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after he joined the navy

  • 1 ingreso

    m.
    1 entry, entrance (entrada).
    examen de ingreso entrance exam
    2 deposit (de dinero). (peninsular Spanish)
    3 income, revenue.
    4 check-in.
    5 admission.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: ingresar.
    * * *
    1 (en club, ejército) joining; (en hospital) admission; (en prisión) entrance; (en universidad) entrance
    2 (entrada) entry
    3 FINANZAS deposit
    1 (sueldo, renta) income sing; (beneficios) revenue sing
    * * *
    noun m.
    entrance, entry
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=entrada)
    a) [en institución] admission (en into)

    tras su ingreso en la Academia — after he joined the Academy, after his admission to the Academy

    • examen de ingreso — (Univ) entrance examination

    • ingreso en prisión — imprisonment

    el juez ordenó su ingreso en prisión — the judge ordered him to be sent to prison, the judge ordered his imprisonment

    b) [en hospital] admission (en to)

    tras su ingreso en el hospital — after being admitted to hospital, after his admission to hospital

    ¿a qué hora se produjo el ingreso? — what time was he admitted?

    2) (Econ)
    a) Esp (=depósito) deposit

    ¿de cuánto es el ingreso? — how much are you paying in?, how much are you depositing?

    • hacer un ingreso — to pay in some money, make a deposit

    b) pl ingresos [de persona, empresa] income sing ; [de país, multinacional] revenue sing

    las personas con ingresos inferiores a 1.000 euros — people with incomes below 1,000 euros

    • ingresos y gastos — [de persona, empresa] income and outgoings, income and expenditure; [de país, multinacional] income and expenditure

    • ingresos por algo — revenue from sth

    los ingresos por publicidad — advertising revenue, revenue from advertising

    • vivir con arreglo a los ingresos — to live within one's income

    ingresos anuales — [de persona, empresa] annual income sing ; [de país, multinacional] annual revenue sing

    ingresos de taquilla — (Cine, Teat) box-office takings; (Dep) ticket sales

    3) (=lugar de acceso) entrance
    * * *
    1)

    el año de mi ingreso a or en la universidad/el ejército/la compañía — the year I started o entered university/joined the army/joined the company

    b) ( en hospital) admission
    c) (AmL period) ( entrada) entry

    fue difícil el ingreso al estadio — it was difficult to get into o (frml) to gain access to the stadium

    2) (Fin)
    a) (Esp) ( depósito) deposit
    b) ingresos masculino plural ( ganancias) income
    •
    * * *
    1)

    el año de mi ingreso a or en la universidad/el ejército/la compañía — the year I started o entered university/joined the army/joined the company

    b) ( en hospital) admission
    c) (AmL period) ( entrada) entry

    fue difícil el ingreso al estadio — it was difficult to get into o (frml) to gain access to the stadium

    2) (Fin)
    a) (Esp) ( depósito) deposit
    b) ingresos masculino plural ( ganancias) income
    •
    * * *
    ingreso1

    Ex: Secondly, the admission of rules incompatible with the general ideology adopted inevitably entails subsequent remedial revision.

    * examen de ingreso = entrance exam(ination).
    * ingresos = intake.

    ingreso2

    Ex: This particular bank does not accept any cash deposits nor are direct cash withdrawals permitted.

    * aumentar los ingresos = boost + Posesivo + income.
    * bajos ingresos = low income.
    * comprobación de los ingresos = means-testing, means test.
    * comprobar los ingresos = means test.
    * desigualdad de ingresos = income inequality.
    * escala de tarifas según los ingresos = sliding fee scale.
    * evaluación de los ingresos = means-testing, means test.
    * evaluar los ingresos = means test.
    * familia de bajos ingresos = low-income family.
    * fuente de ingresos = revenue stream, source of revenue, source of income, revenue base, revenue earner.
    * ganarse unos ingresos = earn + income.
    * generación de ingresos = revenue-raising, income generation.
    * generador de ingresos = income-generating, revenue-earning, revenue-making, revenue-generating, revenue earner, profit-generating, profit-making.
    * generar ingresos = generate + revenue.
    * ingreso de dinero = cash deposit.
    * ingreso de efectivo = cash deposit.
    * ingresos = income, proceeds, revenue, income statement, takings, earnings.
    * ingresos bajos = low income.
    * ingresos brutos = gross profit, gross benefits, gross revenues, gross receipts, gross income.
    * ingresos de ventas = sales revenue.
    * ingresos disponibles = disposable income.
    * ingresos económicos = income.
    * ingresos familiares = family wage.
    * ingresos fijos = fixed income.
    * ingresos inesperados = windfall.
    * ingresos medios = middle income.
    * ingresos netos = net revenues, net income.
    * ingresos procedentes de los impuestos = tax revenues, income tax revenue.
    * ingresos públicos provenientes del petróleo = oil revenues.
    * nivel de ingresos = income level, earning capacity, earning power.
    * propios ingresos = earned income.
    * reportar ingresos = generate + revenue.
    * según los ingresos = means-tested.
    * subsidio por bajos ingresos = supplementary benefit.

    * * *
    A
    1
    (en una organización): la fecha de nuestro ingreso en la organización the date of our entry into the organization, the date we joined the organization
    su solicitud de ingreso al or en el club his application to become a member of o to join the club
    su discurso de ingreso his inaugural address
    el año de mi ingreso a or en la universidad/en el ejército/en la compañía the year I started o entered university/joined the army/joined the company
    examen de ingreso entrance examination
    2 (en un hospital) admission
    después de su ingreso en la clínica after her admission to o after she was admitted to the clinic
    3
    (en la cárcel): su ingreso en la cárcel tuvo lugar el 10 de Octubre he was taken to o placed in jail on the 10th of October
    fue decretado su ingreso en prisión he was remanded in custody
    4 ( AmL period) (entrada) entry
    fue difícil el ingreso al estadio it was difficult to get into o ( frml) to gain access o admission to the stadium
    5 ( Per Espec) (entrada) ticket ingresos mpl ticket office
    B ( Fin)
    1 ( Esp) (depósito) deposit
    efectuó un ingreso en el banco he made a deposit at the bank, he paid some money into the bank
    ingresos anuales annual income
    no tiene más ingresos que su trabajo en el astillero his only income is from his job at the shipyard
    una importante fuente de ingresos an important source of income
    Compuestos:
    mpl additional income
    mpl gross income
    mpl trading o operating income
    mpl accrued income
    mpl net income
    ● ingresos tributarios or por impuestos
    tax revenue
    mpl earned income
    * * *

     

    Del verbo ingresar: ( conjugate ingresar)

    ingreso es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    ingresó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    ingresar    
    ingreso
    ingresar ( conjugate ingresar) verbo intransitivo
    1 [ persona] (en organización, club) to join;
    ( en colegio) to enter;
    ( en el ejército) to join;

    ingresó cadáver (Esp) he was dead on arrival
    2 [ dinero] to come in
    verbo transitivo
    1 ‹ persona› ( en hospital):

    hubo que ingresolo de urgencia he had to be admitted as a matter of urgency;
    fueron ingresados en esta prisión they were taken to this prison
    2 (Esp) (Fin) ‹dinero/cheque› to pay in;


    [ banco] to credit an account with a sum
    ingreso sustantivo masculino
    1
    a) ( en organización): el año de mi ingreso a or en la universidad/el ejército/la compañía the year I started o entered university/joined the army/joined the company;



    2 (Fin)
    a) (Esp) ( depósito) deposit

    b)

    ◊ ingresos sustantivo masculino plural ( ganancias) income;

    ingresos brutos/netos gross/net income
    ingresar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 Fin (en un banco) to deposit, pay in
    (recibir ganancias) to take in
    2 Med to admit: me ingresaron con una crisis nerviosa, I was admitted with a nervous breakdown
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 to enter: este año ingresa en la Universidad, this year he goes to University
    ingresar en un club, to join a club
    2 Med ingresó a las cinco, he was admitted (to hospital) at five (o'clock)
    ingresó cadáver, to be dead on arrival
    ingreso sustantivo masculino
    1 Fin deposit: necesito hacer un ingreso de tres mil pesetas, I need to pay in three thousand pesetas
    2 (entrada) entry [en, into]
    (admisión) admission [en, to] 3 ingresos, (sueldo, renta) income sing, revenue sing
    ' ingreso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acceso
    - cadáver
    - formularia
    - formulario
    - ingresar
    - entrada
    - examen
    - menor
    English:
    admission
    - admit
    - DOA
    - enter
    - entrance
    - entrance examination
    - eventual
    - grammar school
    - pay in
    - paying-in-slip
    - pronounce
    - deposit
    - membership
    * * *
    1. [entrada] entry, entrance;
    [en universidad] admission;
    examen de ingreso entrance exam;
    solicitud de ingreso membership application;
    todavía recuerdo la fecha de mi ingreso en el club I still remember the day I joined the club;
    han solicitado su ingreso en la organización they have applied for membership of the organization, they have applied to join the organization
    2. [en hospital] admission;
    se produjeron diez ingresos hospitalarios por salmonelosis ten people were admitted to hospital with salmonella poisoning
    3. [en prisión]
    el juez decretó el ingreso en prisión del banquero the judge ordered that the banker be sent to prison
    4. Am [acceso a lugar] entry;
    el ingreso a la sala de conciertos fue muy lento it took a long time to get into the concert hall
    5. Esp [de dinero] deposit;
    realizó un ingreso she made a deposit
    6.
    ingresos [sueldo] income;
    [recaudación] revenue;
    ingresos por publicidad advertising revenue;
    tienen unos ingresos anuales de 200 millones they have an annual income of 200 million
    ingresos brutos gross income;
    ingresos familiares family income;
    ingresos netos net income
    * * *
    m
    1 entry; en una asociación joining;
    examen de ingreso entrance exam
    2 en hospital admission
    3 COM deposit
    4
    :
    ingresos pl income sg
    * * *
    1) : entrance, entry
    2) : admission
    3) ingresos nmpl
    : income, earnings pl
    * * *
    1. (en el hospital) admission
    ¿cuántos ingresos hay en un día normal? how many admissions are there on an average day?
    3. (dinero) deposit

    Spanish-English dictionary > ingreso

  • 2 service

    (the ships of a country that are employed in trading, and their crews: His son has joined the merchant navy.) marina mercante
    1. servicio
    the food is good, but the service is slow la comida es buena, pero el servicio es lento
    2. oficio religioso
    3. revisión
    4. saque
    first service! ¡primer saque!
    tr['sɜːvɪs]
    ■ is service included? ¿el servicio está incluido?
    2 (organization, system, business) servicio
    ■ there's a 24-hour service hay un servicio permanente, hay un servicio las 24 horas
    3 (work, duty) servicio
    4 (use) servicio
    5 (maintenance of car, machine) revisión nombre femenino
    6 SMALLRELIGION/SMALL oficio, oficio religioso
    7 (of dishes) vajilla; (for tea, coffee) juego
    8 (tennis) saque nombre masculino, servicio
    9 SMALLLAW/SMALL entrega, citación nombre femenino, notificación nombre femenino
    1 (for use of workers) de servicio
    2 (military) de militar
    1 (car, machine) revisar, hacer una revisión de
    2 (organization, group) atender, servir
    3 (debt, loan) pagar los intereses de
    1 (work, act, help) servicios nombre masculino plural
    1 SMALLMILITARY/SMALL las fuerzas nombre femenino plural armadas
    ■ which of the services were you in? ¿en qué cuerpo estuviste?
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    at your service a su disposición, para servirle
    how can I be of (any) service (to you)? ¿en qué puedo servirle?
    it's all part of the service está incluido en el servicio
    to do somebody a service hacer un favor a alguien
    service area área de servicio
    service flat apartamento con servicios incluidos
    service industry/sector sector nombre masculino de servicios
    service road vía de acceso
    service station estación nombre femenino de servicio
    service ['sərvəs] vt, - viced ; - vicing
    1) maintain: darle mantenimiento a (una máquina), revisar
    2) repair: arreglar, reparar
    1) help, use: servicio m
    to do someone a service: hacerle un servicio a alguien
    at your service: a sus órdenes
    to be out of service: no funcionar
    2) ceremony: oficio m (religioso)
    3) department, system: servicio m
    social services: servicios sociales
    train service: servicio de trenes
    4) set: juego m, servicio m
    tea service: juego de té
    5) maintenance: mantenimiento m, revisión f, servicio m
    6) : saque m (en deportes)
    7)
    armed services : fuerzas fpl armadas
    n.
    • entrega s.f.
    • juego s.m.
    • mantenimiento (Automóvil) s.m.
    • misa s.f.
    • prestación s.f.
    • servicio s.m.
    v.
    • atender v.
    • mantener v.
    (§pres: -tengo, -tienes...-tenemos) pret: -tuv-
    fut/c: -tendr-•)
    • reparar v.

    I 'sɜːrvəs, 'sɜːvɪs
    1) u
    a) (duty, work) servicio m
    c) (given by a tool, machine)

    to come into service — entrar en servicio or en funcionamiento

    2) u c (of professional, tradesman, company) servicio m

    services 1 mile — (BrE) área de servicio a 1 milla

    3) c u ( assistance) servicio m

    my staff are at your service — mis empleados están a sus órdenes or a su entera disposición or a su servicio

    how can I be of service to you? — ¿en qué puedo ayudarlo or servirlo?

    4) c (organization, system) servicio m

    telephone/postal service — servicio telefónico/postal

    the bus/rail service — el servicio de autobusesenes

    there's a daily/an hourly service to Boston — hay un servicio diario/un tren (or autobús etc) cada hora a Boston

    5) ( Mil)
    6) u (in shop, restaurant) servicio m
    7) c u (overhaul, maintenance) revisión f, servicio m (AmL), service m (RPl); (before n) <contract, package> de mantenimiento

    service engineer — técnico, -ca m,f de mantenimiento

    8) c ( Relig) oficio m religioso

    wedding service — ceremonia f de boda

    9) c ( in tennis) servicio m, saque m

    first/second service! — primer/segundo saque or servicio!

    to break somebody's service — romper* el servicio de alguien, romperle* el servicio a alguien

    10) c ( dinner service) vajilla f

    II
    1) (overhaul, maintain) \<\<car\>\> hacerle* una revisión or (AmL) un servicio or (RPl) un service a; \<\<machine/appliance\>\> hacerle* el mantenimiento a
    2) ( Fin) \<\<debt/loan\>\> atender* el servicio de (frml)
    ['sɜːvɪs]
    1. N
    1) (=work)
    a) (=period of work) trabajo m

    • he saw service in Egypt — combatió en Egipto

    b) (=work provided) servicio m

    • the company has a reputation for good service — la empresa tiene fama de dar un buen servicio (a los clientes)

    • they offered their services free of charge — ofrecieron sus servicios gratuitamente

    • they provide a 24-hour service — proporcionan un servicio de 24 horas

    • to be in service — ser criado(-a), servir

    she was in service at Lord Olton's — era criada or servía en casa de Lord Olton

    • to go into service (with sb) — entrar a servir (en casa de algn)

    2) (=organization, system) servicio m

    • the diplomatic service — el servicio diplomático

    • they are attempting to maintain essential services — están intentando mantener en funcionamiento los servicios mínimos

    • the postal service — el servicio postal

    • rail services were disrupted by the strike — el servicio ferroviario se vio afectado por la huelga

    • the train service to Pamplona — el servicio de trenes a Pamplona

    secret 3., social 3.
    3) (=help, use) servicio m

    • Tristram Shandy, at your service! — ¡Tristram Shandy, para servirle or a sus órdenes!

    • to be of service — ayudar, servir

    how can I be of service? — ¿en qué puedo ayudar or servir?

    • the new buses were brought into service in 1995 — los autobuses nuevos entraron en servicio en 1995

    • to come into service — [vehicle, weapon] entrar en servicio

    • to do sth/sb a service, you have done me a great service — me ha hecho un gran favor, me ha sido de muchísima ayuda

    they do their country/profession no service — no hacen ningún favor a su patria/profesión

    • to be out of service — (Mech) no funcionar, estar fuera de servicio

    community 2.
    4) (in hotel, restaurant, shop) servicio m
    room 3.
    5) services (Econ) (=tertiary sector) sector m terciario or (de) servicios; (on motorway) área f de servicio
    6) (Mil)

    • service life didn't suit him — la vida militar no le pegaba

    • the Services — las fuerzas armadas

    military 3., national 3.
    7) (Rel) (=mass) misa f ; (other) oficio m (religioso)
    funeral 2., wedding 2.
    8) (Aut, Mech) revisión f

    the car is in for a service — están revisando el coche, están haciendo una revisión al coche

    9) (=set of crockery) vajilla f

    • dinner service — vajilla f

    • tea service — juego m or servicio m de té

    10) (Tennis) servicio m, saque m

    • a break of service — una ruptura de servicio

    • to hold/ lose one's service — ganar/perder el servicio

    2. VT
    1) [+ car] revisar, hacer la revisión a; [+ appliance] realizar el mantenimiento de
    2) [+ organization, committee, customers] dar servicio a, proveer de servicios a
    3) [+ debt] pagar el interés de
    3.
    CPD

    service area N — (on motorway) área f de servicio

    service charge N — (in restaurant) servicio m ; [of flat] gastos mpl de comunidad or de escalera (Sp), gastos mpl comunes (LAm)

    service department N — (=repair shop) taller m de reparaciones

    service economy N — economía f de servicios

    service elevator N (US) — = service lift

    service engineer N — técnico(-a) m / f (de mantenimiento)

    service families NPL — familias fpl de miembros de las fuerzas armadas

    service flat N — (Brit) piso o apartamento con servicio de criada y conserje

    service hatch N — ventanilla f de servicio

    service history N — [of car] historial m de reparaciones

    service industry N — (=company) empresa f de servicios

    the service industry or industries — el sector terciario or (de) servicios

    service line N — (Tennis) línea f de servicio or saque

    service provider N — (Internet) proveedor m de (acceso a) Internet, proveedor m de servicios

    service road N — vía f de acceso or de servicio

    service sector N — (Econ) sector m terciario or (de) servicios

    service station N — gasolinera f, estación f de servicio, bencinera f (Chile), grifo m (Peru)

    service wife N — esposa f de un miembro de las fuerzas armadas

    * * *

    I ['sɜːrvəs, 'sɜːvɪs]
    1) u
    a) (duty, work) servicio m
    c) (given by a tool, machine)

    to come into service — entrar en servicio or en funcionamiento

    2) u c (of professional, tradesman, company) servicio m

    services 1 mile — (BrE) área de servicio a 1 milla

    3) c u ( assistance) servicio m

    my staff are at your service — mis empleados están a sus órdenes or a su entera disposición or a su servicio

    how can I be of service to you? — ¿en qué puedo ayudarlo or servirlo?

    4) c (organization, system) servicio m

    telephone/postal service — servicio telefónico/postal

    the bus/rail service — el servicio de autobuses/trenes

    there's a daily/an hourly service to Boston — hay un servicio diario/un tren (or autobús etc) cada hora a Boston

    5) ( Mil)
    6) u (in shop, restaurant) servicio m
    7) c u (overhaul, maintenance) revisión f, servicio m (AmL), service m (RPl); (before n) <contract, package> de mantenimiento

    service engineer — técnico, -ca m,f de mantenimiento

    8) c ( Relig) oficio m religioso

    wedding service — ceremonia f de boda

    9) c ( in tennis) servicio m, saque m

    first/second service! — primer/segundo saque or servicio!

    to break somebody's service — romper* el servicio de alguien, romperle* el servicio a alguien

    10) c ( dinner service) vajilla f

    II
    1) (overhaul, maintain) \<\<car\>\> hacerle* una revisión or (AmL) un servicio or (RPl) un service a; \<\<machine/appliance\>\> hacerle* el mantenimiento a
    2) ( Fin) \<\<debt/loan\>\> atender* el servicio de (frml)

    English-spanish dictionary > service

  • 3 service

    (the ships of a country that are employed in trading, and their crews: His son has joined the merchant navy.) handelsflåte
    betjening
    I
    subst. \/ˈsɜːvɪs\/
    1) tjeneste, tjenestegjøring
    2) ( militærvesen) militærtjeneste, tjenestegjøring, krigstjeneste
    3) ( militærvesen) forsvarsgren, tjenestegren, forsvar
    4) ( militærvesen) tjenestetid
    5) ( militærvesen) betjening, behandling
    6) ( flertall services) service, tjeneste, samfunnstjeneste
    7) ( om offentlige tjenester) etat, verk, tjeneste, vesen, -verk, -vesen, forvaltning
    8) (teknikk osv.) service, regelmessig ettersyn
    • take the car in for service every 10, 000 kilometres
    9) servering, betjening, service
    10) servise
    11) tjeneste, hjelp, nytte, bruk
    den bilen kan bli til god nytte for deg, du kan få god bruk for den bilen
    • is it still in service?
    12) ( samferdsel) forbindelse, trafikk, turer, linje, strekning
    13) ( kirkelig) gudstjeneste, messe, forrettelse, rituale
    • shall we meet after service?
    14) ( sport) serve(ball)
    • whose service is it?
    15) ( jus) kunngjøring, forkynnelse, meddelelse
    16) ( økonomi) tjenesteytelse
    17) ( økonomi) ytelse, renter og avdrag
    18) ( sjøfart) omfletting av tau, kledning av tau
    19) ( landbruk) bedekning, paring
    20) ( gammeldags) ærbødig hilsen
    be at somebody's service stå til noens tjeneste
    be in somebody's service være i tjeneste hos noen
    be of service to somebody hjelpe noen, være noen til hjelp, være til nytte for noen
    be on active service være i aktiv tjeneste gjøre krigstjeneste
    branch of service ( militærvesen) våpenart, forsvarsgren
    do good service to somebody være til stor nytte for noen
    do\/perform the service of gjøre tjeneste som, tjenestegjøre som
    do\/render service tjenestegjøre, gjøre tjeneste
    enter the service of somebody la seg feste hos noen, trå i tjeneste for noen
    find something of service ha nytte av noe
    fit for service tjenestedyktig
    goods and services ( økonomi) varer og tjenester
    go out to service eller go into service gå\/reise ut og tjene, ta seg huspost
    go to service gå til gudstjeneste, gå til kirken
    local authority service kommunal tjeneste
    offer\/tender one's services tilby sine tjenester
    On His\/Her Majesty's Service ( som påskrift) tjenesteforsendelse
    on service i tjeneste, i tjenestesammenheng
    • is he still on active service?
    out of service uten tjeneste, ledig, arbeidsløs ute av drift
    innstilt, ute av drift
    the postal services postvesenet
    public medical service offentlig helsevesen
    put into service ta i bruk sette i trafikk
    retire from service avgå, søke avskjed, si opp
    round-the-clock service døgnet-rundt-service
    see active service kjempe, være med i krigen
    see some\/good service ( overført) være med på litt av hvert, oppleve mye
    service of a writ forkynnelse av stevning
    social services sosialomsorg, sosialtjeneste
    take service with feste seg bort hos, ta tjeneste hos
    take somebody into one's service ta noen i tjeneste, ansette noen
    II
    verb \/ˈsɜːvɪs\/
    1) betjene
    2) yte service (på)
    3) ta inn for service, etterse

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  • 4 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 5 Ejército del Aire

    air force
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    (n.) = Army Air Force, Air Force
    Ex. After serving in the Army Air Force from 1941 to 1947, he joined the Library of Congress as Library Assistant on the Cooperative Acquisitions Project.
    Ex. Nonmilitary personnel in libraries maintained by the Department of Defense, such as those operated by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, are civil service appointments.
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    (n.) = Army Air Force, Air Force

    Ex: After serving in the Army Air Force from 1941 to 1947, he joined the Library of Congress as Library Assistant on the Cooperative Acquisitions Project.

    Ex: Nonmilitary personnel in libraries maintained by the Department of Defense, such as those operated by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, are civil service appointments.

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    air force

    Spanish-English dictionary > Ejército del Aire

  • 6 White, Sir William Henry

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
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    b. 2 February 1845 Devonport, England
    d. 27 February 1913 London, England
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    English naval architect distinguished as the foremost nineteenth-century Director of Naval Construction, and latterly as a consultant and author.
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    Following early education at Devonport, White passed the Royal Dockyard entry examination in 1859 to commence a seven-year shipwright apprenticeship. However, he was destined for greater achievements and in 1863 passed the Admiralty Scholarship examinations, which enabled him to study at the Royal School of Naval Architecture at South Kensington, London. He graduated in 1867 with high honours and was posted to the Admiralty Constructive Department. Promotion came swiftly, with appointment to Assistant Constructor in 1875 and Chief Constructor in 1881.
    In 1883 he left the Admiralty and joined the Tyneside shipyard of Sir W.G. Armstrong, Mitchell \& Co. at a salary of about treble that of a Chief Constructor, with, in addition, a production bonus based on tonnage produced! At the Elswick Shipyard he became responsible for the organization and direction of shipbuilding activities, and during his relatively short period there enhanced the name of the shipyard in the warship export market. It is assumed that White did not settle easily in the North East of England, and in 1885, following negotiations with the Admiralty, he was released from his five-year exclusive contract and returned to public service as Director of Naval Construction and Assistant Controller of the Royal Navy. (As part of the settlement the Admiralty released Philip Watts to replace White, and in later years Watts was also to move from that same shipyard and become White's successor as Director of Naval Construction.) For seventeen momentous years White had technical control of ship production for the Royal Navy. The rapid building of warships commenced after the passing of the Naval Defence Act of 1889, which authorized directly and indirectly the construction of around seventy vessels. The total number of ships built during the White era amounted to 43 battleships, 128 cruisers of varying size and type, and 74 smaller vessels. While White did not have the stimulation of building a revolutionary capital ship as did his successor, he did have the satisfaction of ensuring that the Royal Navy was equipped with a fleet of all-round capability, and he saw the size, displacement and speed of the ships increase dramatically.
    In 1902 he resigned from the Navy because of ill health and assumed several less onerous tasks. During the construction of the Cunard Liner Mauretania on the Tyne, he held directorships with the shipbuilders Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, and also the Parsons Marine Turbine Company. He acted as a consultant to many organizations and had an office in Westminster. It was there that he died in February 1913.
    White left a great literary legacy in the form of his esteemed Manual of Naval Architecture, first published in 1877 and reprinted several times since in English, German and other languages. This volume is important not only as a text dealing with first principles but also as an illustration of the problems facing warship designers of the late nineteenth century.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    KCB 1895. Knight Commander of the Order of the Danneborg (Denmark). FRS. FRSE. President, Institution of Civil Engineers; Mechanical Engineers; Marine Engineers. Vice- President, Institution of Naval Architects.
    Bibliography
    Further Reading
    D.K.Brown, 1983, A Century of Naval Construction, London.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > White, Sir William Henry

  • 7 Popov, Aleksandr Stepanovich

    [br]
    b. 16 March 1859 Bogoslavsky, Zamod, Ural District, Russia
    d. 13 January 1906 St Petersburg, Russia
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    Russian physicist and electrical engineer acclaimed by the former Soviet Union as the inventor of radio.
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    Popov, the son of a village priest, received his early education in a seminary, but in 1877 he entered the University of St Petersburg to study mathematics. He graduated with distinction in 1883 and joined the faculty to teach mathematics and physics. Then, increasingly interested in electrical engineering, he became an instructor at the Russian Navy Torpedo School at Krondstadt, near St Petersburg, where he later became a professor. On 7 May 1895 he is said to have transmitted and received Morse code radio signals over a distance of 40 m (130 ft) in a demonstration given at St Petersburg University to the Russian Chemical Society, but in a paper published in January 1896 in the Journal of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society, he in fact described the use of a coherer for recording atmospheric disturbances such as lightning, together with the design of a modified coherer intended for reception at a distance of 5 km (3 miles). Subsequently, on 26 November 1897, after Marconi's own radio-transmission experiments had been publicized, he wrote a letter claiming priority for his discovery to the English-language journal Electrician, in the form of a translated précis of his original paper, but neither the original Russian paper nor the English précis made specific claims of either a receiver or a transmitter as such. However, by 1898 he had certainly developed some form of ship-to-shore radio for the Russian Navy. In 1945, long after the Russian revolution, the communist regime supported his claim to be the inventor of radio, but this is a matter for much debate and the priority of Marconi's claim is generally acknowledged outside the USSR.
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    Bibliography
    1896, Journal of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society (his original paper in Russian).
    1897, Electrician 40:235 (the English précis).
    Further Reading
    C.Susskind, 1962, "Popov and the beginnings of radio telegraphy", Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers 50:2,036.
    ——1964, Marconi, Popov and the dawn of radiocommunication', Electronics and Power, London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 10:76.
    KF

    Biographical history of technology > Popov, Aleksandr Stepanovich

  • 8 MacCready, Paul

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
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    b. 29 September 1925 New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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    American designer of man-powered aeroplanes, one of which flew across the English Channel in 1979.
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    As a boy, Paul MacCready was an enthusiastic builder of flying model aeroplanes; he became US National Junior Champion in 1941. He learned to fly and became a pilot with the US Navy in 1943. he developed an interest in gliding in 1945 and became National Soaring Champion in 1948 and 1949. After graduating from the California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech) as a meteorologist, he set up Meteorological Research Inc. In 1953 MacCready became the first American to win the World Gliding Championship. When hang-gliders became popular in the early 1970s MacCready studied their performance and compared them with soaring birds: he came to the conclusion that man-powered flight was a possibility. In an effort to generate an interest in man-powered flight, a cash prize had been offered in Britain by Henry Kremer, a wealthy industrialist and fitness enthusiast. A man-powered aircraft had to complete a one-mile (1.6km) figure-of-eight course in order to win. However, the figure-of-eight proved to be a major obstacle and the prize money was increased over the years to £50,000. In 1976 MacCready and his friend Dr Peter Lissaman set to work on their computer and came up with their optimum design for a man-powered aircraft. The Gossamer Condor had a wing span of 96 ft (27.4 m), about the same as a Douglas DC-9 airliner, yet it weighed just 70 lb (32 kg). It was a tail-first design with a pedaldriven pusher propeller just behind the pilot. Bryan Allen, a biologist, pilot and racing cyclist, joined the team to provide the muscle-power. After over two hundred flights they were ready to make an attempt on the prize, and on 23 August 1977 they succeeded where many had failed, in 7 minutes. Kremer then offered £100,000 for the first manpowered flight across the English Channel. Many thought this would be impossible, but MacCready and his team set about the task of designing a new machine based on their Condor, which they called the Gossamer Albatross. Bryan Allen also had a major task: getting fit for a flight which might take three hours of pedalling. The weather was more of a problem than in California, and after a long delay the Gossamer Albatross took off, on 12 June 1979. After pedalling for 2 hours 49 minutes, Bryan Allen landed in France: it was seventy years since Blériot's flight, although Blériot was much quicker.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    World Gliding Champion 1953.
    Bibliography
    1979, "The Channel crossing and the future", Man Powered Aircraft Symposium, London: Royal Aeronautical Society.
    Further Reading
    M.Grosser, 1981, Gossamer Odyssey, London (provides a brief biography and detailed accounts of the two aircraft).
    M.F.Jerram, 1980, Incredible Flying Machines, London (a short survey of pedal planes).
    Articles by Ron Moulton on the Gossamer Albatross appeared in Aerospace (Royal Aeronautical Society) London, August/September 1979, and the Aeromodeller, London, September 1979.
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > MacCready, Paul

  • 9 service

    1. noun
    1) (doing of work for employer etc.) Dienst, der

    do service as something — als etwas dienen

    he died in the service of his country — er starb in Pflichterfüllung für sein Vaterland

    2) (something done to help others)

    services — Dienste; (Econ.) Dienstleistungen

    [in recognition of her] services to the hospital/state — [in Anerkennung ihrer] Verdienste um das Krankenhaus/den Staat

    3) (Eccl.) Gottesdienst, der
    4) (act of attending to customer) Service, der; (in shop, garage, etc.) Bedienung, die
    5) (system of transport) Verbindung, die

    the number 325 bus service — die Buslinie Nr. 325

    6) (provision of maintenance)

    [after-sale or follow-up] service — Kundendienst, der

    7) no pl., no art. (operation) Betrieb, der

    bring into service — in Betrieb nehmen

    go or come into service — in Betrieb genommen werden

    8) (Tennis etc.) Aufschlag, der

    whose service is it? — wer hat Aufschlag?

    9) (crockery set) Service, das

    dessert/tea service — Dessert-/Tee-Service, das

    can I be of service [to you]? — kann ich Ihnen behilflich sein?

    12)

    BBC World Service — BBC Weltsender

    13) in pl. (Brit.): (public supply) Versorgungseinrichtungen
    14) (Mil.)

    the [armed or fighting] services — die Streitkräfte

    15) (being servant)

    be in/go into service — in Stellung sein/gehen (veralt.) ( with bei)

    2. transitive verb
    1) (provide maintenance for) warten [Wagen, Waschmaschine, Heizung]
    2) (pay interest on) Zinsen zahlen für [Schulden]
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    (the ships of a country that are employed in trading, and their crews: His son has joined the merchant navy.) Handels-...
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    ser·vice
    [ˈsɜ:vɪs, AM ˈsɜ:r-]
    I. n
    1. no pl (help for customers) Service m; (in hotels, restaurants, shops) Bedienung f
    customer \service Kundendienst m
    to be at sb's \service ( hum) jdm zu Diensten stehen hum
    to offer \service Hilfe anbieten
    2. (act of working) Dienst m, Dienstleistung f
    3. ( form: assistance) Unterstützung f; (aid, help) Hilfe f; (being useful) Gefälligkeit f, [guter] Dienst
    ▪ to be of \service [to sb] [jdm] von Nutzen sein [o nützen]
    I'm just glad to have been of \service es freut mich, dass ich mich ein wenig nützlich machen konnte
    to need the \services of a surveyor einen Gutachter/eine Gutachterin brauchen
    to do sb a \service jdm einen Dienst erweisen
    to see some [or give good] \service ( fig) viel im Einsatz sein
    these boots have seen some \service! diese Stiefel sind ziemlich strapaziert worden!
    4. (public or government department) Dienst m
    civil/diplomatic \service öffentlicher/diplomatischer Dienst
    5. (system for public) Dienst m; (organization for public) Beratungsdienst m, Beratungsstelle f
    ambulance \service Rettungsdienst m
    bus/train \service Bus-/Zugverbindung f
    counselling \service psychologischer Beratungsdienst
    health \service Gesundheitsdienst m, Gesundheitswesen nt ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ
    prison \service Strafvollzug m
    [public] transport \service [öffentliches] Transportwesen
    6. (operation) Betrieb m
    postal \service Postwesen nt, Post f fam
    to operate a [normal/reduced] \service bus, train eine [normale/eingeschränkte] Verbindung unterhalten [o betreiben
    7. (roadside facilities)
    ▪ \services pl Raststätte f
    8. (tennis, etc.) Aufschlag m
    to lose one's \service seinen Aufschlag abgeben
    9. (armed forces) Militär nt
    ▪ the \services das Militär nt kein pl
    to spend time [or be] in the \service beim Militär sein
    to be [un]fit for \service militär[un]tauglich sein
    military \service Militärdienst m
    a career in the \services eine militärische Laufbahn
    10. (religious ceremony) Gottesdienst m
    funeral \service Trauergottesdienst m
    morning/evening \service Frühmesse f/Abendandacht f
    to go to [or attend] a \service zu einem Gottesdienst gehen, einen Gottesdienst besuchen
    to hold a \service einen Gottesdienst [ab]halten
    11. esp BRIT (maintenance check) Wartung f; AUTO Inspektion f
    \service contract Wartungsvertrag m
    to take one's car in for a \service sein Auto zur Inspektion bringen
    12. (set of crockery) Service nt
    tea \service Teeservice nt
    13.
    ▶ to be in \service (employed as servant) in Stellung sein; (be in use, in operation) im Einsatz sein
    II. vt
    ▪ to \service sth etw überholen [o überprüfen]; appliances etw warten
    * * *
    ['sɜːvɪs]
    1. n
    1) Dienst m

    his faithful service — seine treuen Dienste

    services to one's country/the Queen (of soldier etc) — Dienst an seinem Vaterland/für die Königin

    her services to industry/the country (politician, industrialist) —

    to do or see good service —

    to be of service to sb —

    to be at sb's service — jdm zur Verfügung stehen; (person also) jdm zu Diensten stehen

    to need the services of a lawyer — einen Anwalt brauchen, einen Anwalt zuziehen müssen

    2) (= operation) Betrieb m

    "this number is not in service" ( US Telec ) — "kein Anschluss under dieser Nummer"

    3) (MIL) Militärdienst m

    to see service as a soldier/sailor — beim Militär/in der Marine dienen

    4) (with adj attr = branch, department etc) -dienst m

    BT offers different telephone services — BT bietet eine Reihe von (Telekommunikations)dienstleistungen an

    5) (to customers) Service m; (in shop, restaurant etc) Bedienung f
    6) (= bus, train, plane service etc) Bus-/Zug-/Flugverbindung f

    to increase services in rural areas — den Verkehr or die Verkehrslage in ländlichen Gebieten verbessern

    there's no service to Oban on Sundays — sonntags besteht kein Zug-/Busverkehr nach Oban

    7) (= domestic service) Dienst m, Stellung f

    to be in service (with sb) — (bei jdm) in Stellung sein, in jds Dienst (dat) stehen

    to go into service (with sb) — (bei jdm) in Stellung gehen, in jds Dienst (acc) treten

    8) (ECCL) Gottesdienst m
    9) (of machines) Wartung f; (AUT = major service) Inspektion f

    my car is in for/has had a service — mein Auto wird/wurde gewartet, mein Auto ist/war zur Inspektion

    10) (= tea or coffee set) Service nt
    11) (TENNIS) Aufschlag m
    12) (JUR) Zustellung f
    13) pl (commercial) Dienstleistungen pl; (gas, electricity, water) Versorgungsnetz nt

    all the services have been cut off — Gas, Wasser und Strom sind abgestellt worden

    2. vt
    1) car, machine warten

    to send a car to be serviced — ein Auto warten lassen; (major service) ein Auto zur Inspektion geben

    2) area bedienen; committee etc zuarbeiten (+dat)
    3) cow, mare decken
    4) (FIN) loan, debt bedienen
    * * *
    service1 [ˈsɜːvıs; US ˈsɜr-]
    A s
    1. Dienst m, Stellung f (besonders von Hausangestellten):
    be in service in Stellung sein;
    take sb into one’s service jemanden einstellen;
    year of service Dienstjahr n
    2. Dienst m, Arbeit f
    3. a) Dienstleistung f ( auch WIRTSCH, JUR), Dienst m (to an dat):
    for services rendered für geleistete Dienste;
    the service to our customers unser Kundendienst;
    he paid her for her services er bezahlte sie für ihre Dienste
    b) pl Verdienste pl (to um)
    4. (guter) Dienst, Hilfe f, Gefälligkeit f:
    to do ( oder render) sb a service jemandem einen Dienst erweisen;
    at your service zu Ihren Diensten;
    be (place) at sb’s service jemandem zur Verfügung stehen (stellen);
    “On Her ( oder His) Majesty’s Service” Postwesen: Br „(gebührenfreie) Dienstsache“
    5. WIRTSCH etc Bedienung f:
    he had to wait five minutes for service er musste fünf Minuten warten, bis er bedient wurde
    6. Nutzen m:
    will it be of any service to you? kann es dir irgend etwas nützen?
    7. (Nacht-, Nachrichten-, Presse-, Telefon- etc) Dienst m
    8. a) Versorgung(sdienst) f(m)
    b) Versorgungsbetrieb m:
    (gas) water service (Gas-)Wasserversorgung
    9. öffentlicher Dienst: → academic.ru/13161/civil_service">civil service, diplomatic A 1
    10. Aufgabe f, Amt n, Funktion f (eines Staatsbeamten etc)
    11. MIL
    a) (Wehr-, Militär) Dienst m
    b) meist pl Truppe f, Waffengattung f
    c) Streitkräfte pl: → active A 8, armed2 1, senior A 3
    12. MIL Aktion f, Unternehmen n
    13. MIL US (technische) Versorgungstruppe
    14. MIL Bedienung f (eines Geschützes etc)
    15. meist pl Hilfsdienst m:
    16. TECH
    a) Bedienung f
    b) Betrieb m (einer Maschine etc):
    in (out of) service in (außer) Betrieb;
    service conditions Betriebsbedingungen, -beanspruchung f
    17. TECH
    a) Wartung f, AUTO auch Inspektion f
    b) Service m, Kundendienst m (auch als Einrichtung)
    18. BAHN etc Verkehr(sfolge) m(f), Betrieb m:
    a twenty-minute service ein Zwanzig-Minuten-Verkehr
    19. REL
    a) Gottesdienst m
    b) Liturgie f
    20. MUS musikalischer Teil (der Liturgie):
    Mozart’s service Mozart-Messe f
    21. Service n (Essgeschirr etc):
    a service for six ein Service für sechs Personen
    22. JUR Zustellung f
    23. JUR, HIST
    a) (Art) Deputat n, Abgabe f
    b) Dienstleistung f (für einen Feudalherrn)
    24. SCHIFF Bekleidung f (eines Taues)
    25. Service m, auch n:
    a) Tennis etc: Aufschlag m:
    hold one’s service sein Aufschlagspiel gewinnen, seinen Aufschlag durchbringen oder halten;
    on one’s (own) service bei eigenem Aufschlag; → break1 B 1
    b) Volleyball: Aufgabe f
    B v/t
    1. TECH
    a) warten, pflegen
    b) überholen, instand setzen:
    my car is being serviced mein Wagen ist bei der Inspektion oder beim Kundendienst
    2. beliefern, versorgen ( beide:
    with mit Material, Nachrichten etc)
    3. ZOOL eine Stute etc decken
    service2 [ˈsɜːvıs; US ˈsɜr-] s BOT
    1. Spierbaum m
    2. auch wild service (tree) Elsbeerbaum m
    serv. abk
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) (doing of work for employer etc.) Dienst, der
    2) (something done to help others)

    services — Dienste; (Econ.) Dienstleistungen

    [in recognition of her] services to the hospital/state — [in Anerkennung ihrer] Verdienste um das Krankenhaus/den Staat

    3) (Eccl.) Gottesdienst, der
    4) (act of attending to customer) Service, der; (in shop, garage, etc.) Bedienung, die
    5) (system of transport) Verbindung, die

    the number 325 bus service — die Buslinie Nr. 325

    [after-sale or follow-up] service — Kundendienst, der

    7) no pl., no art. (operation) Betrieb, der

    go or come into service — in Betrieb genommen werden

    8) (Tennis etc.) Aufschlag, der
    9) (crockery set) Service, das

    dessert/tea service — Dessert-/Tee-Service, das

    can I be of service [to you]? — kann ich Ihnen behilflich sein?

    12)
    13) in pl. (Brit.): (public supply) Versorgungseinrichtungen
    14) (Mil.)

    the [armed or fighting] services — die Streitkräfte

    be in/go into service — in Stellung sein/gehen (veralt.) ( with bei)

    2. transitive verb
    1) (provide maintenance for) warten [Wagen, Waschmaschine, Heizung]
    2) (pay interest on) Zinsen zahlen für [Schulden]
    * * *
    n.
    Betrieb -e m.
    Dienst -e m.
    Dienstleistung f.
    Gottesdienst m.
    Kundendienst m.
    Wartung -en f. v.
    warten v.

    English-german dictionary > service

  • 10 Lovelock, James Ephraim

    [br]
    b. 26 July 1919 Brixton, London, England
    [br]
    English biologist and philosopher, inventor of the microwave oven and electron capture detector.
    [br]
    Lovelock was brought up in Brixton in modest circumstances. At the age of 4 he was given a toy electrical set, which first turned his attention towards the study of science. From the Strand School, Brixton, he went on to the universities of Manchester and London, and after graduating in science, in 1941 he joined the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, as a staff scientist, remaining there for twenty years. During the early 1950s, he and his colleagues were engaged in research into freezing live animals and bringing them back to life by heating: Lovelock was struck by the intense pain this process caused the animals, and he sought a more humane method. He tried diathermy or internal heating through the effect of a continuous wave magnetron borrowed from the Navy. He found that the animals were brought back to life painlessly, and impressed with his success he tried baking a potato for his lunch in the apparatus and found that it cooked amazingly quickly compared with the one hour normally needed in an ordinary oven. Lovelock had invented the microwave oven, but its commercial possibilities were not at first realized.
    In the late 1950s he invented the electron capture detector, which proved to be more sensitive than any other analytical equipment in detecting and measuring toxic substances. The apparatus therefore had obvious uses in testing the quality of the environment and so offered a tremendous boost to the "green" movement. In 1961 he was invited to joint the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to employ the apparatus in an attempt to detect life in space.
    In the early 1970s Lovelock relinquished his biological work in order to devote his attention to philosophical matters, specifically to develop his theory of the Universe, now widely celebrated as the "Gaia theory". In this controversial theory, Lovelock regards our planet and all its living beings, including humans, as a single living organism.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    CBE 1990. FRS 1974. Many academic awards and honorary degrees. Visiting Professor, University of Reading 1967–90.
    Bibliography
    1979, Gaia.
    1983, The Great Extinction.
    1988, The Ages of Gaia.
    1991, Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Lovelock, James Ephraim

  • 11 جندي

    جُنْدِيّ \ soldier: a member of an army. warrior: (old use), a soldier. \ جُنْدِيّ (في الجيش)‏ \ man: members of the armed forces who are not officers: 5 officers and 17 men were wounded. \ See Also نفر (نَفَر)‏ \ جُنْدِي بَحْرِيّ \ marine: a soldier who serves on a warship. \ جُنْدِيّ صَليبيّ \ crusader: one who takes part in a crusade. \ جُنْدِيّ طَليعة \ scout: a soldier who goes in front of an army to find out about the enemy: Our scouts reported that the bridge was heavily guarded. \ See Also كشاف (كَشَّاف)‏ \ جُنْدِيّ عادي \ private: a soldier of the lowest rank: He joined the army as a private (soldier). \ جُنْدِيّ في السِّلاَح الجَوِّيّ \ airman: any member of an air force. \ جُنْدِيّ مُرْتَزِق \ mercenary: a soldier who fights for a country or group that pays him, not for his own country. \ جُنْدِيّ مُسَرَّح \ ex-serviceman: one who used to be in the army, navy or air force. \ جُنْدِيّ مِظَلِّيّ \ paratrooper: a soldier who is dropped by parachute. \ جُنْدِيّ نِظاميّ \ regular soldier: sb. who is always a soldier, not only in wartime. \ See Also مُحْتَرِف \ الجُنُود العاديّون \ rank: (pl. with the) soldiers who are not officers: He rose from the ranks (He became an officer after serving as a common soldier).

    Arabic-English dictionary > جندي

  • 12 Curtiss, Glenn Hammond

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 21 May 1878 Hammondsport, New York, USA
    d. 23 July 1930 Buffalo, New York, USA
    [br]
    American designer of aeroplanes, especially seaplanes.
    [br]
    Curtiss started his career in the bicycle business, then became a designer of motor-cycle engines, and in 1904 he designed and built an airship engine. The success of his engine led to him joining the Aerial Experimental Association (AEA), founded by the inventor Alexander Graham Bell. Working with the AEA, Curtiss built several engines and designed a biplane, June Bug, in which he won a prize for the first recorded flight of over 1 km (1,100yd) in the USA. In 1909 Curtiss joined forces with Augustus M.Herring, who had earlier flown Octave Chanute's gliders, to form the Herring-Curtiss Company. Their Gold Bug was a success and led to the Golden Flyer, in which Glenn Curtiss won the Gordon Bennett Cup at Rheims in France with a speed of 75.7 km/h (47 mph). At this time the Wright brothers accused Curtiss and the new Curtiss Aeroplane Company of infringing their patent rights, and a bitter lawsuit ensued. The acrimony subsided during the First World War and in 1929 the two companies merged to form the Curtiss-Wright Corporation.
    Curtiss had started experimenting with water-based aircraft in 1908, but it was not until 1911 that he managed to produce a successful float-plane. He then co-operated with the US Navy in developing catapults to launch aircraft from ships at sea. During the First World War, Curtiss produced the JN-4 Jenny trainer, which became probably his best-known design. This sturdy bi-plane continued in service long after the war and was extensively used by "barnstorming" pilots at air shows and for early mail flights. In 1919 a Navy-Curtiss NC-4 flying boat achieved the first flight across the Atlantic, having made the crossing in stages, refuelling en route. Curtiss himself, however, had little interest in aviation in his later years and turned his attention to real-estate development in Florida.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Robert J.Collier Trophy 1911, 1912. US Aero Club Gold Medal 1911, 1912. Smithsonian Institution Langley Gold Medal 1913.
    Further Reading
    L.S.Casey, 1981, Curtiss: The Hammondsport Era 1907–1915, New York. C.R.Roseberry, 1972, Glenn Curtiss, Pioneer of Flight, New York.
    R.Taylor and Walter S.Taylor, 1968, Overland and Sea, New York (biography). Alden Heath, 1942, Glenn Curtiss: Pioneer of Naval Aviation, New York.
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Curtiss, Glenn Hammond

  • 13 Nobel, Immanuel

    [br]
    b. 1801 Gävle, Sweden
    d. 3 September 1872 Stockholm, Sweden
    [br]
    Swedish inventor and industrialist, particularly noted for his work on mines and explosives.
    [br]
    The son of a barber-surgeon who deserted his family to serve in the Swedish army, Nobel showed little interest in academic pursuits as a child and was sent to sea at the age of 16, but jumped ship in Egypt and was eventually employed as an architect by the pasha. Returning to Sweden, he won a scholarship to the Stockholm School of Architecture, where he studied from 1821 to 1825 and was awarded a number of prizes. His interest then leaned towards mechanical matters and he transferred to the Stockholm School of Engineering. Designs for linen-finishing machines won him a prize there, and he also patented a means of transforming rotary into reciprocating movement. He then entered the real-estate business and was successful until a fire in 1833 destroyed his house and everything he owned. By this time he had married and had two sons, with a third, Alfred (of Nobel Prize fame; see Alfred Nobel), on the way. Moving to more modest quarters on the outskirts of Stockholm, Immanuel resumed his inventions, concentrating largely on India rubber, which he applied to surgical instruments and military equipment, including a rubber knapsack.
    It was talk of plans to construct a canal at Suez that first excited his interest in explosives. He saw them as a means of making mining more efficient and began to experiment in his backyard. However, this made him unpopular with his neighbours, and the city authorities ordered him to cease his investigations. By this time he was deeply in debt and in 1837 moved to Finland, leaving his family in Stockholm. He hoped to interest the Russians in land and sea mines and, after some four years, succeeded in obtaining financial backing from the Ministry of War, enabling him to set up a foundry and arms factory in St Petersburg and to bring his family over. By 1850 he was clear of debt in Sweden and had begun to acquire a high reputation as an inventor and industrialist. His invention of the horned contact mine was to be the basic pattern of the sea mine for almost the next 100 years, but he also created and manufactured a central-heating system based on hot-water pipes. His three sons, Ludwig, Robert and Alfred, had now joined him in his business, but even so the outbreak of war with Britain and France in the Crimea placed severe pressures on him. The Russians looked to him to convert their navy from sail to steam, even though he had no experience in naval propulsion, but the aftermath of the Crimean War brought financial ruin once more to Immanuel. Amongst the reforms brought in by Tsar Alexander II was a reliance on imports to equip the armed forces, so all domestic arms contracts were abruptly cancelled, including those being undertaken by Nobel. Unable to raise money from the banks, Immanuel was forced to declare himself bankrupt and leave Russia for his native Sweden. Nobel then reverted to his study of explosives, particularly of how to adapt the then highly unstable nitroglycerine, which had first been developed by Ascanio Sobrero in 1847, for blasting and mining. Nobel believed that this could be done by mixing it with gunpowder, but could not establish the right proportions. His son Alfred pursued the matter semi-independently and eventually evolved the principle of the primary charge (and through it created the blasting cap), having taken out a patent for a nitroglycerine product in his own name; the eventual result of this was called dynamite. Father and son eventually fell out over Alfred's independent line, but worse was to follow. In September 1864 Immanuel's youngest son, Oscar, then studying chemistry at Uppsala University, was killed in an explosion in Alfred's laboratory: Immanuel suffered a stroke, but this only temporarily incapacitated him, and he continued to put forward new ideas. These included making timber a more flexible material through gluing crossed veneers under pressure and bending waste timber under steam, a concept which eventually came to fruition in the form of plywood.
    In 1868 Immanuel and Alfred were jointly awarded the prestigious Letterstedt Prize for their work on explosives, but Alfred never for-gave his father for retaining the medal without offering it to him.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Imperial Gold Medal (Russia) 1853. Swedish Academy of Science Letterstedt Prize (jointly with son Alfred) 1868.
    Bibliography
    Immanuel Nobel produced a short handwritten account of his early life 1813–37, which is now in the possession of one of his descendants. He also had published three short books during the last decade of his life— Cheap Defence of the Country's Roads (on land mines), Cheap Defence of the Archipelagos (on sea mines), and Proposal for the Country's Defence (1871)—as well as his pamphlet (1870) on making wood a more physically flexible product.
    Further Reading
    No biographies of Immanuel Nobel exist, but his life is detailed in a number of books on his son Alfred.
    CM

    Biographical history of technology > Nobel, Immanuel

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