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  • 3 станок-экспонат

    1) Engineering: exhibited machine
    2) Automation: show machine

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  • 4 Cochran, Josephine C.

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    b. c.1842 Ohio, USA
    d. after November 1908 USA
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    American inventor of the dishwashing machine.
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    Amidst the growing cohorts of American inventors who began to deluge the patent office with their inventions from around the middle of the nineteenth century are at least 30 women who received patents for dishwashers. Of these, it seems that Josephine C.Cochran can be credited with the invention of the first commercially available dishwasher. She developed her machine over a period often years, achieving patents in 1886 and 1888, with a third in 1894 for a "dish-cleaner". She completed the work in 1889, only after the death of her husband, who had kept her too short of funds to perfect her invention. Cochran exhibited her dishwasher at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892. There was a smaller, "family"-size machine for domestic use and a larger model, steam-driven, for major hotels and restaurants; this latter model was used by many such establishments in Chicago. It was said that the large machine could scald, rinse and dry up to 240 plates of various shapes and sizes in two minutes. Her invention had won her sufficient fame to earn her a place in a list, published in 1886, of prominent American women inventors.
    Little is known of Cochran's personal details, save that she was married to a circuit clerk ten years her senior, by whom she had a daughter. She was still active in November 1908, for she exhibited again at the Martha Washington Hotel Suffrage Bazaar in New York City.
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    Further Reading
    A.Stanley, 1993, Mothers and Daughters of Invention, Meruchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, pp. 438–9.
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    Biographical history of technology > Cochran, Josephine C.

  • 5 Porter, Charles Talbot

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    b. 18 January 1826 Auburn, New York, USA
    d. 1910 USA
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    American inventor of a stone dressing machine, an improved centrifugal governor and a high-speed steam engine.
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    Porter graduated from Hamilton College, New York, in 1845, read law in his father's office, and in the autumn of 1847 was admitted to the Bar. He practised for six or seven years in Rochester, New York, and then in New York City. He was drawn into engineering when aged about 30, first through a client who claimed to have invented a revolutionary type of engine and offered Porter the rights to it as payment of a debt. Having lent more money, Porter saw neither the man nor the engine again. Porter followed this with a similar experience over a patent for a stone dressing machine, except this time the machine was built. It proved to be a failure, but Porter set about redesigning it and found that it was vastly improved when it ran faster. His improved machine went into production. It was while trying to get the steam engine that drove the stone dressing machine to run more smoothly that he made a discovery that formed the basis for his subsequent work.
    Porter took the ordinary Watt centrifugal governor and increased the speed by a factor of about ten; although he had to reduce the size of the weights, he gained a motion that was powerful. To make the device sufficiently responsive at the right speed, he balanced the centrifugal forces by a counterweight. This prevented the weights flying outwards until the optimum speed was reached, so that the steam valves remained fully open until that point and then the weights reacted more quickly to variations in speed. He took out a patent in 1858, and its importance was quickly recognized. At first he manufactured and sold the governors himself in a specially equipped factory, because this was the only way he felt he could get sufficient accuracy to ensure a perfect action. For marine use, the counterweight was replaced by a spring.
    Higher speed had brought the advantage of smoother running and so he thought that the same principles could be applied to the steam engine itself, but it was to take extensive design modifications over several years before his vision was realized. In the winter of 1860–1, J.F. Allen met Porter and sketched out his idea of a new type of steam inlet valve. Porter saw the potential of this for his high-speed engine and Allen took out patents for it in 1862. The valves were driven by a new valve gear designed by Pius Fink. Porter decided to display his engine at the International Exhibition in London in 1862, but it had to be assembled on site because the parts were finished in America only just in time to be shipped to meet the deadline. Running at 150 rpm, the engine caused a sensation, but as it was non-condensing there were few orders. Porter added condensing apparatus and, after the failure of Ormerod Grierson \& Co., entered into an agreement with Joseph Whitworth to build the engines. Four were exhibited at the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle, but Whitworth and Porter fell out and in 1868 Porter returned to America.
    Porter established another factory to build his engine in America, but he ran into all sorts of difficulties, both mechanical and financial. Some engines were built, and serious production was started c. 1874, but again there were further problems and Porter had to leave his firm. High-speed engines based on his designs continued to be made until after 1907 by the Southwark Foundry and Machine Company, Philadelphia, so Porter's ideas were proved viable and led to many other high-speed designs.
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    Bibliography
    1908, Engineering Reminiscences, New York: J. Wiley \& Sons; reprinted 1985, Bradley, Ill.: Lindsay (autobiography; the main source of information about his life).
    Further Reading
    R.L.Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press (examines his governor and steam engine).
    O.Mayr, 1974, "Yankee practice and engineering theory; Charles T.Porter and the dynamics of the high-speed engine", Technology and Culture 16 (4) (examines his governor and steam engine).
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    Biographical history of technology > Porter, Charles Talbot

  • 6 Garforth, William Edward

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    b. 1845 Dukinfield, Cheshire, England
    d. 1 October 1921 Pontefract, Yorkshire, England
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    English colliery manager, pioneer in machine-holing and the safety of mines.
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    After Menzies conceived his idea of breaking off coal with machines in 1761, many inventors subsequently followed his proposals through into the practice of underground working. More than one century later, Garforth became one of the principal pioneers of machine-holing combined with the longwall method of working in order to reduce production costs and increase the yield of coal. Having been appointed agent to Pope \& Pearson's Collieries, West Yorkshire, in 1879, of which company he later became Managing Director and Chairman, he gathered a great deal of experience with different methods of cutting coal. The first disc machine was exhibited in London as early as 1851, and ten years later a pick machine was invented. In 1893 he introduced an improved type of deep undercutting machine, his "diamond" disc coal-cutter, driven by compressed air, which also became popular on the European continent.
    Besides the considerable economic advantages it created, the use of machinery for mining coal increased the safety of working in hard and thin seams. The improvement of safety in mining technology was always his primary concern, and as a result of his inventions and his many publications he became the leading figure in the British coal mining industry at the beginning of the twentieth century; safety lamps still carry his name. In 1885 he invented a firedamp detector, and following a severe explosion in 1886 he concentrated on coal-dust experiments. From the information he obtained of the effect of stone-dust on a coal-dust explosion he proposed the stone-dust remedy to prevent explosions of coal-dust. As a result of discussions which lasted for decades and after he had been entrusted with the job of conducting the British coal-dust experiments, in 1921 an Act made it compulsory in all mines which were not naturally wet throughout to treat all roads with incombustible dust so as to ensure that the dust always consisted of a mixture containing not more than 50 per cent combustible matter. In 1901 Garforth erected a surface gallery which represented the damaged roadways of a mine and could be filled with noxious fumes to test self-contained breathing apparata. This gallery formed the model from which all the rescue-stations existing nowadays have been developed.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1914. LLD Universities of Birmingham and Leeds 1912. President, Midland Institute 1892–4. President, The Institution of Mining Engineers 1911–14. President, Mining Association of Great Britain 1907–8. Chairman, Standing Committee on Mining, Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Fellow of the Geological Society of London. North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers Greenwell Silver Medal 1907. Royal Society of Arts Fothergill Gold Medal 1910. Medal of the Institution of Mining Engineers 1914.
    Bibliography
    1901–2, "The application of coal-cutting machines to deep mining", Transactions of the Federated Institute of Mining Engineers 23: 312–45.
    1905–6, "A new apparatus for rescue-work in mines", Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers 31:625–57.
    1902, "British Coal-dust Experiments". Paper communicated to the International Congress on Mining, Metallurgy, Applied Mechanics and Practical Geology, Dusseldorf.
    Further Reading
    Garforth's name is frequently mentioned in connection with coal-holing, but his outstanding achievements in improving safety in mines are only described in W.D.Lloyd, 1921, "Memoir", Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers 62:203–5.
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    Biographical history of technology > Garforth, William Edward

  • 7 Kirkaldy, David

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    b. 4 April 1820 Mayfield, Dundee, Scotland
    d. 25 January 1897 London, England
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    Scottish engineer and pioneer in materials testing.
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    The son of a merchant of Dundee, Kirkaldy was educated there, then at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and at Edinburgh University. For a while he worked in his father's office, but with a preference for engineering, in 1843 he commenced an apprenticeship at the Glasgow works of Robert Napier. After four years in the shops he was transferred to the drawing office and in a very few years rose to become Chief. Here Kirkaldy demonstrated a remarkable talent both for the meticulous recording of observations and data and for technical drawing. His work also had an aesthetic appeal and four of his drawings of Napier steamships were shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1855, earning both Napier and Kirkaldy a medal. His "as fitted" set of drawings of the Cunard Liner Persia, which had been built in 1855, is now in the possession of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, London; it is regarded as one of the finest examples of its kind in the world, and has even been exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.
    With the impending order for the Royal Naval Ironclad Black Prince (sister ship to HMS Warrior, now preserved at Portsmouth) and for some high-pressure marine boilers and engines, there was need for a close scientific analysis of the physical properties of iron and steel. Kirkaldy, now designated Chief Draughtsman and Calculator, was placed in charge of this work, which included comparisons of puddled steel and wrought iron, using a simple lever-arm testing machine. The tests lasted some three years and resulted in Kirkaldy's most important publication, Experiments on Wrought Iron and Steel (1862, London), which gained him wide recognition for his careful and thorough work. Napier's did not encourage him to continue testing; but realizing the growing importance of materials testing, Kirkaldy resigned from the shipyard in 1861. For the next two and a half years Kirkaldy worked on the design of a massive testing machine that was manufactured in Leeds and installed in premises in London, at The Grove, Southwark.
    The works was open for trade in January 1866 and engineers soon began to bring him specimens for testing on the great machine: Joseph Cubitt (son of William Cubitt) brought him samples of the materials for the new Blackfriars Bridge, which was then under construction. Soon The Grove became too cramped and Kirkaldy moved to 99 Southwark Street, reopening in January 1874. In the years that followed, Kirkaldy gained a worldwide reputation for rigorous and meticulous testing and recording of results, coupled with the highest integrity. He numbered the most distinguished engineers of the time among his clients.
    After Kirkaldy's death, his son William George, whom he had taken into partnership, carried on the business. When the son died in 1914, his widow took charge until her death in 1938, when the grandson David became proprietor. He sold out to Treharne \& Davies, chemical consultants, in 1965, but the works finally closed in 1974. The future of the premises and the testing machine at first seemed threatened, but that has now been secured and the machine is once more in working order. Over almost one hundred years of trading in South London, the company was involved in many famous enquiries, including the analysis of the iron from the ill-fated Tay Bridge (see Bouch, Sir Thomas).
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland Gold Medal 1864.
    Bibliography
    1862, Results of an Experimental Inquiry into the Tensile Strength and Other Properties of Wrought Iron and Steel (originally presented as a paper to the 1860–1 session of the Scottish Shipbuilders' Association).
    Further Reading
    D.P.Smith, 1981, "David Kirkaldy (1820–97) and engineering materials testing", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 52:49–65 (a clear and well-documented account).
    LRD / FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Kirkaldy, David

  • 8 Scheutz, George

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    b. 23 September 1785 Jonkoping, Sweden
    d. 27 May 1873 Stockholm, Sweden
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    Swedish lawyer, journalist and self-taught engineer who, with his son Edvard Raphael Scheutz (b. 13 September 1821 Stockholm, Sweden; d. 28 January 1881 Stockholm, Sweden) constructed a version of the Babbage Difference Engine.
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    After early education at the Jonkoping elementary school and the Weixo Gymnasium, George Scheutz entered the University of Lund, gaining a degree in law in 1805. Following five years' legal work, he moved to Stockholm in 1811 to work at the Supreme Court and, in 1814, as a military auditor. In 1816, he resigned, bought a printing business and became editor of a succession of industrial and technical journals, during which time he made inventions relating to the press. It was in 1830 that he learned from the Edinburgh Review of Babbage's ideas for a difference engine and started to make one from wood, pasteboard and wire. In 1837 his 15-yearold student son, Edvard Raphael Scheutz, offered to make it in metal, and by 1840 they had a working machine with two five-digit registers, which they increased the following year and then added a printer. Obtaining a government grant in 1851, by 1853 they had a fully working machine, now known as Swedish Difference Engine No. 1, which with an experienced operator could generate 120 lines of tables per hour and was used to calculate the logarithms of the numbers 1 to 10,000 in under eighty hours. This was exhibited in London and then at the Paris Great Exhibition, where it won the Gold Medal. It was subsequently sold to the Dudley Observatory in Albany, New York, for US$5,000 and is now in a Chicago museum.
    In England, the British Registrar-General, wishing to produce new tables for insurance companies, and supported by the Astronomer Royal, arranged for government finance for construction of a second machine (Swedish Difference Engine No. 2). Comprising over 1,000 working parts and weighing 1,000 lb (450 kg), this machine was used to calculate over 600 tables. It is now in the Science Museum.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Paris Exhibition Medal of Honour (jointly with Edvard) 1856. Annual pension of 1,200 marks per annum awarded by King Carl XV 1860.
    Bibliography
    1825, "Kranpunpar. George Scheutz's patent of 14 Nov 1825", Journal for Manufacturer och Hushallning 8.
    ellemême, Stockholm.
    Further Reading
    R.C.Archibald, 1947, "P.G.Scheutz, publicist, author, scientific mechanic and Edvard Scheutz, engineer. Biography and Bibliography", MTAC 238.
    U.C.Merzbach, 1977, "George Scheutz and the first printing calculator", Smithsonian
    Studies in History and Technology 36:73.
    M.Lindgren, 1990, Glory and Failure (the Difference Engines of Johan Muller, Charles Babbage and George \& Edvard Scheutz), Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
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    Biographical history of technology > Scheutz, George

  • 9 Grant, George Barnard

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    b. 21 December 1849 Farmingdale, Gardiner, Maine, USA
    d. 16 August 1917 Pasadena, California, USA
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    American mechanical engineer and inventor of Grant's Difference Engine.
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    George B.Grant was descended from families who came from Britain in the seventeenth century and was educated at the Bridgton (Maine) Academy, the Chandler Scientific School of Dartmouth College and the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard College, where he graduated with the degree of BS in 1873. As an undergraduate he became interested in calculating machines, and his paper "On a new difference engine" was published in the American Journal of Science in August 1871. He also took out his first patents relating to calculating machines in 1872 and 1873. A machine of his design known as "Grant's Difference Engine" was exhibited at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. Similar machines were also manufactured for sale; being sturdy and reliable, they did much to break down the prejudice against the use of calculating machines in business. Grant's work on calculating machines led to a requirement for accurate gears, so he established a machine shop for gear cutting at Charlestown, Massachusetts. He later moved the business to Boston and incorporated it under the name of Grant's Gear Works Inc., and continued to control it until his death. He also established two other gear-cutting shops, the Philadelphia Gear Works Inc., which he disposed of in 1911, and the Cleveland Gear Works Inc., which he also disposed of after a few years. Grant's commercial success was in connection with gear cutting and in this field he obtained several patents and contributed articles to the American Machinist. However, he continued to take an interest in calculating machines and in his later years carried out experimental work on their development.
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    Bibliography
    1871, "On a new difference engine", American Journal of Science (August). 1885, Chart and Tables for Bevel Gears.
    1891, Odontics, or the Theory and Practice of the Teeth of Gears, Lexington, Mass.
    Further Reading
    R.S.Woodbury, 1958, History of the Gear-cutting Machine, Cambridge, Mass, (describes his gear-cutting machine).
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    Biographical history of technology > Grant, George Barnard

  • 10 Ware

    Ware f 1. GEN article, commodity, product (unterliegt der Verbrauchssteuer); good, ware; 2. WIWI article, commodity, product; 3. V&M merchandise die Ware wurde noch nicht zugestellt GEN the goods remain undelivered
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    f 1. < Geschäft> unterliegt der Verbrauchssteuer article, commodity, product; 2. <Vw> article, commodity, product; 3. <V&M> merchandise ■ die Ware wurde noch nicht zugestellt < Geschäft> the goods remain undelivered
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    Ware
    (Erzeugnis) product, (Handelsware) merchandise, (Kurszettel) offers, sellers, (Sammelbegriff) goods, articles, commodity, [sale] wares, stuff, (einzelnes Stück) article, parcel [of goods];
    Waren stock, products, (Warenart) line;
    nicht abgeholte Waren uncollected goods;
    abgepackte Waren [pre]packaged goods;
    abrufbereite Waren goods actually ready for immediate delivery;
    absatzfähige Waren marketable commodities;
    leicht absetzbare Waren fast-moving goods;
    schwer absetzbare (abzusetzende) Waren hard-to-move (slow-moving) products;
    sicher abzusetzende Waren articles certain to sell;
    angebotene Waren goods for sale;
    vom Zoll angehaltene Waren goods stopped at the customhouse;
    anmeldepflichtige Waren (Zoll) goods to declare;
    annehmbare Waren goods in fair condition;
    in beiliegender Rechnung aufgeführte Waren goods specified in the annexed invoice;
    auserlesene Waren choice goods (articles), picked goods;
    ausgeführte Waren exported goods;
    wieder ausgeführte Waren reexports;
    fälschlich als Markenprodukte ausgegebene Waren misbranded products;
    offen ausgelegte Waren open display;
    ausgestellte Waren merchandise displayed;
    im Schaufenster ausgestellte Waren articles shown in the window;
    zum Verkauf ausgestellte Waren goods exhibited for sale;
    ausgesuchte Waren choice goods (articles, quality);
    ausgezeichnete Waren price-labelled (marked) goods;
    nicht ausklarierte Ware uncleared goods;
    aussortierte Ware job goods;
    avisierte Waren advised goods;
    beanstandete Ware rejects;
    nicht auf Lager befindliche Waren items not stocked;
    unterwegs befindliche Waren goods afloat, afloat goods, merchandise in transit;
    auf dem Luftwege beförderte Waren merchandise consigned by air;
    in der Herstellung begriffene Waren goods in process;
    täglich benötigte Waren necessary articles;
    nach Maß berechnete Waren measurement goods;
    beschädigte Waren damaged (defective) goods;
    vom langen Liegen im Laden beschädigte Waren shop-worn (shop-soiled) merchandise;
    auf dem Transport beschädigte Waren goods damaged in transit;
    beschlagnahmte Waren confiscated (seized) goods;
    vom Zoll beschlagnahmte Waren goods held up at customs;
    bestellte Waren goods ordered;
    zur Ausfuhr bestimmte Waren goods intended for export;
    für den Inlandsverbrauch bestimmte Ware goods intended for home consumption;
    beim Kaufabschluss bestimmte Waren specific goods;
    bewirtschaftete Waren quota (rationed) goods, rationed (scarce) commodity;
    nicht bewirtschaftete Waren non-rationed goods, commodities not under control;
    nicht mehr bewirtschaftete Waren derationed goods;
    falsch bezeichnete Waren falsely marked merchandise;
    bezogene Waren purchased merchandise;
    bezugsbeschränkte Waren rationed (quota) goods;
    billige Waren low-priced goods;
    preislich billigere Waren lower-priced goods;
    braune Ware brown goods;
    [nicht] deklarierte Waren [un]declared goods;
    verkehrswidrig als Gepäck deklarierte Waren contraband baggage;
    devisenschwache Waren soft goods;
    devisenstarke Waren hard goods;
    disponible Waren disposable goods, stock on hand;
    drittklassige Waren thirds;
    durchgehende Waren transit goods;
    effektive Waren actual goods ready for immediate delivery;
    eingebürgerte Waren well-introduced articles;
    eingeführte Waren imported goods;
    gut eingeführte Waren popular make, well-kown merchandise (commodities), established products;
    unverzollt eingeführte Waren uncustomed merchandise;
    eingehende Waren incoming goods, receipts, arrivals;
    eingelagerte Waren stockpiled commodities, stored (warehouse) goods, goods (merchandise) in storage, goods in warehouse;
    eingeschmuggelte Waren smuggled goods;
    einheimische Waren home-made (inland) commodities, domestic goods;
    nicht einwandfreie Waren faulty goods;
    erstklassige Waren good-class (superior) articles, first-rate goods;
    noch zu erzeugende Waren future goods;
    etikettierte Waren labelled (branded) goods;
    exportierte Waren exported goods;
    fakturierte Waren invoiced goods;
    nicht unter Tarif fallende Waren exempt commodities;
    fehlende Waren missing goods, short interest;
    fehlerfreie Waren goods free from fault, goods in sound condition, faultless goods;
    fehlerhafte Waren defective goods;
    feinere Waren better description;
    halb fertige Waren semi-finished goods;
    feuergefährliche Waren inflammable cargo;
    flüssige Waren wet goods;
    freigegebene Waren goods taken out of pledge, derationed goods;
    gangbarste Waren leading articles;
    gängige Waren current articles, salable (marketable) goods;
    übrig gebliebene Waren remnants;
    gebrauchte Waren secondhand goods;
    gediegene Waren sterling goods;
    für den Export geeignete Waren export-quality goods;
    Gefahr bringende (gefährliche) Waren hazardous goods, dangerous articles;
    von Natur aus gefährliche Waren goods dangerous in themselves;
    nach Kundenwünschen gefertigte Waren custom-made goods;
    maschinell gefertigte Waren machine-made products;
    stark gefragte Waren quick-selling lines;
    in Auftrag gegebene Waren merchandise on order, ordered goods;
    in Zahlung gegebene Waren trade-in goods;
    im Preis gehaltene Waren price-maintained commodities;
    gekaufte Waren store goods (US);
    auf Kredit gekaufte Waren goods bought on credit;
    erst nach Preisvergleich gekaufte Waren shopping goods (US);
    spontan gekaufte Waren impulse goods (US);
    gekennzeichnete Waren marked goods;
    gelagerte Waren stored goods;
    vermischt gelagerte Waren commingled goods;
    gelieferte Waren goods sold and delivered;
    noch nicht gelieferte Waren undelivered goods;
    beim Zoll nicht gemeldete Waren undeclared goods;
    gemischte Waren mixed goods;
    genormte Waren standardized commodities;
    gepackte Waren package goods;
    gepfändete Waren distrained (seized) goods;
    aus Brandschäden (Seeschäden) gerettete Waren salvage stock;
    geringwertige Waren inferior(low-quality) goods;
    geschmuggelte Waren smuggled goods;
    nicht geschmuggelte Waren innocent goods;
    durch Einfuhrzölle geschützte Waren protected articles;
    fertig gestellte Waren finished (fully manufactured) goods;
    dem Kunden in Rechnung gestellte Waren goods billed to customer;
    zur Schau gestellte Waren merchandise displayed;
    gesuchte Waren articles in demand;
    gleichwertige Waren goods of the same standard;
    grobe Ware roughage;
    begrenzt haltbare Waren goods with limited shelf life;
    handgefertigte Waren handmade products;
    havarierte Waren goods damaged by sea water;
    heiße Waren hot goods;
    im Preis herabgesetzte Waren reduced (marked-down) merchandise, markdowns;
    über den Eigenbedarf hinaus hergestellte Ware surplus commodities;
    fabrikmäßig hergestellte Waren manufactured commodities;
    im Gefängnis (von Strafgefangenen) hergestellte Waren prison- (convict-) made goods;
    maschinell hergestellte Waren machine-made goods;
    von Nichtgewerkschaftlern hergestellte Waren tainted goods (Br.);
    serienmäßig hergestellte Waren mass- (volume-) produced goods;
    hochwertige (hoch qualifizierte) Waren high-quality (-grade) goods;
    importierte Waren imported goods;
    inflationsempfindliche Waren inflation-prone goods;
    inländische Waren home-made goods;
    katalogisierte Waren catalog(u)ed goods;
    käufliche Waren goods for sale;
    konkurrenzfähige Waren competitive products;
    konsignierte Waren consignment goods;
    kontingentierte Waren quota (rationed) goods;
    nicht kontingentierte Waren non-quota goods;
    [nicht] kriegswichtige Waren [non-]strategic goods;
    lagerfähige Waren storable goods;
    lebenswichtige Waren goods of vital necessity, essential goods;
    lieferbare Waren goods on hand (fit for acceptance);
    sofort lieferbare Waren spots, spot goods, (Börse) prompts (Br.);
    unter Zollverschluss liegende Waren goods in bond;
    lose Waren unpacked (bulk) goods;
    mangelhafte Waren faulty (defective) goods;
    markenpflichtige Waren coupon (rationed) goods;
    marktgängige Waren marketable products;
    nicht marktkonforme Waren down-market goods;
    minderwertige Waren goods of inferior workmanship, low-class (low-quality, poor-quality) goods, inferior products (goods), trumpery wares, wastrel, trash;
    modische Waren novelties, up-to-date merchandise;
    nachgemachte Waren imitation goods;
    Not leidende Waren distress merchandise;
    patentierte Waren patented articles (products), proprietary articles;
    preisgebundene Waren price-controlled (price-bound) merchandise, price-fixed (price-controlled, price-maintained) goods, fixed-price lines;
    preisgeschützte (preisstabile) Waren price-maintained goods (commodities);
    preiswerte Waren cheap line, good value;
    qualitätsgeminderte Waren substandard goods;
    rationierte Waren allocated (quota, rationed, coupon) goods;
    leicht realisierbare Waren readily marketable staples;
    reduzierte Waren as-is merchandise;
    reelle Waren good articles;
    retournierte (rückgesandte) Waren returned goods;
    rollende Waren rolling freight;
    saisonbedingte Waren commodities with a strong seasonal pattern;
    schlechte Waren faulty articles, inferior products (goods);
    schwimmende Waren floating goods, goods afloat;
    sicherungsübereignete Waren pledged goods (merchandise);
    sortierte Waren graded commodity;
    sperrige Waren bulky goods;
    nicht sperrige Waren goods of small bulk;
    spottbillige Waren sacrificed goods, dead bargain;
    im Eigentum des Verkäufers stehende Waren existing goods;
    zum Verkauf stehende Waren goods for sale;
    steuerpflichtige Waren taxable class of goods (commodity);
    tarierte Waren tared goods;
    tiefgekühlte Waren frozen goods;
    trockene Waren dry goods;
    übereignete Waren assigned goods;
    unter Eigentumsvorbehalt überlassene Waren merchandise on memorandum (US), memorandum goods (US), goods on commission;
    übersandte Waren forwarded (shipped, US) goods;
    schnell umschlagbare (umschlagende) Waren fast-moving (-selling) goods (items);
    unbeanstandete Ware not rejected goods;
    unbestellte Waren goods not ordered;
    unbezahlte Waren unpaid goods, goods left on our hands;
    unfertige Waren rough goods;
    unsortierte Waren non-graded products;
    unterdurchschnittliche Waren substandard goods;
    großen Kaufpreisschwankungen unterliegende Ware boom-and-bust commodity;
    der Preisüberwachung unterliegende Waren price-controlled articles;
    unterversicherte Waren underinsured goods;
    unverderbliche Waren non-perishable merchandise, non-perishables;
    unverkäufliche Waren dead commodities (stock), dud stock, drug in the market, unsalable articles;
    unvermischte Waren honest goods;
    unverpackte Waren unpacked (bulk, loose) goods;
    unversicherte Waren uninsured goods;
    unverzollte Waren uncustomed (unentered) goods;
    noch unverzollte Waren unentered goods;
    verarbeitete Waren processed goods;
    nicht verarbeitete Waren unprocessed (unfinished) commodity (goods);
    verderbliche Waren goods subject to deterioration;
    leicht verderbliche Waren goods which perish, perishable goods (commodities), perishables;
    verdorbene Waren spoilt (perished) goods;
    verfügbare Waren available (disposable) goods;
    in Kommission vergebene Waren goods on commission, memorandum goods (US);
    schnell vergriffene Waren goods selling like wildfire (hot cakes, Br., hot dogs, US);
    verkäufliche Waren marketable commodities;
    langsam verkäufliche Waren slow-moving merchandise, sleeper (US);
    leicht verkäufliche Waren fast-moving (-selling) goods, readily marketable staples;
    schwer verkäufliche Waren unsalable goods, articles hard to get rid of;
    verkaufsfähige Waren marketable products;
    vom Hersteller verkaufte Waren first-hand goods;
    nach dem Stück verkaufte Waren piece goods;
    nicht verladene Waren short interest;
    vermischte Waren mixed lot;
    verpackte Waren package[d] goods;
    in Kisten verpackte Ware cased goods;
    verpfändete Waren goods lying in pledge, pledged (mortgaged) goods;
    verplombte Waren leaded goods;
    versandfertige Waren goods ready for delivery;
    versandte Waren forwarded goods;
    in Behältern versandte Waren container-shipped goods;
    auf Rechnung versandte Waren goods shipped on account (US);
    verschiffte Waren goods shipped;
    mit Gewerkschaftsetikett versehene Waren union label goods (US);
    versicherte Waren insured goods;
    versteigerte Waren auctioned goods;
    vertretbare Waren fungible things, representative commodities;
    in beiliegender Rechnung verzeichnete Waren goods specified in the invoice attached;
    verzollte Waren cleared goods, goods out of bond;
    hoch verzollte Waren high-duty goods;
    nicht verzollte Waren uncleared goods;
    noch nicht verzollte Waren unentered goods;
    niedrig verzollte Waren low-rate articles, low-duty goods;
    virtuelle Waren virtual goods;
    vorrätige Waren goods on hand, available goods;
    ständig vorrätige Waren open stock;
    vorzügliche Waren choice commodities, articles of first (superior) quality;
    weiße Ware white goods;
    vom langen Liegen (durch Lagerung) im Laden wertgeminderte Waren shopworn merchandise;
    wertlose Waren trash, poor truck (US);
    zerbrechliche Waren fragile goods;
    zollfreie Waren duty-free articles (goods), free (uncustomed) goods;
    zollhängige Waren goods in the process of clearing, uncleared goods;
    zollpflichtige Waren dutiable (bonded) goods;
    unverlangt zugesandte Waren unsolicited goods;
    zugkräftige Waren articles of quick sale, popular articles;
    zurückgehende Waren returnable goods;
    zurückgelegte Waren lay-away (US);
    zurückgenommene Waren returns inward;
    zurückgesandte Waren returned goods, returns outward;
    zurückgesetzte Waren old stock, damaged goods, as-is merchandise;
    zurückgewiesene Waren rejected goods;
    zweitrangige Ware inferior goods;
    Waren zur Ansicht merchandise sent on approval (for inspection, show);
    Waren mittlerer Art und Güte merchandise quality, medium-quality goods, seconds;
    Waren des täglichen Bedarfs convenience goods (US);
    Waren von kriegswichtiger Bedeutung strategic goods;
    Waren mit hoher Gewinnspanne higher-margin merchandise;
    Waren ausländischer Herkunft goods of foreign origin;
    Waren auf Kredit merchandise on account;
    Waren auf Lager warehouse goods;
    Waren aus den Ländern des British Commonwealth Empire products;
    Waren der Lebensmittelindustrie prepared foodstuffs;
    Waren mit gleich bleibenden Preisen price-maintained articles;
    Waren in hoher Preislage high-cost merchandise;
    Waren mittlerer Preislage medium-priced goods;
    Waren niedriger Preislage low-priced goods;
    Waren bester Qualität high-class goods;
    Waren minderwertiger Qualität thirds;
    Waren mittlerer Qualität und Güte merchantable quality, medium-quality goods;
    Waren von schlechter Qualität poor-quality goods;
    Waren zweiter Qualität seconds;
    Waren mit geringer Umsatzgeschwindigkeit (Umschlaghäufigkeit) slow-moving goods (stock), sleeper (US);
    Waren mit hoher Umschlaggeschwindigkeit fast-moving (-selling) goods;
    Waren mit höherer Verdienstspanne higher-margin lines;
    Waren mit hohen Verkaufspreisen high-priced commodity;
    Waren aus der Vorkriegszeit prewar goods;
    Waren unter Zollverschluss bonded goods;
    Waren im Durchgangsverkehr abfertigen to convey goods in transit;
    Waren auf einer Liste abhaken to keep tally of goods;
    Waren abnehmen to take delivery of (accept, collect the) goods;
    Waren in großen Posten abnehmen to take up goods to a large amount;
    Waren abrufen to recall goods;
    Waren abschätzen to make a valuation of goods, to value goods;
    Waren absetzen to dispose (get off, place) goods, to push one’s wares;
    Waren flott (leicht) absetzen to sell goods easily;
    Waren abstoßen to sell off goods;
    Waren im Durchgangsverkehr abwickeln to convey goods in transit;
    Waren mit einem 10%igen Abschlag vom Normalpreis (unter Preis) anbieten to offer goods at 10 per cent off the regular price;
    Waren auf dem Markt anbieten to put an article on the market;
    seine Waren anpreisen to puff one’s wares (Br.);
    Waren aufdrängen to push goods;
    jem. minderwertige Waren aufdrängen to impose inferior goods upon s. o.;
    Waren aufkaufen to corner the market;
    Waren glatt aufnehmen (Börse) to absorb all offerings;
    jem. Waren aufschwindeln to palm off goods on s. o.;
    Waren in Partien aufteilen to parcel out goods;
    Waren zum Verkauf ausbreiten to spread (sort) out goods for sale;
    Waren ausklarieren to clear goods out of bond;
    Waren auslegen to flourish goods;
    Ware im Schaufenster auslegen to display goods in the shopwindow;
    Waren ausliefern to have goods delivered;
    Waren im Fenster ausstellen to display goods in the window;
    Waren auszeichnen to price (tally) goods, to ticket goods with prices;
    Waren billiger auszeichnen to mark down goods;
    Waren frei Achse befördern to cart goods;
    gute Waren für sein Geld bekommen to get good value for one’s money;
    verlorene Waren wertmäßig ersetzt bekommen to recover the value for lost merchandise;
    Waren für den Käufer bereitstellen to place goods at the buyer’s disposal;
    Waren bestellen to order goods;
    Waren über einen Vertreter bestellen to order goods through a representative;
    Waren bewerten to value goods;
    Waren beziehen to receive (obtain, procure, purchase) goods;
    seine Waren außerhalb beziehen to get commodities (supply o. s. with articles) from abroad;
    mit (auf) seinen Waren sitzen bleiben to be left with goods, to hold the bag (US);
    Waren an Bord bringen to deliver the goods on board;
    jem. Waren ins Haus bringen to deliver goods to s. one’s address;
    seine schlechten Waren unter die Leute bringen to foist one’s wares upon the public;
    Waren auf den Markt bringen to launch a new product, to introduce goods into (put goods on) the market;
    Waren im Ausland billig auf den Markt bringen to dump goods on foreign markets;
    seine Waren [beim Zoll] deklarieren to make a declaration, to make an entry of (enter) goods;
    Waren deponieren to warehouse goods;
    sich mit Waren eindecken to supply o. s. with goods;
    über den Bedarf mit Waren eindecken to overstock a shop;
    Waren einführen to bring in goods;
    Waren in ein Land einführen to introduce goods into a country;
    Waren zum freien Verkehr einführen to enter goods for consumption;
    Waren einlagern to lay in goods;
    zu viel Waren einlagern to overstock a shop;
    Waren nach Güteklassen einstufen to grade goods;
    seine Waren empfehlen to recommend one’s wares;
    Einfuhrzoll auf Waren erheben to levy a duty on goods;
    Waren auf einer Auktion erwerben to buy goods at the sales;
    Waren etikettieren to docket (label) goods;
    Waren feilbieten to expose goods for sale;
    billige Waren feilbieten to show a cheap line of goods;
    gegen Zahlung Waren freigeben to release goods against payment;
    Waren führen to have goods in stock, to have (keep) an article in stock, to deal in (stock) an article;
    alle Arten von Waren führen to stock varied goods;
    ausländische Waren führen to handle foreign goods;
    Verhandlungen über einzeln ausgewählte Waren führen to carry on negotiations on a selective product-by-product basis;
    Ware nicht mehr führen to be out (short) of an article;
    Waren in Kommission geben to deliver goods on sale or return;
    mit einer Ware in Rückstand geraten to run out of stock;
    Waren auf Lager Waren haben (halten) to carry goods in stock, to stock an article;
    Waren im Augenblick nicht auf Lager (vorrätig) haben not to stock an article, to be short of an article;
    mit einer Ware handeln to deal in an article;
    Preis einer Ware auf... herabsetzen to bring down the price of an article to...;
    Waren für den Verkauf herausstellen to get up articles for sale;
    Waren verschiedenster Beschaffenheit herstellen to manufacture goods in various qualities;
    Waren massenhaft herstellen to turn out large quantities of goods;
    Waren horten to hoard goods;
    Waren auf einer Auktion kaufen to buy goods at the sales;
    unbegrenzt verbrauchssteuerpflichtige Waren für den persönlichen Bedarf kaufen to buy an unlimited quantity of excise-paid products for personal use;
    Waren auf Termin kaufen to buy on terms;
    Waren kennzeichnen to identify goods by marks;
    Waren konditionieren to condition goods;
    Waren lagern to store (lay in) goods;
    Waren unter Zollverschluss lagern to have goods bonded;
    Waren verabfolgen lassen to have goods delivered;
    Waren liefern to supply with (deliver) goods;
    Waren auf Kredit liefern to supply goods on credit, to grant credit terms;
    Waren an einen Kunden liefern to serve a customer with goods;
    Waren lombardieren to lend money on goods, to hypothecate goods;
    Waren wieder in Besitz nehmen to repossess goods;
    Waren an Bord nehmen to take goods on board;
    Waren in Kommission nehmen to take goods on a consignment basis;
    Waren auf Kredit nehmen to take goods on credit;
    Waren auf Lager nehmen to put goods in stock, to lay in goods;
    Waren am Kai niederlegen to place goods on the dock;
    Waren billiger notieren to mark down the prices of goods;
    Waren pfänden to distrain upon (seize) goods;
    Waren prüfen to examine the goods;
    Waren retournieren to return articles;
    Waren per Express schicken to send goods by fast train;
    Waren per Nachnahme schicken to send goods cash (collect, US) on delivery;
    sich Waren sichern to assure o. s. with goods;
    Waren sortieren to grade goods;
    Waren in Rechnung stellen to bill goods;
    Waren zu niedrig in Rechnung stellen to underbill goods (US);
    Waren auf einem Stand zur Schau stellen to set out goods on a stall;
    Waren taxieren to value (make a valuation of) goods;
    Waren übereignen to assign goods;
    jem. Waren vertragsmäßig übergeben to bail goods to s. o.;
    Laden mit Waren übersättigen to overstock a shop;
    Waren auf Spekulation übersenden to venture goods;
    Waren unterbewerten to set too low a valuation on goods;
    Waren einer genauen Untersuchung unterziehen (unterwerfen) to submit goods to a careful examination;
    Waren auf dem Markt eines anderen Landes verbringen to introduce goods into the commerce of another country;
    Waren verkaufen to clear goods;
    als zweitklassige Waren verkaufen to sell goods under a secondary label;
    Waren in Ballen verkaufen to sell in bales;
    Waren nach dem Dutzend verkaufen to sell articles by the dozen (sets of a dozen);
    Waren unberechtigt als Markenartikel verkaufen to pass off goods as those of another make (US);
    Waren verpacken to wrap up goods;
    seine Waren in Ballen verpacken to pack up one’s wares, to make up one’s goods in bales;
    Waren für den Verkauf verpacken to box articles for sale;
    seinen Waren einen ausgezeichneten Ruf verschaffen to build up a good reputation for one’s goods;
    Waren versenden to forward goods;
    Waren mit der Eisenbahn versenden to send goods by rail;
    Waren zu einem bestimmten Frachtsatz versenden to rate goods (US);
    Waren ins Landesinnere versenden to intern goods;
    Waren auf dem Seeweg versenden to ship goods by sea;
    seine Waren unter falschem Warenzeichen vertreiben to pass off one’s goods as those of another make (US);
    Annahme von Waren verweigern to refuse goods;
    Waren verwerten to realize goods;
    Waren verzollen to clear goods at the customhouse;
    Waren an eine neue Adresse weiterbefördern to reconsign goods;
    Waren über Bord werfen to jettison goods;
    Waren auf den Markt werfen to throw goods on the market, (im Ausland) to dump goods on a foreign market;
    in Waren zahlen to pay in kind;
    Waren im Schaufenster zeigen to expose goods in a shop window;
    beschädigte Waren wieder zurechtmachen to render goods marketable;
    Waren zurücknehmen to take goods back;
    Waren unmittelbar zuschicken to dispatch goods direct.
    nachbekommen, Ware
    to get goods in replacement;
    nachbelasten to make an additional charge.

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  • 11 Benz, Karl

    [br]
    b. 25 November 1844 Pfaffenrot, Black Forest, Germany
    d. 4 April 1929 Ladenburg, near Mannheim, Germany
    [br]
    German inventor of one of the first motor cars.
    [br]
    The son of a railway mechanic, it is said that as a child one of his hobbies was the repair of Black Forest clocks. He trained as a mechanical engineer at the Karlsruhe Lyzeum and Polytechnikum under Ferdinand Redtenbacher (d. 1863), who pointed out to him the need for a more portable power source than the steam engine. He went to Maschinenbau Gesellschaft Karlsruhe for workshop experience and then joined Schweizer \& Cie, Mannheim, for two years. In 1868 he went to the Benkiser Brothers at Pforzheim. In 1871 he set up a small machine-tool works at Mannheim, but in 1877, in financial difficulties, he turned to the idea of an entirely new product based on the internal-combustion engine. At this time, N.A. Otto held the patent for the four-stroke internal-combustion engine, so Benz had to put his hopes on a two-stroke design. He avoided the trouble with Dugald Clerk's engine and designed one in which the fuel would not ignite in the pump and in which the cylinder was swept with fresh air between each two firing strokes. His first car had a sparking plug and coil ignition. By 1879 he had developed the engine to a stage where it would run satisfactorily with little attention. On 31 December 1879, with his wife Bertha working the treadle of her sewing machine to charge the batteries, he demonstrated his engine in street trials in Mannheim. In the summer of 1888, unknown to her husband, Bertha drove one of his cars the 80 km (50 miles) to Pforzheim and back with her two sons, aged 13 and 15. She and the elder boy pushed the car up hills while the younger one steered. They bought petrol from an apothecary in Wiesloch and had a brake block repaired in Bauschlott by the village cobbler. Karl Benz's comments on her return from this venture are not recorded! Financial problems prevented immediate commercial production of the automobile, but in 1882 Benz set up the Gasmotorenfabrik Mannheim. After trouble with some of his partners, he left in 1883 and formed a new company, Benz \& Cie, Rheinische Gasmotorenfabrik. Otto's patent was revoked in 1886 and in that year Benz patented a motor car with a gas engine drive. He manufactured a 0.8hp car, the engine running at 250 rpm with a horizontal flywheel, exhibited at the Paris Fair in 1889. He was not successful in finding anyone in France who would undertake manufacture. This first car was a three-wheeler, and soon after he produced a four-wheeled car, but he quarrelled with his co-directors, and although he left the board in 1902 he rejoined it soon after.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    St J.Nixon, 1936, The Invention of the Automobile. E.Diesel et al., 1960, From Engines to Autos. E.Johnson, 1986, The Dawn of Motoring.
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  • 12 beschicken

    v/t
    1. TECH. (Reaktor, Hochofen etc.) load, charge
    2. (Ausstellung etc.) mit Leuten: send representatives to; mit Dingen: send exhibits etc. to; (Markt, Laden) supply; die Ausstellung / Messe war gut beschickt the exhibition / trade fair had a good display
    3. bes. nordd. (erledigen) deal with
    * * *
    be|schị|cken ptp beschi\#ckt
    vt
    1) (= Vertreter schicken auf) to send representatives to; (= Exemplare schicken auf) to send exhibits to

    eine Ausstellung mit jdm/etw beschicken — to send sb/sth to an exhibition

    die Firma hat die Messe beschicktthe firm exhibited at the fair

    der Kongress wurde von den meisten Ländern beschicktmost countries sent representatives to the congress

    2) (TECH) Hochofen to charge; Kessel to fire
    * * *
    be·schi·cken *
    vt
    etw [mit etw dat] \beschicken
    1. (mit Zusendung bedenken) to supply sth [with sth]
    einen Markt/Abnehmer \beschicken to supply a market/customers
    eine Messe/Ausstellung \beschicken to exhibit at a fair, to send products to an exhibition
    eine Versammlung \beschicken to send representatives to an assembly
    2. TECH to supply [or fill] [or charge] sth [with sth]
    diese Maschine wird mit Öl beschickt this machine is charged [or fuelled] with oil
    * * *
    transitives Verb (Technik): (füllen) charge < furnace>
    * * *
    1. TECH (Reaktor, Hochofen etc) load, charge
    2. (Ausstellung etc) mit Leuten: send representatives to; mit Dingen: send exhibits etc to; (Markt, Laden) supply;
    die Ausstellung/Messe war gut beschickt the exhibition/trade fair had a good display
    3. besonders nordd (erledigen) deal with
    * * *

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  • 13 Brayton, George Bailey

    [br]
    b. 1839 Rhode Island, USA
    d. 1892 Leeds, England
    [br]
    American engineer, inventor of gas and oil engines.
    [br]
    During the thirty years prior to his death, Brayton devoted considerable effort to the development of internal-combustion engines. He designed the first commercial gas engine of American origin in 1872. An oil-burning engine was produced in 1875. An aptitude for mechanical innovation became apparent whilst he was employed at the Exeter Machine Works, New Hampshire, where he developed a successful steam generator for use in domestic and industrial heating systems. Brayton engines were distinguished by the method of combustion. A pressurized air-fuel mixture from a reservoir was ignited as it entered the working cylinder—a precursor of the constant-pressure cycle. A further feature of these early engines was a rocking beam. There exist accounts of Brayton engines fitted into river craft, and of one in a carriage which operated for a few months in 1872–3. However, the appearance of the four-stroke Otto engine in 1876, together with technical problems associated with backfiring into the fuel reservoir, prevented large-scale acceptance of the Brayton engine. Although Thompson Sterne \& Co. of Glasgow became licensees, the engine failed to gain usage in Britain. A working model of Brayton's gas engine is exhibited in the Museum of History and Technology in Washington, DC.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1872, US patent no. 125,166 (Brayton gas engine).
    July 1890, British patent no. 11,062 (oil engine; under patent agent W.R.Lake).
    Further Reading
    D.Clerk, 1895, The Gas and Oil Engine, 6th edn, London, pp. 152–62 (includes a description and report of tests carried out on a Brayton engine).
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  • 14 Hjorth, Soren

    SUBJECT AREA: Electricity
    [br]
    b. 13 October 1801 Vesterbygaard, Denmark
    d. 28 August 1870 Copenhagen, Denmark
    [br]
    Danish engineer and inventor who first proposed the principle of the self-excited dynamo.
    [br]
    After passing a legal examination, Hjorth found employment in the state treasury in Copenhagen and in 1830 advanced to be Clerk of the Exchequer and Secretary. In 1834 he visited England to study the use of steam road and rail vehicles. Hjorth was involved in the formation of the first railway company in Denmark and became Technical Director of Denmark's first railway, a line between Copenhagen and Roskilde that opened in 1847. In 1848 he petitioned the Government for funds to visit England and have built there an electric motor of his own design with oscillating motion. This petition, supported by Hans Christian Oersted (1777–1851), was granted. A British patent was obtained for the machine, an example being exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London. Turning his attention to the generation of electricity, he conceived as early as May 1851 the dynamo electric principle with self-excitation that was incorporated in his patent in 1855. Unfortunately, Hjorth held the firm but mistaken belief that if he could use his dynamo to drive a motor he would obtain more power than was consumed in driving the dynamo. The theory of conservation of energy was being only slowly accepted at that time, and Hjorth, with little scientific training, was to be disappointed at the failure of his schemes. He worked with great perseverance and industry to the end of his life on the design of his electrical machines.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    11 April 1855, British patent no. 806 (Hjorth's self-excited dynamo).
    11 April 1855, British patent nos. 807 and 808 (reciprocating and rotary electric motors).
    Further Reading
    S.Smith, 1912, Soren Hjorth, Copenhagen (the most detailed biography).
    1907, "Soren Hjorth, discoverer of the dynamo-electric principle", Electrical Engineering 1: 957–8 (a short biography).
    Catalogue of the 1851 Exhibition, 1851, London, pp. 1, 359–60 (for a description of Hjorth's electromagnetic engine with oscillating motion.
    GW

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  • 15 Hooke, Robert

    [br]
    b. 18 July 1635 Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England
    d. 3 March 1703 London, England
    [br]
    English physicist, astronomer and mechanician.
    [br]
    Son of Revd John Hooke, minister of the parish, he was a sickly child who was subject to headaches which prevented protracted study. He devoted his time while alone to making mechanical models including a wooden clock. On the death of his father in October 1648 he was left £100 and went to London, where he became a pupil of Sir Peter Lely and then went to Westminster School under Dr Busby. There he learned the classical languages, some Hebrew and oriental languages while mastering six books of Euclid in one week. In 1653 he entered Christ Church College, Oxford, where he graduated MA in 1663, after studying chemistry and astronomy. In 1662 he was appointed Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society and was elected a Fellow in 1663. In 1665 his appointment was made permanent and he was given apartments in Gresham College, where he lived until his death in 1703. He was an indefatigable experimenter, perhaps best known for the invention of the universal joint named after him. The properties of the atmosphere greatly engaged him and he devised many forms of the barometer. He was the first to apply the spiral spring to the regulation of the balance wheel of the watch in an attempt to measure longitude at sea, but he did not publish his results until after Huygens's reinvention of the device in 1675. Several of his "new watches" were made by Thomas Tompion, one of which was presented to King Charles II. He is said to have invented, among other devices, thirty different ways of flying, the first practical system of telegraphy, an odometer, a hearing aid, an arithmetical machine and a marine barometer. Hooke was a small man, somewhat deformed, with long, lank hair, who went about stooped and moved very quickly. He was of a melancholy and mistrustful disposition, ill-tempered and sharp-tongued. He slept little, often working all night and taking a nap during the day. John Aubrey, his near-contemporary, wrote of Hooke, "He is certainly the greatest Mechanick this day in the World." He is said to have been the first to establish the true principle of the arch. His eyesight failed and he was blind for the last year of his life. He is best known for his Micrographia, or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies, first published in 1665. After the Great Fire of London, he exhibited a model for the rebuilding of the City. This was not accepted, but it did result in Hooke's appointment as one of two City Surveyors. This proved a lucrative post and through it Hooke amassed a fortune of some thousands of pounds, which was found intact after his death some thirty years later. It had never been opened in the interim period. Among the buildings he designed were the new Bethlehem (Bedlam) Hospital, the College of Physicians and Montague House.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1663; Secretary 1677–82.
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  • 16 Jeanneret, Charles-Edouard (Le Corbusier)

    [br]
    b. 6 October 1887 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
    d. 27 August 1965 Cap Martin, France
    [br]
    Swiss/French architect.
    [br]
    The name of Le Corbusier is synonymous with the International style of modern architecture and city planning, one utilizing functionalist designs carried out in twentieth-century materials with modern methods of construction. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, born in the watch-making town of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Jura mountain region, was the son of a watch engraver and dial painter. In the years before 1918 he travelled widely, studying building in many countries. He learned about the use of reinforced concrete in the studio of Auguste Perret and about industrial construction under Peter Behrens. In 1917 he went to live in Paris and spent the rest of his life in France; in 1920 he adopted the name of Le Corbusier, one derived from that of his ancestors (Le Corbesier), and ten years later became a French citizen.
    Le Corbusier's long working life spanned a career divided into three distinct parts. Between 1905 and 1916 he designed a number of simple and increasingly modern houses; the years 1921 to 1940 were ones of research and debate; and the twenty years from 1945 saw the blossoming of his genius. After 1917 Le Corbusier gained a reputation in Paris as an architect of advanced originality. He was particularly interested in low-cost housing and in improving accommodation for the poor. In 1923 he published Vers une architecture, in which he planned estates of mass-produced houses where all extraneous and unnecessary features were stripped away and the houses had flat roofs and plain walls: his concept of "a machine for living in". These white boxes were lifted up on stilts, his pilotis, and double-height living space was provided internally, enclosed by large areas of factory glazing. In 1922 Le Corbusier exhibited a city plan, La Ville contemporaine, in which tall blocks made from steel and concrete were set amongst large areas of parkland, replacing the older concept of city slums with the light and air of modern living. In 1925 he published Urbanisme, further developing his socialist ideals. These constituted a major reform of the industrial-city pattern, but the ideas were not taken up at that time. The Depression years of the 1930s severely curtailed architectural activity in France. Le Corbusier designed houses for the wealthy there, but most of his work prior to 1945 was overseas: his Centrosoyus Administration Building in Moscow (1929–36) and the Ministry of Education Building in Rio de Janeiro (1943) are examples. Immediately after the end of the Second World War Le Corbusier won international fame for his Unité d'habitation theme, the first example of which was built in the boulevard Michelet in Marseille in 1947–52. His answer to the problem of accommodating large numbers of people in a small space at low cost was to construct an immense all-purpose block of pre-cast concrete slabs carried on a row of massive central supports. The Marseille Unité contains 350 apartments in eight double storeys, with a storey for shops half-way up and communal facilities on the roof. In 1950 he published Le Modular, which described a system of measurement based upon the human male figure. From this was derived a relationship of human and mathematical proportions; this concept, together with the extensive use of various forms of concrete, was fundamental to Le Corbusier's later work. In the world-famous and highly personal Pilgrimage Church of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp (1950–5), Le Corbusier's work was in Expressionist form, a plastic design in massive rough-cast concrete, its interior brilliantly designed and lit. His other equally famous, though less popular, ecclesiastical commission showed a contrasting theme, of "brutalist" concrete construction with uncompromisingly stark, rectangular forms. This is the Dominican Convent of Sainte Marie de la Tourette at Eveux-sur-l'Arbresle near Lyon, begun in 1956. The interior, in particular, is carefully worked out, and the lighting, from both natural and artificial sources, is indirect, angled in many directions to illuminate vistas and planes. All surfaces are carefully sloped, the angles meticulously calculated to give optimum visual effect. The crypt, below the raised choir, is painted in bright colours and lit from ceiling oculi.
    One of Le Corbusier's late works, the Convent is a tour de force.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Honorary Doctorate Zurich University 1933. Honorary Member RIBA 1937. Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur 1937. American Institute of Architects Gold Medal 1961. Honorary Degree University of Geneva 1964.
    Bibliography
    His chief publications, all of which have been numerously reprinted and translated, are: 1923, Vers une architecture.
    1935, La Ville radieuse.
    1946, Propos d'urbanisme.
    1950, Le Modular.
    Further Reading
    P.Blake, 1963, Le Corbusier: Architecture and Form, Penguin. R.Furneaux-Jordan, 1972, Le Corbusier, Dent.
    W.Boesiger, 1970, Le Corbusier, 8 vols, Thames and Hudson.
    ——1987, Le Corbusier: Architect of the Century, Arts Council of Great Britain.
    DY

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  • 17 Otis, Elijah Graves

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    b. 3 August 1811 Halifax, Vermont, USA
    d. 8 April 1861 Yonkers, New York, USA
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    American mechanic and inventor of the safety passenger elevator.
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    Otis was educated in public schools and worked in a variety of jobs in the trucking and construction industries as well as in a machine shop, a carriage makers, a grist mill, and a saw mill and in a bedstead factory. It was when supervisor of construction of a new bedstead factory at Yonkers in 1852 that he developed the innovative safety features of an elevator that was to be the foundation of his later success. If the ropes or cables of a hoist should break, springs would force pawls on the lift cage to engage the ratcheted guide rails fitted into the sides of the shaft and so stop the lift. In 1853 he was planning to leave his job to join the California Gold Rush but representatives of two New York City firms who had seen his Safety Elevator and were impressed with the safety devices requested that he make them replicas. He purchased space in the Yonkers plant and began manufacture of the lifts. Demand was small at first until in 1854 he exhibited at the American Institute Fair in New York City with an impressive performance. Standing on top of the lift cage, he ordered the rope supporting it to be cut. The safety pawls engaged and the cage stopped its downward movement. From then on orders gradually increased and in 1857 he installed the first safety lift for passengers in the Haughtwout Store in New York City. The invention immediately became popular and started a revolution in architecture and the construction industry, leading to the design and building of skyscrapers, as previously buildings were limited to six or seven storeys, because of the stairs people had to climb. Otis patented several other devices, the most important of which was for a steam elevator which established the future of the Otis Elevator Company. He died at Yonkers in 1861, leaving his business to his sons.
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    Further Reading
    Scribner's and Webster's Dictionaries of Biography.
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  • 18 Pääbo, Max

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
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    b. Estonia fl. 1950s Sweden
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    Estonian inventor of one of the most successful looms, in which the weft is sent across the warp by a jet of air.
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    The earliest patent for using a jet of air to propel a shuttle across a loom was granted to J.C. Brooks in 1914. A different method was tried by E.H.Ballou in 1929, but the really important patent was taken out by Max Pääbo, a refugee from Estonia. He exhibited his machine in Sweden in 1951, weaving cotton cloth 80 cm (31 1/2 in.) wide at a speed of 350 picks per minute, but it was not widely publicized until 1954. One shown in Manchester in 1958 ran at 410 picks per minute while weaving 90 cm (35 1/2 in.) cloth. His looms were called "Maxbo" after him. They had no shuttle; instead a jet of air drove a measured amount of weft drawn from a supply package across the warp threads. Efficient control of the airstream was the main reason for its success; not only was weaving much quicker, but it was also much quieter than traditional methods, and as the warp was nearly vertical the looms took up little space. Manufacture of these looms in Sweden ceased in 1962, but development continued in other countries.
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    Further Reading
    J.J.Vincent, 1980, Shuttle less Looms, Manchester (a good account of the development of modern looms).
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    Biographical history of technology > Pääbo, Max

  • 19 Wilde, Henry

    SUBJECT AREA: Electricity
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    b. 1833 Manchester, England
    d. 28 March 1919 Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England
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    English inventor and pioneer manufacturer of electrical generators.
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    After completing a mechanical engineering apprenticeship Wilde commenced in business as a telegraph and lightning conductor specialist in Lancashire. Several years spent on the design of an alphabetic telegraph resulted in a number of patents. In 1864 he secured a patent for an electromagnetic generator which gave alternating current from a shuttle-wound armature, the field being excited by a small direct-current magneto. Wilde's invention was described to the Royal Society by Faraday in March 1866. When demonstrated at the Paris Exhibition of 1867, Wilde's machine produced sufficient power to maintain an arc light. The small size of the generator provided a contrast to the large and heavy magnetoelectric machines also exhibited. He discovered, by experiment, that alternators in synchronism could be connected in parallel. At about the same time John Hopkinson arrived at the same conclusions on theoretical grounds.
    Between 1866 and 1877 he sold ninety-four machines with commutators for electroplating purposes, a number being purchased by Elkingtons of Birmingham. He also supplied generators for the first use of electric searchlights on battleships. In his early experiments Wilde was extremely close to the discovery of true self-excitation from remnant magnetism, a principle which he was to discover in 1867 on machines intended for electroplating. His patents proved to be financially successful and he retired from business in 1884. During the remaining thirty-five years of his life he published many scientific papers, turning from experimental work to philosophical and, finally, theological matters. His record as an inventor established him as a pioneer of electrical engineering, but his lack of scientific training was to restrict his later contributions.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1886.
    Bibliography
    1 December 1863, British patent no. 3,006 (alternator with a magneto-exciter).
    1866, Proceedings of the Royal Society 14:107–11 (first report on Wilde's experiments). 1900, autobiographical note, Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 29:3–17.
    Further Reading
    W.W.Haldane Gee. 1920, biography, Memoirs, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 63:1–16 (a comprehensive account).
    P.Dunsheath, 1962, A History of Electrical Engineering, London: Faber \& Faber, pp. 110–12 (a short account).
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    Biographical history of technology > Wilde, Henry

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