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  • 121 marché

    marche [maʀ∫]
    1. feminine noun
       a. ( = activité, Sport) walking
       b. ( = trajet) walk
       c. ( = mouvement) march
       d. ( = fonctionnement) running
    • marche/arrêt on/off
       e. [d'événements, opérations] course ; [d'histoire, temps, progrès] march
       f. ( = musique) march
    • sur les marches (de l'escalier) on the stairs ; (de l'escalier extérieur, de l'escabeau) on the steps
       h. ► en marche
    • être en marche [personnes, armées] to be on the move ; [moteur] to be running ; [machine] to be on
    • se mettre en marche [personne] to get moving ; [machine] to start
    • mettre en marche [+ moteur, voiture] to start ; [+ machine] to turn on
    • remettre en marche [+ usine, machine] to restart
    ► marche à suivre ( = procédure) correct procedure ; ( = mode d'emploi) directions for use
    * * *
    maʀʃ
    1) (activité, sport) walking; ( trajet) walk
    2) Armée, Politique march

    mettre en marche — to start [machine, moteur]; to start up [chaudière, réacteur]; to switch on [téléviseur, ordinateur]

    se mettre en marche — [appareil, véhicule] to start up

    être en marche — [machine, moteur] to be running; [téléviseur, radio] to be on

    6) ( déroulement) course

    la marche du temps/du progrès — the march of time/of progress

    7) Construction, Bâtiment (d'escalier, de train, bus) step
    8) Musique march
    •
    Phrasal Verbs:
    ••

    prendre le train en marche — ( par hasard) to join halfway through; ( par intérêt) to climb onto the bandwagon

    * * *
    maʀʃ nf
    1) [escalier] step
    2) (= activité, sport) walking

    La marche me fait du bien. — Walking does me good.

    La chapelle est à une heure de marche. — The chapel is an hour's walk from here.

    Ils se sont mis en marche à l'aube. — They set out at dawn.

    4) MILITAIRE march

    en avant, marche! — forward, march!

    5) MUSIQUE march

    Ne montez jamais dans un train en marche. — Never try to get into a moving train.

    7) (fonctionnement) [machine, appareil] running

    Cette voiture est en parfait état de marche. — This car is in perfect running order.

    remettre qch en marche — to set sth going again, to start sth going again

    8) (= progression) [événements, histoire] course
    * * *
    A nf
    1 ⇒ Les jeux et les sports ( déplacement de personne) ( activité) walking; ( trajet) walk; Sport walking; faire de la marche to go walking; la marche à pied walking; faire un peu de marche to do some walking; faire une petite marche to take a short walk; à 10 minutes de marche 10 minutes' walk away; ralentir/accélérer la marche to walk slower/faster; ta marche est trop rapide pour les enfants you're walking too quickly for the children; 10 km marche Sport 10 km walk;
    2 Mil, Pol ( déplacement de groupe) march; marche pour la paix/de protestation peace/protest march; soldats en marche soldiers on the march; ils ont organisé une marche devant l'ambassade they organized a march past the embassy; faire marche sur [soldats, manifestants, rebelles] to march on; se mettre en ordre de marche Mil to get in marching formation; en avant, marche! Mil forward march!; fermer la marche to bring up the rear; ouvrir la marche to be at the head of the march;
    3 ( fonctionnement de véhicule) progress; la marche du train a été gênée the progress of the train was hampered; en marche moving ( épith); prendre un bus en marche to climb aboard a moving bus; dans le sens contraire de la marche facing backward(s); dans le sens de la marche facing forward(s);
    4 ( fonctionnement de mécanisme) operation; bonne marche smooth operation; en état de marche in working order; s'assurer de la bonne marche d'une machine to ensure that a machine is in good working order; mettre en marche to start [machine, moteur]; to start up [chaudière, réacteur]; to switch on [téléviseur, vidéo, ordinateur]; fig to set [sth] in motion [réforme, projet, processus]; la mise en marche du lave-vaisselle est très simple starting the dishwasher is very simple; la mise en marche du réacteur a pris plus d'un an starting up the reactor took over a year; la remise en marche de la chaudière starting the boiler up again; se mettre en marche [appareil, véhicule] to start up; [réveil, sonnerie] to go off; [projet, réforme, plan] to get going; être en marche [machine, moteur] to be running; [téléviseur, radio] to be on;
    5 ( fonctionnement d'organisme) running; bonne marche de l'entreprise/expédition smooth running of the company/expedition;
    6 ( déroulement) ( d'événements) course; (de récit, d'intrigue) unfolding; la marche du temps/du progrès/de l'histoire the march of time/of progress/of history; marche à suivre procedure (pour faire for doing); la meilleure marche à suivre pour qch the best way of going about sth;
    7 Constr (d'escalier, escabeau, de train, bus) step; attention à la marche! mind the step! GB, watch the step!; cirer les marches (de l'escalier) to wax the stairs;
    8 Mus march; marche funèbre/nuptiale funeral/wedding march.
    B marches nfpl ( limites) marches.
    marche d'angle Constr pie stair; marche arrière Aut reverse; passer la marche arrière to go into reverse; sortir en marche arrière to reverse out; faire marche arrière fig to backpedal; marche avant forward; marche forcée Électrotech override; Mil forced march; mettre en marche forcée to override; modernisation/libéralisation à marche forcée fig accelerated modernization/liberalization; marche palière Constr landing step.
    prendre le train en marche ( par hasard) to join halfway through; ( par intérêt) to climb onto the bandwagon.
    I
    [marʃe] nom masculin
    II
    [marʃe] nom masculin
    1. [en ville] market
    faire les marchés [commerçant] to go round ou to do the markets
    marché aux poissons/bestiaux fish/cattle market
    [ce que l'on achète]
    2. COMMERCE & ÉCONOMIE market
    marché extérieur/intérieur foreign/home market, overseas/domestic market
    étude/économie de marché market research/economy
    marché financier capital ou financial market
    4. [accord] deal, transaction
    conclure ou passer un marché avec quelqu'un to make a deal with somebody
    marché conclu! it's a deal!, that's settled!
    par-dessus le marché (familier) into the bargain, what's more
    ————————
    à bon marché locution adverbiale
    ————————
    bon marché locution adjectivale
    ————————
    bon marché locution adverbiale
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    meilleur marché locution adjectivale invariable

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > marché

  • 122 Introduction

       Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent's oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essentially unchanged since the late 14th century. The country's unique character and 850-year history as an independent state present several curious paradoxes. As of 1974, when much of the remainder of the Portuguese overseas empire was decolonized, Portuguese society appeared to be the most ethnically homogeneous of the two Iberian states and of much of Europe. Yet, Portuguese society had received, over the course of 2,000 years, infusions of other ethnic groups in invasions and immigration: Phoenicians, Greeks, Celts, Romans, Suevi, Visigoths, Muslims (Arab and Berber), Jews, Italians, Flemings, Burgundian French, black Africans, and Asians. Indeed, Portugal has been a crossroads, despite its relative isolation in the western corner of the Iberian Peninsula, between the West and North Africa, Tropical Africa, and Asia and America. Since 1974, Portugal's society has become less homogeneous, as there has been significant immigration of former subjects from its erstwhile overseas empire.
       Other paradoxes should be noted as well. Although Portugal is sometimes confused with Spain or things Spanish, its very national independence and national culture depend on being different from Spain and Spaniards. Today, Portugal's independence may be taken for granted. Since 1140, except for 1580-1640 when it was ruled by Philippine Spain, Portugal has been a sovereign state. Nevertheless, a recurring theme of the nation's history is cycles of anxiety and despair that its freedom as a nation is at risk. There is a paradox, too, about Portugal's overseas empire(s), which lasted half a millennium (1415-1975): after 1822, when Brazil achieved independence from Portugal, most of the Portuguese who emigrated overseas never set foot in their overseas empire, but preferred to immigrate to Brazil or to other countries in North or South America or Europe, where established Portuguese overseas communities existed.
       Portugal was a world power during the period 1415-1550, the era of the Discoveries, expansion, and early empire, and since then the Portuguese have experienced periods of decline, decadence, and rejuvenation. Despite the fact that Portugal slipped to the rank of a third- or fourth-rate power after 1580, it and its people can claim rightfully an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions that assure their place both in world and Western history. These distinctions should be kept in mind while acknowledging that, for more than 400 years, Portugal has generally lagged behind the rest of Western Europe, although not Southern Europe, in social and economic developments and has remained behind even its only neighbor and sometime nemesis, Spain.
       Portugal's pioneering role in the Discoveries and exploration era of the 15th and 16th centuries is well known. Often noted, too, is the Portuguese role in the art and science of maritime navigation through the efforts of early navigators, mapmakers, seamen, and fishermen. What are often forgotten are the country's slender base of resources, its small population largely of rural peasants, and, until recently, its occupation of only 16 percent of the Iberian Peninsula. As of 1139—10, when Portugal emerged first as an independent monarchy, and eventually a sovereign nation-state, England and France had not achieved this status. The Portuguese were the first in the Iberian Peninsula to expel the Muslim invaders from their portion of the peninsula, achieving this by 1250, more than 200 years before Castile managed to do the same (1492).
       Other distinctions may be noted. Portugal conquered the first overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean in the early modern era and established the first plantation system based on slave labor. Portugal's empire was the first to be colonized and the last to be decolonized in the 20th century. With so much of its scattered, seaborne empire dependent upon the safety and seaworthiness of shipping, Portugal was a pioneer in initiating marine insurance, a practice that is taken for granted today. During the time of Pombaline Portugal (1750-77), Portugal was the first state to organize and hold an industrial trade fair. In distinctive political and governmental developments, Portugal's record is more mixed, and this fact suggests that maintaining a government with a functioning rule of law and a pluralist, representative democracy has not been an easy matter in a country that for so long has been one of the poorest and least educated in the West. Portugal's First Republic (1910-26), only the third republic in a largely monarchist Europe (after France and Switzerland), was Western Europe's most unstable parliamentary system in the 20th century. Finally, the authoritarian Estado Novo or "New State" (1926-74) was the longest surviving authoritarian system in modern Western Europe. When Portugal departed from its overseas empire in 1974-75, the descendants, in effect, of Prince Henry the Navigator were leaving the West's oldest empire.
       Portugal's individuality is based mainly on its long history of distinc-tiveness, its intense determination to use any means — alliance, diplomacy, defense, trade, or empire—to be a sovereign state, independent of Spain, and on its national pride in the Portuguese language. Another master factor in Portuguese affairs deserves mention. The country's politics and government have been influenced not only by intellectual currents from the Atlantic but also through Spain from Europe, which brought new political ideas and institutions and novel technologies. Given the weight of empire in Portugal's past, it is not surprising that public affairs have been hostage to a degree to what happened in her overseas empire. Most important have been domestic responses to imperial affairs during both imperial and internal crises since 1415, which have continued to the mid-1970s and beyond. One of the most important themes of Portuguese history, and one oddly neglected by not a few histories, is that every major political crisis and fundamental change in the system—in other words, revolution—since 1415 has been intimately connected with a related imperial crisis. The respective dates of these historical crises are: 1437, 1495, 1578-80, 1640, 1820-22, 1890, 1910, 1926-30, 1961, and 1974. The reader will find greater detail on each crisis in historical context in the history section of this introduction and in relevant entries.
       LAND AND PEOPLE
       The Republic of Portugal is located on the western edge of the Iberian Peninsula. A major geographical dividing line is the Tagus River: Portugal north of it has an Atlantic orientation; the country to the south of it has a Mediterranean orientation. There is little physical evidence that Portugal is clearly geographically distinct from Spain, and there is no major natural barrier between the two countries along more than 1,214 kilometers (755 miles) of the Luso-Spanish frontier. In climate, Portugal has a number of microclimates similar to the microclimates of Galicia, Estremadura, and Andalusia in neighboring Spain. North of the Tagus, in general, there is an Atlantic-type climate with higher rainfall, cold winters, and some snow in the mountainous areas. South of the Tagus is a more Mediterranean climate, with hot, dry, often rainless summers and cool, wet winters. Lisbon, the capital, which has a fifth of the country's population living in its region, has an average annual mean temperature about 16° C (60° F).
       For a small country with an area of 92,345 square kilometers (35,580 square miles, including the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and the Madeiras), which is about the size of the state of Indiana in the United States, Portugal has a remarkable diversity of regional topography and scenery. In some respects, Portugal resembles an island within the peninsula, embodying a unique fusion of European and non-European cultures, akin to Spain yet apart. Its geography is a study in contrasts, from the flat, sandy coastal plain, in some places unusually wide for Europe, to the mountainous Beira districts or provinces north of the Tagus, to the snow-capped mountain range of the Estrela, with its unique ski area, to the rocky, barren, remote Trás-os-Montes district bordering Spain. There are extensive forests in central and northern Portugal that contrast with the flat, almost Kansas-like plains of the wheat belt in the Alentejo district. There is also the unique Algarve district, isolated somewhat from the Alentejo district by a mountain range, with a microclimate, topography, and vegetation that resemble closely those of North Africa.
       Although Portugal is small, just 563 kilometers (337 miles) long and from 129 to 209 kilometers (80 to 125 miles) wide, it is strategically located on transportation and communication routes between Europe and North Africa, and the Americas and Europe. Geographical location is one key to the long history of Portugal's three overseas empires, which stretched once from Morocco to the Moluccas and from lonely Sagres at Cape St. Vincent to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is essential to emphasize the identity of its neighbors: on the north and east Portugal is bounded by Spain, its only neighbor, and by the Atlantic Ocean on the south and west. Portugal is the westernmost country of Western Europe, and its shape resembles a face, with Lisbon below the nose, staring into the
       Atlantic. No part of Portugal touches the Mediterranean, and its Atlantic orientation has been a response in part to turning its back on Castile and Léon (later Spain) and exploring, traveling, and trading or working in lands beyond the peninsula. Portugal was the pioneering nation in the Atlantic-born European discoveries during the Renaissance, and its diplomatic and trade relations have been dominated by countries that have been Atlantic powers as well: Spain; England (Britain since 1707); France; Brazil, once its greatest colony; and the United States.
       Today Portugal and its Atlantic islands have a population of roughly 10 million people. While ethnic homogeneity has been characteristic of it in recent history, Portugal's population over the centuries has seen an infusion of non-Portuguese ethnic groups from various parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Between 1500 and 1800, a significant population of black Africans, brought in as slaves, was absorbed in the population. And since 1950, a population of Cape Verdeans, who worked in menial labor, has resided in Portugal. With the influx of African, Goan, and Timorese refugees and exiles from the empire—as many as three quarters of a million retornados ("returned ones" or immigrants from the former empire) entered Portugal in 1974 and 1975—there has been greater ethnic diversity in the Portuguese population. In 2002, there were 239,113 immigrants legally residing in Portugal: 108,132 from Africa; 24,806 from Brazil; 15,906 from Britain; 14,617 from Spain; and 11,877 from Germany. In addition, about 200,000 immigrants are living in Portugal from eastern Europe, mainly from Ukraine. The growth of Portugal's population is reflected in the following statistics:
       1527 1,200,000 (estimate only)
       1768 2,400,000 (estimate only)
       1864 4,287,000 first census
       1890 5,049,700
       1900 5,423,000
       1911 5,960,000
       1930 6,826,000
       1940 7,185,143
       1950 8,510,000
       1960 8,889,000
       1970 8,668,000* note decrease
       1980 9,833,000
       1991 9,862,540
       1996 9,934,100
       2006 10,642,836
       2010 10,710,000 (estimated)

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Introduction

  • 123 Economy

       Portugal's economy, under the influence of the European Economic Community (EEC), and later with the assistance of the European Union (EU), grew rapidly in 1985-86; through 1992, the average annual growth was 4-5 percent. While such growth rates did not last into the late 1990s, portions of Portugal's society achieved unprecedented prosperity, although poverty remained entrenched. It is important, however, to place this current growth, which includes some not altogether desirable developments, in historical perspective. On at least three occasions in this century, Portugal's economy has experienced severe dislocation and instability: during the turbulent First Republic (1911-25); during the Estado Novo, when the world Depression came into play (1930-39); and during the aftermath of the Revolution of 25 April, 1974. At other periods, and even during the Estado Novo, there were eras of relatively steady growth and development, despite the fact that Portugal's weak economy lagged behind industrialized Western Europe's economies, perhaps more than Prime Minister Antônio de Oliveira Salazar wished to admit to the public or to foreigners.
       For a number of reasons, Portugal's backward economy underwent considerable growth and development following the beginning of the colonial wars in Africa in early 1961. Recent research findings suggest that, contrary to the "stagnation thesis" that states that the Estado Novo economy during the last 14 years of its existence experienced little or no growth, there were important changes, policy shifts, structural evolution, and impressive growth rates. In fact, the average annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate (1961-74) was about 7 percent. The war in Africa was one significant factor in the post-1961 economic changes. The new costs of finance and spending on the military and police actions in the African and Asian empires in 1961 and thereafter forced changes in economic policy.
       Starting in 1963-64, the relatively closed economy was opened up to foreign investment, and Lisbon began to use deficit financing and more borrowing at home and abroad. Increased foreign investment, residence, and technical and military assistance also had effects on economic growth and development. Salazar's government moved toward greater trade and integration with various international bodies by signing agreements with the European Free Trade Association and several international finance groups. New multinational corporations began to operate in the country, along with foreign-based banks. Meanwhile, foreign tourism increased massively from the early 1960s on, and the tourism industry experienced unprecedented expansion. By 1973-74, Portugal received more than 8 million tourists annually for the first time.
       Under Prime Minister Marcello Caetano, other important economic changes occurred. High annual economic growth rates continued until the world energy crisis inflation and a recession hit Portugal in 1973. Caetano's system, through new development plans, modernized aspects of the agricultural, industrial, and service sectors and linked reform in education with plans for social change. It also introduced cadres of forward-looking technocrats at various levels. The general motto of Caetano's version of the Estado Novo was "Evolution with Continuity," but he was unable to solve the key problems, which were more political and social than economic. As the boom period went "bust" in 1973-74, and growth slowed greatly, it became clear that Caetano and his governing circle had no way out of the African wars and could find no easy compromise solution to the need to democratize Portugal's restive society. The economic background of the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was a severe energy shortage caused by the world energy crisis and Arab oil boycott, as well as high general inflation, increasing debts from the African wars, and a weakening currency. While the regime prescribed greater Portuguese investment in Africa, in fact Portuguese businesses were increasingly investing outside of the escudo area in Western Europe and the United States.
       During the two years of political and social turmoil following the Revolution of 25 April 1974, the economy weakened. Production, income, reserves, and annual growth fell drastically during 1974-76. Amidst labor-management conflict, there was a burst of strikes, and income and productivity plummeted. Ironically, one factor that cushioned the economic impact of the revolution was the significant gold reserve supply that the Estado Novo had accumulated, principally during Salazar's years. Another factor was emigration from Portugal and the former colonies in Africa, which to a degree reduced pressures for employment. The sudden infusion of more than 600,000 refugees from Africa did increase the unemployment rate, which in 1975 was 10-15 percent. But, by 1990, the unemployment rate was down to about 5-6 percent.
       After 1985, Portugal's economy experienced high growth rates again, which averaged 4-5 percent through 1992. Substantial economic assistance from the EEC and individual countries such as the United States, as well as the political stability and administrative continuity that derived from majority Social Democratic Party (PSD) governments starting in mid-1987, supported new growth and development in the EEC's second poorest country. With rapid infrastruc-tural change and some unregulated development, Portugal's leaders harbored a justifiable concern that a fragile environment and ecology were under new, unacceptable pressures. Among other improvements in the standard of living since 1974 was an increase in per capita income. By 1991, the average minimum monthly wage was about 40,000 escudos, and per capita income was about $5,000 per annum. By the end of the 20th century, despite continuing poverty at several levels in Portugal, Portugal's economy had made significant progress. In the space of 15 years, Portugal had halved the large gap in living standards between itself and the remainder of the EU. For example, when Portugal joined the EU in 1986, its GDP, in terms of purchasing power-parity, was only 53 percent of the EU average. By 2000, Portugal's GDP had reached 75 percent of the EU average, a considerable achievement. Whether Portugal could narrow this gap even further in a reasonable amount of time remained a sensitive question in Lisbon. Besides structural poverty and the fact that, in 2006, the EU largesse in structural funds (loans and grants) virtually ceased, a major challenge for Portugal's economy will be to reduce the size of the public sector (about 50 percent of GDP is in the central government) to increase productivity, attract outside investment, and diversify the economy. For Portugal's economic planners, the 21st century promises to be challenging.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Economy

  • 124 Dalen, Nils Gustav

    [br]
    b. 30 November 1869 Stenstorp, Sweden
    d. 9 December 1937 Stockholm, Sweden
    [br]
    Swedish physicist and engineer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his "sun valve".
    [br]
    Nils Gustav Dalen is probably best known as the inventor of the solid-fuel Aga Cooker. He was confined at home for some time in the 1920s, having been blinded as the result of an accident, and found the time to consider the need for an efficient, clean, attractive-looking cooker that would be economical in fuel consumption. The resultant cooking range of 1924 was based on sound scientific principles, was simple to manage and needed a minimum of attention.
    The first Aga contained a cast-iron firebox enclosed in an insulated jacket of kieselguhr. The firebox was connected to cast-iron hotplates and ovens, all designed so that the heat was conducted to the various parts at precisely the correct temperatures for all types of cooking: simmering, boiling, roasting, baking and grilling. The hotplate heat was maintained at the desired temperature by way of insulated hinged covers that were lifted only when the hotplate was in use. The Aga was made in Sweden and was introduced into Britain in 1929. It was noted for being costly to purchase but inexpensive to run as no energy was wasted.
    Dalen is also known for his invention of the "sun valve", a device which, as required, automatically lighted or extinguished light beacons and buoys; this invention brought him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1912.
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    Biographical history of technology > Dalen, Nils Gustav

  • 125 Singer, Isaac Merritt

    [br]
    b. 27 October 1811 Pittstown, New York, USA
    d. 23 July 1875 Torquay, Devonshire, England
    [br]
    American inventor of a sewing machine, and pioneer of mass production.
    [br]
    The son of a millwright, Singer was employed as an unskilled labourer at the age of 12, but later gained wide experience as a travelling machinist. He also found employment as an actor. On 16 May 1839, while living at Lockport, Illinois, he obtained his first patent for a rock-drilling machine, but he soon squandered the money he made. Then in 1849, while at Pittsburgh, he secured a patent for a wood-and metal-carving machine that he had begun five years previously; however, a boiler explosion in the factory destroyed his machine and left him penniless.
    Near the end of 1850 Singer was engaged to redesign the Lerow \& Blodgett sewing machine at the Boston shop of Orson C.Phelps, where the machine was being repaired. He built an improved version in eleven days that was sufficiently different for him to patent on 12 August 1851. He formed a partnership with Phelps and G.B. Zieber and they began to market the invention. Singer soon purchased Phelps's interest, although Phelps continued to manufacture the machines. Then Edward Clark acquired a one-third interest and with Singer bought out Zieber. These two, with dark's flair for promotion and marketing, began to create a company which eventually would become the largest manufacturer of sewing machines exported worldwide, with subsidiary factories in England.
    However, first Singer had to defend his patent, which was challenged by an earlier Boston inventor, Elias Howe. Although after a long lawsuit Singer had to pay royalties, it was the Singer machine which eventually captured the market because it could do continuous stitching. In 1856 the Great Sewing Machine Combination, the first important pooling arrangement in American history, was formed to share the various patents so that machines could be built without infringements and manufacture could be expanded without fear of litigation. Singer contributed his monopoly on the needle-bar cam with his 1851 patent. He secured twenty additional patents, so that his original straight-needle vertical design for lock-stitching eventually included such refinements as a continuous wheel-feed, yielding presser-foot, and improved cam for moving the needle-bar. A new model, introduced in 1856, was the first to be intended solely for use in the home.
    Initially Phelps made all the machines for Singer. Then a works was established in New York where the parts were assembled by skilled workers through filing and fitting. Each machine was therefore a "one-off" but Singer machines were always advertised as the best on the market and sold at correspondingly high prices. Gradually, more specialized machine tools were acquired, but it was not until long after Singer had retired to Europe in 1863 that Clark made the change to mass production. Sales of machines numbered 810 in 1853 and 21,000 ten years later.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    12 August 1851, US patent no. 8,294 (sewing machine)
    Further Reading
    Biographies and obituaries have appeared in Appleton's Cyclopedia of America, Vol. V; Dictionary of American Biography, Vol XVII; New York Times 25 July 1875; Scientific American (1875) 33; and National Cyclopaedia of American Biography.
    D.A.Hounshell, 1984, From the American System to Mass Production 1800–1932. The
    Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States, Baltimore (provides a thorough account of the development of the Singer sewing machine, the competition it faced from other manufacturers and production methods).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Singer, Isaac Merritt

  • 126 Skinner, Halcyon

    [br]
    b. 6 March 1824 Mantua, Ohio, USA
    d. 28 November 1900 USA
    [br]
    American inventor of a machine for making Royal Axminster and other carpets.
    [br]
    Halcyon was the son of Joseph and Susan Skinner. When he was 8 years old, his parents moved to Stockbridge in Massachusetts, where he obtained education locally and worked on farms. In 1838 his father moved to West Farms, New York, where Halcyon helped his father make violins and guitars for seven years. He then worked as a general carpenter for eight years until he was hired in 1849 by Alexander Smith, a carpet manufacturer. Skinner designed and constructed a hand loom that could weave figured instead of striped carpets, and by 1851 Smith had one hundred of these at work. Skinner was retained by Smith for forty years as a mechanical expert and adviser.
    Weaving carpets by power started in the 1850s on enormous and complex machines. Axminster carpets had traditionally been produced in a similar way to those made by hand in Persia, with the tufts of woollen yarn being knotted around vertical warp threads. To mechanize this process proved very difficult, but Skinner patented a loom in 1856 to weave Axminster carpets although, it was not working successfully until 1860. Then in 1864 he developed a loom for weaving ingrain carpets, and c. 1870 he altered some imported English looms for weaving tapestry carpets to double their output.
    His most important invention was conceived in 1876 and patented on 16 January 1877. This was the Moquette or Royal Axminster loom, which marked yet another important step forward and enabled the use of an unlimited number of colours in carpet designs. This type of loom became known as the Spool Axminster because of the endless chain of spools carrying lengths of coloured yarns, wound in a predetermined order, from which short pieces could be cut and inserted as the tufts. It put Smith's company, Alexander Smith \& Sons, Yonkers, New York, in the lead among American carpet manufacturers. This type of loom was introduced to Britain in 1878 by Tomkinson \& Adam and spread rapidly. Skinner virtually retired in 1889 but continued to live in Yonkers.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Biography, American Machinist 23.
    Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XVII.
    G.Robinson, 1966, Carpets, London (for the history and techniques of carpet weaving).
    A.Barlow, 1878, The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power, London (includes a section on pile weaving which covers some types of carpets).
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    Biographical history of technology > Skinner, Halcyon

  • 127 sorg

    distress, grief, mourning, sadness, sorrow, woe
    * * *
    (en -er) sorrow,
    ( stærkere, F) grief ( over at, for);
    ( beklagelse) regret ( over about, for, fx what one has (not) done);
    ( bekymring) worry ( fx financial worries), care,
    ( stærkere, F) distress ( fx it caused them a great deal of distress);
    ( sørgedragt) mourning;
    [ dø af sorg] die of grief;
    [ anlægge sorg] go into mourning;
    [ bære sorg] wear (el. be in) mourning ( for for);
    [ han har sorg af sin søn] his son causes him many worries,
    ( svagere) his son is a problem to him;
    [ huslige sorger] domestic worries;
    [ den tid den sorg, du skal ikke tage sorgerne på forskud] don't cross your bridges before you get (el. come) to them; (it is) no use meeting trouble half-way; (it is) no good looking ahead for trouble;
    [ til min store sorg] to my great sorrow,
    ( svagere) much to my regret.

    Danish-English dictionary > sorg

  • 128 personnel

    c black personnel, -elle [pεʀsɔnεl]
    1. adjective
       a. ( = particulier, privé) personal ; [appel téléphonique] private
       b. ( = égoïste) selfish
       c. [pronom, nom, verbe] personal
    c black2. masculine noun
    staff ; [d'usine, service public] personnel
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    ✎ L'adjectif anglais s'écrit avec un seul n et se termine par -al.
    * * *

    1.
    - elle pɛʀsɔnɛl adjectif
    1) ( individuel) [ami, effets] personal; [engagement, papiers] private

    adresse personnelle — home ou private address

    ‘personnelle’ — ( sur une lettre) ‘private’

    ‘strictement personnelle’ — ( sur une lettre) ‘private and confidential’

    2) ( original) individual
    3) ( égoïste) selfish
    4) Linguistique [forme, pronom] personal; [mode] finite

    2.
    nom masculin (d'industrie, usine) workforce; (de compagnie, d'administration) employees (pl), personnel; (d'hôpital, hôtel) staff

    personnel navigant/au sol — flight/ground personnel

    * * *
    pɛʀsɔnɛl personnel, -le
    1. adj
    1) (idée, opinion) personal
    2) (conversation, lettre) private
    2. nm
    [commerce, entreprise] staff, personnel

    Il nous faut plus de personnel. — We need more staff.

    * * *
    A adj
    1 ( individuel) [ami, effets, ordinateur] personal; [engagement, papiers] private; fortune personnelle private ou personal fortune; pour son usage personnel for one's personal ou private use; adresse personnelle home ou private address; c'est urgent et personnel it's urgent and confidential; ‘personnelle’ ( sur une lettre) ‘private’; ‘strictement personnelle’ ( sur une lettre) ‘private and confidential’; sur le plan personnel on a personal level;
    2 ( original) [style, langage] individual; il écrit de façon personnelle he writes in an individual way;
    3 ( égoïste) [enfant, joueur] selfish; avoir un jeu personnel to play a selfish game;
    4 Ling [forme, pronom, verbe] personal; [mode] finite.
    B nm (d'industrie, usine) workforce; (de compagnie, d'administration) employees (pl), personnel; (d'hôpital, hôtel, ambassade, école) staff; l'usine a un personnel de 40 personnes the factory has a payroll ou workforce of 40; nous manquons de personnel we are understaffed; le personnel militaire/civil the military/civilian personnel; le personnel en civil/en tenue plain-clothes/uniformed staff; service/directeur du personnel personnel department/manager; personnel navigant/au sol Aviat flight/ground personnel; personnel de santé des armées army medical personnel; personnel enseignant teaching staff; le personnel féminin female staff ou employees.
    I
    ( féminin personnelle) [pɛrsɔnɛl] adjectif
    1. [privé] personal, individual
    a. [n'intéressant pas le travail] it's a private call
    b. [confidentiel] it's a rather personal call
    2. [original]
    5. GRAMMAIRE [pronom] personal
    II
    [pɛrsɔnɛl] nom masculin
    [d'une entreprise] staff, workforce
    [d'un service] staff, personnel
    avoir trop/manquer de personnel to be overstaffed/understaffed ou short-staffed
    le personnel est autorisé à... (members of) staff are authorized to...
    personnel au sol/navigant AÉRONAUTIQUE ground/flight crew ou staff
    personnel (de maison) servants, (domestic) staff

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > personnel

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