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101 Booth, Henry
[br]b. 4 April 1789 Liverpool, Englandd. 28 March 1869 Liverpool, England[br]English railway administrator and inventor.[br]Booth followed his father as a Liverpool corn merchant but had great mechanical aptitude. In 1824 he joined the committee for the proposed Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) and after the company obtained its Act of Parliament in 1826 he was appointed Treasurer.In 1829 the L \& MR announced a prize competition, the Rainhill Trials, for an improved steam locomotive: Booth, realizing that the power of a locomotive depended largely upon its capacity to raise steam, had the idea that this could be maximized by passing burning gases from the fire through the boiler in many small tubes to increase the heating surface, rather than in one large one, as was then the practice. He was apparently unaware of work on this type of boiler even then being done by Marc Seguin, and the 1791 American patent by John Stevens. Booth discussed his idea with George Stephenson, and a boiler of this type was incorporated into the locomotive Rocket, which was built by Robert Stephenson and entered in the Trials by Booth and the two Stephensons in partnership. The boiler enabled Rocket to do all that was required in the trials, and far more: it became the prototype for all subsequent conventional locomotive boilers.After the L \& MR opened in 1830, Booth as Treasurer became in effect the general superintendent and was later General Manager. He invented screw couplings for use with sprung buffers. When the L \& MR was absorbed by the Grand Junction Railway in 1845 he became Secretary of the latter, and when, later the same year, that in turn amalgamated with the London \& Birmingham Railway (L \& BR) to form the London \& North Western Railway (L \& NWR), he became joint Secretary with Richard Creed from the L \& BR.Earlier, completion in 1838 of the railway from London to Liverpool had brought problems with regard to local times. Towns then kept their own time according to their longitude: Birmingham time, for instance, was 7¼ minutes later than London time. This caused difficulties in railway operation, so Booth prepared a petition to Parliament on behalf of the L \& MR that London time should be used throughout the country, and in 1847 the L \& NWR, with other principal railways and the Post Office, adopted Greenwich time. It was only in 1880, however, that the arrangement was made law by Act of Parliament.[br]Bibliography1835. British patent no. 6,814 (grease lubricants for axleboxes). 1836. British patent no. 6,989 (screw couplings).Booth also wrote several pamphlets on railways, uniformity of time, and political matters.Further ReadingH.Booth, 1980, Henry Booth, Ilfracombe: Arthur H.Stockwell (a good full-length biography, the author being the great-great-nephew of his subject; with bibliography).R.E.Carlson, 1969, The Liverpool \& Manchester Railway Project 1821–1831, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.PJGR -
102 тройниковое соединение
1) Engineering: T-connector, T-joint, tee connection, tee connector, tee joint, tee junction, wye junction2) Railway term: multiple joint3) Road works: T-junction4) Telecommunications: (волноводное) Y-junction, (волноводное) wye-junction, (волноводное) wyejunction5) Electronics: branch joint6) Makarov: wyeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > тройниковое соединение
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103 Verbindung
f1. union (auch Ehe), bond; (Zusammenschluss, Vereinigung mehrerer Eigenschaften) combination; (von Ideen) association; (Zusammenhang) connection; im Text: context; (Beziehung, auch WIRTS.) relations Pl., contact ( beide zu with); JUR. bond; in Verbindung mit combined with; in connection with, in conjunction with; eine Verbindung eingehen join together, unite; Dinge: combine, unite; (sich verbünden) ally, form an alliance ( alle mit with); Verbindungen knüpfen make contacts; eine Verbindung herstellen mit, sich in Verbindung setzen mit contact, get in touch with; in Verbindung bleiben keep in touch; die Verbindung verlieren lose touch; in Verbindung bringen mit fig. associate with; in Verbindung stehen mit be in touch ( oder contact) with; einer Sache: be connected with; eine Verbindung zwischen Rauchen und Krebs a link between smoking and cancer; die Verbindung einer beweglichen Sache mit einem Grundstück JUR. the binding of mov(e)able property to a piece of land ( oder personal to real property)2. (Verkehrsverbindung) communication; eine direkte / günstige Verbindung nach Basel etc. a direct / good connection to Basle (Am. Basel) etc.; alle Verbindungen ausdrucken print out all the connections; die einzige Verbindung zur Insel etc. the only connection to the island etc.; eine Verbindung herstellen mit per Funk etc.: establish communication with; keine Verbindung bekommen mit TELEF. etc. not get through to; die Verbindung ist sehr schlecht TELEF. etc. the line is very bad3. CHEM. compound5. EDV connection, link; keine Verbindung mit dem Server etc. bekommen fail to get connected to the serv- er6. studentische: student society, Am. fraternity; für Studentinnen: sorority; schlagende / nicht schlagende Verbindung duelling / non-duelling society (Am. fraternity)* * *die Verbindung(Bündnis) alliance;(Kombination) combination;(Kontakt) contact;(Liebesverhältnis) liaison;(Studentenverein) fraternity;(Telefonverbindung) connection;(Verbindungsstelle) junction;(Vereinigung) union;(Zusammenhang) connection; connexion;(chemischer Stoff) compound* * *Ver|bịn|dungf1) connection; (= Kontakt) contact (zu, mit with)jdn/etw mit etw in Verbindung bringen — to connect sb/sth with sth
er/sein Name wurde mit dem Mord/der Affäre in Verbindung gebracht — he/his name was mentioned in connection with the murder/the affair
seine Verbindungen spielen lassen — to use one's connections, to pull a few strings (inf)
die Verbindung aufrechterhalten — to maintain contact; (esp zwischen Freunden) to keep in touch or contact
neue Verbindung erstellen (Comput: Option) — make new connection
sich (mit jdm) in Verbindung setzen, (mit jdm) in Verbindung treten — to get in touch or contact (with sb), to contact sb
mit jdm in Verbindung stehen, mit jdm Verbindung haben — to be in touch or contact with sb
2) (= Verkehrsverbindung) connection (nach to)die Verbindung von Berlin nach Warschau — the connections pl from Berlin to Warsaw
3) (TELEC = Anschluss) lineVerbindung aufnehmen — to make contact, to establish communication
5) (= Kombination) combination6) (= Vereinigung, Bündnis) association; (ehelich) union; (UNIV) society; (für Männer auch) ≈ fraternity (US); (für Frauen auch) ≈ sorority (US)eine schlagende/nicht schlagende Verbindung (Univ) — a duelling (Brit) or dueling (US)/nonduelling (Brit) or nondueling (US) fraternity
7) (CHEM) (= Prozess) combination; (= Ergebnis) compound (aus (formed out) of)eine Verbindung mit etw eingehen — to form a compound with sth, to combine with sth
* * *die1) (a place where two things are joined: You can hardly see the joins in the material.) join2) (an association of trading companies: a large manufacturing combine.) combine3) ((a) state of being connected or related: My connection with their family is very slight; I wish to talk to you in connection with my daughter's career.) connection4) (communication: I've lost contact with all my old friends; We have succeeded in making (radio) contact with the ship; How can I get in contact with him?) contact5) (a person or thing that provides a means of communicating with someone: His radio is his only contact with the outside world.) contact6) (a link for joining things together: The railway carriage was damaged when the coupling broke.) coupling7) (a close joining together: the marriage of his skill and her judgement.) marriage8) (the state of being united, eg in marriage, friendship etc: Their marriage was a perfect union.) union* * *Ver·bin·dungf1. (direkte Beziehung) contact\Verbindung [mit jdm] aufnehmen to contact [or get in touch with] sb[mit jdm] in \Verbindung bleiben to keep in touch [with sb]\Verbindung[en] mit [o zu] jdm/etw haben to have connections pl with sb/sthseine \Verbindungen spielen lassen (fam) to [try and] pull a few strings[mit jdm/miteinander] in \Verbindung stehen to be in [or have] contact [with sb/each other][mit jdm] in \Verbindung treten to contact sb▪ in \Verbindung mit jdm/etw in association with sb/stheine \Verbindung eingehen to unitedie beiden Parteien gingen eine \Verbindung ein the two parties joined forceseine eheliche \Verbindung eingehen to join in marriagedie [telefonische] \Verbindung nach Tokio war sehr schlecht the [telephone] line to [or connection with] Tokyo was very poorich bekomme keine \Verbindung I can't get a connection [or line], I can't get throughunsere \Verbindung wurde unterbrochen we were cut off\Verbindung aufnehmen (per Funk) to make contact, to establish communicationeine/keine \Verbindung [irgendwohin] bekommen to get through/not to be able to get through [to somewhere]was ist die beste \Verbindung [mit dem Zug] zwischen Hamburg und Dresden? what's the best way to get from Hamburg to Dresden [by train]?direkte \Verbindung [nach...] direct connection [to...]es gibt eine direkte \Verbindung mit dem Zug nach Kopenhagen there's a through train to Copenhageneine direkte \Verbindung mit dem Flugzeug gibt es leider nicht I'm afraid there isn't a direct flight6. (Verknüpfung) combinationin \Verbindung mit etw dat in conjunction with sthdie Eintrittskarte gilt nur in \Verbindung mit dem Personalausweis this entrance ticket is only valid [together] with your ID cardin \Verbindung mit dem Einkauf hat sich dieser Besuch gelohnt combined with the shopping trip this visit was well worth it7. (Zusammenhang) connectionin \Verbindung mit in connection withjdn/etw mit jdm/etw in \Verbindung bringen to connect sb/sth with sb/sth8. (Berührung) contacteine \Verbindung zwischen zwei Dingen herstellen to connect two thingseine \Verbindung aus zwei Stoffen a compound formed out of two substancesschlagende/nicht schlagende \Verbindung duelling/non-duelling fraternity* * *1) (das Verknüpfen) linking2) (Zusammenhalt) join; connection3) (verknüpfende Strecke) link4) (durch Telefon, Funk) connection5) (VerkehrsVerbindung) connection ( nach to)die Verbindung zur Außenwelt — connections pl. with the outside world
6) (Kombination) combination7) (Bündnis) associationeheliche Verbindung — (geh.) marriage
8) (Kontakt) contactsich mit jemandem in Verbindung setzen, Verbindung mit jemandem aufnehmen — get in touch or contact with somebody; contact somebody
9) (Zusammenhang) connection10) (StudentenVerbindung) society11) (Chemie) compound* * *1. union (auch Ehe), bond; (Zusammenschluss, Vereinigung mehrerer Eigenschaften) combination; (von Ideen) association; (Zusammenhang) connection; im Text: context; (Beziehung, auch WIRTSCH) relations pl, contact ( beidezu with); JUR bond;in Verbindung mit combined with; in connection with, in conjunction with;eine Verbindung eingehen join together, unite; Dinge: combine, unite; (sich verbünden) ally, form an alliance ( allemit with);Verbindungen knüpfen make contacts;eine Verbindung herstellen mit, sich in Verbindung setzen mit contact, get in touch with;in Verbindung bleiben keep in touch;die Verbindung verlieren lose touch;in Verbindung bringen mit fig associate with;eine Verbindung zwischen Rauchen und Krebs a link between smoking and cancer;die Verbindung einer beweglichen Sache mit einem Grundstück JUR the binding of mov(e)able property to a piece of land ( oder personal to real property)2. (Verkehrsverbindung) communication;eine direkte/günstige Verbindung nach Basel etc a direct/good connection to Basle (US Basel) etc;alle Verbindungen ausdrucken print out all the connections;eine Verbindung herstellen mit per Funk etc: establish communication with;3. CHEM compound5. IT connection, link;bekommen fail to get connected to the serv-erschlagende/nicht schlagende Verbindung duelling/non-duelling society (US fraternity)* * *1) (das Verknüpfen) linking2) (Zusammenhalt) join; connection3) (verknüpfende Strecke) link4) (durch Telefon, Funk) connection5) (VerkehrsVerbindung) connection ( nach to)die Verbindung zur Außenwelt — connections pl. with the outside world
6) (Kombination) combination7) (Bündnis) associationeheliche Verbindung — (geh.) marriage
8) (Kontakt) contactsich mit jemandem in Verbindung setzen, Verbindung mit jemandem aufnehmen — get in touch or contact with somebody; contact somebody
9) (Zusammenhang) connection10) (StudentenVerbindung) society11) (Chemie) compound* * *f.alliance n.association n.catenation n.chaining n.compound n.concatenation n.conjunction n.connection n.connectivity n.connexion (UK) n.fusion n.incorporation n.interconnection n.interface n.joint n.junction n.liaison n.link n. -
104 Cubitt, William
[br]b. 1785 Dilham, Norfolk, Englandd. 13 October 1861 Clapham Common, Surrey, England[br]English civil engineer and contractor.[br]The son of a miller, he received a rudimentary education in the village school. At an early age he was helping his father in the mill, and in 1800 he was apprenticed to a cabinet maker. After four years he returned to work with his father, but, preferring to leave the parental home, he not long afterwards joined a firm of agricultural-machinery makers in Swanton in Norfolk. There he acquired a reputation for making accurate patterns for the iron caster and demonstrated a talent for mechanical invention, patenting a self-regulating windmill sail in 1807. He then set up on his own as a millwright, but he found he could better himself by joining the engineering works of Ransomes of Ipswich in 1812. He was soon appointed their Chief Engineer, and after nine years he became a partner in the firm until he moved to London in 1826. Around 1818 he invented the treadmill, with the aim of putting prisoners to useful work in grinding corn and other applications. It was rapidly adopted by the principal prisons, more as a means of punishment than an instrument of useful work.From 1814 Cubitt had been gaining experience in civil engineering, and upon his removal to London his career in this field began to take off. He was engaged on many canal-building projects, including the Oxford and Liverpool Junction canals. He accomplished some notable dock works, such as the Bute docks at Cardiff, the Middlesborough docks and the coal drops on the river Tees. He improved navigation on the river Severn and compiled valuable reports on a number of other leading rivers.The railway construction boom of the 1840s provided him with fresh opportunities. He engineered the South Eastern Railway (SER) with its daringly constructed line below the cliffs between Folkestone and Dover; the railway was completed in 1843, using massive charges of explosive to blast a way through the cliffs. Cubitt was Consulting Engineer to the Great Northern Railway and tried, with less than his usual success, to get the atmospheric system to work on the Croydon Railway.When the SER began a steamer service between Folkestone and Boulogne, Cubitt was engaged to improve the port facilities there and went on to act as Consulting Engineer to the Boulogne and Amiens Railway. Other commissions on the European continent included surveying the line between Paris and Lyons, advising the Hanoverian government on the harbour and docks at Hamburg and directing the water-supply works for Berlin.Cubitt was actively involved in the erection of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851; in recognition of this work Queen Victoria knighted him at Windsor Castle on 23 December 1851.Cubitt's son Joseph (1811–72) was also a notable civil engineer, with many railway and harbour works to his credit.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1851. FRS 1830. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1850 and 1851.Further ReadingObituary, 1862, Minutes of 'the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 21:552– 8.LRD -
105 Saxby, John
[br]b. 17 August 1821 Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, Englandd. 22 April 1913 Hassocks, Sussex, England[br]English railway signal engineer, pioneer of interlocking.[br]In the mid-1850s Saxby was a foreman in the Brighton Works of the London Brighton \& South Coast Railway, where he had no doubt become familiar with construction of semaphore signals of the type invented by C.H. Gregory; the London-Brighton line was one of the first over which these were installed. In the 1850s points and signals were usually worked independently, and it was to eliminate the risk of accident from conflicting points and signal positions that Saxby in 1856 patented an arrangement by which related points and signals would be operated simultaneously by a single lever.Others were concerned with the same problem. In 1855 Vignier, an employee of the Western Railway of France, had made an interlocking apparatus for junctions, and in 1859 Austin Chambers, who worked for the North London Railway, installed at Kentish Town Junction an interlocking lever frame in which a movement that depended upon another could not even commence until the earlier one was completed. He patented it early in 1860; Saxby patented his own version of such an apparatus later the same year. In 1863 Saxby left the London Brighton \& South Coast Railway to enter into a partnership with J.S.Farmer and established Saxby \& Farmer's railway signalling works at Kilburn, London. The firm manufactured, installed and maintained signalling equipment for many prominent railway companies. Its interlocking frames made possible installation of complex track layouts at increasingly busy London termini possible.In 1867 Saxby \& Farmer purchased Chambers's patent of 1860, Later developments by the firm included effective interlocking actuated by lifting a lever's catch handle, rather than by the lever itself (1871), and an improved locking frame known as the "gridiron" (1874). This was eventually superseded by tappet interlocking, which had been invented by James Deakin of the rival firm Stevens \& Co. in 1870 but for which patent protection had been lost through non-renewal.Saxby \& Farmer's equipment was also much used on the European continent, in India and in the USA, to which it introduced interlocking. A second manufacturing works was set up in 1878 at Creil (Oise), France, and when the partnership terminated in 1888 Saxby moved to Creil and managed the works himself until he retired to Sussex in 1900.[br]Bibliography1856, British patent no. 1,479 (simultaneous operation of points and signals). 1860, British patent no. 31 (a true interlocking mechanism).1867, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 538 (improvements to the interlocking mechanism patented in 1860).1870, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 569 (the facing point lock by plunger bolt).1871, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 1,601 (catch-handle actuated interlocking) 1874, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 294 (gridiron frame).Further ReadingWestinghouse Brake and Signal Company, 1956, John Saxby (1821–1913) and His Part in the Development of Interlocking and of the Signalling Industry, London (published to mark the centenary of the 1856 patent).PJGR -
106 скрещивание
1) General subject: amphimixis, cross breeding, crossing, junction (дорог)2) Geology: crossing-over, interlacing3) Biology: cross, (однократное) cross (см. тж crossing), (однократное) crossing, crossing (особ. однократное)4) Engineering: hybridization, intersecting (проводов и т. п. на схеме), junction (напр. дорог), transposition (проводов)5) Agriculture: (однократное) crossover6) Mathematics: mating7) Railway term: interference8) Automobile industry: intersection (дорог)9) Mining: junction (выработок или путей)10) Forestry: hybridization (растений)11) Immunology: breeding12) Special term: cross-breeding14) Electrical engineering: cross (проводов), intersection (проводов на схеме) -
107 соединительная линия
1) Engineering: interconnecting line, junction circuit, studio-to-transmitter feed, tie line (в телефонии), tie-line (в телефонии)2) Construction: joint link3) Railway term: concentration line, feeder line4) Telecommunications: connecting circuit, interconnection, interoffice trunk, junction line5) Electronics: traffic trunk, trunk circuit, trunk line6) Information technology: connector, connector line, trace line (не печатной плате), trace line (на печатной плате)7) Oil: connecting line, trace line8) Cartography: split line9) Network technologies: trunk10) Automation: local line (связывающая абонентский пункт с вычислительным центром)11) Makarov: junction line (в телефонии), junction line (связи)12) SAP.tech. series line13) Electrical engineering: (электрическая) interconnecting line, interconnector (электропередачи)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > соединительная линия
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108 Gleisdreieck
n triangular junction, Am. Y-track* * *Gleis|drei|ecknttriangular junction* * ** * *n.three-way junction (railway) n. -
109 verbindung
f1. union (auch Ehe), bond; (Zusammenschluss, Vereinigung mehrerer Eigenschaften) combination; (von Ideen) association; (Zusammenhang) connection; im Text: context; (Beziehung, auch WIRTS.) relations Pl., contact ( beide zu with); JUR. bond; in Verbindung mit combined with; in connection with, in conjunction with; eine Verbindung eingehen join together, unite; Dinge: combine, unite; (sich verbünden) ally, form an alliance ( alle mit with); Verbindungen knüpfen make contacts; eine Verbindung herstellen mit, sich in Verbindung setzen mit contact, get in touch with; in Verbindung bleiben keep in touch; die Verbindung verlieren lose touch; in Verbindung bringen mit fig. associate with; in Verbindung stehen mit be in touch ( oder contact) with; einer Sache: be connected with; eine Verbindung zwischen Rauchen und Krebs a link between smoking and cancer; die Verbindung einer beweglichen Sache mit einem Grundstück JUR. the binding of mov(e)able property to a piece of land ( oder personal to real property)2. (Verkehrsverbindung) communication; eine direkte / günstige Verbindung nach Basel etc. a direct / good connection to Basle (Am. Basel) etc.; alle Verbindungen ausdrucken print out all the connections; die einzige Verbindung zur Insel etc. the only connection to the island etc.; eine Verbindung herstellen mit per Funk etc.: establish communication with; keine Verbindung bekommen mit TELEF. etc. not get through to; die Verbindung ist sehr schlecht TELEF. etc. the line is very bad3. CHEM. compound5. EDV connection, link; keine Verbindung mit dem Server etc. bekommen fail to get connected to the serv- er6. studentische: student society, Am. fraternity; für Studentinnen: sorority; schlagende / nicht schlagende Verbindung duelling / non-duelling society (Am. fraternity)* * *die Verbindung(Bündnis) alliance;(Kombination) combination;(Kontakt) contact;(Liebesverhältnis) liaison;(Studentenverein) fraternity;(Telefonverbindung) connection;(Verbindungsstelle) junction;(Vereinigung) union;(Zusammenhang) connection; connexion;(chemischer Stoff) compound* * *Ver|bịn|dungf1) connection; (= Kontakt) contact (zu, mit with)jdn/etw mit etw in Verbindung bringen — to connect sb/sth with sth
er/sein Name wurde mit dem Mord/der Affäre in Verbindung gebracht — he/his name was mentioned in connection with the murder/the affair
seine Verbindungen spielen lassen — to use one's connections, to pull a few strings (inf)
die Verbindung aufrechterhalten — to maintain contact; (esp zwischen Freunden) to keep in touch or contact
neue Verbindung erstellen (Comput: Option) — make new connection
sich (mit jdm) in Verbindung setzen, (mit jdm) in Verbindung treten — to get in touch or contact (with sb), to contact sb
mit jdm in Verbindung stehen, mit jdm Verbindung haben — to be in touch or contact with sb
2) (= Verkehrsverbindung) connection (nach to)die Verbindung von Berlin nach Warschau — the connections pl from Berlin to Warsaw
3) (TELEC = Anschluss) lineVerbindung aufnehmen — to make contact, to establish communication
5) (= Kombination) combination6) (= Vereinigung, Bündnis) association; (ehelich) union; (UNIV) society; (für Männer auch) ≈ fraternity (US); (für Frauen auch) ≈ sorority (US)eine schlagende/nicht schlagende Verbindung (Univ) — a duelling (Brit) or dueling (US)/nonduelling (Brit) or nondueling (US) fraternity
7) (CHEM) (= Prozess) combination; (= Ergebnis) compound (aus (formed out) of)eine Verbindung mit etw eingehen — to form a compound with sth, to combine with sth
* * *die1) (a place where two things are joined: You can hardly see the joins in the material.) join2) (an association of trading companies: a large manufacturing combine.) combine3) ((a) state of being connected or related: My connection with their family is very slight; I wish to talk to you in connection with my daughter's career.) connection4) (communication: I've lost contact with all my old friends; We have succeeded in making (radio) contact with the ship; How can I get in contact with him?) contact5) (a person or thing that provides a means of communicating with someone: His radio is his only contact with the outside world.) contact6) (a link for joining things together: The railway carriage was damaged when the coupling broke.) coupling7) (a close joining together: the marriage of his skill and her judgement.) marriage8) (the state of being united, eg in marriage, friendship etc: Their marriage was a perfect union.) union* * *Ver·bin·dungf1. (direkte Beziehung) contact\Verbindung [mit jdm] aufnehmen to contact [or get in touch with] sb[mit jdm] in \Verbindung bleiben to keep in touch [with sb]\Verbindung[en] mit [o zu] jdm/etw haben to have connections pl with sb/sthseine \Verbindungen spielen lassen (fam) to [try and] pull a few strings[mit jdm/miteinander] in \Verbindung stehen to be in [or have] contact [with sb/each other][mit jdm] in \Verbindung treten to contact sb▪ in \Verbindung mit jdm/etw in association with sb/stheine \Verbindung eingehen to unitedie beiden Parteien gingen eine \Verbindung ein the two parties joined forceseine eheliche \Verbindung eingehen to join in marriagedie [telefonische] \Verbindung nach Tokio war sehr schlecht the [telephone] line to [or connection with] Tokyo was very poorich bekomme keine \Verbindung I can't get a connection [or line], I can't get throughunsere \Verbindung wurde unterbrochen we were cut off\Verbindung aufnehmen (per Funk) to make contact, to establish communicationeine/keine \Verbindung [irgendwohin] bekommen to get through/not to be able to get through [to somewhere]was ist die beste \Verbindung [mit dem Zug] zwischen Hamburg und Dresden? what's the best way to get from Hamburg to Dresden [by train]?direkte \Verbindung [nach...] direct connection [to...]es gibt eine direkte \Verbindung mit dem Zug nach Kopenhagen there's a through train to Copenhageneine direkte \Verbindung mit dem Flugzeug gibt es leider nicht I'm afraid there isn't a direct flight6. (Verknüpfung) combinationin \Verbindung mit etw dat in conjunction with sthdie Eintrittskarte gilt nur in \Verbindung mit dem Personalausweis this entrance ticket is only valid [together] with your ID cardin \Verbindung mit dem Einkauf hat sich dieser Besuch gelohnt combined with the shopping trip this visit was well worth it7. (Zusammenhang) connectionin \Verbindung mit in connection withjdn/etw mit jdm/etw in \Verbindung bringen to connect sb/sth with sb/sth8. (Berührung) contacteine \Verbindung zwischen zwei Dingen herstellen to connect two thingseine \Verbindung aus zwei Stoffen a compound formed out of two substancesschlagende/nicht schlagende \Verbindung duelling/non-duelling fraternity* * *1) (das Verknüpfen) linking2) (Zusammenhalt) join; connection3) (verknüpfende Strecke) link4) (durch Telefon, Funk) connection5) (VerkehrsVerbindung) connection ( nach to)die Verbindung zur Außenwelt — connections pl. with the outside world
6) (Kombination) combination7) (Bündnis) associationeheliche Verbindung — (geh.) marriage
8) (Kontakt) contactsich mit jemandem in Verbindung setzen, Verbindung mit jemandem aufnehmen — get in touch or contact with somebody; contact somebody
9) (Zusammenhang) connection10) (StudentenVerbindung) society11) (Chemie) compound* * *…verbindung f im subst1. (Kontakt):Fernsprechverbindung telephone connection;Nachrichtenverbindung line of communication;Postverbindung link to a ( oder the) postal service;Schienenverbindung rail link2. CHEM:Sauerstoffverbindung oxygen compound;Schwefelverbindung sulphur (US -fur) compound* * *1) (das Verknüpfen) linking2) (Zusammenhalt) join; connection3) (verknüpfende Strecke) link4) (durch Telefon, Funk) connection5) (VerkehrsVerbindung) connection ( nach to)die Verbindung zur Außenwelt — connections pl. with the outside world
6) (Kombination) combination7) (Bündnis) associationeheliche Verbindung — (geh.) marriage
8) (Kontakt) contactsich mit jemandem in Verbindung setzen, Verbindung mit jemandem aufnehmen — get in touch or contact with somebody; contact somebody
9) (Zusammenhang) connection10) (StudentenVerbindung) society11) (Chemie) compound* * *f.alliance n.association n.catenation n.chaining n.compound n.concatenation n.conjunction n.connection n.connectivity n.connexion (UK) n.fusion n.incorporation n.interconnection n.interface n.joint n.junction n.liaison n.link n. -
110 unir
v.1 to join (juntar) (pedazos, habitaciones).unió los dos palos con una cuerda he joined o tied the two sticks together with a piece of stringEllos unieron las telas They joined the fabrics.Ellos unieron los equipos They merged the teams.2 to connect, to link (comunicar) (ciudades, terminales, aparatos).El cable une la tubería The wire connects the tubing.3 to combine.en su obra une belleza y técnica her work combines beauty with techniqueunir algo a algo to add something to something4 to draw together, to assemble, to unify.El amor une a las personas Love draws people together.* * *1 (juntar) to unite, join, join together2 (combinar) to combine (a, with)3 (enlazar) to link (a, to)\unirse en matrimonio formal to unite in marriage* * *verbto unite, join, link- unirse- unirse a* * *1. VT1) (=acercar)a) [+ grupos, tendencias, pueblos] to uniteb) [sentimientos] to unitea nuestros dos países los unen muchas más cosas de las que los dividen — there are far more things that unite our two countries than divide them
c) [lazos] to link, bindlos lazos que unen ambos países — the ties that bind o link both countries
2) (=atar) [contrato] to bindcon el periódico me unía un mero contrato — I was bound to the newspaper by nothing more than a simple contract
el jugador ha rescindido el contrato que lo unía al club — the player has terminated the contract binding him to the club
3) (=asociar, agrupar) to combineuniendo los dos nombres resulta un nuevo concepto — a new concept is created by combining the two nouns
el esquí de fondo une dos actividades: montañismo y esquí — cross-country skiing combines two activities: mountaineering and skiing
decidieron unir sus fuerzas para luchar contra el crimen — they decided to join forces in the fight against crime
ha logrado unir su nombre al de los grandes deportistas de este siglo — he has won a place among the great sporting names of this century
5) [+ objetos, piezas] [gen] to join, join together; [con pegamento, celo] to stick together; [con clavos, puntas] to fasten togethervan a tirar el tabique para unir el salón a la cocina — they are going to knock together the lounge and the kitchen
6) (Culin) [+ líquidos] to mix; [+ salsa] to blend7) (Com) [+ compañías, intereses] to merge2.See:* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) < cables> to join; (con cola, pegamento) to stick... together; < esfuerzos> to combinelos unió en matrimonio — (frml) he joined them in matrimony (frml)
b) sentimientos/intereses to uniteunida sentimentalmente a... — (period) romantically involved with...
c) <características/cualidades/estilos> to combine3) ( fusionar) <empresas/organizaciones> to merge4) < salsa> to mix2.unirse v pron1)a) ( aliarse) personas/colectividades to join togetherse unieron para hacer un frente común — they joined forces o united in a common cause
b) características/cualidades to combine3) ( fusionarse) empresas/organizaciones to merge* * *= aggregate, bridge, connect, join together, link, marry, string, unite, confound, piece together, weld into/together, splice, bundle, pool, band, bind + Nombre + together, knit, knit, federate, conjoin, cement.Ex. You have attempted to aggregate the UDC class number incorrectly.Ex. BLAISE offers a variety of services bridging the cataloguing and information retrieval functions.Ex. Plainly, it is not always the case that there is a connection between farming and spelling, and many other documents can be identified where these subjects are not connected.Ex. A portfolio is a container for holding loose materials, e.g. paintings, drawings, papers, unbound sections of a book, and similar materials, consisting of two covers joined together at the back.Ex. These references operate in a similar fashion whether they are used to link authors' names or subject headings.Ex. At that time OCLC was already going strong, and we tried to find some backing from the State of New York and possibly from the federal government to marry those two systems.Ex. There is no question of stringing together simple concepts in a preferred citation order to produce a single index description of the summarized subject content of a document.Ex. It has become increasingly difficult to unite both categories in one union and demands for a trade union of library employees have been raised.Ex. The confounding of opposites is also common though, again, care has to be taken to see that we do not confound two subjects on which extensive literature exists.Ex. During his stay in Laputa, Captain Gulliver was very impressed by a book-writing machine which produced fragments of sentences which were dictated to scribes and later pieced together.Ex. The Department of Trade and Industry has undergone many changes over the years; it has been split into two separate departments and welded together again.Ex. A filmloop is a short length of film enclosed in a cassette and with the end of the film spliced on to the beginning so that it requires no rewinding.Ex. CD-ROM products that combine, or bundle, related information services will be at the forefront because of their usefulness to end-users.Ex. The results of two studies of the way reference librarians work were pooled to provide an understanding of the important features necessary in software for computerized reference work.Ex. The author advises banding retention policies to focus on a few clear options.Ex. People value the public library highly as an educational and community resource and the library acts as an 'information junction' to bind the community together.Ex. I want to knit that to another Internet format, which is the Web log -- the 'blog'.Ex. I want to knit that to another Internet format, which is the Web log -- the 'blog'.Ex. The usefulness of the many online periodicals and scientific digital libraries that exist today is limited by the inability to federate these resources through a unified interface.Ex. The grotesque is an effect achieved by conjoining disparate framents which do not realistically belong together.Ex. An in-house bulletin may serve to cement firm relationships with the library's personnel.----* conseguir unir = rally.* unir a = tie (to), couple with.* unir esfuerzos = join + hands.* unir fuerzas = join + forces, pool + forces.* unir inextricablemente = interweave.* unir mediante espigas = tenon.* unir mediante hiperenlaces = hotlink [hot-link].* unir mediante mortaja = mortise.* unirse = come together, partner, bond, stand up as + one.* unirse a = ally with, join, hop on, join + Posesivo + ranks.* unirse a una conversación = chime in.* unirse en matrimonio = tie + the knot.* unir sin solapar = butt together.* volverse a unir a = rejoin.* * *1.verbo transitivo1)a) < cables> to join; (con cola, pegamento) to stick... together; < esfuerzos> to combinelos unió en matrimonio — (frml) he joined them in matrimony (frml)
b) sentimientos/intereses to uniteunida sentimentalmente a... — (period) romantically involved with...
c) <características/cualidades/estilos> to combine3) ( fusionar) <empresas/organizaciones> to merge4) < salsa> to mix2.unirse v pron1)a) ( aliarse) personas/colectividades to join togetherse unieron para hacer un frente común — they joined forces o united in a common cause
b) características/cualidades to combine3) ( fusionarse) empresas/organizaciones to merge* * *= aggregate, bridge, connect, join together, link, marry, string, unite, confound, piece together, weld into/together, splice, bundle, pool, band, bind + Nombre + together, knit, knit, federate, conjoin, cement.Ex: You have attempted to aggregate the UDC class number incorrectly.
Ex: BLAISE offers a variety of services bridging the cataloguing and information retrieval functions.Ex: Plainly, it is not always the case that there is a connection between farming and spelling, and many other documents can be identified where these subjects are not connected.Ex: A portfolio is a container for holding loose materials, e.g. paintings, drawings, papers, unbound sections of a book, and similar materials, consisting of two covers joined together at the back.Ex: These references operate in a similar fashion whether they are used to link authors' names or subject headings.Ex: At that time OCLC was already going strong, and we tried to find some backing from the State of New York and possibly from the federal government to marry those two systems.Ex: There is no question of stringing together simple concepts in a preferred citation order to produce a single index description of the summarized subject content of a document.Ex: It has become increasingly difficult to unite both categories in one union and demands for a trade union of library employees have been raised.Ex: The confounding of opposites is also common though, again, care has to be taken to see that we do not confound two subjects on which extensive literature exists.Ex: During his stay in Laputa, Captain Gulliver was very impressed by a book-writing machine which produced fragments of sentences which were dictated to scribes and later pieced together.Ex: The Department of Trade and Industry has undergone many changes over the years; it has been split into two separate departments and welded together again.Ex: A filmloop is a short length of film enclosed in a cassette and with the end of the film spliced on to the beginning so that it requires no rewinding.Ex: CD-ROM products that combine, or bundle, related information services will be at the forefront because of their usefulness to end-users.Ex: The results of two studies of the way reference librarians work were pooled to provide an understanding of the important features necessary in software for computerized reference work.Ex: The author advises banding retention policies to focus on a few clear options.Ex: People value the public library highly as an educational and community resource and the library acts as an 'information junction' to bind the community together.Ex: I want to knit that to another Internet format, which is the Web log -- the 'blog'.Ex: I want to knit that to another Internet format, which is the Web log -- the 'blog'.Ex: The usefulness of the many online periodicals and scientific digital libraries that exist today is limited by the inability to federate these resources through a unified interface.Ex: The grotesque is an effect achieved by conjoining disparate framents which do not realistically belong together.Ex: An in-house bulletin may serve to cement firm relationships with the library's personnel.* conseguir unir = rally.* unir a = tie (to), couple with.* unir esfuerzos = join + hands.* unir fuerzas = join + forces, pool + forces.* unir inextricablemente = interweave.* unir mediante espigas = tenon.* unir mediante hiperenlaces = hotlink [hot-link].* unir mediante mortaja = mortise.* unirse = come together, partner, bond, stand up as + one.* unirse a = ally with, join, hop on, join + Posesivo + ranks.* unirse a una conversación = chime in.* unirse en matrimonio = tie + the knot.* unir sin solapar = butt together.* volverse a unir a = rejoin.* * *unir [I1 ]vtA1«persona»: unió los trozos con un pegamento she stuck the pieces together with glueunió los cables con cinta aislante he joined the wires with insulating tapeha unido dos estilos muy diferentes he has combined two very different stylesunamos nuestros esfuerzos let us combine our efforts2 «sentimientos/intereses» to unitelos unía el deseo de … they were united by their desire to …los une su afición al deporte their love of sport binds them together o acts as a bond between them o unites themel amor que nos une the love which unites usunida sentimentalmente a … ( period); romantically involved with …3 ‹características/cualidades› unir algo A algo to combine sth WITH sthune a su inteligencia una gran madurez he combines intelligence with great maturityB (comunicar) to linkla nueva carretera une los dos pueblos the new road links the two townsel puente aéreo que une las dos ciudades the shuttle service which runs between o links the two citiesC ‹salsa› to mix■ unirseA1 (aliarse) «personas/colectividades» to join togetherse unieron para hacer un frente común they joined forces o united in a common causelos dos países se unieron en una federación the two countries joined together to form a federationse unieron en matrimonio they were married, they were joined in matrimony ( frml)varias empresas se unieron para formar un consorcio several companies joined together o came together o combined to form a consortiumunirse A algo:se unió a nuestra causa he joined our cause2 «características/cualidades» to combineen él se unen la ambición y el orgullo ambition and pride come together o combine in him, he combines ambition with pridea su belleza se une una gran simpatía her beauty is combined with a very likable personalityB (juntarse) «caminos» to converge, meetdonde el tráfico del oeste se une con el del norte where traffic from the west converges with o meets traffic from the north* * *
unir ( conjugate unir) verbo transitivo
1
(con cola, pegamento) to stick … together;
‹ esfuerzos› to combine
unir algo a algo to combine sth with sth
2 ( comunicar) ‹ lugares› to link
3 ( fusionar) ‹empresas/organizaciones› to merge
unirse verbo pronominal
1 ( aliarse) [personas/colectividades] to join together;
2 ( juntarse) [ caminos] to converge, meet
3 ( fusionarse) [empresas/organizaciones] to merge
unir verbo transitivo
1 (cables, conexiones) to join, unite
2 (esfuerzos, intereses) to join
(asociar, fusionar) unieron sus empresas, they merged their companies
3 (comunicar) to link: ese camino une las dos aldeas, that path links the two villages
' unir' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
acercar
- casar
- empalmar
- fundir
- juntar
- ligar
- remachar
- vincular
English:
bond
- cement
- connect
- couple
- join
- join up
- link
- neither
- screw together
- stick together
- unite
- yoke
- amalgamate
- bring
- marry
- reunite
- splice
- unify
* * *♦ vt1. [juntar] [pedazos, piezas, habitaciones] to join;[empresas, estados, facciones] to unite; Informát [archivos] to merge;unió los dos palos con una cuerda he joined o tied the two sticks with a piece of string;debemos unir fuerzas we must combine forcesles une una fuerte amistad they are very close friends, they share a very close friendship;les une su pasión por la música they share a passion for music;los lazos que nos unen the ties that bind us;Formalunir a dos personas en (santo) matrimonio to join two people in (holy) matrimony3. [comunicar] [ciudades, terminales, aparatos] to connect, to link;la línea férrea que une la capital a o [m5] con la costa the railway o US railroad between o which links the capital and the coast4. [combinar] to combine;en su obra une belleza y técnica her work combines beauty with technique;unir algo a algo [añadir] to add sth to sth;a la desinformación hay que unir también el desinterés de la gente in addition to the lack of information, we have to take into account people's lack of interest5. [mezclar] to mix o blend in;una la mantequilla con el azúcar cream together the butter and the sugar* * *v/t1 join2 personas unite3 características combine ( con with)4 ciudades link* * *unir vt1) juntar: to unite, to join, to link2) combinar: to combine, to blend* * *unir vb1. (juntar) to join2. (comunicar) to link3. (relacionar) to unite -
111 Brassey, Thomas
SUBJECT AREA: Railways and locomotives[br]b. 7 November 1805 Buerton, Cheshire, Englandd. 8 December 1870 St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England[br]English railway construction contractor.[br]Brassey was initially a surveyor and road builder; his first railway contract was for ten miles (16 km) of the Grand Junction Railway in 1835, for which the engineer was Joseph Locke, with whom Brassey became closely associated. Gaining a justified reputation for integrity, Brassey built much of the London \& Southampton, Chester \& Crewe, and Sheffield Ashton-under-Lyne \& Manchester Railways, the Le Havre \& Rouen Railway and many others: by the late 1840s he was employing some 75,000 workers on his contracts. Subsequently, as sole contractor or with partners, Brassey built railways in many European countries, and in Canada, India, Australia and other countries. Between 1848 and 1861 he constructed 2,374 miles (3,820 km) of railway.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsCroix de la Légion d'honneur (France). Order of the Iron Crown (Austria).Further ReadingObituary, 1872, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 33.Arthur Helps, 1872, Life and Labours of Mr Brassey, reissued 1969, Augustus Kelley (this is the noted biography).PJGR -
112 Locke, Joseph
[br]b. 9 August 1805 Attercliffe, Yorkshire, Englandd. 18 September 1860 Moffat, Scotland[br]English civil engineer who built many important early main-line railways.[br]Joseph Locke was the son of a colliery viewer who had known George Stephenson in Northumberland before moving to Yorkshire: Locke himself became a pupil of Stephenson in 1823. He worked with Robert Stephenson at Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s locomotive works and surveyed railways, including the Leeds \& Selby and the Canterbury \& Whitstable, for George Stephenson.When George Stephenson was appointed Chief Engineer for construction of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1826, the first resident engineer whom he appointed to work under him was Locke, who took a prominent part in promoting traction by locomotives rather than by fixed engines with cable haulage. The pupil eventually excelled the master and in 1835 Locke was appointed in place of Stephenson as Chief Engineer for construction of the Grand Junction Railway. He introduced double-headed rails carried in chairs on wooden sleepers, the prototype of the bullhead track that became standard on British railways for more than a century. By preparing the most detailed specifications, Locke was able to estimate the cost of the railway much more accurately than was usual at that time, and it was built at a cost close to the estimate; this made his name. He became Engineer to the London \& Southampton Railway and completed the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyme \& Manchester Railway, including the 3-mile (3.8 km) Woodhead Tunnel, which had been started by Charles Vignoles. He was subsequently responsible for many British main lines, including those of the companies that extended the West Coast Route northwards from Preston to Scotland. He was also Engineer to important early main lines in France, notably that from Paris to Rouen and its extension to Le Havre, and in Spain and Holland. In 1847 Locke was elected MP for Honiton.Locke appreciated early in his career that steam locomotives able to operate over gradients steeper than at first thought practicable would be developed. Overall his monument is not great individual works of engineering, such as the famous bridges of his close contemporaries Robert Stephenson and I.K. Brunel, but a series of lines built economically but soundly through rugged country without such works; for example, the line over Shap, Cumbria.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsOfficier de la Légion d'honneur, France. FRS. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1858–9.Further ReadingObituary, 1861, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 20. L.T.C.Rolt, 1962, Great Engineers, London: G. Bell \& Sons, ch. 6.Industrial Heritage, 1991, Vol. 9(2):9.See also: Brassey, ThomasPJGR -
113 Worsdell, Nathaniel
[br]b. 10 October 1809 London, Englandd. 24 July 1886 Birkenhead, England[br]English coachbuilder and inventor.[br]Worsdell \& Son, Coachbuilders, was set up in Liverpool by Thomas Clarke Worsdell and his son Nathaniel in 1827. They were introduced to George Stephenson and built the tender for Rocket. More importantly, they designed and built for the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway coaches of a type comprising three coach bodies, of contemporary road-coach pattern, mounted together on a rail-wagon underframe. This became the prototype for the conventional, compartment railway coach. Nathaniel Worsdell subsequently became Carriage Superintendent of the Grand Junction Railway and patented the first mail-bag-exchange apparatus early in 1838. The terms he required for its use by the Post Office were too steep, however, and the first bagexchange apparatus of the type subsequently used extensively on British railways was designed later the same year by John Ramsey, a senior Post Office clerk.[br]Further ReadingJ.Marshall, 1978, A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles (the article on Worsdell is derived from family records).C.Hamilton Ellis, 1958, Twenty Locomotive Men, Shepperton: Ian Allan.P.J.G.Ransom, 1990, The Victorian Railway and How It Evolved, London: Heinemann.PJGR -
114 Edison, Thomas Alva
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications[br]b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USAd. 18 October 1931 Glenmont[br]American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.[br]He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMember of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.Further ReadingM.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.IMcN -
115 Т-образное соединение
1) Aviation: t-coupling, t-fitting2) Military: (волноводов) T-junction4) Railway term: T-junction5) Metallurgy: tee junction6) Electronics: conduit tee, t-connection7) Oil: T-joint9) Cables: tee-jointУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Т-образное соединение
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116 кабельная коробка
1) General subject: wire tray2) Naval: cable box3) Engineering: cable tray4) Railway term: cable box splice5) Telecommunications: cable junction6) Electronics: cable junction box, splice box7) Astronautics: conduit8) Automation: joint box, junction box9) Cables: cable service box (ввод в здание), cable splice box10) Electrical engineering: feeder box, sealing chamber -
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1) General subject: accumulator, collector, commutator, manifold, sewer2) Geology: reservoir rock3) Engineering: collecting canal, collecting channel, collecting drum, collecting main, collector region (транзистора), controller, fold, manifold block (гидросистемы), manifold component, manifold group, multifold, receptacle, sampler4) Construction: collecting gutter, collector (напр. водоприёмный), combining flue, sewer conduit, weeper drain5) Railway term: chamber, collecting head, commutator rectifier (машины постоянного тока), current reverser6) Finances: debt collector (агент по взысканию просроченной задолженности; англ. оборот взят из статьи в газете Los Angeles Times)9) Mining: box junction11) Metallurgy: accelerant, collecting agent, commutator (машины), current collector12) Electronics: capture anode, (котла) collecting drum, collecting electrode, collector electrode, collector zone, (канализации) sewage conduit, (канализации) sewer13) Oil: catcher, collecting pipe, collecting vat, header (трубопровода), header (трубопровода), junction box, main pipe, reservoir (нефти и газа), header, pod15) Sociology: collector drain16) Astronautics: carrier, catch tank, entrance cone, trap17) Geophysics: (пласт-) reservoir unit (А.В.Череповский, Англо-русский и русско-английский словарь по прикладной геофизике, 2002)18) Metrology: collector plate (ионизационной камеры)19) Ecology: carrier drain, collecting header, main canal, main drainage channel, transverse drain20) Household appliances: electron collector21) Drilling: hdr (header; труб), res (reservoir; нефтяной или газовый)22) Sakhalin energy glossary: flowing pressure gradient (трубный), permeable rocks, permeable rocks / zone, permeable zone, reservoir rocks23) Oil&Gas technology manifold (балластной системы), pool24) Oilfield: header (в системе сбора нефти и газа - АД), in-field flow line25) Microelectronics: collector area27) Robots: collector (электродвигателя)29) Makarov: arterial canal, collecting canal (напр. осушительной системы), collecting canal (напр., осушительной системы), collecting drain, collector (для солнечных установок), collector (транзистора или СВЧ-прибора), collector (флотореагент), collector (scavenger) (сборщик, уборщик), commutator (эл. машины), conducting drain, discharge manifold, drainage intercepting ditch (осушительной сети), drum (котла), effuser, header (для жидкостей и газов), interception ditch, junction box (котла), main drainage pipeline, major canal, manifold (двигателя внутреннего сгорания), principal canal, reservoir (напр. нефти или газа), underground reservoir (напр. нефти)30) oil&gas: aquifer, computer gateway, header (трубопровода), natural reservoir, in-field flowline31) Electrical engineering: commutator (электрической машины)32) General subject: water catch, water-collecting header -
118 косынка
1) General subject: angle plate, babushka, dressing cloth, dressing-cloth (для перевязок), handkerchief, headkerchief, kerchief, neck-handkerchief, neck-piece (на плечи), neckerchief, neckpiece (на плечи), tucker2) Naval: gusset sheet3) Engineering: angle-plate, joint plate, junction plate, knee plate, kneepiece, stiffening plate4) Construction: corner plate, corner-plate, cornerplate, gusset, gusset plate, gusset stay, hitch plate5) Railway term: gusset (тележки вагона), junction gusset, sheet plate6) Automobile industry: angle brace, bracket Joint7) Forestry: midcap (в середине стрелы)8) Metallurgy: gusset (joint) plate (углового соединени)9) Textile: neck handkerchief, neckwear10) Jargon: silk11) Drilling: connection plate, knee13) Makarov: corner plate (конструкции), gusset plate (конструкции), joint angle, knee plate (конструкции), stiffening angle14) Building structures: haunch (или "косынка жесткости" деталь, привариваемая при соединении балок разной величины, для усиления соединения)15) Clothing: head scarf, headscarf (головной убор) -
119 ответвительная коробка
1) Naval: junction box2) Engineering: branch box, branch-joint box, connection box, distribution box, distributor box, splice box3) Construction: branching box, junction box (электросети)4) Railway term: cable box, distributing box, switch box5) Electronics: tap-off unit (шинная)6) Oil: dividing box, junction box7) Electrical engineering: splitter box, (шинная) tap-off unitУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > ответвительная коробка
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120 пересечение на разных уровнях
1) Railway term: (дорог) crossing above, fly over, flyover2) Automobile industry: (дорог) fly-over junction, flying junction, flyover crossing, flyunder crossing, overhead crossing, separate grade crossing, undergrade crossing3) Road works: flyover junction, separate-grade crossingУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > пересечение на разных уровнях
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