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1 Titanic-Katastrophe
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2 Biles, Sir John Harvard
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 1854 Portsmouth, Englandd. 27 October 1933 Scotland (?)[br]English naval architect, academic and successful consultant in the years when British shipbuilding was at its peak.[br]At the conclusion of his apprenticeship at the Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth, Biles entered the Royal School of Naval Architecture, South Kensington, London; as it was absorbed by the Royal Naval College, he graduated from Greenwich to the Naval Construction Branch, first at Pembroke and later at the Admiralty. From the outset of his professional career it was apparent that he had the intellectual qualities that would enable him to oversee the greatest changes in ship design of all time. He was one of the earliest proponents of the revolutionary work of the hydrodynamicist William Froude.In 1880 Biles turned to the merchant sector, taking the post of Naval Architect to J. \& G. Thomson (later John Brown \& Co.). Using Froude's Law of Comparisons he was able to design the record-breaking City of Paris of 1887, the ship that started the fabled succession of fast and safe Clyde bank-built North Atlantic liners. For a short spell, before returning to Scotland, Biles worked in Southampton. In 1891 Biles accepted the Chair of Naval Architecture at the University of Glasgow. Working from the campus at Gilmorehill, he was to make the University (the oldest school of engineering in the English-speaking world) renowned in naval architecture. His workload was legendary, but despite this he was admired as an excellent lecturer with cheerful ways which inspired devotion to the Department and the University. During the thirty years of his incumbency of the Chair, he served on most of the important government and international shipping committees, including those that recommended the design of HMS Dreadnought, the ordering of the Cunarders Lusitania and Mauretania and the lifesaving improvements following the Titanic disaster. An enquiry into the strength of destroyer hulls followed the loss of HMS Cobra and Viper, and he published the report on advanced experimental work carried out on HMS Wolf by his undergraduates.In 1906 he became Consultant Naval Architect to the India Office, having already set up his own consultancy organization, which exists today as Sir J.H.Biles and Partners. His writing was prolific, with over twenty-five papers to professional institutions, sundry articles and a two-volume textbook.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1913. Knight Commander of the Indian Empire 1922. Master of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights 1904.Bibliography1905, "The strength of ships with special reference to experiments and calculations made upon HMS Wolf", Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects.1911, The Design and Construction of Ships, London: Griffin.Further ReadingC.A.Oakley, 1973, History of a Facuity, Glasgow University.FMWBiographical history of technology > Biles, Sir John Harvard
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3 descomunal
adj.tremendous, enormous.* * *► adjetivo1 huge, enormous* * *adj.1) enormous, giant, huge* * *ADJ huge, enormous* * ** * *= ginormous, humongous [humungous], mammoth, colossal, show-stopping [showstopping], monstrous, a monster of a, larger-than-life, titanic, sky-high, gianormous.Ex. They have a ginormous share of the market!.Ex. The word ' humongous' first darted onto the linguistic stage only about 1968 but hit the big time almost immediately and has been with us ever since.Ex. The only problem is the mammoth task of interfiling new cards, especially in catalogues where there are large numbers of new or amended entries.Ex. University libraries have a problem in theft of books which is running at a colossal rate.Ex. But such tools can be the difference between a system slowdown and a show-stopping disaster.Ex. Bogardus privately resolved that nothing would induce her to assent to this monstrous possibility.Ex. Hurricane Rita became a monster of a storm as it gathered strength over the Gulf of Mexico.Ex. Significant political events often summon forth larger-than-life figures and the inevitable clash of titans.Ex. He wrote about the titanic struggle of human physical and moral forces to be freed from this material world.Ex. Many young people are still marrying in spite of trends that are witnessing sky-high divorce rates.Ex. The upside, and its a gianormous upside, is that there is so much variety.----* estupidez descomunal = nonsense on stilts.* * ** * *= ginormous, humongous [humungous], mammoth, colossal, show-stopping [showstopping], monstrous, a monster of a, larger-than-life, titanic, sky-high, gianormous.Ex: They have a ginormous share of the market!.
Ex: The word ' humongous' first darted onto the linguistic stage only about 1968 but hit the big time almost immediately and has been with us ever since.Ex: The only problem is the mammoth task of interfiling new cards, especially in catalogues where there are large numbers of new or amended entries.Ex: University libraries have a problem in theft of books which is running at a colossal rate.Ex: But such tools can be the difference between a system slowdown and a show-stopping disaster.Ex: Bogardus privately resolved that nothing would induce her to assent to this monstrous possibility.Ex: Hurricane Rita became a monster of a storm as it gathered strength over the Gulf of Mexico.Ex: Significant political events often summon forth larger-than-life figures and the inevitable clash of titans.Ex: He wrote about the titanic struggle of human physical and moral forces to be freed from this material world.Ex: Many young people are still marrying in spite of trends that are witnessing sky-high divorce rates.Ex: The upside, and its a gianormous upside, is that there is so much variety.* estupidez descomunal = nonsense on stilts.* * *‹estatura/fuerza/suma› enormous, colossal; ‹apetito› huge, colossalun hombre de un tamaño descomunal an enormous man, a giant of a man* * *
descomunal adjetivo huge, massive
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* * *descomunal adjenormous, tremendous;un descomunal edificio a huge o an enormous building;era un tipo descomunal he was a huge guy;tengo un hambre descomunal I'm absolutely starving;tuvieron una bronca descomunal they had a tremendous argument* * *adj huge, enormous* * *descomunal adj1) enorme: enormous, huge2) extraordinario: extraordinary -
4 Untergang
m1. der Sonne etc.: setting2. NAUT. sinking3. nur Sg.; fig. allmählicher: decline; totaler: downfall; eines Reichs etc.: fall; einer Kultur etc.: extinction; (Ruin) auch iro. ruin; der Untergang der Welt the end of the world, doomsday; das ist noch sein Untergang auch umg., fig. that’ll be the ruin of him yet; dem Untergang geweiht sein be doomed* * *der Untergang(Niedergang) decline; downfall; ruin;(Schiffsuntergang) sinking;(Sonnenuntergang) setting;(Tod) fate* * *Ụn|ter|gangm pl - gänge1) (von Schiff) sinking2) (von Gestirn) setting3) (= das Zugrundegehen) (allmählich) decline; (völlig) destruction; (der Welt) end; (von Individuum) downfall, ruin* * *(a disastrous fall, especially a final failure or ruin: the downfall of our hopes.) downfall* * *Un·ter·gang<- gänge>m1. (das Versinken) sinkingder \Untergang der Titanic the sinking of the Titanic2. (Sinken unter den Horizont) settingder \Untergang der Sonne the setting of the sun3. (Zerstörung) destructionder \Untergang einer Zivilisation the decline of civilizationvom \Untergang bedroht sein to be threatened by destructionetw/jd geht seinem \Untergang entgegen sth/sb is heading for disasterder \Untergang des Römischen Reiches the fall of the Roman Empire4. (Verlust) loss\Untergang eines Pfandes extinguishment of lien\Untergang von Waren loss of goodszufälliger \Untergang accidental loss* * *1) (SonnenUntergang, MondUntergang usw.) setting2) (von Schiffen) sinking* * *1. der Sonne etc: setting2. SCHIFF sinking3. nur sg; fig allmählicher: decline; totaler: downfall; eines Reichs etc: fall; einer Kultur etc: extinction; (Ruin) auch iron ruin;der Untergang der Welt the end of the world, doomsday;das ist noch sein Untergang auch umg, fig that’ll be the ruin of him yet;dem Untergang geweiht sein be doomed* * *1) (SonnenUntergang, MondUntergang usw.) setting2) (von Schiffen) sinking* * *m.downfall n. -
5 Untergang
Un·ter·gang <- gänge> m1) ( das Versinken) sinking;der \Untergang der Titanic the sinking of the Titanic2) ( Sinken unter den Horizont) setting;der \Untergang der Sonne the setting of the sun3) ( Zerstörung) destruction;vom \Untergang bedroht sein to be threatened by destruction;etw/jd geht seinem \Untergang entgegen sth/sb is heading for disaster;der \Untergang des Römischen Reiches the fall of the Roman Empire
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