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mechanical+application

  • 1 projection

    f
    * * *
    f
    1) gun application mechanical application, projection
    2) (de plâtre, de mortier) mechanical application

    Dictionnaire d'ingénierie, d'architecture et de construction > projection

  • 2 maschinelles Putzen

    Putzen n: maschinelles Putzen n mechanical application (of mortar), mechanical plastering

    Deutsch-Englisch Fachwörterbuch Architektur und Bauwesen > maschinelles Putzen

  • 3 Torkretputzen

    Torkretputzen n mechanical plastering, mechanical application of mortar

    Deutsch-Englisch Fachwörterbuch Architektur und Bauwesen > Torkretputzen

  • 4 maschinelle Verarbeitung

    f <bau.innen> (Auftrag, Applikation; z.B. Spachtel-, Fugenmassen, Putz, Estrich) ■ machine-application; mechanical application

    German-english technical dictionary > maschinelle Verarbeitung

  • 5 для механического применения

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > для механического применения

  • 6 механизированное нанесение

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > механизированное нанесение

  • 7 maschinelles Mörtellegen

    Mörtellegen n: maschinelles Mörtellegen n SB mechanical application (of mortar)

    Deutsch-Englisch Fachwörterbuch Architektur und Bauwesen > maschinelles Mörtellegen

  • 8 использование в качестве механического привода

    1. mechanical-drive application

     

    использование в качестве механического привода
    (напр. газовой турбины)
    [А.С.Гольдберг. Англо-русский энергетический словарь. 2006 г.]

    Тематики

    EN

    Русско-английский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > использование в качестве механического привода

  • 9 mecánico

    adj.
    mechanical, power-driven, robotic.
    m.
    1 mechanic, greaser.
    2 grease monkey.
    * * *
    1 mechanical
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 mechanic
    \
    mecánico dentista dental technician
    * * *
    1. (f. - mecánica)
    noun
    2. (f. - mecánica)
    adj.
    * * *
    mecánico, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) [gen] mechanical; [con motor] power antes de s ; (=de máquinas) machine antes de s
    2) [gesto, trabajo] mechanical
    2.
    SM / F [de coches] mechanic, grease monkey (EEUU) *; (=operario) machinist; (=ajustador) fitter, repair man/woman; (Aer) rigger, fitter; (=conductor) driver, chauffeur

    mecánico/a de vuelo — flight engineer

    * * *
    I
    - ca adjetivo
    a) (Mec) mechanical
    b) <gesto/acto> mechanical
    II
    - ca masculino, femenino ( de vehículos) mechanic; ( de maquinaria industrial) fitter; (de fotocopiadoras, lavadoras) (m) engineer, repairman; (f) engineer, repairwoman
    * * *
    I
    - ca adjetivo
    a) (Mec) mechanical
    b) <gesto/acto> mechanical
    II
    - ca masculino, femenino ( de vehículos) mechanic; ( de maquinaria industrial) fitter; (de fotocopiadoras, lavadoras) (m) engineer, repairman; (f) engineer, repairwoman
    * * *
    mecánico1

    Ex: Some knowledge of mechanics will also make it easier to detect faults and to discuss them sensibly when a mechanic has to be called in = Además, cierto conocimiento de mecánica hará que sea más fácil detectar los fallos y discutirlos con sensatez cuando haya que llamar a un mecánico.

    * banco de mecánico = metal-shop bench.
    * garaje mecánico = mechanic garage, mechanic workshop, garage.
    * mecánico de coches = auto mechanic.
    * taller mecánico = mechanic workshop, mechanic garage, garage.

    mecánico2
    2 = mechanical, mechanistic, rote, mindless, unthinking, power.

    Ex: With a fully faceted classification scheme (see 13.2.4) chain indexing is purely mechanical, and straightforward.

    Ex: Content analysts, doing their kind of mechanistic time-and-motion studies on 'Till death do us part', might well come up with the conclusion that the greater part of it is straight and explicit racialism.
    Ex: This article examines creative and rote modes of thinking as they relate to 'theory' and 'practice' in library education.
    Ex: This article argues that mindless adulation is no substitute for honest discussions of the bad as well as the good in young adult literature.
    Ex: The author outlines arguments against the unthinking application of new technologies.
    Ex: In 1895 a good London bindery would have the following machines: hand-fed folding machines, sewing machines, nipping machines (for pressing the sewn books before casing-in), cutting machines, rounding machines, backing machines, straight-knife trimming machines (guillotines), rotary board-cutting machines, power blocking presses, and hydraulic standing presses.
    * barredera mecánica = sweeper, mechanical sweeper, mechanised sweeper, road sweeper, street sweeper.
    * barredora mecánica = sweeper, mechanical sweeper, mechanised sweeper, road sweeper.
    * barredora mecánica = street sweeper.
    * componente mecánico = mechanical part.
    * de forma mecánica = mechanically.
    * desastre mecánico = mechanical disaster.
    * de un modo mecánico = mechanically.
    * escalera mecánica = escalator.
    * estropajo mecánico = mechanised scrubber.
    * excavadora mecánica = excavator.
    * herramienta mecánica = machine tool.
    * período de la prensa mecánica, el = machine-press period, the.
    * pieza mecánica = mechanical part.
    * propiedad mecánica = mechanical property.
    * rampa mecánica = moving ramp.
    * recambio mecánico = mechanical part.
    * rotura mecánica = mechanical breakdown.

    * * *
    mecánico1 -ca
    1 ( Mec) mechanical
    2 ‹gesto/acto› mechanical
    lo hacen de manera mecánica they do it mechanically
    mecánico2 -ca
    masculine, feminine
    1 (de vehículos) mechanic
    3 (de fotocopiadoras, lavadoras) ( masculine) technician, repairman, engineer ( BrE); ( feminine) technician, repairwoman, engineer ( BrE)
    Compuestos:
    ● mecánico dental, mecánica dental
    masculine, feminine dental technician
    ● mecánico dentista, mecánica dentista
    masculine, feminine dental technician
    ● mecánico de vuelo, mecánica de vuelo
    masculine, feminine flight engineer
    * * *

     

    mecánico
    ◊ -ca adjetivo

    mechanical
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino ( de vehículos) mechanic;

    ( de maquinaria industrial) fitter;
    (de fotocopiadoras, lavadoras) engineer
    mecánico,-a
    I adjetivo mechanical
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino mechanic
    ' mecánico' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    foso
    - mecánica
    - taller
    - aprendiz
    - empezar
    - mono
    - montallantas
    - taladro
    English:
    failure
    - fault
    - garage
    - grease
    - mechanic
    - mechanical
    - mindless
    - regurgitate
    - fitter
    - perfunctory
    - sweeper
    * * *
    mecánico, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [de la mecánica] mechanical
    2. [automático] mechanical;
    un gesto mecánico a mechanical gesture;
    lo hace de forma mecánica he does it mechanically
    ♦ nm,f
    [persona] mechanic mecánico dentista dental technician;
    mecánico de vuelo flight engineer
    * * *
    I adj mechanical
    II m, mecánica f mechanic
    * * *
    mecánico, -ca adj
    : mechanical
    mecánico, -ca n
    1) : mechanic
    2) : technician
    mecánico dental: dental technician
    * * *
    mecánico1 adj mechanical
    mecánico2 n mechanic

    Spanish-English dictionary > mecánico

  • 10 mecánico2

    2 = mechanical, mechanistic, rote, mindless, unthinking, power.
    Ex. With a fully faceted classification scheme (see 13.2.4) chain indexing is purely mechanical, and straightforward.
    Ex. Content analysts, doing their kind of mechanistic time-and-motion studies on 'Till death do us part', might well come up with the conclusion that the greater part of it is straight and explicit racialism.
    Ex. This article examines creative and rote modes of thinking as they relate to 'theory' and 'practice' in library education.
    Ex. This article argues that mindless adulation is no substitute for honest discussions of the bad as well as the good in young adult literature.
    Ex. The author outlines arguments against the unthinking application of new technologies.
    Ex. In 1895 a good London bindery would have the following machines: hand-fed folding machines, sewing machines, nipping machines (for pressing the sewn books before casing-in), cutting machines, rounding machines, backing machines, straight-knife trimming machines (guillotines), rotary board-cutting machines, power blocking presses, and hydraulic standing presses.
    ----
    * barredera mecánica = sweeper, mechanical sweeper, mechanised sweeper, road sweeper, street sweeper.
    * barredora mecánica = sweeper, mechanical sweeper, mechanised sweeper, road sweeper.
    * barredora mecánica = street sweeper.
    * componente mecánico = mechanical part.
    * de forma mecánica = mechanically.
    * desastre mecánico = mechanical disaster.
    * de un modo mecánico = mechanically.
    * escalera mecánica = escalator.
    * estropajo mecánico = mechanised scrubber.
    * excavadora mecánica = excavator.
    * herramienta mecánica = machine tool.
    * período de la prensa mecánica, el = machine-press period, the.
    * pieza mecánica = mechanical part.
    * propiedad mecánica = mechanical property.
    * rampa mecánica = moving ramp.
    * recambio mecánico = mechanical part.
    * rotura mecánica = mechanical breakdown.

    Spanish-English dictionary > mecánico2

  • 11 Bond, George Meade

    [br]
    b. 17 July 1852 Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA
    d. 6 January 1935 Hartford, Connecticut, USA
    [br]
    American mechanical engineer and metrologist, co-developer of the Rogers- Bond Comparator.
    [br]
    After leaving school at the age of 17, George Bond taught in local schools for a few years before starting an apprenticeship in a machine shop in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He then worked as a machinist with Phoenix Furniture Company in that city until his savings permitted him to enter the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1876. He graduated with the degree of Mechanical Engineer in 1880. In his final year he assisted William A.Rogers, Professor of Astronomy at Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the design of a comparator for checking standards of length. In 1880 he joined the Pratt \& Whitney Company, Hartford, Connecticut, and was Manager of the Standards and Gauge Department from then until 1902. During this period he developed cylindrical, calliper, snap, limit, thread and other gauges. He also designed the Bond Standard Measuring Machine. Bond was elected a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1881 and of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1887, and served on many of their committees relating to standards and units of measurement.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Vice-President, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1908–10. Honorary degrees of DEng, Stevens Institute of Technology 1921, and MSc, Trinity College, Hartford, 1927.
    Bibliography
    Engineers 3:122.
    1886, "Standard pipe and pipe threads", Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 7:311.
    Further Reading
    "Report of the Committee on Standards and Gauges", 1883, Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 4:21–9 (describes the Rogers-Bond Comparator).
    RTS

    Biographical history of technology > Bond, George Meade

  • 12 Taylor, Frederick Winslow

    [br]
    b. 20 March 1856 Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
    d. 21 March 1915 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    [br]
    American mechanical engineer and pioneer of scientific management.
    [br]
    Frederick W.Taylor received his early education from his mother, followed by some years of schooling in France and Germany. Then in 1872 he entered Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, to prepare for Harvard Law School, as it was intended that he should follow his father's profession. However, in 1874 he had to abandon his studies because of poor eyesight, and he began an apprenticeship at a pump-manufacturing works in Philadelphia learning the trades of pattern-maker and machinist. On its completion in 1878 he joined the Midvale Steel Company, at first as a labourer but then as Shop Clerk and Foreman, finally becoming Chief Engineer in 1884. At the same time he was able to resume study in the evenings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, and in 1883 he obtained the degree of Mechanical Engineer (ME). He also found time to take part in amateur sport and in 1881 he won the tennis doubles championship of the United States.
    It was while with the Midvale Steel Company that Taylor began the systematic study of workshop management, and the application of his techniques produced significant increases in the company's output and productivity. In 1890 he became Manager of a company operating large paper mills in Maine and Wisconsin, until 1893 when he set up on his own account as a consulting engineer specializing in management organization. In 1898 he was retained exclusively by the Bethlehem Steel Company, and there continued his work on the metal-cutting process that he had started at Midvale. In collaboration with J.Maunsel White (1856–1912) he developed high-speed tool steels and their heat treatment which increased cutting capacity by up to 300 per cent. He resigned from the Bethlehem Steel Company in 1901 and devoted the remainder of his life to expounding the principles of scientific management which became known as "Taylorism". The Society to Promote the Science of Management was established in 1911, renamed the Taylor Society after his death. He was an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was its President in 1906; his presidential address "On the Art of Cutting Metals" was reprinted in book form.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Paris Exposition Gold Medal 1900. Franklin Institute Elliott Cresson Gold Medal 1900. President, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1906. Hon. ScD, University of Pennsylvania 1906. Hon. LLD, Hobart College 1912.
    Bibliography
    F.W.Taylor was the author of about 100 patents, several papers to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, On the Art of Cutting Metals (1907, New York) and The Principles of Scientific Management (1911, New York) and, with S.E.Thompson, 1905 A Treatise on Concrete, New York, and Concrete Costs, 1912, New York.
    Further Reading
    The standard biography is Frank B.Copley, 1923, Frederick W.Taylor, Father of Scientific Management, New York (reprinted 1969, New York) and there have been numerous commentaries on his work: see, for example, Daniel Nelson, 1980, Frederick W.Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management, Madison, Wis.
    RTS

    Biographical history of technology > Taylor, Frederick Winslow

  • 13 aparato

    m.
    1 machine.
    aparato de diálisis kidney machine
    aparatos gimnásticos apparatus (en competición, escuela)
    aparato de televisión television set
    aparato de vídeo video (cassette) recorder
    2 plane.
    4 system (anatomy).
    aparato circulatorio circulatory system
    aparato digestivo digestive system
    aparato reproductor reproductive system
    aparato respiratorio respiratory system
    aparato urinario urinary tract
    Aparato respiratorio Respiratory system.
    5 machinery (politics).
    6 pomp, ostentation.
    7 appliance, gadget, mechanism, unit.
    8 brace.
    9 theatricality, exaggeration.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: aparatar.
    * * *
    1 (mecanismo) (piece of) apparatus, set; (eléctrico) appliance
    2 (dispositivo) device; (instrumento) instrument
    3 (teléfono) telephone
    4 (avión) plane
    5 (exageración) exaggeration
    6 (ostentación) pomp, display, show
    7 (tormenta) flashes of lightning plural
    \
    aparato auditivo hearing aid
    aparato de radio radio set
    aparato de televisión television set
    aparato digestivo ANATOMÍA digestive system
    aparato ortopédico orthopedic aid
    el aparato del estado the State apparatus
    * * *
    noun m.
    3) appliance, set
    * * *
    SM
    1) (Téc) machine

    aparato fotográfico — photographic instrument, camera

    aparatos de mando — (Aer) controls

    aparatos periféricos — (Inform) peripherals

    2) (Elec) (=electrodoméstico) appliance; (=televisor, radio) set
    3) (Telec) phone, telephone

    • al aparato, -¿puedo hablar con Pilar Ruiz? -al aparato — "can I speak to Pilar Ruiz?" - "speaking"

    ¡Gerardo, al aparato! — Gerardo, telephone!

    colgar el aparato — to put down the phone, hang up

    4) (Med)

    aparato dental, aparato de ortodoncia — brace, braces pl (EEUU)

    aparato ortopédico — surgical appliance, orthopaedic aid, orthopedic aid (US)

    5) (Gimnasia) (=máquina) exercise machine, fitness machine; (=anillas, barras) piece of apparatus
    6) (Aer) aircraft, airplane (EEUU)
    7) (=formalismo, artificio)
    8) (Pol) (=estructura) [de base] machine; [de control] machinery

    el aparato del partido — the party machine, the party apparatus

    aparato estatal — state system, government machinery

    9) (Meteo)
    10) (=indicios) signs pl, symptoms pl ; (Med) symptoms pl ; (Psic) syndrome
    11) (Literat)
    12) ** (=pene) equipment *; (=vagina) pussy ***
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( máquina)
    b) ( de televisión) set; ( de radio) receiver
    2) ( para gimnasia) piece of apparatus

    los aparatos — the apparatus, the equipment

    3)
    a) ( audífono) tb
    b) (Odont) tb
    4) ( teléfono) telephone
    5) (frml) ( avión) aircraft
    6) (estructura, sistema) machine
    7) ( ceremonia) pomp
    8) (fam & euf) ( pene) weenie (AmE colloq), willy (BrE colloq); ( genitales masculinos) equipment (euph)
    •
    * * *
    = apparatus, device, machine, whatchamacallit, gadget, widget, rig, appliance, unit, contraption.
    Ex. The abstracts of research papers will typically represent the methodology employed, in particular, apparatus, equipment, tools, materials.
    Ex. The extent of application of the synthetic devices will vary from one library to another.
    Ex. Synonyms, related terms and other variants must now be collected, either by human selection, or with the aid of the machine.
    Ex. In his book's section ' Watchamacallit' he forecasts that communication between user and machine will be through voice for entering text and a pen-like device for pointing.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Exhibits in the American Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair: women's clothing, men's gadgets, hot dogs and haute couture'.
    Ex. The term widget is taken from the 1963 movie, 'The Wheeler-Dealers'.
    Ex. An adjustable seating rig was used to create the three-dimensional shape of a static lounge chair.
    Ex. People want information available through the appliances they use in the mainstream of their daily lives.
    Ex. Data-capture units are light pens, and such units can be made available at various locations in the library for public consultation.
    Ex. If you are in cahoots with the circle of power, you get your projects approved in no time, and in some cases, you can build the most hideous and unsightly contraption.
    ----
    * aparato burocrático = bureaucratic apparatus.
    * aparato de aire acondicionado = air conditioner.
    * aparato de grabación = recorder.
    * aparato de informática del tamaño de la palma de la mano = palm computing device.
    * aparato de lectura = reading machine.
    * aparato del partido = party machinery.
    * aparato de medición = meter.
    * aparato de radio = radio set.
    * aparato de televisión = television set, TV set.
    * aparato de vídeo = videocassette recorder (VCR), home video recorder, video recorder.
    * aparato digestivo = gastrointestinal tract, digestive tract.
    * aparato eléctrico = electrical apparatus, power appliance.
    * aparato electrónico = electronic device.
    * aparato motorizado = motorised device.
    * aparato óptico = optical device.
    * aparato para el uso de la información = information appliance.
    * aparato para usar Internet = Internet appliance.
    * aparato político = machine politics.
    * aparato propagandista = propaganda machine.
    * aparatos = gadgetry, mechanical equipment.
    * aparatos de vídeo = video equipment.
    * aparatos eléctricos = electrical equipment, electrical appliances, appliances, household appliances.
    * aparatos eléctricos del hogar = home appliances, domestic appliances, home appliances.
    * aparatos electrónicos = electronic(s) appliances.
    * aparato urinario = urinary tract.
    * zona con aparatos electrónicos = equipment area.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( máquina)
    b) ( de televisión) set; ( de radio) receiver
    2) ( para gimnasia) piece of apparatus

    los aparatos — the apparatus, the equipment

    3)
    a) ( audífono) tb
    b) (Odont) tb
    4) ( teléfono) telephone
    5) (frml) ( avión) aircraft
    6) (estructura, sistema) machine
    7) ( ceremonia) pomp
    8) (fam & euf) ( pene) weenie (AmE colloq), willy (BrE colloq); ( genitales masculinos) equipment (euph)
    •
    * * *
    = apparatus, device, machine, whatchamacallit, gadget, widget, rig, appliance, unit, contraption.

    Ex: The abstracts of research papers will typically represent the methodology employed, in particular, apparatus, equipment, tools, materials.

    Ex: The extent of application of the synthetic devices will vary from one library to another.
    Ex: Synonyms, related terms and other variants must now be collected, either by human selection, or with the aid of the machine.
    Ex: In his book's section ' Watchamacallit' he forecasts that communication between user and machine will be through voice for entering text and a pen-like device for pointing.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Exhibits in the American Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair: women's clothing, men's gadgets, hot dogs and haute couture'.
    Ex: The term widget is taken from the 1963 movie, 'The Wheeler-Dealers'.
    Ex: An adjustable seating rig was used to create the three-dimensional shape of a static lounge chair.
    Ex: People want information available through the appliances they use in the mainstream of their daily lives.
    Ex: Data-capture units are light pens, and such units can be made available at various locations in the library for public consultation.
    Ex: If you are in cahoots with the circle of power, you get your projects approved in no time, and in some cases, you can build the most hideous and unsightly contraption.
    * aparato burocrático = bureaucratic apparatus.
    * aparato de aire acondicionado = air conditioner.
    * aparato de grabación = recorder.
    * aparato de informática del tamaño de la palma de la mano = palm computing device.
    * aparato de lectura = reading machine.
    * aparato del partido = party machinery.
    * aparato de medición = meter.
    * aparato de radio = radio set.
    * aparato de televisión = television set, TV set.
    * aparato de vídeo = videocassette recorder (VCR), home video recorder, video recorder.
    * aparato digestivo = gastrointestinal tract, digestive tract.
    * aparato eléctrico = electrical apparatus, power appliance.
    * aparato electrónico = electronic device.
    * aparato motorizado = motorised device.
    * aparato óptico = optical device.
    * aparato para el uso de la información = information appliance.
    * aparato para usar Internet = Internet appliance.
    * aparato político = machine politics.
    * aparato propagandista = propaganda machine.
    * aparatos = gadgetry, mechanical equipment.
    * aparatos de vídeo = video equipment.
    * aparatos eléctricos = electrical equipment, electrical appliances, appliances, household appliances.
    * aparatos eléctricos del hogar = home appliances, domestic appliances, home appliances.
    * aparatos electrónicos = electronic(s) appliances.
    * aparato urinario = urinary tract.
    * zona con aparatos electrónicos = equipment area.

    * * *
    A
    1
    (máquina): tiene la cocina llena de aparatos eléctricos the kitchen is full of electrical appliances
    ese tipo de análisis requiere aparatos especiales that type of test requires special equipment
    uno de esos aparatos para hacer zumo one of those juicer machines
    el aparato para tomarte la tensión the apparatus for taking your blood pressure
    2 (de televisión) set, receiver; (de radio) receiver
    B (para gimnasia) piece of apparatus
    los aparatos the apparatus, the equipment
    Compuesto:
    rowing machine
    C
    aparato auditivo hearing aid
    2 ( Odont) tb
    aparatos braces (pl), brace ( BrE)
    D (teléfono) telephone
    ponerse al aparato to come to the phone
    ¡al aparato! speaking!
    E ( frml) (avión) aircraft
    F (estructura, sistema) machine
    el aparato del partido the party machine
    el aparato represivo montado por la dictadura the machinery of repression set up under the dictatorship
    G
    fue recibido con mucho aparato he was received with great pomp (and ceremony)
    todo el aparato que acompañó a la boda del príncipe all the pageantry which accompanied the prince's wedding
    2 ( fam) (jaleo, escándalo) fuss ( colloq), to-do ( colloq)
    H ( fam euf) (pene) thing ( colloq), weenie ( AmE colloq), willy ( BrE colloq); (genitales masculinos) equipment ( euph)
    Compuestos:
    circulatory system
    critical apparatus
    digestive system
    thunder and lightning
    surgical appliance
    respiratory system
    * * *

     

    aparato sustantivo masculino
    1
    a) ( máquina):


    aparatos eléctricos electrical appliances

    ( de radio) receiver


    aparato auditivo hearing aid
    d) (Odont) tb

    ◊ aparatos braces (pl)



    2 ( para gimnasia) piece of apparatus;

    3 (frml) ( avión) aircraft
    4 (estructura, sistema) machine;

    aparato circulatorio/digestivo/respiratorio circulatory/digestive/respiratory system
    aparato sustantivo masculino
    1 (piece of) apparatus
    (dispositivo) device
    (instrumento) instrument
    aparato de radio/televisión, radio/television set
    2 Med system
    aparato reproductor, reproductive system
    3 (lujo, pompa) display, pomp
    4 fam (teléfono) phone: ponte al aparato, come to the phone
    5 (corrector de los dientes) braces
    6 (señal que acompaña a un suceso) fue una tormenta con mucho aparato eléctrico, it was a storm with lots of thunder and lightning
    7 (grupo que decide en una organización, Estado, etc) machine
    ' aparato' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bloquear
    - cable
    - chisme
    - deshecha
    - deshecho
    - escacharrarse
    - escénica
    - escénico
    - esfera
    - extensor
    - extensora
    - frigoría
    - ingenio
    - joder
    - lector
    - lectora
    - palanca
    - probar
    - programar
    - radio
    - registrador
    - registradora
    - sensibilidad
    - sensible
    - simulador
    - simuladora
    - soldador
    - soldadora
    - trastorno
    - vídeo
    - ala
    - arreglar
    - artilugio
    - asador
    - aspirar
    - bip
    - cacharro
    - cámara
    - carcacha
    - carcasa
    - cocina
    - compact disc
    - cuatrapearse
    - dañar
    - descomponer
    - descompuesto
    - desconectar
    - digestivo
    - digital
    - dispositivo
    English:
    apparatus
    - balance
    - brace
    - built-in
    - damage
    - detector
    - device
    - disconnect
    - domestic
    - fax
    - foolproof
    - hire
    - life-support
    - machine
    - machinery
    - mechanics
    - misuse
    - perform
    - radio set
    - scrambler
    - set
    - setting
    - television (set)
    - time-saving
    - toilet
    - transmitter
    - try
    - useful
    - video
    - walkie-talkie
    - watch
    - wire
    - appliance
    - calipers
    - gadget
    - system
    - two
    - widget
    * * *
    1. [máquina] machine;
    [electrodoméstico] appliance;
    compró un aparato para medir el viento she bought a device to measure the wind speed
    aparato de diálisis dialysis machine;
    aparatos eléctricos electrical appliances;
    aparatos electrónicos electronic devices;
    aparatos de laboratorio laboratory apparatus;
    aparato de televisión television set;
    aparato de vídeo video recorder
    2. [teléfono]
    ¿quién está al aparato? who's speaking?;
    ¡al aparato! speaking!
    3. [avión] plane
    4. [prótesis] aid;
    [para dientes] braces, Br brace aparato para sordos hearing aid
    5. [en gimnasia] [en competición, escuela] piece of apparatus;
    [en gimnasio privado] exercise machine aparatos gimnásticos [en competición, escuela] apparatus;
    aparato de remo rowing machine
    6. Anat aparato circulatorio circulatory system;
    aparato digestivo digestive system;
    aparato excretor excretory system;
    aparato genital genitalia, genitals;
    aparato locomotor locomotor system;
    aparato olfativo olfactory system;
    aparato reproductor reproductive system;
    aparato respiratorio respiratory system;
    aparato urinario urinary tract;
    aparato visual visual system
    7. Pol
    el aparato del Estado the machinery of State;
    el aparato del partido [altos mandos] the party leadership;
    [organización] the party machinery;
    el aparato represivo the machinery of repression
    8. [ostentación] pomp, ostentation;
    una boda con gran aparato a wedding with a lot of pomp and ceremony
    9. Meteo aparato eléctrico thunder and lightning;
    una tormenta con impresionante aparato eléctrico a storm with an impressive display of thunder and lightning
    10. Fam [genitales de hombre] equipment, Br tackle
    * * *
    m
    1 piece of equipment; doméstico appliance;
    al aparato TELEC speaking
    2 BIO, ANAT system
    3 de partido político machine
    * * *
    1) : machine, appliance, apparatus
    aparato auditivo: hearing aid
    aparato de televisión: television set
    2) : system
    aparato digestivo: digestive system
    3) : display, ostentation
    sin aparato: without ceremony
    4) aparatos nmpl
    : braces (for the teeth)
    * * *
    1. (mecanismo) device / thing
    2. (doméstico) appliance
    3. (televisión, radio) set
    5. (de gimnasio) a piece of apparatus

    Spanish-English dictionary > aparato

  • 14 interruptor

    adj.
    interrupting.
    m.
    1 switch.
    interruptor general mains switch
    2 breaker, circuit breaker, switch, contact breaker.
    3 light switch.
    * * *
    1 switch
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM (Elec) switch
    * * *
    masculino switch
    * * *
    = switch, power switch.
    Ex. With tube selection, in which no mechanical parts are involved in the switches, little time need be occupied in bringing the correct card into use -- a second should suffice for the entire operation.
    Ex. An autoexec.bat DOS batch file gets the application up running by just pressing the power switch.
    ----
    * interruptor de encendido/apagado = ON/OFF switch.
    * interruptor de pared = wall switch.
    * * *
    masculino switch
    * * *
    = switch, power switch.

    Ex: With tube selection, in which no mechanical parts are involved in the switches, little time need be occupied in bringing the correct card into use -- a second should suffice for the entire operation.

    Ex: An autoexec.bat DOS batch file gets the application up running by just pressing the power switch.
    * interruptor de encendido/apagado = ON/OFF switch.
    * interruptor de pared = wall switch.

    * * *
    switch
    Compuestos:
    trip switch
    tumbler switch
    * * *

     

    interruptor sustantivo masculino
    switch
    interruptor m Elec switch: ¿dónde está el interruptor de la luz?, where's the light switch?
    ' interruptor' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    encender
    - pera
    - dar
    - llave
    - switch
    English:
    depress
    - go on
    - light switch
    - master
    - switch
    - throw
    - light
    * * *
    switch
    interruptor de corriente power switch; Elec interruptor de cuchilla knife switch;
    interruptor general Br mains switch, US main utility switch [for gas, water or electricity];
    interruptor de la luz light switch;
    interruptor de pie foot switch
    * * *
    m EL switch
    * * *
    1) : (electrical) switch
    2) : circuit breaker
    * * *
    interruptor n switch [pl. switches]

    Spanish-English dictionary > interruptor

  • 15 tarea

    f.
    1 task (trabajo).
    tareas domésticas household chores, housework
    2 homework, school work, schoolwork, school assignment.
    * * *
    1 task, job
    \
    las tareas de la casa the housework sing, the chores
    * * *
    noun f.
    job, task, work
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=trabajo) task, job

    tareas domésticas — housework sing, household chores

    2) [de colegial]
    3) (Inform) task
    * * *
    a) ( trabajo) task, job
    b) ( deberes escolares) homework
    * * *
    = assignment, duty [duties, -pl.], endeavour [endeavor, -USA], exercise, job, labour [labor, -USA], operation, routine, task, work, quest, undertaking, item of business.
    Ex. The problems and assignments presented are real problems and assignments, and the people involved are real people, all suitably disguised to protect their identity.
    Ex. Organisations often expect an information officer or librarian to prepare such abstracts as are necessary, in addition to performing various other information duties.
    Ex. Eventually, it came to be recognized that the Classification Research Group's endeavours might be pertinent to the problem of alphabetical indexing.
    Ex. As a concluding exercise, therefore, it would be helpful for you to try some examples of analysis and translation on your own.
    Ex. To ease the cataloguer's job and save him the trouble of counting characters, DOBIS/LIBIS uses a special function.
    Ex. An editor is a person who prepares for publication an item not his own and whose labour may be limited to the preparation of the item for the manufacturer.
    Ex. With the advent of micro-computers even much smaller cataloguing operations can effectively be computerised.
    Ex. Chain indexing is a simple mechanical routine for generating a limited number of index entries for a subject.
    Ex. Further, menu screens will be necessary until the user has specified the task that he wishes executed or the information that he wishes to retrieve sufficiently for execution or retrieval to be effected.
    Ex. The Classification Research Group (CRG) has been a major force in the development of classification theory, and has made a major contribution towards work on a new general classification scheme.
    Ex. It is a quest without a satisfactory conclusion - a holy grail of librarianship.
    Ex. Since the file from 1966-1975 contains some 2,500,000 references, a search of the complete data base is a fairly large-scale undertaking.
    Ex. The Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association included various items of business such as: the ALA stand on UNESCO; a new dues schedule; grants; role of school librarians in ALA; new cataloguing tools; and standards.
    ----
    * aceptar una tarea = take on + task.
    * aplicación a tareas bibliotecarias = library application.
    * asignar una tarea = allot + task, set + task, give + task, assign + responsibility, task.
    * asumir una tarea = assume + duty.
    * con una tarea especial = mission-oriented.
    * cumplir una tarea = accomplish + task.
    * dedicarse a + Posesivo + tareas cotidianas = go about + Posesivo + everyday life.
    * dedicarse a + Posesivo + tareas diarias = go about + Posesivo + everyday life.
    * delegar una tarea = delegate + operation.
    * desempeñar una tarea = carry out + task, cope with + task, perform + task.
    * ejecutar una tarea = execute + task.
    * emprender una tarea = go on + expedition.
    * encargado de las tareas domésticas = housekeeper.
    * encargarse una tarea = undertake + task.
    * encomendar una tarea a Alguien = assign + task.
    * endosar una tarea a Alguien = foist + Nombre + on + Alguien + as a duty.
    * enfrentarse a una tarea = face + task.
    * en la tarea de = in the drive to.
    * fijarse una tarea = set + Reflexivo + task.
    * formación en diferentes tareas = cross-training [cross training], multiskilling [multi-skilling].
    * hacer una tarea = do + assignment.
    * imponerse una tarea = task + Reflexivo.
    * imponer una tarea = task.
    * imponer una tarea a Alguien = foist + Nombre + on + Alguien + as a duty.
    * liberar de una tarea = relieve of + task.
    * multitarea = multitasking [multi-tasking].
    * ponerse una tarea = set + Reflexivo + task.
    * programador automático de tareas = scheduler.
    * realización de varias tareas simultáneamente = concurrent tasking.
    * realizar una tarea = accomplish + task, carry out + duty, conduct + task, implement + task, undertake + task, perform + duty.
    * realizar una tarea paso a paso = go through.
    * tarea administrativa = administrative task.
    * tarea ardua = uphill struggle.
    * tarea asignada = appointed task.
    * tarea bibliotecaria = library operation, library task, library function, library duty, library process.
    * tarea complementaria = follow-up activity.
    * tarea de aprendizaje = learning activity, learning task.
    * tarea del hogar = domestic duty, domestic task.
    * tarea de tontos = fool's errand.
    * tarea difícil = hard task.
    * tarea educativa = learning activity.
    * tarea encomendada = assigned task.
    * tarea escolar = homework, homework assignment.
    * tarea falta de interés = chore.
    * tarea imposible = wild goose chase.
    * tarea inútil = exercise in futility.
    * tarea monumental = Herculean task, Herculanian task.
    * tarea muy difícil = uphill struggle.
    * tarea orientada hacia la gente = people-oriented task.
    * tarea orientada hacia una actividad = activity-oriented task.
    * tarea rutinaria = routine, mundane task, daily chore.
    * tareas bibliotecarias = library housekeeping routines, library housekeeping, library activities, library procedures.
    * tareas bibliotecarias complementarias = library support services.
    * tareas de extinción de incendios = fire-fighting.
    * tareas del personal = staff duties.
    * tareas domésticas = housework.
    * tareas escolares = school work [schoolwork].
    * tareas informáticas = computer work.
    * tareas relacionadas con la información = information operations.
    * tener tarea para rato = have + Posesivo + work cut out for + Pronombre, have + Posesivo + job cut out for + Pronombre.
    * * *
    a) ( trabajo) task, job
    b) ( deberes escolares) homework
    * * *
    = assignment, duty [duties, -pl.], endeavour [endeavor, -USA], exercise, job, labour [labor, -USA], operation, routine, task, work, quest, undertaking, item of business.

    Ex: The problems and assignments presented are real problems and assignments, and the people involved are real people, all suitably disguised to protect their identity.

    Ex: Organisations often expect an information officer or librarian to prepare such abstracts as are necessary, in addition to performing various other information duties.
    Ex: Eventually, it came to be recognized that the Classification Research Group's endeavours might be pertinent to the problem of alphabetical indexing.
    Ex: As a concluding exercise, therefore, it would be helpful for you to try some examples of analysis and translation on your own.
    Ex: To ease the cataloguer's job and save him the trouble of counting characters, DOBIS/LIBIS uses a special function.
    Ex: An editor is a person who prepares for publication an item not his own and whose labour may be limited to the preparation of the item for the manufacturer.
    Ex: With the advent of micro-computers even much smaller cataloguing operations can effectively be computerised.
    Ex: Chain indexing is a simple mechanical routine for generating a limited number of index entries for a subject.
    Ex: Further, menu screens will be necessary until the user has specified the task that he wishes executed or the information that he wishes to retrieve sufficiently for execution or retrieval to be effected.
    Ex: The Classification Research Group (CRG) has been a major force in the development of classification theory, and has made a major contribution towards work on a new general classification scheme.
    Ex: It is a quest without a satisfactory conclusion - a holy grail of librarianship.
    Ex: Since the file from 1966-1975 contains some 2,500,000 references, a search of the complete data base is a fairly large-scale undertaking.
    Ex: The Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association included various items of business such as: the ALA stand on UNESCO; a new dues schedule; grants; role of school librarians in ALA; new cataloguing tools; and standards.
    * aceptar una tarea = take on + task.
    * aplicación a tareas bibliotecarias = library application.
    * asignar una tarea = allot + task, set + task, give + task, assign + responsibility, task.
    * asumir una tarea = assume + duty.
    * con una tarea especial = mission-oriented.
    * cumplir una tarea = accomplish + task.
    * dedicarse a + Posesivo + tareas cotidianas = go about + Posesivo + everyday life.
    * dedicarse a + Posesivo + tareas diarias = go about + Posesivo + everyday life.
    * delegar una tarea = delegate + operation.
    * desempeñar una tarea = carry out + task, cope with + task, perform + task.
    * ejecutar una tarea = execute + task.
    * emprender una tarea = go on + expedition.
    * encargado de las tareas domésticas = housekeeper.
    * encargarse una tarea = undertake + task.
    * encomendar una tarea a Alguien = assign + task.
    * endosar una tarea a Alguien = foist + Nombre + on + Alguien + as a duty.
    * enfrentarse a una tarea = face + task.
    * en la tarea de = in the drive to.
    * fijarse una tarea = set + Reflexivo + task.
    * formación en diferentes tareas = cross-training [cross training], multiskilling [multi-skilling].
    * hacer una tarea = do + assignment.
    * imponerse una tarea = task + Reflexivo.
    * imponer una tarea = task.
    * imponer una tarea a Alguien = foist + Nombre + on + Alguien + as a duty.
    * liberar de una tarea = relieve of + task.
    * multitarea = multitasking [multi-tasking].
    * ponerse una tarea = set + Reflexivo + task.
    * programador automático de tareas = scheduler.
    * realización de varias tareas simultáneamente = concurrent tasking.
    * realizar una tarea = accomplish + task, carry out + duty, conduct + task, implement + task, undertake + task, perform + duty.
    * realizar una tarea paso a paso = go through.
    * tarea administrativa = administrative task.
    * tarea ardua = uphill struggle.
    * tarea asignada = appointed task.
    * tarea bibliotecaria = library operation, library task, library function, library duty, library process.
    * tarea complementaria = follow-up activity.
    * tarea de aprendizaje = learning activity, learning task.
    * tarea del hogar = domestic duty, domestic task.
    * tarea de tontos = fool's errand.
    * tarea difícil = hard task.
    * tarea educativa = learning activity.
    * tarea encomendada = assigned task.
    * tarea escolar = homework, homework assignment.
    * tarea falta de interés = chore.
    * tarea imposible = wild goose chase.
    * tarea inútil = exercise in futility.
    * tarea monumental = Herculean task, Herculanian task.
    * tarea muy difícil = uphill struggle.
    * tarea orientada hacia la gente = people-oriented task.
    * tarea orientada hacia una actividad = activity-oriented task.
    * tarea rutinaria = routine, mundane task, daily chore.
    * tareas bibliotecarias = library housekeeping routines, library housekeeping, library activities, library procedures.
    * tareas bibliotecarias complementarias = library support services.
    * tareas de extinción de incendios = fire-fighting.
    * tareas del personal = staff duties.
    * tareas domésticas = housework.
    * tareas escolares = school work [schoolwork].
    * tareas informáticas = computer work.
    * tareas relacionadas con la información = information operations.
    * tener tarea para rato = have + Posesivo + work cut out for + Pronombre, have + Posesivo + job cut out for + Pronombre.

    * * *
    1 (trabajo) task, job
    no le gustan nada las tareas de la casa he hates doing household chores o the housework
    no es tarea fácil it is not easy, it is no easy task
    tengo que hacer la(s) tarea(s) I have to do my homework o ( AmE) assignments
    * * *

     

    tarea sustantivo femenino
    a) ( trabajo) task, job;



    tarea sustantivo femenino
    1 (labor) job, task
    tarea escolar, homework, US assignments pl 2 tareas domésticas, housework sing
    ' tarea' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    A
    - absorbente
    - acometer
    - afanosa
    - afanoso
    - apresurada
    - apresurado
    - asignación
    - cometido
    - corresponder
    - cumplir
    - desagradecida
    - desagradecido
    - emprender
    - empresa
    - encargo
    - ensimismarse
    - evadir
    - fijarse
    - función
    - gratificar
    - hacer
    - hueso
    - imponerse
    - imposición
    - lanzarse
    - marrón
    - muerta
    - muerto
    - terminar
    - trabajo
    - ultimar
    - zafarse
    - abrumador
    - acabar
    - alcanzar
    - antipático
    - asignar
    - asumir
    - atrancar
    - cargo
    - colaborador
    - colaborar
    - costoso
    - deber
    - dejadez
    - dejado
    - despachar
    - diario
    - empezar
    English:
    accomplish
    - accomplishment
    - allocation
    - arduous
    - assign
    - assignment
    - begin
    - challenging
    - chore
    - cinch
    - delegate
    - distasteful
    - do over
    - embark
    - execute
    - execution
    - finish
    - finished
    - get off
    - get over
    - go about
    - job
    - labour
    - massive
    - mission
    - rush
    - set
    - task
    - thankless
    - uphill
    - work
    - admittedly
    - home
    - labor
    - throw
    - under
    * * *
    tarea nf
    1. [trabajo] task;
    fue una ardua tarea it was a hard task;
    mantener limpia la ciudad es tarea de todos keeping the city clean is everyone's responsibility;
    las tareas del campo agricultural o farm work
    tareas domésticas household chores, housework
    2. [escolar] homework;
    hace la tarea she's doing her homework
    3. Informát task
    * * *
    f task, job
    * * *
    tarea nf
    1) : task, job
    2) : homework
    * * *
    1. (en general) task / job
    2. (deberes) homework
    tareas del hogar / tareas domésticas housework

    Spanish-English dictionary > tarea

  • 16 Bain, Alexander

    [br]
    b. October 1810 Watten, Scotland
    d. 2 January 1877 Kirkintilloch, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish inventor and entrepreneur who laid the foundations of electrical horology and designed an electromagnetic means of transmitting images (facsimile).
    [br]
    Alexander Bain was born into a crofting family in a remote part of Scotland. He was apprenticed to a watchmaker in Wick and during that time he was strongly influenced by a lecture on "Heat, sound and electricity" that he heard in nearby Thurso. This lecture induced him to take up a position in Clerkenwell in London, working as a journeyman clockmaker, where he was able to further his knowledge of electricity by attending lectures at the Adelaide Gallery and the Polytechnic Institution. His thoughts naturally turned to the application of electricity to clockmaking, and despite a bitter dispute with Charles Wheatstone over priority he was granted the first British patent for an electric clock. This patent, taken out on 11 January 1841, described a mechanism for an electric clock, in which an oscillating component of the clock operated a mechanical switch that initiated an electromagnetic pulse to maintain the regular, periodic motion. This principle was used in his master clock, produced in 1845. On 12 December of the same year, he patented a means of using electricity to control the operation of steam railway engines via a steam-valve. His earliest patent was particularly far-sighted and anticipated most of the developments in electrical horology that occurred during the nineteenth century. He proposed the use of electricity not only to drive clocks but also to distribute time over a distance by correcting the hands of mechanical clocks, synchronizing pendulums and using slave dials (here he was anticipated by Steinheil). However, he was less successful in putting these ideas into practice, and his electric clocks proved to be unreliable. Early electric clocks had two weaknesses: the battery; and the switching mechanism that fed the current to the electromagnets. Bain's earth battery, patented in 1843, overcame the first defect by providing a reasonably constant current to drive his clocks, but unlike Hipp he failed to produce a reliable switch.
    The application of Bain's numerous patents for electric telegraphy was more successful, and he derived most of his income from these. They included a patent of 12 December 1843 for a form of fax machine, a chemical telegraph that could be used for the transmission of text and of images (facsimile). At the receiver, signals were passed through a moving band of paper impregnated with a solution of ammonium nitrate and potassium ferrocyanide. For text, Morse code signals were used, and because the system could respond to signals faster than those generated by hand, perforated paper tape was used to transmit the messages; in a trial between Paris and Lille, 282 words were transmitted in less than one minute. In 1865 the Abbé Caselli, a French engineer, introduced a commercial fax service between Paris and Lyons, based on Bain's device. Bain also used the idea of perforated tape to operate musical wind instruments automatically. Bain squandered a great deal of money on litigation, initially with Wheatstone and then with Morse in the USA. Although his inventions were acknowledged, Bain appears to have received no honours, but when towards the end of his life he fell upon hard times, influential persons in 1873 secured for him a Civil List Pension of £80 per annum and the Royal Society gave him £150.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1841, British patent no. 8,783; 1843, British patent no. 9,745; 1845, British patent no.
    10,838; 1847, British patent no. 11,584; 1852, British patent no. 14,146 (all for electric clocks).
    1852, A Short History of the Electric Clocks with Explanation of Their Principles and
    Mechanism and Instruction for Their Management and Regulation, London; reprinted 1973, introd. W.Hackmann, London: Turner \& Devereux (as the title implies, this pamphlet was probably intended for the purchasers of his clocks).
    Further Reading
    The best account of Bain's life and work is in papers by C.A.Aked in Antiquarian Horology: "Electricity, magnetism and clocks" (1971) 7: 398–415; "Alexander Bain, the father of electrical horology" (1974) 9:51–63; "An early electric turret clock" (1975) 7:428–42. These papers were reprinted together (1976) in A Conspectus of Electrical Timekeeping, Monograph No. 12, Antiquarian Horological Society: Tilehurst.
    J.Finlaison, 1834, An Account of Some Remarkable Applications of the Electric Fluid to the Useful Arts by Alexander Bain, London (a contemporary account between Wheatstone and Bain over the invention of the electric clock).
    J.Munro, 1891, Heroes of the Telegraph, Religious Tract Society.
    J.Malster \& M.J.Bowden, 1976, "Facsimile. A Review", Radio \&Electronic Engineer 46:55.
    D.J.Weaver, 1982, Electrical Clocks and Watches, Newnes.
    T.Hunkin, 1993, "Just give me the fax", New Scientist (13 February):33–7 (provides details of Bain's and later fax devices).
    DV / KF

    Biographical history of technology > Bain, Alexander

  • 17 Sperry, Elmer Ambrose

    [br]
    b. 21 October 1860 Cincinnatus, Cortland County, New York, USA
    d. 16 June 1930 Brooklyn, New York, USA
    [br]
    American entrepreneur who invented the gyrocompass.
    [br]
    Sperry was born into a farming community in Cortland County. He received a rudimentary education at the local school, but an interest in mechanical devices was aroused by the agricultural machinery he saw around him. His attendance at the Normal School in Cortland provided a useful theoretical background to his practical knowledge. He emerged in 1880 with an urge to pursue invention in electrical engineering, then a new and growing branch of technology. Within two years he was able to patent and demonstrate his arc lighting system, complete with its own generator, incorporating new methods of regulating its output. The Sperry Electric Light, Motor and Car Brake Company was set up to make and market the system, but it was difficult to keep pace with electric-lighting developments such as the incandescent lamp and alternating current, and the company ceased in 1887 and was replaced by the Sperry Electric Company, which itself was taken over by the General Electric Company.
    In the 1890s Sperry made useful inventions in electric mining machinery and then in electric street-or tramcars, with his patent electric brake and control system. The patents for the brake were important enough to be bought by General Electric. From 1894 to 1900 he was manufacturing electric motor cars of his own design, and in 1900 he set up a laboratory in Washington, where he pursued various electrochemical processes.
    In 1896 he began to work on the practical application of the principle of the gyroscope, where Sperry achieved his most notable inventions, the first of which was the gyrostabilizer for ships. The relatively narrow-hulled steamship rolled badly in heavy seas and in 1904 Ernst Otto Schuck, a German naval engineer, and Louis Brennan in England began experiments to correct this; their work stimulated Sperry to develop his own device. In 1908 he patented the active gyrostabilizer, which acted to correct a ship's roll as soon as it started. Three years later the US Navy agreed to try it on a destroyer, the USS Worden. The successful trials of the following year led to widespread adoption. Meanwhile, in 1910, Sperry set up the Sperry Gyroscope Company to extend the application to commercial shipping.
    At the same time, Sperry was working to apply the gyroscope principle to the ship's compass. The magnetic compass had worked well in wooden ships, but iron hulls and electrical machinery confused it. The great powers' race to build up their navies instigated an urgent search for a solution. In Germany, Anschütz-Kämpfe (1872–1931) in 1903 tested a form of gyrocompass and was encouraged by the authorities to demonstrate the device on the German flagship, the Deutschland. Its success led Sperry to develop his own version: fortunately for him, the US Navy preferred a home-grown product to a German one and gave Sperry all the backing he needed. A successful trial on a destroyer led to widespread acceptance in the US Navy, and Sperry was soon receiving orders from the British Admiralty and the Russian Navy.
    In the rapidly developing field of aeronautics, automatic stabilization was becoming an urgent need. In 1912 Sperry began work on a gyrostabilizer for aircraft. Two years later he was able to stage a spectacular demonstration of such a device at an air show near Paris.
    Sperry continued research, development and promotion in military and aviation technology almost to the last. In 1926 he sold the Sperry Gyroscope Company to enable him to devote more time to invention.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    John Fritz Medal 1927. President, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1928.
    Bibliography
    Sperry filed over 400 patents, of which two can be singled out: 1908. US patent no. 434,048 (ship gyroscope); 1909. US patent no. 519,533 (ship gyrocompass set).
    Further Reading
    T.P.Hughes, 1971, Elmer Sperry, Inventor and Engineer, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (a full and well-documented biography, with lists of his patents and published writings).
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Sperry, Elmer Ambrose

  • 18 Stephenson, George

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    b. 9 June 1781 Wylam, Northumberland, England
    d. 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 Distinctions
    President, 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.
    Bibliography
    1815, 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 Reading
    L.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

    Biographical history of technology > Stephenson, George

  • 19 время размыкания (контактного коммутационного аппарата)

    1. opening time (of a mechanical switching device)

     

    время размыкания (контактного коммутационного аппарата)
    Интервал времени между установленным начальным моментом размыкания и моментом разъединения дугогасительных контактов во всех полюсах.
    МЭК 60050 (441-17-36).
    Примечание.  Начальный момент размыкания (например подача сигнала к размыканию на расцепитель и т. п.), устанавливается в стандарте на соответствующий аппарат.
    [ ГОСТ Р 50030. 1-2000 ( МЭК 60947-1-99)]

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    opening time (of a mechanical switching device)
    the interval of time between the specified instant of initiation of the opening operation and the instant when the arcing contacts have separated in all poles
    NOTE – The instant of initiation of the opening operation, i.e. the application of the opening command (e.g. energizing the release, etc.) is given in the relevant specifications.
    [IEV number 441-17-36]

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    durée d'ouverture (d'un appareil mécanique de connexion)
    intervalle de temps entre l'instant spécifié de début de la manoeuvre d'ouverture et l'instant de la séparation des contacts d'arc sur tous les pôles
    NOTE – L'instant de début de la manoeuvre d'ouverture, c'est-à-dire l'émission de l'ordre d'ouverture (par exemple l'alimentation d'un déclencheur, etc.) est donné dans les spécifications particulières.
    [IEV number 441-17-36]

     

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  • 20 собственное время отключения

    1. opening time (of a mechanical switching device)

     

    собственное время отключения
    Собственным временем отключения называется интервал времени от момента подачи команды на отключение до момента прекращения соприкосновения (размыкания) дугогасительных контактов (для выключателей с шунтирующими резисторами следует различать время до момента прекращения соприкос-
    новения основных дугогасительных контактов и то же – для дугогасительных контактов шунтирующей цепи).
    Нормированное собственное время отключения выключателя принимается равным измеренному при отсутствии токовой нагрузки в главной цепи выключателя и при номинальном напряжении питания цепи управления.
    Собственное время отключения заключает в себе время оперирования любого вспомогательного оборудования, необходимого для отключения выключателя и являющегося его неотъемлемой частью.
    [IX Симпозиум «ЭЛЕКТРОТЕХНИКА 2030», доклад 4.53. 29 – 31 мая 2007 года]

    собственное время отключения
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    Интервал времени от момента подачи команды на отключение до момента прекращения соприкосновения (размыкания) дугогасительных контактов (для выключателей с шунтирующими резисторами следует различать время до момента прекращения соприкосновения основных дугогасительных контактов и то же - для дугогасительных контактов шунтирующей цепи).
    Собственное время отключения выключателя определяется в соответствии со способом отключения, как установлено ниже, и с любым устройством выдержки времени, являющимся неотъемлемой частью выключателя, установленным на свою минимальную регулировку:
    а) для выключателей, отключающих с помощью любой формы вспомогательной энергии, собственное время отключения представляет интервал времени между моментом подачи команды на катушку отключения или расцепитель выключателя, находящегося во включенном положении, и моментом, когда дугогасительные контакты разомкнутся во всех полюсах;
    б) для самоотключающегося выключателя собственное время отключения представляет интервал времени между моментом, при котором ток в главной цепи выключателя, находящегося во включенном положении, достигает значения срабатывания расцепителя максимального тока, и моментом, когда дугогасительные контакты разомкнутся во всех полюсах.
    Нормированное собственное время отключения выключателя принимается равным измеренному при отсутствии токовой нагрузки в главной цепи выключателя и при номинальном напряжении питания цепи управления.
    Для воздушных выключателей и для выключателей других видов с пневматическими приводами это время принимается равным измеренному при номинальном давлении воздуха.
    Примечания
    1 Собственное время отключения может изменяться в зависимости от значения отключаемого тока.
    2 Для многоразрывных выключателей момент, когда дугогасительные контакты разомкнутся во всех полюсах, определяется как момент размыкания контактов первого (по времени) разрыва полюса, размыкающегося последним.
    3 Собственное время отключения содержит в себе время оперирования любого вспомогательного оборудования, необходимого для отключения выключателя и являющегося его неотъемлемой частью.
    [ ГОСТ Р 52565-2006]

    EN

    opening time (of a mechanical switching device)
    the interval of time between the specified instant of initiation of the opening operation and the instant when the arcing contacts have separated in all poles
    NOTE – The instant of initiation of the opening operation, i.e. the application of the opening command (e.g. energizing the release, etc.) is given in the relevant specifications.
    [IEV number 441-17-36]

    FR

    durée d'ouverture (d'un appareil mécanique de connexion)
    intervalle de temps entre l'instant spécifié de début de la manoeuvre d'ouverture et l'instant de la séparation des contacts d'arc sur tous les pôles
    NOTE – L'instant de début de la manoeuvre d'ouverture, c'est-à-dire l'émission de l'ordre d'ouverture (par exemple l'alimentation d'un déclencheur, etc.) est donné dans les spécifications particulières.
    [IEV number 441-17-36]

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    Параллельные тексты EN-RU

    1

    Breaker closed - apply auxillary power to activate the release.

    Выключатель во включенном положении. Начинает прикладываться внешнее усилие, направленное на отключение.

    2

    Contact separation - start of arc.

    Наличие зазора между разомкнутыми контактами. Возникновение дуги.

    3

    Extinction of arc.

    Погасание дуги.

    4

    Breacer open - initiation of closing movement.

    Выключатель в отключенном положении. Инициирование включения.

    5

    Current starts to flow in the conducting path (preignition)

    Начало протекания тока (начало горения дуги в изоляционном промежутке между разомкнутыми контактами).

    6

    Contact touch.

    Соприкосновение контактов.

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    Opening time.

    Собственное время отключения.

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    Arcing time

    Время дуги.

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    Make time.

    Время включения.

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    Break time/Interrupting time

    Полное время отключения

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    Dead time.

    Бестоковая пауза.

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    Closing time.

    Собственное время включения.

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    Reclosing time.

    Цикл автоматического повторного включения.

     

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