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1 season
1. noun1) (time of the year) Jahreszeit, diedry/rainy season — Trocken-/Regenzeit, die
2) (time of breeding) (for mammals) Tragezeit, die; (for birds) Brutzeit, die; (time of flourishing) Blüte[zeit], die; (time when animal is hunted) Jagdzeit, dienesting season — Nistzeit, die; Brut[zeit], die; see also academic.ru/13561/close_season">close season; open season
harvest/opera season — Erntezeit, die/Opernsaison, die
football season — Fußballsaison, die
holiday or (Amer.) vacation season — Urlaubszeit, die; Ferienzeit, die
tourist season — Touristensaison, die; Reisezeit, die
‘the season’s greetings' — "ein frohes Weihnachtsfest und ein glückliches neues Jahr"
4)raspberries are in/out of or not in season — jetzt ist die/nicht die Saison od. Zeit für Himbeeren
5) (ticket) see season ticket2. transitive verb1) (lit. or fig.) würzen [Fleisch, Rede]2) (mature) ablagern lassen [Holz]* * *['si:zn] 1. noun1) (one of the main divisions of the year according to the regular variation of the weather, length of day etc: The four seasons are spring, summer, autumn and winter; The monsoon brings the rainy season.) die Jahreszeit2) (the usual, proper or suitable time for something: the football season.) die Saison2. verb1) (to add salt, pepper, mustard etc to: She seasoned the meat with plenty of pepper.) würzen•- seasonable- seasonal
- seasoned
- seasoning
- season ticket
- in season
- out of season* * *sea·son[ˈsi:zən]I. nthe \season of Advent/Lent die Advents-/Fastenzeitthe Christmas/Easter \season die Weihnachts-/Osterzeitthe compliments of the \season frohes Festthe \season of good will die Zeit der Nächstenliebe\season's greetings fröhliche Weihnachten und ein glückliches neues Jahrthe dry/rainy/monsoon \season die Trocken-/Regen-/Monsunzeitoysters are in/out of \season at the moment zurzeit gibt es/gibt es keine Austernapple/strawberry \season Apfel-/Erdbeerzeit fflowering \season Blüte f3. ZOOL fruchtbare Zeitmating \season Paarungszeit fat the height of the \season in der [o zur] Hochsaisonholiday \season Ferienzeit fsummer \season Sommersaison fin/out of \season während/außerhalb der Saisonbaseball/cricket/football \season Baseball-/Kricket-/Fußballsaison ffishing/hunting \season Angel-/Jagdzeit fclose/open \season (hunting) Schon-/Jagdzeit f; (fishing) Zeit f, in der das Angeln verboten/erlaubt istin/out of \season (hunting) während/außerhalb der Jagdzeit; (fishing) während/außerhalb der AngelzeitII. vt1. (add flavouring)lightly/heavily \seasoned leicht/stark gewürztthe stew's done, but it needs to be \seasoned der Eintopf ist fertig, aber er muss noch abgeschmeckt werden2. (dry out)to \season wood Holz ablagern lassen3. (mature)to \season tobacco/wine Tabak/Wein [aus]reifen lassenIII. vi1. FOOD würzen, abschmeckento \season to taste nach Geschmack würzen2. (dry out) wood [ab]lagern* * *['siːzn]1. n1) (of the year) Jahreszeit frainy/monsoon season — Regen-/Monsunzeit f
2) (= social season, sporting season etc) Saison fnesting/hunting season — Brut-/Jagdzeit f
strawberries are in season/out of season now — für Erdbeeren ist jetzt die richtige/nicht die richtige Zeit
in and out of season — andauernd, jahrein (und) jahraus
to go somewhere out of/in season — an einen Ort fahren or gehen, wenn keine Saison/wenn Saison ist
"Season's greetings" — "fröhliche Weihnachten und ein glückliches neues Jahr"
totally last season (inf) — absolut von gestern (inf)
they did a season at La Scala — sie spielten eine Saison lang an der Scala
for a season — eine Spielzeit lang; (TV, Film) Serie f; (of series) Staffel f
a Dustin Hoffman season, a season of Dustin Hoffman films — eine Serie von Dustin-Hoffman-Filmen
4) (fig liter)2. vt* * *season [ˈsiːzn]A s1. (Jahres)Zeit f:2. a) (rechte) Zeit (für etwas), günstigste Zeitb) (Reife)Zeit fc) JAGD Paarungszeit fd) Zeitpunkt m:at that season zu diesem Zeitpunkt;in season (gerade) reif oder (günstig) auf dem Markt zu haben (Früchte), JAGD jagdbar, ZOOL brünstig (Tier), fig rechtzeitig, zur rechten Zeit;in due season zu gegebener Zeit;cherries are now in (out of) season jetzt ist (keine) Kirschenzeit;a word in season ein Rat zur rechten Zeit;in and out of season jederzeit;4. (Veranstaltungs- etc)Saison f:first win of the season SPORT erster Saisonsieg;5. (Bade- etc) Saison f, (Ferien-, Urlaubs) Zeit f6. a) REL Festzeit f, besonders Weihnachts-, Oster-, Pfingstzeit fB v/twith mit)seasoned with wit geistreichseasoned wine ausgereifter oder abgelagerter Wein4. Holz ablagern5. eine Pfeife einrauchen6. gewöhnen (to an akk), abhärten:be seasoned to a climate an ein Klima gewöhnt sein;a seasoned stomach ein robuster Magen;seasoned soldiers fronterfahrene Soldaten;troops seasoned by battle kampferprobte Truppen7. sein Temperament etc mäßigenC v/i1. (aus)reifen2. ablagern, austrocknen (Holz)* * *1. noun1) (time of the year) Jahreszeit, diedry/rainy season — Trocken-/Regenzeit, die
2) (time of breeding) (for mammals) Tragezeit, die; (for birds) Brutzeit, die; (time of flourishing) Blüte[zeit], die; (time when animal is hunted) Jagdzeit, dienesting season — Nistzeit, die; Brut[zeit], die; see also close season; open season
3) (time devoted to specified, social activity) Saison, dieharvest/opera season — Erntezeit, die/Opernsaison, die
football season — Fußballsaison, die
holiday or (Amer.) vacation season — Urlaubszeit, die; Ferienzeit, die
tourist season — Touristensaison, die; Reisezeit, die
‘the season’s greetings' — "ein frohes Weihnachtsfest und ein glückliches neues Jahr"
4)raspberries are in/out of or not in season — jetzt ist die/nicht die Saison od. Zeit für Himbeeren
5) (ticket) see season ticket2. transitive verb1) (lit. or fig.) würzen [Fleisch, Rede]2) (mature) ablagern lassen [Holz]* * *n.Jahreszeit f.Saison -s f. v.würzen v. -
2 prosperous
adjective(flourishing) wohlhabend; gut gehend, florierend [Unternehmen]; (blessed with good fortune) erfolgreichprosperous years/time — Jahre/Zeit des Wohlstands
* * *adjective (successful, especially in business: a prosperous businessman.) erfolgreich* * *pros·per·ous[ˈprɒspərəs, AM ˈprɑ:spɚ-]1. (well off) wohlhabend, reich\prosperous business gut gehendes [o florierendes] Geschäft\prosperous economy blühende [o florierende] Wirtschaft2. (successful) erfolgreich* * *['prɒspərəs]adjperson wohlhabend, reich; business gut gehend, florierend; economy florierend, blühend; (liter) wind gutthose were prosperous times/years — das waren Zeiten/Jahre des Wohlstands
he had a prosperous look about him — er sah wohlhabend aus
* * *prosperous adj (adv prosperously)1. gedeihend, florierend, blühend:prosperous years Jahre des Wohlstands2. wohlhabend3. günstig* * *adjective(flourishing) wohlhabend; gut gehend, florierend [Unternehmen]; (blessed with good fortune) erfolgreichprosperous years/time — Jahre/Zeit des Wohlstands
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3 Neri, Antonio Ludovico
[br]b. 29 February 1576 Florence, Italyd. 1614 Florence, Italy[br]Italian glassmaker.[br]Neri entered the Church and by 1601 was a priest in the household of Alamanno Bertolini in Florence. There he met the Portuguese Sir Emanuel Ximenes, with whom he shared an interest in chemistry. The two later corresponded and the twenty-seven letters extant from Ximenes, who was living in Antwerp, are the main source of information about Neri's life. At the same time, Neri was working as a craftsman in the Medici glasshouse in Florence and then in their works at Pisa. These glasshouses had been flourishing since the fifteenth century with the help of Muranese glassmakers imported from Venice. Ximenes persuaded Neri to spend some time with the glassmakers in Antwerp, probably from 1603/4, for the correspondence breaks off at that point. A final letter in March 1611 refers to Neri's recent return to Florence. In the following year, Neri published the work by which he is known, the L'arte vetraria, the first general treatise on glassmaking. Neri's plan for a further book describing his chemical and medical experiments was thwarted by his early death. L'arte belongs to the medieval tradition of manuscript recipe books. It is divided into seven books, the first being the most interesting, dealing with the materials of glassmaking and their mixing and melting to form crystal and other colourless glasses. Other sections deal with coloured glasses and the making of enamels for goldsmiths' use. Although it was noted by Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), the book made little impression for half a century, the second edition not appearing until 1661. The first Venice edition came out two years later, with a second in 1678. Due to a decline in scientific activity in Italy at this time, L'arte had more influence elsewhere in Europe, especially England, Holland and France. It began to make a real impact with the appearance in 1662 of the English translation by Christopher Merrett (1614–95), physician, naturalist and founder member of the Royal Society. This edition included Merrett's annotations, descriptions of the tools used by English glassmakers and a translation of Agricola's short account of glassmaking in his De re metallica of 1556. Later translations were based on the Merrett translation rather than the Italian original. Ravenscroft probably used Neri's account of lead glass as a starting point for his own researches in the 1670s.[br]Bibliography1612, L'arte vetraria, 7 vols; reprinted 1980, ed. R.Barovier, Milan: Edizioni Polifilo (the introd., in Italian, England and French, contains the most detailed account of Neri's life and work).LRD -
4 Caxton, William
SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing[br]b. c.1422 Kent, Englandd. 1491 Westminster, England[br]English printer who produced the first book to be printed in English.[br]According to his own account, Caxton was born in Kent and received a schooling before entering the Mercers' Company, one of the most influential of the London guilds and engaged in the wholesale export trade in woollen goods and other wares, principally with the Low Countries. Around 1445, Caxton moved to Bruges, where he engaged in trade with such success that in 1462 he was appointed Governor of the English Nation in Bruges. He was entrusted with diplomatic missions, and his dealings with the court of Burgundy brought him into contact with the Duchess, Margaret of York, sister of the English King Edward IV. Caxton embarked on the production of fine manuscripts, making his own translations from the French for the Duchess and other noble patrons with a taste for this kind of literature. This trend became more marked after 1470–1 when Caxton lost his post in Bruges, probably due to the temporary overthrow of King Edward. Perhaps to satisfy an increasing demand for his texts, Caxton travelled to Cologne in 1471 to learn the art of printing. He set up a printing business in Bruges, in partnership with the copyist and bookseller Colard Mansion. There, late in 1474 or early the following year, Caxton produced the first book to be printed in English, and the first by an English printer, The Recuyell of the Histories of Troy, which he had translated from the French.In 1476 Caxton returned to England and set up his printing and publishing business "at the sign of the Red Pale" within the precincts of Westminster Abbey. This was more conveniently placed than the City of London for the likely customers among the court and Members of Parliament for the courtly romances and devotional works he aimed to produce. Other printers followed but survived only a few years, whereas Caxton remained successful for fifteen years and then bequeathed a flourishing concern to his assistant Wynkyn de Worde. During that time, 107 printed works, including seventy-four books, issued from Caxton's press. Of these, some twenty were his own translations. As printer and publisher, he did much to promote English literature, above all by producing the first editions of the literary masterpieces of the Middle Ages, such as the works of Chaucer, Gower and Lydgate and Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Among the various dialects of spoken English in use at the time, Caxton adopted the language of London and the court and so did much to fix a permanent standard for written English.[br]Further ReadingW.Blades, 1877, The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer, London; reprinted 1971 (the classic life of Caxton, superseded in detail by modern scholarship but still indispensable).G.D.Painter, 1976, William Caxton: A Quincentenary Biography of England's FirstPrinter, London: Chatto \& Windus (the most thorough recent biography, describing every known Caxton document and edition, with corrected and new interpretations based on the latest scholarship).N.F.Blake, 1969, Caxton and His World, London (a reliable account, set against the background of English late-medieval life).See also: Gutenberg, Johann Gensfleisch zumLRD -
5 Chaudron, Joseph
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 29 November 1822 Gosselies, Belgiumd. 16 January 1905 Auderghem, Belgium[br]Belgian mining engineer, pioneer in boring shafts.[br]In 1842, as a graduate of the Ecole des Mines in Liège, he became a member of the Belgian Corps Royal des Mines, which he left ten years later as Chief Engineer. By that time he had become decisively influential in the Société Anglo-Belge des Mines du Rhin, founded in 1848. After it became the Gelsenkirchen-based Bergwerkgesellschaft Dahlbusch in 1873, he became President of its Board of Directors and remained in this position until his death. Thanks to his outstanding technical and financial abilities, the company developed into one of the largest in the Ruhr coal district.When K.G. Kind practised his shaft-boring for the company in the early 1850s but did not overcome the difficulty of making the bottom of the bore-hole watertight, Chaudron joined forces with him to solve the problem and constructed a rotary heading which was made watertight with a box stuffed with moss; rings of iron tubing were placed on this as the sinking progressed, effectively blocking off the aquiferous strata as a result of the hydrostatic pressure which helped support the weight of the tubing until it was secured permanently. The Kind-Chaudron system of boring shafts in the full section marked an important advance upon existing methods, and was completely applied for the first time at a coalmine near Mons, Belgium, in 1854–6. In Brussels Chaudron and Kind founded the Société de Fonçage par le Procédé Kind et Chaudron in 1854, and Chaudron was granted a patent the next year. Foreign patents followed and the Kind-Chaudron system was the one most frequently applied in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Altogether, under Chaudron's control, there were more than eighty shafts sunk in wet strata in Germany, Belgium, France and England.[br]Bibliography1853–4, "Notice sur le procédé inventé par l'ingénieur Kind, pour l"établissement des puits de mines', Annales des travaux publics de Belgique 12:327–38.1862, "Über die nach dem Kindschen Erdbohrverfahren in Belgien ausgefùhrten Schachtbohrarbeiten", Berg-und Hüttenmännische Zeitschrift 21:402−7, 419−21, 444−7.1867, "Notice sur les travaux exécutés en France, en Belgique et en Westphalie de 1862– 1867", Annales des travaux publics de Belgique 25: 136–45.1872, "Remplacement d'un cuvelage en bois par un cuvelage en fonte", Annales destravaux publics de Belgique 30:77–91.Further ReadingD.Hoffmann, 1962, Acht Jahrzehnte Gefrierverfahren nachPötsch, Essen, pp. 12–18 (evaluates the Kind-Chaudron system as a new era).W.Kesten, 1952, Geschichte der Bergwerksgesellschaft Dahlbusch, Essen (gives a delineation of the mining company's flourishing as well as the technical measures under his influence).T.Tecklenburg, 1914, Handbuch der Tiefbohrkunde, 2nd edn, Vol VI, Berlin, pp. 39–58 (provides a detailed description of Chaudron's tubing).WK -
6 Gutenberg, Johann Gensfleisch zum
SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing[br]b. c. 1394–9 Mainz, Germanyd. 3 February 1468 Mainz, Germany[br]German inventor of printing with movable type.[br]Few biographical details are known of Johann Gensfleisch zum Gutenberg, yet it has been said that he was responsible for Germany's most notable contribution to civilization. He was a goldsmith by trade, of a patrician family of the city of Mainz. He seems to have begun experiments on printing while a political exile in Strasbourg c. 1440. He returned to Mainz between 1444 and 1448 and continued his experiments, until by 1450 he had perfected his invention sufficiently to justify raising capital for its commercial exploitation.Circumstances were propitious for the invention of printing at that time. Rises in literacy and prosperity had led to the formation of a social class with the time and resources to develop a taste for reading, and the demand for reading matter had outstripped the ability of the scribes to satisfy it. The various technologies required were well established, and finally the flourishing textile industry was producing enough waste material, rag, to make paper, the only satisfactory and cheap medium for printing. There were others working along similar lines, but it was Gutenberg who achieved the successful adaptation and combination of technologies to arrive at a process by which many identical copies of a text could be produced in a wide variety of forms, of which the book was the most important. Gutenberg did make several technical innovations, however. The two-piece adjustable mould for casting types of varying width, from T to "M", was ingenious. Then he had to devise an oil-based ink suitable for inking metal type, derived from the painting materials developed by contemporary Flemish artists. Finally, probably after many experiments, he arrived at a metal alloy of distinctive composition suitable for casting type.In 1450 Gutenberg borrowed 800 guldens from Johannes Fust, a lawyer of Mainz, and two years later Fust advanced a further 800 guldens, securing for himself a partnership in Gutenberg's business. But in 1455 Fust foreclosed and the bulk of Gutenberg's equipment passed to Peter Schöffer, who was in the service of Fust and later married his daughter. Like most early printers, Gutenberg seems not to have appreciated, or at any rate to have been able to provide for, the great dilemma of the publishing trade, namely the outlay of considerable capital in advance of each publication and the slowness of the return. Gutenberg probably retained only the type for the 42- and 36-line bibles and possibly the Catholicon of 1460, an encyclopedic work compiled in the thirteenth century and whose production pointed the way to printing's role as a means of spreading knowledge. The work concluded with a short descriptive piece, or colophon, which is probably by Gutenberg himself and is the only output of his mind that we have; it manages to omit the names of both author and printer.Gutenberg seems to have abandoned printing after 1460, perhaps due to failing eyesight as well as for financial reasons, and he suffered further loss in the sack of Mainz in 1462. He received a kind of pension from the Archbishop in 1465, and on his death was buried in the Franciscan church in Mainz. The only major work to have issued for certain from Gutenberg's workshop is the great 42-line bible, begun in 1452 and completed by August 1456. The quality of this Graaf piece of printing is a tribute to Gutenberg's ability as a printer, and the soundness of his invention is borne out by the survival of the process as he left it to the world, unchanged for over three hundred years save in minor details.[br]Further ReadingA.Ruppel, 1967, Johannes Gutenberg: sein Leben und sein Werk, 3rd edn, Nieuwkoop: B.de Graaf (the standard biography), A.M.L.de Lamartine, 1960, Gutenberg, inventeur de l'imprimerie, Tallone.Scholderer, 1963, Gutenberg, Inventor of Printing, London: British Museum.S.H.Steinberg, 1974, Five Hundred Years of Printing 3rd edn, London: Penguin (provides briefer details).LRDBiographical history of technology > Gutenberg, Johann Gensfleisch zum
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7 Murdock (Murdoch), William
[br]b. 21 August 1754 Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotlandd. 15 November 1839 Handsworth, Birmingham, England[br]Scottish engineer and inventor, pioneer in coal-gas production.[br]He was the third child and the eldest of three boys born to John Murdoch and Anna Bruce. His father, a millwright and joiner, spelled his name Murdock on moving to England. He was educated for some years at Old Cumnock Parish School and in 1777, with his father, he built a "wooden horse", supposed to have been a form of cycle. In 1777 he set out for the Soho manufactory of Boulton \& Watt, where he quickly found employment, Boulton supposedly being impressed by the lad's hat. This was oval and made of wood, and young William had turned it himself on a lathe of his own manufacture. Murdock quickly became Boulton \& Watt's representative in Cornwall, where there was a flourishing demand for steam-engines. He lived at Redruth during this period.It is said that a number of the inventions generally ascribed to James Watt are in fact as much due to Murdock as to Watt. Examples are the piston and slide valve and the sun-and-planet gearing. A number of other inventions are attributed to Murdock alone: typical of these is the oscillating cylinder engine which obviated the need for an overhead beam.In about 1784 he planned a steam-driven road carriage of which he made a working model. He also planned a high-pressure non-condensing engine. The model carriage was demonstrated before Murdock's friends and travelled at a speed of 6–8 mph (10–13 km/h). Boulton and Watt were both antagonistic to their employees' developing independent inventions, and when in 1786 Murdock set out with his model for the Patent Office, having received no reply to a letter he had sent to Watt, Boulton intercepted him on the open road near Exeter and dissuaded him from going any further.In 1785 he married Mary Painter, daughter of a mine captain. She bore him four children, two of whom died in infancy, those surviving eventually joining their father at the Soho Works. Murdock was a great believer in pneumatic power: he had a pneumatic bell-push at Sycamore House, his home near Soho. The pattern-makers lathe at the Soho Works worked for thirty-five years from an air motor. He also conceived the idea of a vacuum piston engine to exhaust a pipe, later developed by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company's railway and the forerunner of the atmospheric railway.Another field in which Murdock was a pioneer was the gas industry. In 1791, in Redruth, he was experimenting with different feedstocks in his home-cum-office in Cross Street: of wood, peat and coal, he preferred the last. He designed and built in the backyard of his house a prototype generator, washer, storage and distribution plant, and publicized the efficiency of coal gas as an illuminant by using it to light his own home. In 1794 or 1795 he informed Boulton and Watt of his experimental work and of its success, suggesting that a patent should be applied for. James Watt Junior was now in the firm and was against patenting the idea since they had had so much trouble with previous patents and had been involved in so much litigation. He refused Murdock's request and for a short time Murdock left the firm to go home to his father's mill. Boulton \& Watt soon recognized the loss of a valuable servant and, in a short time, he was again employed at Soho, now as Engineer and Superintendent at the increased salary of £300 per year plus a 1 per cent commission. From this income, he left £14,000 when he died in 1839.In 1798 the workshops of Boulton and Watt were permanently lit by gas, starting with the foundry building. The 180 ft (55 m) façade of the Soho works was illuminated by gas for the Peace of Paris in June 1814. By 1804, Murdock had brought his apparatus to a point where Boulton \& Watt were able to canvas for orders. Murdock continued with the company after the death of James Watt in 1819, but retired in 1830 and continued to live at Sycamore House, Handsworth, near Birmingham.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsRoyal Society Rumford Gold Medal 1808.Further ReadingS.Smiles, 1861, Lives of the Engineers, Vol. IV: Boulton and Watt, London: John Murray.H.W.Dickinson and R.Jenkins, 1927, James Watt and the Steam Engine, Oxford: Clarendon Press.J.A.McCash, 1966, "William Murdoch. Faithful servant" in E.G.Semler (ed.), The Great Masters. Engineering Heritage, Vol. II, London: Institution of Mechanical Engineers/Heinemann.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Murdock (Murdoch), William
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8 Stuart, James
SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering[br]b. 2 January 1843 Balgonie, Fife, Scotlandd. 12 October 1913 Norwich, Norfolk, England[br]Scottish engineer and educator.[br]James Stuart established the teaching of engineering as a university discipline at Cambridge. He was born at Balgonie in Fife, where his father managed a linen mill. He attended the University of St Andrews and then studied mathematics at Cambridge University. In 1867 he took up a post as Assistant Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge, where his skills as a teacher were quickly recognized. The University was at that time adapting itself to the new systems of instruction recommended by the Royal Commission on university reform in the 1850s, and Stuart took an active part in the organization of a new structure of inter-collegiate lecture courses. He made an even more significant contribution to the establishment of extramural courses from which the Cambridge University extension lecture programme developed. This began in 1867, when Stuart took adult classes in Manchester and Crewe. The latter, in particular, brought him into close contact with those involved in practical mechanics and stimulated his interest in the applied sciences. In 1875 he was elected to the newly created Chair of Mechanism and Engineering in Cambridge, and he set out energetically to recruit students and to build up a flourishing unit with its own workshop and foundry, training a new generation of engineers in the applied sciences.In November 1884 Stuart was elected to Parliament and embarked on an active but somewhat undistinguished career in politics as a radical Liberal, becoming amongst other things a keen supporter of the women's suffrage movement. This did not endear him to his academic colleagues, and the Engineering School suffered from neglect by Stuart until he resigned the Chair in 1890. By the time he left, however, the University was ready to recognize Engineering as a Tripos subject and to accept properly equipped teaching laboratories, so that his successor J.A. Ewing was able to benefit from Stuart's pioneering work. Stuart continued his political activities and was appointed a Privy Councillor in 1909. He married Elizabeth Colman after resigning the Chair, and on the death of his father-in-law in 1898 he moved to Norwich to take on the direction of the family mustard firm, J. \& J.Colman Ltd.[br]Further ReadingHilken, 1967, Engineering at Cambridge, Ch. 3, pp. 58–106.AB -
9 Telford, Thomas
[br]b. 9 August 1757 Glendinning, Dumfriesshire, Scotlandd. 2 September 1834 London, England.[br]Scottish civil engineer.[br]Telford was the son of a shepherd, who died when the boy was in his first year. Brought up by his mother, Janet Jackson, he attended the parish school at Westerkirk. He was apprenticed to a stonemason in Lochmaben and to another in Langholm. In 1780 he walked from Eskdale to Edinburgh and in 1872 rode to London on a horse that he was to deliver there. He worked for Sir William Chambers as a mason on Somerset House, then on the Eskdale house of Sir James Johnstone. In 1783–4 he worked on the new Commissioner's House and other buildings at Portsmouth dockyard.In late 1786 Telford was appointed County Surveyor for Shropshire and moved to Shrewsbury Castle, with work initially on the new infirmary and County Gaol. He designed the church of St Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth, and also the church at Madley. Telford built his first bridge in 1790–2 at Montford; between 1790 and 1796 he built forty-five road bridges in Shropshire, including Buildwas Bridge. In September 1793 he was appointed general agent, engineer and architect to the Ellesmere Canal, which was to connect the Mersey and Dee rivers with the Severn at Shrewsbury; William Jessop was Principal Engineer. This work included the Pont Cysyllte aqueduct, a 1,000 ft (305 m) long cast-iron trough 127 ft (39 m) above ground level, which entailed an on-site ironworks and took ten years to complete; the aqueduct is still in use today. In 1800 Telford put forward a plan for a new London Bridge with a single cast-iron arch with a span of 600 ft (183 m) but this was not built.In 1801 Telford was appointed engineer to the British Fisheries Society "to report on Highland Communications" in Scotland where, over the following eighteen years, 920 miles (1,480 km) of new roads were built, 280 miles (450 km) of the old military roads were realigned and rebuilt, over 1,000 bridges were constructed and much harbour work done, all under Telford's direction. A further 180 miles (290 km) of new roads were also constructed in the Lowlands of Scotland. From 1804 to 1822 he was also engaged on the construction of the Caledonian Canal: 119 miles (191 km) in all, 58 miles (93 km) being sea loch, 38 miles (61 km) being Lochs Lochy, Oich and Ness, 23 miles (37 km) having to be cut.In 1808 he was invited by King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden to assist Count Baltzar von Platen in the survey and construction of a canal between the North Sea and the Baltic. Telford surveyed the 114 mile (183 km) route in six weeks; 53 miles (85 km) of new canal were to be cut. Soon after the plans for the canal were completed, the King of Sweden created him a Knight of the Order of Vasa, an honour that he would have liked to have declined. At one time some 60,000 soldiers and seamen were engaged on the work, Telford supplying supervisors, machinery—including an 8 hp steam dredger from the Donkin works and machinery for two small paddle boats—and ironwork for some of the locks. Under his direction an ironworks was set up at Motala, the foundation of an important Swedish industrial concern which is still flourishing today. The Gotha Canal was opened in September 1832.In 1811 Telford was asked to make recommendations for the improvement of the Shrewsbury to Holyhead section of the London-Holyhead road, and in 1815 he was asked to survey the whole route from London for a Parliamentary Committee. Construction of his new road took fifteen years, apart from the bridges at Conway and over the Menai Straits, both suspension bridges by Telford and opened in 1826. The Menai bridge had a span of 579 ft (176 m), the roadway being 153 ft (47 m) above the water level.In 1817 Telford was appointed Engineer to the Exchequer Loan Commission, a body set up to make capital loans for deserving projects in the hard times that followed after the peace of Waterloo. In 1820 he became the first President of the Engineers Institute, which gained its Royal Charter in 1828 to become the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was appointed Engineer to the St Katharine's Dock Company during its construction from 1825 to 1828, and was consulted on several early railway projects including the Liverpool and Manchester as well as a number of canal works in the Midlands including the new Harecastle tunnel, 3,000 ft (914 m) long.Telford led a largely itinerant life, living in hotels and lodgings, acquiring his own house for the first time in 1821, 24 Abingdon Street, Westminster, which was partly used as a school for young civil engineers. He died there in 1834, after suffering in his later years from the isolation of deafness. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRSE 1803. Knight of the Order of Vasa, Sweden 1808. FRS 1827. First President, Engineers Insitute 1820.Further ReadingL.T.C.Rolt, 1979, Thomas Telford, London: Penguin.C.Hadfield, 1993, Thomas Telford's Temptation, London: M. \& M.Baldwin.IMcN -
10 business
сущ.1) общ. дело, занятие ( в отличие от отдыха и развлечений)COMBS:
business contacts — деловые контакты [связи\]
It's time to get down to business. — Настало время заняться делом.
See:2) упр. специальность, работа, профессиональная деятельностьThe women were extremely grateful for the help, prompting Sullivan to make a business of helping single mothers. — Женщины были чрезвычайно благодарны и предлагали Салливану профессионально заняться помощью матерям-одиночкам.
Syn:3)а) общ. дело, долг, круг обязанностей, сфера ответственности, назначениеA soldier's business is to defend his country. — Долг солдата защищать свою страну.
It's your own business. — Это ваше личное дело.
б) общ. дело, начинание, предприятие; сделка, операция4)а) общ. коммерческая деятельность, бизнес; торговляATTRIBUTES:
retail [wholesale\] business — розничная [оптовая\] торговля
A good product doesn't mean it's a good business. — Хороший продукт не означает хороший бизнес.
COMBS:
business relations — деловые отношения, торговые связи
business advertising — деловая реклама, промышленная реклама (реклама товаров производственного назначения)
business decisions — решения по коммерческим вопросам, деловые решения
business executive — руководящий работник коммерческой структуры, коммерческий руководитель
to do [conduct, transact; drum up\] business — вести коммерческую деятельность
business is brisk [booming, flourishing, thriving\] — торговля идет оживленно [процветает, расширяется\]
business is slack [at a standstill\] — торговля идет вяло [стоит на месте\]
See:advertising business 1), consumer business, direct business, domestic business, export business, import business, indirect business, insurance business, long-tail business, pension business, reinsurance business, short-tail business, wholesale business, business acumen, business advertisement, business advertising, business banner, business client, business consultant, business customer, business demographic information, business economics, business environment, business law, business manager, business market, business practice, business representative, business segment, business travel, business traveller, business visa, business watcher, business continuation insurance, recovery of business, census of businessб) страх. страхование* (употребляется по отношению к определенной совокупности страховых договоров, напр., новых договоров, заключенных в течение отчетного периода, или всех договоров, остающихся в силе на определенный момент; также может употребляться по отношению к страховым премиям, полученным или причитающимся к получению по определенной совокупности страховых полисов)See:в) юр., брит. деловая активность (закон "О недобросовестных условиях контракта" от 1977 г. определяет данное понятие как профессиональную деятельность или деятельность, связанную со службой в правительственных структурах и в любом органе государственной власти или местного самоуправления)See:5) эк. предприятие (обычно, торговое), фирмаATTRIBUTES:
to manage [operate, run\] a business — управлять торговым предприятием
to run [be in charge of\] a business — руководить предприятием
to buy into [buy out\] a business — купить долю в предприятии [выкупить предприятие\]
His business is growing very fast. — Его фирма быстро набирает обороты.
Syn:See:business auto policy, business delivery, business insurance, business interruption insurance, business liability insurance, business life insurance, business personal property, business overhead expense insurance, business owners policy, business-to-business6) эк. бизнес, деловые круги ( как противопоставление государству или государственному сектору)Syn:enterprise 2) б)See:7) торг., амер. клиентура, покупатели, аудитория
* * *
бизнес: любые предприятия, деятельность, сделки, которые призваны производить или предоставлять потребителям товары и услуги в целях получения прибыли. -
11 inflorescence
[ˌɪnflɔː'res(ə)n(t)s]сущ.; бот.1) соцветие2)а) цветение, период цветенияSyn:б) расцвет, процветаниеthose who are just coming into their time of inflorescence — те, кто только входят в пору своего расцвета
Syn: -
12 empty
1. n преим. pl порожняя тара2. n преим. pl порожний вагон, грузовик3. n преим. pl ж. -д. порожняк4. a пустой, незаполненный, порожнийempty goal — гол, забитый в пустые ворота
empty state — состояние незанятости; пустое состояние
5. a необитаемый, нежилой6. a без груза, порожний7. a тех. без нагрузки, холостой8. a физ. вакантный, незанятый, незаполненный9. a пустопорожний, бессодержательныйempty talk — пустые разговоры, переливание из пустого в порожнее
10. a легковесный, несерьёзный11. a легкомысленный, пустой12. a разг. голодный, с пустым желудкомon an empty stomach — натощак, на голодный желудок
13. v опорожнять; осушать14. v выливать; высыпать15. v переливать, пересыпать16. v выгружать; сливать17. v впадать18. v пустетьthe streets soon emptied when the rain began — улицы сразу опустели, когда пошёл дождь
Синонимический ряд:1. expressionless (adj.) blank; deadpan; expressionless; foolish; frivolous; inexpressive; stupid; trifling; unexpressive2. superficial (adj.) delusive; dishonest; hollow; hypocritical; idle; ineffective; insincere; lone; nugatory; otiose; superficial; tame; vain3. vacant (adj.) abandoned; bare; clear; emptied; empty-headed; stark; uninhabited; unoccupied; vacant; vacuous4. wanting (adj.) barren; destitute; devoid; innocent; void; wanting5. discharge (verb) clean out; clear; deplete; discharge; drain; dump; evacuate; exhaust; flow; issue; pour out; spill; tap; teem; vacate; vent; voidАнтонимический ряд:adequate; complete; copious; cultivated; effectual; entire; erudite; experienced; fill; filled; flourishing; forcible; full; important; informed; obstructed; occupied; refill; sincere -
13 green
1. n зелёный цвет2. n оттенки зелёного цвета3. n зелёный цвет как национальная эмблема Ирландииbottle green — тёмно-зелёный, бутылочного цвета
green crop — культура, идущая на зелёный корм
4. n зелёная краска, зеленьgreen currency — «зелёная валюта»
5. n растительность; листва6. n зелёные ветви деревьевlittle green men — зелёные человечки; пришельцы из космоса
7. n зелёные овощи для варкиgreen goods — зелень, свежие овощи
8. n молодость, сила9. n зелёная лужайка, луг; зелёная лужайка, площадка10. n площадка для игры в гольф11. a зелёный, зелёного цветаgreen dress — зелёное платье, платье зелёного цвета
green onion — зелёный лук, лук-перо
12. a зелёный, бледный, болезненныйto grow green — позеленеть, побледнеть
green pound — «зелёный фунт »
13. a покрытый зеленью, зелёныйOlympic green — медянка; изумрудная или малахитовая зелень
14. a мягкий, тёплый, бесснежный15. a незрелый, неспелый, зелёный16. a свежий, не подвергшийся обработке17. a зелёный, сочный18. a сырой, невыдержанный19. a свежий, незаживший20. a свежий; цветущий, полный силenjoying a green old age — всё ещё бодрый, несмотря на годы
21. a молодой, нежный22. a неопытный, новый, молодой; зелёныйa green band — новичок, неопытный человек, молодой работник
23. a воен. необученный, необстрелянный24. a доверчивый, простодушный; простоватый25. a редк. ревнивыйhe has green fingers — что он ни посадит, у него всё растёт
26. v становиться зелёным, зеленеть27. v красить в зелёный цвет28. v одевать в зелёный цвет29. v разг. обманывать, мистифицироватьСинонимический ряд:1. color (adj.) color; colour; emerald; greenish; kelly; lime; lime-colored; olive; yellow-green2. elastic (adj.) elastic; pliant; supple3. immature (adj.) fresh; half-formed; immature; inedible; maturing; sappy; sour; tender4. inexperienced (adj.) greenhorn; half-baked; inexperienced; inexpert; novice; raw; rude; unconversant; unexperienced; unfleshed; unpracticed; unpractised; unseasoned; unsophisticated; untrained; untried; unversed5. leafy (adj.) burgeoning; flourishing; grassy; growing; leafy; lush; sprouting; thick with foliage; verdant6. young (adj.) callow; infant; infantile; juvenile; unfledged; unripe; young; youthful7. grass (noun) common; field; grass; lawn; meadow; park; park golf course; playing field; plaza; squareАнтонимический ряд:barren; brittle; experienced; seasoned -
14 healthy
1. a здоровый, жизнеспособный, процветающий2. a здравый, разумный3. a полезный, здоровый4. a безопасный5. a разг. большой, огромный; сильный, энергичныйСинонимический ряд:1. fit (adj.) fit; right; sane; sound; well; well-conditioned; well-liking; whole2. great (adj.) big; considerable; extensive; great; large; large-scale3. healthful (adj.) beneficial; bracing; good; healthful; hygienic; invigorating; nourishing; nutritious; prophylactic; salubrious; salutary; salutiferous4. hearty (adj.) blooming; bouncing; firm; hale; hearty; lively; vigorous5. robust (adj.) booming; flourishing; prospering; prosperous; roaring; robust; thriving6. safe (adj.) safe; uninjurious; wholesomeАнтонимический ряд:deadly; deleterious; delicate; diseased; emaciated; enervated; exhausted; fragile; frail; ill; indisposed; infirm; insalubrious; sick -
15 Catholic church
The Catholic Church and the Catholic religion together represent the oldest and most enduring of all Portuguese institutions. Because its origins as an institution go back at least to the middle of the third century, if not earlier, the Christian and later the Catholic Church is much older than any other Portuguese institution or major cultural influence, including the monarchy (lasting 770 years) or Islam (540 years). Indeed, it is older than Portugal (869 years) itself. The Church, despite its changing doctrine and form, dates to the period when Roman Lusitania was Christianized.In its earlier period, the Church played an important role in the creation of an independent Portuguese monarchy, as well as in the colonization and settlement of various regions of the shifting Christian-Muslim frontier as it moved south. Until the rise of absolutist monarchy and central government, the Church dominated all public and private life and provided the only education available, along with the only hospitals and charity institutions. During the Middle Ages and the early stage of the overseas empire, the Church accumulated a great deal of wealth. One historian suggests that, by 1700, one-third of the land in Portugal was owned by the Church. Besides land, Catholic institutions possessed a large number of chapels, churches and cathedrals, capital, and other property.Extensive periods of Portuguese history witnessed either conflict or cooperation between the Church as the monarchy increasingly sought to gain direct control of the realm. The monarchy challenged the great power and wealth of the Church, especially after the acquisition of the first overseas empire (1415-1580). When King João III requested the pope to allow Portugal to establish the Inquisition (Holy Office) in the country and the request was finally granted in 1531, royal power, more than religion was the chief concern. The Inquisition acted as a judicial arm of the Catholic Church in order to root out heresies, primarily Judaism and Islam, and later Protestantism. But the Inquisition became an instrument used by the crown to strengthen its power and jurisdiction.The Church's power and prestige in governance came under direct attack for the first time under the Marquis of Pombal (1750-77) when, as the king's prime minister, he placed regalism above the Church's interests. In 1759, the Jesuits were expelled from Portugal, although they were allowed to return after Pombal left office. Pombal also harnessed the Inquisition and put in place other anticlerical measures. With the rise of liberalism and the efforts to secularize Portugal after 1820, considerable Church-state conflict occurred. The new liberal state weakened the power and position of the Church in various ways: in 1834, all religious orders were suppressed and their property confiscated both in Portugal and in the empire and, in the 1830s and 1840s, agrarian reform programs confiscated and sold large portions of Church lands. By the 1850s, Church-state relations had improved, various religious orders were allowed to return, and the Church's influence was largely restored. By the late 19th century, Church and state were closely allied again. Church roles in all levels of education were pervasive, and there was a popular Catholic revival under way.With the rise of republicanism and the early years of the First Republic, especially from 1910 to 1917, Church-state relations reached a new low. A major tenet of republicanism was anticlericalism and the belief that the Church was as much to blame as the monarchy for the backwardness of Portuguese society. The provisional republican government's 1911 Law of Separation decreed the secularization of public life on a scale unknown in Portugal. Among the new measures that Catholics and the Church opposed were legalization of divorce, appropriation of all Church property by the state, abolition of religious oaths for various posts, suppression of the theology school at Coimbra University, abolition of saints' days as public holidays, abolition of nunneries and expulsion of the Jesuits, closing of seminaries, secularization of all public education, and banning of religious courses in schools.After considerable civil strife over the religious question under the republic, President Sidónio Pais restored normal relations with the Holy See and made concessions to the Portuguese Church. Encouraged by the apparitions at Fátima between May and October 1917, which caused a great sensation among the rural people, a strong Catholic reaction to anticlericalism ensued. Backed by various new Catholic organizations such as the "Catholic Youth" and the Academic Center of Christian Democracy (CADC), the Catholic revival influenced government and politics under the Estado Novo. Prime Minister Antônio de Oliveira Salazar was not only a devout Catholic and member of the CADC, but his formative years included nine years in the Viseu Catholic Seminary preparing to be a priest. Under the Estado Novo, Church-state relations greatly improved, and Catholic interests were protected. On the other hand, Salazar's no-risk statism never went so far as to restore to the Church all that had been lost in the 1911 Law of Separation. Most Church property was never returned from state ownership and, while the Church played an important role in public education to 1974, it never recovered the influence in education it had enjoyed before 1911.Today, the majority of Portuguese proclaim themselves Catholic, and the enduring nature of the Church as an institution seems apparent everywhere in the country. But there is no longer a monolithic Catholic faith; there is growing diversity of religious choice in the population, which includes an increasing number of Protestant Portuguese as well as a small but growing number of Muslims from the former Portuguese empire. The Muslim community of greater Lisbon erected a Mosque which, ironically, is located near the Spanish Embassy. In the 1990s, Portugal's Catholic Church as an institution appeared to be experiencing a revival of influence. While Church attendance remained low, several Church institutions retained an importance in society that went beyond the walls of the thousands of churches: a popular, flourishing Catholic University; Radio Re-nascenca, the country's most listened to radio station; and a new private television channel owned by the Church. At an international conference in Lisbon in September 2000, the Cardinal Patriarch of Portugal, Dom José Policarpo, formally apologized to the Jewish community of Portugal for the actions of the Inquisition. At the deliberately selected location, the place where that religious institution once held its hearings and trials, Dom Policarpo read a declaration of Catholic guilt and repentance and symbolically embraced three rabbis, apologizing for acts of violence, pressures to convert, suspicions, and denunciation. -
16 Böttger, Johann Friedrich
SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors[br]b. 4 February 1682 Scheiz, Germanyd. 13 March 1719 Dresden, Germany[br]German inventor of Meissen porcelain.[br]After the early death of his father, Böttger spent his childhood in Magdeburg, where he received instruction in mathematics, fortification and pyrotechnics. He spent twelve years with the apothecary F.Zorn in Berlin, where there was a flourishing colony of alchemists. Böttger became an adept himself and claimed to have achieved transmutations into gold by 1701.In March 1702 Böttger moved near to Dresden, in the service of August II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. While there, he made friends with E.W.von Tschirnhaus (1651–1708), scientist and possessor of glass-and ironworks. It was this association that led eventually to the founding of the celebrated Meissen porcelain factory. By 1708, Böttger had succeeded in making fine red stoneware by adding a flux, alabaster or marble, to infusible Saxony clay. By varying his raw materials, and in particular in using white china clay from the Erzgebirge, he obtained the first European true, hard, white porcelain, which had eluded European workers for centuries. At the same time he improved the furnace to achieve a temperature of around 1,350°C. To exploit his discovery, the Meissen factory was set up in 1710 and its products began to be marketed in 1713. Böttger managed the factory until his death in 1719, although throughout the period of experimentation and exploitation he had worked in conditions of great secrecy, in a vain attempt to preserve the secret of the process.[br]Further ReadingC.A.Engelhardt, 1837, J.F.Böttger: Erfinder des sachsischen Porzellan, Leipzig; reprinted 1982, Verlag Weidlich (the classic biography).K.Hoffman, 1985, Johann Friedrich Böttger: von Alchemistengold zum weissenPorzellan, Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben.LRDBiographical history of technology > Böttger, Johann Friedrich
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