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1. noun1) (the number of occasions within a given period of time when something happens or is done: a high (monthly) accident rate in a factory.) tasa, índice2) (the number or amount of something (in relation to something else); a ratio: There was a failure rate of one pupil in ten in the exam.) porcentaje3) (the speed with which something happens or is done: He works at a tremendous rate; the rate of increase/expansion.) velocidad, ritmo4) (the level (of pay), cost etc (of or for something): What is the rate of pay for this job?) tarifa5) ((usually in plural) a tax, especially, in United Kingdom, paid by house-owners etc to help with the running of their town etc.) contribución municipal, impuestos municipales
2. verb(to estimate or be estimated, with regard to worth, merit, value etc: I don't rate this book very highly; He doesn't rate very highly as a dramatist in my estimation.) estimar, tasar, valorar- rating- at this
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- rate of exchange
rate n1. tasa / índice / tipo2. razón3. ritmotr[reɪt]1 tasa, índice nombre masculino2 (speed) velocidad nombre femenino, ritmo■ at the rate he's going he'll finish by Tuesday al paso que lleva, acabará el martes■ at this rate there'll be no woods left a este paso no quedará bosque, como sigamos así no quedará bosque3 (price) tarifa, precio1 (consider) considerar■ how do rate your chances for the race? ¿qué oportunidad crees que tienes en la carrera?2 (deserve) merecer■ the fire rated no more than three lines in the local paper el incendio mereció tan solo tres líneas en el diario local3 (fix value) tasar1 SMALLBRITISH ENGLISH/SMALL contribución f sing urbana\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLat the rate of a razón defirst/second rate de primera/segunda (categoría)interest rate tipo de interésrate of exchange tipo de cambiorate of inflation tasa de inflación1) consider, regard: considerar, estimar2) deserve: merecerrate n1) pace, speed: velocidad f, ritmo mat this rate: a este paso2) : índice m, tasa fbirth rate: índice de natalidadinterest rate: tasa de interés3) charge, price: precio m, tarifa fadv.• tanto por ciento adv.n.• cadencia s.f.• cuota s.f.• paso s.m.• porcentaje s.m.• precio s.m.• proporción s.f.• ritmo s.m.• tarifa s.f.• tasa s.f.• valoración s.f.• velocidad s.f.v.• tasar v.• valuar v.reɪt
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1)their vocabulary increases at a rate of five words a day — su vocabulario aumenta a razón de cinco palabras por día
at this rate, it'll take weeks — a este paso, nos va a llevar semanas
at any rate — ( at least) por lo menos; ( in any case) en todo caso
b) (level, ratio)birth rate — índice m de natalidad
death rate — mortalidad f
literacy rate — nivel m de alfabetización
rate of inflation — tasa f de inflación
rate of interest — tasa f or (esp Esp) tipo m de interés
rate of exchange — tipo m de cambio
c) (price, charge) tarifa fpeak/standard rate — tarifa f alta/normal
the work is paid at a rate of $20 per hour — el trabajo se paga a (razón de) 20 dólares por hora
2) ( local tax) (formerly, in UK) (often pl) ≈contribución f (municipal or inmobiliaria)
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1)a) (rank, consider)to rate somebody/something (AS something): I rate her as the best woman tennis player yo la considero la mejor tenista; how do you rate the movie on a scale of 1 to 10? — ¿qué puntuación or (AmL) puntaje le darías a la película en una escala del 1 al 10?
b) ( consider good) (BrE colloq) (usu neg)
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via) ( be classed)to rate AS something — estar* considerado como algo
b) ( measure up)to rate WITH somebody — (AmE)
I [reɪt]1. N1) (=proportion, ratio)birth rate — índice m or tasa f de natalidad, natalidad f
death rate — índice m or tasa f de mortalidad, mortalidad f
the failure/success rate for this exam is high — el índice de suspensos/aprobados en este examen es alto
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at a rate of — a razón deit is increasing at a or the rate of 5% a year — está aumentando a razón de un 5% al año
crime, divorce 4., first-rate, second-rate, third-rate, metabolic, suicideat a or the rate of three a minute — a razón de tres por minuto
he is the least appealing, to me at any rate — es el menos atractivo, al menos or por lo menos para mí
I don't know what happened, at any rate she didn't turn up — no sé lo que pasó, el caso es que or en todo caso no se presentó
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at this rate — a este pasoheart 2.at the rate you're going, you'll be dead before long — al paso que vas no vas a durar mucho
there is a reduced rate for children under 12 — a los niños menores de 12 años se les hace un descuento, hay una tarifa reducida para niños menores de 12 años
calls cost 36p per minute cheap rate — el precio de la llamada es de 36 peniques el minuto, dentro de la tarifa barata
postage, postal, peak 3., standard 3.they were paid a rate of £5 an hour — les pagaban a razón de 5 libras la hora
4) (Econ) [of stocks] cotización fbasic, fixed-rate, mortgage, taxwater 4.we pay £900 in rates — pagamos 900 libras de contribuciones
2. VT1) (=rank)how do you rate her? — ¿qué opinas de ella?
how do you rate his performance on a scale of one to ten? — ¿cuántos puntos le darías a su actuación en una escala del uno al diez?
X-rated, zero-rated•
to rate sth/sb highly, I rate the book highly — tengo muy buena opinión del libro2) (=consider, regard) considerar•
I rate myself as fairly fit — considero que estoy bastante en forma3) * (=regard as good)4) (=deserve) merecer(se)in those crowded streets he wouldn't rate a second glance — en esas calles llenas de gente pasaría desapercibido
3. VI1) (=perform, measure up)how did he rate? — ¿qué tal lo hizo?, ¿qué tal se portó?
2)• to rate as, it must rate as one of the most boring films around — debe de estar considerada una de las películas más aburridas del momento
4.CPDrate rebate N — (Brit) (formerly) devolución f de contribución municipal
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[reɪt]VT liter (=scold) regañar, reñir* * *[reɪt]
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1)their vocabulary increases at a rate of five words a day — su vocabulario aumenta a razón de cinco palabras por día
at this rate, it'll take weeks — a este paso, nos va a llevar semanas
at any rate — ( at least) por lo menos; ( in any case) en todo caso
b) (level, ratio)birth rate — índice m de natalidad
death rate — mortalidad f
literacy rate — nivel m de alfabetización
rate of inflation — tasa f de inflación
rate of interest — tasa f or (esp Esp) tipo m de interés
rate of exchange — tipo m de cambio
c) (price, charge) tarifa fpeak/standard rate — tarifa f alta/normal
the work is paid at a rate of $20 per hour — el trabajo se paga a (razón de) 20 dólares por hora
2) ( local tax) (formerly, in UK) (often pl) ≈contribución f (municipal or inmobiliaria)
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1)a) (rank, consider)to rate somebody/something (AS something): I rate her as the best woman tennis player yo la considero la mejor tenista; how do you rate the movie on a scale of 1 to 10? — ¿qué puntuación or (AmL) puntaje le darías a la película en una escala del 1 al 10?
b) ( consider good) (BrE colloq) (usu neg)
2.
via) ( be classed)to rate AS something — estar* considerado como algo
b) ( measure up)to rate WITH somebody — (AmE)
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22 go
ɡəu 1. 3rd person singular present tense - goes; verb1) (to walk, travel, move etc: He is going across the field; Go straight ahead; When did he go out?) gå, dra, reise2) (to be sent, passed on etc: Complaints have to go through the proper channels.) bli sendt, skulle sendes3) (to be given, sold etc: The prize goes to John Smith; The table went for $100.) gå (til); bli solgt4) (to lead to: Where does this road go?) gå, føre5) (to visit, to attend: He goes to school every day; I decided not to go to the movie.) gå på6) (to be destroyed etc: This wall will have to go.) bli fjernet7) (to proceed, be done: The meeting went very well.) gå, forløpe, utvikle seg8) (to move away: I think it is time you were going.) dra, gå9) (to disappear: My purse has gone!) forsvinne10) (to do (some action or activity): I'm going for a walk; I'm going hiking next week-end.) skal gjøre (noe)11) (to fail etc: I think the clutch on this car has gone.) ryke, gå12) (to be working etc: I don't think that clock is going.) virke13) (to become: These apples have gone bad.) bli (fordervet, osv.)14) (to be: Many people in the world regularly go hungry.) være, gå15) (to be put: Spoons go in that drawer.) høre hjemme, ha sin plass16) (to pass: Time goes quickly when you are enjoying yourself.) gå17) (to be used: All her pocket-money goes on sweets.) bli brukt på/til18) (to be acceptable etc: Anything goes in this office.) være lov19) (to make a particular noise: Dogs go woof, not miaow.) lage en lyd, si20) (to have a particular tune etc: How does that song go?) lyde21) (to become successful etc: She always makes a party go.) gå bra, være en suksess2. noun1) (an attempt: I'm not sure how to do it, but I'll have a go.) forsøk2) (energy: She's full of go.) futt, fart, pågangsmot•- going3. adjective1) (successful: That shop is still a going concern.) vellykket2) (in existence at present: the going rate for typing manuscripts.) eksisterende, nåværende, vanlig•- go-ahead4. noun(permission: We'll start as soon as we get the go-ahead.) klarsignal, grønt lys- going-over
- goings-on
- no-go
- all go
- be going on for
- be going on
- be going strong
- from the word go
- get going
- give the go-by
- go about
- go after
- go against
- go along
- go along with
- go around
- go around with
- go at
- go back
- go back on
- go by
- go down
- go far
- go for
- go in
- go in for
- go into
- go off
- go on
- go on at
- go out
- go over
- go round
- go slow
- go steady
- go through
- go through with
- go too far
- go towards
- go up
- go up in smoke/flames
- go with
- go without
- keep going
- make a go of something
- make a go
- on the gogå--------kjøre--------reiseIsubst. \/ɡəʊ\/1) ( hverdagslig) hendelse, sak, historie2) omgang, runde, kule3) futt, tæl, pågangsmot, krutt, smell, sving, klem4) ( hverdagslig) forsøk5) ( hverdagslig) glass, rundeto glass rom, takk6) ( hverdagslig) suksess7) porsjon, doseat one go på første forsøk, på én gang, i strekkbe on the go ( hverdagslig) være på farten, være i gang, være i bevegelsebe (all) the go være motebevisst, følge siste motefrom go to whoa fra begynnelse til sluttfrom the word go se ➢ word, 1full of go eller have plenty of go full av farthave a go at something forsøke seg på noe, gjøre et forsøk på noemake a go of something lykkes med noe, ha fremgang med noea near go nære på, på håreta rum go tøff behandling, hard medfart ( foreldet) en overraskende begivenhet, et merkelig utfall, en snodig affærethat's a go eller here's a go litt av en røre, litt av en suppeII1) dra, reise, gå, kjøre, ferdes2) gå på, delta i, være medlem av3) gå omkring (og være), forbli4) begi seg, dra av gårde, gåjeg skal hjem \/ jeg går hjem5) ( særlig om noe negativt) bli, endre tilstand6) strekke seg, lede, føre til, gå til• is this the road that goes into town?7) ( om tid) gå, passere, forløpe8) ( om utfallet av noe) gå, lykkes• how did your application go?9) være på farten, jobbe, stå på10) gjøre• when you draw a bow you go like this...når du skal spenne buen gjør du slik...11) sette i gang, begynne• go when you hear the bell!12) harmonere, passe til, passe sammen13) ( om maskiner e.l.) funksjonere, gå, være i gang14) ( om gjenstander) høre til, høre hjemme, ha sin plass, være, stå, ligge, henge• where do you want your piano to go?15) ( hverdagslig) gå på do• please, Sir! I have to go!16) bli solgt for17) gå tom for, slippe opp for, ta slutt, gå unna, bruke opp• we'll have to stop at the next service station, the petrol's nearly gonevi må stoppe på neste bensinstasjon, det er nesten tomt for bensin18) forsvinne, gå tapt, ryke, gå i vasken19) avskaffes, oppheves, oppgis, ofres20) opphøre, ta slutt, gå over, gi seg21) avskjediges, slutte, måtte gå22) gå konkurs, gå over ende23) avta, svikte, gi etter24) dø, gå bort• the old man went peacefully at 3 a.m.25) få plass, romme, gå ned, gå inn i26) ( matematikk) gå opp i• the gun went bang!28) (om tekster, dikt, sanger e.l.) lyde, sies, gå• the story goes that...det sies at...• can you remember how that song goes?amerikanske dollar går\/er gyldige nesten overalt30) være akseptabelt, være tillatt, være lov31) ha det siste ordetnår jeg sier det, blir det slik32) gjøre, foreta, gjennomføre33) (amer., hverdagslig) strekke seg til• I'll go $500 for a suit but no morejeg kan strekke meg til 500 dollar for en dress, men ikke mer34) (amer., hverdagslig) vedde, sette, melde• I'll go $5 on the queen of hearts35) (amer., hverdagslig) holde ut36) (amer., hverdagslig) smake, ha lyst på37) (hverdagslig, ofte i indirekte tale) si• so I go, what'd you do that for?og så sier jeg bare, hvorfor gjorde du det, 'a?as something goes hva angår• she is not very old, as grandmothers goas things go som vanligcome and go se ➢ come, 2• a rumour is going about...det ryktes at...ta en omvei( sjøfart) gå baut, stagvende gå i gang med, sette i gang, gripe noe anutføre, skjøtte, passego about with gå sammen med, henge sammen med, være sammen medgo after gå etter, løpe etterforsøke å få tak i, forsøke å skaffe seg, være ute ettergo against gå imot, motstå(om følelser, prinsipper) gå på tvers av ( om avgjørelser e.l.) gå imot, være i disfavørgo ahead fortsette, gå på sette i gang, starte• go ahead!sett i gang! \/ kjør i vei!gå (fort) fremover, rykke frem, vinne frem, gjøre fremskrittgå i forveien, dra i forveienta ledelsen, gå forbi, passere(også overført)go along with være enig med, si seg enig igo all out ( hverdagslig) ta seg helt utgo all the way ( ungdomsspråk) ha samleiego all the way with være helt enig med ( sport) være på høyde medgo around with gå sammen med, henge sammen medgo at gyve løs pågo back ( om klokken) bli stilt tilbake ha kjent hverandre lengego back on svikte, gå tilbake på (hva en har sagt)go bad bli dårlig, bli bedervetgo from bad to worse gå fra asken til ildengo down (om skip, fly) gå ned, synke, krasje tape, bli slåttbli husket, bli skrevet ned( overført) bli mottatt (av publikum)bli slukt, bli svelget, gli ned(amer., hverdagslig) skje(britisk, hverdagslig) fullføre studier (særlig ved Oxford eller Cambridge) (britisk, hverdagslig) bli satt i fengselgo down on somebody (vulgært, slang, om oralsex) sokke noen, suge noen, slikke noengo down with ( britisk) begynne å bli syk (av en spesifisert sykdom)go for bestemme seg for, velge• how I wish he had gone for the other candidate!angripe, gå løs påbli solgt for, gå forgjelde, angå everyone• everyone listen - that goes for you too, young man!go for it! ikke gi deg!go forward ( om klokken) bli stilt fremgo in for delta, melde seg pålike, gå på, delta i (regelmessig)go into kjøre inn i, kollidere gå inn på, undersøke( matematikk) gå (opp) i• how many times does 3 go into 18?( hverdagslig) miste selvbeherskelsen, «gå i lufta» (spesielt britisk, om mat) bli dårlig, bli bedervet, bli sur (spesielt britisk, hverdagslig) miste lysten på, begynne å mislike( om følelse) avta gradvis, gå overgo on ( ofte med presens partisipp) fortsettehun kunne ikke fortsette å arbeide der snakke ustoppelig, mase( i gjengitt direkte tale) fortsette (å snakke) etter et kort opphold• 'I don't think so', she went on( hverdagslig) kom igjen• go on, tell him!hende, finne sted, skje, foregå( ofte med infinitiv) gå videre, fortsette(hverdagslig, ofte negativt) like, ha noe til overs for, synes omvære sammen med, ha følge med( golf) spille de første ni hullene i en omgang på atten ( i kortspill) kaste kortene, kvitte seg med kortene en har på håndengo over gjennomgå• can we go over the procedure once more, pleasegå over til, endre standpunkt, konvertere( spesielt om en handling eller opptreden) bli godt mottatt, gå hjem hos (publikum)go round eller go around ( om hjul e.l.) gå rundt, dreie rundt ( om mat) rekke rundt, være tilstrekkelig( overført) fungere, gågo through gjennomgå, lidegå igjennom, lete igjennomjeg måtte lete igjennom hele beholdningen for å finne boken du spurte ettergjennomføre, fullføre, ferdigstille, avslutte( hverdagslig) bruke (opp)( om bøker) bli utgitt (i flere opplag)(austr., hverdagslig) stikke av (fra en forpliktelse)go to! ( gammeldags) gi deg!go up ( om et byggverk) bli reist eksplodere, antenne (plutselig)(britisk, hverdagslig) begynne ved et universitet (spesielt Oxford eller Cambridge)go with si seg enig med, gi tillatelse til ha et (seksuelt) forhold tilgo without være foruten, klare seg uten, forsake• he gave his children what they wanted, even if he had to go withoutIIIadj. \/ɡəʊ\/(romteknologi, hverdagslig) (start)klar -
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[wɒtʃ, Am wɑ:tʃ] n1) ( timepiece)wrist\watch Armbanduhr f;pocket \watch Taschenuhr fon \watch auf Wache;to be on \watch Wache haben;to be on \watch for sth nach etw dat Ausschau halten;to be under [close] \watch unter [strenger] Bewachung stehen;to keep \watch Wache halten;to keep a close \watch on sb/ sth jdn/etw scharf bewachen;to keep close \watch over sb/ sth über jdn/etw sorgsam wachen;to put a \watch on sb jdn beobachten lassenthe officers of the \watch die wachhabenden Offiziere1) ( look at)to \watch sb/ sth jdn/etw beobachten;I \watched him get into a taxi ich sah, wie er in ein Taxi stieg;I \watched the man repairing the roof ich schaute dem Mann dabei zu, wie er das Dach reparierte;it's fascinating \watching children grow up es ist faszinierend, die Kinder heranwachsen zu sehen;I got the feeling I was being \watched ich bekam das Gefühl, beobachtet zu werden;I'll only show you this once, so \watch carefully ich werde dir das nur dieses eine Mal zeigen, also pass gut auf;just \watch me! schau mal, wie ich das mache!;( in a race)just \watch him go! sieh nur, wie er rennt!;to \watch a match sports einem Match zusehen;to \watch the clock [ständig] auf die Uhr sehen;to \watch TV fernsehen;to \watch the world go by die [vorbeigehenden] Passanten beobachten2) ( keep vigil)to \watch sb/ sth auf jdn/etw aufpassen, jdn/etw im Auge behalten;\watch your son for symptoms of measles achten Sie bei Ihrem Sohn darauf, ob er Symptome von Masern aufweist;3) ( be careful about)to \watch sth auf etw akk achten;\watch your language! du sollst nicht fluchen!;\watch it! pass auf!;you want to \watch him bei ihm solltest du aufpassen;\watch yourself! sieh dich vor!;you have to \watch what you say to Aunt Emma bei Tante Emma musst du aufpassen, was du sagst;to \watch every penny [one spends] auf den Pfennig sehen ( fam)to \watch the time auf die Zeit achten;you'll have to \watch the time, your train leaves soon du musst dich ranhalten, dein Zug fährt bald ( fam)to \watch one's weight auf sein Gewicht achtenPHRASES:a \watched kettle [or pot] never boils ( never boils) wenn man auf etwas wartet, dauert es besonders lang;what a performance! I'd rather \watch paint dry! (dry!) ( fam) mein Gott war die Vorstellung langweilig! ( hum)\watch this space! mach dich auf etwas gefasst!;1) ( look) zusehen, zuschauen;they just sit and \watch die sitzen hier nur dumm rum und schauen zu ( fam)she'll pretend that she hasn't seen us - you \watch pass auf - sie wird so tun, als habe sie uns nicht gesehen;to \watch as sb/ sth does sth zusehen, wie jd/etw etw tut;to \watch for sth/sb nach etw/jdm Ausschau halten2) ( be attentive) aufpassen;\watch that... pass auf, dass...;to \watch like a hawk wie ein Luchs aufpassen;to \watch over sb/ sth über jdn/etw wachen;to \watch over children auf Kinder aufpassen -
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n- be under an obligation to smb.- lay obligations on smb.- impose obligations on smb.- lay smb. under an obligation- release smb. from an obligation2) обязанность; долг- discharge the obligations of smb.3) юр. долговое обязательство, долговая расписка4) обязательность, принудительная сила (закона, договора)•- impose legal obligations upon smb. -
25 rate of return
Finan accounting ratio of the income from an investment to the amount of the investment, used to measure financial performance.EXAMPLEThere is a basic formula that will serve most needs, at least initially:[(Current value of amount invested – Original value of amount invested) / Original value of amount invested] × 100% = rate of returnIf $1,000 in capital is invested in stock, and one year later the investment yields $1,100, the rate of return of the investment is calculated like this:[(1100 – 1000) / 1000] × 100% = 100 / 1000 × 100% = 10% rate of returnNow, assume $1,000 is invested again. One year later, the investment grows to $2,000 in value, but after another year the value of the investment falls to $1,200. The rate of return after the first year is:[(2000 – 1000) / 1000] × 100% = 100%The rate of return after the second year is:[(1200 – 2000) / 2000] × 100% = – 40%The average annual return for the two years (also known as average annual arithmetic return) can be calculated using this formula:(Rate of return for Year 1 + Rate of return for Year 2) /2 = average annual returnAccordingly:(100% + – 40%) /2 = 30%The average annual rate of return is a percentage, but one that is accurate over only a short period, so this method should be used accordingly.The geometric or compound rate of return is a better yardstick for measuring investments over the long term, and takes into account the effects of compounding. This formula is more complex and technical.The real rate of return is the annual return realized on an investment, adjusted for changes in the price due to inflation. If 10% is earned on an investment but inflation is 2%, then the real rate of return is actually 8%. -
26 Riley, James
SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy[br]b. 1840 Halifax, Englandd. 15 July 1910 Harrogate, England[br]English steelmaker who promoted the manufacture of low-carbon bulk steel by the open-hearth process for tin plate and shipbuilding; pioneer of nickel steels.[br]After working as a millwright in Halifax, Riley found employment at the Ormesby Ironworks in Middlesbrough until, in 1869, he became manager of the Askam Ironworks in Cumberland. Three years later, in 1872, he was appointed Blast-furnace Manager at the pioneering Siemens Steel Company's works at Landore, near Swansea in South Wales. Using Spanish ore, he produced the manganese-rich iron (spiegeleisen) required as an additive to make satisfactory steel. Riley was promoted in 1874 to be General Manager at Landore, and he worked with William Siemens to develop the use of the latter's regenerative furnace for the production of open-hearth steel. He persuaded Welsh makers of tin plate to use sheets rolled from lowcarbon (mild) steel instead of from charcoal iron and, partly by publishing some test results, he was instrumental in influencing the Admiralty to build two naval vessels of mild steel, the Mercury and the Iris.In 1878 Riley moved north on his appointment as General Manager of the Steel Company of Scotland, a firm closely associated with Charles Tennant that was formed in 1872 to make steel by the Siemens process. Already by 1878, fourteen Siemens melting furnaces had been erected, and in that year 42,000 long tons of ingots were produced at the company's Hallside (Newton) Works, situated 8 km (5 miles) south-east of Glasgow. Under Riley's leadership, steelmaking in open-hearth furnaces was initiated at a second plant situated at Blochairn. Plates and sections for all aspects of shipbuilding, including boilers, formed the main products; the company also supplied the greater part of the steel for the Forth (Railway) Bridge. Riley was associated with technical modifications which improved the performance of steelmaking furnaces using Siemens's principles. He built a gasfired cupola for melting pig-iron, and constructed the first British "universal" plate mill using three-high rolls (Lauth mill).At the request of French interests, Riley investigated the properties of steels containing various proportions of nickel; the report that he read before the Iron and Steel Institute in 1889 successfully brought to the notice of potential users the greatly enhanced strength that nickel could impart and its ability to yield alloys possessing substantially lower corrodibility.The Steel Company of Scotland paid dividends in the years to 1890, but then came a lean period. In 1895, at the age of 54, Riley moved once more to another employer, becoming General Manager of the Glasgow Iron and Steel Company, which had just laid out a new steelmaking plant at Wishaw, 25 km (15 miles) south-east of Glasgow, where it already had blast furnaces. Still the technical innovator, in 1900 Riley presented an account of his experiences in introducing molten blast-furnace metal as feed for the open-hearth steel furnaces. In the early 1890s it was largely through Riley's efforts that a West of Scotland Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the Manufactured Steel Trade came into being; he was its first Chairman and then its President.In 1899 James Riley resigned from his Scottish employment to move back to his native Yorkshire, where he became his own master by acquiring the small Richmond Ironworks situated at Stockton-on-Tees. Although Riley's 1900 account to the Iron and Steel Institute was the last of the many of which he was author, he continued to contribute to the discussion of papers written by others.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsPresident, West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute 1893–5. Vice-President, Iron and Steel Institute, 1893–1910. Iron and Steel Institute (London) Bessemer Gold Medal 1887.Bibliography1876, "On steel for shipbuilding as supplied to the Royal Navy", Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects 17:135–55.1884, "On recent improvements in the method of manufacture of open-hearth steel", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 2:43–52 plus plates 27–31.1887, "Some investigations as to the effects of different methods of treatment of mild steel in the manufacture of plates", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 1:121–30 (plus sheets II and III and plates XI and XII).27 February 1888, "Improvements in basichearth steel making furnaces", British patent no. 2,896.27 February 1888, "Improvements in regenerative furnaces for steel-making and analogous operations", British patent no. 2,899.1889, "Alloys of nickel and steel", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 1:45–55.Further ReadingA.Slaven, 1986, "James Riley", in Dictionary of Scottish Business Biography 1860–1960, Volume 1: The Staple Industries (ed. A.Slaven and S. Checkland), Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 136–8."Men you know", The Bailie (Glasgow) 23 January 1884, series no. 588 (a brief biography, with portrait).J.C.Carr and W.Taplin, 1962, History of the British Steel Industry, Harvard University Press (contains an excellent summary of salient events).JKA -
27 Shortt, William Hamilton
SUBJECT AREA: Horology[br]b. 28 September 1881d. 4 February 1971[br]British railway engineer and amateur horologist who designed the first successful free-pendulum clock.[br]Shortt entered the Engineering Department of the London and South Western Railway as an engineering cadet in 1902, remaining with the company and its successors until he retired in 1946. He became interested in precision horology in 1908, when he designed an instrument for recording the speed of trains; this led to a long and fruitful collaboration with Frank HopeJones, the proprietor of the Synchronome Company. This association culminated in the installation of a free-pendulum clock, with an accuracy of the order of one second per year, at Edinburgh Observatory in 1921. The clock's performance was far better than that of existing clocks, such as the Riefler, and a slightly modified version was produced commercially by the Synchronome Company. These clocks provided the time standard at Greenwich and many other observatories and scientific institutions across the world until they were supplanted by the quartz clock.The period of a pendulum is constant if it swings freely with a constant amplitude in a vacuum. However, this ideal state cannot be achieved in a clock because the pendulum must be impulsed to maintain its amplitude and the swings have to be counted to indicate time. The free-pendulum clock is an attempt to approach this ideal as closely as possible. In 1898 R.J. Rudd used a slave clock, synchronized with a free pendulum, to time the impulses delivered to the free pendulum. This clock was not successful, but it provided the inspiration for Shortt's clock, which operates on the same principle. The Shortt clock used a standard Synchronome electric clock as the slave, and its pendulum was kept in step with the free pendulum by means of the "hit and miss" synchronizer that Shortt had patented in 1921. This allowed the pendulum to swing freely (in a vacuum), apart from the fraction of a second in which it received an impulse each half-minute.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMaster of the Clockmakers' Company 1950. British Horological Society Gold Medal 1931. Clockmakers' Company Tompion Medal 1954. Franklin Institute John Price Wetherill Silver Medal.Bibliography1929, "Some experimental mechanisms, mechanical and otherwise, for the maintenance of vibration of a pendulum", Horological Journal 71:224–5.Further ReadingObituary, 1971, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 56:396–7.F.Hope-Jones, 1949, Electrical Timekeeping, 2nd edn, London (a detailed but not entirely impartial account of the development of the free-pendulum clock).See also: Marrison, Warren AlvinDVBiographical history of technology > Shortt, William Hamilton
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28 Stephenson, George
[br]b. 9 June 1781 Wylam, Northumberland, Englandd. 12 August 1848 Tapton House, Chesterfield, England[br]English engineer, "the father of railways".[br]George Stephenson was the son of the fireman of the pumping engine at Wylam colliery, and horses drew wagons of coal along the wooden rails of the Wylam wagonway past the house in which he was born and spent his earliest childhood. While still a child he worked as a cowherd, but soon moved to working at coal pits. At 17 years of age he showed sufficient mechanical talent to be placed in charge of a new pumping engine, and had already achieved a job more responsible than that of his father. Despite his position he was still illiterate, although he subsequently learned to read and write. He was largely self-educated.In 1801 he was appointed Brakesman of the winding engine at Black Callerton pit, with responsibility for lowering the miners safely to their work. Then, about two years later, he became Brakesman of a new winding engine erected by Robert Hawthorn at Willington Quay on the Tyne. Returning collier brigs discharged ballast into wagons and the engine drew the wagons up an inclined plane to the top of "Ballast Hill" for their contents to be tipped; this was one of the earliest applications of steam power to transport, other than experimentally.In 1804 Stephenson moved to West Moor pit, Killingworth, again as Brakesman. In 1811 he demonstrated his mechanical skill by successfully modifying a new and unsatisfactory atmospheric engine, a task that had defeated the efforts of others, to enable it to pump a drowned pit clear of water. The following year he was appointed Enginewright at Killingworth, in charge of the machinery in all the collieries of the "Grand Allies", the prominent coal-owning families of Wortley, Liddell and Bowes, with authorization also to work for others. He built many stationary engines and he closely examined locomotives of John Blenkinsop's type on the Kenton \& Coxlodge wagonway, as well as those of William Hedley at Wylam.It was in 1813 that Sir Thomas Liddell requested George Stephenson to build a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway: Blucher made its first trial run on 25 July 1814 and was based on Blenkinsop's locomotives, although it lacked their rack-and-pinion drive. George Stephenson is credited with building the first locomotive both to run on edge rails and be driven by adhesion, an arrangement that has been the conventional one ever since. Yet Blucher was far from perfect and over the next few years, while other engineers ignored the steam locomotive, Stephenson built a succession of them, each an improvement on the last.During this period many lives were lost in coalmines from explosions of gas ignited by miners' lamps. By observation and experiment (sometimes at great personal risk) Stephenson invented a satisfactory safety lamp, working independently of the noted scientist Sir Humphry Davy who also invented such a lamp around the same time.In 1817 George Stephenson designed his first locomotive for an outside customer, the Kilmarnock \& Troon Railway, and in 1819 he laid out the Hetton Colliery Railway in County Durham, for which his brother Robert was Resident Engineer. This was the first railway to be worked entirely without animal traction: it used inclined planes with stationary engines, self-acting inclined planes powered by gravity, and locomotives.On 19 April 1821 Stephenson was introduced to Edward Pease, one of the main promoters of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway (S \& DR), which by coincidence received its Act of Parliament the same day. George Stephenson carried out a further survey, to improve the proposed line, and in this he was assisted by his 18-year-old son, Robert Stephenson, whom he had ensured received the theoretical education which he himself lacked. It is doubtful whether either could have succeeded without the other; together they were to make the steam railway practicable.At George Stephenson's instance, much of the S \& DR was laid with wrought-iron rails recently developed by John Birkinshaw at Bedlington Ironworks, Morpeth. These were longer than cast-iron rails and were not brittle: they made a track well suited for locomotives. In June 1823 George and Robert Stephenson, with other partners, founded a firm in Newcastle upon Tyne to build locomotives and rolling stock and to do general engineering work: after its Managing Partner, the firm was called Robert Stephenson \& Co.In 1824 the promoters of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) invited George Stephenson to resurvey their proposed line in order to reduce opposition to it. William James, a wealthy land agent who had become a visionary protagonist of a national railway network and had seen Stephenson's locomotives at Killingworth, had promoted the L \& MR with some merchants of Liverpool and had carried out the first survey; however, he overreached himself in business and, shortly after the invitation to Stephenson, became bankrupt. In his own survey, however, George Stephenson lacked the assistance of his son Robert, who had left for South America, and he delegated much of the detailed work to incompetent assistants. During a devastating Parliamentary examination in the spring of 1825, much of his survey was shown to be seriously inaccurate and the L \& MR's application for an Act of Parliament was refused. The railway's promoters discharged Stephenson and had their line surveyed yet again, by C.B. Vignoles.The Stockton \& Darlington Railway was, however, triumphantly opened in the presence of vast crowds in September 1825, with Stephenson himself driving the locomotive Locomotion, which had been built at Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s Newcastle works. Once the railway was at work, horse-drawn and gravity-powered traffic shared the line with locomotives: in 1828 Stephenson invented the horse dandy, a wagon at the back of a train in which a horse could travel over the gravity-operated stretches, instead of trotting behind.Meanwhile, in May 1826, the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway had successfully obtained its Act of Parliament. Stephenson was appointed Engineer in June, and since he and Vignoles proved incompatible the latter left early in 1827. The railway was built by Stephenson and his staff, using direct labour. A considerable controversy arose c. 1828 over the motive power to be used: the traffic anticipated was too great for horses, but the performance of the reciprocal system of cable haulage developed by Benjamin Thompson appeared in many respects superior to that of contemporary locomotives. The company instituted a prize competition for a better locomotive and the Rainhill Trials were held in October 1829.Robert Stephenson had been working on improved locomotive designs since his return from America in 1827, but it was the L \& MR's Treasurer, Henry Booth, who suggested the multi-tubular boiler to George Stephenson. This was incorporated into a locomotive built by Robert Stephenson for the trials: Rocket was entered by the three men in partnership. The other principal entrants were Novelty, entered by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, and Sans Pareil, entered by Timothy Hackworth, but only Rocket, driven by George Stephenson, met all the organizers' demands; indeed, it far surpassed them and demonstrated the practicability of the long-distance steam railway. With the opening of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1830, the age of railways began.Stephenson was active in many aspects. He advised on the construction of the Belgian State Railway, of which the Brussels-Malines section, opened in 1835, was the first all-steam railway on the European continent. In England, proposals to link the L \& MR with the Midlands had culminated in an Act of Parliament for the Grand Junction Railway in 1833: this was to run from Warrington, which was already linked to the L \& MR, to Birmingham. George Stephenson had been in charge of the surveys, and for the railway's construction he and J.U. Rastrick were initially Principal Engineers, with Stephenson's former pupil Joseph Locke under them; by 1835 both Stephenson and Rastrick had withdrawn and Locke was Engineer-in-Chief. Stephenson remained much in demand elsewhere: he was particularly associated with the construction of the North Midland Railway (Derby to Leeds) and related lines. He was active in many other places and carried out, for instance, preliminary surveys for the Chester \& Holyhead and Newcastle \& Berwick Railways, which were important links in the lines of communication between London and, respectively, Dublin and Edinburgh.He eventually retired to Tapton House, Chesterfield, overlooking the North Midland. A man who was self-made (with great success) against colossal odds, he was ever reluctant, regrettably, to give others their due credit, although in retirement, immensely wealthy and full of honour, he was still able to mingle with people of all ranks.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsPresident, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, on its formation in 1847. Order of Leopold (Belgium) 1835. Stephenson refused both a knighthood and Fellowship of the Royal Society.Bibliography1815, jointly with Ralph Dodd, British patent no. 3,887 (locomotive drive by connecting rods directly to the wheels).1817, jointly with William Losh, British patent no. 4,067 (steam springs for locomotives, and improvements to track).Further ReadingL.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, Longman (the best modern biography; includes a bibliography).S.Smiles, 1874, The Lives of George and Robert Stephenson, rev. edn, London (although sycophantic, this is probably the best nineteenthcentury biography).PJGR -
29 Watts, Philip
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 30 May 1846 Portsmouth, Englandd. 15 March 1926 probably London, England[br]English naval architect, shipbuilding manager and ultimately Director of Naval Construction.[br]Since he had a long family connection with the naval base at Portsmouth, it is not surprising that Watts started to serve his apprenticeship there in 1860. He was singled out for advanced training and then in 1866 was one of three young men selected to attend the Royal School of Naval Architecture at South Kensington in London. On completing his training he joined the technical staff, then had a period as a ship overseer before going to assist William Froude for two years, an arrangement which led to a close friendship between Watts and the two Froudes. Some interesting tasks followed: the calculations for HM Armoured Ram Polyphemus; the setting up of a "calculating" section within the Admiralty; and then work as a constructor at Chatham Dockyard. In 1885 the first major change of direction took place: Watts resigned from naval service to take the post of General Manager of the Elswick shipyard of Sir W.G.Armstrong. This was a wonderful opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly qualified man, and Watts rose to the challenge. Elswick produced some of the finest warships at the end of the nineteenth century and its cruisers, such as the Esmeralda of the Chilean Navy, had a legendary name.In 1902 he was recalled to the Navy to succeed Sir William White as Director of Naval Construction (DNC). This was one of the most exciting times ever in warship design and it was during Watts's tenure of the post that the Dreadnought class of battleship was produced, the submarine service was developed and the destroyer fleet reached high levels of performance. It has been said that Watts's distinct achievements as DNC were greater armament per ton displacement, higher speeds and better manoeuvring, greater protection and, almost as important, elegance of appearance. Watt retired in 1912 but remained a consultant to the Admiralty until 1916, and then joined the board of Armstrong Whitworth, on which he served until his death.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1905. FRS 1900. Chairman, Board of Trade's Load Line Committee 1913. Vice-President, Society for Nautical Research (upon its founding), and finally Chairman for the Victory preservation and technical committee. Honorary Vice-President, Institution of Naval Architects 1916. Master of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights 1915.BibliographyWatts produced many high-quality technical papers, including ten papers to the Institution of Naval Architects.FMW
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