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  • 101 contradictor

    спорщик имя существительное:
    противник (enemy, opponent, adversary, foe, rival, contradictor)

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > contradictor

  • 102 controversialist

    полемист имя существительное:

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > controversialist

  • 103 cowpuncher

    ковбой имя существительное:

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > cowpuncher

  • 104 crier

    глашатай имя существительное:

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > crier

  • 105 disputer

    спорщик имя существительное:
    участник диспута (disputant, disputer)

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > disputer

  • 106 eristic

    эристика имя прилагательное: имя существительное:

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > eristic

  • 107 roper

    ковбой имя существительное:

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > roper

  • 108 screamer

    крикун имя существительное:
    сенсационный заголовок (screamer, scare-head, scare-heading)
    тот, кто кричит (screamer)

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > screamer

  • 109 stockrider

    конный пастух имя существительное:

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > stockrider

  • 110 Collins, Lewis D.

    1899-1954
       Entre 1927 y 1954, ano de su prematura muerte debida a un ataque cardiaco, realiza un total aproximado de 120 peliculas, de las que unas veinte son cortometrajes. Se dedica, especialmente, al western, sobre todo para Universal y Monogram. Es un director modesto, sin estilo visible que, como tantos otros, trabaja para las sucesivas estrellas de la epoca.
        Guns for Hire. 1932. 58 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Willis Kent. Lane Chandler, Sally Darling.
        Via Pony Express. 1933. 60 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Majestic. Jack Hoxie, Marceline Day.
        Gun Law. 1933. 59 min. Blanco y Negro. Majestic. Jack Hoxie, Paula Fix.
        Trouble Busters. 1933. 55 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Majestic. Jack Hoxie, Lane Chandler, Kaye Edwards.
        The Man from Hell. 1934. 58 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Willis Kent. Reb Russell, Fred Kohler, Ann Darcy.
        Brand of Hate. 1934. 63 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Supreme. Bob Steele, William Farnum, Lucille Browne.
        The Desert Trail. 1935. 54 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram/Lone Star. John Wayne, Mary Kornman.
        Little Joe, the Wrangler. 1942. 64 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Universal. Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt.
        Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground. 1943. 59 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Universal. Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt.
        Raiders of San Joaquin. 1943. 60 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Universal. Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt.
        Oklahoma Raiders. 1944. 57 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Universal. Tex Ritter, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt.
        Trigger Trail. 1944. 59 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Universal. Rod Cameron, Eddie Dew, Fuzzy Knight, Vivian Austin.
        Raiders of Ghost City (co-d.: Ray Taylor). 1944. 225 minutos. 13 capitulos. Blanco y Negro. Universal. Dennis Moore, Wanda McKay, Lionel Atwill.
        The Old Texas Trail. 1944. 60 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Universal. Rod Cameron, Fuzzy Knight, Marjorie Clements.
        The Royal Mounted Rides Again (co-d.: Ray Taylor). 1945. 221 minutos. 13 capitulos. Blanco y Negro. Universal. George Dolenz, Bill Kennedy, Milburn Stone.
        The Scarlet Horseman (co-d.: Ray Taylor). 1946. 248 minutos. 13 capitulos. Blanco y Negro. Universal. Peter Cookson, Janet Shaw.
        Ride, Ryder, Ride! 1949. 60 minutos. Cinecolor. Equity/Eagle Lion. Jim Bannon, Peggy Stewart, Emmett Lynn.
        Roll, Thunder, Roll! 1949. 60 minutos. Cinecolor. Equity/Eagle Lion. Jim Bannon, I. Stanford Jolley, Don Kay Reynolds, Nancy Gates.
        The Fighting Redhead. 1949. 55 minutos. Cinecolor. Equity/Eagle Lion. Jim Bannon, Peggy Stewart, Don Kay Reynolds.
        Cowboy and the Prizefighter. 1949. 59 minutos. Cinecolor. Equity/Eagle Lion. Jim Bannon, Emmett Lynn, Don Kay Reynolds, Karen Randle.
        Law of the Panhandle. 1950. 55 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Johnny Mack Brown, Jane Adams, Milburn Morante.
        Cherokee Uprising. 1950. 55 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Lois Hall.
        Colorado Ambush. 1951. 51 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Johnny Mack Brown, Lois Hall, Myron Healey.
        Abilene Trail. 1951. 54 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Whip Wilson, Andy Clyde, Noel Neill.
        Man from Sonora. 1951. 54 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Johnny Mack Brown, Phyllis Coates, House Peters, Jr.
        Canyon Raiders. 1951. 54 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight, Phyllis Coates.
        Nevada Badmen. 1951. 58 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight, Phyllis Coates.
        Stagecoach Driver. 1951. 52 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight, Gloria Winters.
        Oklahoma Justice. 1951. 51 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Johnny Mack Brown, Phyllis Coates, Jimmy Ellison.
        Lawless Cowboys. 1951. 58 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight, Pamela Duncan.
        The Longhorn. 1951. 70 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Bill Elliot, Phyllis Coates, Myron Healey.
        Texas Lawmen. 1951. 54 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Frontier Pictures - /Monogram. Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Ellison, Lee Roberts.
        Stage to Blue River. 1951. 55 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight, Phyllis Coates.
        Texas City (Misterio en Texas). 1952. 54 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Johnny Mack Brown, Lois Hall, Jimmy Ellison.
        Waco. 1952. 68 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Bill Elliott, Pamela Blake, I. Stanford Jolley.
        The Gunman. 1952. 52 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Whip Wilson, Fuzzy Knight, Phyllis Coates.
        Wild Stallion. 1952. 70 minutos. Cinecolor. Monogram. Ben Johnson, Edgar Buchanan, Martha Hyer.
        Kansas Territory. 1952. 65 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Bill Elliott, Peggy Stewart, Fuzzy Knight.
        Dead Man’s Trail. 1952. 59 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Johnny Mack Brown, Barbara Allen, Jimmy Ellison.
        Montana Incident. 1952. 54 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Whip Wilson, Peggy Stewart, Noel Neill.
        Fargo (Los atracadores de Fargo). 1952. 69 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Bill Elliott, Phyllis Coates, Fuzzy Knight.
        Canyon Ambush. 1952. 53 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Johnny Mack Brown, Phyllis Coates, Lee Roberts.
        The Homesteaders. 1953. 62 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Allied. Bill Elliott, Emmett Lynn, Robert Lowery.
        The Marksman. 1953. 62 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Allied. Wayne Morris, Elena Verdugo, Frank Ferguson.
        Vigilante Terror. 1953. 70 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Allied. Bill Elliott, Fuzzy Knight, Mary Ellen Kay.
        Texas Bad Man. 1953. 62 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Allied. Wayne Morris, Elaine Riley, Frank Ferguson.
        Two Guns and a Badge (Dos pistolas y una insignia). 1954. 60 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Allied. Wayne Morris, Beverly Garland, Morris Ankrum.

    English-Spanish dictionary of western films > Collins, Lewis D.

  • 111 Luby, S. Roy

    1904-1976
       S. Roy Luby o Roy S. Luby trabaja como montador de westerns baratos desde principios de los anos 30. En 1935 empieza a dirigir, lo que no impide que continue montando peliculas. Ya en los anos 40, realiza un buen punado de westerns de serie B para Monogram, en especial de la serie de los Range Busters, protagonizada por Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune y John “Dusty” King.
        Outlaw Rule. 1935. 53 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Willis Kent Prod. Reb Russell, Betty Mack, Al Bridge.
        Range Warfare. 1935. 57 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Willis Kent Prod. Reb Russell, Lucille Lund, Wally Wales.
        Lightning Triggers. 1935. 58 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Willis Kent Prod. Reb Russell, Yvonne Pelletier, Fred Kohler.
        Arizona Bad Man. 1935. 58 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Willis Kent Prod. Reb Russell, Lois January, Slim Whitaker.
        Desert Phantom. 1936. 60 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Supreme. Johnny Mack Brown, Sheila Manors.
        Rogue of the Range. 1936. 58 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Supreme. Johnny Mack Brown, Lois January, Phyllis Hume.
        The Crooked Trail. 1936. 60 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Supreme. Johnny Mack Brown, Lucile Browne.
        Border Phantom. 1937. 58 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Republic. Bob Steele, Harley Wood.
        Red Rope. 1937. 59 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Republic. Bob Steele, Lois January.
        The Range Busters. 1940. 56 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Luana Walters, John “Dusty” King.
        Trailing Double Trouble. 1940. 56 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Lita Conway, John “Dusty” King.
        West of Pinto Basin. 1940. 60 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Gwen Gaze, John “Dusty” King.
        Trail of the Silver Spurs. 1941. 57 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Dorothy Short, John “Dusty” King.
        The Kid’s Last Ride. 1941. 55 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Luana Walters, John “Dusty” King.
        Tumbledown Ranch in Arizona. 1941. 60 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Sheila Darcy, John “Dusty” King.
        Wrangler’s Roost. 1941. 57 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Gwen Gaze, John “Dusty” King.
        Fugitive Valley. 1941. 61 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Julie Duncan, John “Dusty” King.
        Saddle Mountain Roundup. 1941. 59 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Lita Conway, John “Dusty” King.
        Tonto Basin Outlaws. 1941. 60 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Jan Wiley, John “Dusty” King.
        Underground Rustlers. 1941. 57 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Gwen Gaze, John “Dusty” King.
        Thunder River Feud. 1942. 58 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Jan Wiley, John “Dusty” King.
        Rock River Renegades. 1942. 56 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Christine McIntyre, John “Dusty” King.
        Boot Hill Bandits. 1942. 58 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Jean Brooks, John “Dusty” King.
        Texas Trouble Shooters. 1942. 55 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Julie Duncan, John “Dusty” King.
        Arizona Stagecoach. 1942. 58 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Nell O’Day, John “Dusty” King.
        Land of Hunted Men. 1943. 58 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Phyllis Adair, Dennis Moore.
        Cowboy Commandos. 1943. 55 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Evelyn Finley, Dennis Moore.
        Black Market Rustlers. 1943. 58 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Monogram. Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Evelyn Finley, Dennis Moore.

    English-Spanish dictionary of western films > Luby, S. Roy

  • 112 Thorpe, Richard

    1896-1991
       Entra en el mundo del cine a comienzos de los anos 20, abriendo de par en par la puerta de la actuacion, labor en la que le acreditaba su experiencia previa sobre los escenarios. En 1924 se estrena como realizador, tarea en la que persiste hasta 1967. Entre 1933 y 1935 es el director casi unico de la modesta productora Powerty Row. En 1935 pasa a Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, donde permanecera hasta 1962. Dirige, en los mas de cuarenta anos de profesion, cerca de 200 peliculas, de las que unas 120 son sonoras. Aborda todos los generos, si bien se encuentra mas comodo dentro de la accion y la aventura, donde obtiene sus mayores reconocimientos, como en Ivanhoe (1953) y en Los caballeros del rey Arturo (Knights of the Round Table, 1954), por ejemplo, ademas de tres entregas del Tarzan protagonizado por Johnny Weissmuller. Entre otras muchas cosas, es uno de los pioneros en el uso de formatos anchos. Su actividad en el western, sin embargo, es reducida; se limita a un punado de peliculas a comienzos del sonoro, incluido un serial, a cuatro filmes en los anos 40 protagonizados por Wallace Beery, y a alguna que otra esporadica aparicion en el genero, al que no contribuye especialmente, ni en cantidad ni en calidad.
        Border Romance. 1929. 66 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Tiffany. Armida, Don Terry, Marjorie Kane.
        The Dude Wrangler. 1930. 60 minutos. Blanco y Negro. World Wide. Tom Keene, Lina Basquette, Clyde Cook.
        Under Montana Skies. 1930. 58 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Tiffany. Kenneth Harlan, Dorothy Gulliver, Slim Summerville.
        The Utah Kid. 1930. 57 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Tiffany. Rex Lease, Dorothy Sebastian, Walter Miller.
        The Lone Defender. 1930. 217 minutos. 12 capitulos. Blanco y Negro. Mascot. Walter Miller, June Marlowe, Buzz Barton.
        Wild Horse (co-d.: Sidney Algier). 1931. 68 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Allied/Astor. Hoot Gibson, Edmund Cobb, Alberta Vaughn.
        20 Mule Team (Puno de hierro). 1940. 84 minutos. Blanco y Negro. MGM. Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Rambeau, Ann Baxter.
        Wyoming. 1940. 89 minutos. Blanco y Negro. MGM. Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, Ann Rutherford, Marjorie Main.
        The Bad Man. 1941. 70 minutos. Blanco y Negro. MGM. Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Ronald Reagan.
        Apache Trail. 1943. 66 minutos. Blanco y Negro. MGM. Lloyd Nolan, Donna Reed, William Lundigan.
        Big Jack. 1949. 85 minutos. Blanco y Negro. MGM. Wallace Beery, Richard Conte, Marjorie Main
        Vengeance Valley (El valle de la venganza). 1951. 83 minutos. Tech nicolor. MGM. Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, Sally Forest.
        The Last Challenge (Duelo a muerte en Rio Rojo). 1967. 105 minutos. Metrocolor. Panavision. MGM. Glenn Ford, Angie Dickinson, Gary Merrill.

    English-Spanish dictionary of western films > Thorpe, Richard

  • 113 Atwood, George

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 1746 England
    d. July 1807 London, England
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    English mathematician author of a theory on ship stability.
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    Atwood was educated at Westminster School and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1765 with a scholarship. He graduated with high honours (third wrangler) in 1796, and went on to become a fellow and tutor of his college. In 1776 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Eight years later, William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806) appointed him a senior officer of the Customs, this being a means of reimbursing him for the arduous and continuing task of calculating the national revenue. As a lecturer he was greatly renowned and his abilities as a calculator and as a musician were of a high order.
    In the late 1790s Atwood presented a paper to the Royal Society that showed a means of obtaining the righting lever on a ship inclined from the vertical; this was a major step forward in the study of ship stability. Among his other inventions was a machine to exhibit the accelerative force of gravity.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1776.
    Further Reading
    A.M.Robb, 1952, Theory of Naval Architecture, London: Charles Griffin (for a succinct description of the various factors in ship stability, and the importance of Atwood's contribution).
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Atwood, George

  • 114 Guest, James John

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    b. 24 July 1866 Handsworth, Birmingham, England
    d. 11 June 1956 Virginia Water, Surrey, England
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    English mechanical engineer, engineering teacher and researcher.
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    James John Guest was educated at Marlborough in 1880–4 and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating as fifth wrangler in 1888. He received practical training in several workshops and spent two years in postgraduate work at the Engineering Department of Cambridge University. After working as a draughtsman in the machine-tool, hydraulic and crane departments of Tangyes Ltd at Birmingham, he was appointed in 1896 Assistant Professor of Engineering at McGill University in Canada. After a short time he moved to the Polytechnic Institute at Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was for three years Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Head of the Engineering Department. In 1899 he returned to Britain and set up as a consulting engineer in Birmingham, being a partner in James J.Guest \& Co. For the next fifteen years he combined this work with research on grinding phenomena. He also developed a theory of grinding which he first published in a paper at the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1914 and elaborated in a paper to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and in his book Grinding Machinery (1915). During the First World War, in 1916–17, he was in charge of inspection in the Staffordshire and Shropshire Area, Ministry of Munitions. In 1917 he returned to teaching as Reader in Graphics and Structural Engineering at University College London. His final appointment was about 1923 as Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Artillery College, Woolwich, which later became the Military College of Science.
    He carried out research on the strength of materials and contributed many articles on the subject to the technical press. He originated Guest's Law for a criterion of failure of materials under combined stresses, first published in 1900. He was a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1900–6 and from 1919 and contributed to their proceedings in many discussions and two major papers.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Of many publications by Guest, the most important are: 1900, "Ductile materials under combined stress", Proceedings of the Physical Society 17:202.
    1915, Grinding Machinery, London.
    1915, "Theory of grinding, with reference to the selection of speeds in plain and internal work", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 89:543.
    1917. "Torsional hysteresis of mild steel", Proceedings of the Royal Society A93:313.
    1918. with F.C.Lea, "Curved beams", Proceedings of the Royal Society A95:1. 1930, "Effects of rapidly acting stress", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical
    Engineers 119:1,273.
    RTS

    Biographical history of technology > Guest, James John

  • 115 Maxwell, James Clerk

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    b. 13 June 1831 Edinburgh, Scotland
    d. 5 November 1879 Cambridge, England
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    Scottish physicist who formulated the unified theory of electromagnetism, the kinetic theory of gases and a theory of colour.
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    Maxwell attended school at the Edinburgh Academy and at the age of 16 went on to study at Edinburgh University. In 1850 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated four years later as Second Wrangler with the award of the Smith's Prize. Two years later he was appointed Professor at Marischal College, Aberdeen, where he married the Principal's daughter. In 1860 he moved to King's College London, but on the death of his father five years later, Maxwell returned to the family home in Scotland, where he continued his researches as far as the life of a gentleman farmer allowed. This rural existence was interrupted in 1874 when he was persuaded to accept the chair of Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge. Unfortunately, in 1879 he contracted the cancer that brought his brilliant career to an untimely end. While at Cambridge, Maxwell founded the Cavendish Laboratory for research in physics. A succession of distinguished physicists headed the laboratory, making it one of the world's great centres for notable discoveries in physics.
    During the mid-1850s, Maxwell worked towards a theory to explain electrical and magnetic phenomena in mathematical terms, culminating in 1864 with the formulation of the fundamental equations of electromagnetism (Maxwell's equations). These equations also described the propagation of light, for he had shown that light consists of transverse electromagnetic waves in a hypothetical medium, the "ether". This great synthesis of theories uniting a wide range of phenomena is worthy to set beside those of Sir Isaac Newton and Einstein. Like all such syntheses, it led on to further discoveries. Maxwell himself had suggested that light represented only a small part of the spectrum of electromagnetic waves, and in 1888 Hertz confirmed the discovery of another small part of the spectrum, radio waves, with momentous implications for the development of telecommunication technology. Maxwell contributed to the kinetic theory of gases, which by then were viewed as consisting of a mass of randomly moving molecules colliding with each other and with the walls of the containing vessel. From 1869 Maxwell applied statistical methods to describe the molecular motion in mathematical terms. This led to a greater understanding of the behaviour of gases, with important consequences for the chemical industry.
    Of more direct technological application was Maxwell's work on colour vision, begun in 1849, showing that all colours could be derived from the three primary colours, red, yellow and blue. This enabled him in 1861 to produce the first colour photograph, of a tartan. Maxwell's discoveries about colour vision were quickly taken up and led to the development of colour printing and photography.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Most of his technical papers are reprinted in The Scientific Papers of J.Clerk Maxwell, 1890, ed. W.D.Niven, Cambridge, 2 vols; reprinted 1952, New York.
    Maxwell published several books, including Theory of Heat, 1870, London (1894, 11th edn, with notes by Lord Rayleigh) and Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, 1873, Oxford (1891, ed. J.J.Thomson, 3rd edn).
    Further Reading
    L.Campbell and W.Garnett, 1882, The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, London (the standard biography).
    J.J.Thomson (ed.), 1931, James Clerk Maxwell 1831–1931, Cambridge. J.G.Crowther, 1932, British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century, London.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Maxwell, James Clerk

  • 116 Reynolds, Osborne

    [br]
    b. 23 April 1842 Belfast, Ireland
    d. 1912 Watchet, Somerset, England
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    English engineer and educator.
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    Osborne Reynolds's father, a clergyman and schoolteacher, had been a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge; it was to Queens' that the young Reynolds went to study mathematics, graduating as 7th Wrangler in 1867, and going on in his turn to become a Fellow of the College. Reynolds had developed an interest in practical applications of physics and engineering, and for a short time he entered the office of the London civil engineers Lawson and Mansergh. In 1868 he was appointed to the new Chair of Engineering at Owens College, Manchester, and he remained in this post for thirty-seven years, until he retired in 1905. During this period he presided over a department that grew steadily in size and reputation, and undertook prolonged research projects into phenomena such as lubrication, the laws governing the flow of water in pipes, turbulence and other physical features with practical applications. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1877, being nominated Royal Medallist in 1888. In 1883 he became a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and in 1885 he was awarded the Telford Premium of the Institution. He served as Secretary of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society from 1874 to 1883, and was appointed President in 1888–9 and Dalton Medallist in 1903. He was President of Section G of the British Association for the History of Science in 1887, and in 1884 he received the degree of LLD from Glasgow University. Among his many students at Owens College was J.J. (later Sir Joseph) Thomson (1856–1940), who entered the college in 1871. Reynolds's collected scientific papers were published in 1900–3.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1877. Institution of Civil Engineers Telford Premium 1885. President, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1888–9. Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Dalton Medal 1903.
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of National Biography Supplement.
    D.M.McDowell and J.D.Jackson (eds), 1970, Osborne Reynolds and Engineering Science Today, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
    AB

    Biographical history of technology > Reynolds, Osborne

  • 117 Wilkes, Maurice Vincent

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    b. 26 June 1913 Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England
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    English physicist who was jointly responsible for the construction of the EDS AC computer.
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    Educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge, where he began to make radio sets and read Wireless World, Wilkes went to St John's College, Cambridge, in 1931, graduating as a Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos in 1934. He then carried out research at the Cavendish Laboratory, becoming a demonstrator in 1937. During the Second World War he worked on radar, differential analysers and operational research at the Bawdsey Research Station and other air-defence establishments. In 1945 he returned to Cambridge as a lecturer and as Acting Director of the Mathematical (later Computer) Laboratory, serving as Director from 1946 to 1970.
    During the late 1940s, following visits to the USA for computer courses and to see the ENIAC computer, with the collaboration of colleagues he constructed the Cambridge University digital computer EDSAC (for Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer), using ultrasonic delay lines for data storage. In the mid-1950s a second machine, EDSAC2, was constructed using a magnetic-core memory. In 1965 he became Professor of Computer Technology. After retirement he worked for the Digital Electronic Corporation (DEC) from 1981 to 1986, serving also as Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1981 to 1985. In 1990 he became a research strategy consultant to the Olivetti Research Directorate.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1956. First President, British Computer Society 1957–60. Honorary DSc Munich 1978, Bath 1987. Honorary DTech Linkoping 1975. FEng 1976. Institution of Electrical Engineers Faraday Medal 1981.
    Bibliography
    1948, "The design of a practical high-speed computing machine", Proceedings of the Royal Society A195:274 (describes EDSAC).
    1949, Oscillation of the Earth's Atmosphere.
    1956, Automatic Digital Computers, London: Methuen. 1966, A Short Introduction to Numerical Analysis.
    1968, Time-Sharing Computer Systems: McDonald \& Jane's.
    1979, The Cambridge CAP Computer and its Operating System: H.Holland.
    1985, Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (autobiography).
    Further Reading
    B.Randell (ed.), 1973, The Origins of Digital Computers, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
    KF

    Biographical history of technology > Wilkes, Maurice Vincent

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  • wrangler — (n.) person in charge of horses or cattle, herder, 1888, agent noun from WRANGLE (Cf. wrangle) (v.); as a proprietary name for a brand of jeans, copyrighted 1947, claiming use from 1929 …   Etymology dictionary

  • Wrangler — Officiers de l université de Cambridge lors d une cérémonie de remise de diplômes. À l université de Cambridge, un wrangler est un étudiant qui a obtenu les meilleurs résultats scolaires en troisième année (appelée Part II) de mathématiques (le …   Wikipédia en Français

  • wrangler — /rang gleuhr/, n. 1. a cowboy, esp. one in charge of saddle horses. 2. a person who wrangles or disputes. 3. (at Cambridge University, England) a person placed in the first class in the mathematics tripos. [1505 15; WRANGLE + ER1; (def. 1) orig.… …   Universalium

  • wrangler — wran•gler [[t]ˈræŋ glər[/t]] n. 1) cvb a cowboy, esp. one in charge of saddle horses 2) a person who wrangles or disputes • Etymology: 1505–15; wrangle+ er I; (def. 1) orig. horse wrangler, prob. partial trans. of MexSp caballerango groom, stable …   From formal English to slang

  • wrangler — /ˈræŋglə/ (say ranggluh) noun 1. someone who wrangles or disputes. 2. Obsolete (at Cambridge University) one of those who attained first class honours in mathematics. 3. US someone who tends or wrangles horses. 4. Film, TV a person who looks… …  

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