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  • 121 trouver

    trouver [tʀuve]
    ➭ TABLE 1
    1. transitive verb
       a. to find
    • où peut-on le trouver ? where is he?
    • mais qu'est-ce qu'elle lui trouve ? what on earth does she see in him?
    • comment as-tu fait pour trouver ? (énigme) how did you work it out?
    • j'ai trouvé ! I've got it! (inf)
    • explication/excuse toute trouvée ready-made explanation/excuse
    • tu as trouvé ça tout seul ? (ironic) did you work it out all by yourself? (ironique)
    • où est-il allé trouver ça ? where on earth did he get that idea from?
    ► trouver à + infinitif
    • trouver à manger/boire to find something to eat/drink
    • trouver à s'occuper to find something to occupy o.s. with
    • si tu trouves à te garer dans ma rue... if you manage to find a parking space in my street...
       b. ( = rencontrer par hasard) [+ document, information, personne] to come across ; [+ idée] to hit on
       c. ( = penser, juger) to find
    • trouver qch à son goût/trop cher to find sth to one's liking/too expensive
    • comment l'as-tu trouvé ? what did you think of him?
    • vous la trouvez sympathique ? do you like her?
    • vous trouvez ça normal ? do you think that's right?
    • tu trouves ça drôle ! so you find that funny!
    • vous trouvez ? do you think so?
       d. ( = rendre visite à) aller/venir trouver qn to go/come and see sb
    • quand il a des ennuis, c'est moi qu'il vient trouver when he has problems, it's me he comes to
       e. ( = éprouver) trouver (du) plaisir à qch/à faire qch to take pleasure in sth/in doing sth
    2. reflexive verb
       a. ( = être dans une situation) [personne] to find o.s. ; [chose] to be
       b. ( = être situé) [personne, chose] to be
    • je me trouvais près de l'entrée I was (standing or sitting etc) near the entrance
    • où se trouve la poste ? where is the post office?
       c. ( = se sentir) to feel
    • se trouver mal ( = s'évanouir) to faint
    • tu te trouves malin ? I suppose you think that's clever!
       e. (exprimant la coïncidence: souvent avec infinitif) se trouver être/avoir... to happen to be/have...
       f. ( = découvrir sa personnalité, son style) il ne s'est pas encore trouvé ( = artiste) he hasn't found his own distinctive style yet
       g. (locutions)
    • il s'est trouvé que j'étais là quand... I happened to be there when...
    il se trouve toujours des gens qui disent or pour dire... there are always people who will say...► si ça se trouve (inf)
    ils sont sortis, si ça se trouve they're probably out
    • si ça se trouve, il ne viendra pas maybe he won't come
    * * *
    tʀuve
    1.
    1) ( par hasard) to find
    2) ( en cherchant) to find

    veuillez trouver ci-joint... — ( dans une lettre) please find enclosed...

    tu as trouvé ça tout seul? — iron did you work that out all by yourself?

    si tu continues tu vas me trouver! — (colloq) don't push your luck! (colloq)

    3) ( voir) to find
    4) ( estimer)

    trouver quelqu'un gentil/pénible — to think somebody is nice/tiresome

    je trouve ça bizarre/drôle — I think it's strange/funny, I find it strange/funny

    comment trouves-tu mon ami? — what do you think of my friend?, how do you like my friend?

    je me demande ce qu'elle lui trouve! — I wonder what she sees in him/her!

    je te trouve bien calme, qu'est-ce que tu as? — you're very quiet, what's the matter?

    5) ( imaginer) to come up with [raison, excuse, moyen, produit]

    trouver le moyen de faire — lit, iron to manage to do

    il n'a rien trouvé de mieux que de le leur répéter! — iron he would have to go and tell them!


    2.
    se trouver verbe pronominal
    1) ( être situé) to be
    2) ( se sentir) to feel
    4) ( se procurer) to find [raison, excuse, motif]

    3.
    verbe impersonnel

    il se trouve qu'elle ne leur avait rien dit — as it happened, she hadn't told them anything

    ça s'est trouvé comme ça — (colloq) it just happened that way

    si ça se trouve (colloq) ça te plaira — you might like it

    * * *
    tʀuve vt
    1) [objet] to find

    Je ne trouve pas mes lunettes. — I can't find my glasses.

    2)

    trouver à faire qch; trouver à boire — to find something to drink

    3) (= penser) to think

    je trouve que — I think that, I find that

    Je trouve que c'est bête. — I think it's stupid.

    4) (= rendre visite à)
    * * *
    trouver verb table: aimer
    A vtr
    1 ( par hasard) to find [parapluie, chat, cadavre] (en faisant while doing); où as-tu trouvé ça? where did you find that?; nous avons trouvé un petit hôtel charmant we found a charming little hotel; trouver qch dans un tiroir/la rue/le bus to find sth in a drawer/in the street/on the bus; c'est surprenant de vous trouver ici! I'm surprised to find you here!; on trouve de tout ici they have everything here; trouver qch par hasard to come across sth; j'ai trouvé Luc au supermarché I ran into Luc at the supermarket;
    2 ( découvrir en cherchant) to find [personne, clés, gants, numéro de téléphone, erreur]; il a trouvé la maison/femme de ses rêves he found the house/woman of his dreams; trouver l'amour/la paix to find love/peace; j'ai trouvé quelqu'un à qui demander conseil I've found someone to go to for advice; elle a trouvé quelqu'un qui peut la renseigner/l'aider she's found somebody who can give her the information/help her; alors tu le trouves ce livre? have you found that book yet?; trouver son chemin to find one's way; j'ai eu du mal à trouver leur maison I had trouble finding their house; tu trouveras à manger dans la cuisine you'll find something to eat in the kitchen; trouver ce que l'on cherche to find what one is looking for; les médecins n'ont pas trouvé ce qu'il avait the doctors couldn't find what was wrong with him; ils ont trouvé qui a volé la voiture they found the person who stole the car; trouver de quoi écrire to find something to write with; vous le trouverez à son bureau/chez lui you'll find him in his office/at home; savez-vous où je peux la trouver? do you know where I can find her?; veuillez trouver ci-joint… ( dans une lettre) please find enclosed…; j'ai trouvé! I've got it!; combien trouves-tu dans le premier exercice? what answer did you get for the first exercise?; tu as trouvé ça tout seul? iron did you work that out all by yourself?; si tu continues tu vas me trouver○! don't push your luck○!; il va trouver à qui parler he's going to be for it○; ⇒ chaussure;
    3 ( se procurer) to find [emploi, appartement, associé]; il ne trouve pas de travail he can't find a job; j'ai trouvé une amie en elle I found a friend in her; trouver une consolation dans to find consolation in; trouver du plaisir/une satisfaction dans qch/à faire to get pleasure/satisfaction out of sth/out of doing; trouver un réconfort dans to take comfort in; il ne nous reste plus qu'à trouver le financement all we have to do now is get financial backing;
    4 ( voir) to find; trouver qch dans un état lamentable to find sth in an appalling state; trouver qch cassé/déchiré/ouvert to find sth broken/torn/open; trouver qn debout/couché/assis to find sb standing/lying down/sitting down; trouver qn malade/en pleurs/mort to find sb ill/in tears/dead; il a été trouvé mort dans son lit un matin he was found dead in his bed one morning; trouver qn en train de faire to find sb doing; je les ai trouvés en train de fouiller dans mes affaires I found them rummaging through my belongings; ils sont tous venus me trouver après le cours they all came to see me after the class; je vais aller trouver le responsable du rayon I'm going to go and see the head of the department;
    5 ( estimer) trouver qn gentil/adorable/pénible to think sb is nice/adorable/tiresome; je trouve ça bizarre/drôle/inadmissible I think it's strange/funny/intolerable; comment trouves-tu mon gâteau? what do you think of my cake?; comment trouves-tu mon ami? what do you think of my friend?, how do you like my friend?; trouver triste de faire to find it sad to do; il trouve (ça) dommage de ne pas en profiter he thinks it's a shame not to take advantage of it; j'ai trouvé bon de vous prévenir I thought it right to warn you; trouver un intérêt à qch/faire to find sth interesting/find it interesting to do; trouver des qualités/défauts à qch/qn to see good qualities/faults in sth/sb; elle ne me trouve que des défauts she only sees my faults; je me demande ce qu'elle lui trouve! I wonder what she sees in him!; elle m'a trouvé bonne/mauvaise mine she thought I looked well/didn't look well; je te trouve bien calme, qu'est-ce que tu as? you're very quiet, what's the matter?; trouver que to think that; tu trouves que j'ai tort/raison? do you think I'm wrong/right?; ils ont trouvé que j'exagérais they thought I was going too far; tu trouves? do you think so?; je ne trouve pas qu'il est or soit méchant I don't think he's so bad;
    6 ( imaginer) to come up with [raison, excuses, moyen, produit]; trouver une astuce to come up with a crafty solution; ils ont trouvé un nouveau système they've come up with a new system; trouver à s'amuser/s'occuper to find sth to play with/do; trouver qch à dire sur to find sth to say about; trouver à redire to find fault; trouver le moyen de faire aussi iron to manage to do; il n'a rien trouvé de mieux que de le leur répéter! iron he WOULD have to go and tell them!
    B se trouver vpr
    1 ( être situé) to be; se trouver à Rome/dans l'avion/au bord de la rivière to be in Rome/on the plane/on the river bank; le résumé se trouve page 11 the summary is on page 11; se trouver incapable or dans l'impossibilité de faire to be unable to do; je me trouvais seule chez moi I was home alone;
    2 ( se retrouver) [personne] to find oneself [bloqué, pris, isolé]; [projet] to be [compromis, entravé]; [ville, région, pays] to be [assiégé, envahi, inondé]; se trouver confronté à de grosses difficultés to have run into major problems;
    3 ( se sentir) to feel; se trouver mal à l'aise quelque part to feel uneasy somewhere; se trouver embarrassé to feel embarrassed; se trouver bien quelque part to be happy somewhere; se trouver mal to pass out; j'ai failli me trouver mal I nearly passed out;
    4 ( se considérer) il se trouver beau/laid he thinks he's good-looking/ugly;
    5 ( se procurer) to find oneself [emploi, logement, voiture]; to find [raisons, excuses, motif]; trouve-toi une occupation find yourself something to do; elle s'est trouvé un petit ami she's found herself a boyfriend.
    C v impers il se trouve que je le connais I happen to know him; il se trouve que nous nous connaissons we happen to know each other; il se trouve que je le savais as it happens, I already knew; il se trouve qu'elle ne leur avait rien dit as it happened, she hadn't told them anything; il ne s'est trouvé que dix personnes pour accepter in the event, only ten people accepted; ça s'est trouvé comme ça○ it just happened that way; si ça se trouve○ ça te plaira/tu les verras you might like it/see them; si ça se trouve○ il est mort/ne viendra pas he might be dead/not come.
    [truve] verbe transitif
    A.[APRÈS UNE RECHERCHE]
    1. [objet perdu, personne, emploi] to find
    [empreintes, trésor] to find, to discover
    [pétrole] to strike, to find
    j'ai trouvé en elle la sœur/l'amie que je cherchais in her I found the sister/the friend I'd been looking for
    2. [détecter] to find, to discover
    3. [acheter] to find, to get
    du safran, on en trouve dans les épiceries fines you can get ou find saffron in good delicatessens
    4. [rendre visite à]
    aller trouver quelqu'un to go to somebody, to go and see somebody
    venir trouver quelqu'un to come to somebody, to come and see somebody
    B.[INVOLONTAIREMENT]
    1. [tomber sur - personne, lettre, trésor] to find
    j'ai trouvé ce livre en faisant du rangement I found ou came across this book while I was tidying up
    à notre grande surprise, nous avons trouvé le beau temps en arrivant when we got there we were surprised to find that the weather was good
    trouver quelque chose par hasard to chance ou to stumble upon something
    s'il continue comme ça, il va trouver à qui parler! if he goes on like that, I'll give him what for!
    2. [surprendre] to find, to catch
    je l'ai trouvé fouillant ou qui fouillait dans mes tiroirs I found ou I caught him searching through my drawers
    C.[PAR L'ESPRIT, LA VOLONTÉ]
    1. [inventer - prétexte, méthode etc] to find
    2. [deviner - solution] to find ; [ - réponse, mot de passe] to find (out), to discover ; [ - code] to break, to crack
    j'ai trouvé! I've got it!, I know!
    39 moins 7, il fallait trouver 32 39 take away 7, the correct result was 32
    3. [parvenir à] to find
    ça y est, j'ai trouvé ce que je voulais te dire! I know what I wanted to tell you!
    je n'arrivais pas à trouver mes mots I couldn't find the right words, I was lost for words
    là, tu as trouvé le mot juste! you've said it!
    4. [se ménager] to find
    5. [ressentir] to find
    trouver du plaisir à (faire) quelque chose to take pleasure in (doing) something, to enjoy (doing) something
    D.[AVOIR COMME OPINION]
    1. [juger, estimer] to find, to think
    trouver quelque chose remarquable to find something remarkable, to think that something is remarkable
    trouver que to think ou to find that
    la soupe manque de sel, tu ne trouves pas? the soup needs more salt, don't you think?
    2. [reconnaître]
    trouver quelque chose à quelqu'un/quelque chose: je lui trouve du charme I think he's got charm
    tu ne lui trouves pas une petite ressemblance avec ta sœur? don't you think ou wouldn't you say that she looks a bit like your sister?
    mais enfin, qu'est-ce que tu lui trouves, à ce type? (familier) for goodness' sake, what do you see in this guy?
    ————————
    se trouver verbe impersonnel
    il se trouve [il existe, il y a] there is
    2. [fait du hasard]
    il se trouve que... as it happens...
    il se trouve que quelqu'un vous a vu dans mon bureau as it happens, somebody saw you in my office
    il s'est trouvé que je les ai entendus I chanced to overhear them, by chance I overheard them
    ————————
    se trouver verbe pronominal (emploi réfléchi)
    [s'estimer]
    ————————
    se trouver verbe pronominal (emploi passif)
    de bons artisans, cela se trouve difficilement it's not easy to find ou to get good craftsmen
    ————————
    se trouver verbe pronominal intransitif
    1. [en un lieu, une circonstance - personne] to be ; [ - bâtiment, ville] to be (situated) ou located
    se trouver sur [figurer] to appear ou to be shown on
    [résider - intérêt, problème] to be, to lie
    2. [arriver]
    quand vous vous trouverez sur la place, tournez à droite when you arrive at the square, turn right
    3. [dans une situation] to find oneself, to be
    4. [se sentir] to feel
    se trouver bien/mieux
    a. [du point de vue de la santé] to feel good/better
    b. [dans un siège] to feel comfortable/more comfortable
    c. [avec quelqu'un] to feel at ease/more at ease
    d. [dans un vêtement élégant] to feel (that one looks) good/better
    se trouver mal [s'évanouir] to pass out, to faint
    se trouver bien/mal de quelque chose: elle a suivi mes conseils et s'en est bien/mal trouvée she followed my advice, and benefited from it/and lived to regret it
    se trouver mieux de quelque chose: qu'il parte, je ne m'en trouverai que mieux! let him leave, see if I care!
    5. [se réaliser] to find oneself
    en tant qu'écrivain, elle ne s'est pas encore trouvée as a writer, she hasn't found her individual voice ou style yet
    6. [exprime la fortuité d'un événement, d'une situation] to happen
    ils se trouvaient appartenir au même club they happened to belong ou it turned out that they belonged to the same club

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  • 122 von

    von [fɔn] präp
    +dat
    1) räumlich (ab, herkommend) from;
    \von woher...? where...from?, from where...?;
    \von weit her kommen to come from a long way away;
    ich fliege morgen mit der Maschine \von München nach Hamburg tomorrow I'm flying from Munich to Hamburg;
    \von hier bis zur Wand müssten es etwa fünf Meter sein it must be about five metres from here to the wall;
    \von diesem Fenster kann man alles gut beobachten you can see everything very well from this window;
    wie komme ich vom Bahnhof am besten zum Rathaus? how can I best get from the station to the town hall?;
    diese Eier sind \von unserem eigenen Hof these eggs are from our own farm;
    (aus... herab/ heraus) off, out of;
    er fiel \von der Leiter he fell off the ladder;
    sie fiel vom Baum she fell out of the tree
    2) räumlich ( etw entfernend) from, off;
    die Wäsche \von der Leine nehmen to take the washing in off the line;
    sich den Schweiß \von der Stirn wischen to wipe sweat from one's brow;
    er nahm die Whiskyflasche \von der Anrichte he took the bottle of whisky from the sideboard
    3) zeitlich ( stammend) from;
    die Zeitung \von gestern yesterday's paper;
    Ihr Brief vom... your letter from...;
    ich kenne sie \von früher I knew her a long time ago;
    ich will nichts mehr \von damals wissen! I don't want to know any more about that time!;
    \von jetzt/ morgen an from now/tomorrow on [or onwards];
    die neue Regelung gilt \von März an the new regulation is valid from March [onwards];
    \von wann ist der Brief? when is the letter from?;
    ich bin \von morgen bis zum 23. verreist I'm away from tomorrow until 23rd;
    für Jugendliche \von 12 bis 16 gilt ein gesonderter Tarif there is a special price for adolescents from twelve to sixteen
    4) (Urheber, Ursache) from;
    \von der Sonne gebräunt werden [o sein] to be browned by the sun;
    \von jdm gelobt werden to be praised by sb;
    müde \von der Arbeit tired of work;
    \von Hand gefertigt ( fig) handmade;
    \von einem Auto angefahren werden to be hit by a car;
    \von wem ist dieses schöne Geschenk? who is this lovely present from?;
    \von wem hast du das Buch geschenkt bekommen? who gave you the book?;
    \von wem weißt du das? who told you that?;
    \von wem ist dieser Roman? who is this novel by?;
    \von wem ist dieses Bild? who is this a picture of?;
    das Bild ist \von einem unbekannten Maler the picture is by an unknown painter;
    \von solchen Tricks bin ich nicht sehr beeindruckt I'm not very impressed by tricks like that;
    das war nicht nett \von dir! that was not nice of you!;
    \von was ist hier eigentlich die Rede? ( fam) what are we talking about here!;
    \von was sollen wir eigentlich leben? ( fam) what are we supposed to live on?
    die Königin \von England the Queen of England;
    Mutter \von vier Kindern sein to be the mother of four children;
    die Musik \von Beethoven Beethoven's music;
    das Auto \von meinem Vater ist blau my father's car is blue;
    er wohnt in der Nähe \von Köln he lives near Cologne;
    ich möchte die Interessen \von mir und meinen Geschwistern vertreten I should like to represent the interests of myself and my brothers and sisters
    6) (Menge, Gruppenangabe) of;
    einer \von vielen/ hundert one of many/one in a hundred;
    keiner \von diesen Vorwürfen ist wahr none of these accusations are true;
    keiner \von uns wusste Bescheid none of us knew about it
    7) (geh: Eigenschaft) of;
    ein Mann \von Charakter a real character;
    eine Frau \von Schönheit a beautiful woman;
    eine Angelegenheit \von größter Wichtigkeit an extremely important matter
    8) (veraltend: Zusammensetzung) of;
    ein Strauß \von Rosen a bunch of roses;
    ein Ring \von purem Gold a ring made of pure gold
    9) ( bei Maßangaben) of;
    ein Kind \von sieben Jahren a seven year old child;
    eine Pause \von zehn Minuten a ten minute break;
    einen Abstand \von zwei Metern a distance of two metres;
    Städte \von über 100.000 Einwohnern cities with over 100,000 inhabitants
    WENDUNGEN:
    \von wegen! ( fam) not a chance!, no way! ( fam)
    \von wegen verschwiegen, das ist die größte Klatschbase, die ich kenne no way will she keep that quiet, she's the biggest gossip I know!

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  • 123 Braun, Wernher Manfred von

    [br]
    b. 23 March 1912 Wirsitz, Germany
    d. 16 June 1977 Alexandria, Virginia, USA
    [br]
    German pioneer in rocket development.
    [br]
    Von Braun's mother was an amateur astronomer who introduced him to the futuristic books of Jules Verne and H.G.Wells and gave him an astronomical telescope. He was a rather slack and undisciplined schoolboy until he came across Herman Oberth's book By Rocket to Interplanetary Space. He discovered that he required a good deal of mathematics to follow this exhilarating subject and immediately became an enthusiastic student.
    The Head of the Ballistics and Armaments branch of the German Army, Professor Karl Becker, had asked the engineer Walter Dornberger to develop a solid-fuel rocket system for short-range attack, and one using liquid-fuel rockets to carry bigger loads of explosives beyond the range of any known gun. Von Braun joined the Verein für Raumschiffsfahrt (the German Space Society) as a young man and soon became a leading member. He was asked by Rudolf Nebel, VfR's chief, to persuade the army of the value of rockets as weapons. Von Braun wisely avoided all mention of the possibility of space flight and some financial backing was assured. Dornberger in 1932 built a small test stand for liquid-fuel rockets and von Braun built a small rocket to test it; the success of this trial won over Dornberger to space rocketry.
    Initially research was carried out at Kummersdorf, a suburb of Berlin, but it was decided that this was not a suitable site. Von Braun recalled holidays as a boy at a resort on the Baltic, Peenemünde, which was ideally suited to rocket testing. Work started there but was not completed until August 1939, when the group of eighty engineers and scientists moved in. A great fillip to rocket research was received when Hitler was shown a film and was persuaded of the efficacy of rockets as weapons of war. A factory was set up in excavated tunnels at Mittelwerk in the Harz mountains. Around 6,000 "vengeance" weapons were built, some 3,000 of which were fired on targets in Britain and 2,000 of which were still in storage at the end of the Second World War.
    Peenemünde was taken by the Russians on 5 May 1945, but by then von Braun was lodging with many of his colleagues at an inn, Haus Ingeburg, near Oberjoch. They gave themselves up to the Americans, and von Braun presented a "prospectus" to the Americans, pointing out how useful the German rocket team could be. In "Operation Paperclip" some 100 of the team were moved to the United States, together with tons of drawings and a number of rocket missiles. Von Braun worked from 1946 at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, and in 1950 moved to Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. In 1953 he produced the Redstone missile, in effect a V2 adapted to carry a nuclear warhead a distance of 320 km (199 miles). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was formed in 1958 and recruited von Braun and his team. He was responsible for the design of the Redstone launch vehicles which launched the first US satellite, Explorer 1, in 1958, and the Mercury capsules of the US manned spaceflight programme which carried Alan Shepard briefly into space in 1961 and John Glenn into earth orbit in 1962. He was also responsible for the Saturn series of large, staged launch vehicles, which culminated in the Saturn V rocket which launched the Apollo missions taking US astronauts for the first human landing on the moon in 1969. Von Braun announced his resignation from NASA in 1972 and died five years later.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Further Reading
    P.Marsh, 1985, The Space Business, Penguin. J.Trux, 1985, The Space Race, New English Library. T.Osman, 1983, Space History, Michael Joseph.
    IMcN

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  • 124 Lee, Edmund

    [br]
    d. mid-1763 Brock Mill, Wigan, England
    [br]
    English inventor of the fantail, used to turn windmills automatically to face the wind.
    [br]
    On 9 December 1745 Edmund Lee was granted letters patent for his invention of the windmill fantail. In the preamble to Lee's patent he is described as a smith of Brock Mill, near Wigan, where he ran a millwright's business. Brock Mill is known to have been a substantial water-powered iron forge by the River Douglas to the north of Wigan. The drawing accompanying the patent shows a tower mill with its tail pole reaching the ground, and this is connected to a frame or carriage supporting a seven-bladed wind wheel. This tail projected some distance from the back of the tower, and when the wind caught it and turned it the cap was turned to face the wind by means of the gears which linked the cap to the fantail. The next logical step from Lee's invention was to place the fantail at a high level on the cap or at the foot of the ladder of a post mill. There is also an inferred connection between the Lee fantail and the annular sail of the wind engine or of a windmill such as that at Haverhill in Suffolk.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Stephen Buckland, 1987, Lee's Patent Windmill, London KM

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  • 125 Porta, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) della

    [br]
    b. between 3 October and 15 November 1535 Vico Equense, near Naples, Italy
    d. 4 February 1615 Naples, Italy
    [br]
    Italian natural philosopher who published many scientific books, one of which covered ideas for the use of steam.
    [br]
    Giambattista della Porta spent most of his life in Naples, where some time before 1580 he established the Accademia dei Segreti, which met at his house. In 1611 he was enrolled among the Oziosi in Naples, then the most renowned literary academy. He was examined by the Inquisition, which, although he had become a lay brother of the Jesuits by 1585, banned all further publication of his books between 1592 and 1598.
    His first book, the Magiae Naturalis, which covered the secrets of nature, was published in 1558. He had been collecting material for it since the age of 15 and he saw that science should not merely represent theory and contemplation but must arrive at practical and experimental expression. In this work he described the hardening of files and pieces of armour on quite a large scale, and it included the best sixteenth-century description of heat treatment for hardening steel. In the 1589 edition of this work he covered ways of improving vision at a distance with concave and convex lenses; although he may have constructed a compound microscope, the history of this instrument effectively begins with Galileo. His theoretical and practical work on lenses paved the way for the telescope and he also explored the properties of parabolic mirrors.
    In 1563 he published a treatise on cryptography, De Furtivis Liter arum Notis, which he followed in 1566 with another on memory and mnemonic devices, Arte del Ricordare. In 1584 and 1585 he published treatises on horticulture and agriculture based on careful study and practice; in 1586 he published De Humana Physiognomonia, on human physiognomy, and in 1588 a treatise on the physiognomy of plants. In 1593 he published his De Refractione but, probably because of the ban by the Inquisition, no more were produced until the Spiritali in 1601 and his translation of Ptolemy's Almagest in 1605. In 1608 two new works appeared: a short treatise on military fortifications; and the De Distillatione. There was an important work on meteorology in 1610. In 1601 he described a device similar to Hero's mechanisms which opened temple doors, only Porta used steam pressure instead of air to force the water out of its box or container, up a pipe to where it emptied out into a higher container. Under the lower box there was a small steam boiler heated by a fire. He may also have been the first person to realize that condensed steam would form a vacuum, for there is a description of another piece of apparatus where water is drawn up into a container at the top of a long pipe. The container was first filled with steam so that, when cooled, a vacuum would be formed and water drawn up into it. These are the principles on which Thomas Savery's later steam-engine worked.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 1975, Vol. XI, New York: C.Scribner's Sons (contains a full biography).
    H.W.Dickinson, 1938, A Short History of the Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press (contains an account of his contributions to the early development of the steam-engine).
    C.Singer (ed.), 1957, A History of Technology, Vol. III, Oxford University Press (contains accounts of some of his other discoveries).
    I.Asimov (ed.), 1982, Biographical Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology, 2nd edn., New York: Doubleday.
    G.Sarton, 1957, Six wings: Men of Science in the Renaissance, London: Bodley Head, pp. 85–8.
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  • 126 Siemens, Dr Ernst Werner von

    [br]
    b. 13 December 1816 Lenthe, near Hanover, Germany
    d. 6 December 1892 Berlin, Germany
    [br]
    German pioneer of the dynamo, builder of the first electric railway.
    [br]
    Werner von Siemens was the eldest of a large family and after the early death of his parents took his place at its head. He served in the Prussian artillery, being commissioned in 1839, after which he devoted himself to the study of chemistry and physics. In 1847 Siemens and J.G. Halske formed a company, Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens und Halske, to manufacture a dial telegraph which they had developed from an earlier instrument produced by Charles Wheatstone. In 1848 Siemens obtained his discharge from the army and he and Halske constructed the first long-distance telegraph line on the European continent, between Berlin and Frankfurt am Main.
    Werner von Siemens's younger brother, William Siemens, had settled in Britain in 1844 and was appointed agent for the Siemens \& Halske company in 1851. Later, an English subsidiary company was formed, known from 1865 as Siemens Brothers. It specialized in manufacturing and laying submarine telegraph cables: the specialist cable-laying ship Faraday, launched for the purpose in 1874, was the prototype of later cable ships and in 1874–5 laid the first cable to run direct from the British Isles to the USA. In charge of Siemens Brothers was another brother, Carl, who had earlier established a telegraph network in Russia.
    In 1866 Werner von Siemens demonstrated the principle of the dynamo in Germany, but it took until 1878 to develop dynamos and electric motors to the point at which they could be produced commercially. The following year, 1879, Werner von Siemens built the first electric railway, and operated it at the Berlin Trades Exhibition. It comprised an oval line, 300 m (985 it) long, with a track gauge of 1 m (3 ft 3 1/2 in.); upon this a small locomotive hauled three small passenger coaches. The locomotive drew current at 150 volts from a third rail between the running rails, through which it was returned. In four months, more than 80,000 passengers were carried. The railway was subsequently demonstrated in Brussels, and in London, in 1881. That same year Siemens built a permanent electric tramway, 1 1/2 miles (2 1/2 km) long, on the outskirts of Berlin. In 1882 in Berlin he tried out a railless electric vehicle which drew electricity from a two-wire overhead line: this was the ancestor of the trolleybus.
    In the British Isles, an Act of Parliament was obtained in 1880 for the Giant's Causeway Railway in Ireland with powers to work it by "animal, mechanical or electrical power"; although Siemens Brothers were electrical engineers to the company, of which William Siemens was a director, delays in construction were to mean that the first railway in the British Isles to operate regular services by electricity was that of Magnus Volk.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Honorary doctorate, Berlin University 1860. Ennobled by Kaiser Friedrich III 1880, after which he became known as von Siemens.
    Further Reading
    S.von Weiher, 1972, "The Siemens brothers, pioneers of the electrical age in Europe", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 45 (describes the Siemens's careers). C.E.Lee, 1979, The birth of electric traction', Railway Magazine (May) (describes Werner Siemens's introduction of the electric railway).
    Transactions of the Newcomen Society (1979) 50: 82–3 (describes Siemens's and Halske's early electric telegraph instruments).
    Transactions of the Newcomen Society (1961) 33: 93 (describes the railless electric vehicle).
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  • 127 Sprague, Frank Julian

    [br]
    b. 25 July 1857 Milford, Connecticut, USA
    d. 25 October 1934 New York, USA
    [br]
    American electrical engineer and inventor, a leading innovator in electric propulsion systems for urban transport.
    [br]
    Graduating from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, in 1878, Sprague served at sea and with various shore establishments. In 1883 he resigned from the Navy and obtained employment with the Edison Company; but being convinced that the use of electricity for motive power was as important as that for illumination, in 1884 he founded the Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company. Sprague began to develop reliable and efficient motors in large sizes, marketing 15 hp (11 kW) examples by 1885. He devised the method of collecting current by using a wooden, spring-loaded rod to press a roller against the underside of an overhead wire. The installation by Sprague in 1888 of a street tramway on a large scale in Richmond, Virginia, was to become the prototype of the universally adopted trolley system with overhead conductor and the beginning of commercial electric traction. Following the success of the Richmond tramway the company equipped sixty-seven other railways before its merger with Edison General Electric in 1890. The Sprague traction motor supported on the axle of electric streetcars and flexibly mounted to the bogie set a pattern that was widely adopted for many years.
    Encouraged by successful experiments with multiple-sheave electric elevators, the Sprague Elevator Company was formed and installed the first set of high-speed passenger cars in 1893–4. These effectively displaced hydraulic elevators in larger buildings. From experience with control systems for these, he developed his system of multiple-unit control for electric trains, which other engineers had considered impracticable. In Sprague's system, a master controller situated in the driver's cab operated electrically at a distance the contactors and reversers which controlled the motors distributed down the train. After years of experiment, Sprague's multiple-unit control was put into use for the first time in 1898 by the Chicago South Side Elevated Railway: within fifteen years multiple-unit operation was used worldwide.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, American Institute of Electrical Engineers 1892–3. Franklin Institute Elliot Cresson Medal 1904, Franklin Medal 1921. American Institute of Electrical Engineers Edison Medal 1910.
    Bibliography
    1888, "The solution of municipal rapid transit", Trans. AIEE 5:352–98. See "The multiple unit system for electric railways", Cassiers Magazine, (1899) London, repub. 1960, 439–460.
    1934, "Digging in “The Mines of the Motor”", Electrical Engineering 53, New York: 695–706 (a short autobiography).
    Further Reading
    Lionel Calisch, 1913, Electric Traction, London: The Locomotive Publishing Co., Ch. 6 (for a near-contemporary view of Sprague's multiple-unit control).
    D.C.Jackson, 1934, "Frank Julian Sprague", Scientific Monthly 57:431–41.
    H.C.Passer, 1952, "Frank Julian Sprague: father of electric traction", in Men of Business, ed. W. Miller, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 212–37 (a reliable account).
    ——1953, The Electrical Manufacturers: 1875–1900, Cambridge, Mass. P.Ransome-Wallis (ed.), 1959, The Concise Encyclopaedia of World Railway
    Locomotives, London: Hutchinson, p. 143..
    John Marshall, 1978, A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.
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  • 128 скорость

    скорость сущ
    1. speed
    2. velocity аэродинамика малых скоростей
    low-speed aerodynamics
    аэродинамическая труба больших скоростей
    high-speed wind tunnel
    аэродинамическая труба околозвуковых скоростей
    transonic wind tunnel
    безопасная скорость
    safety speed
    безопасная скорость взлета
    takeoff safety speed
    блок датчиков угловых скоростей гироскопа
    rate gyro unit
    блок контроля скорости пробега по земле
    ground run monitor
    вектор воздушной скорости
    airspeed vector
    вектор путевой скорости
    ground speed vector
    вертикальная скорость
    vertical speed
    воздушная скорость
    airspeed
    восстанавливать скорость
    regain the speed
    выдерживание скорости
    speed holding
    выдерживать требуемую скорость полета
    maintain the flying speed
    вычислитель воздушной скорости
    air-speed computer
    гаситель скорости
    speedbrake
    гасить посадочную скорость
    kill the landing speed
    гасить скорость в полете
    decelerate in the flight
    гашение скоростей
    speed bleedoff
    гиперзвуковая скорость
    hypersonic speed
    датчик воздушной скорости
    1. airspeed transmitter
    2. airspeed sensor датчик скорости
    velocity sensor
    датчик угловой скорости крена
    1. roll-rate pickup
    2. roll rate sensor диапазон больших скоростей
    high-speed range
    диапазон скоростей
    speed range
    дозвуковая скорость
    subsonic speed
    допустимая скорость
    allowable speed
    допустимая эксплуатационная скорость
    permissible operating speed
    единица скорости телеграфной передачи
    baud
    задавать определенную скорость
    set up the speed
    заданная скорость
    1. target speed
    2. sufficient speed 3. on-speed замедлять скорость
    speed down
    запас скорости
    speed margin
    заход на посадку с уменьшением скорости
    decelerating approach
    зона выдерживания скорости
    speed control area
    измеритель угловой скорости
    turnmeter
    измеритель угловой скорости крена
    rate-of-roll meter
    индикаторная воздушная скорость
    1. calibrate airspeed
    2. rectified airspeed информация о скорости
    rate information
    исправленная воздушная скорость
    corrected airspeed
    исправленная скорость
    basic speed
    (с учетом погрешности измерения) истинная воздушная скорость
    true airspeed
    комбинированный указатель скорости
    combination airspeed indicator
    коммерческая скорость
    block speed
    крейсерская скорость
    cruising speed
    крейсерская скорость для полета максимальной дальности
    long-range cruise speed
    критическая скорость
    hump speed
    линейная скорость
    1. linear velocity
    2. linear speed максимальная скорость порыва
    gust peak speed
    (воздушной массы) максимально допустимая скорость
    1. maximum limit speed
    2. never-exceed speed максимально допустимая скорость прохождения порога ВПП
    maximum threshold speed
    мгновенная вертикальная скорость
    instantaneous vertical speed
    (полета) минимальная безопасная скорость взлета
    minimum takeoff safety speed
    минимальная посадочная скорость
    minimum landing speed
    минимальная скорость отрыва
    minimum unstick speed
    минимальная скорость полета
    minimum flying speed
    минимально допустимая скорость прохождения порога ВПП
    minimum threshold speed
    набирать заданную скорость полета
    obtain the flying speed
    наименьшая начальная скорость
    slowest initial speed
    (полета) на полной скорости
    at full speed
    наращивать скорость
    gather the speed
    на скорости
    1. at a speed of
    2. on the speed ограничение по скорости полета
    air-speed limitation
    околозвуковая скорость
    1. transonic speed
    2. near-sonic speed окружная скорость
    circumferential speed
    окружная скорость законцовки воздушного винта
    propeller tip speed
    окружная скорость лопасти воздушного винта
    airscrew blade speed
    окружная скорость лопатки вентилятора
    fan tip speed
    относительная воздушная скорость
    relative airspeed
    относительная скорость
    relative velocity
    переходить к скорости набора высоты
    transit to the climb speed
    полет на малой скорости
    low-speed flight
    полет с уменьшением скорости
    decelerating flight
    поправка на воздушную скорость
    airspeed compensation
    посадочная скорость
    landing speed
    поступательная скорость
    forward speed
    предел скоростей на крейсерском режиме
    cruising speeds range
    предел скорости ветра
    wind limit
    предельная скорость
    top speed
    приборная воздушная скорость
    1. indicated airspeed
    2. basic airspeed продольная составляющая скорости
    longitudinal velocity
    путевая скорость
    1. ground speed
    (скорость воздушного судна относительно земли) 2. ground velocity 3. actual speed равнодействующий вектор скорости
    resultant velocity vector
    развивать заданную скорость
    1. gain the speed
    2. attain the speed 3. pick up the speed разгонять до скорости
    accelerate to the speed
    расчетная воздушная скорость
    design airspeed
    расчетная скорость
    design speed
    расчетная скорость полета
    reference flight speed
    расчетная скорость схода
    exit design speed
    (с ВПП) регистратор воздушной скорости
    air-speed recorder
    регулируемая скорость
    governed speed
    реле максимальной скорости
    speed warning relay
    самопроизвольное восстановление скорости
    free speed return
    сверхзвуковая скорость
    1. supersonic speed
    2. ultrasonic speed сигнализатор достижения предельной скорости
    limit speed switch
    система привода с постоянной скоростью
    constant speed drive system
    система управления скоростью
    speed control system
    (полета) скорость аварийного слива топлива
    fuel dumping rate
    скорость балансировки
    rate of trim
    скорость бокового движения
    sideward flight speed
    (вертолета) скорость бокового скольжения
    1. lateral velocity
    2. rate of sideslip скорость вертикального порыва
    vertical gust speed
    (воздушной массы) скорость ветра
    wind speed
    скорость ветра у поверхности
    surface wind speed
    (земли) скорость взлета
    takeoff speed
    скорость воздушного судна
    aircraft speed
    скорость возникновения бафтинга
    buffeting onset speed
    скорость возникновения флаттера
    flutter onset speed
    скорость вращения
    rotational speed
    скорость встречного ветра
    headwind speed
    скорость в условиях турбулентности
    1. rough airspeed
    2. rough-air speed скорость выпуска - уборки шасси
    landing gear operating speed
    скорость газового потока
    gas flow velocity
    скорость горизонтального полета
    level-flight speed
    скорость движения воздушной массы
    air velocity
    скорость, заданная подвижным индексом
    bug speed
    (прибора) скорость замедления
    decreasing speed
    скорость заправки топливных баков
    fuel tank filling rate
    скорость затухания
    degeneration speed
    (звукового удара) скорость захода на посадку
    1. landing approach speed
    2. approach speed скорость захода на посадку с убранной механизацией крыла
    no-flap - no-slat approach speed
    скорость захода на посадку с убранными закрылками
    no-flap approach speed
    скорость захода на посадку с убранными предкрылками
    no-slat approach speed
    скорость звука
    1. sonic speed
    2. velocity of sound 3. sound velocity скорость изменения бокового отклонения
    crosstrack distance change rate
    скорость изменения высоты
    altitude rate
    скорость изменения шага винта
    pitch-change rate
    скорость истечения выхлопных газов
    exhaust velocity
    скорость истечения выходящих газов на срезе реактивного сопла
    nozzle exhaust velocity
    скорость истечения газов
    exit velocity
    скорость крена
    rate of roll
    скорость маневрирования
    manoeuvring speed
    скорость набора высоты
    ascensional rate
    скорость набора высоты при выходе из зоны
    climb-out speed
    скорость набора высоты при полете по маршруту
    en-route climb speed
    скорость набора высоты с убранными закрылками
    1. flaps-up climbing speed
    2. flaps-up climb speed 3. no-flap climb speed скорость на начальном участке набора высоты при взлете
    speed at takeoff climb
    скорость начала торможения
    brake application speed
    скорость обгона
    overtaking speed
    (воздушного судна) скорость отклонения закрылков
    rate of flaps motion
    скорость отработки
    follow-up rate
    скорость отрыва
    liftoff speed
    (при разбеге) скорость отрыва носового колеса
    rotation speed
    (при взлете) скорость отрыва при взлете
    unstick speed
    скорость парашютирования
    sink speed
    (при посадке) скорость первоначального этапа набора высоты
    initial climb speed
    скорость перед сваливанием
    prestall speed
    (на крыло) скорость пикирования
    dive speed
    скорость планирования
    gliding speed
    скорость полета
    flight speed
    скорость полета на малом газе
    flight idle speed
    скорость попутного ветра
    tailwind speed
    скорость порыва
    gust velocity
    скорость по тангажу
    rate of pitch
    скорость прецессии
    precession rate
    скорость при аварийном снижении
    emergency descent speed
    скорость при взлетной
    speed in takeoff configuration
    (конфигурации воздушного судна) скорость при всех работающих двигателях
    all engines speed
    скорость при выпуске закрылков
    flaps speed
    скорость при выпущенных интерцепторах
    spoiler extended speed
    скорость при касании
    touchdown speed
    (ВПП) скорость принятия решения
    decision speed
    (пилотом) скорость при отказе критического двигателя
    critical engine failure speed
    скорость при полностью убранных закрылках
    zero flaps speed
    скорость при посадочной
    speed in landing configuration
    (конфигурации воздушного судна) скорость протяжки ленты
    tape speed
    (бортового регистратора) скорость прохождения порога ВПП
    threshold speed
    скорость разворота
    rate of turn
    скорость раскрытия
    opening speed
    (парашюта) скорость рассогласования
    rate of disagreement
    скорость реакции
    reaction rate
    скорость руления
    taxiing speed
    скорость рыскания
    rate of yaw
    скорость сближения
    1. closing speed
    (воздушных судов) 2. rate of closure скорость сваливания
    stalling speed
    (на крыло) скорость скоса потока вниз
    downwash velocity
    скорость слива топлива
    fuel off-load rate
    скорость снижения
    1. descent velocity
    2. rate of descent скорость снижения перед касанием
    sink rate
    скорость снижения при заходе на посадку
    approach rate of descent
    скорость сноса
    drift rate
    скорость согласования
    slaving rate
    скорость схода с ВПП
    turnoff speed
    скорость таможенной пошлины
    rate of duty
    скорость установившегося полета
    steady flight speed
    скорость установившегося разворота
    sustained turn rate
    скорость ухода гироскопа
    gyro drift rate
    снижать скорость воздушного судна до
    decelerate the aircraft to
    составляющая скорости
    velocity component
    средняя скорость
    mean speed
    таблица поправок воздушной скорости
    air-speed calibration card
    тарировка указателя воздушной скорости
    air-speed indicator calibration
    терять заданную скорость
    lose the speed
    точно выдерживать скорость
    hold the speed accurately
    трафарет ограничения воздушной скорости
    airspeed placard
    треугольник скоростей
    triangle of velocities
    увеличение скорости
    speed increase
    увеличивать скорость
    increase the speed
    угловая скорость
    1. angular speed
    2. angular velocity 3. angular rate указатель воздушной скорости
    1. airspeed indicator
    2. airspeed instrument указатель индикаторной воздушной скорости
    calibrated airspeed indicator
    указатель путевой скорости
    ground speed indicator
    указатель скорости
    speed pointer
    указатель скорости ветра
    wind speed indicator
    указатель скорости крена
    rate-of-roll indicator
    указатель скорости набора высоты
    variometer
    указатель скорости разворота
    rate-of-turn indicator
    указатель скорости рыскания
    rate-of-yaw indicator
    указатель скорости снижения на ВПП
    rising runway indicator
    указатель скорости сноса
    speed-and-drift meter
    указатель сноса и скорости
    drift-speed indicator
    уменьшать скорость
    decrease the speed
    уменьшение скорости
    deceleration
    уменьшение скорости за счет лобового сопротивления
    deceleration due to drag
    установившаяся скорость набора высоты
    steady rate of climb
    устойчивость по скорости
    speed stability
    фактическая воздушная скорость
    actual airspeed
    фактическая скорость
    demonstrated speed
    фактическая скорость истечения выходящих газов
    actual exhaust velocity
    эволютивная скорость
    control speed
    Минимально допустимая скорость при сохранении управляемости. эквивалентная воздушная скорость
    equivalent airspeed
    экономическая скорость
    economic speed
    (при минимальном расходе топлива) эксплуатационная скорость
    operating speed
    эффект скорости поступательного движения
    forward speed effect

    Русско-английский авиационный словарь > скорость

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