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  • 101 giù

    down
    ( sotto) below
    ( da basso) downstairs
    andar giù go down
    fig non mi va giù it sticks in my throat
    fig essere giù be down or depressed
    di salute be run down
    mandar giù swallow ( also fig)
    un po' più in giù a bit lower down
    su e giù up and down
    da Roma in giù south of Rome
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    giù avv.
    1 (moto, direzione) down; (dabbasso, al piano inferiore) downstairs: puoi venire giù un momento?, can you come down (o downstairs) a moment?; vado giù a prendere il giornale, I'm going down for a newspaper; andate giù in treno o in macchina?, are you going down by train or (by) car?; scendi giù subito da quella scala!, come down from that ladder at once!; metti giù quel coltello!, put that knife down!; devo portare giù le valigie?, shall I bring the cases down (o downstairs)?; buttami giù la chiave per favore!, throw the key down to me, please!; potresti tirarmi giù quel libro dallo scaffale?, could you get that book down from the shelf for me?; l'ho mandato giù in cantina a prendere il vino, I've sent him down to the cellar to get the wine; il vento ha fatto cadere giù l'antenna, the wind has blown the aerial down; non osavo guardare giù da quell'altezza, I didn't dare to look down from that height; la pioggia veniva giù a fiumi, the rain came (o was coming) down in torrents; il prezzo della benzina non accenna ad andare giù, the price of petrol shows no sign of going down // non manda giù un boccone da due giorni, he hasn't eaten a thing (o he hasn't had a bite to eat) for two days // su e giù, up and down; (avanti e indietro) to and fro: correre su e giù per le scale, to run up and down the stairs; camminava nervosamente su e giù per il corridoio, he paced nervously up and down the corridor; è un periodo che continua ad andare su e giù da Roma a Milano, he keeps having to go to and fro between Rome and Milan at the moment // giù per, down: giù per la collina, down the hill; presa dal panico, si precipitò giù per le scale, she rushed downstairs in a panic; i capelli le scendevano (giù) sulle spalle, her hair flowed over her shoulders (o down her back) // Con uso rafforzativo: la pineta si estendeva giù giù fino in fondo valle, the pinewood stretched all the way down to the bottom of the valley; studieremo il pensiero dei maggiori filosofi da Aristotele giù giù fino a Cartesio, we shall study the major philosophers from Aristotle (all the way) down to Descartes
    2 (posizione, situazione) down (anche fig.); (al piano inferiore) downstairs: il taxi è giù che aspetta, the taxi is waiting for you downstairs (o down below); i bambini sono giù a giocare in giardino, the children are playing down in the garden; c'era un mucchio di gente giù nella piazza, there were heaps of people down in the square; i calzini sono giù nell'ultimo cassetto, the socks are down in the bottom drawer; ''Volete salire?'' ''No, grazie, ti aspettiamo giù'', ''Would you like to come up?'' ''No, thanks, we'll wait for you downstairs''; ''Sa dirmi dov'è la fermata dell'autobus?'' ''é giù in fondo a questa strada'', ''Can you tell me where the bus stop is?'' ''It's down at the end of this street''; qui c'è l'albergo; un po' più giù c'è l'ufficio postale, the hotel's here, and the post office is a bit further down; a causa dello sciopero, molti negozi avevano le saracinesche giù, on account of the strike many of the shops had their shutters down
    3 in giù, down, downward (s) (anche fig.): guardare in giù, to look down (wards); è caduto a testa in giù, he fell head downward (s); il cadavere giaceva a faccia in giù sul pavimento, the corpse lay face downwards on the floor; era tutto fradicio dalle ginocchia in giù, he was wet through from the knees down (wards); sono tutti ragazzi dai 13 anni in giù, they are all aged from 13 downward (s); il traffico è scorrevole solo da Firenze in giù, the traffic's moving smoothly only from Florence down (wards); la norma si applica a tutto il personale, dal più alto dirigente in giù, the rule applies to all staff, from the managing director down.
    ◆ FRASEOLOGIA: giù!, (a cuccia!) down!; giù le mani!, hands off!; giù la maschera!, come clean! (o tell the truth!) // e giù botte!, what a hiding! // e giù acqua!, (di pioggia a dirotto) what a downpour! // la cosa non mi va giù, non la mando giù, I won't stand for it! // su per giù, giù di lì, more or less: avrà su per giù trent'anni, she must be more or less thirty; saranno state un centinaio di persone o giù di lì, there must have been about a hundred people; da qui alla stazione ci sarà un chilometro o giù di lì, from here to the station it must be about half a mile // giù da quelle parti, somewhere round there // avere giù la voce, to have lost one's voice // essere giù di morale, to be depressed, (fam.) to be down in the dumps // Per andare giù, buttare giù, mandare giù ecc. → anche andare, buttare, mandare ecc.
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    [dʒu]
    1) (in basso) down

    tirare giù qcs. — to pull down sth.

    2) (sotto) downstairs
    4) in giù down(wards)

    a testa in giù — [cadere, tuffarsi] face downwards

    giù per la collina, le scale — down the hill, the stairs

    6) giù di lì thereabouts, more or less
    7) su e giù (in alto e in basso) up and down; (avanti e indietro) up and down, to and fro

    andare su e giù per il corridoio — to pace o walk up and down the corridor

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    giù le mani o le zampe colloq.! get your hands off me! giù la maschera! no more pretending now! e giù botte then all hell let loose o broke out; essere giù di morale o di corda to feel down o low o down-in-the-mouth; ci va giù deciso — (a parole) he doesn't pull his punches; (coi fatti) he doesn't do things by halves

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    giù
    /dʒu/
     1 (in basso) down; tirare giù qcs. to pull down sth.; più giù further down
     2 (sotto) downstairs; abita un piano più giù he lives a floor below; il vino è giù in cantina the wine is down in the cellar
     3 (come rafforzativo) dal primo giù giù fino all'ultimo from the first (down) to the last
     4 in giù down(wards); guardare in giù to look down(wards); dalla vita in giù from the waist down(wards); dai 5 anni in giù from 5 and under; a testa in giù [cadere, tuffarsi] face downwards
     5 giù per giù per la collina, le scale down the hill, the stairs
     6 giù di lì thereabouts, more or less; deve avere sessant'anni o giù di lì he must be about sixty
     7 su e giù (in alto e in basso) up and down; (avanti e indietro) up and down, to and fro; andare su e giù per il corridoio to pace o walk up and down the corridor
    giù le mani o le zampe colloq. get your hands off me! giù la maschera! no more pretending now! e giù botte then all hell let loose o broke out; essere giù di morale o di corda to feel down o low o down-in-the-mouth; ci va giù deciso (a parole) he doesn't pull his punches; (coi fatti) he doesn't do things by halves.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > giù

  • 102 Economy

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Economy

  • 103 Bain, Alexander

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    b. October 1810 Watten, Scotland
    d. 2 January 1877 Kirkintilloch, Scotland
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    Scottish inventor and entrepreneur who laid the foundations of electrical horology and designed an electromagnetic means of transmitting images (facsimile).
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    Alexander Bain was born into a crofting family in a remote part of Scotland. He was apprenticed to a watchmaker in Wick and during that time he was strongly influenced by a lecture on "Heat, sound and electricity" that he heard in nearby Thurso. This lecture induced him to take up a position in Clerkenwell in London, working as a journeyman clockmaker, where he was able to further his knowledge of electricity by attending lectures at the Adelaide Gallery and the Polytechnic Institution. His thoughts naturally turned to the application of electricity to clockmaking, and despite a bitter dispute with Charles Wheatstone over priority he was granted the first British patent for an electric clock. This patent, taken out on 11 January 1841, described a mechanism for an electric clock, in which an oscillating component of the clock operated a mechanical switch that initiated an electromagnetic pulse to maintain the regular, periodic motion. This principle was used in his master clock, produced in 1845. On 12 December of the same year, he patented a means of using electricity to control the operation of steam railway engines via a steam-valve. His earliest patent was particularly far-sighted and anticipated most of the developments in electrical horology that occurred during the nineteenth century. He proposed the use of electricity not only to drive clocks but also to distribute time over a distance by correcting the hands of mechanical clocks, synchronizing pendulums and using slave dials (here he was anticipated by Steinheil). However, he was less successful in putting these ideas into practice, and his electric clocks proved to be unreliable. Early electric clocks had two weaknesses: the battery; and the switching mechanism that fed the current to the electromagnets. Bain's earth battery, patented in 1843, overcame the first defect by providing a reasonably constant current to drive his clocks, but unlike Hipp he failed to produce a reliable switch.
    The application of Bain's numerous patents for electric telegraphy was more successful, and he derived most of his income from these. They included a patent of 12 December 1843 for a form of fax machine, a chemical telegraph that could be used for the transmission of text and of images (facsimile). At the receiver, signals were passed through a moving band of paper impregnated with a solution of ammonium nitrate and potassium ferrocyanide. For text, Morse code signals were used, and because the system could respond to signals faster than those generated by hand, perforated paper tape was used to transmit the messages; in a trial between Paris and Lille, 282 words were transmitted in less than one minute. In 1865 the Abbé Caselli, a French engineer, introduced a commercial fax service between Paris and Lyons, based on Bain's device. Bain also used the idea of perforated tape to operate musical wind instruments automatically. Bain squandered a great deal of money on litigation, initially with Wheatstone and then with Morse in the USA. Although his inventions were acknowledged, Bain appears to have received no honours, but when towards the end of his life he fell upon hard times, influential persons in 1873 secured for him a Civil List Pension of £80 per annum and the Royal Society gave him £150.
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    Bibliography
    1841, British patent no. 8,783; 1843, British patent no. 9,745; 1845, British patent no.
    10,838; 1847, British patent no. 11,584; 1852, British patent no. 14,146 (all for electric clocks).
    1852, A Short History of the Electric Clocks with Explanation of Their Principles and
    Mechanism and Instruction for Their Management and Regulation, London; reprinted 1973, introd. W.Hackmann, London: Turner \& Devereux (as the title implies, this pamphlet was probably intended for the purchasers of his clocks).
    Further Reading
    The best account of Bain's life and work is in papers by C.A.Aked in Antiquarian Horology: "Electricity, magnetism and clocks" (1971) 7: 398–415; "Alexander Bain, the father of electrical horology" (1974) 9:51–63; "An early electric turret clock" (1975) 7:428–42. These papers were reprinted together (1976) in A Conspectus of Electrical Timekeeping, Monograph No. 12, Antiquarian Horological Society: Tilehurst.
    J.Finlaison, 1834, An Account of Some Remarkable Applications of the Electric Fluid to the Useful Arts by Alexander Bain, London (a contemporary account between Wheatstone and Bain over the invention of the electric clock).
    J.Munro, 1891, Heroes of the Telegraph, Religious Tract Society.
    J.Malster \& M.J.Bowden, 1976, "Facsimile. A Review", Radio \&Electronic Engineer 46:55.
    D.J.Weaver, 1982, Electrical Clocks and Watches, Newnes.
    T.Hunkin, 1993, "Just give me the fax", New Scientist (13 February):33–7 (provides details of Bain's and later fax devices).
    DV / KF

    Biographical history of technology > Bain, Alexander

  • 104 Cousteau, Jacques-Yves

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
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    b. 11 June 1910 Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France
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    French marine explorer who invented the aqualung.
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    He was the son of a country lawyer who became legal advisor and travelling companion to certain rich Americans. At an early age Cousteau acquired a love of travel, of the sea and of cinematography: he made his first film at the age of 13. After an interrupted education he nevertheless passed the difficult entrance examination to the Ecole Navale in Brest, but his naval career was cut short in 1936 by injuries received in a serious motor accident. For his long recuperation he was drafted to Toulon. There he met Philippe Tailliez, a fellow naval officer, and Frédéric Dumas, a champion spearfisher, with whom he formed a long association and began to develop his underwater swimming and photography. He apparently took little part in the Second World War, but under cover he applied his photographic skills to espionage, for which he was awarded the Légion d'honneur after the war.
    Cousteau sought greater freedom of movement underwater and, with Emile Gagnan, who worked in the laboratory of Air Liquide, he began experimenting to improve portable underwater breathing apparatus. As a result, in 1943 they invented the aqualung. Its simple design and robust construction provided a reliable and low-cost unit and revolutionized scientific and recreational diving. Gagnan shunned publicity, but Cousteau revelled in the new freedom to explore and photograph underwater and exploited the publicity potential to the full.
    The Undersea Research Group was set up by the French Navy in 1944 and, based in Toulon, it provided Cousteau with the Opportunity to develop underwater exploration and filming techniques and equipment. Its first aims were minesweeping and exploration, but in 1948 Cousteau pioneered an extension to marine archaeology. In 1950 he raised the funds to acquire a surplus US-built minesweeper, which he fitted out to further his quest for exploration and adventure and named Calypso. Cousteau also sought and achieved public acclaim with the publication in 1953 of The Silent World, an account of his submarine observations, illustrated by his own brilliant photography. The book was an immediate success and was translated into twenty-two languages. In 1955 Calypso sailed through the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean, and the outcome was a film bearing the same title as the book: it won an Oscar and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival. This was his favoured medium for the expression of his ideas and observations, and a stream of films on the same theme kept his name before the public.
    Cousteau's fame earned him appointment by Prince Rainier as Director of the Oceanographie Institute in Monaco in 1957, a post he held until 1988. With its museum and research centre, it offered Cousteau a useful base for his worldwide activities.
    In the 1980s Cousteau turned again to technological development. Like others before him, he was concerned to reduce ships' fuel consumption by harnessing wind power. True to form, he raised grants from various sources to fund research and enlisted technical help, namely Lucien Malavard, Professor of Aerodynamics at the Sorbonne. Malavard designed a 44 ft (13.4 m) high non-rotating cylinder, which was fitted onto a catamaran hull, christened Moulin à vent. It was intended that its maiden Atlantic crossing in 1983 should herald a new age in ship propulsion, with large royalties to Cousteau. Unfortunately the vessel was damaged in a storm and limped to the USA under diesel power. A more robust vessel, the Alcyone, was fitted with two "Turbosails" in 1985 and proved successful, with a 40 per cent reduction in fuel consumption. However, oil prices fell, removing the incentive to fit the new device; the lucrative sales did not materialize and Alcyone remained the only vessel with Turbosails, sharing with Calypso Cousteau's voyages of adventure and exploration. In September 1995, Cousteau was among the critics of the decision by the French President Jacques Chirac to resume testing of nuclear explosive devices under the Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Légion d'honneur. Croix de Guerre with Palm. Officier du Mérite Maritime and numerous scientific and artistic awards listed in such directories as Who's Who.
    Bibliography
    Further Reading
    R.Munson, 1991, Cousteau, the Captain and His World, London: Robert Hale (published in the USA 1989).
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Cousteau, Jacques-Yves

  • 105 Graham, George

    SUBJECT AREA: Horology
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    b. c.1674 Cumberland, England
    d. 16 November 1751 London, England
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    English watch-and clockmaker who invented the cylinder escapement for watches, the first successful dead-beat escapement for clocks and the mercury compensation pendulum.
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    Graham's father died soon after his birth, so he was raised by his brother. In 1688 he was apprenticed to the London clockmaker Henry Aske, and in 1695 he gained his freedom. He was employed as a journeyman by Tompion in 1696 and later married his niece. In 1711 he formed a partnership with Tompion and effectively ran the business in Tompion's declining years; he took over the business after Tompion died in 1713. In addition to his horological interests he also made scientific instruments, specializing in those for astronomical use. As a person, he was well respected and appears to have lived up to the epithet "Honest George Graham". He befriended John Harrison when he first went to London and lent him money to further his researches at a time when they might have conflicted with his own interests.
    The two common forms of escapement in use in Graham's time, the anchor escapement for clocks and the verge escapement for watches, shared the same weakness: they interfered severely with the free oscillation of the pendulum and the balance, and thus adversely affected the timekeeping. Tompion's two frictional rest escapements, the dead-beat for clocks and the horizontal for watches, had provided a partial solution by eliminating recoil (the momentary reversal of the motion of the timepiece), but they had not been successful in practice. Around 1720 Graham produced his own much improved version of the dead-beat escapement which became a standard feature of regulator clocks, at least in Britain, until its supremacy was challenged at the end of the nineteenth century by the superior accuracy of the Riefler clock. Another feature of the regulator clock owed to Graham was the mercury compensation pendulum, which he invented in 1722 and published four years later. The bob of this pendulum contained mercury, the surface of which rose or fell with changes in temperature, compensating for the concomitant variation in the length of the pendulum rod. Graham devised his mercury pendulum after he had failed to achieve compensation by means of the difference in expansion between various metals. He then turned his attention to improving Tompion's horizontal escapement, and by 1725 the cylinder escapement existed in what was virtually its final form. From the following year he fitted this escapement to all his watches, and it was also used extensively by London makers for their precision watches. It proved to be somewhat lacking in durability, but this problem was overcome later in the century by using a ruby cylinder, notably by Abraham Louis Breguet. It was revived, in a cheaper form, by the Swiss and the French in the nineteenth century and was produced in vast quantities.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1720. Master of the Clockmakers' Company 1722.
    Bibliography
    Graham contributed many papers to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, in particular "A contrivance to avoid the irregularities in a clock's motion occasion'd by the action of heat and cold upon the rod of the pendulum" (1726) 34:40–4.
    Further Reading
    Britten's Watch \& Clock Maker's Handbook Dictionary and Guide, 1978, rev. Richard Good, 16th edn, London, pp. 81, 84, 232 (for a technical description of the dead-beat and cylinder escapements and the mercury compensation pendulum).
    A.J.Turner, 1972, "The introduction of the dead-beat escapement: a new document", Antiquarian Horology 8:71.
    E.A.Battison, 1972, biography, Biographical Dictionary of Science, ed. C.C.Gillespie, Vol. V, New York, 490–2 (contains a résumé of Graham's non-horological activities).
    DV

    Biographical history of technology > Graham, George

  • 106 Petzval, Josef Max

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    b. 1807 Spisska-Beila, Hungary
    d. 17 September 1891 Vienna, Austria
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    Hungarian mathematician and photographic-lens designer, inventor of the first "rapid" portrait lens.
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    Although born in Hungary, Petzval was the son of German schoolteacher. He studied engineering at the University of Budapest and after graduation was appointed to the staff as a lecturer. In 1835 he became the University's Professor of Higher Mathematics. Within a year he was offered a similar position at the more prestigious University of Vienna, a chair he was to occupy until 1884.
    The earliest photographic cameras were fitted with lenses originally designed for other optical instruments. All were characterized by small apertures, and the long exposures required by the early process were in part due to the "slow" lenses. As early as 1839, Petzval began calculations with the idea of producing a fast achromatic objective for photographic work. For technical advice he turned to the Viennese optician Peter Voigtländer, who went on to make the first Petzval portrait lens in 1840. It had a short focal length but an extremely large aperture for the day, enabling exposure times to be reduced to at least one tenth of that required with other contemporary lenses. The Petzval portrait lens was to become the basic design for years to come and was probably the single most important development in making portrait photography possible; by capturing public imagination, portrait photography was to drive photographic innovation during the early years.
    Petzval later fell out with Voigtländer and severed his connection with the company in 1845. When Petzval was encouraged to design a landscape lens in the 1850s, the work was entrusted to another Viennese optician, Dietzler. Using some early calculations by Petzval, Voigtländer was able to produce a similar lens, which he marketed in competition, and an acrimonious dispute ensued. Petzval, embittered by the quarrel and depressed by a burglary which destroyed years of records of his optical work, abandoned optics completely in 1862 and devoted himself to acoustics. He retired from his professorship on his seventieth birthday, respected by his colleagues but unloved, and lived the life of a recluse until his death.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science 1873.
    Further Reading
    J.M.Eder, 1945, History of Photography, trans. E. Epstean, New York (provides details of Petzval's life and work; Eder claims he was introduced to Petzval by mutual friends and succeeded in obtaining personal data).
    Rudolf Kingslake, 1989, A History of the Photographic Lens, Boston (brief biographical details).
    L.W.Sipley, 1965, Photography's Great Inventors, Philadelphia (brief biographical details).
    JW

    Biographical history of technology > Petzval, Josef Max

  • 107 Poncelet, Jean Victor

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    b. 1 July 1788 Metz, France
    d. 22 December 1867 Paris, France
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    French mathematician and military and hydraulic engineer.
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    Poncelet studied mathematics at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris from 1807 to 1810. He joined the Army, gaining admission to the Corps of Engineers. He worked on the fortifications on the Isle of Walcheren in Holland, and in 1812 he found himself on the Russian front, engulfed in the disastrous defeat of the French at Krasnoi. Poncelet was left for dead on the field, but he was found by the Russians and taken to Saratov, where he was imprisoned for two years. He had ample opportunity there to ponder mathematical problems, a mental process from which stemmed his pioneering advances in projective geometry.
    After his release he returned to this native city of Metz, where he undertook routine military engineering and teaching tasks. These left him time to pursue his mathematical studies in projective geometry. This bore fruit in a series of publications, most notably the first volume of his Traité des propriétés projectives des figures (1822, Paris), the first book to be devoted to the new discipline of projective geometry. With his election to the Académie des Sciences in 1834, Poncelet moved to Paris and devoted much of his time to developing courses in applied mechanics in the Faculty of Science, resulting in a number of books, especially the Introduction à la mécanique industrielle, physique ou expérimentale (1841, Paris: Metz). In 1848 he had attained the rank of general and was made Commandant of the Ecole Polytechnique, a post he held for two years. After his retirement in 1850 he was deeply involved in the industrial machines and tools division at both the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 and the similar exhibition in Paris in 1855.
    Most of Poncelet's work in applied mechanics and technology was conceived during the period 1825–40. His technological innovations were centred on hydraulic engineering, and in 1826 he invented an inward-flow turbine. At the same time he directed his attention to the vertical undershot water-wheel, with wooden blades set radially and substituted curved metal blades: he used tight-fitting masonry and floors in the wheel pits so that all the water would be swept into the spaces between the blades. In addition, he ensured that the water flowing from the blades fell clear of the wheel and did not run in tail water. This greatly improved the efficiency of the water-wheel.
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    Bibliography
    H.Tribout, 1936, Un Grand Savant: le général Jean-Victor Poncelet, Paris, pp. 204–20 (the most complete list of his published works).
    Further Reading
    I.Didion, 1870, "Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages du général J.-V.Poncelet", Mémoires de l'Académie de Metz 50:101–59.
    M.Daumas (ed), 1968, Histoire des techniques, Vol. 3, Paris (briefly describes his technological work).
    LRD

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  • 108 Williams, Sir Edward Leader

    SUBJECT AREA: Canals, Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. 28 April 1828 Worcester, England
    d. 1 June 1910 Altrincham, Cheshire, England
    [br]
    English civil engineer, designer and first Chief Engineer of the Manchester Ship Canal.
    [br]
    After an apprenticeship with the Severn Navigation, of which his father was Chief Engineer, Williams was engaged as Assistant Engineer on the Great Northern Railway, Resident Engineer at Shoreham Harbour and Engineer to the contractors for the Admiralty Pier at Dover. In 1856 he was appointed Engineer to the River Weaver Trust, and among the improvements he made was the introduction of the Anderton barge lift linking the Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal. After rejecting the proposal of a flight of locks he considered that barges might be lifted and lowered by hydraulic means. Various designs were submitted and the final choice fell on one by Edwin Clark that had two troughs counterbalancing each other through pistons. Movement of the troughs was initiated by introducing excess water into the upper trough to lift the lower. The work was carried out by Clark.
    In 1872 Williams became Engineer to the Bridgewater Navigation, enlarging the locks at Runcorn and introducing steam propulsion on the canal. He later examined the possibility of upgrading the Mersey \& Irwell Navigation to a Ship Canal. In 1882 his proposals to the Provisional Committee of the proposed Manchester Ship Canal were accepted. His scheme was to use the Mersey Channel as far as Eastham and then construct a lock canal from there to Manchester. He was appointed Chief Engineer of the undertaking.
    The canal's construction was a major engineering work during which Williams overcame many difficulties. He used the principle of the troughs on the Anderton lift as a guide for the construction of the Barton swing aqueduct, which replaced Brindley's original masonry aqueduct on the Bridgewater Canal. The first sod was cut at Eastham on 11 November 1887 and the lower portion of the canal was used for traffic in September 1891. The canal was opened to sea-borne traffic on 1 January 1894 and was formally opened by Queen Victoria on 21 May 1894. In acknowledgement of his work, a knighthood was conferred on him. He continued as Consulting Engineer until ill health forced his retirement.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted. Vice-President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1905–7.
    JHB

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  • 109 Г-85

    ОТКРЫВАТЬ/ОТКРЫТЬ (РАСКРЫВАТЬ/ РАСКР&ТЬ) ГЛАЗА VP usu. pfv past fixed WO
    1. -(на что) (subj: human to begin to see a situation as it really is or people as they really are
    X открыл глаза (на Y) X opened his eyes (to Y)
    X saw the light.
    (Люди) просыпались от вынужденной спячки периода Хозяина, открывали глаза на действительность и рвались развернуть свои творческие потенции, зажимавшиеся столько десятилетий (Зиновьев 1)....People were beginning to wake up after the forced hibernation of the Boss period, to open their eyes to reality, impatient to give full rein to their creative potential which had been repressed for so many decades (1a).
    (Платонов:) Ты первая перестанешь заблуждаться! Ты первая откроешь глаза и оставишь меня! (Чехов 1). (R:) You'll be the first to realize the error of your ways and see the light. You'll leave me first (1b).
    2. - кому (на кого-что) (subj: human or abstr
    to show s.o. that his perceptions of sth. are erroneous, help s.o. to comprehend the true nature of some person or phenomenon
    X открыл Y-y глаза на Z-a - X opened Yb eyes (the eyes of Y) to Z
    X made (helped) Y see what...Z is X showed Y the truth about Z thing X was an eyeopener (eye-opener).
    «Его речь мне просто глаза открыла на многое» (Чуковская 2). "His speech opened my eyes to a lot of things" (2a).
    «Иванько воспользовался тем, что Борис Иванович (Стукалин, председатель Государственного комитета по делам издательств), к сожалению, слишком мягок и доверчив»... В таком случае не открыть ли нам глаза доверчивому Борису Ивановичу на одного из его ближайших соратников? (Войнович 3). "Ivanko took advantage of the fact that, unfortunately, Boris Ivanovich (Stukalin, Chairman of the State Committee on Publishing) is too soft and credulous."...But, in that case, shouldn't we open the eyes of the credulous Boris Ivanovich to one of his closest comrades-in-arms? (3a).
    Глебов принял лекарство и прилёг одетый на тахту, думая о том, что сегодня надо бы наконец, если всё будет благополучно и дочка вернётся живая, поговорить с нею о Толмачёве. Раскрыть глаза на это ничтожество (Трифонов 2). Glebov took his medication and lay down fully dressed on the couch, thinking how today-provided all was well and she actually returned alive-he must talk to his daughter about Tolmachev and make her see what a nonentity this young man was (2a).
    В Олю он окончательно влюбился после велосипедной прогулки с ней и с Яшей по Шварцвальду, которая, как потом он показывал на следствии, «нам всем троим открыла глаза»... (Набоков 1). Не fell in love with Olya conclusively after a bicycle ride with her and Yasha in the Black Forest, a tour which, as he later testified at the inquest, uwas an eye-opener for all three of us"... (1a).

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  • 110 открывать глаза

    • ОТКРЫВАТЬ/ОТКРЫТЬ <РАСКРЫВАТЬ/РАСКРЫТЬ> ГЛАЗА
    [VP; usu. pfv past; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ to begin to see a situation as it really is or people as they really are:
    - X открыл глаза (на Y) ≈ X opened his eyes (to Y);
    - X saw the light.
         ♦ [ Люди] просыпались от вынужденной спячки периода Хозяина, открывали глаза на действительность и рвались развернуть свои творческие потенции, зажимавшиеся столько десятилетий (Зиновьев 1)....People were beginning to wake up after the forced hibernation of the Boss period, to open their eyes to reality, impatient to give full rein to their creative potential which had been repressed for so many decades (1a).
         ♦ [Платонов:] Ты первая перестанешь заблуждаться! Ты первая откроешь глаза и оставишь меня! (Чехов 1). [R:] You'll be the first to realize the error of your ways and see the light. You'll leave me first (1b).
    ⇒ to show s.o. that his perceptions of sth. are erroneous, help s.o. to comprehend the true nature of some person or phenomenon:
    - X открыл Y-y глаза на Z-a - X opened Y's eyes < the eyes of Y> to Z;
    - X made < helped> Y see what...Z is;
    - thing X was an eyeopener < eye-opener>.
         ♦ "Его речь мне просто глаза открыла на многое" (Чуковская 2). "His speech opened my eyes to a lot of things" (2a).
         ♦ "Иванько воспользовался тем, что Борис Иванович [Стукалин, председатель Государственного комитета по делам издательств], к сожалению, слишком мягок и доверчив"... В таком случае не открыть ли нам глаза доверчивому Борису Ивановичу на одного из его ближайших соратников? (Войнович 3). "Ivanko took advantage of the fact that, unfortunately, Boris Ivanovich [Stukalin, Chairman of the State Committee on Publishing] is too soft and credulous."...But, in that case, shouldn't we open the eyes of the credulous Boris Ivanovich to one of his closest comrades-in-arms? (3a).
         ♦ Глебов принял лекарство и прилёг одетый на тахту, думая о том, что сегодня надо бы наконец, если всё будет благополучно и дочка вернётся живая, поговорить с нею о Толмачёве. Раскрыть глаза на это ничтожество (Трифонов 2). Glebov took his medication and lay down fully dressed on the couch, thinking how today-provided all was well and she actually returned alive - he must talk to his daughter about Tolmachev and make her see what a nonentity this young man was (2a).
         ♦ В Олю он окончательно влюбился после велосипедной прогулки с ней и с Яшей по Шварцвальду, которая, как потом он показывал на следствии, "нам всем троим открыла глаза"... (Набоков 1). He fell in love with Olya conclusively after a bicycle ride with her and Yasha in the Black Forest, a tour which, as he later testified at the inquest, "was an eye-opener for all three of us"... (1a).

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  • 111 открыть глаза

    • ОТКРЫВАТЬ/ОТКРЫТЬ <РАСКРЫВАТЬ/РАСКРЫТЬ> ГЛАЗА
    [VP; usu. pfv past; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ to begin to see a situation as it really is or people as they really are:
    - X открыл глаза (на Y) ≈ X opened his eyes (to Y);
    - X saw the light.
         ♦ [ Люди] просыпались от вынужденной спячки периода Хозяина, открывали глаза на действительность и рвались развернуть свои творческие потенции, зажимавшиеся столько десятилетий (Зиновьев 1)....People were beginning to wake up after the forced hibernation of the Boss period, to open their eyes to reality, impatient to give full rein to their creative potential which had been repressed for so many decades (1a).
         ♦ [Платонов:] Ты первая перестанешь заблуждаться! Ты первая откроешь глаза и оставишь меня! (Чехов 1). [R:] You'll be the first to realize the error of your ways and see the light. You'll leave me first (1b).
    ⇒ to show s.o. that his perceptions of sth. are erroneous, help s.o. to comprehend the true nature of some person or phenomenon:
    - X открыл Y-y глаза на Z-a - X opened Y's eyes < the eyes of Y> to Z;
    - X made < helped> Y see what...Z is;
    - thing X was an eyeopener < eye-opener>.
         ♦ "Его речь мне просто глаза открыла на многое" (Чуковская 2). "His speech opened my eyes to a lot of things" (2a).
         ♦ "Иванько воспользовался тем, что Борис Иванович [Стукалин, председатель Государственного комитета по делам издательств], к сожалению, слишком мягок и доверчив"... В таком случае не открыть ли нам глаза доверчивому Борису Ивановичу на одного из его ближайших соратников? (Войнович 3). "Ivanko took advantage of the fact that, unfortunately, Boris Ivanovich [Stukalin, Chairman of the State Committee on Publishing] is too soft and credulous."...But, in that case, shouldn't we open the eyes of the credulous Boris Ivanovich to one of his closest comrades-in-arms? (3a).
         ♦ Глебов принял лекарство и прилёг одетый на тахту, думая о том, что сегодня надо бы наконец, если всё будет благополучно и дочка вернётся живая, поговорить с нею о Толмачёве. Раскрыть глаза на это ничтожество (Трифонов 2). Glebov took his medication and lay down fully dressed on the couch, thinking how today-provided all was well and she actually returned alive - he must talk to his daughter about Tolmachev and make her see what a nonentity this young man was (2a).
         ♦ В Олю он окончательно влюбился после велосипедной прогулки с ней и с Яшей по Шварцвальду, которая, как потом он показывал на следствии, "нам всем троим открыла глаза"... (Набоков 1). He fell in love with Olya conclusively after a bicycle ride with her and Yasha in the Black Forest, a tour which, as he later testified at the inquest, "was an eye-opener for all three of us"... (1a).

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  • 112 раскрывать глаза

    • ОТКРЫВАТЬ/ОТКРЫТЬ <РАСКРЫВАТЬ/РАСКРЫТЬ> ГЛАЗА
    [VP; usu. pfv past; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ to begin to see a situation as it really is or people as they really are:
    - X открыл глаза (на Y) ≈ X opened his eyes (to Y);
    - X saw the light.
         ♦ [ Люди] просыпались от вынужденной спячки периода Хозяина, открывали глаза на действительность и рвались развернуть свои творческие потенции, зажимавшиеся столько десятилетий (Зиновьев 1)....People were beginning to wake up after the forced hibernation of the Boss period, to open their eyes to reality, impatient to give full rein to their creative potential which had been repressed for so many decades (1a).
         ♦ [Платонов:] Ты первая перестанешь заблуждаться! Ты первая откроешь глаза и оставишь меня! (Чехов 1). [R:] You'll be the first to realize the error of your ways and see the light. You'll leave me first (1b).
    ⇒ to show s.o. that his perceptions of sth. are erroneous, help s.o. to comprehend the true nature of some person or phenomenon:
    - X открыл Y-y глаза на Z-a - X opened Y's eyes < the eyes of Y> to Z;
    - X made < helped> Y see what...Z is;
    - thing X was an eyeopener < eye-opener>.
         ♦ "Его речь мне просто глаза открыла на многое" (Чуковская 2). "His speech opened my eyes to a lot of things" (2a).
         ♦ "Иванько воспользовался тем, что Борис Иванович [Стукалин, председатель Государственного комитета по делам издательств], к сожалению, слишком мягок и доверчив"... В таком случае не открыть ли нам глаза доверчивому Борису Ивановичу на одного из его ближайших соратников? (Войнович 3). "Ivanko took advantage of the fact that, unfortunately, Boris Ivanovich [Stukalin, Chairman of the State Committee on Publishing] is too soft and credulous."...But, in that case, shouldn't we open the eyes of the credulous Boris Ivanovich to one of his closest comrades-in-arms? (3a).
         ♦ Глебов принял лекарство и прилёг одетый на тахту, думая о том, что сегодня надо бы наконец, если всё будет благополучно и дочка вернётся живая, поговорить с нею о Толмачёве. Раскрыть глаза на это ничтожество (Трифонов 2). Glebov took his medication and lay down fully dressed on the couch, thinking how today-provided all was well and she actually returned alive - he must talk to his daughter about Tolmachev and make her see what a nonentity this young man was (2a).
         ♦ В Олю он окончательно влюбился после велосипедной прогулки с ней и с Яшей по Шварцвальду, которая, как потом он показывал на следствии, "нам всем троим открыла глаза"... (Набоков 1). He fell in love with Olya conclusively after a bicycle ride with her and Yasha in the Black Forest, a tour which, as he later testified at the inquest, "was an eye-opener for all three of us"... (1a).

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  • 113 раскрыть глаза

    • ОТКРЫВАТЬ/ОТКРЫТЬ <РАСКРЫВАТЬ/РАСКРЫТЬ> ГЛАЗА
    [VP; usu. pfv past; fixed WO]
    =====
    ⇒ to begin to see a situation as it really is or people as they really are:
    - X открыл глаза (на Y) ≈ X opened his eyes (to Y);
    - X saw the light.
         ♦ [ Люди] просыпались от вынужденной спячки периода Хозяина, открывали глаза на действительность и рвались развернуть свои творческие потенции, зажимавшиеся столько десятилетий (Зиновьев 1)....People were beginning to wake up after the forced hibernation of the Boss period, to open their eyes to reality, impatient to give full rein to their creative potential which had been repressed for so many decades (1a).
         ♦ [Платонов:] Ты первая перестанешь заблуждаться! Ты первая откроешь глаза и оставишь меня! (Чехов 1). [R:] You'll be the first to realize the error of your ways and see the light. You'll leave me first (1b).
    ⇒ to show s.o. that his perceptions of sth. are erroneous, help s.o. to comprehend the true nature of some person or phenomenon:
    - X открыл Y-y глаза на Z-a - X opened Y's eyes < the eyes of Y> to Z;
    - X made < helped> Y see what...Z is;
    - thing X was an eyeopener < eye-opener>.
         ♦ "Его речь мне просто глаза открыла на многое" (Чуковская 2). "His speech opened my eyes to a lot of things" (2a).
         ♦ "Иванько воспользовался тем, что Борис Иванович [Стукалин, председатель Государственного комитета по делам издательств], к сожалению, слишком мягок и доверчив"... В таком случае не открыть ли нам глаза доверчивому Борису Ивановичу на одного из его ближайших соратников? (Войнович 3). "Ivanko took advantage of the fact that, unfortunately, Boris Ivanovich [Stukalin, Chairman of the State Committee on Publishing] is too soft and credulous."...But, in that case, shouldn't we open the eyes of the credulous Boris Ivanovich to one of his closest comrades-in-arms? (3a).
         ♦ Глебов принял лекарство и прилёг одетый на тахту, думая о том, что сегодня надо бы наконец, если всё будет благополучно и дочка вернётся живая, поговорить с нею о Толмачёве. Раскрыть глаза на это ничтожество (Трифонов 2). Glebov took his medication and lay down fully dressed on the couch, thinking how today-provided all was well and she actually returned alive - he must talk to his daughter about Tolmachev and make her see what a nonentity this young man was (2a).
         ♦ В Олю он окончательно влюбился после велосипедной прогулки с ней и с Яшей по Шварцвальду, которая, как потом он показывал на следствии, "нам всем троим открыла глаза"... (Набоков 1). He fell in love with Olya conclusively after a bicycle ride with her and Yasha in the Black Forest, a tour which, as he later testified at the inquest, "was an eye-opener for all three of us"... (1a).

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  • 114 choc

    choc [∫ɔk]
    1. masculine noun
       a. ( = heurt) impact
    • « résiste aux chocs » "shock-resistant"
    ► de choc [troupe, unité, traitement, tactique] shock ; [patron] high-powered
       b. ( = collision) crash
       c. ( = affrontement) clash
       d. ( = émotion) shock
    • tenir le choc (inf) [personne] to cope ; [machine] to hold out
    2. invariable adjective
    * * *
    ʃɔk
    1.
    adjectif invariable

    ‘prix choc!’ — ‘huge reductions’


    2.
    nom masculin
    1) ( rencontre brutale) ( d'objets) impact, shock; ( de vagues) crash; ( de personnes) collision; Automobile ( collision) crash; ( sans gravité) bump
    2) ( bruit) ( violent) crash, smash; ( sourd) thud; ( métallique) clang; ( de vaisselle) clink

    troupe or unité de choc — Armée shock troops

    de choc — [journaliste, patron] ace (colloq)

    4) ( commotion) shock

    être encore sous le choc — ( après une nouvelle) to be still in a state of shock; ( après un accident) to be still in shock

    •
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    ʃɔk
    1. nm
    1) (entre objets) impact, (entre véhicules) collision, (d'une chute, contre un mur, sur la tête) bump

    Le choc a été très violent. — There was a very violent impact.

    L'appareil a subi un choc. — The camera took a knock.

    2) (affectif, psychologique) shock

    Ça m'a fait un sacré choc de le voir comme ça. — It gave me a hell of a shock to see him in that state.

    3) (= affrontement) clash

    de choc (troupe, traitement) — shock modif (patron) high-powered

    2. adj

    prix chocs — amazing prices, incredible prices

    * * *
    A adj inv mesures choc drastic measures; ‘prix choc!’ ‘huge reductions’; c'est l'argument choc! there's no answer to that!; le film choc de l'année the most sensational film of the year.
    B nm
    1 ( rencontre brutale) ( d'objets) impact, shock; ( de vagues) crash; ( de personnes) collision; Aut ( collision) crash; ( sans gravité) bump; ça s'ébrèche au moindre choc it chips at the slightest knock; résister aux chocs to be shock-resistant; à cause de la violence du choc because of the force of the impact; sous le choc under the impact; à la suite d'un choc avec un attaquant adverse Sport after colliding with an opponent; ⇒ onde;
    2 ( bruit) ( violent) crash, smash; ( sourd) thud; ( métallique) clang; (de verre, vaisselle) chink;
    3 ( affrontement) ( d'adversaires) gén, Mil clash; Sport encounter; fig (d'idées, opinions) clash; les troupes ont résisté au premier choc the troops have weathered the first onslaught; troupe or unité de choc Mil shock troops (pl); de choc [journaliste, patron] ace○;
    4 ( commotion) shock; ça m'a fait un choc de la revoir it gave me a shock to see her again; être encore sous le choc ( après une nouvelle) to be still in a state of shock; Méd ( après un accident) to be still in shock; tenir le choc to cope; traitement de choc shock treatment; ⇒ état.
    choc culturel culture shock; choc électrique electric shock; choc nerveux (nervous) shock; choc opératoire post-operative shock; choc pétrolier oil crisis; choc en retour return shock; fig backlash; choc septique toxic shock.
    [ʃɔk] nom masculin
    1. [collision - entre véhicules] crash ; [ - entre personnes] collision
    [heurt] impact, shock
    résistant aux choc s shock-proof, shock-resistant
    sous le choc, l'avion se désintégra the plane fell apart on impact
    2. [bruit - métallique] clang ; [ - sourd] thwack ; [ - cristallin] clink, tinkle
    3. MILITAIRE [affrontement] clash
    4. [incompatibilité] clash, conflict
    5. [émotion] shock
    choc allergique/anesthésique allergic/anaesthesia shock
    9. (comme adjectif; avec ou sans trait d'union)
    argument/discours choc hard-hitting argument/speech
    ————————
    de choc locution adjectivale
    [unité, troupe, traitement] shock (modificateur)
    sous le choc locution adjectivale
    b. [bouleversé] to be in a daze ou in shock

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  • 115 BRÚN

    I)
    (pl. brýnn), f.
    1) brow, the projecting edge of a cliff or hill (cf. fjalls, heiðar, isbrún);
    2) eyebrow; láta síga brýnn á nef fyrir brár, ofan fyrir augum, setja síða brún hleypa brúnum, to kni tthe brows lypta brúnum, hefja upp brún, to lift the eyebrows, become cheerful, brighten up; also impers., hefr em upp brún, one brightens up; lypti þá mjök brúnum manna, therfaces brightened up; em bregðr í brún, one is amazed.
    (pl. brúnir), f. a kind of stuff.
    * * *
    1.
    f., old pl. brýnn, mod. brýr; the old form remains in the phrase, bera e-m e-t á brýn (qs. Brýnn):— eye-brow (brá = eye-lid), Fms. xi. 274; kom ( the blow) á brúnina, ok hljóp hón ofan fyrir augat…. bindr upp brúnina, Þorst. St. 49; ór brúnunum ofan nefið, Ísl. ii. 368; skegg ok brýnn, Stj. 318; brá eðr brúna. Edda 109.
    β. in reference to frames of mind; to lift the eye-brows denoting a pleasurable state; to drop them, a moody frame; in phrases, bregða í brún ; (brýnn?), to be amazed, v. bregða; lypta brúnum, to lift the eye-brows, to be glad, cheerful, Fs. 18: hóf þá upp brún (impers.), their faces cleared, Bs. i. 637, Eg. 55; síga lætr þú brýnn fyrir brár, cp. the Engl. to knit the brows, Hkv. Hjörv. 19; er hann sá at Þórr lét siga brýnnar ofan fyrir augun, Edda 28; hleypa brúnum. id., Eg. 305, hence létt-brýnn. glad; þung-brynn, moody; brún-ölvi, id.; hafa brögð undir brúnum, to look uncanny, Band.; vera (so and so) undir brún at líta, to look so and so, esp. in an uncanny sense, Nj. 55, Orkn. 284; bera e-m e-t á brýnn (vide bera B. 1. β), Greg. 51, Rd. 241.
    II. metaph. the brow of a fell, moor, etc. (fjalls-brún, heiðar-brún, veggjar-brún); is-brún, the edge of ice; á framanverðri brúninni, efstu brúninni, on the mountain edge, Sturl. i. 84: the first beam of day in the sky (dags-brún), litil brún af degi; lands-brún, the ‘lands-brow,’ i. e. the first sight of a mountain above the water.
    COMPDS: brúnabein, brúnamikill, brúnasíðr, brúnaskurðr.
    2.
    f. a kind of stuff or tapestry (for. word), Vm. 24, 31, 146, 177, Pm. 25, Bs. i. 762.

    Íslensk-ensk orðabók > BRÚN

  • 116 Snodgrass, Neil

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    fl. late 1790s Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish inventor of the scutcher for opening and cleaning raw cotton.
    [br]
    Raw cotton arrived in Britain in tightly packed bales. Before spinning, the fibres had to be opened out, and dirt, seeds and bits of plant had to be removed. This was an unpleasant and fatiguing job usually carried out by women and children. By 1800 it could be done by two machines. The first stage in opening was the "willow" and then the cotton was passed through the "scutcher" to open it further and give it a more effective cleaning. These machines reduced the labour of the operation to about one-twentieth of what it had been. The scutching machine was constructed by Snodgrass and first used at Houston's mill in Johnstone, near Paisley, in 1797. It was derived from the threshing machine invented by Andrew Meikle of Phantassie in 1786. In the scutcher, revolving bars beat the cotton to separate the fibres from the trash. As the dirt fell out, the cotton was blown forward by a fan and was rolled up into a lap at the end of the machine. Scutchers were not introduced to Manchester until 1808 or 1809 and further improvements were soon made to them.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (covers the development of the scutcher).
    W.English, 1970, The Textile Industry, London (provides a brief account).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Snodgrass, Neil

  • 117 lead

    الجْرَافِيت (داخل قَلَم الرّصاص)‏ \ lead: the black material in a pencil. \ الرّصاص (مَعْدِن)‏ \ lead: a soft heavy metal. \ المُقَدِّمَة \ lead: (with the) the first place: My horse was in the lead until he fell. \ طَرَفُ الخَيْط \ lead: the act of leading; a personal example; sth. that guides: The rest of the class followed his lead. The footmarks gave the police a lead. \ قَادَ إلى \ lead: to show the way: The road led straight to his house, to cause; result in What led you to think that? His careless mistakes led to the loss of his job. \ لَعِبَ الورقةَ الأولى \ lead: (of the first player in a card game) to put down a certain card, which others must follow: He led the king of hearts. \ مَعْدِن الرَّصاص \ lead: a soft heavy metal. \ مِسْلَك (التوصيل الرئيسي)‏ \ lead: a wire (in a building or machine) that carries electricity to the point where it is used. \ مِقْدَار \ lead: the distance or amount by which one leads: We had a lead of ten points over the other team. \ See Also مَسَافَة التَّقَدُّم أو السَّبْق

    Arabic-English glossary > lead

  • 118 Hürde

    f; -, -n
    1. SPORT hurdle; eine Hürde nehmen take ( oder clear) a hurdle; 400 m Hürden Wettkampf: the 400 m hurdles; sie siegte über 400 m Hürden she came first in the 400 m hurdles
    2. (Pferch, Viehzaun) fold, pen
    3. fig. (Hindernis) hurdle, obstacle; wir standen vor schier unüberwindlichen Hürden we were faced with virtually insurmountable obstacles; wenn du das Projekt durchsetzen willst, hast du einige Hürden zu überwinden you’ll have a few obstacles to overcome if you want to carry the project through
    * * *
    die Hürde
    wattle; hurdle; dam
    * * *
    Hụ̈r|de ['hʏrdə]
    f -, -n
    1) (SPORT fig) hurdle

    eine Hürde nehmen — to take or clear a hurdle

    2) (= Viehzaun) fold, pen
    * * *
    die
    1) (a frame to be jumped in a race.) hurdle
    2) (a problem or difficulty: There are several hurdles to be got over in this project.) hurdle
    3) (an obstacle to be jumped over: Her horse fell at the third jump.) jump
    * * *
    Hur·de
    <-, -n>
    [ˈhʊrdə]
    f SÜDD, SCHWEIZ fruit and vegetable rack
    * * *
    die; Hürde, Hürden
    (Leichtathletik, fig.) hurdle

    eine Hürde nehmen — clear a hurdle; (fig.) get over a hurdle

    * * *
    Hürde f; -, -n
    1. SPORT hurdle;
    eine Hürde nehmen take ( oder clear) a hurdle;
    400 m Hürden Wettkampf: the 400 m hurdles;
    sie siegte über 400 m Hürden she came first in the 400 m hurdles
    2. (Pferch, Viehzaun) fold, pen
    3. fig (Hindernis) hurdle, obstacle;
    wir standen vor schier unüberwindlichen Hürden we were faced with virtually insurmountable obstacles;
    wenn du das Projekt durchsetzen willst, hast du einige Hürden zu überwinden you’ll have a few obstacles to overcome if you want to carry the project through
    * * *
    die; Hürde, Hürden
    (Leichtathletik, fig.) hurdle

    eine Hürde nehmen — clear a hurdle; (fig.) get over a hurdle

    * * *
    -n f.
    hurdle n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Hürde

  • 119 падать

    vi; св - пасть, упа́сть
    1) валиться to fall, to drop; медленно to sink

    па́дать на зе́млю — to fall to the ground

    па́дать на́ пол — to fall on the floor

    она́ си́льно упа́ла и слома́ла но́гу — she had a bad fall and broke her leg

    он упа́л на коле́ни — he fell/dropped/sank on/to his knees

    па́дает снег — it is snowing

    3) ослабевать to decline, to go down, to fall

    давле́ние па́дает — the pressure is falling

    его́ влия́ние па́дает — his influence is declining

    це́ны па́дают — prices are going down/ сильно dropping, falling

    курс а́кций ре́зко упа́л — these shares have plunged to a new low

    рожда́емость па́дает — the birthrate is on the decline

    её успева́емость ста́ла па́дать — her marks/AE grades began to slip

    4) приходиться, совпадать to fall

    ударе́ние па́дает на пе́рвый слог — the stress is on the first syllable, the first syllable is stressed

    в э́том году́ Пе́рвое ма́я па́дает на суббо́ту — May Day falls on a Saturday this year

    •
    - падать духом
    - падать с ног
    - сердце у него упало

    Русско-английский учебный словарь > падать

  • 120 давать стрекача

    прост.
    cf. take to one's heels; show smb. one's heels (a clean pair of heels); turn tail; cut and run; cut one's lucky; do a bunk; beat it < quick>; cut dirt Amer.

    Встал мужичина: видит, что генералы строгие. Хотел было дать от них стречка, но они так и закоченели, вцепившись в него. (М. Салтыков-Щедрин, Повесть о том, как один мужик двух генералов прокормил) — The muzhik rose to his feet and saw that this was no joking matter. These were very stern officials. At first he wanted to show them his heels, but they pounced on him and held on like grim death.

    - Вот жулики - разведку поставили, а? Точно настоящие воины. А только как увидел, что тут прибыли не в жмурки играть, - эх, и стрекача задал назад! (А. Новиков-Прибой, В бухте "Отрада") — 'They've got scouts, the blighters - would you believe it! Just like a regular army. But the moment he saw we hadn't come here to play hide-and-seek, he beat it quick.'

    - У страха глаза велики!.. Попадали от страха, а старший по команде вместо того, чтобы собрать людей, половину бросил, а сам дал стрекача по шоссе. (К. Симонов, Живые и мёртвые) — 'Fear has big eyes!... They fell down in fright, and instead of getting his men together, the senior in command abandoned half of them and did a bunk down the road.'

    Я поднимался по скрипучей лестнице старого замоскворецкого дома и на каждом пролёте переводил дух, решая про себя задачу: не задать ли стрекача? Первый раз в жизни шёл я к настоящей, живой артистке! Страшно-то как! (В. Астафьев, Старое кино) — I was climbing the creaking stairs of an old Moscow house and on every flight I paused to draw breath, trying to make up my mind: should I turn tail? For the first time in my life I was going to visit a real live actress. It was rather alarming!

    Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > давать стрекача

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