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Англо-русский словарь нефтегазовой промышленности > rejected equipment
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1) Нефть: забракованное оборудование2) Контроль качества: забракованная аппаратура -
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забракованное оборудование; дефектное оборудованиеАнгло-русский словарь по машиностроению > rejected equipment
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забракованное оборудование; забракованная аппаратураThe English-Russian dictionary on reliability and quality control > rejected equipment
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оборудование; снаряжение; оснащение; арматура; аппаратура
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1. оборудование; аппаратура2. приспособление; установка; устройствоblowout preventer stack handling equipment — оборудование для обслуживания блока противовыбросовых превенторов
hydraulic stabilizer mounting equipment — гидравлическое устройство плотной посадки сменных стабилизаторов (на муфты бурильных труб)
snubbing equipment for pipe running — оборудование для спуска труб под воду (с противодавлением в скважине)
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оборудование, техника; оснащение, арматура
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1) оборудование; аппаратура2) приспособление; установка; устройство•equipment for enhanced recovery of crude oil — оборудование для повышения нефтеотдачи;
- above-surface wellhead equipmentequipment for geophysical prospecting — оборудование для геофизической разведки;
- accessory equipment
- acid-treatment equipment
- acoustic log equipment
- API nuclear log calibration equipment
- associated-gas handing equipment
- automatic checkout-and-readiness equipment
- auxiliary equipment
- blasting equipment
- blowout equipment
- blowout preventer equipment
- blowout preventer closing equipment
- blowout preventer stack handling equipment
- borehole equipment
- borehole compensated equipment
- borehole piercing equipment
- bottom equipment
- bottomhole equipment
- bulk mixing equipment
- cable tool well drilling equipment
- carbon dioxide flooding equipment
- casing equipment
- casing handling equipment
- casing hanger equipment
- caustic flooding equipment
- cement equipment
- cement log equipment
- cementation pumping equipment
- churn-drill equipment
- combination drilling equipment
- completion equipment
- compressor equipment
- concrete-handling equipment
- control equipment
- cooling equipment
- core equipment
- coring equipment
- crude-oil treating equipment
- crude-oil treatment equipment
- deep-drilling equipment
- demonstration equipment
- density-log equipment
- derrick equipment
- detonating equipment
- diagnostic equipment
- diamond-drilling equipment
- directional-drilling equipment
- disposal equipment
- distillation equipment
- downhole equipment
- downhole pumping equipment
- down-the-hole electrical log equipment
- drill stem equipment
- drill string equipment
- drilling equipment
- drilling-mud cleaning equipment
- drilling-mud handling equipment
- drilling-mud mixing equipment
- drilling-mud treatment equipment
- drill-sharpening equipment
- dual laterolog equipment
- electrical exploration equipment
- electromagnetic exploration equipment
- electronic yaw equipment
- emergency equipment
- emergency mooring equipment
- exploration equipment
- extended casing wellhead equipment
- extension drill steel equipment
- face equipment
- failed equipment
- faulty equipment
- field equipment
- field maintenance equipment
- fire fighting equipment
- fire safety equipment
- fishing equipment
- flow head equipment
- flow line equipment
- formation density equipment
- formation density compensated equipment
- fracturing head equipment
- fusion-piercing equipment
- gamma-gamma log equipment
- gas-conditioning equipment
- gaslift equipment
- gaslift flow head equipment
- gas-processing equipment
- gas-welding equipment
- geophysical equipment
- hand-held drilling equipment
- handling equipment
- harbor handling equipment
- heave-compensation equipment
- high-temperature head equipment
- horizontal-loop equipment
- hydraulical stabilizer mounting equipment
- induced-polarization logging equipment
- induction logging equipment
- induced polarization logging equipment
- in-situ combustion equipment
- installation equipment
- Kobe pumping equipment
- laterolog equipment
- life saving equipment
- lifting equipment
- log equipment
- logging equipment
- magnetotelluric equipment
- maintainable equipment
- maintenance equipment
- maintenance-and-support equipment
- maintenance-ground equipment
- manually controlled equipment
- marine riser handling equipment
- microlaterolog equipment
- mining equipment
- mud equipment
- mud degassing equipment
- mud mixing equipment
- multiple completion equipment
- multistage cementing equipment
- nonrepairable equipment
- nuclear log equipment
- offshore drilling equipment
- oil equipment
- oil-and-gas production equipment
- oil-field equipment
- oil-spill cleanup equipment
- on-board drilling equipment
- out-of-repair equipment
- perforating equipment
- personnel survival equipment
- pipeline equipment
- pipeline-launching equipment
- pipeline-laying equipment
- pipeline-scraping equipment
- playback equipment
- portable jacking equipment
- position monitoring equipment
- position mooring equipment
- pressure control equipment
- pressure maintenance equipment
- processing equipment
- production equipment
- production test equipment
- pull-down equipment
- pulling-and-running equipment
- pump-and-compressor equipment
- pumping equipment
- radioactivity log equipment
- radioactivity well logging equipment
- radiometric equipment
- reconditioning equipment
- redundant equipment
- reflection equipment
- refraction equipment
- rejected equipment
- reliable equipment
- remote control equipment
- remote metering equipment
- repair equipment
- repairable equipment
- resistivity logging equipment
- reusable drilling equipment
- rig hoisting equipment
- riser pipe equipment
- rotary drilling equipment
- round trip equipment
- running equipment
- safety equipment
- sandblast equipment
- sea-floor equipment
- seismic equipment
- seismic exploration equipment
- seismograph equipment
- separation equipment
- series cementing equipment
- service equipment
- service checkout equipment
- shallow refraction equipment
- shooting equipment
- single well completion equipment
- skid-mounted compressor equipment
- snubbing equipment for pipe running
- solids control equipment
- sonic equipment
- special support equipment
- standby equipment
- stationary compressor equipment
- steam flooding equipment
- submersible equipment
- submersible electrical equipment
- subsea equipment
- subsea wellhead equipment
- subsurface pumping equipment
- support equipment
- surface equipment
- surface preventer equipment
- surface shut-in equipment
- surface wellhead equipment
- surfactant-polymer flooding equipment
- tank cleaning equipment
- telemetering equipment
- temporary mooring equipment
- test equipment
- test-and-maintenance equipment
- through-tubing equipment
- tie-back equipment
- towing equipment
- traction-type equipment
- treating equipment
- underground equipment
- underwater equipment
- underwater drilling equipment
- underwater wellhead equipment
- unrepairable equipment
- utility equipment
- ventilating equipment
- vibrator equipment
- washover equipment
- welding equipment
- well-control equipment
- wellhead equipment
- wellhead control equipment
- well-logging equipment
- well-production disposal equipment
- well-service equipment
- well-workover equipment
- wet-type completion equipment
- wireline equipment
- wireline pressure-control equipment
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оборудование; снаряжение; оснащение; оснастка (напр. станка); приспособления; приборы; аппаратура; арматура; принадлежности; подвижной состав; воен. материальная часть; боевая техника- equipment arrangement - equipment availability - equipment building - equipment capital costs - equipment casualty - equipment certificate - equipment certification - equipment certification requirement - equipment check - equipment checkout - equipment clock - equipment compatibility - equipment condition data - equipment damage - equipment dependability - equipment depot - equipment design failure - equipment error - equipment facilities - equipment failure - equipment failure information - equipment failure log - equipment for road construction - equipment for the manufacture of asbestos cement - equipment identification register - equipment identity register - equipment in place - equipment inspection - equipment-intermodulation noise - equipment investments - equipment lay-out - equipment layout - equipment lease - equipment leasing - equipment level controller - equipment location - equipment longevity - equipment maintenance facility - equipment maintenance management program - equipment maintenance officer - equipment maintenance ratio - equipment maintenance report - equipment maintenance team - equipment manufacturer code - equipment manufacturing failure - equipment-modification list - equipment monitoring - equipment nomenclature - equipment operating procedure - equipment operation test - equipment package - equipment performance log - equipment performance report - equipment placement - equipment programming - equipment protection device - equipment qualification - equipment rack - equipment ready date - equipment rebuilding - equipment reference book - equipment regulation - equipment reliability - equipment reliability status report - equipment repair time - equipment replacement - equipment replacement network - equipment reservation - equipment revamping - equipment review board - equipment room - equipment safety - equipment salvage - equipment schedule - equipment serviceability criterion - equipment side - equipment specifications - equipment spendings - equipment status board - equipment status chart - equipment status indication - equipment status log - equipment supervision - equipment terminal - equipment unavailability - equipment upgrading - equipment wire - accessory equipment - acoustic emission equipment - acoustical equipment - actuated equipment - add-on equipment - air equipment - air-chucking equipment - air-conditioning equipment - air-humidifying equipment - air-painting equipment - ancillary equipment - answering equipment - assembly equipment - balancing equipment - blasting equipment - board equipment - bolt-on equipment - brake equipment - built-in test equipment - calibration equipment - CAM equipment - capital equipment - cargo handling equipment - carrying and lifting equipment - centrifugal pumping equipment - checking equipment - collective protective equipment - 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swarf-handling equipment - tank cleaning equipment - telescopic equipment - test equipment - test-and-maintenance equipment - testing equipment - tool equipment - tool-holding equipment - tooling equipment - tool-setting equipment - touch-probe inspection equipment - towing equipment - tracer equipment - traction-type equipment - training equipment - transferring equipment - transport equipment - transportation equipment - turning gaging equipment - unattended equipment - underground equipment - universal equipment - unrepairable equipment - up-to-date construction equipment - used equipment - utility equipment - value-added equipment - vandalproof equipment - vehicle greasing equipment - warehousing equipment - waste-minimization equipment - water-fed equipment - water-purification equipment - water quality monitoring equipment - water-treatment equipment - weed-control equipment - weighing equipment - weld deposition equipment - welding equipment - welding deposition equipment - wheel alignment equipment - 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Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > забракованное оборудование
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Русско-английский словарь по нефти и газу > забракованное оборудование
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Русско-английский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > забракованное оборудование
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Quality control: rejected equipmentУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > забракованная аппаратура
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Oil: rejected equipmentУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > забракованное оборудование
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1. отношение, соотношение, пропорция2. степень; коэффициент— in ratio
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1. отношение; соотношение; пропорция2. степень; коэффициент; показатель
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1. коэффициент, пропорция, отношение2. передаточное число;передача ( зубчатых колес)
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(со)отношение, пропорция; степень; коэффициент; множитель
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1) отношение; соотношение; пропорция2) степень; коэффициент; показатель•- ratio of expansion
- ratio of good product accepted
- ratio of mixture
- ratio of stroke to diameter
- adsorption portion ratio
- air-oil ratio
- amplitude ratio
- associated gas-oil ratio
- atmospheric gas-oil ratio
- availability ratio
- average gas-oil ratio
- best power mixture ratio
- bevel gear ratio
- calculated gas-oil ratio
- catalyst-oil ratio
- catalyst-to-charge ratio
- cetane ratio
- circulated gas oil ratio
- close ratio
- closing ratio
- composite water-oil ratio
- compression ratio
- condensate recovery ratio
- core-to-sludge ratio
- cost-reliability ratio
- critical compression ratio
- cubical elasticity ratio
- cumulative gas-oil ratio
- cumulative gas-water ratio
- current gas-oil ratio
- damage ratio
- dependability ratio
- drum-to-rope ratio
- equipment maintenance ratio
- expansion ratio
- extraction ratio
- failure ratio
- failure mode frequency ratio
- flowing fluid ratio
- flowing gas-oil ratio
- formation gas-oil ratio
- formation-to-mud resistivity ratio
- free-fluid ratio
- fuel ratio
- fuel-air ratio
- fuel-oil consumption ratio
- gas-condensate ratio
- gas-liquid ratio
- gas-oil ratio
- gasoline-oil consumption ratio
- gas-recovery ratio
- gas-water ratio
- gear ratio
- gross gas-oil ratio
- highest useful compression ratio
- initial producing gas-oil ratio
- injected gas-oil ratio
- injecting gas-oil ratio
- injection gas-oil ratio
- input gas-oil ratio
- instantaneous gas-oil ratio
- instantaneous producing water-oil ratio
- interfacial viscosity ratio
- invariable gas-oil ratio
- jack ratio
- life ratio
- maintenance ratio
- maintenance cost ratio
- mean-life ratio
- Mills ratio
- mixture ratio
- mobility ratio
- mortality ratio
- net cumulative produced gas-oil ratio
- oil-steam ratio
- oil-water ratio
- open ratio
- operating gas-oil ratio
- output gas ratio
- output gas-oil ratio
- pressure ratio
- producing gas-oil ratio
- producing water-oil ratio
- propane-oil ratio
- ram ratio
- recovered gas-oil ratio
- recovery ratio
- recycle ratio
- reflux-to-product ratio
- reliability-cost ratio
- reserves-production ratio
- reservoir gas-oil ratio
- reservoir volume ratio
- saturation ratio
- serviceability ratio
- signal-to-noise ratio
- slenderness ratio
- solution gas-oil ratio
- spectral ratio
- spread ratio
- standardized mortality ratio
- stock tank gas-oil ratio
- stratification ratio
- stress-strength ratio
- summer-winter offtake ratio
- thickness-to-depth ratio
- thickness-to-wavelength ratio
- thickness ratio
- throughput ratio
- total gas-oil ratio
- vapor-liquid ratio
- void ratio
- water ratio
- water-cement ratio
- water-oil ratio
- water-oil ratio in flooding
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15 umbral
adj.of the threshold.m.1 threshold.2 threshold.el umbral de la pobreza the poverty line3 doorstep.4 limen.* * *1 threshold2 figurado threshold, outset\en el umbral de la muerte at death's door* * *noun m.doorstep, threshold* * *SM1) [de entrada] thresholdpasar o traspasar el umbral de algn — to set foot in sb's house
2) (=comienzo)estar en los umbrales de algo — to be on the threshold o verge of sth
eso está en los umbrales de lo imposible — that borders o verges on the impossible
3) (Com)* * *a) ( de puerta) thresholdb) (borde, frontera) tben el umbral or los umbrales de la muerte — at death's door
en el umbral or los umbrales de la locura — on the verge of madness
c) (Econ, Fin) threshold* * *= threshold, ceiling.Ex. But documents with the following terms assigned would be rejected on the grounds that their combined weights did not exceed the pre-selected threshold.Ex. The Taiwan government is planning to lift the subsidy ceiling for solar equipment makers aiming to increase self-sufficiency to 80%.----* en el umbral de = on the threshold of.* pisar el umbral = cross + the threshold of.* umbral de la puerta = doorstep.* umbral de referencia conjunta = cocitation threshold.* umbral de rentabilidad = break-even, break-even point.* vivir en el umbral de la pobreza = live on + the poverty line.* * *a) ( de puerta) thresholdb) (borde, frontera) tben el umbral or los umbrales de la muerte — at death's door
en el umbral or los umbrales de la locura — on the verge of madness
c) (Econ, Fin) threshold* * *= threshold, ceiling.Ex: But documents with the following terms assigned would be rejected on the grounds that their combined weights did not exceed the pre-selected threshold.
Ex: The Taiwan government is planning to lift the subsidy ceiling for solar equipment makers aiming to increase self-sufficiency to 80%.* en el umbral de = on the threshold of.* pisar el umbral = cross + the threshold of.* umbral de la puerta = doorstep.* umbral de referencia conjunta = cocitation threshold.* umbral de rentabilidad = break-even, break-even point.* vivir en el umbral de la pobreza = live on + the poverty line.* * *1 (de una puerta) threshold2 (borde, frontera) tbumbrales thresholden el umbralor los umbrales de la muerte at death's dooren el umbral del nuevo siglo on the threshold of the new centuryen el umbralor los umbrales de la locura on the verge of madnessen los umbrales de la civilización at the dawn of civilizationCompuestos:pain threshold( Fin) break-even point* * *
umbral sustantivo masculino
b) (borde, frontera) tb
en los umbrales de la muerte at death's door;
en los umbrales de la civilización at the dawn of civilization
umbral sustantivo masculino
1 (de una puerta) threshold
2 fig (inicio, despertar) beginning: estamos en el umbral de una nueva era, we are at the dawn of a new age
(límite, borde) threshold
en el umbral de una guerra civil, on the verge of a civil war
3 Psic Med Fin threshold
' umbral' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
misma
- mismo
- trasponer
- franquear
English:
doorstep
- threshold
- door
* * *umbral nm1. [de puerta] threshold;pisar el umbral to cross the threshold2. [principio] threshold;estamos en los umbrales de una nueva era we are on the threshold of a new era3. [nivel básico] threshold;llegar al umbral del pleno empleo to reach the threshold of full employmentumbral de audición hearing threshold;umbral del dolor pain barrier;umbral de la pobreza poverty line;Fin umbral de rentabilidad break-even point;umbral de sensibilidad sensitivity threshold* * *m figthreshold;en el umbral de on the threshold of* * *umbral nm: threshold, doorstep -
16 Armstrong, Sir William George, Baron Armstrong of Cragside
[br]b. 26 November 1810 Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne, Englandd. 27 December 1900 Cragside, Northumbria, England[br]English inventor, engineer and entrepreneur in hydraulic engineering, shipbuilding and the production of artillery.[br]The only son of a corn merchant, Alderman William Armstrong, he was educated at private schools in Newcastle and at Bishop Auckland Grammar School. He then became an articled clerk in the office of Armorer Donkin, a solicitor and a friend of his father. During a fishing trip he saw a water-wheel driven by an open stream to work a marble-cutting machine. He felt that its efficiency would be improved by introducing the water to the wheel in a pipe. He developed an interest in hydraulics and in electricity, and became a popular lecturer on these subjects. From 1838 he became friendly with Henry Watson of the High Bridge Works, Newcastle, and for six years he visited the Works almost daily, studying turret clocks, telescopes, papermaking machinery, surveying instruments and other equipment being produced. There he had built his first hydraulic machine, which generated 5 hp when run off the Newcastle town water-mains. He then designed and made a working model of a hydraulic crane, but it created little interest. In 1845, after he had served this rather unconventional apprenticeship at High Bridge Works, he was appointed Secretary of the newly formed Whittle Dene Water Company. The same year he proposed to the town council of Newcastle the conversion of one of the quayside cranes to his hydraulic operation which, if successful, should also be applied to a further four cranes. This was done by the Newcastle Cranage Company at High Bridge Works. In 1847 he gave up law and formed W.G.Armstrong \& Co. to manufacture hydraulic machinery in a works at Elswick. Orders for cranes, hoists, dock gates and bridges were obtained from mines; docks and railways.Early in the Crimean War, the War Office asked him to design and make submarine mines to blow up ships that were sunk by the Russians to block the entrance to Sevastopol harbour. The mines were never used, but this set him thinking about military affairs and brought him many useful contacts at the War Office. Learning that two eighteen-pounder British guns had silenced a whole Russian battery but were too heavy to move over rough ground, he carried out a thorough investigation and proposed light field guns with rifled barrels to fire elongated lead projectiles rather than cast-iron balls. He delivered his first gun in 1855; it was built of a steel core and wound-iron wire jacket. The barrel was multi-grooved and the gun weighed a quarter of a ton and could fire a 3 lb (1.4 kg) projectile. This was considered too light and was sent back to the factory to be rebored to take a 5 lb (2.3 kg) shot. The gun was a complete success and Armstrong was then asked to design and produce an equally successful eighteen-pounder. In 1859 he was appointed Engineer of Rifled Ordnance and was knighted. However, there was considerable opposition from the notably conservative officers of the Army who resented the intrusion of this civilian engineer in their affairs. In 1862, contracts with the Elswick Ordnance Company were terminated, and the Government rejected breech-loading and went back to muzzle-loading. Armstrong resigned and concentrated on foreign sales, which were successful worldwide.The search for a suitable proving ground for a 12-ton gun led to an interest in shipbuilding at Elswick from 1868. This necessitated the replacement of an earlier stone bridge with the hydraulically operated Tyne Swing Bridge, which weighed some 1450 tons and allowed a clear passage for shipping. Hydraulic equipment on warships became more complex and increasing quantities of it were made at the Elswick works, which also flourished with the reintroduction of the breech-loader in 1878. In 1884 an open-hearth acid steelworks was added to the Elswick facilities. In 1897 the firm merged with Sir Joseph Whitworth \& Co. to become Sir W.G.Armstrong Whitworth \& Co. After Armstrong's death a further merger with Vickers Ltd formed Vickers Armstrong Ltd.In 1879 Armstrong took a great interest in Joseph Swan's invention of the incandescent electric light-bulb. He was one of those who formed the Swan Electric Light Company, opening a factory at South Benwell to make the bulbs. At Cragside, his mansion at Roth bury, he installed a water turbine and generator, making it one of the first houses in England to be lit by electricity.Armstrong was a noted philanthropist, building houses for his workforce, and endowing schools, hospitals and parks. His last act of charity was to purchase Bamburgh Castle, Northumbria, in 1894, intending to turn it into a hospital or a convalescent home, but he did not live long enough to complete the work.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1859. FRS 1846. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Institution of Civil Engineers; British Association for the Advancement of Science 1863. Baron Armstrong of Cragside 1887.Further ReadingE.R.Jones, 1886, Heroes of Industry', London: Low.D.J.Scott, 1962, A History of Vickers, London: Weidenfeld \& Nicolson.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Armstrong, Sir William George, Baron Armstrong of Cragside
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17 Eisler, Paul
[br]b. 1907 Vienna, Austria[br]Austrian engineer responsible for the invention of the printed circuit.[br]At the age of 23, Eisler obtained a Diploma in Engineering from the Technical University of Vienna. Because of the growing Nazi influence in Austria, he then accepted a post with the His Master's Voice (HMV) agents in Belgrade, where he worked on the problems of radio reception and sound transmission in railway trains. However, he soon returned to Vienna to found a weekly radio journal and file patents on graphical sound recording (for which he received a doctorate) and on a system of stereoscopic television based on lenticular vertical scanning.In 1936 he moved to England and sold the TV patent to Marconi for £250. Unable to find a job, he carried out experiments in his rooms in a Hampstead boarding-house; after making circuits using strip wires mounted on bakelite sheet, he filed his first printed-circuit patent that year. He then tried to find ways of printing the circuits, but without success. Obtaining a post with Odeon Theatres, he invented a sound-level control for films and devised a mirror-drum continuous-film projector, but with the outbreak of war in 1939, when the company was evacuated, he chose to stay in London and was interned for a while. Released in 1941, he began work with Henderson and Spalding, a firm of lithographic printers, to whom he unwittingly assigned all future patents for the paltry sum of £1. In due course he perfected a means of printing conducting circuits and on 3 February 1943 he filed three patents covering the process. The British Ministry of Defence rejected the idea, considering it of no use for military equipment, but after he had demonstrated the technique to American visitors it was enthusiastically taken up in the US for making proximity fuses, of which many millions were produced and used for the war effort. Subsequently the US Government ruled that all air-borne electronic circuits should be printed.In the late 1940s the Instrument Department of Henderson and Spalding was split off as Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd, with Eisler as Technical Director. In 1949 he filed a further patent covering a multilayer system; this was licensed to Pye and the Telegraph Condenser Company. A further refinement, patented in the 1950s, the use of the technique for telephone exchange equipment, but this was subsequently widely infringed and although he negotiated licences in the USA he found it difficult to license his ideas in Europe. In the UK he obtained finance from the National Research and Development Corporation, but they interfered and refused money for further development, and he eventually resigned from Technograph. Faced with litigation in the USA and open infringement in the UK, he found it difficult to establish his claims, but their validity was finally agreed by the Court of Appeal (1969) and the House of Lords (1971).As a freelance inventor he filed many other printed-circuit patents, including foil heating films and batteries. When his Patent Agents proved unwilling to fund the cost of filing and prosecuting Complete Specifications he set up his own company, Eisler Consultants Ltd, to promote food and space heating, including the use of heated cans and wallpaper! As Foil Heating Ltd he went into the production of heating films, the process subsequently being licensed to Thermal Technology Inc. in California.[br]Bibliography1953, "Printed circuits: some general principles and applications of the foil technique", Journal of the British Institution of Radio Engineers 13: 523.1959, The Technology of Printed Circuits: The Foil Technique in Electronic Production.1984–5, "Reflections of my life as an inventor", Circuit World 11:1–3 (a personal account of the development of the printed circuit).1989, My Life with the Printed Circuit, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Lehigh University Press.KF -
18 Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo
[br]b. 25 April 1874 Bologna, Italyd. 20 July 1937 Rome, Italy[br]Italian radio pioneer whose inventiveness and business skills made radio communication a practical proposition.[br]Marconi was educated in physics at Leghorn and at Bologna University. An avid experimenter, he worked in his parents' attic and, almost certainly aware of the recent work of Hertz and others, soon improved the performance of coherers and spark-gap transmitters. He also discovered for himself the use of earthing and of elevated metal plates as aerials. In 1895 he succeeded in transmitting telegraphy over a distance of 2 km (1¼ miles), but the Italian Telegraph authority rejected his invention, so in 1896 he moved to England, where he filed the first of many patents. There he gained the support of the Chief Engineer of the Post Office, and by the following year he had achieved communication across the Bristol Channel.The British Post Office was also slow to take up his work, so in 1897 he formed the Wireless Telegraph \& Signal Company to work independently. In 1898 he sold some equipment to the British Army for use in the Boer War and established the first permanent radio link from the Isle of Wight to the mainland. In 1899 he achieved communication across the English Channel (a distance of more than 31 miles or 50 km), the construction of a wireless station at Spezia, Italy, and the equipping of two US ships to report progress in the America's Cup yacht race, a venture that led to the formation of the American Marconi Company. In 1900 he won a contract from the British Admiralty to sell equipment and to train operators. Realizing that his business would be much more successful if he could offer his customers a complete radio-communication service (known today as a "turnkey" deal), he floated a new company, the Marconi International Marine Communications Company, while the old company became the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company.His greatest achievement occurred on 12 December 1901, when Morse telegraph signals from a transmitter at Poldhu in Cornwall were received at St John's, Newfoundland, a distance of some 2,100 miles (3,400 km), with the use of an aerial flown by a kite. As a result of this, Marconi's business prospered and he became internationally famous, receiving many honours for his endeavours, including the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. In 1904, radio was first used to provide a daily bulletin at sea, and in 1907 a transatlantic wireless telegraphy service was inaugurated. The rescue of 1,650 passengers from the shipwreck of SS Republic in 1909 was the first of many occasions when wireless was instrumental in saving lives at sea, most notable being those from the Titanic on its maiden voyage in April 1912; more lives would have been saved had there been sufficient lifeboats. Marconi was one of those who subsequently pressed for greater safety at sea. In 1910 he demonstrated the reception of long (8 km or 5 miles) waves from Ireland in Buenos Aires, but after the First World War he began to develop the use of short waves, which were more effectively reflected by the ionosphere. By 1918 the first link between England and Australia had been established, and in 1924 he was awarded a Post Office contract for short-wave communication between England and the various parts of the British Empire.With his achievements by then recognized by the Italian Government, in 1915 he was appointed Radio-Communications Adviser to the Italian armed forces, and in 1919 he was an Italian delegate to the Paris Peace Conference. From 1921 he lived on his yacht, the Elettra, and although he joined the Fascist Party in 1923, he later had reservations about Mussolini.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsNobel Prize for Physics (jointly with K.F. Braun) 1909. Russian Order of S t Anne. Commander of St Maurice and St Lazarus. Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (i.e. Knight) of Italy 1902. Freedom of Rome 1903. Honorary DSc Oxford. Honorary LLD Glasgow. Chevalier of the Civil Order of Savoy 1905. Royal Society of Arts Albert Medal. Honorary knighthood (GCVO) 1914. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Medal of Honour 1920. Chairman, Royal Society of Arts 1924. Created Marquis (Marchese) 1929. Nominated to the Italian Senate 1929. President, Italian Academy 1930. Rector, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 1934.Bibliography1896, "Improvements in transmitting electrical impulses and in apparatus thereof", British patent no. 12,039.1 June 1898, British patent no. 12,326 (transformer or "jigger" resonant circuit).1901, British patent no. 7,777 (selective tuning).1904, British patent no. 763,772 ("four circuit" tuning arrangement).Further ReadingD.Marconi, 1962, My Father, Marconi.W.J.Baker, 1970, A History of the Marconi Company, London: Methuen.KFBiographical history of technology > Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo
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19 turn
turn [tɜ:n]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. noun4. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. nouna. [of wheel] tour mb. ( = bend) virage m• take the next turn on the left prenez la prochaine route (or rue) à gauche• the patient took a turn for the worse/better l'état du malade s'est aggravé/améliorée. ( = action) to do sb a good turn rendre un service à qnf. ( = act) numéro mg. (in game, queue) tour m• whose turn is it? c'est à qui (le tour) ?► by turns• my sister and I visit our mother by turns ma sœur et moi rendons visite à notre mère à tour de rôle► in turn ( = one after another) à tour de rôle ; ( = then) à mon (or son or notre etc) tour• and they, in turn, said... et, à leur tour, ils ont dit...► out of turn• I don't want to speak out of turn but... je ne devrais peut-être pas dire cela mais...► to a turn• done to a turn [food] à point► turn of + noun━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► For turn + adverb/preposition combinations see also phrasal verbs.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. [+ handle, key, wheel, page] tournerb. [+ mattress] retournerd. ( = reach) [+ age, time] as soon as he turned 18 dès qu'il a eu 18 ans• he would turn in his grave if he knew... il se retournerait dans sa tombe s'il savait...► to turn on sth ( = depend)b. ( = move in different direction) [person, vehicle] tourner ; ( = reverse direction) faire demi-tour ; [road, river] faire un coude ; [tide] changer de directionc. ( = become)► turn + adjective• to turn nasty/pale devenir méchant/pâle• the whole thing turned into a nightmare c'est devenu un véritable cauchemar► to turn to + nound. ( = change) [weather] changer ; [leaves] jaunir4. compounds[+ business, economy] remettre sur pied[traveller] faire demi-tour ; ( = reverse a decision) faire marche arrièrea. ( = send back) faire faire demi-tour à ; [+ demonstrators] faire refluer• we can't turn the clock back on ne peut pas revenir en arrière► turn down separable transitive verbb. [+ heat, sound] baissera. to turn in to a driveway [car, person] tourner dans une alléeb. ( = go to bed) (inf) aller se couchera. ( = hand over) [+ wanted man] livrer (à la police)• to turn o.s. in se rendrea. [person, vehicle] tournerb. to turn off automatically [heater, oven] s'éteindre automatiquement[+ road] quittera. [+ water, tap] fermer ; [+ radio, television, electricity, gas, heater] éteindre ; [+ water, electricity] (at main) couper• what turns teenagers off science? qu'est-ce qui fait que les sciences n'attirent pas les adolescents ?► turn onb. millions of viewers turn on at 6 o'clock des millions de téléspectateurs allument la télé à 6 heures( = attack) attaquera. [+ tap] ouvrir ; [+ gas, electricity, television, heater] allumer ; [+ engine, machine] mettre en marchec. ( = happen) se passer• as it turned out, nobody came en fin de compte personne n'est venu• it turned out nice [weather] il a fait beau en fin de comptea. [+ light] éteindreb. ( = empty out) [+ pockets, suitcase] vider ; [+ room, cupboard] nettoyer à fond ; ( = expel) [+ tenant] expulserc. ( = produce) fabriquera. ( = roll over) se retournerb. ( = change channel) changer de chaîne ; ( = turn page) tourner la pagea. [+ page] tourner ; [+ mattress, earth, playing card, tape] retournerb. ( = hand over) [+ person] livrer (to à)• the firm turns over $10,000 a week l'entreprise réalise un chiffre d'affaires de 10 000 dollars par semaine► turn rounda. [person] se retourner ; ( = change direction) [person, vehicle] faire demi-tour ; ( = rotate) [object] tournerb. ( = improve) se redressera. tourner ; [+ person] faire tourner• he turned the ship round [captain] il a fait demi-tourb. ( = make successful) redresser ; ( = rephrase) reformuler( = arrive) arriver• don't worry about your ring, I'm sure it will turn up ne t'en fais pas pour ta bague, je suis sûr que tu finiras par la retrouvera. [+ collar] relever ; [+ sleeve] retrousserb. ( = find) [+ evidence] trouver• a survey turned up more than 3,000 people suffering from AIDS une enquête a révélé que plus de 3 000 personnes étaient atteintes du sidac. [+ radio, television] mettre plus fort* * *[tɜːn] 1.1) (in games, sequence) tour m‘miss a turn’ — ‘passez votre tour’
to have a turn on ou at ou with the computer — utiliser l'ordinateur à son tour
to take turns at doing —
to speak out of turn — fig commettre un impair
2) ( circular movement) tour mto do a turn — [dancer] faire un tour
3) ( in vehicle) virage mto make ou do a left/right turn — tourner à gauche/à droite
‘no left turn’ — ‘défense de tourner à gauche’
4) (bend, side road) tournant m, virage mtake the next right turn —
5) (change, development) tournure fto take a turn for the better — [person, situation] s'améliorer; [things, events] prendre une meilleure tournure
to take a turn for the worse — [situation] se dégrader; [health] s'aggraver
to be on the turn — [luck, milk] commencer à tourner; [tide] commencer à changer; century
6) (colloq) GB ( attack) crise fa giddy ou dizzy turn — un vertige
to have a funny turn — se sentir tout/-e chose (colloq)
it gave me quite a turn —
7) ( act) numéro m2.in turn adverbial phrase1) ( in rotation) [answer, speak] à tour de rôle2) ( linking sequence) à son tour3.transitive verb1) ( rotate) [person] tourner [wheel, handle]; serrer [screw]; [mechanism] faire tourner [cog, wheel]to turn the key in the door ou lock — ( lock up) fermer la porte à clé; ( unlock) tourner la clé dans la serrure
2) (turn over, reverse) retourner [mattress, soil, steak, collar]; tourner [page]3) ( change direction of) tourner [chair, head, face, car]to turn one's back on — lit tourner le dos à [group, place]; fig laisser tomber [friend, ally]; abandonner [homeless, needy]
4) ( focus direction of)to turn something on somebody — braquer quelque chose sur quelqu'un [gun, hose, torch]; fig diriger quelque chose sur quelqu'un [anger, scorn]
5) ( transform)to turn something white/black — blanchir/noircir quelque chose
to turn something milky/opaque — rendre quelque chose laiteux/opaque
to turn something into — transformer quelque chose en [office, car park, desert]
to turn water into ice/wine — changer de l'eau en glace/vin
to turn somebody into — [magician] changer quelqu'un en [frog]; [experience] faire de quelqu'un [extrovert, maniac]
7) (colloq) ( pass the age of)she has just turned 20/30 — elle vient d'avoir 20/30 ans
8) ( on lathe) tourner [wood, piece, spindle]4.1) ( change direction) [person, car, plane, road] tourner; [ship] virerto turn down ou into — tourner dans [street, alley]
to turn towards — tourner en direction de [village, mountains]
the conversation turned to Ellie — on en est venu/ils en sont venus à parler d'Ellie
2) ( reverse direction) [person, vehicle] faire demi-tour; [tide] changer; [luck] tourner; turn around3) ( revolve) [key, wheel, planet] tourner; [person] se tournerto turn on — [argument] tourner autour de [point, issue]; [outcome] dépendre de [factor]
5) ( spin round angrily)to turn on somebody — [dog] attaquer quelqu'un; [person] se retourner contre quelqu'un
to turn to — se tourner vers [person, religion]
to turn to drink/drugs — se mettre à boire/se droguer
I don't know where ou which way to turn — je ne sais plus où donner de la tête (colloq)
7) ( change)to turn into — [person, tadpole] se transformer en [frog]; [sofa] se transformer en [bed]; [situation, evening] tourner à [farce, disaster]
to turn to — [substance] se changer en [ice, gold]; [fear, surprise] faire place à [horror, relief]
8) ( become by transformation) devenir [pale, cloudy, green]to turn white/black/red — blanchir/noircir/rougir
the weather is turning cold/warm — le temps se rafraîchit/se réchauffe
9) (colloq) ( become) devenir [Conservative, Communist]10) ( go sour) [milk] tourner11) [trees, leaves] jaunir•Phrasal Verbs:- turn in- turn off- turn on- turn out- turn up••at every turn — ( all the time) à tout moment; ( everywhere) partout
one good turn deserves another — Prov c'est un prêté pour un rendu
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20 prze|jść
pf — prze|chodzić1 impf (przejdę, przejdziesz, przejdzie, przeszedł, przeszła, przeszli — przechodzę) Ⅰ vt 1. (doświadczyć, przeżyć) to experience, to go through- wiele przeszli podczas wojny they had gone through a lot during the war- przejść twardą szkołę (życia) to grow up in a hard school, to go through the mill- w zeszłym roku przeszła ciężką grypę last year she suffered from a bad case of (the) flu- wiele przeszła she’s gone a. been through a lot2. pot. (zostać poddanym badaniom) to pass- mój samochód przeszedł pomyślnie wszystkie testy my car has passed all its roadworthiness tests- wszystkie urządzenia przeszły właśnie generalny remont all equipment has just been overhauled3. przest. (przestudiować, przerobić) to study- powtarzała z dziećmi to, co przeszły w zeszłym roku w szkole she revised with the children what they learned last year at schoolⅡ vi 1. (przebyć odległość, przemieścić się) w ciągu dnia przeszli piętnaście kilometrów during the day they covered fifteen kilometres- przejdźmy do mojego biura let’s go to my office- przeszedł pieszo przez całe miasto he went around the whole town on foot2. pot. (przesunąć się) to pass- właśnie przeszedł tędy pociąg the train has just passed this way- czy nikt tędy nie przechodził? has anybody passed this way?- burza przeszła bokiem the storm passed us/them by- zaraza przeszła przez cały kraj the plague swept through the entire country3. (idąc minąć) to pass by, to miss [dom, ulicę]- przeszła obok i nie zauważyła go wcale she passed by and didn’t notice him4. (przedostać się na drugą stronę) przejść przez coś to get across [jezdnię, most]; to get over [płot, mur]; to get through [bramę, punkt kontrolny]- pomógł jej przejść przez ulicę he helped her across the street- przejdź po pasach! take the zebra crossing!- przejście wzbronione no trespassing5. przen. (przeniknąć) to go through, to come through- igła nie chciała przejść przez gruby materiał the needle wouldn’t go through the thick fabric- światło nie przechodziło przez brudne szyby the light didn’t filter through the dirty windows- kula przeszła przez płuco the bullet went through the lung6. pot. (przeciąć) (o liniach, szlakach, drogach) to go through, to run through- autostrada ma przejść na wschód od miasta/przez środek wsi the motorway is to run east of the town/through the middle of the village- przez rzekę przechodzi granica the frontier a. border runs across the river7. (spełnić warunki) (o rywalizacji) to pass, to qualify- drużyna przeszła do półfinału the team made it a. got through to the semi-finals- przeszliśmy pomyślnie eliminacje we got through the qualifying round- nie przeszedł do drugiej tury wyborów he didn’t make it to the second round of the election, he lost in the first round of the election8. przen. (zostać przyjętym) (o projekcie, kandydaturze) to ge through, to go through- wniosek przeszedł 150 głosami przeciw 96 the motion was carried by 150 votes to 96- budżet przeszedł większością głosów the budget was approved by a majority vote- ustawa nie przeszła the bill was rejected, the law failed to get through- nie myśl, że przejdą takie numery! pot. don’t think you’re going to get away with this!9. (minąć) to go (over), to pass- ból powoli przechodził the pain was slowly going away- ból przeszedł po godzinie the pain eased off after an hour- terminy realizacji zobowiązań dawno przeszły the deadlines have all been missed- zima nareszcie przeszła the winter’s gone at last- poczekam, aż burza przejdzie I’ll wait until the storm subsides a. the storm’s over10. pot. (zacząć robić coś nowego) przejść do cywila to leave the armed forces- przejść na nowe stanowisko to take a new post- przejść do rezerwy to be transferred to the reserve, to pass to the reserve- przejść na dietę to go on a diet- przejść do innego tematu to change the subject- w tym roku przechodzę na wcześniejszą emeryturę I’m taking early retirement this year- przeszedł z partii konserwatywnej do partii liberalnej he went over to the conservative party from the liberals- przejść na inną wiarę to change one’s faith- przejść na katolicyzm/Islam to convert to Catholicism/Islam- przejść do wyższej/następnej klasy to get through to the next year- uczy się dobrze, przechodzi z klasy do klasy he’s a good pupil and never has to repeat a year11. przen. (przekształcić się) to turn, to evolve (w coś into sth)- przejść od wzniosłości do śmieszności to go from the sublime to the ridiculous- szarpanina przeszła w bójkę a punch-up turned into a major fight a. incident- energia chemiczna przechodzi w elektryczną chemical energy is converted into electrical energy- jesień przeszła w zimę the autumn turned a. wore into winter12. (przesiąknąć) to become permeated- nasze ubrania przeszły wilgocią our clothes were permeated with damp- cały dom przeszedł zapachem smażonej ryby the aroma of fried fish spread through a. permeated the entire houseⅢ przejść się pot. to take a walk (po czymś around a. about sth)- przeszedł się po parku he walked around the park- przejdę się trochę przed obiadem I’ll have a little walk before lunch- przejdę się do niej po obiedzie I’ll walk over to her after lunch■ przejść do historii/do potomności książk. to go down in history a. to posterity- przejdzie do historii jako wielki mąż stanu he will go down in history as a great statesman- przejść do tematu to get down to the subject- przejść na „ty” pot. to start to address each other by first names- przejść z kimś na „ty” to call sb by a. move onto first name terms, to start to call sb by his/her first name- w biurze wszyscy przeszli na „ty” in the office everybody is on first name terms- przejść suchą nogą pot. to cross without getting one’s feet wet- przejść w czyjeś ręce to pass into sb’s hands- przejść na angielski/niemiecki pot. to switch to English/German- przechodzenie z francuskiego na hiszpański sprawia mi trudność I can’t switch from French to Spanish easily- przejść nad czymś do porządku dziennego to come to terms with sth- ani przez myśl/głowę mi/jej nie przeszło it didn’t even occur to me/her- ani przez głowę mi nie przeszło, żeby cię posądzić o coś takiego it didn’t even occur to me to suspect you of something like that- to przechodzi ludzkie pojęcie a. wszelkie pojęcie a. ludzkie wyobrażenie a. wszelkie wyobrażenie that beats everything!; that takes the cake a. biscuit! pot., pejor.- jego skąpstwo/ich zuchwalstwo przechodzi ludzkie pojęcie his miserliness a. stinginess/their impudence is indescribable- przejść bez echa to pass unnoticed- przejść przez czyjeś ręce pot. to pass through sb’s hands- ta sprawa musi przejść przez ręce burmistrza this matter has to be endorsed by the mayor- ta decyzja musi jeszcze przejść przez zarząd pot. the decision must still be endorsed by the board- przejść (czyjeś) najśmielsze oczekiwania to exceed one’s wildest expectations- przejść samego siebie to surpass oneself- słowa nie chciały mu/jej przejść a. przechodziły mu/jej z trudem przez gardło pot. he/she was lost for words a. at a loss for words, he/she was unable to get a word out- słowa przeprosin z trudem przechodziły mu przez gardło the apology stuck in his throat, he found it very difficult to say sorry- ze wzruszenia słowa nie chciały przejść jej przez gardło she was so moved that she found herself tongue-tied a. that she was unable to get a word out- dreszcze/ciarki przeszły po nim/niej shivers ran down his/her spine- strach przeszedł po nim he suddenly shivered with fear- na jego widok ciarki przeszły jej po plecach he gave her the horrors, at the sight of him she felt prickles down her spine- ciarki po mnie przechodzą, gdy o tym pomyślę it gives me the shivers when I think of itThe New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > prze|jść
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