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became involved

  • 1 participar

    v.
    1 to take part, to participate.
    participaron diez corredores/equipos (finance) ten runners/teams took part o participated
    todo el mundo participó con entusiasmo en la limpieza del río everyone joined in enthusiastically in cleaning up the river
    Ese diplomático figuró en el seminario That diplomat took part in the...
    2 to receive a share.
    3 to notify, to inform, to let know.
    * * *
    1 (tomar parte - en una conversación) to participate, take part; (- en un proyecto) to take part; (- en un torneo) to enter, take part
    2 (compartir) to share (de, -)
    3 FINANZAS to have a share
    1 (notificar) to notify, inform
    * * *
    verb
    1) to take part, participate
    2) share, have a share
    * * *
    1. VI
    1) (=tomar parte) to take part, participate frm

    participar en un concurso — to take part o participate in a competition

    2) (Econ)

    participar de o en una herencia — to share in an estate

    3) (=compartir)

    participar de una cualidad/opinión — to share a quality/an opinion

    2.
    VT frm (=informar) to inform
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    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1)

    participar (EN algo) — to take part (in something), participate (in something) (frml)

    2) ( en ganancias) to have a share; ( en empresa) to have a stockholding; ( en lotería)
    3) ( compartir) (frml)

    participar DE algo — de una opinión/un sentimiento to share something

    2.
    participar vt (frml) ( comunicar) <boda/nacimiento> to announce

    tengo que participarles que... — I have to inform you that...

    * * *
    = go into, have + a hand in, involve, participate, take + part, jump in, share in, come into + play, partake (in/of), become + involved.
    Ex. As something you may or may not know, every item going into the processing stream is assigned a priority, and our judgment will in many cases be different from yours, as our needs will be different from yours.
    Ex. For the benefit of all users of the thesaurus who have not had a hand in its initial compilation some written record describing the anticipated use of the thesaurus is valuable.
    Ex. It recommends the establishment of a centralised Chinese collection by a joint venture involving a charitable trust.
    Ex. The LC has also participated in two co-operative programs for the conversion of printed record to machine-readable form.
    Ex. This article lists committees in whose work Soviet delegates took part and outlines results.
    Ex. The unhappy tendency among teachers -- an occupational neurosis -- is to jump in too early and too often, especially if the talk wanders from direct comments about books under consideration.
    Ex. I am honored to have been invited to share in this most important occasion and to have the opportunity to pay my deep respects to your head of department.
    Ex. There are, of course, all sorts of other considerations which come into play in determining the income which a publisher might obtain from a book.
    Ex. The objective should be to create and entrepreneurial spirit in the midst of bureaucracy whereby all partake in the responsibilities and risks of the library's activities.
    Ex. There he became involved in cataloging problems and participated in their public discussion.
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    * no participar = be out of the picture.
    * no participar en = be uninvolved in, remain + uninvolved in.
    * participar activamente = involve.
    * participar activamente en = engage in.
    * participar con = chime in with.
    * participar de forma activa = involve.
    * participar de forma activa en = engage in.
    * participar de lleno en = become + a stakeholder in.
    * participar de una forma activa = become + involved.
    * participar en = engage in, get + involved with/in, become + (a) part of, join in, become + engaged (in/with), engage with.
    * participar en un debate = participate + discussion.
    * participar por igual en = have + an equal voice in.
    * que participan = at play.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1)

    participar (EN algo) — to take part (in something), participate (in something) (frml)

    2) ( en ganancias) to have a share; ( en empresa) to have a stockholding; ( en lotería)
    3) ( compartir) (frml)

    participar DE algo — de una opinión/un sentimiento to share something

    2.
    participar vt (frml) ( comunicar) <boda/nacimiento> to announce

    tengo que participarles que... — I have to inform you that...

    * * *
    = go into, have + a hand in, involve, participate, take + part, jump in, share in, come into + play, partake (in/of), become + involved.

    Ex: As something you may or may not know, every item going into the processing stream is assigned a priority, and our judgment will in many cases be different from yours, as our needs will be different from yours.

    Ex: For the benefit of all users of the thesaurus who have not had a hand in its initial compilation some written record describing the anticipated use of the thesaurus is valuable.
    Ex: It recommends the establishment of a centralised Chinese collection by a joint venture involving a charitable trust.
    Ex: The LC has also participated in two co-operative programs for the conversion of printed record to machine-readable form.
    Ex: This article lists committees in whose work Soviet delegates took part and outlines results.
    Ex: The unhappy tendency among teachers -- an occupational neurosis -- is to jump in too early and too often, especially if the talk wanders from direct comments about books under consideration.
    Ex: I am honored to have been invited to share in this most important occasion and to have the opportunity to pay my deep respects to your head of department.
    Ex: There are, of course, all sorts of other considerations which come into play in determining the income which a publisher might obtain from a book.
    Ex: The objective should be to create and entrepreneurial spirit in the midst of bureaucracy whereby all partake in the responsibilities and risks of the library's activities.
    Ex: There he became involved in cataloging problems and participated in their public discussion.
    * no participar = be out of the picture.
    * no participar en = be uninvolved in, remain + uninvolved in.
    * participar activamente = involve.
    * participar activamente en = engage in.
    * participar con = chime in with.
    * participar de forma activa = involve.
    * participar de forma activa en = engage in.
    * participar de lleno en = become + a stakeholder in.
    * participar de una forma activa = become + involved.
    * participar en = engage in, get + involved with/in, become + (a) part of, join in, become + engaged (in/with), engage with.
    * participar en un debate = participate + discussion.
    * participar por igual en = have + an equal voice in.
    * que participan = at play.

    * * *
    participar [A1 ]
    vi
    A (en un debate, concurso) to take part, participate ( frml)
    no participó en la carrera she did not take part in o run/swim/ride in the race
    diez equipos participaron en el torneo ten teams took part in o played in o participated in the tournament
    participó activamente en la toma de decisiones he took an active part in the decision-making
    los artistas que participan en el espectáculo the artists taking part in o participating in the show
    participaban en la alegría general they shared in the general feeling of happiness
    B
    1 (en ganancias, en un fondo) to have a share
    2 (en una empresa) to have a stockholding o an interest
    3
    (en una lotería): participa con la cantidad de 2 euros en el número 20179 he holds a 2 euro share in ticket number 20179
    C ( frml) participar DE algo ‹de una opinión/un sentimiento› to share sth; ‹de una característica› to share sth
    no participo de su optimismo I do not share his optimism
    ■ participar
    vt
    A ( frml) (comunicar) ‹matrimonio/nacimiento› to announce
    tengo que participarles que … I have to inform you that …
    B
    1 ‹compañía› to have a stockholding o an interest in
    una empresa participada al 50% por Sterosa a company 50% owned by Sterosa
    2 ‹capital› to put up, provide
    * * *

     

    participar ( conjugate participar) verbo intransitivo
    a) ( tomar parte) participar (EN algo) to take part (in sth), participate (in sth) (frml)

    b) participar en algo ( en ganancias) to have a share in sth;

    ( en empresas) to have a stockholding in sth
    participar
    I verbo intransitivo
    1 to take part, participate [en, in]
    2 Fin to have shares [en, in]
    3 (compartir) participar de, to share
    II vtr (comunicar) to notify
    ' participar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    consiguientemente
    - esperar
    - intervenir
    - negación
    - derecho
    - tratar
    English:
    contribute
    - form
    - join in
    - joust
    - opt out
    - part
    - participant
    - participate
    - play
    - sit in on
    - disqualify
    - go
    - join
    - keen
    - share
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    ♦ vi
    1. [colaborar, intervenir] to take part, to participate (en in);
    participaron diez corredores/equipos ten runners/teams took part o participated;
    todo el mundo participó con entusiasmo en la limpieza del río everyone joined in enthusiastically in cleaning up the river
    2. Econ to have a share (en in);
    varias personas participan en la empresa several people have esp Br shares o esp US stock in the company
    3. [recibir] to receive a share (de of);
    todos participan de los beneficios everyone has a share in the profits
    4. [compartir]
    participar de to share;
    no participo de tus ideas I don't share your ideas
    ♦ vt
    1. [comunicar]
    participar algo a alguien to notify o inform sb of sth;
    nos participaron la celebración de la boda we received an announcement of the wedding
    2. Econ
    una empresa participada por varias sociedades a company in which several firms hold equity interests
    * * *
    I v/t una noticia announce
    II v/i take part (en in), participate (en in)
    * * *
    1) : to participate, to take part
    2)
    participar en : to have a share in
    : to announce, to notify
    * * *
    participar vb to take part [pt. took; pp. taken] / to participate

    Spanish-English dictionary > participar

  • 2 gaucho

    adj.
    1 Argentinean.
    2 gaucho.
    m.
    gaucho, cowboy of the pampas.
    * * *
    1. SM
    1) LAm gaucho; (=vaquero) cowboy, herdsman, herder (EEUU)
    2) Cono Sur (=jinete) good rider, expert horseman
    3) And (=sombrero) wide-brimmed straw hat
    2. ADJ
    1) gaucho antes de s, gaucho-like
    2) Cono Sur * (=servicial) helpful
    GAUCHO Gaucho is the name given to the men who rode the Pampa, the plains of Argentina, Uruguay and parts of southern Brazil, earning their living on cattle farms. Important parts of the gaucho's traditional costume include the faja, a sash worn around the waist, the facón, a sheath knife, and boleadoras, strips of leather weighted with stones at either end which were used somewhat like lassos to catch cattle. During the 19th century this vast pampas area was divided up into large ranches and the free-roaming lifestyle of the gaucho gradually disappeared. Gauchos were the inspiration for a tradition of literatura gauchesca, of which the most famous work is the two-part epic poem "Martín Fierro" written by the Argentine José Hernández between 1872 and 1879 and mourning the loss of the gaucho way of life and their persecution as outlaws.
    * * *
    masculino gaucho
    •• Cultural note:
    A peasant of the pampas of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. Modern gauchos work as foremen on farms and ranches and take part in rodeos. Gauchos fought for Argentine independence from Spain, but later became involved in political disputes and suffered persecution. A literary genre, literatura gauchesca, grew up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The most famous work is Martín Fierro, an epic poem by José Hernández about the misfortunes of an Argentine gaucho when the huge pampas are divided into ranches. Traditionally gauchos wore baggy trousers, leather chaps, a chiripá, a garment that went over their trousers and came up around their waist, boots, a hat, a leather waistcoat, a belt with a large buckle. They carried a facón - a large knife with a curved blade, and used boleadoras, ropes weighted at each end and thrown like lassos, to catch cattle
    * * *
    masculino gaucho
    •• Cultural note:
    A peasant of the pampas of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. Modern gauchos work as foremen on farms and ranches and take part in rodeos. Gauchos fought for Argentine independence from Spain, but later became involved in political disputes and suffered persecution. A literary genre, literatura gauchesca, grew up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The most famous work is Martín Fierro, an epic poem by José Hernández about the misfortunes of an Argentine gaucho when the huge pampas are divided into ranches. Traditionally gauchos wore baggy trousers, leather chaps, a chiripá, a garment that went over their trousers and came up around their waist, boots, a hat, a leather waistcoat, a belt with a large buckle. They carried a facón - a large knife with a curved blade, and used boleadoras, ropes weighted at each end and thrown like lassos, to catch cattle
    * * *
    1 ( RPl fam) (servicial) helpful, obliging
    2 ( Chi) (argentino) Argentinian
    gaucho (↑ gaucho a1)
    A peasant of the pampas of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. Modern gauchos work as foremen on farms and ranches and take part in rodeos.
    Gauchos fought for Argentine independence from Spain, but later became involved in political disputes and suffered persecution.
    A literary genre, literatura gauchesca, grew up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The most famous work is Martín Fierro, an epic poem by José Hernández about the misfortunes of an Argentine gaucho when the huge pampas are divided into ranches.
    Traditionally gauchos wore baggy trousers, leather chaps, a chiripá, a garment that went over their trousers and came up around their waist, boots, a hat, a leather waistcoat, a belt with a large buckle. They carried a facón - a large knife with a curved blade, and used boleadoras, ropes weighted at each end and thrown like lassos, to catch cattle.
    * * *

    gaucho sustantivo masculino
    gaucho
    ' gaucho' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bombacha
    - matrero
    * * *
    gaucho, -a
    ♦ adj
    RP Fam [servicial] helpful, obliging
    ♦ nm,f
    gaucho
    GAUCHO
    The Gauchos were the cowboys of Argentina and Uruguay, skilled horsemen who were in charge of the huge cattle-herds of the pampas. The culture of the Gaucho, which dates from colonial times, combines elements from several sources: Spain, indigenous Indian culture, and that of freed slaves. They gained fame for their courage and daring during the wars of independence against Spain, but they later became increasingly marginalized because of their fiercely independent spirit and nomadic customs. Nevertheless they remain vivid figures in the national imagination, together with their working tools and weapons – the Spanish hunting knife and Indian “boleadoras” – their distinctive clothing, such as the poncho, and customs, such as drinking mate and singing campfire songs. They were immortalized by José Hernández in his long poem “El gaucho Martín Fierro” (1872-79), which is Argentina's national epic and did much to create and popularize their legend. Although this tradition may be affectionately sent up nowadays (e.g. in the comic strip “Inodoro Pereyra” by the cartoonist Fontanarrosa), the Gaucho is still regarded by many as the embodiment of the virtues of solidarity and companionship.
    * * *
    Rpl
    I adj gaucho atr
    II m gaucho
    * * *
    gaucho nm
    : gaucho

    Spanish-English dictionary > gaucho

  • 3 Ford, Henry

    [br]
    b. 30 July 1863 Dearborn, Michigan, USA
    d. 7 April 1947 Dearborn, Michigan, USA
    [br]
    American pioneer motor-car maker and developer of mass-production methods.
    [br]
    He was the son of an Irish immigrant farmer, William Ford, and the oldest son to survive of Mary Litogot; his mother died in 1876 with the birth of her sixth child. He went to the village school, and at the age of 16 he was apprenticed to Flower brothers' machine shop and then at the Drydock \& Engineering Works in Detroit. In 1882 he left to return to the family farm and spent some time working with a 1 1/2 hp steam engine doing odd jobs for the farming community at $3 per day. He was then employed as a demonstrator for Westinghouse steam engines. He met Clara Jane Bryant at New Year 1885 and they were married on 11 April 1888. Their only child, Edsel Bryant Ford, was born on 6 November 1893.
    At that time Henry worked on steam engine repairs for the Edison Illuminating Company, where he became Chief Engineer. He became one of a group working to develop a "horseless carriage" in 1896 and in June completed his first vehicle, a "quadri cycle" with a two-cylinder engine. It was built in a brick shed, which had to be partially demolished to get the carriage out.
    Ford became involved in motor racing, at which he was more successful than he was in starting a car-manufacturing company. Several early ventures failed, until the Ford Motor Company of 1903. By October 1908 they had started with production of the Model T. The first, of which over 15 million were built up to the end of its production in May 1927, came out with bought-out steel stampings and a planetary gearbox, and had a one-piece four-cylinder block with a bolt-on head. This was one of the most successful models built by Ford or any other motor manufacturer in the life of the motor car.
    Interchangeability of components was an important element in Ford's philosophy. Ford was a pioneer in the use of vanadium steel for engine components. He adopted the principles of Frederick Taylor, the pioneer of time-and-motion study, and installed the world's first moving assembly line for the production of magnetos, started in 1913. He installed blast furnaces at the factory to make his own steel, and he also promoted research and the cultivation of the soya bean, from which a plastic was derived.
    In October 1913 he introduced the "Five Dollar Day", almost doubling the normal rate of pay. This was a profit-sharing scheme for his employees and contained an element of a reward for good behaviour. About this time he initiated work on an agricultural tractor, the "Fordson" made by a separate company, the directors of which were Henry and his son Edsel.
    In 1915 he chartered the Oscar II, a "peace ship", and with fifty-five delegates sailed for Europe a week before Christmas, docking at Oslo. Their objective was to appeal to all European Heads of State to stop the war. He had hoped to persuade manufacturers to replace armaments with tractors in their production programmes. In the event, Ford took to his bed in the hotel with a chill, stayed there for five days and then sailed for New York and home. He did, however, continue to finance the peace activists who remained in Europe. Back in America, he stood for election to the US Senate but was defeated. He was probably the father of John Dahlinger, illegitimate son of Evangeline Dahlinger, a stenographer employed by the firm and on whom he lavished gifts of cars, clothes and properties. He became the owner of a weekly newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, which became the medium for the expression of many of his more unorthodox ideas. He was involved in a lawsuit with the Chicago Tribune in 1919, during which he was cross-examined on his knowledge of American history: he is reputed to have said "History is bunk". What he actually said was, "History is bunk as it is taught in schools", a very different comment. The lawyers who thus made a fool of him would have been surprised if they could have foreseen the force and energy that their actions were to release. For years Ford employed a team of specialists to scour America and Europe for furniture, artefacts and relics of all kinds, illustrating various aspects of history. Starting with the Wayside Inn from South Sudbury, Massachusetts, buildings were bought, dismantled and moved, to be reconstructed in Greenfield Village, near Dearborn. The courthouse where Abraham Lincoln had practised law and the Ohio bicycle shop where the Wright brothers built their first primitive aeroplane were added to the farmhouse where the proprietor, Henry Ford, had been born. Replicas were made of Independence Hall, Congress Hall and the old City Hall in Philadelphia, and even a reconstruction of Edison's Menlo Park laboratory was installed. The Henry Ford museum was officially opened on 21 October 1929, on the fiftieth anniversary of Edison's invention of the incandescent bulb, but it continued to be a primary preoccupation of the great American car maker until his death.
    Henry Ford was also responsible for a number of aeronautical developments at the Ford Airport at Dearborn. He introduced the first use of radio to guide a commercial aircraft, the first regular airmail service in the United States. He also manufactured the country's first all-metal multi-engined plane, the Ford Tri-Motor.
    Edsel became President of the Ford Motor Company on his father's resignation from that position on 30 December 1918. Following the end of production in May 1927 of the Model T, the replacement Model A was not in production for another six months. During this period Henry Ford, though officially retired from the presidency of the company, repeatedly interfered and countermanded the orders of his son, ostensibly the man in charge. Edsel, who died of stomach cancer at his home at Grosse Point, Detroit, on 26 May 1943, was the father of Henry Ford II. Henry Ford died at his home, "Fair Lane", four years after his son's death.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1922, with S.Crowther, My Life and Work, London: Heinemann.
    Further Reading
    R.Lacey, 1986, Ford, the Men and the Machine, London: Heinemann. W.C.Richards, 1948, The Last Billionaire, Henry Ford, New York: Charles Scribner.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Ford, Henry

  • 4 participar de una forma activa

    (v.) = become + involved
    Ex. There he became involved in cataloging problems and participated in their public discussion.
    * * *
    (v.) = become + involved

    Ex: There he became involved in cataloging problems and participated in their public discussion.

    Spanish-English dictionary > participar de una forma activa

  • 5 tomar parte

    v.
    to participate, to take part, to join in, to partake.
    * * *
    to take sides
    * * *
    (v.) = involve, take + part, become + involved
    Ex. It recommends the establishment of a centralised Chinese collection by a joint venture involving a charitable trust.
    Ex. This article lists committees in whose work Soviet delegates took part and outlines results.
    Ex. There he became involved in cataloging problems and participated in their public discussion.
    * * *
    (v.) = involve, take + part, become + involved

    Ex: It recommends the establishment of a centralised Chinese collection by a joint venture involving a charitable trust.

    Ex: This article lists committees in whose work Soviet delegates took part and outlines results.
    Ex: There he became involved in cataloging problems and participated in their public discussion.

    Spanish-English dictionary > tomar parte

  • 6 tomar parte activa

    (v.) = become + involved, get + active
    Ex. There he became involved in cataloging problems and participated in their public discussion.
    Ex. The library director does not want to take the chance that by allowing the trustees to get active he might lose partial control of the library operation to an 'outsider'.
    * * *
    (v.) = become + involved, get + active

    Ex: There he became involved in cataloging problems and participated in their public discussion.

    Ex: The library director does not want to take the chance that by allowing the trustees to get active he might lose partial control of the library operation to an 'outsider'.

    Spanish-English dictionary > tomar parte activa

  • 7 Case, Jerome Increase

    [br]
    b. 1819 Williamstown, Oswego County, New York, USA
    d. 1891 USA
    [br]
    American manufacturer and founder of the Case company of agricultural engineers.
    [br]
    J.I.Case was the son of a former and began his working life operating the family's Groundhog threshing machine. He moved into contract threshing, and used the money he earned to pay his way through a business academy. He became the agent for the Groundhog thresher in his area and at the age of 23 decided to move west, taking six machines with him. He sold five of these to obtain working capital, and in 1842 moved from Williamstown, New York, to Rochester, Wisconsin, where he established his manufacturing company. He produced the first combined thresher-winnower in the US in 1843. Two years later he moved to Racine, on the shores of Lake Michigan in the same state. Within four years the Case company became Racine's biggest company and largest employer, a position it was to retain into the twentieth century. As early as 1860 Case was shipping threshing machines around the Horn to California.
    Apart from having practical expertise Case was also a skilled demonstrator, and it was this combination which resulted in the sure growth of his company. In 1869 he produced his first portable steam engine and in 1876 his first traction engine. By the mid 1870s he was selling a significant proportion of the machines in use in America. By 1878 Case threshing machines had penetrated the European market, and in 1885 sales to South America began. Case also became the world's largest manufacturer of steam engines.
    J.I.Case himself, whilst still actively involved with the company, also became involved in politics. He was Mayor of Racine for three terms and State Senator for two. He was also President of the Manufacturers' National Bank of Racine and Founder of the First National Bank of Burlington. He founded the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters and was President of the Racine County Agricultural Society. He had time for sport and was owner of the world's all-time champion trotter-pacer.
    Continued expansion of the company after J.I. Case's death led eventually to its acquisition by Tenneco in 1967, and in 1985 the company took over International Harvester. As Case I.H. it continues to produce a full range of agricultural, earth-moving and heavy-transport equipment.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Despite the size and importance of the company he created, very little has been written about Case. On particular anniversaries the company has produced celebratory publications, and surprisingly these still seem to be the main source of information about him.
    R.B.Gray, 1975, The Agricultural Tractor 1855–1950, American Society of Agricultural Engineers (traces the history of power on the farm, in which Case and his machines played such an important role).
    AP

    Biographical history of technology > Case, Jerome Increase

  • 8 Johnson, Clarence Leonard (Kelly)

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 27 February 1910 Michigan, USA
    d. 21 December 1990 Burbank County, California, USA
    [br]
    American aircraft designer responsible for many outstanding Lockheed aircraft over a period of almost forty-eight years.
    [br]
    The large and successful Lockheed Aircraft Corporation grew out of a small company founded by Allan and Malcolm Loughhead (pronounced "Lockheed") in 1913. The company employed many notable designers such as Jack Northrop, Jerry Vultee and Lloyd Stearman, but the most productive was "Kelly" Johnson. After studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan, Johnson joined Lockheed in 1933 and gained experience in all the branches of the design department. By 1938 he had been appointed Chief Research Engineer and became involved with the design of the P-38 Lightning twin-boom fighter and the Constellation airliner. In 1943 he set up a super-secret research and development organization called Advanced Development Projects, but this soon became known as the "Skunk Works": the name came from a very mysterious factory which made potions from skunks in the popular comic strip Li'lAbner. The first aircraft designed and built by Johnson's small hand-picked team was the XP-80 Shooting Star prototype jet fighter, which was produced in just 143 days: it became the United States' first production jet fighter. At this stage the Skunk Works produced a prototype, then the main Lockheed factories took over the production run. The F-104 Starfighter and the C-130 Hercules transport were produced in this way and became widely used in many countries. In 1954 work began on the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft which was so secret that production was carried out within the Skunk Works. This made the headlines in 1960 when one was shot down over Russia. Probably the most outstanding of Johnson's designs was the SR-71 Blackbird of 1964, a reconnaissance aircraft capable of flying at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound). Johnson was not only a great designer, he was also an outstanding manager, and his methods—including his "14 Rules"—have been widely followed. He retired from the Lockheed board in 1980, having been involved in the design of some forty aircraft.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    National Medal of Freedom (the highest United States award for a civilian) 1964.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1991, Aerospace (Royal Aeronautical Society) (March).
    B.R.Rich, 1989, "The Skunk Works" management style: it's no secret', Aerospace (Royal Aeronautical Society) (March) (Rich was Johnson's successor).
    Details of Lockheed aircraft can be found in several publications, e.g.: R.J.Francillon, 1982, Lockheed Aircraft since 1913, London.
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Johnson, Clarence Leonard (Kelly)

  • 9 Riquet, Pierre Paul

    SUBJECT AREA: Canals, Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. 29 June 1604 Béziers, Hérault, France
    d. 1 October 1680 buried at Toulouse, France
    [br]
    French canal engineer and constructor of the Canal du Midi.
    [br]
    Pierre Paul Riquet was the son of a wealthy lawyer whose ancestors came from Italy. In his education at the Jesuit College in Béziers he showed obvious natural ability in science and mathematics, but he received no formal engineering training. With his own and his wife's fortunes he was able to purchase a château at Verfeil, near Toulouse. In 1630 he was appointed a collector of the salt tax in Languedoc and in a short time became Lessee General (Fermier Général) of this tax for the whole province. This entailed constant travel through the district, with the result that he became very familiar with this part of the country. He also became involved in military contracting. He acquired a vast fortune out of both activities. At this time he pondered the possibility of building a canal from Toulouse to the Mediterranean beyond Béziers and, after further investigation as to possible water supplies, he wrote to Colbert in Paris on 16 November 1662 advocating the construction of the canal. Although the idea proved acceptable it was not until 27 May 1665 that Riquet was authorized to direct operations, and on 14 October 1666 he was given authority to construct the first part of the canal, from Toulouse to Trebes. Work started on 1 January 1667. By 1669 he had between 7,000 and 8,000 men employed on the work. Unhappily, Riquet died just over six months before the canal was completed, the official opening beingon 15 May 1681.
    Although Riquet's fame rightly rests on the Canal du Midi, probably the greatest work of its time in Europe, he was also consulted about and was responsible for other projects. He built an aqueduct on more than 100 arches to lead water into the grounds of the château of his friend the marquis de Castres. The plans for this work, which involved considerable practical difficulties, were finalized in 1670, and water flowed into the château grounds in 1676. Also in 1676, Riquet was commissioned to lead the waters of the river Ourcq into Paris; he drew up plans, but he was too busy to undertake the construction and on his death the work was shelved until Napoleon's time. He was responsible for the creation of the port of Sète on the Mediterranean at the end of the Canal du Midi. He was also consulted on the supply of water to the Palace of Versailles and on a proposed route which later became the Canal de Bourgogne. Riquet was a very remarkable man: when he started the construction of the canal he was well over 60 years old, an age at which most people are retiring, and lived almost to its completion.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1973, From Sea to Sea, London: Allen Lane; rev. ed. 1994, Bridgwater: Internet Ltd.
    Jean-Denis Bergasse, 1982–7, Le Canal de Midi, 4 vols, Hérault:—Vol. I: Pierre Paul Riquet et le Canal du Midi dans les arts et la littérature; Vol II: Trois Siècles de
    batellerie et de voyage; Vol. III: Des Siècles d'aventures humaine; Vol. IV: Grands Moments et grands sites.
    JHB

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  • 10 allá

    1 (lugar) there, over there
    2 (tiempo) back
    \
    allá se las componga that's his problem
    allá tú/vosotros that's your problem
    no muy allá not very good
    * * *
    adv.
    there, over there
    * * *
    ADV
    1) [indicando posición] there, over there; [dirección] (over) there

    allá en Sevilla — down in Seville, over in Seville

    allá lejos — way off in the distance, away over there

    • más allá — further away, further over

    no sabe contar más allá de diez — she can't count above ten, she can't count beyond ten

    • por allá — thereabouts

    • vamos allá — let's go there

    ¡allá voy! — I'm coming!

    no está muy allá — [de salud] he isn't very well

    2)

    allá tú — that's up to you, that's your problem

    ¡allá él! — that's his lookout! *, that's his problem!

    3) [indicando tiempo]

    allá en 1600 — back in 1600, way back in 1600, as long ago as 1600

    * * *
    1)

    allá voy! — here I come/go!

    más allá de — ( más lejos que) beyond; ( aparte de) over and above

    allá tú/él — that's your/his lookout o problem (colloq)

    no estar muy allá — (Esp fam)

    * * *
    = thither, there.
    Ex. 'Hither, thither, and yon: process in putting courses on the Web' is an article included in an issue devoted to the theme: Technical communication, distance learning, and the World Wide Web.
    Ex. There he became involved in cataloging problems and participated in their public discussion.
    ----
    * ¡allá voy! = here I come!.
    * aparecer aquí y allá en = intersperse.
    * aquí y allá = here and there, odd.
    * correr de acá para allá = rush around.
    * correr de aquí para allá = rush around, run + here and there.
    * de acá para allá = back and forth, to and fro.
    * de aquí para allá = back and forth.
    * de esto, de lo otro y de lo de más allá = about this and that and everything else.
    * el más allá = hereafter.
    * en el más allá = dead and gone.
    * ir de aquí a allá = go out and about.
    * ir de aquí para allá = jump, live out of + a suitcase, run + here and there.
    * ir de aquí para allá sin rumbo fijo = freewheel.
    * ir más allá = go + one stage further.
    * ir más allá de = go beyond, go + deeper than, transcend, get beyond, go far beyond, move + beyond, take + Nombre + a/one step further/farther, go + past.
    * ir poco más allá de + Infinitivo = go little further than + Gerundio.
    * más allá = further than, farther, yonder, beyond that.
    * más allá de = beyond, beyond all, past, beyond the range of.
    * más allá de eso = beyond that.
    * más allá de ninguna duda = beyond doubt, beyond doubt, beyond any doubt.
    * más allá de toda duda = beyond doubt, beyond any doubt, without a shadow of a doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
    * más allá, el = afterlife [after-life], land of the dead, the.
    * moverse de aquí para allá = move about.
    * que toca aquí y allá = wandering.
    * y más allá = and beyond.
    * * *
    1)

    allá voy! — here I come/go!

    más allá de — ( más lejos que) beyond; ( aparte de) over and above

    allá tú/él — that's your/his lookout o problem (colloq)

    no estar muy allá — (Esp fam)

    * * *
    = thither, there.

    Ex: 'Hither, thither, and yon: process in putting courses on the Web' is an article included in an issue devoted to the theme: Technical communication, distance learning, and the World Wide Web.

    Ex: There he became involved in cataloging problems and participated in their public discussion.
    * ¡allá voy! = here I come!.
    * aparecer aquí y allá en = intersperse.
    * aquí y allá = here and there, odd.
    * correr de acá para allá = rush around.
    * correr de aquí para allá = rush around, run + here and there.
    * de acá para allá = back and forth, to and fro.
    * de aquí para allá = back and forth.
    * de esto, de lo otro y de lo de más allá = about this and that and everything else.
    * el más allá = hereafter.
    * en el más allá = dead and gone.
    * ir de aquí a allá = go out and about.
    * ir de aquí para allá = jump, live out of + a suitcase, run + here and there.
    * ir de aquí para allá sin rumbo fijo = freewheel.
    * ir más allá = go + one stage further.
    * ir más allá de = go beyond, go + deeper than, transcend, get beyond, go far beyond, move + beyond, take + Nombre + a/one step further/farther, go + past.
    * ir poco más allá de + Infinitivo = go little further than + Gerundio.
    * más allá = further than, farther, yonder, beyond that.
    * más allá de = beyond, beyond all, past, beyond the range of.
    * más allá de eso = beyond that.
    * más allá de ninguna duda = beyond doubt, beyond doubt, beyond any doubt.
    * más allá de toda duda = beyond doubt, beyond any doubt, without a shadow of a doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
    * más allá, el = afterlife [after-life], land of the dead, the.
    * moverse de aquí para allá = move about.
    * que toca aquí y allá = wandering.
    * y más allá = and beyond.

    * * *
    A
    1
    (en el espacio): ya vamos para allá we're on our way (over)
    allá en América over in America
    están muy allá they're a long way off o away
    lo pusiste tan allá que no alcanzo you've put it so far away I can't reach it
    allá va tu hermana there goes o there's your sister
    ¡allá voy! here I come/go!
    2 ( en locs):
    más allá further away
    ponte más allá move further over that way o further away
    más allá de nuestras fronteras beyond our frontiers
    su importancia va más allá de las consideraciones de orden económico its significance goes beyond economic considerations
    más allá del peligro que encierra over and above the danger which it entails
    siguió protestando, que si esto, que si lo otro, que si el más allá he went on and on, complaining about one thing and another
    allá tú/él that's your/his lookout o problem ( colloq), that's up to you/him ( colloq)
    allá se las componga ella con sus problemas she can sort out her own problems
    muy allá ( fam): no está muy allá it isn't up to much ( colloq), it's nothing to write home about ( colloq)
    no está muy allá con su familia she isn't getting on too well with her family
    B
    (en el tiempo): allá por los años 40 back in the forties
    sucedió allá por el año 1395 it happened back in the year 1395
    allá para enero quizás podamos mudarnos we might be able to move around January
    * * *

     

    allá adverbio
    1


    allá en América over in America;
    lo pusiste muy allá you've put it too far away;
    ¡allá voy! here I come/go!
    b) ( en locs)


    más allá de ( más lejos que) beyond;

    ( aparte de) over and above;
    ◊ allá tú/él that's your/his lookout o problem (colloq)

    2 ( en el tiempo):

    allá para enero sometime in January
    allá adverbio
    1 (lugar alejado) there, over there
    allá abajo, down there
    allá arriba, up there
    ¡allá va!, there he goes!
    más allá, further on
    más allá de, beyond
    el más allá, afterlife
    2 (tiempo remoto o indefinido) allá por los años cuarenta, back in the forties
    ♦ Locuciones: allá él, that's his problem
    ' allá' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aquí
    - correrse
    - danzar
    - dogmatismo
    - fuera
    - mal
    - paja
    - permisible
    - acá
    - aquello
    - coincidencia
    - desde
    - echar
    - hacia
    - interior
    - ir
    - más
    - tras
    - trascender
    English:
    about
    - back
    - beyond
    - everyplace
    - fleck
    - funeral
    - hereafter
    - normal
    - past
    - roll about
    - roll around
    - rush around
    - there
    - to
    - up
    - way
    - above
    - bustle
    - down
    - here
    - on
    - rush
    - transcend
    - yonder
    * * *
    allá adv
    1. [indica espacio] over there;
    aquí no hay espacio para esos libros, ponlos allá there's no room for these books here, put them over there;
    no te pongas tan allá, que no te oigo don't stand so far away, I can't hear you;
    allá abajo/arriba down/up there;
    allá donde sea posible wherever possible;
    allá lejos right back there;
    allá en tu pueblo se come muy bien they eat well back in your home town;
    hacerse allá to move over o along;
    hacia allá that way, in that direction;
    más allá further on;
    no dejes el vaso tan cerca del borde, ponlo más allá don't leave the glass so near the edge, move it in a bit;
    los trenes son un desastre, sin ir más allá, ayer estuve esperando dos horas trains are hopeless, you don't need to look far to find an example, only yesterday I had to wait for two hours;
    más allá de beyond;
    no vayas más allá de la verja don't go beyond the gate;
    no se veía más allá de unos pocos metros visibility was down to a few metres;
    voy para allá mañana I'm going there tomorrow;
    échate para allá move over;
    por allá over there, thereabouts
    2. [indica tiempo]
    allá por los años cincuenta back in the fifties;
    allá para el mes de agosto around August some time
    3. [en frases]
    allá él/ella that's his/her problem;
    allá tú, allá te las compongas that's your problem;
    allá se las arreglen ellos that's their problem, that's for them to worry about;
    allá cada cual each person will have to decide for themselves;
    allá tú con lo que haces it's up to you what you do;
    los negocios no andan muy allá business is rather slow at the moment;
    no ser muy allá to be nothing special;
    no encontrarse o [m5] sentirse muy allá to feel a bit funny;
    hoy no estoy muy allá I'm not quite myself today;
    ¡allá voy! here I go o come!;
    ¿estamos todos listos? ¡vamos allá! is everybody ready? then let's begin!;
    ¡vamos allá, tú puedes! go for it o go on, you can do it!
    * * *
    adv
    1 de lugar (over) there;
    allá abajo down there;
    allá arriba up there;
    más allá further on;
    más allá de beyond;
    muy allá a long way off;
    el más allá the hereafter;
    ¡allá voy! here I come!
    2 de tiempo
    :
    allá por los años veinte back in the twenties
    3 fam
    :
    allá él/ella that’s up to him/her;
    allá se las arregle that’s his problem
    * * *
    allá adv
    1) : there, over there
    2)
    más allá : farther away
    3)
    más allá de : beyond
    4)
    allá tú : that's up to you
    * * *
    allá adv
    1. (lugar) there / over there
    2. (tiempo) back

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  • 11 allí

    adv.
    there, yonder, yon, over there.
    * * *
    1 (lugar) there, over there
    ■ allí abajo/arriba down/up there
    ■ por allí over there, round there
    2 (tiempo) then, at that moment
    * * *
    adv.
    there, over there
    * * *
    ADV
    1) [indicando posición] there

    por allí — over there, round there

    hasta allí — as far as that, up to that point

    está tirado por allí — * he's hanging around somewhere

    2) [indicando tiempo]
    3) [expresiones]

    de allí — (=por lo tanto) and so, and thus frm o liter

    de allí que... — (=por eso) that is why..., hence... frm

    hasta allí no más — LAm that's the limit

    * * *
    1) ( en el espacio) there

    allí arriba/dentro — up/in there

    allí donde estés/vayas — wherever you are/go

    * * *
    = there.
    Ex. There he became involved in cataloging problems and participated in their public discussion.
    ----
    * allí donde = as and when, where, wherever.
    * allí donde se necesita = at the point-of-need, at the point of use, point of use.
    * allí mismo = on the spot, there and then.
    * desde allí = thence.
    * leer de aquí y allí = dip into.
    * por allí = nearby [near-by].
    * por aquí y por allí = hanging about.
    * * *
    1) ( en el espacio) there

    allí arriba/dentro — up/in there

    allí donde estés/vayas — wherever you are/go

    * * *

    Ex: There he became involved in cataloging problems and participated in their public discussion.

    * allí donde = as and when, where, wherever.
    * allí donde se necesita = at the point-of-need, at the point of use, point of use.
    * allí mismo = on the spot, there and then.
    * desde allí = thence.
    * leer de aquí y allí = dip into.
    * por allí = nearby [near-by].
    * por aquí y por allí = hanging about.

    * * *
    siéntate allí sit there
    allí arriba/abajo/fuera/dentro up/down/out/in there
    no, allí no, allá no, not there, over there
    aquí había un plato sucio, allí un calcetín … there was a dirty plate here, a sock there …
    allí donde estés/vayas wherever you are/go
    B
    (en el tiempo): allí es cuando empezaron los problemas that's when the problems started
    * * *

     

    allí adverbio
    there;
    ◊ allí arriba/dentro up/in there;

    allí donde estés/vayas wherever you are/go
    allí adverbio there, over there
    allí abajo/arriba, down/up there
    allí mismo, right there
    por allí, (en aquella dirección) that way
    (en aquel lugar) over there

    ' allí' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abajo
    - ánimo
    - arrancar
    - constante
    - desde
    - disparada
    - disparado
    - enterarse
    - esclarecimiento
    - gachí
    - hacia
    - holgar
    - misma
    - mismo
    - misteriosamente
    - permanecer
    - pintar
    - plantarse
    - precisamente
    - realidad
    - ver
    - acordar
    - agradar
    - ancho
    - asustar
    - atrás
    - caer
    - claustrofobia
    - dizque
    - dominar
    - gente
    - harto
    - indicar
    - morir
    - mucho
    - uno
    - urgir
    English:
    board
    - check
    - cling
    - evaluation
    - go
    - hopefully
    - imagine
    - in
    - over
    - ruggedness
    - spot
    - tell
    - there
    - unless
    - up
    - vacant
    - already
    - by
    - certainly
    - down
    - few
    - for
    - frozen
    - get
    - good
    - local
    - making
    - on
    - right
    - since
    - stand
    - state
    - strength
    - think
    - way
    - where
    * * *
    allí adv
    1. [en el espacio] there;
    allí abajo/arriba down/up there;
    allí mismo right there;
    está por allí it's around there somewhere;
    se va por allí you go that way;
    está allí dentro it's in there;
    allí donde vayas… wherever you go…
    2. [en el tiempo] then;
    hasta allí todo iba bien everything had been going well until then o up to that point
    * * *
    adv there;
    por allí over there; dando direcciones that way;
    ¡allí está! there it is! allí mismo right there;
    de allí from there;
    hasta allí that far
    * * *
    allí adv
    : there, over there
    allí mismo: right there
    hasta allí: up to that point
    * * *
    allí adv
    1. (lugar) there
    2. (tiempo) then

    Spanish-English dictionary > allí

  • 12 relacionado vagamente

    Ex. The solution was only found when a new team of workers, whose background was in the distantly related discipline of nuclear physics, became involved and started looking for a solution in the techniques of their own speciality.
    * * *

    Ex: The solution was only found when a new team of workers, whose background was in the distantly related discipline of nuclear physics, became involved and started looking for a solution in the techniques of their own speciality.

    Spanish-English dictionary > relacionado vagamente

  • 13 Spínola, Antônio de

    (1910-1996)
       Senior army general, hero of Portugal's wars of African insurgency, and first president of the provisional government after the Revolution of 25 April 1974. A career army officer who became involved in politics after a long career of war service and administration overseas, Spinola had a role in the 1974 coup and revolution that was somewhat analogous to that of General Gomes da Costa in the 1926 coup.
       Spinola served in important posts as a volunteer in Portugal's intervention in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), a military observer on the Russian front with the Third Reich's armed forces in World War II, and a top officer in the Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR). His chief significance in contemporary affairs, however, came following his military assignments and tours of duty in Portugal's colonial wars in Africa after 1961.
       Spinola fought first in Angola and later in Guinea- Bissau, where, during 1968-73, he was both commanding general of Portugal's forces and high commissioner (administrator of the territory). His Guinean service tour was significant for at least two reasons: Spinola's dynamic influence upon a circle of younger career officers on his staff in Guinea, men who later joined together in the Armed Forces Movement (MFA), and Spinola's experience of failure in winning the Guinea war militarily or finding a political means for compromise or negotiation with the Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), the African insurgent movement that had fought a war with Portugal since 1963, largely in the forested tropical interior of the territory. Spinola became discouraged after failure to win permission to negotiate secretly for a political solution to the war with the PAIGC and was reprimanded by Prime Minister Marcello Caetano.
       After his return—not in triumph—from Guinea in 1973, Spinola was appointed chief of staff of the armed forces, but he resigned in a dispute with the government. With the assistance of younger officers who also had African experience of costly but seemingly endless war, Spinola wrote a book, Portugal and the Future, which was published in February 1974, despite official censorship and red tape. Next to the Bible and editions of Luís de Camoes's The Lusi- ads, Spinola's controversial book was briefly the best-selling work in Portugal's modern age. While not intimately involved with the budding conspiracy among career army majors, captains, and others, Spinola was prepared to head such a movement, and the planners depended on his famous name and position as senior army officer with the right credentials to win over both military and civil opinion when and where it counted.
       When the Revolution of 25 April 1974 succeeded, Spinola was named head of the Junta of National Salvation and eventually provisional president of Portugal. Among the military revolutionaries, though, there was wide disagreement about the precise goals of the revolution and how to achieve them. Spinola's path-breaking book had subtly proposed three new goals: the democratization of authoritarian Portugal, a political solution to the African colonial wars, and liberalization of the economic system. The MFA immediately proclaimed, not coincidentally, the same goals, but without specifying the means to attain them.
       The officers who ran the newly emerging system fell out with Spinola over many issues, but especially over how to decolonize Portugal's besieged empire. Spinola proposed a gradualist policy that featured a free referendum by all colonial voters to decide between a loose federation with Portugal or complete independence. MFA leaders wanted more or less immediate decolonization, a transfer of power to leading African movements, and a pullout of Portugal's nearly 200,000 troops in three colonies. After a series of crises and arguments, Spinola resigned as president in September 1974. He conspired for a conservative coup to oust the leftists in power, but the effort failed in March 1975, and Spinola was forced to flee to Spain and then to Brazil. Some years later, he returned to Portugal, lived in quiet retirement, and could be seen enjoying horseback riding. In the early 1980s, he was promoted to the rank of marshal, in retirement.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Spínola, Antônio de

  • 14 Macintosh, Charles

    [br]
    b. 29 December 1766 Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 25 July 1843 Dunchattan, near Glasgow, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish inventor of rubberized waterproof clothing.
    [br]
    As the son of the well-known and inventive dyer George Macintosh, Charles had an early interest in chemistry. At the age of 19 he gave up his work as a clerk with a Glasgow merchant to manufacture sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride) and developed new processes in dyeing. In 1797 he started the first Scottish alum works, finding the alum in waste shale from coal mines. His first works was at Hurlet, Renfrewshire, and was followed later by others. He then formed a partnership with Charles Tennant, the proprietor of a chemical works at St Rollox, near Glasgow, and sold "lime bleaching liquor" made with chlorine and milk of lime from their bleach works at Darnley. A year later the use of dry lime to make bleaching powder, a process worked out by Macintosh, was patented. Macintosh remained associated with Tennant's St Rollox chemical works until 1814. During this time, in 1809, he had set up a yeast factory, but it failed because of opposition from the London brewers.
    There was a steady demand for the ammonia that gas works produced, but the tar was often looked upon as an inconvenient waste product. Macintosh bought all the ammonia and tar that the Glasgow works produced, using the ammonia in his establishment to produce cudbear, a dyestuff extracted from various lichens. Cudbear could be used with appropriate mordants to make shades from pink to blue. The tar could be distilled to produce naphtha, which was used as a flare. Macintosh also became interested in ironmaking. In 1825 he took out a patent for converting malleable iron into steel by taking it to white heat in a current of gas with a carbon content, such as coal gas. However, the process was not commercially successful because of the difficulty keeping the furnace gas-tight. In 1828 he assisted J.B. Neilson in bringing hot blast into use in blast furnaces; Neilson assigned Macintosh a share in the patent, which was of dubious benefit as it involved him in the tortuous litigation that surrounded the patent until 1843.
    In June 1823, as a result of experiments into the possible uses of naphtha obtained as a by-product of the distillation of coal tar, Macintosh patented his process for waterproofing fabric. This comprised dissolving rubber in naphtha and applying the solution to two pieces of cloth which were afterwards pressed together to form an impermeable compound fabric. After an experimental period in Glasgow, Macintosh commenced manufacture in Manchester, where he formed a partnership with H.H.Birley, B.Kirk and R.W.Barton. Birley was a cotton spinner and weaver and was looking for ways to extend the output of his cloth. He was amongst the first to light his mills with gas, so he shared a common interest with Macintosh.
    New buildings were erected for the production of waterproof cloth in 1824–5, but there were considerable teething troubles with the process, particularly in the spreading of the rubber solution onto the cloth. Peter Ewart helped to install the machinery, including a steam engine supplied by Boulton \& Watt, and the naphtha was supplied from Macintosh's works in Glasgow. It seems that the process was still giving difficulties when Thomas Hancock, the foremost rubber technologist of that time, became involved in 1830 and was made a partner in 1834. By 1836 the waterproof coat was being called a "mackintosh" [sic] and was gaining such popularity that the Manchester business was expanded with additional premises. Macintosh's business was gradually enlarged to include many other kinds of indiarubber products, such as rubber shoes and cushions.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1823.
    Further Reading
    G.Macintosh, 1847, Memoir of Charles Macintosh, London (the fullest account of Charles Macintosh's life).
    H.Schurer, 1953, "The macintosh: the paternity of an invention", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 28:77–87 (an account of the invention of the mackintosh).
    RLH / LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Macintosh, Charles

  • 15 Watt, James

    [br]
    b. 19 January 1735 Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
    d. 19 August 1819 Handsworth Heath, Birmingham, England
    [br]
    Scottish engineer and inventor of the separate condenser for the steam engine.
    [br]
    The sixth child of James Watt, merchant and general contractor, and Agnes Muirhead, Watt was a weak and sickly child; he was one of only two to survive childhood out of a total of eight, yet, like his father, he was to live to an age of over 80. He was educated at local schools, including Greenock Grammar School where he was an uninspired pupil. At the age of 17 he was sent to live with relatives in Glasgow and then in 1755 to London to become an apprentice to a mathematical instrument maker, John Morgan of Finch Lane, Cornhill. Less than a year later he returned to Greenock and then to Glasgow, where he was appointed mathematical instrument maker to the University and was permitted in 1757 to set up a workshop within the University grounds. In this position he came to know many of the University professors and staff, and it was thus that he became involved in work on the steam engine when in 1764 he was asked to put in working order a defective Newcomen engine model. It did not take Watt long to perceive that the great inefficiency of the Newcomen engine was due to the repeated heating and cooling of the cylinder. His idea was to drive the steam out of the cylinder and to condense it in a separate vessel. The story is told of Watt's flash of inspiration as he was walking across Glasgow Green one Sunday afternoon; the idea formed perfectly in his mind and he became anxious to get back to his workshop to construct the necessary apparatus, but this was the Sabbath and work had to wait until the morrow, so Watt forced himself to wait until the Monday morning.
    Watt designed a condensing engine and was lent money for its development by Joseph Black, the Glasgow University professor who had established the concept of latent heat. In 1768 Watt went into partnership with John Roebuck, who required the steam engine for the drainage of a coal-mine that he was opening up at Bo'ness, West Lothian. In 1769, Watt took out his patent for "A New Invented Method of Lessening the Consumption of Steam and Fuel in Fire Engines". When Roebuck went bankrupt in 1772, Matthew Boulton, proprietor of the Soho Engineering Works near Birmingham, bought Roebuck's share in Watt's patent. Watt had met Boulton four years earlier at the Soho works, where power was obtained at that time by means of a water-wheel and a steam engine to pump the water back up again above the wheel. Watt moved to Birmingham in 1774, and after the patent had been extended by Parliament in 1775 he and Boulton embarked on a highly profitable partnership. While Boulton endeavoured to keep the business supplied with capital, Watt continued to refine his engine, making several improvements over the years; he was also involved frequently in legal proceedings over infringements of his patent.
    In 1794 Watt and Boulton founded the new company of Boulton \& Watt, with a view to their retirement; Watt's son James and Boulton's son Matthew assumed management of the company. Watt retired in 1800, but continued to spend much of his time in the workshop he had set up in the garret of his Heathfield home; principal amongst his work after retirement was the invention of a pantograph sculpturing machine.
    James Watt was hard-working, ingenious and essentially practical, but it is doubtful that he would have succeeded as he did without the business sense of his partner, Matthew Boulton. Watt coined the term "horsepower" for quantifying the output of engines, and the SI unit of power, the watt, is named in his honour.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1785. Honorary LLD, University of Glasgow 1806. Foreign Associate, Académie des Sciences, Paris 1814.
    Further Reading
    H.W.Dickinson and R Jenkins, 1927, James Watt and the Steam Engine, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1962, James Watt, London: B.T. Batsford.
    R.Wailes, 1963, James Watt, Instrument Maker (The Great Masters: Engineering Heritage, Vol. 1), London: Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Watt, James

  • 16 Blanquart-Evrard, Louis-Désiré

    [br]
    b. 2 August 1802 Lille, France
    d. 28 April 1872 Lille, France
    [br]
    French photographer, photographic innovator and entrepreneur.
    [br]
    After beginning his working life in a tobacco company, Blanquart-Evrard became Laboratory Assistant to a chemist. He also became interested in painting on ivory and porcelain, foreshadowing a life-long interest in science and art. Following his marriage to the daughter of a textile merchant, Blanquart-Evrard became a partner in the family business in Lyon. During the 1840s he became interested in Talbot's calotype process and found that by applying gallic acid alone, as a developing agent after exposure, the exposure time could be shorter and the resulting image clearer. Blanquart-Evrard recognized that his process was well suited to producing positive prints in large numbers. During 1851 and 1852, in association with an artist friend, he became involved in producing quantities of prints for book illustrations. In 1849 he had announced a glass negative process similar to that devised two years earlier by Niepcc de St Victor. The carrying agent for silver salts was albumen, and more far-reaching was his albumen-coated printing-out paper announced in 1850. Albumen printing paper was widely adopted and the vast majority of photographs made in the nineteenth century were printed in this form. In 1870 Blanquart-Evrard began an association with the pioneer colour photographer Ducos du Hauron with a view to opening a three-colour printing establishment. Unfortunately plans were delayed by the Franco-Prussian War, and Blanquart-Evrard died in 1872 before the project could be brought to fruition.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1851, Traité de photographie sur papier, Paris (provides details of his improvements to Talbot's process).
    Further Reading
    J.M.Eder, 1945, History of Photography, trans. E. Epstein, New York.
    JW

    Biographical history of technology > Blanquart-Evrard, Louis-Désiré

  • 17 discusión

    f.
    1 discussion, talking, confabulation, conversation.
    2 discussion, debate.
    3 discussion, altercation, quarrel, dispute.
    * * *
    1 (charla) discussion
    2 (disputa) argument
    \
    tener una discusión to argue, have an argument, quarrel
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=riña) argument
    2) (=debate) discussion
    * * *
    a) (de asunto, tema) discussion
    b) (altercado, disputa) argument
    * * *
    = debate, discussion, disputation, dispute, thread, argument, spat, war of words.
    Ex. The debate as to which is the most effective way to classify books has not been positively settled.
    Ex. In a journal most formal items including articles, essays, discussions and reviews can be expected to be accompanied by an abstract.
    Ex. Academic disputations are generally entered under the heading for the faculty moderator.
    Ex. In practice meetings of the Council of Ministers -- the Community's main legislative body -- have in recent years become a forum for acrimonious dispute.
    Ex. The thread linking these giants is the acknowledgement that libraries exist to serve their users.
    Ex. We do not want to see young assistants at the counter getting involved in an argument.
    Ex. It also includes a blow-by-blow account of spats between management and labor.
    Ex. War of words exposed chinks in coalition.
    ----
    * centrar una discusión = focus + discussion.
    * discusión acalorada = hand-waving.
    * discusión bizantina = pointless discussion, pointless argument.
    * discusiones sobre gustos y colores = flame war.
    * discusiones sobre nimiedades = hair-splitting argument.
    * discusión + girar en torno a = discussion + centre around.
    * discusión sin sentido = pointless discussion, pointless argument.
    * discusión sobre nimiedades = hair-splitting argument, hair-splitting [hairsplitting].
    * el tema de la discusión = the focus of the discussion.
    * foro de discusión = newsgroup [news group], electronic forum.
    * generar discusión = generate + discussion.
    * grupo de discusión = discussion group.
    * lista de discusión = discussion list.
    * no admitir discusión = be out of the question.
    * panel de discusión = discussion panel.
    * posponer una discusión = table + discussion.
    * proponer a discusión = moot.
    * punto de discusión = bone of contention.
    * retomar una discusión = pick up + discussion.
    * suscitar la discusión = spark + discussion.
    * tema de discusión = discussion topic.
    * * *
    a) (de asunto, tema) discussion
    b) (altercado, disputa) argument
    * * *
    = debate, discussion, disputation, dispute, thread, argument, spat, war of words.

    Ex: The debate as to which is the most effective way to classify books has not been positively settled.

    Ex: In a journal most formal items including articles, essays, discussions and reviews can be expected to be accompanied by an abstract.
    Ex: Academic disputations are generally entered under the heading for the faculty moderator.
    Ex: In practice meetings of the Council of Ministers -- the Community's main legislative body -- have in recent years become a forum for acrimonious dispute.
    Ex: The thread linking these giants is the acknowledgement that libraries exist to serve their users.
    Ex: We do not want to see young assistants at the counter getting involved in an argument.
    Ex: It also includes a blow-by-blow account of spats between management and labor.
    Ex: War of words exposed chinks in coalition.
    * centrar una discusión = focus + discussion.
    * discusión acalorada = hand-waving.
    * discusión bizantina = pointless discussion, pointless argument.
    * discusiones sobre gustos y colores = flame war.
    * discusiones sobre nimiedades = hair-splitting argument.
    * discusión + girar en torno a = discussion + centre around.
    * discusión sin sentido = pointless discussion, pointless argument.
    * discusión sobre nimiedades = hair-splitting argument, hair-splitting [hairsplitting].
    * el tema de la discusión = the focus of the discussion.
    * foro de discusión = newsgroup [news group], electronic forum.
    * generar discusión = generate + discussion.
    * grupo de discusión = discussion group.
    * lista de discusión = discussion list.
    * no admitir discusión = be out of the question.
    * panel de discusión = discussion panel.
    * posponer una discusión = table + discussion.
    * proponer a discusión = moot.
    * punto de discusión = bone of contention.
    * retomar una discusión = pick up + discussion.
    * suscitar la discusión = spark + discussion.
    * tema de discusión = discussion topic.

    * * *
    1 (de un asunto, tema) discussion
    eso no admite discusión alguna that leaves no room for dispute o discussion
    tras siete horas de discusiones after seven hours of discussion
    está en período de discusión it is at the discussion stage
    2 (altercado, disputa) argument
    se enzarzaron or ( AmL) se trenzaron en una violenta discusión they became involved in o got into a violent argument
    * * *

     

    discusión sustantivo femenino
    a) (de asunto, tema) discussion

    b) (altercado, disputa) argument

    discusión sustantivo femenino
    1 (disputa) argument, dispute: fue una discusión agria, it was an unpleasant argument
    2 (debate) discussion, debate
    la discusión sobre la conveniencia de estas nuevas medidas, the debate over the need for these new measures
    ' discusión' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    buscarse
    - caliente
    - calma
    - clara
    - claro
    - degenerar
    - foro
    - fragor
    - malparada
    - malparado
    - moderar
    - parte
    - pelea
    - recaer
    - regañar
    - reñir
    - riña
    - roce
    - saldar
    - sumarse
    - trapisonda
    - zafarrancho
    - acalorado
    - alegato
    - animado
    - armar
    - áspero
    - disgusto
    - disputa
    - estéril
    - excitar
    - fin
    - fuerte
    - interminable
    - parado
    - pleito
    - respaldar
    - tener
    - terminar
    - vano
    English:
    academic
    - argument
    - blowup
    - breath
    - culminate
    - disagreement
    - discussion
    - fierce
    - heat up
    - heated
    - hornet
    - limb
    - mire
    - run-in
    - slanging-match
    - touch off
    - wrangling
    - debate
    - dispute
    - go
    * * *
    1. [conversación, debate] discussion;
    tuvimos una discusión sobre política we had a discussion about politics;
    en discusión under discussion;
    eso no admite discusión that's indisputable, there can be no doubt about that;
    es, sin discusión, el mejor it is, without question, the best
    2. [pelea] argument;
    tuvieron una discusión they had an argument
    * * *
    f
    1 discussion
    2 ( disputa) argument
    * * *
    discusión nf, pl - siones
    1) : discussion
    2) altercado, disputa: argument
    * * *
    1. (riña) argument
    2. (debate) discussion

    Spanish-English dictionary > discusión

  • 18 Arnold, Aza

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 4 October 1788 Smithfield, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
    d. 1865 Washington, DC, USA
    [br]
    American textile machinist who applied the differential motion to roving frames, solving the problem of winding on the delicate cotton rovings.
    [br]
    He was the son of Benjamin and Isabel Arnold, but his mother died when he was 2 years old and after his father's second marriage he was largely left to look after himself. After attending the village school he learnt the trade of a carpenter, and following this he became a machinist. He entered the employment of Samuel Slater, but left after a few years to engage in the unsuccessful manufacture of woollen blankets. He became involved in an engineering shop, where he devised a machine for taking wool off a carding machine and making it into endless slivers or rovings for spinning. He then became associated with a cotton-spinning mill, which led to his most important invention. The carded cotton sliver had to be reduced in thickness before it could be spun on the final machines such as the mule or the waterframe. The roving, as the mass of cotton fibres was called at this stage, was thin and very delicate because it could not be twisted to give strength, as this would not allow it to be drawn out again during the next stage. In order to wind the roving on to bobbins, the speed of the bobbin had to be just right but the diameter of the bobbin increased as it was filled. Obtaining the correct reduction in speed as the circumference increased was partially solved by the use of double-coned pulleys, but the driving belt was liable to slip owing to the power that had to be transmitted.
    The final solution to the problem came with the introduction of the differential drive with bevel gears or a sun-and-planet motion. Arnold had invented this compound motion in 1818 but did not think of applying it to the roving frame until 1820. It combined the direct-gearing drive from the main shaft of the machine with that from the cone-drum drive so that the latter only provided the difference between flyer and bobbin speeds, which meant that most of the transmission power was taken away from the belt. The patent for this invention was issued to Arnold on 23 January 1823 and was soon copied in Britain by Henry Houldsworth, although J.Green of Mansfield may have originated it independendy in the same year. Arnold's patent was widely infringed in America and he sued the Proprietors of the Locks and Canals, machine makers for the Lowell manufacturers, for $30,000, eventually receiving $3,500 compensation. Arnold had his own machine shop but he gave it up in 1838 and moved the Philadelphia, where he operated the Mulhausen Print Works. Around 1850 he went to Washington, DC, and became a patent attorney, remaining as such until his death. On 24 June 1856 he was granted patent for a self-setting and self-raking saw for sawing machines.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    28 June 1856, US patent no. 15,163 (self-setting and self-raking saw for sawing machines).
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 1.
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (a description of the principles of the differential gear applied to the roving frame).
    D.J.Jeremy, 1981, Transatlantic Industrial Revolution. The Diffusion of Textile Technologies Between Britain and America, 1790–1830, Oxford (a discussion of the introduction and spread of Arnold's gear).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Arnold, Aza

  • 19 Farman, Henri

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 26 May 1874 Paris, France
    d. 17 July 1958 Paris, France
    [br]
    French aeroplane designer who modified Voisin biplanes and later, with his brother Maurice (b. 21 March 1877 Paris, France; d. 26 February 1964 Paris, France), created a major aircraft-manufacturing company.
    [br]
    The parents of Henri and Maurice Farman were British subjects living in Paris, but their sons lived all their lives in France and became French citizens. As young men, both became involved in cycle and automobile racing. Henri (or Henry—he used both versions) turned his attention to aviation in 1907 when he bought a biplane from Gabriel Voisin. Within a short time he had established himself as one of the leading pilots in Europe, with many record-breaking flights to his credit. Farman modified the Voisin with his own improvements, including ailerons, and then in 1909 he designed the first Farman biplane. This became the most popular biplane in Europe from the autumn of 1909 until well into 1911 and is one of the classic aeroplanes of history. Meanwhile, Maurice Farman had also begun to design and build biplanes; his first design of 1909 was not a great success but from it evolved two robust biplanes nicknamed the "Longhorn" and the "Shorthorn", so called because of their undercarriage skids. In 1912 the brothers joined forces and set up a very large factory at Billancourt. The "Longhorn" and "Shorthorn" became the standard training aircraft in France and Britain during the early years of the First World War. The Farman brothers went on to produce a number of other wartime designs, including a large bomber. After the war the Farmans produced a series of large airliners which played a key role in establishing France as a major airline operator. Most famous of these was the Goliath, a twin-engined biplane capable of carrying up to twelve passengers. This was produced from 1918 to 1929 and was used by many airlines, including the Farman Line. The brothers retired when their company was nationalized in 1937.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1910, The Aviator's Companion, London (with his brother Dick Farman).
    Further Reading
    M.Farman, 1901, 3,000 kilomètres en ballon, Paris (an account of several balloon flights from 1894 to 1900).
    J.Liron, 1984, Les Avions Farman, Paris (provides comprehensive descriptions of all Farman aircraft).
    Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War I, 1990, London (reprint) (gives details of all early Farman aircraft).
    J.Stroud, 1966, European Aircraft since 1910, London (provides details about Farman air-liners).
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Farman, Henri

  • 20 Grove, Sir William Robert

    SUBJECT AREA: Electricity
    [br]
    b. 11 July 1811 Swansea, Wales
    d. 1 August 1896 London, England
    [br]
    Welsh chemist and physicist, inventor of the Grove electrochemical primary cell.
    [br]
    After education at Brasenose College, Oxford, Grove was called to the Bar in 1835. Instead of immediately practising, he became involved in electrical research, devising in 1839 the cell that bears his name. He became Professor of Experimental Philosophy at the London Institution from 1840 to 1845; it was during this period that he built up his high reputation among physicists. In 1846 he published On the Correlation of Physical Forces, which was based on a course of his lectures. He returned to the practice of law, becoming a judge in 1871, but retained his interest in scientific research during his sixteen-year occupancy of the Bench. He served as a member of the Council of the Royal Society in 1846 and 1847 and played a leading part in its reform. Contributing to the science of electrochemistry, he invented the Grove cell, which together with its modification by Bunsen became an important source of electrical energy during the middle of the nineteenth century, before mechanically driven generators became available. The Grove cell had a platinum electrode immersed in strong nitric acid, separated by a porous diaphragm from a zinc electrode in weak sulphuric acid. The hydrogen formed at the platinum electrode was immediately oxidized by the acid, turning it into water. This avoided the polarization which occurred in the early copper-zinc cells. It was a very powerful primary cell with a high voltage and a low internal resistance, but it produced objectionable fumes. Grove also invented his "gas battery", the earliest fuel cell, in which a current resulted from the chemical energy released from combining oxygen and hydrogen. This was developed by Rawcliffe and others, and found applications as a power source in manned spacecraft.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1872. FRS 1840. Fellow of the Chemistry Society 1841. Royal Society Royal Medal 1847.
    Bibliography
    1846, On the Correlation of Physical Forces, London; 1874, 6th edn, with reprints of many of Grove's papers (his only book, an early view on the conservation of energy).
    1839, "On a small voltaic battery of great energy", Philosophical Magazine 15:287–93 (his account of his cell).
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1896, Electrician 37:483–4.
    K.R.Webb, 1961, "Sir William Robert Grove (1811–1896) and the origin of the fuel cell", Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry 85: 291–3 (for the present-day significance of Grove's experiments).
    C.C.Gillispie (ed.), 1972, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. V, New York, pp. 559–61.
    GW

    Biographical history of technology > Grove, Sir William Robert

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