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41 Disarm
v. trans.V. γυμνοῦν ὅπλων (Eur., H.F. 1382).They disarmed me of both my coverings: V. γυμνόν. μʼ ἔθηκαν διπτύχου στολίσματος (Eur., Hec. 1156).They consented to be disarmed, and each ransomed for a fixed sum: P. συνέβησαν ῥητοῦ ἕκαστον ἀργυρίου ἀπολυθῆναι ὅπλα παράδοντας (Thuc. 4, 69).Be disarmed: P. ἀφαιρεθῆναι τὰ ὅπλα (Lys.).Disarmed: P. παρηρημένος τὰ ὅπλα (Dcm.).Gentleness meeting violence and rage disarms them of their excess: V. τῷ γὰρ βιαίῳ κἀγρίῳ τὸ μαλθακὸν εἰς ταὐτὸν ἐλθὸν τοῦ λίαν παρείλετο (Eur., frag.).Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language > Disarm
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42 Spoil
v. trans.Plunder: P. and V. πορθεῖν, διαπορθεῖν, ἐκπορθεῖν, ἁρπάζειν, ἀναρπάζειν, διαρπάζειν, συλᾶν, λῄζεσθαι, φέρειν, P. ἄγειν καὶ φέρειν, διαφορεῖν, λῃστεύειν, V. πέρθειν, ἐκπέρθειν (also Plat. but rare P.); see plunder.Strip the dead of arms: P. and V. σκυλεύειν.Ravage: P. and V. δῃοῦν, τέμνειν, P. κείρειν, κακουργεῖν, ἀδικεῖν.We will entreat him not to spoil the meeting: P. δεησόμεθα αὐτοῦ... μὴ διαφθείρειν τὴν συνουσίαν (Plat., Prot. 338D).Pamper: P. διαθρύπτειν, V. ἁβρύνειν.Be spoiled, pampered: P. and V. τρυφᾶν.V. intrans.Be injured: P. and V. διαφθείρεσθαι.——————subs.Plunder: P. and V. λεία, ἡ, ἁρπαγή, ἡ.Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language > Spoil
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43 Palmer, Henry Robinson
[br]b. 1795 Hackney, London, Englandd. 12 September 1844[br]English civil engineer and monorail pioneer.[br]Palmer was an assistant to Thomas Telford for ten years from 1816. In 1818 he arranged a meeting of young engineers from which the Institution of Civil Engineers originated. In the early 1820s he invented a monorail system, the first of its kind, in which a single rail of wood, with an iron strip spiked on top to form a running surface, was supported on posts. Wagon bodies were supported pannier fashion from a frame attached to grooved wheels and were propelled by men or horses. An important object was to minimize friction, and short lines were built on this principle at Deptford and Cheshunt. In 1826 Palmer was appointed Resident Engineer to the London Docks and was responsible for the construction of many of them. He was subsequently consulted about many important engineering works.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1831. Vice-President, Institution of Civil Engineers.Bibliography1821, British patent no. 4,618 (monorail).1823, Description of a Railway on a New Principle…, London (describes his monorail).Further ReadingObituary, 1845, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 4. C.von Oeynhausen and H.von Dechen, 1971, Railways in England 1826 and 1827, London: Newcomen Society (a contemporary description of the monorails). M.J.T.Lewis, 1970, Early Wooden Railways, London: Routledge \& Kegan Paul.See also: Lartigue, Charles François Marie-ThérèsePJGR -
44 Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson
[br]b. 31 October 1828 Sunderland, Englandd. 27 May 1914 Warlingham, Surrey, England[br]English chemist, inventor in Britain of the incandescent electric lamp and of photographic processes.[br]At the age of 14 Swan was apprenticed to a Sunderland firm of druggists, later joining John Mawson who had opened a pharmacy in Newcastle. While in Sunderland Swan attended lectures at the Athenaeum, at one of which W.E. Staite exhibited electric-arc and incandescent lighting. The impression made on Swan prompted him to conduct experiments that led to his demonstration of a practical working lamp in 1879. As early as 1848 he was experimenting with carbon as a lamp filament, and by 1869 he had mounted a strip of carbon in a vessel exhausted of air as completely as was then possible; however, because of residual air, the filament quickly failed.Discouraged by the cost of current from primary batteries and the difficulty of achieving a good vacuum, Swan began to devote much of his attention to photography. With Mawson's support the pharmacy was expanded to include a photographic business. Swan's interest in making permanent photographic records led him to patent the carbon process in 1864 and he discovered how to make a sensitive dry plate in place of the inconvenient wet collodian process hitherto in use. He followed this success with the invention of bromide paper, the subject of a British patent in 1879.Swan resumed his interest in electric lighting. Sprengel's invention of the mercury pump in 1865 provided Swan with the means of obtaining the high vacuum he needed to produce a satisfactory lamp. Swan adopted a technique which was to become an essential feature in vacuum physics: continuing to heat the filament during the exhaustion process allowed the removal of absorbed gases. The inventions of Gramme, Siemens and Brush provided the source of electrical power at reasonable cost needed to make the incandescent lamp of practical service. Swan exhibited his lamp at a meeting in December 1878 of the Newcastle Chemical Society and again the following year before an audience of 700 at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society. Swan's failure to patent his invention immediately was a tactical error as in November 1879 Edison was granted a British patent for his original lamp, which, however, did not go into production. Parchmentized thread was used in Swan's first commercial lamps, a material soon superseded by the regenerated cellulose filament that he developed. The cellulose filament was made by extruding a solution of nitro-cellulose in acetic acid through a die under pressure into a coagulating fluid, and was used until the ultimate obsolescence of the carbon-filament lamp. Regenerated cellulose became the first synthetic fibre, the further development and exploitation of which he left to others, the patent rights for the process being sold to Courtaulds.Swan also devised a modification of Planté's secondary battery in which the active material was compressed into a cellular lead plate. This has remained the central principle of all improvements in secondary cells, greatly increasing the storage capacity for a given weight.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1904. FRS 1894. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1898. First President, Faraday Society 1904. Royal Society Hughes Medal 1904. Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur 1881.Bibliography2 January 1880, British patent no. 18 (incandescent electric lamp).24 May 1881, British patent no. 2,272 (improved plates for the Planté cell).1898, "The rise and progress of the electrochemical industries", Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 27:8–33 (Swan's Presidential Address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers).Further ReadingM.E.Swan and K.R.Swan, 1968, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan F.R.S., Newcastle upon Tyne (a detailed account).R.C.Chirnside, 1979, "Sir Joseph Swan and the invention of the electric lamp", IEEElectronics and Power 25:96–100 (a short, authoritative biography).GWBiographical history of technology > Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson
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