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  • 1 cours

    cours [kuʀ]
    masculine noun
       a. ( = leçon) class ; (University = conférence) lecture ; ( = série de leçons) course
    • faire or donner un cours sur to give a class (or lecture or course) on
    • qui vous fait cours en anglais ? who takes you for English?
    • donner/prendre des cours particuliers to give/have private lessons
       b. ( = enseignement) class
    • cours préparatoire/élémentaire/moyen first/second or third/fourth or fifth year in primary school
       c. ( = établissement) school
    • sur une partie de son cours on or along part of its course
       e. [de valeurs, matières premières] price ; [de devises] rate
    • ne plus avoir cours [monnaie] to be out of circulation ; [expression] to be obsolete
       f. ( = déroulement) course
    • donner libre cours à [+ imagination] to give free rein to ; [+ joie, sentiment] to give vent to
    ► en cours [année] current ; [affaires, essais] in progress
    • c'est en cours de réparation/réfection it's being repaired/rebuilt
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    kuʀ
    nom masculin invariable
    1) ( session d'enseignement) École lesson, class; Université class; ( magistral) lecture; ( hors cadre scolaire) class; ( en privé) lesson; ( ensemble de sessions) course

    suivre un cours — to do ou take a course

    faire un cours sur quelque chose — ( une fois) to give a class in something; ( plusieurs fois) to teach a course in something

    donner des cours de français — ( dans l'enseignement) to teach French; ( en privé) to give French lessons

    2) ( manuel) École, Université course book, textbook; ( notes) notes
    3) ( établissement) school
    4) Finance ( taux de négociation) (de denrée, valeur) price; ( de devise) exchange rate

    avoir cours — Finance [monnaie] to be legal tender; fig [théorie, pratique] to be current; [terme] to be used

    ne plus avoir cours — Finance [monnaie] to be no longer legal tender; fig [théorie, pratique] to be no longer accepted; [terme] to be no longer used

    5) ( de rivière) ( parcours) course; ( débit) flow
    6) ( enchaînement) (de récit, carrière, d'événements) course; ( d'idées) flow

    donner libre cours à — to give free rein to [imagination]; to give way to [peine]; to give vent to [colère]

    au or dans le cours de — in the course of, during

    en cours — [mois, semaine, année] current; [processus, projet] under way (après n); [travail, négociations, changements] in progress (après n)

    en cours de journée/saison — in the course of the day/season

    en cours de fabrication/rénovation — in the process of being manufactured/renovated

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    Phrasal Verbs:
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    kuʀ nm
    1) (= leçon) class

    Le professeur d'anglais l'a surpris en train de faire ses maths pendant son cours. — The English teacher caught him doing his maths during his class.

    2) (= série de leçons) course
    3) (= cheminement) course
    4) (= écoulement) flow
    5) (= avenue) walk
    6) COMMERCE, BOURSE, [action, dollar, devise] rate

    donner libre cours à — to give free expression to, [imagination] to give free rein to

    avoir cours [monnaie] — to be legal tender, figto be current, (à l'école) to have a class, (à l'université) to have a lecture

    en cours (année) — current, (travaux) in progress

    au cours de — in the course of, during

    Il a été réveillé trois fois au cours de la nuit. — He was woken up three times during the night.

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    cours nm inv
    1 ( session d'enseignement) Scol lesson, class; Univ class; ( magistral) lecture; ( hors cadre scolaire) class; ( en privé) lesson; ( ensemble de sessions) course; avoir cours to have a class; je n'ai pas cours demain I haven't got any lessons ou classes tomorrow; prendre des cours de qch to take classes in sth; tu devrais prendre des cours de diction you should go to elocution classes; suivre un cours to do ou take a course; il prend des cours d'espagnol he's taking Spanish lessons; je suis un cours de secrétariat/cuisine/littérature I'm doing ou taking a secretarial/cookery/literature course; je suis les cours du professeur X I'm attending Professor X's lectures; le professeur X a publié son cours sur la traduction Professor X has published his/her course of lectures on translation; faire cours to teach; qui vous fait cours en maths? who teaches you maths GB ou math US?; faire un cours sur qch ( une fois) to give a class in sth; ( plusieurs fois) to teach a course in sth; il nous a fait un véritable cours sur la gastronomie he gave us a real lecture on gastronomy; donner des cours de français/piano ( dans l'enseignement) to teach French/piano; ( en privé) to give French/piano lessons;
    2 Scol, Univ ( manuel) course book, textbook; ( notes) notes (pl);
    3 ( établissement) school; cours de théâtre drama school;
    4 Fin ( taux de négociation) (de denrée, valeur) price; ( de devise) exchange rate; le cours du change the exchange rate; le cours du dollar the price of the dollar; cours légal official exchange rate; les cours boursiers or de la Bourse Stock Exchange prices; le cours du marché the market price; acheter qch au cours des halles to buy sth at wholesale market price; cours d'ouverture/de clôture or fermeture opening/closing price; avoir cours Fin [monnaie] to be legal tender; fig [théorie, pratique] to be current; [terme, expression] to be used; ne plus avoir cours Fin [monnaie] to be no longer legal tender; fig [théorie, pratique] to be no longer accepted; [terme, expression] to be no longer used;
    5 ( de rivière) ( parcours) course; ( débit) flow; détourner le cours d'une rivière to divert the course of a river; avoir un cours lent/rapide to flow slowly/quickly; fleuve au cours rapide fast-flowing river; descendre/remonter le cours d'une rivière to go down/to go up a river;
    6 ( enchaînement) (de récit, conflit, carrière, maladie) course; ( d'idées) flow; ( d'événements) course; les choses suivent tranquillement leur cours things are quietly taking their course; le cours des choses the course of events; reprendre son cours to resume; la vie reprend son cours life returns to normal; la sonnerie interrompit le cours de mes pensées the bell interrupted my train of thought; donner libre cours à to give free rein to [imagination, fantaisie]; to give way to [peine, douleur]; to give vent to [colère, indignation]; au or dans le cours de in the course of, during; dans le cours du mois prochain in the course of next month; dans le cours du mois within the month; en cours [mois, semaine, année] current; [processus, projet] under way ( après n); [travail, négociations, changements] in progress ( après n); en cours de journée/saison/séance in the course of the day/season/session; en cours de fabrication/rénovation in the process of being manufactured/renovated; le pont en cours de construction the bridge being built ou under construction; le pont est en cours de construction the bridge is under construction ou in the process of being built; en cours de route along the way; rajoutez un peu d'eau en cours de cuisson add some water during the cooking.
    cours accéléré crash course; cours de compensation Fin mark-up price; cours d'eau watercourse; cours élémentaire deuxième année, CE2 third year of primary school, age 8-9; cours élémentaire première année, CE1 second year of primary school, age 7-8; cours intensif intensive course; cours magistral Univ lecture; cours moyen deuxième année, CM2 fifth year of primary school, age 10-11; cours moyen première année, CM1 fourth year of primary school, age 9-10; cours d'initiation introductory course; cours intensif intensive course; cours par correspondance correspondence course; suivre des cours par correspondance to take a correspondence course; cours particulier(s) private tuition ¢ GB, private tutoring ¢ US (en, de in); donner/suivre des cours particuliers to give/to have private tuition ou lessons; cours de perfectionnement improvers' course; cours préparatoire, CP Scol first year of primary school, age 6-7; cours de rattrapage remedial course; cours de remise à niveau refresher course; cours du soir evening class.
    [kur] nom masculin
    A.[ÉCOULEMENT, SUCCESSION]
    1. GÉOGRAPHIE [débit] flow
    [parcours] course
    a. [ruisseau] stream
    b. [rivière] river
    2. [déroulement - des années, des saisons, de pensées] course ; [ - d'événements] course, run ; [ - de négociations, d'une maladie, de travaux] course, progress
    donner ou laisser (libre) cours à
    a. [joie, indignation] to give vent to
    b. [imagination, chagrin] to give free rein to
    en suivant/remontant le cours du temps going forward/back in time
    3. [dans des noms de rue] avenue
    B.[DANS LE DOMAINE FINANCIER]
    1. [de devises] rate
    cours des devises ou du change foreign exchange rate ou rate of exchange
    a. [monnaie] to be legal tender ou legal currency
    b. [pratique] to be common
    a. [monnaie] to be out of circulation, to be no longer legal tender ou a legal currency
    b. [pratique, théorie] to be obsolete
    c. [expression, terme] to be obsolete ou no longer in use
    2. [d'actions] price, trading rate
    premier cours, cours d'ouverture opening price
    dernier cours, cours de clôture closing price
    C.[DANS LE DOMAINE SCOLAIRE ET UNIVERSITAIRE]
    1. ÉDUCATION [classe] class, lesson
    [ensemble des leçons] course
    suivre un cours ou des cours d'espagnol to go to ou to attend a Spanish class
    b. UNIVERSITÉ ≃ Open University course (UK)
    donner/prendre des cours particuliers to give/to have private tuition
    2. [manuel] course, coursebook, textbook
    [notes] notes
    3. [degré - dans l'enseignement primaire]
    cours préparatoire ≃ first-year infants class (UK), ≃ nursery school (US)
    cours élémentaire ≃ second-year infants class (UK), ≃ first grade (US)
    cours moyen ≃ third-year infants class (UK), ≃ second grade (US)
    4. [établissement] school
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    au cours de locution prépositionnelle
    during, in ou during the course of
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    en cours locution adjectivale
    [actuel]
    l'année/le tarif en cours the current year/price
    affaire/travail en cours business/work in hand
    être en cours [débat, réunion, travaux] to be under way, to be in progress
    ————————
    en cours de locution prépositionnelle
    en cours de réparation in the process of being repaired, undergoing repairs

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > cours

  • 2 и

    conj.
    1. интонация влияет на значение
    И она ушла. – She also left. (i.e. Some people left, and so did she.)
    И она ушла. – And after that she left.
    2. когда союз и усиливает действие, требуется объяснительно-описательная конструкция.
    И куда мы только не обращались! – We must have tried everyone/everything/left no stone unturned!
    Не знаю, что и думать! – What am I supposed to think of this!/I’m at a loss!/what is this supposed to mean?
    3. и вместе с отрицательной частицей «не»
    even
    Не прошло и года со дня нашей последней встречи. – Less than a year/not even a year has passed since our last meeting.
    Он и не улыбнулся. – He didn’t even smile.
    4. also, too, as well
    Мы предложили и другой вариант. – We also made another proposal/We proposed another version as well.
    Такой мир может быть создан и на Ближнем Востоке. – Such (a) peace can be established in the Middle East, too/as well. Хотелось бы надеяться, что и другая сторона садится за стол переговоров со столь же искренними намерениями. – We hope that the other side as well/too is coming to the negotiation table with equally sincere intentions.
    5. both… and… (в конструкции «и… и…»)Однако, если синхронист не может догадаться, будет ли второе «и», лучше опустить первое «и» и вставить as well или also после второго «и».
    Наша страна добивалась запрещения ядерного оружия и тогда, когда не располагала им, и после того, как создала это оружие. – Our country was working for/favored/was trying to achieve a ban on nuclear weapons (both) when we did not possess them and also/later/as well when we had manufactured/produced/when did have these weapons.
    *** Мы и (здесь «и» подчеркивает продолжительность действия) теперь выступаем за незамедлительное принятие мер по сокращению, а в конечном счете – полной ликвидации ядерного оружия. – We (now) are continuing/continue to back/favor/press for the immediate adoption of measures to reduce («сокращение» переведено глаголом, что звучит идиоматичнее) and ultimately fully eliminate nuclear weapons.
    Our country still (still заменяет «и теперь»)favors the immediate adoption…We are still backing the immediate adoption…
    6. «и» в формальных заявлениях, чтобы подчеркнуть продолжение действия
    Очевидно, что наша организация должна и дальше заниматься этим вопросом. – It is clear that our organization must continue to deal with this question.
    7. nor для перевода конструкции «не… и»
    Администрация США не откликнулась и на предложение о моратории на любые ядерные взрывы. – Nor did the US Administration respond/react to the proposal for a moratorium on all nuclear explosions.
    Или (как компенсация пропущенного «и»):
    The US Administration did not respond/has not responded moreover/in addition to the proposal…
    Нельзя не остановиться и на той негативной роли, которую военно-морской флот играет во внешней политике определенных государств. – Nor can we fail to dwell on/ignore the negative role played by naval forces in the foreign policies of some states.
    Или (как компенсация пропущенного «и»):
    We cannot fail to dwell as well/in addition/moreover on the negative role…
    8. использование «и», чтобы отделить подлежащее от сказуемого и таким образом ослабить силу глагола
    Изумляла и удивительная выносливость Льва Николаевича. – Lev Nikolaevich had extraordinary stamina.
    9. отсутствие «и» в русском перечислении требует and между последней парой однородных членов при переводе.
    Все устали, обозлились. – Everyone was tired and cross/angry.
    Он орал, кричал. – He was screaming and shouting. Сушеная вишня была мягкая, сочная, сладкая, душистая. – The dried cherries were soft, juicy, sweet and fragrant.
    Тж. часто в формальных заявлениях:
    Мы считаем, что осуществление мер доверия применительно к этому региону имело бы большое политическое значение, содействовало бы предотвращению конфликтных ситуаций, укреплению безопасности морских коммуникаций в этом районе. –
    We believe that the implementation of confidence-building measures concerning this region would be of great political significance, promote the prevention of conflict situations, and strengthen the security of naval communications in the region. Такому урегулированию помогла бы глубокая перестройка международных экономических отношений, прекращение гонки вооружений. – Such a settlement would be advanced/promoted/assisted by an intensive/in-depth/fundamental (not deep!) restructuring of international economic relations and by the cessation/halting of the arms race. ***
    Если переводчик вовремя не осознал, что серия закончилась, можно вставить and other things, and other items, and other goals, et cetera.

    Словарь переводчика-синхрониста (русско-английский) > и

  • 3 и

    conj.
    1. интонация влияет на значение
    И она ушла. – She also left. (i.e. Some people left, and so did she.)
    И она ушла. – And after that she left.
    2. когда союз и усиливает действие, требуется объяснительно-описательная конструкция.
    И куда мы только не обращались! – We must have tried everyone/everything/left no stone unturned!
    Не знаю, что и думать! – What am I supposed to think of this!/I’m at a loss!/what is this supposed to mean?
    3. и вместе с отрицательной частицей «не»
    even
    Не прошло и года со дня нашей последней встречи. – Less than a year/not even a year has passed since our last meeting.
    Он и не улыбнулся. – He didn’t even smile.
    4. also, too, as well
    Мы предложили и другой вариант. – We also made another proposal/We proposed another version as well.
    Такой мир может быть создан и на Ближнем Востоке. – Such (a) peace can be established in the Middle East, too/as well. Хотелось бы надеяться, что и другая сторона садится за стол переговоров со столь же искренними намерениями. – We hope that the other side as well/too is coming to the negotiation table with equally sincere intentions.
    5. both… and… (в конструкции «и… и…»)Однако, если синхронист не может догадаться, будет ли второе «и», лучше опустить первое «и» и вставить as well или also после второго «и».
    Наша страна добивалась запрещения ядерного оружия и тогда, когда не располагала им, и после того, как создала это оружие. – Our country was working for/favored/was trying to achieve a ban on nuclear weapons (both) when we did not possess them and also/later/as well when we had manufactured/produced/when did have these weapons.
    *** Мы и (здесь «и» подчеркивает продолжительность действия) теперь выступаем за незамедлительное принятие мер по сокращению, а в конечном счете – полной ликвидации ядерного оружия. – We (now) are continuing/continue to back/favor/press for the immediate adoption of measures to reduce («сокращение» переведено глаголом, что звучит идиоматичнее) and ultimately fully eliminate nuclear weapons.
    Our country still (still заменяет «и теперь»)favors the immediate adoption…We are still backing the immediate adoption…
    6. «и» в формальных заявлениях, чтобы подчеркнуть продолжение действия
    Очевидно, что наша организация должна и дальше заниматься этим вопросом. – It is clear that our organization must continue to deal with this question.
    7. nor для перевода конструкции «не… и»
    Администрация США не откликнулась и на предложение о моратории на любые ядерные взрывы. – Nor did the US Administration respond/react to the proposal for a moratorium on all nuclear explosions.
    Или (как компенсация пропущенного «и»):
    The US Administration did not respond/has not responded moreover/in addition to the proposal…
    Нельзя не остановиться и на той негативной роли, которую военно-морской флот играет во внешней политике определенных государств. – Nor can we fail to dwell on/ignore the negative role played by naval forces in the foreign policies of some states.
    Или (как компенсация пропущенного «и»):
    We cannot fail to dwell as well/in addition/moreover on the negative role…
    8. использование «и», чтобы отделить подлежащее от сказуемого и таким образом ослабить силу глагола
    Изумляла и удивительная выносливость Льва Николаевича. – Lev Nikolaevich had extraordinary stamina.
    9. отсутствие «и» в русском перечислении требует and между последней парой однородных членов при переводе.
    Все устали, обозлились. – Everyone was tired and cross/angry.
    Он орал, кричал. – He was screaming and shouting. Сушеная вишня была мягкая, сочная, сладкая, душистая. – The dried cherries were soft, juicy, sweet and fragrant.
    Тж. часто в формальных заявлениях:
    Мы считаем, что осуществление мер доверия применительно к этому региону имело бы большое политическое значение, содействовало бы предотвращению конфликтных ситуаций, укреплению безопасности морских коммуникаций в этом районе. –
    We believe that the implementation of confidence-building measures concerning this region would be of great political significance, promote the prevention of conflict situations, and strengthen the security of naval communications in the region. Такому урегулированию помогла бы глубокая перестройка международных экономических отношений, прекращение гонки вооружений. – Such a settlement would be advanced/promoted/assisted by an intensive/in-depth/fundamental (not deep!) restructuring of international economic relations and by the cessation/halting of the arms race. ***
    Если переводчик вовремя не осознал, что серия закончилась, можно вставить and other things, and other items, and other goals, et cetera.

    Русско-английский словарь переводчика-синхрониста > и

  • 4 Anschütz, Ottomar

    [br]
    b. 1846 Lissa, Prussia (now Leszno, Poland) d. 1907
    [br]
    German photographer, chronophotographer ana inventor.
    [br]
    The son of a commercial photographer, Anschütz entered the business in 1868 and developed an interest in the process of instantaneous photography. The process was very difficult with the contemporary wet-plate process, but with the introduction of the much faster dry plates in the late 1870s he was able to make progress. Anschütz designed a focal plane shutter capable of operating at speeds up to 1/1000 of a second in 1883, and patented his design in 1888. it involved a vertically moving fabric roller-blind that worked at a fixed tension but had a slit the width of which could be adjusted to alter the exposure time. This design was adopted by C.P.Goerz, who from 1890 manufactures a number of cameras that incorporated it.
    Anschütz's action pictures of flying birds and animals attracted the attention of the Prussian authorities, and in 1886 the Chamber of Deputies authorized financial support for him to continue his work, which had started at the Hanover Military Institute in October 1885. Inspired by the work of Eadweard Muybridge in America, Anschütz had set up rows of cameras whose focal-plane shutters were released in sequence by electromagnets, taking twenty-four pictures in about three-quarters of a second. He made a large number of studies of the actions of people, animals and birds, and at the Krupp artillery range at Meppen, near Essen, he recorded shells in flight. His pictures were reproduced, and favourably commented upon, in scientific and photographic journals.
    To bring the pictures to the public, in 1887 he created the Electro-Tachyscope. The sequence negatives were printed as 90 x 120 mm transparencies and fixed around the circumference of a large steel disc. This was rotated in front of a spirally wound Geissler tube, which produced a momentary brilliant flash of light when a high voltage from an induction coil was applied to it, triggered by contacts on the steel disc. The flash duration, about 1/1000 of a second, was so short that it "froze" each picture as it passed the tube. The pictures succeeded each other at intervals of about 1/30 of a second, and the observer saw an apparently continuously lit moving picture. The Electro-Tachyscope was shown publicly in Berlin at the Kulturministerium from 19 to 21 March 1887; subsequently Siemens \& Halske manufactured 100 machines, which were shown throughout Europe and America in the early 1890s. From 1891 his pictures were available for the home in the form of the Tachyscope viewer, which used the principle of the zoetrope: sequence photographs were printed on long strips of thin card, perforated with narrow slots between the pictures. Placed around the circumference of a shallow cylinder and rotated, the pictures could be seen in life-like movement when viewed through the slots.
    In November 1894 Anschütz displayed a projector using two picture discs with twelve images each, which through a form of Maltese cross movement were rotated intermittently and alternately while a rotating shutter allowed each picture to blend with the next so that no flicker occurred. The first public shows, given in Berlin, were on a screen 6×8 m (20×26 ft) in size. From 22 February 1895 they were shown regularly to audiences of 300 in a building on the Leipzigstrasse; they were the first projected motion pictures seen in Germany.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    J.Deslandes, 1966, Histoire comparée du cinéma, Vol. I, Paris. B.Coe, 1992, Muybridge and the Chronophotographers, London.
    BC

    Biographical history of technology > Anschütz, Ottomar

  • 5 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.
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    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.
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  • 6 Kirkaldy, David

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    b. 4 April 1820 Mayfield, Dundee, Scotland
    d. 25 January 1897 London, England
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    Scottish engineer and pioneer in materials testing.
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    The son of a merchant of Dundee, Kirkaldy was educated there, then at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and at Edinburgh University. For a while he worked in his father's office, but with a preference for engineering, in 1843 he commenced an apprenticeship at the Glasgow works of Robert Napier. After four years in the shops he was transferred to the drawing office and in a very few years rose to become Chief. Here Kirkaldy demonstrated a remarkable talent both for the meticulous recording of observations and data and for technical drawing. His work also had an aesthetic appeal and four of his drawings of Napier steamships were shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1855, earning both Napier and Kirkaldy a medal. His "as fitted" set of drawings of the Cunard Liner Persia, which had been built in 1855, is now in the possession of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, London; it is regarded as one of the finest examples of its kind in the world, and has even been exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.
    With the impending order for the Royal Naval Ironclad Black Prince (sister ship to HMS Warrior, now preserved at Portsmouth) and for some high-pressure marine boilers and engines, there was need for a close scientific analysis of the physical properties of iron and steel. Kirkaldy, now designated Chief Draughtsman and Calculator, was placed in charge of this work, which included comparisons of puddled steel and wrought iron, using a simple lever-arm testing machine. The tests lasted some three years and resulted in Kirkaldy's most important publication, Experiments on Wrought Iron and Steel (1862, London), which gained him wide recognition for his careful and thorough work. Napier's did not encourage him to continue testing; but realizing the growing importance of materials testing, Kirkaldy resigned from the shipyard in 1861. For the next two and a half years Kirkaldy worked on the design of a massive testing machine that was manufactured in Leeds and installed in premises in London, at The Grove, Southwark.
    The works was open for trade in January 1866 and engineers soon began to bring him specimens for testing on the great machine: Joseph Cubitt (son of William Cubitt) brought him samples of the materials for the new Blackfriars Bridge, which was then under construction. Soon The Grove became too cramped and Kirkaldy moved to 99 Southwark Street, reopening in January 1874. In the years that followed, Kirkaldy gained a worldwide reputation for rigorous and meticulous testing and recording of results, coupled with the highest integrity. He numbered the most distinguished engineers of the time among his clients.
    After Kirkaldy's death, his son William George, whom he had taken into partnership, carried on the business. When the son died in 1914, his widow took charge until her death in 1938, when the grandson David became proprietor. He sold out to Treharne \& Davies, chemical consultants, in 1965, but the works finally closed in 1974. The future of the premises and the testing machine at first seemed threatened, but that has now been secured and the machine is once more in working order. Over almost one hundred years of trading in South London, the company was involved in many famous enquiries, including the analysis of the iron from the ill-fated Tay Bridge (see Bouch, Sir Thomas).
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland Gold Medal 1864.
    Bibliography
    1862, Results of an Experimental Inquiry into the Tensile Strength and Other Properties of Wrought Iron and Steel (originally presented as a paper to the 1860–1 session of the Scottish Shipbuilders' Association).
    Further Reading
    D.P.Smith, 1981, "David Kirkaldy (1820–97) and engineering materials testing", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 52:49–65 (a clear and well-documented account).
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    Biographical history of technology > Kirkaldy, David

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