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61 EC
1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Enzyme Classification, hum. сокр. Enzyme Commission, hum. сокр. Enzyme Conjugate, ЕС, (сокр. от) electronic communication = электронное общение (как новая технология в непрерывном обучении), Emergency Co-ordinator (SEIC)2) Авиация: СД, electronic compartment, electronic control3) Медицина: erythrocyte concentrate (эритроцитарная масса)4) Американизм: Election Commission5) Военный термин: Eastern Command, Economic Committee, Education Center, Elimination Communication, Embedded Computer, Enemy Capability, Engineering Corps, Entry Course, European Command, Expenditure Center, electromagnetic compatibility, electronic coding, electronic combat, electronic countermeasures, elevation console, elevation correction, emergency capability, emergency commission, emergency coordinator, engagement controller, engineering change, engineering construction, environment control, equipment category, equipment condition, equipment contract, escort convoy, evacuation center, executive committee, executive council, exercise commander, experimentation center, experimentation command, extension course, extra costs6) Техника: earth current, edge connector, effective conductivity, electric current, electromagnetic combat, electron coupling, electron-coupled, electronic calibration, electronic comparator, electronic conductivity, electronic counter, electronics and control, electronics chassis, electrostatic collector, emergency communicator, emission color, emission current, emulsifiable concentrate, enamel covered, enamel single-cotton insulation, encoder coupler, enforcement coordinator, environmental chamber, evaluation center, experiment computer, extended control, extended control mode, external cavity, электрохромный, electrochromic7) Сельское хозяйство: exchange capacity, КЭ (напр., в названиях препаративных форм пестицидов), концентрат эмульсии8) Шутливое выражение: Entertaining Comics9) Химия: Electron Capture, Ethyl Carbonate10) Математика: Edge Constraint, Equivalence Checking, внесение поправки (error correcting), исправление ошибки (error correcting), окончательная оценка (estimation at completion)11) Бухгалтерия: Electronic Cash, Electronic Check, Extra Cheap12) Автомобильный термин: engine control13) Грубое выражение: Eleven Or Craps, Evil Cunt15) Оптика: electrically conducting16) Политика: Европейское сообщество (European Communities)17) Радио: Extended C, расширенный диапазон С18) Телекоммуникации: Echo Canceling, Enhanced Cellular19) Сокращение: Civil aircraft marking (Spain), Earth Coverage antenna, Ecuador (NATO country code), Education Committee, Electricity Council, Electrochemical Capacitor, Electronic Combat (formerly ECM), Electronic Commerce, Electronics & Countermeasures, Engineer Captain, Environmental Control, Episcopal Church, Error Correcting, Established Church, European Community, Evolutionary Computing, Exchange Carrier, Energy Conserving (смазочные материалы)20) Университет: Education Code, Engineering Center, English Composition, Extra Credit21) Физиология: Emergency Contraception22) Электроника: Electrical Conductivities, Electro Conductivity, Electronic Chart, Electronic Communications, Embedded Controller, Equipment Controller, Error Counter23) Вычислительная техника: education computer, electronic conference, Error Correction (MODEM), Exchange Carrier (Telephony), контроль ошибок24) Нефть: Ethyl Centralite25) Генетика: enzyme classification, КФ26) Биохимия: Enterochromaffin Cells, Esterified Cholesterol27) Банковское дело: еврочек (eurocheck), Eurocard (кредитная карточка, выпускаемая международной организацией Eurocard через банки различных стран.)28) Биотехнология: Endothelial cell29) Транспорт: Engine Controller, Englewood Connecting30) Парфюмерия: Европейское сообщество31) Фирменный знак: ESC Electronics32) Экология: Environment Canada, effective concentration33) Деловая лексика: Energy Conservation, Exit Criteria, Европейское экономическое сообщество (European Communities)34) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Environment Comity, environmental committee, excentric, эффективная концентрация35) Образование: Early Childhood36) Инвестиции: eurocheck37) Сетевые технологии: European Commission, error checking, error control, error correction38) Полимеры: electronically controlled, ethyl cellulose39) Программирование: Erase Character40) Автоматика: eddy current41) Сахалин Р: Ecocenter42) Сахалин А: ECOcentre43) Химическое оружие: (50) median effective concentration44) Безопасность: Encryption Control45) Нефть и газ: extended controller46) Электротехника: electric(al) conductor, electrical conductivity, electrocoating, emergency conditions, emergency control, enameled copper, equipment compatibility47) Имена и фамилии: Edgar Casey, Eugenia Collier48) Майкрософт: для детей младшего возраста50) Должность: Eye Candy51) Правительство: Eagle Creek, Elizabeth City52) Международная торговля: Economic Cooperation -
62 Ec
1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Enzyme Classification, hum. сокр. Enzyme Commission, hum. сокр. Enzyme Conjugate, ЕС, (сокр. от) electronic communication = электронное общение (как новая технология в непрерывном обучении), Emergency Co-ordinator (SEIC)2) Авиация: СД, electronic compartment, electronic control3) Медицина: erythrocyte concentrate (эритроцитарная масса)4) Американизм: Election Commission5) Военный термин: Eastern Command, Economic Committee, Education Center, Elimination Communication, Embedded Computer, Enemy Capability, Engineering Corps, Entry Course, European Command, Expenditure Center, electromagnetic compatibility, electronic coding, electronic combat, electronic countermeasures, elevation console, elevation correction, emergency capability, emergency commission, emergency coordinator, engagement controller, engineering change, engineering construction, environment control, equipment category, equipment condition, equipment contract, escort convoy, evacuation center, executive committee, executive council, exercise commander, experimentation center, experimentation command, extension course, extra costs6) Техника: earth current, edge connector, effective conductivity, electric current, electromagnetic combat, electron coupling, electron-coupled, electronic calibration, electronic comparator, electronic conductivity, electronic counter, electronics and control, electronics chassis, electrostatic collector, emergency communicator, emission color, emission current, emulsifiable concentrate, enamel covered, enamel single-cotton insulation, encoder coupler, enforcement coordinator, environmental chamber, evaluation center, experiment computer, extended control, extended control mode, external cavity, электрохромный, electrochromic7) Сельское хозяйство: exchange capacity, КЭ (напр., в названиях препаративных форм пестицидов), концентрат эмульсии8) Шутливое выражение: Entertaining Comics9) Химия: Electron Capture, Ethyl Carbonate10) Математика: Edge Constraint, Equivalence Checking, внесение поправки (error correcting), исправление ошибки (error correcting), окончательная оценка (estimation at completion)11) Бухгалтерия: Electronic Cash, Electronic Check, Extra Cheap12) Автомобильный термин: engine control13) Грубое выражение: Eleven Or Craps, Evil Cunt15) Оптика: electrically conducting16) Политика: Европейское сообщество (European Communities)17) Радио: Extended C, расширенный диапазон С18) Телекоммуникации: Echo Canceling, Enhanced Cellular19) Сокращение: Civil aircraft marking (Spain), Earth Coverage antenna, Ecuador (NATO country code), Education Committee, Electricity Council, Electrochemical Capacitor, Electronic Combat (formerly ECM), Electronic Commerce, Electronics & Countermeasures, Engineer Captain, Environmental Control, Episcopal Church, Error Correcting, Established Church, European Community, Evolutionary Computing, Exchange Carrier, Energy Conserving (смазочные материалы)20) Университет: Education Code, Engineering Center, English Composition, Extra Credit21) Физиология: Emergency Contraception22) Электроника: Electrical Conductivities, Electro Conductivity, Electronic Chart, Electronic Communications, Embedded Controller, Equipment Controller, Error Counter23) Вычислительная техника: education computer, electronic conference, Error Correction (MODEM), Exchange Carrier (Telephony), контроль ошибок24) Нефть: Ethyl Centralite25) Генетика: enzyme classification, КФ26) Биохимия: Enterochromaffin Cells, Esterified Cholesterol27) Банковское дело: еврочек (eurocheck), Eurocard (кредитная карточка, выпускаемая международной организацией Eurocard через банки различных стран.)28) Биотехнология: Endothelial cell29) Транспорт: Engine Controller, Englewood Connecting30) Парфюмерия: Европейское сообщество31) Фирменный знак: ESC Electronics32) Экология: Environment Canada, effective concentration33) Деловая лексика: Energy Conservation, Exit Criteria, Европейское экономическое сообщество (European Communities)34) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Environment Comity, environmental committee, excentric, эффективная концентрация35) Образование: Early Childhood36) Инвестиции: eurocheck37) Сетевые технологии: European Commission, error checking, error control, error correction38) Полимеры: electronically controlled, ethyl cellulose39) Программирование: Erase Character40) Автоматика: eddy current41) Сахалин Р: Ecocenter42) Сахалин А: ECOcentre43) Химическое оружие: (50) median effective concentration44) Безопасность: Encryption Control45) Нефть и газ: extended controller46) Электротехника: electric(al) conductor, electrical conductivity, electrocoating, emergency conditions, emergency control, enameled copper, equipment compatibility47) Имена и фамилии: Edgar Casey, Eugenia Collier48) Майкрософт: для детей младшего возраста50) Должность: Eye Candy51) Правительство: Eagle Creek, Elizabeth City52) Международная торговля: Economic Cooperation -
63 ec
1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Enzyme Classification, hum. сокр. Enzyme Commission, hum. сокр. Enzyme Conjugate, ЕС, (сокр. от) electronic communication = электронное общение (как новая технология в непрерывном обучении), Emergency Co-ordinator (SEIC)2) Авиация: СД, electronic compartment, electronic control3) Медицина: erythrocyte concentrate (эритроцитарная масса)4) Американизм: Election Commission5) Военный термин: Eastern Command, Economic Committee, Education Center, Elimination Communication, Embedded Computer, Enemy Capability, Engineering Corps, Entry Course, European Command, Expenditure Center, electromagnetic compatibility, electronic coding, electronic combat, electronic countermeasures, elevation console, elevation correction, emergency capability, emergency commission, emergency coordinator, engagement controller, engineering change, engineering construction, environment control, equipment category, equipment condition, equipment contract, escort convoy, evacuation center, executive committee, executive council, exercise commander, experimentation center, experimentation command, extension course, extra costs6) Техника: earth current, edge connector, effective conductivity, electric current, electromagnetic combat, electron coupling, electron-coupled, electronic calibration, electronic comparator, electronic conductivity, electronic counter, electronics and control, electronics chassis, electrostatic collector, emergency communicator, emission color, emission current, emulsifiable concentrate, enamel covered, enamel single-cotton insulation, encoder coupler, enforcement coordinator, environmental chamber, evaluation center, experiment computer, extended control, extended control mode, external cavity, электрохромный, electrochromic7) Сельское хозяйство: exchange capacity, КЭ (напр., в названиях препаративных форм пестицидов), концентрат эмульсии8) Шутливое выражение: Entertaining Comics9) Химия: Electron Capture, Ethyl Carbonate10) Математика: Edge Constraint, Equivalence Checking, внесение поправки (error correcting), исправление ошибки (error correcting), окончательная оценка (estimation at completion)11) Бухгалтерия: Electronic Cash, Electronic Check, Extra Cheap12) Автомобильный термин: engine control13) Грубое выражение: Eleven Or Craps, Evil Cunt15) Оптика: electrically conducting16) Политика: Европейское сообщество (European Communities)17) Радио: Extended C, расширенный диапазон С18) Телекоммуникации: Echo Canceling, Enhanced Cellular19) Сокращение: Civil aircraft marking (Spain), Earth Coverage antenna, Ecuador (NATO country code), Education Committee, Electricity Council, Electrochemical Capacitor, Electronic Combat (formerly ECM), Electronic Commerce, Electronics & Countermeasures, Engineer Captain, Environmental Control, Episcopal Church, Error Correcting, Established Church, European Community, Evolutionary Computing, Exchange Carrier, Energy Conserving (смазочные материалы)20) Университет: Education Code, Engineering Center, English Composition, Extra Credit21) Физиология: Emergency Contraception22) Электроника: Electrical Conductivities, Electro Conductivity, Electronic Chart, Electronic Communications, Embedded Controller, Equipment Controller, Error Counter23) Вычислительная техника: education computer, electronic conference, Error Correction (MODEM), Exchange Carrier (Telephony), контроль ошибок24) Нефть: Ethyl Centralite25) Генетика: enzyme classification, КФ26) Биохимия: Enterochromaffin Cells, Esterified Cholesterol27) Банковское дело: еврочек (eurocheck), Eurocard (кредитная карточка, выпускаемая международной организацией Eurocard через банки различных стран.)28) Биотехнология: Endothelial cell29) Транспорт: Engine Controller, Englewood Connecting30) Парфюмерия: Европейское сообщество31) Фирменный знак: ESC Electronics32) Экология: Environment Canada, effective concentration33) Деловая лексика: Energy Conservation, Exit Criteria, Европейское экономическое сообщество (European Communities)34) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Environment Comity, environmental committee, excentric, эффективная концентрация35) Образование: Early Childhood36) Инвестиции: eurocheck37) Сетевые технологии: European Commission, error checking, error control, error correction38) Полимеры: electronically controlled, ethyl cellulose39) Программирование: Erase Character40) Автоматика: eddy current41) Сахалин Р: Ecocenter42) Сахалин А: ECOcentre43) Химическое оружие: (50) median effective concentration44) Безопасность: Encryption Control45) Нефть и газ: extended controller46) Электротехника: electric(al) conductor, electrical conductivity, electrocoating, emergency conditions, emergency control, enameled copper, equipment compatibility47) Имена и фамилии: Edgar Casey, Eugenia Collier48) Майкрософт: для детей младшего возраста50) Должность: Eye Candy51) Правительство: Eagle Creek, Elizabeth City52) Международная торговля: Economic Cooperation -
64 Edison, Thomas Alva
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications[br]b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USAd. 18 October 1931 Glenmont[br]American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.[br]He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMember of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.Further ReadingM.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.IMcN -
65 Forrester, Jay Wright
SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology[br]b. 14 July 1918 Anselmo, Nebraska, USA[br]American electrical engineer and management expert who invented the magnetic-core random access memory used in most early digital computers.[br]Born on a cattle ranch, Forrester obtained a BSc in electrical engineering at the University of Nebraska in 1939 and his MSc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he remained to teach and carry out research. Becoming interested in computing, he established the Digital Computer Laboratory at MIT in 1945 and became involved in the construction of Whirlwind I, an early general-purpose computer completed in March 1951 and used for flight-simulation by the US Army Air Force. Finding the linear memories then available for storing data a major limiting factor in the speed at which computers were able to operate, he developed a three-dimensional store based on the binary switching of the state of small magnetic cores that could be addressed and switched by a matrix of wires carrying pulses of current. The machine used parallel synchronous fixed-point computing, with fifteen binary digits and a plus sign, i.e. 16 bits in all, and contained 5,000 vacuum tubes, eleven semiconductors and a 2 MHz clock for the arithmetic logic unit. It occupied a two-storey building and consumed 150kW of electricity. From his experience with the development and use of computers, he came to realize their great potential for the simulation and modelling of real situations and hence for the solution of a variety of management problems, using data communications and the technique now known as interactive graphics. His later career was therefore in this field, first at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts (1951) and subsequently (from 1956) as Professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsNational Academy of Engineering 1967. George Washington University Inventor of the Year 1968. Danish Academy of Science Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal 1969. Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society Award for Outstanding Accomplishments 1972. Computer Society Pioneer Award 1972. Institution of Electrical Engineers Medal of Honour 1972. National Inventors Hall of Fame 1979. Magnetics Society Information Storage Award 1988. Honorary DEng Nebraska 1954, Newark College of Engineering 1971, Notre Dame University 1974. Honorary DSc Boston 1969, Union College 1973. Honorary DPolSci Mannheim University, Germany. Honorary DHumLett, State University of New York 1988.Bibliography1951, "Data storage in three dimensions using magnetic cores", Journal of Applied Physics 20: 44 (his first description of the core store).Publications on management include: 1961, Industrial Dynamics, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press; 1968, Principles of Systems, 1971, Urban Dynamics, 1980, with A.A.Legasto \& J.M.Lyneis, System Dynamics, North Holland. 1975, Collected Papers, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT.Further ReadingK.C.Redmond \& T.M.Smith, Project Whirlwind, the History of a Pioneer Computer (provides details of the Whirlwind computer).H.H.Goldstine, 1993, The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann, Princeton University Press (for more general background to the development of computers).Serrell et al., 1962, "Evolution of computing machines", Proceedings of the Institute ofRadio Engineers 1,047.M.R.Williams, 1975, History of Computing Technology, London: Prentice-Hall.See also: Burks, Arthur Walter; Goldstine, Herman H.; Wilkes, Maurice Vincent; Williams, Sir Frederic CallandKF -
66 Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph
[br]b. 22 February 1857 Hamburg, Germanyd. 1 January 1894 Bonn, Germany[br]German physicist who was reputedly the first person to transmit and receive radio waves.[br]At the age of 17 Hertz entered the Gelehrtenschule of the Johaneums in Hamburg, but he left the following year to obtain practical experience for a year with a firm of engineers in Frankfurt am Main. He then spent six months at the Dresden Technical High School, followed by year of military service in Berlin. At this point he decided to switch from engineering to physics, and after a year in Munich he studied physics under Helmholtz at the University of Berlin, gaining his PhD with high honours in 1880. From 1883 to 1885 he was a privat-dozent at Kiel, during which time he studied the electromagnetic theory of James Clerk Maxwell. In 1885 he succeeded to the Chair in Physics at Karlsruhe Technical High School. There, in 1887, he constructed a rudimentary transmitter consisting of two 30 cm (12 in.) rods with metal balls separated by a 7.5 mm (0.3 in.) gap at the inner ends and metallic plates at the outer ends, the whole assembly being mounted at the focus of a large parabolic metal mirror and the two rods being connected to an induction coil. At the other side of his laboratory he placed a 70 cm (27½ in.) diameter wire loop with a similar air gap at the focus of a second metal mirror. When the induction coil was made to create a spark across the transmitter air gap, he found that a spark also occurred at the "receiver". By a series of experiments he was not only able to show that the invisible waves travelled in straight lines and were reflected by the parabolic mirrors, but also that the vibrations could be refracted like visible light and had a similar wavelength. By this first transmission and reception of radio waves he thus confirmed the theoretical predictions made by Maxwell some twenty years earlier. It was probably in his experiments with this apparatus in 1887 that Hertz also observed that the voltage at which a spark was able to jump a gap was significantly reduced by the presence of ultraviolet light. This so-called photoelectric effect was subsequently placed on a theoretical basis by Albert Einstein in 1905. In 1889 he became Professor of Physics at the University of Bonn, where he continued to investigate the nature of electric discharges in gases at low pressure until his death after a long and painful illness. In recognition of his measurement of radio and other waves, the international unit of frequency of an oscillatory wave, the cycle per second, is now universally known as the Hertz.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsRoyal Society Rumford Medal 1890.BibliographyMuch of Hertz's work, including his 1890 paper "On the fundamental equations of electrodynamics for bodies at rest", is recorded in three collections of his papers which are available in English translations by D.E.Jones et al., namely Electric Waves (1893), Miscellaneous Papers (1896) and Principles of Mechanics (1899).Further ReadingJ.G.O'Hara and W.Pricha, 1987, Hertz and the Maxwellians, London: Peter Peregrinus. J.Hertz, 1977, Heinrich Hertz, Memoirs, Letters and Diaries, San Francisco: San Francisco Press.R.Appleyard, 1930, Pioneers of Electrical Communication.See also: Heaviside, OliverKFBiographical history of technology > Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph
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67 Lovelock, James Ephraim
SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors, Electricity, Electronics and information technology[br]b. 26 July 1919 Brixton, London, England[br]English biologist and philosopher, inventor of the microwave oven and electron capture detector.[br]Lovelock was brought up in Brixton in modest circumstances. At the age of 4 he was given a toy electrical set, which first turned his attention towards the study of science. From the Strand School, Brixton, he went on to the universities of Manchester and London, and after graduating in science, in 1941 he joined the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, as a staff scientist, remaining there for twenty years. During the early 1950s, he and his colleagues were engaged in research into freezing live animals and bringing them back to life by heating: Lovelock was struck by the intense pain this process caused the animals, and he sought a more humane method. He tried diathermy or internal heating through the effect of a continuous wave magnetron borrowed from the Navy. He found that the animals were brought back to life painlessly, and impressed with his success he tried baking a potato for his lunch in the apparatus and found that it cooked amazingly quickly compared with the one hour normally needed in an ordinary oven. Lovelock had invented the microwave oven, but its commercial possibilities were not at first realized.In the late 1950s he invented the electron capture detector, which proved to be more sensitive than any other analytical equipment in detecting and measuring toxic substances. The apparatus therefore had obvious uses in testing the quality of the environment and so offered a tremendous boost to the "green" movement. In 1961 he was invited to joint the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to employ the apparatus in an attempt to detect life in space.In the early 1970s Lovelock relinquished his biological work in order to devote his attention to philosophical matters, specifically to develop his theory of the Universe, now widely celebrated as the "Gaia theory". In this controversial theory, Lovelock regards our planet and all its living beings, including humans, as a single living organism.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsCBE 1990. FRS 1974. Many academic awards and honorary degrees. Visiting Professor, University of Reading 1967–90.Bibliography1979, Gaia.1983, The Great Extinction.1988, The Ages of Gaia.1991, Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine.LRDBiographical history of technology > Lovelock, James Ephraim
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68 Paul, Robert William
[br]b. 3 October 1869 Highbury, London, Englandd. 28 March 1943 London, England[br]English scientific instrument maker, inventor of the Unipivot electrical measuring instrument, and pioneer of cinematography.[br]Paul was educated at the City of London School and Finsbury Technical College. He worked first for a short time in the Bell Telephone Works in Antwerp, Belgium, and then in the electrical instrument shop of Elliott Brothers in the Strand until 1891, when he opened an instrument-making business at 44 Hatton Garden, London. He specialized in the design and manufacture of electrical instruments, including the Ayrton Mather galvanometer. In 1902, with a purpose-built factory, he began large batch production of his instruments. He also opened a factory in New York, where uncalibrated instruments from England were calibrated for American customers. In 1903 Paul introduced the Unipivot galvanometer, in which the coil was supported at the centre of gravity of the moving system on a single pivot. The pivotal friction was less than in a conventional instrument and could be used without accurate levelling, the sensitivity being far beyond that of any pivoted galvanometer then in existence.In 1894 Paul was asked by two entrepreneurs to make copies of Edison's kinetoscope, the pioneering peep-show moving-picture viewer, which had just arrived in London. Discovering that Edison had omitted to patent the machine in England, and observing that there was considerable demand for the machine from show-people, he began production, making six before the end of the year. Altogether, he made about sixty-six units, some of which were exported. Although Edison's machine was not patented, his films were certainly copyrighted, so Paul now needed a cinematographic camera to make new subjects for his customers. Early in 1895 he came into contact with Birt Acres, who was also working on the design of a movie camera. Acres's design was somewhat impractical, but Paul constructed a working model with which Acres filmed the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race on 30 March, and the Derby at Epsom on 29 May. Paul was unhappy with the inefficient design, and developed a new intermittent mechanism based on the principle of the Maltese cross. Despite having signed a ten-year agreement with Paul, Acres split with him on 12 July 1895, after having unilaterally patented their original camera design on 27 May. By the early weeks of 1896, Paul had developed a projector mechanism that also used the Maltese cross and which he demonstrated at the Finsbury Technical College on 20 February 1896. His Theatrograph was intended for sale, and was shown in a number of venues in London during March, notably at the Alhambra Theatre in Leicester Square. There the renamed Animatographe was used to show, among other subjects, the Derby of 1896, which was won by the Prince of Wales's horse "Persimmon" and the film of which was shown the next day to enthusiastic crowds. The production of films turned out to be quite profitable: in the first year of the business, from March 1896, Paul made a net profit of £12,838 on a capital outlay of about £1,000. By the end of the year there were at least five shows running in London that were using Paul's projectors and screening films made by him or his staff.Paul played a major part in establishing the film business in England through his readiness to sell apparatus at a time when most of his rivals reserved their equipment for sole exploitation. He went on to become a leading producer of films, specializing in trick effects, many of which he pioneered. He was affectionately known in the trade as "Daddy Paul", truly considered to be the "father" of the British film industry. He continued to appreciate fully the possibilities of cinematography for scientific work, and in collaboration with Professor Silvanus P.Thompson films were made to illustrate various phenomena to students.Paul ended his involvement with film making in 1910 to concentrate on his instrument business; on his retirement in 1920, this was amalgamated with the Cambridge Instrument Company. In his will he left shares valued at over £100,000 to form the R.W.Paul Instrument Fund, to be administered by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, of which he had been a member since 1887. The fund was to provide instruments of an unusual nature to assist physical research.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFellow of the Physical Society 1920. Institution of Electrical Engineers Duddell Medal 1938.Bibliography17 March 1903, British patent no. 6,113 (the Unipivot instrument).1931, "Some electrical instruments at the Faraday Centenary Exhibition 1931", Journal of Scientific Instruments 8:337–48.Further ReadingObituary, 1943, Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 90(1):540–1. P.Dunsheath, 1962, A History of Electrical Engineering, London: Faber \& Faber, pp.308–9 (for a brief account of the Unipivot instrument).John Barnes, 1976, The Beginnings of Cinema in Britain, London. Brian Coe, 1981, The History of Movie Photography, London.BC / GW -
69 Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson
[br]b. 31 October 1828 Sunderland, Englandd. 27 May 1914 Warlingham, Surrey, England[br]English chemist, inventor in Britain of the incandescent electric lamp and of photographic processes.[br]At the age of 14 Swan was apprenticed to a Sunderland firm of druggists, later joining John Mawson who had opened a pharmacy in Newcastle. While in Sunderland Swan attended lectures at the Athenaeum, at one of which W.E. Staite exhibited electric-arc and incandescent lighting. The impression made on Swan prompted him to conduct experiments that led to his demonstration of a practical working lamp in 1879. As early as 1848 he was experimenting with carbon as a lamp filament, and by 1869 he had mounted a strip of carbon in a vessel exhausted of air as completely as was then possible; however, because of residual air, the filament quickly failed.Discouraged by the cost of current from primary batteries and the difficulty of achieving a good vacuum, Swan began to devote much of his attention to photography. With Mawson's support the pharmacy was expanded to include a photographic business. Swan's interest in making permanent photographic records led him to patent the carbon process in 1864 and he discovered how to make a sensitive dry plate in place of the inconvenient wet collodian process hitherto in use. He followed this success with the invention of bromide paper, the subject of a British patent in 1879.Swan resumed his interest in electric lighting. Sprengel's invention of the mercury pump in 1865 provided Swan with the means of obtaining the high vacuum he needed to produce a satisfactory lamp. Swan adopted a technique which was to become an essential feature in vacuum physics: continuing to heat the filament during the exhaustion process allowed the removal of absorbed gases. The inventions of Gramme, Siemens and Brush provided the source of electrical power at reasonable cost needed to make the incandescent lamp of practical service. Swan exhibited his lamp at a meeting in December 1878 of the Newcastle Chemical Society and again the following year before an audience of 700 at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society. Swan's failure to patent his invention immediately was a tactical error as in November 1879 Edison was granted a British patent for his original lamp, which, however, did not go into production. Parchmentized thread was used in Swan's first commercial lamps, a material soon superseded by the regenerated cellulose filament that he developed. The cellulose filament was made by extruding a solution of nitro-cellulose in acetic acid through a die under pressure into a coagulating fluid, and was used until the ultimate obsolescence of the carbon-filament lamp. Regenerated cellulose became the first synthetic fibre, the further development and exploitation of which he left to others, the patent rights for the process being sold to Courtaulds.Swan also devised a modification of Planté's secondary battery in which the active material was compressed into a cellular lead plate. This has remained the central principle of all improvements in secondary cells, greatly increasing the storage capacity for a given weight.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1904. FRS 1894. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1898. First President, Faraday Society 1904. Royal Society Hughes Medal 1904. Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur 1881.Bibliography2 January 1880, British patent no. 18 (incandescent electric lamp).24 May 1881, British patent no. 2,272 (improved plates for the Planté cell).1898, "The rise and progress of the electrochemical industries", Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 27:8–33 (Swan's Presidential Address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers).Further ReadingM.E.Swan and K.R.Swan, 1968, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan F.R.S., Newcastle upon Tyne (a detailed account).R.C.Chirnside, 1979, "Sir Joseph Swan and the invention of the electric lamp", IEEElectronics and Power 25:96–100 (a short, authoritative biography).GWBiographical history of technology > Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson
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70 EC
1. earth current - блуждающие токи; теллурический ток;2. eddy current - вихревой ток, вихревой поток;3. edge connector - торцевой соединитель;4. education computer - специализированный учебный компьютер;5. effective concentration - эффективная концентрация;6. effective conductivity - эффективная проводимость;7. electric current - электрический ток;8. electrical conductivity - удельная электрическая проводимость; электропроводность;9. electrical conductor - проводник; электрический кабель;10. Electricity Council - Совет по электроэнергетике;11. electrocoating - электропроводящее покрытие;12. electromagnetic combat - радиоэлектронная борьба; РЭБ;13. electron capture - захват электрона;14. electron coupling - электронная связь;15. electron-coupled - с электронной связью;16. electronic calibration - электронная калибровка;17. electronic coding - электронное кодирование;18. electronic comparator - электронный компаратор;19. electronic component - компонент электронной схемы;20. electronic computer - электронная вычислительная машина; ЭВМ; электронное вычислительное устройство;21. electronic conductivity - электронная удельная проводимость;22. electronic counter - электронный счетчик импульсов;23. electronically controlled - с электронным управлением;24. electronics and control - электроника и управление;25. electronics chassis - шасси электронной аппаратуры;26. electrostatic collector - электростатический коллектор лампы бегущей волны;27. emergency communicator - аварийный передающий механизм;28. emergency conditions - аварийный режим; аварийная ситуация;29. emergency control - противоаварийное управление;30. emergency coordinator - координатор действий в аварийной ситуации; резервный координатор;31. emission color - цвет свечения излучения;32. emission current - ток эмиссии;33. emulsifiable concentrate - эмульгируемый концентрат;34. enamel covered - покрытый эмалью, с эмалевым покрытием;35. enamel single-cotton insulation - эмалевая однослойная хлопчатобумажная изоляция;36. encoder coupler - элемент связи кодирующего устройства;37. enforcement coordinator - координатор по реализации мер принуждения;38. engineering change - внесение изменений в проект; конструкторское изменение; техническая доработка; технические изменения;39. environmental chamber - камера для климатических испытаний;40. environmental control - контроль условий окружающей среды;41. error correction - исправление ошибок; внесение поправок;42. ethyl cellulose - этилцеллюлоза;43. European Community - Европейское сообщество, ЕС;44. evaluation center - центр оценок;45. exchange capacity - ёмкость обмена; ёмкость обменного поглощения; обменная способность;46. executive committee - исполнительный комитет;47. experiment computer - ЭВМ для обработки результатов экспериментов;48. extended control - расширенное управление; расширенные функции управления;49. extended control mode - режим расширенного управления;50. external cavity - внешний резонатор -
71 experto
adj.expert, crafty, deft, masterful.m.1 expert, old hand, ace, adept.2 expert witness.* * *► adjetivo1 expert► nombre masculino,nombre femenino1 expert* * *(f. - experta)noun adj.* * *experto, -a1.ADJ expert2.SM / F expertse dejó asesorar por un experto — he sought the advice of an expert, he sought expert advice
ser un experto en algo — to be an expert on o in sth
experto/a contable — auditor, chartered accountant
experto/a tributario/a — tax expert
* * *I- ta adjetivoIIexperto en + inf — very good at -ing
- ta masculino, femenino expertun experto en física nuclear — an authority o an expert in nuclear physics
* * *I- ta adjetivoIIexperto en + inf — very good at -ing
- ta masculino, femenino expertun experto en física nuclear — an authority o an expert in nuclear physics
* * *experto11 = expert, referee, talent, expert witness, pundit, publication referee, techie, peer reviewer, technie, leading expert, hired gun, scholar.Ex: Standard reference works and experts may be consulted.
Ex: The contributions are input to the data base, then referred and any suggestion made by the referee are communicated through the data base to the editor.Ex: The company sponsoring the award wants to find out how much can be done in terms of effective public relations and publicity using only local library talent.Ex: Appearing as an expert witness the librarian proved that, between 1943-55, a librarian following standard library practices of the time could have identified and located literature on the subject of the health effects of exposure to asbestos and the means of controlling dust in the mining and milling of asbestos.Ex: Neither pundit from the past, nor sage from the schools, neither authorised body nor inspired individual has come forward with a definition acceptable to all practising librarians as theirs and theirs alone, sharply defining them as a group.Ex: This does not imply that the abstractor becomes a publication referee, trying to second-guess decisions already made by editors.Ex: The article 'CD-ROMs for techies' profiles CD-ROM based tools providing personal computer technical support.Ex: All papers undergo blind review by external peer reviewers.Ex: The information superhighway is more than just a technies' playground.Ex: Each session will be chaired by a leading expert on the topic.Ex: Why not get a 'hired gun' who will do the job in the least time and give us the opinion we're looking for?.Ex: Under 'American scholar' he found editions published beginning, I believe, in the 1880s.* círculo de expertos = network.* comité de expertos = professional committee.* como un experto = expertly.* consultar con otro experto = get + a second opinion.* encuentro entre expertos = meeting of (the) minds.* evaluación por expertos = peer review, refereeing, peer reviewing.* evaluación por expertos abierta = open refereeing.* evaluación por expertos anónima = blind refereeing.* evaluado por expertos = peer-reviewed, expertly appraised, refereed.* evaluar por expertos = referee.* evaluar por expertos doblemente = double referee.* experto bibliotecario = library expert.* experto empresarial = industry observer.* experto en = well versed in.* experto en conservación = preservationist.* experto en desactivación de bombas = detonation expert.* experto en desactivación de explosivos = detonation expert.* experto en dietética = dietitian [dietician], diet expert.* experto en informática = computer expert.* experto en la confección de documentos web = text mark-up expert.* experto en la materia = subject expert.* experto en medicina = medical expert.* experto en nutrición = nutritionist.* experto en recursos = resource person [resource people -pl.].* experto en tecnología = technologist.* experto fiscal = fiscal officer.* experto jurídico = legal expert.* expertos, los = experienced, the.* experto técnico = technical expert.* grupo de expertos = cadre, brains trust, group of experts, network, think tank.* panel de expertos = expert panel.* predicciones de expertos = punditry.* previsiones de expertos = punditry.* procedimiento de evaluación por expertos = refereeing procedure.* pronósticos de expertos = punditry.* pronunciamientos de expertos = punditry.* reunión de expertos = expert meeting [experts' meeting].* revista evaluada por expertos = refereed journal, peer-reviewed journal.* ser un experto en = be knowledgeable about.* ser un experto en la materia = know + Posesivo + stuff.* sin ser evaluado por expertos = unrefereed.* someter a una evaluación por expertos doble = double referee.* toma de contacto entre expertos = meeting of (the) minds.experto22 = adept, experienced, master, skilled, trained, seasoned, qualified, virtuoso, expert, deft, technically minded.Ex: The machine is indeed quite adept at creating alternate access points and customized sequences.
Ex: Thus, complex and irrational arrangements can be tolerated, since only relatively experienced staff need to be able to locate items.Ex: The plot for 99.9 percent represents about the norm for good master typists.Ex: When used by skilled abstractors this mixture of styles can achieve the maximum transmission of information, within a minimum length.Ex: The WILSONDISC system appears easier to the trained searcher who can gather a great body of relevant material by using Boolean free text searching.Ex: At the same time, seasoned librarians are faced with new learning requirements for computer seaching.Ex: The projections of qualified manpower into the year 2000 are bleak for personnel based industries.Ex: An enquirer upstaged by a virtuoso parade of knowledge may be unwilling to venture into the limelight again.Ex: A situation involving the dangerous or apparently dangerous person (perhaps someone reportedly carrying a gun or knife) requires the librarian to summon expert help.Ex: In this live peformance video, Joan Sutherland's coloratura is as deft as ever.Ex: The building was without electricity for much of the day as some planned system upgrades were implemented (for the technically minded, some old gubbings were apparently replaced with sleek shiny new ones).* conocimiento experto = expertise.* enviar a un asesor experto = refer.* inexperto = naive [naïve].* mecanógrafo experto = master typist.* no experto = non-expert [nonexpert].* parecido a un sistema experto = expert-type.* persona no experta = non-scholar.* ser experto en = be skilled at.* sistema experto = expert system, knowledge-base system.* * *[ SER]:es experto en casos de divorcio he's an expert on divorce casesexperto EN + INF very good AT -INGes experta en manipular a la gente she's very good at manipulating people, she's an expert when it comes to manipulating peoplemasculine, feminineexpert experto EN algo:los expertos en explosivos the explosives expertsuna experta en la materia an authority o an expert on the subjectmira cómo lo hace, es todo un experto watch how he does it, he's a real expert o he's really good at it* * *
experto◊ -ta adjetivo: es experto en casos de divorcio he's an expert on divorce cases;
experto en hacer algo very good at doing sth
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
expert
experto,-a sustantivo masculino y femenino expert [en, at/in]
' experto' also found in these entries:
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canto
- como
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- experta
- interpretación
- preparada
- preparado
- profana
- profano
- autoridad
- entendido
- especialista
- perito
English:
accomplished
- adept
- authority
- connoisseur
- environmentalist
- expert
- master
- no
- oats
- practiced
- practised
- pundit
- purport
- skilled
- have
- profess
- professional
- professionally
- untrained
* * *experto, -a♦ adjexpert;es experta en temas medioambientales she's an expert on environmental matters;es experto en hacer diabluras he's an expert at getting up to mischief♦ nm,fexpert;un experto en electrónica an electronics expert;déjese aconsejar por un experto seek expert advice;¿poner pañales? ¡soy todo un experto! changing Br nappies? o US diapers? I'm quite the expert o Br a dab hand!* * *I adj expert;experto en hacer algo expert o very good at doing sth* * *experto, -ta adj & n: expert* * *experto n expertun experto en música an expert on music / a music expert -
72 Alexanderson, Ernst Frederik Werner
[br]b. 25 January 1878 Uppsala, Swedend. ? May 1975 Schenectady, New York, USA[br]Swedish-American electrical engineer and prolific radio and television inventor responsible for developing a high-frequency alternator for generating radio waves.[br]After education in Sweden at the High School and University of Lund and the Royal Institution of Technology in Stockholm, Alexanderson took a postgraduate course at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Engineering College. In 1901 he began work for the Swedish C \& C Electric Company, joining the General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York, the following year. There, in 1906, together with Fessenden, he developed a series of high-power, high-frequency alternators, which had a dramatic effect on radio communications and resulted in the first real radio broadcast. His early interest in television led to working demonstrations in his own home in 1925 and at the General Electric laboratories in 1927, and to the first public demonstration of large-screen (7 ft (2.13 m) diagonal) projection TV in 1930. Another invention of significance was the "amplidyne", a sensitive manufacturing-control system subsequently used during the Second World War for controlling anti-aircraft guns. He also contributed to developments in electric propulsion and radio aerials.He retired from General Electric in 1948, but continued television research as a consultant for the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), filing his 321st patent in 1955.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsInstitution of Radio Engineers Medal of Honour 1919. President, IERE 1921. Edison Medal 1944.BibliographyPublications relating to his work in the early days of radio include: "Magnetic properties of iron at frequencies up to 200,000 cycles", Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1911) 30: 2,443."Transatlantic radio communication", Transactions of the American Institute of ElectricalEngineers (1919) 38:1,269.The amplidyne is described in E.Alexanderson, M.Edwards and K.Boura, 1940, "Dynamo-electric amplifier for power control", Transactions of the AmericanInstitution of Electrical Engineers 59:937.Further ReadingE.Hawkes, 1927, Pioneers of Wireless, Methuen (provides an account of Alexanderson's work on radio).J.H.Udelson, 1982, The Great Television Race: A History of the American Television Industry 1925–1941, University of Alabama Press (provides further details of his contribution to the development of television).KFBiographical history of technology > Alexanderson, Ernst Frederik Werner
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73 Bardeen, John
[br]b. 23 May 1908 Madison, Wisconsin, USAd. 30 January 1991 Boston, Massachusetts, USA[br]American physicist, the first to win the Nobel Prize for Physics twice.[br]Born the son of a professor of anatomy, he studied electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. He then worked for three years as a geophysicist at the Gulf Research Laboratories before taking a PhD in mathematical physics at Princeton, where he was a graduate student. For some time he held appointments at the University of Minnesota and at Harvard, and during the Second World War he joined the US Naval Ordnance Laboratory. In 1945 he joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories to head a new department to work on solid-state devices. While there, he and W.H. Brattain in 1948 published a paper that introduced the transistor. For this he, Brattain and Shockley won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956. In 1951 he moved to the University of Illinois as Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering. There he worked on superconductivity, a phenomenon described in 1911 by Kamerling-Onnes. Bardeen worked with L.N. Cooper and J.A.Schrieffer, and in 1972 they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for the "BCS Theory", which suggested that, under certain circumstances at very low temperatures, electrons can form bound pairs.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsNobel Prize for Physics (jointly with Brattain and Shockley) 1956, (jointly with Cooper and Schrieffer) 1972.Further ReadingIsaacs and E.Martin (eds), 1985, Longmans Dictionary of 20th Century Biography.IMcN -
74 Davidson, Robert
[br]b. 18 April 1804 Aberdeen, Scotlandd. 16 November 1894 Aberdeen, Scotland[br]Scottish chemist, pioneer of electric power and builder of the first electric railway locomotives.[br]Davidson, son of an Aberdeen merchant, attended Marischal College, Aberdeen, between 1819 and 1822: his studies included mathematics, mechanics and chemistry. He subsequently joined his father's grocery business, which from time to time received enquiries for yeast: to meet these, Davidson began to manufacture yeast for sale and from that start built up a successful chemical manufacturing business with the emphasis on yeast and dyes. About 1837 he started to experiment first with electric batteries and then with motors. He invented a form of electromagnetic engine in which soft iron bars arranged on the periphery of a wooden cylinder, parallel to its axis, around which the cylinder could rotate, were attracted by fixed electromagnets. These were energized in turn by current controlled by a simple commutaring device. Electric current was produced by his batteries. His activities were brought to the attention of Michael Faraday and to the scientific world in general by a letter from Professor Forbes of King's College, Aberdeen. Davidson declined to patent his inventions, believing that all should be able freely to draw advantage from them, and in order to afford an opportunity for all interested parties to inspect them an exhibition was held at 36 Union Street, Aberdeen, in October 1840 to demonstrate his "apparatus actuated by electro-magnetic power". It included: a model locomotive carriage, large enough to carry two people, that ran on a railway; a turning lathe with tools for visitors to use; and a small printing machine. In the spring of 1842 he put on a similar exhibition in Edinburgh, this time including a sawmill. Davidson sought support from railway companies for further experiments and the construction of an electromagnetic locomotive; the Edinburgh exhibition successfully attracted the attention of the proprietors of the Edinburgh 585\& Glasgow Railway (E \& GR), whose line had been opened in February 1842. Davidson built a full-size locomotive incorporating his principle, apparently at the expense of the railway company. The locomotive weighed 7 tons: each of its two axles carried a cylinder upon which were fastened three iron bars, and four electromagnets were arranged in pairs on each side of the cylinders. The motors he used were reluctance motors, the power source being zinc-iron batteries. It was named Galvani and was demonstrated on the E \& GR that autumn, when it achieved a speed of 4 mph (6.4 km/h) while hauling a load of 6 tons over a distance of 1 1/2 miles (2.4 km); it was the first electric locomotive. Nevertheless, further support from the railway company was not forthcoming, although to some railway workers the locomotive seems to have appeared promising enough: they destroyed it in Luddite reaction. Davidson staged a further exhibition in London in 1843 without result and then, the cost of battery chemicals being high, ceased further experiments of this type. He survived long enough to see the electric railway become truly practicable in the 1880s.[br]Bibliography1840, letter, Mechanics Magazine, 33:53–5 (comparing his machine with that of William Hannis Taylor (2 November 1839, British patent no. 8,255)).Further Reading1891, Electrical World, 17:454.J.H.R.Body, 1935, "A note on electro-magnetic engines", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 14:104 (describes Davidson's locomotive).F.J.G.Haut, 1956, "The early history of the electric locomotive", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 27 (describes Davidson's locomotive).A.F.Anderson, 1974, "Unusual electric machines", Electronics \& Power 14 (November) (biographical information).—1975, "Robert Davidson. Father of the electric locomotive", Proceedings of the Meeting on the History of Electrical Engineering Institution of Electrical Engineers, 8/1–8/17 (the most comprehensive account of Davidson's work).A.C.Davidson, 1976, "Ingenious Aberdonian", Scots Magazine (January) (details of his life).PJGR / GW -
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76 Kettering, Charles Franklin
SUBJECT AREA: Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Steam and internal combustion engines[br]b. 29 August 1876 near Londonsville, Ohio, USAd. 25 November 1958 Dayton, Ohio, USA[br]American engineer and inventor.[br]Kettering gained degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering from Ohio State University. He was employed by the National Construction Register (NCR) of Dayton, Ohio, where he devised an electric motor for use in cash registers. He became Head of the Inventions Department of that company but left in 1909 to form, with the former Works Manager of NCR, Edward A. Deeds, the Dayton Engineering Laboratories (later called Delco), to develop improved lighting and ignition systems for automobiles. In the first two years of the new company he produced not only these but also the first self-starter, both of which were fitted to the Cadillac, America's leading luxury car. In 1914 he founded Dayton Metal Products and the Dayton Wright Airplane Company. Two years later Delco was bought by General Motors. In 1925 the independent research facilities of Delco were moved to Detroit and merged with General Motors' laboratories to form General Motors Research Corporation, of which Kettering was President and General Manager. (He had been Vice-President of General Motors since 1920.) In that position he headed investigations into methods of achieving maximum engine performance as well as into the nature of friction and combustion. Many other developments in the automobile field were made under his leadership, such as engine coolers, variable-speed transmissions, balancing machines, the two-way shock absorber, high-octane fuel, leaded petrol or gasoline, fast-drying lacquers, crank-case ventilators, chrome plating, and the high-compression automobile engine. Among his other activities were the establishment of the Charles Franklin Kettering Foundation for the Study of Chlorophyll and Photosynthesis at Antioch College, and the founding of the Sloan- Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City. He sponsored the Fever Therapy Research Project at Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton, which developed the hypertherm, or artificial fever machine, for use in the treatment of disease. He resigned from General Motors in 1947.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Kettering, Charles Franklin
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77 Leclanché, Georges
SUBJECT AREA: Electricity[br]b. 1839 Paris, Franced. 14 September 1882 Paris, France[br]French chemist and inventor of the primary cell named after him, from which the electrochemical principles of the modern dry cell have been developed.[br]Leclanché was sent to England for his early education. Returning to France, he entered the Central School of Arts and Manufacture, from which he graduated as a chemical engineer in 1860. He spent some years with a railway company in setting up an electrical timing system, and this work led him to electrochemical research. Driven by political pressure into exile, he set up a small laboratory in Brussels to continue the studies of the behaviour of voltaic cells he had started in France. Many workers directed their efforts to constructing a cell with a single electrolyte and a solid insoluble depo-larizer, but it was Leclanché who produced, in 1866, the prototype of a battery that was rugged, cheap and contained no highly corro-sive liquid. With electrodes of carbon and zinc and a solution of ammonium chloride, polarization was prevented by surrounding the positive electrode with manganese dioxide. The Leclanché cell was adopted by the Belgian Government Telegraph Service in 1868 and rapidly came into general use wherever an intermittent current was needed; for example, in telegraph and later in telephone circuits. Carl Gassner in 1888 pioneered successful dry cells based on the Leclanché system, with the zinc anode serving as the container, and c. 1890 commercial production of such cells began.[br]Bibliography10 October 1866, British patent no. 2,623 (Leclanché cell).1868, "Pile au peroxyde de manganèse à seul liquide", Les Mondes 16:532–3 (describes the Leclanché cell).Further ReadingM.Barak, 1966, "Georges Leclanché (1939–1882)", IEE Electronics and Power 12:184– 91 (a detailed account).N.C.Cahoon and G.W.Heise (eds), 1976, The Primary Battery, Vol. II, New York, pp. 1–147 (describes subsequent developments), GW -
78 consumer
сущ.1) эк. потребитель; покупательATTRIBUTES: average 2. 1), 2. 2), conventional 2. 2), end 1. 1), final 1. 1), individual 1. 2), industrial 1. 1), а, loyal 1. 1), potential 2. 2), prospective 2. 2), rational 2. 1), reasonable 2. 1), representative 2. 2), n2, target 3. 1), ultimate 2. 2), n1
British consumers are paying much more than their counterparts in mainland Europe for a wide range of goods. — Британские потребители покупают многие товары по значительно более высокой цене, чем потребители материковой Европы.
Our consumers expect products which are not only delicious (and safe) but which have been produced fairly and ethically. — Наши потребители ожидают таких продуктов, которые не только вкусны и безопасны для здоровья, но еще и были произведены надлежащим образом и в согласии с этическими нормами.
An average consumer for heating in Turkey uses fuel wood at a rate of 0.75 m3 yr. — Среднестатистический потребитель отопления в Турции использует 0,75 м3 в год древесного топлива.
See:average consumer, conventional consumer, disadvantaged consumer, end consumer, end-consumer, fickle consumer, final consumer, green consumers, heat consumer, individual consumer, industrial consumer, interested consumer, intermediate consumer, loyal consumer, manipulated consumer, potential consumer, price-conscious consumer, price-sensitive consumer, prospective consumer, rational consumer, reasonable consumer, representative consumer, savvy consumer, target consumer, ultimate consumer, water consumer, consumer acceptance, consumer account, consumer activist, consumer advertisement, consumer advertising, consumer advisory board, consumer advisory council, consumer advocate, consumer affluence, consumer analysis, consumer anticipations, consumer appeal, consumer attitude, consumer audience, consumer awareness, consumer bank, consumer basket, consumer behaviour, consumer benefit, consumer boom, consumer brochure, consumer budget, consumer business, consumer buying decision, consumer capitalism, consumer choice, consumer clinic, consumer club, consumer commodities, consumer communications, consumer comparison, consumer complaint, consumer confidence, consumer container, consumer cooperation, consumer cooperative, consumer council, consumer credit, consumer culture, consumer debenture, consumer decision making, consumer deficit, consumer delivery, consumer demand, consumer diary, consumer discrimination, consumer durable product, consumer durables, consumer economics, consumer education, consumer effect, consumer electronics, consumer environment, consumer equilibrium, consumer evaluation, consumer expectations, consumer expenditure, consumer favour, consumer feedback, consumer finance company, consumer flow, consumer franchise, consumer fraud, consumer goods, consumer group, consumer guide, consumer habit, consumer impression, consumer income, consumer inertia, consumer information, consumer inquiry, consumer insurance, consumer interest, consumer interview, consumer items, consumer jury, consumer knowledge, consumer language, consumer law, consumer learnings, consumer lease, consumer leasing, consumer legislation, consumer lifestyle, consumer lines, consumer list, consumer loan, consumer lobby, consumer loyalty, consumer magazine, consumer market, consumer marketing, consumer motivation, consumer movement, consumer needs, consumer non-durables, consumer orientation, consumer pack, consumer panel, consumer patronage, consumer perception, consumer personality, consumer policy, consumer population, consumer practice, consumer preferences, consumer premium, consumer pressure, consumer price, consumer products, consumer profile, consumer promotion, consumer properties, consumer protection, consumer psychologist, consumer psychology, consumer publication, consumer purchase, consumer purchaser, consumer rating, consumer reaction, consumer relations, consumer report, consumer research, consumer resistance, consumer response, consumer rights, consumer sale, consumer sales, consumer satisfaction, consumer segment, consumer service, consumer services, consumer setting, consumer shopping, consumer society, consumer sophistication, consumer sovereignty, consumer spending, consumer spendings, consumer study, consumer surplus, consumer survey, consumer tastes, consumer trade practices, consumer trends, consumer use tests, consumer utility, consumer valuation, consumer value, consumer vulnerability, consumer warranty, consumer waste, consumer wealth, consumer welfare, consumer's account, consumers' attitude, consumer's choice, consumer's cooperative, consumer's demand, consumers expenditure, consumer's goods, consumer's indifference curve, consumers market, consumers' market, consumers' panel, consumer's point, consumers' preference, consumers' remedy, consumer's surplus, consumers' surplus, consumer's test, consumer's wants, cost to consumer, price to consumer COMBS: business to consumer, business-to-consumer, business-to-consumer firm, competition for the consumer's dollar, Consumer Credit Act 1974, Consumer Credit Protection Act, Consumer Goods Pricing Act, Consumer Magazine and Agri-Media Rates and Data, Consumer Product Safety Act, Consumer Products Warranties Act, Consumer Protection Act 1961, Consumer Protection Act 1971, Consumer Reports, Consumer Safety Act 1978, Department of Banking and Consumer Finance v. Clarke, Ethical Consumer, Farmer-to-Consumer Direct Marketing Act, Home Equity Loan Consumer Protection Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act 1991, Uniform Consumer Credit Code, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Consumer Bankers Association, consumer confidence, consumer expenditure2) биол., эк. прир. консумент (организм, который потребляет другие организмы; выделяют первичные, вторичные и третичные консументы)See:
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79 Langmuir, Irving
[br]b. 31 January 1881 Brooklyn, New York, USAd. 16 August 1957 Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA[br]American Nobel Prize winner in chemistry in 1932 who was responsible for a number of important scientific developments ranging from electric lamps, through a high-vacuum transmitting tube (for broadcasting) to a high-vacuum mercury pump for studies in atomic structure, in radar and the stimulation of artificial rainfall.[br]Langmuir took a degree in metallurgical engineering at Columbia University School of Mines, and then a PhD in chemistry at Göttingen University in Germany. For much of his life he carried out research in physical chemistry at the General Electric Research Laboratory at Schenechtady, New York, where he remained until his retirement in 1950. One important result of his work there led to a great improvement in artificial illumination of homes. This was his development in 1913 of a much more efficient electric light bulb, which was filled with argon gas and had a coiled filament. The idea of using an inert gas was an old one, but it was not a viable proposition until a filament that could be coiled became available. Overall, Langmuir's lamp was more reliable than previous designs and gave a brighter light.[br]Further ReadingArthur A.Bright, 1949, The Electric Lamp Industry, New York: Macmillan. Floyd A.Lewis, 1961, The Incandescent Light, New York: Shorewood.DY -
80 high
high [haɪ]haut ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b), 1 (d), 1 (f), 1 (g), 1 (m), 1 (o), 1 (p), 2 (a), 2 (b), 3 (a), 3 (b) élevé ⇒ 1 (b)-(e), 1 (k) grand ⇒ 1 (c), 1 (d) noble ⇒ 1 (e) aigu ⇒ 1 (g) excité ⇒ 1 (s) en haut ⇒ 2 (a)∎ how high is that building? quelle est la hauteur de ce bâtiment?;∎ the walls are three metres high les murs ont ou font trois mètres de haut, les murs sont hauts de trois mètres;∎ the building is eight storeys high c'est un immeuble de ou à huit étages;∎ the highest mountain in the country la plus haute montagne du pays;∎ when I was only so high quand je n'étais pas plus grand que ça∎ built on high ground construit sur un terrain élevé;∎ the sun was high in the sky le soleil était haut(c) (above average → number) grand, élevé; (→ speed, value) grand; (→ cost, price, rate) élevé; (→ salary) élevé, gros (grosse); (→ pressure) élevé, haut; (→ polish) brillant;∎ to the highest degree au plus haut degré, à l'extrême;∎ of the highest importance de première importance;∎ to pay a high price payer le prix fort;∎ to fetch a high price se vendre cher;∎ to make a higher bid faire une offre supérieure, surenchérir;∎ highest bidder surenchérisseur(euse) m,f;∎ she suffers from high blood pressure elle a de la tension;∎ also figurative to play for high stakes jouer gros (jeu);∎ built to withstand high temperatures conçu pour résister à des températures élevées;∎ he has a high temperature il a beaucoup de température ou fièvre;∎ areas of high unemployment des régions à fort taux de chômage;∎ ore with a high mineral content minerai m à haute teneur;∎ milk is high in calcium le lait contient beaucoup de calcium;∎ high winds des vents mpl violents, de grands vents mpl;∎ Mathematics the highest common factor le plus grand commun diviseur(d) (better than average → quality) grand, haut; (→ standard) haut, élevé; (→ mark, score) élevé, bon; (→ reputation) bon;∎ our chances of success remain high nos chances de succès restent très bonnes;∎ to have a high opinion of sb avoir une bonne ou haute opinion de qn;∎ he has a high opinion of himself il a une haute idée de lui-même;∎ to have a high profile être très en vue;∎ she speaks of you in the highest terms elle dit le plus grand bien de vous;∎ one of the highest honours in the arts l'un des plus grands honneurs dans le monde des arts;∎ a man of high principles un homme qui a des principes (élevés);∎ he took a very high moral tone il prit un ton très moralisateur;∎ she has very high moral standards elle a des principes (de moralité) très élevés(f) (of great importance or rank) haut, important;∎ a high official un haut fonctionnaire;∎ we have it on the highest authority nous le tenons de la source la plus sûre;∎ to have friends in high places avoir des relations haut placées, avoir le bras long;∎ of high rank de haut rang∎ high summer plein été m;∎ it was high summer c'était au cœur de l'été;∎ it's high time we were leaving il est grand temps qu'on parte∎ resentment was high il y avait énormément de ressentiment;∎ moments of high drama des moments mpl extrêmement dramatiques;∎ high adventure grande aventure f;∎ to be high farce tourner à la farce∎ to have a high colour avoir le visage congestionné(k) (elaborate, formal → language, style) élevé, soutenu(l) (prominent → cheekbones) saillant∎ the highest card la carte maîtresse∎ a high Tory un tory ultra-conservateur;∎ a high Anglican un(e) anglican(e) de tendance conservatrice∎ to be in high spirits être plein d'entrain;∎ our spirits were high nous avions le moral;∎ high on cocaine défoncé à la cocaïne;∎ figurative they were high on success ils ne se sentaient plus après ce succès;∎ figurative he gets high on sailing il prend son pied en faisant de la voile;∎ they were (as) high as kites (drunk) ils étaient bien partis; (drugged) ils planaient; (happy) ils avaient la pêche2 adverb∎ up high en haut;∎ higher up plus haut;∎ higher and higher de plus en plus haut;∎ he raised both hands high il a levé les deux mains en l'air;∎ the kite flew high up in the sky le cerf-volant est monté très haut dans le ciel;∎ she threw the ball high into the air elle a lancé le ballon très haut;∎ the geese flew high over the fields les oies volaient très haut au-dessus des champs;∎ the shelf was high above her head l'étagère était bien au-dessus de sa tête;∎ he rose high in the company il a accédé aux plus hauts échelons de la société;∎ figurative we looked high and low for him nous l'avons cherché partout;∎ figurative to set one's sights high, to aim high viser haut;∎ figurative they're flying high ils visent haut, ils voient grand;∎ also figurative to hold one's head high porter la tête haute;∎ figurative to leave sb high and dry laisser qn en plan(b) (in intensity) haut;∎ they set the price/standards too high ils ont fixé un prix/niveau trop élevé;∎ I turned the heating up high j'ai mis le chauffage à fond;∎ he rose higher in my esteem il est monté encore plus dans mon estime;∎ salaries can go as high as £50,000 les salaires peuvent monter jusqu'à ou atteindre 50 000 livres;∎ I had to go as high as £50 il a fallu que j'aille ou que je monte jusqu'à 50 livres;∎ the card players played high les joueurs de cartes ont joué gros (jeu);∎ feelings were running high les esprits se sont échauffés∎ I can't sing that high je ne peux pas chanter aussi haut∎ to live high off or on the hog vivre comme un roi ou nabab3 noun∎ humorous the decision came from on high la décision fut prononcée en haut lieu(b) (great degree or level) haut m;∎ to reach a new high atteindre un nouveau record;∎ prices are at an all-time high les prix ont atteint leur maximum;∎ the Stock Market reached a new high la Bourse a atteint un nouveau record ou maximum;∎ the highs and lows (of share prices, career, life) les hauts mpl et les bas mpl(c) (setting → on iron, stove)∎ I put the oven on high j'ai mis le four sur très chaud∎ she's been on a permanent high since he came back elle voit tout en rose depuis son retour∎ Religion the Most High le Très-Haut►► Religion high altar maître-autel m;History High Antiquity Haute Antiquité f;Swimming high board plongeoir m le plus haut;high camp (affectation) affectation f, cabotinage m; (effeminate behaviour) manières fpl efféminées; (style) kitsch m;high chair chaise f haute (pour enfants);1 noun= fraction de l'Église d'Angleterre accordant une grande importance à l'autorité du prêtre, au rituel etc(a) = de tendance conservatrice dans l'Église anglicane;British Religion High Churchman = membre du mouvement conservateur à l'intérieur de l'Église anglicane;high comedy Theatre comédie f au dialogue brillant;∎ figurative the debate ended in scenes of high comedy le débat se termina par des scènes du plus haut comique;Military high command haut commandement m;Administration high commission haut-commissariat m;Administration high commissioner haut-commissaire m;Law the High Court (of Justice) ≃ le tribunal de grande instance (principal tribunal civil en Angleterre et au pays de Galles);Law High Court judge ≃ juge m du tribunal de grande instance;Law the High Court of Judiciary = la plus haute instance de justice en Écosse;Military high explosive explosif m puissant;high fashion haute couture f;high fidelity haute-fidélité f;high finance haute finance f;familiar high five = tape amicale donnée dans la paume de quelqu'un, bras levé, pour le saluer, le féliciter ou en signe de victoire;∎ they always give each other a high five when they meet ils se tapent dans la main à chaque fois qu'ils se voient;Electronics high frequency haute fréquence f;∎ figurative they moved into high gear ils se sont dépêchés;High German haut allemand m;high heels hauts talons mpl;high jump Sport saut m en hauteur;∎ British familiar figurative you're for the high jump when he finds out! qu'est-ce que tu vas prendre quand il l'apprendra!;Sport high jumper sauteur(euse) m,f (qui fait du saut en hauteur);the high life la grande vie;∎ she has a taste for the high life elle a des goûts de luxe;∎ to lead or to live the high life mener la grande vie;Computing high memory mémoire f haute;Computing high memory area zone f de mémoire haute;History the High Middle Ages le Haut Moyen Âge;high noon plein midi m;∎ at high noon à midi pile;American Transport High Occupancy Vehicle = voiture particulière transportant au moins deux passagers;Religion high place haut lieu m;high point (major event → of news) événement m le plus marquant; (→ of evening, holiday) point m culminant, grand moment m; (→ of film, novel) point m culminant;∎ the high point of the party le clou de la soirée;high priest Religion grand prêtre m;∎ figurative the high priests of fashion les gourous mpl de la mode;high priestess Religion grande prêtresse f;∎ figurative the high priestess of rock la grande prêtresse du rock;Linguistics high register language langage m élevé ou soutenu;Art high relief haut-relief m;high rise tour f (immeuble);high road (main road) route f principale, grand-route f; figurative (most direct route) bonne voie f;∎ he's on the high road to success il est en bonne voie de réussir;∎ the high road to fame la voie de la gloire;high school School (in UK) = établissement d'enseignement secondaire regroupant collège et lycée; (in US) lycée m;∎ she's still at high school elle est toujours scolarisée ou va toujours au lycée;the high seas la haute mer;∎ on the high seas en haute ou pleine mer;high season haute ou pleine saison f;∎ during the high season en haute ou pleine saison;British Administration High Sheriff = dans les comtés anglais et gallois, représentant officiel du monarque;American high sign signe m;∎ to give sb the high sign faire signe à qn;high society haute société f, grand monde m;high spirits pétulance f, vitalité f, entrain m;∎ to be in high spirits avoir de l'entrain, être plein d'entrain;∎ to put sb in high spirits mettre qn de bonne humeur;(a) (major event → of news) événement m le plus marquant; (→ of evening, holiday) point m culminant, grand moment m; (→ of film, novel) point m culminant∎ we hit all the high spots (tourists) nous avons vu toutes les attractions touristiques;British the high street (street) la grand-rue, la rue principale; (shops) les commerçants mpl, le commerce;∎ Commerce & Economics the high street has been badly hit by the recession les commerçants ont été durement touchés par la récession;British high table (for guests of honour) table f d'honneur; School & University table f des professeurs;British high tea = repas léger pris en début de soirée et accompagné de thé;∎ at high tide à marée haute;Theatre high tragedy grande tragédie f;high treason haute trahison f;Electricity high voltage haute tension f;∎ the river is at high water le fleuve est en crue;high wire corde f raide ou de funambule;∎ to walk the high wire marcher sur la corde raide
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