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1 BF
1) Компьютерная техника: Big File, Blank Filling, Block Fill, Bold Font, Boot Floppy, Bridging Fault, Brute Force2) Медицина: онкогенный фактор (blastogenic factor)3) Американизм: Before Founding4) Спорт: Ball Face, Before Fall5) Военный термин: Ballast Factor, Battle Field, Before The Fall, Bomb Factory, Bomb Finder, British Forces, Burst Fire, backup forces, base fuze, battle fatigue, bayonet fighting, blind flying, block fuel, blue force6) Техника: Broken Freezer, Bronze Fitted, back feed, back focal, ballistic focusing, band filter, bandpass filter, bandwidth factor, beam forming, bearing finder, binary function, branching filter, breakdown field, broad fraction of light hydrocarbons, feedback7) Сельское хозяйство: Blend Factor8) Шутливое выражение: Brace Face, Broadband Forever9) Математика: Basis Function, Bayes Formula, Best Fit, Boundary Fitted, Branching Factor10) Религия: Bahai Faith11) Юридический термин: Baby's Father, Black Female, Body Found, Burglary Fire12) Бухгалтерия: Bankruptcy Failure13) Грубое выражение: Big And Fat, Big Fat, Big Fool, Bitchy Fit, Buck Fuck, Butt Fat, Butt Fucker, Butt Fucking14) Металлургия: blast furnace, доменная печь, домна15) Политика: Bahamas16) Телевидение: burst flag17) Сокращение: Back-Feed, Base Fuzed, Battle Force, Black Friday, Bomber-Fighter, Booking Fees, Burkina Faso, backface, beat frequency, bell and flange, boiler feed, boldface type, both faces18) Физика: Back And Forth19) Физиология: Before Food, Blood flow, Bodily Function, Bone Fragment, Breastfeeding, Burn Factor20) Шахматы: Bobby Fischer21) Электроника: Brightfield23) Нефть: barrels of fluid, buoyant factor, число баррелей флюида (barrels of fluid)24) Банковское дело: перенесённый на другой счёт (brought forward), British Funds (первоклассные или гарантированные ценные бумаги (преим. государственные))25) Пищевая промышленность: Boiled Feet26) Упаковка: фактор разрывного сопротивления, burst factor27) Фирменный знак: Bharat Forge, Brown And Forsythe28) Холодильная техника: bypass factor29) СМИ: Bound Form30) Деловая лексика: Bankrupt Firm, Big Foot, перенесённый на следующую страницу (brought forward)31) Бурение: баррелей флюида (barrels of fluid)32) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: broad fraction (of light hydrocarbons)33) Инвестиции: brought forward34) Сетевые технологии: Browser File35) Полимеры: bulk factor36) Программирование: Bit Field, Bring Forward, Busy Flag37) Сахалин Ю: broad fraction, flare gas38) Механизмы: подвесной (bearing-free)39) Расширение файла: Bad Flag40) Электротехника: base fuse, bottom face, breaker failure41) Фантастика Blade Fury42) Имена и фамилии: Benjamin Franklin43) Должность: Bad Fisherman, Best Friend44) Чат: Best Friends, Bisexual Female, Boy Friend45) Программное обеспечение: Bug Fix46) Единицы измерений: Board Foot47) Базы данных: Box Fill -
2 Bf
1) Компьютерная техника: Big File, Blank Filling, Block Fill, Bold Font, Boot Floppy, Bridging Fault, Brute Force2) Медицина: онкогенный фактор (blastogenic factor)3) Американизм: Before Founding4) Спорт: Ball Face, Before Fall5) Военный термин: Ballast Factor, Battle Field, Before The Fall, Bomb Factory, Bomb Finder, British Forces, Burst Fire, backup forces, base fuze, battle fatigue, bayonet fighting, blind flying, block fuel, blue force6) Техника: Broken Freezer, Bronze Fitted, back feed, back focal, ballistic focusing, band filter, bandpass filter, bandwidth factor, beam forming, bearing finder, binary function, branching filter, breakdown field, broad fraction of light hydrocarbons, feedback7) Сельское хозяйство: Blend Factor8) Шутливое выражение: Brace Face, Broadband Forever9) Математика: Basis Function, Bayes Formula, Best Fit, Boundary Fitted, Branching Factor10) Религия: Bahai Faith11) Юридический термин: Baby's Father, Black Female, Body Found, Burglary Fire12) Бухгалтерия: Bankruptcy Failure13) Грубое выражение: Big And Fat, Big Fat, Big Fool, Bitchy Fit, Buck Fuck, Butt Fat, Butt Fucker, Butt Fucking14) Металлургия: blast furnace, доменная печь, домна15) Политика: Bahamas16) Телевидение: burst flag17) Сокращение: Back-Feed, Base Fuzed, Battle Force, Black Friday, Bomber-Fighter, Booking Fees, Burkina Faso, backface, beat frequency, bell and flange, boiler feed, boldface type, both faces18) Физика: Back And Forth19) Физиология: Before Food, Blood flow, Bodily Function, Bone Fragment, Breastfeeding, Burn Factor20) Шахматы: Bobby Fischer21) Электроника: Brightfield23) Нефть: barrels of fluid, buoyant factor, число баррелей флюида (barrels of fluid)24) Банковское дело: перенесённый на другой счёт (brought forward), British Funds (первоклассные или гарантированные ценные бумаги (преим. государственные))25) Пищевая промышленность: Boiled Feet26) Упаковка: фактор разрывного сопротивления, burst factor27) Фирменный знак: Bharat Forge, Brown And Forsythe28) Холодильная техника: bypass factor29) СМИ: Bound Form30) Деловая лексика: Bankrupt Firm, Big Foot, перенесённый на следующую страницу (brought forward)31) Бурение: баррелей флюида (barrels of fluid)32) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: broad fraction (of light hydrocarbons)33) Инвестиции: brought forward34) Сетевые технологии: Browser File35) Полимеры: bulk factor36) Программирование: Bit Field, Bring Forward, Busy Flag37) Сахалин Ю: broad fraction, flare gas38) Механизмы: подвесной (bearing-free)39) Расширение файла: Bad Flag40) Электротехника: base fuse, bottom face, breaker failure41) Фантастика Blade Fury42) Имена и фамилии: Benjamin Franklin43) Должность: Bad Fisherman, Best Friend44) Чат: Best Friends, Bisexual Female, Boy Friend45) Программное обеспечение: Bug Fix46) Единицы измерений: Board Foot47) Базы данных: Box Fill -
3 bf
1) Компьютерная техника: Big File, Blank Filling, Block Fill, Bold Font, Boot Floppy, Bridging Fault, Brute Force2) Медицина: онкогенный фактор (blastogenic factor)3) Американизм: Before Founding4) Спорт: Ball Face, Before Fall5) Военный термин: Ballast Factor, Battle Field, Before The Fall, Bomb Factory, Bomb Finder, British Forces, Burst Fire, backup forces, base fuze, battle fatigue, bayonet fighting, blind flying, block fuel, blue force6) Техника: Broken Freezer, Bronze Fitted, back feed, back focal, ballistic focusing, band filter, bandpass filter, bandwidth factor, beam forming, bearing finder, binary function, branching filter, breakdown field, broad fraction of light hydrocarbons, feedback7) Сельское хозяйство: Blend Factor8) Шутливое выражение: Brace Face, Broadband Forever9) Математика: Basis Function, Bayes Formula, Best Fit, Boundary Fitted, Branching Factor10) Религия: Bahai Faith11) Юридический термин: Baby's Father, Black Female, Body Found, Burglary Fire12) Бухгалтерия: Bankruptcy Failure13) Грубое выражение: Big And Fat, Big Fat, Big Fool, Bitchy Fit, Buck Fuck, Butt Fat, Butt Fucker, Butt Fucking14) Металлургия: blast furnace, доменная печь, домна15) Политика: Bahamas16) Телевидение: burst flag17) Сокращение: Back-Feed, Base Fuzed, Battle Force, Black Friday, Bomber-Fighter, Booking Fees, Burkina Faso, backface, beat frequency, bell and flange, boiler feed, boldface type, both faces18) Физика: Back And Forth19) Физиология: Before Food, Blood flow, Bodily Function, Bone Fragment, Breastfeeding, Burn Factor20) Шахматы: Bobby Fischer21) Электроника: Brightfield23) Нефть: barrels of fluid, buoyant factor, число баррелей флюида (barrels of fluid)24) Банковское дело: перенесённый на другой счёт (brought forward), British Funds (первоклассные или гарантированные ценные бумаги (преим. государственные))25) Пищевая промышленность: Boiled Feet26) Упаковка: фактор разрывного сопротивления, burst factor27) Фирменный знак: Bharat Forge, Brown And Forsythe28) Холодильная техника: bypass factor29) СМИ: Bound Form30) Деловая лексика: Bankrupt Firm, Big Foot, перенесённый на следующую страницу (brought forward)31) Бурение: баррелей флюида (barrels of fluid)32) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: broad fraction (of light hydrocarbons)33) Инвестиции: brought forward34) Сетевые технологии: Browser File35) Полимеры: bulk factor36) Программирование: Bit Field, Bring Forward, Busy Flag37) Сахалин Ю: broad fraction, flare gas38) Механизмы: подвесной (bearing-free)39) Расширение файла: Bad Flag40) Электротехника: base fuse, bottom face, breaker failure41) Фантастика Blade Fury42) Имена и фамилии: Benjamin Franklin43) Должность: Bad Fisherman, Best Friend44) Чат: Best Friends, Bisexual Female, Boy Friend45) Программное обеспечение: Bug Fix46) Единицы измерений: Board Foot47) Базы данных: Box Fill -
4 foundation
1) (the act of founding: the foundation of a new university.) fundación2) (the base on which something is built: First they laid the foundations, then they built the walls.) fundamento, base3) (an amount of money to be used for a special purpose or the organization that manages it: The British Foundation for Cancer Research.) fundaciónfoundation n fundacióntr[faʊn'deɪʃən]1 (act, organization) fundación nombre femenino2 (basis) fundamento, base nombre femenino3 (make-up) base nombre femenino1 cimientos nombre masculino plural\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLfoundation course curso de introducciónfoundation stone primera piedrafoundation [faʊn'deɪʃən] n1) founding: fundación f2) basis: fundamento m, base f3) institution: fundación f4) : cimientos mpl (de un edificio)n.• basa s.f.• cimiento s.m.• cimientos s.m.pl.• entibo s.m.• establecimiento s.m.• fondo s.m.• fundación s.f.• fundamento s.m.• pie s.m.• polo s.m.faʊn'deɪʃən1)a) u ( establishing) fundación fb) c ( institution) fundación f2) c (often pl)a) ( Const) cimientos mplb) (groundwork, basis) fundamentos mpl, base f; (before n)foundation course — curso m preparatorio
3) u ( grounds) fundamento mthe suspicion is without foundation — la sospecha es infundada or carece de fundamento
4) c ua) ( cosmetic) base f de maquillajeb) foundation (cream) (crema f) base fc) ( of painting) base f, apresto m[faʊn'deɪʃǝn]1. N1) (=act) fundación f, establecimiento m2) (fig) (=basis) fundamento m, base f3) foundations (Archit) cimientos mplto lay the foundations — (also fig) echar los cimientos (of de)
4) (=organization) fundación f5) (=make-up) maquillaje m de fondo, base f2.CPDfoundation course N — curso m preparatorio
foundation cream N — crema f de base
foundation garment N — corsé m
foundation stone N — (Brit) primera piedra f ; (fig) piedra f angular
* * *[faʊn'deɪʃən]1)a) u ( establishing) fundación fb) c ( institution) fundación f2) c (often pl)a) ( Const) cimientos mplb) (groundwork, basis) fundamentos mpl, base f; (before n)foundation course — curso m preparatorio
3) u ( grounds) fundamento mthe suspicion is without foundation — la sospecha es infundada or carece de fundamento
4) c ua) ( cosmetic) base f de maquillajeb) foundation (cream) (crema f) base fc) ( of painting) base f, apresto m -
5 Jacquard, Joseph-Marie
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]b. 7 July 1752 Lyons, Franced. 7 August 1834 Oullines, France[br]French developer of the apparatus named after him and used for selecting complicated patterns in weaving.[br]Jacquard was apprenticed at the age of 12 to bookbinding, and later to type-founding and cutlery. His parents, who had some connection with weaving, left him a small property upon their death. He made some experiments with pattern weaving, but lost all his inheritance; after marrying, he returned to type-founding and cutlery. In 1790 he formed the idea for his machine, but it was forgotten amidst the excitement of the French Revolution, in which he fought for the Revolutionists at the defence of Lyons. The machine he completed in 1801 combined earlier inventions and was for weaving net. He was sent to Paris to demonstrate it at the National Exposition and received a bronze medal. In 1804 Napoleon granted him a patent, a pension of 1,500 francs and a premium on each machine sold. This enabled him to study and work at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers to perfect his mechanism for pattern weaving. A method of selecting any combination of leashes at each shoot of the weft had to be developed, and Jacquard's mechanism was the outcome of various previous inventions. By taking the cards invented by Falcon in 1728 that were punched with holes like the paper of Bouchon in 1725, to select the needles for each pick, and by placing the apparatus above the loom where Vaucanson had put his mechanism, Jacquard combined the best features of earlier inventions. He was not entirely successful because his invention failed in the way it pressed the card against the needles; later modifications by Breton in 1815 and Skola in 1819 were needed before it functioned reliably. However, the advantage of Jacquard's machine was that each pick could be selected much more quickly than on the earlier draw looms, which meant that John Kay's flying shuttle could be introduced on fine pattern looms because the weaver no longer had to wait for the drawboy to sort out the leashes for the next pick. Robert Kay's drop box could also be used with different coloured wefts. The drawboy could be dispensed with because the foot-pedal operating the Jacquard mechanism could be worked by the weaver. Patterns could be changed quickly by replacing one set of cards with another, but the scope of the pattern was more limited than with the draw loom. Some machines that were brought into use aroused bitter hostility. Jacquard suffered physical violence, barely escaping with his life, and his machines were burnt by weavers at Lyons. However, by 1812 his mechanism began to be generally accepted and had been applied to 11,000 draw-looms in France. In 1819 Jacquard received a gold medal and a Cross of Honour for his invention. His machines reached England c.1816 and still remain the basic way of weaving complicated patterns.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFrench Cross of Honour 1819. National Exposition Bronze Medal 1801.Further ReadingA.Barlow, 1878, The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power, London.C.Singer (ed.), 1958, A History of Technology, Vol. IV, Oxford: Clarendon Press.R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (covers the introduction of pattern weaving and the power loom).RLH -
6 Camm, Sir Sydney
[br]b. 5 August 1893 Windsor, Berkshire, Englandd. 12 March 1966 Richmond, Surrey, England[br]English military aircraft designer.[br]He was the eldest of twelve children and his father was a journeyman carpenter, in whose footsteps Camm followed as an apprentice woodworker. He developed an early interest in aircraft, becoming a keen model maker in his early teens and taking a major role in founding a local society to this end, and in 1912 he designed and built a glider able to carry people. During the First World War he worked as a draughtsman for the aircraft firm Martinsyde, but became increasingly involved in design matters as the war progressed. In 1923 Camm was recruited by Sopwith to join his Hawker Engineering Company as Senior Draughtsman, but within two years had risen to be Chief Designer. His first important contribution was to develop a method of producing metal aircraft, using welded steel tubes, and in 1926 he designed his first significant aircraft, the Hawker Horsley torpedo-bomber, which briefly held the world long-distance record before it was snatched by Charles Lindbergh in his epic New York-Paris flight in 1927. His Hawker Hart light bomber followed in 1928, after which came his Hawker Fury fighter.By the mid-1930s Camm's reputation as a designer was such that he was able to wield significant influence on the Air Ministry when Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft specifications were being drawn up. His outstanding contribution came, however, with the unveiling of his Hawker Hurricane in 1935. This single-seater fighter was to prove one of the backbones of the RAF during 1939–45, but during the war he also designed two other excellent fighters: the Tempest and the Typhoon. After the Second World War Camm turned to jet aircraft, producing in 1951 the Hawker Hunter fighter/ground-attack aircraft, which saw lengthy service in the RAF and many other air forces. His most revolutionary contribution was the design of the Harrier jump-jet, beginning with the P.1127 prototype in 1961, followed by the Kestrel three years later. These were private ventures, but eventually the Government saw the enormous merit in the vertical take-off and landing concept, and the Harrier came to fruition in 1967. Sadly Camm, who was on the Board of Sopwith Hawker Siddeley Group, died before the aircraft came into service. He is permanently commemorated in the Camm Memorial Hall at the RAF Museum, Hendon, London.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsCBE 1941. Knighted 1953. Associate Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society 1918, Fellow 1932, President 1954–5, Gold Medal 1958. Daniel Guggenheim Medal (USA) 1965.Further ReadingAlan Bramson, 1990, Pure Luck: The Authorized Biography of Sir Thomas Sopwith, 1888–1989, Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens (provides information about Camm and his association with Sopwith).Dictionary of National Biography, 1961–70.CM -
7 McCormick, Cyrus
SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology[br]b. 1809 Walnut Grove, Virginia, USAd. 1884 USA[br]American inventor of the first functionally and commercially successful reaping machine; founder of the McCormick Company, which was to become one of the founding companies of International Harvester.[br]Cyrus McCormick's father, a farmer, began to experiment unsuccessfully with a harvesting machine between 1809 and 1816. His son took up the challenge and gave his first public demonstration of his machine in 1831. It cut a 4 ft swathe, but, wanting to perfect the machine, he waited until 1834 before patenting it, by which time he felt that his invention was threatened by others of similar design. In the same year he entered an article in the Mechanics Magazine, warning competitors off his design. His main rival was Obed Hussey who contested McCormick's claim to the originality of the idea, having patented his own machine six months before McCormick.A competition between the two machines was held in 1843, the judges favouring McCormick's, even after additional trials were conducted after objections of unfairness from Hussey. The rivalry continued over a number of years, being avidly reported in the agricultural press. The publicity did no harm to reaper sales, and McCormick sold twenty-nine machines in 1843 and fifty the following year.As the westward settlement movement progressed, so the demand for McCormick's machine grew. In order to be more central to his markets, McCormick established himself in Chicago. In partnership with C.M.Gray he established a factory to produce 500 harvesters for the 1848 season. By means of advertising and offers of credit terms, as well as production-line assembly, McCormick was able to establish himself as sole owner and also control all production, under the one roof. By the end of the decade he dominated reaper production but other developments were to threaten this position; however, foreign markets were appearing at the same time, not least the opportunities of European sales stimulated by the Great Exhibition in 1851. In the trials arranged by the Royal Agricultural Society of England the McCormick machine significantly outperformed that of Hussey's, and as a result McCormick arranged for 500 to be made under licence in England.In 1874 McCormick bought a half interest in the patent for a wire binder from Charles Withington, a watchmaker from Janesville, Wisconsin, and by 1885 a total of 50,000 wire binders had been built in Chicago. By 1881 McCormick was producing twine binders using Appleby's twine knotter under a licence agreement, and by 1885 the company was producing only twine binders. The McCormick Company was one of the co-founders of the International Harvester Company in 1901.[br]Bibliography1972, The Century of the Reaper, Johnson Reprint (the original is in the New York State Library).Further ReadingGraeme Quick and Wesley Buchele, 1978, The Grain Harvesters, American Society of Agricultural Engineers (deals in detail with McCormick's developments).G.H.Wendell, 1981, 150 Years of International Harvester, Crestlink (though more concerned with the machinery produced by International Harvester, it gives an account of its originating companies).T.W.Hutchinson, 1930, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Seedtime 1809–1856; ——1935, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Harvest 1856–1884 (both attempt to unravel the many claims surrounding the reaper story).Herbert N.Casson, 1908, The Romance of the Reaper, Doubleday Page (deals with McCormick, Deering and the formation of International Harvester).AP -
8 foundation
1. n основание, закладкаlegal foundation — правовое основание, правооснование
2. n фундамент, основаниеlay foundation — заложить фундамент; положить; начало
3. n основание, обоснование, обоснованность4. n основы; принципы5. n основа, базис, база; исходный пункт6. n организация, учреждение, создание7. n фонд, пожертвованный на культурное начинание8. n учреждение или организация, существующие на пожертвованный фондheritage foundation — фонд "Хэритидж Фаундэйшн"
9. n жив. грунт10. n текст. жёсткая подкладка; бортовка11. n пчел. вощинаСинонимический ряд:1. base (noun) base; basement; basis; bed; bedrock; bottom; cornerstone; foot; footing; fundamental; ground; groundwork; hardpan; infrastructure; justification; rest; root; rudiment; seat; seating; substratum; substruction; substructure; underpinning; understructure; wall; warrant2. benefaction (noun) benefaction; charity; endowment; fund3. buttress (noun) buttress; column; shaft; support4. establishment (noun) association; company; creation; establishment; founding; institute; institution; organisation; organization; settlement; society5. girdle (noun) corselet; corset; girdle6. reason (noun) basis; justification; reason; warrantАнтонимический ряд:apex; arch; crown; dome; peak; pinnacle; roof; summit; top; tower; vertex -
9 About the Authors
Douglas L. Wheeler (A.B., Dartmouth College, M.A. and Ph.D., Boston University) is professor of history emeritus, University of New Hampshire, Durham. He taught history in that institution's Department of History from 1965 to 2002, and, from 1995 to 2002, he held a chair, the Prince Henry the Navigator Professorship. He has been a research associate, African Studies Center, Boston University and an affiliate, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. He has also been a visiting professor at Boston University; University College, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); and Morgan State College. He was also Richard Welch Fellow in Advanced Research on the History of Intelligence at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (1984-85). In the 1980s, he served as general secretary of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (SSPHS) and was one of the founders of the International Conference Group on Portugal (1972-2002). He was founding editor of the Portuguese Studies Review, a semiannual academic journal. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of six other books on Portugal, Angola, and espionage history, including Republican Portugal: A Political History ( 1910-1926), A Ditadura Militar Portuguesa, 1926-1933, and (with Lawrence S. Graham), In Search of Modern Portugal: The Revolution and Its Consequences. Among the periodicals in which he has published articles are Foreign Affairs, USA Today Magazine, International Herald Tribune, and The Christian Science Monitor. In 1993, he was decorated by the Government of Portugal with the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator medal and in 2004, with the Order of Merit.Walter C. Opello Jr. (B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder) is professor of political science, State University of New York, Oswego. Before joining the faculty at that institution, he was professor of political science, University of Mississippi, Oxford, from 1976 to 1987. Since the 1970s, he has carried out research in Portugal as a Fulbright Scholar (1981 and 1984) and as a Gulbenkian Foundation Scholar (1978 and 1980). In 1989, he was the director for research on Portugal's regions, carried out by the European Integrations and Regions Project under the auspices of the European Universities Institute, Florence, Italy. Professor Opello has published more than 50 journal articles, book chapters, books, and book reviews pertaining to Portugal's politics and government. His Portugal-related books are Portugal's Political Development: A Comparative Political Approach and Portugal: From Monarchy to Pluralist Democracy. -
10 Senge, Peter
(b. 1947) Gen MgtU.S. academic. Popularized the theory of the learning organization, first suggested by Chris Argyris and Donald Schön.Senge studied how organizations develop adaptive capabilities in a world of increasing complexity and change. His work culminated in the publication of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990). Senge studied engineering at Stanford before completing a PhD on social systems modeling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently director of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT, and is also a founding partner of the training and consulting company, Innovation Associates, now part of Arthur D. Little. -
11 Meritens, Baron Auguste de
[br]b. 1834d. 1898 Pontoise, France[br]French engineer who improved the design of magneto-electric generators successfully used for lighthouse illumination.[br]Founding the firm of Messrs A. de Meritens of Paris to build magneto-electric generators for electric arc lighting, de Meritens revised the arrangement of the Holmes and Alliance machines. By employing a distributed rotor winding on laminated cores in place of individual bobbins, the wave-form was improved and a continuous output was achieved, as distinct from a series of short-duration pulses. The rotor windings were carried on the periphery of spoked wheels which revolved below the poles of stationary compound permanent magnets. These generators came to prominence in 1880; in France they quickly replaced the Alliance machines in lighthouses, and Trinity House also installed them in Britain. Two examples remained in continuous service at the Lizard lighthouse in Cornwall from 1881 to 1950, and one still survives there as an exhibit. Before being installed, this machine was shown at the Paris Electrical Exhibition of 1881. An electric candle invented by de Meritens was a variation on that of Jablochkoff and he is credited with being the first to suggest the use of a carbon electrode as one pole for electric-arc welding, with the metal to be welded serving as the other pole. Baron de Meritens died tragically in great poverty.[br]BibliographyApril 1878, French patent no. 123,766 (improved magneto-electric generator). 17 September 1878, British patent no. 3,658 (improved magneto-electric generator).Further ReadingEngineering (1878) 28:372 (a description of the original de Meritens machine).J.Hopkinson, 1886–7, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 87(1):243–60 (a report on machines in service).GWBiographical history of technology > Meritens, Baron Auguste de
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12 Wasborough, Matthew
SUBJECT AREA: Steam and internal combustion engines[br]b. 1753 Bristol, Englandd. 21 October 1781 Bristol, England[br]English patentee of an application of the flywheel to create a rotative steam engine.[br]A single-cylinder atmospheric steam engine had a power stroke only when the piston descended the cylinder: a means had to be found of returning the piston to its starting position. For rotative engines, this was partially solved by the patent of Matthew Wasborough in 1779. His father was a partner in a Bristol brass-founding and clockmaking business in Narrow Wine Street where he was joined by his son. Wasborough proposed to use some form of ratchet gear to effect the rotary motion and added a flywheel, the first time one was used in a steam engine, "in order to render the motion more regular and uniform". He installed one engine to drive the lathes in the Bristol works and another at James Pickard's flour mill at Snow Hill, Birmingham, where Pickard applied his recently patented crank to it. It was this Wasborough-Pickard engine which posed a threat to Boulton \& Watt trying to develop a rotative engine, for Wasborough built several engines for cornmills in Bristol, woollen mills in Gloucestershire and a block factory at Southampton before his early death. Matthew Boulton was told that Wasborough was "so intent upon the study of engines as to bring a fever on his brain and he dyed in consequence thereof…. How dangerous it is for a man to wade out of his depth" (Jenkins 1936:106).[br]Bibliography1779, British patent no. 1,213 (rotative engine with flywheel).Further ReadingJ.Tann, 1978–9, "Makers of improved Newcomen engines in the late 18th century, and R.A.Buchanan", 1978–9, "Steam and the engineering community in the eighteenth century", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 50 ("Thomas Newcomen. A commemorative symposium") (both papers discuss Wasborough's engines).R.L.Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press (examines his patent).R.Jenkins (ed.), 1936, Collected Papers, 106 (for Matthew Boulton's letter of 30 October 1781).RLH -
13 Watts, Philip
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 30 May 1846 Portsmouth, Englandd. 15 March 1926 probably London, England[br]English naval architect, shipbuilding manager and ultimately Director of Naval Construction.[br]Since he had a long family connection with the naval base at Portsmouth, it is not surprising that Watts started to serve his apprenticeship there in 1860. He was singled out for advanced training and then in 1866 was one of three young men selected to attend the Royal School of Naval Architecture at South Kensington in London. On completing his training he joined the technical staff, then had a period as a ship overseer before going to assist William Froude for two years, an arrangement which led to a close friendship between Watts and the two Froudes. Some interesting tasks followed: the calculations for HM Armoured Ram Polyphemus; the setting up of a "calculating" section within the Admiralty; and then work as a constructor at Chatham Dockyard. In 1885 the first major change of direction took place: Watts resigned from naval service to take the post of General Manager of the Elswick shipyard of Sir W.G.Armstrong. This was a wonderful opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly qualified man, and Watts rose to the challenge. Elswick produced some of the finest warships at the end of the nineteenth century and its cruisers, such as the Esmeralda of the Chilean Navy, had a legendary name.In 1902 he was recalled to the Navy to succeed Sir William White as Director of Naval Construction (DNC). This was one of the most exciting times ever in warship design and it was during Watts's tenure of the post that the Dreadnought class of battleship was produced, the submarine service was developed and the destroyer fleet reached high levels of performance. It has been said that Watts's distinct achievements as DNC were greater armament per ton displacement, higher speeds and better manoeuvring, greater protection and, almost as important, elegance of appearance. Watt retired in 1912 but remained a consultant to the Admiralty until 1916, and then joined the board of Armstrong Whitworth, on which he served until his death.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1905. FRS 1900. Chairman, Board of Trade's Load Line Committee 1913. Vice-President, Society for Nautical Research (upon its founding), and finally Chairman for the Victory preservation and technical committee. Honorary Vice-President, Institution of Naval Architects 1916. Master of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights 1915.BibliographyWatts produced many high-quality technical papers, including ten papers to the Institution of Naval Architects.FMW
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