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7 Фарадеевское общество (Великобритания)
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9 Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson
[br]b. 31 October 1828 Sunderland, Englandd. 27 May 1914 Warlingham, Surrey, England[br]English chemist, inventor in Britain of the incandescent electric lamp and of photographic processes.[br]At the age of 14 Swan was apprenticed to a Sunderland firm of druggists, later joining John Mawson who had opened a pharmacy in Newcastle. While in Sunderland Swan attended lectures at the Athenaeum, at one of which W.E. Staite exhibited electric-arc and incandescent lighting. The impression made on Swan prompted him to conduct experiments that led to his demonstration of a practical working lamp in 1879. As early as 1848 he was experimenting with carbon as a lamp filament, and by 1869 he had mounted a strip of carbon in a vessel exhausted of air as completely as was then possible; however, because of residual air, the filament quickly failed.Discouraged by the cost of current from primary batteries and the difficulty of achieving a good vacuum, Swan began to devote much of his attention to photography. With Mawson's support the pharmacy was expanded to include a photographic business. Swan's interest in making permanent photographic records led him to patent the carbon process in 1864 and he discovered how to make a sensitive dry plate in place of the inconvenient wet collodian process hitherto in use. He followed this success with the invention of bromide paper, the subject of a British patent in 1879.Swan resumed his interest in electric lighting. Sprengel's invention of the mercury pump in 1865 provided Swan with the means of obtaining the high vacuum he needed to produce a satisfactory lamp. Swan adopted a technique which was to become an essential feature in vacuum physics: continuing to heat the filament during the exhaustion process allowed the removal of absorbed gases. The inventions of Gramme, Siemens and Brush provided the source of electrical power at reasonable cost needed to make the incandescent lamp of practical service. Swan exhibited his lamp at a meeting in December 1878 of the Newcastle Chemical Society and again the following year before an audience of 700 at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society. Swan's failure to patent his invention immediately was a tactical error as in November 1879 Edison was granted a British patent for his original lamp, which, however, did not go into production. Parchmentized thread was used in Swan's first commercial lamps, a material soon superseded by the regenerated cellulose filament that he developed. The cellulose filament was made by extruding a solution of nitro-cellulose in acetic acid through a die under pressure into a coagulating fluid, and was used until the ultimate obsolescence of the carbon-filament lamp. Regenerated cellulose became the first synthetic fibre, the further development and exploitation of which he left to others, the patent rights for the process being sold to Courtaulds.Swan also devised a modification of Planté's secondary battery in which the active material was compressed into a cellular lead plate. This has remained the central principle of all improvements in secondary cells, greatly increasing the storage capacity for a given weight.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1904. FRS 1894. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1898. First President, Faraday Society 1904. Royal Society Hughes Medal 1904. Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur 1881.Bibliography2 January 1880, British patent no. 18 (incandescent electric lamp).24 May 1881, British patent no. 2,272 (improved plates for the Planté cell).1898, "The rise and progress of the electrochemical industries", Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 27:8–33 (Swan's Presidential Address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers).Further ReadingM.E.Swan and K.R.Swan, 1968, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan F.R.S., Newcastle upon Tyne (a detailed account).R.C.Chirnside, 1979, "Sir Joseph Swan and the invention of the electric lamp", IEEElectronics and Power 25:96–100 (a short, authoritative biography).GWBiographical history of technology > Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson
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1) Общая лексика: For Sale (Продам, Продаю - в объявлениях), TEO, ТЭО, технико-экономическое обоснование2) Компьютерная техника: Field Separator3) Геология: Field Stones4) Спорт: Fantasy Schedule, frontside (в скейтбординге: способ подъезда к цели)5) Военный термин: Flight Service, Flying Screen, Force Support, Fort Smith, French ship, Friendly Status, factor of safety, far side, fast screening, fast slew, feasibility study, federal standard, female soldier, field security, field service, field station, fighter squadron, filler for smoke, fin-stabilized, final settlement, financial statement, fire support, fire switch, firing set, firing station, first stage, flame shielding, flashless, smokeless, flight safety, flight sergeant, flight simulator, flight surgeon, flying status, foreign service, foresight, forward scatter, forward support, frequency shift, frequency stability, frequency standard, future system6) Техника: Foot Stone, fail-safe, fail-soft, failure sensing, false signature, far field, fast forward, fast speed relay, fast-shear, fatal failure, fault sequence, fault signaling, feasible solution, feedback, stabilized, field size, field-of-vision stop, filtration fraction, fine fill, fine sand, finishing superheater, finite state machine, fishing for, fixed focus, fixed storage, flat face, flight software, flip-flop, focusing scale, focusing screen, follow shot, forward scattering, frac finder, frequency shifting, full of fluid, full scale, full shot, full side, functional selector, fusible link, ФС, функциональный стандарт, полная шкала (full scale)7) Шутливое выражение: Funny Stuff8) Химия: Free State9) Математика: Finite Size, Finite Sup, ряд Фурье (Fourier series)10) Метеорология: Forest Service11) Юридический термин: Florida Statutes12) Бухгалтерия: Fact Sheet, financial statements13) Ветеринария: female spayed (самка после овариэктомии, стерилизованная)14) Грубое выражение: Fat Shit, Full Screen15) Металлургия: Flat Slip16) Политика: French Southern and Antarctic Lands17) Телекоммуникации: Frame Status, File Services (SNA)18) Сокращение: (type abbreviation) Corvette (guided missile; G), Field Standard, Fin-Stabilised, Fire Station, Firing Section for missile system, Full Standard, Sulphur Trioxide / Chlorsulphonic Acid Smoke (Chemical warfare mixture), female soldered, forged steel, full size, functional schematic, fuselage station, sulfur trioxide chlorsulfonic acid, finish specification (number), freight supply (vessel), free stock19) Физиология: Flexibility Syndrome, Frozen Section20) Электроника: Frequency Synthesizer21) Вычислительная техника: File System, file separator, Frame Status (FDDI, Token Ring), File System (LVM), разделитель файлов22) Нефть: float shoe, башмак с обратным клапаном (float shoe), запас прочности (factor of safety), обнаружение неисправности (failure sensing), обслуживание в промысловых условиях, передача сигнала о неисправности (fault signaling), техническое обоснование (feasibility study), федеральные технические условия (США; Federal specifications), федеральный стандарт (США; Federal standard), коэффициент надёжности (factor of safety), техническое обслуживание в условиях эксплуатации (field service)23) Биохимия: Free Sterols, Freeze Substitution24) Космонавтика: пм, Forest Service (USA)25) Картография: fixed station, flagstaff, fog signal station, fog siren, fundamental station26) Бумажная промышленность: felt side27) Банковское дело: окончательный расчёт (final settlement), полный расчёт (final settlement)28) Транспорт: Food Stop, Forward Seating, Freight And Supply29) Силикатное производство: flame spraying30) СМИ: Future Shock31) Деловая лексика: Four Star, Full Service32) Бурение: изучение возможности применения (feasibility study; стадия технического проектирования)33) Планирование: Завершение (этапа) до начала (другого) (Finish to Start - описание взаимосвязи двух этапов в графике выполнения работ)34) Сетевые технологии: de-facto standard, file server, разделитель полей, файл-сервер, файловый сервер35) Полимеры: Faraday Society, Federal Specifications, filmstrip36) Автоматика: file structure37) Контроль качества: Federal Specification, free slack, full-scale38) Медицинская техника: fractional shortening (ЭхоКГ)39) Химическое оружие: chlorosulfonic acid40) Военно-морской флот: French Ship (перед названиями военных кораблей ВМФ Франции)41) Велосипеды: full suspension.42) Расширение файла: File Separation43) Нефть и газ: flow switch, functional safety, (сокр. от) field dpecialist = полевой специалист (работник полевой партии/отряда, напр., в полевой геофизике, ГИС, обслуживании скважин)44) Электротехника: fast-speed, fuel scheduling45) Ebay. Free Shipping46) ООН: Firing Squad47) Общественная организация: Fabian Society48) Должность: Forensic Science, Fully Successful49) NYSE. Four Seasons Hotels, Inc.50) Единицы измерений: Fixed Scale51) Парашютный спорт: групповая акробатика (вид парашютного спорта) -
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1) Общая лексика: For Sale (Продам, Продаю - в объявлениях), TEO, ТЭО, технико-экономическое обоснование2) Компьютерная техника: Field Separator3) Геология: Field Stones4) Спорт: Fantasy Schedule, frontside (в скейтбординге: способ подъезда к цели)5) Военный термин: Flight Service, Flying Screen, Force Support, Fort Smith, French ship, Friendly Status, factor of safety, far side, fast screening, fast slew, feasibility study, federal standard, female soldier, field security, field service, field station, fighter squadron, filler for smoke, fin-stabilized, final settlement, financial statement, fire support, fire switch, firing set, firing station, first stage, flame shielding, flashless, smokeless, flight safety, flight sergeant, flight simulator, flight surgeon, flying status, foreign service, foresight, forward scatter, forward support, frequency shift, frequency stability, frequency standard, future system6) Техника: Foot Stone, fail-safe, fail-soft, failure sensing, false signature, far field, fast forward, fast speed relay, fast-shear, fatal failure, fault sequence, fault signaling, feasible solution, feedback, stabilized, field size, field-of-vision stop, filtration fraction, fine fill, fine sand, finishing superheater, finite state machine, fishing for, fixed focus, fixed storage, flat face, flight software, flip-flop, focusing scale, focusing screen, follow shot, forward scattering, frac finder, frequency shifting, full of fluid, full scale, full shot, full side, functional selector, fusible link, ФС, функциональный стандарт, полная шкала (full scale)7) Шутливое выражение: Funny Stuff8) Химия: Free State9) Математика: Finite Size, Finite Sup, ряд Фурье (Fourier series)10) Метеорология: Forest Service11) Юридический термин: Florida Statutes12) Бухгалтерия: Fact Sheet, financial statements13) Ветеринария: female spayed (самка после овариэктомии, стерилизованная)14) Грубое выражение: Fat Shit, Full Screen15) Металлургия: Flat Slip16) Политика: French Southern and Antarctic Lands17) Телекоммуникации: Frame Status, File Services (SNA)18) Сокращение: (type abbreviation) Corvette (guided missile; G), Field Standard, Fin-Stabilised, Fire Station, Firing Section for missile system, Full Standard, Sulphur Trioxide / Chlorsulphonic Acid Smoke (Chemical warfare mixture), female soldered, forged steel, full size, functional schematic, fuselage station, sulfur trioxide chlorsulfonic acid, finish specification (number), freight supply (vessel), free stock19) Физиология: Flexibility Syndrome, Frozen Section20) Электроника: Frequency Synthesizer21) Вычислительная техника: File System, file separator, Frame Status (FDDI, Token Ring), File System (LVM), разделитель файлов22) Нефть: float shoe, башмак с обратным клапаном (float shoe), запас прочности (factor of safety), обнаружение неисправности (failure sensing), обслуживание в промысловых условиях, передача сигнала о неисправности (fault signaling), техническое обоснование (feasibility study), федеральные технические условия (США; Federal specifications), федеральный стандарт (США; Federal standard), коэффициент надёжности (factor of safety), техническое обслуживание в условиях эксплуатации (field service)23) Биохимия: Free Sterols, Freeze Substitution24) Космонавтика: пм, Forest Service (USA)25) Картография: fixed station, flagstaff, fog signal station, fog siren, fundamental station26) Бумажная промышленность: felt side27) Банковское дело: окончательный расчёт (final settlement), полный расчёт (final settlement)28) Транспорт: Food Stop, Forward Seating, Freight And Supply29) Силикатное производство: flame spraying30) СМИ: Future Shock31) Деловая лексика: Four Star, Full Service32) Бурение: изучение возможности применения (feasibility study; стадия технического проектирования)33) Планирование: Завершение (этапа) до начала (другого) (Finish to Start - описание взаимосвязи двух этапов в графике выполнения работ)34) Сетевые технологии: de-facto standard, file server, разделитель полей, файл-сервер, файловый сервер35) Полимеры: Faraday Society, Federal Specifications, filmstrip36) Автоматика: file structure37) Контроль качества: Federal Specification, free slack, full-scale38) Медицинская техника: fractional shortening (ЭхоКГ)39) Химическое оружие: chlorosulfonic acid40) Военно-морской флот: French Ship (перед названиями военных кораблей ВМФ Франции)41) Велосипеды: full suspension.42) Расширение файла: File Separation43) Нефть и газ: flow switch, functional safety, (сокр. от) field dpecialist = полевой специалист (работник полевой партии/отряда, напр., в полевой геофизике, ГИС, обслуживании скважин)44) Электротехника: fast-speed, fuel scheduling45) Ebay. Free Shipping46) ООН: Firing Squad47) Общественная организация: Fabian Society48) Должность: Forensic Science, Fully Successful49) NYSE. Four Seasons Hotels, Inc.50) Единицы измерений: Fixed Scale51) Парашютный спорт: групповая акробатика (вид парашютного спорта) -
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1) Общая лексика: For Sale (Продам, Продаю - в объявлениях), TEO, ТЭО, технико-экономическое обоснование2) Компьютерная техника: Field Separator3) Геология: Field Stones4) Спорт: Fantasy Schedule, frontside (в скейтбординге: способ подъезда к цели)5) Военный термин: Flight Service, Flying Screen, Force Support, Fort Smith, French ship, Friendly Status, factor of safety, far side, fast screening, fast slew, feasibility study, federal standard, female soldier, field security, field service, field station, fighter squadron, filler for smoke, fin-stabilized, final settlement, financial statement, fire support, fire switch, firing set, firing station, first stage, flame shielding, flashless, smokeless, flight safety, flight sergeant, flight simulator, flight surgeon, flying status, foreign service, foresight, forward scatter, forward support, frequency shift, frequency stability, frequency standard, future system6) Техника: Foot Stone, fail-safe, fail-soft, failure sensing, false signature, far field, fast forward, fast speed relay, fast-shear, fatal failure, fault sequence, fault signaling, feasible solution, feedback, stabilized, field size, field-of-vision stop, filtration fraction, fine fill, fine sand, finishing superheater, finite state machine, fishing for, fixed focus, fixed storage, flat face, flight software, flip-flop, focusing scale, focusing screen, follow shot, forward scattering, frac finder, frequency shifting, full of fluid, full scale, full shot, full side, functional selector, fusible link, ФС, функциональный стандарт, полная шкала (full scale)7) Шутливое выражение: Funny Stuff8) Химия: Free State9) Математика: Finite Size, Finite Sup, ряд Фурье (Fourier series)10) Метеорология: Forest Service11) Юридический термин: Florida Statutes12) Бухгалтерия: Fact Sheet, financial statements13) Ветеринария: female spayed (самка после овариэктомии, стерилизованная)14) Грубое выражение: Fat Shit, Full Screen15) Металлургия: Flat Slip16) Политика: French Southern and Antarctic Lands17) Телекоммуникации: Frame Status, File Services (SNA)18) Сокращение: (type abbreviation) Corvette (guided missile; G), Field Standard, Fin-Stabilised, Fire Station, Firing Section for missile system, Full Standard, Sulphur Trioxide / Chlorsulphonic Acid Smoke (Chemical warfare mixture), female soldered, forged steel, full size, functional schematic, fuselage station, sulfur trioxide chlorsulfonic acid, finish specification (number), freight supply (vessel), free stock19) Физиология: Flexibility Syndrome, Frozen Section20) Электроника: Frequency Synthesizer21) Вычислительная техника: File System, file separator, Frame Status (FDDI, Token Ring), File System (LVM), разделитель файлов22) Нефть: float shoe, башмак с обратным клапаном (float shoe), запас прочности (factor of safety), обнаружение неисправности (failure sensing), обслуживание в промысловых условиях, передача сигнала о неисправности (fault signaling), техническое обоснование (feasibility study), федеральные технические условия (США; Federal specifications), федеральный стандарт (США; Federal standard), коэффициент надёжности (factor of safety), техническое обслуживание в условиях эксплуатации (field service)23) Биохимия: Free Sterols, Freeze Substitution24) Космонавтика: пм, Forest Service (USA)25) Картография: fixed station, flagstaff, fog signal station, fog siren, fundamental station26) Бумажная промышленность: felt side27) Банковское дело: окончательный расчёт (final settlement), полный расчёт (final settlement)28) Транспорт: Food Stop, Forward Seating, Freight And Supply29) Силикатное производство: flame spraying30) СМИ: Future Shock31) Деловая лексика: Four Star, Full Service32) Бурение: изучение возможности применения (feasibility study; стадия технического проектирования)33) Планирование: Завершение (этапа) до начала (другого) (Finish to Start - описание взаимосвязи двух этапов в графике выполнения работ)34) Сетевые технологии: de-facto standard, file server, разделитель полей, файл-сервер, файловый сервер35) Полимеры: Faraday Society, Federal Specifications, filmstrip36) Автоматика: file structure37) Контроль качества: Federal Specification, free slack, full-scale38) Медицинская техника: fractional shortening (ЭхоКГ)39) Химическое оружие: chlorosulfonic acid40) Военно-морской флот: French Ship (перед названиями военных кораблей ВМФ Франции)41) Велосипеды: full suspension.42) Расширение файла: File Separation43) Нефть и газ: flow switch, functional safety, (сокр. от) field dpecialist = полевой специалист (работник полевой партии/отряда, напр., в полевой геофизике, ГИС, обслуживании скважин)44) Электротехника: fast-speed, fuel scheduling45) Ebay. Free Shipping46) ООН: Firing Squad47) Общественная организация: Fabian Society48) Должность: Forensic Science, Fully Successful49) NYSE. Four Seasons Hotels, Inc.50) Единицы измерений: Fixed Scale51) Парашютный спорт: групповая акробатика (вид парашютного спорта) -
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Polymers: Faraday Society (Великобритания)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Фарадеевское общество
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Farada Vereniging, vereniging gesticht om de studie van electrochemie, electrometallurgie, chemische natuurkunde, mettalografie te stimulerenf.s. (Faraday Society) -
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Работа готовится к публикации-- This work is in course of publication in the Transactions of the Faraday Society.Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > работа готовится к публикации
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[br]b. 7 October 1873 Birchwood, Inverness-shire, Scotlandd. 21 May 1948 London, England[br]Scottish pioneer in the development of the British aluminium industry and Highlands hydroelectric energy.[br]After studying at the West of Scotland Technical College in Glasgow, in January 1895 Morrison was appointed Engineer to the newly formed British Aluminium Company Limited (BAC); it was with this organization that he spent his entire career. The company secured the patent rights to the Héroult and Bayer processes. It constructed a 200 tonne per year electrolytic plant at Foyers on the shore of Loch Ness, together with an adjacent 5000 kW hydroelectric scheme, and it built an alumina factory at Larne Harbour in north-eastern Ireland. Morrison was soon Manager at Foyers, and he became the company's Joint Technical Adviser. In 1910 he was made General Manager, and later he was appointed Managing Director. Morrison successfully brought about improvements in all parts of the production process; between 1915 and 1930 he increased the size of individual electrolytic cells by a factor of five, from 8,000 to 40,000 amperes. Soon after 1901, BAC built a second works for electrolytic reduction, at Kinlochleven in Argyllshire, where the primary design originated from Morrison. In the 1920s a third plant was erected at Fort William, in the lee of Ben Nevis, with hydroelectric generators providing some 75 MW. Alumina factories were constructed at Burntisland on the Firth of Forth and, in the 1930s, at Newport in Monmouthshire. Rolling mills were developed at Milton in Staffordshire, Warrington, and Falkirk in Stirlingshire, this last coming into use in the 1940s, by which time the company had a primary-metal output of more than 30,000 tonnes a year. Morrison was closely involved in all of these developments. He retired in 1946 as Deputy Chairman of BAC.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsCommander of the Order of St Olav of Norway 1933 (BAC had manufacturing interests in Norway). Knighted 1943. Vice-Chairman, British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, Faraday Society, Institute of Metals. Institute of Metals Platinum Medal 1942.Bibliography1939, "Aluminium and highland water power", Journal of the Institute of Metals 65:17– 36 (seventeenth autumn lecture),See also: Hall, Charles MartinJKABiographical history of technology > Morrison, William Murray
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18 Siemens, Sir Charles William
[br]b. 4 April 1823 Lenthe, Germanyd. 19 November 1883 London, England[br]German/British metallurgist and inventory pioneer of the regenerative principle and open-hearth steelmaking.[br]Born Carl Wilhelm, he attended craft schools in Lübeck and Magdeburg, followed by an intensive course in natural science at Göttingen as a pupil of Weber. At the age of 19 Siemens travelled to England and sold an electroplating process developed by his brother Werner Siemens to Richard Elkington, who was already established in the plating business. From 1843 to 1844 he obtained practical experience in the Magdeburg works of Count Stolburg. He settled in England in 1844 and later assumed British nationality, but maintained close contact with his brother Werner, who in 1847 had co-founded the firm Siemens \& Halske in Berlin to manufacture telegraphic equipment. William began to develop his regenerative principle of waste-heat recovery and in 1856 his brother Frederick (1826–1904) took out a British patent for heat regeneration, by which hot waste gases were passed through a honeycomb of fire-bricks. When they became hot, the gases were switched to a second mass of fire-bricks and incoming air and fuel gas were led through the hot bricks. By alternating the two gas flows, high temperatures could be reached and considerable fuel economies achieved. By 1861 the two brothers had incorporated producer gas fuel, made by gasifying low-grade coal.Heat regeneration was first applied in ironmaking by Cowper in 1857 for heating the air blast in blast furnaces. The first regenerative furnace was set up in Birmingham in 1860 for glassmaking. The first such furnace for making steel was developed in France by Pierre Martin and his father, Emile, in 1863. Siemens found British steelmakers reluctant to adopt the principle so in 1866 he rented a small works in Birmingham to develop his open-hearth steelmaking furnace, which he patented the following year. The process gradually made headway; as well as achieving high temperatures and saving fuel, it was slower than Bessemer's process, permitting greater control over the content of the steel. By 1900 the tonnage of open-hearth steel exceeded that produced by the Bessemer process.In 1872 Siemens played a major part in founding the Society of Telegraph Engineers (from which the Institution of Electrical Engineers evolved), serving as its first President. He became President for the second time in 1878. He built a cable works at Charlton, London, where the cable could be loaded directly into the holds of ships moored on the Thames. In 1873, together with William Froude, a British shipbuilder, he designed the Faraday, the first specialized vessel for Atlantic cable laying. The successful laying of a cable from Europe to the United States was completed in 1875, and a further five transatlantic cables were laid by the Faraday over the following decade.The Siemens factory in Charlton also supplied equipment for some of the earliest electric-lighting installations in London, including the British Museum in 1879 and the Savoy Theatre in 1882, the first theatre in Britain to be fully illuminated by electricity. The pioneer electric-tramway system of 1883 at Portrush, Northern Ireland, was an opportunity for the Siemens company to demonstrate its equipment.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1883. FRS 1862. Institution of Civil Engineers Telford Medal 1853. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1872. President, Society of Telegraph Engineers 1872 and 1878. President, British Association 1882.Bibliography27 May 1879, British patent no. 2,110 (electricarc furnace).1889, The Scientific Works of C.William Siemens, ed. E.F.Bamber, 3 vols, London.Further ReadingW.Poles, 1888, Life of Sir William Siemens, London; repub. 1986 (compiled from material supplied by the family).S.von Weiher, 1972–3, "The Siemens brothers. Pioneers of the electrical age in Europe", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 45:1–11 (a short, authoritative biography). S.von Weihr and H.Goetler, 1983, The Siemens Company. Its Historical Role in theProgress of Electrical Engineering 1847–1980, English edn, Berlin (a scholarly account with emphasis on technology).GWBiographical history of technology > Siemens, Sir Charles William
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19 Holmes, Frederic Hale
[br]fl. 1850s–60s[br]British engineer who pioneered the electrical illumination of lighthouses in Great Britain.[br]An important application of the magneto generator was demonstrated by Holmes in 1853 when he showed that it might be used to supply an arc lamp. This had many implications for the future because it presented the possibility of making electric lighting economically successful. In 1856 he patented a machine with six disc armatures on a common axis rotating between seven banks of permanent magnets. The following year Holmes suggested the possible application of his invention to lighthouse illumination and a trial was arranged and observed by Faraday, who was at that time scientific adviser to Trinity House, the corporation entrusted with the care of light-houses in England and Wales. Although the trial was successful and gained the approval of Faraday, the Elder Brethren of Trinity House imposed strict conditions on Holmes's design for machines to be used for a more extensive trial. These included connecting the machine directly to a slow-speed steam engine, but this resulted in a reduced performance. The experiments of Holmes and Faraday were brought to the attention of the French lighthouse authorities and magneto generators manufactured by Société Alliance began to be installed in some lighthouses along the coast of France. After noticing the French commutatorless machines, Holmes produced an alternator of similar type in 1867. Two of these were constructed for a new lighthouse at Souter Point near Newcastle and two were installed in each of the two lighthouses at South Foreland. One of the machines from South Foreland that was in service from 1872 to 1922 is preserved in the Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. A Holmes generator is also preserved in the Science Museum, London. Holmes obtained a series of patents for generators between 1856 and 1869, with all but the last being of the magneto-electric type.[br]Bibliography7 March 1856, British patent no. 573 (the original patent for Holmes's invention).1863, "On magneto electricity and its application to lighthouse purposes", Journal of the Society of Arts 12:39–43.Further ReadingW.J.King, 1962, in The Development of Electrical Technology in the 19th Century; Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, Paper 30, pp. 351–63 (provides a detailed account of Holmes's generators).J.N.Douglas, 1879, "The electric light applied to lighthouse illumination", Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 57(3):77–110 (describes trials of Holmes's machines).GW -
20 Abel, Sir Frederick August
[br]b. 17 July 1827 Woolwich, London, Englandd. 6 September 1902 Westminster, London, England[br]English chemist, co-inventor of cordite find explosives expert.[br]His family came from Germany and he was the son of a music master. He first became interested in science at the age of 14, when visiting his mineralogist uncle in Hamburg, and studied chemistry at the Royal Polytechnic Institution in London. In 1845 he became one of the twenty-six founding students, under A.W.von Hofmann, of the Royal College of Chemistry. Such was his aptitude for the subject that within two years he became von Hermann's assistant and demonstrator. In 1851 Abel was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry, succeeding Michael Faraday, at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and it was while there that he wrote his Handbook of Chemistry, which was co-authored by his assistant, Charles Bloxam.Abel's four years at the Royal Military Academy served to foster his interest in explosives, but it was during his thirty-four years, beginning in 1854, as Ordnance Chemist at the Royal Arsenal and at Woolwich that he consolidated and developed his reputation as one of the international leaders in his field. In 1860 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, but it was his studies during the 1870s into the chemical changes that occur during explosions, and which were the subject of numerous papers, that formed the backbone of his work. It was he who established the means of storing gun-cotton without the danger of spontaneous explosion, but he also developed devices (the Abel Open Test and Close Test) for measuring the flashpoint of petroleum. He also became interested in metal alloys, carrying out much useful work on their composition. A further avenue of research occurred in 1881 when he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission set up to investigate safety in mines after the explosion that year in the Sealham Colliery. His resultant study on dangerous dusts did much to further understanding on the use of explosives underground and to improve the safety record of the coal-mining industry. The achievement for which he is most remembered, however, came in 1889, when, in conjunction with Sir James Dewar, he invented cordite. This stable explosive, made of wood fibre, nitric acid and glycerine, had the vital advantage of being a "smokeless powder", which meant that, unlike the traditional ammunition propellant, gunpowder ("black powder"), the firer's position was not given away when the weapon was discharged. Although much of the preliminary work had been done by the Frenchman Paul Vieille, it was Abel who perfected it, with the result that cordite quickly became the British Army's standard explosive.Abel married, and was widowed, twice. He had no children, but died heaped in both scientific honours and those from a grateful country.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsGrand Commander of the Royal Victorian Order 1901. Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath 1891 (Commander 1877). Knighted 1883. Created Baronet 1893. FRS 1860. President, Chemical Society 1875–7. President, Institute of Chemistry 1881–2. President, Institute of Electrical Engineers 1883. President, Iron and Steel Institute 1891. Chairman, Society of Arts 1883–4. Telford Medal 1878, Royal Society Royal Medal 1887, Albert Medal (Society of Arts) 1891, Bessemer Gold Medal 1897. Hon. DCL (Oxon.) 1883, Hon. DSc (Cantab.) 1888.Bibliography1854, with C.L.Bloxam, Handbook of Chemistry: Theoretical, Practical and Technical, London: John Churchill; 2nd edn 1858.Besides writing numerous scientific papers, he also contributed several articles to The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1875–89, 9th edn.Further ReadingDictionary of National Biography, 1912, Vol. 1, Suppl. 2, London: Smith, Elder.CMBiographical history of technology > Abel, Sir Frederick August
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