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1 British Admiralty
BA, British Admiraltyист Адмиралтейство ВеликобританииEnglish-Russian dictionary of planing, cross-planing and slotting machines > British Admiralty
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2 British Admiralty
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4 British Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment
B/ASRE, British Admiralty Signal and Radar EstablishmentEnglish-Russian dictionary of planing, cross-planing and slotting machines > British Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment
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5 British Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment
Военный термин: НИЦ средств связи и РЛ техники ВМС ВеликобританииУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > British Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment
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6 admiralty
∎ British the Admiralty ≃ le ministère de la Marine;∎ First Lord of the Admiralty ≃ Ministre m de la Marine►► British the Admiralty Board ≃ le ministère de la Marine;Law admiralty court tribunal m maritime;Admiralty Islands îles fpl de l'Amirauté;Law admiralty law droit m maritimeⓘ THE ADMIRALTY Ce nom désignait autrefois la Direction de la marine nationale britannique au ministère de la Défense. Aujourd'hui il désigne les bâtiments abritant le siège de la Fonction publique à Londres. -
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[aedmərəlti]nounadmiraliteta; vrhovno poveljstvo mornariceBritish English the First Lord of the Admiralty — minister za mornarico -
8 BA
1) Общая лексика: (Hons) бакалавр (полное высшее образование) (Слово "Hons" означает, что студент выполнил дополнительную (по сравнению с программой базового высшего образования) программу подготовки. Это ни в коем случае не "почетная степеь" и не диплом с отличием), бизнес-аналитик2) Американизм: Bureaucratic Authoritarian3) Ботаника: Botanical Area4) Спорт: Ball Attach, Battle Arena5) Военный термин: Basics Accomplished, Battle Area, Berlin Attack, British Admiralty, British Army, Budget Analysis, Budget Authority, base activation, base area, base assembly, basic authorization, battery adjustment, blanket agreement, breathing apparatus, bridge amplifier, budget activity, budget authorization, British Aerospace (Corporation)6) Техника: Born approximation, British Association of Standards, backfire antenna, balanced amplifier, balloon astronomy, barometric altimeter, basic assembler, beam axis, binary arithmetic, biological assessment, block address, buffer address, buffered access, burnable absorber, bus address, butyl acetate, byte access, byte address, дюймовая резьба (British Association screw thread), припуск на изгиб (=Bend Allowance; сокращение на чертежах)7) Сельское хозяйство: Bentonite Agglutination8) Шутливое выражение: Beauty And9) Железнодорожный термин: Consolidated Rail Corporation10) Юридический термин: Bad Attitude, Bankruptcy Act11) Экономика: банковские акцепты12) Бухгалтерия: Batting Average, Business Associate13) Ветеринария: British Arabian14) Грубое выражение: Bad Ass, Bare Assed, Bastard Amber, Big Asshole, Busty Amateur15) Металлургия: batch annealing16) Политика: Bahrain17) Телекоммуникации: Balanced Asynchronous (HDLC)18) Сокращение: Bachelor of Arts, Bashkir, Basic rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line, Bell Aerosystems Company, Bomber Aviation, Booksellers Association, Bosnia-Herzegovina, British Academy, British Airways, Buenos Aires, backlash allowance, buffer amplifier, Bertan High Voltage (USA), Budget Authority (USA), British Association (for the Advancement of Science), Barrels of Acid, Battery, Bayard-Alpert gauge, Beam Approach, Bell Alarm, Binary Addition, Blind Approach, Bridging Amplifier, British Association thread19) Университет: B All20) Физиология: Blood alcohol, Bone Age, Brachial Artery, Bronchial Asthma21) Вычислительная техника: binary add, bus arbiter, byte available22) Нефть: баррелей кислоты (barrels of acid), число баррелей кислоты (barrels of acid)23) Биохимия: Benz anthracene24) Связь: Basic Access25) Банковское дело: банковский акцепт (banker's acceptance)26) Пищевая промышленность: Behold! Asparagus27) Фирменный знак: Bell Aerospace28) СМИ: Bad Acting, Beautiful Actress29) Деловая лексика: Banker's Acceptances30) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: barrels per acre-foot31) Производство: (breathing apparatus) дыхательный аппарат32) Образование: бакалавр гуманитарных наук (Большой англо-русский словарь)33) Инвестиции: banker's acceptance34) Сетевые технологии: Broadcast Architecture35) Полимеры: British Association, butyl acrylate36) Программирование: Bean Assembler37) Химическое оружие: biological activity38) Расширение файла: Bell Atlantic (company)39) Фармация: Bioavailability40) Должность: Bachelor Of Attendance, Business Analyst, Buyers Agent41) Чат: Bloody Awful42) Правительство: Bay Area43) NYSE. Bio Active, Boeing Company44) Федеральное бюро расследований: Baltimore Field Office -
9 Ba
1) Общая лексика: (Hons) бакалавр (полное высшее образование) (Слово "Hons" означает, что студент выполнил дополнительную (по сравнению с программой базового высшего образования) программу подготовки. Это ни в коем случае не "почетная степеь" и не диплом с отличием), бизнес-аналитик2) Американизм: Bureaucratic Authoritarian3) Ботаника: Botanical Area4) Спорт: Ball Attach, Battle Arena5) Военный термин: Basics Accomplished, Battle Area, Berlin Attack, British Admiralty, British Army, Budget Analysis, Budget Authority, base activation, base area, base assembly, basic authorization, battery adjustment, blanket agreement, breathing apparatus, bridge amplifier, budget activity, budget authorization, British Aerospace (Corporation)6) Техника: Born approximation, British Association of Standards, backfire antenna, balanced amplifier, balloon astronomy, barometric altimeter, basic assembler, beam axis, binary arithmetic, biological assessment, block address, buffer address, buffered access, burnable absorber, bus address, butyl acetate, byte access, byte address, дюймовая резьба (British Association screw thread), припуск на изгиб (=Bend Allowance; сокращение на чертежах)7) Сельское хозяйство: Bentonite Agglutination8) Шутливое выражение: Beauty And9) Железнодорожный термин: Consolidated Rail Corporation10) Юридический термин: Bad Attitude, Bankruptcy Act11) Экономика: банковские акцепты12) Бухгалтерия: Batting Average, Business Associate13) Ветеринария: British Arabian14) Грубое выражение: Bad Ass, Bare Assed, Bastard Amber, Big Asshole, Busty Amateur15) Металлургия: batch annealing16) Политика: Bahrain17) Телекоммуникации: Balanced Asynchronous (HDLC)18) Сокращение: Bachelor of Arts, Bashkir, Basic rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line, Bell Aerosystems Company, Bomber Aviation, Booksellers Association, Bosnia-Herzegovina, British Academy, British Airways, Buenos Aires, backlash allowance, buffer amplifier, Bertan High Voltage (USA), Budget Authority (USA), British Association (for the Advancement of Science), Barrels of Acid, Battery, Bayard-Alpert gauge, Beam Approach, Bell Alarm, Binary Addition, Blind Approach, Bridging Amplifier, British Association thread19) Университет: B All20) Физиология: Blood alcohol, Bone Age, Brachial Artery, Bronchial Asthma21) Вычислительная техника: binary add, bus arbiter, byte available22) Нефть: баррелей кислоты (barrels of acid), число баррелей кислоты (barrels of acid)23) Биохимия: Benz anthracene24) Связь: Basic Access25) Банковское дело: банковский акцепт (banker's acceptance)26) Пищевая промышленность: Behold! Asparagus27) Фирменный знак: Bell Aerospace28) СМИ: Bad Acting, Beautiful Actress29) Деловая лексика: Banker's Acceptances30) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: barrels per acre-foot31) Производство: (breathing apparatus) дыхательный аппарат32) Образование: бакалавр гуманитарных наук (Большой англо-русский словарь)33) Инвестиции: banker's acceptance34) Сетевые технологии: Broadcast Architecture35) Полимеры: British Association, butyl acrylate36) Программирование: Bean Assembler37) Химическое оружие: biological activity38) Расширение файла: Bell Atlantic (company)39) Фармация: Bioavailability40) Должность: Bachelor Of Attendance, Business Analyst, Buyers Agent41) Чат: Bloody Awful42) Правительство: Bay Area43) NYSE. Bio Active, Boeing Company44) Федеральное бюро расследований: Baltimore Field Office -
10 ba
1) Общая лексика: (Hons) бакалавр (полное высшее образование) (Слово "Hons" означает, что студент выполнил дополнительную (по сравнению с программой базового высшего образования) программу подготовки. Это ни в коем случае не "почетная степеь" и не диплом с отличием), бизнес-аналитик2) Американизм: Bureaucratic Authoritarian3) Ботаника: Botanical Area4) Спорт: Ball Attach, Battle Arena5) Военный термин: Basics Accomplished, Battle Area, Berlin Attack, British Admiralty, British Army, Budget Analysis, Budget Authority, base activation, base area, base assembly, basic authorization, battery adjustment, blanket agreement, breathing apparatus, bridge amplifier, budget activity, budget authorization, British Aerospace (Corporation)6) Техника: Born approximation, British Association of Standards, backfire antenna, balanced amplifier, balloon astronomy, barometric altimeter, basic assembler, beam axis, binary arithmetic, biological assessment, block address, buffer address, buffered access, burnable absorber, bus address, butyl acetate, byte access, byte address, дюймовая резьба (British Association screw thread), припуск на изгиб (=Bend Allowance; сокращение на чертежах)7) Сельское хозяйство: Bentonite Agglutination8) Шутливое выражение: Beauty And9) Железнодорожный термин: Consolidated Rail Corporation10) Юридический термин: Bad Attitude, Bankruptcy Act11) Экономика: банковские акцепты12) Бухгалтерия: Batting Average, Business Associate13) Ветеринария: British Arabian14) Грубое выражение: Bad Ass, Bare Assed, Bastard Amber, Big Asshole, Busty Amateur15) Металлургия: batch annealing16) Политика: Bahrain17) Телекоммуникации: Balanced Asynchronous (HDLC)18) Сокращение: Bachelor of Arts, Bashkir, Basic rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line, Bell Aerosystems Company, Bomber Aviation, Booksellers Association, Bosnia-Herzegovina, British Academy, British Airways, Buenos Aires, backlash allowance, buffer amplifier, Bertan High Voltage (USA), Budget Authority (USA), British Association (for the Advancement of Science), Barrels of Acid, Battery, Bayard-Alpert gauge, Beam Approach, Bell Alarm, Binary Addition, Blind Approach, Bridging Amplifier, British Association thread19) Университет: B All20) Физиология: Blood alcohol, Bone Age, Brachial Artery, Bronchial Asthma21) Вычислительная техника: binary add, bus arbiter, byte available22) Нефть: баррелей кислоты (barrels of acid), число баррелей кислоты (barrels of acid)23) Биохимия: Benz anthracene24) Связь: Basic Access25) Банковское дело: банковский акцепт (banker's acceptance)26) Пищевая промышленность: Behold! Asparagus27) Фирменный знак: Bell Aerospace28) СМИ: Bad Acting, Beautiful Actress29) Деловая лексика: Banker's Acceptances30) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: barrels per acre-foot31) Производство: (breathing apparatus) дыхательный аппарат32) Образование: бакалавр гуманитарных наук (Большой англо-русский словарь)33) Инвестиции: banker's acceptance34) Сетевые технологии: Broadcast Architecture35) Полимеры: British Association, butyl acrylate36) Программирование: Bean Assembler37) Химическое оружие: biological activity38) Расширение файла: Bell Atlantic (company)39) Фармация: Bioavailability40) Должность: Bachelor Of Attendance, Business Analyst, Buyers Agent41) Чат: Bloody Awful42) Правительство: Bay Area43) NYSE. Bio Active, Boeing Company44) Федеральное бюро расследований: Baltimore Field Office -
11 Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo
[br]b. 25 April 1874 Bologna, Italyd. 20 July 1937 Rome, Italy[br]Italian radio pioneer whose inventiveness and business skills made radio communication a practical proposition.[br]Marconi was educated in physics at Leghorn and at Bologna University. An avid experimenter, he worked in his parents' attic and, almost certainly aware of the recent work of Hertz and others, soon improved the performance of coherers and spark-gap transmitters. He also discovered for himself the use of earthing and of elevated metal plates as aerials. In 1895 he succeeded in transmitting telegraphy over a distance of 2 km (1¼ miles), but the Italian Telegraph authority rejected his invention, so in 1896 he moved to England, where he filed the first of many patents. There he gained the support of the Chief Engineer of the Post Office, and by the following year he had achieved communication across the Bristol Channel.The British Post Office was also slow to take up his work, so in 1897 he formed the Wireless Telegraph \& Signal Company to work independently. In 1898 he sold some equipment to the British Army for use in the Boer War and established the first permanent radio link from the Isle of Wight to the mainland. In 1899 he achieved communication across the English Channel (a distance of more than 31 miles or 50 km), the construction of a wireless station at Spezia, Italy, and the equipping of two US ships to report progress in the America's Cup yacht race, a venture that led to the formation of the American Marconi Company. In 1900 he won a contract from the British Admiralty to sell equipment and to train operators. Realizing that his business would be much more successful if he could offer his customers a complete radio-communication service (known today as a "turnkey" deal), he floated a new company, the Marconi International Marine Communications Company, while the old company became the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company.His greatest achievement occurred on 12 December 1901, when Morse telegraph signals from a transmitter at Poldhu in Cornwall were received at St John's, Newfoundland, a distance of some 2,100 miles (3,400 km), with the use of an aerial flown by a kite. As a result of this, Marconi's business prospered and he became internationally famous, receiving many honours for his endeavours, including the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. In 1904, radio was first used to provide a daily bulletin at sea, and in 1907 a transatlantic wireless telegraphy service was inaugurated. The rescue of 1,650 passengers from the shipwreck of SS Republic in 1909 was the first of many occasions when wireless was instrumental in saving lives at sea, most notable being those from the Titanic on its maiden voyage in April 1912; more lives would have been saved had there been sufficient lifeboats. Marconi was one of those who subsequently pressed for greater safety at sea. In 1910 he demonstrated the reception of long (8 km or 5 miles) waves from Ireland in Buenos Aires, but after the First World War he began to develop the use of short waves, which were more effectively reflected by the ionosphere. By 1918 the first link between England and Australia had been established, and in 1924 he was awarded a Post Office contract for short-wave communication between England and the various parts of the British Empire.With his achievements by then recognized by the Italian Government, in 1915 he was appointed Radio-Communications Adviser to the Italian armed forces, and in 1919 he was an Italian delegate to the Paris Peace Conference. From 1921 he lived on his yacht, the Elettra, and although he joined the Fascist Party in 1923, he later had reservations about Mussolini.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsNobel Prize for Physics (jointly with K.F. Braun) 1909. Russian Order of S t Anne. Commander of St Maurice and St Lazarus. Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (i.e. Knight) of Italy 1902. Freedom of Rome 1903. Honorary DSc Oxford. Honorary LLD Glasgow. Chevalier of the Civil Order of Savoy 1905. Royal Society of Arts Albert Medal. Honorary knighthood (GCVO) 1914. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Medal of Honour 1920. Chairman, Royal Society of Arts 1924. Created Marquis (Marchese) 1929. Nominated to the Italian Senate 1929. President, Italian Academy 1930. Rector, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 1934.Bibliography1896, "Improvements in transmitting electrical impulses and in apparatus thereof", British patent no. 12,039.1 June 1898, British patent no. 12,326 (transformer or "jigger" resonant circuit).1901, British patent no. 7,777 (selective tuning).1904, British patent no. 763,772 ("four circuit" tuning arrangement).Further ReadingD.Marconi, 1962, My Father, Marconi.W.J.Baker, 1970, A History of the Marconi Company, London: Methuen.KFBiographical history of technology > Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo
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12 BA
BA, base activationразвертывание [введение в строй] базы; срабатывание донного взрывателя————————BA, base area————————BA, base assembly————————BA, basic agreement————————BA, basic authorizationутверждение основных ассигнований; основная норма снабжения————————BA, battery adjustment————————BA, blanket agreement————————BA, breathing apparatus————————BA, bridge amplifierмостовая опора, мостовой усилительный элемент————————BA, British Admiraltyист Адмиралтейство Великобритании————————BA, British Army————————BA, budget activity————————BA, budget authorizationEnglish-Russian dictionary of planing, cross-planing and slotting machines > BA
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13 B/ASRE
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15 Ericsson, John
[br]b. 31 July 1803 Farnebo, Swedend. 8 March 1899 New York, USA[br]Swedish (naturalized American 1848) engineer and inventor.[br]The son of a mine owner and inspector, Ericsson's first education was private and haphazard. War with Russia disrupted the mines and the father secured a position on the Gotha Canal, then under construction. He enrolled John, then aged 13, and another son as cadets in a corps of military engineers engaged on the canal. There John was given a sound education and training in the physical sciences and engineering. At the age of 17 he decided to enlist in the Army, and on receiving a commission he was drafted to cartographic survey duties. After some years he decided that a career outside the Army offered him the best opportunities, and in 1826 he moved to London to pursue a career of mechanical invention.Ericsson first developed a heat (external combustion) engine, which proved unsuccessful. Three years later he designed and constructed the steam locomotive Novelty, which he entered in the Rainhill locomotive trials on the new Liverpool \& Manchester Railway. The engine began by performing promisingly, but it later broke down and failed to complete the test runs. Later he devised a self-regulating lead (1835) and then, more important and successful, he invented the screw propeller, patented in 1835 and installed in his first screw-propelled ship of 1839. This work was carried out independently of Sir Francis Pettit Smith, who contemporaneously developed a four-bladed propeller that was adopted by the British Admiralty. Ericsson saw that with screw propulsion the engine could be below the waterline, a distinct advantage in warships. He crossed the Atlantic to interest the American government in his ideas and became a naturalized citizen in 1848. He pioneered the gun turret for mounting heavy guns on board ship. Ericsson came into his own during the American Civil War, with the construction of the epoch-making warship Monitor, a screw-propelled ironclad with gun turret. This vessel demonstrated its powers in a signal victory at Hampton Roads on 9 March 1862.Ericsson continued to design warships and torpedoes, pointing out to President Lincoln that success in war would now depend on technological rather than numerical superiority. Meanwhile he continued to pursue his interest in heat engines, and from 1870 to 1888 he spent much of his time and resources in pursuing research into alternative energy sources, such as solar power, gravitation and tidal forces.[br]Further ReadingW.C.Church, 1891, Life of John Ericsson, 2 vols, London.LRD -
16 Parseval, August von
SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace[br]b. 1861d. 22 February 1942 Berlin, Germany[br]German designer of tethered observation balloons and non-rigid airships.[br]Major von Parseval and his colleague Captain von Sigsfeld were serving in the German army during the 1890s when improved military observation from the air was being pursued. Tethered observation balloons, raised and lowered by a winch, had been used since 1794, but in strong winds a spherical balloon became very unstable. Manned kites were being developed by "Colonel" S.F. Cody, in Britain, and others, but kites were a problem if the wind dropped. A very successful compromise was achieved in 1897 by von Parseval and von Sigsfeld, who developed a kite-balloon, the Drachen ("Dragon"), which was elongated like an airship and fitted with large inflated fins. It was attached to its tethering cable in such a way that it flew with a positive incidence (nose up) to the wind, thus producing some lift—like a kite. The combination of these factors made the kite-balloon very stable. Other countries followed suit and a version designed by the Frenchman Albert Caquot was widely used during the First World War for observing the results of artillery fire. Caquot balloons were also used around London as a barrage to obstruct enemy aircraft, and "barrage balloons" were widely used during the Second World War. After working at a government balloon factory in Berlin where non-rigid airships were built, von Parseval designed his own non-rigid airship. The Parseval I which flew in 1906 was small, but larger and faster non-rigids followed. These were built by Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft m.b.H. of Berlin founded in 1908 to build and operate Parseval airships. The British Admiralty ordered three Parseval airships, two to be built by Vickers of Barrow (who had built the rigid airship R 1 Mayfly in 1911), and one to be built in Berlin. This one was flown from Berlin to Farnborough in 1913 and joined the Vickers-built Parseval in the Naval Air Service. During the First World War, Parseval airships had the unique distinction of serving on both sides. Three small Parseval airships were built between 1929 and 1932 for use in advertising.[br]Further ReadingA.Hildebrandt, 1908, Airships Past and Present, London (describes the kite-balloon). Fred Gütschow, 1985, Das Luftschiff, Stuttgart (includes a record of all the airships). Basil Clarke, 1961, The History of Airships, London (provides limited coverage of von Parseval's work).Basil Collier, 1974, The Airship: A History, London (provides limited coverage of von Parseval's work). -
17 Sperry, Elmer Ambrose
[br]b. 21 October 1860 Cincinnatus, Cortland County, New York, USAd. 16 June 1930 Brooklyn, New York, USA[br]American entrepreneur who invented the gyrocompass.[br]Sperry was born into a farming community in Cortland County. He received a rudimentary education at the local school, but an interest in mechanical devices was aroused by the agricultural machinery he saw around him. His attendance at the Normal School in Cortland provided a useful theoretical background to his practical knowledge. He emerged in 1880 with an urge to pursue invention in electrical engineering, then a new and growing branch of technology. Within two years he was able to patent and demonstrate his arc lighting system, complete with its own generator, incorporating new methods of regulating its output. The Sperry Electric Light, Motor and Car Brake Company was set up to make and market the system, but it was difficult to keep pace with electric-lighting developments such as the incandescent lamp and alternating current, and the company ceased in 1887 and was replaced by the Sperry Electric Company, which itself was taken over by the General Electric Company.In the 1890s Sperry made useful inventions in electric mining machinery and then in electric street-or tramcars, with his patent electric brake and control system. The patents for the brake were important enough to be bought by General Electric. From 1894 to 1900 he was manufacturing electric motor cars of his own design, and in 1900 he set up a laboratory in Washington, where he pursued various electrochemical processes.In 1896 he began to work on the practical application of the principle of the gyroscope, where Sperry achieved his most notable inventions, the first of which was the gyrostabilizer for ships. The relatively narrow-hulled steamship rolled badly in heavy seas and in 1904 Ernst Otto Schuck, a German naval engineer, and Louis Brennan in England began experiments to correct this; their work stimulated Sperry to develop his own device. In 1908 he patented the active gyrostabilizer, which acted to correct a ship's roll as soon as it started. Three years later the US Navy agreed to try it on a destroyer, the USS Worden. The successful trials of the following year led to widespread adoption. Meanwhile, in 1910, Sperry set up the Sperry Gyroscope Company to extend the application to commercial shipping.At the same time, Sperry was working to apply the gyroscope principle to the ship's compass. The magnetic compass had worked well in wooden ships, but iron hulls and electrical machinery confused it. The great powers' race to build up their navies instigated an urgent search for a solution. In Germany, Anschütz-Kämpfe (1872–1931) in 1903 tested a form of gyrocompass and was encouraged by the authorities to demonstrate the device on the German flagship, the Deutschland. Its success led Sperry to develop his own version: fortunately for him, the US Navy preferred a home-grown product to a German one and gave Sperry all the backing he needed. A successful trial on a destroyer led to widespread acceptance in the US Navy, and Sperry was soon receiving orders from the British Admiralty and the Russian Navy.In the rapidly developing field of aeronautics, automatic stabilization was becoming an urgent need. In 1912 Sperry began work on a gyrostabilizer for aircraft. Two years later he was able to stage a spectacular demonstration of such a device at an air show near Paris.Sperry continued research, development and promotion in military and aviation technology almost to the last. In 1926 he sold the Sperry Gyroscope Company to enable him to devote more time to invention.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsJohn Fritz Medal 1927. President, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1928.BibliographySperry filed over 400 patents, of which two can be singled out: 1908. US patent no. 434,048 (ship gyroscope); 1909. US patent no. 519,533 (ship gyrocompass set).Further ReadingT.P.Hughes, 1971, Elmer Sperry, Inventor and Engineer, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (a full and well-documented biography, with lists of his patents and published writings).LRD -
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B/ASRE, British Admiralty Signal and Radar EstablishmentEnglish-Russian dictionary of planing, cross-planing and slotting machines > B/ASRE
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19 Bacon, Francis Thomas
SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace[br]b. 21 December 1904 Billericay, Englandd. 24 May 1992 Little Shelford, Cambridge, England[br]English mechanical engineer, a pioneer in the modern phase of fuel-cell development.[br]After receiving his education at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, Bacon served with C.A. Parsons at Newcastle upon Tyne from 1925 to 1940. From 1946 to 1956 he carried out research on Hydrox fuel cells at Cambridge University and was a consultant on fuel-cell design to a number of organizations throughout the rest of his life.Sir William Grove was the first to observe that when oxygen and hydrogen were supplied to platinum electrodes immersed in sulphuric acid a current was produced in an external circuit, but he did not envisage this as a practical source of electrical energy. In the 1930s Bacon started work to develop a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell that operated at moderate temperatures and pressures using an alkaline electrolyte. In 1940 he was appointed to a post at King's College, London, and there, with the support of the Admiralty, he started full-time experimental work on fuel cells. His brief was to produce a power source for the propulsion of submarines. The following year he was posted as a temporary experimental officer to the Anti-Submarine Experimental Establishment at Fairlie, Ayrshire, and he remained there until the end of the Second World War.In 1946 he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Cambridge, receiving a small amount of money from the Electrical Research Association. Backing came six years later from the National Research and Development Corporation (NRDC), the development of the fuel cell being transferred to Marshalls of Cambridge, where Bacon was appointed Consultant.By 1959, after almost twenty years of individual effort, he was able to demonstrate a 6 kW (8 hp) power unit capable of driving a small truck. Bacon appreciated that when substantial power was required over long periods the hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell associated with high-pressure gas storage would be more compact than conventional secondary batteries.The development of the fuel-cell system pioneered by Bacon was stimulated by a particular need for a compact, lightweight source of power in the United States space programme. Electro-chemical generators using hydrogen-oxygen cells were chosen to provide the main supplies on the Apollo spacecraft for landing on the surface of the moon in 1969. An added advantage of the cells was that they simultaneously provided water. NRDC was largely responsible for the forma-tion of Energy Conversion Ltd, a company that was set up to exploit Bacon's patents and to manufacture fuel cells, and which was supported by British Ropes Ltd, British Petroleum and Guest, Keen \& Nettlefold Ltd at Basingstoke. Bacon was their full-time consultant. In 1971 Energy Conversion's operation was moved to the UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, as Fuel Cells Ltd. Bacon remained with them until he retired in 1973.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsOBE 1967. FRS 1972. Royal Society S.G. Brown Medal 1965. Royal Aeronautical Society British Silver Medal 1969.Bibliography27 February 1952, British patent no. 667,298 (hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell). 1963, contribution in W.Mitchell (ed.), Fuel Cells, New York, pp. 130–92.1965, contribution in B.S.Baker (ed.), Hydrocarbon Fuel Cell Technology, New York, pp. 1–7.Further ReadingObituary, 1992, Daily Telegraph (8 June).A.McDougal, 1976, Fuel Cells, London (makes an acknowledgement of Bacon's contribution to the design and application of fuel cells).D.P.Gregory, 1972, Fuel Cells, London (a concise introduction to fuel-cell technology).GW -
20 Lithgow, James
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 27 January 1883 Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, Scotlandd. 23 February 1952 Langbank, Renfrewshire, Scotland[br]Scottish shipbuilder; creator of one of the twentieth century's leading industrial organizations.[br]Lithgow attended Glasgow Academy and then spent a year in Paris. In 1901 he commenced a shipyard apprenticeship with Russell \& Co., where his father, William Lithgow, was sole proprietor. For years Russell's had topped the Clyde tonnage output and more than once had been the world's leading yard. Along with his brother Henry, Lithgow in 1908 was appointed a director, and in a few years he was Chairman and the yard was renamed Lithgows Ltd. By the outbreak of the First World War the Lithgow brothers were recognized as good shipbuilders and astute businessmen. In 1914 he joined the Royal Artillery; he rose to the rank of major and served with distinction, but his skills in administration were recognized and he was recalled home to become Director of Merchant Shipbuilding when British shipping losses due to submarine attack became critical. This appointment set a pattern, with public duties becoming predominant and the day-to-day shipyard business being organized by his brother. During the interwar years, Lithgow served on many councils designed to generate work and expand British commercial interests. His public appointments were legion, but none was as controversial as his directorship of National Shipbuilders Security Ltd, formed to purchase and "sterilize" inefficient shipyards that were hindering recovery from the Depression. To this day opinions are divided on this issue, but it is beyond doubt that Lithgow believed in the task in hand and served unstintingly. During the Second World War he was Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs and was one of the few civilians to be on the Board of Admiralty. On the cessation of hostilities, Lithgow devoted time to research boards and to the expansion of the Lithgow Group, which now included the massive Fairfield Shipyard as well as steel, marine engineering and other companies.Throughout his life Lithgow worked for the Territorial Army, but he was also a devoted member of the Church of Scotland. He gave practical support to the lona Community, no doubt influenced by unbounded love of the West Highlands and Islands of Scotland.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMilitary Cross and mentioned in dispatches during the First World War. Baronet 1925. Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire 1945. Commander of the Order of the Orange-Nassau (the Netherlands). CB 1947. Served as the employers' representative on the League of Nations International Labour Conference in the 1930s. President, British Iron and Steel Cofederation 1943.Further ReadingJ.M.Reid, 1964, James Lithgow, Master of Work, London: Hutchinson.FMW
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