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61 Caird, Sir James
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 2 January 1864 Glasgow, Scotlandd. 27 September 1954 Wimbledon, London, England[br]Scottish shipowner and shipbuilder.[br]James Caird was educated at Glasgow Academy. While the connections are difficult to unravel, it is clear he was related to the Cairds of Greenock, whose shipyard on the Clyde built countless liners for the P \& O Company, and to the Caird family who were munificent benefactors of Dundee and the Church of Scotland.In 1878 Caird joined a firm of East India Merchants in Glasgow, but later went to London. In 1890 he entered the service of Turnbull, Martin \& Co., managers of the Scottish Shire Line of Steamers; he quickly rose to become Manager, and by 1903 he was the sole partner and owner. In this role his business skill became apparent, as he pioneered (along with the Houlder and Federal Lines) refrigerated shipping connections between the United Kingdom and Australia and New Zealand. In 1917 he sold his shipping interests to Messrs Cayzer Irvine, managers of the Clan Line.During the First World War, Caird set up a new shipyard on the River Wye at Chepstow in Wales. Registered in April 1916, the Standard Shipbuilding and Engineering Company took over an existing shipbuilder in an area not threatened by enemy attacks. The purpose of the yard was rapid building of standardized merchant ships during a period when heavy losses were being sustained because of German U-boat attacks. Caird was appointed Chairman, a post he held until the yard came under full government control later in the war. The shipyard did not meet the high expectations of the time, but it did pioneer standard shipbuilding which was later successful in the USA, the UK and Japan.Caird's greatest work may have been the service he gave to the councils which helped form the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. He used all his endeavours to ensure the successful launch of the world's greatest maritime museum; he persuaded friends to donate, the Government to transfer artefacts and records, and he gave of his wealth to purchase works of art for the nation. Prior to his death he endowed the Museum with £1.25 million, a massive sum for the 1930s, and this (the Caird Fund) is administered to this day by the Trustees of Greenwich.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsBaronet 1928 (with the title Sir James Caird of Glenfarquhar).Further ReadingFrank C.Bowen, 1950, "The Chepstow Yards and a costly venture in government shipbuilding", Shipbuilding and Shipping Record (14 December).FMW -
62 Davy, Sir Humphry
[br]b. 17 December 1778 Penzance, Cornwall, Englandd. 29 May 1829 Geneva, Switzerland[br]English chemist, discoverer of the alkali and alkaline earth metals and the halogens, inventor of the miner's safety lamp.[br]Educated at the Latin School at Penzance and from 1792 at Truro Grammar School, Davy was apprenticed to a surgeon in Penzance. In 1797 he began to teach himself chemistry by reading, among other works, Lavoisier's elementary treatise on chemistry. In 1798 Dr Thomas Beddoes of Bristol engaged him as assistant in setting up his Pneumatic Institution to pioneer the medical application of the newly discovered gases, especially oxygen.In 1799 he discovered the anaesthetic properties of nitrous oxide, discovered not long before by the chemist Joseph Priestley. He also noted its intoxicating qualities, on account of which it was dubbed "laughing-gas". Two years later Count Rumford, founder of the Royal Institution in 1800, appointed Davy Assistant Lecturer, and the following year Professor. His lecturing ability soon began to attract large audiences, making science both popular and fashionable.Davy was stimulated by Volta's invention of the voltaic pile, or electric battery, to construct one for himself in 1800. That enabled him to embark on the researches into electrochemistry by which is chiefly known. In 1807 he tried decomposing caustic soda and caustic potash, hitherto regarded as elements, by electrolysis and obtained the metals sodium and potassium. He went on to discover the metals barium, strontium, calcium and magnesium by the same means. Next, he turned his attention to chlorine, which was then regarded as an oxide in accordance with Lavoisier's theory that oxygen was the essential component of acids; Davy failed to decompose it, however, even with the aid of electricity and concluded that it was an element, thus disproving Lavoisier's view of the nature of acids. In 1812 Davy published his Elements of Chemical Philosophy, in which he presented his chemical ideas without, however, committing himself to the atomic theory, recently advanced by John Dalton.In 1813 Davy engaged Faraday as Assistant, perhaps his greatest service to science. In April 1815 Davy was asked to assist in the development of a miner's lamp which could be safely used in a firedamp (methane) laden atmosphere. The "Davy lamp", which emerged in January 1816, had its flame completely surrounded by a fine wire mesh; George Stephenson's lamp, based on a similar principle, had been introduced into the Northumberland pits several months earlier, and a bitter controversy as to priority of invention ensued, but it was Davy who was awarded the prize for inventing a successful safety lamp.In 1824 Davy was the first to suggest the possibility of conferring cathodic protection to the copper bottoms of naval vessels by the use of sacrificial electrodes. Zinc and iron were found to be equally effective in inhibiting corrosion, although the scheme was later abandoned when it was found that ships protected in this way were rapidly fouled by weeds and barnacles.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1812. FRS 1803; President, Royal Society 1820. Royal Society Copley Medal 1805.Bibliography1812, Elements of Chemical Philosophy.1839–40, The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, 9 vols, ed. John Davy, London.Further ReadingJ.Davy, 1836, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy, London (a classic biography). J.A.Paris, 1831, The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, London (a classic biography). H.Hartley, 1967, Humphry Davy, London (a more recent biography).J.Z.Fullmer, 1969, Cambridge, Mass, (a bibliography of Davy's works).ASD -
63 Godowsky, Leopold Jr
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. 27 May 1900 Chicago, Illinois, USA d. 1983[br]American musician and photographic experimenter whose researches, with those of his colleague Mannes, led to the introduction of the first commercial tripack colour film, Kodachrome.[br]Both from distinguished musical families, Godowsky and Leopold Damrosch Mannes met at Riverdale School in New York in 1916, and shared an interest in photography. They began experiments in methods of additive colour photography, gaining a patent for a three-colour projector. Godowsky went to the University of California to study chemistry, physics and mathematics, while working as a professional violinist; Mannes, a pianist, went to Harvard to study music and physics. They kept in touch, and after graduating they joined up in New York, working as musicians and experimenting in colour photography in their spare time.Initially working in kitchens and bathrooms, they succeeded in creating a two-layer colour photographic plate, with emulsions separately sensitized to parts of the spectrum, and patented the process. This achievement was all the greater since they were unable to make the emulsions themselves and had to resort to buying commercial photographic plates so that they could scrape off the emulsions, remelt them and coat their experimental materials. In 1922 their work came to the attention of C.E.K. Mees, the leading photographic scientist and Director of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratory in Rochester, New York. Mees arranged for plates to be coated to their specifications. With a grant from Kuhn, Loeb \& Co. they were able to rent laboratory space. Learning of Rudolf Fischer's early work on dye couplers, they worked to develop a new process incorporating them. Mees saw that their work, however promising, would not develop in an amateur laboratory, and in 1930 he invited them to join the Kodak Research Laboratory, where they arrived on 15 June 1931. Their new colleagues worked on ways of coating multi-layer film, while Mannes and Godowsky worked out a method of separately processing the individual layers in the exposed film. The result was Kodachrome film, the first of the modern integral tripack films, launched on 15 April 1935.They remained with Eastman Kodak until December 1939; their work contributed to the later appearance of Ektachrome colour-reversal film and the Kodacolor and Eastman Color negative-positive colour processes. Mannes became the Director of his father's Music Academy in New York, remaining as such until his death in 1964. Godowsky returned to Westport, Connecticut, and continued to study mathematics at Columbia University. He carried out photographic research un his private laboratory up until the time of his death in 1983.[br]Further ReadingC.E.K.Mees, 1961, From Dry Plates to Ektachrome Film, New York.BC -
64 Hackworth, Timothy
[br]b. 22 December 1786 Wylam, Northumberland, Englandd. 7 July 1850 Shildon, Co. Durham, England[br]English engineer, pioneer in construction and operation of steam locomotives.[br]Hackworth trained under his father, who was Foreman Blacksmith at Wylam colliery, and succeeded him upon his death in 1807. Between 1812 and 1816 he helped to build and maintain the Wylam locomotives under William Hedley. He then moved to Walbottle colliery, but during 1824 he took temporary charge of Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s works while George Stephenson was surveying the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway and Robert Stephenson was away in South America. In May 1825 Hackworth was appointed to the Stockton \& Darlington Railway (S \& DR) "to have superintendence of the permanent (i.e. stationary) and locomotive engines". He established the workshops at Shildon, and when the railway opened in September he became in effect the first locomotive superintendent of a railway company. From experience of operating Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s locomotives he was able to make many detail improvements, notably spring safety valves. In 1827 he designed and built the locomotive Royal George, with six wheels coupled and inverted vertical cylinders driving the rear pair. From the pistons, drive was direct by way of piston rods and connecting rods to crankpins on the wheels, the first instance of the use of this layout on a locomotive. Royal George was the most powerful and satisfactory locomotive on the S \& DR to date and was the forerunner of Hackworth's type of heavy-goods locomotive, which was built until the mid-1840s.For the Rainhill Trials in 1829 Hackworth built and entered the locomotive Sans Pareil, which was subsequently used on the Bol ton \& Leigh Railway and is now in the Science Museum, London. A working replica was built for the 150th anniversary of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1980. In 1833 a further agreement with the S \& DR enabled Hackworth, while remaining in charge of their locomotives, to set up a locomotive and engineering works on his own account. Its products eventually included locomotives for the London, Brighton \& South Coast and York, Newcastle \& Berwick Railways, as well as some of the earliest locomotives exported to Russia and Canada. Hackworth's son, John Wesley Hackworth, was also an engineer and invented the radial valve gear for steam engines that bears his name.[br]Further ReadingR.Young, 1975, Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive, Shildon: Shildon "Stockton \& Darlington Railway" Silver Jubilee Committee; orig. pub. 1923, London (tends to emphasize Hackworth's achievements at the expense of other contemporary engineers).L.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, London: Longmans (describes much of Hackworth's work and is more objective).E.L.Ahrons, 1927, The British Steam Railway Locomotive 1825–1925, London: The Locomotive Publishing Co.PJGR -
65 Henson, William Samuel
SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace[br]b. 3 May 1812 Nottingham, Englandd. 22 March 1888 New Jersey, USA[br]English (naturalized American) inventor who patented a design for an "aerial steam carriage" and combined with John Stringfellow to build model aeroplanes.[br]William Henson worked in the lacemaking industry and in his spare time invented many mechanical devices, from a breech-loading cannon to an ice-machine. It could be claimed that he invented the airliner, for in 1842 he prepared a patent (granted in 1843) for an "aerial steam carriage". The patent application was not just a vague outline, but contained detailed drawings of a large monoplane with an enclosed fuselage to accommodate the passengers and crew. It was to be powered by a steam engine driving two pusher propellers aft of the wing. Henson had followed the lead give by Sir George Cayley in his basic layout, but produced a very much more advanced structural design with cambered wings strengthened by streamlined bracing wires: the intended wing-span was 150 ft (46 m). Henson probably discussed the design of the steam engine and boiler with his friend John Stringfellow (who was also in the lacemaking industry). Stringfellow joined Henson and others to found the Aerial Transit Company, which was set up to raise the finance needed to build Henson's machine. A great publicity campaign was mounted with artists' impressions of the "aerial steam carriage" flying over London, India and even the pyramids. Passenger-carrying services to India and China were proposed, but the whole project was far too optimistic to attract support from financiers and the scheme foundered. Henson and Stringfellow drew up an agreement in December 1843 to construct models which would prove the feasibility of an "aerial machine". For the next five years they pursued this aim, with no real success. In 1848 Henson and his wife emigrated to the United States to further his career in textiles. He became an American citizen and died there at the age of 75.[br]BibliographyHenson's diary is preserved by the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in the USA. Henson's patent of 1842–3 is reproduced in Balantyne and Pritchard (1956) and Davy (1931) (see below).Further ReadingH.Penrose, 1988, An Ancient Air: A Biography of John Stringfellow, Shrewsbury.A.M.Balantyne and J.L.Pritchard, 1956, "The lives and work of William Samuel Henson and John Stringfellow", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (June) (an attempt to analyse conflicting evidence; includes a reproduction of Henson's patent).M.J.B.Davy, 1931, Henson and Stringfellow, London (an earlier work with excellent drawings from Henson's patent).JDS -
66 Miller, Patrick
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 1731 Glasgow, Scotlandd. 9 December 1815 Dalswinton, Dumfriesshire, Scotland[br]Scottish merchant and banker, early experimenter in powered navigation and in ship form.[br]In his own words, Patrick Miller was "without a sixpence" in his early youth; this is difficult to prove one way or another as he ended his life as Director and Deputy Governor of the Bank of Scotland. One thing is clear however, that from his earliest days, in common with most of his counterparts of the late eighteenth century, he was interested in experimental and applied science. Having acquired a substantial income from other sources, Miller was able to indulge his interest in ships and engineering. His first important vessel was the trimaran Edinburgh, designed by him and launched at Leith in 1786. Propulsion was man-powered using paddle wheels positioned in the spaces between the outer and central hulls. This led to several trials of similar craft on the Forth in the 1780s, and ultimately to the celebrated Dalswinton Loch trials. In 1785 Miller had purchased the Dumfriesshire estate of Dalswinton and commenced a series of experiments on agricultural development and other matters. With the help of William Symington he built a double-hull steamship with internal paddle wheels which was tested on the Loch in 1788. The 7.6 m (25 ft) long ship travelled at 5 mph (8 km/h) on her trials, and according to unsubstantiated tradition carried a group of well-known people including the poet Robert Burns (1759–1796).Miller carried out many more important experiments and in 1796 obtained a patent for the design of shallow-drafted ships able to carry substantial cargo on flat bottoms. His main achievement may have been to stimulate William Symington, who at the beginning of the nineteenth century went on to design and build two of the world's first important steamships, each named Charlotte Dundas, for service on the Forth and Clyde Canal.[br]Further ReadingH.Philip Spratt, 1958, The Birth of the Steamboat, London: Griffiths. W.S.Harvey and G.Downs-Rose, 1980, William Symington, Inventor and EngineBuilder, London: Northgate.F.M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde. A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, Cambridge: PSL.FMW -
67 Morland, Sir Samuel
SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering[br]b. 1625 Sulhampton, near Reading, Berkshire, Englandd. 26 December 1695 Hammersmith, near London, England[br]English mathematician and inventor.[br]Morland was one of several sons of the Revd Thomas Morland and was probably initially educated by his father. He went to Winchester School from 1639 to 1644 and then to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1648 and MA in 1652. He was appointed a tutor there in 1650. In 1653 he went to Sweden in the ambassadorial staff of Bulstrode Whitelocke and remained there until 1654. In that year he was appointed Clerk to Mr Secretary Thurloe, and in 1655 he was accredited by Oliver Cromwell to the Duke of Savoy to appeal for the Waldenses. In 1657 he married Susanne de Milleville of Boissy, France, with whom he had three children. In 1660 he went over to the Royalists, meeting King Charles at Breda, Holland. On 20 May, the King knighted him, creating him baron, for revealing a conspiracy against the king's life. He was also granted a pension of£500 per year. In 1661, at the age of 36, he decided to devote himself to mathematics and invention. He devised a mechanical calculator, probably based on the pattern of Blaise Pascal, for adding and subtracting: this was followed in 1666 by one for multiplying and other functions. A Perpetual Calendar or Almanack followed; he toyed with the idea of a "gunpowder engine" for raising water; he developed a range of speaking trum-pets, said to have a range of 1/2 to 1 mile (0.8–1.6 km) or more; also iron stoves for use on board ships, and improvements to barometers.By 1675 he had started selling a range of pumps for private houses, for mines or deep wells, for ships, for emptying ponds or draining low ground as well as to quench fire or wet the sails of ships. The pumps cost from £5 to £63, and the great novelty was that he used, instead of packing around the cylinder sealing against the bore of the cylinder, a neck-gland or seal around the outside diameter of the piston or piston-rod. This revolutionary step avoided the necessity of accurately boring the cylinder, replacing it with the need to machine accurately the outside diameter of the piston or rod, a much easier operation. Twenty-seven variations of size and materials were included in his schedule of'Pumps or Water Engines of Isaac Thompson of Great Russel Street', the maker of Morland's design. In 1681 the King made him "Magister mechanicorum", or Master of Machines. In that year he sailed for France to advise Louis XIV on the waterworks being built at Marly to supply the Palace of Versailles. About this time he had shown King Charles plans for a pumping engine "worked by fire alone". He petitioned for a patent for this, but did not pursue the matter.In 1692 he went blind. In all, he married five times. While working for Cromwell he became an expert in ciphers, in opening sealed letters and in their rapid copying.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1660.Bibliography1685, Elevation des eaux.Further ReadingH.W.Dickinson, 1970, Sir Samuel Morland: Diplomat and Inventor, Cambridge: Newcomen Society/Heffers.IMcN -
68 Noyce, Robert
SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology[br]b. 12 December 1927 Burlington, Iowa, USA[br]American engineer responsible for the development of integrated circuits and the microprocessor chip.[br]Noyce was the son of a Congregational minister whose family, after a number of moves, finally settled in Grinnell, some 50 miles (80 km) east of Des Moines, Iowa. Encouraged to follow his interest in science, in his teens he worked as a baby-sitter and mower of lawns to earn money for his hobby. One of his clients was Professor of Physics at Grinnell College, where Noyce enrolled to study mathematics and physics and eventually gained a top-grade BA. It was while there that he learned of the invention of the transistor by the team at Bell Laboratories, which included John Bardeen, a former fellow student of his professor. After taking a PhD in physical electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953, he joined the Philco Corporation in Philadelphia to work on the development of transistors. Then in January 1956 he accepted an invitation from William Shockley, another of the Bell transistor team, to join the newly formed Shockley Transistor Company, the first electronic firm to set up shop in Palo Alto, California, in what later became known as "Silicon Valley".From the start things at the company did not go well and eventually Noyce and Gordon Moore and six colleagues decided to offer themselves as a complete development team; with the aid of the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Company, the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation was born. It was there that in 1958, contemporaneously with Jack K. Wilby at Texas Instruments, Noyce had the idea for monolithic integration of transistor circuits. Eventually, after extended patent litigation involving study of laboratory notebooks and careful examination of the original claims, priority was assigned to Noyce. The invention was most timely. The Apollo Moon-landing programme announced by President Kennedy in May 1961 called for lightweight sophisticated navigation and control computer systems, which could only be met by the rapid development of the new technology, and Fairchild was well placed to deliver the micrologic chips required by NASA.In 1968 the founders sold Fairchild Semicon-ductors to the parent company. Noyce and Moore promptly found new backers and set up the Intel Corporation, primarily to make high-density memory chips. The first product was a 1,024-bit random access memory (1 K RAM) and by 1973 sales had reached $60 million. However, Noyce and Moore had already realized that it was possible to make a complete microcomputer by putting all the logic needed to go with the memory chip(s) on a single integrated circuit (1C) chip in the form of a general purpose central processing unit (CPU). By 1971 they had produced the Intel 4004 microprocessor, which sold for US$200, and within a year the 8008 followed. The personal computer (PC) revolution had begun! Noyce eventually left Intel, but he remained active in microchip technology and subsequently founded Sematech Inc.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFranklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Medal 1966. National Academy of Engineering 1969. National Academy of Science. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Medal of Honour 1978; Cledo Brunetti Award (jointly with Kilby) 1978. Institution of Electrical Engineers Faraday Medal 1979. National Medal of Science 1979. National Medal of Engineering 1987.Bibliography1955, "Base-widening punch-through", Proceedings of the American Physical Society.30 July 1959, US patent no. 2,981,877.Further ReadingT.R.Reid, 1985, Microchip: The Story of a Revolution and the Men Who Made It, London: Pan Books.KF -
69 Pasteur, Louis
[br]b. 27 December 1822 Dole, Franced. 28 September 1895 Paris, France[br]French chemist, founder of stereochemistry, developer of microbiology and immunology, and exponent of the germ theory of disease.[br]Sustained by the family tanning business in Dole, near the Swiss border, Pasteur's school career was undistinguished, sufficing to gain him entry into the teacher-training college in Paris, the Ecole Normale, There the chemical lectures by the great organic chemist J.B.A.Dumas (1800–84) fired Pasteur's enthusiasm for chemistry which never left him. Pasteur's first research, carried out at the Ecole, was into tartaric acid and resulted in the discovery of its two optically active forms resulting from dissymmetrical forms of their molecules. This led to the development of stereochemistry. Next, an interest in alcoholic fermentation, first as Professor of Chemistry at Lille University in 1854 and then back at the Ecole from 1857, led him to deny the possibility of spontaneous generation of animal life. Doubt had previously been cast on this, but it was Pasteur's classic research that finally established that the putrefaction of broth or the fermentation of sugar could not occur spontaneously in sterile conditions, and could only be caused by airborne micro-organisms. As a result, he introduced pasteurization or brief, moderate heating to kill pathogens in milk, wine and other foods. The suppuration of wounds was regarded as a similar process, leading Lister to apply Pasteur's principles to revolutionize surgery. In 1860, Pasteur himself decided to turn to medical research. His first study again had important industrial implications, for the silk industry was badly affected by diseases of the silkworm. After prolonged and careful investigation, Pasteur found ways of dealing with the two main infections. In 1868, however, he had a stroke, which prevented him from active carrying out experimentation and restricted him to directing research, which actually was more congenial to him. Success with disease in larger animals came slowly. In 1879 he observed that a chicken treated with a weakened culture of chicken-cholera bacillus would not develop symptoms of the disease when treated with an active culture. He compared this result with Jenner's vaccination against smallpox and decided to search for a vaccine against the cattle disease anthrax. In May 1881 he staged a demonstration which clearly showed the success of his new vaccine. Pasteur's next success, finding a vaccine which could protect against and treat rabies, made him world famous, especially after a person was cured in 1885. In recognition of his work, the Pasteur Institute was set up in Paris by public subscription and opened in 1888. Pasteur's genius transcended the boundaries between science, medicine and technology, and his achievements have had significant consequences for all three fields.[br]BibliographyPasteur published over 500 books, monographs and scientific papers, reproduced in the magnificent Oeuvres de Pasteur, 1922–39, ed. Pasteur Vallery-Radot, 7 vols, Paris.Further ReadingP.Vallery-Radot, 1900, La vie de Louis Pasteur, Paris: Hachette; 1958, Louis Pasteur. A Great Life in Brief, English trans., New York (the standard biography).E.Duclaux, 1896, Pasteur: Histoire d ' un esprit, Paris; 1920, English trans., Philadelphia (perceptive on the development of Pasteur's thought in relation to contemporary science).R.Dobos, 1950, Louis Pasteur, Free Lance of Science, Boston, Mass.; 1955, French trans.LRD -
70 Pounder, Cuthbert Coulson
[br]b. 10 May 1891 Hartlepool, Englandd. 18 December 1982 Belfast (?), Northern Ireland[br]English marine engineer and exponent of the slow-speed diesel engine.[br]Pounder served an apprenticeship with Richardsons Westgarth, marine engineers in north east England. Shortly after, he moved to Harland \& Wolff of Belfast and there fulfilled his life's work. He rose to the rank of Director but is remembered for his outstanding leadership in producing the most advanced steam and diesel machinery installations of their time. Harland \& Wolff were the main licensees for the Burmeister \& Wain marine diesel system, and the Copenhagen company made most of the decisions on design; however, Pounder often found himself in the hot seat and once had the responsibility of concurring with the shipyard's decision to build three Atlantic liners with the largest diesel engines in the world, well beyond the accepted safe levels of extrapolation. With this, Belfast secured worldwide recognition as builders of diesel-driven liners. During the German occupation of Denmark (1940–5), the engineering department at Belfast worked on its own and through systematic research and experimentation built up a database of information that was invaluable in the postwar years.Pounder was instrumental in the development of airless injection diesel fuel pumps. He was a stalwart supporter of all research and development, and while at Belfast was involved in the building of twelve hundred power units. While in his twenties, Pounder began a literary career which continued for sixty years. The bulk of his books and papers were on engineering and arguably the best known is his work on marine diesel engines, which ran to many editions. He was Chairman of Pametrada, the marine engineering research council of Great Britain, and later of the machinery committee of the British Ship Research Association. He regarded good relations within the industry as a matter of paramount importance.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsPresident, Institute of Marine Engineers; Denny Gold Medal 1839, 1959. Institution of Mechanical Engineers Ackroyd Stewart Award; James Clay ton Award.Further ReadingMichael Moss and John R.Hume, 1986, Shipbuilders to the World, Belfast: Blackstaff.FMWBiographical history of technology > Pounder, Cuthbert Coulson
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71 Szilard, Leo
SUBJECT AREA: Weapons and armour[br]b. 11 February 1898 Budapest, Hungaryd. 30 May 1964 La Jolla, California, USA[br]Hungarian (naturalized American in 1943) nuclear-and biophysicist.[br]The son of an engineer, Szilard, after service in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War, studied electrical engineering at the University of Berlin. Obtaining his doctorate there in 1922, he joined the faculty and concentrated his studies on thermodynamics. He later began to develop an interest in nuclear physics, and in 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power, Szilard emigrated to Britain because of his Jewish heritage.In 1934 he conceived the idea of a nuclear chain reaction through the breakdown of beryllium into helium and took out a British patent on it, but later realized that this process would not work. In 1937 he moved to the USA and continued his research at the University of Columbia, and the following year Hahn and Meitner discovered nuclear fission with uranium; this gave Szilard the breakthrough he needed. In 1939 he realized that a nuclear chain reaction could be produced through nuclear fission and that a weapon with many times the destructive power of the conventional high-explosive bomb could be produced. Only too aware of the progress being made by German nuclear scientists, he believed that it was essential that the USA should create an atomic bomb before Hitler. Consequently he drafted a letter to President Roosevelt that summer and, with two fellow Hungarian émigrés, persuaded Albert Einstein to sign it. The result was the setting up of the Uranium Committee.It was not, however, until December 1941 that active steps began to be taken to produce such a weapon and it was a further nine months before the project was properly co-ordinated under the umbrella of the Manhattan Project. In the meantime, Szilard moved to join Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago and it was here, at the end of 1942, in a squash court under the football stadium, that they successfully developed the world's first self-sustaining nuclear reactor. Szilard, who became an American citizen in 1943, continued to work on the Manhattan Project. In 1945, however, when the Western Allies began to believe that only the atomic bomb could bring the war against Japan to an end, Szilard and a number of other Manhattan Project scientists objected that it would be immoral to use it against populated targets.Although he would continue to campaign against nuclear warfare for the rest of his life, Szilard now abandoned nuclear research. In 1946 he became Professor of Biophysics at the University of Chicago and devoted himself to experimental work on bacterial mutations and biochemical mechanisms, as well as theoretical research on ageing and memory.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsAtoms for Peace award 1959.Further ReadingKosta Tsipis, 1985, Understanding Nuclear Weapons, London: Wildwood House, pp. 16–19, 26, 28, 32 (a brief account of his work on the atomic bomb).A collection of his correspondence and memories was brought out by Spencer Weart and Gertrud W.Szilard in 1978.CM -
72 thro'
θru: = through указывает на: сквозное движение: насквозь - to pierce smth. * проткнуть что-л. насквозь - he struck his enemy with his spear right * он пронзил своего врага копьем - soaked /wet/ * промокший насквозь - chilled * продрогший до костей, окоченевший от холода движение до конечного пункта( о поездах и т. п.): прямо, до места, до пункта назначения - to buy * to one's farthest destination купить прямой билет до места назначения - the next train goes /runs/ * to B. следующий поезд идет прямо до В. - the luggage was registered * багаж был отправлен до станции назначения устранение препятствий для въезда, входа, включения и т. п. - to let smb. * впустить кого-л. - England are * to the semifinal Англия вышла в полуфинал совершение действия в течение целого периода времени: весь, целый - he studied the whole summer * он занимался все лето совершение действия (от начала) до конца или на его исчерпывающий характер: до конца;
передается тж. глагольными приставками про-, за-, с- и др. - to look smth. * просмотреть что-л. (до конца) - to sing a song * спеть всю песню - to carry smth. * завершить что-л.;
провести что-л. до конца - to put * a plan провести /осуществить/ план - he heard the speech * without interruption он прослушал всю речь не перебивая - to go * with smth. довести что-л. до конца - I will go * with it, whatever happens что бы ни случилось, я доведу дело до конца - to be * with smth. окончить что-л. - is the work * yet? закончена ли работа? - he is * with school он окончил школу - he is * with his work он окончил работу - I'm nearly * with the book я почти кончил книгу - are you *? (американизм) вы закончили разговор? (по телефону) - to get * with smth. (разговорное) закончить что-л. отказ от чего-л., оставление чего-л. - to be * with smth. покончить с чем-л., бросить что-л. - he is * with drinking он бросил пить - he is * with school он бросил школу - he is * with his work он бросил работу - he is * with his family он бросил /оставил/ семью - to get * with smth. (разговорное) покончить с чем-л. - to be * with smb. порвать с кем-л. - I'm * with that fellow я порвал /разделался/ с этим парнем - he'll change his tune when I'm * with him я с ним поговорю по-свойски, и он (у меня) запоет иначе - I'm * with you, we're * между нами все кончено исчерпанность возможностей субъекта - he's * in politics в политике он конченый человек, его политическая карьера закончилась - the horse is * лошадь выбилась из сил, лошадь загнали измерение по диаметру: в диаметре - a tree measuring twelwe inches * дерево, имеющее двенадцать дюймов в диаметре установление телефонной связи - to get * to smb. связаться с кем-л. - to put smb. * соединить кого-л. - I'm putting you * to the secretary я соединяю вас с секретарем - are you *? вас соединили?, вам ответили? > * and * совершенно, до конца, вполне;
основательно;
снова и снова > to read a book * and * прочесть книгу от корки до корки > he is an honest man * and * он в высшей степени честный человек > he knows his business * and * он основательно /досконально/ знает свое дело > he read the letter * and * он вновь и вновь перечитывал письмо > to fall /to drop/ * окончиться безрезультатно, провалиться > the deal fell * сделка не состоялась /провалилась/ > the plan for our trip fell * план нашей поездки сорвался указывает на: прохождение через какой-л. предмет или движение через какую-л. среду: через, сквозь - a path (going /leading/) * the woods тропинка( ведущая) через лес - he pushed * the crowd он протиснулся сквозь толпу - to drive a nail * the board гвоздем пробить доску насквозь - to make a hole * smth. сделать дыру в чем-л., продырявить что-л. - he put his arms * the straps of his pack он продел руки в лямки рюкзака - she drew her hand * his arm она взяла его под руку - to walk * the door пройти через дверь - the stone flew * the open window камень влетел в открытое окно - he went out * the kitchen он ушел через кухню - the sun is breaking * the clouds сквозь тучи пробивается солнце - he speaks * the nose он говорит в нос, он гнусавит - an idea flashed * my mind у меня промелькнула мысль проникновение взгляда через какое-л. отверстие, света через какую-л. среду и т. п.: через, сквозь - * the keyhole через /сквозь/ замочную скважину - to look * a telescope смотреть в телескоп - we looked * the window at the street через окно мы смотрели на улицу восприятие более слабого звука на фоне более сильного: сквозь - we could hear him * the noise мы слышали его, несмотря на шум;
его голос доносился сквозь шум - we couldn't hear him * the noise шум заглушал его слова, мы не слышали его из-за шума - to talk * the radio говорить, заглушая радио (часто all *) распространение движения по какой-л. территории: по - all * the country по всей стране - they drove * Czechoslovakia они пересекли Чехословакию /ехали по Чехословакии/ - to walk * the wood идти по лесу - he followed her * the streets он шел за ней по улицам - a sigh of relief went * the audience вздох облегчения пронесся по всему залу движение в какой-л. среде или в каких-л. условиях: по - to fly * the air лететь по воздуху - to sail * the water плыть по воде - the drove * a dark winter day они ехали темным зимним днем - he walked all day * heavy rain он шел под сильным дождем весь день - journey * time and space путешествие во времени и в пространстве /сквозь время и пространство/ (часто all *) протекание действия в течение целого периода времени: в течение, в продолжение - * many centuries в течение многих веков - every day * November and December каждый день в течение всего ноября и декабря - all * the day весь день, в течение всего дня - all * his life в течение всей его жизни, всю его жизнь - they will continue the construction * the winter months строительство будет продолжаться всю зиму - he stayed with them * Saturday он пробыл у них всю субботу - he won't last * the night он не доживет до утра - he's slept * a thunderstorm он проспал всю грозу;
он крепко спал, пока бушевала гроза продолжение действия до определенного срока включительно: с... по... (включительно) - 1961 * 1962 с 1961 г. по 1962 г. включительно - from May * September с мая по сентябрь включительно - numbers 1 * 30 номера от первого до тридцатого включительно - sizes 9 * 19 размеры с 9 по 19 включительно - 7th grade * high school от седьмого класса (вплоть) до окончания средней школы посредника: через - he did it * an agent он сделал это через посредника - he spoke * an interpreter он объяснялся через переводчика - he sees only * your eyes он на все смотрит вашими глазами - to send smth. * the post послать что-л. по почте источник: из, от, по, через - I learned it * your secretary я узнал об этом от /через/ вашего секретаря - he learned it * reports он узнал об этом из сообщений - * personal experience по личному опыту инструмент или способ: через, путем;
посредством - * the agency of посредством, при помощи - * smb.'s help с чьей-л. помощью, благодаря чьей-л. помощи - to express ideas * words выражать мысли посредством /с помощью/ слов - he educated himself * correspondence courses он окончил заочные курсы - only * work can you attain good results только работа поможет вам добиться хороших результатов преодоление препятствия, опасности и т. п.: через - to pass * many dangers преодолеть /пройти через/ множество опасностей - the child came very well * the illness ребенок хорошо перенес болезнь - he was going * a difficult time он переживал тяжелое время - they helped him * hard times они поддержали его в трудное время;
все это трудное время они помогали ему - he has got * his examinations он сдал экзамены - the bill was put * Congress last week законопроект был проведен в конгрессе на прошлой неделе - the bill passed * Parliament законопроект прошел через парламент - he's been * it /* a lot/ он здорово натерпелся, ему пришлось несладко, он повидал всякое движение без остановки у препятствия - to drive * a red light проехать на красный свет совершение действия от начала до конца;
передается глагольными приставками про-, пере- - to go * the accounts просмотреть счета - to go * college пройти курс обучения в колледже - to go * smb.'s pockets обыскать кого-л., проверить содержимое чьих-л. карманов - we are * school at three o'clock занятия в школе кончаются у нас в три часа - I'm half way * this book я наполовину прочитал эту книгу - when I'm * my work когда я закончу работу - it was half way * act 1 that I saw him прошла уже половина 1-го действия, когда я увидел его быстрое доведение действия до конца;
передается глагольной приставкой про- - he could go * three books in a day он может проглотить три книги за один день - he went * a fortune in one year за год он промотал состояние причину: из-за, по (причине) ;
благодаря - * error по ошибке - to lose an opportunity * indecision упустить возможность из-за нерешительности - she refused help * pride она отказалась от помощи из гордости - it was all * you that we were late мы опоздали из-за вас - it happened * no fault of mine это произошло не по моей вине - we succeeded * his help мы добились успеха благодаря его помощи - * illness he lost the use of his legs в результате болезни у него отнялись ноги > to see * smth., smb. видеть что-л., кого-л. насквозь > I can see * him я его насквозь вижу > to see * the trick разгадать фокус /трюк/, не дать себя провести /обмануть/ > to put smb. * it подвергнуть кого-л. строжайшему /жесткому/ допросу, допросить кого-л. с пристрастием > to see smb. * smth. помочь кому-л. сделать что-л. > * the length and breadth (of) вдоль и поперек > to travel * the length and breadth of the country исколесить всю страну -
73 thro
thro'
1> указывает на:
2> сквозное движение: насквозь
_Ex:
to pierce smth. thro' проткнуть что-л. насквозь
_Ex:
he struck his enemy with his spear right thro' он пронзил
своего врага копьем
_Ex:
soaked (wet) thro' промокший насквозь
_Ex:
chilled thro' продрогший до костей, окоченевший от холода
3> движение до конечного пункта (о поездах и т. п.): прямо,
до места, до пункта назначения
_Ex:
to buy thro' to one's farthest destination купить прямой
билет до места назначения
_Ex:
the next train goes (runs) thro' to B. следующий поезд идет
прямо до В.
_Ex:
the luggage was registered thro' багаж был отправлен до
станции назначения
4> устранение препятствий для въезда, входа, включения и т. п.
_Ex:
to let smb. thro' впустить кого-л.
_Ex:
England are thro' to the semifinal Англия вышла в полуфинал
5> совершение действия в течение целого периода времени:
весь, целый
_Ex:
he studied the whole summer thro' он занимался все лето
6> совершение действия (от начала) до конца или на его
исчерпывающий характер: до конца; передается тж. глагольными
приставками про-, за-, с- и др.
_Ex:
to look smth. thro' просмотреть что-л. (до конца)
_Ex:
to sing a song thro' спеть всю песню
_Ex:
to carry smth. thro' завершить что-л.; провести что-л. до
конца
_Ex:
to put thro' a plan провести (осуществить) план
_Ex:
he heard the speech thro' without interruption он прослушал
всю речь не перебивая
_Ex:
to go thro' with smth. довести что-л. до конца
_Ex:
I will go thro' with it, whatever happens что бы ни случилось,
я доведу дело до конца
_Ex:
to be thro' with smth. окончить что-л.
_Ex:
is the work thro' yet? закончена ли работа?
_Ex:
he is thro' with school он окончил школу
_Ex:
he is thro' with his work он окончил работу
_Ex:
I'm nearly thro' with the book я почти кончил книгу
_Ex:
are you thro'? _ам. вы закончили разговор? (по телефону)
_Ex:
to get thro' with smth. _разг. закончить что-л.
7> отказ от чего-л., оставление чего-л.
_Ex:
to be thro' with smth. покончить с чем-л., бросить что-л.
_Ex:
he is thro' with drinking он бросил пить
_Ex:
he is thro' with school он бросил школу
_Ex:
he is thro' with his work он бросил работу
_Ex:
he is thro' with his family он бросил (оставил) семью
_Ex:
to get thro' with smth. _разг. покончить с чем-л.
_Ex:
to be thro' with smb. порвать с кем-л.
_Ex:
I'm thro' with that fellow я порвал (разделался) с этим парнем
_Ex:
he'll change his tune when I'm thro' with him я с ним поговорю
по-свойски, и он (у меня) запоет иначе
_Ex:
I'm thro' with you, we're thro' между нами все кончено
8> исчерпанность возможностей субъекта
_Ex:
he's thro' in politics в политике он конченый человек,
его политическая карьера закончилась
_Ex:
the horse is thro' лошадь выбилась из сил, лошадь загнали
9> измерение по диаметру: в диаметре
_Ex:
a tree measuring twelwe inches thro' дерево, имеющее
двенадцать дюймов в диаметре
10> установление телефонной связи
_Ex:
to get thro' to smb. связаться с кем-л.
_Ex:
to put smb. thro' соединить кого-л.
_Ex:
I'm putting you thro' to the secretary я соединяю вас
с секретарем
_Ex:
are you thro'? вас соединили?, вам ответили?
_Id:
thro' and thro' совершенно, до конца, вполне; основательно;
снова и снова
_Id:
to read a book thro' and thro' прочесть книгу от корки
до корки
_Id:
he is an honest man thro' and thro' он в высшей степени
честный человек
_Id:
he knows his business thro' and thro' он основательно
(досконально) знает свое дело
_Id:
he read the letter thro' and thro' он вновь и вновь
перечитывал письмо
_Id:
to fall (to drop) thro' окончиться безрезультатно, провалиться
_Id:
the deal fell thro' сделка не состоялась (провалилась)
_Id:
the plan for our trip fell thro' план нашей поездки сорвался
11> указывает на:
12> прохождение через какой-л. предмет или движение через
какую-л. среду: через, сквозь
_Ex:
a path (going (leading)) thro' the woods тропинка (ведущая)
через лес
_Ex:
he pushed thro' the crowd он протиснулся сквозь толпу
_Ex:
to drive a nail thro' the board гвоздем пробить доску насквозь
_Ex:
to make a hole thro' smth. сделать дыру в чем-л., продырявить
что-л.
_Ex:
he put his arms thro' the straps of his pack он продел руки
в лямки рюкзака
_Ex:
she drew her hand thro' his arm она взяла его под руку
_Ex:
to walk thro' the door пройти через дверь
_Ex:
the stone flew thro' the open window камень влетел в
открытое окно
_Ex:
he went out thro' the kitchen он ушел через кухню
_Ex:
the sun is breaking thro' the clouds сквозь тучи пробивается
солнце
_Ex:
he speaks thro' the nose он говорит в нос, он гнусавит
_Ex:
an idea flashed thro' my mind у меня промелькнула мысль
13> проникновение взгляда через какое-л. отверстие, света
через какую-л. среду и т. п.: через, сквозь
_Ex:
thro' the keyhole через (сквозь) замочную скважину
_Ex:
to look thro' a telescope смотреть в телескоп
_Ex:
we looked thro' the window at the street через окно мы
смотрели на улицу
14> восприятие более слабого звука на фоне более сильного:
сквозь
_Ex:
we could hear him thro' the noise мы слышали его, несмотря
на шум; его голос доносился сквозь шум
_Ex:
we couldn't hear him thro' the noise шум заглушал его слова,
мы не слышали его из-за шума
_Ex:
to talk thro' the radio говорить, заглушая радио
15> (часто all thro') распространение движения по
какой-л. территории: по
_Ex:
all thro' the country по всей стране
_Ex:
they drove thro' Czechoslovakia они пересекли Чехословакию
(ехали по Чехословакии)
_Ex:
to walk thro' the wood идти по лесу
_Ex:
he followed her thro' the streets он шел за ней по улицам
_Ex:
a sigh of relief went thro' the audience вздох облегчения
пронесся по всему залу
16> движение в какой-л. среде или в каких-л. условиях: по
_Ex:
to fly thro' the air лететь по воздуху
_Ex:
to sail thro' the water плыть по воде
_Ex:
the drove thro' a dark winter day они ехали темным зимним днем
_Ex:
he walked all day thro' heavy rain он шел под сильным дождем
весь день
_Ex:
journey thro' time and space путешествие во времени и в
пространстве (сквозь время и пространство)
17> (часто all thro') протекание действия в течение целого
периода времени: в течение, в продолжение
_Ex:
thro' many centuries в течение многих веков
_Ex:
every day thro' November and December каждый день в течение
всего ноября и декабря
_Ex:
all thro' the day весь день, в течение всего дня
_Ex:
all thro' his life в течение всей его жизни, всю его жизнь
_Ex:
they will continue the construction thro' the winter months
строительство будет продолжаться всю зиму
_Ex:
he stayed with them thro' Saturday он пробыл у них всю субботу
_Ex:
he won't last thro' the night он не доживет до утра
_Ex:
he's slept thro' a thunderstorm он проспал всю грозу; он
крепко спал, пока бушевала гроза
18> продолжение действия до определенного срока включительно:
с... по... (включительно)
_Ex:
1961 thro' 1962 с 1961 г. по 1962 г. включительно
_Ex:
from May thro' September с мая по сентябрь включительно
_Ex:
numbers 1 thro' 30 номера от первого до тридцатого
включительно
_Ex:
sizes 9 thro' 19 размеры с 9 по 19 включительно
_Ex:
7th grade thro' high school от седьмого класса (вплоть)
до окончания средней школы
19> посредника: через
_Ex:
he did it thro' an agent он сделал это через посредника
_Ex:
he spoke thro' an interpreter он объяснялся через переводчика
_Ex:
he sees only thro' your eyes он на все смотрит вашими глазами
_Ex:
to send smth. thro' the post послать что-л. по почте
20> источник: из, от, по, через
_Ex:
I learned it thro' your secretary я узнал об этом от (через)
вашего секретаря
_Ex:
he learned it thro' reports он узнал об этом из сообщений
_Ex:
thro' personal experience по личному опыту
21> инструмент или способ: через, путем; посредством
_Ex:
thro' the agency of посредством, при помощи
_Ex:
thro' smb.'s help с чьей-л. помощью, благодаря чьей-л. помощи
_Ex:
to express ideas thro' words выражать мысли посредством
(с помощью) слов
_Ex:
he educated himself thro' correspondence courses он окончил
заочные курсы
_Ex:
only thro' work can you attain good results только работа
поможет вам добиться хороших результатов
22> преодоление препятствия, опасности и т. п.: через
_Ex:
to pass thro' many dangers преодолеть (пройти через)
множество опасностей
_Ex:
the child came very well thro' the illness ребенок хорошо
перенес болезнь
_Ex:
he was going thro' a difficult time он переживал тяжелое время
_Ex:
they helped him thro' hard times они поддержали его в трудное
время; все это трудное время они помогали ему
_Ex:
he has got thro' his examinations он сдал экзамены
_Ex:
the bill was put thro' Congress last week законопроект был
проведен в конгрессе на прошлой неделе
_Ex:
the bill passed thro' Parliament законопроект прошел через
парламент
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he's been thro' it (thro' a lot) он здорово натерпелся,
ему пришлось несладко, он повидал всякое
23> движение без остановки у препятствия
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to drive thro' a red light проехать на красный свет
24> совершение действия от начала до конца; передается
глагольными приставками про-, пере-
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to go thro' the accounts просмотреть счета
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to go thro' college пройти курс обучения в колледже
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to go thro' smb.'s pockets обыскать кого-л., проверить
содержимое чьих-л. карманов
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we are thro' school at three o'clock занятия в школе кончаются
у нас в три часа
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I'm half way thro' this book я наполовину прочитал эту книгу
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when I'm thro' my work когда я закончу работу
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it was half way thro' act 1 that I saw him прошла уже половина
1-го действия, когда я увидел его
25> быстрое доведение действия до конца; передается глагольной
приставкой про-
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he could go thro' three books in a day он может проглотить
три книги за один день
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he went thro' a fortune in one year за год он промотал
состояние
26> причину: из-за, по (причине); благодаря
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thro' error по ошибке
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to lose an opportunity thro' indecision упустить возможность
из-за нерешительности
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she refused help thro' pride она отказалась от помощи
из гордости
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it was all thro' you that we were late мы опоздали из-за вас
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it happened thro' no fault of mine это произошло не по
моей вине
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we succeeded thro' his help мы добились успеха благодаря
его помощи
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thro' illness he lost the use of his legs в результате
болезни у него отнялись ноги
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to see thro' smth., smb. видеть что-л., кого-л. насквозь
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I can see thro' him я его насквозь вижу
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to see thro' the trick разгадать фокус (трюк), не дать себя
провести (обмануть)
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to put smb. thro' it подвергнуть кого-л. строжайшему
(жесткому) допросу, допросить кого-л. с пристрастием
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to see smb. thro' smth. помочь кому-л. сделать что-л.
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thro' the length and breadth (of) вдоль и поперек
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to travel thro' the length and breadth of the country
исколесить всю страну -
74 through
1. [θru:] a1. прямой, беспересадочный, транзитный, сквозной; прямого сообщенияthrough highway [street] - шоссе [улица] без светофоров; дорога [улица] для скоростного движения
2. свободный, беспрепятственный3. основательный, капитальный2. [θru:] advthrough repairs - мор. капитальный ремонт
1. 1) сквозное движение насквозьto pierce smth. through - проткнуть что-л. насквозь
he struck his enemy with his spear right through - он пронзил своего врага копьём
soaked /wet/ through - промокший насквозь
chilled through - продрогший до костей, окоченевший от холода
2) движение до конечного пункта (о поездах и т. п.) прямо, до места, до пункта назначенияto buy through to one's farthest destination - купить прямой билет до места назначения
the next train goes /runs/ through to B. - следующий поезд идёт прямо до B.
the luggage was registered through - багаж был отправлен до станции назначения
3) устранение препятствий для въезда, входа, включения и т. п.:to let smb. through - впустить кого-л.
2. совершение действия в течение целого периода времени весь, целый3. 1) совершение действия ( от начала) до конца или на его исчерпывающий характер до конца; передаётся тж. глагольными приставками про-, за-, с- и др.to look smth. through - просмотреть что-л. (до конца)
to carry smth. through - завершить что-л.; провести что-л. до конца
to put through a plan - провести /осуществить/ план
he heard the speech through without interruption - он прослушал всю речь не перебивая
to go through with smth. - довести что-л. до конца
I will go through with it, whatever happens - что бы ни случилось, я доведу дело до конца
to be through with smth. - окончить что-л. [см. тж. 2)]
is the work through yet? - закончена ли работа?
he is through with school - он окончил школу [см. тж. 2)]
he is through with his work - он окончил работу [см. тж. 2)]
are you through? - амер. вы закончили разговор? ( по телефону) [см. тж. 5]
to get through with smth. - разг. закончить что-л. [см. тж. 2)]
2) отказ от чего-л., оставление чего-л.:to be through with smth. - покончить с чем-л., бросить что-л. [см. тж. 1)]
he is through with school - он бросил школу [см. тж. 2)]
he is through with his work - он бросил работу [см. тж. 1)]
he is through with his family - он бросил /оставил/ семью
to get through with smth. - разг. покончить с чем-л. [см. тж. 1)]
to be through with smb. - порвать с кем-л.
I'm through with that fellow - я порвал /разделался/ с этим парнем
he'll change his tune when I'm through with him - я с ним поговорю по-свойски, и он (у меня) запоёт иначе
I'm through with you, we're through - между нами всё кончено
he's through in politics - в политике он конченый человек, его политическая карьера закончилась
the horse is through - лошадь выбилась из сил, лошадь загнали
4. измерение по диаметру в диаметреa tree measuring twelve inches through - дерево, имеющее двенадцать дюймов в диаметре
to get through to smb. - связаться с кем-л.
to put smb. through - соединить кого-л.
are you through? - вас соединили?, вам ответили? [см. тж. 3, 1)]
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through and through - а) совершенно, до конца, вполне; основательно; to read a book through and through - прочесть книгу от корки до корки; he is an honest man through and through - он в высшей степени честный человек; he knows his business through and through - он основательно /досконально/ знает своё дело; б) снова и снова; he read the letter through and through - он вновь и вновь перечитывал письмоto fall /to drop/ through - окончиться безрезультатно, провалиться
3. [θru:] prepthe deal fell through - сделка не состоялась /провалилась/
1. 1) прохождение через какой-л. предмет или движение через какую-л. среду через, сквозьa path (going /leading/) through the woods - тропинка (ведущая) через лес
to make a hole through smth. - сделать дыру в чём-л., продырявить что-л.
he put his arms through the straps of his pack - он продел руки в лямки рюкзака
to walk through the door [the gate] - пройти через дверь [через ворота]
he speaks through the nose - он говорит в нос, он гнусавит
2) проникновение взгляда через какое-л. отверстие, света через какую-л. среду и т. п. через, сквозьthrough the keyhole - через /сквозь/ замочную скважину
we looked through the window at the street - через окно мы смотрели на улицу
we could hear him through the noise - мы слышали его, несмотря на шум; его голос доносился сквозь шум
we couldn't hear him through the noise - шум заглушал его слова, мы не слышали его из-за шума
to talk through the radio - говорить, заглушая радио
2. 1) ( часто all through) распространение движения по какой-л. территории поthey drove through Czechoslovakia - они пересекли Чехословакию /ехали по Чехословакии/
a sigh of relief went through the audience - вздох облегчения пронёсся по всему залу
2) движение в какой-л. среде или в каких-л. условиях поhe walked all day through heavy rain - он шёл под сильным дождём весь день
journey through time and space - путешествие во времени и в пространстве /сквозь время и пространство/
3. 1) ( часто all through) протекание действия в течение целого периода времени в течение, в продолжениеevery day through November and December - каждый день в течение всего ноября и декабря
all through the day - весь день; в течение всего дня
all through his life - в течение всей его жизни, всю его жизнь
they will continue the construction through the winter months - строительство будет продолжаться всю зиму
he's slept through a thunderstorm - он проспал всю грозу; он крепко спал всё время, пока бушевала гроза
2) продолжение действия до определенного срока включительно с... по... (включительно)1961 through 1962 - с 1961 г. по 1962 г. включительно
7th grade through high school - от седьмого класса (вплоть) до окончания средней школы
4. 1) посредника черезto send smth. through the post - послать что-л. по почте
2) источник из, от, по, черезI learned it through your secretary - я узнал об этом от /через/ вашего секретаря
he learned it through reports [newspapers] - он узнал об этом из сообщений [из газет]
3) инструмент или способ через, путём; посредствомthrough the agency of - посредством, при помощи
through smb.'s help - с чьей-л. помощью, благодаря чьей-л. помощи
to express ideas through words - выражать мысли посредством /с помощью/ слов
he educated himself through correspondence courses - он окончил заочные курсы
only through work can you attain good results - только работа поможет вам добиться хороших результатов
5. 1) преодоление препятствия, опасности и т. п. черезto pass through many dangers - преодолеть /пройти через/ множество опасностей
the child came very well through the illness - ребёнок хорошо перенёс болезнь
they helped him through hard times - они поддержали его в трудное время; всё это трудное время они помогали ему
the bill was put through Congress last week - законопроект был проведён в конгрессе на прошлой неделе
he's been through it /through a lot/ - он здорово натерпелся, ему пришлось несладко, он повидал всякое
6. 1) совершение действия от начала до конца; передаётся глагольными приставками про-, пере-to go through smb.'s pockets - обыскать кого-л., проверить содержимое чьих-л. карманов
we are through school at three o'clock - занятия в школе кончаются у нас в три часа
it was half way through act 1 that I saw him - уже прошла половина 1-го действия, когда я увидел его
2) быстрое доведение действия до конца; передается глагольной приставкой про-he could go through three books in a day - он может проглотить три книги за один день
7. причину из-за, по (причине); благодаряto lose an opportunity through indecision - упустить возможность из-за нерешительности
through illness he lost the use of his legs - в результате болезни у него отнялись ноги
♢
to see through smth., smb. - видеть что-л., кого-л. насквозьto see through the trick - разгадать фокус /трюк/, не дать себя провести /обмануть/
to put smb. through it - подвергнуть кого-л. строжайшему /жёсткому/ допросу, допросить кого-л. с пристрастием
to see smb. through smth. - помочь кому-л. сделать что-л.
to travel through the length and breadth of the country - исколесить всю страну
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75 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 -
76 Brown, Charles Eugene Lancelot
[br]b. 17 June 1863 Winterthur, Switzerlandd. 2 May 1924 Montagnola, Italy[br]English engineer who developed polyphase electrical generation and transmission plant.[br]After attending the Technical College in Winterthur, Brown served with Emile Burgin in Basle before entering the Oerlikon engineering works near Zurich. Two years later he became Director of the electrical department of Oerlikon and from that time was involved in the development of electrical equipment for the generation and distribution of power. The Lauffen-Frankfurt 110-mile (177 km) transmission line of 1891 demonstrated the commercial feasibility of transmitting electrical power over great distances with three-phase alternating current. For this he designed a generator and early examples of oil-cooled transformers, and the scheme gave an impetus to the development of electric-power transmission throughout Europe. In 1891, in association with Walter Boveri, Brown founded the works of Brown Boveri \& Co. at Baden, Switzerland, and until his retirement in 1911 he devoted his energies to the design of polyphase alternating-current machinery. Important installations included the Frankfurt electricity works (1894), the Paderno-Milan transmission line, and the Lugano tramway of 1894, the first system in Europe to use three-phase traction motors. This tramway was followed by many other polyphase and mountain railways. The acquisition by Brown Boveri \& Co. in 1900 of the manufacturing rights of the Parsons steam turbine directed Brown's attention to problems associated with high-speed machines. Recognizing the high centrifugal stress involved, he began to employ solid cylindrical generator rotors with slots for the excitation winding, a method that has come to be universally adopted in large alternators.[br]Bibliography3 December 1901, British patent no. 24,632 (slotted rotor for alternators).Further ReadingObituary, 1924, The Engineer 137:543.Ake T.Vrenthem, 1980, Jonas Wenstrom and the Three Phase System, Stockholm, pp. 26–8 (obituary).75 Years of Brown Boveri, 1966, Baden, Switzerland (for a company history).GWBiographical history of technology > Brown, Charles Eugene Lancelot
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77 Chappe, Claude
SUBJECT AREA: Telecommunications[br]b. 25 December 1763 Brulon, Franced. 23 January 1805 Paris, France[br]French engineer who invented the semaphore visual telegraph.[br]Chappe began his studies at the Collège de Joyeuse, Rouen, and completed them at La Flèche. He was educated for the church with the intention of becoming an Abbé Commendataire, but this title did not in fact require him to perform any religious duties. He became interested in natural science and amongst other activities he carried out experiments with electrically charged soap bubbles.When the bénéfice was suppressed in 1781 he returned home and began to devise a system of telegraphic communication. With the help of his three brothers, particularly Abraham, and using an old idea, in 1790 he made a visual telegraph with suspended pendulums to relay coded messages over a distance of half a kilometre. Despite public suspicion and opposition, he presented the idea to the Assemblée Nationale on 22 May 1792. No doubt due to the influence of his brother, Ignace, a member of the Assemblée Nationale, the idea was favourably received, and on 1 April 1793 it was referred to the National Convention as being of military importance. As a result, Chappe was given the title of Telegraphy Engineer and commissioned to construct a semaphore (Gk. bearing a sign) link between Paris and Lille, a distance of some 240 km (150 miles), using twenty-two towers. Each station contained two telescopes for observing the adjacent towers, and each semaphore consisted of a central beam supporting two arms, whose positions gave nearly two hundred possible arrangements. Hence, by using a code book as a form of lookup table, Chappe was able to devise a code of over 8,000 words. The success of the system for communication during subsequent military conflicts resulted in him being commissioned to extend it with further links, a work that was continued by his brothers after his suicide during a period of illness and depression. Providing as it did an effective message speed of several thousand kilometres per hour, the system remained in use until the mid-nineteenth century, by which time the electric telegraph had become well established.[br]Further ReadingR.Appleyard, 1930, Pioneers of Electrical Communication.International Telecommunications Union, 1965, From Semaphore to Satellite, Geneva.See also: Morse, Samuel Finley BreezeKF -
78 Cowper, Edward Alfred
SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy[br]b. 10 December 1819 London, Englandd. 9 May 1893 Weybridge, Surrey, England[br]English inventor of the hot-blast stove used in ironmaking.[br]Cowper was apprenticed in 1834 to John Braithwaite of London and in 1846 obtained employment at the engineers Fox \& Henderson in Birmingham. In 1851 he was engaged in the contract drawings for the Crystal Palace housing the Great Exhibition, and in the same year he set up in London as a consulting engineer. Cowper designed the 211 ft (64.3 m) span roof of Birmingham railway station, the first large-span station roof to be constructed. Cowper had an inventive turn of mind. While still an apprentice, he devised the well-known railway fog-signal and, at Fox \& Henderson, he invented an improved method of casting railway chairs. Other inventions included a compound steam-engine with receiver, patented in 1857; a bicycle wheel with steel spokes and rubber tyre (1868); and an electric writing telegraph (1879). Cowper's most important invention by far was the hot-blast stove, the first application of C.W. Siemens's regenerative principle to ironmaking, patented in 1857. Waste gases from the blast furnace were burnt in an iron chamber lined with a honeycomb of firebricks. When they were hot, the gas was directed to a second similar chamber while the incoming air blast for the blast furnace was heated by passing it through the first chamber. The stoves alternatively received and gave up heat and the heated blast, introduced by J.B. Neilson, led to considerable fuel economies in blast-furnace operation; the system is still in use. Cowper played an active part in the engineering institutions of his time, becoming President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1880–1. He was commissioned by the Science and Art Department to catalogue the collections of machinery and inventions at the South Kensington Museum, whose science collections now form the Science Museum, London.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsPresident, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1880–1.Further ReadingObituary, 1893, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute: 172–3, London.W.K.V.Gale, 1969, Iron and Steel, London: Longmans, pp. 42, 75 (describes his hot-blast stoves).LRD -
79 Cros, Charles
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. 1842 Franced. 1888[br]French doctor, painter and man of letters who pioneered research into colour photography.[br]A man of considerable intellect, Cros occupied himself with studies of topics as diverse as Sanskrit and the synthesis of precious stones. He was in particular interested in the possibility of colour photography, and deposited an account of his theories in a sealed envelope with the Académie des Sciences on 2 December 1867, with instructions that it should be opened in 1876. Learning of a forthcoming presentation on colour photography by Ducos du Hauron at the Société Française de Photographie, he arranged for the contents of his communication to be published on 25 February 1869 in Les Mondes. At the Société's meeting on 7 May 1869, Cros's letter was read and samples of colour photography from Ducos du Hauron were shown. Both had arrived at similar conclusions: that colour photography was possible with the analysis of colours using negatives exposed through red, green and blue filters, as demonstrated by Clerk Maxwell in 1861. These records could be reproduced by combining positive images produced in blue-green, magenta and yellow pigments or dyes. Cros and Ducos du Hauron had discovered the principle of subtractive colour photography, which is used in the late twentieth century. In 1878 Cros designed the Chromometre, a device for measuring colours by mixing red, green and blue light, and described the device in a paper to the Société Française de Photographie on 10 January 1879. With suitable modification, the device could be used as a viewer for colour photographs, combining red, green and blue positives. In 1880 he patented the principle of imbibition printing, in which dye taken up by a gelatine relief image could be transferred to another support. This principle, which he called hydrotypie, readily made possible the production of three-colour subtractive photographic prints.[br]Further ReadingJ.S.Friedman, 1944, History of Colour Photography, Boston. Gert Koshofer, 1981, Farbefotografie, Vol. I, Munich.BC -
80 Cros, Hortensius Emile Charles
[br]b. 1 October 1842 Fabrezan (Aude), Franced. 9 August 1888 Paris, France[br]French inventor of chromolithography and the principles of reproducible sound recording.[br]He received no formal education, but was brought up by his father, a distinguished teacher and philosopher. He dabbled in diverse subjects (modern and ancient languages, mathematics, drawing) in 1856–60 when he became an instructor at the institute of the Deaf-Mute at Paris. He became a prolific inventor and poet and took part in artistic life in Paris. In the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris, Cros contributed a facsimile telegraph; he deposited with the Académie des Sciences a sealed text on photography which was not opened until 1876. In the meantime he published a small text on a general solution of the problem of colour photography which appeared almost simultaneously with a similar publication by Louis Ducos du Hauron and which gave rise to bitter discussions over priority. He deposited a sealed paper on 18 April 1877 concerning his concept of apparatus for recording and reproduction of sound which he called the paléophone. When it was opened on 3 December 1877 it was not known that T.A. Edison was already active in this field: Cros is considered the conceptual founder of reproducible sound, whereas Edison was the first "to reduce to practice", which is one of the US criteria for patentability.[br]BibliographyFrench patent no. 124, 213 (filed 1 May and 2 August 1878).Further ReadingLouis Forestier, 1969, Charles Cros: L'Homme et l'oeuvre, Paris: Seghers.GB-NBiographical history of technology > Cros, Hortensius Emile Charles
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