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81 venerando

venerando agg. venerable: morì alla veneranda età di 93 anni, he died at the venerable old age of 93.

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venerabile (-a)
venerable

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[vene'rando]
aggettivo [ persona] venerable

per rispetto alla sua -a età — out of respect for his great age

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venerando

/vene'rando/

aggettivo

[ persona] venerable; per rispetto alla sua -a età out of respect for his great age.

Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > venerando
82 DE

Del verbo dar: ( conjugate dar) \ \
dé es: \ \
1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

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

3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo
Multiple Entries: dar de dé
dar ( conjugate dar) verbo transitivo 1
a) ( entregar) to give;

◊ dale las llaves a Pedro give the keys to Pedro;
déme un kilo de peras can I have a kilo of pears?; See Also→ conocer verbo transitivo 3 b, entender verbo transitivo
b) ‹cartas/mano› to give
2
a) (donar, regalar) ‹sangre/limosna› to give;

◊ me dio su reloj she gave me her watch

b) ( proporcionar) ‹fuerzas/valor/esperanza› to give;
‹información/idea› to give 3
a) (conferir, aportar) ‹sabor/color/forma› to give

b) ( aplicar) ‹mano de pintura/barniz› to give

c) ‹sedante/masaje› to give
4 ( conceder) ‹prórroga/permiso› to give;
◊ el dentista me dio hora para el miércoles I have an appointment with the dentist on Wednesday;
nos dieron un premio we won o got a prize 5
a) (expresar, decir) ‹parecer/opinón› to give;

◊ ¿le diste las gracias? did you thank him?, did you say thank you?;
dales saludos give/send them my regards; tuve que déle la noticia I was the one who had to break the news to him
b) (señalar, indicar): me da ocupado or (Esp) comunicando the line's busy o (BrE) engaged;

◊ el reloj dio las cinco the clock struck five
1
a) ( producir) ‹fruto/flor› to bear;
‹ dividendos› to pay;
◊ un negocio que da mucho dinero a business which makes a lot of money

b) (AmL) ( alcanzar hasta):

◊ da 150 kilómetros por hora it can do o go 150 kilometres an hour;
venía a todo lo que daba it was travelling at full speed; ponen la radio a todo lo que da they turn the radio on full blast 2 (causar, provocar) ‹placer/susto› to give; ‹ problemas› to cause;
◊ dé trabajo to be hard work;
el calor le dio sueño/sed the heat made him sleepy/thirsty 1 ( presentar) ‹ concierto› to give;
◊ ¿qué dan esta noche en la tele? what's on TV tonight? (colloq);
¿dónde están dando esa película? where's that film showing? 2
a) ‹fiesta/conferencia› to give;
‹baile/banquete› to hold; ‹ discurso› (AmL) to make
b) (CS) ‹ examen› to take o (BrE) sit;
ver tb clase 4 ( realizar la accion que se indica) ‹ grito› to give;
◊ dé un paso atrás to take a step back;
dame un beso give me a kiss; ver tb golpe, paseo, vuelta, etc ( considerar) dé algo/a algn por algo:
◊ lo dieron por muerto they gave him up for dead;
ese tema lo doy por sabido I'm assuming you've already covered that topic; ¡dalo por hecho! consider it done! verbo intransitivo 1
◊ dar a [ puerta] to give onto, open onto;
[ventana/balcón] to look onto, give onto; [fachada/frente] to face 2 (ser suficiente, alcanzar) dé para algo/algn to be enough for sth/sb;
◊ no me dio (el) tiempo I didn't have time;
dé de sí ‹zapatos/jersey› to stretch 3 ( arrojar un resultado):
◊ el análisis le dio positivo her test was positive;
¿cuánto da la cuenta? what does it come to?; a mí me dio 247 I made it (to be) 247 4 ( importar):
◊ da lo mismo it doesn't matter;
¡qué más da! what does it matter!; ¿qué más da? what difference does it make?; me da igual I don't mind 5 ( en naipes) to deal 1
a) (pegar, golpear): déle a algn to hit sb;
( como castigo) to smack sb;
◊ dale al balón kick the ball;
el balón dio en el poste the ball hit the post
b) ( acertar) to hit;

◊ dé en el blanco to hit the target
2 (accionar, mover) déle a algo ‹a botón/tecla› to press sth; ‹ a interruptor› to flick sth; ‹a manivela/volante› to turn sth 3
◊ dar con ( encontrar) ‹ persona› to find;
‹ solución› to hit upon, find; ‹ palabra› to come up with 4 (hablando de manías, ocurrencias) déle a algn por hacer algo ‹por pintar/cocinar› to take to doing sth;
◊ le ha dado por decir que … he's started saying that …
5 [sol/luz]:
◊ aquí da el sol toda la mañana you get the sun all morning here;
la luz le daba de lleno en los ojos the light was shining right in his eyes darse verbo pronominal 1 ( producirse) [ frutaigo] to grow 2 ( presentarse) [oportunidad/ocasión] to arise 3 ( resultar) (+ me/te/le etc):
◊ se le dan los idiomas she's good at languages

a) ( refl) ( realizar lo que se indica) ‹ducha/banquete› to have;

◊ dárselas de algo: se las da de valiente/de que sabe mucho he likes to make out he's brave/he knows a lot;
dárselas de listo to act smart
b) (golpearse, pegarse):

◊ se dio con el martillo en el dedo he hit his finger with the hammer;
se dieron contra un árbol they crashed into a tree; se dio dé un golpe en la rodilla he hit his knee ( considerarse) dése por algo:
◊ con eso me déía por satisfecha I'd be quite happy with that;
ver tb aludir a, enterado 1
de 1 preposición 1
a) (pertenencia, posesión):

◊ la casa dé dé mis padres my parents' house;
el rey dé Francia the king of France; no es dé él it isn't his; es un amigo dé mi hijo he's a friend of my son's; un estudiante dé quinto año a fifth-year student; la tapa dé la cacerola the saucepan lid; un avión dé Mexair a Mexair plane
b) ( con un nombre en aposición) of;

◊ la ciudad dé Lima the city of Lima;
el aeropuerto dé Barajas Barajas airport; el mes dé enero the month of January 2
a) (procedencia, origen, tiempo) from;

◊ es dé Bogotá she's/she comes from Bogotá;
una carta dé Julia a letter from Julia; un amigo dé la infancia a childhood friend; la literatura dé ese período the literature of o from that period; dé aquí a tu casa from here to your house
b) (material, contenido, composición):

◊ son dé plástico they're (made of) plastic;
una mesa dé caoba a mahogany table; un vaso dé agua a glass of water; un millón dé dólares a million dollars
c) (causa, modo):

◊ murió dé viejo he died of old age;
dé tanto gritar from shouting so much; verde dé envidia green with envy; temblando dé miedo trembling with fear; dé memoria by heart; lo tumbó dé un golpe he knocked him down with one blow
d) ( en oraciones pasivas) by;

◊ un poema dé Neruda a poem by Neruda;
rodeada dé árboles surrounded by trees 3
a) (cualidades, características):

◊ de gran inteligencia of great intelligence;
objetos dé mucho valor objects of great value; ¿dé qué color lo quiere? what color do you want it?; tiene cara dé aburrido he looks bored; una botella dé un litro a liter bottle; la chica dé azul the girl in blue
b) (al definir, especificar):

◊ el botón dé abajo the bottom button;
tiene dos metros dé ancho it's two meters wide; es fácil de pronunciar it's easy to pronounce; uno dé los míos one of mine; el mayor dé los Soto the eldest of the Soto children 4
a) ( con cifras):

◊ pagan un interés dél 15% they pay 15% interest o interest at 15%

b) ( en comparaciones de cantidad) than;

◊ más dé £100 more than o over £100;
pesa menos dé un kilo it weighs less than o under a kilo; un número mayor/menor dé 29 a number over/under 29
c) ( con un superlativo):

◊ es el más caro dé todos it's the most expensive one;
la ciudad más grande dél mundo the biggest city in the world
d) ( refiriéndose a una parte del día):

◊ dé día/noche during the day/at night;
dé madrugada early in the morning 5
a) ( en calidad de) as;

◊ trabaja dé secretaria she works as a secretary;
hace dé rey en la obra he plays (the part of) a king in the play
b) (en expresiones de estado, actividad):

◊ dé mal humor in a bad mood;
estamos dé fiesta we're having a party
c) (indicando uso, destino, finalidad):

◊ el cepillo dé la ropa the clothes brush;
copas dé vino wine glasses; ropa dé cama bed clothes; dales algo dé comer give them something to eat; ¿qué hay dé postre? what's for dessert? 6 ( con sentido condicional):
◊ dé haberlo sabido if I had known, had I known;
dé no ser así otherwise
de 2 sustantivo femenino: name of the letter d
dé see
◊ dar

dar
I verbo transitivo
1 to give: dame la mano, hold my hand
2 (conceder) to give: mi padre me dio permiso, my father gave me permission
le doy toda la razón, I think he is quite right
3 (transmitir una noticia) to tell (un recado, recuerdos) to pass on, give
dar las gracias, to thank
4 (retransmitir u ofrecer un espectáculo) to show, put on
5 (organizar una fiesta) to throw, give
6 (producir lana, miel, etc) to produce, yield (fruto, flores) to bear (beneficio, interés) to give, yield
7 (causar un dolor, malestar) dar dolor de cabeza, to give a headache (un sentimiento) dar pena, to make sad
le da mucha vergüenza, he's very embarrassed
8 (proporcionar) to provide: su empresa da trabajo a cincuenta personas, his factory gives work to fifty people
9 (una conferencia, charla) to give (impartir clases) to teach (recibir una clase) to have US to take
10 (presentir) me da (en la nariz/en el corazón) que eso va a salir bien, I have a feeling that everything is going to turn out well
11 (estropear) to ruin: me dio la noche con sus ronquidos, he spoilt my sleep with his snoring
12 (abrir el paso de la luz) to switch on (del gas, agua) to turn on
13 (propinar una bofetada, un puntapié, etc) to hit, give
14 (aplicar una mano de pintura, cera) to apply, put on (un masaje, medicamento) to give
15 (considerar) dar por, to assume, consider: lo dieron por muerto, he was given up for dead
ese dinero lo puedes dar por perdido, you can consider that money lost
dar por supuesto/sabido, to take for granted, to assume
16 (la hora, un reloj) to strike: aún no habían dado las ocho, it was not yet past eight o'clock
17 (realizar la acción que implica el objeto) dar un abrazo/susto, to give a hug/fright
dar un paseo, to go for a walk
dar una voz, to give a shout
II verbo intransitivo
1 (sobrevenir) le dio un ataque de nervios, she had an attack of hysterics
2 dar de comer/cenar, to provide with lunch/dinner 3 dar a, (mirar, estar orientado a) to look out onto, to overlook (una puerta) to open onto, lead to: esa puerta da al jardín, this door leads out onto the garden 4 dar con, (una persona, objeto) to come across: no fuimos capaces de dar con la contraseña, we couldn't come up with the password
dimos con él, we found him 5 dar de sí, (una camiseta, bañador) to stretch, give 6 dar en, to hit: el sol me daba en los ojos, the sun was (shining) in my eyes 7 dar para, to be enough o sufficient for: ese dinero no me da para nada, this money isn't enough for me Locuciones: dar a alguien por: le dio por ponerse a cantar, she decided to start singing
le dio por nadar, he got it into his head to go swimming
dar a entender a alguien que..., to make sb understand that...
dar la mano a alguien, to shake hands with sb
dar para: el presupuesto no da para más, the budget will not stretch any further
dar que hablar, to set people talking
dar que pensar: el suceso dio que pensar, the incident gave people food for thought
dar a conocer, (noticia) to release
de preposición
1 (pertenencia, posesión) of
la dirección de mis padres, my parents' address
el teclado de este ordenador, this computer's keyboard
la primera página del libro, the first page of the book
2 (material) of: está hecho de madera, it's made of wood
una pajarita de papel, a paper bird (contenido) un vaso de vino, a glass of wine
3 (asunto) about, on: sabe mucho de economía, she knows a lot about economics
un curso de inglés, an English course
un libro de arte, a book on art
4 (oficio) as: estáabaja de enfermera, she is working as a nurse
5 (cualidad) una persona de carácter, a person with character
una rubia de pelo largo, a blonde with long hair
6 (procedencia) from: es de Bilbao, he is o comes from Bilbao
de Madrid a Cáceres, from Madrid to Cáceres
7 (parte) un poco de leche, a little milk
un trozo de carne, a piece of meat
8 (causa) with, because of
llorar de alegría, to cry with joy
morir de hambre, to die of hunger
9 (modo) lo bebió de un trago, she downed it in one
un gesto de satisfacción, an expression of satisfaction
10 (localización) el señor de la camisa azul, the man in the blue shirt
la casa de la esquina, the house on the corner
11 (tiempo) a las cinco de la mañana, at five in the morning
de año en año, year in year out
de día, by day
de noche, at night
de miércoles a viernes, from Wednesday to Friday
de pequeño, as a child
12 (finalidad) jornada de reflexión, eve of polling day
libro de consulta, reference book
máquina de escribir, typewriter
13 (instrumento) derribó la puerta de una patada, he kicked the door down
lo mataron de una puñalada, he was stabbed to death
14 (comparación) el discurso fue más largo de lo esperado, the speech was longer than expected (con superlativo) in
el coche más caro del mundo, the most expensive car in the world
15 (precio) for
un pantalón de dos mil pesetas, a pair of trousers costing two thousand pesetas 16 una avenida de quince kilómetros, an avenue fifteen kilometres long
una botella de litro, a litre bottle
17 (condicional) de haberlo sabido no le hubiera invitado, if I had known I wouldn't have invited him
de no ser así, if that wasn't o weren't the case
de ser cierto, if it was o were true
18 (reiteración) de puerta en puerta, from door to door
de tres en tres, in threes o three at a time 'dé' also found in these entries: Spanish: A - a. C. - a.m. - abajo - abanderada - abanderado - abandonar - abandonarse - abandono - abanico - abarrotar - abarrotada - abarrotado - abarrotería - abastecer - abastecerse - abastecimiento - abasto - abatir - abatimiento - abatirse - abdicar - abertura - abierta - abierto - abismo - ablandar - abogar - abogacía - abogada - abogado - abominar - abominable - abono - abortar - abrir - abridor - abrigo - abrupta - abrupto - absoluta - absolutamente - absoluto - abstenerse - abstención - abstinencia - abstraerse - abuelo - abuhardillada - abuhardillado English: A - A-level - a.m. - AA - abandon - ABC - ability - ablaze - aboard - about - about-face - about-turn - above - abreast - abroad - abrupt - absence - absent - absolve - absorb - abstain - abstract - abundance - abuse - AC - accepted - access road - accident - accidental - acclaim - accommodate - accommodation - accomplished - accomplishment - accordance - account - account for - accountable - accumulation - accuracy - accurate - accurately - accuse - accused - accusingly - accustom - ache - Achilles heel - aching - acid test

= Delaware

1.

ABBR
(US) = Delaware
2.

N ABBR
(Brit) = Department of Employment
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= Delaware

English-spanish dictionary > DE
83 Ehre

f; -, -n

1. allg.: hono(u)r; es ist mir eine ( große) Ehre it is an (a great) hono(u)r for me; mit wem habe ich die Ehre? oft iro. to whom have I the pleasure of speaking?; habe die Ehre! bes. österr. good day; (beim Treffen) pleased to meet you; was verschafft mir die Ehre? to what do I owe this hono(u)r ( oder the pleasure)?; es sich (Dat) zur Ehre anrechnen consider it an hono(u)r; ... geben sich (Dat) die Ehre, zu... einzuladen... request the hono(u)r of your company at...; um der Wahrheit die Ehre zu geben to be quite honest ( oder frank); sie erwiesen ihm die Ehre ihres Vertrauens oder ihm zu vertrauen geh. they hono(u)red him with their trust; jemandem die letzte Ehre erweisen pay one’s last respects to s.o.; Ehre wem Ehre gebührt Sprichw. credit where credit is due; jemanden mit oder in Ehren entlassen give s.o. an hono(u)rable discharge; wieder zu Ehren kommen come back into favo(u)r; ihm zu Ehren in his hono(u)r; zu seiner Ehre muss gesagt werden, dass... in his defen|ce (Am. -se) it ought to be said that...; zu Ehren des Tages in hono(u)r of the day; zur ( größeren) Ehre Gottes to the (greater) glory of God

2. (Ansehen) hono(u)r, reputation; (Ruhm) glory; bei meiner Ehre! upon my oath!; jemandem / etw. alle / keine Ehre machen be a / no credit to s.o. / s.th.; jemandem zur Ehre gereichen geh. do s.o. credit, reflect credit on s.o.; es gereicht ihm zur Ehre geh. it is to his credit; zu hohen Ehren gelangen oder es zu hohen Ehren bringen achieve (great) eminence; in Ehren halten (hold in) hono(u)r; in Ehren gehalten revered; damit kannst du keine Ehre einlegen that won’t earn you any credit ( bei jemandem with s.o., in s.o.’s eyes); deine Meinung / dein Eifer in ( allen) Ehren, aber... with all due respect,...; Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe! glory (be) to God in the highest!

3. nur Sg.; (Ehrgefühl) sense of hono(u)r; (Selbstachtung) self-respect, pride; auf Ehre und Gewissen in all conscience; auf Ehre schwören swear on one’s hono(u)r; jemanden bei der oder seiner Ehre packen appeal to s.o.’s sense of hono(u)r; keine Ehre im Leib haben have no sense ( oder not a shred of) of hono(u)r; er fühlte sich dadurch in seiner Ehre gekränkt it hurt ( oder wounded) his pride, he felt rather piqued by it; seine Ehre dareinsetzen, etw. zu tun make it a point of hono(u)r to do s.th.; etw. in allen Ehren tun do s.th. in good faith

4. nur Sg.; altm. (Jungfräulichkeit) (virgin) hon(u)r; einer Frau ihre Ehre rauben rob a woman of her hono(u)r

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die Ehre

honour; honor; merit; privilege; kudos

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Eh|re ['eːrə]
f -, -n
honour (Brit), honor (US); (= Ruhm) glory
etw in Éhren halten — to treasure or cherish sth

damit/mit ihm können Sie Éhre einlegen — that/he does you credit, that/he is a credit to you

er wollte mit dieser Rede Éhre einlegen — he was wanting to gain kudos with this speech

für jdn/etw Éhre einlegen — to bring hono(u)r on sb/sth

bei jdm mit etw Éhre einlegen — to make a good impression on sb with sth

jdm Éhre machen — to do sb credit

jdm wenig Éhre machen — not to do sb any credit

jdm/einer Sache zur Éhre gereichen — to do sb/sth credit

auf Éhre! (obs) bei meiner Éhre! (obs) — 'pon my oath! (obs)

auf Éhre und Gewissen — on my/his etc hono(u)r

auf Éhre und Gewissen? — cross your heart? (inf), on your hono(u)r?

auf Éhre und Gewissen: ich bin es nicht gewesen! — cross my heart (inf) or I promise you, it wasn't me

zu seiner Éhre muss ich sagen, dass... — in his favour (Brit) or favor (US) I must say (that)...

etw um der Éhre willen tun — to do sth for the hono(u)r of it

das musst du schon um deiner Éhre willen machen — you should do that as a matter of hono(u)r

ein Mann von Éhre — a man of hono(u)r

keine Éhre im Leib haben (dated) — to have not a shred of self-respect

er ist in Éhren alt geworden — he has had a long and hono(u)rable life

sein Wort/seine Kenntnisse in allen Éhren, aber... — I don't doubt his word/his knowledge, but...

etw zur Éhre anrechnen — to count sth an hono(u)r

es zur Éhre anrechnen, dass... — to feel hono(u)red that..., to count it an hono(u)r that...

das rechne ich ihm zur Éhre an — I consider that a point in his hono(u)r or favour (Brit) or favor (US)

mit wem habe ich die Éhre? (iro, form) — with whom do I have the pleasure of speaking? (form)

was verschafft mir die Éhre? (iro, form) — to what do I owe the hono(u)r (of your visit)?

es ist mir eine besondere Éhre,... (form) — it is a great hono(u)r for me...

um der Wahrheit die Éhre zu geben... (geh) — to be perfectly honest..., to tell you the truth...

wir geben uns die Éhre, Sie zu... einzuladen (form) — we request the hono(u)r of your company at... (form)

zu Éhren (+gen) —

darf ich um die Éhre bitten, Sie zu begleiten? (form) — may I have the hono(u)r of accompanying you? (form), would you do me the hono(u)r of allowing me to accompany you? (form)

Habe die Éhre! (dated Aus) (als Gruß) — hello; (beim Abschied) goodbye; (als Ausdruck des Erstaunens) good heavens

Éhre, wem Éhre gebührt (prov) — credit where credit is due

Éhre sei Gott in der Höhe (Bibl) — glory to God in the highest

See:

→ letzte(r, s)

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die

1) (respect for truth, honesty etc: a man of honour.) honour

2) ((the keeping or increasing of) a person's, country's etc good reputation: We must fight for the honour of our country.) honour

3) (respect: This ceremony is being held in honour of those who died in the war.) honour

4) (something which a person feels to be a reason for pride etc: It is a great honour to be asked to address this meeting.) honour

5) (ceremony, when given as a mark of respect: The dead soldiers were buried with full military honours.) honours

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Eh·re

<-, -n>

[ˈe:rə]

f

1. (Ansehen) honour [or AM -or] no pl

jdm zur \Ehre gereichen (geh) to bring sb honour [or honour to sb]

etw in \Ehren halten to cherish [or treasure] sth

wieder zu \Ehren kommen (geh) to come back into favour [or AM -or]

jdm \Ehre machen to do sb credit

er hat seiner Familie \Ehre gemacht he brought honour on his family

jdm wenig \Ehre machen to not do sb any credit

seine \Ehre verlieren/wahren to lose/preserve one's honour

2. (Anerkennung) honour [or AM -or]

darf ich um die \Ehre bitten, mit Ihnen zu speisen? (form o iron) may I have the honour of dining with you? form or iron

sich dat etw zur \Ehre anrechnen (geh) to consider sth an honour

mit etw [bei jdm] \Ehre einlegen (geh) to make a good impression [on sb] with sth

damit kannst du [bei ihr] keine \Ehre einlegen that won't gain you any credit [with her]

jdm die letzte \Ehre erweisen (geh) to pay sb one's last respects [or one's last respects to sb]

sich dat die \Ehre geben, etw zu tun (geh) to have the honour of doing sth

mit militärischen \Ehren with military honours

jdm eine \Ehre sein to be an honour for sb

es war mir eine \Ehre it was an honour for me

jdm eine besondere [o große] \Ehre sein to be a great honour for sb

zu jds \Ehren/zu \Ehren einer S. in honour of sb/sth

zu ihrer \Ehre muss ich sagen, dass... in her defence I must say that...

jdm wird die \Ehre zuteil, etw zu tun sb is given the honour of doing sth

3. kein pl (Ehrgefühl) sense of honour no pl; (Stolz) pride no pl; (Selbstachtung) self-respect no pl

eine Frau/ein Mann von \Ehre sein to be a woman/man of honour

jdn in seiner \Ehre kränken to wound sb's honour

sie fühlte sich dadurch in ihrer \Ehre gekränkt it hurt her pride

4.

▶ in \Ehren ergraut sein (geh) to have reached a venerable old age form

▶ \Ehre, wem \Ehre gebührt (prov) honour where honour is due prov

▶ auf \Ehre und Gewissen (geh) on one's honour form

auf \Ehre und Gewissen? on your honour? form

auf \Ehre und Gewissen, ich weiß nicht, wo sie ist! I swear [or form on my honour], I don't know where she is!

etw auf \Ehre und Gewissen beteuern to assert sth

▶ \Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe glory to God in the highest

▶ habe die \Ehre! SÜDD, ÖSTERR [I'm] pleased to meet you

▶ mit wem habe ich die \Ehre? (geh o iron) with whom do I have the honour [of speaking]? form or iron, to have not a shred of self-respect

▶ ... in [allen] \Ehren with [all] due respect to...

seine Meinung in allen \Ehren, aber ich kann ihm nicht so recht zustimmen with [all] due respect to his opinion, I feel I can't agree

dein Mut in allen \Ehren, aber du gehst eindeutig zu weit! with [all] due respect to your courage, you are definitely going too far!

sein Wort [o seine Aufrichtigkeit] in [allen] \Ehren, aber du solltest dir eine eigene Meinung bilden his honesty is not in doubt, but you should form your own opinion

▶ jdn bei seiner \Ehre packen to appeal to sb's sense of honour

▶ was verschafft mir die \Ehre? (geh o iron) to what do I owe the honour? form or iron

▶ [das ist] zu viel der \Ehre! you do me too great an honour! a. hum

▶ um der Wahrheit die \Ehre zu geben (geh) to be quite honest, to tell the truth

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die; Ehre, Ehren

1) honour

es ist mit eine Ehre,... zu... — it is an honour for me to...

die Ehre haben, etwas zu tun — have the Ehre of doing something

jemandem/einer Sache [alle] Ehre machen — do somebody/something [great] credit

jemandes Andenken (Akk.) in Ehren halten — honour somebody's memory

auf Ehre und Gewissen — in all truthfulness or honesty

jemandem/einer Sache zu viel Ehre antun — (fig.): (jemanden/etwas überschätzen) overvalue somebody/something

jemandem zur Ehre gereichen — (geh.) bring honour to somebody

Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt — [give] credit where credit is due

jemandem die letzte Ehre erweisen — pay one's last respects to somebody

um der Wahrheit die Ehre zu geben — (fig.) to tell the truth; to be [perfectly] honest

zu Ehren des Königs, dem König zu Ehren — in honour of the king

wieder zu Ehren kommen — (fig.) come back into favour

damit kannst du keine Ehre einlegen — that does you no credit

2) o. Pl. (Ehrgefühl) sense of honour

er hat keine Ehre im Leib[e] — he doesn't have an ounce of integrity in him

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Ehre f; -, -n

1. allg: hono(u)r;

es ist mir eine (große) Ehre it is an (a great) hono(u)r for me;

mit wem habe ich die Ehre? oft iro to whom have I the pleasure of speaking?;

habe die Ehre! besonders österr good day; (beim Treffen) pleased to meet you;

was verschafft mir die Ehre? to what do I owe this hono(u)r ( oder the pleasure)?;

es sich (dat)

zur Ehre anrechnen consider it an hono(u)r;

… geben sich (dat)

die Ehre, zu … einzuladen … request the hono(u)r of your company at …;

um der Wahrheit die Ehre zu geben to be quite honest ( oder frank);

sie erwiesen ihm die Ehre ihres Vertrauens oder

ihm zu vertrauen geh they hono(u)red him with their trust;

jemandem die letzte Ehre erweisen pay one’s last respects to sb;

Ehre wem Ehre gebührt sprichw credit where credit is due;

jemanden mit oder

in Ehren entlassen give sb an hono(u)rable discharge;

wieder zu Ehren kommen come back into favo(u)r;

ihm zu Ehren in his hono(u)r;

zu seiner Ehre muss gesagt werden, dass … in his defence (US -se) it ought to be said that …;

zu Ehren des Tages in hono(u)r of the day;

zur (größeren) Ehre Gottes to the (greater) glory of God

2. (Ansehen) hono(u)r, reputation; (Ruhm) glory;

bei meiner Ehre! upon my oath!;

jemandem/etwas alle/keine Ehre machen be a/no credit to sb/sth;

jemandem zur Ehre gereichen geh do sb credit, reflect credit on sb;

es gereicht ihm zur Ehre geh it is to his credit;

zu hohen Ehren gelangen oder

es zu hohen Ehren bringen achieve (great) eminence;

in Ehren halten (hold in) hono(u)r;

in Ehren gehalten revered;

damit kannst du keine Ehre einlegen that won’t earn you any credit (

bei jemandem with sb, in sb’s eyes);

deine Meinung/dein Eifer in (allen) Ehren, aber … with all due respect, …;

Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe! glory (be) to God in the highest!

3. nur sg; (Ehrgefühl) sense of hono(u)r; (Selbstachtung) self-respect, pride;

auf Ehre und Gewissen in all conscience;

auf Ehre schwören swear on one’s hono(u)r;

jemanden bei der oder

seiner Ehre packen appeal to sb’s sense of hono(u)r;

keine Ehre im Leib haben have no sense ( oder not a shred of) of hono(u)r;

er fühlte sich dadurch in seiner Ehre gekränkt it hurt ( oder wounded) his pride, he felt rather piqued by it;

seine Ehre dareinsetzen, etwas zu tun make it a point of hono(u)r to do sth;

etwas in allen Ehren tun do sth in good faith

4. nur sg; obs (Jungfräulichkeit) (virgin) hon(u)r;

einer Frau ihre Ehre rauben rob a woman of her hono(u)r

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die; Ehre, Ehren

1) honour

es ist mit eine Ehre,... zu... — it is an honour for me to...

die Ehre haben, etwas zu tun — have the Ehre of doing something

jemandem/einer Sache [alle] Ehre machen — do somebody/something [great] credit

jemandes Andenken (Akk.) in Ehren halten — honour somebody's memory

auf Ehre und Gewissen — in all truthfulness or honesty

jemandem/einer Sache zu viel Ehre antun — (fig.): (jemanden/etwas überschätzen) overvalue somebody/something

jemandem zur Ehre gereichen — (geh.) bring honour to somebody

Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt — [give] credit where credit is due

jemandem die letzte Ehre erweisen — pay one's last respects to somebody

um der Wahrheit die Ehre zu geben — (fig.) to tell the truth; to be [perfectly] honest

zu Ehren des Königs, dem König zu Ehren — in honour of the king

wieder zu Ehren kommen — (fig.) come back into favour

damit kannst du keine Ehre einlegen — that does you no credit

2) o. Pl. (Ehrgefühl) sense of honour

er hat keine Ehre im Leib[e] — he doesn't have an ounce of integrity in him

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-n f.

honor (US) n.

honour (UK) n.

kudos n.

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84 rester

rester [ʀεste]

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1. intransitive verb

   a. (dans un lieu) to stay

• rester au lit to stay in bed

• rester à la maison to stay in the house

• rester chez soi to stay at home

• rester (à) dîner/déjeuner to stay for dinner/lunch

• la voiture est restée dehors/au garage the car stayed outside/in the garage

• ça m'est resté là or en travers de la gorge (inf) it stuck in my throat

• rester à regarder la télévision to stay watching television

• naturellement, ça reste entre nous of course this is strictly between ourselves

• il ne peut pas rester en place he can't keep still

   b. (dans un état) to stay

• rester éveillé/immobile to stay awake/still

• rester indifférent devant qch/insensible à qch to remain indifferent to sth/impervious to sth

• rester célibataire to stay single

• rester handicapé à vie to be handicapped for life

• rester debout to stand ; ( = ne pas se coucher) to stay up

• il est resté très timide he is still very shy

   c. ( = subsister) to remain

• rien ne reste de l'ancien château nothing remains of the old castle

• c'est le seul parent qui leur reste he's their only remaining relative

• c'est tout l'argent qui leur reste that's all the money they have left

   d. ( = durer) to last

• le surnom lui est resté the nickname stuck

   e. ( = mourir) (inf) y rester to die

• il a bien failli y rester that was nearly the end of him

   f. (locutions)

► rester sur [+ impression] to retain

• je suis resté sur ma faim (après un repas) I still felt hungry ; (à la fin d'une histoire, d'un film) I felt there was something missing

• sa remarque m'est restée sur le cœur his remark still rankles in my mind

• mon déjeuner m'est resté sur l'estomac my lunch is still sitting there

• ça m'est resté sur l'estomac (inf) (figurative) it still riles me (inf)

• ne restons pas sur un échec let's not give up just because we failed► en rester à ( = ne pas dépasser) to go no further than

• les pourparlers en sont restés là that is as far as they got in their discussions

• où en étions-nous restés dans notre lecture ? where did we leave off in our reading?

• restons-en là let's leave it at that

2. impersonal verb

• il reste encore un peu de pain there's still a little bread left

• il leur reste juste de quoi vivre they have just enough left to live on

• il me reste à faire ceci I still have this to do

• il reste beaucoup à faire there's a lot left to do

• il ne me reste que toi you're all I have left

• il n'est rien resté de leur maison nothing was left of their house

• le peu de temps qu'il lui restait à vivre the short time that he had left to live

• il ne me reste qu'à vous remercier it only remains for me to thank you

• il restait à faire 50 km there were 50km left to go

• (il) reste à savoir si... it remains to be seen if...

• il n'en reste pas moins que... the fact remains that...

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ʀɛste
1.

(+ v être) verbe intransitif

1) ( dans un lieu) to stay, to remain

rester chez soi/en ville — to stay at home/in town

les autres sont partis, mais elle est restée pour m'aider — the others left but she stayed behind to help me

rester un moment à bavarder — to stay chatting for a while

rester (à) dîner — to stay for dinner

la clé est restée coincée dans la serrure — the key got stuck in the lock

la bière est restée au soleil — the beer was left in the sun

c'est resté dans ma mémoire — I still remember it

cet enfant ne peut pas rester en place! — the child can't keep still!

que ça reste entre nous! — this is strictly between you and me!

j'y suis, j'y reste — here I am and here I stay

2) (dans une position, un état) to remain

restez assis! — ( par mesure de sécurité) remain seated!; ( ne vous dérangez pas) don't get up!

je suis resté debout pendant tout le voyage — I had to stand for the whole journey

rester indécis — to remain undecided

un auteur resté méconnu — an author who went unrecognized

rester sans manger — to go without food

elle est restée très naturelle — she's stayed very natural

rester paralysé — to be left paralyzed

rester veuve/orphelin — to be widowed/orphaned

rester les bras croisés — fig to stand idly by

3) ( subsister) to be left, to remain

dis-moi ce qui reste à faire — tell me what there is left to do

il reste 50 km à parcourir — there's still another 50 km to go

4) ( survivre) [œuvre, souvenir] to live on

l'habitude lui en est restée — the habit stuck

5) ( s'arrêter)

rester sur une bonne impression — to be left with a good impression

leur refus m'est resté sur le cœur — their refusal still rankles

6) ( ne pas aller au-delà de)

en rester à — to go no further than

l'affaire aurait pu en rester là — the matter needn't have gone any further

je compte bien ne pas en rester là — I won't let the matter rest there

nous en sommes restés aux préliminaires — we didn't get beyond the preliminaries

restons-en là pour le moment — let's leave it at that for now

2.

verbe impersonnel

il reste encore quelques minutes — there are still a few minutes left

il ne me reste plus que lui — he's all I've got left

il me reste juste de quoi payer le loyer — I've just got enough left to pay the rent

il me reste à peine le temps — I've barely got time

il reste beaucoup à faire — there's still a lot to do ou to be done

il ne te reste plus qu'à t'excuser — it only remains for you to apologize

reste à résoudre le problème du logement — the housing problem remains to be solved

il reste que, il n'en reste pas moins que — the fact remains that

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y rester — (colloq) to meet one's end ou Maker

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ʀɛste
1. vi

1) (dans un lieu) to stay, to remain

Je reste à la maison ce week-end. — I'm staying at home this weekend.

Finalement, il est resté en France. — He stayed in France eventually.

Reste là, je vais chercher de l'aide. — Stay there, I'll go and get help.

2) (dans un état, une position) to stay, to remain

il est resté paralysé après son accident — he was left paralysed after his accident

Restez assis. — Please remain seated.

Restez tranquilles. — Please keep quiet.

rester sur sa faim lit — to be still hungry, figto be left unsatisfied

rester sur une impression — to be left with an impression

Nous sommes restés sur une impression défavorable. — We were left with a bad impression.

en rester à [stade, menaces] — to go no further than, to only go as far as

restons-en là — let's leave it at that

3) (= subsister) to be left, to remain

Ce qui reste du poulet peut être utilisé pour faire un bouillon. — What's left of the chicken could be used to make stock.

C'est tout ce qui reste. — That's all that's left.

Voilà tout ce qui me reste. — That's all I've got left.

ce qui reste à faire — what remains to be done

ce qui me reste à faire — what remains for me to do

4) (= durer) to last, to live on

5) (autres locutions)

y rester; il a failli y rester — that was nearly the end of him

2. vb impers

il reste...; il reste du pain — there's some bread left

il reste 2 œufs — there are 2 eggs left

il reste du temps — there's still time

il reste 10 minutes — there are 10 minutes left

il me reste assez de temps — I have enough time left, I still have enough time

il ne me reste plus qu'à ranger mes affaires — I've just got to put my things away

(il) reste à savoir si... — it remains to be seen whether...

(il) reste à établir si... — it remains to be established whether...

il n'en reste pas moins que... — the fact remains that..., it's nevertheless a fact that...

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rester verb table: aimer (+ v être)

A vi

1 ( dans un lieu) to stay, to remain; rester chez soi/à l'intérieur/en ville to stay at home/indoors/in town; il est resté un an à Rome he stayed a year in Rome, he stayed in Rome for a year; ne reste pas au soleil/sous la pluie don't stay in the sun/out in the rain; reste où tu es/tant que tu veux stay where you are/for as long as you like; les autres sont partis, mais elle est restée pour m'aider the others left but she stayed behind to help me; je ne peux pas rester longtemps I can't stay long; rester un moment à bavarder to stay chatting for a while; rester (à) dîner to stay for dinner; la clé est restée coincée dans la serrure the key got stuck in the lock; la bière est restée au soleil the beer was left in the sun; le linge est resté dehors toute la nuit the washing was left out all night; c'est resté dans ma mémoire I still remember it; cet enfant ne peut pas rester en place! the child can't keep still!; que ça reste entre nous! this is strictly between you and me!; j'y suis, j'y reste here I am and here I stay;

2 (dans une position, un état) to remain; rester assis/debout to remain seated/standing; restez assis! ( par mesure de sécurité) remain seated!; ( ne vous dérangez pas) don't get up!; je suis resté debout pendant tout le voyage I had to stand for the whole journey; rester indécis/impassible/attentif/fidèle to remain undecided/impassive/alert/faithful; un auteur resté méconnu an author who went unrecognized; rester au chômage/au pouvoir to remain unemployed/in power; rester silencieux to remain ou keep silent; rester sans bouger ( debout) to stand still; ( assis) to sit still; ( couché) to lie still; reste tranquille! keep still!; rester sans manger to go without food; elle est restée très naturelle she's stayed very natural; rester paralysé après un accident to be left paralysed after an accident; rester veuve to be left a widow, to be widowed; rester orphelin to be orphaned; rester les bras croisés lit to keep one's arms folded; fig to stand idly by; ne reste pas là les bras croisés don't just stand there, do something!; ⇒ flan;

3 ( subsister) to be left, to remain; le peu de temps qui reste the little time that's left; c'est le seul ami qui me reste he's the only friend I have left; ce qui reste de la ville what remains ou is left of the town; ce qui reste du repas the leftovers; dis-moi ce qui reste à faire tell me what there is left to do; il reste 50 km à parcourir/100 euros à payer there's still another 50 km to go/100 euros to pay;

4 ( survivre) [œuvre, souvenir] to live on; sa musique restera his/her music will live on; rester comme l'un des grands de ce siècle to live on as one of the great men of our age; les années passent, le souvenir reste the years go by, but the memories don't fade; l'habitude lui en est restée the habit stuck, he/she never lost the habit;

5 ( s'arrêter) rester sur une bonne/mauvaise impression to be left with a good/bad impression; leur refus m'est resté sur le cœur their refusal still rankles;

6 ( ne pas aller au-delà de) en rester à to go no further than; nous en sommes restés aux préliminaires we didn't get beyond the preliminaries; il en est resté au XIX^e siècle pej he's stuck in the 19th century; nous en étions restés à la page 12 we had got GB ou gotten US as far as page 12; restons-en là pour le moment let's leave it at that for now; l'affaire aurait pu en rester là the matter needn't have gone any further; je compte bien ne pas en rester là I won't let the matter rest there.

B v impers il reste encore quelques minutes/pommes there are still a few minutes/apples left; il m'en reste un I've got one left; il ne me reste que 20 euros I've only got 20 euros left; il ne me reste plus que lui he's all I've got left; il me reste juste de quoi payer le loyer I've just got enough left to pay the rent; il me reste à peine le temps/la force de m'habiller I've barely got time/the strength to get dressed; que reste-t-il de la ville? what remains ou is left of the town?; il reste beaucoup à faire there's still a lot to do ou to be done; il ne te reste plus qu'à t'excuser it only remains for you to apologize; il reste entendu que it goes without saying that; (il) reste à savoir/décider si it remains to be seen/it still has to be decided whether; reste à résoudre le problème du logement the housing problem remains to be solved; il reste que, il n'en reste pas moins que the fact remains that.

Idiome

y rester○ to meet one's end ou Maker.

[rɛste] verbe intransitif

1. [dans un lieu, une situation] to stay, to remain

c'est mieux si la voiture reste au garage it's better if the car stays in the garage

ceci doit rester entre nous this is strictly between me and you, this is for our ears only

restez donc à déjeuner/dîner do stay for lunch/dinner

je ne reste pas I'm not staying ou stopping

savoir rester à sa place (figuré) to know one's place

rester debout/assis to remain standing/seated

elle est restée debout toute la nuit she stayed up all night

rester paralysé to be left paralysed

rester fidèle à quelqu'un to be ou to stay faithful to somebody

rester en fonction to remain in office

rester dans l'ignorance to remain in ignorance

rester célibataire to remain single

elle ne reste pas en place she never keeps still

tu veux bien rester tranquille! will you keep still!

rester en contact avec quelqu'un to keep ou to stay in touch with somebody

je reste sur une impression désagréable I'm left with an unpleasant impression

je n'aime pas rester sur un échec I don't like to stop at failure

rester dans les mémoires ou les annales to go down in history

en rester à: nous en sommes restés à la page 160 we left off at ou got as far as page 160

nous en resterons à cet accord we will limit ourselves to ou go no further than this agreement

restons-en là! let's leave it at that!

rester en rade (familier) ouen plan (familier) ouen chemin (familier) ouen carafe (familier) to be left high and dry ou stranded

ça m'est resté sur le cœur it still rankles with ou galls me

j'y suis, j'y reste! here I am and here I stay!

2. [subsister] to be left

c'est tout ce qui me reste that's all I have left

cette mauvaise habitude lui est restée he still has that bad habit

restent les deux dernières questions à traiter the last two questions still have to be dealt with

reste à savoir qui ira there still remains the problem of deciding who is to go

(tournure impersonnelle)

il nous reste un peu de pain et de fromage we have a little bit of bread and cheese left

il me reste la moitié à payer I (still) have half of it to pay

il nous reste de quoi vivre we have enough left to live on

lisez beaucoup, il en restera toujours quelque chose do a lot of reading, there will always be something to show for it ou there's always something to be got out of it

cinq ôté de quinze, il reste dix five (taken away) from fifteen leaves ten

il reste un doute a doubt still remains

il ne reste plus rien à faire there's nothing left to be done

il reste à faire l'ourlet the hem is all that remains ou that's left to be done

il reste encore 12 km à faire there's still 12 km to go

il reste que, il n'en reste pas moins que: il reste que le problème de succession n'est pas réglé the fact remains that the problem of the inheritance hasn't been solved

il n'en reste pas moins que vous avez tort you are nevertheless wrong

et s'il n'en reste qu'un, je serai celui-là Victor Hugo (allusion) and if anyone will be there at the finish, it will be me

3. (euphémisme) [mourir] to meet one's end

il est resté sur le champ de bataille he died on the battlefield

y rester (familier) to kick the bucket

4. [durer] to live on (inseparable), to endure

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85 μετά

μετά [[pron. full] ᾰ, but [pron. full] ᾱ in S.Ph. 184 (s. v. l., lyr.)], poet. [full] μεταί, dub., only in μεταιβολία; [dialect] Aeol., [dialect] Dor., Arc. πεδά (q.v.): Prep. with gen., dat., and acc. (Cf. Goth.

A mip, OHG. miti, mit 'with'.)

A WITH GEN. (in which use μ. gradually superseded σύν, q.v.),

I in the midst of, among, between, with pl. Nouns, μετ' ἄλλων λέξο ἑταίρων Od.10.320
; μ. δμώων πῖνε καὶ ἦσθε 16.140
; τῶν μέτα παλλόμενος Il.24.400
; πολλῶν μ. δούλων A.Ag. 1037
; μ. ζώντων εἶναι S.Ph. 1312
; ὅτων οἰκεῖς μέτα Id.OT 414
; μ. τῶν θεῶν διάγουσα Pl.Phd. 81a
(but κεῖσθαι μ. τινός with one, S.Ant.73): sts. the pl. is implied, μετ' οὐδενὸς ἀνδρῶν ναίειν, i.e. among no men, Id.Ph. 1103 (lyr.), etc.

II in common, along with, by aid of (implying a closer union than σύν) , μ. Βοιωτῶν ἐμάχοντο Il.13.700
, cf. 21.458; συνδιεπολέμησαν τὸν πόλεμον μ. Ἀθηναίων IG12.108.7
; μ. ξυμμάχων ξυγκινδυνεύσειν Th.8.24
, cf. 6.79, etc.; μ. τῆς βουλῆς in co-operation with the council, IG12.91.10: in this sense freq. (not in ll., Od., Pi., rare in early Gr.) with sg., μετ' Ἀθηναίης with, i.e. by aid of, Athena, h.Hom. 20.2; μ. εἷο Hes.Th. 392
; μ. τινὸς πάσχειν, δρᾶν τι, A.Pr. 1067 (anap.), S.Ant.70; μ. τινὸς εἶναι to be on one's side, Th.3.56; μ. τοῦ ἠδικημένου ἔσεσθαι X.Cyr.2.4.7
; μ. τοῦ νόμου καὶ τοῦ δικαίου Pl.Ap. 32b
: generally, with, together with, with Subst. in sg. first in Hdt. (in whom it is rare exc. in the phrase οἱ μ. τινός, v. infr.), as κοιμᾶσθαι μ. τινός 3.68
, Timocl.22.2; εὕδειν μ. τινός Hdt.3.84
; οἱ μ. τινός his companions, Id.1.86, al., Pl.Prt. 315b: freq. with Prons., μετ' αὐτοῦ S. Ant.73
; μετ' ἐμοῦ Ar.Ach. 661
(anap.), etc.: less freq. of things, στέγη πυρὸς μ. S.Ph. 298
; μ. κιθάρας E.IA 1037
(lyr.); μ. τυροῦ Ar.Eq. 771
, etc.; τὴν δίαιταν μεθ' ὅπλων ἐποιήσαντο Th.1.6
, cf. E.Or. 573; ὄχλος μ. μαχαιρῶν καὶ ξύλων Ev.Matt.26.47
: indicating community of action and serving to join two subjects, Κλεομένης μετὰ Ἀθηναίων C. and the Athenians, Th.1.126: with pl. Verb, Δημοσθένης μ. τῶν ξυστρατήγων σπένδονται Id.3.109
, etc.; of things, in conjunction with, ἰσχύν τε καὶ κάλλος μετὰ ὑγιείας Pl.R. 591b
; γῆρας μ. πενίας ib. 330a.

III later, in one's dealings with, ὅσα ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς μετ' αὐτῶν Act.Ap. 14.27
; ὁ ποιήσας τὸ ἔλεος μετ' αὐτοῦ Ev.Luc.10.36
; τί ἡμῖν συνέβη μ. τῶν ἀρχόντων PAmh.2.135.15
(ii A.D.): even of hostile action, σὺ ποιεῖς μετ' ἐμοῦ πονηρίαν LXX Jd.11.27
, cf. 15.3; πολεμῆσαι μ. τινός Apoc.12.7
, cf. Apollod.Poliorc.190.4 codd. (but μ. may be a gloss), Wilcken Chr.23.10 (v A.D.), OGI201.3 (Nubia, vi A. D.): to denote the union of persons with qualities or circumstances, and so to denote manner, τὸ ἄπραγμον.. μὴ μ. τοῦ δραστηρίου τεταγμένον Th.2.63
, etc.; ἱκετεῦσαι μ. δακρύων Pl.Ap. 34c
; οἴκτου μέτα S.OC 1636
; μετ' ἀσφαλείας μὲν δοξάζομεν, μετὰ δέους δὲ.. ἐλλείπομεν Th.1.120
, cf. IG22.791.12; μ. ῥυθμοῦ βαίνοντες Th.5.70
; ὅσα μετ' ἐλπίδων λυμαίνεται ib. 103, etc.; ψυχὴν ὁσίως βεβιωκυῖαν καὶ μετ' ἀληθείας Pl.Grg. 526c
, cf. Phdr. 249a, 253d; also, by means of, μετ' ἀρετῆς πρωτεύειν X.Mem. 3.5.8
; γράφε μ. μέλανος PMag.Lond.121.226
.

2 serving to join two predicates, γενόμενος μ. τοῦ δυνατοῦ καὶ ξυνετός, i.e. δυνατός τε καὶ ξυνετός, Th.2.15; ὅταν πλησιάζῃ μ. τοῦ ἅπτεσθαι Pl.Phdr. 255b
.

IV rarely of Time, μ. τοῦ γυμνάζεσθαι ἠλείψαντο, for ἅμα, Th.1.6; μετ' ἀνοκωχῆς during.., Id.5.25.

B WITH DAT., only poet., mostly [dialect] Ep.:

I between, among others, but without the close union which belongs to the genitive, and so nearly = ἐν, which is sts. exchanged with it, μ. πρώτοισι.. ἐν πυμάτοισι Il.11.64
:

1 of persons, among, in company with, μετ' ἀθανάτοισι Il.1.525
; μετ' ἀνθρώποις B.5.30
; μ. κόραισι Νηρῆος Pi.O.2.29
; μ. τριτάτοισιν ἄνασσεν in the third generation (not μ. τριτάτων belonging to it), Il.1.252; of haranguing an assembly, μετ' Ἀργείοις ἀγορεύεις 10.250
, etc.; between, of two parties, φιλότητα μετ' ἀμφοτέροισι βάλωμεν 4.16
.

2 of things, μ. νηυσίν, ἀστράσι, κύμασιν, 13.668, 22.28, Od.3.91; δεινὸν δ' ἐστὶ θανεῖν μ. κύμασιν Hes. Op. 687
; χαῖται δ' ἐρρώοντο μ. πνοιῇς ἀνέμοιο Il.23.367
; αἰετὼ.. ἐπέτοντο μ. π. ἀ. Od.2.148
.

3 of separate parts of persons, between, μ. χερσὶν ἔχειν to hold between, i.e. in, the hands, Il.11.4, 184, S. Ph. 1110 (lyr.), etc.; τὸν μ. χ. ἐρύσατο Il.5.344
; ὅς κεν.. πέσῃ μ. ποσσὶ γυναικός, of a child being born, 'to fall between her feet', 19.110; so μ. γένυσσιν, γαμφηλῇσιν, 11.416, 13.200; μ. φρεσί 4.245
, etc.

II to complete a number, besides, over and above, αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ πέμπτος μ. τοῖσιν ἐλέγμην I reckoned myself to be with them a fifth, Od.9.335, cf. Il.3.188; Οὖτιν.. πύματον ἔδομαι μ. οἷς ἑτάροισι last to complete the number, i.e. after, Od.9.369, cf. A.Pers. 613, Theoc.1.39, 17.84.

III c. dat. sg., only of collect. Nouns (or the equivalent of such, μεθ' αἵματι καὶ κονίῃσιν Il.15.118
), μ. στροφάλιγγι κονίης 21.503
; στρατῷ 22.49
; μ. πρώτῃ ἀγορῇ 19.50
, etc.; μετ' ἀνδρῶν.. ἀριθμῷ Od.11.449
; μετ' ἄλλῳ λαῷ A.Ch. 365
(lyr.).

C WITH ACCUS.,

I of motion, into the middle of, coming into or among, esp. where a number of persons is implied, ἵκοντο μ. Τρῶας καὶ Ἀχαιούς Il.3.264
; μ. φῦλα θεῶν 15.54
, cf. Od.3.366, al.; μ. μῶλον Ἄρηος Il.16.245
; μ. λαὸν Ἀχαιών 5.573
, al.; μ. στρατόν, μεθ' ὅμιλον, μεθ' ὁμήγυριν, 5.589, 14.21, 20.142: so of birds, ὥς τ' αἰγυπιὸς μ. χῆνας (though this may be referred to signf. 2), 17.460; of things, εἴ τινα φεύγοντα σαώσειαν μ. νῆας 12.123
; με μ... ἔριδας καὶ νείκεα βάλλει plunges me into them, 2.376; of place, μ. τ' ἤθεα καὶ νομὸν ἵππων 6.511
; δράγματα μετ' ὄγμον πῖπτον into the midst of the furrow, 18.552.

2 in pursuit or quest of, of persons, sts. in friendlysense, βῆ ῥ' ἰέναι μ. Νέστορα went to seek Nestor, Il.10.73, cf. 15.221: sts. in hostile sense, βῆναι μ. τινά to go after, pursue him, 5.152, 6.21, al.; also of things, πλεῖν μ. χαλκόν to sail in quest of it, Od.1.184; ἵκηαι μ. πατρὸς ἀκουήν in search of news of thy father, 2.308, cf. 13.415; οἴχονται μ. δεῖπνον Il.19.346
; πόλεμον μέτα θωρήσσοντο they armed for the battle, 20.329; ὡπλίζοντο μεθ' ὕλην prepared to seek after wood, 7.418, cf. 420; μ. δούρατος ᾤχετ' ἐρωήν 11.357
; μ. γὰρ δόρυ ᾔει οἰσόμενος 13.247
.

II of sequence or succession,

1 of Place, after, behind, λαοὶ ἕπονθ', ὡς εἴ τε μ. κτίλον ἕσπετο μῆλα like sheep after the bell-wether, Il.13.492, cf. Od.6.260, 21.190, h.Ven.69; ἔσχατοι μ. Κύνητας οἰκέουσι Hdt.4.49
; μ. τὴν θάλασσαν beyond, on the far side of the sea, Theo Sm.p.122 H.

2 of Time, after, next to, μ. δαῖτας Od.22.352
; μεθ' Ἕκτορα πότμος ἑτοῖμος after Hector thy death is at the door, Il.18.96; μ. Πάτροκλόν γε θανόντα 24.575
, cf. Hdt. 1.34; μετ' εὐχάν A.Ag. 231
(lyr.), etc.;
μ. ταῦτα
thereupon, there-after, h.Merc.126
, etc.; τὸ μ. ταῦτα Pl.Phlb. 34c
; τὸ μ. τοῦτο Id.Criti. 120a
; μετ' ὀλίγον ὕστερον shortly after, Id.Lg. 646c; μ. μικρόν Luc. Demon.8
; μ. ἡμέρας τρεῖς μ. τὴν ἄφεδρον Dsc.2.19
; μ. ἔτη δύο J.BJ 1.13.1
; μ. τρίτον ἔτος Thphr.HP4.2.8
; μ. χρυσόθρονον ἠῶ after daybreak, h.Merc. 326: but μετ' ἡμέρην by day, opp. νυκτός, Hdt.2.150, cf. Pl.Phdr. 251e, etc.; μεθ' ἡμέραν, opp. νύκτωρ, E.Ba. 485; μ. νύκτας Pi.N.6.6
; μ. τὸν ἑξέτη καὶ τὴν ἑξέτιν after the boy or girl has attained the age of six years, Pl.Lg. 794c.

3 in order of Worth, Rank, etc., next after, following [comp] Sup., κάλλιστος ἀνὴρ.. τῶν ἄλλων Δαναῶν μετ' ἀμύμονα Πηλεΐωνα Il.2.674
, cf. 7.228, 12.104, Od.2.350, Hdt.4.53, X.Cyr.7.2.11, etc.; κοῦροι οἳ.. ἀριστεύουσι μεθ' ἡμέας Od.4.652
, cf. Isoc.9.18: where [comp] Sup. is implied, ὃς πᾶσι μετέπρεπε.. μ. Πηλεΐωνος ἑταῖρον Il.16.195
, cf. 17.280, 351; μ. μάκαρας next to the gods, A.Th. 1080 (anap.); also μάχεσθαι μ. πολλοὺς τῶν Ἑλλήνων to be inferior in fighting to many.., Philostr.Her.6.

III after, according to, μ. σὸν καὶ ἐμὸν κῆρ as you and I wish, Il.15.52; μετ' ἀνέρος ἴχνι' ἐρευνῶν 18.321
; μετ' ἴχνια βαῖνε Od.2.406
.

IV generally, among, between, as with dat. (B.I), μ. πάντας ὁμήλικας ἄριστος best among all, Il.9.54, cf. Od.16.419; μ. πληθύν Il.2.143
; μ. τοὺς τετελευτηκότας including those who have died, PLond.2.260.87 (i A.D.); μ. χεῖρας ἔχειν Hdt.7.16
. β', Th.1.138, POxy.901.9 (iv A.D.), cf. X.Ages.2.14, etc.

D μετά with all cases can be put after its Subst., and is then by anastrophe μέτα, Il.13.301, but not when the ult. is elided, 17.258, Od.15.147.

E abs. as ADV., among them, with them, Il.2.446, 477, etc.; with him, οὐκ οἶον, μ. καὶ Γανυμήδεα A.R.3.115
.

II and then, next afterwards, opp. πρόσθε, Il.23.133.

III thereafter, 15.67, Hdt.1.88, 128, 150, A.Ag. 759 (lyr.), etc.; μ. γάρ τε καὶ ἄλγεσι τέρπεται ἀνήρ one feels pleasure even in troubles, when past, Od.15.400; μ. δέ, for ἔπειτα δέ, Hdt.1.19, Luc.DMort.9.2, etc.

F μέτα, -μέτεστι, Od.21.93, Parm.9.4, Hdt.1.88, 171, S.Ant. 48,etc.

G IN COMPOS.:

I of community or participation, as in μεταδίδωμι, μετέχω, usu. c. gen. rei.

2 of action in common with another, as in μεταδαίνυμαι, μεταμέλπομαι, etc., c. dat. pers.

II in the midst of, of space or time, as in μεταδήμιος, μεταδόρπιος 1
; between, as in μεταίχμιον, μεταπύργιον.

III of succession of time, as in μεταδόρπιος 2
, μετακλαίω, μεταυτίκα.

IV of pursuit, as in μεταδιώκω, μετέρχομαι.

V of letting go, as in μεθίημι, μεθήμων.

VI after, behind, as in μετάφρενον, opp. πρόσθε.

VII reversely, as in μετατρέπω, μεταστρέφω.

VIII most freq. of change of place, condition, plan, etc., as in μεταβαίνω, μεταβάλλω, μεταβουλεύω, μεταγιγνώσκω, etc.

Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > μετά
86 from

from [frəm, stressed frɒm]

de ⇒ (a), (b), (d), (f), (j), (k) à partir de ⇒ (b), (c) depuis ⇒ (b) d'après ⇒ (i)

preposition

(a) (indicating starting point → in space) de;

∎ Einstein came to this country from Germany Einstein a quitté l'Allemagne pour s'établir ici;

∎ her parents came from Russia ses parents venaient de Russie;

∎ where's your friend from? d'où est ou vient votre ami?;

∎ I've just come back from there j'en reviens;

∎ there are no direct flights from Hobart il n'y a pas de vol direct à partir d'Hobart;

∎ the 11:10 from Cambridge le train de 11 heures 10 en provenance de Cambridge;

∎ the airport is about 15 kilometres from the city centre l'aéroport se trouve à 15 kilomètres environ du centre-ville;

∎ it rained all the way from Calais to Paris il a plu pendant tout le trajet de Calais à Paris;

∎ I saw him from a long way off je l'ai vu de loin;

∎ it takes fifteen minutes from here to my house il faut quinze minutes pour aller d'ici à chez moi;

∎ from town to town de ville en ville

(b) (indicating starting point → in time) de, à partir de, depuis;

∎ from now on désormais, dorénavant;

∎ from that day depuis ce jour, à partir de ce jour;

∎ from morning till night du matin au soir;

∎ from the age of four à partir de quatre ans;

∎ she was unhappy from her first day at boarding school elle a été malheureuse dès son premier jour à l'internat;

∎ from the start dès ou depuis le début;

∎ a week from today dans huit jours;

∎ where will we be a year from now? où serons-nous dans un an?;

∎ she remembered him from her childhood elle se souvenait de lui dans son enfance;

∎ we've got food left over from last night nous avons des restes d'hier soir

(c) (indicating starting point → in price, quantity) à partir de;

∎ potatoes from 50 pence a kilo des pommes de terre à partir de 50 pence le kilo;

∎ knives from £2 each des couteaux à partir de 2 livres la pièce;

∎ the price has been increased from 50 pence to 60 pence on a augmenté le prix de 50 pence à 60 pence;

∎ 6 from 14 is 8 6 ôté de 14 donne 8;

∎ we went from three employees to fifteen in a year nous sommes passés de trois à quinze employés en un an;

∎ the bird lays from four to six eggs l'oiseau pond de quatre à six œufs;

∎ every flavour of ice-cream from vanilla to pistachio tous les parfums de glace de la vanille à la pistache

(d) (indicating origin, source) de;

∎ who's the letter from? de qui est la lettre?;

∎ from… (on letter, parcel) expéditeur/expéditrice…;

∎ don't tell her that the flowers are from me ne lui dites pas que les fleurs viennent de moi;

∎ tell her that from me dites-lui cela de ma part;

∎ I got a phone call from her yesterday j'ai reçu un coup de fil d'elle hier;

∎ he got the idea from a book he read il a trouvé l'idée dans un livre qu'il a lu;

∎ where did you get the ring from? où avez-vous eu la bague?;

∎ you can get a money order from the post office vous pouvez avoir un mandat à la poste;

∎ I bought my piano from a neighbour j'ai acheté mon piano à un voisin;

∎ you mustn't borrow money from them vous ne devez pas leur emprunter de l'argent;

∎ she stole some documents from the ministry elle a volé des documents au ministère;

∎ who stole the key from her? qui lui a volé la clef?;

∎ I heard about it from the landlady c'est la propriétaire qui m'en a parlé;

∎ a scene from a play une scène d'une pièce;

∎ a quotation from Shakespeare une citation tirée de Shakespeare;

∎ he translates from English into French il traduit d'anglais en français;

∎ she still has injuries resulting from the crash elle a encore des blessures qui datent de l'accident;

∎ she's been away from work for a week ça fait une semaine qu'elle n'est pas allée au travail;

∎ they returned from their holidays yesterday ils sont rentrés de vacances hier;

∎ the man from the Inland Revenue le monsieur du fisc

(e) (off, out of)

∎ she took a book from the shelf elle a pris un livre sur l'étagère;

∎ he drank straight from the bottle il a bu à même la bouteille;

∎ she drew a gun from her pocket elle sortit un revolver de sa poche;

∎ he took a beer from the fridge il a pris une bière dans le frigo;

∎ guaranteed to remove stains from all surfaces (in advertisement) enlève les taches sur toutes les surfaces

(f) (indicating position, location) de;

∎ from the top you can see the whole city du haut on voit toute la ville;

∎ you get a great view from the bridge on a une très belle vue du pont;

∎ the rock juts out from the cliff le rocher dépasse de la falaise

(g) (indicating cause, reason)

∎ you can get sick from drinking the water vous pouvez tomber malade en buvant l'eau;

∎ his back hurt from lifting heavy boxes il avait mal au dos après avoir soulevé des gros cartons;

∎ I guessed she was Australian from the way she spoke j'ai deviné qu'elle était australienne à sa façon de parler;

∎ I know him from seeing him at the club je le reconnais pour l'avoir vu au cercle;

∎ he died from grief il est mort de chagrin;

∎ to act from conviction agir par conviction

(h) (using)

∎ they are made from flour ils sont faits à base de farine;

∎ Calvados is made from apples le calvados est fait avec des pommes;

∎ she played the piece from memory elle joua le morceau de mémoire;

∎ I speak from personal experience je sais de quoi je parle

(i) (judging by) d'après;

∎ from the way she talks you'd think she were the boss à l'entendre, on croirait que c'est elle le patron;

∎ from the way she sings you'd think she were a professional à l'entendre chanter on dirait que c'est son métier;

∎ from his looks you might suppose that… à le voir on dirait que…;

∎ from what I can see… à ce que je vois…;

∎ from what I gather… d'après ce que j'ai cru comprendre…

(j) (in comparisons) de;

∎ it's no different from riding a bike c'est comme faire du vélo;

∎ how do you tell one from the other? comment les reconnais-tu l'un de l'autre?

(k) (indicating prevention, protection) de;

∎ she saved me from drowning elle m'a sauvé de la noyade;

∎ we sheltered from the rain in a cave nous nous sommes abrités de la pluie dans une caverne;

∎ they were hidden from view on ne les voyait pas

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87 Abel, Sir Frederick August

SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology, Weapons and armour

[br]

b. 17 July 1827 Woolwich, London, England

d. 6 September 1902 Westminster, London, England

[br]

English chemist, co-inventor of cordite find explosives expert.

[br]

His family came from Germany and he was the son of a music master. He first became interested in science at the age of 14, when visiting his mineralogist uncle in Hamburg, and studied chemistry at the Royal Polytechnic Institution in London. In 1845 he became one of the twenty-six founding students, under A.W.von Hofmann, of the Royal College of Chemistry. Such was his aptitude for the subject that within two years he became von Hermann's assistant and demonstrator. In 1851 Abel was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry, succeeding Michael Faraday, at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and it was while there that he wrote his Handbook of Chemistry, which was co-authored by his assistant, Charles Bloxam.

Abel's four years at the Royal Military Academy served to foster his interest in explosives, but it was during his thirty-four years, beginning in 1854, as Ordnance Chemist at the Royal Arsenal and at Woolwich that he consolidated and developed his reputation as one of the international leaders in his field. In 1860 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, but it was his studies during the 1870s into the chemical changes that occur during explosions, and which were the subject of numerous papers, that formed the backbone of his work. It was he who established the means of storing gun-cotton without the danger of spontaneous explosion, but he also developed devices (the Abel Open Test and Close Test) for measuring the flashpoint of petroleum. He also became interested in metal alloys, carrying out much useful work on their composition. A further avenue of research occurred in 1881 when he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission set up to investigate safety in mines after the explosion that year in the Sealham Colliery. His resultant study on dangerous dusts did much to further understanding on the use of explosives underground and to improve the safety record of the coal-mining industry. The achievement for which he is most remembered, however, came in 1889, when, in conjunction with Sir James Dewar, he invented cordite. This stable explosive, made of wood fibre, nitric acid and glycerine, had the vital advantage of being a "smokeless powder", which meant that, unlike the traditional ammunition propellant, gunpowder ("black powder"), the firer's position was not given away when the weapon was discharged. Although much of the preliminary work had been done by the Frenchman Paul Vieille, it was Abel who perfected it, with the result that cordite quickly became the British Army's standard explosive.

Abel married, and was widowed, twice. He had no children, but died heaped in both scientific honours and those from a grateful country.

[br]

Principal Honours and Distinctions

Grand Commander of the Royal Victorian Order 1901. Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath 1891 (Commander 1877). Knighted 1883. Created Baronet 1893. FRS 1860. President, Chemical Society 1875–7. President, Institute of Chemistry 1881–2. President, Institute of Electrical Engineers 1883. President, Iron and Steel Institute 1891. Chairman, Society of Arts 1883–4. Telford Medal 1878, Royal Society Royal Medal 1887, Albert Medal (Society of Arts) 1891, Bessemer Gold Medal 1897. Hon. DCL (Oxon.) 1883, Hon. DSc (Cantab.) 1888.

Bibliography

1854, with C.L.Bloxam, Handbook of Chemistry: Theoretical, Practical and Technical, London: John Churchill; 2nd edn 1858.

Besides writing numerous scientific papers, he also contributed several articles to The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1875–89, 9th edn.

Further Reading

Dictionary of National Biography, 1912, Vol. 1, Suppl. 2, London: Smith, Elder.

CM

Biographical history of technology > Abel, Sir Frederick August
88 Belidor, Bernard Forest de

SUBJECT AREA: Weapons and armour

[br]

b. 1698 Catalonia, Spain

d. 8 September 1761 Paris, France

[br]

French engineer and founder of the science of modern ballistics.

[br]

Belidor was the son of a French army officer, who died when he was six months old, and was thereafter brought up by a brother officer. He soon demonstrated a scientific bent, and gravitated to Paris, where he became involved in the determination of the Paris meridian. He was then appointed Professor at the artillery school at La Fère, where he began to pursue the science of ballistics in earnest. He was able to disprove the popular theory that range was directly proportional to the powder charge, and also argued that the explosive power of a charge was greatest at the end of the explosion; he advocated spherical chambers in order to take advantage of this. His ideas made him unpopular with the "establishment", especially the Master of the King's artillery, and he was forced to leave France for a time, becoming a consultant to authorities in Bohemia and Bavaria. However, he was reinstated, and in 1758 he was appointed Royal Inspector of Artillery, a post that he held until his death.

Belidor also made a name for himself in hydraulics and influenced design in this field for more than a century after his death. In addition, he was the first to make practical application of integral calculus.

[br]

Bibliography

Belidor was the author of several books, of which the most significant were: 1739, La Science des ingénieurs, Paris (reprinted several times, the last edition being as late as 1830).

1731, Le Bombardier françois, Paris: L'lmprimerie royale.

1737, Architecture hydraulique, 2 vols, Paris.

Further Reading

R.S.Kirby and P.G.Laurson, 1932, The Early History of Modern Civil Engineering, New Haven: Yale University Press (describes his work in the field of hydraulics).

D.Chandler, 1976, The An of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough, London: Batsford (mentions the ballistics aspect).

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Biographical history of technology > Belidor, Bernard Forest de
89 Bouch, Sir Thomas

SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering

[br]

b. 22 February 1822 Thursby, Cumberland, England

d. 1880 Moffat

[br]

English designer of the ill-fated Tay railway bridge.

[br]

The third son of a merchant sea captain, he was at first educated in the village school. At the age of 17 he was working under a Mr Larmer, a civil engineer, constructing the Lancaster and Carlisle railway. He later moved to be a resident engineer on the Stockton \& Darlington Railway, and from 1849 was Engineer and Manager of the Edinburgh \& Northern Railway. In this last position he became aware of the great inconvenience caused to traffic by the broad estuaries of the Tay and the Forth on the eastern side of Scotland. The railway later became the Edinburgh, Perth \& Dundee, and was then absorbed into the North British in 1854 when Bouch produced his first plans for a bridge across the Tay at an estimated cost of £200,000. A bill was passed for the building of the bridge in 1870. Prior to this, Bouch had built many bridges up to the Redheugh Viaduct, at Newcastle upon Tyne, which had two spans of 240 ft (73 m) and two of 260 ft (79 m). He had also set up in business on his own. He is said to have designed nearly 300 miles (480 km) of railway in the north, as well as a "floating railway" of steam ferries to carry trains across the Forth and the Tay. The Tay bridge, however, was his favourite project; he had hawked it for some twenty years before getting the go-ahead, and the foundation stone of the bridge was laid on 22 July 1871. The total length of the bridge was nearly two miles (3.2 km), while the shore-to-shore distance over the river was just over one mile (1.6 km). It consisted of eighty-five spans, thirteen of which, i.e. "the high girders", were some 245 ft (75 m) long and 100 ft (30 m) above water level to allow for shipping access to Perth, and was a structure of lattice girders on brick and masonry piers topped with ironwork. The first crossing of the bridge was made on 26 September 1877, and the official opening was on 31 May 1878. On Sunday 28 December 1879, at about 7.20 pm, in a wind of probably 90 mph (145 km/h), the thirteen "high girders" were blown into the river below, drowning the seventy-five passengers and crew aboard the 5.20 train from Burntisland. A Court of Enquiry was held and revealed design faults in that the effect of wind pressure had not been adequately taken into account, faults in manufacture in the plugging of flaws in the castings, and inadequate inspection and maintenance; all of these faults were attributed to Bouch, who had been knighted for the building of the bridge. He died at his house in Moffat four months after the enquiry.

[br]

Principal Honours and Distinctions

Knighted. Cross of St George.

Further Reading

John Prebble, 1956, The High Girders.

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Biographical history of technology > Bouch, Sir Thomas
90 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom

SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Land transport, Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Ports and shipping, Public utilities, Railways and locomotives

[br]

b. 9 April 1806 Portsea, Hampshire, England

d. 15 September 1859 18 Duke Street, St James's, London, England

[br]

English civil and mechanical engineer.

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The son of Marc Isambard Brunel and Sophia Kingdom, he was educated at a private boarding-school in Hove. At the age of 14 he went to the College of Caen and then to the Lycée Henri-Quatre in Paris, after which he was apprenticed to Louis Breguet. In 1822 he returned from France and started working in his father's office, while spending much of his time at the works of Maudslay, Sons \& Field.

From 1825 to 1828 he worked under his father on the construction of the latter's Thames Tunnel, occupying the position of Engineer-in-Charge, exhibiting great courage and presence of mind in the emergencies which occurred not infrequently. These culminated in January 1828 in the flooding of the tunnel and work was suspended for seven years. For the next five years the young engineer made abortive attempts to find a suitable outlet for his talents, but to little avail. Eventually, in 1831, his design for a suspension bridge over the River Avon at Clifton Gorge was accepted and he was appointed Engineer. (The bridge was eventually finished five years after Brunel's death, as a memorial to him, the delay being due to inadequate financing.) He next planned and supervised improvements to the Bristol docks. In March 1833 he was appointed Engineer of the Bristol Railway, later called the Great Western Railway. He immediately started to survey the route between London and Bristol that was completed by late August that year. On 5 July 1836 he married Mary Horsley and settled into 18 Duke Street, Westminster, London, where he also had his office. Work on the Bristol Railway started in 1836. The foundation stone of the Clifton Suspension Bridge was laid the same year. Whereas George Stephenson had based his standard railway gauge as 4 ft 8½ in (1.44 m), that or a similar gauge being usual for colliery wagonways in the Newcastle area, Brunel adopted the broader gauge of 7 ft (2.13 m). The first stretch of the line, from Paddington to Maidenhead, was opened to traffic on 4 June 1838, and the whole line from London to Bristol was opened in June 1841. The continuation of the line through to Exeter was completed and opened on 1 May 1844. The normal time for the 194-mile (312 km) run from Paddington to Exeter was 5 hours, at an average speed of 38.8 mph (62.4 km/h) including stops. The Great Western line included the Box Tunnel, the longest tunnel to that date at nearly two miles (3.2 km).

Brunel was the engineer of most of the railways in the West Country, in South Wales and much of Southern Ireland. As railway networks developed, the frequent break of gauge became more of a problem and on 9 July 1845 a Royal Commission was appointed to look into it. In spite of comparative tests, run between Paddington-Didcot and Darlington-York, which showed in favour of Brunel's arrangement, the enquiry ruled in favour of the narrow gauge, 274 miles (441 km) of the former having been built against 1,901 miles (3,059 km) of the latter to that date. The Gauge Act of 1846 forbade the building of any further railways in Britain to any gauge other than 4 ft 8 1/2 in (1.44 m).

The existence of long and severe gradients on the South Devon Railway led to Brunel's adoption of the atmospheric railway developed by Samuel Clegg and later by the Samuda brothers. In this a pipe of 9 in. (23 cm) or more in diameter was laid between the rails, along the top of which ran a continuous hinged flap of leather backed with iron. At intervals of about 3 miles (4.8 km) were pumping stations to exhaust the pipe. Much trouble was experienced with the flap valve and its lubrication—freezing of the leather in winter, the lubricant being sucked into the pipe or eaten by rats at other times—and the experiment was abandoned at considerable cost.

Brunel is to be remembered for his two great West Country tubular bridges, the Chepstow and the Tamar Bridge at Saltash, with the latter opened in May 1859, having two main spans of 465 ft (142 m) and a central pier extending 80 ft (24 m) below high water mark and allowing 100 ft (30 m) of headroom above the same. His timber viaducts throughout Devon and Cornwall became a feature of the landscape. The line was extended ultimately to Penzance.

As early as 1835 Brunel had the idea of extending the line westwards across the Atlantic from Bristol to New York by means of a steamship. In 1836 building commenced and the hull left Bristol in July 1837 for fitting out at Wapping. On 31 March 1838 the ship left again for Bristol but the boiler lagging caught fire and Brunel was injured in the subsequent confusion. On 8 April the ship set sail for New York (under steam), its rival, the 703-ton Sirius, having left four days earlier. The 1,340-ton Great Western arrived only a few hours after the Sirius. The hull was of wood, and was copper-sheathed. In 1838 Brunel planned a larger ship, some 3,000 tons, the Great Britain, which was to have an iron hull.

The Great Britain was screwdriven and was launched on 19 July 1843,289 ft (88 m) long by 51 ft (15.5 m) at its widest. The ship's first voyage, from Liverpool to New York, began on 26 August 1845. In 1846 it ran aground in Dundrum Bay, County Down, and was later sold for use on the Australian run, on which it sailed no fewer than thirty-two times in twenty-three years, also serving as a troop-ship in the Crimean War. During this war, Brunel designed a 1,000-bed hospital which was shipped out to Renkioi ready for assembly and complete with shower-baths and vapour-baths with printed instructions on how to use them, beds and bedding and water closets with a supply of toilet paper! Brunel's last, largest and most extravagantly conceived ship was the Great Leviathan, eventually named The Great Eastern, which had a double-skinned iron hull, together with both paddles and screw propeller. Brunel designed the ship to carry sufficient coal for the round trip to Australia without refuelling, thus saving the need for and the cost of bunkering, as there were then few bunkering ports throughout the world. The ship's construction was started by John Scott Russell in his yard at Millwall on the Thames, but the building was completed by Brunel due to Russell's bankruptcy in 1856. The hull of the huge vessel was laid down so as to be launched sideways into the river and then to be floated on the tide. Brunel's plan for hydraulic launching gear had been turned down by the directors on the grounds of cost, an economy that proved false in the event. The sideways launch with over 4,000 tons of hydraulic power together with steam winches and floating tugs on the river took over two months, from 3 November 1857 until 13 January 1858. The ship was 680 ft (207 m) long, 83 ft (25 m) beam and 58 ft (18 m) deep; the screw was 24 ft (7.3 m) in diameter and paddles 60 ft (18.3 m) in diameter. Its displacement was 32,000 tons (32,500 tonnes).

The strain of overwork and the huge responsibilities that lay on Brunel began to tell. He was diagnosed as suffering from Bright's disease, or nephritis, and spent the winter travelling in the Mediterranean and Egypt, returning to England in May 1859. On 5 September he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralysed, and he died ten days later at his Duke Street home.

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Further Reading

L.T.C.Rolt, 1957, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, London: Longmans Green. J.Dugan, 1953, The Great Iron Ship, Hamish Hamilton.

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Biographical history of technology > Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
91 Cartwright, Revd Edmund

SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology, Textiles

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b. 24 April 1743 Marnham, Nottingham, England

d. 30 October 1823 Hastings, Sussex, England

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English inventor of the power loom, a combing machine and machines for making ropes, bread and bricks as well as agricultural improvements.

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Edmund Cartwright, the fourth son of William Cartwright, was educated at Wakefield Grammar School, and went to University College, Oxford, at the age of 14. By special act of convocation in 1764, he was elected Fellow of Magdalen College. He married Alice Whitaker in 1772 and soon after was given the ecclesiastical living of Brampton in Derbyshire. In 1779 he was presented with the living of Goadby, Marwood, Leicestershire, where he wrote poems, reviewed new works, and began agricultural experiments. A visit to Matlock in the summer of 1784 introduced him to the inventions of Richard Arkwright and he asked why weaving could not be mechanized in a similar manner to spinning. This began a remarkable career of inventions.

Cartwright returned home and built a loom which required two strong men to operate it. This was the first attempt in England to develop a power loom. It had a vertical warp, the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundredweight and, to quote Gartwright's own words, "the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to throw a Congreive [sic] rocket" (Strickland 19.71:8—for background to the "rocket" comparison, see Congreve, Sir William). Nevertheless, it had the same three basics of weaving that still remain today in modern power looms: shedding or dividing the warp; picking or projecting the shuttle with the weft; and beating that pick of weft into place with a reed. This loom he proudly patented in 1785, and then he went to look at hand looms and was surprised to see how simply they operated. Further improvements to his own loom, covered by two more patents in 1786 and 1787, produced a machine with the more conventional horizontal layout that showed promise; however, the Manchester merchants whom he visited were not interested. He patented more improvements in 1788 as a result of the experience gained in 1786 through establishing a factory at Doncaster with power looms worked by a bull that were the ancestors of modern ones. Twenty-four looms driven by steam-power were installed in Manchester in 1791, but the mill was burned down and no one repeated the experiment. The Doncaster mill was sold in 1793, Cartwright having lost £30,000, However, in 1809 Parliament voted him £10,000 because his looms were then coming into general use.

In 1789 he began working on a wool-combing machine which he patented in 1790, with further improvements in 1792. This seems to have been the earliest instance of mechanized combing. It used a circular revolving comb from which the long fibres or "top" were. carried off into a can, and a smaller cylinder-comb for teasing out short fibres or "noils", which were taken off by hand. Its output equalled that of twenty hand combers, but it was only relatively successful. It was employed in various Leicestershire and Yorkshire mills, but infringements were frequent and costly to resist. The patent was prolonged for fourteen years after 1801, but even then Cartwright did not make any profit. His 1792 patent also included a machine to make ropes with the outstanding and basic invention of the "cordelier" which he communicated to his friends, including Robert Fulton, but again it brought little financial benefit. As a result of these problems and the lack of remuneration for his inventions, Cartwright moved to London in 1796 and for a time lived in a house built with geometrical bricks of his own design.

Other inventions followed fast, including a tread-wheel for cranes, metallic packing for pistons in steam-engines, and bread-making and brick-making machines, to mention but a few. He had already returned to agricultural improvements and he put forward suggestions in 1793 for a reaping machine. In 1801 he received a prize from the Board of Agriculture for an essay on husbandry, which was followed in 1803 by a silver medal for the invention of a three-furrow plough and in 1805 by a gold medal for his essay on manures. From 1801 to 1807 he ran an experimental farm on the Duke of Bedford's estates at Woburn.

From 1786 until his death he was a prebendary of Lincoln. In about 1810 he bought a small farm at Hollanden near Sevenoaks, Kent, where he continued his inventions, both agricultural and general. Inventing to the last, he died at Hastings and was buried in Battle church.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Board of Agriculture Prize 1801 (for an essay on agriculture). Society of Arts, Silver Medal 1803 (for his three-furrow plough); Gold Medal 1805 (for an essay on agricultural improvements).

Bibliography

1785. British patent no. 1,270 (power loom).

1786. British patent no. 1,565 (improved power loom). 1787. British patent no. 1,616 (improved power loom).

1788. British patent no. 1,676 (improved power loom). 1790, British patent no. 1,747 (wool-combing machine).

1790, British patent no. 1,787 (wool-combing machine).

1792, British patent no. 1,876 (improved wool-combing machine and rope-making machine with cordelier).

Further Reading

M.Strickland, 1843, A Memoir of the Life, Writings and Mechanical Inventions of Edmund Cartwright, D.D., F.R.S., London (remains the fullest biography of Cartwright).

Dictionary of National Biography (a good summary of Cartwright's life). For discussions of Cartwright's weaving inventions, see: A.Barlow, 1878, The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power, London; R.L. Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester. F.Nasmith, 1925–6, "Fathers of machine cotton manufacture", Transactions of the

Newcomen Society 6.

H.W.Dickinson, 1942–3, "A condensed history of rope-making", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 23.

W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (covers both his power loom and his wool -combing machine).

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Biographical history of technology > Cartwright, Revd Edmund
92 Giffard, Baptiste Henry Jacques (Henri)

SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace, Steam and internal combustion engines

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b. 8 February 1825 Paris, France

d. 14 April 1882 Paris, France

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French pioneer of airships and balloons, inventor of an injector for steam-boiler feedwater.

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Giffard entered the works of the Western Railway of France at the age of 16 but became absorbed by the problem of steam-powered aerial navigation. He proposed a steam-powered helicopter in 1847, but he then turned his attention to an airship. He designed a lightweight coke-burning, single-cylinder steam engine and boiler which produced just over 3 hp (2.2 kW) and mounted it below a cigar-shaped gas bag 44 m (144 ft) in length. A triangular rudder was fitted at the rear to control the direction of flight. On 24 September 1852 Giffard took off from Paris and, at a steady 8 km/h (5 mph), he travelled 28 km (17 miles) to Trappes. This can be claimed to be the first steerable lighter-than-air craft, but with a top speed of only 8 km/h (5 mph) even a modest headwind would have reduced the forward speed to nil (or even negative). Giffard built a second airship, which crashed in 1855, slightly injuring Giffard and his companion; a third airship was planned with a very large gas bag in order to lift the inherently heavy steam engine and boiler, but this was never built. His airships were inflated by coal gas and refusal by the gas company to provide further supplies brought these promising experiments to a premature end.

As a draughtsman Giffard had the opportunity to travel on locomotives and he observed the inadequacies of the feed pumps then used to supply boiler feedwater. To overcome these problems he invented the injector with its series of three cones: in the first cone (convergent), steam at or below boiler pressure becomes a high-velocity jet; in the second (also convergent), it combines with feedwater to condense and impart high velocity to it; and in the third (divergent), that velocity is converted into pressure sufficient to overcome the pressure of steam in the boiler. The injector, patented by Giffard, was quickly adopted by railways everywhere, and the royalties provided him with funds to finance further experiments in aviation. These took the form of tethered hydrogen-inflated balloons of successively larger size. At the Paris Exposition of 1878 one of these balloons carried fifty-two passengers on each tethered "flight". The height of the balloon was controlled by a cable attached to a huge steam-powered winch, and by the end of the fair 1,033 ascents had been made and 35,000 passengers had seen Paris from the air. This, and similar balloons, greatly widened the public's interest in aeronautics. Sadly, after becoming blind, Giffard committed suicide; however, he died a rich man and bequeathed large sums of money to the State for humanitarian an scientific purposes.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Croix de la Légion d'honneur 1863.

Bibliography

1860, Notice théorique et pratique sur l'injecteur automoteur.

1870, Description du premier aérostat à vapeur.

Further Reading

Dictionnaire de biographie française.

Gaston Tissandier, 1872, Les Ballons dirigeables, Paris.

—1878, Le Grand ballon captif à vapeur de M. Henri Giffard, Paris.

W.de Fonvielle, 1882, Les Ballons dirigeables à vapeur de H.Giffard, Paris. Giffard is covered in most books on balloons or airships, e.g.: Basil Clarke, 1961, The History of Airships, London. L.T.C.Rolt, 1966, The Aeronauts, London.

Ian McNeill (ed.), 1990, An Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology, London: Routledge, pp. 575 and 614.

J.T.Hodgson and C.S.Lake, 1954, Locomotive Management, Tothill Press, p. 100.

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Biographical history of technology > Giffard, Baptiste Henry Jacques (Henri)
93 Gresley, Sir Herbert Nigel

SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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b. 19 June 1876 Edinburgh, Scotland

d. 5 April 1941 Hertford, England

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English mechanical engineer, designer of the A4-class 4–6–2 locomotive holding the world speed record for steam traction.

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Gresley was the son of the Rector of Netherseale, Derbyshire; he was educated at Marlborough and by the age of 13 was skilled at making sketches of locomotives. In 1893 he became a pupil of F.W. Webb at Crewe works, London \& North Western Railway, and in 1898 he moved to Horwich works, Lancashire \& Yorkshire Railway, to gain drawing-office experience under J.A.F.Aspinall, subsequently becoming Foreman of the locomotive running sheds at Blackpool. In 1900 he transferred to the carriage and wagon department, and in 1904 he had risen to become its Assistant Superintendent. In 1905 he moved to the Great Northern Railway, becoming Superintendent of its carriage and wagon department at Doncaster under H.A. Ivatt. In 1906 he designed and produced a bogie luggage van with steel underframe, teak body, elliptical roof, bowed ends and buckeye couplings: this became the prototype for East Coast main-line coaches built over the next thirty-five years. In 1911 Gresley succeeded Ivatt as Locomotive, Carriage \& Wagon Superintendent. His first locomotive was a mixed-traffic 2–6–0, his next a 2–8–0 for freight. From 1915 he worked on the design of a 4–6–2 locomotive for express passenger traffic: as with Ivatt's 4 4 2s, the trailing axle would allow the wide firebox needed for Yorkshire coal. He also devised a means by which two sets of valve gear could operate the valves on a three-cylinder locomotive and applied it for the first time on a 2–8–0 built in 1918. The system was complex, but a later simplified form was used on all subsequent Gresley three-cylinder locomotives, including his first 4–6–2 which appeared in 1922. In 1921, Gresley introduced the first British restaurant car with electric cooking facilities.

With the grouping of 1923, the Great Northern Railway was absorbed into the London \& North Eastern Railway and Gresley was appointed Chief Mechanical Engineer. More 4–6– 2s were built, the first British class of such wheel arrangement. Modifications to their valve gear, along lines developed by G.J. Churchward, reduced their coal consumption sufficiently to enable them to run non-stop between London and Edinburgh. So that enginemen might change over en route, some of the locomotives were equipped with corridor tenders from 1928. The design was steadily improved in detail, and by comparison an experimental 4–6–4 with a watertube boiler that Gresley produced in 1929 showed no overall benefit. A successful high-powered 2–8–2 was built in 1934, following the introduction of third-class sleeping cars, to haul 500-ton passenger trains between Edinburgh and Aberdeen.

In 1932 the need to meet increasing road competition had resulted in the end of a long-standing agreement between East Coast and West Coast railways, that train journeys between London and Edinburgh by either route should be scheduled to take 8 1/4 hours. Seeking to accelerate train services, Gresley studied high-speed, diesel-electric railcars in Germany and petrol-electric railcars in France. He considered them for the London \& North Eastern Railway, but a test run by a train hauled by one of his 4–6–2s in 1934, which reached 108 mph (174 km/h), suggested that a steam train could better the railcar proposals while its accommodation would be more comfortable. To celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V, a high-speed, streamlined train between London and Newcastle upon Tyne was proposed, the first such train in Britain. An improved 4–6–2, the A4 class, was designed with modifications to ensure free running and an ample reserve of power up hill. Its streamlined outline included a wedge-shaped front which reduced wind resistance and helped to lift the exhaust dear of the cab windows at speed. The first locomotive of the class, named Silver Link, ran at an average speed of 100 mph (161 km/h) for 43 miles (69 km), with a maximum speed of 112 1/2 mph (181 km/h), on a seven-coach test train on 27 September 1935: the locomotive went into service hauling the Silver Jubilee express single-handed (since others of the class had still to be completed) for the first three weeks, a round trip of 536 miles (863 km) daily, much of it at 90 mph (145 km/h), without any mechanical troubles at all. Coaches for the Silver Jubilee had teak-framed, steel-panelled bodies on all-steel, welded underframes; windows were double glazed; and there was a pressure ventilation/heating system. Comparable trains were introduced between London Kings Cross and Edinburgh in 1937 and to Leeds in 1938.

Gresley did not hesitate to incorporate outstanding features from elsewhere into his locomotive designs and was well aware of the work of André Chapelon in France. Four A4s built in 1938 were equipped with Kylchap twin blast-pipes and double chimneys to improve performance still further. The first of these to be completed, no. 4468, Mallard, on 3 July 1938 ran a test train at over 120 mph (193 km/h) for 2 miles (3.2 km) and momentarily achieved 126 mph (203 km/h), the world speed record for steam traction. J.Duddington was the driver and T.Bray the fireman. The use of high-speed trains came to an end with the Second World War. The A4s were then demonstrated to be powerful as well as fast: one was noted hauling a 730-ton, 22-coach train at an average speed exceeding 75 mph (120 km/h) over 30 miles (48 km). The war also halted electrification of the Manchester-Sheffield line, on the 1,500 volt DC overhead system; however, anticipating eventual resumption, Gresley had a prototype main-line Bo-Bo electric locomotive built in 1941. Sadly, Gresley died from a heart attack while still in office.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Knighted 1936. President, Institution of Locomotive Engineers 1927 and 1934. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1936.

Further Reading

F.A.S.Brown, 1961, Nigel Gresley, Locomotive Engineer, Ian Allan (full-length biography).

John Bellwood and David Jenkinson, Gresley and Stanier. A Centenary Tribute (a good comparative account).

See also: Bulleid, Oliver Vaughan Snell

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Biographical history of technology > Gresley, Sir Herbert Nigel
94 Henry, Joseph

SUBJECT AREA: Electricity, Telecommunications

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b. 17 December 1797 Albany, New York, USA

d. 13 May 1878 Washington, DC, USA

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American scientist after whom the unit of inductance is named.

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Sent to stay with relatives at the age of 6 because of the illness of his father, when the latter died in 1811 Henry was apprenticed to a silversmith and then turned to the stage. Whilst he was ill himself, a book on science fired his interest and he began studying at Albany Academy, working as a tutor to finance his studies. Initially intending to pursue medicine, he then spent some time as a surveyor before becoming Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Albany Academy in 1826. There he became interested in the improvement of electromagnets and discovered that the use of an increased number of turns of wire round the core greatly increased their power; by 1831 he was able to supply to Yale a magnet capable of lifting almost a ton weight. During this time he also discovered the principles of magnetic induction and self-inductance. In the same year he made, but did not patent, a cable telegraph system capable of working over a distance of 1 mile (1.6 km). It was at this time, too, that he found that adiabatic expansion of gases led to their sudden cooling, thus paving the way for the development of refrigerators. For this he was recommended for, but never received, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. Five years later he became Professor of Natural Philosophy at New Jersey College (later Princeton University), where he deduced the laws governing the operation of transformers and observed that changes in magnetic flux induced electric currents in conductors. Later he also observed that spark discharges caused electrical effects at a distance. He therefore came close to the discovery of radio waves. In 1836 he was granted a year's leave of absence and travelled to Europe, where he was able to meet Michael Faraday. It was with his help that in 1844 Samuel Morse set up the first patented electric telegraph, but, sadly, the latter seems to have reaped all the credit and financial rewards. In 1846 he became the first secretary of the Washington Smithsonian Institute and did much to develop government support for scientific research. As a result of his efforts some 500 telegraph stations across the country were equipped with meteorological equipment to supply weather information by telegraph to a central location, a facility that eventually became the US National Weather Bureau. From 1852 he was a member of the Lighthouse Board, contributing to improvements in lighting and sound warning systems and becoming its chairman in 1871. During the Civil War he was a technical advisor to President Lincoln. He was a founder of the National Academy of Science and served as its President for eleven years.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

President, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1849. President, National Academy of Science 1893–1904. In 1893, to honour his work on induction, the International Congress of Electricians adopted the henry as the unit of inductance.

Bibliography

1824. "On the chemical and mechanical effects of steam". 1825. "The production of cold by the rarefaction of air".

1832, "On the production of currents \& sparks of electricity \& magnetism", American

Journal of Science 22:403.

"Theory of the so-called imponderables", Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 6:84.

Further Reading

Smithsonian Institution, 1886, Joseph Henry, Scientific Writings, Washington DC.

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Biographical history of technology > Henry, Joseph
95 Henson, William Samuel

SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace

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b. 3 May 1812 Nottingham, England

d. 22 March 1888 New Jersey, USA

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English (naturalized American) inventor who patented a design for an "aerial steam carriage" and combined with John Stringfellow to build model aeroplanes.

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William Henson worked in the lacemaking industry and in his spare time invented many mechanical devices, from a breech-loading cannon to an ice-machine. It could be claimed that he invented the airliner, for in 1842 he prepared a patent (granted in 1843) for an "aerial steam carriage". The patent application was not just a vague outline, but contained detailed drawings of a large monoplane with an enclosed fuselage to accommodate the passengers and crew. It was to be powered by a steam engine driving two pusher propellers aft of the wing. Henson had followed the lead give by Sir George Cayley in his basic layout, but produced a very much more advanced structural design with cambered wings strengthened by streamlined bracing wires: the intended wing-span was 150 ft (46 m). Henson probably discussed the design of the steam engine and boiler with his friend John Stringfellow (who was also in the lacemaking industry). Stringfellow joined Henson and others to found the Aerial Transit Company, which was set up to raise the finance needed to build Henson's machine. A great publicity campaign was mounted with artists' impressions of the "aerial steam carriage" flying over London, India and even the pyramids. Passenger-carrying services to India and China were proposed, but the whole project was far too optimistic to attract support from financiers and the scheme foundered. Henson and Stringfellow drew up an agreement in December 1843 to construct models which would prove the feasibility of an "aerial machine". For the next five years they pursued this aim, with no real success. In 1848 Henson and his wife emigrated to the United States to further his career in textiles. He became an American citizen and died there at the age of 75.

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Bibliography

Henson's diary is preserved by the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in the USA. Henson's patent of 1842–3 is reproduced in Balantyne and Pritchard (1956) and Davy (1931) (see below).

Further Reading

H.Penrose, 1988, An Ancient Air: A Biography of John Stringfellow, Shrewsbury.

A.M.Balantyne and J.L.Pritchard, 1956, "The lives and work of William Samuel Henson and John Stringfellow", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (June) (an attempt to analyse conflicting evidence; includes a reproduction of Henson's patent).

M.J.B.Davy, 1931, Henson and Stringfellow, London (an earlier work with excellent drawings from Henson's patent).

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Biographical history of technology > Henson, William Samuel
96 Holden, Sir Isaac

SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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b. 7 May 1807 Hurlet, between Paisley and Glasgow, Scotland

d. 13 August 1897

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British developer of the wool-combing machine.

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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).

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Biographical history of technology > Holden, Sir Isaac
97 Hopkinson, John

SUBJECT AREA: Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Public utilities

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b. 27 July 1849 Manchester, England

d. 27 August 1898 Petite Dent de Veisivi, Switzerland

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English mathematician and electrical engineer who laid the foundations of electrical machine design.

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After attending Owens College, Manchester, Hopkinson was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1867 to read for the Mathematical Tripos. An appointment in 1872 with the lighthouse department of the Chance Optical Works in Birmingham directed his attention to electrical engineering. His most noteworthy contribution to lighthouse engineering was an optical system to produce flashing lights that distinguished between individual beacons. His extensive researches on the dielectric properties of glass were recognized when he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society at the age of 29. Moving to London in 1877 he became established as a consulting engineer at a time when electricity supply was about to begin on a commercial scale. During the remainder of his life, Hopkinson's researches resulted in fundamental contributions to electrical engineering practice, dynamo design and alternating current machine theory. In making a critical study of the Edison dynamo he developed the principle of the magnetic circuit, a concept also arrived at by Gisbert Kapp around the same time. Hopkinson's improvement of the Edison dynamo by reducing the length of the field magnets almost doubled its output. In 1890, in addition to-his consulting practice, Hopkinson accepted a post as the first Professor of Electrical Engineering and Head of the Siemens laboratory recently established at King's College, London. Although he was not involved in lecturing, the position gave him the necessary facilities and staff and student assistance to continue his researches. Hopkinson was consulted on many proposals for electric traction and electricity supply, including schemes in London, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds. He also advised Mather and Platt when they were acting as contractors for the locomotives and generating plant for the City and South London tube railway. As early as 1882 he considered that an ideal method of charging for the supply of electricity should be based on a two-part tariff, with a charge related to maximum demand together with a charge for energy supplied. Hopkinson was one the foremost expert witnesses of his day in patent actions and was himself the patentee of over forty inventions, of which the three-wire system of distribution and the series-parallel connection of traction motors were his most successful. Jointly with his brother Edward, John Hopkinson communicated the outcome of his investigations to the Royal Society in a paper entitled "Dynamo Electric Machinery" in 1886. In this he also described the later widely used "back to back" test for determining the characteristics of two identical machines. His interest in electrical machines led him to more fundamental research on magnetic materials, including the phenomenon of recalescence and the disappearance of magnetism at a well-defined temperature. For his work on the magnetic properties of iron, in 1890 he was awarded the Royal Society Royal Medal. He was a member of the Alpine Club and a pioneer of rock climbing in Britain; he died, together with three of his children, in a climbing accident.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

FRS 1878. Royal Society Royal Medal 1890. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1890 and 1896.

Bibliography

7 July 1881, British patent no. 2,989 (series-parallel control of traction motors). 27 July 1882, British patent no. 3,576 (three-wire distribution).

1901, Original Papers by the Late J.Hopkinson, with a Memoir, ed. B.Hopkinson, 2 vols, Cambridge.

Further Reading

J.Greig, 1970, John Hopkinson Electrical Engineer, London: Science Museum and HMSO (an authoritative account).

—1950, "John Hopkinson 1849–1898", Engineering 169:34–7, 62–4.

GW

Biographical history of technology > Hopkinson, John
98 Huygens, Christiaan

SUBJECT AREA: Horology

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b. 14 April 1629 The Hague, the Netherlands

d. 8 June 1695 The Hague, the Netherlands

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Dutch scientist who was responsible for two of the greatest advances in horology: the successful application of both the pendulum to the clock and the balance spring to the watch.

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Huygens was born into a cultured and privileged class. His father, Constantijn, was a poet and statesman who had wide interests. Constantijn exerted a strong influence on his son, who was educated at home until he reached the age of 16. Christiaan studied law and mathematics at Ley den University from 1645 to 1647, and continued his studies at the Collegium Arausiacum in Breda until 1649. He then lived at The Hague, where he had the means to devote his time entirely to study. In 1666 he became a Member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris and settled there until his return to The Hague in 1681. He also had a close relationship with the Royal Society and visited London on three occasions, meeting Newton on his last visit in 1689. Huygens had a wide range of interests and made significant contributions in mathematics, astronomy, optics and mechanics. He also made technical advances in optical instruments and horology.

Despite the efforts of Burgi there had been no significant improvement in the performance of ordinary clocks and watches from their inception to Huygens's time, as they were controlled by foliots or balances which had no natural period of oscillation. The pendulum appeared to offer a means of improvement as it had a natural period of oscillation that was almost independent of amplitude. Galileo Galilei had already pioneered the use of a freely suspended pendulum for timing events, but it was by no means obvious how it could be kept swinging and used to control a clock. Towards the end of his life Galileo described such a. mechanism to his son Vincenzio, who constructed a model after his father's death, although it was not completed when he himself died in 1642. This model appears to have been copied in Italy, but it had little influence on horology, partly because of the circumstances in which it was produced and possibly also because it differed radically from clocks of that period. The crucial event occurred on Christmas Day 1656 when Huygens, quite independently, succeeded in adapting an existing spring-driven table clock so that it was not only controlled by a pendulum but also kept it swinging. In the following year he was granted a privilege or patent for this clock, and several were made by the clockmaker Salomon Coster of The Hague. The use of the pendulum produced a dramatic improvement in timekeeping, reducing the daily error from minutes to seconds, but Huygens was aware that the pendulum was not truly isochronous. This error was magnified by the use of the existing verge escapement, which made the pendulum swing through a large arc. He overcame this defect very elegantly by fitting cheeks at the pendulum suspension point, progressively reducing the effective length of the pendulum as the amplitude increased. Initially the cheeks were shaped empirically, but he was later able to show that they should have a cycloidal shape. The cheeks were not adopted universally because they introduced other defects, and the problem was eventually solved more prosaically by way of new escapements which reduced the swing of the pendulum. Huygens's clocks had another innovatory feature: maintaining power, which kept the clock going while it was being wound.

Pendulums could not be used for portable timepieces, which continued to use balances despite their deficiencies. Robert Hooke was probably the first to apply a spring to the balance, but his efforts were not successful. From his work on the pendulum Huygens was well aware of the conditions necessary for isochronism in a vibrating system, and in January 1675, with a flash of inspiration, he realized that this could be achieved by controlling the oscillations of the balance with a spiral spring, an arrangement that is still used in mechanical watches. The first model was made for Huygens in Paris by the clockmaker Isaac Thuret, who attempted to appropriate the invention and patent it himself. Huygens had for many years been trying unsuccessfully to adapt the pendulum clock for use at sea (in order to determine longitude), and he hoped that a balance-spring timekeeper might be better suited for this purpose. However, he was disillusioned as its timekeeping proved to be much more susceptible to changes in temperature than that of the pendulum clock.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

FRS 1663. Member of the Académie Royale des Sciences 1666.

Bibliography

For his complete works, see Oeuvres complètes de Christian Huygens, 1888–1950, 22 vols, The Hague.

1658, Horologium, The Hague; repub., 1970, trans. E.L.Edwardes, Antiquarian

Horology 7:35–55 (describes the pendulum clock).

1673, Horologium Oscillatorium, Paris; repub., 1986, The Pendulum Clock or Demonstrations Concerning the Motion ofPendula as Applied to Clocks, trans.

R.J.Blackwell, Ames.

The balance spring watch was first described in Journal des Sçavans 25 February 1675, and translated in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1675) 4:272–3.

Further Reading

H.J.M.Bos, 1972, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. C.C.Gillispie, Vol. 6, New York, pp. 597–613 (for a fuller account of his life and scientific work, but note the incorrect date of his death).

R.Plomp, 1979, Spring-Driven Dutch Pendulum Clocks, 1657–1710, Schiedam (describes Huygens's application of the pendulum to the clock).

S.A.Bedini, 1991, The Pulse of Time, Florence (describes Galileo's contribution of the pendulum to the clock).

J.H.Leopold, 1982, "L"Invention par Christiaan Huygens du ressort spiral réglant pour les montres', Huygens et la France, Paris, pp. 154–7 (describes the application of the balance spring to the watch).

A.R.Hall, 1978, "Horology and criticism", Studia Copernica 16:261–81 (discusses Hooke's contribution).

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Biographical history of technology > Huygens, Christiaan
99 Jessop, William

SUBJECT AREA: Canals, Civil engineering, Ports and shipping, Railways and locomotives

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b. 23 January 1745 Plymouth, England

d. 18 November 1814

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English engineer engaged in river, canal and dock construction.

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William Jessop inherited from his father a natural ability in engineering, and because of his father's association with John Smeaton in the construction of Eddystone Lighthouse he was accepted by Smeaton as a pupil in 1759 at the age of 14. Smeaton was so impressed with his ability that Jessop was retained as an assistant after completion of his pupilage in 1767. As such he carried out field-work, making surveys on his own, but in 1772 he was recommended to the Aire and Calder Committee as an independent engineer and his first personally prepared report was made on the Haddlesey Cut, Selby Canal. It was in this report that he gave his first evidence before a Parliamentary Committee. He later became Resident Engineer on the Selby Canal, and soon after he was elected to the Smeatonian Society of Engineers, of which he later became Secretary for twenty years. Meanwhile he accompanied Smeaton to Ireland to advise on the Grand Canal, ultimately becoming Consulting Engineer until 1802, and was responsible for Ringsend Docks, which connected the canal to the Liffey and were opened in 1796. From 1783 to 1787 he advised on improvements to the River Trent, and his ability was so recognized that it made his reputation. From then on he was consulted on the Cromford Canal (1789–93), the Leicester Navigation (1791–4) and the Grantham Canal (1793–7); at the same time he was Chief Engineer of the Grand Junction Canal from 1793 to 1797 and then Consulting Engineer until 1805. He also engineered the Barnsley and Rochdale Canals. In fact, there were few canals during this period on which he was not consulted. It has now been established that Jessop carried the responsibility for the Pont-Cysyllte Aqueduct in Wales and also prepared the estimates for the Caledonian Canal in 1804. In 1792 he became a partner in the Butterley ironworks and thus became interested in railways. He proposed the Surrey Iron Railway in 1799 and prepared for the estimates; the line was built and opened in 1805. He was also the Engineer for the 10 mile (16 km) long Kilmarnock \& Troon Railway, the Act for which was obtained in 1808 and was the first Act for a public railway in Scotland. Jessop's advice was sought on drainage works between 1785 and 1802 in the lowlands of the Isle of Axholme, Holderness, the Norfolk Marshlands, and the Axe and Brue area of the Somerset Levels. He was also consulted on harbour and dock improvements. These included Hull (1793), Portsmouth (1796), Folkestone (1806) and Sunderland (1807), but his greatest dock works were the West India Docks in London and the Floating Harbour at Bristol. He was Consulting Engineer to the City of London Corporation from 1796to 1799, drawing up plans for docks on the Isle of Dogs in 1796; in February 1800 he was appointed Engineer, and three years later, in September 1803, he was appointed Engineer to the Bristol Floating Harbour. Jessop was regarded as the leading civil engineer in the country from 1785 until 1806. He died following a stroke in 1814.

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Further Reading

C.Hadfield and A.W.Skempton, 1979, William Jessop. Engineer, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.

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Biographical history of technology > Jessop, William
100 Lesseps, Ferdinand de

SUBJECT AREA: Canals

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b. 19 November 1805 Versailles, France

d. 7 December 1894 La Chesnaye, near Paris, France

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French diplomat and canal entrepreneur.

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Ferdinand de Lesseps was born into a family in the diplomatic service and it was intended that his should be his career also. He was educated at the Lycée Napoléon in Paris. In 1825, aged 20, he was appointed an attaché to the French consulate in Lisbon. In 1828 he went to the Consulate-General in Tunis and in 1831 was posted from there to Egypt, becoming French Consul in Cairo two years later. For his work there during the plague in 1836 he was awarded the Croix de Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur. During this time he became very friendly with Said Mohammed and the friendship was maintained over the years, although there were no expectations then that Said would occupy any great position of authority.

De Lesseps then served in other countries. In 1841 he had thought about a canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, and he brooded over the idea until 1854. In October of that year, having retired from the diplomatic service, he returned to Egypt privately. His friend Said became Viceroy and he readily agreed to the proposal to cut the canal. At first there was great international opposition to the idea, and in 1855 de Lesseps travelled to England to try to raise capital. Work finally started in 1859, but there were further delays following the death of Said Pasha in 1863. The work was completed in 1869 and the canal was formally opened by the Empress Eugenic on 20 November 1869. De Lesseps was fêted in France and awarded the Grand Croix de la Légion d'honneur.

He subsequently promoted the project of the Corinth Canal, but his great ambition in his later years was to construct a canal across the Isthmus of Panama. This idea had been conceived by Spanish adventurers in 1514, but everyone felt the problems and cost would be too great. De Lesseps, riding high in popularity and with his charismatic character, convinced the public of the scheme's feasibility and was able to raise vast sums for the enterprise. He proposed a sea-level canal, which required the excavation of a 350 ft (107 m) cut through terrain; this eventually proved impossible, but work nevertheless started in 1881.

In 1882 de Lesseps became first President d'-Honneur of the Syndicat des Entrepreneurs de Travaux Publics de France and was elected to the Chair of the French Academy in 1884. By 1891 the Panama Canal was in a disastrous financial crisis: a new company was formed, and because of the vast sums expended a financial investigation was made. The report led to de Lesseps, his son and several high-ranking government ministers and officials being charged with bribery and corruption, but de Lesseps was a very sick man and never appeared at the trial. He was never convicted, although others were, and he died soon after, at the age of 89, at his home.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Croix de Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur 1836; Grand Croix 1869.

Further Reading

John S.Pudney, 1968, Suez. De Lesseps' Canal, London: Dent.

John Marlowe, 1964, The Making of the Suez Canal, London: Cresset.

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Biographical history of technology > Lesseps, Ferdinand de

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