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1 Vickers-Armstrong
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2 Vickers-Armstrong (British gun manufacturer)
Abbreviation: VAУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Vickers-Armstrong (British gun manufacturer)
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3 Armstrong, Sir William George, Baron Armstrong of Cragside
[br]b. 26 November 1810 Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne, Englandd. 27 December 1900 Cragside, Northumbria, England[br]English inventor, engineer and entrepreneur in hydraulic engineering, shipbuilding and the production of artillery.[br]The only son of a corn merchant, Alderman William Armstrong, he was educated at private schools in Newcastle and at Bishop Auckland Grammar School. He then became an articled clerk in the office of Armorer Donkin, a solicitor and a friend of his father. During a fishing trip he saw a water-wheel driven by an open stream to work a marble-cutting machine. He felt that its efficiency would be improved by introducing the water to the wheel in a pipe. He developed an interest in hydraulics and in electricity, and became a popular lecturer on these subjects. From 1838 he became friendly with Henry Watson of the High Bridge Works, Newcastle, and for six years he visited the Works almost daily, studying turret clocks, telescopes, papermaking machinery, surveying instruments and other equipment being produced. There he had built his first hydraulic machine, which generated 5 hp when run off the Newcastle town water-mains. He then designed and made a working model of a hydraulic crane, but it created little interest. In 1845, after he had served this rather unconventional apprenticeship at High Bridge Works, he was appointed Secretary of the newly formed Whittle Dene Water Company. The same year he proposed to the town council of Newcastle the conversion of one of the quayside cranes to his hydraulic operation which, if successful, should also be applied to a further four cranes. This was done by the Newcastle Cranage Company at High Bridge Works. In 1847 he gave up law and formed W.G.Armstrong \& Co. to manufacture hydraulic machinery in a works at Elswick. Orders for cranes, hoists, dock gates and bridges were obtained from mines; docks and railways.Early in the Crimean War, the War Office asked him to design and make submarine mines to blow up ships that were sunk by the Russians to block the entrance to Sevastopol harbour. The mines were never used, but this set him thinking about military affairs and brought him many useful contacts at the War Office. Learning that two eighteen-pounder British guns had silenced a whole Russian battery but were too heavy to move over rough ground, he carried out a thorough investigation and proposed light field guns with rifled barrels to fire elongated lead projectiles rather than cast-iron balls. He delivered his first gun in 1855; it was built of a steel core and wound-iron wire jacket. The barrel was multi-grooved and the gun weighed a quarter of a ton and could fire a 3 lb (1.4 kg) projectile. This was considered too light and was sent back to the factory to be rebored to take a 5 lb (2.3 kg) shot. The gun was a complete success and Armstrong was then asked to design and produce an equally successful eighteen-pounder. In 1859 he was appointed Engineer of Rifled Ordnance and was knighted. However, there was considerable opposition from the notably conservative officers of the Army who resented the intrusion of this civilian engineer in their affairs. In 1862, contracts with the Elswick Ordnance Company were terminated, and the Government rejected breech-loading and went back to muzzle-loading. Armstrong resigned and concentrated on foreign sales, which were successful worldwide.The search for a suitable proving ground for a 12-ton gun led to an interest in shipbuilding at Elswick from 1868. This necessitated the replacement of an earlier stone bridge with the hydraulically operated Tyne Swing Bridge, which weighed some 1450 tons and allowed a clear passage for shipping. Hydraulic equipment on warships became more complex and increasing quantities of it were made at the Elswick works, which also flourished with the reintroduction of the breech-loader in 1878. In 1884 an open-hearth acid steelworks was added to the Elswick facilities. In 1897 the firm merged with Sir Joseph Whitworth \& Co. to become Sir W.G.Armstrong Whitworth \& Co. After Armstrong's death a further merger with Vickers Ltd formed Vickers Armstrong Ltd.In 1879 Armstrong took a great interest in Joseph Swan's invention of the incandescent electric light-bulb. He was one of those who formed the Swan Electric Light Company, opening a factory at South Benwell to make the bulbs. At Cragside, his mansion at Roth bury, he installed a water turbine and generator, making it one of the first houses in England to be lit by electricity.Armstrong was a noted philanthropist, building houses for his workforce, and endowing schools, hospitals and parks. His last act of charity was to purchase Bamburgh Castle, Northumbria, in 1894, intending to turn it into a hospital or a convalescent home, but he did not live long enough to complete the work.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1859. FRS 1846. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Institution of Civil Engineers; British Association for the Advancement of Science 1863. Baron Armstrong of Cragside 1887.Further ReadingE.R.Jones, 1886, Heroes of Industry', London: Low.D.J.Scott, 1962, A History of Vickers, London: Weidenfeld \& Nicolson.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Armstrong, Sir William George, Baron Armstrong of Cragside
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4 VA
1) Общая лексика: острота зрени2) Компьютерная техника: View Attributes, vertical alignment3) Американизм: The Veteran's Administration, Virtual Airline4) Спорт: Virtual Arcade5) Военный термин: Vice Admiral, Volunteer Army, visual aid, vital area, vulnerable area, штурмовая эскадрилья, Veterans Administration (now DVA)6) Техника: vibroacoustics, voltammeter, volt-ammeter, voucher attached, value add time7) Шутливое выражение: Various Anime, Vindictive Amazons8) Химия: Volume Analyzer9) Метеорология: Volcanic Ash10) Юридический термин: Department of Veterans Affairs, Verbal Abuse, Verbal Abuser11) Грубое выражение: Virgin Alarm12) Оптика: voltampere13) Сокращение: Veterans Administration (USA), Veterans Administration, Vicar Apostolic, Vice-Admiral, Video Amplifier, Virginia (US state), Virginia, value, volt-ampere (electrical power), volt-ampere, voltammeter, Holy See (Vatican City State), (Order of) Victoria and Albert, Aircraft speed, Department of Veterans Affairs (US), Fixed Wing, Heavier Than Air Aircraft, Attack (US Navy), Maximum-Design Maneuvering Velocity, Vacation Absence, Vaginal Atrophy, Valor Award (Australian police award), Value Added, Value Analysis, Vanadium, Vanaf (Dutch: From, used in pricing), Varese (Lombardia, Italy), Variable Account, Variable Annuity, Variant Armour (gaming), Variational Approximation, Various Artists, Vatican City State (top level domain), Ve'rification d'Aptitude (Informatique), Vehicle Analysis, Velocity Analysis, Ventanas Alemanas (Guatemala), Ventricular Atrial, Verkaufsagent (German: Selling Agent; Ebay), Vermont American, Inc., Vertex Array (game programming), Vertical Accelerator, Vertical Angle, Veterans Affairs, Veterans Agency (UK government), Vibration Analysis, Vices Agens (Latin: Acting in Place Of, epigraphy), Vickers-Armstrong (British gun manufacturer), Victoria and Albert Order (British), Vietnamese Airlines, View Askew (gaming, Counter Strike), Viral Arthritis, Virtual Address, Virtual Airlines, Virtual Analog, Virtual Assistant, Viscosity Agent (concrete), VisionAIR, Inc (Atlanta, GA public safety software manufacturer), Visual Accounting, Visual Arts, Viterbi Algorithm, Vivaldi, Vixit Annos (Latin: He Lived (insert number) Years, epigraphy), Voice Actor, Voir Aussi (French: See Also), Volcanic Ash (METAR obscuration), Votre Altesse (French: Your Highness), Vulnerability Analyzer (information security)14) Университет: Voice Acting15) Физиология: Vacuum aspiration, Vertebral Artery, Volume Of Alveolar, alveolar capacity, alveolar space volume16) Электроника: Volt Ammeter17) Вычислительная техника: vertically aligned18) Нефть: variable-area19) Кардиология: ventricular arrhythmia (желудочковая аритмия), ventriculoatrial20) Транспорт: Vector For All21) Парфюмерия: винилацетат22) Фирменный знак: Varian, Vayu Air, Virtual Access (Company)23) СМИ: Virtual Acoustic24) Деловая лексика: Vendor Alias25) Полимеры: vinyl acetate26) Программирование: Valid Again, Variable Argument, Variable Arguments, Vector Accumulate27) Автоматика: voltamperemeter28) Пластмассы: Vinyl Asbestos29) Сахалин Ю: value awareness (Approval Team)30) Кабельные производство: вольт-ампер31) Химическое оружие: vulnerability assessment32) Авиационная медицина: visual acuity33) Расширение файла: Visual Age (IBM)34) Нефть и газ: virtual analyzer35) Молекулярная биология: вирус-ассоциированный ( например, о РНК) (virus-associated)36) Должность: Very Artistic37) Единицы измерений: Volt Amperes -
5 Va
1) Общая лексика: острота зрени2) Компьютерная техника: View Attributes, vertical alignment3) Американизм: The Veteran's Administration, Virtual Airline4) Спорт: Virtual Arcade5) Военный термин: Vice Admiral, Volunteer Army, visual aid, vital area, vulnerable area, штурмовая эскадрилья, Veterans Administration (now DVA)6) Техника: vibroacoustics, voltammeter, volt-ammeter, voucher attached, value add time7) Шутливое выражение: Various Anime, Vindictive Amazons8) Химия: Volume Analyzer9) Метеорология: Volcanic Ash10) Юридический термин: Department of Veterans Affairs, Verbal Abuse, Verbal Abuser11) Грубое выражение: Virgin Alarm12) Оптика: voltampere13) Сокращение: Veterans Administration (USA), Veterans Administration, Vicar Apostolic, Vice-Admiral, Video Amplifier, Virginia (US state), Virginia, value, volt-ampere (electrical power), volt-ampere, voltammeter, Holy See (Vatican City State), (Order of) Victoria and Albert, Aircraft speed, Department of Veterans Affairs (US), Fixed Wing, Heavier Than Air Aircraft, Attack (US Navy), Maximum-Design Maneuvering Velocity, Vacation Absence, Vaginal Atrophy, Valor Award (Australian police award), Value Added, Value Analysis, Vanadium, Vanaf (Dutch: From, used in pricing), Varese (Lombardia, Italy), Variable Account, Variable Annuity, Variant Armour (gaming), Variational Approximation, Various Artists, Vatican City State (top level domain), Ve'rification d'Aptitude (Informatique), Vehicle Analysis, Velocity Analysis, Ventanas Alemanas (Guatemala), Ventricular Atrial, Verkaufsagent (German: Selling Agent; Ebay), Vermont American, Inc., Vertex Array (game programming), Vertical Accelerator, Vertical Angle, Veterans Affairs, Veterans Agency (UK government), Vibration Analysis, Vices Agens (Latin: Acting in Place Of, epigraphy), Vickers-Armstrong (British gun manufacturer), Victoria and Albert Order (British), Vietnamese Airlines, View Askew (gaming, Counter Strike), Viral Arthritis, Virtual Address, Virtual Airlines, Virtual Analog, Virtual Assistant, Viscosity Agent (concrete), VisionAIR, Inc (Atlanta, GA public safety software manufacturer), Visual Accounting, Visual Arts, Viterbi Algorithm, Vivaldi, Vixit Annos (Latin: He Lived (insert number) Years, epigraphy), Voice Actor, Voir Aussi (French: See Also), Volcanic Ash (METAR obscuration), Votre Altesse (French: Your Highness), Vulnerability Analyzer (information security)14) Университет: Voice Acting15) Физиология: Vacuum aspiration, Vertebral Artery, Volume Of Alveolar, alveolar capacity, alveolar space volume16) Электроника: Volt Ammeter17) Вычислительная техника: vertically aligned18) Нефть: variable-area19) Кардиология: ventricular arrhythmia (желудочковая аритмия), ventriculoatrial20) Транспорт: Vector For All21) Парфюмерия: винилацетат22) Фирменный знак: Varian, Vayu Air, Virtual Access (Company)23) СМИ: Virtual Acoustic24) Деловая лексика: Vendor Alias25) Полимеры: vinyl acetate26) Программирование: Valid Again, Variable Argument, Variable Arguments, Vector Accumulate27) Автоматика: voltamperemeter28) Пластмассы: Vinyl Asbestos29) Сахалин Ю: value awareness (Approval Team)30) Кабельные производство: вольт-ампер31) Химическое оружие: vulnerability assessment32) Авиационная медицина: visual acuity33) Расширение файла: Visual Age (IBM)34) Нефть и газ: virtual analyzer35) Молекулярная биология: вирус-ассоциированный ( например, о РНК) (virus-associated)36) Должность: Very Artistic37) Единицы измерений: Volt Amperes -
6 va
1) Общая лексика: острота зрени2) Компьютерная техника: View Attributes, vertical alignment3) Американизм: The Veteran's Administration, Virtual Airline4) Спорт: Virtual Arcade5) Военный термин: Vice Admiral, Volunteer Army, visual aid, vital area, vulnerable area, штурмовая эскадрилья, Veterans Administration (now DVA)6) Техника: vibroacoustics, voltammeter, volt-ammeter, voucher attached, value add time7) Шутливое выражение: Various Anime, Vindictive Amazons8) Химия: Volume Analyzer9) Метеорология: Volcanic Ash10) Юридический термин: Department of Veterans Affairs, Verbal Abuse, Verbal Abuser11) Грубое выражение: Virgin Alarm12) Оптика: voltampere13) Сокращение: Veterans Administration (USA), Veterans Administration, Vicar Apostolic, Vice-Admiral, Video Amplifier, Virginia (US state), Virginia, value, volt-ampere (electrical power), volt-ampere, voltammeter, Holy See (Vatican City State), (Order of) Victoria and Albert, Aircraft speed, Department of Veterans Affairs (US), Fixed Wing, Heavier Than Air Aircraft, Attack (US Navy), Maximum-Design Maneuvering Velocity, Vacation Absence, Vaginal Atrophy, Valor Award (Australian police award), Value Added, Value Analysis, Vanadium, Vanaf (Dutch: From, used in pricing), Varese (Lombardia, Italy), Variable Account, Variable Annuity, Variant Armour (gaming), Variational Approximation, Various Artists, Vatican City State (top level domain), Ve'rification d'Aptitude (Informatique), Vehicle Analysis, Velocity Analysis, Ventanas Alemanas (Guatemala), Ventricular Atrial, Verkaufsagent (German: Selling Agent; Ebay), Vermont American, Inc., Vertex Array (game programming), Vertical Accelerator, Vertical Angle, Veterans Affairs, Veterans Agency (UK government), Vibration Analysis, Vices Agens (Latin: Acting in Place Of, epigraphy), Vickers-Armstrong (British gun manufacturer), Victoria and Albert Order (British), Vietnamese Airlines, View Askew (gaming, Counter Strike), Viral Arthritis, Virtual Address, Virtual Airlines, Virtual Analog, Virtual Assistant, Viscosity Agent (concrete), VisionAIR, Inc (Atlanta, GA public safety software manufacturer), Visual Accounting, Visual Arts, Viterbi Algorithm, Vivaldi, Vixit Annos (Latin: He Lived (insert number) Years, epigraphy), Voice Actor, Voir Aussi (French: See Also), Volcanic Ash (METAR obscuration), Votre Altesse (French: Your Highness), Vulnerability Analyzer (information security)14) Университет: Voice Acting15) Физиология: Vacuum aspiration, Vertebral Artery, Volume Of Alveolar, alveolar capacity, alveolar space volume16) Электроника: Volt Ammeter17) Вычислительная техника: vertically aligned18) Нефть: variable-area19) Кардиология: ventricular arrhythmia (желудочковая аритмия), ventriculoatrial20) Транспорт: Vector For All21) Парфюмерия: винилацетат22) Фирменный знак: Varian, Vayu Air, Virtual Access (Company)23) СМИ: Virtual Acoustic24) Деловая лексика: Vendor Alias25) Полимеры: vinyl acetate26) Программирование: Valid Again, Variable Argument, Variable Arguments, Vector Accumulate27) Автоматика: voltamperemeter28) Пластмассы: Vinyl Asbestos29) Сахалин Ю: value awareness (Approval Team)30) Кабельные производство: вольт-ампер31) Химическое оружие: vulnerability assessment32) Авиационная медицина: visual acuity33) Расширение файла: Visual Age (IBM)34) Нефть и газ: virtual analyzer35) Молекулярная биология: вирус-ассоциированный ( например, о РНК) (virus-associated)36) Должность: Very Artistic37) Единицы измерений: Volt Amperes -
7 Mitchell, Charles
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 20 May 1820 Aberdeen, Scotlandd. 22 August 1895 Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, England[br]Scottish industrialist whose Tyneside shipyard was an early constituent of what became the Vickers Shipbuilding Group.[br]Mitchell's early education commenced at Ledingham's Academy, Correction Wynd, Aberdeen, and from there he became a premium apprentice at the Footdee Engineering Works of Wm Simpson \& Co. Despite being employed for around twelve hours each day, Mitchell matriculated at Marischal College (now merged with King's College to form the University of Aberdeen). He did not graduate, although in 1840 he won the chemistry prize. On the completion of his apprenticeship, like Andrew Leslie (founder of Hawthorn Leslie) and other young Aberdonians he moved to Tyneside, where most of his working life was spent. From 1842 until 1844 he worked as a draughtsman for his friend Coutts, who had a shipyard at Low Walker, before moving on to the drawing offices of Maudslay Sons and Field of London, then one of the leading shipbuilding and engineering establishments in the UK. While in London he studied languages, acquiring a skill that was to stand him in good stead in later years. In 1852 he returned to the North East and set up his own iron-ship building yard at Low Walker near Newcastle. Two years later he married Anne Swan, the sister of the two young men who were to found the company now known as Swan Hunter Ltd. The Mitchell yard grew in size and reputation and by the 1850s he was building for the Russian Navy and Merchant Marine as well as advising the Russians on their shipyards in St Petersburg. In 1867 the first informal business arrangement was concluded with Armstrongs for the supply of armaments for ships; this led to increased co-operation and ultimately in 1882 to the merger of the two shipyards as Sir W.G.Armstrong Mitchell \& Co. At the time of the merger, Mitchell had launched 450 ships in twenty-nine years. In 1886 the new company built the SS Gluckauf, the world's first bulk oil tanker. After ill health in 1865 Mitchell reduced his workload and lived for a while in Surbiton, London, but returned to Tyneside to a new house at Jesmond. In his later years he was a generous benefactor to many good causes in Tyneside and Aberdeen, to the Church and to the University of Aberdeen.[br]Further ReadingD.F.McGuire, 1988, Charles Mitchell 1820–1895, Victorian Shipbuilder, Newcastle upon Tyne: City Libraries and Arts.J.D.Scott, 1962, Vickers. A History, London: Weidenfeld \& Nicolson (a recommended overview of the Vickers Group).FMW -
8 Baumann, Karl
SUBJECT AREA: Steam and internal combustion engines[br]b. 18 April 1884 Switzerlandd. 14 July 1971 Ilkley, Yorkshire[br]Swiss/British mechanical engineer, designer and developer of steam and gas turbine plant.[br]After leaving school in 1902, he went to the Ecole Polytechnique, Zurich, leaving in 1906 with an engineering diploma. He then spent a year with Professor A.Stodola, working on steam engines, turbines and internal combustion engines. He also conducted research in the strength of materials. After this, he spent two years as Research and Design Engineer at the Nuremberg works of Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg. He came to England in 1909 to join the British Westinghouse Co. Ltd in Manchester, and by 1912 was Chief Engineer of the Engine Department of that firm. The firm later became the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd (MV), and Baumann rose from Chief Mechanical Engineer through to, by 1929, Special Director and Member of the Executive Management Board; he remained a director until his retirement in 1949.For much of his career, Baumann was in the forefront of power station steam-cycle development, pioneering increased turbine entry pressures and temperatures, in 1916 introducing multi-stage regenerative feed-water heating and the Baumann turbine multi-exhaust. His 105 MW set for Battersea "A" station (1933) was for many years the largest single-axis unit in Europe. From 1938 on, he and his team were responsible for the first axial-flow aircraft propulsion gas turbines to fly in England, and jet engines in the 1990s owe much to the "Beryl" and "Sapphire" engines produced by MV. In particular, the design of the compressor for the Sapphire engine later became the basis for Rolls-Royce units, after an exchange of information between that company and Armstrong-Siddeley, who had previously taken over the aircraft engine work of MV.Further, the Beryl engine formed the basis of "Gatric", the first marine gas turbine propulsion engine.Baumann was elected to full membership for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1929 and a year later was awarded the Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal by that body, followed by their James Clayton Prize in 1948: in the same year he became the thirty-fifth Thomas Hawksley lecturer. Many of his ideas and introductions have stood the test of time, being based on his deep and wide understanding of fundamentals.JB
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