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stedsnavn \/ˌɒstrɪəˈhʌŋɡərɪ\/, \/ˈɔːstrɪəˈhʌŋɡərɪ\/( historisk) Østerrike-Ungarn -
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proper nounAustria-Hungary — (Hist.) Österreich-Ungarn ( das)
* * *Aus·tria[ˈɒstriə, AM ˈɑ:-]n Österreich nt* * *['ɒstrɪə]nÖsterreich nt* * *Aus. abk1. Australia (Australian)2. Austria (Austrian)* * *proper nounAustria-Hungary — (Hist.) Österreich-Ungarn ( das)
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14 Lucas, Anthony Francis
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 9 September 1855 Spalato, Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (now Split, Croatia)d. 2 September 1921 Washington, DC, USA[br]Austrian (naturalized American) mining engineer who successfully applied rotary drilling to oil extraction.[br]A former Second Lieutenant of the Austrian navy (hence his later nickname "Captain") and graduate of the Polytechnic Institute of Graz, Lucas decided to stay in Michigan when he visited his relatives in 1879. He changed his original name, Lucie, into the form his uncle had adopted and became a naturalized American citizen at the age of 30. He worked in the lumber industry for some years and then became a consulting mechanical and mining engineer in Washington, DC. He began working for a salt-mining company in Louisiana in 1893 and became interested in the geology of the Mexican Gulf region, with a view to prospecting for petroleum. In the course of this work he came to the conclusion that the hills in this elevated area, being geological structures distinct from the surrounding deposits, were natural reservoirs of petroleum. To prove his unusual theory he subsequently chose Spindle Top, near Beaumont, Texas, where in 1899 he began to bore a first oil-well. A second drill-hole, started in October 1900, was put through clay and quicksand. After many difficulties, a layer of rock containing marine shells was reached. When the "gusher" came out on 10 January 1901, it not only opened up a new era in the oil and gas business, but it also led to the future exploration of the terrestrial crust.Lucas's boring was a breakthrough for the rotary drilling system, which was still in its early days although its principles had been established by the English engineer Robert Beart in his patent of 1884. It proved to have advantages over the pile-driving of pipes. A pipe with a simple cutter at the lower end was driven with a constantly revolving motion, grinding down on the bottom of the well, thus gouging and chipping its way downward. To deal with the quicksand he adopted the use of large and heavy casings successively telescoped one into the other. According to Fauvelle's method, water was forced through the pipe by means of a pump, so the well was kept full of circulating liquid during drilling, flushing up the mud. When the salt-rock was reached, a diamond drill was used to test the depth and the character of the deposit.When the well blew out and flowed freely he developed a preventer in order to save the oil and, even more importantly at the time, to shut the well and to control the oil flow. This assembly, patented in 1903, consisted of a combined system of pipes, valves and casings diverting the stream into a horizontal direction.Lucas's fame spread around the world, but as he had to relinquish the larger part of his interest to the oil company supporting the exploration, his financial reward was poor. One year after his success at Spindle Top he started oil exploration in Mexico, where he stayed until 1905, when he resumed his consulting practice in Washington, DC.[br]Bibliography1899, "Rock-salt in Louisiana", Transactions of the American Institution of Mining Engineers 29:462–74.1902, "The great oil-well near Beaumont, Texas", Transactions of the AmericanInstitution of Mining Engineers 31:362–74.Further ReadingR.S.McBeth, 1918, Pioneering the Gulf Coast, New York (a very detailed description of Lucas's important accomplishments in the development of the oil industry).R.T.Hill, 1903, "The Beaumont oil-field, with notes on other oil-fields of the Texas region", Transactions of the American Institution of Mining Engineers 33:363–405;Transactions of the American Institution of Mining Engineers 55:421–3 (contain shorter biographical notes).WK -
15 Türr, Istvan (Stephen, Etienne)
[br]b. 10 August 1825 Baja, Hungaryd. 3 May 1908 Budapest, Hungary[br]Hungarian army officer and canal entrepreneur.[br]He entered the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Army in 1842 and, as a lieutenant, fought against the Piedmontese in 1848. In January 1849 he deserted to the Piedmontese and tried to form a Hungarian legion against Austria. Defeated at Novara he fled to London and intrigued with Kossuth and Pulszky against Austria. In 1852 he was Kossuth's agent in Italy and was involved with Mazzini in the Milan rising of 1853. He was expelled from Italy and joined the Turkish army as a volunteer until 1854. The Crimean War saw him as a British agent procuring horses in the Balkans for the British forces, but he was caught by the Austrians and sentenced to death as a deserter. Through English intervention the sentence was commuted to banishment. He was ill until 1859, but then returned to Genoa and offered his services to Garibaldi, becoming his Aide-de-Camp in the invasion of Sicily in 1860. On the unification of Italy he joined the regular Italian army as a general, and from 1870 was Honorary Aide-de-Camp to King Victor Emanuel II.From then on he was more interested in peaceful projects. Jointly with Lucien Wyse, he obtained a concession in 1875 from the Columbian government to build a canal across Panama and formed the Société Civile Internationale du Canal Interocéanique du Darien. In 1879 he sold the concession to de Lesseps, and with the money negotiated a concession from King George of Greece for building the Corinth Canal. A French company undertook the work in April 1882, but financial problems led to the collapse of the company in 1889, at the same time as de Lesseps's financial storm. A Greek company then took over and completed the canal in 1893.The canal was formally opened on 6 August 1893 by King George on his royal yacht; the king paid tribute to General Turr, who was accompanying him, saying that he had completed the work the Romans had begun. The general's later years were devoted to peace propaganda and he attended every peace conference held during those years.JHBBiographical history of technology > Türr, Istvan (Stephen, Etienne)
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16 Petzval, Josef Max
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. 1807 Spisska-Beila, Hungaryd. 17 September 1891 Vienna, Austria[br]Hungarian mathematician and photographic-lens designer, inventor of the first "rapid" portrait lens.[br]Although born in Hungary, Petzval was the son of German schoolteacher. He studied engineering at the University of Budapest and after graduation was appointed to the staff as a lecturer. In 1835 he became the University's Professor of Higher Mathematics. Within a year he was offered a similar position at the more prestigious University of Vienna, a chair he was to occupy until 1884.The earliest photographic cameras were fitted with lenses originally designed for other optical instruments. All were characterized by small apertures, and the long exposures required by the early process were in part due to the "slow" lenses. As early as 1839, Petzval began calculations with the idea of producing a fast achromatic objective for photographic work. For technical advice he turned to the Viennese optician Peter Voigtländer, who went on to make the first Petzval portrait lens in 1840. It had a short focal length but an extremely large aperture for the day, enabling exposure times to be reduced to at least one tenth of that required with other contemporary lenses. The Petzval portrait lens was to become the basic design for years to come and was probably the single most important development in making portrait photography possible; by capturing public imagination, portrait photography was to drive photographic innovation during the early years.Petzval later fell out with Voigtländer and severed his connection with the company in 1845. When Petzval was encouraged to design a landscape lens in the 1850s, the work was entrusted to another Viennese optician, Dietzler. Using some early calculations by Petzval, Voigtländer was able to produce a similar lens, which he marketed in competition, and an acrimonious dispute ensued. Petzval, embittered by the quarrel and depressed by a burglary which destroyed years of records of his optical work, abandoned optics completely in 1862 and devoted himself to acoustics. He retired from his professorship on his seventieth birthday, respected by his colleagues but unloved, and lived the life of a recluse until his death.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMember of the Hungarian Academy of Science 1873.Further ReadingJ.M.Eder, 1945, History of Photography, trans. E. Epstean, New York (provides details of Petzval's life and work; Eder claims he was introduced to Petzval by mutual friends and succeeded in obtaining personal data).Rudolf Kingslake, 1989, A History of the Photographic Lens, Boston (brief biographical details).L.W.Sipley, 1965, Photography's Great Inventors, Philadelphia (brief biographical details).JW -
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SUBJECT AREA: Railways and locomotives[br]b. 24 June 1843 Kattau, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic)d. 20 November 1923 Vienna, Austria[br]Czech engineer, pioneer of the watertube firebox for steam locomotive boilers.[br]Brotan, who was Chief Engineer of the main workshops of the Royal Austrian State Railways at Gmund, found that locomotive inner fireboxes of the usual type were both expensive, because the copper from which they were made had to be imported, and short-lived, because of corrosion resulting from the use of coal with high sulphur content. He designed a firebox of which the side and rear walls comprised rows of vertical watertubes, expanded at their lower ends into a tubular foundation ring and at the top into a longitudinal water/steam drum. This projected forward above the boiler barrel (which was of the usual firetube type, though of small diameter), to which it was connected. Copper plates were eliminated, as were firebox stays.The first boiler to incorporate a Brotan firebox was built at Gmund under the inventor's supervision and replaced the earlier boiler of a 0−6−0 in 1901. The increased radiantly heated surface was found to produce a boiler with very good steaming qualities, while the working pressure too could be increased, with consequent fuel economies. Further locomotives in Austria and, experimentally, elsewhere were equipped with Brotan boilers.Disadvantages of the boiler were the necessity of keeping the tubes clear of scale, and a degree of structural weakness. The Swiss engineer E. Deffner improved the latter aspect by eliminating the forward extension of the water/steam drum, replacing it with a large-diameter boiler barrel with the rear section of tapered wagon-top type so that the front of the water/steam drum could be joined directly to the rear tubeplate. The first locomotives to be fitted with this Brotan-Deffner boiler were two 4−6−0s for the Swiss Federal Railways in 1908 and showed very favourable results. However, steam locomotive development ceased in Switzerland a few years later in favour of electrification, but boilers of the Brotan-Deffner type and further developments of it were used in many other European countries, notably Hungary, where more than 1,000 were built. They were also used experimentally in the USA: for instance, Samuel Vauclain, as President of Baldwin Locomotive Works, sent his senior design engineer to study Hungarian experience and then had a high-powered 4−8−0 built with a watertube firebox. On stationary test this produced the very high figure of 4,515 ihp (3,370 kW), but further development work was frustrated by the trade depression commencing in 1929. In France, Gaston du Bousquet had obtained good results from experimental installations of Brotan-Deffner-type boilers, and incorporated one into one of his high-powered 4−6−4s of 1910. Experiments were terminated suddenly by his death, followed by the First World War, but thirty-five years later André Chapelon proposed using a watertube firebox to obtain the high pressure needed for a triple-expansion, high-powered, steam locomotive, development of which was overtaken by electrification.[br]Further ReadingG.Szontagh, 1991, "Brotan and Brotan-Deffner type fireboxes and boilers applied to steam locomotives", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 62 (an authoritative account of Brotan boilers).PJGR -
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1 noun∎ this report needs more work il y a encore du travail à faire sur ce rapport;∎ to start work, to set to work se mettre au travail;∎ she set to work on the contract elle a commencé à travailler sur le contratwork flow schedule plan m de travail;work in progress travail en cours; (sign) travaux;work progress avancement m des travaux;work rate cadence f de travail;work to rule grève f du zèle;work standard norme f de travail;work study engineer ingénieur m en organisation(b) (employment) travail m, emploi m;∎ to look for work chercher du travail;∎ to be out of work être sans travail ou sans emploi;∎ to take time off work prendre des congés;∎ she's off work today elle ne travaille pas aujourd'huiwork colleague collègue m f de travail; work experience expérience f professionnelle;work permit permis m de travail∎ to take work home ramener du travail à la maison;∎ he's trying to get some work done il essaie de travailler un peuwork group groupe m de travailworks owner maître m d'ouvrage(employee) faire travailler;∎ the boss works his staff hard le patron exige beaucoup de travail de ses employés(a) (of person) travailler;∎ he works in advertising il travaille dans la publicité;∎ we have to work to a budget nous devons travailler avec un certain budget;∎ to work to rule faire la grève du zèle(b) (of machine) fonctionner(c) (of plan, idea, method) marcherFlights to France were worst affected as an all day walkout interrupted more than 7,000 flights. Shorter stoppages in Greece, Portugal, Hungary and Italy brought airports to a standstill, and in Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria staff worked to rule.
∎ to work out at s'élever à;∎ the total works out at £9,000 le montant s'élève à 9000 livresto work one's way up faire son chemin;∎ she worked her way up from secretary to managing director elle a commencé comme secrétaire et a fait son chemin jusqu'au poste de P-DG -
19 PAVLOVIC Zoran /SVN, полузащитник/
Страна: Slovenia Номер: 17 День рождения: 27.06.1976 Рост: 190 см. Вес: 76 кг. Позиция: полузащитник Текущий клуб: Austria Vienna (AUT) Голы за сборную: 0 (27 Мая 2002) Провел матчей за сборную: 21 (27 Мая 2002) 1-ый матч за сборную: Hungary (19.08.1998)English-Russian FIFA World Cup 2002 dictionary > PAVLOVIC Zoran /SVN, полузащитник/
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[træk] 1. сущ.1) след, отпечатокThe walls and roof were tapestried with the tracks of snails and slugs. — Стены и крыша были испещрены следами гусениц и слизняков.
Syn:trail 1.2)а) курс, путьSyn:б) авиа путь, трасса, маршрут полёта3) жизнь, жизненный путь, стезя4) тропинка, тропка; просёлочная дорога5) ряд, вереница (событий, мыслей)My pen goes in the track of my thoughts. (Burke) — Моя ручка бежит за вереницей моих мыслей.
6) метод, подход, модельAustria and Hungary followed in the same track. — Австрия и Венгрия развивались по одной и той же модели.
Syn:approach 1.7) ж.-д. колея, рельсовый путь- double track
- leave the track8) тех. направляющее устройство9) спорт.а) лыжняв) трек, скаковой круг10) спорт. лёгкая атлетика11) дорожка ( фонограммы); фонограммаSyn:13) тех.а) гусеницаSyn:14) амер.; разг. танцевальный залSyn:ballroom, dance-hall15) зоол. ступня16) ( tracks) разг. "дорожка" ( лента слившихся следов от уколов вдоль вены у наркомана)The coroner found four fresh needle marks but no tracks, indicating that John was not a junkie. — Следователь нашел четыре свежих отметины от свежих уколов, но ни одного следа от старых; это говорило о том, что Джон не был наркоманом.
••- off the trackto make tracks разг. — дать тягу, улизнуть, убежать
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- be in the track of smb.
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- keep track of smth. 2. гл.1) = track down / out / up следить, прослеживать; выслеживатьThe murderer was at last tracked down and put to death. (J. A. Symonds) — Убийцу, в конце концов, выследили и предали смерти.
Syn:2) = track upб) напачкать, наследить прям. и перен.Wipe your feet or you'll track up the kitchen. — Вытирайте ноги, а то вы наследите в кухне.
3) амер. ладить, находить общий язык; адекватно реагировать (на что-л.)He tracks better with reporters than did his phlegmatic predecessor. (Newsweek) — Он быстрее находит общий язык с журналистами, чем его флегматичный предшественник.
4) прокладывать путь, намечать курс прям. и перен.The way was smooth and well tracked. — Дорога была гладкой, хорошо уложенной.
5) прокладывать колею; укладывать рельсы6) катиться по колее ( о колёсах)7) иметь какое-л. расстояние между колёсами ( о машине)This car tracks 46 inches. — У этой машины расстояние между колёсами равно 46 дюймам.
8) = track up тянуть бечевой9) амер.; разг. идти, ехать; путешествоватьWe tracked through the dirty streets till we got to the house. — Мы шли по грязным улицам, пока не дошли до дома.
Syn:10) австрал.; разг. находиться в компании, в обществе (кого-л., особенно лица противоположного пола)11) проигрывать, прокручивать (киноплёнку, запись на пластинке)Syn:move 2.
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