chairman of the works council

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m/f < Person> chairman of the works council, chairwoman of the works council

f employees’ meeting, factory meeting, meeting of the working body

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f works [or company] meeting, (meeting of the workforce [chaired by the works council chairman])

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Betriebsversammlung f employees’ meeting, factory meeting, meeting of the working body

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works meeting n.

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works [or (Am) company] meeting, (meeting of the workforce [chaired by the works council chairman])

m, f; -n, -n chair of the works committee ( oder council), Am. employee organization head

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mf decl as adj

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f(m) works council chairperson [or masc chairman] [or fem chairwoman], chairperson of an [or the] employee representative committee [or BRIT a. works council]

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Betriebsratsvorsitzende m/f; -n, -n chair of the works committee ( oder council), US employee organization head

mf decl as adj

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f(m) works council chairperson [or masc chairman] [or fem chairwoman], chairperson of an [or the] employee representative committee [or BRIT a. works council]

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works council chairman n.

SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Paper and printing

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It was intended that Bryan Donkin should follow his father's profession of surveyor and land agent, so he spent a year or so in that occupation before he was apprenticed to John Hall, millwright of Dartford, Kent. Donkin remained with the firm after completing his apprenticeship, and when the Fourdrinier brothers in 1802 introduced from France an invention for making paper in continuous lengths they turned to John Hall for help in developing the machine: Donkin was chosen to undertake the work. In 1803 the Fourdriniers established their own works in Bermondsey, with Bryan Donkin in charge. By 1808 Donkin had acquired the works, but he continued to manufacture paper-making machines, paying a royalty to the patentees. He also undertook other engineering work including water-wheels for driving paper and other mills. He was also involved in the development of printing machinery and the preservation of food in airtight containers. Some of these improvements were patented, and he also obtained patents relating to gearing, steel pens, paper-making and railway wheels. Other inventions of Bryan Donkin that were not patented concerned revolution counters and improvements in accurate screw threads for use in graduating mathematical scales. Donkin was elected a member of the Society of Arts in 1803 and was later Chairman of the Society's Committee of Mechanics and a Vice-President of the society. He was also a member of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 1818 a group of eight young men founded the Institution of Civil Engineers; two of them were apprentices of Bryan Donkin and he encouraged their enterprise. After a change in the rules permitted the election of members over the age of 35, he himself became a member in 1821. He served on the Council and became a Vice- President, but he resigned from the Institution in 1848.

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SUBJECT AREA: Electricity, Telecommunications

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Smith joined the Gutta Percha Company, London, in 1848 and successfully experimented with the use of gutta-percha, a natural form of latex, for the insulation of conducting wires. As a result, he was made responsible for the laying of the first cross-Channel cable between Dover and Calais in 1850. Four years later he laid the first Mediterranean cable between Spezia, Italy, and Corsica and Sardinia, later extending it to Algeria. On its completion he became Manager of the Gutta Percha works, which in 1864 became the Telegraph and Construction Company. In 1865 he assisted on board the Great Eastern with the laying of the transatlantic cable by Bright.

Clearly his management responsibilities did not stop him from experimenting practically. In 1866 he discovered that the resistance of a selenium rod was reduced by the action of incident light, an early discovery of the photoelectric effect more explicitly observed by Hertz and subsequently explained by Einstein. In 1883 he read a paper to the Society of Telegraph Engineers (later the Institution of Electrical Engineers), suggesting the possibility of wireless communication with moving trains, an idea that was later successfully taken up by others, and in 1888 he demonstrated the use of water as a practical means of communication with a lighthouse. Four years later, after his death, the system was tried between Alum Bay and the Needles in the Isle of Wight, and it was used subsequently for the Fastnet Rock lighthouse some 10 miles (16 km) off the south-west coast of Ireland.

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See also: Field, Cyrus West

SUBJECT AREA: Broadcasting, Recording

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He graduated from The Queen's College with a BA in 1915 and an MA in 1918. He was an instructor and lecturer in the Royal Navy in 1915–19. He became an administrative officer with the Board of Education until 1938, and continued his work in the British Civil Service in the Ministry of Transport until 1949. From 1924 to 1938 he was Technical Adviser, and from 1953 Technical Editor, with Gramophone, a publication catering for the record-and equipment-buying public. He brought a mathematical mind to the problems of gramophone reproduction and solved the geometrical problem of obtaining a reasonable approximation to tangential tracking across the surface of a record even though the soundbox (or pick-up) is carried by a pivoted arm. Later he tackled the problem of horns, determining that a modified exponential horn, even with a bent axis, would give optimal reproduction by a purely acoustic system. This development was used commercially during the 1930s. Wilson was for a time a member of the School Broadcasting Council and developed methods for improving subjective listening tests for evaluation of audio equipment. He was also deeply involved in the long-playing record system used for Talking Books for the Blind. He had a life-long interest in spiritualist matters and was President of the Spiritualist National Union from 1950 to 1953 and Chairman of the Psychic Press from 1951.

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SUBJECT AREA: Broadcasting, Electronics and information technology

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After a time at Cargilfield Trinity School, Campbell-Swinton went to Fettes College in Edinburgh from 1878 to 1881 and then spent a year abroad in France. From 1882 until 1887 he was employed at Sir W.G.Armstrong's works in Elswick, Newcastle, following which he set up his own electrical contracting business in London. This he gave up in 1904 to become a consultant. Subsequently he was an engineer with many industrial companies, including the W.T.Henley Telegraph Works Company, Parson Marine Steam Turbine Company and Crompton Parkinson Ltd, of which he became a director. During this time he was involved in electrical and scientific research, being particularly associated with the development of the Parson turbine.

In 1903 he tried to realize distant electric vision by using a Braun oscilloscope tube for the. image display, a second tube being modified to form a synchronously scanned camera, by replacing the fluorescent display screen with a photoconductive target. Although this first attempt at what was, in fact, a vidicon camera proved unsuccessful, he was clearly on the right lines and in 1908 he wrote a letter to Nature with a fairly accurate description of the principles of an all-electronic television system using magnetically deflected cathode ray tubes at the camera and receiver, with the camera target consisting of a mosaic of photoconductive elements that were scanned and discharged line by line by an electron beam. He expanded on his ideas in a lecture to the Roentgen Society, London, in 1911, but it was over twenty years before the required technology had advanced sufficiently for Shoenberg's team at EMI to produce a working system.

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ad hoc committee специальный комитет advisory committee консультативный комитет appoint a committee учреждать комитет appointments committee комиссия по назначениям assessment committee налоговое управление assessment committee налоговый комитет a check-up committee амер. ревизионная комиссия child welfare committee комитет по охране детства child welfare committee комитет по охране младенчества club committee совет клуба committee комиссия; credentials committee мандатная комиссия; Committee of the whole House заседание парламента на правах комитета для обсуждения законопроекта committee комиссия committee комитет; Soviet Peace Committee Советский комитет защиты мира committee комитет committee юр. опекун committee опекун committee попечитель Committee: Committee: Ways and Means committee постоянная бюджетная комиссия committee: committee: working committee рабочий комитет committee attr.: committee English канцелярский английский язык committee attr.: committee English канцелярский английский язык committee for preparation of legal opinions комитет по подготовке юридических заключений committee for trade and industry комиссия по торговле и промышленности committee of action полит. комитет действия; strike committee стачечный комитет committee of civil servants комитет государственных служащих committee of delegates комитет представителей committee of directors совет директоров committee of experts комиссия экспертов committee of government officials комитет правительственных чиновников committee of inquiry следственный комитет committee of inspection контрольная комиссия committee of representatives комитет представителей committee of shareholders комитет держателей акций committee of the whole комитет полного состава committee комиссия; credentials committee мандатная комиссия; Committee of the whole House заседание парламента на правах комитета для обсуждения законопроекта committee on agriculture and fisheries комитет по сельскому хозяйству и рыболовству committee on economic affairs комитет по экономическим вопросам committee on local government комитет по местному самоуправлению Common Market committee комитет Европейского экономического сообщества constituency election committee избирательная комиссия consultative committee консультативный комитет contact committee комитет по связям committee комиссия; credentials committee мандатная комиссия; Committee of the whole House заседание парламента на правах комитета для обсуждения законопроекта defence committee комитет по вопросам обороны disciplinary committee дисциплинарный комитет draft committee призывная комиссия drafting committee редакционная комиссия drafting committee редакционный комитет drafting: committee attr.: committee committee редакционная комиссия economic policy committee комитет по экономической политике editorial committee редакционная комиссия editorial committee редакционный комитет education committee комиссия по образованию election committee избирательная комиссия employment committee комиссия по трудоустройству energy committee комиссия по энергетике environmental committee экологическая комиссия exchange control committee комиссия по валютному контролю executive committee исполнительный комитет executive: committee council амер. исполнительный совет; executive committee исполнительный комитет expert committee экспертный комитет finance committee финансовый комитет general committee генеральный комитет to go into committee пойти на рассмотрение комиссии (о законопроекте) the House goes into Committee, the House resolves itself into Committee парл. палата объявляет себя комиссией для обсуждения (какого-л.) вопроса the House goes into Committee, the House resolves itself into Committee парл. палата объявляет себя комиссией для обсуждения (какого-л.) вопроса housing committee комиссия по жилищному строительству housing committee парл. комиссия по жилищному хозяйству interministerial liaison committee межведомственная комиссия по связи investigative committee комитет по расследованию joint committee объединенный комитет joint committee паритетный комитет joint: committee committee комиссия из представителей разных организаций committee committee объединенный комитет joint consultative committee объединенный консультативный комитет joint production committee объединенный производственный комитет judicial committee судебный комитет labour market committee комитет рынка труда legislative committee законодательный комитет liaison committee комитет связи liquidation committee ликвидационная комиссия listing committee биржевой комитет по допуску ценных бумаг к котировке management committee административный комитет membership committee комиссия по приему в члены national executive committee национальный исполнительный комитет negotiating committee комиссия уполномоченных parents' committee родительский комитет parliamentary committee парламентская комиссия parliamentary committee парламентский комитет permanent committee постоянный комитет planning committee комитет планирования political committee политический комитет politico-legal committee политико-правовой комитет production committee производственный комитет project committee проектная группа reception committee приемная комиссия research advisory committee научно-консультативный комитет research committee комитет по научным исследованиям retrenchment committee комиссия по экономии rules committee комитет по процедурным вопросам safety committee комиссия по технике безопасности safety committee комитет по безопасности scholarship committee комитет по стипендиям screening committee отборочная комиссия select committee отборочный комитет select committee специальный комитет selection committee распорядительный комитет shop committee цеховой комитет shop: committee attr. цеховой; shop committee цеховой комитет; shop chairman амер. цеховой староста shop stewards' committee цеховой профсоюзный комитет committee комитет; Soviet Peace Committee Советский комитет защиты мира standing committee постоянный комитет standing: committee постоянный; установленный; standing army постоянная армия; standing committee постоянная комиссия state committee государственный комитет steering committee комиссия по выработке регламента или порядка дня steering committee организационный, подготовительный комитет steering committee руководящий комитет committee of action полит. комитет действия; strike committee стачечный комитет tax committee налоговый комитет technical committee технический комитет trade committee комитет по вопросам торговли trade: committee attr. профсоюзный; trade(s) committee профсоюзный комитет trades committee профсоюзный комитет traffic committee комитет по транспорту valuation committee оценочная комиссия vigilance committee (преим. амер.) "комитет бдительности" (организация линчевателей) vigilance committee "комитет бдительности" (организация линчевателей) gang: vigilante committee = vigilance committee committee: working committee рабочий комитет works committee рабочий комитет