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  • 1 backer

    noun
    Geldgeber, der; (of horse) Wetter, der
    * * *
    noun (a person who supports someone or something, especially with money: the backer of the new theatre.) der Förderer
    * * *
    back·er
    [bækəʳ, AM -ɚ]
    n Förderer, Förderin m, f
    \backer of a bill Wechselgarant(in) m(f)
    financial \backers Geldgeber pl, Sponsor(in) m(f)
    * * *
    ['bkə(r)]
    n
    1)

    (= supporter) his backers — (diejenigen,) die ihn unterstützen

    2) (BETTING) Wettende(r) mf
    3) (COMM) Geldgeber( in) m(f)
    * * *
    1. Geldgeber(in)
    2. Wetter(in):
    his backers diejenigen, die auf ihn gesetzt haben oder hatten
    * * *
    noun
    Geldgeber, der; (of horse) Wetter, der
    * * *
    (finance) n.
    Geldgeber m. n.
    Helfer - m.
    Unterstützer m.

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  • 2 backer

    back·er [bækəʳ, Am -ɚ] n
    Förderer, -in m, f;
    financial \backers Geldgeber pl

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  • 3 courtship

    courtship ['kɔ:tʃɪp]
    1 noun
    ∎ their courtship lasted six years ils se sont fréquentés pendant six ans;
    ∎ they married after a brief courtship ils se sont mariés peu de temps après avoir commencé à se fréquenter;
    ∎ figurative his courtship of new financial backers was unsuccessful ses tentatives pour attirer de nouveaux commanditaires n'ont rien donné
    (b) (of animals) période f nuptiale, période f des amours
    (dance, display) nuptial
    ►► courtship ritual rituel m nuptial

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  • 4 sponsor

    sponsor ['spɒnsə(r)]
    1 noun
    (a) Commerce & Sport (of sportsman, team, tournament) sponsor m; (of film, TV programme) sponsor m, commanditaire m; (of artist, musician) commanditaire m, mécène m; (of student, studies) parrain m; (for charity) donateur(trice) m,f;
    ∎ he's looking for sponsors for his Channel swim (financial backers) il cherche des sponsors pour financer sa traversée de la Manche à la nage; (charitable donations) il cherche des gens qui accepteront de faire une donation aux bonnes œuvres s'il réussit sa traversée de la Manche à la nage;
    ∎ to act as sponsor for sb sponsoriser qn
    (b) (of would-be club member) parrain m, marraine f; (guarantor → for loan) répondant(e) m,f, garant(e) m,f; (backer → for business) parrain m, bailleur m de fonds;
    ∎ he was the sponsor of the proposal c'est lui qui a lancé la proposition;
    ∎ her uncle stood (as) sponsor to her (for loan) son oncle a été son répondant; (for business) son oncle l'a parrainée
    (c) American (of godchild) parrain m, marraine f;
    ∎ to stand sponsor to a child (at baptism) tenir un enfant sur les fonts (baptismaux)
    (a) Commerce & Sport sponsoriser; Radio & Television (programme) sponsoriser, parrainer; (concert, exhibition) parrainer, commanditer; (studies, student) parrainer;
    ∎ the rally is sponsored by the milk industry le rallye est sponsorisé par l'industrie laitière;
    ∎ our firm sponsored her to the tune of £10,000 notre firme l'a sponsorisée pour un montant de 10 000 livres
    ∎ I sponsored him to swim 10 miles je me suis engagé à lui donner de l'argent (pour des œuvres charitables) s'il faisait ou parcourait 10 milles à la nage
    (c) (appeal, proposal) présenter; (would-be club member) parrainer; (loan, borrower) se porter garant de; (firm) patronner;
    ∎ Politics to sponsor a bill présenter un projet de loi
    (d) (godchild) être le parrain/la marraine de
    ►► sponsored walk = marche parrainée
    ⓘ SPONSORED EVENT La Grande-Bretagne compte de très nombreuses organisations caritatives ("charities") œuvrant pour des causes aussi diverses que la recherche médicale, l'aide à l'enfance défavorisée ou l'établissement de centres pour animaux abandonnés. L'un des moyens employés pour rassembler des fonds est de s'engager auprès d'autres gens (généralement des amis, voisins et collègues de travail) à accomplir une épreuve en échange d'une somme d'argent déterminée. Il peut s'agir d'épreuves physiques ("sponsored walk", "sponsored swim") ou de défis saugrenus, tels que se rendre au bureau en pyjama ou bien encore garder le silence pendant toute une journée ("sponsored silence"). Des "sponsored events" sont également organisés par des écoles et des clubs sportifs afin d'obtenir de l'argent pour acheter du matériel.

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  • 5 De Forest, Lee

    [br]
    b. 26 August 1873 Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
    d. 30 June 1961 Hollywood, California, USA
    [br]
    American electrical engineer and inventor principally known for his invention of the Audion, or triode, vacuum tube; also a pioneer of sound in the cinema.
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    De Forest was born into the family of a Congregational minister that moved to Alabama in 1879 when the father became President of a college for African-Americans; this was a position that led to the family's social ostracism by the white community. By the time he was 13 years old, De Forest was already a keen mechanical inventor, and in 1893, rejecting his father's plan for him to become a clergyman, he entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Following his first degree, he went on to study the propagation of electromagnetic waves, gaining a PhD in physics in 1899 for his thesis on the "Reflection of Hertzian Waves from the Ends of Parallel Wires", probably the first US thesis in the field of radio.
    He then joined the Western Electric Company in Chicago where he helped develop the infant technology of wireless, working his way up from a modest post in the production area to a position in the experimental laboratory. There, working alone after normal working hours, he developed a detector of electromagnetic waves based on an electrolytic device similar to that already invented by Fleming in England. Recognizing his talents, a number of financial backers enabled him to set up his own business in 1902 under the name of De Forest Wireless Telegraphy Company; he was soon demonstrating wireless telegraphy to interested parties and entering into competition with the American Marconi Company.
    Despite the failure of this company because of fraud by his partners, he continued his experiments; in 1907, by adding a third electrode, a wire mesh, between the anode and cathode of the thermionic diode invented by Fleming in 1904, he was able to produce the amplifying device now known as the triode valve and achieve a sensitivity of radio-signal reception much greater than possible with the passive carborundum and electrolytic detectors hitherto available. Patented under the name Audion, this new vacuum device was soon successfully used for experimental broadcasts of music and speech in New York and Paris. The invention of the Audion has been described as the beginning of the electronic era. Although much development work was required before its full potential was realized, the Audion opened the way to progress in all areas of sound transmission, recording and reproduction. The patent was challenged by Fleming and it was not until 1943 that De Forest's claim was finally recognized.
    Overcoming the near failure of his new company, the De Forest Radio Telephone Company, as well as unsuccessful charges of fraudulent promotion of the Audion, he continued to exploit the potential of his invention. By 1912 he had used transformer-coupling of several Audion stages to achieve high gain at radio frequencies, making long-distance communication a practical proposition, and had applied positive feedback from the Audion output anode to its input grid to realize a stable transmitter oscillator and modulator. These successes led to prolonged patent litigation with Edwin Armstrong and others, and he eventually sold the manufacturing rights, in retrospect often for a pittance.
    During the early 1920s De Forest began a fruitful association with T.W.Case, who for around ten years had been working to perfect a moving-picture sound system. De Forest claimed to have had an interest in sound films as early as 1900, and Case now began to supply him with photoelectric cells and primitive sound cameras. He eventually devised a variable-density sound-on-film system utilizing a glow-discharge modulator, the Photion. By 1926 De Forest's Phonofilm had been successfully demonstrated in over fifty theatres and this system became the basis of Movietone. Though his ideas were on the right lines, the technology was insufficiently developed and it was left to others to produce a system acceptable to the film industry. However, De Forest had played a key role in transforming the nature of the film industry; within a space of five years the production of silent films had all but ceased.
    In the following decade De Forest applied the Audion to the development of medical diathermy. Finally, after spending most of his working life as an independent inventor and entrepreneur, he worked for a time during the Second World War at the Bell Telephone Laboratories on military applications of electronics.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers Medal of Honour 1922. President, Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers 1930. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Edison Medal 1946.
    Bibliography
    1904, "Electrolytic detectors", Electrician 54:94 (describes the electrolytic detector). 1907, US patent no. 841,387 (the Audion).
    1950, Father of Radio, Chicago: WIlcox \& Follett (autobiography).
    De Forest gave his own account of the development of his sound-on-film system in a series of articles: 1923. "The Phonofilm", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 16 (May): 61–75; 1924. "Phonofilm progress", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 20:17–19; 1927, "Recent developments in the Phonofilm", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 27:64–76; 1941, "Pioneering in talking pictures", Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 36 (January): 41–9.
    Further Reading
    G.Carneal, 1930, A Conqueror of Space (biography).
    I.Levine, 1964, Electronics Pioneer, Lee De Forest (biography).
    E.I.Sponable, 1947, "Historical development of sound films", Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 48 (April): 275–303 (an authoritative account of De Forest's sound-film work, by Case's assistant).
    W.R.McLaurin, 1949, Invention and Innovation in the Radio Industry.
    C.F.Booth, 1955, "Fleming and De Forest. An appreciation", in Thermionic Valves 1904– 1954, IEE.
    V.J.Phillips, 1980, Early Radio Detectors, London: Peter Peregrinus.
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  • 6 Strowger, Almon Brown

    SUBJECT AREA: Telecommunications
    [br]
    b. 19 October 1839 Penfield, New York, USA
    d. 26 May 1902 St Petersburg, Florida, USA
    [br]
    American soldier, teacher and undertaker who developed the first commercially successful automatic telephone-switching system.
    [br]
    Enlisting in the 8th New York Cavalry on his twenty-second birthday at the beginning of the American Civil War, Strowger reached the rank of Second Lieutenant. After the war he taught in a number of schools, including that where he had been a pupil, then bought an undertaking business in North Topeka, Kansas. After the death of his wife, he remarried and moved the business to Kansas City.
    In 1887, suspecting that the local telephone operator was diverting his potential clients to a rival, he devised a cardboard mock-up of an automatic switching mechanism comprising ten layers of ten contacts, in which electromagnets would be used to lift and rotate the contact wiper arm and thus connect the caller to any one of 100 telephone destinations. Two years later he filed a patent for a 1,000-line automatic exchange.
    With the help of his nephew he made a 100line working demonstration and eventually, with the aid of financial backers, the Strowger Automatic Exchange Company was established on 30 October 1891; its first exchange was installed in La Porte, Indiana, in 1892. By the end of 1896 Strowger exchanges had been established in a number of other towns. That year the Strowger engineers introduced the dial system to replace the confusing push-button mechanism, an innovation that was to survive until relatively recently, and the following year saw development of a "trunking" system. In failing health, Strowger retired to Florida, but the company flourished and eventually became part of General Telephones and Electronics (GTE).
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Strowger's pioneering development was commemorated in 1949 by the telephone industry placing a bronze plaque on his grave in St Petersburg, Florida.
    Bibliography
    12 March 1889, US patent no. 447, 918.
    Further Reading
    R.J.Chaphuis, 1982, 100 Years of Telephone Switching 1878–1978. Part I: Manual and Electromechanical Switching 1878–1960.
    KF

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