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1 strip
strip [strɪp]1. nouna. bande fb. also comic strip = strip cartoond. ( = striptease) (inf) strip-tease ma. ( = remove everything from) [+ person] déshabiller ; [+ room, house] vider ; ( = take paint off) [+ furniture, door] décaperb. [+ wallpaper, decorations, old paint] enleverc. ( = deprive) [+ person, object] dépouillerse déshabiller ; [striptease artist] faire du strip-tease4. compounds[+ pretence, hypocrisy] démasquer[+ machine, engine] démonter complètement* * *[strɪp] 1.1) ( narrow piece) bande f (of de)a strip of garden/beach — un jardin/une plage tout/-e en longueur
centre GB ou median US strip — terre-plein m central
2) ( striptease) strip-tease m3) Sport tenue f2.transitive verb (p prés etc - pp-)to strip something from ou off something — enlever or arracher quelque chose de quelque chose
2) ( remove everything from) déshabiller [person]; vider [house, room]; dépouiller [tree, plant]; défaire [bed]; ( remove paint from) décaper; ( dismantle) démonterto strip somebody of — dépouiller quelqu'un de [belongings, rights]
to strip somebody of his/her rank — dégrader quelqu'un
3) ( damage) écraser le filet de [screw]3.intransitive verb (p prés etc - pp-) se déshabiller4.stripped past participle adjective [pine, wood] décapéPhrasal Verbs:••to tear somebody off a strip —
to tear a strip off somebody — (colloq) enguirlander (colloq) quelqu'un
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2 nacimiento
m.1 birth.de nacimiento from birth2 source.3 origin, beginning (origen).4 Nativity scene.5 top part of river, head.* * *1 birth2 (de río) source3 figurado origin, beginning4 (pesebre) crib, Nativity scene\de nacimiento from birth■ éste es tonto de nacimiento what a stupid idiot!* * *noun m.1) birth2) source* * *SM1) [gen] birth; (Orn etc) hatchingde nacimiento: ciego de nacimiento — blind from birth, born blind
este defecto lo tiene de nacimiento — he has had this defect since birth, he was born with this defect
2) (=estirpe) birth, familyde nacimiento noble — of noble birth, of noble family
3) (=manantial) spring, source4) [del pelo] roots pl5) (=origen) [de nación] birth; [de amistad] beginning, startel partido tuvo su nacimiento en... — the party had its origins in...
6) (Arte, Rel) nativity (scene)* * *1)a) (de niño, animal) birthb) ( de aves) hatching2)a) ( origen) birthaquél fue el nacimiento de una amistad duradera — that was the start o beginning of a lasting friendship
b) (liter) (iniciación, despertar)c) ( cuna) birthde nacimiento noble — of noble birth o origins
3)a) ( de río) sourceb) ( del pelo) hairline4) ( belén) crib* * *= birth, rise, spring, nativity, hatching.Nota: Referido a animales.Ex. Typically, the additions to the name will fall within the following categories: title of nobility, title of honour, address, date of birth, and date of death.Ex. The rise of documentation in this country takes a rather different turn, due largely to the development of fine grain photographic emulsions and the miniature camera using a film with an acetate, non-explosive, base.Ex. They bought a book which is an 1875 edition of the travel guide Faxon's illustrated hand-book of summer travel to the lakes, springs and mountains of New England.Ex. Pilgrims journeyed to the cathedral to view the Veil of the Virgin, a strip of cloth believed to have been worn by the Virgin Mary at the Nativity of Christ.Ex. In the first two days after hatching, chicks coming from eggs incubated in the light prevalently slept with their right eye open.----* acta de nacimiento = birth certificate.* certificado de nacimiento = birth certificate.* con el nacimiento de = at the dawn of.* contribuir al nacimiento de = lead to + the birth of.* defecto de nacimiento = birth defect.* de nacimiento = from birth, innately, inborn, native-born.* derecho de nacimiento = birthright.* fecha de nacimiento = birth date, date of birth.* lugar de nacimiento = birthplace, place of birth.* madre de nacimiento = birth mother.* madre o padre de nacimiento = birth parent.* nacimiento del pelo = hairline.* nacimiento de polluelos = chick hatching.* nacimiento precoz = prematurity.* nombre de nacimiento = née.* padre de nacimiento = birth father.* peso de nacimiento = birthweight.* * *1)a) (de niño, animal) birthb) ( de aves) hatching2)a) ( origen) birthaquél fue el nacimiento de una amistad duradera — that was the start o beginning of a lasting friendship
b) (liter) (iniciación, despertar)c) ( cuna) birthde nacimiento noble — of noble birth o origins
3)a) ( de río) sourceb) ( del pelo) hairline4) ( belén) crib* * *= birth, rise, spring, nativity, hatching.Nota: Referido a animales.Ex: Typically, the additions to the name will fall within the following categories: title of nobility, title of honour, address, date of birth, and date of death.
Ex: The rise of documentation in this country takes a rather different turn, due largely to the development of fine grain photographic emulsions and the miniature camera using a film with an acetate, non-explosive, base.Ex: They bought a book which is an 1875 edition of the travel guide Faxon's illustrated hand-book of summer travel to the lakes, springs and mountains of New England.Ex: Pilgrims journeyed to the cathedral to view the Veil of the Virgin, a strip of cloth believed to have been worn by the Virgin Mary at the Nativity of Christ.Ex: In the first two days after hatching, chicks coming from eggs incubated in the light prevalently slept with their right eye open.* acta de nacimiento = birth certificate.* certificado de nacimiento = birth certificate.* con el nacimiento de = at the dawn of.* contribuir al nacimiento de = lead to + the birth of.* defecto de nacimiento = birth defect.* de nacimiento = from birth, innately, inborn, native-born.* derecho de nacimiento = birthright.* fecha de nacimiento = birth date, date of birth.* lugar de nacimiento = birthplace, place of birth.* madre de nacimiento = birth mother.* madre o padre de nacimiento = birth parent.* nacimiento del pelo = hairline.* nacimiento de polluelos = chick hatching.* nacimiento precoz = prematurity.* nombre de nacimiento = née.* padre de nacimiento = birth father.* peso de nacimiento = birthweight.* * *A1 (de un niño) birth; (de mamíferos) birthlos niños presenciaron el nacimiento de los gatitos the children watched the kittens being bornes argentino de nacimiento he's Argentinian by birthes sorda de nacimiento she was born deaf, she's been deaf since birth2 (de aves) hatchingB1 (origen, principio) birthaquél fue el nacimiento de una duradera amistad that was the start o beginning of a lasting friendship2 ( liter) (iniciación, despertar) nacimiento A algo:su nacimiento al amor his first experience of love, his awakening to lovesu nacimiento a la vida de adulto her initiation into adult lifemi nacimiento a las artes my introduction to the arts3 (cuna) birthde nacimiento noble/humilde of noble/humble birth o originsC1 (de un río) source2 (del pelo) hairlineD (belén) crib* * *
nacimiento sustantivo masculino
1 (de niño, animal) birth;
es sorda de nacimiento she was born deaf
2 (de idea, movimiento) birth;◊ el nacimiento de una amistad duradera the start o beginning of a lasting friendship
3 ( belén) crib
nacimiento sustantivo masculino
1 birth: es mudo de nacimiento, he's been mute since birth
fecha de nacimiento, date of birth
2 (inicio, origen) origin, beginning
3 (de un río, manantial) source
4 (belén) Nativity scene, crib
' nacimiento' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
antojo
- capricho
- ciega
- ciego
- espectáculo
- partida
- registrar
- acta
- cuna
- inscripción
- lugar
- mudo
- natividad
- ser
- sordo
English:
birth
- birth certificate
- birthmark
- birthplace
- date
- ford
- hairline
- homeland
- mean
- place
- register
- rise
- rising
- source
- crib
- hair
- shower
* * *nacimiento nm1. [de niño, animal] birth;de nacimiento from birth;ser ciego de nacimiento to be born blind;por nacimiento by birth2. [de ave, reptil] hatching3. [de planta] sprouting4. [de pelo] hairline5. [de río] source6. [origen] [de amistad] start, beginning;[de costumbre] origin7. [belén] Nativity scene* * *m1 birth;es ciego de nacimiento he was born blind2 de Navidad crèche, nativity scene* * *nacimiento nm1) : birth2) : source (of a river)3) : beginning, origin4) belén: Nativity scene, crêche* * *nacimiento n birth -
3 Sendzimir, Tadeusz
SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy[br]fl. twentieth century USA[br]American metallurgist, inventor of the planetary rolling mill.[br]The principle of the Sendzimir or planetary rolling mill was first conceived by an English engineer named Picken, but that did not lead to practical development. The principle was taken up independently in the USA by Sendzimir, who put forward his own ideas in 1948 and obtained a patent the same year. By 1952 he had reached agreements with Picken and other workers to license the construction of a plant completely under the control of Sendzimir and his associates. This type of rolling mill was developed primarily for the cold rolling of steel strip. Cold rolling requires higher pressures to be exerted by the rolls, which therefore must be harder than in hot rolling. In the Sendzimir mill the two hard work rolls are backed up by a cluster of heavier rolls of various sizes to prevent distortion of the work rolls. One advantage of this arrangement is that the work rolls can be quite small, so that they can be removed by hand when they need replacement. The Sendzimir mill is in wide use, particularly for rolling stainless steel. The first such mill was installed at Peugeot's in France in 1950, with two sets of planetary rolls for the hot rolling of 16 in. (41 cm) wide steel strip. The second was in the USA in 1951, and a third, larger one followed at Ductile Steels Ltd at Willenhall, Wolverhampton, England, in 1953.[br]Further ReadingE.C.Larke, 1957, The Rolling of Strip, Sheet and Plate, London: Chapman \& Hall, pp. 53 ff. (gives some details of planetary mills, with a little historical background).LRD -
4 Watkins, Alfred
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. 1854 Hereford, Englandd. 7 April 1935 Hereford, England[br]English photographer who developed the first practical exposure-measuring system.[br]His first patent was granted on 27 January 1890 and described a method of measuring the "actinic" value of light as a means of determining exposure. A strip of sensitized paper which darkened on exposure to light was used, and the time taken for it to darken to match a standard tint was measured. This time could be used to calculate the necessary exposure time, taking into account the speed of the plate, shutter speed and aperture. Watkins marketed a number of these actinometer designs, of which the most popular was the Watkins Bee Meter, which was in a pocket-watch form, introduced in 1903 and remaining on sale until 1939. Watkins was concerned that photographers recognize that exposure measurement had to take into account the effect of development time and temperature. In 1893 he devised the concept of the "Watkins Factor": he showed that when plates were developed by inspection, as was the practice at the time, a fixed relationship existed between the time of the first appearance of the image and the total time required to give a fully developed negative. The Watkins Factor was the figure that the first time must be multiplied by to give the second time. Watkins published tables of factors for different brands of plates and for different developers, and marketed various aids such as specially calibrated thermometers and clocks, as aids in using "Fac-torial Development" to give consistent negatives. After the early years of the twentieth century Watkins gave up direct participation in photography and devoted his time to a variety of interests, including the plotting of ley lines in England.BC -
5 blow up
1) начинать дуть;
усиливаться( о ветре) It looks as if it's blowing up for severe weather. ≈ Кажется, скоро погода изменится к худшему. There was a storm blowing up while we were out at sea. ≈ В то время, как мы были в море, штормовой ветер все усиливался.
2) раздувать You'll have to blow up the fire to make it burn. ≈ Надо раздуть огонь, а то он никак не разгорится.
3) взрывать to blow up the hell ≈ перевернуть все вверх дном The soldiers blew up the enemy bridge. ≈ Солдаты взорвали вражеский мост. Syn: send up
4)
4) взлетать на воздух (при взрыве) A chemical factory blew up in the North of England. ≈ На химическом заводе на севере Англии произошел взрыв. Syn: go up
3)
5) разг. бранить, ругать Mother will blow you up when she finds her best dishes broken. ≈ Мама устроит тебе головомойку, когда узнает, что ты разбил ее любимые тарелки. Syn: bawl out
2), be down on
1), bring up
10), brush down, burn up
5), call down
4), chew out, chew up
3), choke off
3), come down on
3), dress down
1), dust down
2), hop on
2), jack up
3), land on
2), lay out
8), reproach
2., reprove, sail into
1), scold
1., sit on
3), speak to
4), step on
3), strip down, strip off
2), take apart
4), talk to
1), tell off
3), tick off
3), walk into
2)
6) разг. выходить из себя
7) фото увеличивать The photographer blew the picture of the child up and entered it for a national competition. ≈ Фотограф увеличил фотографию ребенка и послал ее на национальный конкурс.
8) возникать Trouble is blowing up again in the Middle East. ≈ На Ближнем Востоке опять назревает конфликт.
9) надувать to blow up a balloon ≈ надуть воздушный шар Help me to blow up these tyres, will you? ≈ Помоги мне поддуть колесо, а? Syn: pump up
2)
10) разрушать, расстраивать The plan blew up in his face. ≈ Его планы рушились на глазах. We'll soon blow up his plan. ≈ Скоро мы ему все окончательно испортим.
11) приукрашивать факты;
преувеличивать значение He always blows up his adventures to make them seem better than they were. ≈ Он всегда привирает, когда рассказывает о своих приключениях, чтобы они выглядели поинтереснее.разрушать, расстраивать;
- to * plans разрушать планы надувать (шину) надуваться, важничать, пыжиться;
- he was blown up with pride он надулся от гордости усиливаться (о ветре) вызвать (дождь, бурю;
о ветре) - it is blowing up for rain ветер принесет дождь (разговорное) бранить, ругать (разговорное) выходить из себя;
- every time he sees me he blows up он лезет в бутылку, когда видит меня( фотографическое) увеличивать (кинематографический) переводить кинофильм с узкой пленки на стандартную (методом оптической печати) возникать, появляться;
- a storm blew up разыгрался шторм;
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6 Fox, Samuel
SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors[br]b. 1815 Bradfield, near Sheffield, Englandd. February 1887 Sheffield, England[br]English inventor of the curved steel umbrella frame.[br]Samuel Fox was the son of a weaver's shuttle maker in the hamlet of Bradwell (probably Bradfield, near Sheffield) in the remote hills. He went to Sheffield and served an apprenticeship in the steel trade. Afterwards, he worked with great energy and industry until he acquired sufficient capital to start in business on his own account at Stocksbridge, near Sheffield. It was there that he invented what became known as "Fox's Paragon Frame" for umbrellas. Whalebone or solid steel had previously been used for umbrella ribs, but whalebone was unreliable and steel was heavy. Fox realized that if he grooved the ribs he could make them both lighter and more elastic. In his first patent, taken out in 1852, he described making the ribs and stretchers of parasols and umbrellas from a narrow strip of steel plate partially bent into a trough-like form. He took out five more patents. The first, in 1853, was for strengthening the joints. His next two, in 1856 and 1857, were more concerned with preparing the steel for making the ribs. Another patent in 1857 was basically for improving the formation of the bit at the end of the rib where it was fixed to the stretcher and where the end of the rib has to be formed into a boss: this was so it could have a pin fixed through it to act as a pivot when the umbrella has to be opened or folded and yet support the rib and stretcher. The final patent, in 1865, reverted once more to improving the manufacture of the ribs. He made a fortune before other manufacturers knew what he was doing. Fox established a works at Lille when he found that the French import duties and other fiscal arrangements hindered exporting umbrellas and successful trading there, and was thereby able to develop a large and lucrative business.[br]Bibliography1852. British patent no. 14,055 (curved steel ribs and stretchers for umbrellas). 1853. British patent no. 739 (strengthened umbrella joints).1856. British patent no. 2,741 (ribs and stretchers for umbrellas). 1857. British patent no. 1,450 (steel wire for umbrellas).1857, British patent no. 1,857 (forming the bit attached to the ribs). 1865, British patent no. 2,348 (improvements in making the ribs).Further ReadingObituary, 1887, Engineer 63.Obituary, 1887, Iron 29.RLH -
7 Harrison, John
[br]b. 24 March 1693 Foulby, Yorkshire, Englandd. 24 March 1776 London, England[br]English horologist who constructed the first timekeeper of sufficient accuracy to determine longitude at sea and invented the gridiron pendulum for temperature compensation.[br]John Harrison was the son of a carpenter and was brought up to that trade. He was largely self-taught and learned mechanics from a copy of Nicholas Saunderson's lectures that had been lent to him. With the assistance of his younger brother, James, he built a series of unconventional clocks, mainly of wood. He was always concerned to reduce friction, without using oil, and this influenced the design of his "grasshopper" escapement. He also invented the "gridiron" compensation pendulum, which depended on the differential expansion of brass and steel. The excellent performance of his regulator clocks, which incorporated these devices, convinced him that they could also be used in a sea dock to compete for the longitude prize. In 1714 the Government had offered a prize of £20,000 for a method of determining longitude at sea to within half a degree after a voyage to the West Indies. In theory the longitude could be found by carrying an accurate timepiece that would indicate the time at a known longitude, but the requirements of the Act were very exacting. The timepiece would have to have a cumulative error of no more than two minutes after a voyage lasting six weeks.In 1730 Harrison went to London with his proposal for a sea clock, supported by examples of his grasshopper escapement and his gridiron pendulum. His proposal received sufficient encouragement and financial support, from George Graham and others, to enable him to return to Barrow and construct his first sea clock, which he completed five years later. This was a large and complicated machine that was made out of brass but retained the wooden wheelwork and the grasshopper escapement of the regulator clocks. The two balances were interlinked to counteract the rolling of the vessel and were controlled by helical springs operating in tension. It was the first timepiece with a balance to have temperature compensation. The effect of temperature change on the timekeeping of a balance is more pronounced than it is for a pendulum, as two effects are involved: the change in the size of the balance; and the change in the elasticity of the balance spring. Harrison compensated for both effects by using a gridiron arrangement to alter the tension in the springs. This timekeeper performed creditably when it was tested on a voyage to Lisbon, and the Board of Longitude agreed to finance improved models. Harrison's second timekeeper dispensed with the use of wood and had the added refinement of a remontoire, but even before it was tested he had embarked on a third machine. The balance of this machine was controlled by a spiral spring whose effective length was altered by a bimetallic strip to compensate for changes in temperature. In 1753 Harrison commissioned a London watchmaker, John Jefferys, to make a watch for his own personal use, with a similar form of temperature compensation and a modified verge escapement that was intended to compensate for the lack of isochronism of the balance spring. The time-keeping of this watch was surprisingly good and Harrison proceeded to build a larger and more sophisticated version, with a remontoire. This timekeeper was completed in 1759 and its performance was so remarkable that Harrison decided to enter it for the longitude prize in place of his third machine. It was tested on two voyages to the West Indies and on both occasions it met the requirements of the Act, but the Board of Longitude withheld half the prize money until they had proof that the timekeeper could be duplicated. Copies were made by Harrison and by Larcum Kendall, but the Board still continued to prevaricate and Harrison received the full amount of the prize in 1773 only after George III had intervened on his behalf.Although Harrison had shown that it was possible to construct a timepiece of sufficient accuracy to determine longitude at sea, his solution was too complex and costly to be produced in quantity. It had, for example, taken Larcum Kendall two years to produce his copy of Harrison's fourth timekeeper, but Harrison had overcome the psychological barrier and opened the door for others to produce chronometers in quantity at an affordable price. This was achieved before the end of the century by Arnold and Earnshaw, but they used an entirely different design that owed more to Le Roy than it did to Harrison and which only retained Harrison's maintaining power.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsRoyal Society Copley Medal 1749.Bibliography1767, The Principles of Mr Harrison's Time-keeper, with Plates of the Same, London. 1767, Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately Published by the Rev. Mr Maskelyne Under theAuthority of the Board of Longitude, London.1775, A Description Concerning Such Mechanisms as Will Afford a Nice or True Mensuration of Time, London.Further ReadingR.T.Gould, 1923, The Marine Chronometer: Its History and Development, London; reprinted 1960, Holland Press.—1978, John Harrison and His Timekeepers, 4th edn, London: National Maritime Museum.H.Quill, 1966, John Harrison, the Man who Found Longitude, London. A.G.Randall, 1989, "The technology of John Harrison's portable timekeepers", Antiquarian Horology 18:145–60, 261–77.J.Betts, 1993, John Harrison London (a good short account of Harrison's work). S.Smiles, 1905, Men of Invention and Industry; London: John Murray, Chapter III. Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. IX, pp. 35–6.DV -
8 Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson
[br]b. 31 October 1828 Sunderland, Englandd. 27 May 1914 Warlingham, Surrey, England[br]English chemist, inventor in Britain of the incandescent electric lamp and of photographic processes.[br]At the age of 14 Swan was apprenticed to a Sunderland firm of druggists, later joining John Mawson who had opened a pharmacy in Newcastle. While in Sunderland Swan attended lectures at the Athenaeum, at one of which W.E. Staite exhibited electric-arc and incandescent lighting. The impression made on Swan prompted him to conduct experiments that led to his demonstration of a practical working lamp in 1879. As early as 1848 he was experimenting with carbon as a lamp filament, and by 1869 he had mounted a strip of carbon in a vessel exhausted of air as completely as was then possible; however, because of residual air, the filament quickly failed.Discouraged by the cost of current from primary batteries and the difficulty of achieving a good vacuum, Swan began to devote much of his attention to photography. With Mawson's support the pharmacy was expanded to include a photographic business. Swan's interest in making permanent photographic records led him to patent the carbon process in 1864 and he discovered how to make a sensitive dry plate in place of the inconvenient wet collodian process hitherto in use. He followed this success with the invention of bromide paper, the subject of a British patent in 1879.Swan resumed his interest in electric lighting. Sprengel's invention of the mercury pump in 1865 provided Swan with the means of obtaining the high vacuum he needed to produce a satisfactory lamp. Swan adopted a technique which was to become an essential feature in vacuum physics: continuing to heat the filament during the exhaustion process allowed the removal of absorbed gases. The inventions of Gramme, Siemens and Brush provided the source of electrical power at reasonable cost needed to make the incandescent lamp of practical service. Swan exhibited his lamp at a meeting in December 1878 of the Newcastle Chemical Society and again the following year before an audience of 700 at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society. Swan's failure to patent his invention immediately was a tactical error as in November 1879 Edison was granted a British patent for his original lamp, which, however, did not go into production. Parchmentized thread was used in Swan's first commercial lamps, a material soon superseded by the regenerated cellulose filament that he developed. The cellulose filament was made by extruding a solution of nitro-cellulose in acetic acid through a die under pressure into a coagulating fluid, and was used until the ultimate obsolescence of the carbon-filament lamp. Regenerated cellulose became the first synthetic fibre, the further development and exploitation of which he left to others, the patent rights for the process being sold to Courtaulds.Swan also devised a modification of Planté's secondary battery in which the active material was compressed into a cellular lead plate. This has remained the central principle of all improvements in secondary cells, greatly increasing the storage capacity for a given weight.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1904. FRS 1894. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1898. First President, Faraday Society 1904. Royal Society Hughes Medal 1904. Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur 1881.Bibliography2 January 1880, British patent no. 18 (incandescent electric lamp).24 May 1881, British patent no. 2,272 (improved plates for the Planté cell).1898, "The rise and progress of the electrochemical industries", Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 27:8–33 (Swan's Presidential Address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers).Further ReadingM.E.Swan and K.R.Swan, 1968, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan F.R.S., Newcastle upon Tyne (a detailed account).R.C.Chirnside, 1979, "Sir Joseph Swan and the invention of the electric lamp", IEEElectronics and Power 25:96–100 (a short, authoritative biography).GWBiographical history of technology > Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson
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9 Palmer, Henry Robinson
[br]b. 1795 Hackney, London, Englandd. 12 September 1844[br]English civil engineer and monorail pioneer.[br]Palmer was an assistant to Thomas Telford for ten years from 1816. In 1818 he arranged a meeting of young engineers from which the Institution of Civil Engineers originated. In the early 1820s he invented a monorail system, the first of its kind, in which a single rail of wood, with an iron strip spiked on top to form a running surface, was supported on posts. Wagon bodies were supported pannier fashion from a frame attached to grooved wheels and were propelled by men or horses. An important object was to minimize friction, and short lines were built on this principle at Deptford and Cheshunt. In 1826 Palmer was appointed Resident Engineer to the London Docks and was responsible for the construction of many of them. He was subsequently consulted about many important engineering works.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1831. Vice-President, Institution of Civil Engineers.Bibliography1821, British patent no. 4,618 (monorail).1823, Description of a Railway on a New Principle…, London (describes his monorail).Further ReadingObituary, 1845, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 4. C.von Oeynhausen and H.von Dechen, 1971, Railways in England 1826 and 1827, London: Newcomen Society (a contemporary description of the monorails). M.J.T.Lewis, 1970, Early Wooden Railways, London: Routledge \& Kegan Paul.See also: Lartigue, Charles François Marie-ThérèsePJGR -
10 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 -
11 Paul, Lewis
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]d. April 1759 Brook Green, London, England[br]English inventor of hand carding machines and partner with Wyatt in early spinning machines.[br]Lewis Paul, apparently of French Huguenot extraction, was quite young when his father died. His father was Physician to Lord Shaftsbury, who acted as Lewis Paul's guardian. In 1728 Paul made a runaway match with a widow and apparently came into her property when she died a year later. He must have subsequently remarried. In 1732 he invented a pinking machine for making the edges of shrouds out of which he derived some profit.Why Paul went to Birmingham is unknown, but he helped finance some of Wyatt's earlier inventions. Judging by the later patents taken out by Paul, it is probable that he was the one interested in spinning, turning to Wyatt for help in the construction of his spinning machine because he had no mechanical skills. The two men may have been involved in this as early as 1733, although it is more likely that they began this work in 1735. Wyatt went to London to construct a model and in 1736 helped to apply for a patent, which was granted in 1738 in the name of Paul. The patent shows that Paul and Wyatt had a number of different ways of spinning in mind, but contains no drawings of the machines. In one part there is a description of sets of rollers to draw the cotton out more finely that could have been similar to those later used by Richard Arkwright. However, it would seem that Paul and Wyatt followed the other main method described, which might be called spindle drafting, where the fibres are drawn out between the nip of a pair of rollers and the tip of the spindle; this method is unsatisfactory for continuous spinning and results in an uneven yarn.The spinning venture was supported by Thomas Warren, a well-known Birmingham printer, Edward Cave of Gentleman's Magazine, Dr Robert James of fever-powder celebrity, Mrs Desmoulins, and others. Dr Samuel Johnson also took much interest. In 1741 a mill powered by two asses was equipped at the Upper Priory, Birmingham, with, machinery for spinning cotton being constructed by Wyatt. Licences for using the invention were sold to other people including Edward Cave, who established a mill at Northampton, so the enterprise seemed to have great promise. A spinning machine must be supplied with fibres suitably prepared, so carding machines had to be developed. Work was in hand on one in 1740 and in 1748 Paul took out another patent for two types of carding device, possibly prompted by the patent taken out by Daniel Bourn. Both of Paul's devices were worked by hand and the carded fibres were laid onto a strip of paper. The paper and fibres were then rolled up and placed in the spinning machine. In 1757 John Dyer wrote a poem entitled The Fleece, which describes a circular spinning machine of the type depicted in a patent taken out by Paul in 1758. Drawings in this patent show that this method of spinning was different from Arkwright's. Paul endeavoured to have the machine introduced into the Foundling Hospital, but his death in early 1759 stopped all further development. He was buried at Paddington on 30 April that year.[br]Bibliography1738, British patent no. 562 (spinning machine). 1748, British patent no. 636 (carding machine).1758, British patent no. 724 (circular spinning machine).Further ReadingG.J.French, 1859, The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, London, App. This should be read in conjunction with R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester, which shows that the roller drafting system on Paul's later spinning machine worked on the wrong principles.A.P.Wadsworth and J.de L.Mann, 1931, The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600–1780, Manchester (provides good coverage of the partnership of Paul and Wyatt and the early mills).E.Baines, 1835, History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, London (this publication must be mentioned, but is now out of date).A.Seymour-Jones, 1921, "The invention of roller drawing in cotton spinning", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 1 (a more modern account).RLH -
12 earth
1. n земля; мир, в котором мы живём; земной шарshunted to earth — шунтировал на землю; шунтируемый на землю
on the face of the earth — на земле, на свете, в целом мире
diatomaceous earth — диатомовая земля, диатомит; кизельгур
2. n Земля3. n земля, почва, грунт4. n суша5. n возвыш. мир6. n возвыш. люди, смертные7. n возвыш. нора8. n возвыш. возвыш. прах; плоть9. n возвыш. уст. странаthis earth … this England — наша страна … наша Англия
endmost lands of the earth — дальние страны;
10. n возвыш. эл. «земля», заземлениеearth electrode — заземляющий провод, молниеотвод
red earth — красная земля; краснозём
11. v окапывать, окучивать; напахивать борозды12. v загонять в норуearth levee — земляная дамба, земляной вал
13. v зарываться в землю, в норуcommitted to earth — предал земле; преданный земле
mother earth — мать сыра земля; земля-кормилица
14. v диал. зарывать, закапывать; предавать земле15. v эл. заземлятьСинонимический ряд:1. soil (noun) clay; dirt; dry land; dust; ground; land; mud; nature; soil; terra firma2. world (noun) creation; globe; orb; planet; sphere; star; the planet; universe; world -
13 wake
I weik past tense - woke; verb(to bring or come back to consciousness after being asleep: He woke to find that it was raining; Go and wake the others, will you?) vekke; våkne- wakeful- wakefully
- wakefulness
- waken
- wake up II weik noun(a strip of smooth-looking or foamy water left behind a ship.) kjølvannvekkeIsubst. \/weɪk\/1) ( historisk) kirkeinnvielsesfest2) ( spesielt irsk) (lik)vake, gravøl3) (gammeldags, poetisk) nattevake, vakewakes (nordengelsk, tar verb i entall eller flertall) (årlig) marked(sfest)Wakes Week ( Nord-England) fabrikkarbeidernes årlige ferieukeIIsubst. \/weɪk\/1) ( sjøfart) kjølvann2) ( overført) spor, kjølvannin (the) wake of som et resultat av i kjølvannet til, etterfulgt av• what does that have in its wake?III1) våkne (opp)2) (gammeldags, dialekt) vake (over), være våken, holde (lik)vake (hos)3) vekke (opp)wake an echo eller wake echoes gi ekko, gi gjenlydwake to life vekke til liv, gjenopplivewake up våkne (opp)• what time do you usually wake up?vekke (opp), fremkallewake up (to) ( overført) få opp øynene for, bli klar over, bli bevisst påwake up and smell the coffee se virkeligheten i øynene -
14 WS
1) Общая лексика: steam2) Компьютерная техника: Weak Script, Weather Satellite3) Авиация: узел подвески на крыле4) Морской термин: мировая шкала, мировая шкала базисных ставок фрахта, тариф шкалы WS, фиксированная ставка тарифа World Scale, шкала базисных номинальных фрахтовых ставок для танкеров, Worldwide Tanker Nominal Freight Scale5) Военный термин: Wallops station, Weapons School, Weather Service, Women's Services, Word Send, war scale, war service, war site, war strength, war-like stores, warhead section, weapon specification, weapon system, weather squadron, weather station, wind shield (снаряда), windsonde, wing station, wireless section, wireless set, стабилизатор вооружения (weapons stabilizer)6) Техника: warm shop, watts per steradian, weak signal, weapons system, winding specification, windshield, Wet Scrubber (Gasification Technology Conference)7) Сельское хозяйство: Wire Shear, (water solution) ВР (используется для определения состояния гербицидов)8) Химия: Wash Solution9) Математика: Weight and Sum, сумма квадратов внутри блока (within-group sum of squares)10) Метеорология: Warmer South11) Юридический термин: Winchester Special, witness statements12) Страхование: Worldscale (Worldwide Tanker Nominal Freight Scale)13) Ветеринария: Week's Spawn, Working Samoyed14) Грубое выражение: Wanker Shitface, Watery Shit, Worth Shit15) Телекоммуникации: рабочее место16) Сокращение: Samoa, Walk Sequence rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line, Weapon Subsystem (for the "Electronically-Enhanced Soldier"), Work Station, waste stack, weather stripping, wetted surface, yard, writer to the signet (// attorney), WAN (Wide Area Network) Server, Waardenburg Syndrome, Wadley Southern Railway Company, Wage Supervisor, Walkersville Southern (railroad), Walking Stick, Wall Slide (strength-building exercise), Wall Street, Wally Szczerbiak (basketball player), Ward Save (Warhammer gaming), Ware Shoals Railroad Company, Warp Star (gaming), Warpstorm (forum), Warren Sapp (football player), Warren Shepell Consultants Corporation (Toronto, ON, Canada), Warsong (gaming, World of Warcraft), Wartungssystem, Washington Star, Watch Supervisor, Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses), Water Solubility, Water Sports, Wave Shape, Wave Soldering, Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons), Wayward Spouse, Weapon Science, Weapon Skill (Warhammer gaming), Weapon Specification/System, Weapon(s) Specification, Weapon(s) System, Web Services, Web Site, Weber-Schafheitlin Integral, Wechselstrom (German: Alternating Current), Weebl's Stuff (website), Week Starting, Weekly Summary, Weird Silence, Wembley Stadium (England), Wesley Snipes (actor), West Seattle (Washington), West Side, West-Saxon (linguistics), Western Samoa, Western Shelter (manufacturer), Wet Season, Wheelin' Sportsmen, White Sheet, Whittaker - Shannon (sampling theorem), Widescreen, Width Skew, Wilderness Society, Wildlife Services, Wildlife Society, Will Shortz (creator of popular wordless crossword puzzle Sudoku), Will Smith (actor), William Shakespeare, William Shatner (actor), Williams Syndrome, Win Shares (arcane baseball stat), Wind Shear, Wind Speed, Wing Stow, Wing Support, Winston Salem (North Carolina), Winter Sonata (Korean TV show), Winter Springs (Florida), Wintersemester (German: winter semester), Wire Send, Wisselstroom (Dutch: Alternating Current), Women in Science, Women's Studies, WonderSwan, WordStar, Work Safe, Work Server, Work Space, Work Statement, Work Status, Work Surface, Worker Safety and Health, Worksheet, Workstation, World Senior, World Series, World Service (BBC), World Services, World Studies (course/class), Write Set, Writer to the Signet, Written Submission, Wrought Steel, water surface17) Физиология: Watt Seconds18) Вычислительная техника: Web Server (Corel), (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) WorkStation (RedHat, Linux)19) Нефть: well site, whipstock, wireless station, отклонитель (whipstock), отклоняющий клин20) Бумажная промышленность: wire side21) Силикатное производство: water solid ratio22) Фирменный знак: Williams- Sonoma cookware23) Экология: Water Survey, water solution24) СМИ: Wine Spectator25) SAP. график рабочего времени27) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: water station, well services, wellsite28) Полимеры: water spray, water supply, wet spinning29) Программирование: Web-сервисы (см. Web Services)30) Автоматика: working station31) Химическое оружие: work station/site32) Макаров: wait state, weather strip, wheel slide, working storage33) Велосипеды: wheel size34) Расширение файла: APL Worksheet35) Нефть и газ: World Scale36) Керамика: Water Solid37) Фармация: Working Standard38) Общественная организация: The Wildlife Society39) Правительство: Warm Springs, Georgia, White Sands, New Mexico40) Программное обеспечение: Windows Sockets -
15 ws
1) Общая лексика: steam2) Компьютерная техника: Weak Script, Weather Satellite3) Авиация: узел подвески на крыле4) Морской термин: мировая шкала, мировая шкала базисных ставок фрахта, тариф шкалы WS, фиксированная ставка тарифа World Scale, шкала базисных номинальных фрахтовых ставок для танкеров, Worldwide Tanker Nominal Freight Scale5) Военный термин: Wallops station, Weapons School, Weather Service, Women's Services, Word Send, war scale, war service, war site, war strength, war-like stores, warhead section, weapon specification, weapon system, weather squadron, weather station, wind shield (снаряда), windsonde, wing station, wireless section, wireless set, стабилизатор вооружения (weapons stabilizer)6) Техника: warm shop, watts per steradian, weak signal, weapons system, winding specification, windshield, Wet Scrubber (Gasification Technology Conference)7) Сельское хозяйство: Wire Shear, (water solution) ВР (используется для определения состояния гербицидов)8) Химия: Wash Solution9) Математика: Weight and Sum, сумма квадратов внутри блока (within-group sum of squares)10) Метеорология: Warmer South11) Юридический термин: Winchester Special, witness statements12) Страхование: Worldscale (Worldwide Tanker Nominal Freight Scale)13) Ветеринария: Week's Spawn, Working Samoyed14) Грубое выражение: Wanker Shitface, Watery Shit, Worth Shit15) Телекоммуникации: рабочее место16) Сокращение: Samoa, Walk Sequence rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line, Weapon Subsystem (for the "Electronically-Enhanced Soldier"), Work Station, waste stack, weather stripping, wetted surface, yard, writer to the signet (// attorney), WAN (Wide Area Network) Server, Waardenburg Syndrome, Wadley Southern Railway Company, Wage Supervisor, Walkersville Southern (railroad), Walking Stick, Wall Slide (strength-building exercise), Wall Street, Wally Szczerbiak (basketball player), Ward Save (Warhammer gaming), Ware Shoals Railroad Company, Warp Star (gaming), Warpstorm (forum), Warren Sapp (football player), Warren Shepell Consultants Corporation (Toronto, ON, Canada), Warsong (gaming, World of Warcraft), Wartungssystem, Washington Star, Watch Supervisor, Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses), Water Solubility, Water Sports, Wave Shape, Wave Soldering, Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons), Wayward Spouse, Weapon Science, Weapon Skill (Warhammer gaming), Weapon Specification/System, Weapon(s) Specification, Weapon(s) System, Web Services, Web Site, Weber-Schafheitlin Integral, Wechselstrom (German: Alternating Current), Weebl's Stuff (website), Week Starting, Weekly Summary, Weird Silence, Wembley Stadium (England), Wesley Snipes (actor), West Seattle (Washington), West Side, West-Saxon (linguistics), Western Samoa, Western Shelter (manufacturer), Wet Season, Wheelin' Sportsmen, White Sheet, Whittaker - Shannon (sampling theorem), Widescreen, Width Skew, Wilderness Society, Wildlife Services, Wildlife Society, Will Shortz (creator of popular wordless crossword puzzle Sudoku), Will Smith (actor), William Shakespeare, William Shatner (actor), Williams Syndrome, Win Shares (arcane baseball stat), Wind Shear, Wind Speed, Wing Stow, Wing Support, Winston Salem (North Carolina), Winter Sonata (Korean TV show), Winter Springs (Florida), Wintersemester (German: winter semester), Wire Send, Wisselstroom (Dutch: Alternating Current), Women in Science, Women's Studies, WonderSwan, WordStar, Work Safe, Work Server, Work Space, Work Statement, Work Status, Work Surface, Worker Safety and Health, Worksheet, Workstation, World Senior, World Series, World Service (BBC), World Services, World Studies (course/class), Write Set, Writer to the Signet, Written Submission, Wrought Steel, water surface17) Физиология: Watt Seconds18) Вычислительная техника: Web Server (Corel), (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) WorkStation (RedHat, Linux)19) Нефть: well site, whipstock, wireless station, отклонитель (whipstock), отклоняющий клин20) Бумажная промышленность: wire side21) Силикатное производство: water solid ratio22) Фирменный знак: Williams- Sonoma cookware23) Экология: Water Survey, water solution24) СМИ: Wine Spectator25) SAP. график рабочего времени27) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: water station, well services, wellsite28) Полимеры: water spray, water supply, wet spinning29) Программирование: Web-сервисы (см. Web Services)30) Автоматика: working station31) Химическое оружие: work station/site32) Макаров: wait state, weather strip, wheel slide, working storage33) Велосипеды: wheel size34) Расширение файла: APL Worksheet35) Нефть и газ: World Scale36) Керамика: Water Solid37) Фармация: Working Standard38) Общественная организация: The Wildlife Society39) Правительство: Warm Springs, Georgia, White Sands, New Mexico40) Программное обеспечение: Windows Sockets -
16 دائرة
دائِرَة \ circle: a perfectly round figure. department: a division of sth. (shops, business, government, etc.). \ دائِرَة (أَبْرَشِيَّة) \ parish: an area of land with its own church; the same area, treated as the smallest division of local government in England. \ دائِرَة البُرُوج (السّماويّة) \ zodiac: (with the) an imaginary strip in space which is divided into 12 equal parts, each named after a group of stars. \ دائِرَة مَعارِف \ encyclopaedia: a book (or set of books) that deals with facts about all branches of knowledge in alphabetical order.
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