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61 Schiffsgeleit
Schiffsgeleit
convoy;
• Schiffsgläubiger bottomry bondholder;
• Schiffshaftpflicht protection and indemnity;
• Schiffshaftpflichtversicherung protection and indemnity insurance;
• im Schiffshandel sein to be in the shipping business;
• Schiffsherr shipmaster, patron, shipowner;
• Schiffshypothek mortgage over a ship, ship mortgage;
• Schiffshypothekenbestellung creation of mortgages over ships;
• Schiffshypothekenregister register book;
• Schiffsindustrie maritime industry;
• sein Geld in der Schiffsindustrie angelegt haben to be interested in shipping;
• Schiffsingenieur marine engineer;
• Schiffsinventar ship’s inventory;
• Schiffsjournal log[book];
• Schiffskapazität shipping capacity;
• Schiffskapitän master, skipper, sea captain;
• Schiffskarte passenger ticket;
• seine Schiffskarte lösen to book one’s passage;
• Schiffskasko [marine] hull;
• Schiffskaskoversicherung hull insurance;
• Schiffskatastrophe disaster at sea;
• Schiffsklasse class, category of ships;
• Schiffsklassenregister classification register;
• Schiffskollision collision between two vessels;
• Schiffskonzern shipping group;
• Schiffskörper- und Maschinenversicherung hull and machinery insurance;
• Schiffskran derrick;
• Schiffskurs behindern to foul a ship’s course. -
62 Wirtschaftsführer
Wirtschaftsführer
captain (leader) of industry, business (industrial) leader, merchant prince -
63 concentrare
concentrarsi concentrate* * *concentrare v.tr.1 to concentrate: il capitano concentrò le truppe a sud della città, the captain concentrated the troops south of the town; concentrare capitali, to concentrate capital; concentrare gli aiuti economici sull'industria tessile, to concentrate economic support (o aids) on textile industry2 (fig.) to concentrate; to centre; (amer.) to center: concentrò le proprie speranze sul figlio, he centred his hopes on his son; concentrare la propria attenzione su qlco., to concentrate one's attention on sthg.3 (chim., fis.) to concentrate◘ concentrarsi v.rifl.1 ( riunirsi) to concentrate, to gather: il nemico si concentrava presso il ponte, the enemy concentrated (o gathered) near the bridge2 (fig.) to concentrate: concentrare in un pensiero, to concentrate on a thought; concentrare sulla soluzione di un problema, to concentrate on the solution of a problem.* * *[kontʃen'trare]1. vt2. vr (concentrarsi)concentrarsi (in) — (raccogliere l'attenzione) to concentrate (on), (adunarsi) to assemble (in)
* * *[kontʃen'trare] 1.verbo transitivo1) (indirizzare) to concentrate [ sforzo]; to concentrate, to focus, to fix [ attenzione]; to focus [ sguardo] (su on)2) chim. gastr. to concentrate [ soluzione]2.verbo pronominale concentrarsi1) (essere attento) to concentrate (su on)2) (convergere)- rsi su — [sentimenti, pensieri, lavoro] to centre on o upon [persona, problema]; [sguardo, attenzione] to focus on [persona, studio]
-rsi nelle mani di qcn. — [ potere] to accrue to sb
3) (riunirsi) to concentrate, to gatherconcentrare attorno a — [persone, industrie] to centre around [ città]
* * *concentrare/kont∫en'trare/ [1]1 (indirizzare) to concentrate [ sforzo]; to concentrate, to focus, to fix [ attenzione]; to focus [ sguardo] ( su on); concentrare tutti i propri sforzi nel fare to put all one's effort(s) into doing; concentrare le proprie energie nel lavoro to pour one's energies into one's work2 chim. gastr. to concentrate [ soluzione]II concentrarsi verbo pronominale1 (essere attento) to concentrate ( su on)2 (convergere) - rsi su [ sentimenti, pensieri, lavoro] to centre on o upon [ persona, problema]; [ sguardo, attenzione] to focus on [ persona, studio]; -rsi nelle mani di qcn. [ potere] to accrue to sb.3 (riunirsi) to concentrate, to gather; concentrare attorno a [ persone, industrie] to centre around [ città]. -
64 promuovere
promoteeducation move up* * *promuovere v.tr.1 ( favorire) to promote; ( incoraggiare) to encourage: promuovere la cultura, to promote learning; promuovere un'industria, to encourage an industry; promuovere lo sviluppo di un paese arretrato, to promote the growth of a backward country; promuovere una ricerca di mercato, to promote a market research; promuovere la vendita di un prodotto, to promote a product; promuovere dischi, libri, to hype (o puff) records, books // (dir.): promuovere un progetto di legge, to promote a bill; promuovere un'azione legale contro qlcu., to sue s.o. (o to file a lawsuit against s.o.); promuovere l'azione penale, to start the prosecution; promuovere un'azione per diffamazione, to libel2 ( far avanzare di grado) to promote: fu promosso ufficiale, he was promoted officer: promuovere qlcu. capitano, to promote s.o. captain3 (a scuola) to pass: non fu promosso, he did not pass; il professore non lo promosse, the teacher did not pass him; promuovere uno studente, to pass a student4 (non com.) ( provocare) to induce, to cause, to provoke: promuovere la traspirazione, to cause perspiration.* * *[pro'mwɔvere]verbo transitivo1) to promote [idea, pace, commercio]; to advance [ ricerca]; to patronize [ arti]; to foster, to promote [attività, immagine]; to further [ causa]; to present [ petizione]promuovere un disegno di legge — pol. to promote a bill
2) comm. to promote, to merchandise [prodotto, marca]; to publicize [film, opera]3) to promote, to upgrade [ persona]promuovere qcn. (al grado di) sergente — to promote sb. (to the rank of) sergeant
5) scol. univ. to pass, to put* up, to promote [alunno, candidato]* * *promuovere/pro'mwɔvere/ [62]1 to promote [idea, pace, commercio]; to advance [ ricerca]; to patronize [ arti]; to foster, to promote [attività, immagine]; to further [ causa]; to present [ petizione]; promuovere una campagna contro il fumo to launch an antismoking campaign; promuovere un disegno di legge pol. to promote a bill2 comm. to promote, to merchandise [prodotto, marca]; to publicize [film, opera]3 to promote, to upgrade [ persona]; promuovere qcn. (al grado di) sergente to promote sb. (to the rank of) sergeant; essere promosso direttore to be promoted to manager5 scol. univ. to pass, to put* up, to promote [alunno, candidato]; è stato promosso in seconda elementare he is going into second form. -
65 Appleton, Sir Edward Victor
[br]b. 6 September 1892 Bradford, Englandd. 21 April 1965 Edinburgh, Scotland[br]English physicist awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the ionospheric layer, named after him, which is an efficient reflector of short radio waves, thereby making possible long-distance radio communication.[br]After early ambitions to become a professional cricketer, Appleton went to St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied under J.J.Thompson and Ernest Rutherford. His academic career interrupted by the First World War, he served as a captain in the Royal Engineers, carrying out investigations into the propagation and fading of radio signals. After the war he joined the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, as a demonstrator in 1920, and in 1924 he moved to King's College, London, as Wheatstone Professor of Physics.In the following decade he contributed to developments in valve oscillators (in particular, the "squegging" oscillator, which formed the basis of the first hard-valve time-base) and gained international recognition for research into electromagnetic-wave propagation. His most important contribution was to confirm the existence of a conducting ionospheric layer in the upper atmosphere capable of reflecting radio waves, which had been predicted almost simultaneously by Heaviside and Kennelly in 1902. This he did by persuading the BBC in 1924 to vary the frequency of their Bournemouth transmitter, and he then measured the signal received at Cambridge. By comparing the direct and reflected rays and the daily variation he was able to deduce that the Kennelly- Heaviside (the so-called E-layer) was at a height of about 60 miles (97 km) above the earth and that there was a further layer (the Appleton or F-layer) at about 150 miles (240 km), the latter being an efficient reflector of the shorter radio waves that penetrated the lower layers. During the period 1927–32 and aided by Hartree, he established a magneto-ionic theory to explain the existence of the ionosphere. He was instrumental in obtaining agreement for international co-operation for ionospheric and other measurements in the form of the Second Polar Year (1932–3) and, much later, the International Geophysical Year (1957–8). For all this work, which made it possible to forecast the optimum frequencies for long-distance short-wave communication as a function of the location of transmitter and receiver and of the time of day and year, in 1947 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.He returned to Cambridge as Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy in 1939, and with M.F. Barnett he investigated the possible use of radio waves for radio-location of aircraft. In 1939 he became Secretary of the Government Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, a post he held for ten years. During the Second World War he contributed to the development of both radar and the atomic bomb, and subsequently served on government committees concerned with the use of atomic energy (which led to the establishment of Harwell) and with scientific staff.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted (KCB 1941, GBE 1946). Nobel Prize for Physics 1947. FRS 1927. Vice- President, American Institute of Electrical Engineers 1932. Royal Society Hughes Medal 1933. Institute of Electrical Engineers Faraday Medal 1946. Vice-Chancellor, Edinburgh University 1947. Institution of Civil Engineers Ewing Medal 1949. Royal Medallist 1950. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Medal of Honour 1962. President, British Association 1953. President, Radio Industry Council 1955–7. Légion d'honneur. LLD University of St Andrews 1947.Bibliography1925, joint paper with Barnett, Nature 115:333 (reports Appleton's studies of the ionosphere).1928, "Some notes of wireless methods of investigating the electrical structure of the upper atmosphere", Proceedings of the Physical Society 41(Part III):43. 1932, Thermionic Vacuum Tubes and Their Applications (his work on valves).1947, "The investigation and forecasting of ionospheric conditions", Journal of theInstitution of Electrical Engineers 94, Part IIIA: 186 (a review of British work on the exploration of the ionosphere).with J.F.Herd \& R.A.Watson-Watt, British patent no. 235,254 (squegging oscillator).Further ReadingWho Was Who, 1961–70 1972, VI, London: A. \& C.Black (for fuller details of honours). R.Clark, 1971, Sir Edward Appleton, Pergamon (biography).J.Jewkes, D.Sawers \& R.Stillerman, 1958, The Sources of Invention.KFBiographical history of technology > Appleton, Sir Edward Victor
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66 Murdock (Murdoch), William
[br]b. 21 August 1754 Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotlandd. 15 November 1839 Handsworth, Birmingham, England[br]Scottish engineer and inventor, pioneer in coal-gas production.[br]He was the third child and the eldest of three boys born to John Murdoch and Anna Bruce. His father, a millwright and joiner, spelled his name Murdock on moving to England. He was educated for some years at Old Cumnock Parish School and in 1777, with his father, he built a "wooden horse", supposed to have been a form of cycle. In 1777 he set out for the Soho manufactory of Boulton \& Watt, where he quickly found employment, Boulton supposedly being impressed by the lad's hat. This was oval and made of wood, and young William had turned it himself on a lathe of his own manufacture. Murdock quickly became Boulton \& Watt's representative in Cornwall, where there was a flourishing demand for steam-engines. He lived at Redruth during this period.It is said that a number of the inventions generally ascribed to James Watt are in fact as much due to Murdock as to Watt. Examples are the piston and slide valve and the sun-and-planet gearing. A number of other inventions are attributed to Murdock alone: typical of these is the oscillating cylinder engine which obviated the need for an overhead beam.In about 1784 he planned a steam-driven road carriage of which he made a working model. He also planned a high-pressure non-condensing engine. The model carriage was demonstrated before Murdock's friends and travelled at a speed of 6–8 mph (10–13 km/h). Boulton and Watt were both antagonistic to their employees' developing independent inventions, and when in 1786 Murdock set out with his model for the Patent Office, having received no reply to a letter he had sent to Watt, Boulton intercepted him on the open road near Exeter and dissuaded him from going any further.In 1785 he married Mary Painter, daughter of a mine captain. She bore him four children, two of whom died in infancy, those surviving eventually joining their father at the Soho Works. Murdock was a great believer in pneumatic power: he had a pneumatic bell-push at Sycamore House, his home near Soho. The pattern-makers lathe at the Soho Works worked for thirty-five years from an air motor. He also conceived the idea of a vacuum piston engine to exhaust a pipe, later developed by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company's railway and the forerunner of the atmospheric railway.Another field in which Murdock was a pioneer was the gas industry. In 1791, in Redruth, he was experimenting with different feedstocks in his home-cum-office in Cross Street: of wood, peat and coal, he preferred the last. He designed and built in the backyard of his house a prototype generator, washer, storage and distribution plant, and publicized the efficiency of coal gas as an illuminant by using it to light his own home. In 1794 or 1795 he informed Boulton and Watt of his experimental work and of its success, suggesting that a patent should be applied for. James Watt Junior was now in the firm and was against patenting the idea since they had had so much trouble with previous patents and had been involved in so much litigation. He refused Murdock's request and for a short time Murdock left the firm to go home to his father's mill. Boulton \& Watt soon recognized the loss of a valuable servant and, in a short time, he was again employed at Soho, now as Engineer and Superintendent at the increased salary of £300 per year plus a 1 per cent commission. From this income, he left £14,000 when he died in 1839.In 1798 the workshops of Boulton and Watt were permanently lit by gas, starting with the foundry building. The 180 ft (55 m) façade of the Soho works was illuminated by gas for the Peace of Paris in June 1814. By 1804, Murdock had brought his apparatus to a point where Boulton \& Watt were able to canvas for orders. Murdock continued with the company after the death of James Watt in 1819, but retired in 1830 and continued to live at Sycamore House, Handsworth, near Birmingham.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsRoyal Society Rumford Gold Medal 1808.Further ReadingS.Smiles, 1861, Lives of the Engineers, Vol. IV: Boulton and Watt, London: John Murray.H.W.Dickinson and R.Jenkins, 1927, James Watt and the Steam Engine, Oxford: Clarendon Press.J.A.McCash, 1966, "William Murdoch. Faithful servant" in E.G.Semler (ed.), The Great Masters. Engineering Heritage, Vol. II, London: Institution of Mechanical Engineers/Heinemann.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Murdock (Murdoch), William
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67 Popoff, Andrei Alexandrovitch
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 21 September 1821 Russiad. 6 March 1898 Russia[br]Russian admiral and naval constructor involved in the building of unusual warships.[br]After graduating from the Naval School Popoff served in the Russian Navy, ultimately commanding the cruiser Meteor. During the Crimean War he was Captain of a steamship and was later Manager of Artillery Supplies at Sevastopol. At the conclusion of the war he was appointed to supervise the construction of all steamships and so started his real career in naval procurement. For the best part of thirty years he oversaw the Russian naval building programme, producing many new ships at St Petersburg. Probably the finest was the battleship Petr Veliki (Peter the Great), of 9,000 tons displacement, built at Galernii Island in 1869. With some major refits the ship remained in the fleet until 1922. Two remarkable ships were produced at St Petersburg, the Novgorod and the Vice Admiral Popoff in 1874 and 1876, respectively. Their hull form was almost circular in the hope of creating stable and steady gun platforms and to lessen the required depth of water for their duties as defence ships in the shallow waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Despite support for the idea from Sir Edward Reed of the Royal Navy, the designs failed owing to unpleasant oscillations and poor manoeuvring qualities. One further attempt was made to find a successful outcome to this good idea in the construction of the Russian Imperial Yacht Livadia at Elder's Glasgow shipyard in 1880: for many reasons the Livadia never fulfilled her purpose. Despite their great advantages, the age of the Popoffkas was over. Popoff had a remarkable effect on Russian shipbuilding and warship design. He had authority, and used it wisely at a time when the Russian shipbuilding industry was developing quickly.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsHonorary Associate of the Institution of Naval Architects, London.Further ReadingFred T.Jane, 1899, The Imperial Russian Navy, London.AK / FMWBiographical history of technology > Popoff, Andrei Alexandrovitch
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