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1 an American of French extraction
Дипломатический термин: американец французского происхожденияУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > an American of French extraction
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2 an American of French extraction
Англо-русский дипломатический словарь > an American of French extraction
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3 an American of French extraction
English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > an American of French extraction
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4 extraction
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5 происхождение происхождени·е
1) (возникновение) origin2) (по месту рождения) birth, origin, extractionамериканец французского происхождения — an American of French extraction / descent
Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > происхождение происхождени·е
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6 американец французского происхождения
1) General subject: Franco American, Franco-American2) Diplomatic term: an American of French extractionУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > американец французского происхождения
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7 Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard
[br]b. 26 April 1769 Hacqueville, Normandy, Franced. 12 December 1849 London, England[br]French (naturalized American) engineer of the first Thames Tunnel.[br]His mother died when he was 7 years old, a year later he went to college in Gisors and later to the Seminary of Sainte-Nicaise at Rouen. From 1786 to 1792 he followed a career in the French navy as a junior officer. In Rouen he met Sophie Kingdom, daughter of a British Navy contractor, whom he was later to marry. In July 1793 Marc sailed for America from Le Havre. He was to remain there for six years, and became an American citizen, occupying himself as a land surveyor and as an architect. He became Chief Engineer to the City of New York. At General Hamilton's dinner table he learned that the British Navy used over 100,000 ship's blocks every year; this started him thinking how the manufacture of blocks could be mechanized. He roughed out a set of machines to do the job, resigned his post as Chief Engineer and sailed for England in February 1799.In London he was shortly introduced to Henry Maudslay, to whom he showed the drawings of his proposed machines and with whom he placed an order for their manufacture. The first machines were completed by mid-1803. Altogether Maudslay produced twenty-one machines for preparing the shells, sixteen for preparing the sheaves and eight other machines.In February 1809 he saw troops at Portsmouth returning from Corunna, the victors, with their lacerated feet bound in rags. He resolved to mechanize the production of boots for the Army and, within a few months, had twenty-four disabled soldiers working the machinery he had invented and installed near his Battersea sawmill. The plant could produce 400 pairs of boots and shoes a day, selling at between 9s. 6d. and 20s. a pair. One day in 1817 at Chatham dockyard he observed a piece of scrap keel timber, showing the ravages wrought by the shipworm, Teredo navalis, which, with its proboscis protected by two jagged concave triangular shells, consumes, digests and finally excretes the ship's timbers as it gnaws its way through them. The excreted material provided material for lining the walls of the tunnel the worm had drilled. Brunel decided to imitate the action of the shipworm on a large scale: the Thames Tunnel was to occupy Marc Brunel for most of the remainder of his life. Boring started in March 1825 and was completed by March 1843. The project lay dormant for long periods, but eventually the 1,200 ft (366 m)-long tunnel was completed. Marc Isambard Brunel died at the age of 80 and was buried at Kensal Green cemetery.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1814. Vice-President, Royal Society 1832.Further ReadingP.Clements, 1970, Marc Isambard Brunel, London: Longmans Green.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard
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8 Les nationalités
Les adjectifs ethniques comme anglais peuvent aussi qualifier des langues (par ex. un mot anglais ⇒ Les langues) et des choses (par ex. la cuisine anglaise ⇒ Les États, les pays et les continents).En anglais, les noms et les adjectifs ethniques se forment de plusieurs manières. On peut distinguer cinq groupes. Noter que l’anglais emploie la majuscule dans tous les cas, pour l’adjectif et pour le nom.1er groupe: le nom et l’adjectif ont la même forme.Le nom pluriel prend un s.un Allemand= a German ou (s’il est nécessaire de distinguer) a German manune Allemande= a German ou a German womanles Allemands (en général)= the Germans ou Germans ou German peoplec’est un Allemand= he’s German ou he’s a Germanil est allemand= he’s GermanDans ce groupe: American, Angolan, Belgian, Brazilian, Chilean, Cypriot, Czech, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Iranian, Italian, Jamaican, Mexican, Moroccan, Norwegian, Pakistani, Russian, Thai etc.2e groupe: le nom s’obtient en ajoutant le mot man ou woman à l’adjectif.un Japonais= a Japanese manune Japonaise= a Japanese womanles Japonais (en général)= the Japanese* ou Japanese peoplec’est un Japonais= he’s Japaneseil est japonais= he’s Japanese* Japanese est un adjectif utilisé comme nom: il prend toujours l’article défini et ne prend jamais de s.Dans ce groupe: Burmese, Chinese, Congolese, Lebanese, Portuguese, Sudanese, Vietnamese etc.3e groupe: le nom s’obtient en ajoutant le suffixe -man ou -woman à l’adjectif.un Anglais= an Englishmanune Anglaise= an Englishwomanles Anglais (en général)= the English† ou English peoplec’est un Anglais= he’s English ou he’s an Englishmanil est anglais= he’s English† English est un adjectif utilisé comme nom: il prend toujours l’article défini et ne prend jamais de s.Dans ce groupe: French, Dutch, Irish, Welsh etc.4e groupe: le nom et l’adjectif sont des mots différents.Le nom pluriel prend un s.un Danois= a Dane ou a Danish manune Danoise= a Dane ou a Danish womanles Danois (en général)= Danes ou the Danes ou Danish peoplec’est un Danois= he’s Danish ou he’s a Daneil est danois= he’s DanishDans ce groupe: Finn ( nom): Finnish ( adjectif); Icelander: Icelandic; Pole: Polish; Scot: Scottish; Spaniard: Spanish; Swede: Swedish; Turk: Turkish etc.5e groupe: quelques cas particuliers, qui n’ont pas d’adjectif, par ex. la Nouvelle-Zélande:un Néo-Zélandais= a New Zealanderune Néo-Zélandaise= a New Zealanderles Néo-Zélandais (en général)= New Zealandersc’est un Néo-Zélandais= he’s a New Zealanderil est néo-zélandais= he’s a New ZealanderQuelques autres expressions permettant de parler de la nationalité de quelqu’un en anglais:il est né en Angleterre= he was born in Englandil vient d’Angleterre= he comes from Englandil est d’origine anglaise= he’s of English extractionil est citoyen britannique= he’s a British citizenil est citoyen néo-zélandais= he’s a New Zealand citizenc’est un ressortissant britannique= he’s a British national -
9 Mouriés, Hippolyte Mège
SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology[br]b. 24 October 1817 Draguignan, Franced. 1880 France[br]French inventor of margarine.[br]The son of a schoolmaster. Mouriés became a chemist's assistant in his home town at the age of 16. He then spent a period of training in Aix-enProvence, and in 1838 he moved to Paris, where he became Assistant to the Resident Pharmacist at the Hotel Dieu Hospital. He stayed there until 1846 but never sat his final exams. His main success during this period was with the drug Copahin, which was used against syphilis; he invented an oral formulation of the drug by treating it with nitric acid. In the 1840s he took out various patents relating to tanning and to sugar extraction, and in the 1850s he turned his attention to food research. He developed a health chocolate with his calcium phosphate protein, and also developed a method that made it possible to gain 14 per cent more white bread from a given quantity of wheat. He lectured on this process in Berlin and Brussels and was awarded two gold medals. After 1862 he concentrated his research on fats. His margarine process was based on the cold saponification of milk in fat emulsions and was patented in both France and Britain in 1869. These experiments were carried out at the Ferme Impériale de La Faisanderie in Vincennes, the personal property of the Emperor, and it is therefore likely that they were State-funded. He sold his knowledge to the Dutch firm Jurgens in 1871, and between 1873 and 1874 he also sold his British, American and Prussian rights. His final patent, in 1875, was for canned meat.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsNapoleon III awarded him the Légion d'honneur for his work on wheat and bread.Further ReadingJ.H.van Stuyvenberg (ed.), Margarine: An Economic, Social and Scientific History, 1869–1969 (provides a brief outline of the life of Mouriés in a comprehensive history of his discovery).APBiographical history of technology > Mouriés, Hippolyte Mège
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