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  • 42 Empire, Portuguese overseas

    (1415-1975)
       Portugal was the first Western European state to establish an early modern overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean and perhaps the last colonial power to decolonize. A vast subject of complexity that is full of myth as well as debatable theories, the history of the Portuguese overseas empire involves the story of more than one empire, the question of imperial motives, the nature of Portuguese rule, and the results and consequences of empire, including the impact on subject peoples as well as on the mother country and its society, Here, only the briefest account of a few such issues can be attempted.
       There were various empires or phases of empire after the capture of the Moroccan city of Ceuta in 1415. There were at least three Portuguese empires in history: the First empire (1415-1580), the Second empire (1580-1640 and 1640-1822), and the Third empire (1822-1975).
       With regard to the second empire, the so-called Phillipine period (1580-1640), when Portugal's empire was under Spanish domination, could almost be counted as a separate era. During that period, Portugal lost important parts of its Asian holdings to England and also sections of its colonies of Brazil, Angola, and West Africa to Holland's conquests. These various empires could be characterized by the geography of where Lisbon invested its greatest efforts and resources to develop territories and ward off enemies.
       The first empire (1415-1580) had two phases. First came the African coastal phase (1415-97), when the Portuguese sought a foothold in various Moroccan cities but then explored the African coast from Morocco to past the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. While colonization and sugar farming were pursued in the Atlantic islands, as well as in the islands in the Gulf of Guinea like São Tomé and Príncipe, for the most part the Portuguese strategy was to avoid commitments to defending or peopling lands on the African continent. Rather, Lisbon sought a seaborne trade empire, in which the Portuguese could profit from exploiting trade and resources (such as gold) along the coasts and continue exploring southward to seek a sea route to Portuguese India. The second phase of the first empire (1498-1580) began with the discovery of the sea route to Asia, thanks to Vasco da Gama's first voyage in 1497-99, and the capture of strong points, ports, and trading posts in order to enforce a trade monopoly between Asia and Europe. This Asian phase produced the greatest revenues of empire Portugal had garnered, yet ended when Spain conquered Portugal and commanded her empire as of 1580.
       Portugal's second overseas empire began with Spanish domination and ran to 1822, when Brazil won her independence from Portugal. This phase was characterized largely by Brazilian dominance of imperial commitment, wealth in minerals and other raw materials from Brazil, and the loss of a significant portion of her African and Asian coastal empire to Holland and Great Britain. A sketch of Portugal's imperial losses either to native rebellions or to imperial rivals like Britain and Holland follows:
       • Morocco (North Africa) (sample only)
       Arzila—Taken in 1471; evacuated in 1550s; lost to Spain in 1580, which returned city to a sultan.
       Ceuta—Taken in 1415; lost to Spain in 1640 (loss confirmed in 1668 treaty with Spain).
       • Tangiers—Taken in 15th century; handed over to England in 1661 as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry to King Charles II.
       • West Africa
       • Fort/Castle of São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (in what is now Ghana)—Taken in 1480s; lost to Holland in 1630s.
       • Middle East
       Socotra-isle—Conquered in 1507; fort abandoned in 1511; used as water resupply stop for India fleet.
       Muscat—Conquered in 1501; lost to Persians in 1650.
       Ormuz—Taken, 1505-15 under Albuquerque; lost to England, which gave it to Persia in the 17th century.
       Aden (entry to Red Sea) — Unsuccessfully attacked by Portugal (1513-30); taken by Turks in 1538.
       • India
       • Ceylon (Sri Lanka)—Taken by 1516; lost to Dutch after 1600.
       • Bombay—Taken in 16th century; given to England in 1661 treaty as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry for Charles II.
       • East Indies
       • Moluccas—Taken by 1520; possession confirmed in 1529 Saragossa treaty with Spain; lost to Dutch after 1600; only East Timor remaining.
       After the restoration of Portuguese independence from Spain in 1640, Portugal proceeded to revive and strengthen the Anglo- Portuguese Alliance, with international aid to fight off further Spanish threats to Portugal and drive the Dutch invaders out of Brazil and Angola. While Portugal lost its foothold in West Africa at Mina to the Dutch, dominion in Angola was consolidated. The most vital part of the imperial economy was a triangular trade: slaves from West Africa and from the coasts of Congo and Angola were shipped to plantations in Brazil; raw materials (sugar, tobacco, gold, diamonds, dyes) were sent to Lisbon; Lisbon shipped Brazil colonists and hardware. Part of Portugal's War of Restoration against Spain (1640-68) and its reclaiming of Brazil and Angola from Dutch intrusions was financed by the New Christians (Jews converted to Christianity after the 1496 Manueline order of expulsion of Jews) who lived in Portugal, Holland and other low countries, France, and Brazil. If the first empire was mainly an African coastal and Asian empire, the second empire was primarily a Brazilian empire.
       Portugal's third overseas empire began upon the traumatic independence of Brazil, the keystone of the Lusitanian enterprise, in 1822. The loss of Brazil greatly weakened Portugal both as a European power and as an imperial state, for the scattered remainder of largely coastal, poor, and uncolonized territories that stretched from the bulge of West Africa to East Timor in the East Indies and Macau in south China were more of a financial liability than an asset. Only two small territories balanced their budgets occasionally or made profits: the cocoa islands of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea and tiny Macau, which lost much of its advantage as an entrepot between the West and the East when the British annexed neighboring Hong Kong in 1842. The others were largely burdens on the treasury. The African colonies were strapped by a chronic economic problem: at a time when the slave trade and then slavery were being abolished under pressures from Britain and other Western powers, the economies of Guinea- Bissau, São Tomé/Príncipe, Angola, and Mozambique were totally dependent on revenues from the slave trade and slavery. During the course of the 19th century, Lisbon began a program to reform colonial administration in a newly rejuvenated African empire, where most of the imperial efforts were expended, by means of replacing the slave trade and slavery, with legitimate economic activities.
       Portugal participated in its own early version of the "Scramble" for Africa's interior during 1850-69, but discovered that the costs of imperial expansion were too high to allow effective occupation of the hinterlands. After 1875, Portugal participated in the international "Scramble for Africa" and consolidated its holdings in west and southern Africa, despite the failure of the contra-costa (to the opposite coast) plan, which sought to link up the interiors of Angola and Mozambique with a corridor in central Africa. Portugal's expansion into what is now Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (eastern section) in 1885-90 was thwarted by its oldest ally, Britain, under pressure from interest groups in South Africa, Scotland, and England. All things considered, Portugal's colonizing resources and energies were overwhelmed by the African empire it possessed after the frontier-marking treaties of 1891-1906. Lisbon could barely administer the massive area of five African colonies, whose total area comprised about 8 percent of the area of the colossal continent. The African territories alone were many times the size of tiny Portugal and, as of 1914, Portugal was the third colonial power in terms of size of area possessed in the world.
       The politics of Portugal's empire were deceptive. Lisbon remained obsessed with the fear that rival colonial powers, especially Germany and Britain, would undermine and then dismantle her African empire. This fear endured well into World War II. In developing and keeping her potentially rich African territories (especially mineral-rich Angola and strategically located Mozambique), however, the race against time was with herself and her subject peoples. Two major problems, both chronic, prevented Portugal from effective colonization (i.e., settling) and development of her African empire: the economic weakness and underdevelopment of the mother country and the fact that the bulk of Portuguese emigration after 1822 went to Brazil, Venezuela, the United States, and France, not to the colonies. These factors made it difficult to consolidate imperial control until it was too late; that is, until local African nationalist movements had organized and taken the field in insurgency wars that began in three of the colonies during the years 1961-64.
       Portugal's belated effort to revitalize control and to develop, in the truest sense of the word, Angola and Mozambique after 1961 had to be set against contemporary events in Europe, Africa, and Asia. While Portugal held on to a backward empire, other European countries like Britain, France, and Belgium were rapidly decolonizing their empires. Portugal's failure or unwillingness to divert the large streams of emigrants to her empire after 1850 remained a constant factor in this question. Prophetic were the words of the 19th-century economist Joaquim Oliveira Martins, who wrote in 1880 that Brazil was a better colony for Portugal than Africa and that the best colony of all would have been Portugal itself. As of the day of the Revolution of 25 April 1974, which sparked the final process of decolonization of the remainder of Portugal's third overseas empire, the results of the colonization program could be seen to be modest compared to the numbers of Portuguese emigrants outside the empire. Moreover, within a year, of some 600,000 Portuguese residing permanently in Angola and Mozambique, all but a few thousand had fled to South Africa or returned to Portugal.
       In 1974 and 1975, most of the Portuguese empire was decolonized or, in the case of East Timor, invaded and annexed by a foreign power before it could consolidate its independence. Only historic Macau, scheduled for transfer to the People's Republic of China in 1999, remained nominally under Portuguese control as a kind of footnote to imperial history. If Portugal now lacked a conventional overseas empire and was occupied with the challenges of integration in the European Union (EU), Lisbon retained another sort of informal dependency that was a new kind of empire: the empire of her scattered overseas Portuguese communities from North America to South America. Their numbers were at least six times greater than that of the last settlers of the third empire.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Empire, Portuguese overseas

  • 43 Hamilton, Harold Lee (Hal)

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    b. 14 June 1890 Little Shasta, California, USA
    d. 3 May 1969 California, USA
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    American pioneer of diesel rail traction.
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    Orphaned as a child, Hamilton went to work for Southern Pacific Railroad in his teens, and then worked for several other companies. In his spare time he learned mathematics and physics from a retired professor. In 1911 he joined the White Motor Company, makers of road motor vehicles in Denver, Colorado, where he had gone to recuperate from malaria. He remained there until 1922, apart from an eighteenth-month break for war service.
    Upon his return from war service, Hamilton found White selling petrol-engined railbuses with mechanical transmission, based on road vehicles, to railways. He noted that they were not robust enough and that the success of petrol railcars with electric transmission, built by General Electric since 1906, was limited as they were complex to drive and maintain. In 1922 Hamilton formed, and became President of, the Electro- Motive Engineering Corporation (later Electro-Motive Corporation) to design and produce petrol-electric rail cars. Needing an engine larger than those used in road vehicles, yet lighter and faster than marine engines, he approached the Win ton Engine Company to develop a suitable engine; in addition, General Electric provided electric transmission with a simplified control system. Using these components, Hamilton arranged for his petrol-electric railcars to be built by the St Louis Car Company, with the first being completed in 1924. It was the beginning of a highly successful series. Fuel costs were lower than for steam trains and initial costs were kept down by using standardized vehicles instead of designing for individual railways. Maintenance costs were minimized because Electro-Motive kept stocks of spare parts and supplied replacement units when necessary. As more powerful, 800 hp (600 kW) railcars were produced, railways tended to use them to haul trailer vehicles, although that practice reduced the fuel saving. By the end of the decade Electro-Motive needed engines more powerful still and therefore had to use cheap fuel. Diesel engines of the period, such as those that Winton had made for some years, were too heavy in relation to their power, and too slow and sluggish for rail use. Their fuel-injection system was erratic and insufficiently robust and Hamilton concluded that a separate injector was needed for each cylinder.
    In 1930 Electro-Motive Corporation and Winton were acquired by General Motors in pursuance of their aim to develop a diesel engine suitable for rail traction, with the use of unit fuel injectors; Hamilton retained his position as President. At this time, industrial depression had combined with road and air competition to undermine railway-passenger business, and Ralph Budd, President of the Chicago, Burlington \& Quincy Railroad, thought that traffic could be recovered by way of high-speed, luxury motor trains; hence the Pioneer Zephyr was built for the Burlington. This comprised a 600 hp (450 kW), lightweight, two-stroke, diesel engine developed by General Motors (model 201 A), with electric transmission, that powered a streamlined train of three articulated coaches. This train demonstrated its powers on 26 May 1934 by running non-stop from Denver to Chicago, a distance of 1,015 miles (1,635 km), in 13 hours and 6 minutes, when the fastest steam schedule was 26 hours. Hamilton and Budd were among those on board the train, and it ushered in an era of high-speed diesel trains in the USA. By then Hamilton, with General Motors backing, was planning to use the lightweight engine to power diesel-electric locomotives. Their layout was derived not from steam locomotives, but from the standard American boxcar. The power plant was mounted within the body and powered the bogies, and driver's cabs were at each end. Two 900 hp (670 kW) engines were mounted in a single car to become an 1,800 hp (l,340 kW) locomotive, which could be operated in multiple by a single driver to form a 3,600 hp (2,680 kW) locomotive. To keep costs down, standard locomotives could be mass-produced rather than needing individual designs for each railway, as with steam locomotives. Two units of this type were completed in 1935 and sent on trial throughout much of the USA. They were able to match steam locomotive performance, with considerable economies: fuel costs alone were halved and there was much less wear on the track. In the same year, Electro-Motive began manufacturing diesel-electrie locomotives at La Grange, Illinois, with design modifications: the driver was placed high up above a projecting nose, which improved visibility and provided protection in the event of collision on unguarded level crossings; six-wheeled bogies were introduced, to reduce axle loading and improve stability. The first production passenger locomotives emerged from La Grange in 1937, and by early 1939 seventy units were in service. Meanwhile, improved engines had been developed and were being made at La Grange, and late in 1939 a prototype, four-unit, 5,400 hp (4,000 kW) diesel-electric locomotive for freight trains was produced and sent out on test from coast to coast; production versions appeared late in 1940. After an interval from 1941 to 1943, when Electro-Motive produced diesel engines for military and naval use, locomotive production resumed in quantity in 1944, and within a few years diesel power replaced steam on most railways in the USA.
    Hal Hamilton remained President of Electro-Motive Corporation until 1942, when it became a division of General Motors, of which he became Vice-President.
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    Further Reading
    P.M.Reck, 1948, On Time: The History of the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corporation, La Grange, Ill.: General Motors (describes Hamilton's career).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Hamilton, Harold Lee (Hal)

  • 44 Artificial Intelligence

       In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)
       Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)
       Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....
       When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)
       4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually
       Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)
       What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)
       The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)
       9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form
       The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)
       There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:
        Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."
        Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)
       Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)
       Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)
       The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)
        14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation
       It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)
       We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.
       Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.
       Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.
    ... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)
       Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)
        16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts
       Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)
       Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System
       Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence
       The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.
       The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)
       The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....
       AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)
        21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions
       In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)
       Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)
       Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)
       The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

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  • 45 desarrollado

    Del verbo desarrollar: ( conjugate desarrollar) \ \
    desarrollado es: \ \
    el participio
    Multiple Entries: desarrollado     desarrollar
    desarrollado
    ◊ -da adjetivo
    developed; un niño muy/poco desarrolladoa well-developed/an underdeveloped child
    desarrollar ( conjugate desarrollar) verbo transitivo 1 ( en general) to develop 2
    a) ( exponer) ‹teoría/tema› to explain
    b) ( llevar a cabo) ‹actividad/labor› to carry out
    desarrollarse verbo pronominal 1 ( en general) to develop 2 [acto/entrevista/escena] to take place
    desarrollado,-a adjetivo developed
    país desarrollado, industrialised country
    desarrollar verbo transitivo
    1 to develop: ha desarrollado su musculatura desde que hace deporte, he has become more muscular since he started doing sport (un proyecto, teoría) han desarrollado un nuevo modelo de ordenador portátil, they've developed a new type of portable computer
    2 (exponer con mayor detalle) to explain ' desarrollado' also found in these entries: Spanish: desarrollar - desarrollada - adelantado English: developed - full-blown - full-fledged - rounded - full - sophisticated - under

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  • 46 Creativity

       Put in this bald way, these aims sound utopian. How utopian they areor rather, how imminent their realization-depends on how broadly or narrowly we interpret the term "creative." If we are willing to regard all human complex problem solving as creative, then-as we will point out-successful programs for problem solving mechanisms that simulate human problem solvers already exist, and a number of their general characteristics are known. If we reserve the term "creative" for activities like discovery of the special theory of relativity or the composition of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, then no example of a creative mechanism exists at the present time. (Simon, 1979, pp. 144-145)
       Among the questions that can now be given preliminary answers in computational terms are the following: how can ideas from very different sources be spontaneously thought of together? how can two ideas be merged to produce a new structure, which shows the influence of both ancestor ideas without being a mere "cut-and-paste" combination? how can the mind be "primed," so that one will more easily notice serendipitous ideas? why may someone notice-and remember-something fairly uninteresting, if it occurs in an interesting context? how can a brief phrase conjure up an entire melody from memory? and how can we accept two ideas as similar ("love" and "prove" as rhyming, for instance) in respect of a feature not identical in both? The features of connectionist AI models that suggest answers to these questions are their powers of pattern completion, graceful degradation, sensitization, multiple constraint satisfaction, and "best-fit" equilibration.... Here, the important point is that the unconscious, "insightful," associative aspects of creativity can be explained-in outline, at least-by AI methods. (Boden, 1996, p. 273)
       There thus appears to be an underlying similarity in the process involved in creative innovation and social independence, with common traits and postures required for expression of both behaviors. The difference is one of product-literary, musical, artistic, theoretical products on the one hand, opinions on the other-rather than one of process. In both instances the individual must believe that his perceptions are meaningful and valid and be willing to rely upon his own interpretations. He must trust himself sufficiently that even when persons express opinions counter to his own he can proceed on the basis of his own perceptions and convictions. (Coopersmith, 1967, p. 58)
       he average level of ego strength and emotional stability is noticeably higher among creative geniuses than among the general population, though it is possibly lower than among men of comparable intelligence and education who go into administrative and similar positions. High anxiety and excitability appear common (e.g. Priestley, Darwin, Kepler) but full-blown neurosis is quite rare. (Cattell & Butcher, 1970, p. 315)
       he insight that is supposed to be required for such work as discovery turns out to be synonymous with the familiar process of recognition; and other terms commonly used in the discussion of creative work-such terms as "judgment," "creativity," or even "genius"-appear to be wholly dispensable or to be definable, as insight is, in terms of mundane and well-understood concepts. (Simon, 1989, p. 376)
       From the sketch material still in existence, from the condition of the fragments, and from the autographs themselves we can draw definite conclusions about Mozart's creative process. To invent musical ideas he did not need any stimulation; they came to his mind "ready-made" and in polished form. In contrast to Beethoven, who made numerous attempts at shaping his musical ideas until he found the definitive formulation of a theme, Mozart's first inspiration has the stamp of finality. Any Mozart theme has completeness and unity; as a phenomenon it is a Gestalt. (Herzmann, 1964, p. 28)
       Great artists enlarge the limits of one's perception. Looking at the world through the eyes of Rembrandt or Tolstoy makes one able to perceive aspects of truth about the world which one could not have achieved without their aid. Freud believed that science was adaptive because it facilitated mastery of the external world; but was it not the case that many scientific theories, like works of art, also originated in phantasy? Certainly, reading accounts of scientific discovery by men of the calibre of Einstein compelled me to conclude that phantasy was not merely escapist, but a way of reaching new insights concerning the nature of reality. Scientific hypotheses require proof; works of art do not. Both are concerned with creating order, with making sense out of the world and our experience of it. (Storr, 1993, p. xii)
       The importance of self-esteem for creative expression appears to be almost beyond disproof. Without a high regard for himself the individual who is working in the frontiers of his field cannot trust himself to discriminate between the trivial and the significant. Without trust in his own powers the person seeking improved solutions or alternative theories has no basis for distinguishing the significant and profound innovation from the one that is merely different.... An essential component of the creative process, whether it be analysis, synthesis, or the development of a new perspective or more comprehensive theory, is the conviction that one's judgment in interpreting the events is to be trusted. (Coopersmith, 1967, p. 59)
       In the daily stream of thought these four different stages [preparation; incubation; illumination or inspiration; and verification] constantly overlap each other as we explore different problems. An economist reading a Blue Book, a physiologist watching an experiment, or a business man going through his morning's letters, may at the same time be "incubating" on a problem which he proposed to himself a few days ago, be accumulating knowledge in "preparation" for a second problem, and be "verifying" his conclusions to a third problem. Even in exploring the same problem, the mind may be unconsciously incubating on one aspect of it, while it is consciously employed in preparing for or verifying another aspect. (Wallas, 1926, p. 81)
       he basic, bisociative pattern of the creative synthesis [is] the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills, or matrices of thought. (Koestler, 1964, p. 121)
        11) The Earliest Stages in the Creative Process Involve a Commerce with Disorder
       Even to the creator himself, the earliest effort may seem to involve a commerce with disorder. For the creative order, which is an extension of life, is not an elaboration of the established, but a movement beyond the established, or at least a reorganization of it and often of elements not included in it. The first need is therefore to transcend the old order. Before any new order can be defined, the absolute power of the established, the hold upon us of what we know and are, must be broken. New life comes always from outside our world, as we commonly conceive that world. This is the reason why, in order to invent, one must yield to the indeterminate within him, or, more precisely, to certain illdefined impulses which seem to be of the very texture of the ungoverned fullness which John Livingston Lowes calls "the surging chaos of the unexpressed." (Ghiselin, 1985, p. 4)
       New life comes always from outside our world, as we commonly conceive our world. This is the reason why, in order to invent, one must yield to the indeterminate within him, or, more precisely, to certain illdefined impulses which seem to be of the very texture of the ungoverned fullness which John Livingston Lowes calls "the surging chaos of the unexpressed." Chaos and disorder are perhaps the wrong terms for that indeterminate fullness and activity of the inner life. For it is organic, dynamic, full of tension and tendency. What is absent from it, except in the decisive act of creation, is determination, fixity, and commitment to one resolution or another of the whole complex of its tensions. (Ghiselin, 1952, p. 13)
       [P]sychoanalysts have principally been concerned with the content of creative products, and with explaining content in terms of the artist's infantile past. They have paid less attention to examining why the artist chooses his particular activity to express, abreact or sublimate his emotions. In short, they have not made much distinction between art and neurosis; and, since the former is one of the blessings of mankind, whereas the latter is one of the curses, it seems a pity that they should not be better differentiated....
       Psychoanalysis, being fundamentally concerned with drive and motive, might have been expected to throw more light upon what impels the creative person that in fact it has. (Storr, 1993, pp. xvii, 3)
       A number of theoretical approaches were considered. Associative theory, as developed by Mednick (1962), gained some empirical support from the apparent validity of the Remote Associates Test, which was constructed on the basis of the theory.... Koestler's (1964) bisociative theory allows more complexity to mental organization than Mednick's associative theory, and postulates "associative contexts" or "frames of reference." He proposed that normal, non-creative, thought proceeds within particular contexts or frames and that the creative act involves linking together previously unconnected frames.... Simonton (1988) has developed associative notions further and explored the mathematical consequences of chance permutation of ideas....
       Like Koestler, Gruber (1980; Gruber and Davis, 1988) has based his analysis on case studies. He has focused especially on Darwin's development of the theory of evolution. Using piagetian notions, such as assimilation and accommodation, Gruber shows how Darwin's system of ideas changed very slowly over a period of many years. "Moments of insight," in Gruber's analysis, were the culminations of slow long-term processes.... Finally, the information-processing approach, as represented by Simon (1966) and Langley et al. (1987), was considered.... [Simon] points out the importance of good problem representations, both to ensure search is in an appropriate problem space and to aid in developing heuristic evaluations of possible research directions.... The work of Langley et al. (1987) demonstrates how such search processes, realized in computer programs, can indeed discover many basic laws of science from tables of raw data.... Boden (1990a, 1994) has stressed the importance of restructuring the problem space in creative work to develop new genres and paradigms in the arts and sciences. (Gilhooly, 1996, pp. 243-244; emphasis in original)

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  • 47 let

    I 1. transitive verb,
    -tt-, let
    1) (allow to) lassen

    don't let things get you down/worry you — lass dich nicht entmutigen/mach dir keine Sorgen

    don't let him upset you — reg dich seinetwegen nicht auf

    I'll come if you will let me — ich komme, wenn ich darf

    let somebody/something alone — jemanden/etwas in Ruhe lassen

    let alone — (far less) geschweige denn

    let somebody be — jemanden in Ruhe od. Frieden lassen

    let go [of] something/somebody — etwas/jemanden loslassen

    let somebody go — (from captivity) jemanden freilassen

    let go — (release hold) loslassen; (neglect) herunterkommen lassen [Haus]; (let pass) durchgehen lassen [Bemerkung]

    let it go [at that] — es dabei belassen od. bewenden lassen

    let oneself go — (neglect oneself) sich vernachlässigen; (abandon self-restraint) sich gehen lassen

    2) (cause to)

    let somebody think that... — jemanden in dem Glauben lassen, dass...

    I will let you know as soon as... — ich gebe Ihnen Bescheid, sobald...

    3) (release) ablassen [Wasser] (out of, from aus); lassen [Luft] ( out of aus)
    4) (Brit.): (rent out) vermieten [Haus, Wohnung, Büro]; verpachten [Gelände, Grundstück]

    ‘to let’ — "zu vermieten"

    2. auxiliary verb,
    -tt-, let
    1) in exhortations lassen

    let us suppose that... — nehmen wir [nur] einmal an, dass...

    Let's go to the cinema. - Yes, let's/No, let's not or don't let's — Komm/Kommt, wir gehen ins Kino. - Ja, gut/Nein, lieber nicht

    2) in command, challenge lassen

    let them come in — sie sollen hereinkommen; lassen Sie sie herein

    never let it be said that... — keiner soll sagen, dass...

    [just] let him try! — das soll er [nur] mal wagen!

    3. noun
    (Brit.)
    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/42535/let_down">let down
    II noun

    without let [or hindrance] — (formal/Law) ohne jede Behinderung

    * * *
    I [let] present participle - letting; verb
    1) (to allow or permit: She refused to let her children go out in the rain; Let me see your drawing.) lassen
    2) (to cause to: I will let you know how much it costs.) lassen
    3) (used for giving orders or suggestions: If they will not work, let them starve; Let's (= let us) leave right away!) lassen
    •
    - let alone
    - let someone or something alone/be
    - let alone/be
    - let down
    - let fall
    - let go of
    - let go
    - let in
    - out
    - let in for
    - let in on
    - let off
    - let up
    - let well alone     II [let] present participle - letting; verb
    (to give the use of (a house etc) in return for payment: He lets his house to visitors in the summer.) vermieten
    * * *
    let1
    [let]
    n
    1. SPORT Netzball m
    2. LAW
    without \let or hindrance ungehindert
    let2
    [let]
    I. n no pl esp BRIT Vermietung f; duration Mietfrist f
    to sign a five-year \let einen Mietvertrag für fünf Jahre unterschreiben
    to take sth on a \let etw mieten
    II. vt
    <-tt-, let, let>
    ▪ to \let sth/sb do sth etw/jdn etw tun lassen
    don't \let it worry you mach dir darüber [mal] keine Sorgen
    to \let one's hair grow sich dat die Haare [lang] wachsen lassen
    to \let one's shoes dry seine Schuhe trocknen lassen
    to \let sb alone [or ( fam) sb be] jdn in Ruhe [o Frieden] lassen
    \let him be! lass ihn in Ruhe!
    to \let sth alone (not touch) etw nicht anfassen; (not talk about) nicht über etw akk sprechen
    to \let sth alone [or rest] [or ( fam) be] (not pursue further) etw auf sich beruhen lassen
    sb \lets fall [or drop] [or slip] that... (unintentionally) es rutscht jdm heraus, dass...; (as if unintentionally) jd lässt so nebenbei die Bemerkung fallen, dass...
    to \let sb go (allow to depart) jdn gehen lassen; (release from grip) jdn loslassen [o SÜDD, ÖSTERR auslassen]; (from captivity) jdn freilassen [o fam laufen lassen]
    \let me go, you're hurting me! loslassen [o lass mich los], du tust mir weh!
    to \let sth go (neglect) etw vernachlässigen
    to \let sth go [or pass] etw durchgehen lassen
    to \let it go at that es dabei bewenden lassen
    to \let go [of sb/sth] ( also fig) [jdn/etw] loslassen [o SÜDD, ÖSTERR auslassen] a. fig
    \let go of my hand, you're hurting me! lass meine Hand los, du tust mir weh!
    ▪ to \let oneself go (give way to enthusiasm) aus sich dat herausgehen; (develop bad habits) sich akk gehenlassen
    2. (give permission)
    ▪ to \let sb do sth jdn etw tun lassen
    she wanted to go but her parents wouldn't \let her sie wollte gehen, aber ihre Eltern ließen sie nicht
    I'm \letting you stay up late just this once dieses eine Mal darfst du ausnahmsweise länger aufbleiben
    3. (make)
    ▪ to \let sb do sth jdn etw tun lassen
    to \let sb know sth jdn etw wissen lassen
    \let us know when you get there geben Sie uns Bescheid, wenn Sie dort ankommen
    \let me know if/why... lass mich wissen, wenn/warum...
    to \let it be known that... alle wissen lassen, dass...
    ▪ \let me/ \let's do sth lass mich/lass uns etw tun
    \let's go out to dinner! lass uns Essen gehen!, gehen wir essen!
    don't \let us argue lass uns nicht streiten
    \let's face it! sehen wir den Tatsachen ins Auge!
    \let's say he didn't think it was funny nehmen wir [mal] an, er fand es nicht lustig
    the British drink more tea than, \let's say, the German die Briten trinken mehr Tee als, sagen wir mal, die Deutschen
    \let us consider all the possibilities wollen wir einmal alle Möglichkeiten ins Auge fassen
    ▪ \let me/ \let's do sth lass mich/lass uns etw tun
    \let me/ \let's see,... also,...
    \let me think Moment [mal],..., lassen Sie mich [mal] nachdenken
    6. (expressing politeness)
    ▪ \let me/us... lassen Sie mich/uns zunächst einmal...
    \let me first ask you... erlauben Sie mir zunächst einmal die Frage...
    7. (making a threat)
    ▪ [don't] \let me do sth lass mich [bloß nicht] etw tun
    just \let me hear you say such a thing again and you'll be sorry! sag so etwas noch einmal und du wirst es [bitter] bereuen
    don't \let me catch you in here again! dass ich dich hier nicht noch einmal erwische!
    8. (expressing defiance)
    ▪ \let sb/sth do sth soll jd/etw doch etw tun
    \let them do what they like sollen sie doch machen, was sie wollen
    \let it rain von mir aus kann es ruhig regnen
    if he needs money, \let him earn it wenn er Geld braucht, soll er gefälligst arbeiten gehen
    \let there be no doubt about it! das möchte ich [doch] einmal klarstellen!
    ▪ to \let sb/sth... lasset...
    \let us pray lasset uns beten form
    \let there be light es werde Licht form
    10. MATH
    \let a equal 4 a ist gleich 4
    if we \let the angle x equal 70°... wenn der Winkel x gleich 70° ist,...
    11. esp BRIT, AUS (rent out)
    to \let sth etw vermieten
    “to \let” „zu vermieten“
    12.
    ▶ \let alone... geschweige denn...
    ▶ to \let it all hang out ( dated sl) über die Stränge schlagen fam
    ▶ to \let sb have it es jdm mal [ordentlich] geben fam
    ▶ to \let sth lie etw auf sich beruhen lassen
    to \let a matter lie for some time eine Angelegenheit eine Zeit lang ruhenlassen
    ▶ to \let fly [or rip] (sl) ausflippen sl
    ▶ to \let rip (do sth to extremes) es [mal so richtig] krachen lassen fam; (drive very fast) volle Pulle fahren fam, voll aufs Gas steigen ÖSTERR fam, Vollgas geben SCHWEIZ fam
    * * *
    I [let]
    n
    1) (TENNIS) Netz( ball m) nt
    2)
    II
    n

    they are looking for a let in this area — sie wollen eine Wohnung/ein Haus in dieser Gegend mieten

    III pret, ptp let
    vt
    1) (= permit) lassen

    she let me borrow the car — sie lieh mir das Auto, ich durfte ihr Auto nehmen

    he wants to but I won't let him —

    the particle wants to escape but the magnetic force won't let it — das Teilchen möchte sich frei machen, aber die magnetische Kraft verhindert es

    oh please let me — bitte, bitte, lass mich doch (mal)!

    to let sb/sth go, to let go of sb/sth — jdn/etw loslassen

    let me go! — lassen Sie mich los!, loslassen!

    See:
    → drop, fly
    2) (old causative) lassen

    let the bells be rung let it be known by all citizens that... — lasset die Glocken ertönen (liter) allen Bürgern sei kundgetan, dass... (old)

    let it be known that... — alle sollen wissen, dass...

    3)

    to let sb/sth alone — jdn/etw in Ruhe lassen

    we can't improve it any more, we'd better let it alone —

    please let me by/past — bitte, lassen Sie mich vorbei/durch

    to let sb/sth through — jdn/etw durchlassen

    4)

    let's go home — komm, wir gehen nach Hause

    yes, let's — oh ja!

    it's late, but yes let's — es ist spät, aber na ja, einverstanden

    don't let's or let's not fight —

    let him try (it)! — das soll er nur or mal versuchen!

    let me think or see, where did I put it? —

    let their need be never so great let there be music — mag ihre Not auch noch so groß sein lasst Musik erklingen

    let us suppose... — nehmen wir (mal) an, dass...

    See:
    → equal
    5) (esp Brit: hire out) vermieten

    "to let" — "zu vermieten"

    we can't find a house to let — wir können kein Haus finden, das zu mieten ist

    6)
    * * *
    let1 [let]
    A s Br
    a) Vermieten n, Vermietung f
    b) Mietobjekt n:
    he is looking for a let in London er will in London eine Wohnung oder ein Haus mieten, er sucht in London eine Wohnung oder ein Haus
    c) umg Mieter(in):
    they can’t find a let for their flat
    B v/t prät und pperf let
    1. lassen, jemandem erlauben:
    let him talk lass ihn reden;
    let me help you lassen Sie sich (von mir) helfen;
    he let himself be deceived er ließ sich täuschen;
    let sb know jemanden wissen lassen, jemandem Bescheid geben;
    a) etwas sein lassen, die Finger lassen von,
    b) jemanden, etwas in Ruhe lassen;
    a) (her)einlassen in (akk),
    b) jemanden in ein Geheimnis einweihen,
    c) ein Stück Stoff etc einsetzen in (akk);
    let sb off a penalty jemandem eine Strafe erlassen;
    let sb off a promise jemanden von einem Versprechen entbinden;
    she didn’t let him umg sie ließ ihn nicht; → let1 Bes Redew, severely 1, well1 D
    2. besonders Br vermieten, -pachten ( beide:
    to an akk;
    for auf ein Jahr etc):
    “to let” „zu vermieten“
    3. eine Arbeit etc vergeben (to an akk)
    C v/aux lassen, mögen, sollen (zur Umschreibung des Imperativs der 1. und 3. Person, von Befehlen etc):
    let us go! Yes, let’s! gehen wir! Ja, gehen wir! ( oder Ja, einverstanden!);
    let us pray lasset uns beten;
    let him go there at once! er soll sofort hingehen!;
    (just) let them try sie sollen es nur versuchen;
    let A be equal to B nehmen wir an, A ist gleich B
    D v/i
    1. besonders Br vermietet oder verpachtet werden (at, for für)
    2. sich gut etc vermieten oder verpachten lassen
    3. let into über jemanden herfallenBesondere Redewendungen: let alone
    a) geschweige denn, ganz zu schweigen von,
    b) → let1 B 1;
    a) etwas sein lassen, die Finger lassen von,
    b) jemanden, etwas in Ruhe lassen;
    let drive at sb auf jemanden losschlagen oder -feuern;
    a) fallen lassen,
    b) fig eine Bemerkung etc fallen lassen,
    c) MATH eine Senkrechte fällen (on, upon auf akk);
    a) etwas abschießen,
    b) fig etwas loslassen, vom Stapel lassen,
    c) schießen (at auf akk),
    d) fig grob werden, vom Leder ziehen (at gegen);
    let go loslassen;
    let sth go, let go of sth etwas loslassen;
    let o.s. go
    a) sich gehen lassen,
    b) aus sich herausgehen;
    let it go at that lass es dabei bewenden;
    don’t let it go any further erzählen Sie es nicht weiter; → loose A 1, slip1 B 1, etc
    let2 [let] s
    1. besonders Tennis: Let n, Netzaufschlag m:
    let! Netz!
    2. Hindernis n (obs außer in):
    without let or hindrance völlig unbehindert
    * * *
    I 1. transitive verb,
    -tt-, let
    1) (allow to) lassen

    don't let things get you down/worry you — lass dich nicht entmutigen/mach dir keine Sorgen

    I'll come if you will let me — ich komme, wenn ich darf

    let somebody/something alone — jemanden/etwas in Ruhe lassen

    let alone — (far less) geschweige denn

    let somebody be — jemanden in Ruhe od. Frieden lassen

    let go [of] something/somebody — etwas/jemanden loslassen

    let somebody go — (from captivity) jemanden freilassen

    let go — (release hold) loslassen; (neglect) herunterkommen lassen [Haus]; (let pass) durchgehen lassen [Bemerkung]

    let it go [at that] — es dabei belassen od. bewenden lassen

    let oneself go — (neglect oneself) sich vernachlässigen; (abandon self-restraint) sich gehen lassen

    let somebody think that... — jemanden in dem Glauben lassen, dass...

    I will let you know as soon as... — ich gebe Ihnen Bescheid, sobald...

    3) (release) ablassen [Wasser] (out of, from aus); lassen [Luft] ( out of aus)
    4) (Brit.): (rent out) vermieten [Haus, Wohnung, Büro]; verpachten [Gelände, Grundstück]

    ‘to let’ — "zu vermieten"

    2. auxiliary verb,
    -tt-, let
    1) in exhortations lassen

    let us suppose that... — nehmen wir [nur] einmal an, dass...

    Let's go to the cinema. - Yes, let's/No, let's not or don't let's — Komm/Kommt, wir gehen ins Kino. - Ja, gut/Nein, lieber nicht

    2) in command, challenge lassen

    let them come in — sie sollen hereinkommen; lassen Sie sie herein

    never let it be said that... — keiner soll sagen, dass...

    [just] let him try! — das soll er [nur] mal wagen!

    3. noun
    (Brit.)
    Phrasal Verbs:
    II noun

    without let [or hindrance] — (formal/Law) ohne jede Behinderung

    * * *
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: let)
    = erlauben v.
    lassen v.
    (§ p.,pp.: ließ, gelassen)
    vermieten v.
    zulassen v.

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  • 48 Bergius, Friedrich Carl Rudolf

    [br]
    b. 11 October 1884 Goldschmieden, near Breslau, Germany
    d. 31 March Buenos Aires, Argentina
    [br]
    [br]
    After studying chemistry in Breslau and Leipzig and assisting inter alia at the institute of Fritz Haber in Karlsruhe on the catalysis of ammonia under high pressure, in 1909 he went to Hannover to pursue his idea of turning coal into liquid hydrocarbon under high hydrogen pressure (200 atm) and high temperatures (470° C). As experiments with high pressure in chemical processes were still in their initial stages and the Technical University could not support him sufficiently, he set up a private laboratory to develop the methods and to construct the equipment himself. Four years later, in 1913, his process for producing liquid or organic compounds from coal was patented.
    The economic aspects of this process were apparent as the demand for fuels and lubricants increased more rapidly than the production of oil, and Bergius's process became even more important after the outbreak of the First World War. The Th. Goldschmidt company of Essen contracted him and tried large-scale production near Mannheim in 1914, but production failed because of the lack of capital and experience to operate with high pressure on an industrial level. Both capital and experience were provided jointly by the BASF company, which produced ammonia at Merseburg, and IG Farben, which took over the Bergius process in 1925, the same year that the synthesis of hydrocarbon had been developed by Fischer-Tropsch. Two years later, at the Leuna works, almost 100,000 tonnes of oil were produced from coal; during the following years, several more hydrogenation plants were to follow, especially in the eastern parts of Germany as well as in the Ruhr area, while the government guaranteed the costs. The Bergius process was extremely important for the supply of fuels to Germany during the Second World War, with the monthly production rate in 1943–4 being more than 700,000 tonnes. However, the plants were mostly destroyed at. the end of the war and were later dismantled.
    As a consequence of this success Bergius, who had gained an international reputation, went abroad to work as a consultant to several foreign governments. Experiments aiming to reduce the costs of production are still continued in some countries. By 1925, after he had solved all the principles of his process, he had turned to the production of dextrose by hydrolyzing wood with highly concentrated hydrochloric acid.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Nobel Prize 1931. Honorary doctorates, Heidelberg, Harvard and Hannover.
    Bibliography
    1907, "Über absolute Schwefelsäure als Lösungsmittel", unpublished thesis, Weida. 1913, Die Anwendung hoher Drucke bei chemischen Vorgängen und eine Nachbildung
    des Entstehungsprozesses der Steinkohle, Halle. 1913, DRP no. 301, 231 (coal-liquefaction process).
    1925, "Verflüssigung der Kohle", Zeitschrift des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure, 69:1313–20, 1359–62.
    1933, "Chemische Reaktionen unter hohem Druck", Les Prix Nobel en 1931, Stockholm, pp. 1–37.
    Further Reading
    Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, 1985, Friedrich Bergius und die Kohleverflüssigung. Stationen einer Entwicklung, Bochum (gives a comprehensive and illustrated description of the man and the technology).
    H.Beck, 1982, Friedrich Bergius, ein Erfinderschicksal, Munich: Deutsches Museum (a detailed biographical description).
    W.Birkendfeld, 1964, Der synthetische Treibstoff 1933–1945. Ein Beitragzur nationalsozialistischen Wirtschafts-und Rüstungspolitik, Göttingen, Berlin and Frankfurt (describes the economic value of synthetic fuels for the Third Reich).
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    Biographical history of technology > Bergius, Friedrich Carl Rudolf

  • 49 Fox, Samuel

    [br]
    b. 1815 Bradfield, near Sheffield, England
    d. February 1887 Sheffield, England
    [br]
    English inventor of the curved steel umbrella frame.
    [br]
    Samuel Fox was the son of a weaver's shuttle maker in the hamlet of Bradwell (probably Bradfield, near Sheffield) in the remote hills. He went to Sheffield and served an apprenticeship in the steel trade. Afterwards, he worked with great energy and industry until he acquired sufficient capital to start in business on his own account at Stocksbridge, near Sheffield. It was there that he invented what became known as "Fox's Paragon Frame" for umbrellas. Whalebone or solid steel had previously been used for umbrella ribs, but whalebone was unreliable and steel was heavy. Fox realized that if he grooved the ribs he could make them both lighter and more elastic. In his first patent, taken out in 1852, he described making the ribs and stretchers of parasols and umbrellas from a narrow strip of steel plate partially bent into a trough-like form. He took out five more patents. The first, in 1853, was for strengthening the joints. His next two, in 1856 and 1857, were more concerned with preparing the steel for making the ribs. Another patent in 1857 was basically for improving the formation of the bit at the end of the rib where it was fixed to the stretcher and where the end of the rib has to be formed into a boss: this was so it could have a pin fixed through it to act as a pivot when the umbrella has to be opened or folded and yet support the rib and stretcher. The final patent, in 1865, reverted once more to improving the manufacture of the ribs. He made a fortune before other manufacturers knew what he was doing. Fox established a works at Lille when he found that the French import duties and other fiscal arrangements hindered exporting umbrellas and successful trading there, and was thereby able to develop a large and lucrative business.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1852. British patent no. 14,055 (curved steel ribs and stretchers for umbrellas). 1853. British patent no. 739 (strengthened umbrella joints).
    1856. British patent no. 2,741 (ribs and stretchers for umbrellas). 1857. British patent no. 1,450 (steel wire for umbrellas).
    1857, British patent no. 1,857 (forming the bit attached to the ribs). 1865, British patent no. 2,348 (improvements in making the ribs).
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1887, Engineer 63.
    Obituary, 1887, Iron 29.
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  • 50 Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo

    [br]
    b. 25 April 1874 Bologna, Italy
    d. 20 July 1937 Rome, Italy
    [br]
    Italian radio pioneer whose inventiveness and business skills made radio communication a practical proposition.
    [br]
    Marconi was educated in physics at Leghorn and at Bologna University. An avid experimenter, he worked in his parents' attic and, almost certainly aware of the recent work of Hertz and others, soon improved the performance of coherers and spark-gap transmitters. He also discovered for himself the use of earthing and of elevated metal plates as aerials. In 1895 he succeeded in transmitting telegraphy over a distance of 2 km (1¼ miles), but the Italian Telegraph authority rejected his invention, so in 1896 he moved to England, where he filed the first of many patents. There he gained the support of the Chief Engineer of the Post Office, and by the following year he had achieved communication across the Bristol Channel.
    The British Post Office was also slow to take up his work, so in 1897 he formed the Wireless Telegraph \& Signal Company to work independently. In 1898 he sold some equipment to the British Army for use in the Boer War and established the first permanent radio link from the Isle of Wight to the mainland. In 1899 he achieved communication across the English Channel (a distance of more than 31 miles or 50 km), the construction of a wireless station at Spezia, Italy, and the equipping of two US ships to report progress in the America's Cup yacht race, a venture that led to the formation of the American Marconi Company. In 1900 he won a contract from the British Admiralty to sell equipment and to train operators. Realizing that his business would be much more successful if he could offer his customers a complete radio-communication service (known today as a "turnkey" deal), he floated a new company, the Marconi International Marine Communications Company, while the old company became the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company.
    His greatest achievement occurred on 12 December 1901, when Morse telegraph signals from a transmitter at Poldhu in Cornwall were received at St John's, Newfoundland, a distance of some 2,100 miles (3,400 km), with the use of an aerial flown by a kite. As a result of this, Marconi's business prospered and he became internationally famous, receiving many honours for his endeavours, including the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. In 1904, radio was first used to provide a daily bulletin at sea, and in 1907 a transatlantic wireless telegraphy service was inaugurated. The rescue of 1,650 passengers from the shipwreck of SS Republic in 1909 was the first of many occasions when wireless was instrumental in saving lives at sea, most notable being those from the Titanic on its maiden voyage in April 1912; more lives would have been saved had there been sufficient lifeboats. Marconi was one of those who subsequently pressed for greater safety at sea. In 1910 he demonstrated the reception of long (8 km or 5 miles) waves from Ireland in Buenos Aires, but after the First World War he began to develop the use of short waves, which were more effectively reflected by the ionosphere. By 1918 the first link between England and Australia had been established, and in 1924 he was awarded a Post Office contract for short-wave communication between England and the various parts of the British Empire.
    With his achievements by then recognized by the Italian Government, in 1915 he was appointed Radio-Communications Adviser to the Italian armed forces, and in 1919 he was an Italian delegate to the Paris Peace Conference. From 1921 he lived on his yacht, the Elettra, and although he joined the Fascist Party in 1923, he later had reservations about Mussolini.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Nobel Prize for Physics (jointly with K.F. Braun) 1909. Russian Order of S t Anne. Commander of St Maurice and St Lazarus. Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (i.e. Knight) of Italy 1902. Freedom of Rome 1903. Honorary DSc Oxford. Honorary LLD Glasgow. Chevalier of the Civil Order of Savoy 1905. Royal Society of Arts Albert Medal. Honorary knighthood (GCVO) 1914. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Medal of Honour 1920. Chairman, Royal Society of Arts 1924. Created Marquis (Marchese) 1929. Nominated to the Italian Senate 1929. President, Italian Academy 1930. Rector, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 1934.
    Bibliography
    1896, "Improvements in transmitting electrical impulses and in apparatus thereof", British patent no. 12,039.
    1 June 1898, British patent no. 12,326 (transformer or "jigger" resonant circuit).
    1901, British patent no. 7,777 (selective tuning).
    1904, British patent no. 763,772 ("four circuit" tuning arrangement).
    Further Reading
    D.Marconi, 1962, My Father, Marconi.
    W.J.Baker, 1970, A History of the Marconi Company, London: Methuen.
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    Biographical history of technology > Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo

  • 51 Norton, Charles Hotchkiss

    [br]
    b. 23 November 1851 Plainville, Connecticut, USA
    d. 27 October 1942 Plainville, Connecticut, USA
    [br]
    American mechanical engineer and machine-tool designer.
    [br]
    After an elementary education at the public schools of Plainville and Thomaston, Connecticut, Charles H.Norton started work in 1866 at the Seth Thomas Clock Company in Thomaston. He was soon promoted to machinist, and further progress led to his successive appointments as Foreman, Superintendent of Machinery and Manager of the department making tower clocks. He designed many public clocks.
    In 1886 he obtained a position as Assistant Engineer with the Brown \& Sharpe Manufacturing Company at Providence, Rhode Island, and was engaged in redesigning their universal grinding machine to give it more rigidity and make it more suitable for use as a production machine. In 1890 he left to become a partner in a newly established firm, Leland, Faulconer \& Norton Company at Detroit, Michigan, designing and building machine tools. He withdrew from this firm in 1895 and practised as a consulting mechanical engineer for a short time before returning to Brown \& Sharpe in 1896. There he designed a grinding machine incorporating larger and wider grinding wheels so that heavier cuts could be made to meet the needs of the mass-production industries, especially the automobile industry. This required a heavier and more rigid machine and greater power, but these ideas were not welcomed at Brown \& Sharpe and in 1900 Norton left to found the Norton Grinding Company in Worcester, Massachusetts. Here he was able to develop heavy-production grinding machines, including special machines for grinding crank-shafts and camshafts for the automobile industry.
    In setting up the Norton Grinding Company, Charles H.Norton received financial support from members of the Norton Emery Wheel Company (also of Worcester and known after 1906 as the Norton Company), but he was not related to the founder of that company. The two firms were completely independent until 1919 when they were merged. From that time Charles H.Norton served as Chief Engineer of the machinery division of the Norton Company, until 1934 when he became their Consulting Engineer.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    City of Philadelphia, John Scott Medal 1925.
    Bibliography
    Further Reading
    Robert S.Woodbury, 1959, History of the Grinding Machine, Cambridge, Mass, (contains biographical information and details of the machines designed by Norton).
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    Biographical history of technology > Norton, Charles Hotchkiss

  • 52 power

    ˈpauə
    1. сущ.
    1) а) сила, мощь;
    могущество Syn: strength, might, vigour, energy, force б) способность, возможность to develop one's powers ≈ развивать способности к чему-л. spending power speech power bargaining power earning power healing power purchasing power staying power supernatural powers Syn: facility, faculty, ability, property, capacity в) значение (слова в контексте)
    2) а) сила (физическая), мощность, энергия, производительность to cut off, turn off the power ≈ прекратить подачу энергии to turn on the power ≈ обеспечить подачу энергии nuclear power ≈ атомная энергия, ядерная энергия by power without power electric power hydroelectric power mechanical powers б) физ. сила, мощность в) оптика оптическая сила линзы
    3) а) власть;
    держава the Great Powers ≈ великие державы They seized power over several provinces. ≈ Они захватили власть в нескольких провинциях. The president has the power to dissolve parliament. ≈ Президент имеет право распустить парламент. to assume, take, seize power ≈ прийти к власти, захватить власть to come into power ≈ прийти к власти to exercise, wield power ≈ обладать властью to transfer power ≈ передать власть кому-л. discretionary powers executive power political power supreme power government in power party in power power politics powers-that-be б) юр. полномочия, уполномоченность, право, полноправие power of attorney resulting powers war powers emergency powers Syn: jurisdiction, authority
    4) а) сверхъестественное существо, божество;
    шестой ранг ангелов в средневековой их классификации Syn: deity, divinity б) вооруженный отряд
    5) разг. куча, множество, большое количество чего-л.
    6) мат. степень eight is the third power of two ≈ восемь представляет собой два в третьей степени ∙ more power to your elbow! ≈ желаю успеха! the powers that be ≈ власти предержащие, сильные мира сего merciful powers! ≈ силы небесные!
    2. гл.
    1) а) приводить в действие или движение;
    являться приводным двигателем This boat is powered with the latest improved model of our engine. ≈ На этой лодке установлена последняя модель нашего двигателя. б) питать (электро) энергией
    2) а) двигаться на большой скорости, "лететь" б) мор. двигаться с помощью мотора, а не паруса
    3) поддерживать, вдохновлять Syn: inspire ∙ power up сила;
    мощь - the * of a blow сила удара - the great flood moving with majesty and * воды катились величественно и мощно - the country was at the height of her * страна находилась в расцвете своего могущества энергия;
    мощность - electric * электроэнергия - lifting * подъемная сила - hydraulic * гидравлическая энергия, энергия воды - emitting * излучающая способность - atomic /nuclear/ * атомная /ядерная/ энергия - * engineering энергетика - * consumption потребление энергии;
    расход мощности - * generation производство энергии - * (is) on прибор /аппарат, агрегат, двигатель и т. п./ включен - * cut /failure/ отключение /прекращение подачи/ (электро) энергии мощность;
    производительность - rated /design/ * расчетная мощность - output * выходная мощность, мощность на выходе - * factor (электротехника) коэффициент мощности;
    косинус фи - * augmentation форсаж, форсирование( двигателя) - to be on full * (техническое) работать на полную мощность( техническое) (профессионализм) двигатель;
    машина, силовая установка - the mechanical *s простые машины - * feed механическая /автоматическая/ подача - * farming механизированное сельское хозяйство - by * механической силой, приводом от двигателя энергетика - electric * электроэнергетика могущество, сила, власть - absolute * абсолютная власть - a party in * правящая партия - the * of the law сила закона - the * of Congress власть Конгресса - the * of the keys папская власть - * of life and death право распоряжаться жизнью и смертью - to be in * быть /находиться/ у власти - to come /to rise/ to * прийти к власти - to take * взять власть - I am in your * я в вашей власти - it is not within my * это не в моей власти боги;
    божественные силы - the *s of darkness /of evil/ силы тьмы;
    темные силы - merciful *s! силы небесные! (юридическое) власть - legislative * законодательная власть - separation of *s разделение властей (законодательной, исполнительной и судебной) возможность - purchasing /buying/ * покупательная способность - to do all /everything/ in one's * сделать все возможное - to be beyond /out of/ one's * быть не под силу /не по силам/ - he did it to the best /to the utmost/ of his * он приложил максимум усилий (умственная или физическая) способность - * of movement двигательная способность - * of observation наблюдательность - mental *s умственные способности - he is a man of varied *s он наделен разными /многими/ способностями - his *s are failing его силы угасают - at the height of one's *s в расцвете сил - her *s of resistance are low у нее слабая сопротивляемость право, полномочие - large *s широкие полномочия - treaty-making * право заключения договоров - * of substitution( юридическое) право передоверия - delegation of * передача полномочий( юридическое) доверенность (тж. * of attorney) - a full * полная /общая/ доверенность - to furnish smb. with (a) full *(s) предоставить кому-л. полную доверенность (юридическое) дееспособность, правоспособность - * of testation правоспособность к совершению завещания - * of appointment( юридическое) право распоряжения имуществом (предоставляется лицу, не являющемуся его собственником) держава - the Great Powers великие державы - leading *s ведущие державы - small * малая держава - maritime * морская держава - occupying * оккупирующая держава (разговорное) (диалектизм) много, множество - it's done me a * of good это принесло мне огромную пользу - we saw a * of people мы видели множество людей (математика) степень - * equation( математика) степенное уравнение - 27 is the third * of 3 27 - это три в кубе (математика) порядок (кривой) (оптика) сила увеличения;
    оптическая сила - the * of a lens сила увеличения линзы религиозный экстаз > the *s that be сильные мира сего, власть имущие;
    (библеизм) власть предержащие приводить в действие или движение;
    служить приводным двигателем снабжать силовым двигателем - boat *ed by outboard motor лодка с подвесным мотором питать (электро) энергией поддерживать;
    вдохновлять - faith is goodness *s his life вера в добро освещает всю его жизнь air ~ могущество в воздухе, воздушная мощь ancillary ~ акцессорное право arbitrary ~ дискреционные полномочия autonomous ~ самоуправление bargaining ~ рыночная позиция bargaining ~ сила которой обладают стороны при переговорах blanket ~ полные полномочия buying ~ полномочия на совершение сделки ~ сила;
    мощность, энергия;
    производительность;
    by power механической силой, приводом от двигателя colonial ~ колониальная держава commercial ~ торговая держава competitive ~ конкурентоспособность computational ~ вчт. вычислительные возможности computer ~ вычислительная мощность computer ~ вычислительный ресурс computer ~ вчт. производительность компьютера computing ~ вчт. вычислительные возможности conquering ~ завоевательная держава continental ~ континентальная держава data ~ эффективность данных decision-making ~ полномочие на принятие решений discretionary ~ дискреционная власть discretionary ~ дискреционные полномочия dispositive ~ юридические полномочия driving ~ движущая сила earning ~ возможность зарабатывать earning ~ доходность earning ~ прибыльность earning ~ способность приносить доход ~ мат. степень;
    eight is the third power of two восемь представляет собой два в третьей степени engine ~ мощность двигателя excess purchasing ~ чрезмерная покупательная способность executive ~ исполнительная власть executive ~ исполнительные полномочия explanatory ~ полномочия давать объяснения expressive ~ выразительная сила financial ~ финансовая власть fiscal ~ финансовые полномочия foreign ~ иностранная держава general ~ общая компетенция general ~ общие полномочия general purchasing ~ всеобщая покупательная способность grant a ~ предоставлять полномочия grant a ~ уполномочивать great ~ великая держава ~ держава;
    the Great Powers великие державы housekeeping ~ юр. право ведения домашнего хозяйства ~ способность;
    возможность;
    I will do all in my power я сделаю все, что в моих силах;
    it is beyond my power это не в моей власти ~ способность;
    возможность;
    I will do all in my power я сделаю все, что в моих силах;
    it is beyond my power это не в моей власти joint decision-making ~ совместное право принятия решений judicial ~ судебная власть land ~ военная мощь land ~ мощная военная держава legislative ~ законодательная власть machine ~ машинная мощность major ~ главная держава mandatory ~ государство-мандатарий mandatory ~ мандатные полномочия maritime ~ морская держава market ~ власть на рынке market ~ рыночная власть mechanical ~ механическая мощность without ~ с выключенным двигателем;
    the mechanical powers простые машины the powers that be власти предержащие, сильные мира сего;
    merciful powers! силы небесные! military ~ военная держава ~ politics политика с позиции силы;
    more power to your elbow! желаю успеха! naval ~ морская держава nuclear ~ государство, обладающее атомным оружием nuclear ~ ядерная держава nuclear ~ ядерное государство occupying ~ оккупационная держава paternal ~ родительская власть placing ~ способность разместить ценные бумаги power власть ~ возможность ~ дееспособность ~ держава;
    the Great Powers великие державы ~ держава ~ доверенность ~ компетенция ~ разг. много, множество;
    a power of money куча денег;
    a power of good много пользы ~ могущество, власть (тж. государственная) ;
    влияние, мощь;
    supreme power верховная власть;
    the party in power партия, стоящая у власти ~ мощность ~ мощь ~ полномочие;
    the power of attorney доверенность ~ полномочие ~ право ~ правоспособность ~ производительность ~ сила;
    мощность, энергия;
    производительность;
    by power механической силой, приводом от двигателя ~ сила ~ опт. сила увеличения (линзы, микроскопа и т. п.) ~ снабжать силовым двигателем ~ способность, право, правомочие, полномочие, компетенция ~ способность;
    возможность;
    I will do all in my power я сделаю все, что в моих силах;
    it is beyond my power это не в моей власти ~ способность ~ степень ~ мат. степень;
    eight is the third power of two восемь представляет собой два в третьей степени ~ энергия ~ attr. силовой, энергетический;
    моторный;
    машинный ~ of appointment доверенность на распределение наследственного имущества ~ полномочие;
    the power of attorney доверенность ~ of attorney доверенность ~ of attorney полномочие ~ of attorney concerning safe custody полномочие на хранение ценных бумаг в банковском сейфе ~ of attorney given for business purposes полномочие на ведение дел ~ of attorney to represent another person in court полномочия представлять в суде интересы другого лица ~ of codecisions полеомочия принимать совместные решения ~ of decisions право принимать решения ~ of discretion полномочия решать по собственному усмотрению ~ of eminent domain право государства на принудительное отчуждение частной собственности ~ разг. много, множество;
    a power of money куча денег;
    a power of good много пользы ~ of inquiry право подавать запрос ~ разг. много, множество;
    a power of money куча денег;
    a power of good много пользы ~ of procuration полномочие на ведение дел ~ of sale право продажи ~ of taxation право обложения налогом ~ of testation право на завещательное распоряжение ~ politics политика с позиции силы;
    more power to your elbow! желаю успеха! ~ to coopt право кооптировать ~ to take decisions право принимать решения the powers that be власти предержащие, сильные мира сего;
    merciful powers! силы небесные! prosecutorial ~ обвинительные полномочия protective ~ протекционистская держава pulling ~ привлекательность рекламы purchasing ~ покупательная сила purchasing ~ эк. покупательная способность purchasing ~ покупательная способность purchasing ~ покупательная способность денег raising to a ~ возведение в степень real purchasing ~ реальная покупательная способность regulatory ~ распорядительные полномочия sea ~ морская держава signatory ~ подписавшаяся страна signatory ~ страна, подписавшая документ spending ~ покупательная способность;
    speech power дар речи spending ~ покупательная способность;
    speech power дар речи state ~ государственная власть staying ~ страна пребывания staying: ~ остающийся неизменным;
    неослабевающий;
    staying power(s) выносливость, выдержка ~ могущество, власть (тж. государственная) ;
    влияние, мощь;
    supreme power верховная власть;
    the party in power партия, стоящая у власти supreme ~ высшая власть taxpaying ~ налогоспособность treaty ~ полномочия на заключение договора unlimited ~ неограниченная мощность victorious ~ победоносная держава voting ~ право голоса without ~ с выключенным двигателем;
    the mechanical powers простые машины

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > power

  • 53 go on

    1. intransitive verb
    1) weitergehen/-fahren; (by vehicle) die Reise/Fahrt usw. fortsetzen; (go ahead) vorausgehen/-fahren
    2) (continue) weitergehen; [Kämpfe:] anhalten; [Verhandlungen, Arbeiten:] [an]dauern; (continue to act) weitermachen; (continue to live) weiterleben

    go on for weeks — etc. Wochen usw. dauern

    go on to say — etc. fortfahren und sagen usw.

    go on [and on] — (coll.): (chatter) reden und reden

    go on about somebody/something — (coll.) (talk) stundenlang von jemandem/etwas erzählen; (complain) sich ständig über jemanden/etwas beklagen

    go on at somebody — (coll.) auf jemandem herumhacken (ugs.)

    3) (elapse) [Zeit:] vergehen

    as time/the years went on — im Laufe der Zeit/Jahre

    4) (happen) passieren; vor sich gehen

    there's more going on in the big cities — in den großen Städten ist mehr los

    what's going on? — was geht vor?; was ist los?

    5)

    be going on [for]... — (be nearly) fast... sein

    he is going on [for] ninety — er geht auf die Neunzig zu

    it is going on [for] ten o'clock — es geht auf 10 Uhr zu

    6) (behave) sich benehmen; sich aufführen
    7) [Kleidung:] passen

    my dress wouldn't go on — ich kam nicht in mein Kleid rein (ugs.)

    8) (Theatre) auftreten
    9) [Licht:] angehen; [Strom, Wasser:] kommen

    go on again — [Strom, Gas, Wasser:] wiederkommen

    10)

    go on! — (proceed) los, mach schon! (ugs.); (resume) fahren Sie fort!; (coll.): (stop talking nonsense) ach, geh od. komm! (ugs.)

    2. transitive verb
    1) (ride on) fahren mit

    go on working/talking — etc. weiterarbeiten/-reden usw.

    go on trying — es weiter[hin] versuchen

    3) (coll.): (be guided by) sich stützen auf (+ Akk.)
    4) (begin to receive) bekommen, erhalten [Arbeitslosengeld, Sozialfürsorge]; see also academic.ru/21703/dole">dole 1.
    5) (start to take) nehmen [Medikament, Drogen]

    go on a diet — eine Abmagerungs- od. Schlankheitskur machen

    6) (coll.): (like) see much 3. 4). See also go 1. 1), 2), 22)
    * * *
    1) (to continue: Go on reading - I won't disturb you.) fortfahren
    2) (to talk a great deal, usually too much: She goes on and on about her health.) weiter fortfahren
    3) (to happen: What is going on here?) vor sich gehen
    4) (to base one's investigations etc on: The police had very few clues to go on in their search for the murderer.) fortfahren
    * * *
    ◆ go on
    vi
    1. (go further) weitergehen; vehicle weiterfahren
    to \go on on ahead vorausgehen; vehicle vorausfahren
    2. (extend) sich akk erstrecken; time voranschreiten
    the forests seemed to \go on on for ever die Wälder schienen sich bis in die Unendlichkeit zu erstrecken
    it'll get warmer as the day \go ones on im Laufe des Tages wird es wärmer
    as time went on, their friendship blossomed im Laufe der Zeit wurde ihre Freundschaft immer tiefer
    3. (continue) weitermachen; fights anhalten; negotiations andauern fam
    I can't \go on on ich kann nicht mehr
    you can't \go on on like that indefinitely du kannst nicht ewig so weitermachen
    we can't \go on on arguing like this wir können nicht immerzu so weiter streiten
    how can you \go on on as if nothing has happened? wie kannst du nur einfach so weitermachen, als sei nichts passiert?
    to \go on on trying es weiter versuchen
    to \go on on working weiterarbeiten
    to \go on on and on kein Ende nehmen [wollen]
    4. (continue speaking) weiterreden; (speak incessantly) unaufhörlich reden
    sorry, please \go on on Entschuldigung, bitte fahren Sie fort
    he just \go ones on and on er redet echt wie ein Wasserfall fam
    she went on to talk about her time in Africa sie erzählte weiter von ihrer Zeit in Afrika
    he went on to say that... dann sagte er, dass...
    “... and then,” he went on... „... und dann“, fuhr er fort...
    ▪ to \go on on about sb/sth stundenlang über jdn/etw reden
    to always \go on on [about sth] andauernd [über etw akk] reden
    ▪ to \go on on about sb/sth dauernd über jdn/etw klagen
    ▪ to \go on on at sb an jdm herumnörgeln [o herummäkeln] fam
    6. (happen) passieren
    this has been \go oning on for months now das geht jetzt schon Monate so!
    what on earth's been \go oning on here? was um alles in der Welt ist denn hier passiert?
    what's \go oning on here? was geht denn hier vor?
    I always knew that he would \go on on to a successful career ich wusste schon immer, dass er es mal zu etwas bringen würde
    she went on to do a PhD sie strebte einen Doktortitel an
    he went on to become a teacher später wurde er Lehrer
    what proportion of people who are HIV-positive \go on on to develop AIDS? bei wie viel Prozent der HIV-Infizierten bricht tatsächlich AIDS aus?
    8. (start, embark on) anfangen
    this is the second fishing trip he's gone on this summer das ist dieses Jahr schon sein zweiter Angelurlaub
    to \go on on [or onto] the attack den Angriff starten
    to \go on on a diet auf Diät gehen
    to \go on on the dole stempeln gehen fam
    to \go on on an expedition auf eine Expedition gehen
    to \go on on a half-day week halbtags arbeiten
    to \go on on [a] holiday in Urlaub gehen, auf Urlaub fahren ÖSTERR, in die Ferien fahren SCHWEIZ
    to \go on on honeymoon auf Hochzeitsreise gehen, eine Hochzeitsreise machen ÖSTERR
    to \go on on a journey eine Reise machen
    to \go on on the pill MED die Pille nehmen
    to \go on on strike in den Streik treten
    to \go on on tour auf Tournee gehen
    9. TECH lights angehen
    10. THEAT auftreten
    I don't \go on on until the second act ich komme erst im zweiten Akt dran
    11. SPORT an der Reihe sein
    ▪ to \go on on sth evidence sich akk auf etw akk stützen
    we haven't got any anything to \go on on yet wir haben noch keine Anhaltspunkte
    13. (fit)
    ▪ to \go on on [sth]:
    these boots won't \go on on over my thick socks diese Stiefel passen nicht über meine dicken Socken
    this shoe just won't \go on on ich kriege diesen Schuh einfach nicht an fam
    14. (belong on)
    ▪ to \go on on sth auf etw akk gehören
    that vice \go ones on the workbench diese Schraubzwinge gehört auf die Werkbank
    15. FIN (be allocated to)
    ▪ to \go on on sth expenses auf etw akk gehen
    all travel expenses \go on on the company account die Firma übernimmt alle Reisekosten
    16. (as encouragement)
    \go on on, have another drink na komm, trink noch einen
    \go on on and ask directions komm, frag nach dem Weg
    \go on on! los, mach schon!
    \go on on, tell me! jetzt sag schon! fam
    17. (expressing disbelief)
    what, they eloped? \go on on, you must be kidding! was, sie sind abgehauen? das ist nicht dein Ernst! fam
    18. (ride on)
    ▪ to \go on on the swings auf die Schaukel gehen
    19. (approach)
    my granny is \go oning on [for] ninety meine Oma geht auf die neunzig zu
    it's \go oning on [for] nine o'clock es geht auf neun zu
    I'm \go oning on [for] ten! ich bin [schon] fast zehn!
    * * *
    go on v/i
    1. weitergehen, -fahren
    2. weitermachen ( with mit), fortfahren ( doing zu tun; with mit):
    go on!
    a) (mach) weiter!,
    b) iron hör auf!, ach komm!;
    go on reading lies weiter!
    3. daraufhin anfangen ( to do zu tun):
    he went on to say darauf sagte er;
    go on to sth zu einer Sache übergehen
    4. fortdauern, weitergehen:
    his speech went on for more than two hours seine Rede dauerte länger als zwei Stunden;
    life goes on das Leben geht weiter
    5. vor sich gehen, vorgehen, passieren: I don’t know what’s going on in his head was in seinem Kopf vorgeht;
    what’s going on here? was ist hier los?
    6. sich benehmen oder aufführen:
    don’t go on like that! hör auf damit!
    7. umg
    a) unaufhörlich reden oder schwatzen ( about über akk, von)
    b) ständig herumnörgeln (at an dat)
    8. angehen (Licht etc)
    9. THEAT auftreten
    10. go on for gehen auf (akk), bald sein:
    it’s going on for 5 o’clock;
    he is going on for 60 er geht auf die Sechzig zu
    11. fahren mit: → ghost train
    12. ein Medikament nehmen: → pill A 4
    13. → go1 C 17
    * * *
    1. intransitive verb
    1) weitergehen/-fahren; (by vehicle) die Reise/Fahrt usw. fortsetzen; (go ahead) vorausgehen/-fahren
    2) (continue) weitergehen; [Kämpfe:] anhalten; [Verhandlungen, Arbeiten:] [an]dauern; (continue to act) weitermachen; (continue to live) weiterleben

    go on for weeks — etc. Wochen usw. dauern

    go on to say — etc. fortfahren und sagen usw.

    go on [and on] — (coll.): (chatter) reden und reden

    go on about somebody/something — (coll.) (talk) stundenlang von jemandem/etwas erzählen; (complain) sich ständig über jemanden/etwas beklagen

    go on at somebody — (coll.) auf jemandem herumhacken (ugs.)

    3) (elapse) [Zeit:] vergehen

    as time/the years went on — im Laufe der Zeit/Jahre

    4) (happen) passieren; vor sich gehen

    what's going on? — was geht vor?; was ist los?

    5)

    be going on [for]... — (be nearly) fast... sein

    he is going on [for] ninety — er geht auf die Neunzig zu

    it is going on [for] ten o'clock — es geht auf 10 Uhr zu

    6) (behave) sich benehmen; sich aufführen
    7) [Kleidung:] passen
    8) (Theatre) auftreten
    9) [Licht:] angehen; [Strom, Wasser:] kommen

    go on again — [Strom, Gas, Wasser:] wiederkommen

    10)

    go on! — (proceed) los, mach schon! (ugs.); (resume) fahren Sie fort!; (coll.): (stop talking nonsense) ach, geh od. komm! (ugs.)

    2. transitive verb
    1) (ride on) fahren mit

    go on working/talking — etc. weiterarbeiten/-reden usw.

    go on trying — es weiter[hin] versuchen

    3) (coll.): (be guided by) sich stützen auf (+ Akk.)
    4) (begin to receive) bekommen, erhalten [Arbeitslosengeld, Sozialfürsorge]; see also dole 1.
    5) (start to take) nehmen [Medikament, Drogen]

    go on a diet — eine Abmagerungs- od. Schlankheitskur machen

    6) (coll.): (like) see much 3. 4). See also go 1. 1), 2), 22)
    * * *
    v.
    angehen v.
    weiterfahren v.
    weitergehen v.

    English-german dictionary > go on

  • 54 take

    take [teɪk]
    prendre ⇒ 1A (a), 1A (b), 1B (a), 1B (c)-(e), 1C (b), 1D (a), 1D (b), 1E (a), 1F (a), 1G (a), 1G (b), 1G (d), 1H (a), 1H (b), 1I (a), 1I (c), 1I (d), 1I (f), 1I (g), 2 (a)-(c) porter ⇒ 1B (a) mener ⇒ 1B (b) conduire ⇒ 1C (a) recevoir ⇒ 1D (c) croire ⇒ 1F (b) supporter ⇒ 1F (d) supposer ⇒ 1G (c) contenir ⇒ 1I (e) passer ⇒ 1I (i)
    (pt took [tʊk], pp taken ['teɪkən])
    A.
    (a) (get hold of) prendre; (seize) prendre, saisir;
    ∎ let me take your coat donnez-moi votre manteau;
    ∎ she took the book from him elle lui a pris le livre;
    ∎ to take sb's hand prendre qn par la main;
    ∎ she took his arm elle lui a pris le bras;
    ∎ Peter took her in his arms Peter l'a prise dans ses bras;
    ∎ the wolf took its prey by the throat le loup a saisi sa proie à la gorge
    (b) (get control of, capture → person) prendre, capturer; (→ fish, game) prendre, attraper; Military prendre, s'emparer de;
    ∎ they took the town that night ils prirent ou s'emparèrent de la ville cette nuit-là;
    ∎ to take sb prisoner faire qn prisonnier;
    ∎ to take sb alive prendre ou capturer qn vivant;
    ∎ I took his queen with my rook j'ai pris sa reine avec ma tour;
    ∎ to take control of a situation prendre une situation en main;
    ∎ we took our courage in both hands nous avons pris notre courage à deux mains;
    ∎ you're taking your life in your hands doing that c'est ta vie que tu risques en faisant cela;
    ∎ to take the lead in sth (in competition) prendre la tête de qch; (set example) être le premier à faire qch
    B.
    (a) (carry from one place to another) porter, apporter; (carry along, have in one's possession) prendre, emporter;
    ∎ she took her mother a cup of tea elle a apporté une tasse de thé à sa mère;
    ∎ he took the map with him il a emporté la carte;
    ∎ she took some towels up(stairs)/down(stairs) elle a monté/descendu des serviettes;
    ∎ don't forget to take your camera n'oubliez pas (de prendre) votre appareil photo;
    ∎ figurative the committee wanted to take the matter further le comité voulait mener l'affaire plus loin;
    ∎ the devil take it! que le diable l'emporte!;
    ∎ you can't take it with you (money when you die) tu ne l'emporteras pas avec toi dans la tombe
    (b) (person → lead) mener, emmener; (→ accompany) accompagner;
    ∎ her father takes her to school son père l'emmène à l'école;
    ∎ could you take me home? pourriez-vous me ramener ou me raccompagner?;
    ∎ to take sb across the road faire traverser la rue à qn;
    ∎ may I take you to dinner? puis-je vous inviter à dîner ou vous emmener dîner?;
    ∎ he offered to take them to work in the car il leur a proposé de les emmener au bureau en voiture ou de les conduire au bureau;
    ∎ to take oneself to bed aller se coucher;
    ∎ please take me with you emmène-moi, s'il te plaît;
    ∎ humorous I can't take you anywhere tu n'es pas sortable;
    ∎ the estate agent took them over the house l'agent immobilier leur a fait visiter la maison;
    ∎ he took her round the museum il lui a fait visiter le musée;
    ∎ she used to take me along to meetings (avant,) elle m'emmenait aux réunions;
    ∎ this road will take you to the station cette route vous mènera ou vous conduira à la gare;
    ∎ I don't want to take you out of your way je ne veux pas vous faire faire un détour;
    ∎ her job took her all over Africa son travail l'a fait voyager dans toute l'Afrique;
    ∎ that's what first took me to Portugal c'est ce qui m'a amené au Portugal;
    ∎ whatever took him there? qu'allait-il faire là-bas?;
    ∎ the record took her to number one in the charts le disque lui a permis d'être première au hit-parade
    ∎ she took a handkerchief from her pocket elle a sorti un mouchoir de sa poche;
    ∎ I took a chocolate from the box j'ai pris un chocolat dans la boîte;
    ∎ take a book from the shelf prenez un livre sur l'étagère;
    ∎ take your feet off the table enlève tes pieds de la table;
    ∎ he took the saucepan off the heat il a ôté ou retiré la casserole du feu
    (d) (appropriate, steal) prendre, voler;
    ∎ to take sth from sb prendre qch à qn;
    ∎ someone's taken my wallet on a pris mon portefeuille;
    ∎ his article is taken directly from my book le texte de son article est tiré directement de mon livre
    (e) (draw, derive) prendre, tirer;
    ∎ a passage taken from a book un passage extrait d'un livre;
    ∎ a phrase taken from Latin une expression empruntée au latin;
    ∎ the title is taken from the Bible le titre vient de la Bible;
    ∎ to take a print from a negative tirer une épreuve d'un négatif
    C.
    (a) (of bus, car, train etc) conduire, transporter;
    ∎ the ambulance took him to hospital l'ambulance l'a transporté à l'hôpital;
    ∎ this bus will take you to the theatre ce bus vous conduira au théâtre;
    ∎ will this train take me to Cambridge? est-ce que ce train va à ou passe par Cambridge?
    (b) (bus, car, plane, train) prendre; (road) prendre, suivre;
    ∎ American take a right prenez à droite
    D.
    (a) (have → attitude, bath, holiday) prendre; (make → nap, trip, walk) faire; (→ decision) prendre;
    ∎ she took a quick look at him elle a jeté un rapide coup d'œil sur lui;
    ∎ American familiar let's take five soufflons cinq minutes□ ;
    ∎ he took a flying leap il a bondi;
    ∎ American vulgar to take a shit or a dump chier;
    ∎ archaic or literary to take a wife prendre femme
    ∎ to take a photo or a picture prendre une photo;
    ∎ she took his picture or a picture of him elle l'a pris en photo;
    ∎ we had our picture taken nous nous sommes fait photographier ou prendre en photo;
    ∎ familiar he takes a good photo (is photogenic) il est photogénique□
    (c) (receive, get) recevoir; (earn, win → prize) remporter, obtenir; (→ degree, diploma) obtenir, avoir;
    ∎ he took the blow on his arm il a pris le coup sur le bras;
    ∎ you can take the call in my office vous pouvez prendre l'appel dans mon bureau;
    ∎ the bookstore takes about $3,000 a day la librairie fait à peu près 3000 dollars (de recette) par jour;
    ∎ how much does he take home a month? quel est son salaire mensuel net?;
    ∎ Cards we took all the tricks nous avons fait toutes les levées;
    ∎ their team took the match leur équipe a gagné ou remporté le match
    E.
    (a) (assume, undertake) prendre;
    ∎ to take the blame for sth prendre la responsabilité de qch;
    ∎ you'll have to take the consequences c'est vous qui en subirez les conséquences;
    ∎ she takes all the credit for our success elle s'attribue tout le mérite de notre réussite;
    ∎ I take responsibility for their safety je me charge de leur sécurité;
    ∎ to take the part of Hamlet jouer (le rôle d')Hamlet
    ∎ he took my side in the argument il a pris parti pour moi dans la dispute;
    ∎ the boy took an oath or a vow to avenge his family le garçon a fait serment ou a juré de venger sa famille;
    ∎ American to take the Fifth (Amendment) invoquer le Cinquième Amendement (pour refuser de répondre)
    ∎ may I take the liberty of inviting you to dinner? puis-je me permettre de vous inviter à dîner?;
    ∎ he took the opportunity to thank them or of thanking them il a profité de l'occasion pour les remercier
    F.
    (a) (accept → job, gift, payment) prendre, accepter; (→ cheque, bet) accepter;
    ∎ the doctor only takes private patients le docteur ne prend pas les patients du service public;
    ∎ the owner won't take less than $100 for it le propriétaire en veut au moins 100 dollars;
    ∎ does this machine take pound coins? cette machine accepte-t-elle les pièces d'une livre?;
    ∎ to take a bribe se laisser acheter ou corrompre;
    ∎ you'll have to take me as I am il faut me prendre comme je suis;
    ∎ take things as they come prenez les choses comme elles viennent;
    ∎ I won't take "no" for an answer pas question de refuser;
    ∎ it's my last offer, (you can) take it or leave it c'est ma dernière offre, c'est à prendre ou à laisser;
    ∎ I'll take it from here je prends la suite;
    ∎ I'll take it from there je verrai à ce moment-là
    ∎ to take sb's advice suivre les conseils de qn;
    ∎ take it from me, he's a crook croyez-moi, c'est un escroc
    ∎ let's take things one at a time prenons les choses une par une;
    ∎ the mayor took their questions calmly le maire a entendu leurs questions avec calme;
    ∎ how did she take the questioning? comment a-t-elle réagi à ou pris l'interrogatoire?;
    ∎ they took the news well or in their stride ils ont plutôt bien pris la nouvelle;
    ∎ to take sth badly prendre mal qch;
    ∎ familiar to take things easy or it easy se la couler douce;
    ∎ familiar take it easy! (don't get angry) du calme!□
    (d) (bear, endure → pain, heat, pressure, criticism) supporter; (→ damage, loss) subir;
    ∎ don't take any nonsense! ne te laisse pas faire!;
    ∎ your father won't take any nonsense ton père ne plaisante pas avec ce genre de choses;
    ∎ she can take it elle tiendra le coup;
    ∎ esp American I'm not taking any! je ne marche pas!;
    ∎ we couldn't take any more on n'en pouvait plus;
    ∎ I can't take much more of this je commence à en avoir assez, je ne vais pas supporter cela bien longtemps;
    ∎ I find his constant sarcasm rather hard to take je trouve ses sarcasmes perpétuels difficiles à supporter;
    ∎ don't expect me to take this lying down ne comptez pas sur moi pour accepter ça sans rien dire;
    ∎ those shoes have taken a lot of punishment ces chaussures en ont vu de toutes les couleurs;
    ∎ to take heavy loads (crane, engine etc) supporter de lourdes charges;
    ∎ it won't take your weight ça ne supportera pas ton poids
    (e) (experience, feel)
    ∎ to take fright prendre peur;
    ∎ to take an interest in sb/sth s'intéresser à qn/qch;
    ∎ don't take offence ne vous vexez pas, ne vous offensez pas;
    ∎ no offence taken il n'y a pas de mal;
    ∎ we take pleasure in travelling nous prenons plaisir à voyager;
    ∎ she takes pride in her work elle est fière de ce qu'elle fait;
    ∎ to take pride in one's appearance prendre soin de sa personne
    G.
    (a) (consider, look at) prendre, considérer;
    ∎ take Einstein (for example) prenons (l'exemple d')Einstein;
    ∎ take the case of Colombia prenons le cas de la Colombie;
    ∎ taking everything into consideration tout bien considéré;
    ∎ to take sb/sth seriously prendre qn/qch au sérieux
    ∎ do you take me for an idiot? vous me prenez pour un idiot?;
    ∎ what do you take me for? pour qui me prenez-vous?;
    ∎ I took you for an Englishman je vous croyais anglais;
    ∎ he took me for somebody else il m'a pris pour quelqu'un d'autre;
    ∎ to take the news as or to be true tenir la nouvelle pour vraie;
    ∎ how old do you take her to be? quel âge est-ce que tu lui donnes?
    (c) (suppose, presume) supposer, présumer;
    ∎ he's never been to Madrid, I take it si je comprends bien, il n'a jamais été à Madrid;
    ∎ I take it you're his mother je suppose que vous êtes sa mère
    (d) (interpret, understand) prendre, comprendre;
    ∎ we never know how to take his jokes on ne sait jamais comment prendre ses plaisanteries;
    ∎ don't take that literally ne le prenez pas au pied de la lettre;
    ∎ he was slow to take my meaning il lui a fallu un moment avant de comprendre ce que je voulais dire
    H.
    (a) (require) prendre, demander;
    ∎ how long will it take to get there? combien de temps faudra-t-il pour y aller?;
    ∎ the flight takes three hours le vol dure trois heures;
    ∎ it will take you ten minutes vous en avez pour dix minutes;
    ∎ it took him a minute to understand il a mis une minute avant de comprendre;
    ∎ it took us longer than I expected cela nous a pris plus de temps que je ne pensais;
    ∎ it takes time to learn a language il faut du temps pour apprendre une langue;
    ∎ what kind of batteries does it take? quelle sorte de piles faut-il?;
    ∎ my car takes unleaded ma voiture roule au sans-plomb;
    ∎ he took a bit of coaxing before he accepted il a fallu le pousser un peu pour qu'il accepte;
    ∎ it took four people to stop the brawl ils ont dû se mettre à quatre pour arrêter la bagarre;
    ∎ it takes a clever man to do that bien malin ou habile qui peut le faire;
    ∎ it takes courage to admit one's mistakes il faut du courage pour admettre ses erreurs;
    ∎ it takes patience to work with children il faut de la patience ou il faut être patient pour travailler avec les enfants;
    ∎ one glance was all it took un regard a suffi;
    ∎ the job took some doing la tâche n'a pas été facile;
    ∎ that will take some explaining voilà qui va demander des explications;
    ∎ her story takes some believing son histoire n'est pas facile à croire;
    ∎ to have what it takes to do/to be sth avoir les qualités nécessaires pour faire/être qch;
    ∎ we need someone with leadership qualities - she has what it takes il nous faut quelqu'un qui ait des qualités de dirigeant - ce n'est pas ce qui lui manque;
    ∎ familiar he's so lazy - it takes one to know one! il est vraiment paresseux - tu peux parler!
    ∎ "falloir" takes the subjunctive "falloir" est suivi du subjonctif;
    ∎ noun that takes an "s" in the plural nom qui prend un "s" au pluriel
    I.
    (a) (food, drink etc) prendre;
    ∎ do you take milk in your coffee? prenez-vous du lait dans votre café?;
    ∎ how do you take your coffee? qu'est-ce que tu prends dans ton café?;
    ∎ I invited him to take tea je l'ai invité à prendre le thé;
    ∎ she refused to take any food elle a refusé de manger (quoi que ce soit);
    ∎ to take drugs se droguer;
    ∎ how many pills has he taken? combien de comprimés a-t-il pris ou absorbé?;
    ∎ to be taken twice a day (on packaging) à prendre deux fois par jour;
    ∎ to take the air prendre l'air
    (b) (wear) faire, porter;
    ∎ she takes a size 10 elle prend du 38;
    ∎ what size shoe do you take? quelle est votre pointure?
    (c) (pick out, choose) prendre, choisir; (buy) prendre, acheter; (rent) prendre, louer;
    ∎ I'll take it je le prends;
    ∎ what newspaper do you take? quel journal prenez-vous?;
    ∎ take your partners (at dance) invitez vos partenaires
    (d) (occupy → chair, seat) prendre, s'asseoir sur;
    ∎ take a seat asseyez-vous;
    ∎ take your seats! prenez vos places!;
    ∎ is this seat taken? cette place est-elle occupée ou prise?
    (e) (hold → of container, building etc) contenir, avoir une capacité de;
    ∎ this bus takes fifty passengers c'est un car de cinquante places
    (f) (ascertain, find out) prendre;
    ∎ to take sb's pulse/temperature prendre le pouls/la température de qn;
    ∎ to take a reading from a meter lire ou relever un compteur
    (g) (write down → notes, letter) prendre;
    ∎ he took a note of her address il a noté son adresse
    (h) (subtract) soustraire, déduire;
    ∎ they took 10 percent off the price ils ont baissé le prix de 10 pour cent;
    ∎ take 4 from 9 and you have 5 ôtez 4 de 9, il reste 5
    (i) School & University (exam) passer, se présenter à; (course) prendre, suivre;
    ∎ I took Latin and Greek at A level ≃ j'ai pris latin et grec au bac;
    ∎ she took her degree last year elle a obtenu son diplôme l'an dernier;
    ∎ she takes us for maths on l'a en maths
    ∎ to take a service célébrer un office;
    ∎ the assistant director took the rehearsals l'assistant réalisateur s'est occupé des répétitions
    (k) (contract, develop)
    ∎ to take a chill, to take cold prendre froid;
    ∎ to take sick, to be taken ill tomber malade;
    ∎ I was taken with a fit of the giggles j'ai été pris d'un fou rire;
    ∎ she took an instant dislike to him elle l'a tout de suite pris en aversion
    (l) (direct, aim)
    ∎ she took a swipe at him elle a voulu le gifler;
    ∎ Football to take a penalty tirer un penalty
    ∎ she takes all her problems to her sister elle raconte tous ses problèmes à sa sœur;
    ∎ he took the matter to his boss il a soumis la question à son patron;
    ∎ Law they intend to take the case to the High Court ils ont l'intention d'en appeler à la Cour suprême
    ∎ he took an axe to the door il a donné des coups de hache dans la porte;
    ∎ take the scissors to it vas-y avec les ciseaux;
    ∎ his father took a stick to him son père lui a donné des coups de bâton;
    ∎ Law they took legal proceedings against him ils lui ont intenté un procès
    (o) (catch unawares) prendre, surprendre;
    ∎ to take sb by surprise or off guard surprendre qn, prendre qn au dépourvu;
    ∎ his death took us by surprise sa mort nous a surpris
    (p) (negotiate → obstacle) franchir, sauter; (→ bend in road) prendre, négocier
    (q) familiar (deceive, cheat) avoir, rouler;
    ∎ they took him for every penny (he was worth) ils lui ont pris jusqu'à son dernier sou
    (a) (work, have desired effect) prendre;
    ∎ did the dye take? est-ce que la teinture a pris?;
    ∎ it was too cold for the seeds to take il faisait trop froid pour que les graines germent
    (b) (become popular) prendre, avoir du succès
    (c) (fish) prendre, mordre
    3 noun
    (a) (capture) prise f
    (b) Cinema, Photography & Television prise f de vue; Radio enregistrement m, prise f de son; (of record etc) enregistrement m
    (c) American (interpretation) interprétation f;
    ∎ what's your take on her attitude? comment est-ce que tu interprètes son attitude?
    (d) American familiar (takings) recette□ f; (share) part□ f;
    ∎ to be on the take toucher des pots-de-vin□, palper
    (astonish) étonner, ébahir; (disconcert) déconcerter;
    ∎ her question took him aback sa question l'a déconcerté;
    ∎ I was taken aback by the news la nouvelle m'a beaucoup surpris
    ressembler à, tenir de;
    ∎ she takes after her mother in looks physiquement, elle tient de sa mère
    (a) (dismantle) démonter;
    ∎ figurative they took the room apart looking for evidence ils ont mis la pièce sens dessus dessous pour trouver des preuves
    (b) (criticize) critiquer
    prendre à part, emmener à l'écart;
    ∎ the boss took her aside for a chat le patron l'a prise à part pour discuter
    (a) (remove) enlever, retirer;
    ∎ take that knife away from him enlevez-lui ce couteau;
    ∎ they took away his pension ils lui ont retiré sa pension;
    ∎ they took their daughter away from the club ils ont retiré leur fille du club;
    ∎ his work took him away from his family for long periods son travail le tenait éloigné de sa famille pendant de longues périodes;
    ∎ euphemism the police took his father away son père a été arrêté par la police;
    ∎ it takes away the fun ça gâche tout
    (b) (carry away → object) emporter; (→ person) emmener;
    ∎ British sandwiches to take away (sign) sandwiches à emporter;
    ∎ not to be taken away (in library) à consulter sur place
    (c) Mathematics soustraire, retrancher;
    ∎ nine take away six is three neuf moins six font trois
    ∎ that doesn't take away from his achievements as an athlete ça n'enlève rien à ses exploits d'athlète;
    ∎ to take away from the pleasure/value of sth diminuer le plaisir/la valeur de qch
    (a) (after absence, departure) reprendre;
    ∎ she took her husband back elle a accepté que son mari revienne vivre avec elle;
    ∎ the factory took back the workers l'usine a repris les ouvriers
    (b) (gift, unsold goods, sale item etc) reprendre
    (c) (return) rapporter; (accompany) raccompagner;
    ∎ take it back to the shop rapporte-le au magasin;
    ∎ he took her back home il l'a raccompagnée ou ramenée chez elle
    (d) (retract, withdraw) retirer, reprendre;
    ∎ I take back everything I said je retire tout ce que j'ai dit;
    ∎ all right, I take it back! d'accord, je n'ai rien dit!
    ∎ that takes me back to my childhood ça me rappelle mon enfance;
    ∎ that song takes me back forty years cette chanson me ramène quarante ans en arrière;
    ∎ it takes you back a bit, doesn't it? ça ne nous rajeunit pas tout ça, hein?
    (f) Typography transférer à la ligne précédente
    (a) (carry, lead downstairs → object) descendre; (→ person) faire descendre;
    ∎ the lift took us down to the 4th floor l'ascenseur nous a amenés au 4ème étage
    (b) (lower) descendre;
    ∎ she took the book down from the shelf elle a pris le livre sur l'étagère;
    ∎ can you help me take the curtains down? peux-tu m'aider à décrocher les rideaux?;
    ∎ she took his picture down from the wall elle a enlevé sa photo du mur;
    ∎ he took his trousers down il a baissé son pantalon
    (c) (note) prendre, noter;
    ∎ he took down the registration number il a relevé le numéro d'immatriculation;
    ∎ to take down a letter in shorthand prendre une lettre en sténo
    (d) (dismantle → scaffolding, circus tent) démonter
    se démonter
    (a) (lead → person) faire entrer; (carry → washing, harvest etc) rentrer
    (b) (bring into one's home → person) héberger; (→ boarder) prendre; (→ orphan, stray animal) recueillir;
    ∎ she takes in ironing elle fait du repassage à domicile
    ∎ the police took him in la police l'a mis ou placé en garde à vue
    (d) (air, water, food etc)
    ∎ she can only take in food intravenously on ne peut la nourrir que par intraveineuse;
    ∎ whales take in air through their blowhole les baleines respirent par l'évent
    (e) (understand, perceive) saisir, comprendre;
    ∎ he was sitting taking it all in il était là, assis, écoutant tout ce qui se disait;
    ∎ he didn't take in the real implications of her announcement il n'a pas saisi les véritables implications de sa déclaration;
    ∎ I can't take in the fact that I've won je n'arrive pas à croire que j'ai gagné;
    ∎ she took in the situation at a glance elle a compris la situation en un clin d'œil
    (f) (make smaller → garment) reprendre; (→ in knitting) diminuer;
    ∎ you'd better take in the slack on the rope tu ferais bien de tendre ou retendre la corde;
    ∎ Nautical to take in a sail carguer ou serrer une voile
    (g) (cover → several countries etc) comprendre, englober; (→ questions, possibilities) embrasser;
    ∎ the tour takes in all the important towns l'excursion passe par toutes les villes importantes
    (h) (attend, go to) aller à;
    ∎ to take in a show aller au théâtre;
    ∎ she took in the castle while in Blois elle a visité le château pendant qu'elle était à Blois;
    ∎ they took in the sights in Rome ils ont fait le tour des sites touristiques à Rome
    (i) familiar (cheat, deceive) tromper□, rouler;
    ∎ don't be taken in by him ne vous laissez pas rouler par lui;
    ∎ I'm not going to be taken in by your lies je ne suis pas dupe de tes mensonges□ ;
    ∎ he was completely taken in il marchait complètement
    (a) (remove → clothing, lid, make-up, tag) enlever;
    ∎ the boy took his clothes off le garçon a enlevé ses vêtements ou s'est déshabillé;
    ∎ she took her glasses off elle a enlevé ses lunettes;
    ∎ he often takes the phone off the hook il laisse souvent le téléphone décroché;
    ∎ to take sb off a list rayer qn d'une liste;
    ∎ the surgeon had to take her leg off le chirurgien a dû l'amputer de la jambe;
    ∎ Cars to take off the brake desserrer le frein (à main);
    ∎ figurative he didn't take his eyes off her all night il ne l'a pas quittée des yeux de la soirée;
    ∎ I tried to take her mind off her troubles j'ai essayé de lui changer les idées ou de la distraire de ses ennuis;
    ∎ familiar his retirement has taken ten years off him sa retraite l'a rajeuni de dix ans□ ;
    ∎ to take sth off sb's hands débarrasser qn de qch;
    ∎ I'll take the baby off your hands for a few hours je vais garder le bébé pendant quelques heures, ça te libérera
    (b) (deduct) déduire, rabattre;
    ∎ the teacher took one point off her grade le professeur lui a retiré un point;
    ∎ the manager took 10 percent off the price le directeur a baissé le prix de 10 pour cent
    (c) (lead away) emmener;
    ∎ she was taken off to hospital on l'a transportée à l'hôpital;
    ∎ the murderer was taken off to jail on a emmené l'assassin en prison;
    ∎ her friend took her off to dinner son ami l'a emmenée dîner;
    ∎ she took herself off to Italy elle est partie en Italie;
    ∎ to take the passengers off (by boat from a ship) débarquer les passagers;
    ∎ the injured man was taken off the ship by helicopter le blessé a été évacué du bateau par hélicoptère
    ∎ to take some time off prendre un congé;
    ∎ take a few days off prenez quelques jours de vacances ou de congé;
    ∎ she takes Thursdays off elle ne travaille pas le jeudi
    (e) familiar (copy) imiter□ ; (mimic) imiter□, singer
    (f) (discontinue → train, bus etc) supprimer; (→ show, programme) annuler
    (a) (aeroplane) décoller;
    ∎ they took off for or to Heathrow ils se sont envolés pour Heathrow
    (b) familiar (person → depart) partir□ ; (hurriedly) se barrer, se tirer;
    ∎ he took off without telling us il est parti sans nous avertir
    ➲ take on
    (a) (accept, undertake) prendre, accepter;
    ∎ don't take on more than you can handle ne vous surchargez pas;
    ∎ she took it on herself to tell him elle a pris sur elle de le lui dire;
    ∎ he took the job on (position) il a accepté le poste; (task) il s'est mis au travail;
    ∎ to take on a bet accepter un pari
    (b) (contend with, fight against) lutter ou se battre contre; (compete against) jouer contre;
    ∎ the unions took on the government les syndicats se sont attaqués ou s'en sont pris au gouvernement;
    ∎ I shouldn't like to take him on je n'aimerais pas avoir affaire à lui;
    ∎ he took us on at poker il nous a défiés au poker
    (c) (acquire, assume) prendre, revêtir;
    ∎ her face took on a worried look elle a pris un air inquiet;
    ∎ the word takes on another meaning le mot prend une autre signification
    (d) (load) prendre, embarquer
    (e) (hire) embaucher, engager
    familiar (fret, carry on) s'en faire;
    ∎ don't take on so! ne t'en fais pas!
    (a) (remove → object) prendre, sortir; (→ stain) ôter, enlever; (extract → tooth) arracher;
    ∎ take the cheese out of the refrigerator sors le fromage du réfrigérateur;
    ∎ he took the knife out of his pocket il a sorti le couteau de sa poche;
    ∎ take your hands out of your pockets enlève les mains de tes poches;
    ∎ they took their children out of school ils ont retiré leurs enfants de l'école;
    ∎ Medicine to take out sb's appendix/tonsils enlever l'appendice/les amygdales à qn;
    ∎ figurative to take the food out of sb's mouth retirer le pain de la bouche de qn
    (b) (carry, lead outside → object) sortir; (→ person) faire sortir; (escort) emmener;
    ∎ to take sb out to dinner/to the movies emmener qn dîner/au cinéma;
    ∎ I took her out for a bike ride je l'ai emmenée faire un tour à vélo;
    ∎ would you take the dog out? tu veux bien sortir le chien ou aller promener le chien?
    (c) (food) emporter;
    ∎ American sandwiches to take out (sign) sandwiches à emporter
    (d) (obtain → subscription) prendre; (→ insurance policy) souscrire à, prendre; (→ licence) se procurer; (→ patent) prendre;
    ∎ to take out a mortgage faire un emprunt immobilier
    (e) familiar (destroy → factory, town) détruire□ ;
    ∎ to take sb out (kill) buter qn, zigouiller qn, refroidir qn;
    ∎ the planes took the factory out by bombing les avions ont détruit l'usine (en la bombardant)
    ∎ to take out one's partner changer la couleur annoncée par son partenaire
    ∎ to take sb out of himself/herself changer les idées à qn;
    ∎ familiar working as an interpreter takes a lot out of you le travail d'interprète est épuisant□ ;
    ∎ familiar the operation really took it out of him l'opération l'a mis à plat;
    ∎ familiar it takes the fun out of it ça gâche tout□ ;
    ∎ familiar to take it out on sb s'en prendre à qn□ ;
    ∎ familiar he took his anger out on his wife il a passé sa colère sur sa femme□ ;
    ∎ familiar don't take it out on me! ne t'en prends pas à moi!□
    ∎ he wants his daughter to take over the business il veut que sa fille reprenne l'affaire;
    ∎ she took over my classes elle a pris la suite de mes cours;
    ∎ will you be taking over his job? est-ce que vous allez le remplacer (dans ses fonctions)?
    (b) (gain control of, invade) s'emparer de;
    ∎ the military took over the country l'armée a pris le pouvoir;
    ∎ she takes the place over (by being bossy etc) elle joue les despotes;
    ∎ fast-food restaurants have taken over Paris les fast-foods ou French Canadian restaurants-minute ont envahi Paris
    (c) Finance (buy out) absorber, racheter;
    ∎ they were taken over by a Japanese firm ils ont été rachetés par une entreprise japonaise
    (d) (carry across) apporter; (escort across) emmener;
    ∎ I'll take you over by car je vais vous y conduire en voiture;
    ∎ the boat took us over to Seattle le bateau nous a emmenés jusqu'à Seattle
    (e) Typography transférer à la ligne suivante
    ∎ who will take over now that the mayor has stepped down? qui va prendre la relève maintenant que le maire a donné sa démission?;
    ∎ I'll take over when he leaves je le remplacerai quand il partira;
    ∎ will he allow her to take over? va-t-il lui céder la place?;
    ∎ compact discs have taken over from records le (disque) compact a remplacé le (disque) vinyle
    (b) (army, dictator) prendre le pouvoir
    (a) (have a liking for → person) se prendre d'amitié ou de sympathie pour, prendre en amitié; (→ activity, game) prendre goût à;
    ∎ I think he took to you je crois que vous lui avez plu;
    ∎ we took to one another at once nous avons tout de suite sympathisé;
    ∎ she didn't take to him il ne lui a pas plu;
    ∎ we've really taken to golf nous avons vraiment pris goût au golf
    (b) (acquire as a habit) se mettre à;
    ∎ to take to drink or to the bottle se mettre à boire;
    ∎ to take to doing sth se mettre à faire qch;
    ∎ she took to wearing black elle s'est mise à s'habiller en noir
    (c) (make for, head for)
    ∎ he's taken to his bed with the flu il est alité avec la grippe;
    ∎ the rebels took to the hills les insurgés se sont réfugiés dans les collines;
    ∎ they took to the woods ils se sont enfuis dans les bois;
    ∎ to take to the road prendre la route;
    ∎ to take to the boats monter dans les canots de sauvetage
    ➲ take up
    (a) (carry, lead upstairs → object) monter; (→ person) faire monter;
    ∎ the lift took us up to the 25th floor l'ascenseur nous a amenés au 25ème étage
    (b) (pick up → object) ramasser, prendre; (→ passenger) prendre; (→ paving stones, railway tracks) enlever;
    ∎ she took up the notes from the table elle a ramassé ou pris les notes sur la table;
    ∎ they're taking up the street la rue est en travaux;
    ∎ we finally took up the carpet nous avons enfin enlevé la moquette
    (c) (absorb) absorber
    (d) (shorten) raccourcir;
    ∎ you'd better take up the slack in that rope tu ferais mieux de retendre ou tendre cette corde
    (e) (fill, occupy → space) prendre, tenir; (→ time) prendre, demander;
    ∎ this table takes up too much room cette table prend trop de place ou est trop encombrante;
    ∎ moving house took up the whole day le déménagement a pris toute la journée;
    ∎ her work takes up all her attention son travail l'absorbe complètement
    (f) (begin, become interested in → activity, hobby) se mettre à; (→ job) prendre; (→ career) commencer, embrasser;
    ∎ when did you take up Greek? quand est-ce que tu t'es mis au grec?;
    ∎ I've taken up gardening je me suis mis au jardinage
    (g) (continue, resume) reprendre, continuer;
    ∎ I took up the tale where Susan had left off j'ai repris l'histoire là où Susan l'avait laissée;
    ∎ she took up her knitting again elle a repris son tricot
    (h) (adopt → attitude) prendre, adopter; (→ method) adopter; (→ place, position) prendre; (→ idea) adopter;
    ∎ they took up residence in town ils se sont installés en ville;
    ∎ to take up one's duties entrer en fonctions
    (i) (accept → offer) accepter; (→ advice, suggestion) suivre; (→ challenge) relever
    (j) (discuss) discuter, parler de; (bring up) aborder;
    ∎ take it up with the boss parlez-en au patron
    (k) (shares, stock) souscrire à
    (l) Finance (option) lever, consolider; (bill) honorer, retirer
    reprendre, continuer
    ∎ he took it upon himself to organize the meeting il s'est chargé d'organiser la réunion
    (a) (accept offer, advice of)
    ∎ his daughter took him up on his advice sa fille a suivi ses conseils;
    ∎ he might take you up on that someday! il risque de vous prendre au mot un jour!;
    ∎ she took him up on his promise elle a mis sa parole à l'épreuve
    ∎ I'd like to take you up on that point j'aimerais revenir sur ce point avec vous
    ∎ to take up with sb se lier d'amitié avec qn, prendre qn en amitié;
    ∎ she took up with a bad crowd elle s'est mise à fréquenter des vauriens
    ∎ to be taken up with doing sth être occupé à faire qch;
    ∎ she's very taken up with him elle ne pense qu'à lui;
    ∎ she's taken up with her business elle est très prise par ses affaires;
    ∎ meetings were taken up with talk about the economy on passait les réunions à parler de l'économie
    ✾ Film 'Take the Money and Run' Allen 'Prends l'oseille et tire-toi'
    ✾ Film 'You Can't Take It With You' Capra 'Vous ne l'emporterez pas avec vous'
    ⓘ Take me to your leader Il s'agit de la formule prononcée par les extra-terrestres fraîchement débarqués sur terre dans les vieux films de science-fiction et adressée au premier terrien rencontré. On emploie cette phrase ("menez-moi jusqu'à votre chef") de façon humoristique lorsque, dans une situation donnée, on désire parler au responsable.

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  • 55 Cartwright, Revd Edmund

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    b. 24 April 1743 Marnham, Nottingham, England
    d. 30 October 1823 Hastings, Sussex, England
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    English inventor of the power loom, a combing machine and machines for making ropes, bread and bricks as well as agricultural improvements.
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    Edmund Cartwright, the fourth son of William Cartwright, was educated at Wakefield Grammar School, and went to University College, Oxford, at the age of 14. By special act of convocation in 1764, he was elected Fellow of Magdalen College. He married Alice Whitaker in 1772 and soon after was given the ecclesiastical living of Brampton in Derbyshire. In 1779 he was presented with the living of Goadby, Marwood, Leicestershire, where he wrote poems, reviewed new works, and began agricultural experiments. A visit to Matlock in the summer of 1784 introduced him to the inventions of Richard Arkwright and he asked why weaving could not be mechanized in a similar manner to spinning. This began a remarkable career of inventions.
    Cartwright returned home and built a loom which required two strong men to operate it. This was the first attempt in England to develop a power loom. It had a vertical warp, the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundredweight and, to quote Gartwright's own words, "the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to throw a Congreive [sic] rocket" (Strickland 19.71:8—for background to the "rocket" comparison, see Congreve, Sir William). Nevertheless, it had the same three basics of weaving that still remain today in modern power looms: shedding or dividing the warp; picking or projecting the shuttle with the weft; and beating that pick of weft into place with a reed. This loom he proudly patented in 1785, and then he went to look at hand looms and was surprised to see how simply they operated. Further improvements to his own loom, covered by two more patents in 1786 and 1787, produced a machine with the more conventional horizontal layout that showed promise; however, the Manchester merchants whom he visited were not interested. He patented more improvements in 1788 as a result of the experience gained in 1786 through establishing a factory at Doncaster with power looms worked by a bull that were the ancestors of modern ones. Twenty-four looms driven by steam-power were installed in Manchester in 1791, but the mill was burned down and no one repeated the experiment. The Doncaster mill was sold in 1793, Cartwright having lost £30,000, However, in 1809 Parliament voted him £10,000 because his looms were then coming into general use.
    In 1789 he began working on a wool-combing machine which he patented in 1790, with further improvements in 1792. This seems to have been the earliest instance of mechanized combing. It used a circular revolving comb from which the long fibres or "top" were. carried off into a can, and a smaller cylinder-comb for teasing out short fibres or "noils", which were taken off by hand. Its output equalled that of twenty hand combers, but it was only relatively successful. It was employed in various Leicestershire and Yorkshire mills, but infringements were frequent and costly to resist. The patent was prolonged for fourteen years after 1801, but even then Cartwright did not make any profit. His 1792 patent also included a machine to make ropes with the outstanding and basic invention of the "cordelier" which he communicated to his friends, including Robert Fulton, but again it brought little financial benefit. As a result of these problems and the lack of remuneration for his inventions, Cartwright moved to London in 1796 and for a time lived in a house built with geometrical bricks of his own design.
    Other inventions followed fast, including a tread-wheel for cranes, metallic packing for pistons in steam-engines, and bread-making and brick-making machines, to mention but a few. He had already returned to agricultural improvements and he put forward suggestions in 1793 for a reaping machine. In 1801 he received a prize from the Board of Agriculture for an essay on husbandry, which was followed in 1803 by a silver medal for the invention of a three-furrow plough and in 1805 by a gold medal for his essay on manures. From 1801 to 1807 he ran an experimental farm on the Duke of Bedford's estates at Woburn.
    From 1786 until his death he was a prebendary of Lincoln. In about 1810 he bought a small farm at Hollanden near Sevenoaks, Kent, where he continued his inventions, both agricultural and general. Inventing to the last, he died at Hastings and was buried in Battle church.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Board of Agriculture Prize 1801 (for an essay on agriculture). Society of Arts, Silver Medal 1803 (for his three-furrow plough); Gold Medal 1805 (for an essay on agricultural improvements).
    Bibliography
    1785. British patent no. 1,270 (power loom).
    1786. British patent no. 1,565 (improved power loom). 1787. British patent no. 1,616 (improved power loom).
    1788. British patent no. 1,676 (improved power loom). 1790, British patent no. 1,747 (wool-combing machine).
    1790, British patent no. 1,787 (wool-combing machine).
    1792, British patent no. 1,876 (improved wool-combing machine and rope-making machine with cordelier).
    Further Reading
    M.Strickland, 1843, A Memoir of the Life, Writings and Mechanical Inventions of Edmund Cartwright, D.D., F.R.S., London (remains the fullest biography of Cartwright).
    Dictionary of National Biography (a good summary of Cartwright's life). For discussions of Cartwright's weaving inventions, see: A.Barlow, 1878, The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power, London; R.L. Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester. F.Nasmith, 1925–6, "Fathers of machine cotton manufacture", Transactions of the
    Newcomen Society 6.
    H.W.Dickinson, 1942–3, "A condensed history of rope-making", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 23.
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (covers both his power loom and his wool -combing machine).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Cartwright, Revd Edmund

  • 56 Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens

    [br]
    b. 5 February 1840 Brockway's Mills, Maine, USA
    d. 24 November 1916 Streatham, London, England
    [br]
    American (naturalized British) inventor; designer of the first fully automatic machine gun and of an experimental steam-powered aircraft.
    [br]
    Maxim was born the son of a pioneer farmer who later became a wood turner. Young Maxim was first apprenticed to a carriage maker and then embarked on a succession of jobs before joining his uncle in his engineering firm in Massachusetts in 1864. As a young man he gained a reputation as a boxer, but it was his uncle who first identified and encouraged Hiram's latent talent for invention.
    It was not, however, until 1878, when Maxim joined the first electric-light company to be established in the USA, as its Chief Engineer, that he began to make a name for himself. He developed an improved light filament and his electric pressure regulator not only won a prize at the first International Electrical Exhibition, held in Paris in 1881, but also resulted in his being made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. While in Europe he was advised that weapons development was a more lucrative field than electricity; consequently, he moved to England and established a small laboratory at Hatton Garden, London. He began by investigating improvements to the Gatling gun in order to produce a weapon with a faster rate of fire and which was more accurate. In 1883, by adapting a Winchester carbine, he successfully produced a semi-automatic weapon, which used the recoil to cock the gun automatically after firing. The following year he took this concept a stage further and produced a fully automatic belt-fed weapon. The recoil drove barrel and breechblock to the vent. The barrel then halted, while the breechblock, now unlocked from the former, continued rearwards, extracting the spent case and recocking the firing mechanism. The return spring, which it had been compressing, then drove the breechblock forward again, chambering the next round, which had been fed from the belt, as it did so. Keeping the trigger pressed enabled the gun to continue firing until the belt was expended. The Maxim gun, as it became known, was adopted by almost every army within the decade, and was to remain in service for nearly fifty years. Maxim himself joined forces with the large British armaments firm of Vickers, and the Vickers machine gun, which served the British Army during two world wars, was merely a refined version of the Maxim gun.
    Maxim's interests continued to occupy several fields of technology, including flight. In 1891 he took out a patent for a steam-powered aeroplane fitted with a pendulous gyroscopic stabilizer which would maintain the pitch of the aeroplane at any desired inclination (basically, a simple autopilot). Maxim decided to test the relationship between power, thrust and lift before moving on to stability and control. He designed a lightweight steam-engine which developed 180 hp (135 kW) and drove a propeller measuring 17 ft 10 in. (5.44 m) in diameter. He fitted two of these engines into his huge flying machine testrig, which needed a wing span of 104 ft (31.7 m) to generate enough lift to overcome a total weight of 4 tons. The machine was not designed for free flight, but ran on one set of rails with a second set to prevent it rising more than about 2 ft (61 cm). At Baldwyn's Park in Kent on 31 July 1894 the huge machine, carrying Maxim and his crew, reached a speed of 42 mph (67.6 km/h) and lifted off its rails. Unfortunately, one of the restraining axles broke and the machine was extensively damaged. Although it was subsequently repaired and further trials carried out, these experiments were very expensive. Maxim eventually abandoned the flying machine and did not develop his idea for a stabilizer, turning instead to other projects. At the age of almost 70 he returned to the problems of flight and designed a biplane with a petrol engine: it was built in 1910 but never left the ground.
    In all, Maxim registered 122 US and 149 British patents on objects ranging from mousetraps to automatic spindles. Included among them was a 1901 patent for a foot-operated suction cleaner. In 1900 he became a British subject and he was knighted the following year. He remained a larger-than-life figure, both physically and in character, until the end of his life.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur 1881. Knighted 1901.
    Bibliography
    1908, Natural and Artificial Flight, London. 1915, My Life, London: Methuen (autobiography).
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1916, Engineer (1 December).
    Obituary, 1916, Engineering (1 December).
    P.F.Mottelay, 1920, The Life and Work of Sir Hiram Maxim, London and New York: John Lane.
    Dictionary of National Biography, 1912–1921, 1927, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    CM / JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens

  • 57 Soane, Sir John

    [br]
    b. 20 September 1753 Whitchurch, England
    d. 20 January 1837 London, England
    [br]
    English architect whose highly personalized architectural style foreshadowed the modern architecture of a century later.
    [br]
    Between 1777 and 1780 Soane studied in Italy on a Travelling Scholarship, working in Rome but also making extensive excursions further south to Paestum and Sicily to study the early and more severely simple Greek temples there.
    His architectural career began in earnest with his appointment as Surveyor to the Bank of England in 1788. He held this post until 1833 and during this time developed his highly individual style, which was based upon a wide range of classical sources extending from early Greek to Byzantine themes. His own work became progressively more linear and austere, his domes and arches shallower and more segmental. During the 1790s and early 1800s Soane redesigned several halls in the Bank, notably the Bank Stock Office, which in 1791 necessitated technological experimentation.
    The redesigning was required because of security problems which limited window openings to high-level positions and a need for fireproof construction because the site was so restricted. Soane solved the difficulties by introducing light through lunettes set high in the walls and through a Roman-style oculus in the centrally placed shallow dome. He utilized hollow terracotta pots as a lightweight material in the segmental vaulting.
    Sadly, the majority of Soane's work in the Bank interior was lost in the rebuilding during the 1930s, but Soane went on to develop his architectural style in his houses and churches as well as in a quantity of public buildings in Whitehall and Westminster.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1831. Fellow Society of Antiquaries 1795. RA 1802. Royal Academy Professor of Architecture 1806. FRS 1821.
    Further Reading
    Sir John Summerson, 1952, Sir John Soane, 1753–1837, Art and Technics. Dorothy Stroud, 1961, The Architecture of Sir John Soane, Studio.
    DY

    Biographical history of technology > Soane, Sir John

  • 58 scope

    noun, no indef. art.
    1) Bereich, der; (of person's activities) Betätigungsfeld, das; (of person's job) Aufgabenbereich, der; (of department etc.) Zuständigkeitsbereich, der; Zuständigkeit, die; (of discussion, meeting, negotiations, investigations, etc.) Rahmen, der

    that is a subject beyond my scope — das fällt nicht in meine Sparte; (beyond my grasp) das ist mir zu hoch

    2) (opportunity) Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten Pl.
    * * *
    [skəup]
    1) ((often with for) the opportunity or chance to do, use or develop: There's no scope for originality in this job.) der Raum
    2) (the area or extent of an activity etc: Few things are beyond the scope of a child's imagination.) der Bereich
    * * *
    [skəʊp, AM skoʊp]
    1. (range) Rahmen m
    the \scope of a law der Anwendungsbereich [o Geltungsbereich] eines Gesetzes
    that problem is beyond the \scope of my lecture diese Problematik sprengt den Rahmen meines Vortrags
    we would now like to broaden the \scope of the enquiry wir würden nun gerne den Rahmen der Befragung erweitern
    his study was very narrow in \scope seine Studie war von sehr eingeschränkter Sichtweise
    2. (possibility) Möglichkeit f; (freedom to act) Spielraum m
    \scope for improvement Verbesserungsbereich m
    considerable/limited \scope beachtliche/begrenzte Möglichkeiten
    * * *
    [skəʊp]
    n
    1) (of topic, idea, investigation) Umfang m; (of law, measures) Reichweite f; (of sb's duties, department, tribunal) Kompetenzbereich m

    sth is within the scope of a department etc — etw fällt in den Kompetenzbereich einer Abteilung etc

    it's not within the scope of my authority to allow that — es würde meine Kompetenzen überschreiten, dies zu erlauben

    this project is more limited in scope — dieses Projekt ist auf einen engeren Rahmen begrenzt

    2) (= extent of one's perception, grasp) Fassungsvermögen nt; (of talents, knowledge) Umfang m

    that is beyond my scope or the scope of my understanding —

    that job is within his scope — diese Arbeit liegt im Bereich seiner Fähigkeiten

    3) (= opportunity) Möglichkeit(en) f(pl); (to develop one's talents) Entfaltungsmöglichkeit f; (to use one's talents) Spielraum m

    there is scope for further growth in the tourist industry —

    there is little scope for reducing our costs — es gibt wenig Spielraum, um die Kosten zu senken

    to give sb scope to do sth — jdm den nötigen Spielraum geben, etw zu tun

    the job gave him/his imaginative powers full scope — in diesem Beruf konnten sich seine Fähigkeiten/konnte sich seine Fantasie or Phantasie frei entfalten

    4)
    See:
    = microscope, periscope etc
    * * *
    scope1 [skəʊp] s
    1. (JUR Anwendungs-)Bereich m, Gebiet n:
    within the scope of the law im Rahmen des Gesetzes;
    come within the scope of a law unter ein Gesetz fallen;
    be within ( outside oder beyond) the scope of sich im Rahmen (gen) halten (den Rahmen gen sprengen);
    that is within ( outside oder beyond) my scope of duties das fällt (nicht) in meinen Aufgabenbereich;
    an undertaking of wide scope ein groß angelegtes Unternehmen; → academic.ru/29872/function">function A 1
    2. Ausmaß n, Umfang m, Reichweite f:
    scope of authority JUR Vollmachtsumfang
    3. auch scope of mind Gesichtskreis m, (geistiger) Horizont:
    that is beyond ( oder outside) my scope das geht über meinen Horizont
    4. (Spiel-)Raum m ( for für):
    give one’s fancy full scope seiner Fantasie freien Lauf lassen;
    have free scope freie Hand haben ( for bei)
    5. Wirkungskreis m, Betätigungsfeld n
    6. Länge f (eines Kabels etc)
    7. Schuss-, Reichweite f
    8. a) Ausdehnung f, Weite f
    b) (großes) Gebiet, (weiter) Landstrich
    scope2 [skəʊp] umg für microscope A, oscilloscope etc
    * * *
    noun, no indef. art.
    1) Bereich, der; (of person's activities) Betätigungsfeld, das; (of person's job) Aufgabenbereich, der; (of department etc.) Zuständigkeitsbereich, der; Zuständigkeit, die; (of discussion, meeting, negotiations, investigations, etc.) Rahmen, der

    that is a subject beyond my scope — das fällt nicht in meine Sparte; (beyond my grasp) das ist mir zu hoch

    2) (opportunity) Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten Pl.
    * * *
    n.
    Bereich -e m.
    Geltungsbereich m.
    Gültigkeitsbereich m.
    Rahmen - m.
    Reichweite f.

    English-german dictionary > scope

  • 59 work out

    vt
    1) ( calculate)
    to \work out out <-> sth etw errechnen [o ausrechnen];
    to \work out sth out to three decimal places etw bis drei Stellen hinter dem Komma ausrechnen;
    to \work out out the best way den günstigsten Weg berechnen;
    to \work out out how much/what... ausrechnen, wie viel/was...
    2) ( develop)
    to \work out out <-> sth etw ausarbeiten;
    to \work out out a settlement einen Vergleich aushandeln;
    to \work out out a solution eine Lösung erarbeiten;
    to \work out out how/ what/when... festlegen, wie/was/wann...
    to \work out out <-> sb jdn verstehen, schlau aus jdm werden;
    to \work out out <-> sth etw verstehen, hinter etw akk kommen;
    to \work out out that... dahinter kommen, dass...
    4) ( complete)
    to \work out out <-> sth etw vollenden;
    to \work out out a contract einen Vertrag erfüllen;
    to \work out out one's notice seine Kündigungsfrist einhalten
    to \work out itself out;
    the problem will \work out itself out das Problem wird sich von allein lösen;
    things usually \work out themselves out die Dinge erledigen sich meist von selbst
    to be \work outed out a mine, quarry ausgebeutet sein; mineral resources abgebaut sein vi
    1) ( amount to)
    to \work out out at roughly £10 a head sich auf ungefähr 10 Pfund pro Kopf belaufen;
    to \work out out cheaper/ more expensive billiger/teurer kommen;
    the figures \work out out differently each time die Zahlen ergeben jedes Mal etwas anderes;
    that \work outs out at 154 litres per day das macht 154 Liter am Tag
    2) ( develop) sich akk entwickeln;
    ( go on) laufen ( fam)
    the way it \work outed out in the end was that... am Ende lief es darauf hinaus, dass...;
    to \work out out for the best sich akk zum Guten wenden;
    to \work out out badly schiefgehen;
    to \work out out well gut laufen
    3) ( be successful) relationship funktionieren, klappen ( fam)
    4) ( do exercise) trainieren

    English-German students dictionary > work out

  • 60 Carlson, Chester Floyd

    [br]
    b. 8 July 1906 Seattle, Washington, USA
    d. 19 September 1968 New York, USA
    [br]
    [br]
    Carlson studied physics at the California Institute of Technology and in 1930 he took a research position at Bell Telephone Laboratories, but soon transferred to their patent department. To equip himself in this field, Carlson studied law, and in 1934 he became a patent attorney at P.R.Mallory \& Co., makers of electrical apparatus. He was struck by the difficulty in obtaining copies of documents and drawings; indeed, while still at school, he had encountered printing problems in trying to produce a newsletter for amateur chemists. He began experimenting with various light-sensitive substances, and by 1937 he had conceived the basic principles of xerography ("dry writing"), using the property of certain substances of losing an electrostatic charge when light impinges on them. His work for Mallory brought him into contact with the Battelle Memorial Institute, the world's largest non-profit research organization; their subsidiary, set up to develop promising ideas, took up Carlson's invention. Carlson received his first US patent for the process in 1940, with two more in 1942, and he assigned to Battelle exclusive patent rights in return for a share of any future proceeds. It was at Battelle that selenium was substituted as the light-sensitive material.
    In 1946 the Haloid Company of Rochester, manufacturers of photographic materials and photocopying equipment, heard of the Xerox copier and, seeing it as a possible addition to their products, took out a licence to develop it commercially. The first Xerox Copier was tested during 1949 and put on the market the following year. The process soon began to displace older methods, such as Photostat, but its full impact on the public came in 1959 with the advent of the Xerox 914 Copier. It is fair to apply the overworked word "revolution" to the change in copying methods initiated by Carlson. He became a multimillionaire from his royalties and stock holding, and in his last years he was able to indulge in philanthropic activities.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1968, New York Times, 20 September.
    R.M.Schaffert, 1954, "Developments in xerography", Penrose Annual.
    J.Jewkes, 1969, The Sources of Invention, 2nd edn, London: Macmillan, pp. 405–8.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Carlson, Chester Floyd

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