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6 магдебурзьке право
Українсько-англійський юридичний словник > магдебурзьке право
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7 магдебургская яблоня
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8 Magdeburgi*
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9 Guericke, Otto von
[br]b. 20 November 1602 Magdeburg, Saxony, Germanyd. 11 May 1686 Hamburg, Germany[br]German engineer and physicist, inventor of the air pump and investigator of the properties of a vacuum.[br]Guericke was born into a patrician family in Magdeburg. He was educated at the University of Leipzig in 1617–20 and at the University of Helmstedt in 1620. He then spent two years studying law at Jena, and in 1622 went to Leiden to study law, mathematics, engineering and especially fortification. He spent most of his life in politics, for he was elected an alderman of Magdeburg in 1626. After the destruction of Magdeburg in 1631, he worked in Brunswick and Erfurt as an engineer for the Swedish government, and then in 1635 for the Electorate of Saxony. He was Mayor of Magdeburg for thirty years, between 1646 and 1676. He was ennobled in 1666 and retired from public office in 168land went to Hamburg. It was through his attendances at international congresses and at princely courts that he took part in the exchange of scientific ideas.From his student days he was concerned with the definition of space and posed three questions: can empty space exist or is space always filled? How can heavenly bodies affect each other across space and how are they moved? Is space, and so also the heavenly bodies, bounded or unbounded? In c. 1647 Guericke made a suction pump for air and tried to exhaust a beer barrel, but he could not stop the leaks. He then tried a copper sphere, which imploded. He developed a series of spectacular demonstrations with his air pump. In 1654 at Rattisbon he used a vertical cylinder with a well-fitting piston connected over pulleys by a rope to fifty men, who could not stop the piston descending when the cylinder was exhausted. More famous were his copper hemispheres which, when exhausted, could not be drawn apart by two teams of eight horses. They were first demonstrated at Magdeburg in 1657 and at the court in Berlin in 1663. Through these experiments he discovered the elasticity of air and began to investigate its density at different heights. He heard of the work of Torricelli in 1653 and by 1660 had succeeded in making barometric forecasts. He published his famous work New Experiments Concerning Empty Space in 1672. Between 1660 and 1663 Guericke constructed a large ball of sulphur that could be rotated on a spindle. He found that, when he pressed his hand on it and it was rotated, it became strongly electrified; he thus unintentionally became the inventor of the first machine to generate static electricity. He attempted to reach a complete physical explanation of the world and the heavens with magnetism as a primary force and evolved an explanation for the rotation of the heavenly bodies.[br]Bibliography1672, Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de vacuo spatio (New Experiments Concerning Empty Space).Further ReadingF.W.Hoffmann, 1874, Otto von Guericke (a full biography).T.I.Williams (ed.), 1969, A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, London: A. \& C.Black (contains a short account of his life).Chambers Concise Dictionary of Scientists, 1989, Cambridge.Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. V, New York.C.Singer (ed.), 1957, A History of Technology, Vols. III and IV, Oxford University Press (includes references to Guericke's inventions).RLH -
10 praw|o
Ⅰ n 1. sgt (ogół przepisów) law- prawo nowożytne modern law- prawo polskie/francuskie Polish/French law- reguły a. normy prawa legal norms a. principles- rządy prawa the rule of law- zgodnie z prawem in accordance with a. according to the law- zgodnie z polskim prawem under Polish law- zgodnie z duchem i literą prawa in accordance with the spirit and the letter of the law- wbrew prawu against the law, contrary to the law- stosować się do przepisów prawa to abide by a. obey the law- złamać prawo to break the law- być niezgodnym z prawem a. wbrew prawu to be against the law- uznać przerywanie ciąży za niezgodne z prawem to criminalize abortion- działać w granicach prawa/niezgodnie z prawem to operate within/outside the law- stać ponad prawem to be above the law- wejść w konflikt z prawem to fall foul of a. to come into conflict with the law- wyjąć kogoś spod prawa Hist. to outlaw sb- człowiek wyjęty spod prawa Hist. an outlaw- w imieniu prawa in the name of the law- w obliczu prawa in the eyes of the law- nieznajomość prawa nie zwalnia od odpowiedzialności ignorance of the law is no excuse a. defence, ignorance is no defence- prawo drakońskie Hist. Draconian law2. (norma prawna, ustawa) law; (zapisana) statute- zbiór praw a legal code a. code of laws- system praw a system of law, a legal system- uchwalać a. stanowić prawa to enact a. make laws- uchwalić prawo to pass a. adopt a law- uchylić prawo to revoke a. rescind a law książk.- prawo o spółdzielczości/środkach masowego przekazu a law on the cooperative movement/on the mass media- nowe prawo wchodzi w życie a. obowiązuje od 1 maja the new law comes into effect on a. applies as of 1 May- prawo o stowarzyszeniach wygasa a. traci moc 31 grudnia the law on association lapses on a. as of 31 December3. sgt (nauka) law- wydział prawa a law faculty- student/studentka prawa a law student- studiować prawo to study a. read law- ukończyć prawo to graduate in law4. (uprawnienie) right (do czegoś to sth); entitlement książk. (do czegoś to sth); eligibility U (do czegoś for sth)- prawa człowieka/zwierząt human/animal rights- działacz/kampania na rzecz obrony praw zwierząt an animal rights activist/campaign- prawa kobiet women’s rights- prawa publiczne/obywatelskie public/civil rights- prawa małżeńskie/rodzicielskie marital/parental rights- prawa i obowiązki obywatela civil rights and duties- prawo własności proprietorship, ownership- prawa spadkowe inheritance rights- prawa miejskie a (town/city) charter- nadać/odebrać prawa miejskie to grant/revoke a town/city charter- uczestniczyć w zebraniu bez prawa głosu to take part in a meeting without the right to vote- prawo pierwszeństwa przejazdu the right of way- równe prawa equal rights- prawo do emerytury pension rights- prawo do pracy/do strajku the right to work/to strike- mieć prawo do corocznego urlopu/do emerytury to be entitled to annual leave/to a retirement pension- mieć prawa do książki to have a. hold the copyright on a. in a. for a book- mieć prawo do ekranizacji powieści to own the film rights to a novel- mieć prawo coś zrobić to have the right a. to be entitled to do sth- ona nie ma prawa tak cię traktować she has no right to treat you like that- masz pełne prawo odmówić you have every right to refuse- kto ci dał prawo mnie krytykować? what gives a. who gave you the right to criticize me?- rościć/zastrzec sobie prawo do czegoś to claim/reserve the right to sth- nabyć/utracić prawo do czegoś to gain a. acquire/lose the right to sth- zrzec się prawa do czegoś to relinquish a. renounce one’s right to sth książk.- przyznać komuś prawo do czegoś to grant sb the right to sth- odmówić komuś prawa do czegoś to deny sb the right to sth- pozbawić kogoś prawa wykonywania zawodu to deprive sb of the right to practise their profession, to ban sb from practising a profession- upominać się o swoje prawa a. dochodzić swoich praw to demand a. claim one’s rights- jakim prawem? by what right?- jakim prawem wtrącasz się w moje sprawy? who gave you the right to interfere in my affairs?- wszelkie prawa zastrzeżone all rights reserved- wywiad publikowany na prawach wyłączności an exclusive interview- na równych prawach on equal terms- ona jest tu na prawach domownika she’s treated here as one of the family- prawo łaski the prerogative of mercy- skorzystać z prawa łaski to pardon, to be pardoned5. Aut. prawo jazdy driving licence GB; driver’s license US- zdawać/zdać egzamin na prawo jazdy to take/pass one’s driving test- chodzić na kurs prawa jazdy to take driving lessons6. (zasada, prawidłowość) law, principle- prawa naturalne/ekonomiczne/społeczne natural/economic/social laws- prawa fizyczne/natury the laws of physics/nature- odkryć/sformułować prawo to formulate a law a. principle- podlegać prawom materii/przyrody to be subject to the laws of matter/natureⅡ adv. 1. na a. w prawo (w prawą stronę) to the right; (po prawej stronie) on a. to the right- na prawo od budynku jest sad to the right of the building there’s an orchard- na prawo jest a. widzicie ratusz to a. on your right is a. you can see the town hall- iść/skręcić w prawo a. na prawo to go/turn right- skręć w pierwszą (ulicę) w prawo take the first (street to the) right- na prawo patrz! Wojsk. eyes right!- szastał pieniędzmi na prawo i lewo he was spending money right, left and centre pot.- w prawo i w lewo (na wszystkie sposoby) in every possible way2. pot. (w polityce) pójść na prawo to veer to the right- zwrot na prawo a turn to the right- być na prawo od kogoś to be to the right of sb- być na prawo od centrum to be right of centreⅢ z prawa pot. (po prawej stronie) from the right- z prawa rozciągały się pola to the right, there were fields- z prawa i z lewa from all sidesⅣ prawo- w wyrazach złożonych 1. (odnoszący się do strony) right- 2. (dotyczący prawa) law-- □ prawa kardynalne Hist. cardinal laws- prawo administracyjne administrative law- prawo autorskie copyright law- prawo biogenetyczne recapitulation theory; Biol. palingenesis- prawo bliższości Hist., Prawo (the right of) primogeniture- prawo budowlane building code- prawo chełmińskie Hist., Prawo Chełm Law (a charter defining terms under which Polish towns were incorporated, modelled on the Magdeburg Law)- prawo ciążenia Newtona Fiz. Newton’s law of gravitation- prawo cywilne civil law- prawo doraźne Prawo summary justice- prawo finansowe a. skarbowe revenue law- prawo handlowe commercial a. trade law- prawo kanoniczne a. kościelne canon a. church a. ecclesiastical law- prawo karne Prawo criminal law- prawo karne wykonawcze penal law- prawo karne skarbowe penal revenue law- prawo lokalowe housing law- prawo łowieckie game laws- miasto na prawie magdeburskim a town chartered according to the Magdeburg law- prawo mennicze Hist. minting rights- prawo międzynarodowe international law- prawo Murphy’ego Murphy’s a. Sod’s pot., żart. Law- prawo obywatelstwa right of citizenship- prawo państwowe constitutional law- prawo Parkinsona Parkinson’s law- prawo pracy labour legislation, employment legislation- prawo prasowe press legislation- prawo probiercze assay law- prawo procesowe adjective a. procedural law- prawo rodzinne family law- prawo rzymskie Roman law- prawo wartości Ekon. the law of value- prawo wojenne law of war- prawo wyborcze electoral a. election law- bierne prawo wyborcze eligibility to stand for election, right to be elected- czynne prawo wyborcze voting rights, suffrage, franchise- powszechne prawo wyborcze universal suffrage a. a universal franchise- prawo wyborcze dla kobiet women’s suffrage- prawo zwyczajowe common law, custom- albo w prawo, albo w lewo you can’t have your cake and eat itThe New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > praw|o
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11 Land
n; -(e)s, Länder und Lande1. nur Sg.; (Grund und Boden) land; (Ackerboden) land, soil; 10 Hektar Land 10 hectares of land; das Land bebauen farm the land; lit. till the soil2. nur. Sg.; (Ggs. Wasser) land; Land in Sicht NAUT. land ahead; an Land ashore; an Land gehen go ashore, disembark; etw. an Land ziehen land s.th., pull s.th. ashore; umg., fig. land o.s. s.th.; wieder ( festes) Land unter den Füßen haben be back on terra firma ( oder dry land); Land sehen see land; ( wieder) Land sehen umg., fig. see the light at the end of the tunnel; ich sehe noch kein Land fig. there’s no end in sight yet; kein Land mehr sehen fig. be completely at sea, be floundering; unter I, 13. nur Sg.; (Ggs. Stadt) country; countryside; auf dem Land in the country; aufs Land fahren go ( oder drive) out into the country(side); aufs Land ziehen move to the country(side); ( draußen) auf dem flachen oder platten Land umg. out in the sticks, in the middle of nowhere4. Pl. altm. oder hum. Lande; (Gegend) region; (Landschaft) country; hügeliges Land hilly (stretch of) country; durch die Lande reisen oder ziehen travel widely; in deutschen Landen altm., hum. in Germany; ins Land gehen oder ziehen fig., Zeit: pass, elapse5. Pl. Länder; (geographisches Land) country; (Staat) auch nation, state; lit. land; das Land, wo Milch und Honig fließt hum. the land of milk and honey; das Land meiner / seiner etc. Väter geh. the land of my / his etc. fathers; das Land meiner Träume the land of my dreams; das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten the land of limitless opportunity; das Land der aufgehenden Sonne the land of the rising sun; das Land der tausend Seen the land of a thousand lakes; andere Länder, andere Sitten Sprichw. when in Rome, do as the Romans do; Land und Leute kennen lernen get to know the country and its people; aus aller Herren Länder from all four corners of the earth; wieder im Lande sein umg., fig. be back again; (unter den Leuten) be back in circulation; bist du wieder mal im Lande? umg., nach langer Abwesenheit: returned from your wanderings, have you?, iro. hello (there), stranger!; zu einem Ausländer etc.: come to see us again, have you?; bei uns zu Land in our country, where we live gelobt, heilig6. nur Sg.; (Territorium, Lebensraum) territory, land; dieses Gebiet war das Land der Apachen this area was Apache territory ( oder land)7. Pl. Länder; POL., innerhalb Deutschlands: (federal) state, Land (Pl. Länder); in Österreich: province; die Länder der Bundesrepublik Deutschland the states ( oder Länder) of the Federal Republic of Germany; das Land Bayern the state of Bavaria; das Land Kärnten the province of Carinthia* * *das Land(Ackerland) soil;(Gegensatz zu Wasser) land;(Grund und Boden) land; property;(Staat) country; state;(ländliche Gegend) countryside; country* * *Lạnd [lant]nt -(e)s, -er['lɛndɐ]1) (= Gelände, Festland) land; (= Landschaft) country, landscapeein Stück Land — a plot of land or ground
Land bestellen — to till the soil or land
Land gewinnen (lit) (am Meer) — to reclaim land; (Agr) to cultivate land; (fig) to gain ground
an Land gehen — to go ashore
jdn an Land setzen — to put sb ashore
Land sehen (lit) — to see or sight land
endlich können wir Land sehen/sehe ich Land (fig) — at last we/I can see the light at the end of the tunnel
kein Land mehr sehen ( können) (fig) — to be completely muddled, to be in a complete muddle
einen Millionär/einen Auftrag an Land ziehen (inf) — to land a millionaire/an order
bei uns/euch zu Lande — back home, where we/you come from or live, in our/your country
2) (= ländliches Gebiet) countryüber Land fahren (mit Auto etc) — to drive/travel across country; (Fahrschüler) to drive on country roads; (old
3) (= Staat) country, land (esp liter); (= Bundesland) (in BRD) Land, state; (in Österreich) provincedas Land Tirol — the province of Tyrol, Tyrol province
außer Landes sein/gehen — to be out of/leave the country
das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten — the new world, the land of limitless opportunity
aus aller Herren Länder(n) — from all over the world, from the four corners of the earth
See:→ Milchin fernen Landen (liter) — in distant lands, in faraway lands
* * *das1) (the solid part of the surface of the Earth which is covered by the sea: We had been at sea a week before we saw land.) land2) (a country: foreign lands.) land3) (the ground or soil: He never made any money at farming as his land was poor and stony.) land4) (an estate: He owns land/lands in Scotland.) land5) (any of the nations of the world; the land occupied by a nation: Canada is a larger country than Spain.) country6) ((usually with the) districts where there are fields, moors etc as opposed to towns and areas with many buildings: a quiet holiday in the country; ( also adjective) country districts.) country* * *<-[e]s, Länder>[lant, pl ˈlɛndɐ]nt1. (Staat) country, state, nationaus aller Herren Länder[n] from all corners of the earth\Land und Leute the country and its peopleandere Länder, andere Sitten every country has its own customsdas \Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten the land of opportunitydas \Land der aufgehenden Sonne the land of the rising sundas \Land der Verheißung, das Gelobte \Land the promised landdas Heilige \Land the Holy Landdurch die \Lande ziehen (geh) to travel aroundaußer \Landes abroad, out of the countrybei jdm zu \Land where sb comes from, in sb's country2. (Bundesland) federal state3. NAUT land\Land in Sicht! land ahoy!\Land unter! NORDD land under water!zu \Lande und zu Wasser on land and at seaan \Land gehen, \Land sehen to sight land, to go ashorejdn an \Land setzen to put sb ashorejdn/etw an \Land spülen to wash sb/sth ashorejdn/etw an \Land ziehen to pull sb/sth ashorean \Land ashoredas \Land bestellen to till the soilauf dem flachen [o platten] \Land[e] on the plainsaufs \Land ziehen to move to the countryauf dem \Land[e] in the country6.▶ das \Land, wo Milch und Honig fließt the land of milk and honeyendlich sehe ich wieder \Land I'm finally getting things sorted againdie Jahre zogen ins \Land the years went by* * *das; Landes, Länder od. (veralt.) Lande1) o. Pl. land no indef. art.Land in Sicht! — (Seemannsspr.) land [ahead]!
[wieder] Land sehen — (fig.) be able to see light at the end of the tunnel (fig.)
[sich (Dat.)] eine Millionärin/antike Truhe/einen fetten Auftrag an Land ziehen — (ugs., oft scherzh.) hook a millionairess/get one's hands on an antique chest/land a fat contract
2) o. Pl. (Grund und Boden) landein Stück Land — a plot or piece of land or ground
das Land bebauen/bestellen — farm/till the land
Wochen/Jahre waren ins Land gegangen — weeks/years had passed or gone by
4) o. Pl. (dörfliche Gegend) country no indef. art.5) Plural Länder (Staat) countryandere Länder, andere Sitten — (Spr.) every nation has its own ways of behaving
Land und Leute kennen lernen — get to know the country and its people or inhabitants
außer Landes gehen/sich außer Landes befinden — leave the country/be out of the country
wieder im Lande sein — (ugs.) be back again
hier zu Lande — [here] in this country
6) (Bundesland) Land; state; (österr.) province•• Cultural note:Germany is a federal republic consisting of 16 member states called Länder or Bundesländer. Five so-called neue Bundesländer were added after reunification in 1990. The Land has a degree of autonomy and is responsible for all educational and cultural affairs, the police, the environment, and local government. The German Länder, including three city-states, and their state capitals are: Baden-Württemberg, capital: Stuttgart; Bayern( Bavaria), capital: München( Munich); Berlin; Brandenburg, capital: Potsdam; Bremen; Hamburg; Hessen (Hesse), capital: Wiesbaden; Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), capital: Schwerin; Niedersachsen( Lower Saxony), capital: Hannover( Hanover); Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia), capital: Düsseldorf; Rheinland-Pfalz ( Rhineland-Palatinate), capital: Mainz; Saarland, capital: Saarbrücken; Sachsen( Saxony), capital: Dresden; Sachsen-Anhalt ( Saxony-Anhalt), capital: Magdeburg; Schleswig-Holstein, capital: Kiel; Thüringen( Thuringia), capital: Erfurt. Austria is a federal state consisting of 9 Länder: Burgenland; Kärnten( Carinthia); Niederösterreich( Lower Austria); Oberösterreich( Upper Austria); Salzburg; Steiermark( Styria); Tirol (Tyrol); Vorarlberg; Wien( Vienna).The Swiss equivalent of a German or Austrian Land is a Kanton* * *10 Hektar Land 10 hectares of land;das Land bebauen farm the land; liter till the soil2. nur. sg; (Ggs Wasser) land;Land in Sicht SCHIFF land ahead;an Land ashore;an Land gehen go ashore, disembark;etwas an Land ziehen land sth, pull sth ashore; umg, fig land o.s. sth;Land sehen see land;(wieder) Land sehen umg, fig see the light at the end of the tunnel;3. nur sg; (Ggs Stadt) country; countryside;auf dem Land in the country;aufs Land fahren go ( oder drive) out into the country(side);aufs Land ziehen move to the country(side);platten Land umg out in the sticks, in the middle of nowherehügeliges Land hilly (stretch of) country;ziehen travel widely;in deutschen Landen obs, hum in Germany;das Land, wo Milch und Honig fließt hum the land of milk and honey;das Land meiner/seiner etcdas Land meiner Träume the land of my dreams;das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten the land of limitless opportunity;das Land der aufgehenden Sonne the land of the rising sun;das Land der tausend Seen the land of a thousand lakes;andere Länder, andere Sitten sprichw when in Rome, do as the Romans do;Land und Leute kennenlernen get to know the country and its people;aus aller Herren Länder from all four corners of the earth;bist du wieder mal im Lande? umg, nach langer Abwesenheit: returned from your wanderings, have you?, iron hello (there), stranger!; zu einem Ausländer etc: come to see us again, have you?;dieses Gebiet war das Land der Apachen this area was Apache territory ( oder land)7. pl Länder; POL, innerhalb Deutschlands: (federal) state, Land (pl Länder); in Österreich: province;die Länder der Bundesrepublik Deutschland the states ( oder Länder) of the Federal Republic of Germany;das Land Bayern the state of Bavaria;das Land Kärnten the province of Carinthia8. nur sg:* * *das; Landes, Länder od. (veralt.) Lande1) o. Pl. land no indef. art.Land in Sicht! — (Seemannsspr.) land [ahead]!
‘Land unter!’ melden — report that the land is flooded or under water
[wieder] Land sehen — (fig.) be able to see light at the end of the tunnel (fig.)
[sich (Dat.)] eine Millionärin/antike Truhe/einen fetten Auftrag an Land ziehen — (ugs., oft scherzh.) hook a millionairess/get one's hands on an antique chest/land a fat contract
2) o. Pl. (Grund und Boden) landein Stück Land — a plot or piece of land or ground
das Land bebauen/bestellen — farm/till the land
Wochen/Jahre waren ins Land gegangen — weeks/years had passed or gone by
4) o. Pl. (dörfliche Gegend) country no indef. art.5) Plural Länder (Staat) countryandere Länder, andere Sitten — (Spr.) every nation has its own ways of behaving
Land und Leute kennen lernen — get to know the country and its people or inhabitants
außer Landes gehen/sich außer Landes befinden — leave the country/be out of the country
wieder im Lande sein — (ugs.) be back again
hier zu Lande — [here] in this country
6) (Bundesland) Land; state; (österr.) province•• Cultural note:Germany is a federal republic consisting of 16 member states called Länder or Bundesländer. Five so-called neue Bundesländer were added after reunification in 1990. The Land has a degree of autonomy and is responsible for all educational and cultural affairs, the police, the environment, and local government. The German Länder, including three city-states, and their state capitals are: Baden-Württemberg, capital: Stuttgart; Bayern (Bavaria), capital: München (Munich); Berlin; Brandenburg, capital: Potsdam; Bremen; Hamburg; Hessen (Hesse), capital: Wiesbaden; Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), capital: Schwerin; Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), capital: Hannover (Hanover); Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia), capital: Düsseldorf; Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate), capital: Mainz; Saarland, capital: Saarbrücken; Sachsen (Saxony), capital: Dresden; Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt), capital: Magdeburg; Schleswig-Holstein, capital: Kiel; Thüringen (Thuringia), capital: Erfurt. Austria is a federal state consisting of 9 Länder: Burgenland; Kärnten (Carinthia); Niederösterreich (Lower Austria); Oberösterreich (Upper Austria); Salzburg; Steiermark (Styria); Tirol (Tyrol); Vorarlberg; Wien (Vienna).The Swiss equivalent of a German or Austrian Land is a Kanton* * *¨-er n.country n.county n.land n.terra n. -
12 Pötsch, Friedrich Hermann
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 12 December 1842 Biendorf, near Köthen, Germanyd. 9 June 1902 Dresden, Germany[br]German mine surveyor, inventor of the freezing process for sinking shafts.[br]Pötsch was the son of a forest officer and could not easily attend school, with the consequences that it took him a long time to obtain the scholarly education needed to enable him to begin work on a higher level with the mining administration in the duchy of Anhalt in 1868. Seven years later, he was licensed as a Prussian mining surveyor and in this capacity he worked with the mining inspectorate of Aschersleben. During that time he frequently came across shafts for brown-coal mines which had been sunk down to watery strata but then had to be abandoned. His solution to the problem was to freeze the quicksand with a solution of chloride; this was better than the previous attempts in England to instal cooling coils at the bottom of the shaft. Pötsch's conception implied the construction of ice walls with the means of boreholes and refrigerators. By his method a set of boreholes was driven through the watery strata, the smaller pipes contained within the main bore pipes, providing a channel through which calcium chloride was pumped, returning through the longer pipe until the ground was frozen solid. He obtained a patent in 1883 and many leading international journals reported on the method the same year.In 1884 he established the Internationale Gesselschaft für Schacht-, Brucken-und Tunnelbau in Magdeburg and he also became Director of the Poetsch-Sooy-Smith Freezing Company in New Jersey, which constructed the first freezing shaft in America in 1888.However, Pötsch was successful only for a short period of time and, being a clumsy entrepreneur, he had to dissolve his company in 1894. Unfortunately, his decision to carry out the complete shaft-sinking business did not allow him to concentrate on solving upcoming technical problems of his new process. It was Louis Gebhardt (1861–1924), his former engineer, who took care of development, especially in co-operation with French mining engineers, and thus provided the basis for the freezing process becoming widely used for shaft-sinking in complicated strata ever since.[br]Bibliography1886, Das Gefrierverfahren. Methode für schnelles, sicheres und lotrechtes Abteufen von Schächten im Schwimmsande und uberhaupt im wasserreichen Gebirge; für Herstellung tiefgehender Bruckenpfeiler und für TunnelBauten in rolligem und schwimmendem Gebirge, Freiberg.1889, Geschichtliches über die Entstehung und Herausbildung des Gefrierverfahrens, Magdeburg.1895, Das Gefrierverfahren und das kombinierte Schachtabbohr-und Gefrierverfahren (Patent Pötsch), Freiberg.Further ReadingD.Hoffmann, 1962, AchtJahrzehnte Gefrierverfahren nach Putsch, Essen: Glückauf (the most substantial biography; also covers technological aspects).G.Gach, 1986, In Schacht und Strecke, Essen: Glückauf, pp. 31–53 (provides information on the development of specialized mining companies in Germany originating in the freezing process).WKBiographical history of technology > Pötsch, Friedrich Hermann
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13 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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14 История Церкви Христовой
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15 Магдебургские центурии
Religion: Centuriae Magdeburgenses ("Magdeburg Centuries", 1559-74, the largest work in 13 volumes retelling the history of the church down to 1200)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Магдебургские центурии
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17 Immanuel Kant Gymnasium
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18 Адальберт Магдебургский
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