder
- household word
- housekeeper
- housekeeping
- houseman
- housetrain
- house-warming 3. adjectivea house-warming party.) `parapetowy`- housework
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103 apply
1. Iwhen does the rule apply? когда /в каких случаях/ можно применить это правило /действует это правило/?; in my case this does not apply ко мне или к моему делу это не относится2. II1) apply somewhere the rule (the law, this principle, the argument, etc.) applies here это правило применимо /применяется, действует, подходит/ в данной ситуации; apply at some time this rule does not always apply это правило не всегда применимо /приложимо не ко всем случаям/2) apply somewhere house to let, apply next door сдается дом, за справками обращаться рядом3. IIIapply smth.1) apply a system (a rule, the law, force, etc.) применить /использовать/ систему и т. д.; apply a new method пользоваться новым методом; apply a brake затормозить; apply a term (a word, that adjective, technical.language, etc.) употреблять термин и т. д.2) apply a hot compress (a poultice, etc.) прикладывать /делать/ горячий компресс и т. д., apply a mustard-plaster (leeches, etc.) ставить горчичники и т. д., apply another coat of paint нанести еще один слой краски, еще раз покрасить4. IVapply smth. in some manner1) apply a word (an expression, a term, etc.) aptly (indiscriminately, satirically, scientifically, professionally, extensively, etc.) уместно и т. д. употреблять /применить/ слово и т. д.2) apply paint liberally густо красить, наносить густой слой краски; apply make-up freely сильно мазаться, применять много косметики5. XVI1) apply to smb., smth. apply to all students (to the beginners, to the members, to all libraries, etc.) относиться /иметь отношение/ ко всем студентам и т. д., распространиться на всех студентов и т. д; this order (the law) applies to all citizens этот приказ (этот закон) распространяется на /касается/ всех граждан; what I am saying does not apply to you то, что я говори), к вам не относится; this argument (this principle) applies to all cases этот довод (этот принцип) применим во всех случаях; apply in smth. does the rule apply in this case? это правило распространяется на данный случай?, это правило приложимо к данному случаю /может быть использовано в данном случае/?2) apply for smth. apply for a job /for a situation, for a place, for a post, for a position/ обращаться по поводу работы; apply for membership (for payment, etc.) подавать заявление о приеме в члены и т. д., she applied for help она обратилась за помощью, она попросила, чтобы ей оказали содействие; they applied for information они попросили сообщить им данные; he applied for the right to use the library он попросил разрешения пользоваться библиотекой; apply at some place apply at the following address (at the office, etc.) обращаться no следующему адресу и т. д || apply in person обращаться лично; apply by letter обращаться в письменном виде; apply to smb. apply to the agent (to the head of the department, to the president, etc.) обращаться к уполномоченному и т. д.6. XVIIIapply oneself to /in/ smth. apply oneself to mathematics (to one's work, to the study of classics, in learning French, etc.) запяться математикой и т. д., industriously apply oneself to languages усердно завиться языками; apply oneself wholly to this project полностью отдаться работе над этой темой /посвятить себя разработке этой темы/7. XXI11) apply smth. to smth. apply the rule to this case применить это правило к данному случаю; apply steam to navigation использовать nap в мореплавании; apply a sum of money to one's own use израсходовать некоторую сумму на собственные нужды; apply all one's skill to smth. приложить все свое умение /мастерство/ к чему-л.; apply the new method to industry внедрить новый метод в производство; apply one's energies to smth. направить свои усилия на что-л.; apply one's mind to study заняться учебой2) apply to smb. for smth. apply to the policeman for aid (to the consul for a passport, to the doctor for advice, etc.) обращаться к полицейскому за помощью и т. д.; you will have to apply for it to him personally (directly, immediately, etc.) вам придется лично и т. д. обратиться к нему по этому поводу3) apply smth. to smth. apply one's eye to the telescope (one's ear to the keyhole, etc.) приложить глаз к телескопу и т. д.; apply a match to a candle поднести спичку к свече; apply ointment to a burn смазывать ожог мазью; liberally apply iodine to a scratch обильно смазать царапину йодом; apply oil to a machine смазать машину [маслом]; apply varnish to the surface наносить лак на /лакировать/ поверхность -
104 robot
= bot II1) специальное устройство для перемещения картриджей в стекере, автозагрузчике или библиотеке2) самоуправляемое электромеханическое устройство. Термин ввёл чешский писатель Карел Чапек в 1920 г. в пьесе "R. U. R." (Rossum's Universal Robots, Рассумские универсальные роботы), однако придумал слово брат писателя Жозеф. Устройство, реагирующее на внешние сенсорные данные. Существует несколько больших классов таких роботов: промышленные роботы, мобильные роботы, домашние роботы и т. д.Англо-русский толковый словарь терминов и сокращений по ВТ, Интернету и программированию. > robot
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105 addition
1. n прибавление; дополнение; пополнениеin addition — кроме того, вдобавок; к тому же
2. n амер. пристройка, крыло3. n амер. пограничный участок земли, присоединённый к участку другого владельца4. n амер. пригородный участок, выделенный для городского строительства5. n амер. эк. прирост основного капитала6. n амер. мат. сложение; суммирование7. n амер. хим. примесь8. n амер. метал. присадка9. n амер. геол. привносСинонимический ряд:1. accession (noun) accession; accretion; augmentation; expansion; increase; increment; raise; rise2. addendum (noun) addendum; adjunct; appendage3. adding (noun) adding; appending; attaching; joining4. annex (noun) annex; extension; wing5. annexation (noun) accessory; admixture; annexation; cast; codicil6. summation (noun) computing; counting; reckoning; summation; summing up; tabulating; totalingАнтонимический ряд:decrease; deduction; deterioration; detraction; diminution; drawback; lessening; loss; preface; reduction; subtraction -
106 use
1. n употребление, использование, применение2. n цель, назначениеa tool with several uses — инструмент, применяемый для различных целей
3. n польза, толк, выгода4. n способность пользования5. n право пользованияhe gave his friend the use of his library — он предоставил приятелю право пользоваться своей библиотекой
actual use — фактическое пользование; фактическое применение
6. n привычка, обыкновение7. n церк. ритуал; чин8. v употреблять, пользоваться, применять9. v прибегать, пользоваться10. v использовать в своих интересахthey used every artifice to get our help — они прибегали ко всяческим хитростям, чтобы добиться от нас помощи
11. v потреблять, расходоватьuse up — израсходовать, использовать
12. v тратить, проводитьthey used thirty days in travelling about 1,000 miles — они потратили 30 дней, чтобы проехать 1000 миль
13. v обращаться, обходиться; относиться14. v приучать15. v амер. сл. употреблять наркотики, быть наркоманом16. v диал. амер. часто посещатьСинонимический ряд:1. account (noun) account; advantage; applicability; appropriateness; avail; benefit; fitness; relevance; serviceability; usefulness; utility2. duty (noun) application; duty; function; goal; mark; object; objective; purpose; service; target3. exercise (noun) appliance; consumption; employment; exercise; exercising; exertion; manipulation; operation; play; usance; utilisation; utilization4. habit (noun) consuetude; custom; habit; habitude; manner; practice; praxis; trick; way; wont5. handling (noun) handling; treatment; usage6. help (noun) good; help; profit7. need (noun) demand; need; occasion8. consume (verb) consume; deplete; drain; exhaust; expend; spend; use up; waste9. employ (verb) actuate; apply; bestow; employ; implement; make use of; practise; run; utilise; utilize; work10. exercise (verb) exercise; manipulate; operate; practice; put to use; wield11. exploit (verb) abuse; exploit; impose on; impose upon12. habituate (verb) accustom; familiarise; familiarize; habituate; inure; wont13. speak (verb) converse in; parley; speak; talk14. treat (verb) act toward; behave toward; deal with; handle; manage; play; serve; take; treatАнтонимический ряд:discard; disuse; ignore; suspend -
107 try
A n1 ( attempt) essai m ; after three/a few tries après trois/quelques essais ; to have a try at doing essayer de faire ; I'll give it a try je vais essayer ; I had a try at water skiing j'ai essayé le ski nautique ; it's worth a try cela vaut la peine d'essayer ; nice try! bel essai! ; iron bel effort! ; to have a good try faire tout ce qu'on peut ;1 ( attempt) essayer de répondre à [exam question] ; to try doing ou to do essayer de faire ; try telling that to the judge/my wife! essaie de faire croire cela au juge/à ma femme! ; to try hard to do faire de gros efforts pour faire ; to try one's hardest ou best to do faire tout son possible or tout ce que l'on peut pour faire ; it's trying to rain/snow il a l'air de vouloir pleuvoir/neiger ;2 ( test out) essayer [recipe, tool, product, method, activity] ; prendre [qn] à l'essai [person] ; [thief] essayer d'ouvrir [door, window] ; tourner [door knob] ; try the back door essaie la porte de derrière ; you should try it for yourself tu devrais l'essayer ; to try one's hand at pottery/weaving s'essayer à la poterie/au tissage ; to try sth on sb/sth proposer [qch] à qn/qch [idea, possibility] ; donner [qch] à qn/qch pour voir [food] ; try that meat on the dog donne cette viande au chien pour voir ; try that for size ou length essaie pour voir si ça te va ; you should try it tu devrais essayer ; I'll try anything once je suis toujours prêt à faire de nouvelles expériences ; ‘I bet you don't know the answer’-‘try me!’ ‘je parie que tu ne sais pas la réponse!’-‘vas-y!’ ;3 (taste, sample) goûter ; try a piece/the carrots goûte un morceau/les carottes ; go on, try some vas-y, goûte ;4 ( consult) demander à [person] ; consulter [book] ; try the encyclopedia consulte l'encyclopédie ; try the library/the house next door demandez à la bibliothèque/la maison d'à côté ; we tried all the shops nous avons demandé dans tous les magasins ;5 ( subject to stress) mettre [qch] à rude épreuve [tolerance, faith] ; to try sb's patience to the limit pousser qn à bout ;1 ( make attempt) essayer ; he didn't even try il n'a même pas essayé ; I'd like to try j'essaierais bien ; to try again ( to perform task) recommencer ; ( to see somebody) repasser ; ( to phone) rappeler ; to try and do essayer de faire ; try and relax essaie de rester calme ; to try for essayer d'obtenir [loan, university place] ; essayer de battre [world record] ; essayer d'avoir [baby] ; just you try! ( as threat) essaie un peu ○ ! ; just let him try! qu'il essaie seulement! ; keep trying! essaie encore! ; I'd like to see you try! j'aimerais bien t'y voir! ; she did it without even trying elle l'a fait sans le moindre effort ; try harder! fais plus d'effort! ; at least you tried tu as fait tout ce que tu as pu ;2 ( enquire) demander ; I've tried at the news agent's j'ai demandé au marchand de journaux.these things are sent to try us hum tout ça c'est pour notre bien.■ try on:▶ try [sth] on, try on [sth] essayer [hat, dress] ; to try it on ○ fig bluffer ; they're just trying it on ○ ! c'est du bluff! ; don't try anything on with me ○ ne fais pas le malin ○ avec moi ; to try it on with sb's husband/wife ○ essayer de séduire le mari/la femme de qn.■ try out:▶ try out [sportsman] faire un essai ; [actor] auditionner ; to try out for [player] essayer d'entrer dans [team] ; [actor] essayer d'obtenir le rôle de [Othello, Don Juan] ;▶ try [sth] out, try out [sth] essayer [machine, theory, drug, language, recipe] (on sur) ;▶ try [sb] out, try out [sb] prendre [qn] à l'essai. -
108 British
British ['brɪtɪʃ]∎ the British les Britanniques mpl, les Anglais mplbritannique, anglais;∎ British goods produits mpl anglais;∎ British the best of British (luck)! bonne chance!►► the British Academy = organisme public d'aide à la recherche dans le domaine des lettres;formerly Aviation & Commerce British Aerospace British Aerospace f (principale société de construction aéronautique et spatiale britannique);British Antarctic Territory territoire m de l'Antarctique britannique;Military British Army of the Rhine = forces armées britanniques établies en Allemagne de l'Ouest après la Seconde Guerre mondiale;Cinema British Board of Film Classification = organisme britannique délivrant les visas de sortie pour les films;Radio & Television the British Broadcasting Corporation la BBC;British Columbia la Colombie-Britannique;∎ in British Columbia en Colombie-Britannique;1 noun= habitant ou natif de la Colombie-Britanniquede la Colombie-Britannique;the British Commonwealth le Commonwealth;Administration the British Council = organisme public chargé de promouvoir la langue et la culture anglaises;History the British East India Company la Compagnie britannique des Indes orientales;the British Embassy l'ambassade f de Grande-Bretagne;History the British Empire l'Empire m britannique;British English anglais m britannique;Cinema British Film Institute = organisme britannique de promotion du cinéma (aide à la réalisation notamment);formerly British Gas = société de production et de distribution du gaz;(former) British Honduras (l'ex) Honduras m britannique;∎ in British Honduras au Honduras britannique;British Institute of Management = organisme britannique dont la fonction est de renseigner et de conseiller les entreprises en matière de gestion, ainsi que de promouvoir l'enseignement de cette discipline;the British Isles les îles fpl Britanniques;∎ in the British Isles aux îles Britanniques;British Legion = organisme d'aide aux anciens combattants;British Library = la bibliothèque nationale britannique;Sport the British Lions = équipe de rugby à quinze constituée des joueurs sélectionnés dans les quatre équipes nationales (Angleterre, pays de Galles, Écosse et Irlande);British Museum = grand musée et bibliothèque londoniens;British Nuclear Fuels = entreprise publique de production de combustibles nucléaires;the British Open = important championnat de golf qui se tient chaque année en Grande-Bretagne;formerly British Rail = société des chemins de fers britanniques, ≃ SNCF f;British Standards Institution = association britannique de normalisation;formerly British Steel = société britannique de production d'acier;British Summer Time = heure d'été britannique;British Technology Group = organisme privé britannique commercialisant des innovations technologiques élaborées par des universités ou des inventeurs;formerly British Telecom = société britannique de télécommunications;Physics British thermal unit calorie f britannique, ≃ 1055,06 joules mplⓘ BRITISH COUNCIL Le British Council est chargé de promouvoir la langue et la culture anglaises, et de renforcer les liens culturels avec les autres pays.ⓘ THE BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY Fondée en 1600 pour contrôler le commerce dans les colonies, la Compagnie joua, à partir du XVIIIème siècle, un rôle de plus en plus politique en Inde, pour finalement devenir l'agent de l'impérialisme britannique; elle disparut dans les années 1870.ⓘ BRITISH GAS/TELECOM/RAIL Plusieurs services britanniques autrefois publics ont été successivement privatisés. En 1984, les résaux de télécommunications sont rachetés par British Telecom. Cet opérateur privé en assure le monopole jusqu'en 1991, lorsque le marché est ouvert à la concurrence. British Telecom devient alors BT et partage le marché avec plusieurs autres compagnies. British Gas est privatisé en 1986 et a pris le nom de Centrica. British Rail est partagé dans les années 90 entre Railtrack, propriétaire des stations et lignes de chemin de fer, et plusieurs petites compagnies qui assurent le trafic ferroviaire. -
109 Cort, Henry
SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy[br]b. 1740 Lancaster, Englandd. 1800 Hampstead, near London, England[br]English ironmaster, inventor of the puddling process and grooved rollers for forming iron into bars.[br]His father was a mason and brickmaker but, anxious to improve himself, Cort set up in London in 1765 as a navy agent, said to have been a profitable business. He recognized that, at that time, the conversion of pig iron to malleable or wrought iron, which was needed in increasing quantities as developments in industry and mechanical engineering gathered pace, presented a bottleneck in the ironmaking process. The finery hearth was still in use, slow and inefficient and requiring the scarce charcoal as fuel. To tackle this problem, Cort gave up his business and acquired a furnace and slitting mill at Fontley, near Fareham in Hampshire. In 1784 he patented his puddling process, by which molten pig iron on the bed of a reverberatory furnace was stirred with an iron bar and, by the action of the flame and the oxygen in the air, the carbon in the pig iron was oxidized, leaving nearly pure iron, which could be forged to remove slag. In this type of furnace, the fuel and the molten iron were separated, so that the cheaper coal could be used as fuel. It was the stirring action with the iron bar that gave the name "puddling" to the process. Others had realized the problem and reached a similar solution, notably the brothers Thomas and George Cranage, but only Cort succeeded in developing a commercially viable process. The laborious hammering of the ball of iron thus produced was much reduced by an invention of the previous year, 1783. This too was patented. The iron was passed between grooved rollers to form it into bars. Cort entered into an agreement with Samuel Jellico to set up an ironworks at Gosport to exploit his inventions. Samuel's father Adam, Deputy Paymaster of the Navy, advanced capital for this venture, Cort having expended much of his own resources in the experimental work that preceded his inventions. However, it transpired that Jellico senior had, unknown to Cort, used public money to advance the capital; the Admiralty acted to recover the money and Cort lost heavily, including the benefits from his patents. Rival ironmasters were quick to pillage the patents. In 1790, and again the following year, Cort offered unsuccessfully to work for the military. Finally, in 1794, at the instigation of the Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger, Cort was paid a pension of £200 per year in recognition of the value of his improvements in the technology of ironmaking, although this was reduced by deductions to £160. After his death, the pension to his widow was halved, while some of his children received a pittance. Without the advances made by Cort, however, the iron trade could not have met the rapidly increasing demand for iron during the industrial revolution.[br]Bibliography1787, A Brief State of Facts Relative to the New Method of Making Bar Iron with Raw Pit Coal and Grooved Rollers (held in the Science Museum Library archive collection).Further ReadingH.W.Dickinson, 1941, "Henry Cort's bicentary", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 21: 31–47 (there are further references to grooved rollers and the puddling process in Vol. 49 of the same periodical (1978), on pp. 153–8).R.A.Mott, 1983, Henry Con, the Great Finery Creator of Puddled Iron, Sheffield: Historical Metallurgy Society.LRD -
110 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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