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41 monter
I.v. trans. & intrans.1. To go (up) to, to travel to. On est monté à Paris: We travelled to Paris. (The climb is a geographical ascension from south to north.)2. To 'screw', to fuck, to have coition with.3. (Prostitutes' slang): To 'hook' a customer (also: faire une monte).4. Faire monter quelqu'un: To 'send someone up', to make someone look a fool.5. Monter le coup à quelqu'un: To 'con', to deceive someone.II.v. pronom. Se monter pour un rien: To 'get worked up', to get excited over nothing. -
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east [i:st]1 noun∎ in the east à l'est, dans l'est;∎ to the east of the mainland à l'est ou au large de la côte est du continent;∎ two miles to the east ≃ trois kilomètres à l'est;∎ look towards the east regardez vers l'est;∎ I was born in the east je suis né dans l'Est;∎ in the east of Austria dans l'est de l'Autriche;∎ on the east of the island à l'est de l'île;∎ the wind is in the east le vent est à l'est;∎ the wind is coming from the east le vent vient ou souffle de l'est;∎ the east of England l'est de l'Angleterre;∎ Istanbul, where East meets West Istanbul, où l'Orient et l'Occident se rejoignent ou à la confluence de l'Orient et de l'Occident;∎ East-West relations relations fpl Est-Ouest∎ the east coast la côte est;∎ in east London dans l'est de Londres;∎ on the east side du côté est3 adverbà l'est; (travel) vers l'est, en direction de l'est;∎ the village lies east of Swansea le village est situé à l'est de Swansea;∎ the living room faces east la salle de séjour est exposée à l'est;∎ the path heads (due) east le chemin va ou mène (droit) vers l'est;∎ drive east until you come to a main road roulez vers l'est jusqu'à ce que vous arriviez à une route principale;∎ I drove east for three hours j'ai roulé pendant trois heures en direction de l'est;∎ I travelled east je suis allé vers l'est;∎ to sail east naviguer cap sur l'est;∎ it's 20 miles east of Manchester ≃ c'est à 32 kilomètres à l'est de Manchester;∎ east by north est quart-nord-est;∎ east by south est-quart-sud-est;∎ further east plus à l'est;►► East Africa Afrique f orientale;1 nounAfricain(e) m,f de l'estd'Afrique orientale;∎ to live in the East End of Glasgow habiter dans l'est de Glasgow;the East End = quartier industriel de Londres, connu pour ses docks et, autrefois, pour sa pauvreté; esp American East Europe Europe f de l'Est; East European1 nounEuropéen(enne) m,f de l'Estd'Europe de l'Est; East German1 nounAllemand(e) m,f de l'Estest-allemand, d'Allemagne de l'Est;(the former) East Germany (l'ex-)Allemagne f de l'Est;∎ in East Germany en Allemagne de l'Est;1 nounnatif(ive) m,f des Indes orientalesdes Indes orientales;History the East Indies les Indes fpl orientales;the East Side l'East Side m (quartier situé à l'est de Manhattan);East Sussex le Sussex oriental, = comté dans le sud de l'Angleterre;∎ in East Sussex dans le Sussex oriental -
43 координаты
coordinates
-, астрономические — celestial /astronomic/ coordinates
- аэродрома, географические (известные, заданные) — aerodrome reference points the designated geographical location of an aerodrome.
-, базовые — basic coordinates, basic coordinate frames
basic coordinate frames are used to mechanize the inertial navigator.
- в проекции меркатора — mercator coordinates
- визирной оси телескопа (астроориентатора) (в noлe поиска) — coordinates of telescope line of sight (in field of view)
-, выведенные на индикацию — displayed coordinates
-, географические — geographi(cal) coordinates
координаты, определяющие местоположение точки на земле: широта (f) и долгота (l). — coordinates defining a point on the surface of the earth, usually latitude and longitude
-, географические (местоположение ла, определяемое радиотехническими средствами, визуальным или астрономическим наблюдением). — ground /navigational/ position, fix а fix may be obtained by radio, by visual observation, by celestial (astronomical) observation.
- геодезические — geodetic coordinates
-, геоцентрические — geocentric coordinates
-гироплатформы, центр которых связан с ла — aircraft-centered platform сoordinates
- главноортодромические — primary great circle (spherical) coordinates
- декартовы — cartesian coordinates
- жестко связанные с землей — earth axes
система взаимноперпендикулярных осей, с вертикальной осью направленной к центру земли, для определения местоположения ла. — set of mutually perpendicular axes established with the upright axis pointing to the center of the earth, used in describing the position or performance of an aircraft in flight.
- жестко связанные с (гиро)платформой — platform coordinates, coordinates fixed with (stable) platform
- звезды — star coordinates
-, индицируемые — displayed coordinates
-, инерциальные — inertial coordinates
carious acceleration is measured in an inertial coordinate system.
-, инерциальные, с центром связанным с центром земли — earth-centered inertial coordinates
- истинного местоположения самолета, частноортодромические — navigation leg actual aircraft position coordinates
-, картографические (условные) — map-grid coordinates
- касательной (тангенциальной) плоскости — tangent plane coordinates. coordinates parallel to the locally level axes at some destination point.
- контрольного ориентира (ко) — checkpoint coordinates
- места (местоположения) самолета (mс) — aircraft position coordinates
выраженные широтой и долготой. — expessed in latitude and longitude.
- места (местоположения ла), ортодромические — (aircraft) position transversepole spherical coordinates
- места самолета по широте и долготе с точностью до 1/10 градуса (или минуты) — aircraft present position coordinates in latitude and longitude to the nearest tenth of a degree (or an arc minute)
- места самолета, текущие (tkmc) — aircraft present position coordinates, (present) position (pos, p)
- места старта — departure /starting/ point coordinates, initial position coordinates
- места стоянки — ramp position coordinates
- местоположения (инерциальной) системы — (inertial) system position coordinates
-, навигационные — navigation coordinates
-, начальные — initial position coordinates
-, начальные, нормально-ортодромические (на аэродроме в момент начала работы системы координаты места старта). — initial position normal transverse-pole spherical coordinates
-, начальные ортодромические (хо, уо) (места самолета) — initial position transverse-pole spherical coordinates
-, небесные (астрономические) — selestial coordinates
-, неподвижные — fixed coordinates
-, нормально-ортодромические — normal transverse-pole spherical coordinates
-, обобщенные — generalized coordinates
любая система координат, характеризующих состояние рассматриваемой системы. — any set of coordinates specifying the state of the system under consideration.
- оборудования (снаряжения) ла (сидения, гардеробы,туалеты, плоты, жилеты, топливо в баках) — equipment/furnishings and fuel stowage coordinates
-, ортогональные — orthogonal coordinates
-, ортодромические (х, у) — transverse-pole (spherical) coordinates, space polar coordinates
сферическая система координат с произвольным расположением полюса. ортодромическая широта (х) и долгота (у) - координаты точки. — coordinates analogus to geocentriс spherical coordinates except that their poles are deliberatory displaced from the geographic north and south poles.
-, ортодромические, в проекции меркатора (равноугольной цилиндрической проекции) — transverse (-pole) mercator coordinates
- ортодромические, прямоугольные (при счислении пути на условной плоскости земли) — transverse-pole rectangular coordinates on а flat earth, the (grid) north and (grid) east distances travelled, used for dr.
-, относительные — relative coordinates a particle moving in a relative coordinate system.
- полюса ортодромии (ф, l) — transverse-pole coordinates
-, полярные — polar coordinates
- ппм (промежуточного пункта маршрута) — waypoint coordinates
-, пространственные — space coordinates
-, прямоугольные — rectangular coordinates
к. с началом отсчета в центре массы земли с осью yз по оси вращения земли (рис. 111), — with origin at the mass center of tfie earth, whose yз axis lies along the earth's spin axis.
-, прямоугольные, центр которых связан с (ла) — rectangular aircraft-centered navigation coordinates
- равноугольной цилиндрической проекции — transverse (-pole) mercator coordinates
- радиостанции (широта, долгота) — radio station coordinates /locations/ (latitude, longitude)
-, расчетные — computational coordinates a heading reference is required to resolve the velocities into the computational coordinates
- светила, экваториальные — star equatorial coordinates
-, связанные — body axes
система координатных осей, жестко связанная с самолетoм. (рис. 133) — а system of coordinate axes fixed in the aircraft.
- связанные с (гиро)платформой — platform coordinates
-, связанные с центром земли — earth-centered /-fixed/ coordinates
-, скоростные — wind axes
система осей с началом координат в точке, лежащей в пределах фюзеляжа самолета и направлением, определяемым относительно набегающего потока. — а system of coordinate axes with the origin in the aircraft and the direction fixed by that of the relative airflow.
- старта — departure /starting/ point coordinates, initial position coordinates
-, стояночные (ла) — ramp position coordinates
-, сферические (см. долгота (lc), широта (fс) сферические) fc - угол между плоскостью экватора и направлением на данную точку из центра земли. lc - угол между плоскостью начального меридиана и плоскостью меридиана данной точки. — spherical coordinates system of coordinates defining a point on a sphere (spheroid) by its angular distances from а primary great circle and from а reference secondary great circle, as latitude and longitude.
-, сферические, геодезические — geodetic spherical coordinates
сферические координаты перпендикуляра к референцэллипсоиду. — these are spherical coordinates of the normal to the reference ellipsoid.
-, сферические, геоцентрические — geocentric spherical coordinates
these are the spherical coordinates of the radius vector
-, сферические, обобщенные — generalized spherical coordinates
-, сферические, ортодромические — transverse-pole spherical coordinates
- тангенциальной (касательной) плоскости — tangent plane coordinates
применяются при полетах на малые расстояния (несколько сот миль) до одного пункта назначения. — useful for flight operations within а few hundred miles of а single destination.
-, текущие (местоположение ла в данный момент) (тксм) — present position coordinates /data/
- точки (на карте) — coordinates of point
пересечение заданных величин долготы и широты определяет координаты точки. — intersection of the latitude and longitude lines gives соordinates of the point.
- точки старта — departure /starting/ point coordinates, coordinates of departure coordinats
-, условные (картографические) — map-grid coordinats the navigation computer can calculate position in map-grid coordinates.
-, усповные (на карте) — grid directions
-, условные (ортодромические, с произвольным полюсом) — transverse-pole spherical coordinates
-, фактические (места ла) — fix coordinates
- цветности (напр., ано) — illumination chromaticity coordinates
- цели — target position (coordinates)
-, центр которых связан с ла — aircraft /vehicle/-centered navigation coordinates
-, цилиндрические — cylinder /cylindrical/ coordinates
-, цилиндрические, тангенциальные — tangent cylinder coordinates cylinder is tangent to the sphere.
-, частно-ортодромические — navigation leg waypoint coordinates
a navigation leg is defined using waypoints coordinates inserted.
-, экваториальные — equatorial (system) coordinates
a set of celestial coordinates based on celestial equator as the primary great circle.
-, экваториальные, первой и второй звезд (прямое воcхождение) — equatorial (system) coordinates of star 1 and star 2 (right ascension)
-, экваториальные, первой и второй звезд (склонение) — equatorial (system) coordinates of star 1 and star 2 (declination)
мои к... (широты)... (долготы) — my position is...(latitude)... (longitude).
начало к. — origin of coordinates, zero reference point
оси к. — coordinate axes
оси связанной системы к. самолета — body axes
система (осей) к. — coordinate system
скоростная система к. — wind axes
управление относительно трех осей к. — three-axis control
уточнение к. (ла) — precise determination of the aircraft definite fix
вводить к. (в навигационную систему) — enter coordinates
вводить (правильные) к., повторно — reenter (proper) coordinates
корректировать ткмс — update (present) position
корректировать координаты системы — update the system position
наносить к. места (на карту) — plot the position
строить график в к. "х-у" — plot а curve on "х-у" coordinates
уточнять к. (ла) — determine the aircraft definite fix
уточнять (корректировать) к. места — updat position (coordinates)Русско-английский сборник авиационно-технических терминов > координаты
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44 Bosch, Robert August
[br]b. 23 September 1861 Albeck, near Ulm, Germanyd. 9 March 1942 Stuttgart, Germany[br]German engineer, industrialist and pioneer of internal combustion engine electrical systems.[br]Robert was the eighth of twelve children of the landlord of a hotel in the village of Albeck. He wanted to be a botanist and zoologist, but at the age of 18 he was apprenticed as a precision mechanic. He travelled widely in the south of Germany, which is unusual for an apprenticeship. In 1884, he went to the USA, where he found employment with Thomas A. Edison and his colleague, the German electrical engineer Siegmund Bergmann. During this period he became interested and involved in the rights of workers.In 1886 he set up his own workshop in Stuttgart, having spent a short time with Siemens in England. He built up a sound reputation for quality, but the firm outgrew its capital and in 1892 he had to sack nearly all his employees. Fortunately, among the few that he was able to retain were Arnold Zähringer, who later became Manager, and an apprentice, Gottlieb Harold. These two, under Bosch, were responsible for the development of the low-tension (1897) and the high-tension (1902) magneto. They also developed the Bosch sparking plug, again in 1902. The distributor for multi-cylinder engines followed in 1910. These developments, with a strong automotive bias, were stimulated by Bosch's association with Frederick Simms, an Englishman domiciled in Hamburg, who had become a director of Daimler in Canstatt and had secured the UK patent rights of the Daimler engine. Simms went on to invent, in about 1898, a means of varying ignition timing with low-tension magnetos.It must be emphasized, as pointed out above, that the invention of neither type of magneto was due to Bosch. Nikolaus Otto introduced a crude low-tension magneto in 1884, but it was not patented in Germany, while the high-tension magneto was invented by Paul Winand, a nephew of Otto's partner Eugen Langen, in 1887, this patent being allowed to lapse in 1890.Bosch's social views were advanced for his time. He introduced an eight-hour day in 1906 and advocated industrial arbitration and free trade, and in 1932 he wrote a book on the prevention of world economic crises, Die Verhütung künftiger Krisen in der Weltwirtschaft. Other industrialists called him the "Red Bosch" because of his short hours and high wages; he is reputed to have replied, "I do not pay good wages because I have a lot of money, I have a lot of money because I pay good wages." The firm exists to this day as the giant multi-national company Robert Bosch GmbH, with headquarters still in Stuttgart.[br]Further ReadingT.Heuss, 1994, Robert Bosch: His Life and Achievements (trans. S.Gillespie and J. Kapczynski), New York: Henry Holt \& Co.JB -
45 Carver, George Washington
SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology[br]b. 1861 USAd. 1943 USA[br]African-American agriculturalist.[br]In 1896 Carver was invited by Booker T.Washington, noted for his efforts to improve the education of African American craftspeople after the Civil War, to join the teaching staff at the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Carver became renowned for his innovative work in developing agricultural products, particularly from the peanut, sweet potato and cowpea. He was one of the first agriculturalists of that time to promote the use of organic fertilizers, and he was noted for his work in the hybridization of local plants. In spite of these achievements, his immediate impact on the African American farming community lay in promoting agricultural education and extension work. In 1897 Carver was appointed the first director of the Tuskegee agricultural experiment station. Here, he developed teaching techniques in agricultural education, such as issuing a series of clearly-written information bulletins. He also devised the first mobile school in the American South, which consisted of a farm wagon equipped with educational material and travelled from farm to farm, demonstrating the latest agricultural techniques.Carver was granted only three patents: one in 1923 for a cosmetic and two, in 1925 and 1927, for processes for making pigments.[br]Further ReadingP.P.James, 1989, The Real McCoy: African American Invention and Innovation 2619– 1930, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 69–70.LRDBiographical history of technology > Carver, George Washington
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46 Crompton, Rookes Evelyn Bell
[br]b. 31 May 1845 near Thirsk, Yorkshire, Englandd. 15 February 1940 Azerley Chase, Ripon, Yorkshire, England[br]English electrical and transport engineer.[br]Crompton was the youngest son of a widely travelled diplomat who had retired to the country and become a Whig MP after the Reform Act of 1832. During the Crimean War Crompton's father was in Gibraltar as a commander in the militia. Young Crompton enrolled as a cadet and sailed to Sebastopol, visiting an older brother, and, although only 11 years old, he qualified for the Crimean Medal. Returning to England, he was sent to Harrow, where he showed an aptitude for engineering. In the holidays he made a steam road engine on his father's estate. On leaving school he was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade and spent four years in India, where he worked on a system of steam road haulage to replace bullock trains. Leaving the Army in 1875, Crompton bought a share in an agricultural and general engineering business in Chelmsford, intending to develop his interests in transport. He became involved in the newly developing technology of electric arc lighting and began importing electric lighting equipment made by Gramme in Paris. Crompton soon decided that he could manufacture better equipment himself, and the Chemlsford business was transformed into Crompton \& Co., electrical engineers. After lighting a number of markets and railway stations, Crompton won contracts for lighting the new Law Courts in London, in 1882, and the Ring Theatre in Vienna in 1883. Crompton's interests then broadened to include domestic electrical appliances, especially heating and cooking apparatus, which provided a daytime load when lighting was not required. In 1899 he went to South Africa with the Electrical Engineers Volunteer Corps, providing telegraphs and searchlights in the Boer War. He was appointed Engineer to the new Road Board in 1910, and during the First World War worked for the Government on engineering problems associated with munitions and tanks. He believed strongly in the value of engineering standards, and in 1906 became the first Secretary of the International Electrotechnical Commission.[br]Bibliography1928, Reminiscences.Further ReadingB.Bowers, 1969, R.E.B.Crompton. Pioneer Electrical Engineer, London: Science Museum.BBBiographical history of technology > Crompton, Rookes Evelyn Bell
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47 Field, Cyrus West
SUBJECT AREA: Telecommunications[br]b. 30 November 1819 Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USAd. 12 July 1892 New York City, New York, USA[br]American financier and entrepreneur noted for his successful promotion of the first transatlantic telegraph cable.[br]At the age of 15 Field left home to seek his fortune in New York, starting work on Broadway as an errand boy for $1 per week. Returning to Massachusetts, in 1838 he became an assistant to his brother Matthew, a paper-maker, leaving to set up his own business two years later. By the age of 21 he was also a partner in a New York firm of paper wholesalers, but this firm collapsed because of large debts. Out of the wreckage he set up Cyrus W.Field \& Co., and by 1852 he had paid off all the debts. With $250,000 in the bank he therefore retired and travelled in South America. Returning to the USA, he then became involved with the construction of a telegraph line in Newfoundland by an English engineer, F.N. Osborne. Although the company collapsed, he had been fired by the dream of a transatlantic cable and in 1854 was one of the founders of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company. He began to promote surveys and hold discussions with British telegraph pioneers and with Isambard Brunel, who was then building the Great Eastern steamship. In 1856 he helped to set up the Atlantic Telegraph Company in Britain and, as a result of his efforts and those of the British physicist and inventor Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), work began in 1857 on the laying of the first transatlantic cable from Newfoundland to Ireland. After many tribulations the cable was completed on 5 August 1857, but it failed after barely a month. Following several unsuccessful attempts to repair and replace it, the cable was finally completed on 27 July 1866. Building upon his success, Field expanded his business interests. In 1877 he bought a controlling interest in and was President of the New York Elevated Railroad Company. He also helped develop the Wabash Railroad and became owner of the New York Mail and Express newspaper; however, he subsequently suffered large financial losses.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsCongressional Gold Medal.Further ReadingA.C.Clarke, 1958, Voice Across the Sea, London: Frederick Muller (describes the development of the transatlantic telegraph).H.M.Field, 1893, Story of the Atlantic Telegraph (also describes the transatlantic telegraph development).L.J.Judson (ed.), 1893, Cyrus W.Field: His Life and Work (a complete biography).KF -
48 Fourdrinier, Henry
SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing[br]b. 11 February 1766 London, Englandd. 3 September 1854 Mavesyn Ridware, near Rugeley, Staffordshire, England[br]English pioneer of the papermaking machine.[br]Fourdrinier's father was a paper manufacturer and stationer of London, from a family of French Protestant origin. Henry took up the same trade and, with his brother Sealy (d. 1847), devoted many years to developing the papermaking machine. Their first patent was taken out in 1801, but success was still far off. A machine for making paper had been invented a few years previously by Nicolas Robert at the Didot's mill at Essonnes, south of Paris. Robert quarrelled with the Didots, who then contacted their brother-in-law in England, John Gamble, in an attempt to raise capital for a larger machine. Gamble and the Fourdriniers called in the engineer Bryan Donkin, and between them they patented a much improved machine in 1807. In the new machine, the paper pulp flowed on to a moving continuous woven wire screen and was then squeezed between rollers to remove much of the water. The paper thus formed was transferred to a felt blanket and passed through a second press to remove more water, before being wound while still wet on to a drum. For the first time, a continuous sheet of paper could be made. Other inventors soon made further improvements: in 1817 John Dickinson obtained a patent for sizing baths to improve the surface of the paper; while in 1820 Thomas Crompton patented a steam-heated drum round which the paper was passed to speed up the drying process. The development cost of £60,000 bankrupted the brothers. Although Parliament extended the patent for fourteen years, and the machine was widely adopted, they never reaped much profit from it. Tsar Alexander of Russia became interested in the papermaking machine while on a visit to England in 1814 and promised Henry Fourdrinier £700 per year for ten years for super-intending the erection of two machines in Russia; Henry carried out the work, but he received no payment. At the age of 72 he travelled to St Petersburg to seek recompense from the Tsar's successor Nicholas I, but to no avail. Eventually, on a motion in the House of Commons, the British Government awarded Fourdrinier a payment of £7,000. The paper trade, sensing the inadequacy of this sum, augmented it with a further sum which they subscribed so that an annuity could be purchased for Henry, then the only surviving brother, and his two daughters, to enable them to live in modest comfort. From its invention in ancient China (see Cai Lun), its appearance in the Middle Ages in Europe and through the first three and a half centuries of printing, every sheet of paper had to made by hand. The daily output of a hand-made paper mill was only 60–100 lb (27–45 kg), whereas the new machine increased that tenfold. Even higher speeds were achieved, with corresponding reductions in cost; the old mills could not possibly have kept pace with the new mechanical printing presses. The Fourdrinier machine was thus an essential element in the technological developments that brought about the revolution in the production of reading matter of all kinds during the nineteenth century. The high-speed, giant paper-making machines of the late twentieth century work on the same principle as the Fourdrinier of 1807.[br]Further ReadingR.H.Clapperton, 1967, The Paper-making Machine, Oxford: Pergamon Press. D.Hunter, 1947, Papermaking. The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft, London.LRD -
49 Koch, Robert
SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology[br]b. 11 December 1843 Clausthal, Hannover, Germanyd. 28 May 1910 Baden-Baden, Germany[br]German bacteriologist and innovator of many bacteriological techniques, including the process of bacteria-free water filtration and the introduction of solid cultivation media.[br]Koch studied medicine at Gottingen and graduated MD in 1866. He served in the war of 1870, and in 1872 was appointed Medical Officer at Wollstein. It was there that he commenced his bacteriological researches which led to numerous technical advances and the culture of the anthrax bacillus in 1876.Appointed in 1880 to the Imperial Health Office in Berlin, he perfected his methods and was appointed Professor of Hygiene in the University of Berlin in 1885. From 1886 he was editor of the Zeitschrift für Hygiene und Infektionskrank-heiten, which was published in Leipzig. In 1891 he became Director of the Institute for Infectious Diseases, founded for him in Berlin. He had already discovered the tubercle bacillus in 1882 and the cholera vibrio in 1883. He travelled extensively in India, Africa and South Africa in connection with research into bubonic plague, malaria, rinderpest and sleeping sickness. His name will always be associated with Koch's postulates, the propositions which need to be satisfied before attributing a disease to a specific infective agent.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsNobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology 1905.Bibliography1877, "Verfahrungen zur Untersuchung zum Conservieren und Photographieren der Bacterien", Beitr. Biol. Pflanzen.Further ReadingM.Kirchner, 1924, Robert Koch.MG -
50 Lanchester, Frederick William
[br]b. 28 October 1868 Lewisham, London, Englandd. 8 March 1946 Birmingham, England[br]English designer and builder of the first all-British motor car.[br]The fourth of eight children of an architect, he spent his childhood in Hove and attended a private preparatory school, from where, aged 14, he went to the Hartley Institution (the forerunner of Southampton University). He was then granted a scholarship to the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, and also studied practical engineering at Finsbury Technical College, London. He worked first for a draughtsman and pseudo-patent agent, and was then appointed Assistant Works Manager of the Forward Gas Engine Company of Birmingham, with sixty men and a salary of £1 per week. He was then aged 21. His younger brother, George, was apprenticed to the same company. In 1889 and 1890 he invented a pendulum governor and an engine starter which earned him royalties. He built a flat-bottomed river craft with a stern paddle-wheel and a vertical single-cylinder engine with a wick carburettor of his own design. From 1892 he performed a number of garden experiments on model gliders relating to problems of lift and drag, which led him to postulate vortices from the wingtips trailing behind, much of his work lying behind the theory of modern aerodynamics. The need to develop a light engine for aircraft led him to car design.In February 1896 his first experimental car took the road. It had a torsionally rigid chassis, a perfectly balanced and almost noiseless engine, dynamically stable steering, epicyclic gear for low speed and reverse with direct drive for high speed. It turned out to be underpowered and was therefore redesigned. Two years later an 8 hp, two-cylinder flat twin appeared which retained the principle of balancing by reverse rotation, had new Lanchester valve-gear and a new method of ignition based on a magneto generator. For the first time a worm and wheel replaced chain-drive or bevel-gear transmission. Lanchester also designed the machinery to make it. The car was capable of about 18 mph (29 km/h): future cars of his travelled at twice that speed. From 1899 to 1904 cars were produced for sale by the Lanchester Engine Company, which was formed in 1898. The company had to make every component except the tyres. Lanchester gave up the managership but remained as Chief Designer, and he remained in this post until 1914.In 1907–8 his two-volume treatise Aerial Flight was published; it included consideration of skin friction, boundary-layer theory and the theory of stability. In 1909 he was appointed to the Government's Committee for Aeronautics and also became a consultant to the Daimler Company. At the age of 51 he married Dorothea Cooper. He remained a consultant to Daimler and worked also for Wolseley and Beardmore until 1929 when he started Lanchester Laboratories, working on sound reproduction. He also wrote books on relativity and on the theory of dimensions.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS.Bibliographybht=1907–8, Aerial Flight, 2 vols.Further ReadingP.W.Kingsford, 1966, F.W.Lanchester, Automobile Engineer.E.G.Semler (ed.), 1966, The Great Masters. Engineering Heritage, Vol. II, London: Institution of Mechanical Engineers/Heinemann.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Lanchester, Frederick William
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51 Oeynhausen, Karl von
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 4 February 1795 Grevenburg, near Höxter, Germanyd. 1 February 1865 Grevenburg, near Höxter, Germany[br]German mining officer who introduced fish joints to deep-drilling.[br]The son of a mining officer, Oeynhausen started his career in the Prussian administration of the mining industry in 1816, immediately after he had finished his studies in natural sciences and mathematics at the University of Göttingen. From 1847 until his retirement he was a most effective head of state mines inspectorates, first in Silesia (Breslau; now Wroclaw, Poland), later in Westphalia (Dortmund). During his working life he served in all the important mining districts of Prussia, and travelled to mining areas in other parts of Germany, Belgium, France and Britain. In the 1820s, after visiting Glenck's well-known saltworks near Wimpfen, he was commissioned to search for salt deposits in Prussian territory, where he discovered the thermal springs south of Minden which later became the renowned spa carrying his name.With deeper drills, the increased weight of the rods made it difficult to disengage the drill on each stroke and made the apparatus self-destructive on impact of the drill. Oeynhausen, from 1834, used fish joints, flexible connections between the drill and the rods. Not only did they prevent destructive impact, but they also gave a jerk on the return stroke that facilitated disengagements. He never claimed to have invented the fish joints: in fact, they appeared almost simultaneously in Europe and in America at that time, and had been used since at least the seventeenth century in China, although they were unknown in the Western hemisphere.Using fish joints meant the start of a new era in deep-drilling, allowing much deeper wells to be sunk than before. Five weeks after Oeynhausen, K.G. Kind operated with a different kind of fish joint, and in 1845 another Prussian mining officer, Karl Leopold Fabian (1782–1855), Director of the salt inspectorate at Schönebeck, Elbe, improved the fish joints by developing a special device between the rod and the drill to enable the chisel, strengthened by a sinker bar, to fall onto the bottom of the hole without hindrance with a higher effect. The free-fall system became another factor in the outstanding results of deep-drilling in Prussia in the nineteenth century.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsHonorary PhD, University of Berlin 1860.Bibliography1824, "Über die geologische Ähnlichkeit des steinsalzführenden Gebirges in Lothringen und im südlichen Deutschland mit einigen Gegenden auf beiden Ufern der Weser", Karstens Archiv für Bergbau und Hüttenwesen 8: 52–84.1847, "Bemerkungen über die Anfertigung und den Effekt der aus Hohleisen zusammengesetzten Bohrgestänge", Archiv fur Mineralogie, Geognosie, Bergbau und Hüttenkunde 21:135–60.1832–3, with H.von Dechen, Über den Steinkohlenbergbau in England, 2 parts, Berlin.Further Readingvon Gümbel, "K.v.Oeynhausen", Allgemeine deutsche Biographie 25:31–3.W.Serlo, 1927, "Bergmannsfamilien. Die Familien Fabian und Erdmann", Glückauf.492–3.D.Hoffmann, 1959, 150 Jahre Tiefbohrungen in Deutschland, Vienna and Hamburg (a careful elaboration of the single steps and their context with relation to the development of deep-drilling).WK -
52 Pilcher, Percy Sinclair
SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace[br]b. 16 January 1867 Bath, Englandd. 2 October 1899 Stanford Hall, Northamptonshire, England[br]English designer and glider aeronaut.[br]He was educated at HMS Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, from 1880 to 1882. He sailed on HMS Duke of Wellington, Agincourt, Northampton and other ships and resigned from the navy on 18 April 187 after seven years at sea. In June 1887 he was apprenticed at Randolph, Elder \& Co.'s shipyard at Govan, and was then an apprentice moulder at Cairn \& Co., Glasgow. For some time he "studied" at London University (though there is no official record of his doing so) while living with his sister at Phillbeck Gardens, South Kensington. In May 1890 he was working for John H.Biles, Manager of the Southampton Naval Works Ltd. Biles was later appointed Professor of Naval Architecture at Glasgow University with Pilcher as his Assistant Lecturer. In 1895 he was building his first glider, the Bat, which was built mainly of Riga pine and weighed 44 lb (20 kg). In succeeding months he travelled to Lichterfelde to study the gliders made by the German Lilienthal and built a further three machines, the Beetle, the Gull and the Hawk. In 1896 he applied for his only aeronautical patent, for "Improved flying and soaring machines", which was accepted on March 1897. In April 1896 he resigned his position at Glasgow University to become Assistant to Sir Hiram Maxim, who was also doing experiments with flying machines at his Nordenfeld Guns and Ammunition Co. Ltd at Crayford. He took up residence in Artillery Mansions, Victoria Street, later taken over by Vickers Ltd. Maxim had a hangar at Upper Lodge Farm, Austin Eynsford, Kent: using this, Pilcher reached a height of 12 ft (3.66m) in 1899 with a cable launch. He planned to build a 2 hp (1.5 kW) petrol engine In September 1899 he went to stay with Lord Braye at Stanford Hall, Northamptonshire, where many people came to see his flying machine, a triplane. The weather was far from ideal, windy and raining, but Pilcher would not disappoint them. A bracing wire broke, the tail collapsed and the pilot crashed to the ground suffering two broken legs and concussion. He did not regain consciousness and died the following day. He was buried in Brompton Cemetery.[br]Bibliography1896, British patent no. 9144 "Improved flying and soaring machines".Further ReadingP.Jarrett, 1987, Another Icarus. Percy Pilcher and the Quest for Flight, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.A.Welch and L.Welch, 1965, The Story of Gliding, London: John Murray.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Pilcher, Percy Sinclair
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53 סבב
סָבַב(b. h.) to go around, turn. Num. R. s. 18 כשהייתי … והולך וסוֹבֵב כלוכ׳ when I travelled … and went around all the towns; הייתי סובב והולך מעירוכ׳ I went around from town to town. Erub.56a וסובב אל צפון בלילה ‘and turns northward (Koh. 1:6) by night; a. e. Nif. נָסַב to take a turn. Num. R. s. 4 ונָסַבָּה ורחבה למעלה it turned upward and became wider. Pi. סִיבֵּב 1) to surround. Erub. l. c.; B. Bath.25b (ref. to Koh. l. c.) פעמים מְסַבַּבְתָּן ופעמים מהלכתן (Rashi סוֹבַבְתָּן, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 4) at seasons the sun goes around them (making a circuitous route), and at seasons it passes straight through (from north-east to south-west). Erub.23b; Num. R. s. 13 סַבֵּב tie around; a. e.Trnsf. to be around a person, to wait upon. Deut. R. s. 1 (play on סב את ההר, Deut. 2:3) הרבה סי׳ עשו את הורווכ׳ a long while has Esau been around his parent סי׳ על הפתחים to go around from door to door, to beg. Tosef.Peah IV, 8 המְסַבֵּב על … איןוכ׳ for the poor man that goes begging, the public charities are not bound to do anything. Y. ib. I, 15d top כבד …אפי׳ את מסבב וכ׳ ‘honor thy father and thy mother, even if thou have to go begging (thou must support them); Pesik. R. s. 23–24; a. e.Ruth R. to I, 1 עכשיו … מְסַבְּבִין פתחיוכ׳ now all Israel will surround my gate …, waiting for distribution of food; Yalk. ib. 598 יהיו … מְסוּבִּין2.) to carry around from place to place. Kel. I, 7 ומְסַבְּבִין לתוכןוכ׳ and you may carry a corpse from one (of the fortified places) to another; Tosef. ib. B. Kam.I, 14 ומס׳ בתוכן. 3) to place around. Num. R. s. 2 סי׳ לכסאווכ׳ he placed four angels around his throne.Part. pass. מְסוּבָּב, f. מְסוּבֶּבֶת surrounded, closed. B. Bath.25b, v. אַכְסַדְרָא.Pl. מְסוּבִּים, מְסוּבִּין assembled, arranged around. Ab. Zar.18a מס׳ לווכ׳ (Ms. M. מְסוֹבְבִין אותו) (his sins) are arranged around him on the day of judgment (as witnesses). Yalk. Ruth l. c., v. supra.Esp. reclining on the dining couch around the tables (v. מְסוּבֶּה). Ex. R. s. 25 מס׳ ואוכליןוכ׳ lying on couches and eating and praising Pes.101b בני … מס׳ לשתות the members of a party that were assembled for a feast; ib. 102a. Tosef. ib. X, 12; a. fr.Tanḥ. Ḥayé 3 מסביב, read: מכתיב, v. כָּתַב. Hif. הֵסֵב, הֵסִיב, הֵיסֵ׳ 1) ( to surround the table, to recline for dining in company. Ber.VI, 6 (42a) הֵסֵיבּוּ אחדוכ׳ (Bab. ed. הֵסֵבּוּ; Y. ed. הֵיסֵבּוּ) if they lie down for a meal, one says grace in behalf of all, opp. היו יושבין. Tosef. ib. IV, 20 בעל הבית שהיה מֵיסֵב ואוכלוכ׳ if a host has been reclining in company and eating, and a neighbor called him away to speak to him. Ib. V, 5; Y.Taan.IV, 68a bot. בזמן שהן שתי … ומיסבוכ׳ when there are two couches, the highest in rank goes up and reclines at the head of the uppermost couch, v. חֶסַּב. Pes.X, 1 אפי׳ עני … עד שיֵסֵב even the poorest man in Israel must not eat (on the Passover night) without reclining (to indicate that he is a free man); a. fr. 2) to cause to recline, to invite. Ex. R. s. 25 (ref. to ויסב, Ex. 13:18, a. שלחן, Ps. 78:19 הסַיבָּן תחת ענניוכ׳ he invited them to recline under the clouds of glory (v. סִיגְמָטִין); a. e. 3) to turn around. Pesik. R. s. 14 עתיד אני להָסֵיב על עולמיוכ׳ I shall turn again to my world in mercy. Hof. הוּסַב to be transferred from tribe to tribe (Num. 36:7). B. Bath. 112a כבר הוּסַבָּה the field had been transferred (before the division of the land); שכבר הוסבה לא אמרינן we do not adopt the argument that a transfer before the division made any difference (v. comment., a. Rabb. D. S. a. l. notes 4 a. 5 for Var. Lect.). Polel סוֹבֵב to surround. Ab. Zar.18a, v. supra. -
54 סָבַב
סָבַב(b. h.) to go around, turn. Num. R. s. 18 כשהייתי … והולך וסוֹבֵב כלוכ׳ when I travelled … and went around all the towns; הייתי סובב והולך מעירוכ׳ I went around from town to town. Erub.56a וסובב אל צפון בלילה ‘and turns northward (Koh. 1:6) by night; a. e. Nif. נָסַב to take a turn. Num. R. s. 4 ונָסַבָּה ורחבה למעלה it turned upward and became wider. Pi. סִיבֵּב 1) to surround. Erub. l. c.; B. Bath.25b (ref. to Koh. l. c.) פעמים מְסַבַּבְתָּן ופעמים מהלכתן (Rashi סוֹבַבְתָּן, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 4) at seasons the sun goes around them (making a circuitous route), and at seasons it passes straight through (from north-east to south-west). Erub.23b; Num. R. s. 13 סַבֵּב tie around; a. e.Trnsf. to be around a person, to wait upon. Deut. R. s. 1 (play on סב את ההר, Deut. 2:3) הרבה סי׳ עשו את הורווכ׳ a long while has Esau been around his parent סי׳ על הפתחים to go around from door to door, to beg. Tosef.Peah IV, 8 המְסַבֵּב על … איןוכ׳ for the poor man that goes begging, the public charities are not bound to do anything. Y. ib. I, 15d top כבד …אפי׳ את מסבב וכ׳ ‘honor thy father and thy mother, even if thou have to go begging (thou must support them); Pesik. R. s. 23–24; a. e.Ruth R. to I, 1 עכשיו … מְסַבְּבִין פתחיוכ׳ now all Israel will surround my gate …, waiting for distribution of food; Yalk. ib. 598 יהיו … מְסוּבִּין2.) to carry around from place to place. Kel. I, 7 ומְסַבְּבִין לתוכןוכ׳ and you may carry a corpse from one (of the fortified places) to another; Tosef. ib. B. Kam.I, 14 ומס׳ בתוכן. 3) to place around. Num. R. s. 2 סי׳ לכסאווכ׳ he placed four angels around his throne.Part. pass. מְסוּבָּב, f. מְסוּבֶּבֶת surrounded, closed. B. Bath.25b, v. אַכְסַדְרָא.Pl. מְסוּבִּים, מְסוּבִּין assembled, arranged around. Ab. Zar.18a מס׳ לווכ׳ (Ms. M. מְסוֹבְבִין אותו) (his sins) are arranged around him on the day of judgment (as witnesses). Yalk. Ruth l. c., v. supra.Esp. reclining on the dining couch around the tables (v. מְסוּבֶּה). Ex. R. s. 25 מס׳ ואוכליןוכ׳ lying on couches and eating and praising Pes.101b בני … מס׳ לשתות the members of a party that were assembled for a feast; ib. 102a. Tosef. ib. X, 12; a. fr.Tanḥ. Ḥayé 3 מסביב, read: מכתיב, v. כָּתַב. Hif. הֵסֵב, הֵסִיב, הֵיסֵ׳ 1) ( to surround the table, to recline for dining in company. Ber.VI, 6 (42a) הֵסֵיבּוּ אחדוכ׳ (Bab. ed. הֵסֵבּוּ; Y. ed. הֵיסֵבּוּ) if they lie down for a meal, one says grace in behalf of all, opp. היו יושבין. Tosef. ib. IV, 20 בעל הבית שהיה מֵיסֵב ואוכלוכ׳ if a host has been reclining in company and eating, and a neighbor called him away to speak to him. Ib. V, 5; Y.Taan.IV, 68a bot. בזמן שהן שתי … ומיסבוכ׳ when there are two couches, the highest in rank goes up and reclines at the head of the uppermost couch, v. חֶסַּב. Pes.X, 1 אפי׳ עני … עד שיֵסֵב even the poorest man in Israel must not eat (on the Passover night) without reclining (to indicate that he is a free man); a. fr. 2) to cause to recline, to invite. Ex. R. s. 25 (ref. to ויסב, Ex. 13:18, a. שלחן, Ps. 78:19 הסַיבָּן תחת ענניוכ׳ he invited them to recline under the clouds of glory (v. סִיגְמָטִין); a. e. 3) to turn around. Pesik. R. s. 14 עתיד אני להָסֵיב על עולמיוכ׳ I shall turn again to my world in mercy. Hof. הוּסַב to be transferred from tribe to tribe (Num. 36:7). B. Bath. 112a כבר הוּסַבָּה the field had been transferred (before the division of the land); שכבר הוסבה לא אמרינן we do not adopt the argument that a transfer before the division made any difference (v. comment., a. Rabb. D. S. a. l. notes 4 a. 5 for Var. Lect.). Polel סוֹבֵב to surround. Ab. Zar.18a, v. supra.
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