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be employed by a company

  • 1 remain employed

    Общая лексика: сохранять за собой рабочее место (she remains employed (by the company) during/throughout her maternity leave - на время декретного отпуска за ней сохраняется ее рабочее место (в компании))

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > remain employed

  • 2 franchising company

    экон. франчайзинговая компания, франшизовая компания

    The franchisee is not employed by franchising company, but has to establish and operate his or her own business. — Получатель франшизы не нанимается на работу франчайзинговой компанией, ему приходится основывать или вести свой собственный бизнес.

    Англо-русский универсальный дополнительный практический переводческий словарь И. Мостицкого > franchising company

  • 3 capital employed

    capital employed 1. FIN eingesetztes Kapital n, investiertes Kapital n (synonymous: invested capital = sum of the shareholders’ equity in a company + long-term debts = Eigenkapital + langfristiges Fremdkapital); 2. ECON Nettogesamtvermögen n (capital assets + net current assets = fixed assets + current assets – current liabilities = Anlagevermögen + Umlaufvermögen – kurzfristige Verbindlichkeiten)

    Englisch-Deutsch Fachwörterbuch der Wirtschaft > capital employed

  • 4 employ

    1. transitive verb
    1) (take on) einstellen; (have working for one) beschäftigen
    2) (use services of)

    employ somebody to do something — jemanden dafür einsetzen, etwas zu tun

    3) (use) einsetzen (for, in, on für); anwenden [Methode, List] (for, in, on bei)
    2. noun, no pl., no indef. art.

    be in the employ of somebody — bei jemandem beschäftigt sein; in jemandes Diensten stehen (veralt.)

    * * *
    [im'ploi]
    1) (to give (especially paid) work to: He employs three typists; She is employed as a teacher.) beschäftigen, anstellen
    2) (to occupy the time or attention of: She was busily employed (in) writing letters.) beschäftigen
    3) (to make use of: You should employ your time better.) verwenden
    •
    - academic.ru/100078/employed">employed
    - employee
    - employee
    - employer
    - employment
    * * *
    em·ploy
    [ɪmˈplɔɪ, AM emˈ-]
    I. vt
    1. (pay to do work)
    ▪ to \employ sb [as sth] jdn [als etw akk] beschäftigen; (take into service) jdn [als etw akk] einstellen [o anstellen]
    they \employ twenty staff sie haben zwanzig Angestellte
    she's \employed as an editor with PONS sie arbeitet als Redakteurin bei PONS
    to be \employed with a company bei einer Firma arbeiten
    ▪ to \employ sb to do sth jdn beauftragen [o engagieren], etw zu tun
    2. ( fig)
    ▪ to \employ sth (put to use) etw einsetzen; (use) etw anwenden
    to \employ one's intellect seinen Verstand gebrauchen
    to \employ one's time seine Zeit nutzen
    ▪ to \employ oneself in [or with] doing sth damit beschäftigt sein, etw zu tun
    II. n no pl ( form or dated) Beschäftigung f
    ▪ to be in the \employ of sb [or in sb's \employ] bei jdm beschäftigt sein
    * * *
    [Im'plɔɪ]
    1. vt
    1) person beschäftigen; (= take on) anstellen; private detective beauftragen

    he has been employed with us for 15 years — er ist schon seit 15 Jahren bei uns

    2) (= use) means, method, tactics, skill, force, cunning anwenden, einsetzen; word, concept verwenden; time verbringen

    they employed the services of a chemist to help them — sie zogen einen Chemiker heran, um ihnen zu helfen

    3)

    to be employed in doing sth — damit beschäftigt sein, etw zu tun

    2. n

    to be in the employ of sb (form) — bei jdm beschäftigt sein, in jds Diensten stehen (geh)

    * * *
    employ [ımˈplɔı]
    A v/t
    1. jemanden beschäftigen (as als):
    2. jemanden an-, einstellen
    3. an-, verwenden, gebrauchen:
    employ force Gewalt anwenden;
    employ sb’s services jemandes Dienste in Anspruch nehmen
    4. (in) Energie etc widmen (dat), Zeit verbringen (mit):
    employ all one’s energies in sth einer Sache seine ganze Kraft widmen;
    be employed in doing sth damit beschäftigt sein, etwas zu tun
    5. employ a lot of time viel Zeit kosten
    B s Dienst(e) m(pl), Beschäftigung(sverhältnis) f(n):
    in employ beschäftigt;
    out of employ ohne Beschäftigung, stellen-, arbeitslos;
    be in sb’s employ in jemandes Dienst(en) stehen, bei jemandem beschäftigt oder angestellt sein
    * * *
    1. transitive verb
    1) (take on) einstellen; (have working for one) beschäftigen

    employ somebody to do something — jemanden dafür einsetzen, etwas zu tun

    3) (use) einsetzen (for, in, on für); anwenden [Methode, List] (for, in, on bei)
    2. noun, no pl., no indef. art.

    be in the employ of somebody — bei jemandem beschäftigt sein; in jemandes Diensten stehen (veralt.)

    * * *
    v.
    Personal einstellen ausdr.
    anstellen v.
    anwenden v.
    beschäftigen v.
    engagieren v.
    verwenden v.

    English-german dictionary > employ

  • 5 employ

    em·ploy [ɪmʼplɔɪ, Am emʼ-] vt
    to \employ sb [as sth] jdn [als etw akk] beschäftigen;
    ( take into service) jdn [als etw akk] einstellen [o anstellen];
    she's \employed as an editor with Klett Publishing sie arbeitet als Redakteurin beim Klett Verlag;
    to be \employed with a company bei einer Firma arbeiten;
    to \employ sb to do sth jdn beauftragen [o engagieren], etw zu tun;
    2)( fig)
    to \employ sth ( put to use) etw einsetzen;
    ( use) etw anwenden;
    to \employ one's intellect seinen Verstand gebrauchen;
    to \employ one's time seine Zeit nutzen;
    to \employ oneself in [or with] doing sth damit beschäftigt sein, etw zu tun n
    no pl ( form) (dated) Beschäftigung f;
    to be in the \employ of sb [or in sb's \employ] bei jdm beschäftigt sein

    English-German students dictionary > employ

  • 6 corporate lawyer

    corporate lawyer (AE) LAW Syndikusanwalt m, Syndikusanwältin f (who is employed by a company); Firmenanwalt m, Firmenanwältin f, Unternehmensjurist(in) m(f) (who represents a company)

    Englisch-Deutsch Fachwörterbuch der Wirtschaft > corporate lawyer

  • 7 related employment

    эк. связанная занятость* (понятие, которое обозначает переход работника по просьбе его компании на работу в другую компанию, которая не является дочерней или материнской компанией; такое изменение места работы означает сохранение в силе всех опционов на акции, которые были предоставлены работнику в качестве вознаграждения)

    You must, at all times during the period beginning with the grant date of this Stock Option and ending on the date of such exercise, have been employed by the Company, a Subsidiary or an Affiliate or have been engaged in a period of Related Employment, with certain exceptions noted below. — С момента выдачи этого Опциона на акции и до момента его исполнения Вы должны быть работником Компании, ее Дочерней компании или Аффилированной компании, или должны работать в другой компании по поручению своей компании [должны быть командированы в другую компанию\].

    See:

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > related employment

  • 8 overcapitalized

    Fin
    used to describe a business that has more capital than can profitably be employed. An overcapitalized company could buy back some of its own shares in the market; if it has significant debt capital it could repurchase its bonds in the market; or it could make a large one-time dividend to shareholders.

    The ultimate business dictionary > overcapitalized

  • 9 employ

    im'ploi
    1) (to give (especially paid) work to: He employs three typists; She is employed as a teacher.) emplear
    2) (to occupy the time or attention of: She was busily employed (in) writing letters.) ocupar
    3) (to make use of: You should employ your time better.) emplear, utilizar
    •
    - employee
    - employee
    - employer
    - employment
    employ vb emplear / dar trabajo
    tr[ɪm'plɔɪ]
    1 formal use empleo
    1 (give work to) emplear; (appoint) contratar
    2 formal use (make use of, use) emplear, usar
    3 (occupy) ocupar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to be in somebody's employ ser empleado de alguien, trabajar para alguien
    employ [ɪm'plɔɪ, ɛm-] vt
    1) use: usar, utilizar
    2) hire: contratar, emplear
    3) occupy: ocupar, dedicar, emplear
    employ [ɪm'plɔɪ, ɛm-; 'ɪm.-, 'ɛm.-] n
    1) : puesto m, cargo m, ocupación f
    2)
    to be in the employ of : estar al servicio de, trabajar para
    n.
    • empleo s.m.
    • ocupación s.f.
    v.
    • asoldar v.
    • emplear v.

    I ɪm'plɔɪ
    a) \<\<person\>\> ( take on) contratar, emplear; ( have working) emplear, dar* empleo a
    b) \<\<method/tactics/tool\>\> emplear, valerse* de

    II
    noun (frml)

    to be in somebody's employ o in the employ of somebody — trabajar para alguien

    [ɪm'plɔɪ]
    1.
    VT [+ person] emplear, dar empleo a; [+ object, method] emplear, usar; [+ time] ocupar
    2.
    N

    to be in the employ of sb — frm (as company employee) ser empleado de algn; (as servant) estar al servicio de algn

    * * *

    I [ɪm'plɔɪ]
    a) \<\<person\>\> ( take on) contratar, emplear; ( have working) emplear, dar* empleo a
    b) \<\<method/tactics/tool\>\> emplear, valerse* de

    II
    noun (frml)

    to be in somebody's employ o in the employ of somebody — trabajar para alguien

    English-spanish dictionary > employ

  • 10 Ford, Henry

    [br]
    b. 30 July 1863 Dearborn, Michigan, USA
    d. 7 April 1947 Dearborn, Michigan, USA
    [br]
    American pioneer motor-car maker and developer of mass-production methods.
    [br]
    He was the son of an Irish immigrant farmer, William Ford, and the oldest son to survive of Mary Litogot; his mother died in 1876 with the birth of her sixth child. He went to the village school, and at the age of 16 he was apprenticed to Flower brothers' machine shop and then at the Drydock \& Engineering Works in Detroit. In 1882 he left to return to the family farm and spent some time working with a 1 1/2 hp steam engine doing odd jobs for the farming community at $3 per day. He was then employed as a demonstrator for Westinghouse steam engines. He met Clara Jane Bryant at New Year 1885 and they were married on 11 April 1888. Their only child, Edsel Bryant Ford, was born on 6 November 1893.
    At that time Henry worked on steam engine repairs for the Edison Illuminating Company, where he became Chief Engineer. He became one of a group working to develop a "horseless carriage" in 1896 and in June completed his first vehicle, a "quadri cycle" with a two-cylinder engine. It was built in a brick shed, which had to be partially demolished to get the carriage out.
    Ford became involved in motor racing, at which he was more successful than he was in starting a car-manufacturing company. Several early ventures failed, until the Ford Motor Company of 1903. By October 1908 they had started with production of the Model T. The first, of which over 15 million were built up to the end of its production in May 1927, came out with bought-out steel stampings and a planetary gearbox, and had a one-piece four-cylinder block with a bolt-on head. This was one of the most successful models built by Ford or any other motor manufacturer in the life of the motor car.
    Interchangeability of components was an important element in Ford's philosophy. Ford was a pioneer in the use of vanadium steel for engine components. He adopted the principles of Frederick Taylor, the pioneer of time-and-motion study, and installed the world's first moving assembly line for the production of magnetos, started in 1913. He installed blast furnaces at the factory to make his own steel, and he also promoted research and the cultivation of the soya bean, from which a plastic was derived.
    In October 1913 he introduced the "Five Dollar Day", almost doubling the normal rate of pay. This was a profit-sharing scheme for his employees and contained an element of a reward for good behaviour. About this time he initiated work on an agricultural tractor, the "Fordson" made by a separate company, the directors of which were Henry and his son Edsel.
    In 1915 he chartered the Oscar II, a "peace ship", and with fifty-five delegates sailed for Europe a week before Christmas, docking at Oslo. Their objective was to appeal to all European Heads of State to stop the war. He had hoped to persuade manufacturers to replace armaments with tractors in their production programmes. In the event, Ford took to his bed in the hotel with a chill, stayed there for five days and then sailed for New York and home. He did, however, continue to finance the peace activists who remained in Europe. Back in America, he stood for election to the US Senate but was defeated. He was probably the father of John Dahlinger, illegitimate son of Evangeline Dahlinger, a stenographer employed by the firm and on whom he lavished gifts of cars, clothes and properties. He became the owner of a weekly newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, which became the medium for the expression of many of his more unorthodox ideas. He was involved in a lawsuit with the Chicago Tribune in 1919, during which he was cross-examined on his knowledge of American history: he is reputed to have said "History is bunk". What he actually said was, "History is bunk as it is taught in schools", a very different comment. The lawyers who thus made a fool of him would have been surprised if they could have foreseen the force and energy that their actions were to release. For years Ford employed a team of specialists to scour America and Europe for furniture, artefacts and relics of all kinds, illustrating various aspects of history. Starting with the Wayside Inn from South Sudbury, Massachusetts, buildings were bought, dismantled and moved, to be reconstructed in Greenfield Village, near Dearborn. The courthouse where Abraham Lincoln had practised law and the Ohio bicycle shop where the Wright brothers built their first primitive aeroplane were added to the farmhouse where the proprietor, Henry Ford, had been born. Replicas were made of Independence Hall, Congress Hall and the old City Hall in Philadelphia, and even a reconstruction of Edison's Menlo Park laboratory was installed. The Henry Ford museum was officially opened on 21 October 1929, on the fiftieth anniversary of Edison's invention of the incandescent bulb, but it continued to be a primary preoccupation of the great American car maker until his death.
    Henry Ford was also responsible for a number of aeronautical developments at the Ford Airport at Dearborn. He introduced the first use of radio to guide a commercial aircraft, the first regular airmail service in the United States. He also manufactured the country's first all-metal multi-engined plane, the Ford Tri-Motor.
    Edsel became President of the Ford Motor Company on his father's resignation from that position on 30 December 1918. Following the end of production in May 1927 of the Model T, the replacement Model A was not in production for another six months. During this period Henry Ford, though officially retired from the presidency of the company, repeatedly interfered and countermanded the orders of his son, ostensibly the man in charge. Edsel, who died of stomach cancer at his home at Grosse Point, Detroit, on 26 May 1943, was the father of Henry Ford II. Henry Ford died at his home, "Fair Lane", four years after his son's death.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1922, with S.Crowther, My Life and Work, London: Heinemann.
    Further Reading
    R.Lacey, 1986, Ford, the Men and the Machine, London: Heinemann. W.C.Richards, 1948, The Last Billionaire, Henry Ford, New York: Charles Scribner.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Ford, Henry

  • 11 employ

    1. гл.
    1) общ. употреблять, применять, использовать, задействовать; пользоваться (услугами)

    Successful companies simply employ resources and operate in their industry better than their competitors. — Успешные компании просто используют ресурсы и действуют в своей отрасли лучше, чем их конкуренты.

    He was also employed at making copies. — Он был также занят копированием.

    Syn:
    See:
    2) эк.
    а) нанимать, предоставлять (давать) работу; занимать

    to be employed — быть занятым, работать

    numbers employed — численность занятых [работников\]

    Syn:
    See:
    б) держать на службе [работе\], содержать штат [в штате\]

    The company employes 40 people but plans to double this figure in the next few months. — В штате компании 40 человек, но планируется удвоить эту цифру в течение следующих нескольких месяцев.

    Ant:
    2. сущ.
    1) общ.
    а) использование, применение, задействование

    employment of facilities, equipment, communications, and personnel — использование помещений, оборудованиия, средств коммуникации и персонала

    Syn:
    б) назначение, цель
    Syn:
    2) эк.
    а) занятие, служба, работа (состояние занятости, в отличие от безработицы)
    Syn:
    б) наем, трудоустройство

    Class A Permit shall allow the holder thereof and any person in the employ of the permit holder to process and to ship shellfish, either in the form of shell stock or as fresh or frozen shucked stock. — Разрешение класса А разрешает его обладателю или любому нанятому им человеку обрабатывать и перевозить моллюсков, как в раковинах, так и очищенными от раковин, свежими или замороженными.

    Syn:

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > employ

  • 12 with

    preposition
    1) mit

    put something with something — etwas zu etwas stellen/legen

    be with it — (coll.) up to date sein

    not be with somebody — (coll.): (fail to understand) jemandem nicht folgen können

    I'm not with you — (coll.) ich komme nicht mit

    be one with somebody/something — mit jemandem/etwas eins sein

    2) (in the care or possession of) bei
    3) (owing to) vor (+ Dat.)
    5) (while having) bei
    6) (in regard to)

    what do you want with me? — was wollen Sie von mir?

    what can he want with it? — was mag er damit vorhaben?

    7) (at the same time as, in the same way as) mit
    8) (employed by) bei
    9) (despite) trotz; see also academic.ru/82354/will">will II 1. 4)
    * * *
    [wið]
    1) (in the company of; beside; among; including: I was walking with my father; Do they enjoy playing with each other?; He used to play football with the Arsenal team; Put this book with the others.) mit
    2) (by means of; using: Mend it with this glue; Cut it with a knife.) mit
    3) (used in expressing the idea of filling, covering etc: Fill this jug with milk; He was covered with mud.) mit
    4) (used in describing conflict: They quarrelled with each other; He fought with my brother.) mit
    5) (used in descriptions of things: a man with a limp; a girl with long hair; a stick with a handle; Treat this book with care.) mit
    6) (as the result of: He is shaking with fear.) vor
    7) (in the care of: Leave your case with the porter.) bei
    8) (in relation to; in the case of; concerning: Be careful with that!; What's wrong with you?; What shall I do with these books?) mit
    9) (used in expressing a wish: Down with fascism!; Up with Manchester United!) mit
    * * *
    [wɪθ]
    1. (having, containing) mit + dat
    \with a little bit of luck mit ein wenig Glück
    he spoke \with a soft accent er sprach mit einem leichten Akzent
    I'd like a double room \with a sea view ich hätte gerne ein Doppelzimmer mit Blick aufs Meer
    2. (accompanied by) mit + dat
    I'm going to France \with a couple of friends ich fahre mit ein paar Freunden nach Frankreich
    3. (together with) mit + dat
    I need to talk \with you about this ich muss mit dir darüber reden
    I've got nothing in common \with him ich habe mit ihm nichts gemeinsam
    \with you and me, there'll be 10 of us mit dir und mir sind wir zu zehnt
    I'll be \with you in a second ich bin gleich bei dir
    we're going to stay \with some friends wir werden bei Freunden übernachten
    he decided to make a clean break \with the past er beschloss, einen Schlussstrich unter die Vergangenheit zu setzen
    can you help me \with my homework? kannst du mir bei den Hausaufgaben helfen?
    what's the matter \with her? was ist los mit ihr?
    it's the same \with me mir geht es genauso
    let me be frank \with you lass mich offen zu dir sein
    away \with you! fort mit dir!
    to have something/nothing to do \with sb/sth etwas/nichts mit jdm/etw zu tun haben
    6. (expressing feeling towards sb/sth) mit + dat
    I'm angry \with you ich bin sauer auf dich
    he was dissatisfied \with the new car er war unzufrieden mit dem neuen Wagen
    I'm content \with things the way they are ich bin zufrieden mit den Dingen, so wie sie sind
    7. (expressing manner) mit + dat
    she nodded \with a sigh sie nickte seufzend
    please handle this package \with care bitte behandeln sie dieses Paket mit Vorsicht
    \with a look of surprise mit einem erstaunten Gesichtsausdruck
    8. (in a state of) vor + dat
    she was shaking \with rage sie zitterte vor Wut
    he looked \with utter disbelief er starrte völlig ungläubig
    she was green \with jealousy sie war grün vor Eifersucht
    9. (in addition to) mit + dat
    \with that... [und] damit...
    he gave a slight moan and \with that he died er stöhnte kurz auf, woraufhin er verstarb
    10. (in proportion to) mit + dat
    the value could decrease \with time der Wert könnte mit der Zeit sinken
    the wine will improve \with age der Wein wird mit zunehmendem Alter besser
    11. (in direction of) mit + dat
    they went \with popular opinion sie gingen mit der öffentlichen Meinung
    I prefer to go \with my own feeling ich verlasse mich lieber auf mein Gefühl
    \with the current/tide/wind mit der Strömung/der Flut/dem Wind
    12. (using) mit + dat
    she paints \with watercolors sie malt mit Wasserfarben
    they covered the floor \with newspaper sie bedeckten den Boden mit Zeitungspapier
    13. (in circumstances of, while)
    \with things the way they are so wie die Dinge sind [o stehen]
    \with two minutes to take-off mit nur noch zwei Minuten bis zum Start
    what \with school and all, I don't have much time mit der Schule und allem bleibt mir nicht viel Zeit
    14. (despite) bei + dat
    \with all her faults trotz all ihrer Fehler
    even \with... selbst mit...
    15. (working for) bei + dat
    he's been \with the department since 1982 er arbeitet seit 1982 in der Abteilung
    16. (in support of)
    I agree \with you 100% ich stimme dir 100 % zu
    to be \with sb/sth hinter jdm/etw stehen
    to go \with sth mit etw dat mitziehen
    up/down \with sth hoch/nieder mit etw dat
    17. (to match)
    to go \with sth zu etw dat passen
    18. (filled with, covered by) mit + dat
    the basement is crawling \with spiders der Keller wimmelt von Spinnen
    his plate was heaped \with food sein Teller war mit Essen vollgeladen
    19. (on one's person) bei + dat
    , an + dat
    do you have a pen \with you? hast du einen Stift bei dir?
    bring a cake \with you bring einen Kuchen mit
    are you \with me? verstehst du?
    I'm sorry, but I'm not \with you Entschuldigung, aber da komm' ich nicht mit fam
    * * *
    [wIð, wɪɵ]
    prep
    1) mit

    with no... — ohne...

    (together) with the Victory, it's the biggest ship of its class — neben der Victory ist es das größte Schiff in seiner Klasse

    to walk with a stick — am or mit einem Stock gehen

    put it with the rest — leg es zu den anderen

    the wind was with us — wir hatten den Wind im Rücken, wir fuhren etc mit dem Wind

    how are things with you? — wie gehts?, wie stehts? (inf)

    See:
    → with it
    2) (= at house of, in company of etc) bei

    I'll be with you in a moment — einen Augenblick bitte, ich bin gleich da

    4) (cause) vor (+dat)

    to be ill with measles — die Masern haben, an Masern erkrankt sein

    5) (= in the case of) bei, mit

    the trouble with him is that he... — die Schwierigkeit bei or mit ihm ist (die), dass er...

    it's a habit with him —

    with God, all things are possible — bei or für Gott ist kein Ding unmöglich

    6) (= while sb/sth is) wo

    you can't go with your mother ill in bed — wo deine Mutter krank im Bett liegt, kannst du nicht gehen

    7) (= in proportion) mit
    8) (= in spite of) trotz, bei

    with all his faults — bei allen seinen Fehlern, trotz aller seiner Fehler

    9)

    (= in agreement, on side of) I'm with you there (inf) — da stimme ich dir zu

    10) (inf

    expressing comprehension) are you with me? — kapierst du? (inf), hast dus? (inf), kommst du mit? (inf)

    * * *
    with [wıð; wıθ] präp
    1. (zusammen) mit:
    would you like rice with your meat? möchten Sie Reis zum Fleisch?
    2. (in Übereinstimmung) mit, für:
    he that is not with me is against me wer nicht für mich ist, ist gegen mich;
    a) ich bin ganz Ihrer Ansicht oder auf Ihrer Seite,
    b) ich verstehe Sie sehr gut;
    vote with the Conservatives! stimmt für die Konservativen!;
    blue does not go with green Blau passt nicht zu Grün
    3. mit (besitzend):
    4. mit (vermittels):
    what will you buy with the money? was wirst du (dir) von dem Geld kaufen?
    with the door open bei offener Tür
    6. mit (in derselben Weise, im gleichen Grad, zur selben Zeit):
    7. bei:
    8. (kausal) durch, vor (dat):
    stiff with cold steif vor Kälte;
    tremble with fear vor Angst zittern
    9. bei, für:
    with God all things are possible bei Gott ist kein Ding unmöglich
    10. von, mit (Trennung): → break1 C 1, etc
    11. gegen, mit:
    fight with s.o
    12. bei, aufseiten:
    it rests with you to decide die Entscheidung liegt bei dir
    13. nebst, samt:
    14. trotz:
    with the best intentions, he failed completely;
    with all her brains bei all ihrer Klugheit
    15. wie:
    have the same faith with s.o
    16. angesichts;
    in Anbetracht der Tatsache, dass:
    you can’t leave with your mother so ill du kannst nicht weggehen, wenn deine Mutter so krank ist
    17. with it umg
    a) auf Draht, auf der Höhe,
    b) up to date, modern
    frenzied [ˈfrenzıd] adj
    1. außer sich, rasend ( beide: with vor dat)
    2. frenetisch (Geschrei etc), (Beifall auch) rasend
    3. wild, hektisch:
    the room was full of frenzied activity im Zimmer herrschte hektische Aktivität
    w. abk
    2. wide
    4. wife
    5. with
    6. PHYS work
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    preposition
    1) mit

    put something with something — etwas zu etwas stellen/legen

    be with it — (coll.) up to date sein

    not be with somebody — (coll.): (fail to understand) jemandem nicht folgen können

    I'm not with you — (coll.) ich komme nicht mit

    be one with somebody/something — mit jemandem/etwas eins sein

    3) (owing to) vor (+ Dat.)
    7) (at the same time as, in the same way as) mit
    9) (despite) trotz; see also will II 1. 4)
    * * *
    prep.
    mit präp.

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  • 13 Voigt, Paul Gustavus Adolphus Helmuth

    [br]
    b. 9 December 1901 Forest Hill, London, England
    d. 9 February 1981 Brighton, Ontario, Canada
    [br]
    English/Canadian electronics engineer, developer of electromechanical recording and reproductions systems, amplifiers and loudspeakers.
    [br]
    He received his education at Dulwich College and in 1922 graduated with a BSc from University College, London. He had an early interest in the application of valve amplifiers, and after graduating he was employed by J.E.Hough, Edison Bell Works, to develop a line of radio-receiving equipment. However, he became interested in the mechanical (and later electrical) side of recording and from 1925 developed principles and equipment. In particular he developed capacitor microphones, not only for in-house work but also commercially, until the mid-1930s. The Edison Bell company did not survive the Depression and closed in 1933. Voigt founded his own company, Voigt Patents Ltd, concentrating on loudspeakers for cinemas and developing horn loudspeakers for domestic use. During the Second World War he continued to develop loudspeaker units and gramophone pick-ups, and in 1950 he emigrated to Toronto, Canada, but his company closed. Voigt taught electronics, and from 1960 to 1969 he was employed by the Radio Regulations Laboratory in Ottawa. After retirement he worked with theoretical cosmology and fundamental interactions.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Most of Voigt's patents are concerned with improvements in the magnetic circuit in dynamic loudspeakers and centring devices for diaphragms. However, UK patent nos. 278,098, 404,037 and 447,749 may be regarded as particularly relevant. In 1940 Voigt contributed a remarkable paper on the principles of equalization in mechanical recording: "Getting the best from records, part 1—the recording characteristic", Wireless World (February): 141–4.
    Further Reading
    Personal accounts of experiences with Voigt may be found in "Paul Voigt's contribution to Audio", British Kinematography Sound and Television (October 1970): 316–27, which also includes a list of his patents.
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  • 14 employ

    1. [ımʹplɔı] n
    1. работа по найму; служба

    to be in [out of] employ - иметь работу /службу/ [быть безработным]

    to be in the employ of smb. - работать /служить/ у кого-л.

    to have in one's employ - иметь у себя на службе, нанимать

    the company has ten stenographers in its employ - в компании работает 10 стенографисток

    2. арх., поэт. дело, занятие
    2. [ımʹplɔı] v
    1. предоставлять работу; нанимать; держать на службе, работе; пользоваться услугами

    the factory employs about a thousand workers - на фабрике занято около тысячи рабочих

    to be employed - работать по найму, служить (у кого-л.)

    2. употреблять, использовать, применять

    your time can be more profitably employed - вы можете употребить своё время с большей пользой

    3. 1) часто refl заниматься

    he employed himself in growing roses after he retired - после выхода на пенсию он занялся разведением роз

    2) занимать (кого-л.)

    to employ a child at cutting out paper dolls - занять ребёнка вырезанием бумажных кукол

    4. тех. загружать оборудование

    НБАРС > employ

  • 15 near cash

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    гос. фин. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    This paper provides background information on the framework for the planning and control of public expenditure in the UK which has been operated since the 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). It sets out the different classifications of spending for budgeting purposes and why these distinctions have been adopted. It discusses how the public expenditure framework is designed to ensure both sound public finances and an outcome-focused approach to public expenditure.
    The UK's public spending framework is based on several key principles:
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    consistency with a long-term, prudent and transparent regime for managing the public finances as a whole;
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    the judgement of success by policy outcomes rather than resource inputs;
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    strong incentives for departments and their partners in service delivery to plan over several years and plan together where appropriate so as to deliver better public services with greater cost effectiveness; and
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    the proper costing and management of capital assets to provide the right incentives for public investment.
    The Government sets policy to meet two firm fiscal rules:
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    the Golden Rule states that over the economic cycle, the Government will borrow only to invest and not to fund current spending; and
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    the Sustainable Investment Rule states that net public debt as a proportion of GDP will be held over the economic cycle at a stable and prudent level. Other things being equal, net debt will be maintained below 40 per cent of GDP over the economic cycle.
    Achievement of the fiscal rules is assessed by reference to the national accounts, which are produced by the Office for National Statistics, acting as an independent agency. The Government sets its spending envelope to comply with these fiscal rules.
    Departmental Expenditure Limits ( DEL) and Annually Managed Expenditure (AME)
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    Departmental Expenditure Limit ( DEL) spending, which is planned and controlled on a three year basis in Spending Reviews; and
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    Annually Managed Expenditure ( AME), which is expenditure which cannot reasonably be subject to firm, multi-year limits in the same way as DEL. AME includes social security benefits, local authority self-financed expenditure, debt interest, and payments to EU institutions.
    More information about DEL and AME is set out below.
    In Spending Reviews, firm DEL plans are set for departments for three years. To ensure consistency with the Government's fiscal rules departments are set separate resource (current) and capital budgets. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    To encourage departments to plan over the medium term departments may carry forward unspent DEL provision from one year into the next and, subject to the normal tests for tautness and realism of plans, may be drawn down in future years. This end-year flexibility also removes any incentive for departments to use up their provision as the year end approaches with less regard to value for money. For the full benefits of this flexibility and of three year plans to feed through into improved public service delivery, end-year flexibility and three year budgets should be cascaded from departments to executive agencies and other budget holders.
    Three year budgets and end-year flexibility give those managing public services the stability to plan their operations on a sensible time scale. Further, the system means that departments cannot seek to bid up funds each year (before 1997, three year plans were set and reviewed in annual Public Expenditure Surveys). So the credibility of medium-term plans has been enhanced at both central and departmental level.
    Departments have certainty over the budgetary allocation over the medium term and these multi-year DEL plans are strictly enforced. Departments are expected to prioritise competing pressures and fund these within their overall annual limits, as set in Spending Reviews. So the DEL system provides a strong incentive to control costs and maximise value for money.
    There is a small centrally held DEL Reserve. Support from the Reserve is available only for genuinely unforeseeable contingencies which departments cannot be expected to manage within their DEL.
    AME typically consists of programmes which are large, volatile and demand-led, and which therefore cannot reasonably be subject to firm multi-year limits. The biggest single element is social security spending. Other items include tax credits, Local Authority Self Financed Expenditure, Scottish Executive spending financed by non-domestic rates, and spending financed from the proceeds of the National Lottery.
    AME is reviewed twice a year as part of the Budget and Pre-Budget Report process reflecting the close integration of the tax and benefit system, which was enhanced by the introduction of tax credits.
    AME is not subject to the same three year expenditure limits as DEL, but is still part of the overall envelope for public expenditure. Affordability is taken into account when policy decisions affecting AME are made. The Government has committed itself not to take policy measures which are likely to have the effect of increasing social security or other elements of AME without taking steps to ensure that the effects of those decisions can be accommodated prudently within the Government's fiscal rules.
    Given an overall envelope for public spending, forecasts of AME affect the level of resources available for DEL spending. Cautious estimates and the AME margin are built in to these AME forecasts and reduce the risk of overspending on AME.
    Together, DEL plus AME sum to Total Managed Expenditure (TME). TME is a measure drawn from national accounts. It represents the current and capital spending of the public sector. The public sector is made up of central government, local government and public corporations.
    Resource and Capital Budgets are set in terms of accruals information. Accruals information measures resources as they are consumed rather than when the cash is paid. So for example the Resource Budget includes a charge for depreciation, a measure of the consumption or wearing out of capital assets.
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    Non cash charges in budgets do not impact directly on the fiscal framework. That may be because the national accounts use a different way of measuring the same thing, for example in the case of the depreciation of departmental assets. Or it may be that the national accounts measure something different: for example, resource budgets include a cost of capital charge reflecting the opportunity cost of holding capital; the national accounts include debt interest.
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    Within the Resource Budget DEL, departments have separate controls on:
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    Near cash spending, the sub set of Resource Budgets which impacts directly on the Golden Rule; and
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    The amount of their Resource Budget DEL that departments may spend on running themselves (e.g. paying most civil servants’ salaries) is limited by Administration Budgets, which are set in Spending Reviews. Administration Budgets are used to ensure that as much money as practicable is available for front line services and programmes. These budgets also help to drive efficiency improvements in departments’ own activities. Administration Budgets exclude the costs of frontline services delivered directly by departments.
    The Budget preceding a Spending Review sets an overall envelope for public spending that is consistent with the fiscal rules for the period covered by the Spending Review. In the Spending Review, the Budget AME forecast for year one of the Spending Review period is updated, and AME forecasts are made for the later years of the Spending Review period.
    The 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review ( CSR), which was published in July 1998, was a comprehensive review of departmental aims and objectives alongside a zero-based analysis of each spending programme to determine the best way of delivering the Government's objectives. The 1998 CSR allocated substantial additional resources to the Government's key priorities, particularly education and health, for the three year period from 1999-2000 to 2001-02.
    Delivering better public services does not just depend on how much money the Government spends, but also on how well it spends it. Therefore the 1998 CSR introduced Public Service Agreements (PSAs). Each major government department was given its own PSA setting out clear targets for achievements in terms of public service improvements.
    The 1998 CSR also introduced the DEL/ AME framework for the control of public spending, and made other framework changes. Building on the investment and reforms delivered by the 1998 CSR, successive spending reviews in 2000, 2002 and 2004 have:
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    provided significant increase in resources for the Government’s priorities, in particular health and education, and cross-cutting themes such as raising productivity; extending opportunity; and building strong and secure communities;
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    enabled the Government significantly to increase investment in public assets and address the legacy of under investment from past decades. Departmental Investment Strategies were introduced in SR2000. As a result there has been a steady increase in public sector net investment from less than ¾ of a per cent of GDP in 1997-98 to 2¼ per cent of GDP in 2005-06, providing better infrastructure across public services;
    " "
    introduced further refinements to the performance management framework. PSA targets have been reduced in number over successive spending reviews from around 300 to 110 to give greater focus to the Government’s highest priorities. The targets have become increasingly outcome-focused to deliver further improvements in key areas of public service delivery across Government. They have also been refined in line with the conclusions of the Devolving Decision Making Review to provide a framework which encourages greater devolution and local flexibility. Technical Notes were introduced in SR2000 explaining how performance against each PSA target will be measured; and
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    not only allocated near cash spending to departments, but also – since SR2002 - set Resource DEL plans for non cash spending.
    To identify what further investments and reforms are needed to equip the UK for the global challenges of the decade ahead, on 19 July 2005 the Chief Secretary to the Treasury announced that the Government intends to launch a second Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) reporting in 2007.
    A decade on from the first CSR, the 2007 CSR will represent a long-term and fundamental review of government expenditure. It will cover departmental allocations for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010 11. Allocations for 2007-08 will be held to the agreed figures already announced by the 2004 Spending Review. To provide a rigorous analytical framework for these departmental allocations, the Government will be taking forward a programme of preparatory work over 2006 involving:
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    an assessment of what the sustained increases in spending and reforms to public service delivery have achieved since the first CSR. The assessment will inform the setting of new objectives for the decade ahead;
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    an examination of the key long-term trends and challenges that will shape the next decade – including demographic and socio-economic change, globalisation, climate and environmental change, global insecurity and technological change – together with an assessment of how public services will need to respond;
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    to release the resources needed to address these challenges, and to continue to secure maximum value for money from public spending over the CSR period, a set of zero-based reviews of departments’ baseline expenditure to assess its effectiveness in delivering the Government’s long-term objectives; together with
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    further development of the efficiency programme, building on the cross cutting areas identified in the Gershon Review, to embed and extend ongoing efficiency savings into departmental expenditure planning.
    The 2007 CSR also offers the opportunity to continue to refine the PSA framework so that it drives effective delivery and the attainment of ambitious national standards.
    Public Service Agreements (PSAs) were introduced in the 1998 CSR. They set out agreed targets detailing the outputs and outcomes departments are expected to deliver with the resources allocated to them. The new spending regime places a strong emphasis on outcome targets, for example in providing for better health and higher educational standards or service standards. The introduction in SR2004 of PSA ‘standards’ will ensure that high standards in priority areas are maintained.
    The Government monitors progress against PSA targets, and departments report in detail twice a year in their annual Departmental Reports (published in spring) and in their autumn performance reports. These reports provide Parliament and the public with regular updates on departments’ performance against their targets.
    Technical Notes explain how performance against each PSA target will be measured.
    To make the most of both new investment and existing assets, there needs to be a coherent long term strategy against which investment decisions are taken. Departmental Investment Strategies (DIS) set out each department's plans to deliver the scale and quality of capital stock needed to underpin its objectives. The DIS includes information about the department's existing capital stock and future plans for that stock, as well as plans for new investment. It also sets out the systems that the department has in place to ensure that it delivers its capital programmes effectively.
    This document was updated on 19 December 2005.
    Near-cash resource expenditure that has a related cash implication, even though the timing of the cash payment may be slightly different. For example, expenditure on gas or electricity supply is incurred as the fuel is used, though the cash payment might be made in arrears on aquarterly basis. Other examples of near-cash expenditure are: pay, rental.Net cash requirement the upper limit agreed by Parliament on the cash which a department may draw from theConsolidated Fund to finance the expenditure within the ambit of its Request forResources. It is equal to the agreed amount of net resources and net capital less non-cashitems and working capital.Non-cash cost costs where there is no cash transaction but which are included in a body’s accounts (or taken into account in charging for a service) to establish the true cost of all the resourcesused.Non-departmental a body which has a role in the processes of government, but is not a government public body, NDPBdepartment or part of one. NDPBs accordingly operate at arm’s length from governmentMinisters.Notional cost of a cost which is taken into account in setting fees and charges to improve comparability with insuranceprivate sector service providers.The charge takes account of the fact that public bodies donot generally pay an insurance premium to a commercial insurer.the independent body responsible for collecting and publishing official statistics about theUK’s society and economy. (At the time of going to print legislation was progressing tochange this body to the Statistics Board).Office of Government an office of the Treasury, with a status similar to that of an agency, which aims to maximise Commerce, OGCthe government’s purchasing power for routine items and combine professional expertiseto bear on capital projects.Office of the the government department responsible for discharging the Paymaster General’s statutoryPaymaster General,responsibilities to hold accounts and make payments for government departments and OPGother public bodies.Orange bookthe informal title for Management of Risks: Principles and Concepts, which is published by theTreasury for the guidance of public sector bodies.Office for NationalStatistics, ONS60Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYOverdraftan account with a negative balance.Parliament’s formal agreement to authorise an activity or expenditure.Prerogative powerspowers exercisable under the Royal Prerogative, ie powers which are unique to the Crown,as contrasted with common-law powers which may be available to the Crown on the samebasis as to natural persons.Primary legislationActs which have been passed by the Westminster Parliament and, where they haveappropriate powers, the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Begin asBills until they have received Royal Assent.arrangements under which a public sector organisation contracts with a private sectorentity to construct a facility and provide associated services of a specified quality over asustained period. See annex 7.5.Proprietythe principle that patterns of resource consumption should respect Parliament’s intentions,conventions and control procedures, including any laid down by the PAC. See box 2.4.Public Accountssee Committee of Public Accounts.CommitteePublic corporationa trading body controlled by central government, local authority or other publiccorporation that has substantial day to day operating independence. See section 7.8.Public Dividend finance provided by government to public sector bodies as an equity stake; an alternative to Capital, PDCloan finance.Public Service sets out what the public can expect the government to deliver with its resources. EveryAgreement, PSAlarge government department has PSA(s) which specify deliverables as targets or aimsrelated to objectives.a structured arrangement between a public sector and a private sector organisation tosecure an outcome delivering good value for money for the public sector. It is classified tothe public or private sector according to which has more control.Rate of returnthe financial remuneration delivered by a particular project or enterprise, expressed as apercentage of the net assets employed.Regularitythe principle that resource consumption should accord with the relevant legislation, therelevant delegated authority and this document. See box 2.4.Request for the functional level into which departmental Estimates may be split. RfRs contain a number Resources, RfRof functions being carried out by the department in pursuit of one or more of thatdepartment’s objectives.Resource accountan accruals account produced in line with the Financial Reporting Manual (FReM).Resource accountingthe system under which budgets, Estimates and accounts are constructed in a similar wayto commercial audited accounts, so that both plans and records of expenditure allow in fullfor the goods and services which are to be, or have been, consumed – ie not just the cashexpended.Resource budgetthe means by which the government plans and controls the expenditure of resources tomeet its objectives.Restitutiona legal concept which allows money and property to be returned to its rightful owner. Ittypically operates where another person can be said to have been unjustly enriched byreceiving such monies.Return on capital the ratio of profit to capital employed of an accounting entity during an identified period.employed, ROCEVarious measures of profit and of capital employed may be used in calculating the ratio.Public Privatepartnership, PPPPrivate Finance Initiative, PFIParliamentaryauthority61Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYRoyal charterthe document setting out the powers and constitution of a corporation established underprerogative power of the monarch acting on Privy Council advice.Second readingthe second formal time that a House of Parliament may debate a bill, although in practicethe first substantive debate on its content. If successful, it is deemed to denoteParliamentary approval of the principle of the proposed legislation.Secondary legislationlaws, including orders and regulations, which are made using powers in primary legislation.Normally used to set out technical and administrative provision in greater detail thanprimary legislation, they are subject to a less intense level of scrutiny in Parliament.European legislation is,however,often implemented in secondary legislation using powers inthe European Communities Act 1972.Service-level agreement between parties, setting out in detail the level of service to be performed.agreementWhere agreements are between central government bodies, they are not legally a contractbut have a similar function.Shareholder Executive a body created to improve the government’s performance as a shareholder in businesses.Spending reviewsets out the key improvements in public services that the public can expect over a givenperiod. It includes a thorough review of departmental aims and objectives to find the bestway of delivering the government’s objectives, and sets out the spending plans for the givenperiod.State aidstate support for a domestic body or company which could distort EU competition and sois not usually allowed. See annex 4.9.Statement of Excessa formal statement detailing departments’ overspends prepared by the Comptroller andAuditor General as a result of undertaking annual audits.Statement on Internal an annual statement that Accounting Officers are required to make as part of the accounts Control, SICon a range of risk and control issues.Subheadindividual elements of departmental expenditure identifiable in Estimates as single cells, forexample cell A1 being administration costs within a particular line of departmental spending.Supplyresources voted by Parliament in response to Estimates, for expenditure by governmentdepartments.Supply Estimatesa statement of the resources the government needs in the coming financial year, and forwhat purpose(s), by which Parliamentary authority is sought for the planned level ofexpenditure and income.Target rate of returnthe rate of return required of a project or enterprise over a given period, usually at least a year.Third sectorprivate sector bodies which do not act commercially,including charities,social and voluntaryorganisations and other not-for-profit collectives. See annex 7.7.Total Managed a Treasury budgeting term which covers all current and capital spending carried out by the Expenditure,TMEpublic sector (ie not just by central departments).Trading fundan organisation (either within a government department or forming one) which is largely orwholly financed from commercial revenue generated by its activities. Its Estimate shows itsnet impact, allowing its income from receipts to be devoted entirely to its business.Treasury Minutea formal administrative document drawn up by the Treasury, which may serve a wide varietyof purposes including seeking Parliamentary approval for the use of receipts asappropriations in aid, a remission of some or all of the principal of voted loans, andresponding on behalf of the government to reports by the Public Accounts Committee(PAC).62Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARY63Managing Public MoneyValue for moneythe process under which organisation’s procurement, projects and processes aresystematically evaluated and assessed to provide confidence about suitability, effectiveness,prudence,quality,value and avoidance of error and other waste,judged for the public sectoras a whole.Virementthe process through which funds are moved between subheads such that additionalexpenditure on one is met by savings on one or more others.Votethe process by which Parliament approves funds in response to supply Estimates.Voted expenditureprovision for expenditure that has been authorised by Parliament. Parliament ‘votes’authority for public expenditure through the Supply Estimates process. Most expenditureby central government departments is authorised in this way.Wider market activity activities undertaken by central government organisations outside their statutory duties,using spare capacity and aimed at generating a commercial profit. See annex 7.6.Windfallmonies received by a department which were not anticipated in the spending review.
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  • 16 de Havilland, Sir Geoffrey

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 27 July 1882 High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
    d. 21 May 1965 Stanmore, Middlesex, England
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    English designer of some eighty aircraft from 1909 onwards.
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    Geoffrey de Havilland started experimenting with aircraft and engines of his own design in 1908. In the following year, with the help of his friend Frank Hearle, he built and flew his first aircraft; it crashed on its first flight. The second aircraft used the same engine and made its first flight on 10 September 1910, and enabled de Havilland to teach himself to fly. From 1910 to 1914 he was employed at Farnborough, where in 1912 the Royal Aircraft Factory was established. As Chief Designer and Chief Test Pilot he was responsible for the BE 2, which was the first British military aircraft to land in France in 1914.
    In May 1914 de Havilland went to work for George Holt Thomas, whose Aircraft Manufacturing Company Ltd (Airco) of Hendon was expanding to design and build aircraft of its own design. However, because de Havilland was a member of the Royal Flying Corps Reserve, he had to report for duty when war broke out in August. His value as a designer was recognized and he was transferred back to Airco, where he designed eight aircraft in four years. Of these, the DH 2, DH 4, DH 5, DH 6 and DH 9 were produced in large numbers, and a modified DH 4A operated the first British cross- Channel air service in 1919.
    On 25 September 1920 de Havilland founded his own company, the De Havilland Aircraft Company Ltd, at Stag Lane near Edgware, London. During the 1920s and 1930s de Havilland concentrated on civil aircraft and produced the very successful Moth series of small biplanes and monoplanes, as well as the Dragon, Dragon Rapide, Albatross and Flamingo airliners. In 1930 a new site was acquired at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, and by 1934 a modern factory with a large airfield had been established. His Comet racer won the England-Australia air race in 1934 using de Havilland engines. By this time the company had established very successful engine and propeller divisions. The Comet used a wooden stressed-skin construction which de Havilland developed and used for one of the outstanding aircraft of the Second World War: the Mosquito. The de Havilland Engine Company started work on jet engines in 1941 and their Goblin engine powered the Vampire jet fighter first flown by Geoffrey de Havilland Jr in 1943. Unfortunately, Geoffrey Jr and his brother John were both killed in flying accidents. The Comet jet airliner first flew in 1949 and the Trident in 1962, although by 1959 the De Havilland Company had been absorbed into Hawker Siddeley Aviation.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knight Bachelor 1944. Order of Merit 1962. CBE 1934. Air Force Cross 1919. (A full list is contained in R.M.Clarkson's paper (see below)).
    Bibliography
    1961, Sky Fever, London; repub. 1979, Shrewsbury (autobiography).
    Further Reading
    R.M.Clarkson, 1967, "Geoffrey de Havilland 1882–1965", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (February) (a concise account of de Havilland, his achievements and honours).
    C.M.Sharp, 1960, D.H.—An Outline of de Havilland History, London (mostly a history of the company).
    A.J.Jackson, 1962, De Havilland Aircraft since 1915, London.
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  • 17 Edison, Thomas Alva

    [br]
    b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA
    d. 18 October 1931 Glenmont
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    American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.
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    He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.
    At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.
    Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.
    He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.
    Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.
    Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.
    Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.
    In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.
    On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.
    Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.
    In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.
    In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.
    In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.
    In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.
    In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.
    Further Reading
    M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.
    R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Edison, Thomas Alva

  • 18 Elder, John

    [br]
    b. 9 March 1824 Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 17 September 1869 London, England
    [br]
    Scottish engineer who introduced the compound steam engine to ships and established an important shipbuilding company in Glasgow.
    [br]
    John was the third son of David Elder. The father came from a family of millwrights and moved to Glasgow where he worked for the well-known shipbuilding firm of Napier's and was involved with improving marine engines. John was educated at Glasgow High School and then for a while at the Department of Civil Engineering at Glasgow University, where he showed great aptitude for mathematics and drawing. He spent five years as an apprentice under Robert Napier followed by two short periods of activity as a pattern-maker first and then a draughtsman in England. He returned to Scotland in 1849 to become Chief Draughtsman to Napier, but in 1852 he left to become a partner with the Glasgow general engineering company of Randolph Elliott \& Co. Shortly after his induction (at the age of 28), the engineering firm was renamed Randolph Elder \& Co.; in 1868, when the partnership expired, it became known as John Elder \& Co. From the outset Elder, with his partner, Charles Randolph, approached mechanical (especially heat) engineering in a rigorous manner. Their knowledge and understanding of entropy ensured that engine design was not a hit-and-miss affair, but one governed by recognition of the importance of the new kinetic theory of heat and with it a proper understanding of thermodynamic principles, and by systematic development. In this Elder was joined by W.J.M. Rankine, Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at Glasgow University, who helped him develop the compound marine engine. Elder and Randolph built up a series of patents, which guaranteed their company's commercial success and enabled them for a while to be the sole suppliers of compound steam reciprocating machinery. Their first such engine at sea was fitted in 1854 on the SS Brandon for the Limerick Steamship Company; the ship showed an improved performance by using a third less coal, which he was able to reduce still further on later designs.
    Elder developed steam jacketing and recognized that, with higher pressures, triple-expansion types would be even more economical. In 1862 he patented a design of quadruple-expansion engine with reheat between cylinders and advocated the importance of balancing reciprocating parts. The effect of his improvements was to greatly reduce fuel consumption so that long sea voyages became an economic reality.
    His yard soon reached dimensions then unequalled on the Clyde where he employed over 4,000 workers; Elder also was always interested in the social welfare of his labour force. In 1860 the engine shops were moved to the Govan Old Shipyard, and again in 1864 to the Fairfield Shipyard, about 1 mile (1.6 km) west on the south bank of the Clyde. At Fairfield, shipbuilding was commenced, and with the patents for compounding secure, much business was placed for many years by shipowners serving long-distance trades such as South America; the Pacific Steam Navigation Company took up his ideas for their ships. In later years the yard became known as the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd, but it remains today as one of Britain's most efficient shipyards and is known now as Kvaerner Govan Ltd.
    In 1869, at the age of only 45, John Elder was unanimously elected President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland; however, before taking office and giving his eagerly awaited presidential address, he died in London from liver disease. A large multitude attended his funeral and all the engineering shops were silent as his body, which had been brought back from London to Glasgow, was carried to its resting place. In 1857 Elder had married Isabella Ure, and on his death he left her a considerable fortune, which she used generously for Govan, for Glasgow and especially the University. In 1883 she endowed the world's first Chair of Naval Architecture at the University of Glasgow, an act which was reciprocated in 1901 when the University awarded her an LLD on the occasion of its 450th anniversary.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 1869.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1869, Engineer 28.
    1889, The Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith Elder \& Co. W.J.Macquorn Rankine, 1871, "Sketch of the life of John Elder" Transactions of the
    Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.
    Maclehose, 1886, Memoirs and Portraits of a Hundred Glasgow Men.
    The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, 1909, London: Offices of Engineering.
    P.M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde, A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, Cambridge: PSL.
    R.L.Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (covers Elder's contribution to the development of steam engines).
    RLH / FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Elder, John

  • 19 Weston, Edward

    SUBJECT AREA: Electricity
    [br]
    b. 9 May 1850 Oswestry, England
    d. 20 August 1936 Montclair, New Jersey, USA
    [br]
    English (naturalized American) inventor noted for his contribution to the technology of electrical measurements.
    [br]
    Although he developed dynamos for electroplating and lighting, Weston's major contribution to technology was his invention of a moving-coil voltmeter and the standard cell which bears his name. After some years as a medical student, during which he gained a knowledge of chemistry, he abandoned his studies. Emigrating to New York in 1870, he was employed by a manufacturer of photographic chemicals. There followed a period with an electroplating company during which he built his first dynamo. In 1877 some business associates financed a company to build these machines and, later, arc-lighting equipment. By 1882 the Weston Company had been absorbed into the United States Electric Lighting Company, which had a counterpart in Britain, the Maxim Weston Company. By the time Weston resigned from the company, in 1886, he had been granted 186 patents. He then began the work in which he made his greatest contribution, the science of electrical measurement.
    The Weston meter, the first successful portable measuring instrument with a pivoted coil, was made in 1886. By careful arrangement of the magnet, coil and control springs, he achieved a design with a well-damped movement, which retained its calibration. These instruments were produced commercially on a large scale and the moving-coil principle was soon adopted by many manufacturers. In 1892 he invented manganin, an alloy with a small negative temperature coefficient, for use as resistances in his voltmeters.
    The Weston standard cell was invented in 1892. Using his chemical knowledge he produced a cell, based on mercury and cadmium, which replaced the Clark cell as a voltage reference source. The Weston cell became the recognized standard at the International Conference on Electrical Units and Standards held in London in 1908.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, AIEE 1888–9. Franklin Institute Elliott Cresson Medal 1910, Franklin medal 1924.
    Bibliography
    29 April 1890, British patent no. 6,569 (the Weston moving-coil instrument). 6 February 1892, British patent no. 22,482 (the Weston standard cell).
    Further Reading
    D.O.Woodbury, 1949, A Measure of Greatness. A Short Biography of Edward Weston, New York (a detailed account).
    C.N.Brown, 1988, in Proceedings of the Meeting on the History of Electrical Engineering, IEE, 17–21 (describes Weston's meter).
    H.C.Passer, 1953, The Electrical Manufacturers: 1875–1900, Cambridge, Mass.
    GW

    Biographical history of technology > Weston, Edward

  • 20 employ

    ɪmˈplɔɪ работа по найму;
    служба - to be in * иметь работу /службу/ - to be in the * of smb. работать /служить/ у кого-л. - to have in one's * иметь у себя на службе, нанимать - the company has ten stenographers in its * в компании работает 10 стенографисток - to be in the government's * быть на государственной службе (устаревшее) дело, занятие предоставлять работу;
    нанимать;
    держать на службе, работе;
    пользоваться услугами - the factory *s about a thousand workers на фабрике занято около тысячи рабочих - to be *ed работать по найму, служить ( у кого-л.) - 100 men are *ed by the firm штат фирмы состоит из 100 человек - to be gainfully *ed иметь оплачиваемую работу употреблять, использовать, применять - to * one's time in reading проводить время за чтением - to * a pen for sketching для эскизов пользоваться пером - to * questionable methods пользоваться сомнительными методами - to * capital использовать капитал - to * the right word употребить нужное слово - your time can be more profitably *ed вы можете употребить свое время с большей пользой заниматься - he *ed himself in growing roses after he retired после выхода на пенсию он занялся разведением роз занимать( кого-л.) - to * a child at cutting out paper dolls занять ребенка вырезанием бумажных кукол (техническое) загружать оборудование employ держать на службе;
    предоставлять работу;
    нанимать;
    to be employed by работать, служить у;
    the new road will employ hundreds of men на новой дороге будут заняты сотни людей ~ служба;
    работа по найму;
    to be in (smb.'s) employ служить, работать (у кого-л.) employ держать на службе;
    предоставлять работу;
    нанимать;
    to be employed by работать, служить у;
    the new road will employ hundreds of men на новой дороге будут заняты сотни людей ~ занимать (чье-л. время и т. п.) ;
    how do you employ yourself of an evening? что вы делаете вечером? ~ использовать ~ нанимать ~ пользоваться услугами ~ предоставлять работу ~ предоставлять работу по найму ~ применять ~ принимать на работу ~ работа по найму ~ служба;
    работа по найму;
    to be in (smb.'s) employ служить, работать (у кого-л.) ~ служба ~ употреблять, применять, использовать (in, on, for) ;
    to employ theory in one's experiments в своих экспериментах опираться на теорию ~ употреблять ~ употреблять, применять, использовать (in, on, for) ;
    to employ theory in one's experiments в своих экспериментах опираться на теорию ~ занимать (чье-л. время и т. п.) ;
    how do you employ yourself of an evening? что вы делаете вечером? employ держать на службе;
    предоставлять работу;
    нанимать;
    to be employed by работать, служить у;
    the new road will employ hundreds of men на новой дороге будут заняты сотни людей

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > employ

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