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2 large area moderate angular resolution X-ray telescope
Универсальный англо-русский словарь > large area moderate angular resolution X-ray telescope
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3 LAT
1) Общая лексика: раздельное проживание супругов (Living Apart Together; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Apart_Together), режим раздельного проживания супругов3) Морской термин: наинизший теоретический уровень прилива4) Медицина: local activation time5) Военный термин: language aptitude test, laser acquisition and tracking, learning ability test, level above threshold, local apparent time6) Техника: large aperture telescope, local address table7) Грубое выражение: Love Action And Talking8) Телекоммуникации: Local Area Transport (DEC)9) Сокращение: Liebherr-Aero-Technik GmbH (Germany), Light Anti-Tank10) Физиология: Last Action Type, Lateral, Lidocaine, Adrenaline and Tetracaine (a topical anesthetic)11) Нефть: logged after trip13) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: наименьший астрономический прилив (Lowest Astronomic Tide)14) Сетевые технологии: Local Area Transport, передача в локальной сети, протокол LAT, транспортный протокол для терминального сервера15) Контроль качества: launch acceptance test16) Сахалин Р: Lowest Astronomic Tide, Lowest Astronomical Tide17) Океанография: Lossless Acoustic Transducer18) Сахалин А: low astronomical tide19) Научный термин: широкоугольный телескоп (сокр. от "Large Area Telescope")20) Расширение файла: Local Access Terminal21) Льдообразование: (the lowest water level possible under astronomical conditions) наинизший возможный по астрономическим условиям уровень моря22) Яхтенный спорт: Латвия (Обозначения на парусах)23) Каспий: Low Astronomic Tide24) Космический летательный аппарат: Large Area Telescope, Телескоп большой площади -
4 Lat
1) Общая лексика: раздельное проживание супругов (Living Apart Together; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Apart_Together), режим раздельного проживания супругов3) Морской термин: наинизший теоретический уровень прилива4) Медицина: local activation time5) Военный термин: language aptitude test, laser acquisition and tracking, learning ability test, level above threshold, local apparent time6) Техника: large aperture telescope, local address table7) Грубое выражение: Love Action And Talking8) Телекоммуникации: Local Area Transport (DEC)9) Сокращение: Liebherr-Aero-Technik GmbH (Germany), Light Anti-Tank10) Физиология: Last Action Type, Lateral, Lidocaine, Adrenaline and Tetracaine (a topical anesthetic)11) Нефть: logged after trip13) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: наименьший астрономический прилив (Lowest Astronomic Tide)14) Сетевые технологии: Local Area Transport, передача в локальной сети, протокол LAT, транспортный протокол для терминального сервера15) Контроль качества: launch acceptance test16) Сахалин Р: Lowest Astronomic Tide, Lowest Astronomical Tide17) Океанография: Lossless Acoustic Transducer18) Сахалин А: low astronomical tide19) Научный термин: широкоугольный телескоп (сокр. от "Large Area Telescope")20) Расширение файла: Local Access Terminal21) Льдообразование: (the lowest water level possible under astronomical conditions) наинизший возможный по астрономическим условиям уровень моря22) Яхтенный спорт: Латвия (Обозначения на парусах)23) Каспий: Low Astronomic Tide24) Космический летательный аппарат: Large Area Telescope, Телескоп большой площади -
5 lat
1) Общая лексика: раздельное проживание супругов (Living Apart Together; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Apart_Together), режим раздельного проживания супругов3) Морской термин: наинизший теоретический уровень прилива4) Медицина: local activation time5) Военный термин: language aptitude test, laser acquisition and tracking, learning ability test, level above threshold, local apparent time6) Техника: large aperture telescope, local address table7) Грубое выражение: Love Action And Talking8) Телекоммуникации: Local Area Transport (DEC)9) Сокращение: Liebherr-Aero-Technik GmbH (Germany), Light Anti-Tank10) Физиология: Last Action Type, Lateral, Lidocaine, Adrenaline and Tetracaine (a topical anesthetic)11) Нефть: logged after trip13) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: наименьший астрономический прилив (Lowest Astronomic Tide)14) Сетевые технологии: Local Area Transport, передача в локальной сети, протокол LAT, транспортный протокол для терминального сервера15) Контроль качества: launch acceptance test16) Сахалин Р: Lowest Astronomic Tide, Lowest Astronomical Tide17) Океанография: Lossless Acoustic Transducer18) Сахалин А: low astronomical tide19) Научный термин: широкоугольный телескоп (сокр. от "Large Area Telescope")20) Расширение файла: Local Access Terminal21) Льдообразование: (the lowest water level possible under astronomical conditions) наинизший возможный по астрономическим условиям уровень моря22) Яхтенный спорт: Латвия (Обозначения на парусах)23) Каспий: Low Astronomic Tide24) Космический летательный аппарат: Large Area Telescope, Телескоп большой площади -
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7 LAMAR
1. large area moderate angular resolution X-ray telescope - широкоугольный рентгеновский телескоп с умеренной угловой разрешающей способностью;2. large area modular array of reflectors - орбитальная обсерватория с модульной решёткой отражателей большой площади -
8 GLAST
Космический летательный аппарат: Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, Большой космический гамма-телескоп -
9 LAT
1. large aperture telescope - телескоп, с большой апертурой, широкоапертурный телескоп;2. latent - латентный; скрытый; покоящийся; недеятельный;3. latitude - географическая широта;4. launch acceptance test - пусковое приемосдаточное испытание;5. local address table - таблица локальных адресов;6. local apparent time - местное истинное время;7. local area transport - протокол доступа к терминалу в сетях DECnet -
10 range
1. noun1) (row)range of mountains — Bergkette, die
2) (of subjects, interests, topics) Palette, die; (of musical instrument) Tonumfang, der; (of knowledge, voice) Umfang, der; (of income, department, possibility) Bereich, dersomething is out of or beyond sb's range — (lit. or fig.) etwas ist außerhalb jemandes Reichweite
3) (of telescope, missile, aircraft, etc.) Reichweite, die; (distance between gun and target) Schussweite, dieflying range — Flugbereich, der
up to a range of 5 miles — bis zu einem Umkreis von 5 Meilen
shoot at close or short/long range — aus kurzer/großer Entfernung schießen
experience something at close range — etwas in unmittelbarer Nähe erleben
5)[shooting] range — Schießstand, der; (at funfair) Schießbude, die
6) (testing site) Versuchsgelände, das7) (grazing ground) Weide[fläche], die2. intransitive verb1) (vary within limits) [Preise, Temperaturen:] schwanken, sich bewegen (from... to zwischen [+ Dat.]... und)2) (extend) [Klippen, Gipfel, Häuser:] sich hinziehen3) (roam) umherziehen (around, about in + Dat.); (fig.) [Gedanken:] umherschweifen3. transitive verbthe discussion ranged over... — die Diskussion erstreckte sich auf (+ Akk.)...
(arrange) aufreihen [Bücher, Tische]range oneself against somebody/something — (fig.) sich gegen jemanden/etwas zusammenschließen
* * *[rein‹] 1. noun1) (a selection or variety: a wide range of books for sale; He has a very wide range of interests.) die Bandbreite2) (the distance over which an object can be sent or thrown, sound can be heard etc: What is the range of this missile?; We are within range of / beyond the range of / out of range of their guns.) die Reichweite3) (the amount between certain limits: I'm hoping for a salary within the range $30,000 to $34,000; the range of a person's voice between his highest and lowest notes.) der Umfang4) (a row or series: a mountain range.) die Reihe5) (in the United States, land, usually without fences, on which cattle etc can graze.) das Weideland6) (a place where a person can practise shooting etc; a rifle-range.) der Schießstand7) (a large kitchen stove with a flat top.) der Küchenherd2. verb1) (to put in a row or rows: The two armies were ranged on opposite sides of the valley.) aufstellen2) (to vary between certain limits: Weather conditions here range between bad and dreadful / from bad to dreadful.) schwanken3) (to go, move, extend etc: His talk ranged over a number of topics.) sich erstrecken•- academic.ru/60234/ranger">ranger* * *range1[reɪnʤ]I. nthat is beyond my price \range das übersteigt meine finanziellen Möglichkeitento be out of \range außer Reichweite seinto be beyond [or out of] [or outside] sb's \range of competence/experience außerhalb jds Kompetenz-/Erfahrungsbereiches liegento be beyond [or out of] [or outside] /in sb's \range of hearing für jdn außer/in Hörweite seintemperature \range Temperaturbereich mnarrow \range enger Spielraumthe value of sterling fluctuated within a narrow \range yesterday der Wert des englischen Pfundes war gestern geringfügigen Schwankungen unterworfena wide \range of products ein breites Spektrum an Produktena wide \range of opinions eine große Meinungsvielfaltour full \range of cars is on display in our showroom die ganze Palette unserer Automodelle ist in unserem Ausstellungsraum zu sehen\range of instruments Instrumentarium nt\range of products Produktangebot nt\range of services Leistungsspektrum nt, Leistungsangebot nt, Serviceangebot nt\range of services and products Angebotspalette fyou can't miss the target at this close \range auf diese geringe Entfernung kannst du das Ziel nicht verfehlenat point-blank \range aus [aller]nächster Näheout of/within \range außer/in Schussweitemissile \range Raketenbasis frifle \range Schießstand mII. vi3. (deal with)a wide-ranging investigation eine umfassende Ermittlunga wide-ranging survey eine breit angelegte UmfrageIII. vt1. (arrange)▪ to \range sb jdn in Reih und Glied aufstellenthe crowd \ranged itself along the route of the procession die Menschenmenge reihte sich entlang des Prozessionsweges auf2. (count among)3. COMPUT▪ to \range sth etw ausrichten [o verschieben]range2[reɪnʤ]nrange3[reɪnʤ]n [Koch]herd mkitchen \range Küchenherd m* * *[reIndZ]1. n1) (= scope, distance covered) (of missile, telescope) Reichweite f; (of gun) Reichweite f, Schussweite f; (of vehicle) Fahrbereich m; (of plane) Flugbereich mat close or short/long range —
to be out of range — außer Reichweite sein; (of telescope) außer Sichtweite sein; (of gun) außer Schussweite sein
2) (= spread, selection) Reihe f; (of goods) Sortiment nt, Reihe f; (of colours) Skala f; (of patterns, sizes, models) Angebot nt, Auswahl f (of an +dat); (of interest, abilities) Palette fout of/within my price range —
a range of prices/temperatures/clients — unterschiedliche Preise pl/Temperaturen pl/Klienten pl
we have the whole range of models/prices — wir führen sämtliche Modelle/Waren in allen Preislagen
this is outside the range of the department/the committee — dies liegt außerhalb der Kompetenz dieser Abteilung/dieses Komitees
6) (= cooking stove) Koch- or Küchenherd mrange cattle — Freilandvieh nt
2. vt1) (= place in a row) aufstellen; objects aufstellen, anordnenthey ranged themselves along the pavement — sie stellten sich am Bürgersteig entlang auf
to range oneself with sb (fig) — sich auf jds Seite (acc) stellen
3) (= roam over) durchstreifen, durchziehen6) (COMPUT)ranged left/right — links-/rechtsbündig
3. vi1)(= extend)
to range (from... to) — gehen (von... bis); (temperature, value) liegen (zwischen... und)the discussion ranged from the president to the hot-water system — die Diskussion umfasste alles, vom Präsidenten bis zum Heißwassersystem
his interests range from skiing to chess — seine Interessen reichen vom Skifahren bis zum Schachspielen
the conversation ranged over a number of subjects —
his knowledge ranges over a wide field — er hat ein sehr umfangreiches Wissen
2) (= roam) streifento range over the area — im Gebiet umherstreifen
* * *range [reındʒ]A s1. Reihe f, Kette f:a range of trees eine Baumreihe3. (Koch-, Küchen) Herd m5. Entfernung f (zum Ziel), Abstand m:at a range of aus oder in einer Entfernung von;at close range aus nächster Nähe, aus kurzer Entfernung;find the range MIL sich einschießen;take the range die Entfernung schätzen7. Ausdehnung f, Umfang m, Skala f:a narrow range of choice eine kleine Auswahl;the range of his experience die Spannweite seiner Erfahrung8. WIRTSCH Kollektion f:a wide range (of goods) eine große Auswahl, ein großes Angebot;9. fig Bereich m, Spielraum m, Grenzen pl, auch TECH etc (z. B. Hör-, Mess-, Skalen)Bereich m, (Radar) Auffassbereich m, RADIO (Frequenz-, Wellen)Bereich m, Senderreichweite f:range (of activities) Betätigungsfeld n, Aktionsbereich;range of application Anwendungsbereich;range of reception (Funk) Empfangsbereich;range of uses Verwendungsbereich, Anwendungsmöglichkeiten pl;within range of vision in Sichtweite10. BOT, ZOOL Verbreitung(sgebiet) f(n)12. MUSa) Ton-, Stimmlage f13. Richtung f, Lage f14. besonders fig Bereich m, Gebiet n, Raum m:range of knowledge Wissensbereich;range of thought Ideenkreis m15. besonders US Weideland n:range cattle Freilandvieh n16. (ausgedehnte) Fläche17. (soziale) Klasse oder Schicht18. Streifzug m, Ausflug mB v/t1. (in Reihen) aufstellen oder anordnen, aufreihen2. einreihen, -ordnen:3. (systematisch) ordnen4. einordnen, -teilen, klassifizieren5. TYPO Br Typen ausgleichen, zurichten6. die Felder etc durchstreifen, -wandern9. besonders US das Vieh frei weiden lassen10. ein Teleskop etc einstellen11. Ballistik:a) die Flugbahn bestimmen fürb) ein Geschütz etc richtenc) eine Reichweite haben von, tragenC v/iwith mit)4. sich (in einer Reihe) aufstellen6. streifen, schweifen, wandern (auch Augen, Blicke):as far as the eye could range so weit das Auge reichte7. BOT, ZOOL verbreitet sein, vorkommen8. schwanken, variieren, sich bewegen ( alle:from … to …, between … and … zwischen dat … und …)10. die Entfernung messen* * *1. noun1) (row)range of mountains — Bergkette, die
2) (of subjects, interests, topics) Palette, die; (of musical instrument) Tonumfang, der; (of knowledge, voice) Umfang, der; (of income, department, possibility) Bereich, dersomething is out of or beyond sb's range — (lit. or fig.) etwas ist außerhalb jemandes Reichweite
3) (of telescope, missile, aircraft, etc.) Reichweite, die; (distance between gun and target) Schussweite, dieflying range — Flugbereich, der
shoot at close or short/long range — aus kurzer/großer Entfernung schießen
4) (series, selection) Kollektion, die5)[shooting] range — Schießstand, der; (at funfair) Schießbude, die
6) (testing site) Versuchsgelände, das7) (grazing ground) Weide[fläche], die2. intransitive verb1) (vary within limits) [Preise, Temperaturen:] schwanken, sich bewegen (from... to zwischen [+ Dat.]... und)2) (extend) [Klippen, Gipfel, Häuser:] sich hinziehen3) (roam) umherziehen (around, about in + Dat.); (fig.) [Gedanken:] umherschweifen3. transitive verbthe discussion ranged over... — die Diskussion erstreckte sich auf (+ Akk.)...
(arrange) aufreihen [Bücher, Tische]range oneself against somebody/something — (fig.) sich gegen jemanden/etwas zusammenschließen
* * *(missile) n.Reichweite f. (radio signal) n.Reichweite f. n.Auswahl m.Bandbreite f.Bereich -e m.Bildbereich (Mathematik) m.Entfernung f.Raum -¨e m.Wertebereich m. v.klassifizieren v. -
11 sweep
1 noun(a) (with a brush) coup m de balai;∎ the room needs a good sweep la pièce aurait besoin d'un bon coup de balai∎ with a sweep of her arm d'un geste large;∎ with a sweep of his sword/scythe d'un grand coup d'épée/de faux;∎ to make a wide sweep to take a bend prendre du champ pour effectuer un virage;∎ her eyes made a sweep of the room elle parcourut la pièce des yeux;∎ they jumped over the wall between two sweeps of the searchlight ils sautèrent par-dessus le mur entre deux mouvements du projecteur;∎ in or at one sweep d'un seul coup∎ a vast sweep of woodland une vaste étendue de forêt;∎ from where we stood, we could see the whole sweep of the bay de là où nous étions, nous voyions toute (l'étendue de) la baie;∎ the sweep of a car's lines le galbe d'une voiture(d) (range → of gun, telescope) champ m; (→ of lighthouse) balayage m, portée f; (→ of wings) envergure f; (→ of knowledge) étendue f; (→ of opinion) éventail m;∎ the members of the commission represent a broad sweep of opinion les membres de la commission représentent un large éventail d'opinions∎ police made a drugs sweep on the university la police a ratissé l'université à la recherche de drogues;∎ the rescue party made a sweep of the area l'équipe de secours a ratissé les environs ou passé les environs au peigne fin;∎ to make a sweep for mines chercher des mines(f) (chimney sweep) ramoneur m(i) (rapid flow → of river) course f ou flot m rapide∎ to vary the angle of sweep varier la flèche(in rowing) en pointe∎ to sweep the floor balayer le sol;∎ he swept the room il a balayé la pièce;∎ the steps had been swept clean quelqu'un avait balayé l'escalier;∎ she swept the leaves from the path into a pile elle balaya les feuilles du chemin et les mit en tas;∎ I swept the broken glass into the dustpan j'ai poussé le verre cassé dans la pelle avec le balai;∎ he angrily swept the papers off the desk d'un geste furieux, il balaya les papiers de dessus le bureau;∎ she swept the coins off the table into her handbag elle a fait glisser les pièces de la table dans son sac à main(c) (of wind, tide, crowd etc)∎ her dress sweeps the ground sa robe balaie le sol;∎ a storm swept the town un orage ravagea la ville;∎ the wind swept his hat into the river le vent a fait tomber son chapeau dans la rivière;∎ the small boat was swept out to sea le petit bateau a été emporté vers le large;∎ three fishermen were swept overboard un paquet de mer emporta trois pêcheurs;∎ figurative the victorious army swept all before it l'armée victorieuse a tout balayé sur son passage;∎ the incident swept all other thoughts from her mind l'incident lui fit oublier tout le reste;∎ he was swept to power on a wave of popular discontent il a été porté au pouvoir par une vague de mécontentement populaire;∎ he swept her off to Paris for the weekend il l'a emmenée en week-end à Paris;∎ to be swept off one's feet (fall in love) tomber fou amoureux; (be filled with enthusiam) être enthousiasmé;∎ to sweep the board rafler tous les prix;∎ the German athletes swept the board at the Olympics les athlètes allemands ont remporté toutes les médailles aux jeux Olympiques(d) (spread through → of fire, epidemic, rumour, belief) gagner;∎ a new craze is sweeping America une nouvelle mode fait fureur aux États-Unis;∎ a wave of fear swept the city une vague de peur gagna la ville;∎ the flu epidemic which swept Europe in 1919 l'épidémie de grippe qui sévit en Europe en 1919(e) (scan, survey) parcourir;∎ her eyes swept the horizon/the room elle parcourut l'horizon/la pièce des yeux;∎ to sweep the horizon with a telescope parcourir ou balayer l'horizon avec un télescope;∎ searchlights continually sweep the open ground outside the prison camp des projecteurs parcourent ou balayent sans cesse le terrain qui entoure la prison(f) (win easily) gagner ou remporter haut la main;∎ the Popular Democratic Party swept the polls le parti démocratique populaire a fait un raz-de-marée aux élections;∎ the port has been swept for mines le port a été dragué(a) (with a brush) balayer(b) (move quickly, powerfully)∎ harsh winds swept across the bleak steppes un vent violent balayait les mornes steppes;∎ the beam swept across the sea le faisceau lumineux balaya la mer;∎ I watched storm clouds sweeping across the sky je regardais des nuages orageux filer dans le ciel;∎ a hurricane swept through the town un ouragan a dévasté la ville;∎ the Barbarians who swept into the Roman Empire les Barbares qui déferlèrent sur l'Empire romain;∎ a wave of nationalism swept through the country une vague de nationalisme a déferlé sur le pays;∎ the memories came sweeping back tous ces souvenirs me/lui/ etc sont revenus à la mémoire;∎ a wave of panic swept over him une vague de panique le submergea;∎ the planes swept low over the town les avions passèrent en rase-mottes au-dessus de la ville;∎ the fire swept through the forest l'incendie a ravagé la forêt(c) (move confidently, proudly)∎ he swept into the room il entra majestueusement dans la pièce;∎ she swept past me without even a glance elle passa majestueusement à côté de moi sans même m'adresser un regard(d) (stretch → land) s'étendre;∎ the rolling prairies sweep away into the distance les prairies ondoyantes se perdent dans le lointain;∎ the fields sweep down to the lake les prairies descendent en pente douce jusqu'au lac;∎ the river sweeps round in a wide curve le fleuve décrit une large courbe∎ to sweep for mines draguer, déminer►► sweep boat bateau m en pointe;sweep hand trotteuse f;sweep rowing nage f en pointe(of wind, tide, crowd) emporter, entraîner;∎ we were swept along by a tide of nationalism nous avons été balayés par une vague nationaliste(a) (object, person) écarter(a) (dust, snow) balayer(b) (of wind, tide, crowd) emporter, entraîner;∎ three bathers were swept away by a huge wave trois baigneurs ont été emportés par une énorme vague(car) passer à toute vitesse; (person → majestically) passer majestueusement; (→ disdainfully) passer dédaigneusement∎ hills sweeping down to the sea des collines qui descendent vers la mer∎ the enemy swept down on us l'ennemi s'abattit ou fonça sur nous(clean → room) balayer➲ sweep past = sweep by➲ sweep up(dust, leaves) balayer;∎ she swept up the pieces of glass elle balaya les morceaux de verre;∎ he swept the leaves up into a pile il fit un tas des feuilles en les balayant;∎ with her hair swept up into a chignon avec ses cheveux relevés en chignon;∎ she swept up her two babies and… en toute hâte, elle prit ses deux bébés dans ses bras et…(a) (clean up) balayer;∎ can you sweep up after the meeting? peux-tu balayer ou peux-tu passer un coup de balai après la réunion?∎ she swept up to me (majestically) elle s'approcha de moi d'un pas majestueux; (angrily) elle s'approcha de moi d'un pas furieux;∎ the car swept up to the main entrance (quickly) la voiture s'approcha à toute allure de l'entrée principale; (impressively) la voiture s'approcha à une allure majestueuse de l'entrée principale -
12 Braun, Wernher Manfred von
[br]b. 23 March 1912 Wirsitz, Germanyd. 16 June 1977 Alexandria, Virginia, USA[br]German pioneer in rocket development.[br]Von Braun's mother was an amateur astronomer who introduced him to the futuristic books of Jules Verne and H.G.Wells and gave him an astronomical telescope. He was a rather slack and undisciplined schoolboy until he came across Herman Oberth's book By Rocket to Interplanetary Space. He discovered that he required a good deal of mathematics to follow this exhilarating subject and immediately became an enthusiastic student.The Head of the Ballistics and Armaments branch of the German Army, Professor Karl Becker, had asked the engineer Walter Dornberger to develop a solid-fuel rocket system for short-range attack, and one using liquid-fuel rockets to carry bigger loads of explosives beyond the range of any known gun. Von Braun joined the Verein für Raumschiffsfahrt (the German Space Society) as a young man and soon became a leading member. He was asked by Rudolf Nebel, VfR's chief, to persuade the army of the value of rockets as weapons. Von Braun wisely avoided all mention of the possibility of space flight and some financial backing was assured. Dornberger in 1932 built a small test stand for liquid-fuel rockets and von Braun built a small rocket to test it; the success of this trial won over Dornberger to space rocketry.Initially research was carried out at Kummersdorf, a suburb of Berlin, but it was decided that this was not a suitable site. Von Braun recalled holidays as a boy at a resort on the Baltic, Peenemünde, which was ideally suited to rocket testing. Work started there but was not completed until August 1939, when the group of eighty engineers and scientists moved in. A great fillip to rocket research was received when Hitler was shown a film and was persuaded of the efficacy of rockets as weapons of war. A factory was set up in excavated tunnels at Mittelwerk in the Harz mountains. Around 6,000 "vengeance" weapons were built, some 3,000 of which were fired on targets in Britain and 2,000 of which were still in storage at the end of the Second World War.Peenemünde was taken by the Russians on 5 May 1945, but by then von Braun was lodging with many of his colleagues at an inn, Haus Ingeburg, near Oberjoch. They gave themselves up to the Americans, and von Braun presented a "prospectus" to the Americans, pointing out how useful the German rocket team could be. In "Operation Paperclip" some 100 of the team were moved to the United States, together with tons of drawings and a number of rocket missiles. Von Braun worked from 1946 at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, and in 1950 moved to Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. In 1953 he produced the Redstone missile, in effect a V2 adapted to carry a nuclear warhead a distance of 320 km (199 miles). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was formed in 1958 and recruited von Braun and his team. He was responsible for the design of the Redstone launch vehicles which launched the first US satellite, Explorer 1, in 1958, and the Mercury capsules of the US manned spaceflight programme which carried Alan Shepard briefly into space in 1961 and John Glenn into earth orbit in 1962. He was also responsible for the Saturn series of large, staged launch vehicles, which culminated in the Saturn V rocket which launched the Apollo missions taking US astronauts for the first human landing on the moon in 1969. Von Braun announced his resignation from NASA in 1972 and died five years later.[br]Bibliography1981, with F.L.Ordway, History of Rocketry and Space TravelFurther ReadingP.Marsh, 1985, The Space Business, Penguin. J.Trux, 1985, The Space Race, New English Library. T.Osman, 1983, Space History, Michael Joseph.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Braun, Wernher Manfred von
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13 Guinand, Pierre Louis
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. 20 April 1748 Brenets, Neuchâtel, Switzerlandd. 13 February 1824 Brenets, Neuchâtel, Switzerland[br]Swiss optical glassmaker.[br]Guinand received little formal education and followed his father's trade of joiner. He specialized in making clock cases, but after learning how to cast metals he took up the more lucrative work of making watch cases. When he was about 20 years old, in a customer's house he caught sight of an English telescope, a rarity in a Swiss mountain village. Intrigued, he obtained permission to examine it. This aroused his interest in optical matters and he began making spectacles and small telescopes.Achromatic lenses were becoming known, their use being to remove the defect of chromatic aberration or coloured optical images, but there remained defects due to imperfections in the glass itself. Stimulated by offers of prizes by scientific bodies, including the Royal Society of London, for removing these defects, Guinand set out to remedy them. He embarked in 1784 on a long and arduous series of experiments, varying the materials and techniques for making glass. The even more lucrative trade of making bells for repeaters provided the funds for a furnace capable of holding 2 cwt (102 kg) of molten glass. By 1798 or so he had succeeded in making discs of homogeneous glass. He impressed the famous Parisian astronomer de Lalande with them and his glass became well enough known for scientists to visit him. In 1805 Fraunhofer persuaded Guinand to join his optical-instrument works at Benediktheurn, in Bavaria, to make lenses. After nine years, Guinand returned to Brenets with a pension, on condition he made no more glass and disclosed no details of his methods. After two years these conditions had become irksome and he relinquished the pension. On 19 February 1823 Guinand described his discoveries in his classic "Memoir on the making of optical glass, more particularly of glass of high refractive index for use in the production of achromatic lenses", presented to the Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève. This gives details of his experiments and investigations and discusses a suitable pot-clay stirrer and stirring mechanism for the molten glass, with temperature control, to overcome optical-glass defects such as bubbles, seeds, cords and colours. Guinand was hailed as the man in Europe who had achieved this and has thus rightly been called the founder of the era of optical glassmaking.[br]Further ReadingThe fullest account in English of Guinand's life and work is 'Some account of the late M. Guinand and of the discovery made by him in the manufacture of flint glass for large telescopes by F.R., extracted from the Bibliothèque Universelle des Sciences, trans.C.F.de B.', Quart.J.Sci.Roy.Instn.Lond. (1825) 19: 244–58.M.von Rohr, 1924, "Pierre Louis Guinand", Zeitschrift für Instr., 46:121, 139, with an English summary in J.Glass. Tech., (1926) 10: abs. 150–1.LRD -
14 Porta, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) della
SUBJECT AREA: Steam and internal combustion engines[br]b. between 3 October and 15 November 1535 Vico Equense, near Naples, Italyd. 4 February 1615 Naples, Italy[br]Italian natural philosopher who published many scientific books, one of which covered ideas for the use of steam.[br]Giambattista della Porta spent most of his life in Naples, where some time before 1580 he established the Accademia dei Segreti, which met at his house. In 1611 he was enrolled among the Oziosi in Naples, then the most renowned literary academy. He was examined by the Inquisition, which, although he had become a lay brother of the Jesuits by 1585, banned all further publication of his books between 1592 and 1598.His first book, the Magiae Naturalis, which covered the secrets of nature, was published in 1558. He had been collecting material for it since the age of 15 and he saw that science should not merely represent theory and contemplation but must arrive at practical and experimental expression. In this work he described the hardening of files and pieces of armour on quite a large scale, and it included the best sixteenth-century description of heat treatment for hardening steel. In the 1589 edition of this work he covered ways of improving vision at a distance with concave and convex lenses; although he may have constructed a compound microscope, the history of this instrument effectively begins with Galileo. His theoretical and practical work on lenses paved the way for the telescope and he also explored the properties of parabolic mirrors.In 1563 he published a treatise on cryptography, De Furtivis Liter arum Notis, which he followed in 1566 with another on memory and mnemonic devices, Arte del Ricordare. In 1584 and 1585 he published treatises on horticulture and agriculture based on careful study and practice; in 1586 he published De Humana Physiognomonia, on human physiognomy, and in 1588 a treatise on the physiognomy of plants. In 1593 he published his De Refractione but, probably because of the ban by the Inquisition, no more were produced until the Spiritali in 1601 and his translation of Ptolemy's Almagest in 1605. In 1608 two new works appeared: a short treatise on military fortifications; and the De Distillatione. There was an important work on meteorology in 1610. In 1601 he described a device similar to Hero's mechanisms which opened temple doors, only Porta used steam pressure instead of air to force the water out of its box or container, up a pipe to where it emptied out into a higher container. Under the lower box there was a small steam boiler heated by a fire. He may also have been the first person to realize that condensed steam would form a vacuum, for there is a description of another piece of apparatus where water is drawn up into a container at the top of a long pipe. The container was first filled with steam so that, when cooled, a vacuum would be formed and water drawn up into it. These are the principles on which Thomas Savery's later steam-engine worked.[br]Further ReadingDictionary of Scientific Biography, 1975, Vol. XI, New York: C.Scribner's Sons (contains a full biography).H.W.Dickinson, 1938, A Short History of the Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press (contains an account of his contributions to the early development of the steam-engine).C.Singer (ed.), 1957, A History of Technology, Vol. III, Oxford University Press (contains accounts of some of his other discoveries).I.Asimov (ed.), 1982, Biographical Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology, 2nd edn., New York: Doubleday.G.Sarton, 1957, Six wings: Men of Science in the Renaissance, London: Bodley Head, pp. 85–8.RLH / IMcNBiographical history of technology > Porta, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) della
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