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he followed his father into the business

  • 1 follow

    follow [ˈfɒləʊ]
    • he arrived first, followed by the ambassador il est arrivé le premier, suivi de l'ambassadeur
    • do you follow football? vous suivez le football ?
    • which team do you follow? tu es supporter de quelle équipe ?
    • do you follow me? ( = understand) vous me suivez ?
       a. suivre
       b. ( = result) it follows that... il s'ensuit que...
    • it follows from this that... il s'ensuit que...
    ► follow-my-leader noun (British) ≈ pigeon vole m
    ► follow-through noun (to a project, survey) suite f
    ► follow-up noun (on file, case) suivi m (on, of de)
    ( = come after) suivre
    [+ order] exécuter ; [+ instructions] suivre
    (Golf, tennis) accompagner sa balle
    [+ idea, plan] poursuivre jusqu'au bout
       a. ( = benefit from) [+ success, victory] exploiter ; [+ offer] donner suite à
       b. ( = not lose track of) suivre
       c. ( = reinforce) [+ victory] asseoir ; [+ remark] compléter ( with par)
    * * *
    ['fɒləʊ] 1.
    1) ( move after) suivre [person, car] ( into dans)
    2) ( come after in time) suivre [event, item on list]; succéder à [leader]
    3) ( be guided by) suivre [clue, path, fashion, instinct, instructions]
    4) ( adhere to) suivre [teachings, example]; pratiquer [religion]; adhérer à [faith, ideas]; être le disciple de [person, leader]
    5) ( watch closely) suivre [stock market, serial, trial]
    6) ( understand) suivre [explanation, reasoning, plot]
    7) ( practise) exercer [trade, profession]; poursuivre [career]; avoir [way of life]
    2.
    1) ( move after) suivre
    2) ( come after in time) suivre
    3) ( be logical consequence) s'ensuivre
    4) ( understand) suivre
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    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-French dictionary > follow

  • 2 follow

    'foləu
    1. verb
    1) (to go or come after: I will follow (you).) seguir
    2) (to go along (a road, river etc): Follow this road.) seguir
    3) (to understand: Do you follow (my argument)?) entender, seguir
    4) (to act according to: I followed his advice.) seguir
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    - following
    2. adjective
    1) (coming after: the following day.) siguiente
    2) (about to be mentioned: You will need the following things.)

    3. preposition
    (after; as a result of: Following his illness, his hair turned white.) después de

    4. pronoun
    (things about to be mentioned: You must bring the following - pen, pencil, paper and rubber.)
    - follow up
    follow vb
    1. seguir
    2. entender
    I'm afraid I don't follow you lo siento, pero no te entiendo
    tr['fɒləʊ]
    1 (gen) seguir
    ■ follow me! ¡sígueme!
    2 (understand) entender, seguir
    3 (pursue) perseguir
    4 (advice, example, etc) seguir
    5 (take interest in) seguir, estar al corriente de
    1 (gen) seguir
    2 (understand) entender
    3 (be logical) resultar, derivarse
    ■ it follows that... resulta que...
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    as follows como sigue, así
    to follow in somebody's footsteps seguir los pasos a alguien
    to follow one's nose seguir todo recto
    to follow suit (at cards) jugar del mismo palo 2 (figuratively) hacer lo mismo
    follow ['fɑlo] vt
    1) : seguir
    follow the guide: siga al guía
    she followed the road: siguió el camino, continuó por el camino
    2) pursue: perseguir, seguir
    3) obey: seguir, cumplir, observar
    4) understand: entender
    follow vi
    1) : seguir
    2) understand: entender
    3)
    it follows that... : se deduce que...
    v.
    • interesarse en v.
    • seguir v.
    • seguir el hilo de v.
    • suceder v.
    'fɑːləʊ, 'fɒləʊ
    1.
    1)
    a) (go, come after, pursue) seguir*

    the King entered, followed by the Queen — el rey entró, seguido por or de la reina

    b) (succeed, happen after)
    c) (repeat, improve on) \<\<success/achievement\>\> igualar
    2)
    a) ( keep to) \<\<road\>\> seguir* (por); \<\<trail\>\> seguir*
    b) ( obey) \<\<instructions/advice\>\> seguir*; \<\<order\>\> cumplir
    c) (conform to, imitate) \<\<fashion\>\> seguir*

    follow her example — sigue su ejemplo, haz como ella

    3)
    a) ( pay close attention to) \<\<movement/progress\>\> seguir* de cerca

    to follow something/somebody with one's eyes — seguir* algo/a alguien con la mirada

    b) ( take interest in) \<\<news\>\> mantenerse* al tanto de; \<\<TV serial\>\> seguir*
    4) \<\<argument/reasoning\>\> entender*

    do you follow me? — ¿(me) entiendes?


    2.
    vi

    you go first, and I'll follow — tú ve delante que yo te sigo

    we'll start with the soup, and have chicken to follow — para empezar tomaremos sopa y después pollo

    the winners were as follows... — los ganadores fueron...

    2) ( be logical consequence) deducirse*, seguirse*
    3) ( understand) entender*
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    Phrasal Verbs:
    ['fɒlǝʊ]
    1. VT
    1) (=come, go after) seguir

    follow that car! — ¡siga a ese coche!

    she arrived first, followed by the ambassador — ella llegó primero, seguida del embajador

    • to follow sb about or around — seguir a algn a todas partes

    • he followed me into the room — entró en la habitación detrás de mí

    • I followed her out into the garden — salí al jardín detrás de ella

    • we followed her up the steps — la seguimos escaleras arriba, subimos (las escaleras) detrás de ella

    - follow one's nose
    2) (=succeed)
    - as surely as night follows day
    act 1., 3)
    3) (=pursue) seguir

    we're being followed — nos están siguiendo, nos vienen siguiendo

    • to have sb followed — mandar seguir a algn

    • to follow a lead — seguir una pista

    4) (=keep to) [road, river] seguir, ir por
    5) (=observe) [+ instructions, advice, example, fashion] seguir; [+ rules] obedecer, cumplir
    pattern 1., 3), suit 1., 3)
    6) (=engage in) [+ career] emprender; [+ profession] ejercer; [+ trade] dedicarse a; [+ religion] profesar, ser seguidor de
    7) (=be interested in) [+ news] seguir, mantenerse al corriente de; [+ TV serial] seguir; [+ sb's progress] seguir

    do you follow football? — ¿eres aficionado al fútbol?

    which team do you follow? — ¿de qué equipo eres?

    8) (=understand) [+ person, argument] seguir, entender

    do you follow me? — ¿me sigue?, ¿me entiende?

    2. VI
    1) (=come after)

    to follow, there was roast lamb — de segundo había cordero asado

    roast chicken, with apple pie to follow — pollo asado y después de postre un pastel de manzana

    • as follows, the text reads as follows — el texto dice lo siguiente, el texto dice así

    heel, footstep
    2) (=result, ensue) deducirse

    that doesn't follow — eso no cuadra, de ahí no se puede deducir eso

    it follows that... — (de lo cual) se deduce que..., se deduce pues que...

    it doesn't follow that... — no significa que...

    3) (=understand) entender

    I don't quite follow — no lo sigo del todo, no lo acabo de entender

    * * *
    ['fɑːləʊ, 'fɒləʊ]
    1.
    1)
    a) (go, come after, pursue) seguir*

    the King entered, followed by the Queen — el rey entró, seguido por or de la reina

    b) (succeed, happen after)
    c) (repeat, improve on) \<\<success/achievement\>\> igualar
    2)
    a) ( keep to) \<\<road\>\> seguir* (por); \<\<trail\>\> seguir*
    b) ( obey) \<\<instructions/advice\>\> seguir*; \<\<order\>\> cumplir
    c) (conform to, imitate) \<\<fashion\>\> seguir*

    follow her example — sigue su ejemplo, haz como ella

    3)
    a) ( pay close attention to) \<\<movement/progress\>\> seguir* de cerca

    to follow something/somebody with one's eyes — seguir* algo/a alguien con la mirada

    b) ( take interest in) \<\<news\>\> mantenerse* al tanto de; \<\<TV serial\>\> seguir*
    4) \<\<argument/reasoning\>\> entender*

    do you follow me? — ¿(me) entiendes?


    2.
    vi

    you go first, and I'll follow — tú ve delante que yo te sigo

    we'll start with the soup, and have chicken to follow — para empezar tomaremos sopa y después pollo

    the winners were as follows... — los ganadores fueron...

    2) ( be logical consequence) deducirse*, seguirse*
    3) ( understand) entender*
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    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > follow

  • 3 follow

    1. transitive verb
    1) folgen (+ Dat.)

    you're being followed — Sie werden verfolgt

    2) (go along) folgen (+ Dat.); entlanggehen/-fahren [Straße usw.]
    3) (come after in order or time) folgen (+ Dat.); folgen auf (+ Akk.)
    4) (accompany) [nach]folgen (+ Dat.)
    5) (provide with sequel)

    follow something with something — einer Sache (Dat.) etwas folgen lassen

    6) (result from) die Folge sein von; hervorgehen aus
    7) (treat or take as guide or leader) folgen (+ Dat.); sich orientieren an (+ Dat.); (adhere to) anhängen (+ Dat.)
    8) (act according to) folgen (+ Dat.) [Prinzip, Instinkt, Trend]; verfolgen [Politik]; befolgen [Vorschrift, Regel, Anweisung, Rat, Warnung]; handeln nach [Gefühl, Wunsch]; sich halten an (+ Akk.) [Konventionen, Diät, Maßstab]
    9) (keep up with mentally, grasp meaning of) folgen (+ Dat.)

    do you follow me?, are you following me? — verstehst du, was ich meine?

    10) (be aware of the present state or progress of) verfolgen [Ereignisse, Nachrichten, Prozess]
    2. intransitive verb
    1) (go, come)

    follow after somebody/something — jemandem/einer Sache folgen

    2) (go or come after person or thing) folgen

    follow in the wake of something — etwas ablösen; auf etwas (Akk.) folgen

    3) (come next in order or time) folgen
    4)

    follow from something — (result) die Folge von etwas sein; (be deducible) aus etwas folgen

    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/28605/follow_on">follow on
    - follow through
    - follow up
    * * *
    ['foləu] 1. verb
    1) (to go or come after: I will follow (you).) folgen
    2) (to go along (a road, river etc): Follow this road.) folgen
    3) (to understand: Do you follow (my argument)?) folgen können
    4) (to act according to: I followed his advice.) befolgen
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    - follower
    - following 2. adjective
    1) (coming after: the following day.) folgend
    2) (about to be mentioned: You will need the following things.) folgend
    3. preposition
    (after; as a result of: Following his illness, his hair turned white.) als Folge
    4. pronoun
    (things about to be mentioned: You must bring the following - pen, pencil, paper and rubber.) das Folgende
    - follow-up
    - follow up
    * * *
    fol·low
    [ˈfɒləʊ, AM ˈfɑ:loʊ]
    I. vt
    1. (take same route as)
    ▪ to \follow sb/sth jdm/etw folgen
    to \follow sb about [or around] jdm überallhin folgen
    to \follow sb close jdm auf dem Fuß folgen
    2. (pursue)
    ▪ to \follow sb/sth jdn/etw verfolgen
    3. (keep to)
    ▪ to \follow sth etw dat folgen
    after that, the train \follows/the railway lines \follow the coastline danach fährt der Zug/führen die Bahnschienen die Küste entlang
    to \follow a road/sign einer Straße/einem Schild folgen
    4. (come/happen next)
    ▪ to \follow sth auf etw akk folgen
    ▪ \follow by gefolgt von
    we had roast lamb \followed by a soufflé [or with a soufflé to \follow] es gab Lammbraten, gefolgt von einem Soufflé
    5. (succeed)
    ▪ to \follow sb jdm nachfolgen
    he \followed his father as head of the firm er folgte seinem Vater als Firmenchef nach
    6. (imitate)
    ▪ to \follow sb es jdm gleichtun
    ▪ to \follow sth etw nachmachen
    Sophie always \follows what her sister does Sophie macht ihrer Schwester alles nach
    \follow that! mach mir das erst mal nach!
    7. (obey)
    ▪ to \follow sth etw befolgen; (go along with) etw dat folgen
    he \follows the teachings of the Koran er hält sich an die Lehren des Koran
    to \follow one's conscience seinem Gewissen gehorchen
    to \follow fashion mit der Mode gehen
    to \follow ancient traditions nach alten Bräuchen leben
    to \follow a trend einem Trend folgen
    8. (support)
    ▪ to \follow a team Anhänger(in) m(f) einer Mannschaft sein
    to \follow sb's view jds Ansichten zustimmen
    ▪ to \follow sb/sth jdm/etw folgen
    his lecture was difficult to \follow man konnte seinem Vortrag nur schwer folgen
    do you \follow me?, can you \follow? können Sie mir folgen?
    10. (try to achieve)
    ▪ to \follow sth etw verfolgen
    he \follows the law er will Jurist werden
    to \follow one's pleasure seinem Vergnügen nachgehen
    11. (have an interest in, watch)
    ▪ to \follow sth etw verfolgen
    ▪ to \follow sth etw verfolgen
    to \follow sth on television sich dat etw regelmäßig [im Fernsehen] ansehen
    12.
    ▶ to \follow the crowd der Herde folgen fig, mit der Herde laufen fig
    ▶ to \follow sb/sth with one's eyes jdm/etw mit den Blicken [o Augen] folgen; (watch leaving, moving away) jdm/etw nachsehen; (watch every move) jdn/etw mit Blicken verfolgen
    my eyes \followed him as he walked up to the stage mein Blick folgte ihm, als er zur Bühne hinaufschritt
    ▶ to \follow in sb's footsteps in jds Fußstapfen treten
    ▶ \follow your nose ( fam: trust your instincts) vertrau deinem Instinkt; (go straight ahead) immer der Nase nach
    ▶ to \follow suit nachziehen fam, dasselbe machen
    II. vi
    1. (take the same route) folgen; MIL nachstoßen
    ▪ to \follow after sb/sth jdm/etw folgen
    2. (come/happen next) folgen
    letter to \follow Brief folgt
    in the hours/days that \followed... in den darauf folgenden Stunden/Tagen...
    as \follows wie folgt
    3. (result) sich ergeben; (be the consequence) die Folge sein
    ▪ to \follow from/upon sth (be the result) sich aus etw dat ergeben; (be the deduction) aus etw dat folgen [o resultieren]; (be the consequence) die Folge einer S. gen sein
    just because I agreed last time, it doesn't necessarily \follow that... nur weil ich das letzte Mal zugestimmt habe, heißt das noch lange nicht, dass...
    * * *
    ['fɒləʊ]
    1. vt
    1) person, car, road, sign folgen (+dat), nachgehen/-fahren etc (+dat); (= pursue also) verfolgen; (= succeed) folgen (+dat), kommen nach

    follow me — folgen Sie mir; (by car also) fahren Sie mir nach

    his eyes followed her, he followed her with his eyes — er folgte ihr mit den Augen

    he arrived first, followed by the ambassador — er kam als Erster, gefolgt vom Botschafter

    he followed his father into the business —

    the dinner will be followed by a concert — im Anschluss an das Essen findet ein Konzert statt

    the toast was followed by a vote of thanks —

    follow that ( if you can)! (said after a good performance etc) — das soll mir/ihm etc erst mal einer nachmachen!

    potatoes are the most popular food, followed by white bread — Kartoffeln sind das beliebteste Essen, und an zweiter Stelle steht Weißbrot

    2) (= keep to) road, path folgen (+dat), entlanggehen/-fahren etc
    3) (= understand) folgen (+dat)
    4) profession ausüben, nachgehen (+dat); course of study, career verfolgen
    5) (= conform to) fashion mitmachen; advice, instructions befolgen, folgen (+dat); party line folgen (+dat)

    to follow (the dictates of) one's heart/conscience — auf die Stimme seines Herzens/Gewissens hören

    6) (= read, watch regularly) serial verfolgen; strip cartoon regelmäßig lesen; (= take an interest in) progress, development, news verfolgen; athletics, swimming etc sich interessieren für; (= listen to attentively) speech (genau) verfolgen
    2. vi
    1) (= come after) folgen (on sth auf etw acc)

    what is there to follow? (at meals) — was gibt es noch or (planning the meal) hinterher or anschließend?

    2) (results, deduction) folgen (from aus)

    it follows from this that... — hieraus folgt, dass...

    it doesn't follow that... — daraus folgt nicht, dass...

    3) (= understand) folgen

    I don't follow — das verstehe ich nicht, da komme ich nicht mit

    * * *
    follow [ˈfɒləʊ; US ˈfɑ-]
    A s
    1. Billard: Nachläufer m
    2. → follow-up A 5
    B v/t
    1. allg folgen (dat):
    a) (zeitlich oder räumlich) nachfolgen (dat), folgen auf (akk), sich anschließen (dat) oder an (akk):
    a dinner followed by a dance ein Essen mit anschließendem Tanz;
    this story is followed by another auf diese Geschichte folgt noch eine (andere)
    b) nachfolgen, -laufen:
    follow sb close jemandem auf dem Fuße folgen
    c) auch MIL jemanden verfolgen
    d) sich jemandem anschließen, jemanden begleiten
    e) jemandem im Amt etc nachfolgen, jemandes Nachfolger sein
    f) jemandem (als Führer oder Vorbild) (nach)folgen, sich jemandem, einer Partei etc anschließen
    g) jemandem gehorchen
    h) sich anpassen (dat) (auch Sache)
    i) eine Mode etc mitmachen
    j) einen Rat, Befehl etc befolgen, beachten
    k) sich einer Ansicht anschließen, teilen (akk)
    follow sb’s example auch es jemandem gleichtun
    m) einen Weg verfolgen
    n) entlanggehen, -führen (akk):
    o) (mit dem Auge oder geistig) verfolgen, beobachten:
    p) zuhören (dat)
    2. ein Ziel, einen Zweck verfolgen, anstreben
    3. einer Beschäftigung etc nachgehen, sich widmen (dat), ein Geschäft etc betreiben, einen Beruf ausüben:
    follow one’s inclinations seinen Neigungen nachgehen; das tun, wozu man Lust hat;
    follow one’s pleasure seinem Vergnügen nachgehen;
    follow the law Jurist sein; → sea 1
    4. folgen (können) (dat), verstehen:
    do you follow me? können Sie mir folgen?
    5. folgen aus, die Folge sein von (oder gen)
    6. follow sth with sth einer Sache etwas folgen lassen
    C v/i
    1. (zeitlich oder räumlich) (nach)folgen, sich anschließen:
    follow after sb jemandem nachfolgen;
    follow (up)on folgen auf (akk);
    letter to follow Brief folgt;
    as follows wie folgt, folgendermaßen
    2. meist unpers folgen, sich ergeben ( beide:
    from aus):
    it follows from this hieraus folgt ( that dass);
    it does not follow that … dies besagt nicht, dass …
    * * *
    1. transitive verb
    1) folgen (+ Dat.)
    2) (go along) folgen (+ Dat.); entlanggehen/-fahren [Straße usw.]
    3) (come after in order or time) folgen (+ Dat.); folgen auf (+ Akk.)
    4) (accompany) [nach]folgen (+ Dat.)

    follow something with something — einer Sache (Dat.) etwas folgen lassen

    6) (result from) die Folge sein von; hervorgehen aus
    7) (treat or take as guide or leader) folgen (+ Dat.); sich orientieren an (+ Dat.); (adhere to) anhängen (+ Dat.)
    8) (act according to) folgen (+ Dat.) [Prinzip, Instinkt, Trend]; verfolgen [Politik]; befolgen [Vorschrift, Regel, Anweisung, Rat, Warnung]; handeln nach [Gefühl, Wunsch]; sich halten an (+ Akk.) [Konventionen, Diät, Maßstab]
    9) (keep up with mentally, grasp meaning of) folgen (+ Dat.)

    do you follow me?, are you following me? — verstehst du, was ich meine?

    10) (be aware of the present state or progress of) verfolgen [Ereignisse, Nachrichten, Prozess]
    2. intransitive verb
    1) (go, come)

    follow after somebody/something — jemandem/einer Sache folgen

    2) (go or come after person or thing) folgen

    follow in the wake of something — etwas ablösen; auf etwas (Akk.) folgen

    4)

    follow from something — (result) die Folge von etwas sein; (be deducible) aus etwas folgen

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    (a path) v.
    einschlagen (Weg) v. v.
    beachten v.
    befolgen v.
    beherzigen v.
    erfolgen v.
    folgen v.
    verfolgen v.

    English-german dictionary > follow

  • 4 Laird, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 1805 (?) Greenock, Scotland
    d. 26 October 1874 Birkenhead, England
    [br]
    Scottish pioneer of large-scale iron shipbuilding.
    [br]
    When only 5 years old, Laird travelled with his family to Merseyside, where his father William Laird was setting up a ship-repair yard. Fourteen years later his father established the Birkenhead Ironworks for ship and engine repairs, which in later years was to achieve great things with John Laird at the helm. John Laird trained as a solicitor, but instead of going into practice he joined the family business. Between 1829 and 1832 they built three iron barges for inland use in Ireland; this form of construction had become less of a novelty and followed the example set by Thomas Wilson in 1819, but Laird was fired with enthusiasm for this mode of construction. New iron ships followed in rapid succession, with two of especial note: the paddle steamer Lady Lansdown of 1833, which was dismantled and later re-erected on the river Shannon, becoming one of Britain's first "knock-down" contracts; and the early steamer Robert F.Stockton, which had a double Ericsson screw propeller and the first iron transverse watertight bulkheads. With the good name of the shipyard secure, they received orders from MacGregor Laird (John Laird's younger brother) for iron ships for the West African trade. This African connection was to grow and the yard's products were to include the Ma Roberts for Dr David Livingstone. Being of steel and with constant groundings on African rivers, this craft only lasted 18 months in steady operation. In 1858 a new yard dedicated to iron construction was opened at Monk's Ferry. In 1861 John Laird was returned as the first Member of Parliament for Birkenhead and his sons took over the day-to-day affairs of the business. Laird was to suffer acute embarrassment by questions at Westminster over the building in the Birkenhead Works of the United States Confederate raider Alabama in 1862. In 1874 he suffered serious injuries in a riding accident; his health declined and he died later that year.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1858, with Fairbairn, Forrester, Lang and Sea-ward, Steam Navigation, Vessels of Iron and Wood, the Steam Engine, etc. 2 vols, London: Weale.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Laird, John

  • 5 Brown, Joseph Rogers

    [br]
    b. 26 January 1810 Warren, Rhode Island, USA
    d. 23 July 1876 Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, USA
    [br]
    American machine-tool builder and co-founder of Brown \& Sharpe.
    [br]
    Joseph Rogers Brown was the eldest son of David Brown, who was modestly established as a maker of and dealer in clocks and watches. Joseph assisted his father during school vacations and at the age of 17 left to obtain training as a machinist. In 1829 he joined his father in the manufacture of tower clocks at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and two years later went into business for himself in Pawtucket making lathes and small tools. In 1833 he rejoined his father in Providence, Rhode Island, as a partner in the manufacture of docks, watches and surveying and mathematical instruments. David Brown retired in 1841.
    J.R.Brown invented and built in 1850 a linear dividing engine which was the first automatic machine for graduating rules in the United States. In 1851 he brought out the vernier calliper, the first application of a vernier scale in a workshop measuring tool. Lucian Sharpe was taken into partnership in 1853 and the firm became J.R.Brown \& Sharpe; in 1868 the firm was incorporated as the Brown \& Sharpe Manufacturing Company.
    In 1855 Brown invented a precision gear-cutting machine to make clock gears. The firm obtained in 1861 a contract to make Wilcox \& Gibbs sewing machines and gave up the manufacture of clocks. At about this time F.W. Howe of the Providence Tool Company arranged for Brown \& Sharpe to make a turret lathe required for the manufacture of muskets. This was basically Howe's design, but Brown added a few features, and it was the first machine tool built for sale by the Brown \& Sharpe Company. It was followed in 1862 by the universal milling machine invented by Brown initially for making twist drills. Particularly for cutting gear teeth, Brown invented in 1864 a formed milling cutter which could be sharpened without changing its profile. In 1867 the need for an instrument for checking the thickness of sheet material became apparent, and in August of that year J.R.Brown and L.Sharpe visited the Paris Exhibition and saw a micrometer calliper invented by Jean Laurent Palmer in 1848. They recognized its possibilities and with a few developments marketed it as a convenient, hand-held measuring instrument. Grinding lathes were made by Brown \& Sharpe in the early 1860s, and from 1868 a universal grinding machine was developed, with the first one being completed in 1876. The patent for this machine was granted after Brown's sudden death while on holiday.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    J.W.Roe, 1916, English and American Tool Builders, New Haven: Yale University Press; repub. 1926, New York and 1987, Bradley, Ill.: Lindsay Publications Inc. (further details of Brown \& Sharpe Company and their products).
    R.S.Woodbury, 1958, History of the Gear-Cutting Machine, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press ——, 1959, History of the Grinding Machine, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
    ——, 1960, History of the Milling Machine, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
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  • 6 Ingersoll, Simon

    [br]
    b. 3 March 1818 Stamford, Connecticut, USA
    d. 24 July 1894 Stamford, Connecticut, USA
    [br]
    American mechanic, inventor of a rock drill
    [br]
    Ingersoll worked on his father's farm and spent much of his time carrying out all kinds of mechanical experiments until 1839, when he went to Long Island, New York, to work on another farm. Having returned home in 1858, he received several patents for different mechanical devices, but he did not know how to turn his inventive talent into economic profit. His patents were sold to others for money to continue his work and support his family. In 1870, working again on Long Island, he by chance came into contact with New York City's largest contractor, who urged him to design a mechanical rock drill in order to replace hand drills in the rock-excavation business. Within one year Ingersoll built several models and a full-size machine at the machine shop of Henry Clark Sergeant, who contributed several improvements. They secured a joint patent in 1871, which was soon followed by a patent for a rock drill with tappet-valve motion.
    Although the Ingersoll Drill Company was established, he again sold the patent rights and went back to Stamford, where he continued his inventive work and gained several more patents for improving the rock drill. However, he never understood how to make a fortune from his patents, and he died almost penniless. His former partner, Sergeant, who had formed his own drill company on the basis of an entirely novel valve motion which led to compressed air being used as a power source, in 1888 established the Ingersoll- Sergeant Drill Company, which in 1905 merged with Rand Drill Company, which had been a competitor, to form the Ingersoll-Rand Company. This merger led to many achievements in manufacturing rock drills and air compressors at a time when there was growing demand for such machinery.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of American Biography (articles on both Ingersoll and Sergeant). W.L.Saunders, 1910, "The history of the rock drill and of the Ingersoll-Rand Company", Compressed Air Magazine: 3,679–80 (a lively description of the way in which he was encouraged to design the rock drill).
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  • 7 Kirkaldy, David

    [br]
    b. 4 April 1820 Mayfield, Dundee, Scotland
    d. 25 January 1897 London, England
    [br]
    Scottish engineer and pioneer in materials testing.
    [br]
    The son of a merchant of Dundee, Kirkaldy was educated there, then at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and at Edinburgh University. For a while he worked in his father's office, but with a preference for engineering, in 1843 he commenced an apprenticeship at the Glasgow works of Robert Napier. After four years in the shops he was transferred to the drawing office and in a very few years rose to become Chief. Here Kirkaldy demonstrated a remarkable talent both for the meticulous recording of observations and data and for technical drawing. His work also had an aesthetic appeal and four of his drawings of Napier steamships were shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1855, earning both Napier and Kirkaldy a medal. His "as fitted" set of drawings of the Cunard Liner Persia, which had been built in 1855, is now in the possession of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, London; it is regarded as one of the finest examples of its kind in the world, and has even been exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.
    With the impending order for the Royal Naval Ironclad Black Prince (sister ship to HMS Warrior, now preserved at Portsmouth) and for some high-pressure marine boilers and engines, there was need for a close scientific analysis of the physical properties of iron and steel. Kirkaldy, now designated Chief Draughtsman and Calculator, was placed in charge of this work, which included comparisons of puddled steel and wrought iron, using a simple lever-arm testing machine. The tests lasted some three years and resulted in Kirkaldy's most important publication, Experiments on Wrought Iron and Steel (1862, London), which gained him wide recognition for his careful and thorough work. Napier's did not encourage him to continue testing; but realizing the growing importance of materials testing, Kirkaldy resigned from the shipyard in 1861. For the next two and a half years Kirkaldy worked on the design of a massive testing machine that was manufactured in Leeds and installed in premises in London, at The Grove, Southwark.
    The works was open for trade in January 1866 and engineers soon began to bring him specimens for testing on the great machine: Joseph Cubitt (son of William Cubitt) brought him samples of the materials for the new Blackfriars Bridge, which was then under construction. Soon The Grove became too cramped and Kirkaldy moved to 99 Southwark Street, reopening in January 1874. In the years that followed, Kirkaldy gained a worldwide reputation for rigorous and meticulous testing and recording of results, coupled with the highest integrity. He numbered the most distinguished engineers of the time among his clients.
    After Kirkaldy's death, his son William George, whom he had taken into partnership, carried on the business. When the son died in 1914, his widow took charge until her death in 1938, when the grandson David became proprietor. He sold out to Treharne \& Davies, chemical consultants, in 1965, but the works finally closed in 1974. The future of the premises and the testing machine at first seemed threatened, but that has now been secured and the machine is once more in working order. Over almost one hundred years of trading in South London, the company was involved in many famous enquiries, including the analysis of the iron from the ill-fated Tay Bridge (see Bouch, Sir Thomas).
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland Gold Medal 1864.
    Bibliography
    1862, Results of an Experimental Inquiry into the Tensile Strength and Other Properties of Wrought Iron and Steel (originally presented as a paper to the 1860–1 session of the Scottish Shipbuilders' Association).
    Further Reading
    D.P.Smith, 1981, "David Kirkaldy (1820–97) and engineering materials testing", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 52:49–65 (a clear and well-documented account).
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  • 8 Sopwith, Sir Thomas (Tommy) Octave Murdoch

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 18 January 1888 London, England
    d. 27 January 1989 Stockbridge, Hampshire, England
    [br]
    English aeronautical engineer and industrialist.
    [br]
    Son of a successful mining engineer, Sopwith did not shine at school and, having been turned down by the Royal Navy as a result, attended an engineering college. His first interest was motor cars and, while still in his teens, he set up a business in London with a friend in order to sell them; he also took part in races and rallies.
    Sopwith's interest in aviation came initially through ballooning, and in 1906 he purchased his own balloon. Four years later, inspired by the recent flights across the Channel to France and after a joy-ride at Brooklands, he bought an Avis monoplane, followed by a larger biplane, and taught himself to fly. He was awarded the Royal Aero Society's Aviator Certificate No. 31 on 21 November 1910, and he quickly distinguished himself in flying competitions on both sides of the Atlantic and started his own flying school. In his races he was ably supported by his friend Fred Sigrist, a former motor engineer. Among the people Sopwith taught to fly were an Australian, Harry Hawker, and Major Hugh Trenchard, who later became the "father" of the RAF.
    In 1912, depressed by the poor quality of the aircraft on trial for the British Army, Sopwith, in conjunction with Hawker and Sigrist, bought a skating rink in Kingston-upon-Thames and, assisted by Fred Sigrist, started to design and build his first aircraft, the Sopwith Hybrid. He sold this to the Royal Navy in 1913, and the following year his aviation manufacturing company became the Sopwith Aviation Company Ltd. That year a seaplane version of his Sopwith Tabloid won the Schneider Trophy in the second running of this speed competition. During 1914–18, Sopwith concentrated on producing fighters (or "scouts" as they were then called), with the Pup, the Camel, the 1½ Strutter, the Snipe and the Sopwith Triplane proving among the best in the war. He also pioneered several ideas to make flying easier for the pilot, and in 1915 he patented his adjustable tailplane and his 1 ½ Strutter was the first aircraft to be fitted with air brakes. During the four years of the First World War, Sopwith Aviation designed thirty-two different aircraft types and produced over 16,000 aircraft.
    The end of the First World War brought recession to the aircraft industry and in 1920 Sopwith, like many others, put his company into receivership; none the less, he immediately launched a new, smaller company with Hawker, Sigrist and V.W.Eyre, which they called the H.G. Hawker Engineering Company Ltd to avoid any confusion with the former company. He began by producing cars and motor cycles under licence, but was determined to resume aircraft production. He suffered an early blow with the death of Hawker in an air crash in 1921, but soon began supplying aircraft to the Royal Air Force again. In this he was much helped by taking on a new designer, Sydney Camm, in 1923, and during the next decade they produced a number of military aircraft types, of which the Hart light bomber and the Fury fighter, the first to exceed 200 mph (322 km/h), were the best known. In the mid-1930s Sopwith began to build a large aviation empire, acquiring first the Gloster Aircraft Company and then, in quick succession, Armstrong-Whitworth, Armstrong-Siddeley Motors Ltd and its aero-engine counterpart, and A.V.Roe, which produced Avro aircraft. Under the umbrella of the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company (set up in 1935) these companies produced a series of outstanding aircraft, ranging from the Hawker Hurricane, through the Avro Lancaster to the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first in-service jet aircraft, and the Hawker Typhoon, Tempest and Hunter. When Sopwith retired as Chairman of the Hawker Siddeley Group in 1963 at the age of 75, a prototype jump-jet (the P-1127) was being tested, later to become the Harrier, a for cry from the fragile biplanes of 1910.
    Sopwith also had a passion for yachting and came close to wresting the America's Cup from the USA in 1934 when sailing his yacht Endeavour, which incorporated a number of features years ahead of their time; his greatest regret was that he failed in his attempts to win this famous yachting trophy for Britain. After his retirement as Chairman of the Hawker Siddeley Group, he remained on the Board until 1978. The British aviation industry had been nationalized in April 1977, and Hawker Siddeley's aircraft interests merged with the British Aircraft Corporation to become British Aerospace (BAe). Nevertheless, by then the Group had built up a wide range of companies in the field of mechanical and electrical engineering, and its board conferred on Sopwith the title Founder and Life President.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1953. CBE 1918.
    Bibliography
    1961, "My first ten years in aviation", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (April) (a very informative and amusing paper).
    Further Reading
    A.Bramson, 1990, Pure Luck: The Authorized Biography of Sir Thomas Sopwith, 1888– 1989, Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens.
    B.Robertson, 1970, Sopwith. The Man and His Aircraft, London (a detailed publication giving plans of all the Sopwith aircraft).
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    Biographical history of technology > Sopwith, Sir Thomas (Tommy) Octave Murdoch

  • 9 Clymer, George E.

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
    [br]
    b. 1754 Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
    d. 27 August 1834 London, England
    [br]
    American inventor of the Columbian printing press.
    [br]
    Clymer was born on his father's farm, of a family that emigrated from Switzerland in the early eighteenth century. He attended local schools, helping out on the farm in his spare time, and he showed a particular talent for maintaining farm machinery. At the age of 16 he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he followed in the same district for over twenty-five years. During that time, he showed his talent for mechanical invention in many ways, including the invention of a plough specially adapted to the local soils. Around 1800, he moved to Philadelphia, where his interest was aroused by the erection of the first bridge over the Schuylkill River. He devised a pump to remove water from the cofferdams at a rate of 500 gallons per day, superior to any other pumps then in use. He obtained a US patent for this in 1801, and a British one soon after.
    Clymer then turned his attention to the improvement of the printing press. For three and a half centuries after its invention, the old wooden-framed press had remained virtually unchanged except in detail. The first real change came in 1800 with the introduction of the iron press by Earl Stanhope. Modified versions were developed by other inventors, notably George Clymer, who after more than ten years' effort achieved his Columbian press. With its new system of levers, it enabled perfect impressions to be obtained with far less effort by the pressman. The Columbian was also notable for its distinctive cast-iron ornamentation, including a Hermes on each pillar and alligators and other reptiles on the levers. Most spectacular, it was surmounted by an American spread eagle, usually covered in gilt, which also served as a counterweight to raise the platen. The earliest known Columbian, surviving only in an illustration, bears the inscription Columbian Press/No.25/invented by George Clymer/Anno Domini 1813/Made in Philadelphia 1816. Few American printers could afford the US$400 selling price, so in 1817 Clymer went to England, where it was taken up enthusiastically. He obtained a British patent for it the same year, and by the following March it was being manufactured by the engineering firm R.W.Cope, although Clymer was probably making it on his own account soon afterwards. The Columbian was widely used for many years and continued to be made even into the twentieth century. The King of the Netherlands awarded Clymer a gold medal for his invention and the Tsar of Russia gave him a present for installing the press in Russia. Doubtless for business reasons, Clymer spent most of his remaining years in England and Europe.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    J.Moran, 1973, Printing Presses, London: Faber \& Faber.
    —1969, contributed a thorough survey of the press in J. Printing Hist. Soc., no. 3.
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  • 10 Ewart, Peter

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 14 May 1767 Traquair, near Peebles, Scotland
    d. September 1842 London, England
    [br]
    Scottish pioneer in the mechanization of the textile industry.
    [br]
    Peter Ewart, the youngest of six sons, was born at Traquair manse, where his father was a clergyman in the Church of Scotland. He was educated at the Free School, Dumfries, and in 1782 spent a year at Edinburgh University. He followed this with an apprenticeship under John Rennie at Musselburgh before moving south in 1785 to help Rennie erect the Albion corn mill in London. This brought him into contact with Boulton \& Watt, and in 1788 he went to Birmingham to erect a waterwheel and other machinery in the Soho Manufactory. In 1789 he was sent to Manchester to install a steam engine for Peter Drinkwater and thus his long connection with the city began. In 1790 Ewart took up residence in Manchester as Boulton \& Watt's representative. Amongst other engines, he installed one for Samuel Oldknow at Stockport. In 1792 he became a partner with Oldknow in his cotton-spinning business, but because of financial difficulties he moved back to Birmingham in 1795 to help erect the machines in the new Soho Foundry. He was soon back in Manchester in partnership with Samuel Greg at Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, where he was responsible for developing the water power, installing a steam engine, and being concerned with the spinning machinery and, later, gas lighting at Greg's other mills.
    In 1798, Ewart devised an automatic expansion-gear for steam engines, but steam pressures at the time were too low for such a device to be effective. His grasp of the theory of steam power is shown by his paper to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1808, On the Measure of Moving Force. In 1813 he patented a power loom to be worked by the pressure of steam or compressed air. In 1824 Charles Babbage consulted him about automatic looms. His interest in textiles continued until at least 1833, when he obtained a patent for a self-acting spinning mule, which was, however, outclassed by the more successful one invented by Richard Roberts. Ewart gave much help and advice to others. The development of the machine tools at Boulton \& Watt's Soho Foundry has been mentioned already. He also helped James Watt with his machine for copying sculptures. While he continued to run his own textile mill, Ewart was also in partnership with Charles Macintosh, the pioneer of rubber-coated cloth. He was involved with William Fairbairn concerning steam engines for the boats that Fairbairn was building in Manchester, and it was through Ewart that Eaton Hodgkinson was introduced to Fairbairn and so made the tests and calculations for the tubes for the Britannia Railway Bridge across the Menai Straits. Ewart was involved with the launching of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway as he was a director of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce at the time.
    In 1835 he uprooted himself from Manchester and became the first Chief Engineer for the Royal Navy, assuming responsibility for the steamboats, which by 1837 numbered 227 in service. He set up repair facilities and planned workshops for overhauling engines at Woolwich Dockyard, the first establishment of its type. It was here that he was killed in an accident when a chain broke while he was supervising the lifting of a large boiler. Engineering was Ewart's life, and it is possible to give only a brief account of his varied interests and connections here.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1843, "Institution of Civil Engineers", Annual General Meeting, January. Obituary, 1843, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Memoirs (NS) 7. R.L.Hills, 1987–8, "Peter Ewart, 1767–1843", Manchester Literary and Philosophical
    Society Memoirs 127.
    M.B.Rose, 1986, The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill The Rise and Decline of a Family Firm, 1750–1914, Cambridge (covers E wart's involvement with Samuel Greg).
    R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester; R.L.Hills, 1989, Power
    from Steam, Cambridge (both look at Ewart's involvement with textiles and steam engines).
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  • 11 Rankine, William John Macquorn

    [br]
    b. 5 July 1820 Edinburgh, Scotland
    d. 1872
    [br]
    [br]
    Rankine was educated at Ayr Academy and Glasgow High School, although he appears to have learned much of his basic mathematics and physics through private study. He attended Edinburgh University and then assisted his father, who was acting as Superintendent of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway. This introduction to engineering practice was followed in 1838 by his appointment as a pupil to Sir John MacNeill, and for the next four years he served under MacNeill on his Irish railway projects. While still in his early twenties, Rankine presented pioneering papers on metal fatigue and other subjects to the Institution of Civil Engineers, for which he won a prize, but he appears to have resigned from the Civils in 1857 after an argument because the Institution would not transfer his Associate Membership into full Membership. From 1844 to 1848 Rankine worked on various projects for the Caledonian Railway Company, but his interests were becoming increasingly theoretical and a series of distinguished papers for learned societies established his reputation as a leading scholar in the new science of thermodynamics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1853. At the same time, he remained intimately involved with practical questions of applied science, in shipbuilding, marine engineering and electric telegraphy, becoming associated with the influential coterie of fellow Scots such as the Thomson brothers, Napier, Elder, and Lewis Gordon. Gordon was then the head of a large and successful engineering practice, but he was also Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, and when he retired from the Chair to pursue his business interests, Rankine, who had become his Assistant, was appointed in his place.
    From 1855 until his premature death in 1872, Rankine built up an impressive engineering department, providing a firm theoretical basis with a series of text books that he wrote himself and most of which remained in print for many decades. Despite his quarrel with the Institution of Civil Engineers, Rankine took a keen interest in the institutional development of the engineering profession, becoming the first President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, which he helped to establish in 1857. Rankine campaigned vigorously for the recognition of engineering studies as a full university degree at Glasgow, and he achieved this in 1872, the year of his death. Rankine was one of the handful of mid-nineteenth century engineers who virtually created engineering as an academic discipline.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1853. First President, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, 1857.
    Bibliography
    1858, Manual of Applied Mechanics.
    1859, Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers.
    1862, Manual of Civil Engineering.
    1869, Manual of Machinery and Millwork.
    Further Reading
    J.Small, 1957, "The institution's first president", Proceedings of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland: 687–97.
    H.B.Sutherland, 1972, Rankine. His Life and Times.
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  • 12 Siemens, Sir Charles William

    [br]
    b. 4 April 1823 Lenthe, Germany
    d. 19 November 1883 London, England
    [br]
    German/British metallurgist and inventory pioneer of the regenerative principle and open-hearth steelmaking.
    [br]
    Born Carl Wilhelm, he attended craft schools in Lübeck and Magdeburg, followed by an intensive course in natural science at Göttingen as a pupil of Weber. At the age of 19 Siemens travelled to England and sold an electroplating process developed by his brother Werner Siemens to Richard Elkington, who was already established in the plating business. From 1843 to 1844 he obtained practical experience in the Magdeburg works of Count Stolburg. He settled in England in 1844 and later assumed British nationality, but maintained close contact with his brother Werner, who in 1847 had co-founded the firm Siemens \& Halske in Berlin to manufacture telegraphic equipment. William began to develop his regenerative principle of waste-heat recovery and in 1856 his brother Frederick (1826–1904) took out a British patent for heat regeneration, by which hot waste gases were passed through a honeycomb of fire-bricks. When they became hot, the gases were switched to a second mass of fire-bricks and incoming air and fuel gas were led through the hot bricks. By alternating the two gas flows, high temperatures could be reached and considerable fuel economies achieved. By 1861 the two brothers had incorporated producer gas fuel, made by gasifying low-grade coal.
    Heat regeneration was first applied in ironmaking by Cowper in 1857 for heating the air blast in blast furnaces. The first regenerative furnace was set up in Birmingham in 1860 for glassmaking. The first such furnace for making steel was developed in France by Pierre Martin and his father, Emile, in 1863. Siemens found British steelmakers reluctant to adopt the principle so in 1866 he rented a small works in Birmingham to develop his open-hearth steelmaking furnace, which he patented the following year. The process gradually made headway; as well as achieving high temperatures and saving fuel, it was slower than Bessemer's process, permitting greater control over the content of the steel. By 1900 the tonnage of open-hearth steel exceeded that produced by the Bessemer process.
    In 1872 Siemens played a major part in founding the Society of Telegraph Engineers (from which the Institution of Electrical Engineers evolved), serving as its first President. He became President for the second time in 1878. He built a cable works at Charlton, London, where the cable could be loaded directly into the holds of ships moored on the Thames. In 1873, together with William Froude, a British shipbuilder, he designed the Faraday, the first specialized vessel for Atlantic cable laying. The successful laying of a cable from Europe to the United States was completed in 1875, and a further five transatlantic cables were laid by the Faraday over the following decade.
    The Siemens factory in Charlton also supplied equipment for some of the earliest electric-lighting installations in London, including the British Museum in 1879 and the Savoy Theatre in 1882, the first theatre in Britain to be fully illuminated by electricity. The pioneer electric-tramway system of 1883 at Portrush, Northern Ireland, was an opportunity for the Siemens company to demonstrate its equipment.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1883. FRS 1862. Institution of Civil Engineers Telford Medal 1853. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1872. President, Society of Telegraph Engineers 1872 and 1878. President, British Association 1882.
    Bibliography
    27 May 1879, British patent no. 2,110 (electricarc furnace).
    1889, The Scientific Works of C.William Siemens, ed. E.F.Bamber, 3 vols, London.
    Further Reading
    W.Poles, 1888, Life of Sir William Siemens, London; repub. 1986 (compiled from material supplied by the family).
    S.von Weiher, 1972–3, "The Siemens brothers. Pioneers of the electrical age in Europe", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 45:1–11 (a short, authoritative biography). S.von Weihr and H.Goetler, 1983, The Siemens Company. Its Historical Role in the
    Progress of Electrical Engineering 1847–1980, English edn, Berlin (a scholarly account with emphasis on technology).
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  • 13 Chubb, John

    [br]
    b. 1816 Portsea, Hampshire, England
    d. 30 October 1872 Brixton Rise, London, England.
    [br]
    English locksmith.
    [br]
    He succeeded his father, who had founded the family firm of Chubb \& Son, and patented many improvements to locks, safes, strong rooms and the like. He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1845, where he delivered an important paper on locks and keys which included a list of all British patents in the field up to the date of the paper as well as of all communications on the same subject to the Royal Society of Arts; for this he was awarded the Telford Medal.
    John Chubb was followed into the family business by his three sons, John C.Chubb, George H.Chubb (who was created Lord Hayter of Chislehurst in 1928) and Henry W.Chubb.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Institution of Civil Engineers Telford Medal 1845. See also: Chubb, Charles.
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  • 14 get

    get
    ❢ This much-used verb has no multi-purpose equivalent in French and therefore is very often translated by choosing a synonym: to get lunch = to prepare lunch = préparer le déjeuner. get is used in many idiomatic expressions ( to get something off one's chest etc) and translations will be found in the appropriate entry (chest etc). This is also true of offensive comments ( get stuffed etc) where the appropriate entry would be stuff. Remember that when get is used to express the idea that a job is done not by you but by somebody else ( to get a room painted etc) faire is used in French followed by an infinitive ( faire repeindre une pièce etc). When get has the meaning of become and is followed by an adjective (to get rich/drunk etc) devenir is sometimes useful but check the appropriate entry (rich, drunk etc) as a single verb often suffices ( s'enrichir, s'enivrer etc). For examples and further uses of get see the entry below.
    A vtr ( p prés - tt- ; prét got ; pp got, gotten US)
    1 ( receive) recevoir [letter, school report, grant] ; recevoir, percevoir [salary, pension] ; TV, Radio capter [channel, programme] ; did you get much for it? est-ce que tu en as tiré beaucoup d'argent? ; what did you get for your car? combien as-tu revendu ta voiture? ; we get a lot of rain il pleut beaucoup ici ; our garden gets a lot of sun notre jardin est bien ensoleillé ; we get a lot of tourists nous avons beaucoup de touristes ; you get lots of attachments with this cleaner il y a beaucoup d'accessoires fournis avec cet aspirateur ; you get what you pay for il faut y mettre le prix ; he's getting help with his science il se fait aider en sciences ;
    2 ( inherit) to get sth from sb lit hériter qch de qn [article, money] ; fig tenir qch de qn [trait, feature] ;
    3 ( obtain) ( by applying) obtenir [permission, divorce, custody, licence] ; trouver [job] ; ( by contacting) trouver [plumber, accountant] ; appeler [taxi] ; ( by buying) acheter [food item, clothing] (from chez) ; avoir [theatre seat, ticket] ; to get something for nothing/at a discount avoir qch gratuitement/avec une réduction ; to get sb sth, to get sth for sb ( by buying) acheter qch à qn ; I'll get sth to eat at the airport je mangerai qch à l'aéroport ;
    4 ( subscribe to) acheter [newspaper] ;
    5 ( acquire) se faire [reputation] ; he got his money in oil il s'est fait de l'argent dans le pétrole ;
    6 ( achieve) obtenir [grade, mark, answer] ; he got it right ( of calculation) il a obtenu le bon résultat ; ( of answer) il a répondu juste ; how many do I need to get? ( when scoring) il me faut combien? ; he's got four more points to get il faut encore qu'il obtienne quatre points ;
    7 ( fetch) chercher [object, person, help] ; go and get a chair/Mr Matthews va chercher une chaise/M. Matthews ; to get sb sth, to get sth for sb aller chercher qch pour qn ; get her a chair va lui chercher une chaise ; can I get you your coat? est-ce que je peux vous apporter votre manteau? ;
    8 (manoeuvre, move) to get sb/sth upstairs/downstairs faire monter/descendre qn/qch ; a car to me is just something to get me from A to B pour moi une voiture ne sert qu'à aller de A à B ; I'll get them there somehow je les ferai parvenir d'une façon ou d'une autre ; can you get between the truck and the wall? est-ce que tu peux te glisser entre le camion et le mur? ;
    9 ( help progress) is this discussion getting us anywhere? est-ce que cette discussion est bien utile? ; I listened to him and where has it got me? je l'ai écouté mais à quoi ça m'a avancé? ; this is getting us nowhere ça ne nous avance à rien ; where will that get you? à quoi ça t'avancera? ;
    10 ( contact) did you manage to get Harry on the phone? tu as réussi à avoir Harry au téléphone? ;
    11 ( deal with) I'll get it ( of phone) je réponds ; ( of doorbell) j'y vais ;
    12 ( prepare) préparer [breakfast, lunch etc] ;
    13 ( take hold of) attraper [person] (by à) ; I've got you, don't worry je te tiens, ne t'inquiète pas ; to get sth from ou off prendre qch sur [shelf, table] ; to get sth from ou out of prendre qch dans [drawer, cupboard] ;
    14 ○ ( oblige to give) to get sth from ou out of sb faire sortir qch à qn [money] ; fig obtenir qch de qn [truth] ;
    15 ○ ( catch) gen arrêter [escapee] ; got you! gen je t'ai eu! ; ( caught in act) vu! ; a shark got him un requin l'a eu ; when I get you, you won't find it so funny quand tu auras affaire ○ à moi, tu trouveras ça moins drôle ;
    16 Med attraper [disease] ; he got the measles from his sister sa sœur lui a passé la rougeole ;
    17 ( use as transport) prendre [bus, train] ;
    18 ( have) to have got avoir [object, money, friend etc] ; I've got a headache/bad back j'ai mal à la tête/au dos ;
    19 ( start to have) to get (hold of) the idea ou impression that se mettre dans la tête que ;
    20 ( suffer) to get a surprise être surpris ; to get a shock avoir un choc ; to get a bang on the head recevoir un coup sur la tête ;
    21 ( be given as punishment) prendre [five years etc] ; avoir [fine] ; to get (a) detention être collé ○ ;
    22 ( hit) to get sb/sth with toucher qn/qch avec [stone, arrow, ball] ; got it! ( of target) touché! ; the arrow got him in the heel la flèche l'a touché au talon ;
    23 (understand, hear) comprendre ; I didn't get what you said/his last name je n'ai pas compris ce que tu as dit/son nom de famille ; did you get it? tu as compris? ; now let me get this right… alors si je comprends bien… ; ‘where did you hear that?’-‘I got it from Paul’ ‘où est-ce que tu as entendu ça?’-‘c'est Paul qui me l'a dit’ ; get this! he was arrested this morning tiens-toi bien! il a été arrêté ce matin ;
    24 ○ (annoy, affect) what gets me is… ce qui m'agace c'est que… ; what really got me was… ce que je n'aimais pas c'était… ;
    25 (learn, learn of) to get to do ○ finir par faire ; to get to like sb finir par apprécier qn ; how did you get to know ou hear of our organization? comment avez-vous entendu parler de notre organisation? ; we got to know them last year on a fait leur connaissance l'année dernière ;
    26 ( have opportunity) to get to do avoir l'occasion de faire ; do you get to use the computer? est-ce que tu as l'occasion d'utiliser l'ordinateur? ; it's not fair, I never get to drive the tractor ce n'est pas juste, on ne me laisse jamais conduire le tracteur ; when do we get to eat the cake? quand est-ce qu'on va pouvoir manger le gâteau? ;
    27 ( start) to get (to be) commencer à devenir ; he's getting to be proficient ou an expert il commence à devenir expert ; it got to be quite unpleasant ça a commencé à devenir plutôt désagréable ; he's getting to be a big boy now c'est un grand garçon maintenant ; to get to doing ○ commencer à faire ; we got to talking/dreaming about the holidays on a commencé à parler/rêver des vacances ; then I got to thinking that puis je me suis dit que ; we'll have to get going il va falloir y aller ;
    28 ( must) to have got to do devoir faire [homework, chore] ; it's got to be done il faut le faire ; you've got to realize that il faut que tu te rendes compte que ; if I've got to go, I will s'il faut que j'y aille, j'irai ; there's got to be a reason il doit y avoir une raison ;
    29 ( persuade) to get sb to do demander à qn de faire ; I got her to talk about her problems j'ai réussi à la faire parler de ses problèmes ; did you get anything out of her? est-ce que tu as réussi à la faire parler? ;
    30 ( have somebody do) to get sth done faire faire qch ; to get the car repaired/valeted faire réparer/nettoyer la voiture ; to get one's hair cut se faire couper les cheveux ; how do you ever get anything done? comment est-ce que tu arrives à travailler? ;
    31 ( cause) to get the car going faire démarrer la voiture ; to get the dishes washed faire la vaisselle ; this won't get the dishes washed! la vaisselle ne se fera pas toute seule! ; to get sb pregnant ○ mettre qn enceinte ○ ; as hot/cold as you can get it aussi chaud/froid que possible ; to get one's socks wet mouiller ses chaussettes ; to get one's finger trapped se coincer le doigt.
    B vi ( p prés - tt- ; prét got ; pp got, gotten US)
    1 ( become) devenir [suspicious, rich, old] ; how lucky/stupid can you get! il y en a qui ont de la chance/qui sont vraiment stupides! ; it's getting late il se fait tard ; how did he get like that? comment est-ce qu'il en est arrivé là? ;
    2 ( forming passive) to get (oneself) killed/trapped se faire tuer/coincer ; to get hurt être blessé ;
    3 ( become involved in) to get into ○ ( as hobby) se mettre à [astrology etc] ; ( as job) commencer dans [teaching, publishing] ; fig to get into a fight se battre ;
    4 ( arrive) to get there arriver ; to get to the airport/Switzerland arriver à l'aéroport/en Suisse ; to get (up) to the top ( of hill etc) arriver au sommet ; how did your coat get here? comment est-ce que ton manteau est arrivé là? ; how did you get here? ( by what miracle) comment est-ce que tu es arrivé là? ; ( by what means) comment est-ce que tu es venu? ; where did you get to? où est-ce que tu étais passé? ; we've got to page 5 nous en sommes à la page 5 ;
    5 ( progress) it got to 7 o'clock il était plus de 7 heures ; I'd got as far as underlining the title j'en étais à souligner le titre ; I'm getting nowhere with this essay je n'avance pas dans ma dissertation ; are you getting anywhere with your investigation? est-ce que votre enquête avance? ; now we're getting somewhere ( making progress) on avance vraiment ; ( receiving fresh lead) voilà quelque chose d'intéressant ; it's a slow process but we're getting there c'est un processus lent, mais on avance ; it's not perfect yet but we're getting there ce n'est pas encore parfait mais on avance ;
    6 ○ ( put on) to get into mettre [pyjamas, overalls].
    get ○ ! fiche-moi le camp ○ ! ; get along with you ○ ! ne sois pas ridicule! ; get away with you ○ ! arrête de raconter n'importe quoi ○ ! ; get her ○ ! regarde-moi ça! ; get him ○ in that hat! regarde-le avec ce chapeau! ; he got his ○ ( was killed) il a cassé sa pipe ○ ; I'll get you ○ for that je vais te le faire payer ○ ; I'm getting there je progresse ; it gets me right here! tu vas me faire pleurer! ; I've/he's got it bad ○ je suis/il est vraiment mordu ; I've got it je sais ; to get above oneself commencer à avoir la grosse tête ○ ; to get it together ○ se ressaisir ; to get it up ● bander ●, avoir une érection ; to get one's in ○ US prendre sa revanche ; to tell sb where to get off envoyer qn promener ; to get with it ○ se mettre dans le coup ○ ; what's got into her/them? qu'est-ce qui lui/leur a pris? ; where does he get off ○ ? pour qui se prend-il? ; you've got me there! alors là tu me poses une colle ○ !
    1 ( manage to move) se déplacer (by doing en faisant) ; she doesn't get about very well now elle a du mal à se déplacer maintenant ;
    2 ( travel) voyager, se déplacer ; do you get about much in your job? vous voyagez beaucoup pour votre travail? ; he gets about a bit ( travels) il voyage pas mal ; ( knows people) il connaît du monde ;
    3 ( be spread) [news] se répandre ; [rumour] courir, se répandre ; it got about that la nouvelle s'est répandue que, le bruit a couru que.
    1 ( pass to other side) traverser ;
    2 ( be communicated) [message] passer ;
    ▶ get across [sth] ( cross) traverser [river, road etc] ;
    ▶ get [sth] across
    1 ( transport) how will we get it across? (over stream, gap etc) comment est-ce qu'on le/la fera passer de l'autre côté? ; I'll get a copy across to you (in separate office, building etc) je vous en ferai parvenir un exemplaire ;
    2 ( communicate) faire passer [message, meaning] (to à) ;
    ▶ get across [sb] ○ US ( annoy) se mettre [qn] à dos ○ [person].
    1 ( make progress) [person] progresser ; to get ahead of prendre de l'avance sur [competitor] ;
    1 ( progress) how's the project getting along? comment est-ce que le projet se présente? ; how are you getting along? ( in job) comment ça se passe? ; ( to sick or old person) comment ça va? ; ( in school subject) comment est-ce que ça se passe? ;
    2 ( cope) s'en sortir ; we can't get along without a computer/him on ne s'en sortira pas sans ordinateur/lui ;
    3 ( be suited as friends) bien s'entendre (with avec) ;
    4 (go) I must be getting along il faut que j'y aille.
    1 (move, spread) = get about ;
    2 to get around to doing: she'll get around to visiting us eventually elle va bien finir par venir nous voir ; I must get around to reading his article il faut vraiment que je lise son article ; I haven't got around to it yet je n'ai pas encore eu le temps de m'en occuper ;
    ▶ get around [sth] ( circumvent) contourner [problem, law] ; there's no getting around it il n'y a rien à faire.
    ■ get at ○:
    ▶ get at [sb /sth]
    1 ( reach) atteindre [object] ; arriver jusqu'à [person] ; fig découvrir [truth] ; let me get at her ( in anger) laissez-moi lui régler son compte ○ ;
    2 ( spoil) the ants have got at the sugar les fourmis ont attaqué le sucre ;
    3 ( criticize) être après [person] ;
    4 ( intimidate) intimider [witness] ;
    5 ( insinuate) what are you getting at? où est-ce que tu veux en venir?
    ■ get away:
    1 ( leave) partir ;
    2 ( escape) [person] s'échapper ; the fish got away le poisson s'est échappé ;
    3 fig ( escape unpunished) to get away with a crime échapper à la justice ; you'll never get away with it! tu ne vas pas t'en tirer comme ça! ; he mustn't be allowed to get away with it il ne faut pas qu'il s'en tire à si bon compte ; she can get away with bright colours elle peut se permettre de porter des couleurs vives ;
    ▶ get [sb/sth] away ( for break) emmener [qn] se changer les idées ; to get sb away from a bad influence tenir qn à l'écart d'une mauvaise influence ; to get sth away from sb retirer qch à qn [weapon, dangerous object].
    ▶ get away from [sth]
    1 ( leave) quitter [town] ; I must get away from here ou this place! il faut que je parte d'ici! ; ‘get away from it all’ ( in advert) ‘évadez-vous de votre quotidien’ ;
    2 fig ( deny) nier [fact] ; there's no getting away from it on ne peut pas le nier ;
    3 fig ( leave behind) abandonner [practice, method] ;
    ▶ get away from [sb] lit, fig échapper à.
    ■ get back:
    1 ( return) gen rentrer ; ( after short time) revenir ; when we get back à notre retour ;
    2 ( move backwards) reculer ; get back! reculez! ;
    3 ( take revenge) to get back at se venger de [aggressor] ;
    ▶ get back to [sth]
    1 ( return to) rentrer à [house, city] ; revenir à [office, centre, point] ; we got back to Belgium nous sommes rentrés en Belgique ; when we get back to London à notre retour à Londres ;
    2 ( return to former condition) revenir à [teaching, publishing] ; to get back to sleep se rendormir ; to get back to normal redevenir normal ;
    3 ( return to earlier stage) revenir à [main topic, former point] ; to get back to your problem,… pour en revenir à votre problème,… ;
    ▶ get back to [sb]
    1 ( return to) revenir à [group, person] ;
    2 ( on telephone) I'll get right back to you je vous rappelle tout de suite ;
    ▶ get [sb/sth] back
    1 ( return) ( personally) ramener [object, person] ; ( by post etc) renvoyer ; Sport ( in tennis etc) renvoyer [ball] ; when they got him back to his cell quand ils l'ont ramené dans sa cellule ;
    2 ( regain) récupérer [lost object, loaned item] ; fig reprendre [strength] ; she got her money back elle a été remboursée ; she got her old job back on lui a redonné son travail ; he got his girlfriend back il s'est remis avec sa petite amie ○.
    ▶ get behind ( delayed) prendre du retard ;
    ▶ get behind [sth] se mettre derrière [hedge, sofa etc].
    ■ get by
    1 ( pass) passer ;
    2 ( survive) se débrouiller (on, with avec) ; we'll never get by without him/them nous ne nous en sortirons jamais sans lui/eux.
    ■ get down:
    1 ( descend) descendre (from, out of de) ;
    2 ( leave table) quitter la table ;
    3 ( lower oneself) ( to floor) se coucher ; ( to crouching position) se baisser ; to get down on one's knees s'agenouiller ; to get down to ( descend to reach) arriver à [lower level etc] ; atteindre [trapped person etc] ; ( apply oneself to) se mettre à [work] ; to get down to the pupils' level fig se mettre à la portée des élèves ; let's get down to business parlons affaires ; when you get right down to it quand on regarde d'un peu plus près ; to get down to doing se mettre à faire ;
    ▶ get down [sth] descendre [slope] ; if we get down the mountain alive si nous arrivons vivants en bas de la montagne ; when we got down the hill quand nous nous sommes retrouvés en bas de la colline ;
    ▶ get [sth] down, get down [sth]
    1 ( from height) descendre [book, jar etc] ;
    2 ( swallow) avaler [medicine, pill] ;
    3 ( record) noter [speech, dictation] ;
    ▶ get [sb] down
    1 ( from height) faire descendre [person] ;
    2 ○ ( depress) déprimer [person].
    ■ get in:
    ▶ get in
    1 lit ( to building) entrer ; ( to vehicle) monter ;
    2 fig ( participate) to get in on réussir à s'introduire dans [project, scheme] ; to get in on the deal ○ faire partie du coup ;
    3 ( return home) rentrer ;
    4 ( arrive at destination) [train, coach] arriver ;
    5 ( penetrate) [water, sunlight] pénétrer ;
    6 Pol [Labour, Tories etc] passer ; [candidate] être élu ;
    7 Sch, Univ [applicant] être admis ;
    8 ( associate) to get in with se mettre bien avec [person] ; he's got in with a bad crowd il traîne avec des gens peu recommandables ;
    ▶ get [sth] in, get in [sth]
    1 ( buy in) acheter [supplies] ;
    2 ( fit into space) I can't get the drawer in je n'arrive pas à faire rentrer le tiroir ;
    3 Agric ( harvest) rentrer [crop] ;
    4 Hort ( plant) planter [bulbs etc] ;
    5 (deliver, hand in) rendre [essay, competition entry] ;
    6 ( include) (in article, book) placer [section, remark, anecdote] ; he got in a few punches il a distribué quelques coups ;
    7 ( fit into schedule) faire [tennis, golf] ; I'll try to get in a bit of tennis ○ j'essayerai de faire un peu de tennis ;
    ▶ get [sb] in faire entrer [person].
    ■ get into:
    ▶ get into [sth]
    1 ( enter) entrer dans [building] ; monter dans [vehicle] ;
    2 ( be admitted) ( as member) devenir membre de [club] ; ( as student) être admis à [school, university] ; I didn't know what I was getting into fig je ne savais pas dans quoi je m'embarquais ;
    3 ( squeeze into) rentrer dans [garment, size] ; ⇒ debt, habit, trouble ;
    ▶ get [sb/sth] into faire entrer [qn/qch] dans [good school, building, room, space].
    ■ get off:
    ▶ get off
    1 ( from bus etc) descendre (at à) ;
    2 ( start on journey) partir ;
    3 ( leave work) finir ;
    4 ○ ( escape punishment) s'en tirer (with avec) ;
    5 to get off to partir pour [destination] ; did they get off to school OK? est-ce qu'ils sont partis sans problèmes pour l'école? ; ( make headway) to get off to a good/poor start prendre un bon/mauvais départ ; to get off to sleep s'endormir ; to get off on doing ○ péj ( get buzz from) prendre plaisir à faire ; to get off with, GB rencontrer, ramasser ○ pej [person] ;
    ▶ get off [sth]
    1 ( climb down from) descendre de [wall, ledge] ;
    2 ( alight from) descendre de [bus etc] ;
    3 ( remove oneself from) get off my nice clean floor/the grass ne marche pas sur mon sol tout propre/la pelouse ;
    4 fig ( depart from) s'écarter de [subject] ;
    ▶ get off ○ [sb] ( leave hold) get off me! lâche-moi! ;
    ▶ get [sb/sth] off
    1 ( lift down) descendre [object] ; faire descendre [person] ;
    2 ( dispatch) envoyer [parcel, letter, person] ; I've got the children off to school j'ai envoyé les enfants à l'école ;
    3 ( remove) enlever [stain] ;
    4 ○ ( send to sleep) endormir [baby].
    ■ get on:
    ▶ get on
    1 ( climb aboard) monter (at à) ;
    2 ( work) get on a bit faster/more sensibly travaille un peu plus vite/plus sérieusement ;
    3 ( continue with work) let's get on! continuons! ;
    4 GB ( like each other) bien s'entendre ;
    5 ( fare) how did you get on? comment est-ce que ça s'est passé? ;
    6 ( cope) how are you getting on? comment est-ce que tu t'en sors? ;
    7 GB ( approach) he's getting on for 40 il approche des quarante ans ; it's getting on for midnight il est presque minuit ; there are getting on for 80 people ○ il y a presque 80 personnes ;
    8 ( grow late) time's getting on le temps passe ;
    9 ( grow old) to be getting on a bit commencer à vieillir ;
    ▶ get on [sth] ( board) monter dans [vehicle] ;
    ▶ get [sth] on, get on [sth] ( put on) mettre [boots, clothing] ; monter [tyre] ; mettre [lid, tap washer etc].
    ■ get onto:
    ▶ get onto [sth]
    1 ( board) monter dans [vehicle] ;
    2 ( be appointed) être nommé à [Board] ;
    3 ( start to discuss) arriver à parler de [topic, subject] ;
    4 GB ( contact) contacter ; I'll get on to the authorities je contacterai les autorités.
    ▶ get on with [sth] ( continue to do) to get on with one's work/with preparing the meal continuer à travailler/à préparer le repas ; let's get on with the job! au travail! ;
    ▶ get on with [sb] GB s'entendre avec [person].
    ■ get out:
    ▶ get out
    1 ( exit) sortir (through, by par) ; get out and don't come back! va-t'en et ne reviens pas! ; they'll never get out alive ils ne s'en sortiront jamais vivants ;
    2 ( make social outing) sortir ; you should get out more tu devrais sortir plus ;
    3 (resign, leave) partir ;
    4 ( alight) descendre ;
    5 ( be let out) [prisoner] être libéré ; he gets out on the 8th il sera libéré le 8 ;
    6 ( leak) [news] être révélé ;
    ▶ get [sth] out, get out [sth]
    1 ( bring out) sortir [handkerchief, ID card] ;
    2 ( extract) retirer [cork, stuck object] ; extraire [tooth] ;
    3 ( erase) enlever [stain] ;
    4 ( take on loan) emprunter [library book] ;
    5 ( produce) sortir [plans, product] ;
    6 ( utter) I couldn't get the words out les mots ne voulaient pas sortir ;
    7 ( solve) faire [puzzle] ;
    ▶ get [sb] out ( release) faire libérer [prisoner] ; to get sb out of sth ( free from detention) ( personally) libérer qn de qch ; ( by persuasion) faire libérer qn de qch [prisoner] ; to get sth out of sth ( bring out) sortir qch de qch [handkerchief etc] ; ( find and remove) récupérer qch dans qch [required object, stuck object] ; I can't get it out of my mind je ne peux pas l'effacer de mon esprit.
    ▶ get out of [sth]
    1 ( exit from) sortir de [building, bed] ;
    2 ( alight from) descendre de [vehicle] ;
    3 ( leave at end of) sortir de [meeting] ;
    4 ( be freed from) être libéré de [prison] ;
    5 ( withdraw from) quitter [organization] ; échapper à [responsibilities] ; he's got out of oil ○ ( as investment) il a vendu toutes ses actions dans le pétrole ;
    6 ( avoid doing) s'arranger pour ne pas aller à [appointment, meeting] ; I'll try to get out of it j'essaierai de me libérer ; I accepted the invitation and now I can't get out of it j'ai accepté l'invitation et maintenant je ne peux pas me défiler ○ ; to get out of doing s'arranger pour ne pas faire ;
    7 ( no longer do) perdre [habit] ;
    8 ( gain from) what do you get out of your job? qu'est-ce que ton travail t'apporte? ; what will you get out of it? qu'est-ce que vous en retirerez?
    ■ get over:
    ▶ get over ( cross) passer ;
    ▶ get over [sth]
    1 ( cross) traverser [bridge, stream] ;
    2 ( recover from) se remettre de [illness, shock] ; to get over the fact that se remettre du fait que ; I can't get over it ( in amazement) je n'en reviens pas ; I couldn't get over how she looked ça m'a fait un choc de la voir comme ça ; I can't get over how you've grown je n'en reviens pas de ce que tu as grandi ;
    3 ( surmount) surmonter [problem] ; to get sth over with en finir avec qch ; let's get it over with finissons-en ;
    4 ( stop loving) oublier ; she never got over him elle ne l'a jamais oublié ;
    ▶ get [sb/sth] over
    1 ( cause to cross) faire passer [injured person, object] ; faire passer [qn/ qch] au-dessus de [bridge, wall etc] ;
    2 ( cause to arrive) get the plumber over here at once faites venir tout de suite le plombier ;
    3 ( communicate) faire passer [message].
    ■ get round GB:
    ▶ get round [sth] = get around [sth] ;
    ▶ get round ○ [sb] persuader [qn], avoir [qn] au sentiment ○ ; can't you get round him? est-ce que tu ne peux pas le persuader? ; she easily gets round her father elle fait tout ce qu'elle veut de son père.
    1 ( squeeze through) passer ;
    2 Telecom to get through to sb avoir qn au téléphone ; I couldn't get through je n'ai pas réussi à l'avoir ;
    3 to get through to ( communicate with) convaincre [person] ;
    4 ( arrive) [news, supplies] arriver ;
    5 ( survive) s'en sortir (by doing en faisant) ;
    6 Sch, Univ [examinee] réussir ;
    ▶ get through [sth]
    1 ( make way through) traverser [checkpoint, mud] ;
    2 ( reach end of) terminer [book, revision] ; finir [meal, task] ; [actor] finir [performance] ;
    3 ( survive mentally) I thought I'd never get through the week j'ai cru que je ne tiendrais pas la semaine ;
    4 ( complete successfully) [candidate, competitor] réussir à [exam, qualifying round] ; I got through the interview l'entretien s'est bien passé ;
    5 (consume, use) manger [supply of food] ; boire [supply of drink] ; dépenser [money] ; I get through two notebooks a week il me faut or j'use deux carnets par semaine ;
    ▶ get [sb/sth] through
    1 ( squeeze through) faire passer [car, object, person] ;
    2 ( help to endure) [pills, encouragement, strength of character] aider [qn] à continuer ; her advice/these pills got me through the day ses conseils/ces comprimés m'ont aidé à tenir le coup ○ ;
    3 ( help through frontier etc) faire passer [person, imported goods] ;
    4 Sch, Univ ( help to pass) permettre à [qn] de réussir [candidate] ;
    5 Pol faire passer [bill].
    ▶ get together ( assemble) se réunir (about, over pour discuter de) ;
    ▶ get [sb/sth] together, get together [sb/sth]
    1 ( assemble) réunir [different people, groups] ;
    2 ( accumulate) réunir [money] ; rassembler [food parcels, truckload] ;
    3 ( form) former [company, action group].
    ■ get under:
    ▶ get under passer en-dessous ;
    ▶ get under [sth] passer sous [barrier, floorboards etc].
    ■ get up:
    ▶ get up
    1 (from bed, chair etc) se lever (from de) ; get up off the grass! ne reste pas sur l'herbe! ;
    2 (on horse, ledge etc) monter ; how did you get up there? comment est-ce que tu es monté là-haut? ;
    3 Meteorol [storm] se préparer ; [wind] se lever ;
    4 to get up to ( reach) arriver à [page, upper floor] ; what did you get up to? fig ( sth enjoyable) qu'est-ce que tu as fait de beau? ; ( sth mischievous) qu'est-ce que tu as fabriqué ○ ? ;
    ▶ get up [sth]
    1 arriver en haut de [hill, ladder] ;
    2 ( increase) augmenter [speed] ;
    3 (start, muster) former [group] ; faire [petition] ; obtenir [support, sympathy] ;
    ▶ get [sth] up organiser ;
    ▶ get [oneself] up ○ in mettre [outfit].

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  • 15 Holden, Sir Isaac

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 7 May 1807 Hurlet, between Paisley and Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 13 August 1897
    [br]
    British developer of the wool-combing machine.
    [br]
    Isaac Holden's father, who had the same name, had been a farmer and lead miner at Alston in Cumbria before moving to work in a coal-mine near Glasgow. After a short period at Kilbarchan grammar school, the younger Isaac was engaged first as a drawboy to two weavers and then, after the family had moved to Johnstone, Scotland, worked in a cotton-spinning mill while attending night school to improve his education. He was able to learn Latin and bookkeeping, but when he was about 15 he was apprenticed to an uncle as a shawl-weaver. This proved to be too much for his strength so he returned to scholastic studies and became Assistant to an able teacher, John Kennedy, who lectured on physics, chemistry and history, which he also taught to his colleague. The elder Isaac died in 1826 and the younger had to provide for his mother and younger brother, but in 1828, at the age of 21, he moved to a teaching post in Leeds. He filled similar positions in Huddersfield and Reading, where in October 1829 he invented and demonstrated the lucifer match but did not seek to exploit it. In 1830 he returned because of ill health to his mother in Scotland, where he began to teach again. However, he was recommended as a bookkeeper to William Townend, member of the firm of Townend Brothers, Cullingworth, near Bingley, Yorkshire. Holden moved there in November 1830 and was soon involved in running the mill, eventually becoming a partner.
    In 1833 Holden urged Messrs Townend to introduce seven wool-combing machines of Collier's designs, but they were found to be very imperfect and brought only trouble and loss. In 1836 Holden began experimenting on the machines until they showed reasonable success. He decided to concentrate entirely on developing the combing machine and in 1846 moved to Bradford to form an alliance with Samuel Lister. A joint patent in 1847 covered improvements to the Collier combing machine. The "square motion" imitated the action of the hand-comber more closely and was patented in 1856. Five more patents followed in 1857 and others from 1858 to 1862. Holden recommended that the machines should be introduced into France, where they would be more valuable for the merino trade. This venture was begun in 1848 in the joint partnership of Lister \& Holden, with equal shares of profits. Holden established a mill at Saint-Denis, first with Donisthorpe machines and then with his own "square motion" type. Other mills were founded at Rheims and at Croix, near Roubaix. In 1858 Lister decided to retire from the French concerns and sold his share to Holden. Soon after this, Holden decided to remodel all their machinery for washing and carding the gill machines as well as perfecting the square comb. Four years of excessive application followed, during which time £20,000 was spent in experiments in a small mill at Bradford. The result fully justified the expenditure and the Alston Works was built in Bradford.
    Holden was a Liberal and from 1865 to 1868 he represented Knaresborough in Parliament. Later he became the Member of Parliament for the Northern Division of the Riding, Yorkshire, and then for the town of Keighley after the constituencies had been altered. He was liberal in his support of religious, charitable and political objectives. His house at Oakworth, near Keighley, must have been one of the earliest to have been lit by electricity.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Baronet 1893.
    Bibliography
    1847, with Samuel Lister, British patent no. 11,896 (improved Collier combing machine). 1856. British patent no. 1,058 ("square motion" combing machine).
    1857. British patent no. 278 1857, British patent no. 279 1857, British patent no. 280 1857, British patent no. 281 1857, British patent no. 3,177 1858, British patent no. 597 1859, British patent no. 52 1860, British patent no. 810 1862, British patent no. 1,890 1862, British patent no. 3,394
    Further Reading
    J.Hogg (ed.), c.1888, Fortunes Made in Business, London (provides an account of Holden's life).
    Obituary, 1897, Engineer 84.
    Obituary, 1897, Engineering 64.
    E.M.Sigsworth, 1973, "Sir Isaac Holden, Bt: the first comber in Europe", in N.B.Harte and K.G.Ponting (eds), Textile History and Economic History, Essays in Honour of
    Miss Julia de Lacy Mann, Manchester.
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (provides a good explanation of the square motion combing machine).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Holden, Sir Isaac

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