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Космонавтика: лаборатория технологии производстваУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > manufacturing-engineering laboratory
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Englsh-Russian aviation and space dictionary > manufacturing engineering laboratory
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n лабораторія технології виробництваEnglish-Ukrainian military dictionary > manufacturing engineering laboratory
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лаборатория; лабораторная установкаautomated research space laboratory — автоматическая [непилотируемая] исследовательская космическая лаборатория
Propulsion and Vehicle Engineering laboratory — НЛСЛ лаборатория двигателей и технического оснащения ЛА
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6 LIFE
1) Американизм: Liberty And Independence For Everyone2) Военный термин: Liberty Independence Freedom And Equality, Logistics Intelligence File, Europe3) Сельское хозяйство: League for International Food Education4) Шутливое выражение: Lasting Impressions For Everyone5) Религия: Love, Instruction, Fellowship, And Evangelism, Love, Involvement, Fellowship, And Evangelism6) Грубое выражение: Loser Idiot Fuckup Equality7) Музыка: Living It For Ever8) Сокращение: Large Aircraft ( infrared) Flyout Experiment, Laser Infrared Flyout Experiment9) Физиология: Learning Immune Function Enhancement10) Вычислительная техника: Logistics Interface For manufacturing Environment, Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering (research, MITI)11) Деловая лексика: Leading, Influencing, Facilitating, And Enabling12) Образование: Leaders In Fitness Education, Learning In Family Environments, Literacy Intervention For Excellence, Literacy Is For Empowerment13) Ядерная физика: лазерно-индуцированный термоядерный реактор14) НАСДАК: Lifeline Systems, Inc. -
7 Life
1) Американизм: Liberty And Independence For Everyone2) Военный термин: Liberty Independence Freedom And Equality, Logistics Intelligence File, Europe3) Сельское хозяйство: League for International Food Education4) Шутливое выражение: Lasting Impressions For Everyone5) Религия: Love, Instruction, Fellowship, And Evangelism, Love, Involvement, Fellowship, And Evangelism6) Грубое выражение: Loser Idiot Fuckup Equality7) Музыка: Living It For Ever8) Сокращение: Large Aircraft ( infrared) Flyout Experiment, Laser Infrared Flyout Experiment9) Физиология: Learning Immune Function Enhancement10) Вычислительная техника: Logistics Interface For manufacturing Environment, Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering (research, MITI)11) Деловая лексика: Leading, Influencing, Facilitating, And Enabling12) Образование: Leaders In Fitness Education, Learning In Family Environments, Literacy Intervention For Excellence, Literacy Is For Empowerment13) Ядерная физика: лазерно-индуцированный термоядерный реактор14) НАСДАК: Lifeline Systems, Inc. -
8 life
1) Американизм: Liberty And Independence For Everyone2) Военный термин: Liberty Independence Freedom And Equality, Logistics Intelligence File, Europe3) Сельское хозяйство: League for International Food Education4) Шутливое выражение: Lasting Impressions For Everyone5) Религия: Love, Instruction, Fellowship, And Evangelism, Love, Involvement, Fellowship, And Evangelism6) Грубое выражение: Loser Idiot Fuckup Equality7) Музыка: Living It For Ever8) Сокращение: Large Aircraft ( infrared) Flyout Experiment, Laser Infrared Flyout Experiment9) Физиология: Learning Immune Function Enhancement10) Вычислительная техника: Logistics Interface For manufacturing Environment, Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering (research, MITI)11) Деловая лексика: Leading, Influencing, Facilitating, And Enabling12) Образование: Leaders In Fitness Education, Learning In Family Environments, Literacy Intervention For Excellence, Literacy Is For Empowerment13) Ядерная физика: лазерно-индуцированный термоядерный реактор14) НАСДАК: Lifeline Systems, Inc. -
9 plant
1) завод; фабрика; предприятие2) установка; агрегат3) электрическая станция, электростанция, ЭС (см. тж
station)4) энергоблок5) цех; отделение; мастерская6) установка сейсмоприёмника в грунте || устанавливать сейсмоприёмник в грунт•-
absorption plant
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absorption refrigerating plant
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accumulator plant
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acetylene compressing plant
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acid recovery acid restoring plant
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acid recovery plant
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adsorption plant
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aerodrome accumulator plant
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agglomeration plant
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air separation plant
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air-cooled refrigerating plant
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aircraft development plant
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aircraft manufacturing plant
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aircraft overhaul plant
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aircraft plant
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aircraft washing plant
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air-storage gas turbine plant
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air-storage power plant
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alkylation plant
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A-plant
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arc-furnace plant
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arc-welding plant
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asphalt plant
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assembly plant
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atomic marine plant
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atomic power plant
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automatic flour handling plant
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auto-shredding plant
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auxiliary gas turbine power plant
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back-pressure heat generation plant
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bakery plant
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baling plant
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basic arc-furnace plant
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basic slag-grinding plant
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batching plant
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batch-weighing plant
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Bessemer plant
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biogas producing plant
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blackout plant
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blast-furnace plant
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blending plant
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bob-tail plant
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boiler plant
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bow-type plant
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box plant
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bread-making plant
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breaking plant
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brick-making plant
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brine refrigerating plant
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bulk plant
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butter-making plant
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by-product coke plant
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by-product recovery plant
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by-products plant
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can-making plant
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canning plant
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captive plant
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car assembly plant
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carbon dioxide refrigerating plant
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carbon plant
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car-repair plant
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casinghead gasoline plant
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casting plant
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CDQ plant
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cell plant
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centralized photovoltaic power plant
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central-mixing plant
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centrifugal refrigerating plant
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centrifuge isotope separation plant
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charge preparation plant
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cheese-making plant
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chemical desalting plant
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chemical separation plant
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circulation degassing plant
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clarification plant
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clay-drying plant
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closed-cycle cryogenic plant
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coal gasification-gas cleaning plant
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coal-cleaning plant
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coal-conveying plant
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coal-fired plant
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coal-injection plant
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coal-liquefaction plant
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coal-preparation plant
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coal-pulverizing plant
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coal-reduction plant
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coal-to-methanol plant
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coal-washing plant
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cogeneration plant
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coke dry-quenching plant
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coke-handling plant
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coke-pitch plant
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coke-quenching plant
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coking plant
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combination topping and cracking plant
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combined heat power plant
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combined photovoltaic-deolian electric plant
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combined-cycle plant
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combined-cycle steam plant
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combiner plant
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compressor plant
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concentration plant
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concrete product plant
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concrete-mixing plant
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concreting plant
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condensate liquid recovery plant
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condensate purification plant
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condensing plant
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confectionary producing plant
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confectionary plant
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constant-head plant
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contactor centrifuge acid treating plant
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continuous-casting plant
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conventional power plant
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converter plant
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cooling plant
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copper-smelting plant
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countercurrent ion exchange plant
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CR plant
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crushing plant
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cryogenic freezing plant
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cryogenic power generation plant
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crystal drawing plant
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cutting and shearing plant
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cycle-degassing plant
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cycling plant
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deaerating plant
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degreasing plant
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dendro-thermal power plant
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desalting plant
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desinfection plant
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detinning plant
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dewatering plant
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diesel engine power plant
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direct-expansion refrigerating plant
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disposal plant
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distilling plant
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district-heating plant
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diversion plant
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double-strand plant
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drainage pumping plant
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drop-hammer plant
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dry-process plant
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dual-purpose turbine plant
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dust extraction plant
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dust handling plant
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earth-freezing plant
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earth-moving plant
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EBM plant
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EBR plant
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ECM plant
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edible fat plant
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EDR plant
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effluent treatment plant
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eight-strand plant
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ejector refrigerating plant
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electric pig-iron plant
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electric power plant
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electrical propulsion plant
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electricity distribution plant
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electrochemical machining plant
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electrodialysis plant
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electrodialysis reversal plant
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electrolytic tinning plant
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electron-beam-melting plant
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electron-beam-refining plant
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electrostatic precipitation desalting plant
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engineering plant
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evaporation plant
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extraction plant
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extra-terrestrial power plant
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fabric-dipping plant
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feed milling
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fermentation plant
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filter plant
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finishing plant
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fish processing plant
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fission power plant
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fixed plant
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fixed-head power plant
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flexible manufacturing plant
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flexing generating plant
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floating nuclear power plant
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floating pile-driving plant
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floating power plant
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flotation plant
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flour milling plant
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folding carton plant
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food concentrate plant
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force ventilation plant
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formcoke plant
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fossil-fuel plant
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fractional horsepower refrigerating plant
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fractional ton refrigerating plant
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fragmentation plant
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freezing plant
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fruit-and-vegetable processing plant
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fuel-pulverizing plant
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full-fashioned sweater plant
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full-scale plant
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fume-cleaning plant
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fume-extraction plant
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furniture plant
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fusion power plant
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galvanizing plant
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gas absorption plant
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gas fire extinguishing plant
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gas fractionation plant
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gas liquids plant
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gas plant
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gas turbine power plant
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gas turbine plant
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gas-and-oil-buming power plant
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gas-carburizing plant
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gas-cleaning plant
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gas-compressor plant
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gaseous-diffusion plant
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gas-fired plant
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gas-generator plant
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gasification-based combined cycle plant
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gasifier-combined cycle plant
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gasoline plant
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gas-producer plant
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gas-treating plant
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gas-washing plant
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generating plant
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geothermal power plant
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glass-manufacturing plant
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glass-recycling plant
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grading plant
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graphite plant
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graphite recovery plant
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grease plant
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hardening plant
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H-cycle plant
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heat power plant
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heat pump plant
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heat raising plant
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heat-electric generating plant
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heating and power plant
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heating network plant
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heating plant
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heating-water converter plant
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heavy-water plant
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high-capacity refrigerating plant
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high-head power plant
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H-iron plant
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hot dip filming plant
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hot water peaking boiler plant
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hybrid wind-photovoltaic plant
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hydroelectric power plant
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hydroelectric plant
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hydroelectric pumped storage power plant
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hydro-photovoltaic plant
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ice plant
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incinerator plant
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indicator plant
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industrial power plant
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industrial steam plant
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industrial waste treatment plant
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industrial-scale plant
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in-house printing plant
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intake plant
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integral coal gasification combined cycle plant
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integrated steel plant
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interlocking plant
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intermediate solar plant
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internal combustion power plant
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ion-exchange plant
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ion-exchange softening plant
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iron powder plant
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iron-ore pelletizing plant
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isolated generating plant
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isotope separation plant
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jobbing plant
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Kaldo-steelmaking plant
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Kaldo plant
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killing plant
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laboratory-scale plant
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ladle degassing plant
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ladle-spraying plant
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LD plant
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LDAC oxygen-steelmaking plant
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light plant
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liquefied natural gas plant
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liquefied petroleum gas plant
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liquid freezing plant
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liquor plant
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loading plant
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local plant
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locomobile power plant
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locomotive repair plant
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loop plant
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low-capacity refrigerating plant
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low-head power plant
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lube plant
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machine tool plant
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magnetohydrodynamic power plant
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main propulsion machinery plant
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marine reactor plant
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marine refrigerating plant
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meat packing plant
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meat producing plant
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mechanical air-conditioning plant
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mechanical drive gas turbine plant
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mechanical refrigerating plant
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medium-head power plant
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merchant-coke plant
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metals-recovery plant
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MHD power plant
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midget power plant
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milk plant
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milling plant
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mine-mouth power plant
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mixed pumped-storage plant
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mixing plant
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mobile power plant
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mold degassing plant
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mold hydraulic cleaning plant
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mortar-mixing plant
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muck-shifting plant
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mud-mixing plant
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multiple-unit power plant
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multipurpose sea-water desalination plant
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multistrand plant
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multiunit power plant
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naphtha-treating plant
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natural gasoline plant
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natural gas-sweetening plant
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noncondensing power plant
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nonintegrated steel plant
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nonterrestrial power plant
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nuclear cogeneration plant
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nuclear gas turbine plant
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nuclear heating plant
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nuclear power plant
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nuclear steam power plant
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oil shale retorting plant
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oil-and-gas gathering plant
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oil-burning power plant
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oil-desulfurization plant
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oil-extraction plant
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oil-fired plant
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oil-reclamation plant
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oil-treating plant
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on-line gas plant
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open-coil annealing plant
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open-cycle gas turbine plant
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open-hearth plant
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orbital power plant
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orbital solar power plant
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ore-bedding plant
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ore-blending plant
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ore-breaker plant
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ore-conditioning plant
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ore-dressing plant
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ore-roasting plant
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ore-washing plant
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outdoor-type power plant
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oxidizing plant
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oxygen-converter plant
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ozone plant
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packaged power plant
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packaged refrigerating plant
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packing plant
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paint varnish and lacquer plant
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pallet conveyor mold-type plant
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paperboard plant
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peaking power plant
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peaking boiler plant
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peak-shaving liquefied natural gas plant
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pellet plant
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petroleum chemical plant
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photovoltaic power plant
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physical plant
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pickling plant
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pig-casting plant
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pilot plant
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plating plant
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plywood manufacturing plant
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polymerization plant
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pontoon pile-driving plant
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power plant
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preserving plant
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printing plant
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process gas turbine plant
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processing plant
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Prolerizing plant
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propulsion plant
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public utility power plant
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public-service power plant
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pulverized-coal-fired plant
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pulverizing plant
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pump plant
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pumped-storage plant
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pumping plant
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pumping-generating plant
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quick-freezing plant
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radiant freeze-drying plant
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ready-mix plant
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recovery plant
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reforming plant
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refrigerating plant
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refuse-fired plant
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regasifying plant
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regenerative gas turbine plant
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relift pumping plant
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rendering plant
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retreading plant
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reverse osmosis plant
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rolling plant
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route interlocking plant
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run-of-river plant
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sack filling plant
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salt plant
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sand-preparing plant
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satellite printing plant
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scrap-shredding plant
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screening plant
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sea-water desalting plant
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sedimentation plant
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self-contained rail welding plant
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self-contained refrigerating plant
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self-sufficient plant
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semiclosed-cycle gas turbine plant
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semiunderground plant
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separating plant
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sewage disposal plant
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simple-cycle gas turbine plant
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simulated power plant
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single-pool power plant
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single-strand plant
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single-unit plant
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sinking plant
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sintering plant
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sizing plant
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skimming plant
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slab-producting plant
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slag-expanding plant
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slag-screening plant
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slaughtering and meat processing plant
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slaughtering plant
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sludge filtration plant
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small-size refrigerating plant
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smoke extractor plant
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soap plant
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solar ice plant
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solar plant
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solar power plant
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solar tower plant
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solvent-extraction plant
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split-shaft gas turbine plant
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sputtering plant
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stabilization plant
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stand-alone solar power plant
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standby plant
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stationary gas turbine plant
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stationary refrigerating plant
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steam condensing plant
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steam plant
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steam power plant
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steam-electric-turbine plant
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steaming plant
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steel continuous casting plant
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steel plant
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storage plant
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stream degassing plant
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stripping plant
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sugar refining plant
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sulfur recovery plant
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sunken-type plant
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superposed plant
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supplementary fired combined cycle plant
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supplementary heating plant
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sweater knitting plant
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tap-degassing plant
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tar-boiling plant
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tea plant
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television plant
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tertiary plant
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thermal power plant
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thermal plant
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thermodynamic solar power plant
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thermoelectric refrigerating plant
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tidal power plant
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tiger topping plant
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tinning plant
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tin-refining plant
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tin-smelting plant
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tonnage oxygen plant
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top-blown oxygen vessel plant
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topping plant
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tower-type plant
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train washing plant
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transformer plant
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trash-fired power plant
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traveling pneumatic grain-discharging plant
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treatment plant
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tritium removal plant
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turbine plant
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turbo-refrigerating plant
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two-axes focusing solar plant
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two-shaft plant
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ultrafiltration concentration plant
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undercar power plant
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underground nuclear power plant
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underwater nuclear power plant
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unit refrigerating plant
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uranium enrichment plant
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vacuum casting plant
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vacuum degassing plant
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vacuum dezincing plant
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vacuum gas turbine plant
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vacuum metallothermic plant
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vacuum molding plant
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vacuum-decarburization plant
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variable-head power plant
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variable-load power plant
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vertical plant
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vulcanizing plant
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washing plant
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waste disposal plant
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waste-to-energy cogeneration plant
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waste-to-energy plant
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water demineralization plant
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water softening plant
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water treatment plant
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water-cooling plant
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waterpower plant
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wave energy plant
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wax plant
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wet-process plant
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wind-mill electric generating plant
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wire-drawing plant
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year-round air-conditioning plant
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zero-discharge plant
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zinc ore roasting plant
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10 Edison, Thomas Alva
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications[br]b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USAd. 18 October 1931 Glenmont[br]American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.[br]He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMember of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.Further ReadingM.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.IMcN -
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12 Ford, Henry
[br]b. 30 July 1863 Dearborn, Michigan, USAd. 7 April 1947 Dearborn, Michigan, USA[br]American pioneer motor-car maker and developer of mass-production methods.[br]He was the son of an Irish immigrant farmer, William Ford, and the oldest son to survive of Mary Litogot; his mother died in 1876 with the birth of her sixth child. He went to the village school, and at the age of 16 he was apprenticed to Flower brothers' machine shop and then at the Drydock \& Engineering Works in Detroit. In 1882 he left to return to the family farm and spent some time working with a 1 1/2 hp steam engine doing odd jobs for the farming community at $3 per day. He was then employed as a demonstrator for Westinghouse steam engines. He met Clara Jane Bryant at New Year 1885 and they were married on 11 April 1888. Their only child, Edsel Bryant Ford, was born on 6 November 1893.At that time Henry worked on steam engine repairs for the Edison Illuminating Company, where he became Chief Engineer. He became one of a group working to develop a "horseless carriage" in 1896 and in June completed his first vehicle, a "quadri cycle" with a two-cylinder engine. It was built in a brick shed, which had to be partially demolished to get the carriage out.Ford became involved in motor racing, at which he was more successful than he was in starting a car-manufacturing company. Several early ventures failed, until the Ford Motor Company of 1903. By October 1908 they had started with production of the Model T. The first, of which over 15 million were built up to the end of its production in May 1927, came out with bought-out steel stampings and a planetary gearbox, and had a one-piece four-cylinder block with a bolt-on head. This was one of the most successful models built by Ford or any other motor manufacturer in the life of the motor car.Interchangeability of components was an important element in Ford's philosophy. Ford was a pioneer in the use of vanadium steel for engine components. He adopted the principles of Frederick Taylor, the pioneer of time-and-motion study, and installed the world's first moving assembly line for the production of magnetos, started in 1913. He installed blast furnaces at the factory to make his own steel, and he also promoted research and the cultivation of the soya bean, from which a plastic was derived.In October 1913 he introduced the "Five Dollar Day", almost doubling the normal rate of pay. This was a profit-sharing scheme for his employees and contained an element of a reward for good behaviour. About this time he initiated work on an agricultural tractor, the "Fordson" made by a separate company, the directors of which were Henry and his son Edsel.In 1915 he chartered the Oscar II, a "peace ship", and with fifty-five delegates sailed for Europe a week before Christmas, docking at Oslo. Their objective was to appeal to all European Heads of State to stop the war. He had hoped to persuade manufacturers to replace armaments with tractors in their production programmes. In the event, Ford took to his bed in the hotel with a chill, stayed there for five days and then sailed for New York and home. He did, however, continue to finance the peace activists who remained in Europe. Back in America, he stood for election to the US Senate but was defeated. He was probably the father of John Dahlinger, illegitimate son of Evangeline Dahlinger, a stenographer employed by the firm and on whom he lavished gifts of cars, clothes and properties. He became the owner of a weekly newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, which became the medium for the expression of many of his more unorthodox ideas. He was involved in a lawsuit with the Chicago Tribune in 1919, during which he was cross-examined on his knowledge of American history: he is reputed to have said "History is bunk". What he actually said was, "History is bunk as it is taught in schools", a very different comment. The lawyers who thus made a fool of him would have been surprised if they could have foreseen the force and energy that their actions were to release. For years Ford employed a team of specialists to scour America and Europe for furniture, artefacts and relics of all kinds, illustrating various aspects of history. Starting with the Wayside Inn from South Sudbury, Massachusetts, buildings were bought, dismantled and moved, to be reconstructed in Greenfield Village, near Dearborn. The courthouse where Abraham Lincoln had practised law and the Ohio bicycle shop where the Wright brothers built their first primitive aeroplane were added to the farmhouse where the proprietor, Henry Ford, had been born. Replicas were made of Independence Hall, Congress Hall and the old City Hall in Philadelphia, and even a reconstruction of Edison's Menlo Park laboratory was installed. The Henry Ford museum was officially opened on 21 October 1929, on the fiftieth anniversary of Edison's invention of the incandescent bulb, but it continued to be a primary preoccupation of the great American car maker until his death.Henry Ford was also responsible for a number of aeronautical developments at the Ford Airport at Dearborn. He introduced the first use of radio to guide a commercial aircraft, the first regular airmail service in the United States. He also manufactured the country's first all-metal multi-engined plane, the Ford Tri-Motor.Edsel became President of the Ford Motor Company on his father's resignation from that position on 30 December 1918. Following the end of production in May 1927 of the Model T, the replacement Model A was not in production for another six months. During this period Henry Ford, though officially retired from the presidency of the company, repeatedly interfered and countermanded the orders of his son, ostensibly the man in charge. Edsel, who died of stomach cancer at his home at Grosse Point, Detroit, on 26 May 1943, was the father of Henry Ford II. Henry Ford died at his home, "Fair Lane", four years after his son's death.[br]Bibliography1922, with S.Crowther, My Life and Work, London: Heinemann.Further ReadingR.Lacey, 1986, Ford, the Men and the Machine, London: Heinemann. W.C.Richards, 1948, The Last Billionaire, Henry Ford, New York: Charles Scribner.IMcN -
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14 Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey
[br]b. 6 October 1866 East Bolton, Quebec, Canadad. 22 July 1932 Bermuda[br]Canadian radio pioneer who made the first known broadcast of speech and music.[br]After initial education at Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, Fessenden studied at Bishops University, Lennoxville, Quebec. When he graduated in 1885, he became Principal of the Whitney Institute in Bermuda, but he left the following year to go to New York in pursuit of his scientific interests. There he met Edison and eventually became Chief Chemist at the latter's Laboratory in Orange, New Jersey. In 1890 he moved to the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and two years later he returned to an academic career as Professor of Electrical Engineering, initially at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, and then at the Western University of Pennsylvania, where he worked on wireless communication. From 1900 to 1902 he carried out experiments in wireless telegraphy at the US Weather Bureau, filing several patents relating to wire and liquid thermal detectors, or barretters. Following this he set up the National Electric Signalling Company; under his direction, Alexanderson and other engineers at the General Electric Company developed a high-frequency alternator that enabled him to build the first radiotelephony transmitter at Brant Rock, Massachusetts. This made its initial broadcast of speech and music on 24 December 1906, received by ship's wireless operators several hundred miles away. Soon after this the transmitter was successfully used for two-way wireless telegraphy communication with Scotland. Following this landmark event, Fessenden produced numerous inventions, including a radio compass, an acoustic depth-finder and several submarine signalling devices, a turboelectric drive for battleships and, notably, in 1912 the heterodyne principle used in radio receivers to convert signals to a lower (intermediate) frequency.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Medal of Honour 1921.BibliographyUS patents relating to barretters include nos. 706,740, 706,742 and 706,744 (wire, 1902) and 731,029 (liquid, 1903). His invention of the heterodyne was filed as US patent no. 1,050,441 (1913).Further ReadingHelen M.Fessenden, 1940, Fessenden. Builder of Tomorrow. E.Hawkes, 1927, Pioneers of Wireless, London: Methuen. O.E.Dunlop, 1944, Radio's 100 Men of Science.KFBiographical history of technology > Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey
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15 Sperry, Elmer Ambrose
[br]b. 21 October 1860 Cincinnatus, Cortland County, New York, USAd. 16 June 1930 Brooklyn, New York, USA[br]American entrepreneur who invented the gyrocompass.[br]Sperry was born into a farming community in Cortland County. He received a rudimentary education at the local school, but an interest in mechanical devices was aroused by the agricultural machinery he saw around him. His attendance at the Normal School in Cortland provided a useful theoretical background to his practical knowledge. He emerged in 1880 with an urge to pursue invention in electrical engineering, then a new and growing branch of technology. Within two years he was able to patent and demonstrate his arc lighting system, complete with its own generator, incorporating new methods of regulating its output. The Sperry Electric Light, Motor and Car Brake Company was set up to make and market the system, but it was difficult to keep pace with electric-lighting developments such as the incandescent lamp and alternating current, and the company ceased in 1887 and was replaced by the Sperry Electric Company, which itself was taken over by the General Electric Company.In the 1890s Sperry made useful inventions in electric mining machinery and then in electric street-or tramcars, with his patent electric brake and control system. The patents for the brake were important enough to be bought by General Electric. From 1894 to 1900 he was manufacturing electric motor cars of his own design, and in 1900 he set up a laboratory in Washington, where he pursued various electrochemical processes.In 1896 he began to work on the practical application of the principle of the gyroscope, where Sperry achieved his most notable inventions, the first of which was the gyrostabilizer for ships. The relatively narrow-hulled steamship rolled badly in heavy seas and in 1904 Ernst Otto Schuck, a German naval engineer, and Louis Brennan in England began experiments to correct this; their work stimulated Sperry to develop his own device. In 1908 he patented the active gyrostabilizer, which acted to correct a ship's roll as soon as it started. Three years later the US Navy agreed to try it on a destroyer, the USS Worden. The successful trials of the following year led to widespread adoption. Meanwhile, in 1910, Sperry set up the Sperry Gyroscope Company to extend the application to commercial shipping.At the same time, Sperry was working to apply the gyroscope principle to the ship's compass. The magnetic compass had worked well in wooden ships, but iron hulls and electrical machinery confused it. The great powers' race to build up their navies instigated an urgent search for a solution. In Germany, Anschütz-Kämpfe (1872–1931) in 1903 tested a form of gyrocompass and was encouraged by the authorities to demonstrate the device on the German flagship, the Deutschland. Its success led Sperry to develop his own version: fortunately for him, the US Navy preferred a home-grown product to a German one and gave Sperry all the backing he needed. A successful trial on a destroyer led to widespread acceptance in the US Navy, and Sperry was soon receiving orders from the British Admiralty and the Russian Navy.In the rapidly developing field of aeronautics, automatic stabilization was becoming an urgent need. In 1912 Sperry began work on a gyrostabilizer for aircraft. Two years later he was able to stage a spectacular demonstration of such a device at an air show near Paris.Sperry continued research, development and promotion in military and aviation technology almost to the last. In 1926 he sold the Sperry Gyroscope Company to enable him to devote more time to invention.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsJohn Fritz Medal 1927. President, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1928.BibliographySperry filed over 400 patents, of which two can be singled out: 1908. US patent no. 434,048 (ship gyroscope); 1909. US patent no. 519,533 (ship gyrocompass set).Further ReadingT.P.Hughes, 1971, Elmer Sperry, Inventor and Engineer, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (a full and well-documented biography, with lists of his patents and published writings).LRD
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