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1 own-use generation
- производство электрической энергии для собственного потребления (предприятия)
производство электрической энергии для собственного потребления (предприятия)
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[А.С.Гольдберг. Англо-русский энергетический словарь. 2006 г.]Тематики
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Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > own-use generation
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2 hand
hand [hænd]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. noun3. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. nouna. ( = part of body) main f• could you give me a hand? tu peux me donner un coup de main ?• would you like a hand with moving that? tu veux un coup de main pour déplacer ça ?c. ( = influence) influence f• you could see his hand in everything the committee did on reconnaissait son influence dans tout ce que faisait le comité• the wedding's next week, so it's all hands on deck le mariage a lieu la semaine prochaine, alors on a besoin de tout le mondee. [of clock, watch] aiguille fg. ( = handwriting) écriture f► preposition + hand• many suffered at the hands of the secret police beaucoup de gens ont souffert aux mains de la police secrète• to put o.s. in sb's hands s'en remettre à qn• it is out of his hands ce n'est plus lui qui s'en occupe► hand + preposition/adverb• just wait till I get my hands on him! (inf) attends un peu que je lui mette la main dessus !• he's an old hand! il connaît la musique !• on the one hand..., on the other hand d'une part..., d'autre part• yes, but on the other hand he is very rich oui, mais il est très riche• to get into the wrong hands tomber entre de mauvaises mains► hand + noun• to live from hand to mouth vivre au jour le jour► verb + hand• having the equipment at hand will be very helpful ce sera très pratique d'avoir l'équipement à portée de main► by hand à la main• Jason was at the door, suitcase in hand Jason était à la porte, sa valise à la main• he opened the door, gun in hand il a ouvert la porte, pistolet au poing• he had £6,000 in hand il avait 6 000 livres de disponibles• there are experts on hand to give you advice il y a des experts sur place pour vous conseiller► out of hand( = give) donner ; ( = hold out) tendre• you've got to hand it to him, he did it very well (inf) il faut reconnaître qu'il l'a très bien fait3. compounds► hand-out noun ( = leaflet) prospectus m ; (at lecture, meeting) polycopié m ; ( = subsidy) subvention f► hand-to-hand adjective, adverb= hand rounda. [+ object]he handed me down the dictionary from the top shelf il m'a passé le dictionnaire qui était en haut de l'étagèreb. ( = pass on) transmettre• the farm's been handed down from generation to generation cette ferme s'est transmise de génération en génération► hand in separable transitive verb remettre (to à)• your wallet's been handed in at reception on a rapporté votre portefeuille à la réception► hand on separable transitive verba. ( = pass to sb else) donner (to à)• to hand over to sb passer le relais à qn ; (at meeting) passer le micro à qn ; (on radio, TV) passer l'antenne à qn[+ object] remettre ; [+ criminal] livrer ; [+ authority, powers] ( = transfer) transmettre ; ( = surrender) céder ; [+ property, business] céder* * *[hænd] 1.1) main fhe had a pencil/book in his hand — il avait un crayon/livre à la main
she had a pistol/an umbrella in her hand — elle avait un pistolet/un parapluie à la main
to get ou lay one's hands on something — mettre la main sur quelque chose
to keep one's hands off something — ne pas toucher à [computer, money]
to hold somebody's hand — lit tenir quelqu'un par la main; fig ( give support) [person] tenir la main à quelqu'un
to do ou make something by hand — faire quelque chose à la main
‘by hand’ — ( on envelope) ‘par porteur’
to have one's hands full — lit avoir les mains pleines; fig avoir assez à faire
hands up, or I shoot! — les mains en l'air, ou je tire!
we can always use another pair of hands — une autre paire de bras ne serait pas de trop; ( round of applause)
to give somebody a big hand — applaudir quelqu'un très fort; ( consent to marriage)
to ask for/win somebody's hand (in marriage) — demander/obtenir la main de quelqu'un (en mariage)
I got the information first/second hand — j'ai eu l'information de première main/par l'intermédiaire de quelqu'un
to fall ou get into somebody's hands — tomber entre les mains de quelqu'un
to fall ou get into the wrong hands — tomber en mauvaises mains
in the right hands this information could be useful — en bonnes mains, cette information pourrait être utile
to be in good ou safe hands — [child, money] être en bonnes mains
to place ou put something in somebody's hands — confier quelque chose à quelqu'un [department, office]; remettre quelque chose entre les mains de quelqu'un [matter, affair]
to have something/somebody on one's hands — avoir quelque chose/quelqu'un sur les bras
to take somebody/something off somebody's hands — débarrasser quelqu'un de quelqu'un/quelque chose
to be on hand — [person] être disponible
the fire extinguisher was close to hand ou near at hand — l'extincteur n'était pas loin
hands off! — (colloq) pas touche! (colloq)
2) ( control)to get out of hand — [inflation] déraper; [children, fans] devenir incontrôlable; [demonstration, party] dégénérer
to take something/somebody in hand — prendre quelque chose/quelqu'un en main [situation, person]
3) ( writing) écriture fto show one's hand — lit, fig montrer son jeu
5) ( worker) gén ouvrier/-ière m/f; Nautical membre m de l'équipage6) ( skill)to set ou turn one's hand to something/doing — entreprendre quelque chose/de faire
to keep/get one's hand in — garder/se faire la main
7) ( pointer) (on clock, dial) aiguille f8) (aspect, side)on the one hand..., on the other hand... — d'une part... d'autre part...
2.on the other hand — ( conversely) par contre
transitive verb3.to hand somebody something —
in hand adjectival phrase1) ( current) en coursthe job/matter in hand — le travail/l'affaire en cours
2) ( to spare)4.out of hand adverbial phrase [reject] d'embléePhrasal Verbs:- hand in- hand out••I could do that with one hand tied behind my back! — je pourrais le faire les doigts dans le nez! (colloq)
you've got to hand it to her/them... — il faut lui/leur faire cette justice...
to stay ou hold one's hand — patienter
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3 period
ˈpɪərɪəd
1. сущ.
1) период;
промежуток времени, срок for a period ≈ на время extra period ≈ добавочное, дополнительное время cooling-off period honeymoon period incubation period rest period transitional period trial period waiting period
2) эпоха, значительный отрезок времени in a certain period ≈ в определенный момент, период in that period of history ≈ в этот исторический период prehistoric period ≈ доисторический период
3) мн. риторическая, "цветистая" речь( с точки зрения стиля)
4) а) мед. приступ, период обострения заболевания б) мн. менструация Syn: menses, catamenia
5) грам. период, большое сложное законченное предложение Tosltoy often used periods in his novels. ≈ толстой в своих романах очень часто прибегал к периодам.
6) а) пауза в конце периода, в конце предложения б) точка (знак препинания) Syn: full stop
7) фиксированный, отведенный, регламентированный интервал времени для чего-л. а) мат.;
астр.;
геол. период Syn: age, cycle, aeon, epoch, era, generation б) урок( в школе и т.д.)
8) муз. период
2. прил. относящийся к определенному периоду (о мебели, платье и т. п.) the practical book of period furniture ≈ практическое руководство по мебели разных периодов период, промежуток времени;
срок - lasting for a * of three months длящийся три месяца, сроком в три месяца - within the agreed * в пределах оговоренного срока - they visited us for a short * они немного погостили у нас - fixed * установленный период времени /срок/ - at this * of the year в это время года - a * of famine голодные времена - * of rest время /час/ отдыха;
передышка - extra /overtime/ * (спортивное) добавочное время (игры) - trial * испытательный срок стадия - *s of a disease стадии болезни - the * of incubation инкубационный период урок, занятие - a history * урок истории эпоха, время - the costume of the * костюм данной эпохи - * of change время перемен - catchwords of the * словечки, модные в определенную эпоху - sentiments of the * чувства, характерные для данной эпохи (грамматика) сложное законченное предложение;
фраза - well-rounded *s закругленные фразы точка;
пауза в конце предложения конец - to put a * to smth. поставить точку, положить конец чему-л. pl цветистая речь, риторика часто pl (физиологическое) месячные, менструация точка ( отделяющая целое число от десятых долей) (физическое) период колебаний - *s per second число оборотов /колебаний/ в секунду - natural * собственный период (колебаний) (специальное) цикл - transformation * период полураспада;
период /длительность/ превращения - combustion * период работы двигателя;
период активного полета - wave * период волны - circular orbit * период круговой орбиты спутника Земли (геология) эпоха, период - Silurian * силурийская система( музыкальное) период (спортивное) период относящийся к определенному периоду - * play комедия нравов - * house старинный дом - * film исторический кинофильм - * furniture стильная мебель - * room комната, обставленная старинной мебелью - * contract (юридическое) долгосрочный договор accounting ~ отчетный период accounting ~ период бухгалтерской отчетности accounting ~ расчетный период accounting ~ учетный период accounting ~ финансовый год accrual ~ период накопления (средств) additional maturity ~ пролонгированный срок долгового обязательства amortization ~ срок погашения долга в рассрочку average collection ~ средний срок взыскания долгов balancing ~ период сальдирования basic rental ~ основной срок аренды billing ~ расчетный период billing ~ расчетный срок budget ~ бюджетный период busy ~ период занятости carry-back ~ период покрытия убытков компании за счет прибыли за прошлое время circulation ~ период обращения construction ~ период строительства contract ~ срок действия контракта cooling ~ период охлаждения cooling-off ~ период обдумывания и переговоров credit ~ срок кредита deflationary ~ дефляционный период delay ~ период задержки delay ~ период запаздывания delivery ~ срок доставки earning ~ период пребывания на оплачиваемой работе election ~ период выборов electoral ~ период выборов elimination ~ период ликвидации exemption ~ период освобождения от налога extension ~ продленный срок financial ~ финансовый период fiscal ~ период налогообложения forbearance ~ период воздержания от действия forbearance ~ период отказа от применения принудительных мер forecasting ~ период прогнозирования forecasting ~ прогнозируемый период period время, эпоха;
our own period наша эпоха, наше время;
the girl of the period тип современной девушки given ~ данный период given ~ установленный срок grace ~ льготный период grace ~ льготный срок grace ~ период отсрочки guarantee ~ гарантийный срок holiday ~ отпускной период idle ~ нерабочий период idle ~ перерыв в работе idle ~ период бездействия idle ~ простой inactive ~ неэффективный период income ~ период получения дохода indemnity ~ гарантийный период indemnity ~ период компенсации убытков indemnity ~ срок возмещения вреда, ущерба, убытков inquiry ~ срок расследования insurance ~ срок страхования interest-paying ~ период начисления процентов intervening ~ наступающий период intervention ~ интервенционный период lean ~ неурожайное время legal storage ~ установленный законом период хранения legislative ~ законодательный период licensing ~ срок лицензирования loan ~ срок погашения ссуды lock-up ~ срок действия глобальных обязательств lock-up ~ бирж. срок запрета продажи maturity ~ период, когда наступает срок платежа mustering ~ период освидетельствования period время, эпоха;
our own period наша эпоха, наше время;
the girl of the period тип современной девушки part ~ неполный период pay ~ период платежа pay-back ~ срок возврата денег payback ~ период окупаемости капиталовложений payment ~ срок платежа payoff ~ период окупаемости payout ~ срок выплаты peak ~ период максимального товарооборота peak ~ период максимальной нагрузки period время, эпоха;
our own period наша эпоха, наше время;
the girl of the period тип современной девушки ~ время ~ круг, цикл ~ pl менструация ~ относящийся к определенному периоду (о мебели, платье и т. п.) ~ пауза в конце периода;
точка;
to put a period (to smth.) поставить точку;
положить конец (чему-л.) ~ период, промежуток времени ~ мат., астр., геол. период ~ грам. период, большое сложное законченное предложение ~ период;
промежуток времени;
period of years определенный период времени ~ период ~ промежуток времени ~ pl риторическая речь ~ риторическая речь ~ срок ~ стадия ~ for lodging appeal срок обжалования апелляции ~ of a partnership период сотрудничества ~ of acquisition период приобретения ~ of adversity неблагоприятный период ~ of adversity период пассивного баланса ~ of assessment период оценки в целях налогообложения ~ of cancellation срок окончательной оплаты ~ of cancellation срок погашения ~ of comparison период сравнения ~ of contribution срок взноса ~ of cover период страхования ~ of crisis период кризиса ~ of employment период занятости ~ of employment период работы( на рабочем месте) ~ of gestation период беременности ~ of grace льготный срок ~ of high cost of living период высокого прожиточного минимума ~ of high interest rates период высоких ставок процента ~ of hire срок проката ~ of indemnification срок возмещения убытка ~ of indemnification срок компенсации ~ of indemnity срок возмещения убытка ~ of indemnity срок компенсации ~ of insurance период действия договора страхования ~ of intervention период валютной интервенции ~ of irremovability период несмещения с должности ~ of limitation срок исковой давности ~ of loan срок кредитования ~ of nonterminability период несмещения с должности ~ of notice срок извещения ~ of notice срок оповещения ~ of notice срок уведомления ~ of notice of termination of contract срок уведомления о расторжении контракта ~ of notification срок уведомления ~ of operation период эксплуатации ~ of operation рабочий период ~ of payment срок платежа ~ of production время производства ~ of prosperity период процветания ~ of quiet период застоя ~ of recession период спада ~ of reference срок передачи на рассмотрение ~ of repayment срок выплаты ~ of repayment срок погашения ~ of report отчетный период ~ of report период отсрочки платежа за купленные акции на Лондонской фондовой бирже ~ of residence срок проживания ~ of scarcity период дефицита ~ of service продолжительность работы ~ of slack growth период медленного роста ~ of storage период хранения ~ of taxation период налогообложения ~ of time период времени ~ of transition переходный период ~ of use продолжительность использования ~ of validity срок действия ~ of vigorous growth период интенсивного роста ~ период;
промежуток времени;
period of years определенный период времени ~ of zero growth период нулевого роста ~ to maturity срок платежа ~ to maturity срок погашения policy ~ период ограниченной ответственности фирмы за дефекты policy ~ срок действия страхового полиса policy ~ срок страхования post-war ~ послевоенный период practice ~ практика, период практики ( в учебной программе) preceding ~ предшествующий период preliminary ~ предварительный период premium ~ срок уплаты страхового взноса probation ~ испытательный срок (период обучения или работы) probationary ~ испытательный срок ~ пауза в конце периода;
точка;
to put a period (to smth.) поставить точку;
положить конец (чему-л.) qualifying ~ испытательный срок quiet ~ период регистрации займа в Комиссии по ценным бумагам и биржам в США recession ~ период спада redemption ~ период возвращения долга redemption ~ период выкупа redemption ~ период погашения reference ~ базовый период reference ~ отчетный период relevant ~ соответствующий период remaining ~ оставшийся срок renewal ~ период восстановления repayment ~ срок выплаты repayment ~ срок погашения reporting ~ отчетный период rollover ~ период очередной фиксации плавающей ставки по кредиту run-in ~ период обкатки run-in ~ период приработки rush ~ период наибольшей нагрузки settlement ~ платежный период settling ~ расчетный период shakedown ~ вчт. период освоения shipping ~ навигационный период slack ~ период затишья slack ~ спад в промышленности specified ~ установленный период steady ~ период стабильности subscription ~ период подписки tax ~ период налогообложения taxation ~ период налогообложения transition ~ переходный период transition: ~ attr. переходный;
transition period переходный период;
transition curve мат. переходная кривая;
transition stage переходная стадия transitional ~ переходный период transitional ~ промежуточный период trial ~ испытательный срок trial ~ срок испытания trial: ~ attr. пробный, испытательный;
trial period испытательный срок unemployment ~ период безработицы useful life ~ период нормальной эксплуатации validity ~ срок юридического действия waiting ~ время ожидания waiting ~ период ожидания( до наступления права на пособие и т. д.) waiting ~ период отсрочки ответственности страховщика waiting ~ срок ожидания weak ~ период затишья weak ~ спад производства winding up ~ ликвидационный период -
4 time
1. n время выполнения2. n период времениit took him a long time to do it, he took a long time doing it — ему потребовалось немало времени, чтобы сделать это; он немало с этим провозился
all the time, the whole time — всё время, всегда
all the time we were working — в течение всего времени, что мы работали
at one time — одно время, когда-то
for the time being — пока, до поры до времени
I think that we may win in time — думаю, что со временем нам удастся победить
in no time, in less than no time — очень быстро, мигом, в два счёта
in the same flash of time — в то же мгновение, в тот же миг
to tell the time — показывать время; показывать, который час
time interrupt — временное прерывание; прерывание по времени
3. n сезон, пора, времяsowing time — время сева, посевной период, посевная
4. n долгое времяhe was gone time before you got there — он ушёл задолго до того, как вы туда явились
settling time — время установления сигнала; время успокоения
reversal time — время реверсирования; время перемагничивания
5. n час, точное времяwhat time, at what time — в какое время, в котором часу; когда
6. n момент, мгновение; определённый момент, определённое времяsome time — в какой-то момент, в какое-то время
some time — когда-нибудь, рано или поздно
at times — по временам, время от времени
at the time — в тот момент, в то время
at the same time — в то же самое время, одновременно; в тот же момент
at any time you like — в любой момент, когда вам будет удобно
at the proper time, when the time comes — в своё время, когда придёт время
we shall do everything at the proper time — мы всё сделаем, когда нужно;
between times — иногда, временами
block-to-block time — время, затраченное на выполнение рейса
travel time — время, необходимое на переходы в часы работы
time modulation — временная модуляция; модуляция по времени
7. n время прибытия или отправления8. n срок, времяin time — в срок, вовремя
in due time — в своё время, своевременно
I was just in time to see it — я успел как раз вовремя, чтобы увидеть это
behind time, out of time — поздно, с опозданием
high time — давно пора, самое время
time! — время вышло!; ваше время истекло
time is drawing on — времени остаётся мало, срок приближается
9. n подходящий момент, подходящее время10. n времена, пора; эпоха, эраour time — наше время, наши дни
the times we live in — наши дни; время, в которое мы живём
at all times, all the time — всегда, во все времена
a book unusual for its time — книга, необычная для своего времени
from time immemorial — с незапамятных времён, испокон веку ; искони, исстари
old time — старое время; в древности, в стародавние времена, во время оно
in happier times — в более счастливые времена, в более счастливую пору
in times to come — в будущем, в грядущие времена
abreast of the times — вровень с веком; не отставая от жизни
to be abreast of the times, to move with the times — стоять вровень с веком, не отставать от жизни, шагать в ногу со временем
ahead of the time — опередивший свою эпоху, передовой
other times, other manners — иные времена — иные нравы
11. n возрастat his time of life — в его возрасте, в его годы
12. n период жизни, векit was before her time — это было до её рождения; она этого уже не застала
he died before his time — он безвременно умер;
debug time — время отладки; период отладки
13. n свободное время; досугto have no time, to be hard pressed for time — совершенно не иметь времени, торопиться
to make up for lost time — наверстать упущенное; компенсировать потери времени
to save time — экономить время, не терять попусту времени
I need time to rest — мне нужно время, чтобы отдохнуть
switching time — время переключения; время перемагничивания
response time — время ответа, время реакции; время отклика
14. n время; времяпрепровождениеto have a good time — хорошо провести время, повеселиться
one-pulse time — время действия импульса; импульсный период
15. n рабочее времяGreenwich time — время по Гринвичу, среднеевропейское время
16. n плата за работу17. n интервал между раундами18. n тайм; период, половина игрыTime Inc. — Тайм инк.
19. n скорость, темп; такт; размер; ритмto keep time — отбивать такт; выдерживать такт
20. n стих. мора21. n библ. год22. a связанный с временем23. a снабжённый часовым механизмом24. a связанный с покупками в кредит или с платежами в рассрочкуseeding time — время сева, посевная страда, сев
time base — временная ось; масштаб по оси времени
25. a подлежащий оплате в определённый срокtime wage — повременная, подённая оплата
26. v выбирать время; рассчитыватьturnover time — время переключения; время перемагничивания
to snooze time away — бездельничать, растранжиривать время
27. v назначать или устанавливать время; приурочиватьseasoning time — время, необходимое для полного увлажнения
28. v ставить29. v задавать темп; регулировать30. v отмечать по часам; засекать; определять время; хронометрироватьcore time — часы, когда все сотрудники должны быть на работе
mercifully, he came in time — к счастью, он пришёл вовремя
31. v рассчитывать, устанавливать продолжительностьclockwork apparatus timed to run for forty-eight hours — часовой механизм, рассчитанный на двое суток работы
32. v выделять время для определённого процесса33. v делать в такт34. v редк. совпадать, биться в унисонin double-quick time — быстро, в два счёта
35. v тех. синхронизироватьСинонимический ряд:1. duration (noun) continuance; duration; future; interval; lastingness; past; present; span; stretch; term; year2. era (noun) age; cycle; date; day; days; epoch; era; generation; period; season3. go (noun) bout; go; hitch; innings; shift; spell; stint; tour; trick; turn; watch4. hour (noun) hour; instant; minute; moment; occasion5. opportunity (noun) break; chance; leisure; liberty; look-in; opening; opportunity; shot; show; squeak6. tempo (noun) beat; cadence; measure; pace; rate; rhythm; swing; tempo7. while (noun) bit; space; spell; stretch; while8. adjust (verb) adjust; set; synchronize9. book (verb) book; schedule10. gauge (verb) clock; gauge; measure; regulate -
5 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 -
6 Hjorth, Soren
SUBJECT AREA: Electricity[br]b. 13 October 1801 Vesterbygaard, Denmarkd. 28 August 1870 Copenhagen, Denmark[br]Danish engineer and inventor who first proposed the principle of the self-excited dynamo.[br]After passing a legal examination, Hjorth found employment in the state treasury in Copenhagen and in 1830 advanced to be Clerk of the Exchequer and Secretary. In 1834 he visited England to study the use of steam road and rail vehicles. Hjorth was involved in the formation of the first railway company in Denmark and became Technical Director of Denmark's first railway, a line between Copenhagen and Roskilde that opened in 1847. In 1848 he petitioned the Government for funds to visit England and have built there an electric motor of his own design with oscillating motion. This petition, supported by Hans Christian Oersted (1777–1851), was granted. A British patent was obtained for the machine, an example being exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London. Turning his attention to the generation of electricity, he conceived as early as May 1851 the dynamo electric principle with self-excitation that was incorporated in his patent in 1855. Unfortunately, Hjorth held the firm but mistaken belief that if he could use his dynamo to drive a motor he would obtain more power than was consumed in driving the dynamo. The theory of conservation of energy was being only slowly accepted at that time, and Hjorth, with little scientific training, was to be disappointed at the failure of his schemes. He worked with great perseverance and industry to the end of his life on the design of his electrical machines.[br]Bibliography11 April 1855, British patent no. 806 (Hjorth's self-excited dynamo).11 April 1855, British patent nos. 807 and 808 (reciprocating and rotary electric motors).Further ReadingS.Smith, 1912, Soren Hjorth, Copenhagen (the most detailed biography).1907, "Soren Hjorth, discoverer of the dynamo-electric principle", Electrical Engineering 1: 957–8 (a short biography).Catalogue of the 1851 Exhibition, 1851, London, pp. 1, 359–60 (for a description of Hjorth's electromagnetic engine with oscillating motion.GW
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