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nаппарат (правительственный и т.п.)- administrative apparatusto allocate enormous sums towards the upkeep of the Royal apparatus — ассигновать огромные суммы на содержание аппарата королевского двора
- apparatus of coercion
- apparatus of state power
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4 Davis, Robert Henry
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 6 June 1870 London, Englandd. 29 March 1965 Epsom, Surrey, England[br]English inventor of breathing, diving and escape apparatus.[br]Davis was the son of a detective with the City of London police. At the age of 11 he entered the employment of Siebe, Gorman \& Co., manufacturers of diving and other safety equipment since 1819, at their Lambeth works. By good fortune, his neat handwriting attracted the notice of Mr Gorman and he was transferred to work in the office. He studied hard after working hours and rose steadily in the firm. In his twenties he was promoted to Assistant Manager, then General Manager, Managing Director and finally Governing Director. He retired in 1960, having been made Life President the previous year, and continued to attend the office regularly until May 1964.Davis's entire career was devoted to research and development in the firm's special field. In 1906 he perfected the first practicable oxygen-breathing apparatus for use in mine rescue; it was widely adopted and with modifications was still in use in the 1990s. With Professor Leonard Hill he designed a deep-sea diving-bell incorporating a decompression chamber. He also invented an oxygen-breathing apparatus and heated apparel for airmen flying at high altitudes.Immediately after the first German gas attacks on the Western Front in April 1915, Davis devised a respirator, known as the stocking skene or veil mask. He quickly organized the mass manufacture of this device, roping in members of his family and placing the work in the homes of Lambeth: within 48 hours the first consignment was being sent off to France.He was a member of the Admiralty Deep Sea Diving Committee, which in 1933 completed tables for the safe ascent of divers with oxygen from a depth of 300 ft (91 m). They were compiled by Davis in conjunction with Professors J.B.S.Haldane and Leonard Hill and Captain G.C.Damant, the Royal Navy's leading diving expert. With revisions these tables have been used by the Navy ever since. Davis's best-known invention was first used in 1929: the Davis Submarine Escape Apparatus. It became standard equipment on submarines until it was replaced by the Built-in Breathing System, which the firm began manufacturing in 1951.The firm's works were bombed during the Second World War and were re-established at Chessington, Surrey. The extensive research facilities there were placed at the disposal of the Royal Navy and the Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit. Davis worked with Haldane and Hill on problems of the underwater physiology of working divers. A number of inventions issued from Chessington, such as the human torpedo, midget submarine and human minesweeper. In the early 1950s the firm helped to pioneer the use of underwater television to investigate the sinking of the submarine Affray and the crashed Comet jet airliners.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1932.BibliographyDavis was the author of several manuals on diving including Deep Sea Diving and Submarine Operations and Breathing in Irrespirable Atmospheres. He also wrote Resuscitation: A Brief Personal History of Siebe, Gorman \& Co. 1819–1957.Further ReadingObituary, 1965, The Times, 31 March, p. 16.LRD -
5 Wollaston, William Hyde
SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy[br]b. 6 August 1766 East Dereham, Norfolk, Englandd. 22 December 1828 London, England[br]English chemist and metallurgist who discovered palladium and rhodium, pioneer in the fabrication of platinum.[br]Wollaston qualified in medicine at Cambridge University but gave up his practice in 1800 to devote himself to chemistry and metallurgy, funded from the profits from making malleable platinum. In partnership with Smithson Tennant, a friend from his Cambridge days, he worked on the extraction of platinum by dissolving it in aqua regia. In 1802 he found that in addition to platinum the solution contained a new metal, which he named palladium. Two years later he identified another new metal, rhodium.Wollaston developed a method of forming platinum by means of powder metallurgy and was the first to produce malleable and ductile platinum on a commercial scale. He produced platinum vessels for sulphuric acid manufacture and scientific apparatus such as crucibles. He devised an elegant method for forming fine platinum wire. He also applied his inventive talents to improving scientific apparatus, including the sextant and microscope and a reflecting goniometer for measuring crystal angles. In 1807 he was appointed Joint Secretary of the Royal Society with Sir Humphry Davy, which entailed a heavy workload and required them to referee all the papers submitted to the Society for publication.Wollaston's output of platinum began to decline after 1822. Due to ill health he ceased business operations in 1828 and at last made public the details of his secret platinum fabrication process. It was fully described in the Bakerian Lecture he delivered to the Royal Society on 28 November 1828, shortly before his death.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1793.BibliographyHis scientific papers were published in various journals, nearly all listed in the Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers.Further ReadingThere is no good general biography, the best general account being the entry inDictionary of Scientific Biography.D.McDonald, 1960, A History of Platinum from the Earliest Times to the Eighteen- Eighties, London (provides a good discussion of his work on platinum).M.E.Weeks, 1939, "The discovery of the elements", Journal of Chemical Education: 184–5.ASDBiographical history of technology > Wollaston, William Hyde
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6 Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio
SUBJECT AREA: Electricity[br]b. 18 February 1745 Como, Italyd. 5 March 1827 Como, Italy[br]Italian physicist, discoverer of a source of continuous electric current from a pile of dissimilar metals.[br]Volta had an early command of English, French and Latin, and also learned to read Dutch and Spanish. After completing studies at the Royal Seminary in Como he was involved in the study of physics, chemistry and electricity. He became a teacher of physics in his native town and in 1779 was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Pavia, a post he held for forty years.With a growing international reputation and a wish to keep abreast of the latest developments, in 1777 he began the first of many travels abroad. A journey started in 1781 to Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France and England lasted about one year. By 1791 he had been elected to membership of many learned societies, including those in Zurich, Berlin, Berne and Paris. Volta's invention of his pile resulted from a controversy with Luigi Galvani, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Bologna. Galvani discovered that the muscles of frogs' legs contracted when touched with two pieces of different metals and attributed this to a phenomenon of the animal tissue. Volta showed that the excitation was due to a chemical reaction resulting from the contact of the dissimilar metals when moistened. His pile comprised a column of zinc and silver discs, each pair separated by paper moistened with brine, and provided a source of continuous current from a simple and accessible source. The effectiveness of the pile decreased as the paper dried and Volta devised his crown of cups, which had a longer life. In this, pairs of dissimilar metals were placed in each of a number of cups partly filled with an electrolyte such as brine. Volta first announced the results of his experiments with dissimilar metals in 1800 in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. This letter, published in the Transactions of the Royal Society, has been regarded as one of the most important documents in the history of science. Large batteries were constructed in a number of laboratories soon after Volta's discoveries became known, leading immediately to a series of developments in electrochemistry and eventually in electromagnetism. Volta himself made little further contribution to science. In recognition of his achievement, at a meeting of the International Electrical Congress in Paris in 1881 it was agreed to name the unit of electrical pressure the "volt".[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1791. Royal Society Copley Medal 1794. Knight of the Iron Crown, Austria, 1806. Senator of the Realm of Lombardy 1809.Bibliography1800, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 18:744–6 (Volta's report on his discovery).Further ReadingG.Polvani, 1942, Alessandro Volta, Pisa (the best account available).B.Dibner, 1964, Alessandro Volta and the Electric Battery, New York (a detailed account).C.C.Gillispie (ed.), 1976, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. XIV, New York, pp.66–82 (includes an extensive biography).F.Soresni, 1988, Alessandro Volta, Milan (includes illustrations of Volta's apparatus, with brief text).GWBiographical history of technology > Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio
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7 Acres, Birt
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. 23 July 1854 Virginia, USAd. 1918[br]American photographer, inventor and pioneer cinematographer.[br]Born of English parents and educated in Paris, Acres travelled to England in the 1880s. He worked for the photographic manufacturing firm Elliott \& Co. in Barnet, near London, and became the Manager. He became well known through his frequent lectures, demonstrations and articles in the photographic press. The appearance of the Edison kinetoscope in 1893 seems to have aroused his interest in the recording and reproduction of movement.At the beginning of 1895 he took his idea for a camera to Robert Paul, an instrument maker, and they collaborated on the building of a working camera, which Acres used to record the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race on 30 March 1895. He filmed the Derby at Epsom on 29 May and the opening of the Kiel Canal in June, as well as ten other subjects for the kinetoscope, which were sold by Paul. Acres's association with Paul ended in July 1895. Acres had patented the camera design, the Kinetic Lantern, on 27 May 1895 and then went on to design a projector with which he gave the first successful presentation of projected motion pictures to take place in Britain, at the Royal Photographic Society's meeting on 14 January 1896. At the end of the month Acres formed his own business, the Northern Photographic Company, to supply film stock, process and print exposed film, and to make finished film productions.His first shows to the public, using the renamed Kineopticon projector, started in Piccadilly Circus on 21 March 1896. He later toured the country with his show. He was honoured with a Royal Command Performance at Marlborough House on 21 July 1896 before members of the royal family. Although he made a number of films for his own use, they and his equipment were used only for his own demonstrations. His last contribution to cinematography was the design and patenting in 1898 of the first low-cost system for amateur use, the Birtac, which was first shown on 25 January 1899 and marketed in May of that year. It used half-width film, 17.5 mm wide, and the apparatus served as camera, printer and projector.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFellow of the Royal Photographic Society 1895.Bibliography27 May 1895 (the Kinetic Lantern).9 June 1898 (the Birtac).Further ReadingJ.Barnes, 1976, The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, London. B.Coe, 1980, The History of Movie Photography, London.BC -
8 Maughan, Benjamin Waddy
SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors[br]fl. c. 1868 London, England[br]English inventor of the first gas geyser.[br]Maughan was a decorative painter in the Clerkenwell district of London. He invented the first instantaneous domestic water-heater, which did not utilize solid fuel. He christened his device a geyser, taking the name from the Icelandic word geysir, which is the name of a specific hot spring there and means "gusher". He patented the geyser on 23 December 1868. In his design the cold water entered from the top of the apparatus, then flowed downwards by means of constricting wires to be heated by hot gases rising from the burner below. Hot water then flowed into the bath or sink. No flue was fitted to conduct tainted air and gases from the bathroom. An impressive example of Maughan's geyser is on display in the Science Museum in London. The fittings are of brass and the casing is painted in marbled green, it stands on three curved legs and displays the Royal Arms.[br]Bibliography1868, "Improvements in apparatus for the heating of water and other liquids, applicable for baths and other purposes", British patent no. 3,917 (provides a very long account of the details of the invention and its purpose).DYBiographical history of technology > Maughan, Benjamin Waddy
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9 RBA
1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Receptor Binding Assay, hum. сокр. Reproduction Biology Associates, Atlanta, Georgia, Registration Board of Assessors2) Американизм: Revolution By Assassination3) Военный термин: Ranger Battalions Association, radio beacon array, reentry body assembly, rescue breathing apparatus, rotary beam antenna, rotor blade antenna4) Техника: radial blanket assembly5) Музыка: Redwood Bluegrass Associates6) Сокращение: Royal Bhutan Army, Royal Society of British Artists, Reliability Branching Algorithm, Radio Binding Assay, Radiobinding Assay, Radioligand Binding Assay, Rat Brain Astrocytes, Receptor Binding Affinity, Relative Binding Affinity, Renaturation Blotting Assay, Respiratory Burst Activity, Retrobulbar Anaesthesia, Rhythmical Bursting Activity, Right Basilar Artery, Risk Based Approach8) Банковское дело: резервный банк Австралии (Reserve Bank of Australia), ЦБ Австралии9) Фирменный знак: Reproduction Biology Associates, Atlanta, Georgia10) Программирование: Relative Byte Address11) Макаров: relative binding affinities12) NYSE. Ritchie Brothers Auctioneers, Inc. -
10 signal
1. nounSignal, dasat a signal from the headmaster — auf ein Zeichen des Direktors
the signal was against us/at red — (Railw.) das Signal zeigte "halt"/stand auf Rot
hand signals — (Motor Veh.) Handzeichen
2. intransitive verb,radio signal — Funkspruch, der
(Brit.) - ll- signalisieren; Signale geben; [Kraftfahrer:] blinken; (using hand etc. signals) anzeigen3. transitive verb,signal to somebody [to do something] — jemandem ein Zeichen geben[, etwas zu tun]
(Brit.) - ll-1) (lit. or fig.) signalisierensignal somebody [to do something] — jemandem ein Zeichen geben[, etwas zu tun]
4. adjectivethe driver signalled that he was turning right — der Fahrer zeigte an, dass er [nach] rechts abbiegen wollte
* * *['siɡnəl] 1. noun1) (a sign (eg a movement of the hand, a light, a sound), especially one arranged beforehand, giving a command, warning or other message: He gave the signal to advance.) das Signal2) (a machine etc used for this purpose: a railway signal.) das Signal3) (the wave, sound received or sent out by a radio set etc.) das Signal2. verb1) (to make signals (to): The policeman signalled the driver to stop.) Zeichen geben2) (to send (a message etc) by means of signals.) signalisieren•- academic.ru/67212/signalman">signalman* * *sig·nal[ˈsɪgnəl]I. nthey are demanding a clear \signal that the issues are being addressed sie verlangen ein klares [An]zeichen dafür, dass die Probleme angegangen wurdenII. vt1. (indicate)▪ to \signal sth [to sb] [jdm] etw signalisierenhe \signalled left, but turned right er blinkte nach links, bog aber nach rechts abto \signal impatience Ungeduld zu erkennen geben2. (gesticulate)▪ to \signal sb to do sth jdm signalisieren, etw zu tunIII. visignalisieren; TELEC meldenshe \signalled to them to be quiet sie gab ihnen ein Zeichen, ruhig zu sein* * *I ['sɪgnl]1. nto give the signal for sth — das Zeichen/Signal zu etw geben
4) (Brit MIL)Signals — ≈ Fernmelder pl, Angehörige der britischen Fernmeldetruppe Royal Corps of Signals
2. vt1) (= indicate) anzeigen; arrival, future event, spring etc ankündigento signal sb to do sth —
the policeman signalled (Brit) or signaled (US) the cars on — der Polizist gab den Autos das Zeichen weiterzufahren
that he was going to turn left — er zeigte an, dass er ( nach) links abbiegen wollte
to signal one's intention to do sth — anzeigen, dass man vorhat, etw zu tun
2) message signalisieren3. viein Zeichen gebento the waiter — er winkte dem Ober
he signaled for the check (US) — er winkte zum Zeichen, dass er zahlen wollte
the driver didn't signal — der Fahrer hat kein Zeichen gegeben or hat nicht angezeigt
IIfor reinforcements — der General forderte Verstärkung an
adj attr (liter)victory, courage beachtlich, bemerkenswert; success, contribution beachtlich; failure, stupidity eklatant (geh)* * *signal [ˈsıɡnl]A s2. ELEK, SCHIFF, MIL, TECH (Funk)Spruch m:Royal Corps of Signals, the Signals Br (die) Fernmeldetruppefor für, zu):give a signal ein Zeichen setzenB adj (adv signally)1. Signal…:signal beacon Signalbake f;signal engineering Fernmeldetechnik f;signal code Zeichenschlüssel m2. beachtlich, un-, außergewöhnlichC v/t prät und pperf -naled, besonders Br -nalled2. fig zu verstehen geben, signalisierensig. abk1. signal2. signature* * *1. nounSignal, dasa signal for something/to somebody — ein Zeichen zu etwas/für jemanden
the signal was against us/at red — (Railw.) das Signal zeigte "halt"/stand auf Rot
hand signals — (Motor Veh.) Handzeichen
2. intransitive verb,radio signal — Funkspruch, der
(Brit.) - ll- signalisieren; Signale geben; [Kraftfahrer:] blinken; (using hand etc. signals) anzeigen3. transitive verb,signal to somebody [to do something] — jemandem ein Zeichen geben[, etwas zu tun]
(Brit.) - ll-1) (lit. or fig.) signalisierensignal somebody [to do something] — jemandem ein Zeichen geben[, etwas zu tun]
the driver signalled that he was turning right — der Fahrer zeigte an, dass er [nach] rechts abbiegen wollte
2) (Radio etc.) funken; [über Funk] durchgeben4. adjective* * *n.Signal e) n.Zeichen - n. v.signalisieren v. -
11 Gregory, Sir Charles Hutton
[br]b. 14 October 1817 Woolwich, Englandd. 10 January 1898 London, England[br]English civil engineer, inventor of the railway semaphore signal.[br]Gregory's father was Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.C.H. Gregory himself, after working for Robert Stephenson, was appointed Engineer to the London \& Croydon Railway in 1839. On it, at New Cross in 1841, he installed a semaphore signal derived from signalling apparatus used by the Royal Navy; two hinged semaphore arms projected either side from the top of a post, signalling to drivers of trains in each direction of travel. In horizontal position each arm signified "danger", an arm inclined at 45° meant "caution" and the vertical position, in which the arms disappeared within a slot in the post, meant "all right". Gregory's signal was the forerunner of semaphore signals adopted on railways worldwide. In 1843 Gregory invented the stirrup frame: signal arms were connected to stirrups that were pushed down by the signalman's foot in order to operate them, while the points were operated by levers. The stirrups were connected together to prevent conflicting signals from being shown. This was a predecessor of interlocking. In 1846 Gregory became Engineer to the Bristol \& Exeter Railway, where in 1848 he co-operated with W.B. Adams in the development and operation of the first self-propelled railcar. He later did civil engineering work in Italy and France, was Engineer to the Somerset Central and Dorset Central railways and became Consulting Engineer for the government railways in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Cape of Good Hope, Straits Settlements and Trinidad.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsCompanion of the Order of St Michael and St George 1876. Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George 1883. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1867– 8.Bibliography1841, Practical Rules for the Management of a Locomotive Engine, London (one of the earliest such textbooks).Further ReadingObituary, 1898, Engineering 65 (14 January). See also Saxby, John.PJGRBiographical history of technology > Gregory, Sir Charles Hutton
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12 Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo
[br]b. 25 April 1874 Bologna, Italyd. 20 July 1937 Rome, Italy[br]Italian radio pioneer whose inventiveness and business skills made radio communication a practical proposition.[br]Marconi was educated in physics at Leghorn and at Bologna University. An avid experimenter, he worked in his parents' attic and, almost certainly aware of the recent work of Hertz and others, soon improved the performance of coherers and spark-gap transmitters. He also discovered for himself the use of earthing and of elevated metal plates as aerials. In 1895 he succeeded in transmitting telegraphy over a distance of 2 km (1¼ miles), but the Italian Telegraph authority rejected his invention, so in 1896 he moved to England, where he filed the first of many patents. There he gained the support of the Chief Engineer of the Post Office, and by the following year he had achieved communication across the Bristol Channel.The British Post Office was also slow to take up his work, so in 1897 he formed the Wireless Telegraph \& Signal Company to work independently. In 1898 he sold some equipment to the British Army for use in the Boer War and established the first permanent radio link from the Isle of Wight to the mainland. In 1899 he achieved communication across the English Channel (a distance of more than 31 miles or 50 km), the construction of a wireless station at Spezia, Italy, and the equipping of two US ships to report progress in the America's Cup yacht race, a venture that led to the formation of the American Marconi Company. In 1900 he won a contract from the British Admiralty to sell equipment and to train operators. Realizing that his business would be much more successful if he could offer his customers a complete radio-communication service (known today as a "turnkey" deal), he floated a new company, the Marconi International Marine Communications Company, while the old company became the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company.His greatest achievement occurred on 12 December 1901, when Morse telegraph signals from a transmitter at Poldhu in Cornwall were received at St John's, Newfoundland, a distance of some 2,100 miles (3,400 km), with the use of an aerial flown by a kite. As a result of this, Marconi's business prospered and he became internationally famous, receiving many honours for his endeavours, including the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. In 1904, radio was first used to provide a daily bulletin at sea, and in 1907 a transatlantic wireless telegraphy service was inaugurated. The rescue of 1,650 passengers from the shipwreck of SS Republic in 1909 was the first of many occasions when wireless was instrumental in saving lives at sea, most notable being those from the Titanic on its maiden voyage in April 1912; more lives would have been saved had there been sufficient lifeboats. Marconi was one of those who subsequently pressed for greater safety at sea. In 1910 he demonstrated the reception of long (8 km or 5 miles) waves from Ireland in Buenos Aires, but after the First World War he began to develop the use of short waves, which were more effectively reflected by the ionosphere. By 1918 the first link between England and Australia had been established, and in 1924 he was awarded a Post Office contract for short-wave communication between England and the various parts of the British Empire.With his achievements by then recognized by the Italian Government, in 1915 he was appointed Radio-Communications Adviser to the Italian armed forces, and in 1919 he was an Italian delegate to the Paris Peace Conference. From 1921 he lived on his yacht, the Elettra, and although he joined the Fascist Party in 1923, he later had reservations about Mussolini.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsNobel Prize for Physics (jointly with K.F. Braun) 1909. Russian Order of S t Anne. Commander of St Maurice and St Lazarus. Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (i.e. Knight) of Italy 1902. Freedom of Rome 1903. Honorary DSc Oxford. Honorary LLD Glasgow. Chevalier of the Civil Order of Savoy 1905. Royal Society of Arts Albert Medal. Honorary knighthood (GCVO) 1914. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Medal of Honour 1920. Chairman, Royal Society of Arts 1924. Created Marquis (Marchese) 1929. Nominated to the Italian Senate 1929. President, Italian Academy 1930. Rector, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 1934.Bibliography1896, "Improvements in transmitting electrical impulses and in apparatus thereof", British patent no. 12,039.1 June 1898, British patent no. 12,326 (transformer or "jigger" resonant circuit).1901, British patent no. 7,777 (selective tuning).1904, British patent no. 763,772 ("four circuit" tuning arrangement).Further ReadingD.Marconi, 1962, My Father, Marconi.W.J.Baker, 1970, A History of the Marconi Company, London: Methuen.KFBiographical history of technology > Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo
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13 BASAR
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14 FTA
1) Компьютерная техника: fixed transponder assignment3) Американизм: Free Trade Agreement4) Спорт: A Fault Tree Agenda, Free Throws Attempted5) Военный термин: Feed Tray Assembly, Field Training Area, Foam Test Apparatus, Fun, Travel, and Adventure, Functions, Tasks, and Activities, fast time analyzer, fence tamper alarm, fighter tactical defensive all-weather, fixed time of arrival, frangible training ammunition6) Юридический термин: Failure to Appear, Free To Air7) Коммерция: соглашение о свободной торговле (free trade agreement)8) Грубое выражение: Fuck The Army, Fuck The Aussies9) Сокращение: Foreign Technology Assessment, Free Trade Association, Future Transport Aircraft (UK Royal Air Force), failure to agree10) Университет: Future Teachers Association, Future Teachers Of America11) Электроника: Full test approval12) Сленг: Fuck the Army (к чёрту армию!)13) Вычислительная техника: failure tree analysis, Floptical Technology Association (3M u.a.)14) Нефть: анализ дерева неисправностей (fault tree analysis)15) Иммунология: fluorescence treponemal antibody16) Транспорт: Federal Transit Administration17) Атомная энергия: анализ дерева отказов18) Налоги: ФНС (Federal tax agency)19) Деловая лексика: Financial Futures Market Amsterdam20) Сетевые технологии: File Transfer Agent21) Программирование: анализ дерева недочётов ( Fault Tree Analysis)22) Сахалин Ю: field terminal assembly23) Химическое оружие: Fault tree analysis24) Безопасность: first to alarm25) Расходометрия: Flow Technology Advisor26) Аэропорты: Futuna Island, Vanuatu27) Международная торговля: Free Trade Agreement/Area -
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16 RE
re sustantivo masculino ( nota) D; ( en solfeo) re, ray
re m Mús (en la escala diatónica) D
re bemol, D-flat
re mayor/menor, D major/minor
re sostenido, D-sharp (en solfeo) re 're' also found in these entries: Spanish: abrir - adónde - adyacente - ahumar - aplanar - atajo - atizar - aturullarse - aún - bobada - boquilla - bribón - bribona - buena - bueno - buscarse - cachaza - callar - canción - celebrar - complaciente - compromiso - conquista - consuelo - contraluz - contrapelo - contrasentido - crisma - cuantificar - desprenderse - desriñonarse - detallada - detallado - diversión - ejemplo - empezar - emplazar - enclenque - entrada - entrado - entrenarse - ermita - escacharrar - esperar - espesa - espeso - estar - este - estercolar - evidenciar English: aberration - accelerate - acceleration - accelerator - admiration - adulterate - alteration - ameliorate - apparatus - Arabian - arraign - arrange - arrangement - array - aspiration - bounce - carburetor - carburettor - collaborate - collaboration - collaborator - commemorate - commiserate - confederation - configuration - conglomeration - consideration - cooperate - cooperation - corporation - corroborate - courageous - curator - D - decelerate - declaration - decorate - decoration - decorator - degenerate - degeneration - deliberate - deliberation - derail - deranged - desperation - deteriorate - deterioration - disarray - discolorationretr[riː]1 respecto a, con referencia areprep.• con referencia a prep.• respecto a prep.noun (BrE) (= religious education) religión fN ABBR1) (Brit)(Scol) = religious education ed. religiosa2) (Brit)(Mil) = Royal Engineers* * *noun (BrE) (= religious education) religión f -
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Civil Affairs Administration [Training] school — школа [училище] специалистов по связям с гражданской администрацией и населением
jungle warfare (training) school — школа [курсы] подготовки (ЛС) для действий в джунглях
small arms (firing) school — школа [курсы] стрелковой подготовки
— administrative service school— basic-level service school— career-level service school— gunnery training school— intermediate-level service school— military training school— NBC defense school— top-level service school -
18 champion
1. n спорт. чемпион2. n победитель; получивший первый приз, первый призёр3. n защитник, поборник; борецchampions of peace — борцы за мир, сторонники мира
4. n ирон. мастер5. n поэт. воин, витязь6. a первый среди соревнующихся; получивший первый призchampion bull — бык, получивший первый приз
7. a разг. первоклассный, замечательныйhow do you feel? — Champion, thank you — как вы себя чувствуете? — Спасибо, прекрасно
8. v защищать, отстаивать; боротьсяСинонимический ряд:1. excellent (adj.) A1; bang-up; banner; blue-ribbon; bully; capital; classic; classical; excellent; exceptional; famous; fine; first-class; first-rate; first-string; five-star; front-rank; Grade A; great; number one; outstanding; par excellence; prime; quality; royal; skookum; sovereign; splendid; stunning; superb; superior; tiptop; top; topflight; top-notch; whiz-bang2. first (adj.) arch; chief; first; foremost; head; leading; premier; principal3. incomparable (adj.) incomparable; inimitable; matchless; peerless4. defender (noun) advocate; ally; backer; defender; exponent; expounder; partisan; patron; proponent; protector; sponsor; supporter; vindicator5. fighter (noun) brave; fighter; warrior6. winner (noun) conqueror; hero; master; vanquisher; victor; winner7. back (verb) advocate; back; backstop; espouse; get behind; plump for; promote; side with; stand behind; support8. defend (verb) defend; fight for; maintain; protect; upholdАнтонимический ряд:loser; mediocre; opponent; oppose; ordinary -
19 Blackett, William Cuthbert
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 18 November 1859 Durham, Englandd. 13 June 1935 Durham, England[br]English mine manager, expert in preventing mine explosions and inventor of a coal-face conveyor.[br]After leaving Durham college of Physical Science and having been apprenticed in different mines, he received the certificate for colliery managers and subsequently, in 1887, was appointed Manager of all the mines of Charlaw and Sacriston collieries in Durham. He remained in this position for the rest of his working life.Frequent explosions in mines led him to investigate the causes. He was among the first to recognize the role contributed by coal-dust on mine roads, pioneered the use of inert rock-or stone-dust to render the coal-dust harmless and was the originator of many technical terms on the subject. He contributed many papers on explosion and was appointed a member of many advisory committees on prevention measures. A liquid-air rescue apparatus, designed by him and patented in 1910, was installed in various parts of the country.Blackett also developed various new devices in mining machinery. He patented a wire-rope socket which made use of a metal wedge; invented a rotary tippler driven by frictional contact instead of gearing and which stopped automatically; and he designed a revolving cylindrical coal-washer, which also gained interest among German mining engineers. His most important invention, the first successful coal-face conveyor, was patented in 1902. It was driven by compressed air and consisted of a trough running along the length of the race through which ran an endless scraper chain. Thus fillers cast the coal into the trough, and the scraper chain drew it to the main gate to be loaded into trams.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. OBE. Honorary MSc University of Durham; Honorary LLD University of Birmingham. Honorary Member, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. Honorary Member, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Royal Humane Society Medal.Further ReadingTransactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers (1934–5) 89:339–41.Mining Association of Great Britain (ed.), 1924, Historical Review of Coal Mining London (describes early mechanical devices for the extraction of coal).WKBiographical history of technology > Blackett, William Cuthbert
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20 Garforth, William Edward
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 1845 Dukinfield, Cheshire, Englandd. 1 October 1921 Pontefract, Yorkshire, England[br]English colliery manager, pioneer in machine-holing and the safety of mines.[br]After Menzies conceived his idea of breaking off coal with machines in 1761, many inventors subsequently followed his proposals through into the practice of underground working. More than one century later, Garforth became one of the principal pioneers of machine-holing combined with the longwall method of working in order to reduce production costs and increase the yield of coal. Having been appointed agent to Pope \& Pearson's Collieries, West Yorkshire, in 1879, of which company he later became Managing Director and Chairman, he gathered a great deal of experience with different methods of cutting coal. The first disc machine was exhibited in London as early as 1851, and ten years later a pick machine was invented. In 1893 he introduced an improved type of deep undercutting machine, his "diamond" disc coal-cutter, driven by compressed air, which also became popular on the European continent.Besides the considerable economic advantages it created, the use of machinery for mining coal increased the safety of working in hard and thin seams. The improvement of safety in mining technology was always his primary concern, and as a result of his inventions and his many publications he became the leading figure in the British coal mining industry at the beginning of the twentieth century; safety lamps still carry his name. In 1885 he invented a firedamp detector, and following a severe explosion in 1886 he concentrated on coal-dust experiments. From the information he obtained of the effect of stone-dust on a coal-dust explosion he proposed the stone-dust remedy to prevent explosions of coal-dust. As a result of discussions which lasted for decades and after he had been entrusted with the job of conducting the British coal-dust experiments, in 1921 an Act made it compulsory in all mines which were not naturally wet throughout to treat all roads with incombustible dust so as to ensure that the dust always consisted of a mixture containing not more than 50 per cent combustible matter. In 1901 Garforth erected a surface gallery which represented the damaged roadways of a mine and could be filled with noxious fumes to test self-contained breathing apparata. This gallery formed the model from which all the rescue-stations existing nowadays have been developed.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1914. LLD Universities of Birmingham and Leeds 1912. President, Midland Institute 1892–4. President, The Institution of Mining Engineers 1911–14. President, Mining Association of Great Britain 1907–8. Chairman, Standing Committee on Mining, Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Fellow of the Geological Society of London. North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers Greenwell Silver Medal 1907. Royal Society of Arts Fothergill Gold Medal 1910. Medal of the Institution of Mining Engineers 1914.Bibliography1901–2, "The application of coal-cutting machines to deep mining", Transactions of the Federated Institute of Mining Engineers 23: 312–45.1905–6, "A new apparatus for rescue-work in mines", Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers 31:625–57.1902, "British Coal-dust Experiments". Paper communicated to the International Congress on Mining, Metallurgy, Applied Mechanics and Practical Geology, Dusseldorf.Further ReadingGarforth's name is frequently mentioned in connection with coal-holing, but his outstanding achievements in improving safety in mines are only described in W.D.Lloyd, 1921, "Memoir", Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers 62:203–5.WKBiographical history of technology > Garforth, William Edward
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