Pennsylvania Institute of Technology

1) Компьютерная техника: Programmable Interval Timer

2) Американизм: Personal Identification Tags, Personal Income Tax, Procurement Incarceration And Treatment

3) Спорт: Passport In Time, Peach International Tennis

4) Военный термин: Photo Interpretation Tool, Polaris industrial team, performance improvement test, photographic interpretation technique, photointerpreter team, pilot-instructor training, preinstallation test, production improvement test

5) Техника: Personal Improvement Tools

6) Шутливое выражение: Peanut Income Tax, Penis Is Tiny

7) Математика: Positive Information Topology

8) Религия: Pray Invite Tell, Presbyterians In Training, Priest In Training

9) Юридический термин: Police Induction Training, Precision Immobilization Technique

10) Экономика: налог на доходы физических лиц (personal income tax)

11) Сокращение: Pilot Instructor Training, Principal, Interest, and Taxes, Prioritized Image Transmission

12) Университет: Pennsylvania Institute of Technology, Pepperdine Improv Troupe

13) Транспорт: Passive Integrated Transponder, Pittsburgh International Airport

14) Фирменный знак: Pyramide Internet Technologies

15) Деловая лексика: Personnel In Training, Power Integrity And Tolerance, Production, Implementation, And Training, Property Inventory Tasking

16) Бурение: pressure integrity test

17) Контроль качества: product improvement training

18) Химическое оружие: Process Improvement Team, push to talk

19) Расширение файла: Compressed Macintosh file archive (PackIt)

20) Исследования и разработки (НИОКР): process improvement teams

21) Общественная организация: People For Interspecies Tolerance

22) Должность: Pilot In Training, Platinum In Training, Prophet In Training

23) Аэропорты: Pittsburgh International Airport, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

1) Компьютерная техника: Programmable Interval Timer

2) Американизм: Personal Identification Tags, Personal Income Tax, Procurement Incarceration And Treatment

3) Спорт: Passport In Time, Peach International Tennis

4) Военный термин: Photo Interpretation Tool, Polaris industrial team, performance improvement test, photographic interpretation technique, photointerpreter team, pilot-instructor training, preinstallation test, production improvement test

5) Техника: Personal Improvement Tools

6) Шутливое выражение: Peanut Income Tax, Penis Is Tiny

7) Математика: Positive Information Topology

8) Религия: Pray Invite Tell, Presbyterians In Training, Priest In Training

9) Юридический термин: Police Induction Training, Precision Immobilization Technique

10) Экономика: налог на доходы физических лиц (personal income tax)

11) Сокращение: Pilot Instructor Training, Principal, Interest, and Taxes, Prioritized Image Transmission

12) Университет: Pennsylvania Institute of Technology, Pepperdine Improv Troupe

13) Транспорт: Passive Integrated Transponder, Pittsburgh International Airport

14) Фирменный знак: Pyramide Internet Technologies

15) Деловая лексика: Personnel In Training, Power Integrity And Tolerance, Production, Implementation, And Training, Property Inventory Tasking

16) Бурение: pressure integrity test

17) Контроль качества: product improvement training

18) Химическое оружие: Process Improvement Team, push to talk

19) Расширение файла: Compressed Macintosh file archive (PackIt)

20) Исследования и разработки (НИОКР): process improvement teams

21) Общественная организация: People For Interspecies Tolerance

22) Должность: Pilot In Training, Platinum In Training, Prophet In Training

23) Аэропорты: Pittsburgh International Airport, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering

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Frederick W.Taylor received his early education from his mother, followed by some years of schooling in France and Germany. Then in 1872 he entered Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, to prepare for Harvard Law School, as it was intended that he should follow his father's profession. However, in 1874 he had to abandon his studies because of poor eyesight, and he began an apprenticeship at a pump-manufacturing works in Philadelphia learning the trades of pattern-maker and machinist. On its completion in 1878 he joined the Midvale Steel Company, at first as a labourer but then as Shop Clerk and Foreman, finally becoming Chief Engineer in 1884. At the same time he was able to resume study in the evenings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, and in 1883 he obtained the degree of Mechanical Engineer (ME). He also found time to take part in amateur sport and in 1881 he won the tennis doubles championship of the United States.

It was while with the Midvale Steel Company that Taylor began the systematic study of workshop management, and the application of his techniques produced significant increases in the company's output and productivity. In 1890 he became Manager of a company operating large paper mills in Maine and Wisconsin, until 1893 when he set up on his own account as a consulting engineer specializing in management organization. In 1898 he was retained exclusively by the Bethlehem Steel Company, and there continued his work on the metal-cutting process that he had started at Midvale. In collaboration with J.Maunsel White (1856–1912) he developed high-speed tool steels and their heat treatment which increased cutting capacity by up to 300 per cent. He resigned from the Bethlehem Steel Company in 1901 and devoted the remainder of his life to expounding the principles of scientific management which became known as "Taylorism". The Society to Promote the Science of Management was established in 1911, renamed the Taylor Society after his death. He was an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was its President in 1906; his presidential address "On the Art of Cutting Metals" was reprinted in book form.

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SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology

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After obtaining his AB degree from De Pere University, Wisconsin (1937), and his AM and PhD from the University of Michigan (1938 and 1941, respectively), Burks carried out research at the Moore School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, during the Second World War, and at the same time taught philosophy in another department. There, with Herman Goldstine, he was involved in the construction of ENIAC (the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer).

In 1946 he took a post as Assistant Professor of Engineering at Michigan University, and subsequently became Associate Professor (1948) and Full Professor (1954). Between 1946 and 1948 he was also associated with the computer activities of John von Neumann at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, and was involved in the development of the Whirlwind I computer (the first stored-program computer) by Jay Forrester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1948 until 1954 he was a consultant for the Burroughs Corporation and also contributed to the Oak Ridge computer ORACLE. He was Chairman of the Michigan University Department of Communications Science in 1967–71 and at various times was Visiting Professor at Harvard University and the universities of Illinois and Stanford. In 1975 he became Editor of the Journal of Computer and System Sciences.

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SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy, Mining and extraction technology

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Robert, the son of Thomas and Ada (Crooks) Stanley, helped to finance his early training at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, by working as a manual training instructor at Montclair High School. After graduating in mechanical engineering from Stevens in 1899, and as a mining engineer from the Columbia School of Mines in 1901, he accepted a two-year assignment from the S.S.White Dental Company to investigate platinum-bearing alluvial deposits in British Columbia. This introduced him to the International Nickel Company (Inco), which had been established on 29 March 1902 to amalgamate the major mining companies working the newly discovered cupro-nickel deposits at Sudbury, Ontario. Ambrose Monell, President of Inco, appointed Stanley as Assistant Superintendent of its American Nickel Works at Camden, near Philadelphia, in 1903. At the beginning of 1904 Stanley was General Superintendent of the Orford Refinery at Bayonne, New Jersey, where most of the output of the Sudbury mines was treated.

Copper and nickel were separated there from the bessemerized matte by the celebrated "tops and bottoms" process introduced thirteen years previously by R.M.Thompson. It soon occurred to Stanley that such a separation was not invariably required and that, by reducing directly the mixed matte, he could obtain a natural cupronickel alloy which would be ductile, corrosion resistant, and no more expensive to produce than pure copper or nickel. His first experiment, on 30 December 1904, was completely successful. A railway wagon full of bessemerized matte, low in iron, was calcined to oxide, reduced to metal with carbon, and finally desulphurized with magnesium. Ingots cast from this alloy were successfully forged to bars which contained 68 per cent nickel, 23 per cent copper and about 1 per cent iron. The new alloy, originally named after Ambrose Monell, was soon renamed Monel to satisfy trademark requirements. A total of 300,000 ft2 (27,870 m²) of this white, corrosion-resistant alloy was used to roof the Pennsylvania Railway Station in New York, and it also found extensive applications in marine work and chemical plant. Stanley greatly increased the output of the Orford Refinery during the First World War, and shortly after becoming President of the company in 1922, he established a new Research and Development Division headed initially by A.J.Wadham and then by Paul D. Merica, who at the US Bureau of Standards had first elucidated the mechanism of age-hardening in alloys. In the mid- 1920s a nickel-ore body of unprecedented size was identified at levels between 2,000 and 3,000 ft (600 and 900 m) below the Frood Mine in Ontario. This property was owned partially by Inco and partially by the Mond Nickel Company. Efficient exploitation required the combined economic resources of both companies. They merged on 1 January 1929, when Mond became part of International Nickel. Stanley remained President of the new company until February 1949 and was Chairman from 1937 until his death.

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SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology

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Goldstine studied mathematics at the University of Chicago, Illinois, gaining his PhD in 1936. After teaching mathematics there, he moved to a similar position at the University of Michigan in 1939, becoming an assistant professor. After the USA entered the Second World War, in 1942 he joined the army as a lieutenant in the Ballistic Missile Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. He was then assigned to the Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was involved with Arthur Burks in building the valve-based Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) to compute ballistic tables. The machine was completed in 1946, but prior to this Goldstine had met John von Neumann of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) at Princeton, New Jersey, and active collaboration between them had already begun. After the war he joined von Neumann as Assistant Director of the Computer Project at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, becoming its Director in 1954. There he developed the idea of computer-flow diagrams and, with von Neumann, built the first computer to use a magnetic drum for data storage. In 1958 he joined IBM as Director of the Mathematical Sciences Department, becoming Director of Development at the IBM Data Processing Headquarters in 1965. Two years later he became a Research Consultant, and in 1969 he became an IBM Research Fellow.

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SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering

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William Sellers was educated at a private school that had been established by his father and other relatives for their children, and at the age of 14 he was apprenticed for seven years to the machinist's trade with his uncle. At the end of his apprenticeship in 1845 he took charge of the machine shop of Fairbanks, Bancroft \& Co. in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1848 he established his own factory manufacturing machine tools and mill gearing in Philadelphia, where he was soon joined by Edward Bancroft, the firm becoming Bancroft \& Sellers. After Bancroft's death the name was changed in 1856 to William Sellers \& Co. and Sellers served as President until the end of his life. His machine tools were characterized by their robust construction and absence of decorative embellishments. In 1868 he formed the Edgemoor Iron Company, of which he was President. This company supplied the structural ironwork for the Centennial Exhibition buildings and much of the material for the Brooklyn Bridge. In 1873 he reorganized the William Butcher Steel Works, renaming it the Midvale Steel Company, and under his presidency it became a leader in the production of heavy ordnance. It was at the Midvale Steel Company that Frederick W. Taylor began, with the encouragement of Sellers, his experiments on cutting tools.

In 1860 Sellers obtained the American rights of the patent for the Giffard injector for feeding steam boilers. He later invented his own improvements to the injector, which numbered among his many other patents, most of which related to machine tools. Probably Sellers's most important contribution to the engineering industry was his proposal for a system of screw threads made in 1864 and later adopted as the American national standard.

Sellers was a founder member in 1880 of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was also a member of many other learned societies in America and other countries, including, in Britain, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Iron and Steel Institute.

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1) Компьютерная техника: Information Processing Technologies

2) Медицина: Instant Pressure Type

3) Военный термин: Image Perspective Transformation, incremental proof testing, infrared plume target, initial production test, installation preflight test, international planning team, группа готовой продукции (Integrated Product Team), ГГП, КРГ, комплексная рабочая группа

4) Религия: Intercessory Prayer Team

5) Юридический термин: Inmate Population Tracking, International Protection Teams

6) Страхование: налог на страховую премию (insurance premium tax)

7) Incentive Physical Training (мотивированная физподготовка, физуха) (в морской пехоте США)

8) Телекоммуникации: Internet Protocol Telephony

9) Сокращение: Integrated Product Team, Integrated Project Teams, Intelligent Procedure Trainer, internal pipe thread, iron pipe thread, Individual Perception Threshold, Institution of Petroleum Technologists, interested party transaction

10) Физика: Inductive Power Transfer

11) Электроника: Ideal Process Time

12) Нефть: Institute of Petroleum Technology, Нефтяной технологический институт (Великобритания; Institution of Petroleum Technologists)

13) Иммунология: Insulin Potentiation Therapy

14) Связь: IP Telephony

15) Деловая лексика: Integrated Processes And Technologies

16) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Island Project Team

17) Образование: Idea Proficiency Tests

18) Полимеры: Institute of Petroleum Technologists

19) Программирование: Ignite Paper Tape

20) Контроль качества: initial product test

21) Сахалин Р: Integrated Project Team

22) Химическое оружие: Integrated Process Team, Integration Process Team

23) Авиационная медицина: initial pilot training

24) Электротехника: interphase transformer

25) Должность: Information Processing And Technology, Integrated Physiological Trainer

26) Аэропорты: Williamsport, Pennsylvania USA

27) Программное обеспечение: Image Processing Toolbox, Imsl Productivity Toolkit, Imsl Productivity Tools, Innovative Print Tools

28) Корпоративное управление: interested party transactions

SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace, Electronics and information technology

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After secondary education at King Edward School, Birmingham, Boot studied physics at Birmingham University, obtaining his BSc in 1938 and PhD in 1941. With the outbreak of the Second World War, he became involved with Randall and others in the development of a source of microwave power suitable for use in radar transmitters. Following unsuccessful attempts to use klystrons, they turned to investigation of the magnetron, and by adding cavity resonators they obtained useful power on 21 February 1940 at a wavelength of 9.8 cm. By May a cavity magnetron radar system had been constructed at TRE, Swanage, and in September submarine periscopes were detected at a range of 7 miles (11 km).

In 1943 the physics department at Birmingham resumed its research in atomic physics and Boot moved to BTH at Rugby to continue development of magnetrons, but in 1945 he returned to Birmingham as Nuffield Research Fellow and helped construct the cyclotron there. Three years later he took up a post as a Principal Scientific Officer (PSO) at the Services Electronic Research Laboratories at Baldock, Hertfordshire, becoming a Senior PSO in 1954. He remained there until his retirement in 1977, variously carrying out research on microwaves, magnetrons, plasma physics and lasers.

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SUBJECT AREA: Broadcasting, Electronics and information technology, Telecommunications

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After initial education at Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, Fessenden studied at Bishops University, Lennoxville, Quebec. When he graduated in 1885, he became Principal of the Whitney Institute in Bermuda, but he left the following year to go to New York in pursuit of his scientific interests. There he met Edison and eventually became Chief Chemist at the latter's Laboratory in Orange, New Jersey. In 1890 he moved to the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, and two years later he returned to an academic career as Professor of Electrical Engineering, initially at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, and then at the Western University of Pennsylvania, where he worked on wireless communication. From 1900 to 1902 he carried out experiments in wireless telegraphy at the US Weather Bureau, filing several patents relating to wire and liquid thermal detectors, or barretters. Following this he set up the National Electric Signalling Company; under his direction, Alexanderson and other engineers at the General Electric Company developed a high-frequency alternator that enabled him to build the first radiotelephony transmitter at Brant Rock, Massachusetts. This made its initial broadcast of speech and music on 24 December 1906, received by ship's wireless operators several hundred miles away. Soon after this the transmitter was successfully used for two-way wireless telegraphy communication with Scotland. Following this landmark event, Fessenden produced numerous inventions, including a radio compass, an acoustic depth-finder and several submarine signalling devices, a turboelectric drive for battleships and, notably, in 1912 the heterodyne principle used in radio receivers to convert signals to a lower (intermediate) frequency.

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SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology

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Following secondary education at Ashton-inMakerfield Grammar School, Randall entered Manchester University to read physics, gaining a first class BSc in 1925 and his MSc in 1926. From 1926 to 1937 he was a research physicist at the General Electric Company (GEC) laboratories, where he worked on luminescent powders, following which he became Warren Research Fellow of the Royal Society at Birmingham University, studying electronic processes in luminescent solids. With the outbreak of the Second World War he became an honorary member of the university staff and transferred to a group working on the development of centrimetric radar. With Boot he was responsible for the development of the cavity magnetron, which had a major impact on the development of radar.

When Birmingham resumed its atomic research programme in 1943, Randall became a temporary lecturer at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. The following year he was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, but in 1946 he moved again to the Wheatstone Chair of Physics at King's College, London. There his developing interest in biophysical research led to the setting up of a multi-disciplinary group in 1951 to study connective tissues and other biological components, and in 1950– 5 he was joint Editor of Progress in Biophysics. From 1961 until his retirement in 1970 he was Professor of Biophysics at King's College and for most of that time he was also Chairman of the School of Biological Sciences. In addition, for many years he was honorary Director of the Medical Research Council Biophysics Research Unit.

After he retired he returned to Edinburgh and continued to study biological problems in the university zoology laboratory.

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SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology

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Stibitz spent his early years in Dayton, Ohio, and obtained his first degree at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, his MS from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1927 and his PhD in mathematical physics from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1930. After working for a time for General Electric, he joined Bell Laboratories to work on various communications problems. In 1937 he started to experiment at home with telephone relays as the basis of a calculator for addition, multiplication and division. Initially this was based on binary arithmetic, but later he used binary-coded decimal (BCD) and was able to cope with complex numbers. In November 1938 the ideas were officially taken up by Bell Laboratories and, with S.B.Williams as Project Manager, Stibitz built a complex-number computer known as "Complex", or Relay I, which became operational on 8 January 1940.

With the outbreak of the Second World War, he was co-opted to the National Defence Research Council to work on anti-aircraft (AA) gun control, and this led to Bell Laboratories Relay II computer, which was completed in 1943 and which had 500 relays, bi-quinary code and selfchecking of errors. A further computer, Relay III, was used for ballistic simulation of actual AA shell explosions and was followed by more machines before and after Stibitz left Bell after the end of the war. Stibitz then became a computer consultant, involved in particular with the development of the UNIVAC computer by John Mauchly and J.Presper Eckert.

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