industrial+development+patent

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adj <Geschäft, Ind> industrial ■ industrieller Anwendung unterliegend < Patent> subject to industrial application, susceptible to industrial application

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1 information, word, notice, communication.

2 information, data, info, tip-off.

3 directory assistance, directory enquiries.

4 information desk.

5 literature, promotional material.

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► nombre femenino

1 (conocimiento) information

2 (noticia) piece of news; (conjunto de noticias) news

3 (oficina) information department; (mesa) information desk

4 (en telefónica) directory enquiries plural, US information

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información deportiva (en televisión) sports news 2 (en prensa) sports pages plural

oficina de información information bureau

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1) (=datos) information; (=oficina) information desk; (Telec) Directory Enquiries, Directory Assistance (EEUU)

2) (=noticias) news

3) (Jur) judicial inquiry, investigation

4) (Inform) (=datos) data pl

5) (Mil) intelligence

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a) (datos, detalles) information

b) (Telec) information (AmE), directory enquiries (BrE)

2) (Period, Rad, TV) news

3) (Inf) data (pl)

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= data [datum, -sing.], datum [data, -pl.], details, information, informativeness, piece of information, info, information coverage, field data, bit of information.

Ex. Statistical tabular and numerical abstract are a means of summarising numerical data, which may be presented in its original format in a tabular form.

Ex. Thus, having entered the authority datum correctly once, we could be sure that no matter how many bibliographic records used it they would all do so with mechanical consistency.

Ex. With minimum authorization, details of the circulation and order records are not displayed.

Ex. Thus, the subject approach is extremely important in the access to and the exploitation of information, documents and data.

Ex. The informativeness of the index depends upon the information contents of the titles that comprise the index.

Ex. On other occasions a user wants every document or piece of information on a topic traced, and then high recall must be sought, to the detriment of precision.

Ex. The article is entitled 'CD-ROM reader as info walkman'.

Ex. Serious attention should be given to the coordination and improvement of bibliographic control at a national level to avoid duplication of effort and gaps in information coverage.

Ex. This paper discusses the technological revolution in field data collection systems for health sciences.

Ex. Outside the portacabin there is a board with a few useful bits of information, such as the temperature of the water, visibility, and opening/closing times.

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* abuso de información confidencial = insider trading, insider dealing.

* abuso de información privilegiada = insider trading, insider dealing.

* acceso a la información por el autor = author approach.

* acceso a la información por el título = title approach.

* acceso a la información por la materia = subject approach to information, subject approach.

* actuación relacionada con la información = information action.

* ADONIS (Distribución automática de documentos a través de sistemas de inform = ADONIS (Automated Document Delivery Over Networked Information Systems).

* agencia de información = information agency.

* AGRIS (Sistema Internacional de Información sobre Agricultura) = AGRIS (International Agricultural Information System).

* aldea mundial de la información, la = global information village, the.

* alfabetización en información = information literacy.

* alfabeto en información = information literate [information-literate].

* almacenamiento de la información = information storage.

* almacenamiento y recuperación automatizada de la información = computerised information retrieval and storage.

* almacenamiento y recuperación de la información = information storage and retrieval (ISR).

* analfabetismo en información = information illiteracy.

* aparato para el uso de la información = information appliance.

* aplicaciones para la información = information solutions.

* área de información = communications area.

* asesor de información = information consultant.

* asesoría y oficina de información itinerante en furgón = mobile information and advice van.

* Asociación Nacional de Oficinas de Información al Consumidor (NACAB) = National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux (NACAB).

* ASTINFO (Red Regional para el Intercambio de Información y Experiencias de l = ASTINFO (Regional Network for the Exchange of Information and Experience in Science and Technology in Asia and the Pacific).

* atender una petición de información = satisfy + request for information.

* auditoría de la información = information audit, information auditing.

* auditoría de sistemas de información = information systems auditing, information systems audit.

* autopista de la información = information highway.

* basado en la información = information-based, information-intensive.

* base de datos con información confidencial = intelligence database.

* BLAISE (Servicio de Información Automatizada de la Biblioteca Británica) = BLAISE (British Library Automated Information Service).

* bloque funcional de información descriptiva = descriptive information block.

* broker de información = information broker, broker.

* buscador de información = information seeker, searcher.

* buscar información = mine + information, seek + information.

* búsqueda de información = fact-finding, quest for + information, information seeking.

* cadena de la información = information chain, the, information provision chain, the.

* campo de información = data field.

* capacidad de interpretar información espacial = spatial literacy.

* capacidad de interpretar información estadística = statistical literacy.

* capacidad de interpretar información gráfica = graphic literacy.

* capacidad de manejar la información = information handling.

* cargar información = load + information.

* centro coordinador de información = clearinghouse [clearing house].

* centro de análisis de la información = information analysis centre.

* centro de información = information agency, information centre.

* Centro de Información al Ciudadano = Public Information Center (PIC).

* centro de información ciudadana = community information centre, neighbourhood information centre (NIC).

* centro de información laboral = job information centre.

* centro de información sectorial = sectoral information centre.

* Centro de Información sobre el Ayuntamiento = Kommune Information Centre.

* centro especializado de proceso de información = clearinghouse [clearing house].

* centro municipal de información = local authority information outlet.

* circuito de la información = information chain, the, information provision chain, the.

* circulación de la información = flow of information.

* comercialización de la información = information brokerage, information broking, information brokering.

* Comité Conjunto para Sistemas de Información (JISC) = Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

* compañía dedicada a la información = information company.

* competencias de información = information literacy.

* competencias en información = information literacy.

* compilador de información = information gatherer.

* comportamiento de búsqueda de información = information-seeking behaviour.

* compresión de información = data compression.

* concienciar a Alguien de la importancia de la información = raise + information awareness.

* con conocimiento básico en el manejo de la información = information literate [information-literate].

* con información = information-bearing.

* con mucha información = populated.

* conocimientos básicos de búsqueda, recuperación y organización de la informa = information literacy.

* conocimientos en el manejo de la información = info-savvy.

* consciente de la importancia de la información = information conscious.

* consumo de información = consumption of information.

* contener información = carry + information.

* contenido de la información = information content.

* conversión de información = data conversion.

* crecimiento vertiginoso de la información, el = information explosion, the.

* CRISP (Recuperación Automatizada de Información sobre Proyectos Científicos) = CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects).

* Cumbre Mundial sobre la Sociedad de la Información = World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

* cursos de gestión de información = management course.

* dar información = provide + information, give + information, release + information.

* dar información adicional = give + further details.

* dar información de = give + details of.

* derecho de acceso a la información = right of access to information.

* descubrimiento de información en las bases de datos = knowledge discovery in databases (KDD).

* destreza en la búsqueda de información en una biblioteca = library research skills.

* destrezas relacionadas con el uso de la información = information skills.

* destrezas relacionadas con la información = information skills.

* difundir información = hand out + information.

* difusión de información = information provision, provision of information, dissemination of information.

* difusión de la información = information diffusion, information dissemination.

* difusión selectiva de la información = SDI (selective dissemination of information).

* difusor de información = information disseminator.

* dirigir información a = direct + information towards.

* disco con información = data diskette, data disk.

* dispositivo de entrada de información mediante la voz = voice input device.

* distribución de información = content distribution, content delivery.

* distribución de información por suscripción = syndication.

* distribuidor de información = information provider.

* distribuidor de información en línea = host, online host.

* dosier de información = topic pack, package of information.

* dosiers de información para el público = self-help pack of information.

* ecología de la información = information ecology.

* economía de la información = information economy.

* elaborar información = digest + information.

* empresa de servicios de información = information broker, broker, information broking.

* empresario de la información = infopreneur.

* encargado de la tecnología de la información = information technologist.

* encontrar información = dredge up + information.

* enseñanza en la búsqueda de información = information instruction.

* enviar información a = direct + output.

* enviar información de un modo automático = push + information.

* envío de información por suscripción = syndication feed.

* era de la información = information era.

* era de la información, la = information age, the.

* escasez de información = information scarcity, information underload.

* esfera de la información, la = infosphere, the.

* especialista de la información = information specialist.

* estrategia de búsqueda de información = information seeking pattern.

* estrategia de gestión de la información = information management strategy.

* exceso de información = information overload.

* explosión de la información, la = information explosion, the.

* extracción de información (EI) = information extraction (IE).

* falta de información = lack of information.

* filtración de información = leakage of information.

* fórmula para la medición de la información de Brillouin = Brillouin's information measure.

* formulario de recogida de información = data collection form.

* fuente de información = information source, information store, source of information, source of data.

* fuente de información electrónica = electronic information source.

* fuente principal de información = chief source of information.

* fuentes de información = information base.

* gestionar información = handle + information.

* gestión de la información = information management, information handling.

* Gestión de los Recursos de Información (IRM) = Information Resources Management (IRM).

* gestor de información = information software package.

* gestor de la información = information manager, information handler.

* guerra de la información = information warfare.

* guía de fuentes de información = pathfinder.

* hábito de búsqueda de información = information-seeking habit.

* hacerse de información = secure + information.

* herramienta de recuperación de información = retrieval tool.

* herramienta para el uso de la información = information appliance.

* herramienta para la gestión de la información = information-managing tool.

* hoja con la información básica para Hacer Algo = data sheet [datasheet].

* industria de la información electrónica = electronic information industry.

* industria de la información en línea, la = online industry, the, online information industry, the.

* industria de la información, la = information industry, the.

* información adicional = further information, additional information.

* información administrativa = management information.

* información al consumidor = consumer information, consumer advice, consumer affairs.

* información a modo de ejemplo = sample data.

* información anterior al pedido = preorder information.

* información a través de la voz = voice information.

* información automatizada = computerised information.

* información básica = background information, background note.

* información bibliográfica = bibliographic data, bibliographic information.

* Información Bibliográfica Automatizada (MARBI) = MARBI (Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information).

* información bursátil = share prices.

* información catalográfica = cataloguing data.

* información científica = scientific information, scholarly information.

* información científica y técnica = scientific and technical information (STI).

* información clínica = clinical information.

* información comerciable = tradeable information.

* información comercial = business information.

* información como artículo de consumo, la = information commodity.

* información como materia prima, la = information commodity.

* información complementaria = supplementary information, further information, further details.

* información comunitaria = community information.

* información confidencial = inside information, confidential information, insider information.

* información corporativa = economic intelligence.

* información de agencia = syndicated matters.

* información de alojamiento = housing information.

* información de archivo = archival information.

* información de autoridades = authority data, authority information.

* información de contacto = contact details, contact information.

* información de existencias por bibliotecas = local holdings information.

* información de fuente fidedigna = authoritative information.

* información de gestión = management data, management information.

* información de novedades = press release.

* información de ocio = infotainment.

* información deportiva = sporting news.

* información de precios = price information.

* información de precios de productos para el consumo = retail prices.

* información de supervivencia = survival information.

* información de texto completo = full-text information.

* información de última hora = news flash.

* información digital = digital information, digital data, digital content.

* información documentada = documented information.

* información documental = documentary information, document information.

* información económica = business news.

* información electrónica = electronic content [e-content], electronic information.

* información empresarial = business information, company information, industry information.

* información en defensa de las minorías = affirmative information.

* información en línea = online information.

* información en soporte = recorded information.

* información en su estado primario = raw information.

* información envasada = packaged data.

* información errónea = misinformation, dirty data, misstatement [mis-statement], misreporting.

* información específica = data element.

* información estadística = statistics, statistical data.

* información estratégica = strategic information.

* información factual = factual information.

* información fiable = accurate information.

* información geoespacial = geospatial data.

* información geográfica = geoinformation.

* información gráfica = graphic information.

* información gubernamental = government information.

* información indígena = indigenous information.

* información industrial = industrial information, industry information.

* información legal = legal information.

* información local = community information, local knowledge.

* información no codificada = non-coded information.

* información numérica = numeric data.

* información obtenida a través de intermediarios = mediated information.

* información oficial = official information, public information.

* información oficial del municipio = municipal information.

* información oral = voice information.

* información para hacer pedidos = order information.

* Información para la Administración Pública (IPA) = Information for Public Administration (IPA).

* información personal = personal information.

* información pictórica = pictorial information, pictorial data.

* información por defecto = default.

* información pormenorizada = step-by-step details.

* información por omisión = default.

* información práctica = practical information.

* información preempaquetada = pre-packaged information.

* información primaria = primary information.

* información privada = property data, private information.

* información privilegiada = insider information, privileged information.

* información pública = public information.

* información puntual = timely information.

* información que permite mejorar la situación social de Alguien = empowering information.

* información sanitaria = health information.

* información secreta = secret information.

* información secreta sobre un adversario = intelligence.

* información secundaria = secondary information.

* información sobre dietética = dietary information.

* información sobre educación = education information.

* información sobre el contenido = subject information.

* información sobre el tiempo que un determinado producto se anuncia en l = air play data.

* información sobre empresas = business intelligence.

* información sobre la competencia = business intelligence, competitive intelligence, competitive business intelligence, competitor intelligence.

* información sobre la flota pesquera = fleet statistics.

* información sobre la materia = subject data.

* información sobre localización y existencias = copy-specific holdings and location information.

* información sobre nutrición = nutrition information.

* información sobre patentes = patent information.

* información sobre propiedades inmobiliarias = real estate information.

* información sobre química = chemical information.

* información sobre salidas profesionales = career(s) information.

* información sobre ubicación = location information.

* información sobre ubicación y existencias = holdings information, holdings statement.

* información sobre ubicación y existencias = holdings and location information.

* información sobre una disciplina = discipline-oriented information.

* información sobre un producto = product literature.

* información sobre viajes = travel information.

* información técnica = technical information.

* información textual = textual information, text information, text knowledge, textual data, textual matter, textual document.

* información transmitida por fibra óptica = fibre optic-based information.

* información valiosísima = nugget of information.

* información visual = visual information.

* información viva = live information.

* Infraestructura Mundial para la Información = Global Information Infrastructure (GII).

* institución relacionada con la información = information organisation, information institution.

* Instituto de Información Científica (ISI) = Institute of Scientific Information (ISI).

* intercambiar información = exchange + data.

* intercambio de información = information exchange, information interchange.

* intercambio electrónico de información = electronic exchange of information.

* intermediario de la información = information intermediary, infomediary.

* introducir información = provide + input.

* jefe de los servicios de información = chief information officer (CIO).

* ladrón de información = info-thief.

* libertad de información = freedom of information (FOI).

* libre circulación de la información = free flow of information.

* licencia de acceso a información electrónica = license [licence, -USA], licensing.

* lleno de información = populated.

* localizar información = track down + information.

* más información = further information, further details.

* medios de microalmacenamiento de la información = microstorage media.

* medios digitalizados de almacenamiento de información = digitised media.

* mercado de la información = information market place, information market.

* metainformación = meta-information.

* microalmacenamiento de información = microstorage.

* minipaquete de información = mini-pack.

* modelo de recuperación de información por coincidencia óptima = best match model.

* mostrador de información = information desk, enquiry desk.

* mundo de la información, el = information world, the, information business, the, infosphere, the.

* navegar por la red en busca de información = surf for + information.

* necesidad de información = information need.

* NISTF (Grupo de Trabajo sobre los Sistemas Nacionales de Información de la A = NISTF (Society of American Archivists National Information Systems Task Force).

* no revelar información = keep + silent, keep + silence.

* no tener información = be undocumented.

* objeto de información electrónico = electronic information object.

* obtener información = obtain + information, glean + information, gain + information, pick up + information, secure + information.

* obtener información de = elicit + information from.

* oficina de información = information office, visitor's centre.

* Oficina de Información al Ciudadano (CAB) = Citizens' Advice Bureau (CAB).

* oficina de información turística = tourism information office.

* ofrecer información = provide + information, provide + details, supply + information, offer + information, package + information, furnish + information.

* operaciones de información = information operations.

* orientado hacia la información = information-driven.

* PADI (Preservación de Información Digital Australiana) = PADI (Preservation of Australian Digital Information).

* PADIS (Sistema de Información para el Desarrollo de Africa) = PADIS (Pan-African Development Information System).

* país productor de información científica = science producer.

* panel luminoso de información de tráfico = variable road sign.

* pantalla de información = frame, screen display.

* pantalla de información breve = short information display, short information screen.

* pantalla de información completa = full information display, full information screen.

* paquete de información = pack, information kit.

* para la gestión de información textual = text-handling.

* para más información = for further details.

* para mayor información sobre = for details of.

* para mayor información véase + Nombre = see + Nombre + for further details.

* pedir información = request + information.

* pedir información de = ask for + details of.

* pedir información sobre = enquire of [inquire of, -USA].

* petición de información de referencia = reference enquiry.

* plantilla de recogida de información = data collection form.

* pobre en información = info-poor.

* pobres en información = information have-nots.

* pobres en información, los = information-poor, the.

* pobreza de información = information poverty.

* política de información = information provision, information strategy, information policy.

* política de información nacional = national information policy.

* presentar información = submit + information, package + information.

* presentar información de varios modos = repackage + information.

* procesamiento de información = information processing.

* proceso de transferencia de la información = information transfer process.

* producto de la información = information commodity.

* profesional de la información = information officer, information professional, information worker, info pro.

* profesional de las bibliotecas y la información = library and information professional.

* profesional de la tecnología de la información = informatics professional.

* profesionales de la información, los = information community, the.

* profesionales de las bibliotecas y la información, los = library and information profession, the.

* promovido por el propio sistema de información = information-led.

* proporcionar información = release + information.

* protección de información entre fronteras = transborder data protection.

* protección de la información = data protection.

* proveedor de información a través de la red = content provider.

* punto de información = information kiosk.

* que necesita la información = information-dependent.

* que transmite información = information-bearing.

* recabar información = solicit + information.

* recoger información = collect + data, collect + information, gather + information, summon + knowledge, harvest + information.

* recogida de información = information gathering.

* recopilar información = gather + information, collate + information.

* recuperación de información = data retrieval.

* recuperación de información de lógica di = fuzzy data retrieval.

* recuperación de información de lógica difusa = fuzzy data retrieval.

* recuperación de información en varias lenguas = cross-language information retrieval (CLIR).

* recuperación de información (RI) = information retrieval (IR).

* recurso de información = information asset.

* recursos de información autodidácticos = self help resources.

* red de información = data network, information network.

* relacionado con la información = information-related.

* reorganizar la información = repackage + information.

* repleto de información = information packed [information-packed].

* responsable de la tecnología de la información = information technologist.

* reunir información = pool + information.

* revolución de la información, la = information revolution, the.

* rico en información = information-rich, info-rich.

* ricos en información = information haves.

* ricos en información, los = information-rich, the.

* sala de información = information lobby.

* sector de la información, el = information sector, the, infosphere, the.

* servicio de difusión selectiva de la información = SDI service.

* servicio de información = information service, information delivery service, information utility.

* servicio de información al consumidor = Consumer Advice Centre (CAC), consumer advisory service.

* servicio de información ciudadana = community information service.

* servicio de información electrónica = electronic information service.

* servicio de información en línea = online information service.

* servicio de información local = local information service.

* servicio de información sectorial = sectoral information service.

* servicios de información = Information and Referral services.

* servicios de información bibliográfica = bibliographical services.

* servicios de información y referencia = I&R services (Information and Referral).

* servidor de información = information server.

* SIGLE (Sistema de Información sobre Literatura Gris en Europa) = SIGLE (System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe).

* sin conservar información sobre las consultas realizadas anteri = stateless.

* síndrome de la sobrecarga de información = information fatigue syndrome.

* sin información sobre el estado anterior = stateless.

* sintetizar información = synthesise + information.

* sistema automatizado para la recuperación de información = computerised information retrieval system.

* sistema de almacenamiento y recuperación de la información = information storage and retrieval system.

* sistema de cobro por la información usada = information metering.

* sistema de gestión de la información (SGI) = information management system (IMS).

* sistema de información = information system.

* Sistema de Información Bibliotecario = LIBRIS.

* sistema de información documental = document information system.

* sistema de información integrado = integrated information system.

* sistema de información sectorial = sectoral information system.

* sistema de procesamiento de información = information processing system.

* sistema de recuperación de información = IR system.

* sistema de recuperación de información por medio de menús = menu-based information retrieval system.

* sistema de suministro de información = information supply system.

* sistema óptico de información = optical information system.

* sistema para información geográfica (SIG) = Geographical Information System (GIS).

* sistema para la información de gestión = management information system (MIS).

* Sistema para la Información Geográfica (SIG) = Geographic Information System (GIS).

* sitio web de información = content site, content Web site.

* sobrecarga de información = information overload.

* sobreinformación = information overload.

* sociedad de la información, la = information society, the.

* solicitar información = request + information.

* soporte de información = data medium.

* soportes de la información = information carrying media.

* subtítulo y/o información complementaria sobre el título = other title information.

* suministrar información = dispense + information, purvey + information.

* suministro de información = information-giving.

* superautopista de la información = information superhighway.

* tareas relacionadas con la información = information operations.

* técnica de recuperación de información por coincidencia óptima = best match technique.

* tecnología de envío de información de un modo automático = push technology.

* tecnología de la información = informatics, infotech.

* tecnología de la información aplicada a la archivística = archival informatics.

* tecnología de la información para ciencias de la salud = health informatics.

* tecnología de la información para medicina = medical informatics.

* tecnología de la información (TI) = information technology (IT).

* tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones = information and communication technologies (ICTs).

* técnologo de la información sanitaria = informatician.

* tener acceso a información confidencial = be on the inside.

* tener poca información = be information poor.

* teoría de la información = information theory.

* TIP (El Lugar de Información) = TIP (The Information Place).

* todo el mundo debe tener acceso a la información = access for all.

* trabajo de información y de las bibliotecas = library and information work.

* tráfico de información = data traffic.

* transferencia de información = information transfer.

* transferencia de información entre países = transborder data flow (TBDF).

* transferencia electrónica de información = electronic transfer of information.

* transmisión de información = information flow, information transmission.

* transmisión de información a través de la voz = voice transmission.

* transmitir información = convey + information.

* tratamiento de la información = information handling.

* tratamiento específico de la información = specific approach.

* tratar información = handle + information.

* trozo de información = tidbit [titbit, -USA].

* UAP (Accesibilidad Universal a la Información) = UAP (Universal Availability of Information).

* una mina de información = a mine of information.

* unidad de información = unit of information, information division, information subdivision.

* universo de la información, el = information universe, the.

* uso compartido de la información = information sharing.

* usuario de la información = information browser.

* usuario que busca información = information searcher.

* véase + Nombre + para más información = refer to + Nombre + for details.

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1)

a) (datos, detalles) information

b) (Telec) information (AmE), directory enquiries (BrE)

2) (Period, Rad, TV) news

3) (Inf) data (pl)

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1 (datos, detalles) information

necesito más información sobre el tema I need more information on the subject, I need to know more about the subject

para mayor información llamar al siguiente número for further details o information call the following number

para su información les comunicamos el nuevo horario de apertura ( frml); we are pleased to inform you of our new opening times ( frml)

el mostrador de información the information desk

2 ( Telec) directory assistance ( AmE), information ( AmE), directory enquiries ( BrE)

3 ( Mil) intelligence, information

B ( Period, Rad, TV)

1 (noticias) news

y ahora pasamos a la información internacional and now for the foreign news

la información que llega de la zona es confusa the news coming out of the area is confused, the reports coming out of the area are confused

¿en qué página viene la información cultural? where's the arts page?

2 (noticia) news item

continuamos con el resto de las informaciones and now here is the rest of the news

informaciones filtradas a la prensa information o news leaked to the press

C ( Inf) data (pl)

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a) (datos, detalles) information;

◊ el mostrador de información the information desk

b) (Telec) information (AmE), directory enquiries (BrE)

◊ la información internacional the foreign news

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información nf

1. [conocimiento] information;

estoy buscando información sobre este autor I'm looking for information on this writer;

para tu información for your information;

para mayor información, visite nuestra página web for more information visit our website;

información confidencial inside information;

información privilegiada privileged information

2. [noticias] news [singular];

hemos recibido informaciones contradictorias sobre el accidente we have received conflicting reports about the accident;

ciencias de la información media studies

información meteorológica weather report o forecast

3. [oficina] information office;

(el mostrador de) información the information desk;

Sr. López, acuda a información would Mr López please come to the information desk

4. [telefónica] Br directory enquiries, US information

5. Biol información genética genetic information

6. Informát [datos] data

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1 information;

información genética BIO genetic information

2 ( noticias) news sg

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información nf, pl - ciones

1) : information

2) informe: report, inquiry

3) noticias: news

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información n

1. (en general) information

2. (noticias) news

3. (recepción) information desk

4. (de teléfonos) directory enquiries

SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Domestic appliances and interiors, Land transport, Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Public utilities

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Bramah was the son of a tenant farmer and was educated at the village school before being apprenticed to a local carpenter, Thomas Allot. He walked to London c.1773 and found work with a Mr Allen that included the repair of some of the comparatively rare water-closets of the period. He invented and patented one of his own, which was followed by a water cock in 1783. His next invention, a greatly improved lock, involved the devising of a number of special machine tools, for it was one of the first devices involving interchangeable components in its manufacture. In this he had the help of Henry Maudslay, then a young and unknown engineer, who became Bramah's foreman before setting up business on his own. In 1784 he moved his premises from Denmark Street, St Giles, to 124 Piccadilly, which was later used as a showroom when he set up a factory in Pimlico. He invented an engine for putting out fires in 1785 and 1793, in effect a reciprocating rotary-vane pump. He undertook the refurbishment and modernization of Norwich waterworks c.1793, but fell out with Robert Mylne, who was acting as Consultant to the Norwich Corporation and had produced a remarkably vague specification. This was Bramah's only venture into the field of civil engineering.

In 1797 he acted as an expert witness for Hornblower \& Maberley in the patent infringement case brought against them by Boulton and Watt. Having been cut short by the judge, he published his proposed evidence in "Letter to the Rt Hon. Sir James Eyre, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas…etc". In 1795 he was granted his most important patent, based on Pascal's Hydrostatic Paradox, for the hydraulic press which also incorporated the concept of hydraulics for the transmission of both power and motion and was the foundation of the whole subsequent hydraulic industry. There is no truth in the oft-repeated assertion originating from Samuel Smiles's Industrial Biography (1863) that the hydraulic press could not be made to work until Henry Maudslay invented the self-sealing neck leather. Bramah used a single-acting upstroking ram, sealed only at its base with a U-leather. There was no need for a neck leather.

He also used the concept of the weight-loaded, in this case as a public-house beer-engine. He devised machinery for carbonating soda water. The first banknote-numbering machine was of his design and was bought by the Bank of England. His development of a machine to cut twelve nibs from one goose quill started a patent specification which ended with the invention of the fountain pen, patented in 1809. His coach brakes were an innovation that was followed bv a form of hydropneumatic carriage suspension that was somewhat in advance of its time, as was his patent of 1812. This foresaw the introduction of hydraulic power mains in major cities and included the telescopic ram and the air-loaded accumulator.

In all Joseph Bramah was granted eighteen patents. On 22 March 1813 he demonstrated a hydraulic machine for pulling up trees by the roots in Hyde Park before a large crowd headed by the Duke of York. Using the same machine in Alice Holt Forest in Hampshire to fell timber for ships for the Navy, he caught a chill and died soon after at his home in Pimlico.

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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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Lewis Paul, apparently of French Huguenot extraction, was quite young when his father died. His father was Physician to Lord Shaftsbury, who acted as Lewis Paul's guardian. In 1728 Paul made a runaway match with a widow and apparently came into her property when she died a year later. He must have subsequently remarried. In 1732 he invented a pinking machine for making the edges of shrouds out of which he derived some profit.

Why Paul went to Birmingham is unknown, but he helped finance some of Wyatt's earlier inventions. Judging by the later patents taken out by Paul, it is probable that he was the one interested in spinning, turning to Wyatt for help in the construction of his spinning machine because he had no mechanical skills. The two men may have been involved in this as early as 1733, although it is more likely that they began this work in 1735. Wyatt went to London to construct a model and in 1736 helped to apply for a patent, which was granted in 1738 in the name of Paul. The patent shows that Paul and Wyatt had a number of different ways of spinning in mind, but contains no drawings of the machines. In one part there is a description of sets of rollers to draw the cotton out more finely that could have been similar to those later used by Richard Arkwright. However, it would seem that Paul and Wyatt followed the other main method described, which might be called spindle drafting, where the fibres are drawn out between the nip of a pair of rollers and the tip of the spindle; this method is unsatisfactory for continuous spinning and results in an uneven yarn.

The spinning venture was supported by Thomas Warren, a well-known Birmingham printer, Edward Cave of Gentleman's Magazine, Dr Robert James of fever-powder celebrity, Mrs Desmoulins, and others. Dr Samuel Johnson also took much interest. In 1741 a mill powered by two asses was equipped at the Upper Priory, Birmingham, with, machinery for spinning cotton being constructed by Wyatt. Licences for using the invention were sold to other people including Edward Cave, who established a mill at Northampton, so the enterprise seemed to have great promise. A spinning machine must be supplied with fibres suitably prepared, so carding machines had to be developed. Work was in hand on one in 1740 and in 1748 Paul took out another patent for two types of carding device, possibly prompted by the patent taken out by Daniel Bourn. Both of Paul's devices were worked by hand and the carded fibres were laid onto a strip of paper. The paper and fibres were then rolled up and placed in the spinning machine. In 1757 John Dyer wrote a poem entitled The Fleece, which describes a circular spinning machine of the type depicted in a patent taken out by Paul in 1758. Drawings in this patent show that this method of spinning was different from Arkwright's. Paul endeavoured to have the machine introduced into the Foundling Hospital, but his death in early 1759 stopped all further development. He was buried at Paddington on 30 April that year.

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SUBJECT AREA: Broadcasting, Electronics and information technology, Recording, Telecommunications

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From an early age he was absorbed by phenomena of physics to the exclusion of all other subjects, including mathematics. When choosing his subjects for the final three years in Borgedydskolen in Christianshavn (Copenhagen) before university, he opted for languages and history. At the University of Copenhagen he embarked on the study of medicine in 1889, but broke it off and was apprenticed to the machine firm of A/S Frichs Eftf. in Aarhus. He was employed between 1893 and 1899 as a mechanic and assistant in the laboratory of the Copenhagen Telephone Company KTAS. Eventually he advanced to be Head of the line fault department. This suited his desire for experiment and measurement perfectly. After the invention of the telegraphone in 1898, he left the laboratory and with responsible business people he created Aktieselskabet Telegrafonen, Patent Poulsen in order to develop it further, together with Peder Oluf Pedersen (1874– 1941). Pedersen brought with him the mathematical background which eventually led to his professorship in electronic engineering in 1922.

The telegraphone was the basis for multinational industrial endeavours after it was demonstrated at the 1900 World's Exhibition in Paris. It must be said that its strength was also its weakness, because the telegraphone was unique in bringing sound recording and reproduction to the telephone field, but the lack of electronic amplifiers delayed its use outside this and the dictation fields (where headphones could be used) until the 1920s. However, commercial interest was great enough to provoke a number of court cases concerning patent infringement, in which Poulsen frequently figured as a witness.

In 1903–4 Poulsen and Pedersen developed the arc generator for continuous radio waves which was used worldwide for radio transmitters in competition with Marconi's spark-generating system. The inspiration for this work came from the research by William Duddell on the musical arc. Whereas Duddell had proposed the use of the oscillations generated in his electric arc for telegraphy in his 1901 UK patent, Poulsen contributed a chamber of hydrogen and a transverse magnetic field which increased the efficiency remarkably. He filed patent applications on these constructions from 1902 and the first publication in a scientific forum took place at the International Electrical Congress in St Louis, Missouri, in 1904.

In order to use continuous waves efficiently (the high frequency constituted a carrier), Poulsen developed both a modulator for telegraphy and a detector for the carrier wave. The modulator was such that even the more primitive spark-communication receivers could be used. Later Poulsen and Pedersen developed frequency-shift keying.

The Amalgamated Radio-Telegraph Company Ltd was launched in London in 1906, combining the developments of Poulsen and those of De Forest Wireless Telegraph Syndicate. Poulsen contributed his English and American patents. When this company was liquidated in 1908, its assets were taken over by Det Kontinentale Syndikat for Poulsen Radio Telegrafi, A/S in Copenhagen (liquidated 1930–1). Some of the patents had been sold to C.Lorenz AG in Berlin, which was very active.

The arc transmitting system was in use worldwide from about 1910 to 1925, and the power increased from 12 kW to 1,000 kW. In 1921 an exceptional transmitter rated at 1,800 kW was erected on Java for communications with the Netherlands. More than one thousand installations had been in use worldwide. The competing systems were initially spark transmitters (Marconi) and later rotary converters ( Westinghouse). Similar power was available from valve transmitters only much later.

From c. 1912 Poulsen did not contribute actively to further development. He led a life as a well-respected engineer and scientist and served on several committees. He had his private laboratory and made experiments in the composition of matter and certain resonance phenomena; however, nothing was published. It has recently been suggested that Poulsen could not have been unaware of Oberlin Smith's work and publication in 1888, but his extreme honesty in technical matters indicates that his development was indeed independent. In the case of the arc generator, Poulsen was always extremely frank about the inspiration he gained from earlier developers' work.

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1 product (bien, objeto).

productos (agrícolas) produce

producto acabado finished product

producto alimenticio foodstuff

productos de belleza cosmetics

producto final end product

producto interior bruto gross domestic product (peninsular SpanishAm)

producto interno bruto gross domestic product (peninsular SpanishAm)

productos lácteos dairy produce

producto manufacturado manufactured product

producto nacional bruto (economics) gross national product

producto químico chemical

2 result, product (resultado).

el accidente fue producto de un despiste del conductor the accident resulted from a lapse of attention on the part of the driver

3 product (Mat).

4 produce, result, return.

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► nombre masculino

1 (gen) product

■ una amplia gama de productos a wide range of products

2 MATEMÁTICAS product

3 (resultado) result, product

4 (provecho) fruit

■ lo compró con el producto de su trabajo he bought it with the fruit of his labours

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producto acabado finished product

producto interior bruto gross domestic product

producto nacional bruto gross national product

producto químico chemical

productos agrícolas agricultural produce

productos alimenticios foodstuffs

productos de belleza cosmetics

productos de limpieza cleaning products

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* * *

1) (=artículo) product

2) (=producción) production

3) (=resultado) result, product

4) (Econ) (=beneficio) yield, profit

5) (Mat) product

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1)

a) ( artículo producido) product

b) ( resultado) result, product

- producto alimenticio

- producto de belleza

- producto interior bruto

- producto lácteo

- producto nacional bruto

2) (Mat) product

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= commodity, product, offering, emanation.

Ex. Neither are the latter group, in the course of their professional activities, likely to feel that the treatment of information as a priceable commodity compromises a principle fundamental to their professional ethic.

Ex. Printed title indexes which could be used as elementary subject indexes were one of the first products of computerised information retrieval systems.

Ex. Currently SilverPlatter's major offering in this key topic area is 'Food Science and Technology Abstracts'.

Ex. CCRC has considered radical things that don't seem to fit in with any of these aims, such as abandoning main entry and restricting corporate authorship by eliminating it entirely, and now euphemistically calling it corporate emanation.

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* asociación de compradores de un tipo de productos = consumers union.

* comercializar un producto = carry, market + product.

* comprar comparando productos = shop around, shopping around.

* Denominación Común de Productos Industriales (NIPRO) = Common Nomenclature of Industrial Products (NIPRO).

* Denominación de Productos para las Estadísticas del Comercio Externo de la = Nomenclature of Goods for the External Trade Statistics of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member States (NIMEXE).

* desarrollo de nuevos productos = product development.

* documentos producto de investigación = research materials.

* empresa dedicada al desarrollo de productos = product developer.

* energía producto de la fisión = fission energy.

* evaluación de los productos = product rating.

* exposición de productos artesanales = craft show.

* gama de productos = product mix, product range.

* gestión de la oferta de productos = range management.

* industria de los productos lácteos, la = dairy industry, the.

* información de precios de productos para el consumo = retail prices.

* información sobre un producto = product literature.

* ley de responsabilidad por el producto = product liability law.

* línea de productos = product line.

* oferta de productos = product offering.

* producto agrícola = agricultural product, farm product.

* producto alimenticio = food product.

* producto bandera = showpiece.

* producto básico = staple.

* producto bibliográfico = bibliographic product.

* producto comercial = commercial product, retail product.

* producto cosmético = cosmetic product.

* producto cultural = cultural product.

* producto de = born of.

* producto de consumo = consumable, consumer product, convenience product.

* producto de cosmética = cosmetic product.

* producto de fumigar = fumigant.

* producto de importación = imported product.

* producto de la combinación = recombinant.

* producto de la imaginación = work of imagination.

* producto de la información = information commodity.

* producto de la necesidad = born of necessity.

* producto del conocimiento = knowledge record.

* producto de limpieza = cleaning product, cleanser, cleaner.

* producto derivado = outgrowth, by-product [byproduct], spinoff [spin-off], off-shoot [offshoot].

* producto derivado de la grasa animal = fat product.

* producto desconocido = foreign substance.

* producto de temporada = seasonal food, seasonal product.

* producto emblemático = showpiece.

* producto especializado = specialist product.

* producto estrella = star product.

* producto farmacéutico = pharmaceutical, pharmaceutical product.

* producto final = end product, finished product, deliverable, final product.

* producto final, el = finished work, the.

* producto fresco = fresh food.

* producto higiénico = hygiene product.

* producto importado = import, imported product.

* producto industrial = industrial product.

* producto informativo = information product.

* producto inorgánicoquímico = inorganic chemical.

* Producto Interior Bruto (PIB) = Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

* producto lácteo = dairy product, milk product.

* producto lógico = logical product.

* producto medicinal = medicinal product.

* Producto Nacional Bruto (PNB) = Gross National Product (GNP).

* producto natural = natural product.

* producto ofrecido = offering.

* producto orgánicoquímico = organic chemical.

* producto para el hogar = household product.

* producto para especialistas = specialist product.

* producto para la conservación = preservative.

* producto para la higiene = hygiene product.

* producto para profesionales = specialist product.

* producto petroquímico = petrochemical.

* producto principal = staple.

* producto profesional = specialist product.

* producto promocional = tie-in.

* producto químico = chemical, chemical product.

* producto químico usado en agricultura = agrochemical.

* productos = goods, wares, merchandise.

* productos agrícolas = agricultural produce.

* productos alimenticios = food supply, supply of food.

* productos artesanos en madera = woodcraft.

* productos cárnicos = meat products.

* productos de confitería = confectionery.

* productos decorados con tela escocesa = tartanware.

* productos de imitación = imitation goods, replica goods.

* productos de pastelería = confectionery.

* productos de temporada = seasonal produce.

* producto secundario = off-shoot [offshoot], by-product [byproduct].

* productos enlatados = tinned goods.

* productos impresos = print media.

* productos lácteos = dairy produce.

* productos manufacturados = manufacturing goods, manufactured goods.

* productos nacionales = domestic goods.

* productos ópticos = optical media, optical products.

* productos perecederos = perishables.

* productos prohibidos = contraband.

* producto tóxico = toxic.

* promoción de productos = product-promoting.

* representante de productos farmacéuticos = pharmaceutical company representative.

* selección de productos = merchandise selection.

* ser producto de = spin off, be the product of.

* ser un producto de su tiempo = be a product of + Posesivo + time.

* tienda de productos ecológicos = health food shop, health food store.

* vender un producto = carry.

* volver a promover un producto = rehyping.

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1)

a) ( artículo producido) product

b) ( resultado) result, product

- producto alimenticio

- producto de belleza

- producto interior bruto

- producto lácteo

- producto nacional bruto

2) (Mat) product

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1 (artículo producido) product

consuma productos nacionales buy home-produced goods o products

los productos derivados del petróleo products derived from petroleum, petroleum derivatives

productos de granja farm produce

2 (resultado) result, product

el acuerdo es el producto de varios meses de negociaciones the agreement is the result o product of several months of negotiations

su éxito es el producto de muchos años de esfuerzo her success is the result o product of many years of effort

es el típico producto de esa clase de colegio he's the typical product of that kind of school

todo es producto de su imaginación it's all a product o a figment of his imagination

foodstuff

beauty product, cosmetic

waste product, by-product

brand name product

promotional item

spin-off

gross domestic product, GDP

dairy product

manufactured product

gross national product, GNP

staple

chemical product, chemical

by-product

finished product

B ( Mat) product

* * *

a) ( artículo producido) product;

◊ productos agrícolas/de granja agricultural/farm produce;

b) ( resultado) result, product

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producto nm

1. [bien, objeto] product;

productos agrícolas agricultural produce;

un producto derivado del petróleo an oil derivative

producto alimenticio foodstuff;

producto básico [de primera necesidad] staple;

productos de belleza cosmetics;

producto final end product;

producto líder product leader;

producto manufacturado manufactured product;

producto milagro miracle product;

producto nacional bruto gross national product;

producto de primera necesidad staple;

producto químico chemical;

productos de la tierra agricultural o farm produce

2. [ganancia] profit

3. [resultado] result, product;

el accidente fue producto de un despiste del conductor the accident was caused by a lapse of attention on the part of the driver;

la obra es el producto de un gran esfuerzo colectivo the work is the product of a great collective effort

4. Mat product

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m product;

producto acabado finished product

* * *

producto nm

1) : product

2) : proceeds pl, yield

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producto n product

SUBJECT AREA: Recording

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He graduated from the Dover Academy (Delaware) in 1882 and was apprenticed in a machine-repair firm in Philadelphia and studied in evening classes at the Spring Garden Institute. In 1888 he took employment in a small Philadelphia machine shop owned by Andrew Scull, specializing in repair and bookbinding machinery. After travels in the western part of the US, in 1891 he became a partner in Scull \& Johnson, Manufacturing Machinists, and established a further company, the New Jersey Wire Stitching Machine Company. He bought out Andrew Scull's interest in October 1894 (the last instalment being paid in 1897) and became an independent general machinist. In 1896 he had perfected a spring motor for the Berliner flat-disc gramophone, and he started experimenting with a more direct method of recording in a spiral groove: that of cutting in wax. Co-operation with Berliner eventually led to the incorporation of the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901. The innumerable court cases stemming from the fact that so many patents for various elements in sound recording and reproduction were in very many hands were brought to an end in 1903 when Johnson was material in establishing cross-licencing agreements between Victor, Columbia Graphophone and Edison to create what is known as a patent pool. Early on, Johnson had a thorough experience in all matters concerning the development and manufacture of both gramophones and records. He made and patented many major contributions in all these fields, and his approach was very business-like in that the contribution to cost of each part or process was always a decisive factor in his designs. This attitude was material in his consulting work for the sister company, the Gramophone Company, in London before it set up its own factories in 1910. He had quickly learned the advantages of advertising and of providing customers with durable equipment and records. This motivation was so strong that Johnson set up a research programme for determining the cause of wear in records. It turned out to depend on groove profile, and from 1911 one particular profile was adhered to and processes for transforming the grooves of valuable earlier records were developed. Without precise measuring instruments, he used the durability as the determining factor. Johnson withdrew more and more to the role of manager, and the Victor Talking Machine Company gained such a position in the market that the US anti-trust legislation was used against it. However, a generation change in the Board of Directors and certain erroneous decisions as to product line started a decline, and in February 1926 Johnson withdrew on extended sick leave: these changes led to the eventual sale of Victor. However, Victor survived due to the advent of radio and the electrification of replay equipment and became a part of Radio Corporation of America. In retirement Johnson took up various activities in the arts and sciences and financially supported several projects; his private yacht was used in 1933 in work with the Smithsonian Institution on a deep-sea hydrographie and fauna-collecting expedition near Puerto Rico.

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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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After Edmund Cartwright many people contributed to the development of the power loom. Among them was Robert Miller of Dumbartonshire, Scotland. In 1796 he took out a patent for an improved protector which stopped the loom altogether when the shuttle failed to enter its box, thus preventing breakage of the warp threads. The same patent contained the specification for his "wiper" loom. The wipers, or cams, worked the picking stick to drive the shuttle across, a feature found on most later looms. He also moved the sley by a cam in one direction and by springs in the other. His looms were still working in 1808 and may have formed the basis for power looms built in Lowell in the USA.

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SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology, Synthetic materials, Textiles

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Cross was educated at the universities of London, Zurich and Manchester. It was at Owens College, Manchester, that Cross first met E.J. Bevan and where these two first worked together on the nature of cellulose. After gaining some industrial experience, Cross joined Bevan to set up a partnership in London as analytical and consulting chemists, specializing in the chemistry and technology of cellulose and lignin. They were at the Jodrell laboratory, Kew Gardens, for a time and then set up their own laboratory at Station Avenue, Kew Gardens. In 1888, the first edition of their joint publication A Textbook of Paper-making, appeared. It went into several editions and became the standard reference and textbook on the subject. The long introductory chapter is a discourse on cellulose.

In 1892, Cross, Bevan and Clayton Beadle took out their historic patent on the solution and regeneration of cellulose. The modern artificial-fibre industry stems from this patent. They made their discovery at New Court, Carey Street, London: wood-pulp (or another cheap form of cellulose) was dissolved in a mixture of carbon disulphide and aqueous alkali to produce sodium xanthate. After maturing, it was squirted through fine holes into dilute acid, which set the liquid to give spinnable fibres of "viscose". However, it was many years before the process became a commercial operation, partly because the use of a natural raw material such as wood involved variations in chemical content and each batch might react differently. At first it was thought that viscose might be suitable for incandescent lamp filaments, and C.H.Stearn, a collaborator with Cross, continued to investigate this possibility, but the sheen on the fibres suggested that viscose might be made into artificial silk. The original Viscose Spinning Syndicate was formed in 1894 and a place was rented at Erith in Kent. However, it was not until some skeins of artificial silk (a term to which Cross himself objected) were displayed in Paris that textile manufacturers began to take an interest in it. It was then that Courtaulds decided to investigate this new fibre, although it was not until 1904 that they bought the English patents and developed the first artificial silk that was later called "rayon". Cross was also concerned with the development of viscose films and of cellulose acetate, which became a rival to rayon in the form of "Celanese". He retained his interest in the paper industry and in publishing, in 1895 again collaborating with Bevan and publishing a book on Cellulose and other technical articles. He was a cultured man and a good musician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1917.

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SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing

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In November 1770, John Mackenzie, owner of a bleaching mill, took his millwright Thomas Bell to Glasgow to consult with James Watt about problems they were having with the calico printing machine invented by Bell some years previously. Bell rolled sheets of copper one eighth of an inch (3 mm) thick into cyliders, and filled them with cement which was held in place by cast iron ends. After being turned true and polished, the cylinders were engraved; they cost about £10 each. The printing machines were driven by a water-wheel, but Bell and Mackenzie appeared to have had problems with the doctor blades which scraped off excess colour, and this may have been why they visited Watt.

They had, presumably, solved the technical problems when Bell took out a patent in 1783 which describes him as "the Elder", but there are no further details about the man himself. The machine is described as having six printing rollers arranged around the top of the circumference of a large central bowl. In later machines, the printing rollers were placed all round a smaller cylinder. All of the printing rollers, each printing a different colour, were driven by gearing to keep them in register. The patent includes steel doctor blades which would have scraped excess colour off the printing rollers. Another patent, taken out in 1784, shows a smaller three-colour machine. The printing rollers had an iron core covered with copper, which could be taken off at pleasure so that fresh patterns could be cut as desired. Bell's machine was used at Masney, near Preston, England, by Messrs Livesey, Hargreaves, Hall \& Co in 1786. Although copper cylinders were difficult to make and engrave, and the soldered seams often burst, these machines were able to increase the output of the cheaper types of printed cloth.

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Zworykin studied engineering at the Institute of Technology in St Petersburg under Boris Rosing, assisting the latter with his early experiments with television. After graduating in 1912, he spent a time doing X-ray research at the Collège de France in Paris before returning to join the Russian Marconi Company, initially in St Petersburg and then in Moscow. On the outbreak of war in 1917, he joined the Russian Army Signal Corps, but when the war ended in the chaos of the Revolution he set off on his travels, ending up in the USA, where he joined the Westinghouse Corporation. There, in 1923, he filed the first of many patents for a complete system of electronic television, including one for an all-electronic scanning pick-up tube that he called the iconoscope. In 1924 he became a US citizen and invented the kinescope, a hard-vacuum cathode ray tube (CRT) for the display of television pictures, and the following year he patented a camera tube with a mosaic of photoelectric elements and gave a demonstration of still-picture TV. In 1926 he was awarded a PhD by the University of Pittsburgh and in 1928 he was granted a patent for a colour TV system.

In 1929 he embarked on a tour of Europe to study TV developments; on his return he joined the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) as Director of the Electronics Research Group, first at Camden and then Princeton, New Jersey. Securing a budget to develop an improved CRT picture tube, he soon produced a kinescope with a hard vacuum, an indirectly heated cathode, a signal-modulation grid and electrostatic focusing. In 1933 an improved iconoscope camera tube was produced, and under his direction RCA went on to produce other improved types of camera tube, including the image iconoscope, the orthicon and image orthicon and the vidicon. The secondary-emission effect used in many of these tubes was also used in a scintillation radiation counter. In 1941 he was responsible for the development of the first industrial electron microscope, but for most of the Second World War he directed work concerned with radar, aircraft fire-control and TV-guided missiles.

After the war he worked for a time on high-speed memories and medical electronics, becoming Vice-President and Technical Consultant in 1947. He "retired" from RCA and was made an honorary vice-president in 1954, but he retained an office and continued to work there almost up until his death; he also served as Director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research from 1954 until 1962.

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SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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Lartigue worked as a civil engineer in Algeria and while there invented a simple monorail for industrial or agricultural use. It comprised a single rail carried on trestles; vehicles comprised a single wheel with two tubs suspended either side, like panniers. These were pushed or pulled by hand or, occasionally, hauled by mule. Such lines were used in Algerian esparto-grass plantations.

In 1882 he patented a monorail system based on this arrangement, with important improvements: traction was to be mechanical; vehicles were to have two or four wheels and to be able to be coupled together; and the trestles were to have, on each side, a light guide rail upon which horizontal rollers beneath the vehicles would bear. Early in 1883 the Lartigue Railway Construction Company was formed in London and two experimental prototype monorails were subsequently demonstrated in public. One, at the Paris Agricultural Exhibition, had an electric locomotive that was built in two parts, one either side of the rail to maintain balance, hauling small wagons. The other prototype, in London, had a small, steam locomotive with two vertical boilers and was designed by Anatole Mallet. By now Lartigue had become associated with F.B. Behr. Behr was Managing Director of the construction company and of the Listowel \& Ballybunion Railway Company, which obtained an Act of Parliament in 1886 to built a Lartigue monorail railway in the South West of Ireland between those two places. Its further development and successful operation are described in the article on Behr in this volume.

A much less successful attempt to establish a Lartigue monorail railway took place in France, in the départment of Loire. In 1888 the council of the département agreed to a proposal put forward by Lartigue for a 10 1/2 mile (17 km) long monorail between the towns of Feurs and Panissières: the agreement was reached on the casting vote of the Chairman, a contact of Lartigue. A concession was granted to successive companies with which Lartigue was closely involved, but construction of the line was attended by muddle, delay and perhaps fraud, although it was completed sufficiently for trial trains to operate. The locomotive had two horizontal boilers, one either side of the track. But the inspectors of the department found deficiencies in the completeness and probable safety of the railway; when they did eventually agree to opening on a limited scale, the company claimed to have insufficient funds to do so unless monies owed by the department were paid. In the end the concession was forfeited and the line dismantled. More successful was an electrically operated Lartigue mineral line built at mines in the eastern Pyrenees.

It appears to have reused equipment from the electric demonstration line, with modifications, and included gradients as steep as 1 in 12. There was no generating station: descending trains generated the electricity to power ascending ones. This line is said to have operated for at least two years.

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See also: Brennan, Louis; Palmer, Henry Robinson

SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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A loom on which more than one ribbon could be woven at once may have been invented by Anton Möller at Danzig in 1586. It arrived in England from the Low Countries and was being used in London by 1616 and in Lancashire by 1680. Means were being devised in Switzerland c.1730 for driving these looms by power, but this was prohibited because it was feared that these looms would deprive other weavers of work. In England, a patent was taken out by John Kay of Bury and John Stell of Keighley in 1745 for improvements to these looms and it is probably that Gartside received permission to use this invention. In Manchester, Gartside set up a mill with swivel looms driven by a water-wheel; this was probably prior to 1758, because a man was brought up at the Lancaster Assizes in March of that year for threatening to burn down "the Engine House of Mr. Gartside in Manchester, Merchant". He set up his factory near Garrett Hall on the south side of Manchester and it may still have been running in 1764. However, the enterprise failed because it was necessary for each loom to be attended by one person in order to prevent any mishap occurring, and therefore it was more economic to use hand-frames, which the operatives could control more easily.

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SUBJECT AREA: Steam and internal combustion engines

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During the thirty years prior to his death, Brayton devoted considerable effort to the development of internal-combustion engines. He designed the first commercial gas engine of American origin in 1872. An oil-burning engine was produced in 1875. An aptitude for mechanical innovation became apparent whilst he was employed at the Exeter Machine Works, New Hampshire, where he developed a successful steam generator for use in domestic and industrial heating systems. Brayton engines were distinguished by the method of combustion. A pressurized air-fuel mixture from a reservoir was ignited as it entered the working cylinder—a precursor of the constant-pressure cycle. A further feature of these early engines was a rocking beam. There exist accounts of Brayton engines fitted into river craft, and of one in a carriage which operated for a few months in 1872–3. However, the appearance of the four-stroke Otto engine in 1876, together with technical problems associated with backfiring into the fuel reservoir, prevented large-scale acceptance of the Brayton engine. Although Thompson Sterne \& Co. of Glasgow became licensees, the engine failed to gain usage in Britain. A working model of Brayton's gas engine is exhibited in the Museum of History and Technology in Washington, DC.

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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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On 4 November 1766 David Thornley married Mary, daughter of Joseph Brown, roper, at St Peter's, Liverpool. In Gore's Dictionary for 1767 Thornley is described as "merchant" and his wife as "milliner" of Castle Street, Liverpool. David Thornley was distantly related to Richard Arkwright and certainly by 1768 Thornley had begun his active association with Arkwright when he joined him in Preston, an event recorded in the inquiry into the qualifications of those who had voted in the Burgoyne election. Thornley may have helped Arkwright with the technical development of his spinning machine.

On 14 May 1768, Arkwright, Smalley and Thornley became partners in the cotton-spinning venture at Nottingham for a term of fourteen years, or longer if a patent could be obtained. Each partner was to have three one-ninth shares and was to advance such money as might be necessary to apply for a patent as well as to develop the spinning machine. Profits were to be divided equally as often as convenient and the partners were to devote their whole time to the business after a period of two years. How-ever, it seems that in 1769 the partners had difficulty in raising the necessary money to finance the patent, and Thornley had to reduce his stake in the partnership to a one-ninth share. By this time Thornley must have moved to Nottingham, where Arkwright established his first mill. On 19 January 1770, additional finance was provided by two new partners, Samuel Need and Jedediah Strutt, and alterations were made to the mill buildings that the partners had leased to work the spinning machines by horse power. Arkwright and Thornley were to be responsible for the day-to-day management of the mill, receiving £25 per annum for these duties. Thornley appears to have remained at Nottingham to supervise the mill, while the other partners moved to Cromford to establish the much larger enterprise there. It was at Nottingham that David Thornley died in January 1772, and his share in the partnership was bought from his wife, Mary, by Arkwright. Mary returned to her millinery business in Liverpool.

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On 6 April 1789 John Austin wrote to James Watt, seeking advice about patenting "a weaving loom I have invented to go by the hand, horse, water or any other constant power, to comb, brush, or dress the yarn at the same time as it is weaving \& by which one man will do the work of three and make superior work to what can be done by the common loom" (Boulton \& Watt Collection, Birmingham, James Watt Papers, JW/22). Watt replied that "there is a Clergyman by the name of Cartwright at Doncaster who has a patent for a similar contrivance" (Boulton \& Watt Collection, Birmingham, Letter Book 1, 15 April 1789). Watt pointed out that there was a large manufactory running at Doncaster and something of the same kind at Manchester with working power looms. Presumably, this reply deterred Austin from taking out a patent. However, some members of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce continued developing the loom, and in 1798 one that was tried at the spinning mill of J.Monteith, of Pollokshaws, near Glasgow, answered the purpose so well that a building was erected and thirty of the looms were installed. Later, in 1800, this number was increased to 200, all of which were driven by a steam engine, and it was stated that one weaver and a boy could tend from three to five of these looms.

Austin's loom was worked by eccentrics, or cams. There was one cam on each side with "a sudden beak or projection" that drove the levers connected to the picking pegs, while other cams worked the heddles and drove the reed. The loom was also fitted with a weft stop motion and could produce more cloth than a hand loom, and worked at about sixty picks per minute. The pivoting of the slay at the bottom allowed the loom to be much more compact than previous ones.

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SUBJECT AREA: Synthetic materials, Textiles

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Bevan began his working life as a chemist in a soap works at Runcorn, but later studied chemistry at Owens College, Manchester. It was there that he met and formed a friendship with C.F. Cross, with whom he started to work on cellulose. Bevan moved to a paper mill in Scotland but then went south to London, where he and Cross set up a partnership in 1885 as consulting and analytical chemists. Their work was mainly concerned with the industrial utilization of cellulose, and with the problems of the paper and jute industries. Their joint publication, A Text-book of Paper-making, which first appeared in 1888 and went into several editions, became the standard reference and textbook on the subject. The book has a long introductory chapter on cellulose.

In 1892 Cross, Bevan and Clayton Beadle discovered viscose, or sodium cellulose xanthate, and took out the patent which was to be the foundation of the "viscose rayon" industry. They had their own laboratory at Station Avenue, Kew Gardens, where they carried out much work that eventually resulted in viscose: cellulose, usually in the form of wood pulp, was treated first with caustic soda and then with carbon disulphide to form the xanthate, which was then dissolved in a solution of dilute caustic soda to produce a viscous liquid. After being aged, the viscose was extruded through fine holes in a spinneret and coagulated in a dilute acid to regenerate the cellulose as spinnable fibres. At first there was no suggestion of spinning it into fibre, but the hope was to use it for filaments in incandescent electric light bulbs. The sheen on the fibres suggested their possible use in textiles and the term "artificial silk" was later introduced. Cross and Bevan also discovered the acetate "Celanese", which was cellulose triacetate dissolved in acetone and spun in air, but both inventions needed much development before they could be produced commercially.

In 1892 Bevan turned from cellulose to food and drugs and left the partnership to become Public Analyst to Middlesex County Council, a post he held until his death, although in 1895 he and Cross published their important work Cellulose. He was prominent in the affairs of the Society of Public Analysts and became one of its officials.

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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.

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