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1 Dawson
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2 Dawson, William
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]b. mid-eighteenth centuryd. c.1805 London, England[br]English inventor of the notched wheel for making patterns on early warp knitting machines.[br]William Dawson, a Leicester framework knitter, made an important addition to William Lee's knitting machine with his invention of the notched wheel in 1791. Lee's machine could make only plain knitting; to be able to knit patterns, there had to be some means of mechanically selecting and operating, independently of all the others, any individual thread, needle, lever or bar at work in the machine. This was partly achieved when Dawson devised a wheel that was irregularly notched on its edge and which, when rotated, pushed sprung bars, which in turn operated on the needles or other parts of the recently invented warp knitting machines. He seems to have first applied the idea for the knitting of military sashes, but then found it could be adapted to plait stay laces with great rapidity. With the financial assistance of two Leicester manufacturers and with his own good mechanical ability, Dawson found a way of cutting his wheels. However, the two financiers withdrew their support because he did not finish the design on time, although he was able to find a friend in a Nottingham architect, Mr Gregory, who helped him to obtain the patent. A number of his machines were set up in Nottingham but, like many other geniuses, he squandered his money away. When the patent expired, he asked Lord Chancellor Eldon to have it renewed: he moved his workshop to London, where Eldon inspected his machine, but the patent was not extended and in consequence Dawson committed suicide.[br]Bibliography1791, British patent no. 1,820 (notched wheel for knitting machine).Further ReadingW.Felkin, 1867, History of Machine-Wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufacture (covers Dawson's invention).W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (provides an outline history of the development of knitting machines).RLH -
3 Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada
Airports: YDAУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada
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4 Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada
Airports: YDQУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada
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5 Dawson Geophysical Company
NASDAQ: DWSNУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Dawson Geophysical Company
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6 Dawson River black fly
Entomology: Austrosimulium pestilensУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Dawson River black fly
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7 Dawson and Oberman (plasmas)
Abbreviation: DOУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Dawson and Oberman (plasmas)
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8 Dawson and Oberman
Abbreviation: (plasmas) DOУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Dawson and Oberman
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9 AM-990, Dawson, Georgia
Radio: WHIAУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > AM-990, Dawson, Georgia
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10 Доусон
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11 Доусон
Русско-английский словарь по прикладной математике и механике > Доусон
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12 лагерна сплав на медна основа за лагери
dawson's bronzeБългарски-Angleščina политехнически речник > лагерна сплав на медна основа за лагери
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13 Dosonkriko
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14 Доусон
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15 sistema de control de publicaciones seriadas
(n.) = serials system, serials control systemEx. This workstation offers on-line searching and downloading and subsequent manipulation of search results, access to CD-ROMs, access to other packages such as AIM and Dawson's serials system, SMS and access to a suite of office automation software.Ex. Automation commenced in 1981 with the purchase of a serials control system.* * *(n.) = serials system, serials control systemEx: This workstation offers on-line searching and downloading and subsequent manipulation of search results, access to CD-ROMs, access to other packages such as AIM and Dawson's serials system, SMS and access to a suite of office automation software.
Ex: Automation commenced in 1981 with the purchase of a serials control system.Spanish-English dictionary > sistema de control de publicaciones seriadas
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16 un paquete ofimático integrado
Ex. This workstation offers on-line searching and downloading and subsequent manipulation of search results, access to CD-ROMs, access to other packages such as AIM and Dawson's serials system, SMS and access to a suite of office automation software.* * *Ex: This workstation offers on-line searching and downloading and subsequent manipulation of search results, access to CD-ROMs, access to other packages such as AIM and Dawson's serials system, SMS and access to a suite of office automation software.
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17 chèque
chèque [∫εk]1. masculine noun• faire/toucher un chèque to write/cash a cheque• chèque de 100 € cheque for €100b. ( = bon) voucher2. compounds• les chèques postaux ( = service) the banking departments of the post office ► chèque sans provision bad cheque* * *ʃɛknom masculin cheque GB, check USfaire un chèque — to write a cheque GB ou check US
chèque à l'ordre de M. Daw — cheque GB ou check US payable to Mr Daw
les chèques sont acceptés à partir de 15 euros — ‘no cheques GB ou checks US under 15 euros’
Phrasal Verbs:* * *ʃɛk nmcheque Grande-Bretagne check USA* * *chèque nm cheque GB, check US; faire un chèque to write a cheque GB ou check US; un chèque de 1 000 euros a cheque GB ou check US for 1,000 euros; faire or établir un chèque à l'ordre de M. Dawson to make a cheque GB ou check US out ou payable to Mr Dawson; ‘je mets le chèque à quel nom○?’ ‘who should I make the cheque GB ou check US out ou payable to?’; les chèques sont acceptés à partir de 15 euros cheques GB ou checks US are accepted for 15 euros or more; ( dans un magasin) ‘no cheques GB ou checks US under 15 euros’; mettre or déposer un chèque à la banque to pay in a cheque GB ou check US; barrer un chèque to cross a cheque GB ou check US.chèque bancaire cheque GB, check US; chèque en blanc blank cheque GB ou check US; donner un chèque en blanc à qn fig to give sb carte blanche; chèque en bois○ rubber cheque○ GB ou check US; il m'a fait un chèque en bois the cheque GB ou check US he wrote me bounced; chèque certifié certified cheque GB ou check US; chèque emploi service Admin bankable money voucher for casual worker which credits their social security records; chèque essence petrol GB ou gas US coupon ou voucher; chèque à ordre order cheque GB ou check US; chèque au porteur bearer cheque GB ou check US; chèque postal ≈ giro cheque; chèque sans provision bad cheque GB ou check US; chèque de voyage traveller's cheque GB ou check US; chèques postaux ( service) ≈ National Girobank.[ʃɛk] nom masculintirer/toucher un chèque to draw/to cash a cheque2. [coupon]chèque emploi-servicespecial cheque used to pay casual workers such as part-time cleaners, babysitters, etc.chèque-essence petrol coupon ou voucher -
18 Treadgold, Arthur Newton Christian
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. August 1863 Woolsthorpe, Grantham, Lincolnshire, Englandd. 23 March 1951 London, England[br]English organizer of the Yukon gold fields in Canada, who introduced hydraulic mining.[br]A direct descendant of Sir Isaac Newton, Treadgold worked as a schoolmaster, mostly at Bath College, for eleven years after completing his studies at Oxford University. He gained a reputation as an energetic teacher who devoted much of his work to sport, but he resigned his post and returned to Oxford; here, in 1897, he learned of the gold rush in the Klondike in the Canadian northwest. With a view to making his own fortune, he took a course in geology at the London Geological College and in 1898 set off for Dawson City, in the Yukon Territory. Working as a correspondent for two English newspapers, he studied thoroughly the situation there; he decided to join the stampede, but as a rather sophisticated gold hustler.As there were limited water resources for sluicing or dredging, and underground mining methods were too expensive, Treadgold conceived the idea of hydraulic mining. He designed a ditch-and-siphon system for bringing large amounts of water down from the mountains; in 1901, after three years of negotiation with the Canadian government in Ottawa, he obtained permission to set up the Treadgold Concession to cover the water supply to the Klondike mining claims. This enabled him to supply giant water cannons which battered the hillsides, breaking up the gravel which was then sluiced. Massive protests by the individual miners in the Dawson City region, which he had overrun with his system, led to the concession being rescinded in 1904. Two years later, however, Treadgold began again, forming the Yukon Gold Company, initially in partnership with Solomon Guggenheim; he started work on a channel, completed in 1910, to carry water over a distance of 115 km (70 miles) down to Bonanza Creek. In 1919 he founded the Granville Mining Company, which was to give him control of all the gold-mining operations in the southern Klondike region. When he returned to London in the following year, the company began to fail, and in 1920 he went bankrupt with liabilities totalling more than $2 million. After the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation had been formed in 1923, Treadgold returned to the Klondike in 1925 in order to acquire the assets of the operating companies; he gained control and personally supervised the operations. But the company drifted towards disaster, and in 1930 he was dismissed from active management and his shares were cancelled by the courts; he fought for their reinstatement right up until his death.[br]Further ReadingL.Green, 1977, The Gold Hustlers, Anchorage, Alaska (describes this outstanding character and his unusual gold-prospecting career).WKBiographical history of technology > Treadgold, Arthur Newton Christian
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19 (г.) Доусон
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20 Austrosimulium pestilens
Entomology: Dawson River black fly (лат.)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Austrosimulium pestilens
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