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  • 1 с механическим приводом

    1) General subject: power actuated
    2) Military: power-operated
    4) Construction: mechanically operated, powered
    5) Railway term: direct operation, gear-driven
    6) Automobile industry: power-drawn
    7) Mining: operate by power
    10) General subject: mechanically actuated

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > с механическим приводом

  • 2 машина с приводным двигателем

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > машина с приводным двигателем

  • 3 máquina

    f.
    1 machine, engine, piece of machinery.
    2 railway engine.
    3 car.
    * * *
    1 (gen) machine
    2 (de un tren) engine
    3 figurado machinery
    4 (expendedora) vending machine
    \
    a máquina (cosido) machine-sewn 2 (escrito) typewritten
    a toda máquina at full blast
    coser a máquina to use a sewing machine, sew on a sewing machine
    escribir a máquina to type, typewrite
    máquina de afeitar shaver, electric razor
    máquina de coser sewing machine
    máquina de fotos / máquina fotográfica camera
    máquina de lavar washing machine
    máquina de tabaco cigarette machine
    máquina de tricotar knitting machine
    máquina de vapor steam engine
    máquina tragaperras slot machine
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=aparato) [gen] machine

    • escribir a máquina — to type

    • escrito a máquina — typed, typewritten

    • hecho a máquina — machine-made

    • pasar algo a máquina — to type sth (up)

    máquina copiadora — copier, copying machine

    máquina cosechadora — combine harvester, combine

    máquina de afeitar — razor, safety razor

    máquina de afeitar eléctrica — electric razor, shaver

    máquina de bolas — * pinball machine

    máquina de tabaco — * cigarette machine

    máquina de tejer, máquina de tricotar — knitting machine

    máquina excavadora — mechanical digger, steam shovel (EEUU)

    máquina quitanieves — snowplough, snowplow (EEUU)

    máquina registradora — LAm cash register

    máquina tragaperras — fruit machine, one-armed bandit; (Com) vending machine

    2) (Transportes) [de tren] engine, locomotive; (=moto) * motorbike; CAm, Cuba (=coche) car; (=taxi) taxi
    3) (Fot) camera
    4) (Pol) machine
    5) (=maquinaria) machinery, workings pl ; (=plan) scheme of things
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( aparato) machine

    ¿se puede lavar a máquina? — can it be machine-washed?

    ¿me pasas esto a máquina? — would you type this (up) for me?

    b) (Jueg) fruit machine; (Fot) camera
    c) ( de café) coffee machine
    2)
    a) (Náut) engine

    a toda máquina — at top speed, flat out (colloq)

    b) (Ferr) engine, locomotive
    c) (Ven fam) ( auto) car
    3) ( organización) machine
    * * *
    Ex. Synonyms, related terms and other variants must now be collected, either by human selection, or with the aid of the machine.
    ----
    * acabado a máquina = machine-finished.
    * aprendizaje de la máquina = machine learning (ML).
    * a toda máquina = in the fast lane, fast lane, full steam ahead, at full tilt, full-tilt, full-throttle, at full throttle, at top speed, at full blast, at full speed.
    * avanzar a toda máquina = steam ahead, go + full steam ahead.
    * borrador escrito a máquina = typewritten draft.
    * Catalogación Legible por Máquina (MARC) = MARC (Machine Readable Cataloguing).
    * datos legibles por máquina = machine-readable data.
    * de escritura a máquina = typing.
    * de la máquina y el hombre = human-machine.
    * documento legible por máquina = machine readable document.
    * encargado de la máquina de imprimir = machine-minder.
    * en la dirección de la máquina = machine-direction.
    * entre la máquina y el hombre = human-machine.
    * escribir a máquina = type.
    * escrito a máquina = typewritten.
    * escritura a máquina = typewriting.
    * formato legible por máquina = machine-readable form, machine readable format, machine scannable format.
    * hecho a máquina = machine-made.
    * joven ayudante del encargado de la máquina de imprimir = machine boy.
    * legible por máquina = machine-readable.
    * máquina continua de papel = paper-making machine.
    * máquina de afeitar = shaver, electrical razor, electric shaver.
    * máquina de alzar = gathering machine.
    * máquina de andar o correr estática = treadmill.
    * máquina de cepillar = planing machine.
    * máquina de componer en caliente = hot-metal composing machine, hot-metal machine.
    * maquina de componer en frío = cold-metal machine, cold-metal composing machine.
    * máquina de cortar en rebanadas = slicer.
    * máquina de coser = sewing machine.
    * máquina de coser libros = book-sewing machine.
    * máquina de cotejar = collating machine.
    * máquina de discos = jukebox.
    * máquina de encartonar = casing-in machine.
    * máquina de escribir = typewriter.
    * máquina de escribir de margarita = daisy-wheel typewriter.
    * máquina de escribir de pelota de golf = golf-ball typewriter.
    * máquina de escribir eléctrica = electric typewriter, electronic typewriter.
    * máquina de escribir libros = book-writing machine.
    * máquina de estampar en relieve = embossing machine.
    * máquina de estampar tela en relieve = cloth-embossing machine.
    * máquina de fábrica = manufacturing equipment.
    * máquina de fabricación = manufacturing equipment.
    * máquina de fabricar tapas = casemaking machine.
    * máquina de fax = fax machine.
    * máquina de franquear = franking machine.
    * maquina de grapar libros = book-stapling machine.
    * máquina de imprenta = printing machine.
    * maquina de imprimir con mecanismo de reiteración = perfector.
    * máquina de imprimir direcciones = addressograph, addressing machine.
    * máquina de matar = killing machine.
    * máquina de papel continuo = newsprint machine.
    * máquina de perforar papeles = desk punch.
    * máquina de presión plana = platen jobber, platen, platen machine, flat-platen machine.
    * máquina de recortar con cuchilla recta = straight-knife trimming machine.
    * máquina de registro de préstamos por medio de la fotografía = photocharger, photocharging machine.
    * máquina de reiteración = perfecting machine.
    * máquina de sumar = adding machine.
    * máquina de tambor = tumbler machine.
    * máquina de tejer = knitting machine.
    * máquina de torno = nipping machine.
    * máquina de vapor = steam engine.
    * máquina excavadora = excavator.
    * máquina expendedora = vending machine.
    * máquina expendedora de sellos = stamp dispenser.
    * maquina expendora = dispensing machine.
    * máquina Fourdrinier = Fourdrinier machine.
    * máquina Fourdrinier de papel continuo = newsprint Fourdrinier.
    * máquina fundidora de tipos = typecasting machine.
    * máquina gofradora = cloth-embossing machine, embossing machine.
    * máquina industrial = manufacturing equipment.
    * máquina para leer = reading machine.
    * máquina pensante = reasoning engine.
    * máquina planográfica = platen machine.
    * máquina que funciona con monedas = coin-operated machine.
    * máquina que mantiene las constantes vitales = life-support system.
    * máquina redonda = mould machine.
    * máquina rotativa = cylinder machine.
    * máquinas plegadoras = folding machinery.
    * máquina tragaperras = slot machine, fruit machine, one-arm(ed) bandit.
    * montador de máquinas = machine setter.
    * papel a mano-máquina = mouldmade paper.
    * papel hecho a máquina = machine-made paper.
    * papel verjurado hecho a máquina = machine-made laid paper.
    * posible de ser consultado por máquina = machine-viewable.
    * sala de máquinas = machine room.
    * seleccionado por máquina = machine-selected.
    * taller de máquinas = machine shop.
    * terminado a máquina = machine-finished.
    * texto escrito a máquina = typescript.
    * texto legible por máquina = machine readable text.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( aparato) machine

    ¿se puede lavar a máquina? — can it be machine-washed?

    ¿me pasas esto a máquina? — would you type this (up) for me?

    b) (Jueg) fruit machine; (Fot) camera
    c) ( de café) coffee machine
    2)
    a) (Náut) engine

    a toda máquina — at top speed, flat out (colloq)

    b) (Ferr) engine, locomotive
    c) (Ven fam) ( auto) car
    3) ( organización) machine
    * * *

    Ex: Synonyms, related terms and other variants must now be collected, either by human selection, or with the aid of the machine.

    * acabado a máquina = machine-finished.
    * aprendizaje de la máquina = machine learning (ML).
    * a toda máquina = in the fast lane, fast lane, full steam ahead, at full tilt, full-tilt, full-throttle, at full throttle, at top speed, at full blast, at full speed.
    * avanzar a toda máquina = steam ahead, go + full steam ahead.
    * borrador escrito a máquina = typewritten draft.
    * Catalogación Legible por Máquina (MARC) = MARC (Machine Readable Cataloguing).
    * datos legibles por máquina = machine-readable data.
    * de escritura a máquina = typing.
    * de la máquina y el hombre = human-machine.
    * documento legible por máquina = machine readable document.
    * encargado de la máquina de imprimir = machine-minder.
    * en la dirección de la máquina = machine-direction.
    * entre la máquina y el hombre = human-machine.
    * escribir a máquina = type.
    * escrito a máquina = typewritten.
    * escritura a máquina = typewriting.
    * formato legible por máquina = machine-readable form, machine readable format, machine scannable format.
    * hecho a máquina = machine-made.
    * joven ayudante del encargado de la máquina de imprimir = machine boy.
    * legible por máquina = machine-readable.
    * máquina continua de papel = paper-making machine.
    * máquina de afeitar = shaver, electrical razor, electric shaver.
    * máquina de alzar = gathering machine.
    * máquina de andar o correr estática = treadmill.
    * máquina de cepillar = planing machine.
    * máquina de componer en caliente = hot-metal composing machine, hot-metal machine.
    * maquina de componer en frío = cold-metal machine, cold-metal composing machine.
    * máquina de cortar en rebanadas = slicer.
    * máquina de coser = sewing machine.
    * máquina de coser libros = book-sewing machine.
    * máquina de cotejar = collating machine.
    * máquina de discos = jukebox.
    * máquina de encartonar = casing-in machine.
    * máquina de escribir = typewriter.
    * máquina de escribir de margarita = daisy-wheel typewriter.
    * máquina de escribir de pelota de golf = golf-ball typewriter.
    * máquina de escribir eléctrica = electric typewriter, electronic typewriter.
    * máquina de escribir libros = book-writing machine.
    * máquina de estampar en relieve = embossing machine.
    * máquina de estampar tela en relieve = cloth-embossing machine.
    * máquina de fábrica = manufacturing equipment.
    * máquina de fabricación = manufacturing equipment.
    * máquina de fabricar tapas = casemaking machine.
    * máquina de fax = fax machine.
    * máquina de franquear = franking machine.
    * maquina de grapar libros = book-stapling machine.
    * máquina de imprenta = printing machine.
    * maquina de imprimir con mecanismo de reiteración = perfector.
    * máquina de imprimir direcciones = addressograph, addressing machine.
    * máquina de matar = killing machine.
    * máquina de papel continuo = newsprint machine.
    * máquina de perforar papeles = desk punch.
    * máquina de presión plana = platen jobber, platen, platen machine, flat-platen machine.
    * máquina de recortar con cuchilla recta = straight-knife trimming machine.
    * máquina de registro de préstamos por medio de la fotografía = photocharger, photocharging machine.
    * máquina de reiteración = perfecting machine.
    * máquina de sumar = adding machine.
    * máquina de tambor = tumbler machine.
    * máquina de tejer = knitting machine.
    * máquina de torno = nipping machine.
    * máquina de vapor = steam engine.
    * máquina excavadora = excavator.
    * máquina expendedora = vending machine.
    * máquina expendedora de sellos = stamp dispenser.
    * maquina expendora = dispensing machine.
    * máquina Fourdrinier = Fourdrinier machine.
    * máquina Fourdrinier de papel continuo = newsprint Fourdrinier.
    * máquina fundidora de tipos = typecasting machine.
    * máquina gofradora = cloth-embossing machine, embossing machine.
    * máquina industrial = manufacturing equipment.
    * máquina para leer = reading machine.
    * máquina pensante = reasoning engine.
    * máquina planográfica = platen machine.
    * máquina que funciona con monedas = coin-operated machine.
    * máquina que mantiene las constantes vitales = life-support system.
    * máquina redonda = mould machine.
    * máquina rotativa = cylinder machine.
    * máquinas plegadoras = folding machinery.
    * máquina tragaperras = slot machine, fruit machine, one-arm(ed) bandit.
    * montador de máquinas = machine setter.
    * papel a mano-máquina = mouldmade paper.
    * papel hecho a máquina = machine-made paper.
    * papel verjurado hecho a máquina = machine-made laid paper.
    * posible de ser consultado por máquina = machine-viewable.
    * sala de máquinas = machine room.
    * seleccionado por máquina = machine-selected.
    * taller de máquinas = machine shop.
    * terminado a máquina = machine-finished.
    * texto escrito a máquina = typescript.
    * texto legible por máquina = machine readable text.

    * * *
    A
    1 (aparato) machine
    una máquina para hacer pasta a pasta-making machine
    ¿sabes coser a máquina? do you know how to use a sewing machine?
    esto hay que coserlo a máquina this will have to be sewn on the machine
    ¿se puede lavar a máquina? can it be machine-washed?
    ¿me pasas esto a máquina? would you type this (up) for me?
    2 ( Jueg) fruit machine
    3 (cámara) camera
    4 (de café) coffee machine
    Compuestos:
    electric razor, shaver ver tb maquinilla f A. (↑ maquinilla)
    calculator
    sewing machine
    jukebox
    typewriter
    one-armed bandit, fruit machine
    knitting machine
    washing machine
    snow machine
    weight machine
    ● máquina de tricotar or tejer
    knitting machine
    wind machine
    climbing machine
    vending machine
    ( Esp) ticket machine
    ( AmL) ticket machine
    postage meter ( AmE), franking machine ( BrE)
    slot machine, fruit machine
    ( Col) slot machine, fruit machine
    ( Esp) slot machine, fruit machine
    B
    1 ( Náut) engine
    a toda máquina at top speed, flat out ( colloq)
    2 ( Ferr) engine, locomotive
    3 ( Ven fam) (auto) car
    C (organización) machine
    la máquina del partido the party machine
    * * *

     

    Del verbo maquinar: ( conjugate maquinar)

    maquina es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    maquinar    
    máquina
    maquinar ( conjugate maquinar) verbo transitivo
    to plot, scheme
    máquina sustantivo femenino
    1

    ◊ ¿se puede lavar a máquina? can it be machine-washed?;

    escribir a máquina to type;
    máquina de afeitar safety razor;

    ( eléctrica) electric razor, shaver;
    ◊ máquina de coser/lavar sewing/washing machine;

    máquina de escribir typewriter;
    máquina expendedora vending machine;
    máquina tragamonedas or (Esp) tragaperras slot machine, fruit machine
    b) (Jueg) fruit machine;

    (Fot) camera
    2
    a) (Ferr, Náut) engine

    b) (Ven fam) ( auto) car

    maquinar verbo transitivo to scheme, plot
    máquina sustantivo femenino
    1 machine: los botones están cosidos a máquina, the buttons are sewn on by machine
    máquina de coser/tabaco, sewing/cigarette machine
    máquina de escribir, typewriter
    máquina tragaperras, fruit machine
    2 fam (coche) car
    ♦ Locuciones: a toda máquina, at full speed
    ' máquina' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    A
    - agarrotarse
    - carro
    - cinta
    - copiar
    - de
    - deterioro
    - eje
    - escribir
    - estropear
    - estropearse
    - expendedor
    - expendedora
    - fastidiarse
    - foto
    - frenar
    - imprenta
    - ingenio
    - joderse
    - lubricación
    - lubrificación
    - mano
    - margarita
    - montaje
    - operador
    - operadora
    - oprimir
    - parada
    - parado
    - probar
    - quitanieves
    - rebanar
    - recambio
    - rendimiento
    - reparar
    - sacar
    - segadora
    - tabulador
    - teclado
    - teclear
    - zumbar
    - activar
    - agarrotar
    - alimentación
    - alimentar
    - aparato
    - arreglo
    - averiado
    - batidor
    - caja
    English:
    act up
    - action
    - adjust
    - adjustment
    - antiquated
    - assemble
    - behave
    - behavior
    - behaviour
    - blade
    - break
    - break down
    - broken
    - bulldozer
    - camera
    - control
    - custom
    - daisywheel
    - dead
    - dependable
    - disable
    - dispenser
    - efficiency
    - efficient
    - electronic
    - frame
    - fruit machine
    - go off
    - go on
    - handle
    - harvester
    - high-powered
    - hum
    - idle
    - idleness
    - jukebox
    - loud
    - machine
    - machine code
    - machine-washable
    - maintain
    - one-armed bandit
    - operate
    - operation
    - operator
    - order
    - output
    - pack up
    - performance
    - play up
    * * *
    1. [aparato] machine;
    coser a máquina to machine-sew;
    escrito a máquina typewritten;
    hecho a máquina machine-made;
    lavar a máquina to machine-wash;
    pasar algo a máquina to type sth out o up;
    Fam
    ser una máquina [muy rápido, muy bueno] to be a powerhouse
    máquina de afeitar electric razor;
    máquina de bebidas drinks machine, US drink vending machine;
    máquina de café (espresso) coffee machine;
    máquina de cambios change machine;
    máquina de coser sewing-machine;
    máquina de discos [en bar] jukebox;
    máquina expendedora vending machine;
    máquina herramienta machine tool;
    máquina de oficina office machine;
    máquina registradora cash register;
    máquina de tabaco cigarette machine;
    máquina del tiempo time machine;
    máquina voladora flying machine
    2. [para jugar]
    jugar a las máquinas to play on the slot machines o Br fruit machines
    máquina de azar slot machine, Br fruit machine;
    máquina de marcianos Space Invaders® machine;
    máquina recreativa arcade machine;
    Am máquina tragamonedas slot machine, Br fruit machine; Esp máquina tragaperras slot machine, Br fruit machine
    3. [locomotora] engine
    máquina de vapor steam engine
    4. [en buque] engine;
    sala de máquinas engine room;
    también Fig
    a toda máquina at full pelt o tilt;
    Fig
    no fuerces la máquina don't overdo it
    5. [de estado, partido] machinery
    6. Fam [vehículo] [moto] (motor)bike;
    [bicicleta] bike; [automóvil] wheels, Br motor
    7. Cuba [automóvil] car
    * * *
    f
    1 machine
    2 FERR locomotive;
    a toda máquina at top speed
    3 C.Am., Carib
    car
    4
    :
    * * *
    1) : machine
    máquina de coser: sewing machine
    máquina de escribir: typewriter
    2) locomotora: engine, locomotive
    3) : machine (in politics)
    4)
    a toda máquina : at full speed
    * * *
    1. (en general) machine
    2. (tren) engine

    Spanish-English dictionary > máquina

  • 4 funcionar

    v.
    1 to work, to run (machine).
    funciona a pilas it works o runs off batteries
    El motor anda bien The engine is working well.
    2 to work for.
    Me funcionó la idea The idea worked for me.
    * * *
    1 (desempeñar una función) to work, function
    ■ funciona con gasolina/diesel it runs on petrol/diesel
    \
    hacer funcionar algo to operate something
    'No funciona' "Out of order"
    * * *
    verb
    2) run, work
    * * *
    VI
    1) [aparato, mecanismo] to work; [motor] to work, run; [sistema] to work, function

    ¿cómo funciona el vídeo? — how does the video work?, how do you work the video?

    2) [plan, método] to work; [negocio, película] to be a success
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo aparato/máquina to work; servicio to operate

    ¿cómo funciona esto? — how does this work?

    funcionar con pilas/gasolina — to run off batteries/on gasoline

    * * *
    = be operational, be operative, function, operate, perform, work, be in working order, tick, do + the trick.
    Ex. ORBIT has been operational since 1972, and has around seventy data bases mounted.
    Ex. Sometimes truncation may be operative on both ends of a stem.
    Ex. The DOBIS/LIBIS allows both the library and the computer center to function efficiently and at a lower cost by sharing one system.
    Ex. These references operate in a similar fashion whether they are used to link authors' names or subject headings.
    Ex. The advanced arithmetical machines of the future will be electrical in nature, and they will perform at 100 times present speeds, or more.
    Ex. Files only work effectively for a limited number of documents.
    Ex. It is therefore a point of wisdom to ensure beforehand that everything is in the best possible working order.
    Ex. The article 'Is your infrastructure ticking?' discusses the issues associated with managing information technology (IT) infrastructure in large organizations.
    Ex. We are currently in the process of looking at two products that seem to do the trick.
    ----
    * dejar de funcionar = go down, cease to + function, go + belly up, flake out, go + dead, pack up.
    * empezar a funcionar = become + operational, get off + the ground, get + rolling, get + things going, get + things rolling, go + live, get + the ball rolling, set + the ball rolling, start + the ball rolling.
    * forma de funcionar = business model.
    * funcionar además como = double as, double up as.
    * funcionar a las mil maravillas = work + a treat, work like + a charm, go like + a charm.
    * funcionar al máximo = stretch + Nombre + to the limit.
    * funcionar a plena capacidad = be fully into + Posesivo + stride.
    * funcionar a tope = stretch + Nombre + to the limit.
    * funcionar bien = be in order.
    * funcionar con dificultad = labour [labor, -USA].
    * funcionar conjuntamente = work together, interwork.
    * funcionar con pérdidas = run + at a loss.
    * funcionar de lo lindo = work like + a charm, go like + a charm.
    * funcionar de un modo autónomo = operate under + an autonomous hand.
    * funcionar en/a = run over.
    * funcionar mal = malfunction.
    * funcionar mejor = work + best, do + best.
    * funcionar por un sistema de turnos = work to + a rota system, work on + a rota system, work on + a rota, work + shifts.
    * funcionar recíprocamente = work + both ways.
    * funcionar también como = double as, double up as.
    * hacer Algo funcionar = make + Nombre + tick.
    * hacer funcionar = service, do + the trick.
    * hacer que Algo empiece a funcionar = get + Nombre + off the ground.
    * hacer que Algo funcione = make + Nombre + spin.
    * mantener las cosas funcionando = keep + it rolling.
    * máquina que funciona con monedas = coin-operated machine.
    * no funcionar = be out of order.
    * programa + dejar de funcionar = programme + crash.
    * que funciona a base de órdenes = command-driven.
    * que funciona con electricidad = electrically-powered, electrically-operated.
    * que funciona con energía eólica = wind-powered.
    * que funciona con monedas = coin-operated, coin-op.
    * que funciona con vapor = steam-powered.
    * que funciona manualmente = manually operated.
    * sistema + dejar de funcionar = system + crash.
    * volver a funcionar = be back in business.
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo aparato/máquina to work; servicio to operate

    ¿cómo funciona esto? — how does this work?

    funcionar con pilas/gasolina — to run off batteries/on gasoline

    * * *
    = be operational, be operative, function, operate, perform, work, be in working order, tick, do + the trick.

    Ex: ORBIT has been operational since 1972, and has around seventy data bases mounted.

    Ex: Sometimes truncation may be operative on both ends of a stem.
    Ex: The DOBIS/LIBIS allows both the library and the computer center to function efficiently and at a lower cost by sharing one system.
    Ex: These references operate in a similar fashion whether they are used to link authors' names or subject headings.
    Ex: The advanced arithmetical machines of the future will be electrical in nature, and they will perform at 100 times present speeds, or more.
    Ex: Files only work effectively for a limited number of documents.
    Ex: It is therefore a point of wisdom to ensure beforehand that everything is in the best possible working order.
    Ex: The article 'Is your infrastructure ticking?' discusses the issues associated with managing information technology (IT) infrastructure in large organizations.
    Ex: We are currently in the process of looking at two products that seem to do the trick.
    * dejar de funcionar = go down, cease to + function, go + belly up, flake out, go + dead, pack up.
    * empezar a funcionar = become + operational, get off + the ground, get + rolling, get + things going, get + things rolling, go + live, get + the ball rolling, set + the ball rolling, start + the ball rolling.
    * forma de funcionar = business model.
    * funcionar además como = double as, double up as.
    * funcionar a las mil maravillas = work + a treat, work like + a charm, go like + a charm.
    * funcionar al máximo = stretch + Nombre + to the limit.
    * funcionar a plena capacidad = be fully into + Posesivo + stride.
    * funcionar a tope = stretch + Nombre + to the limit.
    * funcionar bien = be in order.
    * funcionar con dificultad = labour [labor, -USA].
    * funcionar conjuntamente = work together, interwork.
    * funcionar con pérdidas = run + at a loss.
    * funcionar de lo lindo = work like + a charm, go like + a charm.
    * funcionar de un modo autónomo = operate under + an autonomous hand.
    * funcionar en/a = run over.
    * funcionar mal = malfunction.
    * funcionar mejor = work + best, do + best.
    * funcionar por un sistema de turnos = work to + a rota system, work on + a rota system, work on + a rota, work + shifts.
    * funcionar recíprocamente = work + both ways.
    * funcionar también como = double as, double up as.
    * hacer Algo funcionar = make + Nombre + tick.
    * hacer funcionar = service, do + the trick.
    * hacer que Algo empiece a funcionar = get + Nombre + off the ground.
    * hacer que Algo funcione = make + Nombre + spin.
    * mantener las cosas funcionando = keep + it rolling.
    * máquina que funciona con monedas = coin-operated machine.
    * no funcionar = be out of order.
    * programa + dejar de funcionar = programme + crash.
    * que funciona a base de órdenes = command-driven.
    * que funciona con electricidad = electrically-powered, electrically-operated.
    * que funciona con energía eólica = wind-powered.
    * que funciona con monedas = coin-operated, coin-op.
    * que funciona con vapor = steam-powered.
    * que funciona manualmente = manually operated.
    * sistema + dejar de funcionar = system + crash.
    * volver a funcionar = be back in business.

    * * *
    funcionar [A1 ]
    vi
    to work
    el reloj funciona a la perfección the clock works perfectly
    ¿cómo funciona este cacharro? how does this thing work?
    [ S ] no funciona out of order
    la relación no funcionaba their relationship wasn't working (out) ( colloq)
    el servicio no puede funcionar con tan poco personal the service cannot operate o function with so few staff
    funciona con pilas it works on o runs off batteries
    * * *

     

    funcionar ( conjugate funcionar) verbo intransitivo [aparato/máquina] to work;
    [ servicio] to operate;
    ( on signs) no funciona out of order;
    ◊ funcionar con pilas/gasolina to run off batteries/on gasoline

    funcionar verbo intransitivo to work: no funciona, (en letrero) out of order

    ' funcionar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    andar
    - deteriorarse
    - evolucionar
    - ir
    - marchar
    - poner
    - resultar
    - vez
    - bien
    - carburar
    English:
    act
    - act up
    - behave
    - dare
    - function
    - get
    - go
    - malfunction
    - need
    - operate
    - perform
    - run
    - work
    - develop
    - die
    - drive
    - flush
    - pack
    - play
    - turn
    * * *
    to work;
    el sistema funciona de maravilla the system works superbly;
    funciona con gasolina it runs on Br petrol o US gasoline;
    funciona a o [m5] con pilas it uses o runs off batteries, it's battery-powered;
    no funciona [en letrero] out of order;
    su matrimonio no está funcionando their marriage isn't working (out);
    conmigo los lloros no funcionan you won't get anywhere with me by crying
    * * *
    v/i work;
    no funciona out of order
    * * *
    1) : to function
    2) : to run, to work
    * * *
    1. (en general) to work
    2. (ir) to run [pt. ran; pp. run]
    "no funciona" "out of order"

    Spanish-English dictionary > funcionar

  • 5 Berry, George

    [br]
    b. Missouri, USA fl. 1880s
    [br]
    American farmer who developed the first steam-powered, self-propelled combine harvester.
    [br]
    Born in Missouri, George Berry moved to a 4,000 acre (1,600 hectare) farm at Lindsay in California, and between 1881 and 1886 built himself a steam-driven combine harvester. Berry's machine was the first self-propelled harvester and the first to use straw as a fuel. A single boiler powered two engines: a 26 hp (19 kW) Mitchell Fisher engine provided the forward drive, whilst a 6 hp (4 kW) Westinghouse engine drove the threshing mechanism. Cleaned straw was passed by conveyor back to the firebox, where it provided the main fuel. The original machine had a 22 ft cut, but a later machine extended this to 40 ft and harvested 50 acres a day, although on one occasion it achieved the distinction of being the first harvester to cut over 100 acres in one day. The traction engine used for motive power was removable and was used after harvest for ploughing. It was the first engine to be capable of forward and reverse motion.
    In later life Berry moved into politics, becoming a member of the California Senate for Inyo and Tulare in the 1890s.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    G.Quick and W.Buchele, 1978, The Grain Harvesters, American Society of Agricultural Engineers (gives an account of combine-harvester development).
    AP

    Biographical history of technology > Berry, George

  • 6 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

  • 7 Santos-Dumont, Alberto

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 20 July 1873 Cabangu, Rocha Dias, Brazil
    d. 23 July 1932 d. Santos, Sâo Paulo, Brazil
    [br]
    Brazilian pioneer in airship and aeroplane flights.
    [br]
    Alberto Santos-Dumont, the son of a wealthy Brazilian coffee planter, was sent to Paris to study engineering but developed a passion for flying. After several balloon flights he turned his attention to powered airships. His first small airship, powered by a motorcycle engine, flew in 1898. A series of airships followed and his flights over Paris—and his narrow escapes—generated much public interest. A large cash prize had been offered for the first person to fly from Saint-Cloud around the Eiffel Tower and back inside thirty minutes. Santos-Dumont made two attempts in his airship No. 5, but engine failures caused him to crash, once in a tree and once on a hotel roof. Undismayed, he prepared airship No. 6 and on 19 October 1901 he set out and rounded the Tower, only to suffer yet another engine failure. This time he managed to restart the engine and claim the prize. This flight created a sensation in Paris and beyond. Santos-Dumont continued to create news with a series of airship exploits, and by 1906 he had built a total of fourteen airships. In 1904 Santos-Dumont visited the United States and met Octave Chanute, who described to him the achievements of the Wright brothers. On his return to Paris he set about designing an aeroplane which was unlike any other aeroplane of the period. It had box-kite-like wings and tail, and flew tail-first (a canard) powered by an Antoinette engine at the rear. It was built for him by Gabriel Voisin and was known as the "14 bis" because it was air-tested suspended beneath airship No. 14. It made its first free take-off on 13 September 1906, and then a series of short hops, including one of 220 m (720 ft) which won Santos-Dumont an Aero-Club prize and recognition for the first aeroplane flight in Europe; indeed, it was the first officially witnessed aeroplane flight in the world. Santos-Dumont's most successful aeroplane was his No. 20 of 1909, known as the Demoiselle: a tiny machine popular with sporting pilots. About this time, however, Santos-Dumont became ill and had to abandon his aeronautical activities. Although he had not made any great technical breakthroughs, Santos-Dumont had played a major role in arousing public interest in flying.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Aéro Club de France Grand Prix de l'Aéronautique 1901. Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur 1904.
    Bibliography
    1904, Dans l'air, Paris; 1904, pub. as My Airships (repub. 1973, New York: Dover).
    Further Reading
    Peter Wykeham, 1962, Santos-Dumont, A Study in Obsession, London.
    F.H.da Costa, c. 1971, Alberto Santos-Dumont, O Pai da Aviaçāo; pub. in English as
    Alberto Santos Dumont, Father of Aviation, Rio de Janeiro.
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Santos-Dumont, Alberto

  • 8 leistungsschwach

    Adj.
    1. TECH. low-performance...; Motor, Fahrzeug: low-powered
    2. SPORT, PÄD. low-achieving; Mannschaft: weak; leistungsschwacher Schüler low-ability pupil (Am. student), underachiever
    * * *
    leis·tungs·schwach
    adj weak
    eine \leistungsschwache Maschine/ein \leistungsschwacher Motor a low-performance [or -power] machine/engine
    * * *
    Adjektiv not performing well pred.; low-achieving attrib. <worker, pupil>; (minderbegabt) less able, lower-ability attrib. < pupil>; weak < team>; low-powered < engine>
    * * *
    1. TECH low-performance …; Motor, Fahrzeug: low-powered
    2. SPORT, SCHULE low-achieving; Mannschaft: weak;
    leistungsschwacher Schüler low-ability pupil (US student), underachiever
    * * *
    Adjektiv not performing well pred.; low-achieving attrib. <worker, pupil>; (minderbegabt) less able, lower-ability attrib. < pupil>; weak < team>; low-powered < engine>

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > leistungsschwach

  • 9 Booth, Hubert Cecil

    [br]
    b. 1871 Gloucester, England d. 1955
    [br]
    English mechanical, civil and construction engineer best remembered as the inventor of the vacuum cleaner.
    [br]
    As an engineer Booth contributed to the design of engines for Royal Navy battleships, designed and supervised the erection of a number of great wheels (in Blackpool, Vienna and Paris) and later designed factories and bridges.
    In 1900 he attended a demonstration, at St Paneras Station in London, of a new form of railway carriage cleaner that was supposed to blow the dirt into a container. It was not a very successful experiment and Booth, having considered the problem carefully, decided that sucking might be better than blowing. He tried out his idea by placing a piece of damp cloth over an upholstered armchair. When he sucked air by mouth through his cloth the dirt upon it was tangible proof of his theory.
    Various attempts were being made at this time, especially in America, to find a successful cleaner of carpets and upholstery. Booth produced the first truly satisfactory machine, which he patented in 1901, and coined the term "vacuum cleaner". He formed the Vacuum Cleaner Co. (later to become Goblin BVC Ltd) and began to manufacture his machines. For some years the company provided a cleaning service to town houses, using a large and costly vacuum cleaner (the first model cost £350). Painted scarlet, it measured 54×10×42 in. (137×25×110 cm) and was powered by a petrol-driven 5 hp piston engine. It was transported through the streets on a horse-driven van and was handled by a team of operators who parked outside the house to be cleaned. With the aid of several hundred feet of flexible hose extending from the cleaner through the windows into all the rooms, the machine sucked the dirt of decades from the carpets; at the first cleaning the weight of many such carpets was reduced by 50 per cent as the dirt was sucked away.
    Many attempts were made in Europe and America to produce a smaller and less expensive machine. Booth himself designed the chief British model in 1906, the Trolley- Vac, which was wheeled around the house on a trolley. Still elaborate, expensive and heavy, this machine could, however, be operated inside a room and was powered from an electric light fitting. It consisted of a sophisticated electric motor and a belt-driven rotary vacuum pump. Various hoses and fitments made possible the cleaning of many different surfaces and the dust was trapped in a cloth filter within a small metal canister. It was a superb vacuum cleaner but cost 35 guineas and weighed a hundredweight (50 kg), so it was difficult to take upstairs.
    Various alternative machines that were cheaper and lighter were devised, but none was truly efficient until a prototype that married a small electric motor to the machine was produced in 1907 in America.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    The Story of the World's First Vacuum Cleaner, Leatherhead: BSR (Housewares) Ltd. See also Hoover, William Henry.
    DY

    Biographical history of technology > Booth, Hubert Cecil

  • 10 станок

    bench, frame, machine, mill, machine tool station, machining (work) station, tool, working machine
    * * *
    стано́к м.
    стано́к допуска́ет обрабо́тку изде́лий любо́го разме́ра — the machine(-tool) accommodates workpieces of any size
    нала́живать стано́к — set up a machine
    обраба́тывать на станке́ ( резанием) — machine
    обслу́живать стано́к — attend to a machine
    оди́н рабо́чий обслу́живает 5 станко́в — one operator attends to 5 machines
    рабо́тать на станке́ — operate a machine
    2. (опора, основание) bed (frame), frame
    агрега́тный стано́к — transfer machine; “building-block” machine (tool)
    балансиро́вочный стано́к — balancing machine
    болторе́зный стано́к — bolt-threading machine
    бурово́й стано́к — drilling rig
    бурово́й стано́к враща́тельно-шне́кового буре́ния — auger-drilling rig
    бурово́й стано́к дробово́го буре́ния — chilled shot drilling rig
    бурово́й стано́к коло́нкового буре́ния — drifter [column] drilling rig
    бурово́й стано́к пневмоуда́рного буре́ния — air-powered percussive drilling rig
    бурово́й стано́к терми́ческого буре́ния — flame-jet drilling rig
    бурово́й стано́к уда́рно-кана́тного буре́ния — churn drilling rig
    бурово́й стано́к шаро́шечного буре́ния — roller-bit [rotary, self-propelled roller-bit] drilling rig
    бурозапра́вочный стано́к — jackmill
    винторе́зный стано́к — screw-cutting machine
    волочи́льный стано́к — draw(ing) bench, drawing machine
    гайконарезно́й стано́к — nut-cutting machine
    ги́бочный стано́к — bending machine
    дави́льный стано́к — spinning lathe
    деревообраба́тывающий стано́к — wood-working machine
    стано́к для прити́рки кла́панов — valve grinder
    стано́к для чепракова́ния голья́ кож. — splitting horse
    дово́дочный стано́к — lapping [microfinishing] machine
    долбё́жный стано́к — ( по металлу) slotting machine, slotter; ( по дереву) mortising machine, mortiser
    зака́точный стано́к — beading machine
    запа́ячный стано́к ( в производстве электровакуумных приборов) — sealing-in machine
    зато́чный стано́к — tool-grinding machine
    затыло́вочный стано́к — relieving machine
    зубодолбё́жный стано́к — gear shaper
    зуборе́зный стано́к — gear-cutting machine
    зубострога́льный стано́к — gear planer
    зубофре́зерный стано́к — gear-hobbing machine, gear hobber
    зубошлифова́льный стано́к — gear-grinding machine
    калё́вочный стано́к — moulding machine, moulder
    каширова́льный стано́к полигр. — backing machine, backer
    клепа́льный стано́к — rivetting machine, rivetting press
    копирова́льный стано́к
    1. метал.-об. duplicating machine
    2. кфт. printer
    копирова́льный, конта́ктный стано́к — contact printer
    корректу́рный стано́к — galley press
    кромкозаги́бочный стано́к — flanging machine
    кромкообру́бочный стано́к — trimmer
    кромкострога́льный стано́к — edge planing machine
    кругли́льный стано́к — rounding machine, rounder
    литогра́фский печа́тный стано́к — hand press for offset lithography
    лущи́льный стано́к — rotary peeler, rotary veneer machine, veneer-cutting lathe
    металлообраба́тывающий стано́к ( со снятием металла) — metal-removal machine tool
    металлоре́жущий стано́к — metal-cutting machine tool
    мультипликацио́нный стано́к — animation stand
    насто́льный стано́к — bench-type machine tool
    обрезно́й стано́к — edging [trimming] machine
    око́рочный стано́к — (dis)barking machine, debarker
    опило́вочный стано́к — filing machine
    оплё́точный стано́к — braider
    остри́льно-запра́вочный стано́к — pull-in pointer
    отрезно́й стано́к — cutting-off machine
    отрезно́й, ано́дно-механи́ческий стано́к — electrolitically assisted cutting-off machine
    пазова́льный стано́к — groove-cutting machine
    перево́дный стано́к — transfer press
    пи́льный стано́к — sawing machine
    плющи́льный стано́к — flattening mill
    полирова́льный стано́к
    1. метал. buffing machine
    2. дер.-об. polishing machine
    прави́льный стано́к — straightener
    припра́вочный стано́к — make-ready press
    прити́рочный стано́к — lapping machine
    продо́льно-ре́жущий стано́к — slitting machine, slitter
    протяжно́й стано́к — broaching machine
    проши́вочный стано́к — broaching machine
    пряди́льный стано́к — spinning loom
    раскряжё́вочный стано́к — circular log cross-cut [block] saw, log cutter
    расто́чный стано́к — boring machine, borer
    рашке́тный стано́к полигр. — proof press
    резьбонака́тный стано́к — thread-rolling machine
    резьбонарезно́й стано́к — thread-cutting lathe
    рейконарезно́й стано́к — rack-cutting machine
    ретушева́льный стано́к — retouching desk
    рифто́вочный стано́к — riffling machine
    рихтова́льный стано́к — levelling machine, straightener
    сверли́льный стано́к — drilling machine, drill
    сверли́льный, револьве́рный стано́к — turret drilling machine, turret drill
    скобли́льный стано́к — stereo-type shaver
    скоропеча́тный стано́к — engine press
    спло́точный стано́к лес. — bundling machine
    строга́льный стано́к — planing machine, planer
    стано́к с числовы́м управле́нием — numerically controlled [N/ C] machine tool
    тка́цкий стано́к — loom
    тока́рный стано́к — lathe
    тока́рный, патро́нный стано́к — chucking lathe
    тока́рный, револьве́рный стано́к — turret lathe
    тока́рный, фасо́нный стано́к — shaping lathe, forming lathe
    тока́рный, центрово́й стано́к — centre lathe
    торцо́вочный стано́к — cross-cut [butting, cut-off] saw
    точи́льный стано́к — grinder, sharpener
    трубоволочи́льный стано́к — tube-drawing bench
    трубоги́бочный стано́к — pipe-bending machine
    трубонарезно́й стано́к — pipe-threading machine
    труборе́зный стано́к — pipe-cutting machine
    уто́рный стано́к — barrel [stave] crozing machine
    фальцо́вочный стано́к — squeezing machine, squeezer
    фанеролущи́льный стано́к — wood-peeling machine
    фаце́тный стано́к — bevelling-and-trimming machine
    фланцезаги́бочный стано́к — flanging machine
    форма́тный стано́к — dimensioning saw
    формо́вочный стано́к — moulding machine
    фре́зерный стано́к — milling machine, miller
    фре́зерный, бесконсо́льный стано́к — compound-table milling machine
    фре́зерный, карусе́льный стано́к — rotary-table milling machine
    фре́зерный, консо́льный стано́к — knee-type milling machine
    фре́зерный, копирова́льный стано́к — routing machine
    фугова́льный стано́к — jointing machine
    хонингова́льный стано́к — honing machine, honer
    центрова́льный стано́к — centring machine
    цепопро́бный стано́к — chain testing machine
    цоколё́вочный стано́к — basing [base filling] machine
    шерохова́льный стано́к рез. — buffing machine
    шипоре́зный стано́к — dovetailing [tenon-making] machine
    шлифова́льно-прити́рочный стано́к — honing machine, honer
    шлифова́льный стано́к
    1. grinding machine, grinder
    2. дер.-об. sand-papering machine, sander
    электроискрово́й стано́к — electrospark discharge machine
    электроэрозио́нный стано́к — electrical-discharge [electroerosion] machine
    * * *

    Русско-английский политехнический словарь > станок

  • 11 Fairlie, Robert Francis

    [br]
    b. March 1831 Scotland
    d. 31 July 1885 Clapham, London, England
    [br]
    British engineer, designer of the double-bogie locomotive, advocate of narrow-gauge railways.
    [br]
    Fairlie worked on railways in Ireland and India, and established himself as a consulting engineer in London by the early 1860s. In 1864 he patented his design of locomotive: it was to be carried on two bogies and had a double boiler, the barrels extending in each direction from a central firebox. From smokeboxes at the outer ends, return tubes led to a single central chimney. At that time in British practice, locomotives of ever-increasing size were being carried on longer and longer rigid wheelbases, but often only one or two of their three or four pairs of wheels were powered. Bogies were little used and then only for carrying-wheels rather than driving-wheels: since their pivots were given no sideplay, they were of little value. Fairlie's design offered a powerful locomotive with a wheelbase which though long would be flexible; it would ride well and have all wheels driven and available for adhesion.
    The first five double Fairlie locomotives were built by James Cross \& Co. of St Helens during 1865–7. None was particularly successful: the single central chimney of the original design had been replaced by two chimneys, one at each end of the locomotive, but the single central firebox was retained, so that exhaust up one chimney tended to draw cold air down the other. In 1870 the next double Fairlie, Little Wonder, was built for the Festiniog Railway, on which C.E. Spooner was pioneering steam trains of very narrow gauge. The order had gone to George England, but the locomotive was completed by his successor in business, the Fairlie Engine \& Steam Carriage Company, in which Fairlie and George England's son were the principal partners. Little Wonder was given two inner fireboxes separated by a water space and proved outstandingly successful. The spectacle of this locomotive hauling immensely long trains up grade, through the Festiniog Railway's sinuous curves, was demonstrated before engineers from many parts of the world and had lasting effect. Fairlie himself became a great protagonist of narrow-gauge railways and influenced their construction in many countries.
    Towards the end of the 1860s, Fairlie was designing steam carriages or, as they would now be called, railcars, but only one was built before the death of George England Jr precipitated closure of the works in 1870. Fairlie's business became a design agency and his patent locomotives were built in large numbers under licence by many noted locomotive builders, for narrow, standard and broad gauges. Few operated in Britain, but many did in other lands; they were particularly successful in Mexico and Russia.
    Many Fairlie locomotives were fitted with the radial valve gear invented by Egide Walschaert; Fairlie's role in the universal adoption of this valve gear was instrumental, for he introduced it to Britain in 1877 and fitted it to locomotives for New Zealand, whence it eventually spread worldwide. Earlier, in 1869, the Great Southern \& Western Railway of Ireland had built in its works the first "single Fairlie", a 0–4–4 tank engine carried on two bogies but with only one of them powered. This type, too, became popular during the last part of the nineteenth century. In the USA it was built in quantity by William Mason of Mason Machine Works, Taunton, Massachusetts, in preference to the double-ended type.
    Double Fairlies may still be seen in operation on the Festiniog Railway; some of Fairlie's ideas were far ahead of their time, and modern diesel and electric locomotives are of the powered-bogie, double-ended type.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1864, British patent no. 1,210 (Fairlie's master patent).
    1864, Locomotive Engines, What They Are and What They Ought to Be, London; reprinted 1969, Portmadoc: Festiniog Railway Co. (promoting his ideas for locomotives).
    1865, British patent no. 3,185 (single Fairlie).
    1867. British patent no. 3,221 (combined locomotive/carriage).
    1868. "Railways and their Management", Journal of the Society of Arts: 328. 1871. "On the Gauge for Railways of the Future", abstract in Report of the Fortieth
    Meeting of the British Association in 1870: 215. 1872. British patent no. 2,387 (taper boiler).
    1872, Railways or No Railways. "Narrow Gauge, Economy with Efficiency; or Broad Gauge, Costliness with Extravagance", London: Effingham Wilson; repr. 1990s Canton, Ohio: Railhead Publications (promoting the cause for narrow-gauge railways).
    Further Reading
    Fairlie and his patent locomotives are well described in: P.C.Dewhurst, 1962, "The Fairlie locomotive", Part 1, Transactions of the Newcomen Society 34; 1966, Part 2, Transactions 39.
    R.A.S.Abbott, 1970, The Fairlie Locomotive, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Fairlie, Robert Francis

  • 12 Henson, William Samuel

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 3 May 1812 Nottingham, England
    d. 22 March 1888 New Jersey, USA
    [br]
    English (naturalized American) inventor who patented a design for an "aerial steam carriage" and combined with John Stringfellow to build model aeroplanes.
    [br]
    William Henson worked in the lacemaking industry and in his spare time invented many mechanical devices, from a breech-loading cannon to an ice-machine. It could be claimed that he invented the airliner, for in 1842 he prepared a patent (granted in 1843) for an "aerial steam carriage". The patent application was not just a vague outline, but contained detailed drawings of a large monoplane with an enclosed fuselage to accommodate the passengers and crew. It was to be powered by a steam engine driving two pusher propellers aft of the wing. Henson had followed the lead give by Sir George Cayley in his basic layout, but produced a very much more advanced structural design with cambered wings strengthened by streamlined bracing wires: the intended wing-span was 150 ft (46 m). Henson probably discussed the design of the steam engine and boiler with his friend John Stringfellow (who was also in the lacemaking industry). Stringfellow joined Henson and others to found the Aerial Transit Company, which was set up to raise the finance needed to build Henson's machine. A great publicity campaign was mounted with artists' impressions of the "aerial steam carriage" flying over London, India and even the pyramids. Passenger-carrying services to India and China were proposed, but the whole project was far too optimistic to attract support from financiers and the scheme foundered. Henson and Stringfellow drew up an agreement in December 1843 to construct models which would prove the feasibility of an "aerial machine". For the next five years they pursued this aim, with no real success. In 1848 Henson and his wife emigrated to the United States to further his career in textiles. He became an American citizen and died there at the age of 75.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Henson's diary is preserved by the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in the USA. Henson's patent of 1842–3 is reproduced in Balantyne and Pritchard (1956) and Davy (1931) (see below).
    Further Reading
    H.Penrose, 1988, An Ancient Air: A Biography of John Stringfellow, Shrewsbury.
    A.M.Balantyne and J.L.Pritchard, 1956, "The lives and work of William Samuel Henson and John Stringfellow", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (June) (an attempt to analyse conflicting evidence; includes a reproduction of Henson's patent).
    M.J.B.Davy, 1931, Henson and Stringfellow, London (an earlier work with excellent drawings from Henson's patent).
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Henson, William Samuel

  • 13 Meikle, Andrew

    [br]
    b. 1719 Scotland
    d. 27 November 1811
    [br]
    Scottish millwright and inventor of the threshing machine.
    [br]
    The son of the millwright James Meikle, who is credited with the introduction of the winnowing machine into Britain, Andrew Meikle followed in his father's footsteps. His inventive inclinations were first turned to developing his father's idea, and together with his own son George he built and patented a double-fan winnowing machine.
    However, in the history of agricultural development Andrew Meikle is most famous for his invention of the threshing machine, patented in 1784. He had been presented with a model of a threshing mill designed by a Mr Ilderton of Northumberland, but after failing to make a full-scale machine work, he developed the concept further. He eventually built the first working threshing machine for a farmer called Stein at Kilbagio. The patent revolutionized farming practice because it displaced the back-breaking and soul-destroying labour of flailing the grain from the straw. The invention was of great value in Scotland and in northern England when the land was becoming underpopulated as a result of heavy industrialization, but it was bitterly opposed in the south of England until well into the nineteenth century. Although the introduction of the threshing machine led to the "Captain Swing" riots of the 1830s, in opposition to it, it shortly became universal.
    Meikle's provisional patent in 1785 was a natural progression of earlier attempts by other millwrights to produce such a machine. The published patent is based on power provided by a horse engine, but these threshing machines were often driven by water-wheels or even by windmills. The corn stalks were introduced into the machine where they were fed between cast-iron rollers moving quite fast against each other to beat the grain out of the ears. The power source, whether animal, water or wind, had to cause the rollers to rotate at high speed to knock the grain out of the ears. While Meikle's machine was at first designed as a fixed barn machine powered by a water-wheel or by a horse wheel, later threshing machines became mobile and were part of the rig of an agricultural contractor.
    In 1788 Meikle was awarded a patent for the invention of shuttered sails for windmills. This patent is part of the general description of the threshing machine, and whilst it was a practical application, it was superseded by the work of Thomas Cubitt.
    At the turn of the century Meikle became a manufacturer of threshing machines, building appliances that combined the threshing and winnowing principles as well as the reciprocating "straw walkers" found in subsequent threshing machines and in conventional combine harvesters to the present day. However, he made little financial gain from his invention, and a public subscription organized by the President of the Board of Agriculture, Sir John Sinclair, raised £1,500 to support him towards the end of his life.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1831, Threshing Machines in The Dictionary of Mechanical Sciences, Arts and Manufactures, London: Jamieson, Alexander.
    7 March 1768, British patent no. 896, "Machine for dressing wheat, malt and other grain and for cleaning them from sand, dust and smut".
    9 April 1788, British patent no. 1,645, "Machine which may be worked by cattle, wind, water or other power for the purpose of separating corn from the straw".
    Further Reading
    J.E.Handley, 1953, Scottish Farming in the 18th Century, and 1963, The Agricultural Revolution in Scotland (both place Meikle and his invention within their context).
    G.Quick and W.Buchele, 1978, The Grain Harvesters, American Society of Agricultural Engineers (gives an account of the early development of harvesting and cereal treatment machinery).
    KM / AP

    Biographical history of technology > Meikle, Andrew

  • 14 Stringfellow, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 6 December 1799 Sheffield, England
    d. 13 December 1883 Chard, England
    [br]
    English inventor and builder of a series of experimental model aeroplanes.
    [br]
    After serving an apprenticeship in the lace industry, Stringfellow left Nottingham in about 1820 and moved to Chard in Somerset, where he set up his own business. He had wide interests such as photography, politics, and the use of electricity for medical treatment. Stringfellow met William Samuel Henson, who also lived in Chard and was involved in lacemaking, and became interested in his "aerial steam carriage" of 1842–3. When support for this project foundered, Henson and Stringfellow drew up an agreement "Whereas it is intended to construct a model of an Aerial Machine". They built a large model with a wing span of 20 ft (6 m) and powered by a steam engine, which was probably the work of Stringfellow. The model was tested on a hillside near Chard, often at night to avoid publicity, but despite many attempts it never made a successful flight. At this point Henson emigrated to the United States. From 1848 Stringfellow continued to experiment with models of his own design, starting with one with a wing span of 10 ft (3m). He decided to test it in a disused lace factory, rather than in the open air. Stringfellow fitted a horizontal wire which supported the model as it gained speed prior to free flight. Unfortunately, neither this nor later models made a sustained flight, despite Stringfellow's efficient lightweight steam engine. For many years Stringfellow abandoned his aeronautical experiments, then in 1866 when the (Royal) Aeronautical Society was founded, his interest was revived. He built a steam-powered triplane, which was demonstrated "flying" along a wire at the world's first Aeronautical Exhibition, held at Crystal Palace, London, in 1868. Stringfellow also received a cash prize for one of his engines, which was the lightest practical power unit at the Exhibition. Although Stringfellow's models never achieved a really successful flight, his designs showed the way for others to follow. Several of his models are preserved in the Science Museum in London.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the (Royal) Aeronautical Society 1868.
    Bibliography
    Many of Stringfellow's letters and papers are held by the Royal Aeronautical Society, London.
    Further Reading
    Harald Penrose, 1988, An Ancient Air: A Biography of John Stringfellow, Shrewsbury. A.M.Balantyne and J.Laurence Pritchard, 1956, "The lives and work of William Samuel Henson and John Stringfellow", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (June) (an attempt to analyse conflicting evidence).
    M.J.B.Davy, 1931, Henson and Stringfellow, London (an earlier work with excellent drawings from Henson's patent).
    "The aeronautical work of John Stringfellow, with some account of W.S.Henson", Aeronau-tical Classics No. 5 (written by John Stringfellow's son and held by the Royal Aeronautical Society in London).
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Stringfellow, John

  • 15 vapeur

    vapeur [vapœʀ]
    1. feminine noun
    • à vapeur [machine] steam
       b. ( = émanation) vapour (Brit) uncount, vapor (US) uncount
    2. masculine noun
    ( = bateau) steamer
    * * *
    vapœʀ
    1.
    1) ( d'eau) steam

    à vapeur — [machine, bateau] steam (épith)

    renverser la vapeur — Nautisme to go astern; fig to backpedal

    2) Physique vapour [BrE]

    2.
    vapeurs nom féminin pluriel ( émanations) fumes
    * * *
    vapœʀ
    1. nf
    1) (d'eau) steam

    la vapeur d'eau — water vapour Grande-Bretagne water vapor USA

    à vapeur — steam-powered, steam modif

    2) (= émanation) vapour Grande-Bretagne vapor USA fumes pl
    3) (= brouillard, buée) haze
    2. vapeurs nfpl
    vapours Grande-Bretagne vapors USA
    * * *
    A nf
    1 ( d'eau) steam; à vapeur [machine, bateau] steam ( épith); aller à toute vapeur to go full steam ahead; renverser la vapeur Naut to go astern; fig to backpedal; faire cuire qch à la vapeur to steam sth; la cuisine à la vapeur steam cooking;
    2 Phys vapourGB.
    B vapeurs nfpl
    1 ( émanations) fumes; des vapeurs d'essence petrol fumes GB, gas fumes US;
    2 †( bouffées de chaleur) elle a des vapeurs! she has a touch of the vapoursGB†!
    vapeur atmosphérique atmospheric vapourGB; vapeur d'eau steam.
    [vapɶr] nom féminin
    1. [généralement] steam
    vapeur (d'eau) steam, (water) vapour
    2. CHIMIE & PHYSIQUE vapour
    vapeur sèche/saturante dry/saturated vapour
    3. (littéraire) [brouillard] haze, vapour (littéraire)
    ————————
    [vapɶr] nom masculin
    ————————
    vapeurs nom féminin pluriel
    ————————
    à la vapeur locution adverbiale & adjectif
    à toute vapeur locution adverbiale
    b. [train] to go full steam ahead ou at full speed
    ————————
    à vapeur locution adjectivale
    steam (modificateur), steam-driven
    bateau à vapeur steamboat, steamer
    marine à vapeur steamers, steamships

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > vapeur

  • 16 réaction

    réaction [ʀeaksjɔ̃]
    feminine noun
    • être or rester sans réaction to show no reaction
    • réaction de défense/en chaîne defence/chain reaction
    • en réaction contre les abus, ils... as a reaction against the abuses, they...
    • en réaction à [propos, décision] in response to
    * * *
    ʀeaksjɔ̃
    1) (en paroles, actions) reaction (à to; contre against); (plus posé, réfléchi) response

    sans réaction — [moteur, instrument] unresponsive

    sa réaction à la question fut de... — he/she responded to the question by...

    2) Chimie, Médecine, Physique reaction
    * * *
    ʀeaksjɔ̃ nf

    Ils ont décidé de protester en réaction à la décision du président. — They decided to protest as a reaction to the president's decision.

    2)

    à réaction (avion, moteur) — jet

    un avion a réaction — a jet, a jet plane

    * * *
    1 (en paroles, actions) reaction (à to; contre against); (plus posé, réfléchi) response; en réaction à in reaction to; accepter sans réaction to accept with no reaction; il est demeuré sans réaction he didn't react; sans réaction [moteur, instrument] unresponsive; la réaction naturelle est de… the natural reaction is to…; sa réaction à la question fut de… he responded to the question by…; cela va provoquer des réactions people are bound to react; cela va susciter de vives réactions auprès du public it will provoke a strong public reaction; il a eu une réaction inattendue his reaction was surprising;
    2 Chimie, Méd, Phys reaction; Mécan ( de machine) response; réaction en chaîne lit, fig chain reaction; moteur à réaction jet engine; avion à réaction jet aircraft;
    3 ( mouvement d'idées) reaction;
    4 Psych response; réaction de défense defenceGB response.
    réaction officielle Pol official response; réaction de rejet Psych rejection response; fig negative response.
    [reaksjɔ̃] nom féminin
    1. [réponse] reaction, response
    2. [riposte] reaction
    gouvernement/vote de réaction reactionary government/vote
    4. AÉRONAUTIQUE & ASTRONAUTIQUE & CHIMIE & PHYSIQUE reaction
    b. (figuré) chain reaction, domino effect

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > réaction

  • 17 rendimiento

    m.
    1 yield, return.
    rendimiento bruto gross yield
    2 performance.
    3 rate of return, return rate, yield.
    4 surrendering, surrender, capitulation.
    * * *
    1 (producción - de terreno) yield; (- de máquina) output; (- de persona) progress, performance; (- de inversión) yield, return
    2 (trabajo - de motor, máquina) efficiency, performance
    3 (sumisión) submissiveness
    4 (cansancio) exhaustion, fatigue
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) [de una máquina] output; (=capacidad) capacity; (=producción) output

    funcionar a pleno rendimiento — to work all-out, work at full throttle

    2) [de persona] performance, achievement

    Centro de Alto Rendimiento — specialized sports training centre

    3) (Econ) yield, profit, profits pl
    4) (=sumisión) submissiveness; (=servilismo) obsequiousness; (=devoción) devotion
    5) (=agotamiento) exhaustion
    6) (=parte útil) usable part, proportion of usable material
    * * *
    1) ( de persona) performance
    2) (Auto) performance; (Mec, Tec) output
    3) ( de terreno) yield
    4) (Fin) yield, return
    * * *
    = performance, yield, payoff [pay-off], achievement, fruitfulness.
    Ex. They admitted that they did not evaluate their technicians and aides, and confirmed that increases were automatic and the same 'across-the-board'; superior performance was not rewarded, nor inferior performance punished.
    Ex. Priority is awarded to projects with the following aims: oil and gas recovery, drilling, optimum use of natural gas, and maximising the yield by the use of enhanced recovery techniques.
    Ex. Although setting up a security policy may demand considerable upheaval, it has significant payoff in safety and efficiency.
    Ex. Successful achievement on the part of the employee can be reinforced by providing external rewards such as promotions and merit salary increases.
    Ex. The fruitfulness of our life depends in large measure on our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work.
    ----
    * alto rendimiento = high yield.
    * análisis del rendimiento = performance analysis.
    * análisis de rendimiento = performance test.
    * basado en el rendimiento = performance-based.
    * controles de rendimiento = benchmark figures.
    * de alto rendimiento = high-performance, heavy-duty.
    * evaluación del rendimiento = performance appraisal, performance evaluation, performance measurement, performance review, performance rating.
    * evaluar el rendimiento en el trabajo = evaluate + work performance.
    * indicador de rendimiento = benchmark, performance indicator, performance measure, output measure.
    * indicadores de rendimiento = benchmark figures, performance criteria.
    * índice de rendimiento = performance rating, performance measure, output measure.
    * índice de rendimiento personal = individual performance index.
    * ley de los rendimientos decrecientes = law of diminishing returns.
    * mayor rendimiento = efficiencies of scale.
    * medida del rendimiento = performance measure.
    * medida de rendimiento = output measure.
    * obtener el mayor rendimiento posible = maximise + opportunities.
    * producir el rendimiento máximo = come into + Posesivo + own.
    * prueba de rendimiento = benchmark, benchtest, achievement test, performance test.
    * pruebas de rendimiento = benchmarking.
    * rendimiento académico = academic achievement, learning achievement, learning performance.
    * rendimiento decreciente = diminishing returns.
    * rendimiento en el trabajo = work performance.
    * rendimiento en la investigación = research performance.
    * rendimiento escolar = school achievement, school performance, learning achievement, learning performance.
    * rendimiento laboral = work performance.
    * rendimiento óptimo = quality performance.
    * rendimiento por debajo de la media = under-performance.
    * tasa de rendimiento = rate of return.
    * * *
    1) ( de persona) performance
    2) (Auto) performance; (Mec, Tec) output
    3) ( de terreno) yield
    4) (Fin) yield, return
    * * *
    = performance, yield, payoff [pay-off], achievement, fruitfulness.

    Ex: They admitted that they did not evaluate their technicians and aides, and confirmed that increases were automatic and the same 'across-the-board'; superior performance was not rewarded, nor inferior performance punished.

    Ex: Priority is awarded to projects with the following aims: oil and gas recovery, drilling, optimum use of natural gas, and maximising the yield by the use of enhanced recovery techniques.
    Ex: Although setting up a security policy may demand considerable upheaval, it has significant payoff in safety and efficiency.
    Ex: Successful achievement on the part of the employee can be reinforced by providing external rewards such as promotions and merit salary increases.
    Ex: The fruitfulness of our life depends in large measure on our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work.
    * alto rendimiento = high yield.
    * análisis del rendimiento = performance analysis.
    * análisis de rendimiento = performance test.
    * basado en el rendimiento = performance-based.
    * controles de rendimiento = benchmark figures.
    * de alto rendimiento = high-performance, heavy-duty.
    * evaluación del rendimiento = performance appraisal, performance evaluation, performance measurement, performance review, performance rating.
    * evaluar el rendimiento en el trabajo = evaluate + work performance.
    * indicador de rendimiento = benchmark, performance indicator, performance measure, output measure.
    * indicadores de rendimiento = benchmark figures, performance criteria.
    * índice de rendimiento = performance rating, performance measure, output measure.
    * índice de rendimiento personal = individual performance index.
    * ley de los rendimientos decrecientes = law of diminishing returns.
    * mayor rendimiento = efficiencies of scale.
    * medida del rendimiento = performance measure.
    * medida de rendimiento = output measure.
    * obtener el mayor rendimiento posible = maximise + opportunities.
    * producir el rendimiento máximo = come into + Posesivo + own.
    * prueba de rendimiento = benchmark, benchtest, achievement test, performance test.
    * pruebas de rendimiento = benchmarking.
    * rendimiento académico = academic achievement, learning achievement, learning performance.
    * rendimiento decreciente = diminishing returns.
    * rendimiento en el trabajo = work performance.
    * rendimiento en la investigación = research performance.
    * rendimiento escolar = school achievement, school performance, learning achievement, learning performance.
    * rendimiento laboral = work performance.
    * rendimiento óptimo = quality performance.
    * rendimiento por debajo de la media = under-performance.
    * tasa de rendimiento = rate of return.

    * * *
    A (de una persona) performance
    su rendimiento es muy bajo his performance is very poor, he has performed very poorly
    el alto rendimiento de los alumnos the pupils' excellent performance o high level of achievement
    B
    1 ( Auto) performance
    2 ( Mec, Tec) output
    el rendimiento de esta máquina es de 40 unidades al día the output of this machine is 40 units a day, this machine produces 40 units a day
    funciona a pleno rendimiento it is working at full capacity
    D ( Fin) yield, return
    * * *

     

    rendimiento sustantivo masculino
    a) (de persona, coche) performance

    b) (de máquina, factoría) output;



    d) (Fin) yield, return

    rendimiento sustantivo masculino
    1 (de una persona, máquina) performance
    2 Fin yield, return
    ' rendimiento' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bajón
    - desigual
    - productividad
    English:
    efficiency
    - efficient
    - output
    - performance
    - performance-related pay
    - power
    - response
    - return
    - spasmodic
    - yield
    - out
    * * *
    1. [de inversión, negocio] yield, return;
    [de tierra, cosecha] yield rendimiento bruto gross yield;
    2. [de motor, máquina] performance;
    [de trabajador, fábrica] productivity;
    trabajar a pleno rendimiento [maquinaria, fábrica] to work at full capacity;
    [trabajador] to work flat out
    3. [de estudiante, deportista] performance
    * * *
    m
    1 performance;
    de alto rendimiento coche high-powered, performance atr
    2 ( producción) output
    3 FIN yield;
    * * *
    1) : performance
    2) : yield
    * * *
    1. (en general) performance
    2. (producción) output

    Spanish-English dictionary > rendimiento

  • 18 Sinclair, Sir Clive Maries

    [br]
    b. 30 July 1940
    [br]
    English electronic engineer and inventor.
    [br]
    The son of G.W.C.Sinclair, a machine tool engineer, the young Sinclair's education was disrupted by the failure of his father's business. Aged 12 he left Boxgrove preparatory school and went through twelve more schools before leaving St George's School, Weybridge, at the age of 17. His first job was as an editorial assistant on a hobbyist's magazine, Practical Wireless, and his next as an editor at Bernard Books, writing a series of technical manuals. In 1961 he registered Sinclair Radionics and in the following year announced its first product, a micro-amplifier. This was the first of a series of miniaturized radio products that he put on the market while retaining his editorial job. In 1972 he launched the Sinclair Executive calculator, selling originally at £79.95 but later at £24.95. In 1976, the Black Watch, an electronic watch with digital light-emitting diode (LED) display, was marketed, to be followed by the TV1A, a miniature television with a 2 in. (5 cm) monochrome screen. During the latter part of this period, Sinclair Radionics was supported by investment from the UK National Enterprise Board, who appointed an outside managing director; after making a considerable loss, they closed the company in 1979. However, Sinclair Electronics had already been set up and started to market the UK's first cheap computer kit, the MK 14, which was followed by the ZX 80 and later the ZX 81. Price was kept at a minimum by the extensive use of existing components, though this was a restriction on performance. The small memory was enhanced from one kilobyte to seventeen kilobytes with the addition of a separate memory unit. In January 1985 Sinclair produced the Sinclair C5, a small three-wheeled vehicle driven by a washing-machine engine, intended as a revolutionary new form of personal transport; perceived as unsafe and impractical, it did not prove popular, and the failure of this venture resulted in a contraction of Sinclair's business activities. Later in 1985, a rival electronics company, Amstrad, paid £35,000,000 for all rights to existing Sinclair computer products.
    In March 1992, the irrepressible Sinclair launched his latest brainchild, the Zike electric bicycle; a price of £499 was forecast. This machine, powered by an electric motor but with pedal assistance, had a top speed of 19 km/h (12 mph) and, on full power, would run for up to one hour. Its lightweight nickel-cadmium battery could be recharged either by a generator or by free-wheeling. Although more practical than the C5, it did not bring Sinclair success on the scale of his earlier micro-electronic products.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1983.
    Further Reading
    I.Adamson and R.Kennedy, 1986, Sinclair and the "Sunrise" Technology, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Sinclair, Sir Clive Maries

  • 19 Phillips, Horatio Frederick

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
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    b. 2 February 1845 London, England
    d. 15 July 1926 Hampshire, England
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    English aerodynamicist whose cambered two-surface wing sections provided the foundations for aerofoil design.
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    At the age of 19, Phillips developed an interest in flight and constructed models with lightweight engines. He spent a large amount of time and money over many years, carrying out practical research into the science of aerodynamics. In the early 1880s he built a wind tunnel with a working section of 15 in. by 10 in. (38 cm by 25 cm). Air was sucked through the working section by an adaptation of the steam injector used in boilers and invented by Henry Giffard, the airship pioneer. Phillips tested aerofoils based on the cross-section of bird's wings, with a greater curvature on the upper surface than the lower. He measured the lift and drag and showed that the major component of lift came from suction on the upper surface, rather than pressure on the lower. He took out patents for his aerofoil sections in 1884 and 1891. In addition to his wind-tunnel test, Phillips tested his wing sections on a whirling arm, as used earlier by Cayley, Wenham and Lilienthal. After a series of tests using an arm of 15 ft (4.57 m) radius, Phillips built a massive whirling arm driven by a steam engine. His test pieces were mounted on the end of the arm, which had a radius of 50 ft (15.24 m), giving them a linear speed of 70 mph (113 km/h). By 1893 Phillips was ready to put his theories to a more practical test, so he built a large model aircraft driven by a steam engine and tethered to run round a circular track. It had a wing span of 19 ft (5.79 m), but it had fifty wings, one above the other. These wings were only 10 in. (25 cm) wide and mounted in a frame, so it looked rather like a Venetian blind. At 40 mph (64 km/h) it lifted off the track. In 1904 Phillips built a full-size multi-wing aeroplane with twenty wings which just lifted off the ground but did not fly. He built another multi-wing machine in 1907, this time with four Venetian blind' frames in tandem, giving it two hundred wings! Phillips made a short flight of almost 500 ft (152 m) which could be claimed to be the first powered aeroplane flight in England by an Englishman. He retired from flying at the age of 62.
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    Bibliography
    1900, "Mechanical flight and matters relating thereto", Engineering (reprint).
    1891–3, "On the sustentation of weight by mechanical flight", Aeronautical Society of Great Britain 23rd Report.
    Further Reading
    J.Laurence Pritchard, 1957, "The dawn of aerodynamics", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (March) (good descriptions of Phillips's early work and his wind tunnel).
    F.W.Brearey, 1891–3, "Remarks on experiments made by Horatio Phillips", Aeronautical Society of Great Britain 23rd Report.
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Phillips, Horatio Frederick

  • 20 Branca, Giovanni de

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    b. 1571 Italy
    d. 1640 Italy
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    Italian architect who proposed what has been suggested as an early turbine, using a jet of steam to turn a wheel.
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    Branca practised architecture at Loretto. In 1629 he published Le Machine: volume nuovo et di molto artificio, in which he described various mechanisms. One was the application of rolls for working copper, lead or the precious metals gold and silver. The rolls were powered by a form of smokejack with the gases from the fire passing up a long tube forming a chimney which, through gearing, turned the rolls. Another device used a jet of steam from a boiler issuing from a mouthpiece shaped like the head of a person to impinge upon blades around the circumference of a horizontal wheel, connected through triple reduction gearing to drop stamps, for pounding drugs. This was a form of impulse turbine and has been claimed as the first machine worked by steam to do a particular operation since Heron's temple doors.
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    Further Reading
    H.W.Dickinson, 1938, A Short History of the Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press (includes a description and picture of the turbine).
    C.Singer (ed.), 1957, A History of Technology, Vols III and IV, Oxford University Press (provides notes on Branca).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Branca, Giovanni de

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