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it is his funeral

  • 1 it is his funeral

    разг.
    (it is his (her, etc.) funeral)
    это его (её и т. д.) дело, это его (её и т. д.) касается; тем хуже для него (для неё и т. д.) [первонач. амер.; жарг.]; см. тж. none of our funeral

    ‘Oh, well, it's not my funeral,’ he went on. ‘If the governor wants to keep him on here whether he's fitted for anything special or not, that's his look-out.’ (Th. Dreiser, ‘An American Tragedy’, book II, ch. VI) — - Ну, меня это мало трогает, - продолжал Джилберт. - Если отец захочет оставить этого парня на фабрике, не считаясь с тем, годится он на что-нибудь или нет, - это его дело.

    ‘It's your funeral then,’ Arthur warned him. ‘And yours,’ Fred retorted, ‘for getting mixed-up in a thing like this.’ (A. Sillitoe, ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’, part I, ch. VII) — - Тем хуже для вас, - предостерегающе заметил Артур. - Да и для вас тоже, - возразил Фред, - ведь и вы замешаны в этой истории.

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  • 2 it's his funeral

    זאת בעיה שלו, זב"שו, שישבור את הראש
    * * *
    שארה תא רובשיש,וש"בז,ולש היעב תאז

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  • 3 it's his funeral

    het is zijn probleem, laat hij zijn hoofd er maar over breken

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  • 4 it's his funeral

    det är hans sak

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  • 5 funeral

    noun
    1) Beerdigung, die
    2) attrib.

    funeral director — Bestattungsunternehmer, der

    funeral procession — Leichenzug, der (geh.)

    funeral service — Trauerfeier, die

    3) (coll.): (concern)
    * * *
    ['fju:nərəl]
    (the ceremony before the burying or cremation of a dead body: A large number of people attended the president's funeral; ( also adjective) a funeral procession.) das Begräbnis, Begräbnis-...
    * * *
    fu·ner·al
    [ˈfju:nərəl]
    I. n (burial) Begräbnis nt, Beerdigung f
    to attend a \funeral auf eine Beerdigung gehen
    that's your/his etc. \funeral ( fam) [das ist] dein/sein etc. Pech [o fam Problem
    II. n modifier (guests) Trauer-
    \funeral preparations Beerdigungsvorbereitungen pl
    \funeral service Trauergottesdienst m
    * * *
    ['fjuːnə rəl]
    n
    Begräbnis nt, Beerdigung f, Beisetzung f (form)

    well, that's your funeral (inf)na ja, das ist dein persönliches Pech (inf), das ist dein Problem (inf)

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    funeral [ˈfjuːnərəl]
    A s
    1. Begräbnis n, Beerdigung f, Bestattung f, Beisetzung f:
    he’s at a funeral er ist auf einem Begräbnis
    2. Leichenzug m
    3. umg Sorge f, Sache f:
    that’s your funeral das ist deine Sache oder dein Problem;
    it wasn’t my funeral es ging mich nichts an
    B adj Begräbnis…, Leichen…, Trauer…, Grab…:
    funeral allowance Sterbegeld n;
    funeral director Bestattungsunternehmer(in);
    funeral home US Leichenhalle f;
    funeral march MUS Trauermarsch m;
    funeral oration ( oder speech) Grabrede f;
    funeral parlo(u)r Leichenhalle f;
    funeral pile ( oder pyre) Scheiterhaufen m (zur Feuerbestattung);
    funeral procession Leichenzug m;
    funeral service Trauergottesdienst m;
    funeral urn Graburne f; academic.ru/35473/honor">honor B 2
    * * *
    noun
    1) Beerdigung, die
    2) attrib.

    funeral director — Bestattungsunternehmer, der

    funeral procession — Leichenzug, der (geh.)

    funeral service — Trauerfeier, die

    3) (coll.): (concern)
    * * *
    (with burial) n.
    Begräbnis n. adj.
    Begräbnis- präfix.
    Leichenbegängnis n. n.
    Beerdigung f.
    Beisetzung f.
    Bestattung f.

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  • 6 funeral

    {'fju:nərəl}
    I. 1. погребение, погребална служба
    2. погребално шествие
    that's his FUNERAL! разг. той да си му бере грижата! it is not my FUNERAL това не ме интересува/засяга
    II. a погребален
    FUNERAL urn урна с праха (след кремация)
    FUNERAL pile/pyre ист. клада зa изгаряне на мъртвец
    FUNERAL home/parlour ам. погребално бюро
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    {'fju:nъrъl} n 1. погребение; погребална служба; 2. погребалн(2) {'fju:nъrъl} а погребален; funeral urn урна с праха (след крема
    * * *
    траурен;
    * * *
    1. funeral home/parlour ам. погребално бюро 2. funeral pile/pyre ист. клада зa изгаряне на мъртвец 3. funeral urn урна с праха (след кремация) 4. i. погребение, погребална служба 5. ii. a погребален 6. that's his funeral! разг. той да си му бере грижата! it is not my funeral това не ме интересува/засяга 7. погребално шествие
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    funeral[´fju:nərəl] I. n 1. погребение; погребална служба; 2. погребална процесия; that's not my \funeral! това не ме интересува (засяга), това не е моя работа (мой проблем); II. adj погребален; \funeral pile ( pyre) ист. клада за изгаряне на мъртвец.

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  • 7 Funeral

    subs.
    P. and V. τφος, ὁ, ταφή, ἡ, κῆδος, τό (Plat.).
    For funeral ceremonies see Thuc. 2, 34, and Eur., Hel. 1240-1277.
    Carrying out for burial: P. and V. ἐκφορά. ἡ.
    Carry in funeral procession, v. trans.: P. and V. ἐκφέρειν (acc.), V. κομίζειν (acc.).
    Attend a funeral: P. συνεκφέρειν (absol.).
    Funeral feast, subs.: P. περίδειπνον, τό.
    Funeral gifts: V. κτερίσματα, τά, P. and V. ἐντφια, τά.
    Funeral honours: V. κτερίσματα, τά.
    Give funeral honours to, v.: V. κτερίζειν (acc.), ἁγνίζειν (acc.).
    Deprived of funeral honours, adj.: V. ἀκτέριστος, μοιρος.
    Funeral oration, subs.: P. λόγος ὁ ἐπὶ τοῖς θαπτομένοις (Thuc. 2, 35), λόγος ἐπιτάφιος (Dem. 499).
    Funeral pile: P. and V. πυρά, ἡ, V. πυρκαιά, ἡ.
    Funeral rites: P. and V. νόμιμα, τά (Eur., Hel. 1277), P. τὰ νομιζόμενα.
    When any of them died and his funeral was taking place: P. ἐπειδὴ τελευτήσειέ τις αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ νομιζόμενα φέροιτο (Dem. 308).

    Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language > Funeral

  • 8 funeral

    'fju:nərəl
    (the ceremony before the burying or cremation of a dead body: A large number of people attended the president's funeral; ( also adjective) a funeral procession.) begravelse, gravferd, jordfesting
    likferd
    subst. \/ˈfjuːn(ə)r(ə)l\/
    1) begravelse, gravferd, jordfesting, likferd (gammeldags)
    2) begravelsesfølge, likfølge, sørgetog
    3) ( i sammensatte ord) begravelses-, sørge-, lik-
    begravelsesfølge\/sørgetog
    be someone's funeral være noens problem

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  • 9 funeral

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  • 10 funeral

    'fju:nərəl
    (the ceremony before the burying or cremation of a dead body: A large number of people attended the president's funeral; (also adjective) a funeral procession.) funeral
    funeral n entierro / funeral

    funeral sustantivo masculino,
    funerales sustantivo masculino plural ( exequias) funeral;
    ( oficio religioso) funeral service
    funeral sustantivo masculino funeral ' funeral' also found in these entries: Spanish: ardiente - corona - cortejo - entierro - ser - exequias - fúnebre - funeraria - masa - mortuoria - mortuorio - pompa - capilla - comitiva - enterrar - honra - misa - velatorio English: burial - funeral - funeral home - funeral parlor - procession - state funeral - arrangement - mortician
    tr['fjʊːnərəl]
    1 entierro, funeral nombre masculino
    1 fúnebre
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    it's your «(his, her, etc)» funeral! ¡es tu (su etc) problema!, ¡allá tú (él, ella, etc)!
    funeral director director de funeraria
    funeral procession cortejo fúnebre
    funeral parlor SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL funeraria
    funeral pyre pira funeraria
    funeral ['fju:nərəl] adj
    1) : funeral, funerario, fúnebre
    funeral procession: cortejo fúnebre
    2)
    funeral home : funeraria f
    : funeral m, funerales mpl
    adj.
    entierro, -a adj.
    funeral adj.
    funerario, -a adj.
    fúnebre adj.
    n.
    entierro s.m.
    funeral s.m.
    funerales s.m.pl.
    mortuorio s.m.
    'fjuːnərəl
    noun funerales mpl, funeral m; ( burial) entierro m

    that's your funeral — (colloq) allá tú (fam), con tu pan te lo comas (fam); (before n) <pyre, customs> funerario

    funeral servicefuneral f, exequias fpl (frml)

    ['fjuːnǝrǝl]
    1.
    N (=burial) funeral m, entierro m ; (=wake) velatorio m ; (=service) exequias fpl

    state funeralentierro m or funeral m con honores de estado

    that's your funeral! * — ¡con tu pan te lo comas!

    2.
    CPD

    funeral cortège Ncortejo m fúnebre

    funeral director Ndirector(a) m / f de funeraria

    funeral home N (US)= funeral parlour

    funeral march Nmarcha f fúnebre

    funeral oration Noración f fúnebre

    funeral procession Ncortejo m fúnebre

    funeral pyre Npira f funeraria

    * * *
    ['fjuːnərəl]
    noun funerales mpl, funeral m; ( burial) entierro m

    that's your funeral — (colloq) allá tú (fam), con tu pan te lo comas (fam); (before n) <pyre, customs> funerario

    funeral servicefuneral f, exequias fpl (frml)

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  • 11 none of our funeral

    разг.
    ((it is) none of our (your, etc.) funeral)
    это не наше (не ваше и т. д.) дело, это нас (вас и т. д.) не касается [первонач. амер.; жарг.]; см. тж. it is his funeral

    We don't know for certain it was them, and it's none of our funeral, anyhow. (Suppl) — Мы точно не знаем, они ли это были. Впрочем, это не наше дело.

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  • 12 someone's funeral

    n infml

    If he persists in playing the giddy goat it's his own funeral — Если он намерен валять дурака и дальше, это его личное дело

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  • 13 it (or that) is one's funeral

       paзг.
       этo eгo (eё и т. д.) дeлo, этo eгo (eё и т. д.) кacaeтcя; тeм xужe для нeгo (для нeё и т. д.) [пepвoнaч. aмep.]
        'Oh, well, it's not my funeral,' he went on. 'If the governor wants to keep him on here whether he's fitted for anything special or not, that's his look-out' (Th. Dreiser). 'It's your funeral then,' Arthur warned him. 'And yours,' Fred retorted, 'for getting mixed up in a thing like this'

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  • 14 it's his own funeral

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > it's his own funeral

  • 15 suttee (Former Indian custom of a widow burning herself, either on the funeral pyre of her dead husband or soon after his death)

    Религия: сати

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > suttee (Former Indian custom of a widow burning herself, either on the funeral pyre of her dead husband or soon after his death)

  • 16 pogrzeb

    m (G pogrzebu) 1. (ceremonia) funeral
    - pogrzeb wojskowy a military funeral
    - na pogrzebie at a funeral
    - pójść na czyjś pogrzeb to go to sb’s funeral
    - na jego pogrzeb przyszły tysiące ludzi thousands of people attended his funeral
    - wyprawić komuś pogrzeb to give sb a funeral
    2. (kondukt) funeral procession
    - pogrzeb wyruszył z katedry the funeral procession started from the cathedral
    - iść za pogrzebem to walk in a funeral procession
    3. przen. end
    - pogrzeb komunizmu the end of communism
    * * *
    -bu, -by; loc sg - bie; m
    * * *
    mi
    1. ( ceremonia) funeral, burial; pogrzeb z honorami honorable burial.
    2. ( kondukt) funeral, funeral procession.

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  • 17 Pierre, l'Abbé

       (1912-2007)
       Born Henri Grouès, Abbé Pierre (Abbot Pierre) was a French cleric, and founder of the Communautés d'Emmaüs, associations for the reinsertion of long-term unemployed and social misfits. He also founded the Abbé-Pierre Foundation, to provide housing for the socially excluded. He was by all acounts the most famous and popular Catholic priest of his generation in France, and was respected by all for his unceasing battle for human rights and dignity, and against social exclusion, and homelessness. When he died in 2007, it was suggested that he should receive a state funeral; but his supporters and family requested just a "national hommage". His funeral was celebrated in Notre Dame cathedral, in the presence of President Chirac and former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and thousands lined the route of his funeral procession.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Pierre, l'Abbé

  • 18 Edison, Thomas Alva

    [br]
    b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA
    d. 18 October 1931 Glenmont
    [br]
    American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.
    [br]
    He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.
    At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.
    Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.
    He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.
    Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.
    Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.
    Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.
    In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.
    On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.
    Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.
    In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.
    In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.
    In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.
    In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.
    In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.
    Further Reading
    M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.
    R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Edison, Thomas Alva

  • 19 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.
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    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

  • 20 जटायुः _jaṭāyuḥ _जटायुस् _jaṭāyus

    जटायुः जटायुस् m. A son of Śyeni and Aruṇa, a semi divine bird [ He was a great friend of Daśaratha. He once saved his life while he was thrown down along with his car by Saturn against whom he had proceeded when a drought, said to be caused by the planet, well-nigh devastated the earth. While Rāvaṇa was carrying away Sītā, Jaṭāyu heard her cries in the chariot and fought most desperately with the formid- able giant to rescue her from his grasp. But he was mortally wounded, and remained in that state till Rāma passed by that place in the course of his search after Sītā. The kind-hearted bird told Rāma that his wife had been carried away by Rāvaṇa and then breathed his last. His funeral rites were duly per- formed by Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa.]

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