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アメリカの心 リチャード・カー 著 ; 楓セビル 訳 学生社 1990.12

学生社, 1987 - Advertising, Newspaper - 208 pages
Titleアメリカの心: 全米を動かした75のメッセージ
Publisher学生社, 1987
ISBN4311700083, 9784311700088
Length208 pages

続 · アメリカの心:

" アメリカン · マインド " 75のメッセージ





phonograph
[名]((米古風))蓄音機（((英))gramophone）.phòno・gráphic[形]

phonography

  音節
pho • nog • ra • phy
発音
founɑ'grəfi | -nɔ'g-
[名][U]
1 表音式つづり方.
2 表音式速記法.
pho・nog・ra・pher
[名]

愛迪生圓筒式留聲機 ca. 1899

湯瑪斯·愛迪生與他所發明的早期留聲機 1878 第2台

留聲機（Phonograph）亦稱唱機，是一種使唱片發出聲音的機器。
其聲音儲存在以聲學方法在唱片（圓盤）平面上刻出的弧形刻槽內。
唱機旋轉部分由發條驅動，使水平圓盤和放在它上面的唱片作勻速旋轉，圓盤轉速可以由調速器控制；唱針一端有金屬膜片，膜片中心和唱針相連接；隨著唱 片轉動，唱針發生振動，由槓桿作用把振動放大，推動膜片做相應的振動，於是就可以聽到加強了的和灌片時相同的聲音；為了使唱針上的膜片的振動有效發聲，在 膜片後要接上一隻喇叭。
留聲機於1888年由美國發明家伯利那（E.Berliner，...


 John Kruesi (May 15, 1843 – February 22, 1899) was a Swiss born machinist and close associate of Thomas Edison.


John Kruesi

Replica of a Kruesi/Edison tinfoil phonograph.

Career

John Kruesi had been apprenticed as a clock maker in Switzerland, and migrated to the United States where he settled in Newark, New Jersey. There, he met Thomas Edison. Edison employed him for his workshop in 1872.
Kruesi became Edison's head machinist through his Newark and Menlo Park periods, responsible for translating Edison's numerous rough sketches into working devices. Since constructing and testing models was central to Edison's method of inventing, Kruesi's skill in doing this was critical to Edison's success as an inventor. Historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel summed up Kruesi's remarkable ability of this:
:If the devices that emerged [from Kruesi's workshop] didn't work, 
it was because they were bad ideas, not because they were badly made. 
And when the ideas were good, as in the case of the phonograph, 
the product of Kruesi's shop would prove it. (Friedel and Israel 1987, 35)
Kruesi was also involved in many of Edison's key inventions. Including the quadruplex telegraph, the carbon microphone, phonograph, incandescent light bulb and system of electric lighting.
With the development of Edison's system of electric lighting, Kruesi moved to more management positions. In 1881, Edison put Kruesi in charge of the "Edison Electric Tube Company," making him responsible for the installation of underground power distribution cables from the central generating station. Kruesi was also an inventor, while at the "Electric Tube Company," he devised a two wire conduit in which two semicircular conductors were separated by an insulator and covered in insulating material. When the company merged with several others to form General Electric Company in 1892, Kruesi was promoted to General Manager, and then to Chief Mechanical Engineer at the Schenectady site in 1896.

References

  • IEEE Global History Network, John Kruesi
  • Hammond, John Winthrop. Men and Volts, the Story of General Electric, published 1934 by J.B.Lippincott Company. Citations: Assistant General Manager Edison Machine Works – 149; came to Schenectady – 149; Consulting engineer – 245, 276; Edison's machine-shop expert – 22; Manager Schenectady Works – 197, 242.
  • Friedel, Robert, and Paul Israel. 1987. Edison's electric light: biography of an invention. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.


 Kruesi, Make This!


Those three words
produced the world's
first phonograph.
Thomas Edison,  America's
most famous inventor,
like to work
late at night.
He left a rough
sketch on his
assistant's desk,
with the note, " Kruesi,
 make this."
When Edison got
to work about noon
the next day, Kruesi,
working from Edison's
rough sketch, had made
the world's first
phonograph.
Are you one of those
wisenheimer who
believe that to
get a job done
right,
you have to do
it yourself ?
That might be true
in eating a plate
of spaghetti;
but in little else.
In most cases
two heads
are better
than one.
Especially
if one of
them is
Edison's.

by Richard Kerr. 
續‧アメリカの心
東京:學生社1990


wis·en·heim·er  

/ˈwīzənˌhīmər/
Noun
A person who behaves in an irritatingly smug or arrogant fashion, typically by making clever remarks and displaying their knowledge.




 アマゾンから注文していた本が届きましたぁ～。

『続・アメリカの心』という本です。

Richard Kerr氏が執筆、翻訳を楓セビルさんがなさっています。和英対訳になっているこの本は、75のメッセージが短い文章で書かれています。

どの文章も、読んだとたんにポジティブになれそうなものばかりです。

今日は、Sくんがアンパンマンを見ている間に、さぁ～と一気に読んでしまいました。和英対訳なので、翻訳の勉強にもなります。

その中からひとつ…

（一部抜粋）

"Some people ask, 'Why?' I ask 'Why not?'"
ある人は、『なぜ？』と聞くが、私は『なぜしない？』と自答する。

もしフィラデルフィアに集まった愛国者たちが

「なぜしない？」と自答しなかったら

独立宣言は決して私たちのものではなかったであろう。

もしルーズベルトが

「なぜしない？」と問わなかったら

誰もパナマ運河を作りはしなかっただろう

もしライト兄弟が

「なぜしない？」と自答していなかったら

私たちはまだ汽車で旅行をしているだろう

「なぜ？」とばかり聞いていたら

おそらく君は何もしないまま終わってしまう

たった一語を加えるだけで





君は自分のために

これまでとは違う新しい世界を開くことになる

なぜしない？

ͤͤͤͤͤͤͤͤ

どうですかぁ～？なんとなく前向きになれそうでしょ？

私は、75のメッセージをすべて読み終えた後、何か…自分の中で忘れかけてたものを思い出した気分になりました。

久々に出会ったすばらしい本です…

『続編』から読み始めてしまったのですが、初編も読みたいな…と思っています。

Are You Bored
With Your Job?

Are you starting
to search
where you never
itched before?
Yawn at the
morning mails?
Don't return
phone calls?
Lost interest in
becoming # 1?
A Baltimore accountant
threw his
calculator away,
moved to Montana,
built a wide reputation
for his hand-made
fishing lures.
A king of England
chucked his
crown to marry the woman he
loved.
Harry Truman said
about his job
as president,
" I'm glad to be
rid of it."
The student with
the highest academic
record of the history
of Harvard
decided to become
a plumber.
You only live once.
Your best ays
could lie ahead,
if you work at
a job you like.

雖然是美國25年前的單親數據
還是很感人的鼓勵
Why Were
You
Singled Out?

More than
25% of all
U. S. families
with children
under the age
of 18 are headed
by a single parents.
And about 50 %
of our nation's
children will
spend some time
in a single parent
family.
If you are
a single parent
there's little joy
in knowing so many
others are in
the same boat.
But there can be
advantage in that
adversity.
Parents are like
football players.
They play differently
in the reality of the
goal line
than in the
comparative calm
of the
forty yard line.
They dig in.
They try harder.
They know their team
is counting on them.
A fired-up defender
in football,
or in a family,
is a key component
of success.
Fight, team, fight!


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 (現在資訊發達，此詩中的名人，都可找到資料。如附錄)
天天都可從名人學習 You Missed A Great Meeting
(by Richard Kerr. 
續‧アメリカの心
東京:學生社1990
第41首, pp.108-09)

You Missed A
Great Meeting


It was
Celebrity day
Yesterday.
David Ogilvy was
Busy re-writing his
famous headline
(”At Sixty Miles an
Hour, the Loudest Noise
In This New Rolls-Royce
Comes from the Electric
Clock). Rolls now has
a digital clock that
is silent.
Helen Gurley Brown
Was giving advice to
Young women.
Ben Franklin was giving
advice to young men.
Hilter was discussing
lies.
Jack Nicklaus was
discussing other
kinds of lies.
Milton Friedman was
discussing dollars.
William Safire was
having trouble with an
immigrant who wanted
to know how to
pronounce “though, bough,
cough and dough.”
Fortunately for
you and for all
Americans, it’s
celebrity day every
day…
at your public library.


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