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Cowes [kaʊz]∎ Cowes (Week) = régate et événement mondain se tenant chaque année à Cowes, sur l'île de Wight -
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География: (г.) Каус (граф. Айл-оф-Уайт, Англия, Великобритания) -
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n. 카우스(영국 Wight섬의 항구, 해수욕장.요트경주장) -
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г. Каус (граф. Айл-оф-Уайт, Англия, Великобритания)* * *Каус (Великобритания, Англия) -
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6 Cowes Regatta
['kauzrɪ,gætə]Ка́усская рега́та (см. тж. Cowes Week)English-Russian Great Britain dictionary (Великобритания. Лингвострановедческий словарь) > Cowes Regatta
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Морской термин: грузовое парусное судно с вооружением кеч -
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['kauz,wiːk]"Ка́усская неде́ля" (ежегодная парусная регата в курортном городе Каусе на о-ве Уайт; считается крупным событием "светской жизни" в конце лондонского сезона [Season])English-Russian Great Britain dictionary (Великобритания. Лингвострановедческий словарь) > Cowes Week
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10 Fox, Uffa
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 15 January 1898 Cowes, Isle of Wight, Englandd. 27 October 1972 Isle of Wight (?), England[br]English yacht designer.[br]Coming from a family that had originated in East Anglia, his first name was that of an early British king and was to typify his unusual and refreshing zest for life. Fox commenced his professional career as an apprentice with the flying boat and high-speed craft builders Messrs S.E.Saunders, and shortly after the outbreak of the First World War he was conscripted into the Royal Naval Air Service. In 1920 he made his first transatlantic crossing under sail, a much greater adventure then than now, and returned to the United Kingdom as deck-hand on a ship bound for Liverpool. He was to make the crossing under sail twice more. Shortly after his marriage in 1925, he purchased the old Floating Bridge at Cowes and converted it to living accommodation, workshops and drawing offices. By the 1930s his life's work was in full swing, with designs coming off his drawing board for some of the most outstanding mass-produced craft ever built, as well as for some remarkable one-off yachts. His experimentation with every kind of sailing craft, and even with the Eskimo kayak, gave him the knowledge and experience that made his name known worldwide. During the Second World War he designed and produced the world's first airborne parachuted lifeboat. Despite what could be described as a robust lifestyle, coupled with interests in music, art and horseriding, Fox continued to produce great designs and in the late 1940s he introduced the Firefly, followed by the beautiful Flying Fifteen class of racing keel boats. One of his most unusual vessels was Britannia, the 24 ft (7.3 m) waterline craft that John Fairfax was to row across the Atlantic. Later came Britannia II, which Fairfax took across the Pacific![br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsCBE 1959. Royal Designer to Industry (RDI).BibliographyFox produced a series of yachting books, most first published in the late 1930s, and some more lighthearted volumes of reminiscences in the 1960s. Some of the best-known titles are: Sail and Power, Racing and Cruising Design, Uffa Fox's Second Book and The Crest of the Wave.Further ReadingJ.Dixon, 1978, Uffa Fox. A Personal Biography, Brighton: Angus \& Robertson.FMW -
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[brɪ'tænjə,kʌp]"Ку́бок Брита́нии" (ежегодные международные соревнования по парусному спорту близ г. Кауса; тж. приз, присуждаемый на этих соревнованиях экипажу-победителю; см. тж. Cowes Week)English-Russian Great Britain dictionary (Великобритания. Лингвострановедческий словарь) > Britannia Cup
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12 Royal Yacht Squadron
[,rɔɪəl'jɔt,skwɔdrən]"Короле́вская я́хтенная эска́дра" (один из ведущих яхт-клубов; организует "Каусскую неделю" [ Cowes Week]. Основан в 1815)English-Russian Great Britain dictionary (Великобритания. Лингвострановедческий словарь) > Royal Yacht Squadron
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13 the Season
['siːzn](ло́ндонский) сезо́н, све́тский сезо́н (май - август, когда королевский двор и высший свет находятся в Лондоне; начинается с закрытого просмотра картин в Королевской академии искусств [ Royal Academy of Arts]; включает посещение скачек, в т.ч. "Королевского Аскота" [ Royal Ascot], проведение балов и т.п.; заканчивается в начале августа "Каусской неделей" [ Cowes Week])English-Russian Great Britain dictionary (Великобритания. Лингвострановедческий словарь) > the Season
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14 Nash, John
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building[br]b. c. 1752 (?) London, Englandd. 13 May 1835 Cowes, Isle of Wight[br]English architect and town planner.[br]Nash's name is synonymous with the great scheme carried out for his patron, the Prince Regent, in the early nineteenth century: the development of Marylebone Park from 1811 constituted a "garden city" for the wealthy in the centre of London. Although only a part of Nash's great scheme was actually achieved, an immense amount was carried out, comprising the Regent's Park and its surrounding terraces, the Regent's Street, including All Souls' Church, and the Regent's Palace in the Mall. Not least was Nash's exotic Royal Pavilion at Brighton.From the early years of the nineteenth century, Nash and a number of other architects took advantage of the use of structural materials developed as a result of the Industrial Revolution; these included wrought and cast iron and various cements. Nash utilized iron widely in the Regent Street Quadrant, Carlton House Terrace and at the Brighton Pavilion. In the first two of these his iron columns were masonry clad, but at Brighton he unashamedly constructed iron column supports, as in the Royal Kitchen, and his ground floor to first floor cast-iron staircase, in which he took advantage of the malleability of the material to create a "Chinese" bamboo design, was particularly notable. The great eighteenth-century terrace architecture of Bath and much of the later work in London was constructed in stone, but as nineteenth-century needs demanded that more buildings needed to be erected at lower cost and greater speed, brick was used more widely for construction; this was rendered with a cement that could be painted to imitate stone. Nash, in particular, employed this method at Regent's Park and used a stucco made from sand, brickdust, powdered limestone and lead oxide that was suited for exterior work.[br]Further ReadingTerence Davis, 1960, The Architecture of John Nash, Studio.——1966, John Nash: The Prince Regent's Architect, Country Life.Sir John Summerson, 1980, John Nash: Architect to King George IV, Allen \& Unwin.DY -
15 Roe, Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon
SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace[br]b. 26 April 1877 Manchester, Englandd. 4 January 1958 London, England[br]English designer of one of the most successful biplanes of all time, the Avro 504.[br]A.V.Roe served an apprenticeship at a railway works, studied marine engineering at Kings College London, served at sea as an engineer, and then took a job in the motor-car industry. His hobby was flying: after studying bird-flight, he built several flying models and in 1907 one of these won a prize offered by the Daily Mail. With the prize money he built a full-size aeroplane loosely based on the Flyer of the Wright brothers, with whom he had corresponded. In September, Roe took his biplane to the motorracing circuit at Brooklands, in Surrey, but it made only a few hops and his activities were not welcomed. Roe then moved to Essex, where he assembled his new aeroplane under the arch of a railway bridge. This was a triplane design with the engine at the front (a "tractor"), and during 1909 it made several flights (this triplane is preserved by the Science Museum in London).In 1910 Roe and his brother Humphrey founded A.V.Roe \& Co. in Manchester, they described it the "Aviator's Storehouse". During the next three years Roe designed and built aeroplanes in Manchester, then transported them to Brooklands to fly (the authorities now made him more welcome). One of the most significant of these was his Type D tractor biplane of 1911, which led to the Avro 504 two-seater trainer of 1913. This was one of the most successful trainers of all time, as around 10,000 were built. In November 1914 a flight of Avro 504s carried out the first-ever bombing raid when they attacked German airship sheds as Friedrichshafen. A.V.Roe produced the first aeroplanes with enclosed cabins during 1912: the Type F monoplane and Type G biplane. After the war, his Avian was used for several record-breaking flights. In 1928 he sold his interest in the company bearing his name and joined forces with Saunders Ltd of Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, to found Saunders-Roe Ltd. "Saro" produced a series of flying boats, from the four-seat Cutty Sark of 1929 to the large, and ill-fated, Princess of 1952.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1929 (in 1933 he incorporated his mother's name to become Sir Alliott VerdonRoe). Honorary Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society 1948.Bibliography1939, The World of Wings and Things, London.Further ReadingL.J.Ludovic, 1956, the Challenging Sky.A.J.Jackson, 1908, Avro Aircraft since 1908, London (a detailed account).JDSBiographical history of technology > Roe, Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon
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16 Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
[br]b. 26 September 1887 Ripley, Derbyshire, Englandd. 30 October 1979 Leatherhead, Surrey, England[br]English aeronautical designer and inventor.[br]Wallis was apprenticed first at Thames Engineering Works, and then, in 1908, at John Samuel White's shipyard at Cowes. In 1913, the Government, spurred on by the accelerating development of the German Zeppelins (see Zeppelin, Ferdinand von), ordered an airship from Vickers; Wallis was invited to join the design team. Thus began his long association with aeronautical design and with Vickers. This airship, and the R80 that followed it, were successfully completed, but the military lost interest in them.In 1924 the Government initiated a programme for the construction of two airships to settle once and for all their viability for long-dis-tance air travel. The R101 was designed by a Government-sponsored team, but the R100 was designed by Wallis working for a subsidiary of Vickers. The R100 took off on 29 July 1930 for a successful round trip to Canada, but the R101 crashed on its first flight on 4 October, killing many of its distinguished passengers. The shock of this disaster brought airship development in Britain to an abrupt end and forced Wallis to direct his attention to aircraft.In aircraft design, Wallis is known for his use of geodesic construction, which combined lightness with strength. It was applied first to the single-engined "Wellesley" and then the twin-en-gined "Wellington" bomber, which first flew in 1936. With successive modifications, it became the workhorse of RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War until the autumn of 1943, when it was replaced by four-engined machines. In other areas, it remained in service until the end of the war and, in all, no fewer than 11,461 were built.Wallis is best known for his work on bomb design, first the bouncing bomb that was used to breach the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr district of Germany in 1943, an exploit immortalized in the film Dambusters. Encouraged by this success, the authorities then allowed Wallis to realize an idea he had long urged, that of heavy, penetration bombs. In the closing stages of the war, Tallboy, of 12,000 lb (5,400 kg), and the 10-ton Grand Slam were used to devastating effect.After the Second World War, Wallis returned to aeronautical design and was given his own department at Vickers to promote his ideas, principally on variable-geometry or swing-wing aircraft. Over the next thirteen years he battled towards the prototype stage of this revolutionary concept. That never came, however; changing conditions and requirements and increasing costs led to the abandonment of the project. Bit-terly disappointed, Wallis continued his researches into high-speed aircraft until his retirement from Vickers (by then the British Aircraft Corporation), in 1971.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1968. FRS 1945.Further ReadingJ.Morpurgo, 1972, Barnes Wallis: A Biography, London: Longman (a readable account, rather biased in Wallis's favour).C.J.Heap, 1987, The Papers of Sir Barnes Wallis (1887–1979) in the Science Museum Library, London: Science Museum; with a biographical introd. by L.R.Day.LRDBiographical history of technology > Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
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Cowes — [kaʊz], Stadt an der Nordküste der Insel Wight, Südengland, 19 700 Einwohner; Boots und Flugzeugwerften, internationales Jachtzentrum. Geschichte: Cowes entstand um ein 1540 erbautes Fort, das dem Schutz der Hafeneinfahrt nach Southampton… … Universal-Lexikon
Cowes — an English holiday town and sailing centre on the Isle of Wight in the English Channel. Every year there is a ↑regatta (=series of boat races) there, known as Cowes Week … Dictionary of contemporary English
Cowes — (spr. Kaus), befestigte Stadt auf der Nordküste der englischen Insel Wight; Marinehospital, Seebäder, Hafen, Getreide , Vieh u. Wollhandel; 5000 Ew. Hier Denkmal, wo 1837 Victoria als Königin zum ersten Male die Insel betrat … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Cowes — (spr. kaus ), Doppelstadt auf beiden Seiten des Medinaflusses an der Nordküste der englischen Insel Wight. West C., mit (1901) 8654 Einw., hat einen sichern Hafen, an dessen Eingang ein altes Schloß (jetzt Klubhaus des englischen Jachtklubs)… … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
Cowes — (spr. kaus), Hafenstadt auf der engl. Insel Wight, durch den Medina in East C. und West C. geteilt, (1901) 3180 und 8654 E.; Seebad, Sitz der Royal Yacht Squadron (Regatten im August). In der Nähe Schloß Osborn House, seit 1902 Genesungsheim für… … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
Cowes — (Kaues), feste Stadt auf der engl. Kanalinsel Wight mit 5200 E., ausgezeichnetem Hafen, Schiffswerften, lebhaftem Handel, besonders mit Lebensmitteln zur Verproviantirung der Schiffe … Herders Conversations-Lexikon
Cowes — This article is about the town on the Isle of Wight. For the town on Phillip Island, Australia, see Cowes, Victoria. Coordinates: 50°45′34″N 1°18′01″W / 50.7595°N 1.3002°W … Wikipedia
Cowes — 50.762777777778 1.3008333333333 … Deutsch Wikipedia
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Cowes — /kowz/, n. a seaport on the Isle of Wight, in S England: resort. 18,895. * * * ▪ England, United Kingdom town at the northern extremity of the Isle of Wight (Wight, Isle of), historic county of Hampshire, England, 11 miles (18 km) south of… … Universalium
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