carriage manufacturer

- carriage bolt

- carriage by road

SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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Samuel Crompton was the son of a tenant farmer, George, who became the caretaker of the old house Hall-i-th-Wood, near Bolton, where he died in 1759. As a boy, Samuel helped his widowed mother in various tasks at home, including weaving. He liked music and made his own violin, with which he later was to earn some money to pay for tools for building his spinning mule. He was set to work at spinning and so in 1769 became familiar with the spinning jenny designed by James Hargreaves; he soon noticed the poor quality of the yarn produced and its tendency to break. Crompton became so exasperated with the jenny that in 1772 he decided to improve it. After seven years' work, in 1779 he produced his famous spinning "mule". He built the first one entirely by himself, principally from wood. He adapted rollers similar to those already patented by Arkwright for drawing out the cotton rovings, but it seems that he did not know of Arkwright's invention. The rollers were placed at the back of the mule and paid out the fibres to the spindles, which were mounted on a moving carriage that was drawn away from the rollers as the yarn was paid out. The spindles were rotated to put in twist. At the end of the draw, or shortly before, the rollers were stopped but the spindles continued to rotate. This not only twisted the yarn further, but slightly stretched it and so helped to even out any irregularities; it was this feature that gave the mule yarn extra quality. Then, after the spindles had been turned backwards to unwind the yarn from their tips, they were rotated in the spinning direction again and the yarn was wound on as the carriage was pushed up to the rollers.

The mule was a very versatile machine, making it possible to spin almost every type of yarn. In fact, Samuel Crompton was soon producing yarn of a much finer quality than had ever been spun in Bolton, and people attempted to break into Hall-i-th-Wood to see how he produced it. Crompton did not patent his invention, perhaps because it consisted basically of the essential features of the earlier machines of Hargreaves and Arkwright, or perhaps through lack of funds. Under promise of a generous subscription, he disclosed his invention to the spinning industry, but was shabbily treated because most of the promised money was never paid. Crompton's first mule had forty-eight spindles, but it did not long remain in its original form for many people started to make improvements to it. The mule soon became more popular than Arkwright's waterframe because it could spin such fine yarn, which enabled weavers to produce the best muslin cloth, rivalling that woven in India and leading to an enormous expansion in the British cotton-textile industry. Crompton eventually saved enough capital to set up as a manufacturer himself and around 1784 he experimented with an improved carding engine, although he was not successful. In 1800, local manufacturers raised a sum of £500 for him, and eventually in 1812 he received a government grant of £5,000, but this was trifling in relation to the immense financial benefits his invention had conferred on the industry, to say nothing of his expenses. When Crompton was seeking evidence in 1811 to support his claim for financial assistance, he found that there were 4,209,570 mule spindles compared with 155,880 jenny and 310,516 waterframe spindles. He later set up as a bleacher and again as a cotton manufacturer, but only the gift of a small annuity by his friends saved him from dying in total poverty.

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SUBJECT AREA: Automotive engineering, Land transport

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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.

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n ком., стр. ризик; рівень ризику; a ризикований

визначений ступінь можливості економічних або фінансових збитків, що пов'язані з непередбачуваністю, небезпекою, несподіваною подією тощо

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abnormal risk надзвичайний ризик; abnormal insurance risk надзвичайний страховий ризик; accident risk ризик нещасного випадку; actual risk фактичний ризик; admissible risk прийнятний ризик; aggregate risk сукупний ризик; allowed risk дозволений ризик; alpha risk альфа-ризик; a posteriori risk апостеріорний ризик • ризик з досвіду; assigned risk встановлений рівень ризику; audit risk ризик аудиторської перевірки; average risk середній рівень ризику; aviation insurance risk страховий авіаційний ризик; beta risk бета-ризик • систематичний ризик; bilateral risk взаємний ризик; blind risk ризик, який не підлягає оцінці; breakage risk ризик поломки; business risk діловий ризик; buyer's risk ризик покупця; calculated risk розрахований ризик; central beta risk центральний бета-ризик; charterer's risk ризик фрахтувальника; collective risk колективний ризик; commercial risk комерційний ризик; company's risk ризик компанії; conditional risk умовний ризик; constant risk постійний ризик; consumer's risk ризик споживача; contractor's risk ризик підрядника; controllable risk контрольований ризик; conventional risk звичайний ризик; credit risk кредитний ризик; currency risk валютний ризик; customary risk звичайний торговельний ризик • ринковий ризик; customer's risk ризик споживача; current risks поточні страхові випадки; death risk ризик смерті; default risk ризик несплати боргу; del credere risk кредитний ризик; desired risk необхідний рівень ризику; diversiflable risk ризик, який можна диверсифікувати; economic risk господарський ризик • економічний ризик; entrepreneurial risk підприємницький ризик; estimated risk оцінка ризику • пробне передбачення ризику; exchange risk валютний ризик; excluded risk виключений ризик; extra risk окремий ризик • додатковий ризик; financial risk фінансовий ризик; fire risk ризик пожежі; foreseeable risk передбачуваний ризик; freight risk фрахтовий ризик; insurable risk ризик, який підлягає страхуванню; insurance risk страховий ризик; insured risk застрахований ризик; integrated risk сукупний ризик; interest rate risk відсотковий ризик; inventory risk ризик знецінення запасів; investment risk інвестиційний ризик; irreparable risk непоправний ризик; leakage risk ризик витікання; legal risk ризик, пов'язаний із порушенням закону; limited risk обмежений ризик • обмежена віповідальність акціонерів; liquidity risk ризик ліквідності; loading risk ризик при навантаженні; manufacturer's risk ризик виробника; manufacturing risk виробничий ризик; marine risk ризик при здійсненні морських перевезень; maritime risk ризик при здійсненні морських перевезень; market risk ризик ринку • ринковий ризик; marketing risk маркетинговий ризик; market liquidity risk ризик ринкової ліквідності; mean risk середній ризик; minimum risk мінімальний ризик; miscellaneous insurance risk різноманітні страхові ризики; moderate risk помірний ризик • зменшений ризик; mortality risk ризик смертності; negligible risk незначний ризик; noncontrollable risk систематичний ризик • ризик, що не піддається контролю; nondiversiflable risk систематичний ризик; noninsurable risk ризик, який не можна застрахувати; noninsured risk незастрахований ризик; non-sampling risk ризик, не врахований методикою вибірки; omnibus risk розподілений ризик; operational risk операційний ризик; overall risk сукупний ризик; overall audit risk узагальнений ризик ревізії; own risk власний ризик; owner's risk ризик власника; percentage risk відносний ризик у відсотках; perceived risk передбачений ризик; policy risk стратегічний ризик; posterior risk пізніший ризик; predetermined risk передбачений рівень ризику; price risk ризик ціни • курсовий ризик; producer's risk ризик виробника; production risk виробничий ризик; project risk ризик проекту; property risk майновий ризик; pure risk чистий ризик; relative risk відносний ризик; residual risk ризик • ризик, що не піддається поясненню; riot risk ризик, пов'язаний з конфліктом і безладдям • ризик бунту; sampling risk ризик вибірки; security risk загроза безпеці • ризик, пов'язаний з порушенням техніки безпеки; seller's risk ризик продавця; settlement risk ризик за розрахунками; shipper's risk ризик при розвантаженні; social risk соціальний ризик; special risk спеціальний ризик • окремий ризик; speculative risk спекулятивний ризик; standard risk нормальний ризик • стандартний ризик; systematic risk систематичний ризик; tenant's risk ризик орендаря; tolerated risk дозволений ризик; total risk сумарний ризик; transaction risk операційний валютний ризик; transport risk транспортний ризик; underwriting risk гарантійний ризик; undesirable risk небажаний ризик; un-diversifiable risk систематичний ризик; undue risk невиправданий ризик; unilateral risk односторонній ризик; uninsurable risk ризик, який не можна застрахувати; uninsured risk незастрахований ризик; unique risk незвичайний ризик • унікальний ризик; unloading risk ризик при розвантаженні; usual risk звичайний ризик; variable risk змінний ризик; vendor's risk ризик постачальника

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against all risks проти всіх ризиків; at risk пов'язано з ризиком; at consignee's risk на ризик товароодержувача; at owner's risk на ризик власника; risk amount ризикована сума; risk analysis аналіз ризику; risks and perils of the sea ризик і небезпека морських перевезень; risk and uncertainty ризик і невизначеність; risk arbitrage арбітраж ризику; risk assessment процес оцінки ризику; risk-assuming capital ризиковий капітал; risk assurance страхування від ризику; risk aversion несхильність до ризику; risk-bearing пов'язаний з ризиком; risk-bearing capital ризиковий капітал; risk-bearing deposit ризиковий депозит; risk capital ризиковий капітал • капітал, що вкладається у ризиковане підприємство; risk category категорія ризику; risk control контроль ризику; risk control system система контролю ризику; risk cover перелік ризиків, охоплених страховим полісом; risk development зміна ризику; risk diversification диверсифікація ризиків; risk element involved врахований елемент ризику; risk equalization fund фонд вирівнювання ризику; risk evaluation оцінка ризику; risk-free rate безризикова відсоткова ставка; risk for own account ризик на власну відповідальність; risk hedging мінімізація ризику • хеджування ризику; risk insurance страхування ризику; risk insured застрахований ризик; risk management управління ризиком; risk measurement вимірювання ризику; risk of accidental loss of goods ризик випадкової втрати товару; risk of breakage ризик поломки; risk of carriage транспортний ризик; risk of collision ризик зіткнення; risk of contamination ризик забруднення; risk of conveyance транспортний ризик; risk of currency depreciation ризик знецінення валюти; risk of damage to goods ризик ушкодження товару; risk of default ризик невиконання зобов'язань; risk of default on payment for received goods ризик несплати за отриманий товар; risk of error ризик помилки; risk of exchange losses валютний ризик; risk of fire ризик пожежі; risk of leakage ризик витікання; risk of loss ризик втрати • ризик збуту; risk of miscalculation ризик прорахунку; risk of misinterpretation ризик неправильного тлумачення; risk of moisture ризик псування від вологи; risk of nonpayment ризик неплатежу; risk of principal ризик зниження вартості вкладеного капіталу; risk of seizure ризик захоплення вантажу; risk of theft ризик крадіжки; risk point точка ризику; risk premium премія за ризик; risk profile характеристика ризику; risk-prone схильний до ризику; risk quantification кількісний вираз ризику; risk-taking прийняття ризику; risk-weighted assets активи, зважені щодо ризику; risk-weighted capital requirements вимоги до капіталу, зваженого щодо ризику; risk weighting оцінка ризику; to accept a risk брати/взяти на себе ризик; to aggravate the risk збільшувати/збільшити ризик; to assess a risk оцінювати/оцінити ризик; to be a good risk бути надійним об'єктом страхування; to be a good credit risk бути надійним партнером • бути надійним компаньйоном • бути надійним учасником; to bear a risk нести ризик; to carry a risk нести ризик; to cover a risk покривати/покрити ризик страхуванням; to incur a risk брати/взяти на себе ризик; to insure a risk страхувати/застрахувати ризик; to insure against a risk страхувати/застрахувати від ризику; to lessen a risk зменшувати/ зменшити ризик; to prevent a risk запобігати/запобігти ризику; to reduce a risk зменшувати/зменшити ризик; to run a risk підлягати ризикові • підпадати/підпасти під ризик; to spread a risk розподіляти/розподілити ризик; to take a risk брати/взяти на себе ризик; to undertake a risk переймати/перейняти ризик • брати/взяти на себе ризик; to underwrite a risk підписувати/підписати поліс морського страхування

risk — ризико (зах. укр., діас.)

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ризик < фр. risque — можлива загроза < італ. risico; пор. ризико (зах. укр.) з італ. risico і польс. rysyko (ЕС-СУМ 4: 171; Фасмер 3: 485)

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1 balzo; salto; scatto: to make a spring at sb., fare un balzo contro q.; He rose with a spring, si è alzato di scatto

2 sorgente; fonte; (fig.) causa, motivo, origine: hot springs, sorgenti termali; mineral springs, sorgenti d'acqua minerale; the springs of human behaviour, i motivi del comportamento umano

3 (mecc.) molla ( anche fig.): the spring of a watch, la molla di un orologio; return spring, molla di richiamo

4 (mecc., autom.; = leaf spring) balestra

5 [uc] ( anche fig.) elasticità: There's a new spring in his step, c'è una elasticità nuova nel suo passo

6 [u] il tornare a posto (di qc., per elasticità); rinculo

7 (archit.) linea (o piano) d'imposta

8 ( nel legno) fessura; incrinatura; spaccatura

9 (naut.) traversino; cavo d'ormeggio

● spring balance, bilancia a molla □ spring bed, letto a molle □ spring binder, raccoglitore a molla □ (mecc.) spring bolt, chiavistello a scatto □ spring carriage, carrozza molleggiata □ (elettr.) spring clip, molletta di fissaggio □ (mecc.) spring frame, telaio molleggiato □ (mecc.) spring hammer, maglio a balestra □ (mecc.) spring hook, gancio a molla; ( alpinismo) moschettone □ spring knife, coltello a molla, a scatto □ (naut.) spring line, ‘spring’, cavo d'ormeggio ( d'acciaio) □ (mecc.) spring-loaded, a molla; caricato a molla □ spring lock, serratura a scatto □ spring manufacturer, fabbricante di molle □ spring mattress, materasso a molle □ (mecc.) spring rate, flessibilità: (autom.) wheel spring rate, flessibilità della ruota □ ( USA) spring scale = spring balance ► sopra □ spring water, acqua sorgiva.

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( anche fig.) primavera: Spring starts on the 21st of March, la primavera comincia il 21 marzo; last spring, la primavera scorsa; in spring, in primavera; in the spring of 2003, nella primavera del 2003; in early spring, all'inizio della primavera; in late spring, nella tarda primavera; the spring of her life, la primavera della sua vita

● (GB) spring bank holiday, festa nazionale di primavera NOTE DI CULTURA: spring bank holiday: l'ultimo lunedì di maggio = bank holiday ► bank (2) □ (in USA) spring break, vacanze scolastiche di primavera □ spring chicken, pollo novello; pollastrino; ( colloquiale) persona giovane, giovincello: My husband is no spring chicken, mio marito non è un giovincello □ spring-clean (o spring-cleaning), pulizie di Pasqua; grandi pulizie □ a spring day, un giorno di primavera □ (fam. USA) spring fever, smania □ (bot.) spring onion ( Allium fistulosum), cipolla fresca; cipollotto □ ( cucina cinese) spring roll, involtino primavera ( fritto: con ripieno di carne, verdura, gamberetti, ecc.) □ (naut.) spring tide, marea di plenilunio; marea equinoziale; marea sigiziale.

(pass. sprang / USA, anche/ sprung, p. p. sprung)

A v. i.

1 saltare; balzare; scattare: I sprang to my feet, sono scattato in piedi; The leopard sprang on its prey, il leopardo è balzato sulla preda; The watchdog sprang at his throat, il cane da guardia gli è saltato alla gola; (equit.) to spring into the saddle, balzare in sella

2 ( spesso to spring up) sorgere; nascere; alzarsi; spuntare; crescere: Cities and towns sprang up, sorsero città grandi e piccole; A doubt sprang up in my mind, un dubbio mi sorse nella mente; A gale has sprung up, s'è alzato un forte vento; Mushrooms were springing up under the oaks, i funghi spuntavano sotto le querce

3 (fig.) derivare; provenire; venire; discendere; nascere (fig.): This error springs from a false conviction, questo errore deriva da una convinzione sbagliata

4 ( d'acqua) scaturire; sgorgare; zampillare

5 ( di legno, ecc.) spaccarsi; fendersi; curvarsi; incrinarsi; storcersi

6 ( di selvaggina) levarsi (in volo)

7 (mil.: di una mina) esplodere; brillare

B v. t.

1 saltare: The boy sprang the hedge, il ragazzo ha saltato la siepe

2 ( caccia) alzare, levare ( selvaggina)

3 far scattare; azionare ( chiudere, aprire, ecc.) con una molla; mettere in moto: to spring a lock, far scattare una serratura; to spring a trap, far scattare una trappola ( anche fig.)

4 spaccare; fendere; curvare; incrinare; storcere

5 comunicare, dire (qc. a q. ) all'improvviso (o senza preavviso); dare notizia di (qc. a q.): How will she spring her marriage on her father?, come farà a dare notizia del matrimonio a suo padre?

6 (mil.) far saltare ( una mina)

7 (fig.) creare; produrre; lanciare; tirare fuori

8 provvedere di molle; molleggiare

9 ( slang) far evadere ( dal carcere); ( anche) ottenere la liberazione (o il rilascio) di

● (archit.) to spring an arch, impostare un arco □ ( sport) to spring free, liberarsi; sganciarsi; smarcarsi □ to spring into action, entrare in azione; attivarsi □ to spring into life, nascere (o germogliare) all'improvviso; ( di motore e fig.) accendersi, mettersi in moto □ (naut.) to spring a leak, accusare una falla: The ship sprang a leak, si è aperta una falla nella nave □ (naut.) to spring a mast, drizzare un albero □ to spring to mind, saltare in mente (a q.); venire in mente (a q.) □ to spring open [shut], aprirsi [chiudersi] di scatto □ to spring st. open, aprire qc. di scatto (o azionando una molla, uno scatto) □ to spring a surprise on sb., fare una sorpresa a q.; cogliere di sorpresa q. □ (mil.) to spring to attention, scattare sull'attenti □ Blood sprang to my cheeks, il sangue mi è salito al viso □ A curse sprang to his lips, un'imprecazione gli è salita alle labbra.

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1) риск

2) страховая сумма

3) застрахованное лицо; застрахованная вещь

2. v

SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology

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In 1864 Charles Henry Holt led three other brothers to California in response to the gold rush. In 1868 he founded C.H.Holt \& Co. in San Francisco with the help of his brothers Williams and Ames. The company dealt in timber as well as wagon and carriage materials, as did the business they had left behind in Concord in the care of their youngest brother, Benjamin. In 1883 Benjamin joined the others in California and together they formed the Stockton Wheel Company with offices in San Francisco and Stockton. The brothers recognized the potential of combine harvesters and purchased a number of patents, enlarged their works and began to experiment. Their first combine was produced in 1886, and worked for forty-six days that year. With the stimulus of Benjamin Holt the company produced the first hillside combine in 1891 and introduced the concept of belt drive. The Holt harvesting machine produced in 1904 was the first to use an auxiliary gas engine. By 1889 Benjamin was sole family executive. In 1890 the company produced its first traction engine. He began experimenting with track-laying machines, building his first in 1904. It was this machine which earned the nickname "Caterpillar", which has remained the company trade name to the present day. In 1906 thecompany produced its first gasoline-engined Caterpillar, and the first production model was introduced two years later. The development of Caterpillar tractors had a significant impact on the transport potential of the Allies during the First World War, and the Holt production of track-laying traction engines was of immense importance to the supply of the armed forces. In 1918 Benjamin Holt was still actively involved in the company, but he died in Stockton in 1920.

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