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  • 101 declining

    dɪˈklaɪnɪŋ прил. преклонный declining years Syn: old, advanced заходящий;
    меркнущий - the * sun заходящее солнце - the * day день, склоняющийся к вечеру преклонный - * years преклонный возраст, закат дней начинающий засыхать клонящийся к упадку - * industries отрасли промышленности, находящиеся в кризисном состоянии исчезающий - * species исчезающий вид( растений или животных) declining pres. p. от decline ~ клонящийся к упадку ~ ослабевающий ~ преклонный;
    declining years преклонные годы;
    закат дней ~ снижающийся ~ уменьшающийся ~ преклонный;
    declining years преклонные годы;
    закат дней

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > declining

  • 102 Meek, Marshall

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 22 April 1925 Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish naval architect and leading twentieth-century exponent of advanced maritime technology.
    [br]
    After early education at Cupar in Fife, Meek commenced training as a naval architect, taking the then popular sandwich apprenticeship of alternate half years at the University of Glasgow (with a Caird Scholarship) and at a shipyard, in his case the Caledon of Dundee. On leaving Dundee he worked for five years with the British Ship Research Association before joining Alfred Holt \& Co., owners of the Blue Funnel Line. During his twenty-five years at Liverpool, he rose to Chief Naval Architect and Director and was responsible for bringing the cargo-liner concept to its ultimate in design. When the company had become Ocean Fleets, it joined with other British shipowners and looked to Meek for the first purpose-built containership fleet in the world. This required new ship designs, massive worldwide investment in port facilities and marketing to win public acceptance of freight containers, thereby revolutionizing dry-cargo shipping. Under the houseflag of OCL (now POCL), this pioneer service set the highest standards of service and safety and continues to operate on almost every ocean.
    In 1979 Meek returned to the shipbuilding industry when he became Head of Technology at British Shipbuilders. Closely involved in contemporary problems of fuel economy and reduced staffing, he held the post for five years before his appointment as Managing Director of the National Maritime Institute. He was deeply involved in the merger with the British Ship Research Association to form British Maritime Technology (BMT), an organization of which he became Deputy Chairman.
    Marshall Meek has held many public offices, and is one of the few to have been President of two of the United Kingdom's maritime institutions. He has contributed over forty papers to learned societies, has acted as Visiting Professor to Strathclyde University and University College London, and serves on advisory committees to the Ministry of Defence, the Department of Transport and Lloyd's Register of Shipping. While in Liverpool he served as a Justice of the Peace.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    CBE 1989. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering 1990. President, Royal Institution of Naval Architects 1990–3; North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders 1984–6. Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) 1986. Royal Institution of Naval Architects Silver Medal (on two occasions).
    Bibliography
    1970, "The first OCL containerships", Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Meek, Marshall

  • 103 Watson, George Lennox

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 1851 Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 12 November 1904 Glasgow, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish designer of some of the world's largest sailing and powered yachts, principal technical adviser to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
    [br]
    Almost all of Watson's life was spent in or around the City of Glasgow; his formal education was at the city's High School and at the age of 16 he entered the yard and drawing offices of Robert Napier's Govan Shipyard. Three years later he crossed the River Clyde and started work in the design office of the Pointhouse Shipyard of A. \& J.Inglis, and there received the necessary grounding of a naval architect. Dr John Inglis, the Principal of the firm, encouraged Watson, ensured that he was involved in advanced design work and allowed him to build a yacht in a corner of the shipyard in his spare time.
    At the early age of 22 Watson set up as a naval architect with his own company, which is still in existence 120 years later. In 1875, assisted by two carpenters, Watson built the 5-ton yacht Vril to his own design. This vessel was the first with an integral heavy lead keel and its success ensured that design contracts flowed to him for new yachts for the Clyde and elsewhere. His enthusiasm and increasing skill were recognized and soon he was working on the ultimate: the America's Cup challengers Thistle, Valkyrie II, Valkyrie III and Shamrock II. The greatest accolade was the contract for the design of the J Class yacht Britannia, built by D. \& W.Henderson of Glasgow in 1893 for the Prince of Wales.
    The company of G.L.Watson became the world's leading designer of steam yachts, and it was usual for it to offer a full design service as well as supervise construction in any part of the world. Watson took a deep interest in the work of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and was its technical consultant for many years. One of his designs, the Watson Lifeboat, was a stalwart in its fleet for many years. In public life he lectured, took an active part in the debates on yacht racing and was recognized as Britain's leading designer.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1881, Progress in Yachting and Yacht-Building, Glasgow Naval and Marine Engineering Catalogue, London and Glasgow: Collins.
    1894, The Evolution of the Modern Racing Yacht, Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, Vol. 1, London: Longmans Green, pp. 54–109.
    Further Reading
    John Irving, 1937, The King's Britannia. The Story of a Great Ship, London: Seeley Service.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Watson, George Lennox

  • 104 Ferguson, Peter Jack

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 21 July 1840 Partick, near Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 17 March 1911 Greenock, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish marine engineer, pioneer of multiple-expansion steam reciprocating machinery.
    [br]
    Ferguson was educated at the High School of Glasgow before going on to serve his apprenticeship in the engineering department of Thomas Wingate's shipyard. This yard, situated at Whiteinch, then just outside the Glasgow boundary, built interesting and innovative craft and had a tradition of supplying marine engines that were at the leading edge of technology. On his appointment as Manager, Ferguson designed several new types of engines, and in 1872 he was responsible for the construction of what is claimed to be the world's first triple-expansion engine, predating the machinery on SS Propontis by two years and Napier's masterpiece, the SS Aberdeen, by nine years. In 1885, along with others, he founded the shipyard of Fleming and Ferguson, of Paisley, which in the subsequent eighty-five years was to build nearly seven hundred ships. From the outset they built advanced steam reciprocating machinery as well as dredging and other types of plant. The new shipyard was to benefit from Ferguson's experience and from the inspiration he had gained in Wingate's, where experimentation was the norm.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    F.M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde. A History of Clyde Shipbuiding, Cambridge: PSL.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Ferguson, Peter Jack

  • 105 Gutenberg, Johann Gensfleisch zum

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
    [br]
    b. c. 1394–9 Mainz, Germany
    d. 3 February 1468 Mainz, Germany
    [br]
    German inventor of printing with movable type.
    [br]
    Few biographical details are known of Johann Gensfleisch zum Gutenberg, yet it has been said that he was responsible for Germany's most notable contribution to civilization. He was a goldsmith by trade, of a patrician family of the city of Mainz. He seems to have begun experiments on printing while a political exile in Strasbourg c. 1440. He returned to Mainz between 1444 and 1448 and continued his experiments, until by 1450 he had perfected his invention sufficiently to justify raising capital for its commercial exploitation.
    Circumstances were propitious for the invention of printing at that time. Rises in literacy and prosperity had led to the formation of a social class with the time and resources to develop a taste for reading, and the demand for reading matter had outstripped the ability of the scribes to satisfy it. The various technologies required were well established, and finally the flourishing textile industry was producing enough waste material, rag, to make paper, the only satisfactory and cheap medium for printing. There were others working along similar lines, but it was Gutenberg who achieved the successful adaptation and combination of technologies to arrive at a process by which many identical copies of a text could be produced in a wide variety of forms, of which the book was the most important. Gutenberg did make several technical innovations, however. The two-piece adjustable mould for casting types of varying width, from T to "M", was ingenious. Then he had to devise an oil-based ink suitable for inking metal type, derived from the painting materials developed by contemporary Flemish artists. Finally, probably after many experiments, he arrived at a metal alloy of distinctive composition suitable for casting type.
    In 1450 Gutenberg borrowed 800 guldens from Johannes Fust, a lawyer of Mainz, and two years later Fust advanced a further 800 guldens, securing for himself a partnership in Gutenberg's business. But in 1455 Fust foreclosed and the bulk of Gutenberg's equipment passed to Peter Schöffer, who was in the service of Fust and later married his daughter. Like most early printers, Gutenberg seems not to have appreciated, or at any rate to have been able to provide for, the great dilemma of the publishing trade, namely the outlay of considerable capital in advance of each publication and the slowness of the return. Gutenberg probably retained only the type for the 42- and 36-line bibles and possibly the Catholicon of 1460, an encyclopedic work compiled in the thirteenth century and whose production pointed the way to printing's role as a means of spreading knowledge. The work concluded with a short descriptive piece, or colophon, which is probably by Gutenberg himself and is the only output of his mind that we have; it manages to omit the names of both author and printer.
    Gutenberg seems to have abandoned printing after 1460, perhaps due to failing eyesight as well as for financial reasons, and he suffered further loss in the sack of Mainz in 1462. He received a kind of pension from the Archbishop in 1465, and on his death was buried in the Franciscan church in Mainz. The only major work to have issued for certain from Gutenberg's workshop is the great 42-line bible, begun in 1452 and completed by August 1456. The quality of this Graaf piece of printing is a tribute to Gutenberg's ability as a printer, and the soundness of his invention is borne out by the survival of the process as he left it to the world, unchanged for over three hundred years save in minor details.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    A.Ruppel, 1967, Johannes Gutenberg: sein Leben und sein Werk, 3rd edn, Nieuwkoop: B.de Graaf (the standard biography), A.M.L.de Lamartine, 1960, Gutenberg, inventeur de l'imprimerie, Tallone.
    Scholderer, 1963, Gutenberg, Inventor of Printing, London: British Museum.
    S.H.Steinberg, 1974, Five Hundred Years of Printing 3rd edn, London: Penguin (provides briefer details).
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Gutenberg, Johann Gensfleisch zum

  • 106 Oberth, Hermann Julius

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 25 June 1894 Nagyszeben, Transylvania (now Sibiu, Romania)
    d. 29 December 1989 Nuremberg, Germany
    [br]
    Austro-Hungarian lecturer who is usually regarded, with Robert Goddard, as one of the "fathers" of modern astronautics.
    [br]
    The son of a physician, Oberth originally studied medicine in Munich, but his education was interrupted by the First World War and service in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Wounded, he passed the time by studying astronautics. He apparently simulated weightlessness and worked out the design for a long-range liquid-propelled rocket, but his ideas were rejected by the War Office; after the war he submitted them as a dissertation for a PhD at Heidelberg University, but this was also rejected. Consequently, in 1923, whilst still an unknown mathematics teacher, he published his ideas at his own expense in the book The Rocket into Interplanetary Space. These included a description of how rockets could achieve a sufficient velocity to escape the gravitational field of the earth. As a result he gained international prestige almost overnight and learned of the work of Robert Goddard and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. After correspondence with the Goddard and Tsiolkovsky, Oberth published a further work in 1929, The Road to Space Travel, in which he acknowledged the priority of Goddard's and Tsiolkovski's calculations relating to space travel; he went on to anticipate by more than thirty years the development of electric and ionic propulsion and to propose the use of giant mirrors to control the weather. For this he was awarded the annual Hirsch Prize of 10,000 francs. From 1925 to 1938 he taught at a college in Mediasch, Transylvania, where he carried out experiments with petroleum and liquid-air rockets. He then obtained a lecturing post at Vienna Technical University, moving two years later to Dresden University and becoming a German citizen. In 1941 he became assistant to the German rocket engineer Werner von Braun at the rocket development centre at Peenemünde, and in 1943 he began work on solid propellants. After the Second World War he spent a year in Switzerland as a consultant, then in 1950 he moved to Italy to develop solid-propellant anti-aircraft rockets for the Italian Navy. Five years later he moved to the USA to carry out advanced rocket research for the US Army at Huntsville, Alabama, and in 1958 he retired to Feucht, near Nuremberg, Germany, where he wrote his autobiography.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    French Astronautical Society REP-Hirsch Prize 1929. German Society for Space Research Medal 1950. Diesel German Inventors Medal 1954. American Astronautical Society Award 1955. German Federal Republic Award 1961. Institute of Aviation and Astronautics Medal 1969.
    Bibliography
    1923, Die Rakete zu den Planetenraumen; repub. 1934 as The Rocket into Interplanetary Space (autobiography).
    1929, Wege zur Raumschiffahrt [Road to Space Travel].
    1959, Stoff und Leben [Material and Life].
    Further Reading
    R.Spangenburg and D.Moser, 1990, Space People from A to Z, New York: Facts on File. H.Wulforst, 1991, The Rocketmakers: The Dreamers who made Spaceflight a Reality, New York: Crown Publishers.
    KF / IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Oberth, Hermann Julius

  • 107 optimization

    1. подбор оптимальных условий
    2. оптимизация
    3. определение оптимальных характеристик
    4. выбор оптимальных параметров

     

    выбор оптимальных параметров
    —
    [А.С.Гольдберг. Англо-русский энергетический словарь. 2006 г.]

    Тематики

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    оптимизация
    Процесс отыскания варианта, соответствующего критерию оптимальности
    [Терминологический словарь по строительству на 12 языках (ВНИИИС Госстроя СССР)]
    оптимизация
    1. Процесс нахождения экстремума функции, т.е. выбор наилучшего варианта из множества возможных, процесс выработки оптимальных решений; 2. Процесс приведения системы в наилучшее (оптимальное) состояние. Иначе говоря, первое определение трактует термин «О.» как факт выработки и принятия оптимального решения (в широком смысле этих слов); мы выясняем, какое состояние изучаемой системы будет наилучшим с точки зрения предъявляемых к ней требований (критерия оптимальности) и рассматриваем такое состояние как цель. В этом смысле применяется также термин «субоптимизация» в случаях, когда отыскивается оптимум по какому-либо одному критерию из нескольких в векторной задаче оптимизации (см. Оптимальность по Парето, Векторная оптимизация). Второе определение имеет в виду процесс выполнения этого решения: т.е. перевод системы от существующего к искомому оптимальному состоянию. В зависимости от вида используемых критериев оптимальности (целевых функций или функционалов) и ограничений модели (множества допустимых решений) различают скалярную О., векторную О., мно¬гокритериальную О., стохастическую О (см. Стохастическое программирование), гладкую и негладкую (см. Гладкая функция), дискретную и непрерывную (см. Дискретность, Непрерывность), выпуклую и вогнутую (см. Выпуклость, вогнутость) и др. Численные методы О., т.е. методы построения алгоритмов нахождения оп¬тимальных значений целевых функций и соответствующих точек области допустимых значений — развитой отдел современной вычислительной математики. См. Оптимальная задача.
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    Параллельные тексты EN-RU из ABB Review. Перевод компании Интент

    The quest for the optimum

    Вопрос оптимизации

    Throughout the history of industry, there has been one factor that has spurred on progress more than any other. That factor is productivity. From the invention of the first pump to advanced computer-based optimization methods, the key to the success of new ideas was that they permitted more to be achieved with less. This meant that consumers could, over time and measured in real terms, afford to buy more with less money. Luxuries restricted to a tiny minority not much more than a generation ago are now available to almost everybody in developed countries, with many developing countries rapidly catching up.

    На протяжении всей истории промышленности существует один фактор, подстегивающий ее развитие сильнее всего. Он называется «производительность». Начиная с изобретения первого насоса и заканчивая передовыми методами компьютерной оптимизации, успех новых идей зависел от того, позволяют ли они добиться большего результата меньшими усилиями. На языке потребителей это значит, что они всегда хотят купить больше, а заплатить меньше. Меньше чем поколение назад, многие предметы считались роскошью и были доступны лишь немногим. Сейчас в развитых странах, число которых быстро увеличивается, подобное может позволить себе почти каждый.

    With industry and consumers expecting the trend towards higher productivity to continue, engineering companies are faced with the challenge of identifying and realizing further optimization potential. The solution often lies in taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture. Rather than optimizing every step individually, many modern optimization techniques look at a process as a whole, and sometimes even beyond it. They can, for example, take into account factors such as the volatility of fuel quality and price, the performance of maintenance and service practices or even improved data tracking and handling. All this would not be possible without the advanced processing capability of modern computer and control systems, able to handle numerous variables over large domains, and so solve optimization problems that would otherwise remain intractable.

    На фоне общей заинтересованности в дальнейшем росте производительности, машиностроительные и проектировочные компании сталкиваются с необходимостью определения и реализации возможностей по оптимизации своей деятельности. Для того чтобы найти решение, часто нужно сделать шаг назад, поскольку большое видится на расстоянии. И поэтому вместо того, чтобы оптимизировать каждый этап производства по отдельности, многие современные решения охватывают процесс целиком, а иногда и выходят за его пределы. Например, они могут учитывать такие факторы, как изменение качества и цены топлива, результативность ремонта и обслуживания, и даже возможности по сбору и обработке данных. Все это невозможно без использования мощных современных компьютеров и систем управления, способных оперировать множеством переменных, связанных с крупномасштабными объектами, и решать проблемы оптимизации, которые другим способом решить нереально.

    Whether through a stunning example of how to improve the rolling of metal, or in a more general overview of progress in optimization algorithms, this edition of ABB Review brings you closer to the challenges and successes of real world computer-based optimization tasks. But it is not in optimization and solving alone that information technology is making a difference: Who would have thought 10 years ago, that a technician would today be able to diagnose equipment and advise on maintenance without even visiting the factory? ABB’s Remote Service makes this possible. In another article, ABB Review shows how the company is reducing paperwork while at the same time leveraging quality control through the computer-based tracking of production. And if you believed that so-called “Internet communities” were just about fun, you will be surprised to read how a spin-off of this idea is already leveraging production efficiency in real terms. Devices are able to form “social networks” and so facilitate maintenance.

    Рассказывая об ошеломляющем примере того, как был усовершенствован процесс прокатки металла, или давая общий обзор развития алгоритмов оптимизации, этот выпуск АББ Ревю знакомит вас с практическими задачами и достигнутыми успехами оптимизации на основе компьютерных технологий. Но информационные технологии способны не только оптимизировать процесс производства. Кто бы мог представить 10 лет назад, что сервисный специалист может диагностировать производственное оборудование и давать рекомендации по его обслуживанию, не выходя из офиса? Это стало возможно с пакетом Remote Service от АББ. В другой статье этого номера АББ Ревю рассказывается о том, как компания смогла уменьшить бумажный документооборот и одновременно повысить качество управления с помощью компьютерного контроля производства. Если вы считаете, что так называемые «интернет-сообщества» служат только для развлечения,
    то очень удивитесь, узнав, что на основе этой идеи можно реально повысить производительность. Формирование «социальной сети» из автоматов значительно облегчает их обслуживание.

    This edition of ABB Review also features several stories of service and consulting successes, demonstrating how ABB’s expertise has helped customers achieve higher levels of productivity. In a more fundamental look at the question of what reliability is really about, a thought-provoking analysis sets out to find the definition of that term that makes the greatest difference to overall production.

    В этом номере АББ Ревю есть несколько статей, рассказывающих об успешных решениях по организации дистанционного сервиса и консультирования. Из них видно, как опыт АББ помогает нашим заказчикам повысить производительность своих предприятий. Углубленные размышления о самой природе термина «надежность» приводят к парадоксальным выводам, способным в корне изменить представления об оптимизации производства.

    Robots have often been called “the extended arm of man.” They are continuously advancing productivity by meeting ever-tightening demands on precision and efficiency. This edition of ABB Review dedicates two articles to robots.

    Робот – это могучее «продолжение» человеческой руки. Применение роботов способствует постоянному повышению производительности, поскольку они отвечают самым строгим требованиям точности и эффективности. Две статьи в этом номере АББ Ревю посвящены роботам.

    Further technological breakthroughs discussed in this issue look at how ABB is keeping water clean or enabling gas to be shipped more efficiently.

    Говоря о других технологических достижениях, обсуждаемых на страницах журнала, следует упомянуть о том, как компания АББ обеспечивает чистоту воды, а также более эффективную перевозку сжиженного газа морским транспортом.

    The publication of this edition of ABB Review is timed to coincide with ABB Automation and Power World 2009, one of the company’s greatest customer events. Readers visiting this event will doubtlessly recognize many technologies and products that have been covered in this and recent editions of the journal. Among the new products ABB is launching at the event is a caliper permitting the flatness of paper to be measured optically. We are proud to carry a report on this product on the very day of its launch.

    Публикация этого номера АББ Ревю совпала по времени с крупнейшей конференцией для наших заказчиков «ABB Automation and Power World 2009». Читатели, посетившие ее, смогли воочию увидеть многие технологии и изделия, описанные в этом и предыдущих выпусках журнала. Среди новинок, представленных АББ на этой конференции, был датчик, позволяющий измерять толщину бумаги оптическим способом. Мы рады сообщить, что сегодня он готов к выпуску.

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    Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > optimization

  • 108 ahead

    adverb
    1) (further forward in space) voraus

    ahead of somebody/something — vor jemandem/etwas

    2) (fig.)

    be ahead of the others — den anderen voraus sein

    finish ahead of schedule or time — früher als geplant fertig werden

    * * *
    [ə'hed]
    (often with of) in front; in advance: He went on ahead of me; We are well ahead (of our rivals). voraus
    * * *
    [əˈhed]
    1. inv (in front) vorn
    the road \ahead looks rather busy die Straße vor uns sieht ziemlich voll aus
    we let the other cars get \ahead of us wir ließen die anderen Autos überholen
    full speed \ahead volle Kraft voraus
    straight \ahead geradeaus
    2. (more advanced)
    to be \ahead of one's time seiner Zeit voraus sein
    to be way \ahead of sb/sth jdm/etw um einiges voraus sein
    to be [years] \ahead of sb/sth jdm/etw [um Jahre] voraus sein
    to put sb/sth \ahead jdn/etw nach vorne bringen
    3. (in the future)
    he has a lonely year \ahead es liegt ein einsames Jahr vor ihm
    to look \ahead nach vorne sehen [o schauen] [o SCHWEIZ, ÖSTERR a. vorwärtsschauen] [o SCHWEIZ, ÖSTERR a. vorwärtssehen]
    to plan [or think] \ahead vorausschauend [o für die Zukunft] planen
    to go \ahead (in advance) vor[aus]gehen
    you go on \ahead, and I'll meet you at the cinema geh du schon mal vor, ich treffe dich dann am Kino
    to send sth on \ahead etw vorausschicken
    5. (proceed) vorwärts
    to move \ahead vorankommen
    the project is moving \ahead quickly mit dem Projekt geht es schnell voran
    * * *
    [ə'hed]
    adv
    1)

    there's some thick cloud ahead — vor uns or da vorne ist eine große Wolke

    the mountains lay ahead — vor uns/ihnen etc lagen die Berge

    the German runner was/drew ahead — der deutsche Läufer lag vorn/zog nach vorne

    he is ahead by about two minutes — er hat etwa zwei Minuten Vorsprung

    in the months ahead — in den bevorstehenden Monaten

    I see problems ahead — ich sehe Probleme auf mich/uns etc zukommen

    2)

    ahead of sb/sth — vor jdm/etw

    walk ahead of me —

    to be/get ahead of schedule — schneller als geplant vorankommen

    * * *
    ahead [əˈhed] adv & präd adj
    1. vorn, nach vorn zu
    2. weiter vor, voran, voraus, vorwärts, einen Vorsprung habend, an der Spitze:
    after being 2-0 ahead SPORT nach einer 2:0-Führung;
    ahead of vor (dat), voraus (dat);
    the years ahead (of us) die kommenden oder bevorstehenden Jahre, die vor uns liegenden Jahre;
    what is ahead of us was vor uns liegt, was uns bevorsteht, was auf uns zukommt;
    a) jemandem voraus sein (a. fig),
    b) vor jemandem sein (in einer Schlange, im Wartezimmer etc);
    get ahead vorankommen, vorwärtskommen, Fortschritte oder Karriere machen;
    get ahead of sb jemanden überholen oder überflügeln; → academic.ru/28896/forge">forge2, go ahead, look ahead, plan B 1, C 1, put ahead, schedule A 3, speed A 1, think B 1, time Bes Redew
    * * *
    adverb

    ahead of somebody/something — vor jemandem/etwas

    2) (fig.)

    finish ahead of schedule or time — früher als geplant fertig werden

    * * *
    adv.
    geradeaus adv.
    im voraus adv.
    oben adv.
    voran adv.
    vorn adv.
    vorwärts adv.

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  • 109 at

    preposition
    1) (expr. place) an (+ Dat.)

    at the station — am Bahnhof

    at the baker's/butcher's/grocer's — beim Bäcker/Fleischer/Kaufmann

    at the chemist's — in der Apotheke/Drogerie

    at the supermarket — im Supermarkt

    at the office/hotel — im Büro/Hotel

    at Dover — in Dover

    2) (expr. time)

    at Christmas/Whitsun/Easter — [zu od. an] Weihnachten/Pfingsten/Ostern

    at six o'clock — um sechs Uhr

    at midday — am Mittag; mittags

    at [the age of] 40 — mit 40; im Alter von 40

    at this/the moment — in diesem/im Augenblick od. Moment

    3) (expr. price)

    at £2.50 [each] — zu od. für [je] 2,50 Pfund

    4)

    while we're/you're etc. at it — wenn wir/du usw. schon dabei sind/bist usw.

    so while I was at it,... — und wo od. da ich schon dabei war...

    at that — (at that point) dabei; (at that provocation) daraufhin; (moreover) noch dazu

    * * *
    [æt]
    1) (position: They are not at home; She lives at 33 Forest Road) zu; an; in; bei
    2) (direction: He looked at her; She shouted at the boys.) zu; nach; auf
    3) (time: He arrived at ten o'clock; The children came at the sound of the bell.) um; bei; auf
    4) (state or occupation: The countries are at war; She is at work.) in; auf; bei
    5) (pace or speed: He drove at 120 kilometres per hour.) mit
    6) (cost: bread at $1.20 a loaf.) für
    •
    - academic.ru/94827/at_all">at all
    * * *
    at
    [æt, ət]
    1. (in location of)
    she's standing \at the bar sie steht an der Theke
    my number \at the office is 2154949 meine Nummer im Büro lautet 2154949
    she lives \at number 12, Darlington Road sie wohnt in der Darlington Road Nummer 12
    there's somebody \at the door da ist jemand an der Tür
    he was standing \at the top of the stairs er stand oben an der Treppe
    \at Anna's bei Anna
    \at the airport/station am Flughafen/Bahnhof
    \at the baker's/doctor's beim Bäcker/Arzt
    \at home zu Hause
    \at a hotel in einem Hotel
    \at the table am Tisch
    \at the window am Fenster
    \at the zoo im Zoo
    we spent the afternoon \at the museum wir verbrachten den Nachmittag im Museum
    while he was \at his last job, he learned a lot in seiner letzten Stelle hat er viel gelernt
    \at the institute am Institut
    \at the party/festival auf [o bei] der Party/dem Festival
    \at school in der Schule
    \at university auf [o an] der Universität
    \at work auf [o bei] der Arbeit
    he's \at work at the moment er arbeitet gerade
    3. (expressing point of time)
    he was defeated \at the election er wurde bei der Wahl geschlagen
    what are you doing \at Christmas? was macht ihr an Weihnachten?
    our train leaves \at 2 o'clock unser Zug fährt um 2:00 Uhr
    I'm busy \at present [or the moment] ich bin gerade beschäftigt
    I can't come to the phone \at the moment ich kann gerade nicht ans Telefon kommen
    we always read the kids a story \at bedtime wir lesen den Kindern zum Schlafengehen immer eine Geschichte vor
    I can't do ten things \at a time ich kann nicht tausend Sachen auf einmal machen
    his death came \at a time when... sein Tod kam zu einem Zeitpunkt, als...
    the bells ring \at regular intervals die Glocken läuten in regelmäßigen Abständen
    \at the age of 60 im Alter von 60
    most people retire \at 65 die meisten Leute gehen mit 65 in Rente
    \at the beginning/end am Anfang/Ende
    \at daybreak/dawn im Morgengrauen
    \at lunch beim Mittagessen
    \at lunchtime in der Mittagspause
    \at midnight um Mitternacht
    \at night nachts
    \at nightfall bei Einbruch der Nacht
    \at this stage of research beim derzeitigen Stand der Forschung
    five \at a time fünf auf einmal
    \at the time zu diesem Zeitpunkt
    \at the time, nobody knew damals wusste keiner Bescheid
    \at no time [or point] [or stage] nie[mals]
    \at the same time (simultaneously) gleichzeitig; (on the other hand)
    I love snow — \at the same time, however, I hate the cold ich liebe Schnee — andererseits hasse ich jedoch die Kälte
    \at the weekend am Wochenende
    4. (denoting amount, degree of)
    he can see clearly \at a distance of 50 metres er kann auf eine Entfernung von 50 Metern noch alles erkennen
    learners of English \at advanced levels Englischlernende mit fortgeschrittenen Kenntnissen
    he drives \at any speed he likes er fährt so schnell wie er will
    the horse raced to the fence \at a gallop das Pferd raste im Galopp auf den Zaun zu
    the children came \at a run die Kinder kamen angerannt
    I'm not going to buy those shoes \at $150! ich zahle keine 150 Dollar für diese Schuhe!
    \at that price, I can't afford it zu diesem Preis kann ich es mir nicht leisten
    inflation is running \at 5% die Inflation liegt im Moment bei 5 %
    \at £20 apiece für 20 Pfund das Stück
    \at 50 kilometres per hour mit [o bei] 50 km/h
    he denied driving \at 120 km per hour er leugnete, 120 Stundenkilometer gefahren zu sein
    the country was \at war das Land befand sich im Krieg
    there was a murderer \at large ein Mörder war auf freiem Fuß
    to be \at an advantage/a disadvantage im Vorteil/Nachteil sein
    to be \at ease with oneself sich akk in seiner Haut wohl fühlen
    to be \at ease with sb sich akk mit jdm zusammen wohl fühlen
    to be \at fault im Unrecht sein
    \at a loss/profit mit Verlust/Gewinn
    to be \at peace ( euph) in Frieden ruhen
    \at play beim Spielen
    \at one's own risk auf eigene Gefahr
    to put sb/sth \at risk jdn/etw gefährden
    to be \at a standstill stillstehen
    6. + superl
    she's \at her best when she's under stress sie ist am besten, wenn sie unter Druck steht
    he's been \at his worst recently zurzeit übertrifft er sich echt selbst! fam
    he was \at his happiest while he was still in school in der Schule war er am glücklichsten
    \at least (at minimum) mindestens; (if nothing else) zumindest
    \at [the] most [aller]höchstens
    I was so depressed \at the news die Nachricht hat mich sehr deprimiert
    we are unhappy \at the current circumstances über die gegenwärtigen Umstände sind wir sehr unglücklich
    don't be angry \at her! ( fam) sei nicht sauer auf sie!
    I'm amazed \at the way you can talk ich bin erstaunt, wie du reden kannst
    to be annoyed \at sth sich akk über etw akk ärgern
    to be good/poor \at sth etw gut/schlecht können
    to be good \at math gut in Mathematik sein
    she shuddered \at the thought of having to fly in an airplane sie erschauderte bei dem Gedanken, mit einem Flugzeug fliegen zu müssen
    he excels \at diving er ist ein hervorragender Taucher
    the dog gnawed \at the bone der Hund knabberte an dem Knochen herum
    she clutched \at the thin gown sie klammerte sich an den dünnen Morgenmantel
    if you persevere \at a skill long enough,... wenn man eine Fertigkeit lange genug trainiert,...
    some dogs howl \at the moon manche Hunde heulen den Mond an
    to aim \at sb auf jdn zielen
    to aim \at sth etw zum Ziel haben
    to go \at sb jdn angreifen
    to hint \at sth etw andeuten
    to laugh \at sth über etw akk lachen
    to look \at sb jdn anschauen
    to rush \at sb auf jdn zurennen
    to wave \at sb jdm zuwinken
    her pleasure \at the bouquet was plain to see ihre Freude über den Blumenstrauß war unübersehbar
    to be an expert \at sth ein Experte für etw akk sein
    to be a failure \at sth eine Niete in etw dat sein
    10. (in response to)
    I'm here \at his invitation ich bin hier, da er mich eingeladen hat
    \at your request... auf Ihre Bitte hin...
    \at her death, we all moved away nach ihrem Tod zogen wir alle weg
    \at this [or that] ... daraufhin...
    11. (repeatedly do)
    to be \at sth mit etw dat beschäftigt sein
    he's been \at it for at least 15 years er macht das jetzt schon seit mindestens 15 Jahren
    12.
    ▶ \at all:
    she barely made a sound \at all sie gab fast überhaupt keinen Laut von sich
    I haven't been well \at all recently in letzter Zeit ging es mir gar nicht gut
    did she suffer \at all? hat sie denn gelitten?
    ▶ nothing/nobody \at all gar [o überhaupt] nichts/niemand
    ▶ not \at all (polite response) gern geschehen, keine Ursache, da nicht für NORDD; (definitely not) keineswegs
    I'm not \at all in a hurry ich habe es wirklich nicht eilig
    ▶ to be \at sb jdm zusetzen
    ▶ \at first zuerst, am Anfang
    ▶ to be \at it:
    while we're \at it... wo wir gerade dabei sind,...
    ▶ \at last endlich, schließlich
    ▶ \at that:
    she's got a new boyfriend, and a nice one \at that sie hat einen neuen Freund, und sogar einen netten
    ▶ where it's \at ( fam)
    London is where it's \at in London steppt der Bär! sl
    ▶ where sb's \at ( fam)
    she really doesn't know where she's \at sie weiß wirklich nicht, wo ihr der Kopf steht
    * * *
    prep
    1) (position) an (+dat), bei (+dat); (with place) in (+dat)

    at the window — am or beim Fenster

    this is where it's at ( esp US inf ) — da gehts ab (sl), da geht die Post ab

    he doesn't know where he's at (inf) — der weiß ja nicht, was er tut (inf)

    2)

    (direction) to aim/shoot/point etc at sb/sth — auf jdn/etw zielen/schießen/zeigen etc

    to look/growl/swear etc at sb/sth —

    3)

    (time, frequency, order) at ten o'clock — um zehn Uhr

    at night/dawn — bei Nacht/beim or im Morgengrauen

    at Christmas/Easter etc — zu Weihnachten/Ostern etc

    at your age/16 (years of age) — in deinem Alter/mit 16 (Jahren)

    at the start/end of sth — am Anfang/am Ende einer Sache (gen)

    4)

    (activity) at play — beim Spiel

    good/bad/an expert at sth — gut/schlecht/ein Experte in etw

    his employees/creditors are at him — seine Angestellten/Gläubiger setzen ihm zu

    5)

    (state, condition) to be at an advantage — im Vorteil sein

    at a loss/profit — mit Verlust/Gewinn

    See:
    6) (= as a result of, upon) auf (+acc)... (hin)

    at his request —

    at that/this he left the room — daraufhin verließ er das Zimmer

    7) (cause = with) angry, annoyed, delighted etc über (+acc)
    8)

    (rate, value, degree) at full speed/50 km/h — mit voller Geschwindigkeit/50 km/h

    at 5% interest — zu 5% Zinsen

    at a high/low price — zu einem hohen/niedrigen Preis

    with inflation at this level — bei so einer Inflationsrate

    See:
    → all, cost, rate
    * * *
    at [æt] präp
    1. (Ort, Stelle) in (dat), an (dat), bei, zu, auf (dat)( in Verbindung mit Städtenamen steht at im Allgemeinen bei kleineren Städten, bei größeren Städten nur dann, wenn sie bloß als Durchgangsstationen, besonders auf Reisen, betrachtet werden;
    bei London und der Stadt, in der der Sprecher wohnt, ebenso nach here, steht stets in, nie at):
    at the baker’s beim Bäcker;
    at the battle of N. in der Schlacht bei N.;
    at the door an der Tür;
    he lives at 48, Main Street er wohnt Main Street Nr. 48;
    he was educated at Christ’s College er hat am Christ’s College studiert;
    jogging is where it’s at umg es geht nichts über Jogging
    2. (Richtung etc) auf (akk), gegen, nach, bei, durch:
    he threw a stone at the door er warf einen Stein gegen die Tür
    3. (Beschäftigung etc) bei, beschäftigt mit, in (dat):
    he is still at it er ist noch dabei oder d(a)ran oder damit beschäftigt
    4. (Art und Weise, Zustand, Lage) in (dat), bei, zu, unter (dat), nach:
    at all überhaupt;
    not at all überhaupt oder durchaus oder gar nicht, keineswegs;
    not at all! umg nichts zu danken!, gern geschehen!;
    nothing at all gar nichts, überhaupt nichts;
    no doubts at all überhaupt oder gar keine Zweifel, keinerlei Zweifel;
    is he at all suitable? ist er überhaupt geeignet?;
    I wasn’t surprised at all ich war nicht im Geringsten überrascht
    5. (Ursprung, Grund, Anlass) über (akk), bei, von, aus, auf (akk), anlässlich
    6. (Preis, Wert, Verhältnis, Ausmaß, Grad etc) für, um, zu, auf (akk), mit, bei:
    at 6 dollars für oder zu 6 Dollar
    7. (Zeit, Alter) um, bei, zu, im Alter von, auf (dat), an (dat):
    at 21 mit 21 (Jahren), im Alter von 21 Jahren;
    at 3 o’clock um 3 Uhr;
    at his death bei seinem Tod (Siehe weitere Verbindungen bei den entsprechenden Stichwörtern.)
    * * *
    preposition
    1) (expr. place) an (+ Dat.)

    at the baker's/butcher's/grocer's — beim Bäcker/Fleischer/Kaufmann

    at the chemist's — in der Apotheke/Drogerie

    at the office/hotel — im Büro/Hotel

    2) (expr. time)

    at Christmas/Whitsun/Easter — [zu od. an] Weihnachten/Pfingsten/Ostern

    at midday — am Mittag; mittags

    at [the age of] 40 — mit 40; im Alter von 40

    at this/the moment — in diesem/im Augenblick od. Moment

    3) (expr. price)

    at £2.50 [each] — zu od. für [je] 2,50 Pfund

    4)

    while we're/you're etc. at it — wenn wir/du usw. schon dabei sind/bist usw.

    so while I was at it,... — und wo od. da ich schon dabei war...

    at that — (at that point) dabei; (at that provocation) daraufhin; (moreover) noch dazu

    * * *
    (for) a reasonable price expr.
    kostengünstig adv. prep.
    an präp.
    auf präp.
    bei präp.
    im präp.
    in präp.
    um präp.
    zu präp.
    über präp.

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  • 110 old

    [əuld]
    1) (advanced in age: an old man; He is too old to live alone.) velho
    2) (having a certain age: He is thirty years old.) de idade
    3) (having existed for a long time: an old building; Those trees are very old.) velho
    4) (no longer useful: She threw away the old shoes.) velho
    5) (belonging to times long ago: old civilizations like that of Greece.) antigo
    •
    - old boy/girl
    - old-fashioned
    - old hand
    - old maid
    - the old
    * * *
    [ould] n tempo remoto, passado. • adj 1 velho. 2 de idade, idoso. 3 antigo. 4 gasto. 5 maduro. 6 anterior. 7 antiquado, obsoleto. 8 habitual, conhecido. 9 sl familiar e desprezível. 10 sl familiar e querido (usado como termo afetivo). as old as the hills tão velho como as pirâmides. how old are you? quantos anos tem você? I am twenty years old eu tenho vinte anos. of old de tempos antigos, de antigamente. of old standing estabelecido há tempos. old age pensioner aposentado por idade. Old Glory bandeira dos EUA. old Harry, Poker ou Sam o diabo. old looking de aspecto idoso. Old Testament Antigo Testamento. to grow old envelhecer.

    English-Portuguese dictionary > old

  • 111 behind

    behind [bɪˈhaɪnd]
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    ► When behind is an element in a phrasal verb, eg fall behind, stay behind, look up the verb.
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
       a. ( = in or at the rear) derrière
    • to follow a long way behind/not far behind suivre de loin/d'assez près
       b. ( = late) en retard
       a. derrière
    • what is behind this? qu'y a-t-il là-dessous ?
       c. ( = responsible for) who was behind the attack? qui est derrière cet attentat ?
       d. ( = less advanced than) en retard sur
    3. noun
    ( = buttocks) (inf) postérieur (inf) m
    * * *
    Note: When used as a preposition to talk about the physical position of something, behind is translated by derrière: behind the house = derrière la maison
    behind is sometimes used in verb combinations ( fall behind, lag behind etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry (fall, lag etc)
     [bɪ'haɪnd] 1.
    (colloq) noun derrière (colloq) m
    2. 3.
    adverb [follow on, trail] derrière; [look, glance] en arrière
    4.

    behind my back — fig derrière mon dos

    to be behind the others — [pupil] être en retard par rapport aux autres

    the reasons behind his declaration — les raisons qui motivent/motivaient sa déclaration

    English-French dictionary > behind

  • 112 old

    [əuld]
    adj
    stary; ( former) stary, dawny
    * * *
    [əuld]
    1) (advanced in age: an old man; He is too old to live alone.) stary
    2) (having a certain age: He is thirty years old.) w wieku
    3) (having existed for a long time: an old building; Those trees are very old.) stary
    4) (no longer useful: She threw away the old shoes.) stary
    5) (belonging to times long ago: old civilizations like that of Greece.) starożytny
    •
    - old boy/girl
    - old-fashioned
    - old hand
    - old maid
    - the old

    English-Polish dictionary > old

  • 113 method

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  • 114 Cunhal, Álvaro

    (Barreirinhas)
    (1913-2005)
       Leader of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP), author, and ideologue. Álvaro Cunhai was a militant of the PCP since the 1930s and was secretary-general from 1961 to 1992. In the midst of Mikail Gorbachev's reforms and perestroika, Cunha refused to alter the PCP's orthodox commitment to the proletariat and Marxism-Leninism. Throughout a long career of participation in the PCP, Cunhal regularly held influential positions in the organization. In 1931, he joined the PCP while a law student in Lisbon and became secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Youth/Juventude Comunista (JC) in 1935, which included membership in the PCP's central committee. He advanced to the PCP's secretariat in 1942, after playing a leading role in the reorganization of 1940-H that gave the party its present orthodox character. Cunhai dubbed himself "the adopted son of the proletariat" at the 1950 trial that sentenced him to 11 years in prison for communist activity. Because his father was a lawyer-painter-writer and Cunhai received a master's degree in law, his origins were neither peasant nor worker but petit-bourgeois. During his lifetime, he spent 13 years in prison, eight of which were in solitary confinement. On 3 January 1960, he and nine other mostly communist prisoners escaped from Peniche prison and fled the country. The party's main theoretician, Cunhal was elected secretary-general in 1961 and, along with other top leaders, directed the party from abroad while in exile.
       In the aftermath of the Revolution of 25 April 1974 that terminated the Estado Novo and ushered in democracy, Cunhal ended his exile and returned to Portugal. He played important roles in post-1974 political events ranging from leader of the communist offensive during the "hot summer" of 1975, positions of minister-without-portfolio in the first through fifth provisional governments, to his membership in parliament beginning in 1976.
       At the PCP's 14th Congress (1992), Carlos Carvalhas was elected secretary-general to replace Cunhal. Whatever official or unofficial position Cunhal held, however, automatically became an important position within the party. After stepping down as secretary-general, he was elected to head the party's National Council (eliminated in 1996). Many political observers have argued that Cunhal purposely picked a successor who could not outshine him, and it is true that Carvalhas does not have Cunhal's humanistic knowledge, lacks emotion, and is not as eloquent. Cunhai was known not only as a dynamic orator but also as an artist, novelist, and brilliant political tactician. He wrote under several pseudonyms, including Manuel Tiago, who published the well-known Até Amanhã, Camaradas, as well as the novel recently adapted for the film, Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites. Under his own name, he published as well a book on art theory entitled A Arte, O Artista E A Sociedade. He also published volumes of speeches and essays.
       Although he was among the most orthodox leaders of the major Western European Communist parties, Cunhal was not a puppet of the Soviet Union, as many claimed. He was not only a major leader at home, but also in the international communist movement. His orthodoxy was especially useful to the Soviets in their struggle to maintain cohesion in a movement threatened by division from the Eurocommunists in the 1970s. To conclude that Cunhal was a Soviet puppet is to ignore his independent decisions during the Revolution of 25 April 1974. At that time, the Soviets reportedly tried to slow
       Cunhal's revolutionary drive because it ran counter to detente and other Soviet strategies.
       In many ways Cunhal's views were locked in the past. His perception and analyses of modern Portuguese revolutionary conditions did not alter radically from his experiences and analyses of revolutionary conditions in the 1940s. To Cunhal, although some conditions had changed, requiring tactical shifts, the major conflict was the same one that led to the creation of the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) in 1947. The world was still divided into two camps: American and Western imperialism on one side, and socialism, with its goal to achieve the fullest of democracies, on the other. Cunhal continued to believe that Marxism-Leninism and scientific socialism provide the solutions to resolving the problems of the world until his death in 2005.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Cunhal, Álvaro

  • 115 Oliveira Marques, Antônio Henriques de

    (1933-2007)
       Historian, scholar, and editor. Since 1970, Portugal's most widely published, prolific historian, he was born in Estoril in 1933. Trained as a medieval historian, Oliveira Marques mastered other fields of history as well, including the history of the First Republic (1910-26), the Estado Novo (1926-74), and the general history of Portugal. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he received his advanced degrees from the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon. His doctoral dissertation treated Portugal's trade with the Hanseatic League, a topic of medieval economic history. Oliveira Marques taught as a junior faculty member at his alma mater from 1957 to 1964, but left after a falling out with senior faculty and political authorities. For some years he taught at several institutions in the United States, including the Universities of Florida and Minnesota.
       Returning to Portugal during the last phase of the Marcello Caetano government, Oliveira Marques taught at the University of Lisbon. In November 1974, he was appointed director of the National Library of Lisbon, a prestigious but trying cultural post he held for some years. In the 1980s, he changed universities and joined the Faculty of Germanic Studies, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Of his vast bibliography, two of his historical works were published in English in the United States: Daily Life in Portugal in the Middle Ages (1971) and History of Portugal (2 vols., 1972, 1976, and later editions). In terms of public acclaim and book sales in Portugal, his most consistently popular work in print continues to be his survey, História de Portugal, in several volumes, published in many editions since the early 1970s.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Oliveira Marques, Antônio Henriques de

  • 116 Babbage, Charles

    [br]
    b. 26 December 1791 Walworth, Surrey, England
    d. 18 October 1871 London, England
    [br]
    English mathematician who invented the forerunner of the modern computer.
    [br]
    Charles Babbage was the son of a banker, Benjamin Babbage, and was a sickly child who had a rather haphazard education at private schools near Exeter and later at Enfield. Even as a child, he was inordinately fond of algebra, which he taught himself. He was conversant with several advanced mathematical texts, so by the time he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1811, he was ahead of his tutors. In his third year he moved to Peterhouse, whence he graduated in 1814, taking his MA in 1817. He first contributed to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1815, and was elected a fellow of that body in 1816. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society in 1820 and served in high office in it.
    While he was still at Cambridge, in 1812, he had the first idea of calculating numerical tables by machinery. This was his first difference engine, which worked on the principle of repeatedly adding a common difference. He built a small model of an engine working on this principle between 1820 and 1822, and in July of the latter year he read an enthusiastically received note about it to the Astronomical Society. The following year he was awarded the Society's first gold medal. He submitted details of his invention to Sir Humphry Davy, President of the Royal Society; the Society reported favourably and the Government became interested, and following a meeting with the Chancellor of the Exchequer Babbage was awarded a grant of £1,500. Work proceeded and was carried on for four years under the direction of Joseph Clement.
    In 1827 Babbage went abroad for a year on medical advice. There he studied foreign workshops and factories, and in 1832 he published his observations in On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. While abroad, he received the news that he had been appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. He held the Chair until 1839, although he neither resided in College nor gave any lectures. For this he was paid between £80 and £90 a year! Differences arose between Babbage and Clement. Manufacture was moved from Clement's works in Lambeth, London, to new, fireproof buildings specially erected by the Government near Babbage's house in Dorset Square, London. Clement made a large claim for compensation and, when it was refused, withdrew his workers as well as all the special tools he had made up for the job. No work was possible for the next fifteen months, during which Babbage conceived the idea of his "analytical engine". He approached the Government with this, but it was not until eight years later, in 1842, that he received the reply that the expense was considered too great for further backing and that the Government was abandoning the project. This was in spite of the demonstration and perfectly satisfactory operation of a small section of the analytical engine at the International Exhibition of 1862. It is said that the demands made on manufacture in the production of his engines had an appreciable influence in improving the standard of machine tools, whilst similar benefits accrued from his development of a system of notation for the movements of machine elements. His opposition to street organ-grinders was a notable eccentricity; he estimated that a quarter of his mental effort was wasted by the effect of noise on his concentration.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1816. Astronomical Society Gold Medal 1823.
    Bibliography
    Babbage wrote eighty works, including: 1864, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher.
    July 1822, Letter to Sir Humphry Davy, PRS, on the Application of Machinery to the purpose of calculating and printing Mathematical Tables.
    Further Reading
    1961, Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines: Selected Writings by Charles Babbage and Others, eds Philip and Emily Morrison, New York: Dover Publications.
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  • 117 Biles, Sir John Harvard

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
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    b. 1854 Portsmouth, England
    d. 27 October 1933 Scotland (?)
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    English naval architect, academic and successful consultant in the years when British shipbuilding was at its peak.
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    At the conclusion of his apprenticeship at the Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth, Biles entered the Royal School of Naval Architecture, South Kensington, London; as it was absorbed by the Royal Naval College, he graduated from Greenwich to the Naval Construction Branch, first at Pembroke and later at the Admiralty. From the outset of his professional career it was apparent that he had the intellectual qualities that would enable him to oversee the greatest changes in ship design of all time. He was one of the earliest proponents of the revolutionary work of the hydrodynamicist William Froude.
    In 1880 Biles turned to the merchant sector, taking the post of Naval Architect to J. \& G. Thomson (later John Brown \& Co.). Using Froude's Law of Comparisons he was able to design the record-breaking City of Paris of 1887, the ship that started the fabled succession of fast and safe Clyde bank-built North Atlantic liners. For a short spell, before returning to Scotland, Biles worked in Southampton. In 1891 Biles accepted the Chair of Naval Architecture at the University of Glasgow. Working from the campus at Gilmorehill, he was to make the University (the oldest school of engineering in the English-speaking world) renowned in naval architecture. His workload was legendary, but despite this he was admired as an excellent lecturer with cheerful ways which inspired devotion to the Department and the University. During the thirty years of his incumbency of the Chair, he served on most of the important government and international shipping committees, including those that recommended the design of HMS Dreadnought, the ordering of the Cunarders Lusitania and Mauretania and the lifesaving improvements following the Titanic disaster. An enquiry into the strength of destroyer hulls followed the loss of HMS Cobra and Viper, and he published the report on advanced experimental work carried out on HMS Wolf by his undergraduates.
    In 1906 he became Consultant Naval Architect to the India Office, having already set up his own consultancy organization, which exists today as Sir J.H.Biles and Partners. His writing was prolific, with over twenty-five papers to professional institutions, sundry articles and a two-volume textbook.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1913. Knight Commander of the Indian Empire 1922. Master of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights 1904.
    Bibliography
    1905, "The strength of ships with special reference to experiments and calculations made upon HMS Wolf", Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects.
    1911, The Design and Construction of Ships, London: Griffin.
    Further Reading
    C.A.Oakley, 1973, History of a Facuity, Glasgow University.
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  • 118 Doane, Thomas

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    b. 20 September 1821 Orleans, Massachusetts, USA
    d. 22 October 1897 West Townsend, Massachusetts, USA
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    American mechanical engineer.
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    The son of a lawyer, he entered an academy in Cape Cod and, at the age of 19, the English Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, for five terms. He was then in the employ of Samuel L. Fenton of Charlestown, Massachusetts. He served a three-year apprenticeship, then went to the Windsor White River Division of the Vermont Central Railroad. He was Resident Engineer of the Cheshire Railroad at Walpote, New Hampshire, from 1847 to 1849, and then worked in independent practice as a civil engineer and surveyor until his death. He was involved with nearly all the railroads running out of Boston, especially the Boston \& Maine. In April 1863 he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Hoosac Tunnel, which was already being built. He introduced new engineering methods, relocated the line of the tunnel and achieved great accuracy in the meeting of the borings. He was largely responsible for the development in the USA of the advanced system of tunnelling with machinery and explosives, and pioneered the use of compressed air in the USA. In 1869 he was Chief Engineer of the Burlington \& Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska, laying down some 240 miles (386 km) of track in four years. During this period he became interested in the building of a Congregational College at Crete, Nebraska, for which he gave the land and which was named after him. In 1873 he returned to Charlestown and was again appointed Chief Engineer of the Hoosac Tunnel. At the final opening of the tunnel on 9 February 1875 he drove the first engine through. He remained in charge of construction for a further two years.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, School of Civil Engineers.
    Further Reading
    Duncan Malone (ed.), 1932–3, Dictionary of American Biography, New York: Charles Scribner.
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  • 119 Linton, Hercules

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
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    b. 1 January 1836 Inverbervie, Kincardineshire, Scotland
    d. 15 May 1900 Inverbervie, Kincardineshire, Scotland
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    Scottish naval architect and shipbuilder; designer of the full-rigged ship Cutty Sark.
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    Linton came from a north-east Scottish family with shipbuilding connections. After education at Arbuthnott and then Arbroath Academy, he followed his father by becoming an apprentice at the Aberdeen shipyard of Alex Hall in January 1855. Thus must have been an inspiring time for him as the shipyards of Aberdeen were at the start of their rise to world renown. Hall's had just introduced the hollow, lined Aberdeen Bow which heralded the great years of the Aberdeen Clippers. Linton stayed on with Hall's until around 1863, when he joined the Liverpool Under-writers' Register as a ship surveyor; he then worked for similar organizations in different parts of England and Scotland. Early in 1868 Linton joined in partnership with William Dundas Scott and the shipyard of Scott and Linton was opened on the banks of the River Leven, a tributary of the Clyde, at Dumbarton. The operation lasted for about three years until bankruptcy forced closure, the cause being the age-old shipbuilder's problem of high capital investment with slow cash flow. Altogether, nine ships were built, the most remarkable being the record-breaking composite-built clipper ship Cutty Sark. At the time of the closure the tea clipper was in an advanced state of outfitting and was towed across the water to Denny's shipyard for completion. Linton worked for a while with Gourlay Brothers of Dundee, and then with the shipbuilders Oswald Mordaunt, of Woolston near Southampton, before returning to the Montrose area in 1884. His wife died the following year and thereafter Linton gradually reduced his professional commitments.
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    Further Reading
    Robert E.Brettle, 1969, The Cutty Sark, Her Designer and Builder. Hercules Linton 1836–1900, Cambridge: Heffer.
    Frank C.G.Carr, "The restoration of the Cutty Sark", Transactions of the Royal Institution
    of Naval Architects 108:193–216.
    Fred M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde. A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, Cambridge: PSL.
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  • 120 Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig

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    b. 27 March 1886 Aachen, Germany
    d. 17 August 1969 Chicago, USA
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    German architect, third of the great trio of long-lived, second-generation modernists who established the international style in the inter-war years and brought it to maturity (See Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) and Gropius).
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    Mies van der Rohe was the son of a stonemason and his early constructional training came from his father. As a young man he gained experience of the modern school from study of the architecture of the earlier leaders, notably Peter Behrens, Hendrik Berlage and Frank Lloyd Wright. He commenced architectural practice in 1913 and soon after the First World War was establishing his own version of modern architecture. His building materials were always of the highest quality, of marble, stone, glass and, especially, steel. He stripped his designs of all extraneous decoration: more than any of his contemporaries he followed the theme of elegance, functionalism and an ascetic concentration on essentials. He believed that architectural design should not look backwards but should reflect the contemporary achievement of advanced technology in both its construction and the materials used, and he began early in his career to act upon these beliefs. Typical was his early concrete and glass office building of 1922, after which, more importantly, came his designs for the German Pavilion at the Barcelona Exposition of 1929. These designs included his famous Barcelona chair, made from chrome steel and leather in a geometrical design, one which has survived as a classic and is still in production. Another milestone was his Tugendhat House in Brno (1930), a long, low, rectilinear structure in glass and steel that set a pattern for many later buildings of this type. In 1930 Mies followed his colleagues as third Director of the Bauhaus, but due to the rise of National Socialism in Germany it was closed in 1933. He finally left Germany for the USA in 1937, and the following year he took up his post as Director of Architecture in Chicago at what is now known as the Illinois Institute of Technology and where he remained for twenty years. In America Mies van der Rohe continued to develop his work upon his original thesis. His buildings are always recognizable for their elegance, fine proportions, high-quality materials and clean, geometrical forms; nearly all are of glass and steel in rectangular shapes. The structure and design evolved according to the individual needs of each commission, and there were three fundamental types of design. One type was the single or grouped high-rise tower, built for apartments for the wealthy, as in his Lake Shore Drive Apartments in Chicago (1948–51), or for city-centre offices, as in his Seagram Building in New York (1954–8, with Philip Johnson) or his Chicago Federal Centre (1964). Another form was the long, low rectangle based upon the earlier Tugendhat House and seen again in the New National Gallery in Berlin (1965–8). Third, there were the grouped schemes when the commission called for buildings of varied purpose on a single, large site. Here Mies van der Rohe achieved a variety and interest in the different shapes and heights of buildings set out in spatial harmony of landscape. Some examples of this type of scheme were housing estates (Lafayette Park Housing Development in Detroit, 1955–6), while others were for educational, commercial or shopping requirements, as at the Toronto Dominion Centre (1963–9).
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    Further Reading
    L.Hilbersheimer, 1956, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Chicago: P.Theobald.
    Peter Blake, 1960, Mies van der Rohe, Architecture and Structure, Penguin, Pelican. Arthur Drexler, 1960, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, London: Mayflower.
    Philip Johnson, 1978, Mies van der Rohe, Seeker and Warburg.
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