maker's works

1. (U.K.)

somebody who works in a stock exchange to facilitate trades in one particular company

2. a broker or bank that maintains a market for a security that does not trade on any exchange

1. n

1) работа; труд; дело

2) место работы; должность, занятие

3) действие, функционирование

4) изделие; изделия, продукция

5) заготовка; обрабатываемое изделие

6) pl завод, фабрика, мастерские

7) pl инженерное сооружение

2. v

1) работать

2) действовать, функционировать

3) обрабатывать

SUBJECT AREA: Steam and internal combustion engines

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The sixth child of James Watt, merchant and general contractor, and Agnes Muirhead, Watt was a weak and sickly child; he was one of only two to survive childhood out of a total of eight, yet, like his father, he was to live to an age of over 80. He was educated at local schools, including Greenock Grammar School where he was an uninspired pupil. At the age of 17 he was sent to live with relatives in Glasgow and then in 1755 to London to become an apprentice to a mathematical instrument maker, John Morgan of Finch Lane, Cornhill. Less than a year later he returned to Greenock and then to Glasgow, where he was appointed mathematical instrument maker to the University and was permitted in 1757 to set up a workshop within the University grounds. In this position he came to know many of the University professors and staff, and it was thus that he became involved in work on the steam engine when in 1764 he was asked to put in working order a defective Newcomen engine model. It did not take Watt long to perceive that the great inefficiency of the Newcomen engine was due to the repeated heating and cooling of the cylinder. His idea was to drive the steam out of the cylinder and to condense it in a separate vessel. The story is told of Watt's flash of inspiration as he was walking across Glasgow Green one Sunday afternoon; the idea formed perfectly in his mind and he became anxious to get back to his workshop to construct the necessary apparatus, but this was the Sabbath and work had to wait until the morrow, so Watt forced himself to wait until the Monday morning.

Watt designed a condensing engine and was lent money for its development by Joseph Black, the Glasgow University professor who had established the concept of latent heat. In 1768 Watt went into partnership with John Roebuck, who required the steam engine for the drainage of a coal-mine that he was opening up at Bo'ness, West Lothian. In 1769, Watt took out his patent for "A New Invented Method of Lessening the Consumption of Steam and Fuel in Fire Engines". When Roebuck went bankrupt in 1772, Matthew Boulton, proprietor of the Soho Engineering Works near Birmingham, bought Roebuck's share in Watt's patent. Watt had met Boulton four years earlier at the Soho works, where power was obtained at that time by means of a water-wheel and a steam engine to pump the water back up again above the wheel. Watt moved to Birmingham in 1774, and after the patent had been extended by Parliament in 1775 he and Boulton embarked on a highly profitable partnership. While Boulton endeavoured to keep the business supplied with capital, Watt continued to refine his engine, making several improvements over the years; he was also involved frequently in legal proceedings over infringements of his patent.

In 1794 Watt and Boulton founded the new company of Boulton \& Watt, with a view to their retirement; Watt's son James and Boulton's son Matthew assumed management of the company. Watt retired in 1800, but continued to spend much of his time in the workshop he had set up in the garret of his Heathfield home; principal amongst his work after retirement was the invention of a pantograph sculpturing machine.

James Watt was hard-working, ingenious and essentially practical, but it is doubtful that he would have succeeded as he did without the business sense of his partner, Matthew Boulton. Watt coined the term "horsepower" for quantifying the output of engines, and the SI unit of power, the watt, is named in his honour.

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SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Ports and shipping, Railways and locomotives

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The son of a miller, he received a rudimentary education in the village school. At an early age he was helping his father in the mill, and in 1800 he was apprenticed to a cabinet maker. After four years he returned to work with his father, but, preferring to leave the parental home, he not long afterwards joined a firm of agricultural-machinery makers in Swanton in Norfolk. There he acquired a reputation for making accurate patterns for the iron caster and demonstrated a talent for mechanical invention, patenting a self-regulating windmill sail in 1807. He then set up on his own as a millwright, but he found he could better himself by joining the engineering works of Ransomes of Ipswich in 1812. He was soon appointed their Chief Engineer, and after nine years he became a partner in the firm until he moved to London in 1826. Around 1818 he invented the treadmill, with the aim of putting prisoners to useful work in grinding corn and other applications. It was rapidly adopted by the principal prisons, more as a means of punishment than an instrument of useful work.

From 1814 Cubitt had been gaining experience in civil engineering, and upon his removal to London his career in this field began to take off. He was engaged on many canal-building projects, including the Oxford and Liverpool Junction canals. He accomplished some notable dock works, such as the Bute docks at Cardiff, the Middlesborough docks and the coal drops on the river Tees. He improved navigation on the river Severn and compiled valuable reports on a number of other leading rivers.

The railway construction boom of the 1840s provided him with fresh opportunities. He engineered the South Eastern Railway (SER) with its daringly constructed line below the cliffs between Folkestone and Dover; the railway was completed in 1843, using massive charges of explosive to blast a way through the cliffs. Cubitt was Consulting Engineer to the Great Northern Railway and tried, with less than his usual success, to get the atmospheric system to work on the Croydon Railway.

When the SER began a steamer service between Folkestone and Boulogne, Cubitt was engaged to improve the port facilities there and went on to act as Consulting Engineer to the Boulogne and Amiens Railway. Other commissions on the European continent included surveying the line between Paris and Lyons, advising the Hanoverian government on the harbour and docks at Hamburg and directing the water-supply works for Berlin.

Cubitt was actively involved in the erection of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851; in recognition of this work Queen Victoria knighted him at Windsor Castle on 23 December 1851.

Cubitt's son Joseph (1811–72) was also a notable civil engineer, with many railway and harbour works to his credit.

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price цена; above (или beyond, without) price бесценный; at a price по дорогой цене acquisition price цена приобретения additional price цена с надбавкой admission price плата за вход admission price цена входного билета advertising price цена рекламы agreed price обусловленная цена agreed price согласованная цена agreed price установленная цена all trade price общий торговый курс all-inclusive price полная цена approximate price примерная цена ask and bid price бирж. цена продавца и цена покупателя ask price бирж. запрашиваемая цена ask price бирж. курс, предлагаемый продавцом ask price бирж. цена продавца price цена; above (или beyond, without) price бесценный; at a price по дорогой цене price цена, жертва; at any price любой ценой, во что бы то ни стало; not at any price ни за что attractive price привлекательная цена auction price аукционная цена average offering price средний курс предложения ценных бумаг average offering price средняя запрашиваемая цена average price средняя цена average producer price средняя цена производителя bargain price покупная цена base price базисная цена basic object price базисная целевая цена basic price базисная цена basic price начальная цена basic price первичная цена basic target price базисная целевая цена basis price основная цена to be a price leader эк. диктовать цены (на рынке, бирже и т. п.) beneficial price выгодная цена beneficial price льготная цена bid price курс, предлагаемый покупателем bid price предложенная цена bid price цена, предлагаемая покупателем bid price цена покупателя bid-and-ask price бирж. разница между курсами продавца и покупателя bond price биржевый курс bond price курс государственных процентных бумаг bond price курс облигаций bond price фондовый курс bulk price стоимость партии bunker price суд. цена бункерного топлива buy-back price выкупная цена buying price курс покупателя buying price цена покупателя buying price цена покупки buying-in price скупочная цена calculated price расчетная цена call price цена облигации при досрочном выкупе catalogue price номинальная цена ceiling price максимальная цена (установленная властями) ceiling price максимальная цена ceiling price наивысший курс ценных бумаг CIF price цена сиф clean price чистая цена clearance price цена реализации close price минимальный разрыв между ценами покупателя и продавца по ценной бумаге closing price курс на момент закрытия биржи commodity price цена товара common price system система единых цен common target price единая плановая цена (ЕЭС) competitive price конкурентоспособная цена compulsory minimum price обязательная минимальная цена computer rental price арендная плата за пользование машиной constant price постоянная цена consumer price розничная цена consumers' price цена для конечных потребителей contact price рекл. цена установления контакта conversion price курс конвертируемой облигации current price существующая цена current price цена на данный момент cut the price низкая цена cut the price снижать цену cut the price сниженная цена cut-rate price низкая цена cut-rate price пониженная цена cut-rate price сниженная цена debenture price цена долгового обязательства delivery price цена доставки delivery price цена с доставкой derived intervention price производная интервенционная цена (ЕЭС) dirty price цена облигации с учетом надбавки discounted price цена со скидкой dumping price бросовая цена dumping price демпинговая цена economic price экономически выгодная цена economical price экономически обоснованная цена energy price стоимость энергии entry price цена ввозимой продукции equilibrium price равновесная цена estimated price рассчитанная цена estimated price сметная цена estimated sales price оценка продажной цены ex works invoice price фактурная цена франко-завод ex works price цена франко-завод excess price чрезмерно высокая цена excessive price чрезмерно высокая цена exercise price бирж. цена исполнения exorbitant price непомерная цена exorbitant price чрезмерно высокая цена export price экспортная цена extortionate price грабительская цена factor price цена производственного фактора factory price заводская цена falling price снижающаяся цена falling share price понижающийся биржевой курс falling share price понижающийся курс акций favourable price благоприятная цена favourable price выгодная цена firm price твердая цена firm price твердый курс firm price устойчивый курс firm underwriting price твердая гарантийная цена first price начальная цена fix a price устанавливать цену fixed price постоянная цена fixed price твердая цена fixed price твердо установленная цена fixed price фиксированная цена fixing price твердая цена floor price минимальная цена floor price самая низкая цена fluctuating price колеблющаяся цена forward price курс по сделкам на срок futures price бирж. цена при сделке на срок giveaway price бросовая цена giveaway price низкая цена gross price цена-брутто guaranteed price гарантированная цена guide price ЕЭС ориентировочная цена guiding price ведущая цена guiding price определяющая цена half price половинная цена import price импортная цена inclusive price цена с учетом всех услуг increase the price повышать цену initial price первоначальная цена instalment price цена при покупке в рассрочку internal price цена на внутреннем рынке intervention price интервенционная цена intervention purchase price покупная цена при интервенции introductory price предварительная цена invoice price фактурная цена invoice price цена по счету issue price цена эмиссии keen price низкая цена knockdown price минимальная цена (на аукционе) knockdown price сбитая цена landed price цена с выгрузкой на берег landed price цена товара, выгруженного на берег latest purchase price последняя покупная цена list price прейскурантная цена list price прокотированная цена listed price прейскурантная цена listed price прокотированная цена loss leader price цена товара, продаваемого в убыток для привлечения покупателей low price низкая цена lowering price снижающаяся цена lowest price самая низкая цена made-up price курс окончательного расчета по сделкам на срок maker's price цена производителя making-up price курс окончательного расчета по сделкам на срок making-up price расчетная цена marginal price крайняя цена marked down price сниженная цена market price курс биржи market price рыночная цена market price рыночный курс ценных бумаг market target price рыночная плановая цена market target price рыночная целевая цена match price согласованная цена maximum buying-in price предельная цена, при которой снимается товар с продажи на аукционе maximum price максимальная цена maximum price наивысший курс ценных бумаг mean price бирж. среднее арифметическое цен покупателя и продавца mean price бирж. средний курс mean price бирж. средняя цена medium price средняя цена middle price средний курс middle price средняя цена minimum import price минимальная цена ввозимых товаров minimum price минимальная цена minimum price минимальный курс minimum price наименьший курс ценных бумаг minimum selling price минимальная продажная цена negotiate a price договариваться о цене net price окончательная цена net price цена нетто net price цена после вычета всех скидок net price цена-нетто net price чистая цена net price чистая цена акции, котируемая брокером клиенту norm price стандартная цена normal price нормальная цена price цена, жертва; at any price любой ценой, во что бы то ни стало; not at any price ни за что object price целевая цена offer price запрашиваемая цена offer price курс, предлагаемый продацом ценных бумаг offer price цена продавца official price официальная цена official price официальный курс ценных бумаг на бирже oil price цена на нефть opening price начальный курс opening price первая котировка после открытия биржи opening price самая высокая и самая низкая цены покупателя и продавца в начале торговой сессии на срочной бирже opening price цена при открытии биржи optimum price оптимальная цена original price начальная цена original price первоначальная цена original price подлинная цена overall price полная цена par price нарицательная цена parity price эквивалентная цена pegged price искусственно поддерживаемая цена preferential price льготная цена price курс ценных бумаг price назначать цену, оценивать price назначать цену price оценивать price расценивать price цена, жертва; at any price любой ценой, во что бы то ни стало; not at any price ни за что price цена; above (или beyond, without) price бесценный; at a price по дорогой цене price цена price ценность price by hammer аукционная цена price for futures бирж. курс фьючерсных операций price in competitive auction цена на конкурсном аукционе price of debt securities стоимость ценной бумаги, представляющей собой долговое обязательство price of issue цена эмиссии price of material цена материала price of security курс ценной бумаги procurement price закупочная цена producer price цена производителя producer price цена фирмы-производителя producer's price цена производителя production price себестоимость продукции production target price плановая цена продукции profitable price цена, обеспечивающая прибыль purchase price курс, предлагаемый покупателем ценных бумаг purchase price покупная цена purchase price цена, предлагаемая покупателем purchase price цена покупателя quote a price назначать цену quoted price зарегистрированный на бирже курс quoted price назначенная цена quoted price объявленная цена quoted price прокотированная цена raise the price повышать цену raise the price поднимать цену raise the price увеличивать цену ransom price цена выкупа raw material price цена на сырье reasonable price умеренная цена receding price снижающаяся цена receding price снижающийся курс recommended price предложенная цена recommended price рекомендованная цена recommended retail price предложенная розничная цена recorded price зарегистрированный курс redemption price выкупная цена, выкупной курс redemption price цена погашения reduce the price делать скидку с цены reduce the price снижать цену reduce the price уменьшать цену reduced price льготная цена reduced price сниженная цена reduced price уменьшенная цена reference price контрольная цена remunerative price выгодная цена replacement price восстановительная цена repurchasing price выкупная цена repurchasing price цена, по которой инвестиционный фонд выкупает свои акции у инвесторов-клиентов reselling price цена перепродаваемого товара reserve price отправная цена reserve price резервированная цена reserve price резервная цена reserve: price price резервированная цена; низшая отправная цена (ниже которой продавец отказывается продать свой товар на аукционе) retail price розничная цена retail: price attr. розничный; retail price розничная цена; retail dealer розничный торговец revalued price повышенная цена rock-bottom price очень низкая цена ruinous price разорительная цена sales price продажная цена sales price реализационная цена scarcity price повышенная цена в период нехватки товара seller's price цена, выгодная для продавца selling price продажная цена selling price реализационная цена set a price назначать цену set a price устанавливать цену settlement price расчетная цена share price курс акции share price цена акции shortage price цена дефицита single intervention price единая интервенционная цена sluice-gate price "шлюзовая" цена (теоретическая импортная цена на некоторые сельскохозяйственные продукты в Европейском экономическом сообществе) special price специальная цена spot price наличная цена товара spot price наличный курс ценной бумаги spot price цена по кассовым сделкам spot price цена при продаже за наличные spot price цена при условии немедленной уплаты наличными spot price цена с немедленной сдачей spot: price price цена при условии немедленной уплаты наличными squeeze the price ограничивать цену standard price нормативная цена standard price стандартная цена stock market price курс ценных бумаг на фондовом рынке stock price биржевой курс stock price курс акций stop price цена, специально оговоренная в приказе брокеру stop-out price самая низкая долларовая цена, по которой казначейские векселя продаются на аукционе street price цена на неофициальной бирже street price цена по внебиржевым сделкам strike price exc. цена исполнения (фиксированная цена, по которой покупатель опциона может использовать свое право купить или продать определенные финансовые документы) striking price цена, по которой удовлетворяются заявки участников аукциона новых ценных бумаг striking price цена исполнения (фиксированная цена, по которой покупатель опциона может использовать свое право купить или продать определенные финансовые документы) subscription price цена подписки suggested price предлагаемая розничная цена suggested price предложенная цена suggested price цена, предлагаемая для розничной продажи suggested retail price предлагаемая розничная цена supply price цена поставки supply price цена предложения support price интервенционная цена target price базовая цена target price курс ценной бумаги, ожидаемый инвестором target price намеченная цена target price плановая цена target price целевая норма прибыли target price целевая цена target price цена, при которой опцион становится выгоден покупателю tender price цена на торгах tender the price предлагать цену tentative price ориентировочная цена tentative price предварительная цена tentative price предположительная цена threshold price пороговая цена ticket price стоимость билета ticket price цена билета today's price сегодняшняя цена top price высшая цена top price высший курс ценных бумаг top: price наивысший, максимальный; top speed самая большая скорость; top price самая высокая цена total price итоговая цена total price общая цена trade price торговая цена trade price фабричная цена, оптовая цена trade price фабричная цена; заводская цена trade price цена товаров, покупаемых розничным торговцем у оптовика transfer price внутрифирменная трансфертная цена transfer price отпускная цена transfer price трансфертная цена underwriting price гарантийная цена uniform price единая цена unit price единичная (штучная) цена, цена единицы unit price цена единицы продукции unit selling price продажная цена единицы товара upset price низшая отправная цена (на аукционе) upset price низшая цена, которую готовы уплатить участники аукциона upset: price price низшая отправная цена (на аукционе) usual price нормальная цена usual price обычная цена weighted average price средневзвешенная цена wholesale price оптовая цена works price цена производства world market price цена на мировом рынке year-end price курс на конец года year-end price цена на конец года zone price зональная цена

1) Ingenieur, der/Ingenieurin, die; (service engineer, installation engineer) Techniker, der/Technikerin, die

2) (maker or designer of engines) Maschinenbauingenieur, der

3)

1) (coll.): (contrive) arrangieren; entwickeln [Plan]

2) (manage construction of) konstruieren

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1) (a person who designs, makes, or works with, machinery: an electrical engineer.) der Ingenieur

2) ((usually civil engineer) a person who designs, constructs, or maintains roads, railways, bridges, sewers etc.) der Ingenieur

3) (an officer who manages a ship's engines.) der Maschinist

4) ((American) an engine-driver.) der Lokomotivführer

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[ˌenʤɪˈnɪəʳ, AM -ˈnɪr]

I. n

1. (qualified in engineering) Ingenieur(in) m(f); (in navy) [Schiffs]ingenieur(in) m(f); (on merchant ship) Maschinist(in) m(f); (maintains machines) [Wartungs]ingenieur(in) m(f); (controls engines) Techniker(in) m(f); MIL Technischer Offizier

civil/electrical/mechanical \engineer Bau-/Elektro-/Maschinenbauingenieur(in) m(f)

2. ( pej: contriver) Arrangeur(in) m(f) (of von + dat)

3. AM (engine driver) Lok[omotiv]führer(in) m(f)

II. vt

▪ to \engineer sth

1. usu passive (construct precisely) etw konstruieren

to \engineer a bridge/street eine Brücke/Straße bauen

2. ( pej: skilfully contrive) etw arrangieren

how did you manage to \engineer that invitation to the party? wie bist du bloß an diese Einladung zu der Party gekommen?

to \engineer a coup einen Coup vorbereiten

to \engineer a meeting ein Treffen arrangieren

to \engineer a plan [or scheme] einen Plan aushecken [o entwickeln]

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1. n

1) (TECH) Techniker(in) m(f); (with university degree etc) Ingenieur(in) m(f)

2) (NAUT on merchant ships) Maschinist(in) m(f); (in Navy) (Schiffs)ingenieur(in) m(f)

3) (US RAIL) Lokführer(in) m(f)

4) (fig of scheme) Arrangeur(in) m(f)

2. vt

1) (TECH) konstruieren

2) (fig) election, campaign, coup organisieren; downfall, plot arrangieren, einfädeln; success, victory in die Wege leiten; (SPORT) goal einfädeln

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engineer [ˌendʒıˈnıə(r)]

A s

1. a) Ingenieur(in)

b) Techniker(in)

c) Mechaniker(in):

engineers pl TEL Stördienst m

2. auch SCHIFF Maschinist(in)

3. BAHN US Lokomotivführer(in)

4. MIL Pionier m:

engineer combat battalion leichtes Pionierbataillon;

engineer construction battalion schweres Pionierbataillon;

engineer group Pionierregiment n

5. Bergbau: Kunststeiger m

B v/t

1. Straßen, Brücken etc (er)bauen, anlegen, konstruieren, errichten

2. fig (geschickt) in die Wege leiten, organisieren, deichseln, einfädeln (beide umg)

C v/i als Ingenieur etc tätig sein

e. abk

1. engineering

2. engineer

3. entrance

eng. abk

1. engine

2. engineer (engineering)

3. engraved

4. engraver

5. engraving

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1) Ingenieur, der/Ingenieurin, die; (service engineer, installation engineer) Techniker, der/Technikerin, die

2) (maker or designer of engines) Maschinenbauingenieur, der

3)

1) (coll.): (contrive) arrangieren; entwickeln [Plan]

2) (manage construction of) konstruieren

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Maschinist m. n.

Ingenieur m.

Pionier -e m.

Techniker m.

SUBJECT AREA: Automotive engineering, Land transport

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He was the son of an Irish immigrant farmer, William Ford, and the oldest son to survive of Mary Litogot; his mother died in 1876 with the birth of her sixth child. He went to the village school, and at the age of 16 he was apprenticed to Flower brothers' machine shop and then at the Drydock \& Engineering Works in Detroit. In 1882 he left to return to the family farm and spent some time working with a 1 1/2 hp steam engine doing odd jobs for the farming community at $3 per day. He was then employed as a demonstrator for Westinghouse steam engines. He met Clara Jane Bryant at New Year 1885 and they were married on 11 April 1888. Their only child, Edsel Bryant Ford, was born on 6 November 1893.

At that time Henry worked on steam engine repairs for the Edison Illuminating Company, where he became Chief Engineer. He became one of a group working to develop a "horseless carriage" in 1896 and in June completed his first vehicle, a "quadri cycle" with a two-cylinder engine. It was built in a brick shed, which had to be partially demolished to get the carriage out.

Ford became involved in motor racing, at which he was more successful than he was in starting a car-manufacturing company. Several early ventures failed, until the Ford Motor Company of 1903. By October 1908 they had started with production of the Model T. The first, of which over 15 million were built up to the end of its production in May 1927, came out with bought-out steel stampings and a planetary gearbox, and had a one-piece four-cylinder block with a bolt-on head. This was one of the most successful models built by Ford or any other motor manufacturer in the life of the motor car.

Interchangeability of components was an important element in Ford's philosophy. Ford was a pioneer in the use of vanadium steel for engine components. He adopted the principles of Frederick Taylor, the pioneer of time-and-motion study, and installed the world's first moving assembly line for the production of magnetos, started in 1913. He installed blast furnaces at the factory to make his own steel, and he also promoted research and the cultivation of the soya bean, from which a plastic was derived.

In October 1913 he introduced the "Five Dollar Day", almost doubling the normal rate of pay. This was a profit-sharing scheme for his employees and contained an element of a reward for good behaviour. About this time he initiated work on an agricultural tractor, the "Fordson" made by a separate company, the directors of which were Henry and his son Edsel.

In 1915 he chartered the Oscar II, a "peace ship", and with fifty-five delegates sailed for Europe a week before Christmas, docking at Oslo. Their objective was to appeal to all European Heads of State to stop the war. He had hoped to persuade manufacturers to replace armaments with tractors in their production programmes. In the event, Ford took to his bed in the hotel with a chill, stayed there for five days and then sailed for New York and home. He did, however, continue to finance the peace activists who remained in Europe. Back in America, he stood for election to the US Senate but was defeated. He was probably the father of John Dahlinger, illegitimate son of Evangeline Dahlinger, a stenographer employed by the firm and on whom he lavished gifts of cars, clothes and properties. He became the owner of a weekly newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, which became the medium for the expression of many of his more unorthodox ideas. He was involved in a lawsuit with the Chicago Tribune in 1919, during which he was cross-examined on his knowledge of American history: he is reputed to have said "History is bunk". What he actually said was, "History is bunk as it is taught in schools", a very different comment. The lawyers who thus made a fool of him would have been surprised if they could have foreseen the force and energy that their actions were to release. For years Ford employed a team of specialists to scour America and Europe for furniture, artefacts and relics of all kinds, illustrating various aspects of history. Starting with the Wayside Inn from South Sudbury, Massachusetts, buildings were bought, dismantled and moved, to be reconstructed in Greenfield Village, near Dearborn. The courthouse where Abraham Lincoln had practised law and the Ohio bicycle shop where the Wright brothers built their first primitive aeroplane were added to the farmhouse where the proprietor, Henry Ford, had been born. Replicas were made of Independence Hall, Congress Hall and the old City Hall in Philadelphia, and even a reconstruction of Edison's Menlo Park laboratory was installed. The Henry Ford museum was officially opened on 21 October 1929, on the fiftieth anniversary of Edison's invention of the incandescent bulb, but it continued to be a primary preoccupation of the great American car maker until his death.

Henry Ford was also responsible for a number of aeronautical developments at the Ford Airport at Dearborn. He introduced the first use of radio to guide a commercial aircraft, the first regular airmail service in the United States. He also manufactured the country's first all-metal multi-engined plane, the Ford Tri-Motor.

Edsel became President of the Ford Motor Company on his father's resignation from that position on 30 December 1918. Following the end of production in May 1927 of the Model T, the replacement Model A was not in production for another six months. During this period Henry Ford, though officially retired from the presidency of the company, repeatedly interfered and countermanded the orders of his son, ostensibly the man in charge. Edsel, who died of stomach cancer at his home at Grosse Point, Detroit, on 26 May 1943, was the father of Henry Ford II. Henry Ford died at his home, "Fair Lane", four years after his son's death.

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SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing

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The name Joseph Gillott became synonymous with pen making at a time when the basic equipment for writing was undergoing a change. The quill pen had served writers for centuries, but attempts had been made since the seventeenth century to improve on it. The first major technical development was the steel nib, which began to be made c.1829. The steel nib was still little known in Birmingham in 1839, but ten years later it was in common use. Its stiffness was at first a drawback, but Gillott was among the first to improve its flexibility by introducing three slots, which later became standard practice. Mechanical methods of manufacture made the pen cheaper and improved its quality. In 1840 Gillott issued a "precept" informing the public that he was pen maker to the Queen and that he had been manufacturing pens for twenty years at his Victoria Works in Birmingham. He announced the successful reception by the public of his new patent pen. There were also special "warranted school" pens designed for the various grades of writing taught in schools. Finally, he warned against inferior imitations and recommended the public to buy only those pens stamped with his name.

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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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Heathcote was the son of a small farmer who became blind, obliging the family to move to Long Whatton, near Loughborough, c.1790. He was apprenticed to W.Shepherd, a hosiery-machine maker, and became a frame-smith in the hosiery industry. He moved to Nottingham where he entered the employment of an excellent machine maker named Elliott. He later joined William Caldwell of Hathern, whose daughter he had married. The lace-making apparatus they patented jointly in 1804 had already been anticipated, so Heathcote turned to the problem of making pillow lace, a cottage industry in which women made lace by arranging pins stuck in a pillow in the correct pattern and winding around them thread contained on thin bobbins. He began by analysing the complicated hand-woven lace into simple warp and weft threads and found he could dispense with half the bobbins. The first machine he developed and patented, in 1808, made narrow lace an inch or so wide, but the following year he made much broader lace on an improved version. In his second patent, in 1809, he could make a type of net curtain, Brussels lace, without patterns. His machine made bobbin-net by the use of thin brass discs, between which the thread was wound. As they passed through the warp threads, which were arranged vertically, the warp threads were moved to each side in turn, so as to twist the bobbin threads round the warp threads. The bobbins were in two rows to save space, and jogged on carriages in grooves along a bar running the length of the machine. As the strength of this fabric depended upon bringing the bobbin threads diagonally across, in addition to the forward movement, the machine had to provide for a sideways movement of each bobbin every time the lengthwise course was completed. A high standard of accuracy in manufacture was essential for success. Called the "Old Loughborough", it was acknowledged to be the most complicated machine so far produced. In partnership with a man named Charles Lacy, who supplied the necessary capital, a factory was established at Loughborough that proved highly successful; however, their fifty-five frames were destroyed by Luddites in 1816. Heathcote was awarded damages of £10,000 by the county of Nottingham on the condition it was spent locally, but to avoid further interference he decided to transfer not only his machines but his entire workforce elsewhere and refused the money. In a disused woollen factory at Tiverton in Devonshire, powered by the waters of the river Exe, he built 300 frames of greater width and speed. By continually making inventions and improvements until he retired in 1843, his business flourished and he amassed a large fortune. He patented one machine for silk cocoon-reeling and another for plaiting or braiding. In 1825 he brought out two patents for the mechanical ornamentation or figuring of lace. He acquired a sound knowledge of French prior to opening a steam-powered lace factory in France. The factory proved to be a successful venture that lasted many years. In 1832 he patented a monstrous steam plough that is reputed to have cost him over £12,000 and was claimed to be the best in its day. One of its stated aims was "improved methods of draining land", which he hoped would develop agriculture in Ireland. A cable was used to haul the implement across the land. From 1832 to 1859, Heathcote represented Tiverton in Parliament and, among other benefactions, he built a school for his adopted town.

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SUBJECT AREA: Electricity

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Stratingh spent five years working for a relative who was a chemist in Groningen, and studied pharmacy under Professor Driessen. Encouraged to become a medical student, he qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1809. Later becoming a professor of chemistry at Groningen, he was honoured by a personal visit from the King to his laboratory in 1837. In 1835, assisted by Christopher Becker, an instrument maker, he built a table-top model of an electrically propelled vehicle. The motor, with wound armature and field coils, was geared to a wheel of a small carriage which also carried a single voltaic cell. A full-scale road vehicle was never built, but in 1840 he succeeded in making an electrically powered boat.

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1) (whole; with nothing missing: a complete set of Shakespeare's plays.) completo

2) (thorough: My car needs a complete overhaul; a complete surprise.) completo

3) (finished: My picture will soon be complete.) acabado

- completely

complete¹ adj

1. completo

2. acabado / terminado

3. total

complete² vb terminar / acabar / completar

El gerundio de complete se escribe completing

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adjective

1 (entire) completo,-a

■ the complete works of Lorca las obras completas de Lorca

2 (finished) acabado,-a, terminado,-a

3 (thorough, absolute, total) total, completo,-a

■ he's a complete stranger es un completo desconocido

■ you're a complete idiot eres tonto de remate

■ a complete surprise una verdadera sorpresa

transitive verb

1 (make whole) completar

2 (finish) acabar, terminar

3 (fill in - form) rellenar

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complete with something con algo incluido,-a

■ a large house complete with swimming pool una casa enorme con piscina incluida

complete [kəm'pli:t] vt, - pleted ; - pleting

1) : completar, hacer entero

this piece completes the collection: esta pieza completa la colección

2) finish: completar, acabar, terminar

she completed her studies: completó sus estudios

complete adj, - pleter ; - est

1) whole: completo, entero, íntegro

2) finished: terminado, acabado

3) total: completo, total, absoluto

• acabado, -a adj.

• cabal adj.

• completo, -a adj.

• cumplido, -a adj.

• entero, -a adj.

• finalizado, -a adj.

• harto, -a adj.

• largo, -a adj.

• lleno, -a adj.

• perfecto, -a adj.

• tajante adj.

• acabalar v.

• acabar v.

• complementar v.

• completar v.

• llenar v.

• terminar v.

1)

a) ( entire) <set/edition> completo

b) ( finished) terminado, concluido

2) (thorough, absolute) (as intensifier) total, completo

a) ( finish) \<\<building/education\>\> acabar, terminar; \<\<sentence\>\> cumplir; \<\<investigations\>\> completar, concluir*

b) ( make whole) \<\<set/collection\>\> completar

c) ( fill in) (frml) \<\<form\>\> llenar, rellenar

1. ADJ

1) (=whole) entero

2) (=finished) terminado

3) (=total) [control, lack] total, absoluto; [change] total; [surprise] auténtico

4) (=full) [list, set, group] completo

5) (=all-round) [novelist, footballer] completo, perfecto

6)

2. VT

1) (=make up) [+ set, collection, team] completar; [+ misfortune, happiness] colmar

2) (=finish) [+ work] terminar, acabar; [+ contract] cumplir, llevar a cabo

3) (=fill in) [+ form, questionnaire] rellenar

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a) ( entire) <set/edition> completo

b) ( finished) terminado, concluido

2) (thorough, absolute) (as intensifier) total, completo

a) ( finish) \<\<building/education\>\> acabar, terminar; \<\<sentence\>\> cumplir; \<\<investigations\>\> completar, concluir*

b) ( make whole) \<\<set/collection\>\> completar

c) ( fill in) (frml) \<\<form\>\> llenar, rellenar

   Portugal did not produce an artist of sufficient ability to gain recognition outside the country until the 19th century. Domingos Antônio Segueira (1768-1837) became well known in Europe for his allegorical religious and historical paintings in a neoclassical style. Portuguese painting during the 19th century emphasized naturalism and did not keep abreast of artistic innovations being made in other European countries. Portugal's best painters lived abroad especially in France. The most successful was Amadeo Souza- Cardoso who, while living in Paris, worked with the modernists Modigliani, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris. Souza-Cardoso introduced modernism into Portuguese painting in the early 20th century. A sustained modernist movement did not develop in Portugal, however. Naturalism remained the dominant school, and Portugal remained isolated from international artistic trends, owing to Portugal's conservative artistic climate, which prevented new forms of art from taking root, and the lack of support from an artistically sophisticated, art-buying elite supported by a system of galleries and foundations.

   Interestingly, it was during the conservative Estado Novo that modernism began to take root in Portugal. As Prime Minister Antônio de Oliveira Salazar's secretary for national propaganda, Antônio Ferro, a writer, journalist, and cultural leader who admired Mussolini, encouraged the government to allow modern artists to create the heroic imagery of the Estado Novo following the Italian model that linked fascism with futurism. The most important Portuguese artist of this period was Almada Negreiros, who did the murals on the walls of the legendary café A Brasileira in the Chiado district of Lisbon, the paintings at the Exposition of the Portuguese World (1940), and murals at the Lisbon docks. Other artists of note during this period included Mário Eloy (1900-51), who was trained in Germany and influenced by George Grosz and Otto Dix; Domingos Alvarez (1906-42); and Antônio Pedro (1909-66).

   During the 1950s, the Estado Novo ceased to encourage artists to collaborate, as Portuguese artists became more critical of the regime. The return to Portugal of Antônio Pedro in 1947 led to the emergence of a school of geometric abstract painting in Oporto and the reawakening of surrealism. The art deco styles of the 1930s gave way to surrealism and abstract expression.

   In the 1960s, links between Portugal's artistic community and the international art world strengthened. Conscription for the wars against the nationalist insurgencies in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea- Bissau (1961-75) resulted in a massive exodus of Portugal's avante-garde artists to Europe to avoid military service. While abroad, artists such as Joaquin Rodrigo (1912-93), Paula Rego (1935-), João Cutileiro (1947-), and others forged links with British, French, Italian, and Spanish artistic communities.

   The Revolution of 25 April 1974 created a crisis for Portugal's artists. The market for works of art collapsed as left-wing governments, claiming that they had more important things to do (eliminate poverty, improve education), withdrew support for the arts. Artists declared their talents to be at the "service of the people," and a brief period of socialist realism prevailed. With the return of political stability and moderate governments during the 1980s, Portugal's commercial art scene revived, and a new period of creativity began. Disenchantment with the socialist realism (utopianism) of the Revolution and a deepening of individualism began to be expressed by Portuguese artists. Investment in the arts became a means of demonstrating one's wealth and social status, and an unprecedented number of art galleries opened, art auctions were held, and a new generation of artists became internationally recognized. In 1984, a museum of modern art was built by the Gulbenkian Foundation adjacent to its offices on the Avenida de Berna in Lisbon. A national museum of modern art was finally built in Oporto in 1988.

   In the 1980s, Portugal's new generation of painters blended post-conceptualism and subjectivism, as well as a tendency toward decon-structionism/reconstructionism, in their work. Artists such as Cabrita Reis (1956-), Pedro Calapez (1953-), José Pedro Croft (1957-), Rui Sanches (1955-), and José de Guimarães (1949-) gained international recognition during this period. Guimarães crosses African art themes with Western art; Sarmento invokes images of film, culture, photography, American erotica, and pulp fiction toward sex, violence, and pleasure; Reis evolved from a painter to a maker of installation artist using chipboard, plaster, cloth, glass, and electrical and plumbing materials.

   From the end of the 20th century and during the early years of the 21st century, Portugal's art scene has been in a state of crisis brought on by a declining art trade and a withdrawal of financial support by conservative governments. Although not as serious as the collapse of the 1970s, the current situation has divided the Portuguese artistic community between those, such as Cerveira Pito and Leonel Moura, who advocate a return to using primitive, strongly textured techniques and others such as João Paulo Feliciano (1963-), who paint constructivist works that poke fun at the relationship between art, money, society, and the creative process. Thus, at the beginning of the 21st century, the factors that have prevented Portuguese art from achieving and sustaining international recognition (the absence of a strong art market, depending too much on official state support, and the individualistic nature of Portuguese art production) are still to be overcome.

SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy

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Of Dutch descent, Hunstman was apprenticed to a clockmaker at Epworth, Lincolnshire. In 1725 he set up in Doncaster as a maker of clocks, locks and roasting jacks. He made improvements in his tools but found himself hampered by the poor quality of the steel available, then made by the cementation process, which yielded a steel with a non-uniform carbon content. Around 1740, Huntsman moved to Handsworth, now part of Sheffield, and began experimenting by heating varying compositions of fuel and flux with crude steel in a crucible, to obtain a steel of uniform composition. During the years 1745 to 1750 he attained his object, but not without many unsuccessful "heats", as excavations of the site of his works now reveal. Although his steel was far better than that previously available, however, the conservative cutlers of Sheffield rejected it, claiming it was too hard to work; therefore Huntsman exported his product to France, where the cutlers promptly worked it into high-quality knives and razors that were exported to England. The Sheffield cutlers' attempts to prevent Huntsman from exporting his steel proved unsuccessful. Huntsman did not patent his process, preferring to retain his advantage by shrouding his work in secrecy, carrying out his melting at night to escape observation, but a rival cutler, Samuel Walker, gained admittance to Huntsman's works disguised as a tramp seeking food. As a result, Walker was able to make crucible steel at a handsome profit. Huntsman fought back and earned success through the sheer quality of his steel, and had to move to.a larger site at Attercliffe in 1770. Crucible steelmaking remained important through the nineteenth century although, as it was a small-scale process, its application was restricted to engineers' cutting tools and the cutting edges of certain tools.

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SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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Pullman was initially a cabinet-maker in Albion, New York, and then became a road-works contractor in Chicago. Observing a need for improved sleeping accommodation on trains, he arranged in 1858 with the Chicago \& Alton Railroad to convert two of their coaches into sleeping cars by incorporating upper berths hinged to the sides of the car. These and a third car entered service in 1859 and were popular with passengers, but other railways were reluctant to adopt them.

Pullman moved to the Colorado mining area and kept a general store, but in 1863 he returned to Chicago. With Ben Field he spent a year building the car Pioneer, which not only incorporated the folding upper berths but also had seats arranged to convert into lower berths. When Pioneer entered service, the travelling public was enthusiastic: Pullman and Field built more cars, and an increasing number of railways arranged to operate them under contract. In 1867 Pullman and Field organized the Pullman Palace Car Company, which grew to have five car-building plants. Pullman introduced a combined sleeping/restaurant car in 1867 and the dining car in 1868.

In 1872 James Allport, General Manager of the Midland Railway in Britain, toured the USA and was impressed by Pullman cars. He arranged with Pullman for the American company to ship a series of Pullman cars to Britain in parts for Midland to assemble at its works at Derby. The first, a sleeping car, was completed early in 1874 and entered service on the Midland Railway. Several others followed the same year, including the first Pullman Parlor Car, a luxury coach for day rather than overnight use, to enter service in Europe. Pullman formed the Pullman Palace Car Company (Europe), and although the Midland Railway purchased the Pullman cars running on its system a few years later, Pullman cars were used on many other railways in Britain (notably the London Brighton \& South Coast Railway) and on the continent of Europe. In 1881 the Pullman Parlor Car Globe, running in Britain, became the first vehicle to be illuminated by electric light.

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SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Textiles

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Richard Roberts was the son of a shoemaker and tollkeeper and received only an elementary education at the village school. At the age of 10 his interest in mechanics was stimulated when he was allowed by the Curate, the Revd Griffith Howell, to use his lathe and other tools. As a young man Roberts acquired a considerable local reputation for his mechanical skills, but these were exercised only in his spare time. For many years he worked in the local limestone quarries, until at the age of 20 he obtained employment as a pattern-maker in Staffordshire. In the next few years he worked as a mechanic in Liverpool, Manchester and Salford before moving in 1814 to London, where he obtained employment with Henry Maudslay. In 1816 he set up on his own account in Manchester. He soon established a reputation there for gear-cutting and other general engineering work, especially for the textile industry, and by 1821 he was employing about twelve men. He built machine tools mainly for his own use, including, in 1817, one of the first planing machines.

One of his first inventions was a gas meter, but his first patent was obtained in 1822 for improvements in looms. His most important contribution to textile technology was his invention of the self-acting spinning mule, patented in 1825. The normal fourteen-year term of this patent was extended in 1839 by a further seven years. Between 1826 and 1828 Roberts paid several visits to Alsace, France, arranging cottonspinning machinery for a new factory at Mulhouse. By 1826 he had become a partner in the firm of Sharp Brothers, the company then becoming Sharp, Roberts \& Co. The firm continued to build textile machinery, and in the 1830s it built locomotive engines for the newly created railways and made one experimental steam-carriage for use on roads. The partnership was dissolved in 1843, the Sharps establishing a new works to continue locomotive building while Roberts retained the existing factory, known as the Globe Works, where he soon after took as partners R.G.Dobinson and Benjamin Fothergill (1802–79). This partnership was dissolved c. 1851, and Roberts continued in business on his own for a few years before moving to London as a consulting engineer.

During the 1840s and 1850s Roberts produced many new inventions in a variety of fields, including machine tools, clocks and watches, textile machinery, pumps and ships. One of these was a machine controlled by a punched-card system similar to the Jacquard loom for punching rivet holes in plates. This was used in the construction of the Conway and Menai Straits tubular bridges. Roberts was granted twenty-six patents, many of which, before the Patent Law Amendment Act of 1852, covered more than one invention; there were still other inventions he did not patent. He made his contribution to the discussion which led up to the 1852 Act by publishing, in 1830 and 1833, pamphlets suggesting reform of the Patent Law.

In the early 1820s Roberts helped to establish the Manchester Mechanics' Institute, and in 1823 he was elected a member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. He frequently contributed to their proceedings and in 1861 he was made an Honorary Member. He was elected a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1838. From 1838 to 1843 he served as a councillor of the then-new Municipal Borough of Manchester. In his final years, without the assistance of business partners, Roberts suffered financial difficulties, and at the time of his death a fund for his aid was being raised.

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SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Steam and internal combustion engines

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As a boy, Smeaton showed mechanical ability, making for himself a number of tools and models. This practical skill was backed by a sound education, probably at Leeds Grammar School. At the age of 16 he entered his father's office; he seemed set to follow his father's profession in the law. In 1742 he went to London to continue his legal studies, but he preferred instead, with his father's reluctant permission, to set up as a scientific instrument maker and dealer and opened a shop of his own in 1748. About this time he began attending meetings of the Royal Society and presented several papers on instruments and mechanical subjects, being elected a Fellow in 1753. His interests were turning towards engineering but were informed by scientific principles grounded in careful and accurate observation.

In 1755 the second Eddystone lighthouse, on a reef some 14 miles (23 km) off the English coast at Plymouth, was destroyed by fire. The President of the Royal Society was consulted as to a suitable engineer to undertake the task of constructing a new one, and he unhesitatingly suggested Smeaton. Work began in 1756 and was completed in three years to produce the first great wave-swept stone lighthouse. It was constructed of Portland stone blocks, shaped and pegged both together and to the base rock, and bonded by hydraulic cement, scientifically developed by Smeaton. It withstood the storms of the English Channel for over a century, but by 1876 erosion of the rock had weakened the structure and a replacement had to be built. The upper portion of Smeaton's lighthouse was re-erected on a suitable base on Plymouth Hoe, leaving the original base portion on the reef as a memorial to the engineer.

The Eddystone lighthouse made Smeaton's reputation and from then on he was constantly in demand as a consultant in all kinds of engineering projects. He carried out a number himself, notably the 38 mile (61 km) long Forth and Clyde canal with thirty-nine locks, begun in 1768 but for financial reasons not completed until 1790. In 1774 he took charge of the Ramsgate Harbour works.

On the mechanical side, Smeaton undertook a systematic study of water-and windmills, to determine the design and construction to achieve the greatest power output. This work issued forth as the paper "An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills" and exerted a considerable influence on mill design during the early part of the Industrial Revolution. Between 1753 and 1790 Smeaton constructed no fewer than forty-four mills.

Meanwhile, in 1756 he had returned to Austhorpe, which continued to be his home base for the rest of his life. In 1767, as a result of the disappointing performance of an engine he had been involved with at New River Head, Islington, London, Smeaton began his important study of the steam-engine. Smeaton was the first to apply scientific principles to the steam-engine and achieved the most notable improvements in its efficiency since its invention by Newcomen, until its radical overhaul by James Watt. To compare the performance of engines quantitatively, he introduced the concept of "duty", i.e. the weight of water that could be raised 1 ft (30 cm) while burning one bushel (84 lb or 38 kg) of coal. The first engine to embody his improvements was erected at Long Benton colliery in Northumberland in 1772, with a duty of 9.45 million pounds, compared to the best figure obtained previously of 7.44 million pounds. One source of heat loss he attributed to inaccurate boring of the cylinder, which he was able to improve through his close association with Carron Ironworks near Falkirk, Scotland.

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