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справочные материалы; опорные, исходные материалыАнгло-русский словарь по машиностроению > background materials
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фон; фоновая работа подготовка; предварительные знания; предпосылка; работа, параллельная основной (напр. подготовка управления процессом на станке в процессе обработки другой детали), фоновая работа II низкоприоритетный; фоновый- background collimating mark - background colour - background discriminator - background materials - informational background - noise background - programming background -
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mə'tiəriəl
1. noun1) (anything out of which something is, or may be, made: Tables are usually made from solid material such as wood.) material2) (cloth: I'd like three metres of blue woollen material.) tela, tejido
2. adjective1) (consisting of solid(s), liquid(s), gas(es) or any combination of these: the material world.) material2) (belonging to the world; not spiritual: He wanted material things like money, possessions and power.) material3) (essential or important: evidence that is material to his defence.) importante, esencial, fundamental•- materialize
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- materialization
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material n1. tela / tejidowhat material is this dress made of? ¿de qué tejido está hecho este vestido?2. material / materia
material adjetivo◊ daños materiales damage to property, material damage■ sustantivo masculino 1 ( en general) material; 2 ( útiles) materials (pl); material didáctico/escolar teaching/school materials (pl)
material
I adj (no espiritual) material, physical
bienes materiales, material goods
II sustantivo masculino material
material informático, computer materials pl ' material' also found in these entries: Spanish: absorbente - bélica - bélico - concha - corcho - de - empeñar - ser - flexible - heredar - hule - laminar - legar - legado - materia - ofimática - ordinaria - ordinario - oscurecer - oscurecerse - paño - penetrar - pintura - rígida - rigidez - rígido - ruda - rudo - sintética - sintético - sólida - solidez - sólido - tartán - tela - térmica - térmico - tolerancia - tratamiento - alambrada - algodón - apego - caída - carey - cartón - contraer - corte - cuadro - elasticidad - elástico English: ancillary - artwork - bronze - creature - effluent - equipment - flammable - flint - furnish - material - matter - perish - physical - raw material - resilience - resilient - rolling stock - stuff - supply - teaching materials - unrefined - comfort - deteriorate - earthenware - fencing - flaw - flimsy - glass - heavy - hokum - hole - impervious - inflexible - itchy - ivory - literature - making - man - oddment - of - over - padding - paper - plaid - pliable - pulp - raw - robust - rubbery - shapetr[mə'tɪərɪəl]1 (physical substance) materia, material nombre masculino2 (cloth) tela, tejido■ how much material do you need? ¿cuánta tela necesitas?3 (information, ideas, etc) material nombre masculino, datos nombre masculino plural, documentación nombre femenino4 (equipment) material nombre masculino5 figurative use (quality) madera1 (physical) material2 (important) importante, substancial; (relevant) pertinente\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLmaterial damage daños nombre masculino plural materialesmaterial evidence pruebas nombre femenino plural substancialesmaterial [mə'tɪriəl] adj1) physical: material, físicothe material world: el mundo materialmaterial needs: necesidades materiales2) important: importante, esencial3)material evidence : prueba f sustancialmaterial n1) : material m2) cloth: tejido m, tela fadj.• esencial adj.• importante adj.• material adj.n.• datos s.m.pl.• efectos s.m.pl.• materia s.f.• material s.m.• tejido s.m.• tela s.f.
I mə'tɪriəl, mə'tɪəriəl1)a) c u ( used in manufacturing etc) material mteaching materials — material m didáctico
writing materials — artículos mpl de escritorio
2) u c ( cloth) tela f, género m, tejido m3) ua) (for book, show etc) material mb) (potential, quality)
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1) (worldly, physical) <gain/needs> material[mǝ'tɪǝrɪǝl]1. ADJ1) (=physical) [goods, needs, comforts, benefits, damage] materialmaterial possessions — bienes mpl materiales
2) (=important) [reason] importante, de peso, fundamental3) (Jur) (=relevant) [fact] pertinente; [witness] primordial, principalmaterial evidence — pruebas fpl sustanciales
2. N1) (=cloth) tela f, tejido m2) (=substance) materia f, material mnatural materials — materias fpl naturales, materiales mpl naturales
raw materials — materias fpl primas
3) materials (=equipment, components) material(es) m(pl)building materials — material(es) m(pl) de construcción
teaching materials — material(es) m(pl) didácticos
writing materials — artículos mpl de escritorio
they researched a lot of background material for the book — recogieron muchos datos or mucha información antes de escribir el libro
she was busy gathering material for her article — estaba ocupada recogiendo datos or información para su artículo
5) (=potential)* * *
I [mə'tɪriəl, mə'tɪəriəl]1)a) c u ( used in manufacturing etc) material mteaching materials — material m didáctico
writing materials — artículos mpl de escritorio
2) u c ( cloth) tela f, género m, tejido m3) ua) (for book, show etc) material mb) (potential, quality)
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Общая лексика: сокращен (Напр.: These are action minutes and do not represent a complete record of the meeting, nor do they include the background agenda materials distributed before or at the meeting.), сокращен (Напр.: These are action minutes and do not represent a complete record of the meeting, nor do they include the background agenda materials distributed before or at the meeting.)Универсальный англо-русский словарь > action minutes of the meeting
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1) материал2) документ; документация3) вещество4) существенный; материальный•- material opposed to a patent
- application materials
- backdated patent materials
- background material
- component material
- copyright material
- copyrighted material
- patent information materials
- raw material
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material [mə'tɪərɪəl]1 noun∎ building materials matériaux mpl de construction∎ curtain material tissu m pour faire des rideaux(c) (UNCOUNT) (ideas, data) matériaux mpl, documentation f;∎ I'm collecting material for a novel je rassemble des matériaux pour un roman;∎ background material documentation f de base∎ written material des textes mpl;∎ published material des publications fpl;∎ a comic who writes his own material un comique qui écrit ses propres textes ou sketches;∎ a singer who writes his own material un auteur-compositeur;∎ publicity material publicité f;∎ reading material lecture f(e) (necessary equipment) matériel m;∎ writing material matériel m pour écrire;∎ School teaching materials supports mpl pédagogiques;∎ reference materials documents mpl de référence∎ is he officer material? a-t-il l'étoffe d'un officier?;∎ he's not university material il n'est pas au niveau pour aller en fac;∎ they're not first division material ils ne sont pas de taille à jouer en première division(a) (concrete) matériel;∎ the material world le monde matériel;∎ of material benefit d'un apport capital∎ that is not material to the present discussion cela n'a aucun rapport ou n'a rien à voir avec ce dont nous discutons;∎ the facts material to the investigation les faits qui présentent un intérêt pour l'enquête►► material comforts confort m matériel;Law material evidence preuve f matérielle ou tangible;material possessions biens mpl matériels;material requirements planning prévision f des besoins matériels;Law material witness témoin m de fait -
10 concentration
1) концентрация3) обогащение ( руды)4) выпаривание; сгущение5) концентрат6) метео сплочённость ( льда)•concentration by evaporation — концентрирование выпариванием;-
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background impurity concentration
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bulk concentration
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carrier concentration
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concentration of mining
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cone concentration
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current concentration
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deep concentration
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defect concentration
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delayed neutron precursor concentration
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derived air concentration
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dislocation concentration
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donor concentration
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doping concentration
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downwind concentration
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dry concentration
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dust concentration
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elastic stress concentration
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elastic-plastic strain concentration
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electrochemical concentration
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electrodialysis concentration
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electrolyte concentration
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end concentration
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equilibrium concentration
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explosive hydrogen concentration
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formal concentration
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gas concentration
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gravity concentration
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ground level concentration
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igneous concentration
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impurity concentration
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influent concentration
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initial concentration
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interfacial concentration
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intrinsic carrier concentration
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iron-ore concentration
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jog concentration
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local phase concentration
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magnetic concentration
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maximum allowable concentration
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maximum emission concentration
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maximum permissible concentration
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outlet-dust concentration
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particle concentration
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11 BMS
1) Компьютерная техника: Baptist Missionary Society, Basic Mapping Support2) Авиация: система управления зданием3) Медицина: НМС, непокрытый стент, burning mouth syndrome4) Военный термин: Basic Mapping Services, Battlefield Management System, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, background mapping sensor, battalion mortar system, battalion motor sergeant, battle management system, biomedical monitoring system, burst measuring system, система управления боем (Battle Management System)5) Техника: Bernd-Michael Schroeder, background measurement satellite, below minimum standards, boron management system, boron measurement system6) Строительство: Building Management System7) Железнодорожный термин: Berlin Mills Railway Incorporated8) Автомобильный термин: Battery Monitoring System9) Грубое выражение: Bitch And Moan Syndrome10) Сокращение: BIDDS Management Subsystem, Battlefield Management Systems11) Сленг: мужская версия ПМС (Bitchy Men Syndrome)12) Вычислительная техника: Business Management System, Basic Mapping Support (CICS), Basic Monitor System (OS, DEC, PDP 9, PDP 15), Broadcast Message Server (PCTE), коммерческая управляющая система13) Воздухоплавание: Boeing Materials Specification14) Бурение: буквенное обозначение нестандартной двойной колонковой трубы с разъёмной внутренней трубой (применяется с коронками ВМ, имеющими внутреннюю резьбу и торец закругленного или ступенчатого профиля)15) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: burner management system control panel16) Сетевые технологии: Batch Mail Server, Broadcast Message Server, сервер широковещательной рассылки сообщений17) Молочное производство: Buttermilk Solids18) Должность: Bachelor of Management Studies19) NYSE. Bemis, Inc. -
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1) Компьютерная техника: Baptist Missionary Society, Basic Mapping Support2) Авиация: система управления зданием3) Медицина: НМС, непокрытый стент, burning mouth syndrome4) Военный термин: Basic Mapping Services, Battlefield Management System, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, background mapping sensor, battalion mortar system, battalion motor sergeant, battle management system, biomedical monitoring system, burst measuring system, система управления боем (Battle Management System)5) Техника: Bernd-Michael Schroeder, background measurement satellite, below minimum standards, boron management system, boron measurement system6) Строительство: Building Management System7) Железнодорожный термин: Berlin Mills Railway Incorporated8) Автомобильный термин: Battery Monitoring System9) Грубое выражение: Bitch And Moan Syndrome10) Сокращение: BIDDS Management Subsystem, Battlefield Management Systems11) Сленг: мужская версия ПМС (Bitchy Men Syndrome)12) Вычислительная техника: Business Management System, Basic Mapping Support (CICS), Basic Monitor System (OS, DEC, PDP 9, PDP 15), Broadcast Message Server (PCTE), коммерческая управляющая система13) Воздухоплавание: Boeing Materials Specification14) Бурение: буквенное обозначение нестандартной двойной колонковой трубы с разъёмной внутренней трубой (применяется с коронками ВМ, имеющими внутреннюю резьбу и торец закругленного или ступенчатого профиля)15) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: burner management system control panel16) Сетевые технологии: Batch Mail Server, Broadcast Message Server, сервер широковещательной рассылки сообщений17) Молочное производство: Buttermilk Solids18) Должность: Bachelor of Management Studies19) NYSE. Bemis, Inc. -
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1) Общая лексика: Bangladesh Police Medal, Business Process Management (AD), Business Performance Management2) Спорт: Blocks Per Game3) Военный термин: Background Processing Management4) Техника: binary polarization modulation, biphase modulation, bits per minute, blows per minute, built-in protection mechanism5) Шутливое выражение: Beats Per Min6) Религия: Battle Plan Ministries7) Грубое выражение: Big Pants Man8) Телекоммуникации: Управление эффективностью деятельности9) Сокращение: Beam Propagation Method (fiber optics)10) Нефть: barrels per minute, баррелей в минуту (barrels per minute), ударов в минуту (blows per minute), число баррелей в минуту (barrels per minute), число ударов в минуту (beats per minute), business process model11) Биотехнология: biological protein materials12) Деловая лексика: Best Practicable Means, Best Practical Means, Business Performance Measurement, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling13) Почта: Bound Printed Matter15) Автоматика: batch processing monitor16) Единицы измерений: Beats Per Measure, Blocks Per Minute, Blow Per Minute, Bombs Per Muslim -
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1) Общая лексика: Bangladesh Police Medal, Business Process Management (AD), Business Performance Management2) Спорт: Blocks Per Game3) Военный термин: Background Processing Management4) Техника: binary polarization modulation, biphase modulation, bits per minute, blows per minute, built-in protection mechanism5) Шутливое выражение: Beats Per Min6) Религия: Battle Plan Ministries7) Грубое выражение: Big Pants Man8) Телекоммуникации: Управление эффективностью деятельности9) Сокращение: Beam Propagation Method (fiber optics)10) Нефть: barrels per minute, баррелей в минуту (barrels per minute), ударов в минуту (blows per minute), число баррелей в минуту (barrels per minute), число ударов в минуту (beats per minute), business process model11) Биотехнология: biological protein materials12) Деловая лексика: Best Practicable Means, Best Practical Means, Business Performance Measurement, Business Process Management, Business Process Modeling13) Почта: Bound Printed Matter15) Автоматика: batch processing monitor16) Единицы измерений: Beats Per Measure, Blocks Per Minute, Blow Per Minute, Bombs Per Muslim -
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1. регулирование, регулировка; управление; регулировать, управлять2. регулировочное устройство3. элементы системы управления4. автоматическое регулирование приводки5. устройство для автоматической регулировки приводки красок6. автоматическое регулирование боковой приводки7. устройство для автоматической регулировки боковой приводкиbackward-acting control — регулирование; регулировка
8. автоматическое регулирование натяжения9. устройство для регулировки натяжения10. регулирование приводки по окружности цилиндра11. устройство для регулировки приводки по окружности цилиндраclosed-loop control — замкнутый цикл контроля, контроль с обратной связью
12. контроль положения линии рубки; контроль положения линии поперечной резки13. автоматическое устройство, контролирующее положение изображения относительно линии рубкиdiaphragm control — номограмма, связывающая индекс диафрагмы с масштабом съёмки
14. управление экспозицией15. устройство для управления экспозициейgradation control — управление градацией; управление градационным процессом; контроль градации, регулирование градации
gripper control — управление захватами, регулировка захватов
highlight control — управление градацией «высоких светов», регулирование градационных характеристик «высоких светов»
16. регулировка подачи краски17. регулятор подачи краски18. регулирование режима работы передаточного валика по отношению к дукторному валу, регулирование передаточного валика19. устройство для регулирования режима работы передаточного валика20. регулирование продольной приводки21. устройство для регулировки долевой приводки22. регулирование боковой и продольной приводки23. устройство для регулировки боковой и продольной приводки24. контроль неподачи листов25. устройство, контролирующее неподачу листов26. регулировка положения валика печатного станка27. устройство для регулирования положения валика печатного станка28. авторегулирование натяжения с помощью пневматически нагруженного «плавающего» валика29. пневматическое устройство с «плавающим» валиком для авторегулирования натяжения30. регулирование окружного смещения формного цилиндра31. устройство для управления окружным смещением формного цилиндра32. управление экспозицией при копировании33. устройство для автоматического отсчёта времени экспонированияprint to cut register control — приводка рубки по печати, регулирование положения линии рубки ленты
34. регулирование приводки35. устройство для регулирования приводкиexchange control — валютный контроль; валютное регулирование
control margin — диапазон регулирования; диапазон управления
36. регулирование приводки на рабочем ходу37. устройство для регулирования приводки на рабочем ходу38. контроль подачи листов39. устройство, контролирующее подачу листов40. регулирование боковой приводки41. устройство для регулирования боковой приводкиtime control — управление временем, автоматический отсчёт времени
tonal control — управление градацией изображения или градационным процессом, регулирование градационной характеристики
42. управление движением лентыfailsoft control — управление с "мягким отказом"
43. устройство для контроля за движением ленты44. регулирование положения боковой кромки ленты45. устройство для выравнивания ленты46. управление длиной подачи ленты47. устройство для регулирования подачи лентыfeed control slide — заслонка, регулирующая подачу
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16 World War II
(1939-1945)In the European phase of the war, neutral Portugal contributed more to the Allied victory than historians have acknowledged. Portugal experienced severe pressures to compromise her neutrality from both the Axis and Allied powers and, on several occasions, there were efforts to force Portugal to enter the war as a belligerent. Several factors lent Portugal importance as a neutral. This was especially the case during the period from the fall of France in June 1940 to the Allied invasion and reconquest of France from June to August 1944.In four respects, Portugal became briefly a modest strategic asset for the Allies and a war materiel supplier for both sides: the country's location in the southwesternmost corner of the largely German-occupied European continent; being a transport and communication terminus, observation post for spies, and crossroads between Europe, the Atlantic, the Americas, and Africa; Portugal's strategically located Atlantic islands, the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde archipelagos; and having important mines of wolfram or tungsten ore, crucial for the war industry for hardening steel.To maintain strict neutrality, the Estado Novo regime dominated by Antônio de Oliveira Salazar performed a delicate balancing act. Lisbon attempted to please and cater to the interests of both sets of belligerents, but only to the extent that the concessions granted would not threaten Portugal's security or its status as a neutral. On at least two occasions, Portugal's neutrality status was threatened. First, Germany briefly considered invading Portugal and Spain during 1940-41. A second occasion came in 1943 and 1944 as Great Britain, backed by the United States, pressured Portugal to grant war-related concessions that threatened Portugal's status of strict neutrality and would possibly bring Portugal into the war on the Allied side. Nazi Germany's plan ("Operation Felix") to invade the Iberian Peninsula from late 1940 into 1941 was never executed, but the Allies occupied and used several air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands.The second major crisis for Portugal's neutrality came with increasing Allied pressures for concessions from the summer of 1943 to the summer of 1944. Led by Britain, Portugal's oldest ally, Portugal was pressured to grant access to air and naval bases in the Azores Islands. Such bases were necessary to assist the Allies in winning the Battle of the Atlantic, the naval war in which German U-boats continued to destroy Allied shipping. In October 1943, following tedious negotiations, British forces began to operate such bases and, in November 1944, American forces were allowed to enter the islands. Germany protested and made threats, but there was no German attack.Tensions rose again in the spring of 1944, when the Allies demanded that Lisbon cease exporting wolfram to Germany. Salazar grew agitated, considered resigning, and argued that Portugal had made a solemn promise to Germany that wolfram exports would be continued and that Portugal could not break its pledge. The Portuguese ambassador in London concluded that the shipping of wolfram to Germany was "the price of neutrality." Fearing that a still-dangerous Germany could still attack Portugal, Salazar ordered the banning of the mining, sale, and exports of wolfram not only to Germany but to the Allies as of 6 June 1944.Portugal did not enter the war as a belligerent, and its forces did not engage in combat, but some Portuguese experienced directly or indirectly the impact of fighting. Off Portugal or near her Atlantic islands, Portuguese naval personnel or commercial fishermen rescued at sea hundreds of victims of U-boat sinkings of Allied shipping in the Atlantic. German U-boats sank four or five Portuguese merchant vessels as well and, in 1944, a U-boat stopped, boarded, searched, and forced the evacuation of a Portuguese ocean liner, the Serpa Pinto, in mid-Atlantic. Filled with refugees, the liner was not sunk but several passengers lost their lives and the U-boat kidnapped two of the ship's passengers, Portuguese Americans of military age, and interned them in a prison camp. As for involvement in a theater of war, hundreds of inhabitants were killed and wounded in remote East Timor, a Portuguese colony near Indonesia, which was invaded, annexed, and ruled by Japanese forces between February 1942 and August 1945. In other incidents, scores of Allied military planes, out of fuel or damaged in air combat, crashed or were forced to land in neutral Portugal. Air personnel who did not survive such crashes were buried in Portuguese cemeteries or in the English Cemetery, Lisbon.Portugal's peripheral involvement in largely nonbelligerent aspects of the war accelerated social, economic, and political change in Portugal's urban society. It strengthened political opposition to the dictatorship among intellectual and working classes, and it obliged the regime to bolster political repression. The general economic and financial status of Portugal, too, underwent improvements since creditor Britain, in order to purchase wolfram, foods, and other materials needed during the war, became indebted to Portugal. When Britain repaid this debt after the war, Portugal was able to restore and expand its merchant fleet. Unlike most of Europe, ravaged by the worst war in human history, Portugal did not suffer heavy losses of human life, infrastructure, and property. Unlike even her neighbor Spain, badly shaken by its terrible Civil War (1936-39), Portugal's immediate postwar condition was more favorable, especially in urban areas, although deep-seated poverty remained.Portugal experienced other effects, especially during 1939-42, as there was an influx of about a million war refugees, an infestation of foreign spies and other secret agents from 60 secret intelligence services, and the residence of scores of international journalists who came to report the war from Lisbon. There was also the growth of war-related mining (especially wolfram and tin). Portugal's media eagerly reported the war and, by and large, despite government censorship, the Portuguese print media favored the Allied cause. Portugal's standard of living underwent some improvement, although price increases were unpopular.The silent invasion of several thousand foreign spies, in addition to the hiring of many Portuguese as informants and spies, had fascinating outcomes. "Spyland" Portugal, especially when Portugal was a key point for communicating with occupied Europe (1940-44), witnessed some unusual events, and spying for foreigners at least briefly became a national industry. Until mid-1944, when Allied forces invaded France, Portugal was the only secure entry point from across the Atlantic to Europe or to the British Isles, as well as the escape hatch for refugees, spies, defectors, and others fleeing occupied Europe or Vichy-controlled Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Through Portugal by car, ship, train, or scheduled civil airliner one could travel to and from Spain or to Britain, or one could leave through Portugal, the westernmost continental country of Europe, to seek refuge across the Atlantic in the Americas.The wartime Portuguese scene was a colorful melange of illegal activities, including espionage, the black market, war propaganda, gambling, speculation, currency counterfeiting, diamond and wolfram smuggling, prostitution, and the drug and arms trade, and they were conducted by an unusual cast of characters. These included refugees, some of whom were spies, smugglers, diplomats, and business people, many from foreign countries seeking things they could find only in Portugal: information, affordable food, shelter, and security. German agents who contacted Allied sailors in the port of Lisbon sought to corrupt and neutralize these men and, if possible, recruit them as spies, and British intelligence countered this effort. Britain's MI-6 established a new kind of "safe house" to protect such Allied crews from German espionage and venereal disease infection, an approved and controlled house of prostitution in Lisbon's bairro alto district.Foreign observers and writers were impressed with the exotic, spy-ridden scene in Lisbon, as well as in Estoril on the Sun Coast (Costa do Sol), west of Lisbon harbor. What they observed appeared in noted autobiographical works and novels, some written during and some after the war. Among notable writers and journalists who visited or resided in wartime Portugal were Hungarian writer and former communist Arthur Koestler, on the run from the Nazi's Gestapo; American radio broadcaster-journalist Eric Sevareid; novelist and Hollywood script-writer Frederick Prokosch; American diplomat George Kennan; Rumanian cultural attache and later scholar of mythology Mircea Eliade; and British naval intelligence officer and novelist-to-be Ian Fleming. Other notable visiting British intelligence officers included novelist Graham Greene; secret Soviet agent in MI-6 and future defector to the Soviet Union Harold "Kim" Philby; and writer Malcolm Muggeridge. French letters were represented by French writer and airman, Antoine Saint-Exupery and French playwright, Jean Giroudoux. Finally, Aquilino Ribeiro, one of Portugal's premier contemporary novelists, wrote about wartime Portugal, including one sensational novel, Volframio, which portrayed the profound impact of the exploitation of the mineral wolfram on Portugal's poor, still backward society.In Estoril, Portugal, the idea for the world's most celebrated fictitious spy, James Bond, was probably first conceived by Ian Fleming. Fleming visited Portugal several times after 1939 on Naval Intelligence missions, and later he dreamed up the James Bond character and stories. Background for the early novels in the James Bond series was based in part on people and places Fleming observed in Portugal. A key location in Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953) is the gambling Casino of Estoril. In addition, one aspect of the main plot, the notion that a spy could invent "secret" intelligence for personal profit, was observed as well by the British novelist and former MI-6 officer, while engaged in operations in wartime Portugal. Greene later used this information in his 1958 spy novel, Our Man in Havana, as he observed enemy agents who fabricated "secrets" for money.Thus, Portugal's World War II experiences introduced the country and her people to a host of new peoples, ideas, products, and influences that altered attitudes and quickened the pace of change in this quiet, largely tradition-bound, isolated country. The 1943-45 connections established during the Allied use of air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands were a prelude to Portugal's postwar membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). -
17 Bigelow, Erastus Brigham
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]b. 2 April 1814 West Boyleston, Massachusetts, USAd. 6 December 1879 USA[br]American inventor of power looms for making lace and many types of carpets.[br]Bigelow was born in West Boyleston, Massachusetts, where his father struggled as a farmer, wheelwright, and chairmaker. Before he was 20, Bigelow had many different jobs, among them farm labourer, clerk, violin player and cotton-mill employee. In 1830, he went to Leicester Academy, Massachusetts, but he could not afford to go on to Harvard. He sought work in Boston, New York and elsewhere, making various inventions.The most important of his early inventions was the power loom of 1837 for making coach lace. This loom contained all the essential features of his carpet looms, which he developed and patented two years later. He formed the Clinton Company for manufacturing carpets at Leicester, Massachusetts, but the factory became so large that its name was adopted for the town. The next twenty years saw various mechanical discoveries, while his range of looms was extended to cover Brussels, Wilton, tapestry and velvet carpets. Bigelow has been justly described as the originator of every fundamental device in these machines, which were amongst the largest textile machines of their time. The automatic insertion and withdrawal of strong wires with looped ends was the means employed to raise the looped pile of the Brussels carpets, while thinner wires with a knife blade at the end raised and then severed the loops to create the rich Wilton pile. At the Great Exhibition in 1851, it was declared that his looms made better carpets than any from hand looms. He also developed other looms for special materials.He became a noted American economist, writing two books about tariff problems, advocating that the United States should not abandon its protectionist policies. In 1860 he was narrowly defeated in a Congress election. The following year he was a member of the committee that established the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[br]Further ReadingNational Cyclopedia of American Biography III (the standard account of his life). F.H.Sawyer, 1927, Clinton Item (provides a broad background to his life).C.Singer (ed.), 1958, A History of Technology, Vol. V, Oxford: Clarendon Press (describes Bigelow's inventions).RLHBiographical history of technology > Bigelow, Erastus Brigham
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18 Boulle, André-Charles
SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors[br]b. 11 November 1642 Paris, Franced. 29 February 1732 Paris, France[br]French cabinet-maker noted for his elaborate designs and high-quality technique in marquetry using brass and tortoiseshell.[br]As with the Renaissance artists and architects of fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Italy, Boulle worked as a young man in varied media, as a painter, engraver and metalworker an in mosaic techniques. It was in the 1660s that he turned more specifically to furniture and in the following decade, under the patronage of Louis XIV, that he became a leading ébéniste or cabinet-maker, In 1672 the King's Controller-General, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, recommended Boulle as an outstanding cabinet-maker and he was appointed ébéniste du roi. From then he spent the rest of his life working in the royal palaces, notably the Louvre and Versailles, and also carried out commissions for the French aristocracy and from abroad, particularly Spain and Germany.Before the advent of Boulle, the quality furniture made for the French court and aristocracy had come from foreign craftsmen, particularly Domenico Cucci of Italy and Pierre Colle of the Low Countries. Boulle made his name as their equal in his development of new forms of furniture such as his bureaux and commodes, the immense variety of his designs and their architectural quality, the beauty of his sculptural, gilded mounts, and the development of his elaborate marquetry. He was a leading exponent of the contemporary styles, which meant the elaborately rich baroque forms in the time of Louis XIV and the more delicate rococo elegance in that of Louis XV. The technique to which Boulle gave his name (sometimes referred to in its German spelling of Bühl) incorporated a rich variety of veneering materials into his designs: in particular, he used tortoiseshell and brass with ebony. Even greater richness was created with the introduction of an engraved design upon the brass surfaces. Further delicate elaboration derived from the use of paired panels of decoration to be used in reverse form in one piece, or two matching pieces, of furniture. In one panel, designated as première partie, the marquetry took the form of brass upon tortoiseshell, while in the other (contre-partie) the tortoiseshell was set into the brass background.[br]Further ReadingJ.Fleming and H.Honour, 1977, The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts: Allen Lane, pp. 107–9.1982, The History of Furniture: Orbis (contains many references to Boulle).DY -
19 Mitscherlich, Alexander
SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing[br]b. 28 May 1836 Berlin, Germanyd. 31 May 1918 Oberstdorf, Germany[br]German inventor of sulphite wood pulp for papermaking.[br]Mitscherlich had an impeccable scientific background; his father was the celebrated chemist Eilhardt Mitscherlich, discoverer of the law of isomorphism, and his godfather was Alexander von Humboldt. At first his progress at school failed to live up to this auspicious beginning and his father would only sanction higher studies if he first qualified as a teacher so as to assure a means of livelihood. Alexander rose to the occasion and went on to gain his doctorate at the age of 25 in the field of mineralogical chemistry. He worked for a few years as Assistant to the distinguished chemists Wöhler in Göttingen and Wurtz in Paris. On his father's death in 1863, he succeeded him as teacher of chemistry in the University of Berlin. In 1868 he accepted a post in the newly established Forest Academy in Hannoversch-Munden, teaching chemistry, physics and geology. The post offered little financial advantage, but it left him more time for research. It was there that he invented the process for producing sulphite wood pulp.The paper industry was seeking new raw materials. Since the 1840s pulp had been produced mechanically from wood, but it was unsuitable for making fine papers. From the mid-1860s several chemists began tackling the problem of separating the cellulose fibres from the other constituents of wood by chemical means. The American Benjamin C.Tilghman was granted patents in several countries for the treatment of wood with acid or bisulphite. Carl Daniel Ekman in Sweden and Karl Kellner in Austria also made sulphite pulp, but the credit for devising the process that came into general use belongs to Mitscherlich. His brother Oskar came to him at the Academy with plans for producing pulp by the action of soda, but the results were inferior, so Mitscherlich substituted calcium bisulphite and in the laboratory obtained good results. To extend this to a large-scale process, he was forced to set up his own mill, where he devised the characteristic towers for making the calcium bisulphite, in which water trickling down through packed lime met a rising current of sulphur dioxide. He was granted a patent in Luxembourg in 1874 and a German one four years later. The sulphite process did not make him rich, for there was considerable opposition to it; government objected to the smell of sulphur dioxide, forestry authorities were anxious about the inroads that might be made into the forests and his patents were contested. In 1883, with the support of an inheritance from his mother, Mitscherlich resigned his post at the Academy to devote more time to promoting his invention. In 1897 he at last succeeded in settling the patent disputes and achieving recognition as the inventor of sulphite pulp. Without this raw material, the paper industry could never have satisfied the insatiable appetite of the newspaper presses.[br]Further ReadingH.Voorn "Alexander Mitscherlich, inventor of sulphite wood pulp", Paper Maker 23(1): 41–4.LRDBiographical history of technology > Mitscherlich, Alexander
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