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1 Arbeit
f; -, -en1. allg.: work; (schwere Arbeit) hard work; geistige Arbeit brainwork; körperliche Arbeit physical work ( oder labo[u]r); Arbeiten work Sing. (an + Dat on); (Aufgabe) task, job; eine undankbare Arbeit a thankless task; an oder bei der Arbeit at work; an die Arbeit gehen, sich an die Arbeit machen start work, get (down) to work; los, an die Arbeit! right, (get) to work!; seine Arbeit tun oder seiner Arbeit nachgehen go about one’s work; ich hab mit dem Garten viel Arbeit the garden’s a lot of work; ganze oder gute etc. Arbeit leisten do a good job (auch fig.); immer nur halbe Arbeit machen never do things ( oder finish things off) properly; etw. in Arbeit haben / nehmen be / start working on s.th.; etw. in Arbeit geben have s.th. done ( oder made); etw. ist in Arbeit work has started ( oder is in progress) on s.th.; Ihr Kaffee ist in Arbeit umg. your coffee is on its way ( oder in the works); Ihre Arbeit besteht darin zu (+ Inf.) your job consists of (+ Ger.) erst die Arbeit, dann das Vergnügen! business before pleasure; er hat die Arbeit nicht erfunden iro. he’s a born skiver (Am. slacker) umg.; Arbeit macht das Leben süß Sprichw. no gain without pain, no sweet without sweat; Arbeit schändet nicht Sprichw. hard work is nothing to be ashamed of, an honest day’s work never did anyone any harm; getan, Hand1 4 2. (Mühe) trouble; (Anstrengung) effort, exertion; er lebt von seiner Hände Arbeit he lives by the labo(u)r of his hands; unsere ganze Arbeit war umsonst all our labo(u)r has been in vain; viel Arbeit kosten be ( oder create) a lot of work; die tägliche Arbeit im Haus the household chores; ich hoffe, es macht Ihnen nicht zu viel Arbeit I hope it’s not too much trouble for you; es war viel Arbeit, sie zu überzeugen convincing her was hard work3. nur Sg. (bezahlte Arbeit, Beschäftigung) work, employment; Arbeit haben have a job; ohne Arbeit unemployed, out of work, jobless; Arbeit suchen look for a job, seek employment geh.; die Arbeit verlieren lose one’s job; zur (umg. auf) Arbeit gehen go to work; ( bei jemandem) in Arbeit stehen be employed by s.o., be in the employ of s.o. förm.; einer ( geregelten) Arbeit nachgehen be in (steady) employment, have a (steady) job; sie versteht i-e Arbeit she knows her job4. Produkt: (piece of) work; (schriftliche, wissenschaftliche Arbeit) paper; längere: treatise; künstlerische Arbeit work of art; gute / erstklassige Arbeit! als Lob: good / excellent work!5. (schriftliche Prüfung) test, exam; eine Arbeit schreiben sit ( oder take) a test; Arbeiten korrigieren mark ( oder grade) test papers6. POL. labo(u)r; Tag der Arbeit Labo(u)r Day (GB: 1 May; USA, Kanada: first Monday in September; Neuseeland: first Monday in October)7. PHYS. work* * *die Arbeitlabour; work; job; labor* * *Ạr|beit ['arbait]f -, -enArbeit und Kapital — capital and labour (Brit) or labor (US)
Tag der Arbeit — Labour (Brit) or Labor (US) Day
die Arbeiten am Stadium — the work on the stadium
Arbeit sparend — labour-saving (Brit), labor-saving (US)
viel Arbeit machen — to be a lot of work (jdm for sb)
das ist/kostet viel Arbeit — it's a lot of work, it's a big job
an or bei der Arbeit sein — to be working
sich an die Arbeit machen, an die Arbeit gehen — to get down to work, to start working
jdm bei der Arbeit zusehen — to watch sb working
etw ist in Arbeit — work on sth has started, work on sth is in progress
etw in Arbeit nehmen — to undertake to do or (manuelle Arbeit) make sth
etw in Arbeit geben — to have sth done/made
jdm etw in Arbeit geben — to get sb to do/make sth
die Arbeit läuft dir nicht davon (hum) — the work will still be there when you get back
erst die Arbeit, dann das Vergnügen (prov) — business before pleasure (prov)
Arbeit schändet nicht (Prov) — work is no disgrace
2) no pl (= Ausführung) workgute or ganze or gründliche Arbeit leisten (lit, fig iro) — to do a good job
3) no pl (= Mühe) trouble, botherjdm Arbeit machen — to put sb to trouble
machen Sie sich keine Arbeit! — don't go to any trouble or bother
das war vielleicht eine Arbeit! — what hard work that was!, what a job that was!
4) (= Berufstätigkeit, inf: = Arbeitsplatz, Arbeitsstelle, Arbeitszeit) work no indef art; (= Arbeitsverhältnis) employment; (= Position) job(eine) Arbeit suchen/finden — to look for/find work or a job
Arbeit suchend — looking for work or a job, seeking employment
ohne Arbeit sein — to be out of work, to be unemployed
auf Arbeit sein (inf) — to be at work
von der Arbeit kommen — to come back from work
5) (= Aufgabe) jobseine Arbeit besteht darin, zu... — his job is to...
6) (= Produkt) work; (handwerkliche) piece of work; (= Prüfungsarbeit) (examination) paper; (wissenschaftliche) paper; (= Buch, Kunstwerk) workArbeiten korrigieren — to mark test papers
eine Arbeit schreiben/schreiben lassen — to do/set a test
* * *die1) (a person's daily work or employment: She has a job as a bank-clerk; Some of the unemployed men have been out of a job for four years.) job2) (hard work: The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour over two centuries; People engaged in manual labour are often badly paid.) labour3) (a turn (at work): Shortly afterwards I did another spell at the machine.) spell4) (effort made in order to achieve or make something: He has done a lot of work on this project) work5) (employment: I cannot find work in this town.) work7) (the product or result of a person's labours: His work has shown a great improvement lately.) work8) (one's place of employment: He left (his) work at 5.30 p.m.; I don't think I'll go to work tomorrow.) work* * *Ar·beit<-, -en>[ˈarbait]fdie \Arbeit mit Schwerbehinderten ist äußerst befriedigend working with the disabled is extremely fulfillingan [o bei] der \Arbeit sein to be workingdie \Arbeit einstellen to stop [or cease] workganze [o gründliche] \Arbeit leisten to do a good jobgeistige/körperliche \Arbeit brainwork/physical workgute/schlechte \Arbeit leisten to do a good/bad jobetw [bei jdm] in \Arbeit geben to have sth done [at sb's [or by sb]]an die \Arbeit! get to work!zur \Arbeit gehen to go to worketw in \Arbeit haben to be working on sthetw ist in \Arbeit work is in progress on sthIhr Pils ist in \Arbeit! your Pils is on its way!\Arbeit und Kapital labour [or AM -or] and capitaljdm [viel] \Arbeit machen to make [a lot of] work for sb2. kein pl (Erwerbstätigkeit, Arbeitsplatz) work no pl, no indef art; (Job) job; (Beschäftigung) employment no pl, no indef artbeeil dich, sonst kommst du zu spät zur \Arbeit! hurry up, or you'll be late for work!er fand \Arbeit als Kranfahrer he got a job as a crane driverzur \Arbeit gehen to go to workich gehe heute nicht zur \Arbeit I'm not going [in]to work todayeiner [geregelten] \Arbeit nachgehen (geh) to have a [steady] job\Arbeit suchen to be looking for a job, to be seeking employmentdieser Schreibtisch ist eine saubere \Arbeit! this bureau is an excellent bit of [handi]work!seine \Arbeiten ausstellen to exhibit one's worknur halbe \Arbeit machen to do a half-hearted jobwissenschaftliche \Arbeit scientific papersie büffelten für die anstehende \Arbeit in Mathe they were swotting for the upcoming maths test\Arbeiten korrigieren to mark test paperseine \Arbeit schreiben to do [or sit] a testdas Geld ist für die \Arbeit, die Sie hatten! the money is for your troubles [or efforts]!mit kleinen Kindern haben Eltern immer viel \Arbeit small children are always a lot of work for parentsmachen Sie sich keine \Arbeit, ich schaffe das schon alleine! don't go to any trouble, I'll manage on my own!viel \Arbeit sein [o kosten] to take a lot of work [or effort6. (Aufgabe) job, choreEinkaufen ist für sie eine mühselige \Arbeit she finds shopping a tedious chore8.* * *die; Arbeit, Arbeiten1) work no indef. art.die Arbeit[en] am Staudamm — [the] work on the dam
an die Arbeit gehen, sich an die Arbeit machen — get down to work
viel Arbeit haben — have a lot of work [to do]
[wieder] an die Arbeit! — [back] to work!
erst die Arbeit, dann das Vergnügen — business before pleasure
2) o. Pl. (Mühe) troubleArbeit machen — cause bother or trouble
sich (Dat.) Arbeit [mit etwas] machen — take trouble [over something]
eine Arbeit suchen/finden — look for/find work or a job
eine Arbeit als... — work or a job as...
zur od. (ugs.) auf Arbeit gehen — go to work
auf Arbeit sein — (ugs.) be at work
vor/nach der Arbeit — before/after work
4) (Aufgabe) job6) (Schulw.): (KlassenArbeit) testeine Arbeit schreiben/schreiben lassen — do/set a test
* * *geistige Arbeit brainwork;körperliche Arbeit physical work ( oder labo[u]r);Arbeiten work sg (eine undankbare Arbeit a thankless task;an oderbei der Arbeit at work;an die Arbeit gehen, sich an die Arbeit machen start work, get (down) to work;los, an die Arbeit! right, (get) to work!;seiner Arbeit nachgehen go about one’s work;ich hab mit dem Garten viel Arbeit the garden’s a lot of work;gute etcArbeit leisten do a good job (auch fig);immer nur halbe Arbeit machen never do things ( oder finish things off) properly;etwas in Arbeit haben/nehmen be/start working on sth;etwas in Arbeit geben have sth done ( oder made);etwas ist in Arbeit work has started ( oder is in progress) on sth;erst die Arbeit, dann das Vergnügen! business before pleasure;Arbeit macht das Leben süß sprichw no gain without pain, no sweet without sweat;Arbeit schändet nicht sprichw hard work is nothing to be ashamed of, an honest day’s work never did anyone any harm; → getan, Handarbeiter lebt von seiner Hände Arbeit he lives by the labo(u)r of his hands;unsere ganze Arbeit war umsonst all our labo(u)r has been in vain;viel Arbeit kosten be ( oder create) a lot of work;die tägliche Arbeit im Haus the household chores;ich hoffe, es macht Ihnen nicht zu viel Arbeit I hope it’s not too much trouble for you;es war viel Arbeit, sie zu überzeugen convincing her was hard work3. nur sg (bezahlte Arbeit, Beschäftigung) work, employment;Arbeit haben have a job;ohne Arbeit unemployed, out of work, jobless;Arbeit suchen look for a job, seek employment geh;Arbeit Suchende job-seeker;die Arbeit verlieren lose one’s job;zur (umgauf)Arbeit gehen go to work;(bei jemandem) in Arbeit stehen be employed by sb, be in the employ of sb form;einer (geregelten) Arbeit nachgehen be in (steady) employment, have a (steady) job;sie versteht i-e Arbeit she knows her jobkünstlerische Arbeit work of art;gute/erstklassige Arbeit! als Lob: good/excellent work!5. (schriftliche Prüfung) test, exam;eine Arbeit schreiben sit ( oder take) a test;Arbeiten korrigieren mark ( oder grade) test papers6. POL labo(u)r;Tag der Arbeit Labo(u)r Day (GB: 1 May; USA, Kanada: first Monday in September; Neuseeland: first Monday in October)7. PHYS workan +dat oder* * *die; Arbeit, Arbeiten1) work no indef. art.die Arbeit[en] am Staudamm — [the] work on the dam
an die Arbeit gehen, sich an die Arbeit machen — get down to work
viel Arbeit haben — have a lot of work [to do]
[wieder] an die Arbeit! — [back] to work!
erst die Arbeit, dann das Vergnügen — business before pleasure
2) o. Pl. (Mühe) troubleArbeit machen — cause bother or trouble
sich (Dat.) Arbeit [mit etwas] machen — take trouble [over something]
eine Arbeit suchen/finden — look for/find work or a job
eine Arbeit als... — work or a job as...
zur od. (ugs.) auf Arbeit gehen — go to work
auf Arbeit sein — (ugs.) be at work
vor/nach der Arbeit — before/after work
4) (Aufgabe) job6) (Schulw.): (KlassenArbeit) testeine Arbeit schreiben/schreiben lassen — do/set a test
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2 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 -
3 Eastman, George
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. 12 July 1854 Waterville, New York, USAd. 14 March 1932 Rochester, New York, USA[br]American industrialist and pioneer of popular photography.[br]The young Eastman was a clerk-bookkeeper in the Rochester Savings Bank when in 1877 he took up photography. Taking lessons in the wet-plate process, he became an enthusiastic amateur photographer. However, the cumbersome equipment and noxious chemicals used in the process proved an obstacle, as he said, "It seemed to be that one ought to be able to carry less than a pack-horse load." Then he came across an account of the new gelatine dry-plate process in the British Journal of Photography of March 1878. He experimented in coating glass plates with the new emulsions, and was soon so successful that he decided to go into commercial manufacture. He devised a machine to simplify the coating of the plates, and travelled to England in July 1879 to patent it. In April 1880 he prepared to begin manufacture in a rented building in Rochester, and contacted the leading American photographic supply house, E. \& H.T.Anthony, offering them an option as agents. A local whip manufacturer, Henry A.Strong, invested $1,000 in the enterprise and the Eastman Dry Plate Company was formed on 1 January 1881. Still working at the Savings Bank, he ran the business in his spare time, and demand grew for the quality product he was producing. The fledgling company survived a near disaster in 1882 when the quality of the emulsions dropped alarmingly. Eastman later discovered this was due to impurities in the gelatine used, and this led him to test all raw materials rigorously for quality. In 1884 the company became a corporation, the Eastman Dry Plate \& Film Company, and a new product was announced. Mindful of his desire to simplify photography, Eastman, with a camera maker, William H.Walker, designed a roll-holder in which the heavy glass plates were replaced by a roll of emulsion-coated paper. The holders were made in sizes suitable for most plate cameras. Eastman designed and patented a coating machine for the large-scale production of the paper film, bringing costs down dramatically, the roll-holders were acclaimed by photographers worldwide, and prizes and medals were awarded, but Eastman was still not satisfied. The next step was to incorporate the roll-holder in a smaller, hand-held camera. His first successful design was launched in June 1888: the Kodak camera. A small box camera, it held enough paper film for 100 circular exposures, and was bought ready-loaded. After the film had been exposed, the camera was returned to Eastman's factory, where the film was removed, processed and printed, and the camera reloaded. This developing and printing service was the most revolutionary part of his invention, since at that time photographers were expected to process their own photographs, which required access to a darkroom and appropriate chemicals. The Kodak camera put photography into the hands of the countless thousands who wanted photographs without complications. Eastman's marketing slogan neatly summed up the advantage: "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest." The Kodak camera was the last product in the design of which Eastman was personally involved. His company was growing rapidly, and he recruited the most talented scientists and technicians available. New products emerged regularly—notably the first commercially produced celluloid roll film for the Kodak cameras in July 1889; this material made possible the introduction of cinematography a few years later. Eastman's philosophy of simplifying photography and reducing its costs continued to influence products: for example, the introduction of the one dollar, or five shilling, Brownie camera in 1900, which put photography in the hands of almost everyone. Over the years the Eastman Kodak Company, as it now was, grew into a giant multinational corporation with manufacturing and marketing organizations throughout the world. Eastman continued to guide the company; he pursued an enlightened policy of employee welfare and profit sharing decades before this was common in industry. He made massive donations to many concerns, notably the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and supported schemes for the education of black people, dental welfare, calendar reform, music and many other causes, he withdrew from the day-to-day control of the company in 1925, and at last had time for recreation. On 14 March 1932, suffering from a painful terminal cancer and after tidying up his affairs, he shot himself through the heart, leaving a note: "To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?" Although Eastman's technical innovations were made mostly at the beginning of his career, the organization which he founded and guided in its formative years was responsible for many of the major advances in photography over the years.[br]Further ReadingC.Ackerman, 1929, George Eastman, Cambridge, Mass.B.Coe, 1973, George Eastman and the Early Photographers, London.BC -
4 Dickson, J.T.
[br]b. c.1920 Scotland[br]Scottish co-inventor of the polyester fibre, Terylene.[br]The introduction of one type of artificial fibre encouraged chemists to look for more. J.T.Dickson and J.R. Whinfield discovered one such fibre in 1941 when they derived polyester from terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol. Dickson, a 21-year-old Edinburgh graduate, was working under Whinfield at the Calico Printers' Association research laboratory at Broad Oak Print Works in Accrington. He was put onto fibre research: probably in April, but certainly by 5 July 1941, a murky-looking resin had been synthesized, out of which Dickson successfully drew a filament, which was named "Terylene" by its discoverers. Owing to restrictions imposed in Britain during the Second World War, this fibre was developed initially by the DuPont Company in the USA, where it was marketed under the name "Dacron". When Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) were able to manufacture it in Britain, it acquired the brand name "Terylene" and became very popular. Under the microscope, Terylene appears identical to nylon: longitudinally, it is completely devoid of any structure and the filaments appear as glass rods with a perfectly circular cross-section. The uses of Terylene are similar to those of nylon, but it has two advantages. First, it can be heat-set by exposing the fabric to a temperature about 30°C higher than is likely to be encountered in everyday use, and therefore can be the basis for "easy-care" clothing such as drip-dry shirts. It can be blended with other fibres such as wool, and when pressed at a high temperature the creases are remarkably durable. It is also remarkably resistant to chemicals, which makes it particularly suitable for industrial purposes under conditions where other textile materials would be degraded rapidly. Dickson later worked for ICI.[br]Further ReadingFor accounts of the discovery of Terylene, see: J.R.Whinfield, 1953, Textile Research Journal (May). R.Collins, 1991, "Terylene", Historian 30 (Spring).Accounts of the introduction of svnthetic fibres are covered in: D.S.Lyle, 1982, Modern Textiles, New York.S.R.Cockett, An Introduction to Man-Made Fibres.G.R.Wray, Modern Yarn Production.RLH -
5 Klic, Karol (Klietsch, Karl)
[br]b. 31 May 1841 Arnau, Bohemia (now Czech Republic)d. 16 November 1826 Vienna, Austria[br]Czech inventor of photogravure and rotogravure.[br]Klic, sometimes known by the germanized form of his name Karl Klietsch, gained a knowledge of chemistry from his chemist father. However, he inclined towards the arts, preferring to mix paints rather than chemicals, and he trained in art at the Academy of Painting in Prague. His father thought to combine the chemical with the artistic by setting up his son in a photographic studio in Brno, but the arts won and in 1867 Klic moved to Vienna to practise as an illustrator and caricaturist. He also acquired skill as an etcher, and this led him to print works of art reproduced by photography by means of an intaglio process. He perfected the process c.1878 and, through it, Vienna became for a while the world centre for high-quality art reproductions. The prints were made by hand from flat plates, but Klic then proposed that the images should be etched onto power-driven cylinders. He found little support for rotary gravure, or rotogravure, on the European continent, but learning that Storey Brothers, textile printers of Lancaster, England, were working in a similar direction, he went there in 1890 to perfect his idea. Rotogravure printing on textiles began in 1893. They then turned to printing art reproductions on paper by rotogravure and in 1895 formed the Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Company. Their photogra-vures attracted worldwide attention when they appeared in the Magazine of Art. Klic saw photogravure as a small-scale medium for the art lover and not for mass-circulation publications, so he did not patent his invention and thought to control it by secrecy. That had the usual result, however, and knowledge of the process leaked out from Storey's, spreading to other countries in Europe and, from 1903, to the USA. Klic lived on in a modest way in Vienna, his later years troubled by failing sight. He hardly earned the credit for the invention, let alone the fortune reaped by others who used, and still use, photogravure for printing long runs of copy such as newspaper colour supplements.[br]Further ReadingObituary, 1927, Inland Printer (January): 614.Karol Klic. vynálezu hlubotisku, 1957, Prague (the only full-length biography; in Czech, with an introduction in English, French and German).S.H.Horgan, 1925, "The invention of photogravure", Inland Printer (April): 64 (contains brief details of his life and works).G.Wakeman, 1973, Victorian Book Illustration, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles, pp. 126–8.LRDBiographical history of technology > Klic, Karol (Klietsch, Karl)
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6 fine
̈ɪfaɪn I
1. сущ.
1) конец уст. (кроме сочетаний) in fine
2) а) ист. юр. вид мировой (как "взаимовыгодное завершение дела") б) ист. вид платы, вносимой вассалом сеньору за изменение особенностей его вассального статуса в) взыскание, штраф, пеня( for) (денежные) ;
наказание, ответственность (любого рода) heavy, stiff fine ≈ большой штраф mandatory fine ≈ принудительный штраф fine for illegal parking ≈ штраф за парковку в запрещенном месте impose fine on levy fine on pay a fine slap fine on Syn: penalty
2. гл.
1) налагать взыскание, штраф, штрафовать( for) The motorist was fined for dangerous driving. ≈ На водителя был наложен большой штраф за опасную езду. Syn: mulct
2) наказывать The King was strong enough to fine and imprison the Earls. ≈ У короля было достаточно власти, чтобы герцоги понесли наказание и даже были лишены свободы. Syn: punish II
1. прил.
1) а) прям. перен. тонкий, утонченный fine distinction fine intellect fine point fine question fine skin Syn: slender б) тонкий, изящный;
высокий, возвышенный( о манерах, чувствах и т.п.) Fine little hands, fine little feet. ≈ Изящные ручки, изящные ножки. He's only a working-man, you see. He hasn't got your fine ways. ≈ Он всего лишь работяга, вот в чем дело. Все эти твои тонкости ему невдомек. Syn: delicate, elevated, refined, polished, dainty, fastidious в) острый fine edge ≈ острое лезвие talk fine Syn: sharp г) мелкий;
густой, частый( о насечке, сети и т. п.) - fine print fine sand Syn: comminuted д) точный( о механизмах) ∙ fine arts Syn: delicate, subtle
2) а) хороший, прекрасный, превосходный, совершенный (также ирон.) ;
хорошо себя чувствующий have a fine time Syn: finished, complete, excellent A fine friend you are! ирон. ≈ Хорош друг! б) высококачественный, высокопробный, очищенный, рафинированный;
тех. чистый, беспримесный( о веществах, особенно металлах) Syn: pure
3) ясный, хороший, сухой( о погоде) a fine morning ≈ погожее утро fine air ≈ здоровый воздух
4) а) красивый, имеющий привлекательную внешность б) блестящий, нарядный Syn: ornate, showy, smart
5) а) несообразных размеров, громадный, огромный, чудовищный You had a fine slice of bread and honey just now. ≈ Ты только что слопал здоровенный ломоть хлеба с медом. б) потрясающий, впечатляющий (о способности, мастерстве) Syn: skilful ∙ some fine day ≈ когда-нибудь в будущем, когда-нибудь потом fine feathers make fine birds посл. ≈ одежда красит человека
2. нареч.
1) разг. отлично, прекрасно, то, что надо
2) изящно, тонко, изысканно, утонченно Syn: exquisite
3) также другие адвербиальные употребления fine II
1. ∙ cut fine run fine
3. гл. приобретать или придавать свойства или качества, зафиксированные в значениях fine II
1. To fine down spirits. ≈ Очищать спирт. The large pieces must first be fined. ≈ Большие куски надо измельчить. Fining down his original statement. ≈ Изменив свое последнее утверждение так, что оно стало более тонким. The weather fined a bit. ≈ Прояснилось. fine down fine away fine off Syn: clarify, refine, purify штраф;
пеня - heavy * большой штраф - to impose a * налагать штраф штрафовать, налагать штраф, пеню - he was *d half a crown его оштрафовали на полкроны( устаревшее) конец - in * в общем;
вкратце, словом;
в заключение;
в итоге ясный, хороший, сухой (о погоде) - a * day погожий день - we sleep in the open when it's * в хорошую погоду мы спим на открытом воздухе здоровый, хороший (о воздухе, климате) прекрасный, превосходный;
славный - * woman превосходная женщина - * apples прекрасные яблоки - * singer прекрасный певец - * workman мастер своего дела - * future блестящее будущее - a * specimen прекрасный представитель /образец/ - * example of Romanesque architecture прекрасный образец романской архитектуры - to have a * time хорошо провести время - that's * хорошо, согласен;
ну и отлично тонкий - * thread тонкая нить - * linen тонкое белье - * skin тонкая нежная кожа - * texture( специальное) микроструктура с тонким концом, острый - * pen острое перо мелкий - * sand мелкий песок - * dust тонкая пыль - * rain изморось - * gas разреженный газ - * sieve тонкое сито - * soil (сельскохозяйственное) мелкокомковатая почва чистый, очищенный, высококачественный - * copper чистая медь - gold 22 carats * золото 88 пробы - * chemicals( химическое) чистые реактивы - a wine of * bouquet ароматное /высококачественное/ вино;
вино с тонким букетом утонченный, изящный;
тонкий, деликатный - * distinction тонкое различие - * point /question/ тонкий /деликатный/ вопрос - * mind тонкий ум - * nature тонкая натура - * compliments изысканные комплименты;
тонкая лесть - * manners прекрасные манеры, благовоспитанность - to dress with * taste одеваться с большим вкусом - to appeal to smb.'s *r feelings взывать к чьим-л. лучшим чувствам крупный;
внушительный - * baby крупный ребенок - * woman видная /представительная/ женщина - a * slice of bread большой кусок /ломоть/ хлеба нарядный, блестящий - * clothes элегантная одежда претенциозный;
жеманный - she is too much of a * lady for me она слишком жеманна;
она строит из себя аристократку - * writing претенциозно-изысканный стиль;
стилистические изыски (эмоционально-усилительно) большой;
крайний - in a * embarrassment в крайнем замешательстве - you make a * mistake if you think that вы глубоко заблуждаетесь, если так думаете - he was in a * old temper! ну и взбесился же он! - to be in a * frenzy быть вне себя от ярости - that's a * excuse! хорошенькое оправдание - * goings-on ну и дела в грам. знач. сущ.: хорошая, ясная погода - to get home in the * добраться домой до дождя > one /some/ * day, one of these * days в один прекрасный день;
когда-нибудь > *as silk мягкий как шелк;
прекрасно себя чувствующий > * feathers make * birds одежда красит человека > * and dandy( разговорное) великолепный, превосходный > not to put too * a point on it откровенно говоря;
выражаясь проще( разговорное) тонко;
прекрасно - to talk * говорить остроумно - that will suit me * это мне как раз подойдет( шотландское) конечно, определенно > to cut /to run/ it too * дать слишком мало( особ. времени) > he never misses his trains but he cuts it * он никогда не опаздывает на поезд, но всегда приходит в последнюю минуту очищать, делать прозрачным - to * gold очищать золото (от примеси) очищаться, становиться прозрачным, ясным - the weather *d погода прояснилась - the ale will * пиво отстоится делать мельче, тоньше - to * the soil придавать почве более тонкую структуру становиться меньше, мельче, тоньше (часто * away, * down, * off) - their profits have *d away to nothing их доходы сошли на нет заострять, делать острее (тж. перен.) ирландский клан( музыкальное) конец compensatory ~ компенсаторный штраф ~ изящно, утонченно;
to cut it too fine дать слишком мало( особ. времени) day ~ суточная пеня disciplinary ~ дисциплинарный штраф fine блестящий, нарядный ~ высокого качества;
очищенный, рафинированный;
высокопробный;
gold 22 carats fine золото 88-й пробы ~ высокого качества ~ высокопробный ~ густой (о сети и т. п.) ;
the fine arts изобразительные искусства;
fine feathers make fine birds посл. = одежда красит человека ~ делать(ся) прозрачным, очищать(ся) (тж. fine down) ;
fine away, fine down, fine off делать(ся) изящнее, тоньше;
уменьшаться;
сокращаться ~ денежный побор в пользу земельного собственника ~ денежный сбор в пользу земельного собственника ~ изящно, утонченно;
to cut it too fine дать слишком мало (особ. времени) ~ мелкий;
fine sand мелкий песок ~ налагать пеню ~ налагать штраф ~ острый;
fine edge острое лезвие;
to talk fine говорить остроумно ~ разг. отлично, прекрасно;
that will suit me fine это мне как раз подойдет ~ пеня, штраф ~ пеня ~ первоклассный ~ тонкий, утонченный, изящный;
высокий, возвышенный (о чувствах) ;
fine needle тонкая игла;
fine skin нежная кожа ~ тонкий ~ точный;
fine mechanics точная механика ~ хорошая, ясная погода ~ хороший;
прекрасный, превосходный (часто ирон.) ;
to have a fine time разг. хорошо провести время;
a fine friend you are! ирон. хорош друг!;
fine income изрядный доход ~ чистый ~ штраф ~ штрафовать, налагать пеню, штраф ~ штрафовать ~ ясный, хороший;
сухой (о погоде) ;
a fine morning погожее утро;
fine air здоровый воздух;
one fine day однажды, в один прекрасный день ~ ясный, хороший;
сухой (о погоде) ;
a fine morning погожее утро;
fine air здоровый воздух;
one fine day однажды, в один прекрасный день ~ густой (о сети и т. п.) ;
the fine arts изобразительные искусства;
fine feathers make fine birds посл. = одежда красит человека ~ делать(ся) прозрачным, очищать(ся) (тж. fine down) ;
fine away, fine down, fine off делать(ся) изящнее, тоньше;
уменьшаться;
сокращаться ~ distinction тонкое различие;
fine intellect утонченный ум ~ делать(ся) прозрачным, очищать(ся) (тж. fine down) ;
fine away, fine down, fine off делать(ся) изящнее, тоньше;
уменьшаться;
сокращаться ~ острый;
fine edge острое лезвие;
to talk fine говорить остроумно ~ густой (о сети и т. п.) ;
the fine arts изобразительные искусства;
fine feathers make fine birds посл. = одежда красит человека ~ for contempt of court штраф за неуважение к суду ~ for contempt of court штраф за оскорбление суда ~ for default of appearance штраф за неявку ~ for exceeding quotas штраф за превышение квоты ~ for tax evasion штраф за уклонение от уплаты налогов ~ хороший;
прекрасный, превосходный (часто ирон.) ;
to have a fine time разг. хорошо провести время;
a fine friend you are! ирон. хорош друг!;
fine income изрядный доход ~ хороший;
прекрасный, превосходный (часто ирон.) ;
to have a fine time разг. хорошо провести время;
a fine friend you are! ирон. хорош друг!;
fine income изрядный доход ~ distinction тонкое различие;
fine intellect утонченный ум a ~ lady! разг. ирон. что за (или ну и) барыня! lady: fine ~ светская дама;
ирон. женщина, корчащая из себя аристократку ~ точный;
fine mechanics точная механика ~ ясный, хороший;
сухой (о погоде) ;
a fine morning погожее утро;
fine air здоровый воздух;
one fine day однажды, в один прекрасный день ~ тонкий, утонченный, изящный;
высокий, возвышенный (о чувствах) ;
fine needle тонкая игла;
fine skin нежная кожа ~ делать(ся) прозрачным, очищать(ся) (тж. fine down) ;
fine away, fine down, fine off делать(ся) изящнее, тоньше;
уменьшаться;
сокращаться ~ point (или question) трудный, деликатный вопрос point: ~ пункт, момент, вопрос;
дело;
fine point деталь, мелочь;
тонкость;
point of honour дело чести;
on this point на этот счет ~ мелкий;
fine sand мелкий песок ~ тонкий, утонченный, изящный;
высокий, возвышенный (о чувствах) ;
fine needle тонкая игла;
fine skin нежная кожа ~ высокого качества;
очищенный, рафинированный;
высокопробный;
gold 22 carats fine золото 88-й пробы ~ хороший;
прекрасный, превосходный (часто ирон.) ;
to have a fine time разг. хорошо провести время;
a fine friend you are! ирон. хорош друг!;
fine income изрядный доход heavy ~ закон. наказ. крупный штраф impose a ~ налагать штраф in ~ в общем, словом, вкратце in ~ наконец;
в заключение;
в итоге ~ ясный, хороший;
сухой (о погоде) ;
a fine morning погожее утро;
fine air здоровый воздух;
one fine day однажды, в один прекрасный день one of these ~ days в один прекрасный день (о будущем) ;
когда-нибудь parking ~ штраф за парковку в неположенном месте pay a ~ платить штраф ~ острый;
fine edge острое лезвие;
to talk fine говорить остроумно ~ разг. отлично, прекрасно;
that will suit me fine это мне как раз подойдет ticket ~ штраф за безбилетный проезд
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