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engineering draughtsman

  • 1 kreślarz maszynowy

    • engineering draughtsman

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  • 2 чертёжная масштабная линейка

    Engineering: draughtsman's scale

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > чертёжная масштабная линейка

  • 3 technisch

    I Adj.
    1. TECH., Abteilung, Verfahren etc.: attr. engineering...; (wissenschaftlich) technological; technische Anlagen technical facilities ( oder installations); im Krankenhaus etc.: auch technology; Technische Hochschule college ( oder institute) of technology; Technische Universität technological university, (university-level) institute of advanced technology ( oder science and technology), Am. auch polytechnic institute; technische Einzelheiten technicalities, technical details; technischer Leiter technical director; technisches Personal technical staff; technischer Kundendienst customer engineering fachspr., (after-sales) technical support ( oder back-up umg.); Technisches Werken Schulfach: (Craft, Design and) Technology; technischer Zeichner technical ( oder engineering) draughtsman; technische Zeichnung technical drawing; technische Schwierigkeiten technical problems ( oder difficulties); technische Lösung / Grenzen technical solution / limitations; aus ( verfahrens) technischen Gründen on technical grounds, for technical reasons; Technischer Überwachungs-Verein TÜV
    2. (bes. betriebstechnisch, auch Kunst, SPORT etc.) technical; technische Disziplinen field events; technischer K.o. technical knockout, TKO; er verfügt über keine besonderen technischen Fertigkeiten he is not skilled, he has no (technical) qualifications
    3. fig. (sachlich, rein formal, theoretisch) technical
    II Adv.: technisch begabt / interessiert with an aptitude for things technical / technical(ly)-minded; technisch ausgereift / hoch entwickelt technologically mature ( oder sophisticated) / technologically very advanced; eine technisch schwierige Kür a (free) program(me) of great technical difficulty, a technically demanding (free) program(me)
    * * *
    technical; engineering; technic
    * * *
    tẹch|nisch ['tɛçnɪʃ]
    1. adj
    1) (= technologisch) technological; Studienfach technical

    technische Hochschule/Universität — technological university, Institute of (Science and) Technology

    technische Chemie/Medizin — chemical/medical engineering

    das technische Zeitalter — the technological age, the age of technology

    See:
    → THW
    2) (= die Ausführung betreffend) Schwierigkeiten, Gründe technical; (= mechanisch) mechanical

    technische Einzelheiten (fig) — technicalities, technical details

    2. adv
    technically

    das ist technisch unmöglich — it is technically impossible; (inf

    * * *
    1) (in a technical way; He described the machine in simple terms, then more technically.) technically
    2) (as far as skill and technique are concerned: The pianist gave a very good performance technically, although she seemed to lack feeling for the music.) technically
    3) (having, or relating to, a particular science or skill, especially of a mechanical or industrial kind: a technical college; technical skill; technical drawing.) technical
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    tech·nisch
    [ˈteçnɪʃ]
    I. adj
    1. attr (technologisch) technical
    die \technischen Einzelheiten finden Sie in der beigefügten Bedienungsanleitung you'll find the technical details in the enclosed operating instructions
    \technische Anlagen und Maschinen plant and machinery
    \technische Hochschule college [or university] of technology
    3. (Ausführungsweise) technical
    \technisches Können technical ability
    unvorhergesehene \technische Probleme unforeseen technical problems
    II. adv (auf technischem Gebiet) technically
    ein \technisch fortgeschrittenes Land a technologically advanced country
    er ist \technisch begabt he is technically gifted; s.a. Zeichner, Unmöglichkeit
    * * *
    1.
    Adjektiv technical < fault>; technological <progress, age>
    2.
    adverbial technically; technologically < advanced>
    * * *
    A. adj
    1. TECH, Abteilung, Verfahren etc: attr engineering …; (wissenschaftlich) technological;
    technische Anlagen technical facilities ( oder installations); im Krankenhaus etc: auch technology;
    technische Hochschule college ( oder institute) of technology;
    technische Universität technological university, (university-level) institute of advanced technology ( oder science and technology), US auch polytechnic institute;
    technische Einzelheiten technicalities, technical details;
    technischer Leiter technical director;
    technisches Personal technical staff;
    technischer Kundendienst customer engineering fachspr, (after-sales) technical support ( oder back-up umg);
    Technisches Werken Schulfach: (Craft, Design and) Technology;
    technischer Zeichner technical ( oder engineering) draughtsman;
    technische Zeichnung technical drawing;
    technische Schwierigkeiten technical problems ( oder difficulties);
    technische Lösung/Grenzen technical solution/limitations;
    aus (verfahrens)technischen Gründen on technical grounds, for technical reasons;
    2. (besonders betriebstechnisch, auch KUNST, SPORT etc) technical;
    technische Disziplinen field events;
    technischer K.o. technical knockout, TKO;
    er verfügt über keine besonderen technischen Fertigkeiten he is not skilled, he has no (technical) qualifications
    3. fig (sachlich, rein formal, theoretisch) technical
    B. adv:
    technisch begabt/interessiert with an aptitude for things technical/technical(ly)-minded;
    technisch ausgereift/hoch entwickelt technologically mature ( oder sophisticated)/technologically very advanced;
    eine technisch schwierige Kür a (free) program(me) of great technical difficulty, a technically demanding (free) program(me)
    …technisch im adj: of …, …-related, …-specific;
    drucktechnisch printing …, technical;
    fertigungstechnisch production …, manufacturing …, … of production (engineering);
    steuertechnisch tax …, revenue …, … of taxation
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    1.
    Adjektiv technical < fault>; technological <progress, age>
    2.
    adverbial technically; technologically < advanced>
    * * *
    adj.
    engineering adj.
    physical adj.
    technic adj.
    technical adj. adv.
    technically adv.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > technisch

  • 4 Zeichner

    m; -s, -, Zeichnerin f; -, -nen
    1. draughts|man ( weiblich: -woman), Am. drafts|man ( weiblich: -woman); technisch I 1
    2. WIRTS. subscriber
    * * *
    der Zeichner
    (Unterzeichner) subscriber;
    (Verfasser) drawer; draughtsman; draftsman
    * * *
    Zeich|ner ['tsaiçnɐ]
    1. m -s, -,Zéích|ne|rin
    [-ərɪn]
    2. f -, -nen

    muss ein Maler auch immer ein guter Zéíchner sein? — must a painter always be a good draughtsman (Brit) or draftsman (US) too?

    See:
    * * *
    (a person who is good at or employed in making drawings: My son is a draughtsman in a firm of engineers.) draughtsman
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    Zeich·ner(in)
    <-s, ->
    1. KUNST draughtsman masc, AM a. draftsman masc, draughtswoman fem, AM a. draftswoman fem
    technischer \Zeichner/technische Zeichnerin engineering draughtsman/draughtswoman
    2. FIN subscriber
    * * *
    der; Zeichners, Zeichner, Zeichnerin die; Zeichner, Zeichnernen
    1) graphic artist; (Technik) draughtsman/-woman
    2) (Kaufmannsspr.) subscriber
    * * *
    Zeichner m; -s, -, Zeichnerin f; -, -nen
    1. draughtsman ( weiblich: -woman), US draftsman ( weiblich: -woman); → technisch A 1
    2. WIRTSCH subscriber
    * * *
    der; Zeichners, Zeichner, Zeichnerin die; Zeichner, Zeichnernen
    1) graphic artist; (Technik) draughtsman/-woman
    2) (Kaufmannsspr.) subscriber
    * * *
    - m.
    draftsman n.
    draughtsman n.
    (§ pl.: draughtsmen)

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Zeichner

  • 5 Zeichner

    Zeich·ner(in) <-s, -> m(f)
    1) kunst draughtsman masc, (Am a.) draftsman masc, draughtswoman fem, (Am a.) draftswoman fem;
    technischer \Zeichner/ technische Zeichnerin engineering draughtsman/draughtswoman
    2) fin subscriber

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch für Studenten > Zeichner

  • 6 technischer Zeichner

    Zeichner m: technischer Zeichner m engineering draughtsman, draughtsman, (AE) draftsman

    Deutsch-Englisch Fachwörterbuch Architektur und Bauwesen > technischer Zeichner

  • 7 tekenaar

    tekenaar1 〈 de (mannelijk)〉,
    tekenares 〈 de (vrouwelijk)〉
    1  artist; 〈 techniek, technologie meestal〉 Bdraughtsman/woman, Adraftsman/woman
    ♦voorbeelden:
    1   artistiek tekenaar • artist, designer
         bouwkundig/werktuigkundig tekenaar • architectural/mechanical (engineering) draughtsman
         technisch tekenaar • technical draughtsman
    ————————
    tekenaar2 〈 de (mannelijk)〉,
    tekenaarster 〈 de (vrouwelijk)〉

    Van Dale Handwoordenboek Nederlands-Engels > tekenaar

  • 8 bouwkundig/werktuigkundig tekenaar

    bouwkundig/werktuigkundig tekenaar
    architectural/mechanical (engineering) draughtsman

    Van Dale Handwoordenboek Nederlands-Engels > bouwkundig/werktuigkundig tekenaar

  • 9 Elder, John

    [br]
    b. 9 March 1824 Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 17 September 1869 London, England
    [br]
    Scottish engineer who introduced the compound steam engine to ships and established an important shipbuilding company in Glasgow.
    [br]
    John was the third son of David Elder. The father came from a family of millwrights and moved to Glasgow where he worked for the well-known shipbuilding firm of Napier's and was involved with improving marine engines. John was educated at Glasgow High School and then for a while at the Department of Civil Engineering at Glasgow University, where he showed great aptitude for mathematics and drawing. He spent five years as an apprentice under Robert Napier followed by two short periods of activity as a pattern-maker first and then a draughtsman in England. He returned to Scotland in 1849 to become Chief Draughtsman to Napier, but in 1852 he left to become a partner with the Glasgow general engineering company of Randolph Elliott \& Co. Shortly after his induction (at the age of 28), the engineering firm was renamed Randolph Elder \& Co.; in 1868, when the partnership expired, it became known as John Elder \& Co. From the outset Elder, with his partner, Charles Randolph, approached mechanical (especially heat) engineering in a rigorous manner. Their knowledge and understanding of entropy ensured that engine design was not a hit-and-miss affair, but one governed by recognition of the importance of the new kinetic theory of heat and with it a proper understanding of thermodynamic principles, and by systematic development. In this Elder was joined by W.J.M. Rankine, Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at Glasgow University, who helped him develop the compound marine engine. Elder and Randolph built up a series of patents, which guaranteed their company's commercial success and enabled them for a while to be the sole suppliers of compound steam reciprocating machinery. Their first such engine at sea was fitted in 1854 on the SS Brandon for the Limerick Steamship Company; the ship showed an improved performance by using a third less coal, which he was able to reduce still further on later designs.
    Elder developed steam jacketing and recognized that, with higher pressures, triple-expansion types would be even more economical. In 1862 he patented a design of quadruple-expansion engine with reheat between cylinders and advocated the importance of balancing reciprocating parts. The effect of his improvements was to greatly reduce fuel consumption so that long sea voyages became an economic reality.
    His yard soon reached dimensions then unequalled on the Clyde where he employed over 4,000 workers; Elder also was always interested in the social welfare of his labour force. In 1860 the engine shops were moved to the Govan Old Shipyard, and again in 1864 to the Fairfield Shipyard, about 1 mile (1.6 km) west on the south bank of the Clyde. At Fairfield, shipbuilding was commenced, and with the patents for compounding secure, much business was placed for many years by shipowners serving long-distance trades such as South America; the Pacific Steam Navigation Company took up his ideas for their ships. In later years the yard became known as the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd, but it remains today as one of Britain's most efficient shipyards and is known now as Kvaerner Govan Ltd.
    In 1869, at the age of only 45, John Elder was unanimously elected President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland; however, before taking office and giving his eagerly awaited presidential address, he died in London from liver disease. A large multitude attended his funeral and all the engineering shops were silent as his body, which had been brought back from London to Glasgow, was carried to its resting place. In 1857 Elder had married Isabella Ure, and on his death he left her a considerable fortune, which she used generously for Govan, for Glasgow and especially the University. In 1883 she endowed the world's first Chair of Naval Architecture at the University of Glasgow, an act which was reciprocated in 1901 when the University awarded her an LLD on the occasion of its 450th anniversary.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 1869.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1869, Engineer 28.
    1889, The Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith Elder \& Co. W.J.Macquorn Rankine, 1871, "Sketch of the life of John Elder" Transactions of the
    Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.
    Maclehose, 1886, Memoirs and Portraits of a Hundred Glasgow Men.
    The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, 1909, London: Offices of Engineering.
    P.M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde, A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, Cambridge: PSL.
    R.L.Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (covers Elder's contribution to the development of steam engines).
    RLH / FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Elder, John

  • 10 Clement (Clemmet), Joseph

    [br]
    bapt. 13 June 1779 Great Asby, Westmoreland, England
    d. 28 February 1844 London, England
    [br]
    English machine tool builder and inventor.
    [br]
    Although known as Clement in his professional life, his baptism at Asby and his death were registered under the name of Joseph Clemmet. He worked as a slater until the age of 23, but his interest in mechanics led him to spend much of his spare time in the local blacksmith's shop. By studying books on mechanics borrowed from his cousin, a watchmaker, he taught himself and with the aid of the village blacksmith made his own lathe. By 1805 he was able to give up the slating trade and find employment as a mechanic in a small factory at Kirkby Stephen. From there he moved to Carlisle for two years, and then to Glasgow where, while working as a turner, he took lessons in drawing; he had a natural talent and soon became an expert draughtsman. From about 1809 he was employed by Leys, Mason \& Co. of Aberdeen designing and making power looms. For this work he built a screw-cutting lathe and continued his self-education. At the end of 1813, having saved about £100, he made his way to London, where he soon found employment as a mechanic and draughtsman. Within a few months he was engaged by Joseph Bramah, and after a trial period a formal agreement dated 1 April 1814 was made by which Clement was to be Chief Draughtsman and Superintendent of Bramah's Pimlico works for five years. However, Bramah died in December 1814 and after his sons took over the business it was agreed that Clement should leave before the expiry of the five-year period. He soon found employment as Chief Draughtsman with Henry Maudslay \& Co. By 1817 Clement had saved about £500, which enabled him to establish his own business at Prospect Place, Newington Butts, as a mechanical draughtsman and manufacturer of high-class machinery. For this purpose he built lathes for his own use and invented various improvements in their detailed design. In 1827 he designed and built a facing lathe which incorporated an ingenious system of infinitely variable belt gearing. He had also built his own planing machine by 1820 and another, much larger one in 1825. In 1828 Clement began making fluted taps and dies and standardized the screw threads, thus anticipating on a small scale the national standards later established by Sir Joseph Whitworth. Because of his reputation for first-class workmanship, Clement was in the 1820s engaged by Charles Babbage to carry out the construction of his first Difference Engine.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Society of Arts Gold Medal 1818 (for straightline mechanism), 1827 (for facing lathe); Silver Medal 1828 (for lathe-driving device).
    Bibliography
    Further Reading
    S.Smiles, 1863, Industrial Biography, London, reprinted 1967, Newton Abbot (virtually the only source of biographical information on Clement).
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1965, Tools for the Job, London (repub. 1986); W.Steeds, 1969, A History of Machine Tools 1700–1910, Oxford (both contain descriptions of his machine tools).
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  • 11 Renold, Hans

    [br]
    b. 31 July 1852 Aarau, Switzerland
    d. 2 May 1943 Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire, England
    [br]
    Swiss (naturalized British 1881) mechanical engineer, inventor and pioneer of the precision chain industry.
    [br]
    Hans Renold was educated at the cantonal school of his native town and at the Polytechnic in Zurich. He worked in two or three small workshops during the polytechnic vacations and served an apprenticeship of eighteen months in an engineering works at Neuchâtel, Switzerland. After a short period of military service he found employment as a draughtsman in an engineering firm at Saint-Denis, near Paris, from 1871 to 1873. In 1873 Renold moved first to London and then to Manchester as a draughtsman and inspector with a firm of machinery exporters. From 1877 to 1879 he was a partner in his own firm of machine exporters. In 1879 he purchased a small firm in Salford making chain for the textile industry. At about this time J.K.Starley introduced the "safety" bicycle, which, however, lacked a satisfactory drive chain. Renold met this need with the invention of the bush roller chain, which he patented in 1880. The new chain formed the basis of the precision chain industry: the business expanded and new premises were acquired in Brook Street, Manchester, in 1881. In the same year Renold became a naturalized British subject.
    Continued expansion of the business necessitated the opening of a new factory in Brook Street in 1889. The factory was extended in 1895, but by 1906 more accommodation was needed and a site of 11 ½ acres was acquired in the Manchester suburb of Burnage: the move to the new building was finally completed in 1914. Over the years, further developments in the techniques of chain manufacture were made, including the invention in 1895 of the inverted tooth or silent chain. Renold made his first visit to America in 1891 to study machine-tool developments and designed for his own works special machine tools, including centreless grinding machines for dealing with wire rods up to 10 ft (3 m) in length.
    The business was established as a private limited company in 1903 and merged with the Coventry Chain Company Ltd in 1930. Good industrial relations were always of concern to Renold and he established a 48-hour week as early as 1896, in which year a works canteen was opened. Joint consultation with shop stewards date2 from 1917. Renold was elected a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1902 and in 1917 he was made a magistrate of the City of Manchester.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Honorary DSc University of Manchester 1940.
    Further Reading
    Basil H.Tripp, 1956, Renold Chains: A History of the Company and the Rise of the Precision Chain Industry 1879–1955, London.
    J.J.Guest, 1915, Grinding Machinery, London, pp. 289, 380 (describes grinding machines developed by Renold).
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  • 12 technisch

    technisch I adj GEN technical technisch II adv GEN technically • technisch ausgereift IND high-tech • technisch fortgeschritten IND, WIWI technologically advanced • technisch möglich IND technically feasible
    * * *
    adj < Geschäft> technical
    adv < Geschäft> technically ■ technisch ausgereift < Ind> high-tech ■ technisch fortgeschritten <Ind, Vw> technologically advanced ■ technisch möglich < Ind> technically feasible
    * * *
    technisch
    technical, engineering;
    • technisch bewandert techno-savvy;
    • technische Abteilung engineering department;
    • technisch bedingte Arbeitslosigkeit technological unemployment;
    • großer technischer Aufwand major engineering;
    • technische Ausbildung technical training;
    • technische Ausführung technique;
    • technischer Außendienst customer engineering;
    • technischer Berater technical consultant (adviser);
    • technischer Beruf technical profession;
    • technische Beschaffenheit technicality;
    • technische Betriebsabteilung technical (engineering) department;
    • technischer Betriebsleiter chief engineer;
    • technisches Büro engineering department, technical office;
    • technische Daten engineering data;
    • technische Einrichtungen engineering facilities;
    • technische Einzelheiten technicalities, technical details;
    • technische Errungenschaft technical feat;
    • technische Formalitäten legal formalities;
    • technischer Fortschritt technological progress (advance);
    • technische Herausforderung engineering challenge;
    • technische Hilfeleistungen technical aid;
    • technischer Kaufmann sales engineer;
    • technischer Leiter technical manager (director);
    • technische Messe engineering fair;
    • technische Neuerungen technical innovations;
    • technische Normenvorschriften engineering standards;
    • technische Nothilfe Organization for the Maintenance of Supplies (Br.), Office of Emergency Preparedness (US);
    • technisches Personal engineering (technical) staff;
    • technische Produktionsanlagen production facilities;
    • technischer Rückstand technological gap;
    • technischer Stab engineering force (staff);
    • technischer Überwachungsverein (TÜV) technical control board;
    • technische Unterlagen technical data;
    • technische Unterstützung engineering support;
    • technische Verbesserung technical improvement;
    • technischer Verkäufer salesman engineer;
    • technisches Versagen breakdown;
    • technische Versicherung engineering insurance;
    • technischer Zeichner tracer, draughtsman, draftsman;
    • technische Zusammenarbeit technical collaboration;
    • technischer Zustand technicality;
    • technische Zuverlässigkeitsbescheinigung roadworthiness test certificate.
    ausgefeilt, technisch
    sophisticated.

    Business german-english dictionary > technisch

  • 13 Guest, James John

    [br]
    b. 24 July 1866 Handsworth, Birmingham, England
    d. 11 June 1956 Virginia Water, Surrey, England
    [br]
    English mechanical engineer, engineering teacher and researcher.
    [br]
    James John Guest was educated at Marlborough in 1880–4 and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating as fifth wrangler in 1888. He received practical training in several workshops and spent two years in postgraduate work at the Engineering Department of Cambridge University. After working as a draughtsman in the machine-tool, hydraulic and crane departments of Tangyes Ltd at Birmingham, he was appointed in 1896 Assistant Professor of Engineering at McGill University in Canada. After a short time he moved to the Polytechnic Institute at Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was for three years Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Head of the Engineering Department. In 1899 he returned to Britain and set up as a consulting engineer in Birmingham, being a partner in James J.Guest \& Co. For the next fifteen years he combined this work with research on grinding phenomena. He also developed a theory of grinding which he first published in a paper at the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1914 and elaborated in a paper to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and in his book Grinding Machinery (1915). During the First World War, in 1916–17, he was in charge of inspection in the Staffordshire and Shropshire Area, Ministry of Munitions. In 1917 he returned to teaching as Reader in Graphics and Structural Engineering at University College London. His final appointment was about 1923 as Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Artillery College, Woolwich, which later became the Military College of Science.
    He carried out research on the strength of materials and contributed many articles on the subject to the technical press. He originated Guest's Law for a criterion of failure of materials under combined stresses, first published in 1900. He was a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1900–6 and from 1919 and contributed to their proceedings in many discussions and two major papers.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Of many publications by Guest, the most important are: 1900, "Ductile materials under combined stress", Proceedings of the Physical Society 17:202.
    1915, Grinding Machinery, London.
    1915, "Theory of grinding, with reference to the selection of speeds in plain and internal work", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 89:543.
    1917. "Torsional hysteresis of mild steel", Proceedings of the Royal Society A93:313.
    1918. with F.C.Lea, "Curved beams", Proceedings of the Royal Society A95:1. 1930, "Effects of rapidly acting stress", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical
    Engineers 119:1,273.
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  • 14 чертёжная линейка

    2) Architecture: draughtsman rule, ruler
    3) Automation: drafting straight edge

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > чертёжная линейка

  • 15 Camm, Sir Sydney

    [br]
    b. 5 August 1893 Windsor, Berkshire, England
    d. 12 March 1966 Richmond, Surrey, England
    [br]
    English military aircraft designer.
    [br]
    He was the eldest of twelve children and his father was a journeyman carpenter, in whose footsteps Camm followed as an apprentice woodworker. He developed an early interest in aircraft, becoming a keen model maker in his early teens and taking a major role in founding a local society to this end, and in 1912 he designed and built a glider able to carry people. During the First World War he worked as a draughtsman for the aircraft firm Martinsyde, but became increasingly involved in design matters as the war progressed. In 1923 Camm was recruited by Sopwith to join his Hawker Engineering Company as Senior Draughtsman, but within two years had risen to be Chief Designer. His first important contribution was to develop a method of producing metal aircraft, using welded steel tubes, and in 1926 he designed his first significant aircraft, the Hawker Horsley torpedo-bomber, which briefly held the world long-distance record before it was snatched by Charles Lindbergh in his epic New York-Paris flight in 1927. His Hawker Hart light bomber followed in 1928, after which came his Hawker Fury fighter.
    By the mid-1930s Camm's reputation as a designer was such that he was able to wield significant influence on the Air Ministry when Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft specifications were being drawn up. His outstanding contribution came, however, with the unveiling of his Hawker Hurricane in 1935. This single-seater fighter was to prove one of the backbones of the RAF during 1939–45, but during the war he also designed two other excellent fighters: the Tempest and the Typhoon. After the Second World War Camm turned to jet aircraft, producing in 1951 the Hawker Hunter fighter/ground-attack aircraft, which saw lengthy service in the RAF and many other air forces. His most revolutionary contribution was the design of the Harrier jump-jet, beginning with the P.1127 prototype in 1961, followed by the Kestrel three years later. These were private ventures, but eventually the Government saw the enormous merit in the vertical take-off and landing concept, and the Harrier came to fruition in 1967. Sadly Camm, who was on the Board of Sopwith Hawker Siddeley Group, died before the aircraft came into service. He is permanently commemorated in the Camm Memorial Hall at the RAF Museum, Hendon, London.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    CBE 1941. Knighted 1953. Associate Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society 1918, Fellow 1932, President 1954–5, Gold Medal 1958. Daniel Guggenheim Medal (USA) 1965.
    Further Reading
    Alan Bramson, 1990, Pure Luck: The Authorized Biography of Sir Thomas Sopwith, 1888–1989, Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens (provides information about Camm and his association with Sopwith).
    Dictionary of National Biography, 1961–70.
    CM

    Biographical history of technology > Camm, Sir Sydney

  • 16 Kennedy, Sir Alexander Blackie William

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 17 March 1847 Stepney, London, England d. 1928
    [br]
    English marine engineer and educator.
    [br]
    Sir Alexander Kennedy was trained as a marine engineer. The son of a Congregational minister, he was educated at the City of London School and the School of Mines, Jermyn Street. He was then apprenticed to J. \& W.Dudgeon of Millwall, marine engineers, and went on to become a draughtsman to Sir Charles Marsh Palmer of Jarrow (with whom he took part in the development of the compound steam-engine for marine use) and T.M.Tennant \& Co. of Leith. In 1874 he was appointed Professor of Engineering at University College, London. He built up an influential School of Engineering, being the first in England to integrate laboratory work as a regular feature of instruction. The engineering laboratory that he established in 1878 has been described as "the first of its kind in England" (Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers). He and his students conducted important experiments on the strength and elasticity of materials, boiler testing and related subjects. He followed the teaching of Franz Reuleaux, whose Kinematics of Machinery he translated from the German.
    While thus breaking new educational ground at University College, Kennedy concurrently established a very thriving private practice as a consulting engineer in partnership with Bernard Maxwell Jenkin (the son of Fleeming Jenkin), to pursue which he relinquished his academic posts in 1889. He planned and installed the whole electricity system for the Westminster Electric Supply Corporation, and other electricity companies. He was also heavily involved in the development of electrically powered transport systems. During the First World War he served on a panel of the Munitions Invention Department, and after the war he undertook to record photographically the scenes of desolation in his book From Ypres to Verdun (1921). Towards the end of his life, he pursued his interest in archaeology with the exploration of Petra, recorded in a monograph: Petra. Its History and Monuments (1925). He also joined the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1879, becoming the President of that body in 1894, and he joined the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1890. Kennedy was thus something of an engineering polymath, as well as being an outstanding engineering educationalist.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1887. Knighted 1905. Member, Institution of Civil Engineers 1879; President, 1906. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1894.
    Bibliography
    1921, From Ypresto Verdum.
    1925, Petra. Its History and Monuments.
    Further Reading
    DNB supplement.
    AB

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  • 17 технический отдел

    1) General subject: engineering department
    2) Aviation: engineering office
    3) Military: technical division
    4) Engineering: technical resource
    5) Railway term: draughtsman's office
    7) Automation: technical office

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  • 18 Adamson, Daniel

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    b. 1818 Shildon, Co. Durham, England
    d. January 1890 Didsbury, Manchester, England
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    English mechanical engineer, pioneer in the use of steel for boilers, which enabled higher pressures to be introduced; pioneer in the use of triple-and quadruple-expansion mill engines.
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    Adamson was apprenticed between 1835 and 1841 to Timothy Hackworth, then Locomotive Superintendent on the Stockton \& Darlington Railway. After this he was appointed Draughtsman, then Superintendent Engineer, at that railway's locomotive works until in 1847 he became Manager of Shildon Works. In 1850 he resigned and moved to act as General Manager of Heaton Foundry, Stockport. In the following year he commenced business on his own at Newton Moor Iron Works near Manchester, where he built up his business as an iron-founder and boilermaker. By 1872 this works had become too small and he moved to a 4 acre (1.6 hectare) site at Hyde Junction, Dukinfield. There he employed 600 men making steel boilers, heavy machinery including mill engines fitted with the American Wheelock valve gear, hydraulic plant and general millwrighting. His success was based on his early recognition of the importance of using high-pressure steam and steel instead of wrought iron. In 1852 he patented his type of flanged seam for the firetubes of Lancashire boilers, which prevented these tubes cracking through expansion. In 1862 he patented the fabrication of boilers by drilling rivet holes instead of punching them and also by drilling the holes through two plates held together in their assembly positions. He had started to use steel for some boilers he made for railway locomotives in 1857, and in 1860, only four years after Bessemer's patent, he built six mill engine boilers from steel for Platt Bros, Oldham. He solved the problems of using this new material, and by his death had made c.2,800 steel boilers with pressures up to 250 psi (17.6 kg/cm2).
    He was a pioneer in the general introduction of steel and in 1863–4 was a partner in establishing the Yorkshire Iron and Steel Works at Penistone. This was the first works to depend entirely upon Bessemer steel for engineering purposes and was later sold at a large profit to Charles Cammell \& Co., Sheffield. When he started this works, he also patented improvements both to the Bessemer converters and to the engines which provided their blast. In 1870 he helped to turn Lincolnshire into an important ironmaking area by erecting the North Lincolnshire Ironworks. He was also a shareholder in ironworks in South Wales and Cumberland.
    He contributed to the development of the stationary steam engine, for as early as 1855 he built one to run with a pressure of 150 psi (10.5 kg/cm) that worked quite satisfactorily. He reheated the steam between the cylinders of compound engines and then in 1861–2 patented a triple-expansion engine, followed in 1873 by a quadruple-expansion one to further economize steam. In 1858 he developed improved machinery for testing tensile strength and compressive resistance of materials, and in the same year patents for hydraulic lifting jacks and riveting machines were obtained.
    He was a founding member of the Iron and Steel Institute and became its President in 1888 when it visited Manchester. The previous year he had been President of the Institution of Civil Engineers when he was presented with the Bessemer Gold Medal. He was a constant contributor at the meetings of these associations as well as those of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He did not live to see the opening of one of his final achievements, the Manchester Ship Canal. He was the one man who, by his indomitable energy and skill at public speaking, roused the enthusiasm of the people in Manchester for this project and he made it a really practical proposition in the face of strong opposition.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1887.
    President, Iron and Steel Institute 1888. Institution of Civil Engineers Bessemer Gold Medal 1887.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, Engineer 69:56.
    Obituary, Engineering 49:66–8.
    H.W.Dickinson, 1938, A Short History of the Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press (provides an illustration of Adamson's flanged seam for boilers).
    R.L.Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press (covers the development of the triple-expansion engine).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Adamson, Daniel

  • 19 Field, Joshua

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    b. 1786 Hackney, London, England
    d. 11 August 1863 Balham Hill, Surrey, England
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    English mechanical engineer, co-founder of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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    Joshua Field was educated at a boarding school in Essex until the age of 16, when he obtained employment at the Royal Dockyards at Portsmouth under the Chief Mechanical Superintendent, Simon Goodrich (1773–1847), and later in the drawing office at the Admiralty in Whitehall. At this time, machinery for the manufacture of ships' blocks was being made for the Admiralty by Henry Maudslay, who was in need of a competent draughtsman, and Goodrich recommended Joshua Field. This was the beginning of Field's long association with Maudslay; he later became a partner in the firm which was for many years known as Maudslay, Sons \& Field. They undertook a variety of mechanical engineering work but were renowned for marine steam engines, with Field being responsible for much of the design work in the early years. Joshua Field was the eldest of the eight young men who in 1818 founded the Institution of Civil Engineers; he was the first Chairman of the Institution and later became a vice-president. He was the only one of the founders to be elected President and was the first mechanical engineer to hold that office. James Nasmyth in his autobiography relates that Joshua Field kept a methodical account of his technical discussions in a series of note books which were later indexed. Some of these diaries have survived, and extracts from the notes he made on a tour of the industrial areas of the Midlands and the North West in 1821 have been published.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1836. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1848–9. Member, Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers 1835; President 1848.
    Bibliography
    1925–6, "Joshua Field's diary of a tour in 1821 through the Midlands", introd. and notes J.W.Hall, Transactions of the Newcomen Society 6:1–41.
    1932–3, "Joshua Field's diary of a tour in 1821 through the provinces", introd. and notes E.C. Smith, Transactions of the Newcomen Society 13:15–50.
    RTS

    Biographical history of technology > Field, Joshua

  • 20 Issigonis, Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine (Alec)

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    b. 18 November 1906 Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey
    d. 2 October 1988 Birmingham, England
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    British automobile designer whose work included the Morris Minor and the Mini series.
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    His father was of Greek descent but was a naturalized British subject in Turkey who ran a marine engineering business. After the First World War, the British in Turkey were evacuated by the Royal Navy, the Issigonis family among them. His father died en route in Malta, but the rest of the family arrived in England in 1922. Alec studied engineering at Battersea Polytechnic for three years and in 1928 was employed as a draughtsman by a firm of consulting engineers in Victoria Street who were working on a form of automatic transmission. He had occasion to travel frequently in the Midlands at this time and visited many factories in the automobile industry. He was offered a job in the drawing office at Humber and lived for a couple of years in Kenilworth. While there he met Robert Boyle, Chief Engineer of Morris Motors (see Morris, William Richard), who offered him a job at Cowley. There he worked at first on the design of independent front suspension. At Morris Motors, he designed the Morris Minor, which entered production in 1948 and continued to be manufactured until 1971. Issigonis disliked mergers, and after the merger of Morris with Austin to form the British Motor Corporation (BMC) he left to join Alvis in 1952. The car he designed there, a V8 saloon, was built as a prototype but was never put into production. Following his return to BMC to become Technical Director in 1955, his most celebrated design was the Mini series, which entered production in 1959. This was a radically new concept: it was unique for its combination of a transversely mounted engine in unit with the gearbox, front wheel drive and rubber suspension system. This suspension system, designed in cooperation with Alex Moulton, was also a fundamental innovation, developed from the system designed by Moulton for the earlier Alvis prototype. Issigonis remained as Technical Director of BMC until his retirement.
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    Further Reading
    Peter King, 1989, The Motor Men. Pioneers of the British Motor Industry, London: Quiller Press.
    IMcN

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