method of making

the process of choosing between alternative courses of action. Decision making may take place at an individual or organizational level. The process may involve establishing objectives, gathering relevant information, identifying alternatives, setting criteria for the decision, and selecting the best option. The nature of the decision-making process within an organization is influenced by its culture and structure, and a number of theoretical models have been developed. One well-known method for individual decision making was developed by Charles Kepner and Benjamin Tregoe in their book The New Rational Manager (1981). Decision theory can be used to assist in the process of decision making. Specific techniques used in decision making include heuristics and decision trees. Computer systems designed to assist managerial decision making are known as decision support systems.

a statistical technique used in business decision making that involves a number of uncertain variables, such as capital investment and resource allocation. The name of the Monte Carlo method derives from the use of random numbers as generated by a roulette wheel. The numbers are used in repeated simulations, often performed by spreadsheet programs on computers, to calculate a variety of possible outcomes. The technique was developed by mathematicians in the early 1960s for use in nuclear physics and operational research but has since been used more widely.

manufacturing, manufacture, production, fabrication.

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► nombre femenino

1 manufacture, production, making

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de fabricación casera home-made

de fabricación propia our own make

defecto de fabricación manufacturing fault

fabricación en cadena mass production

productos de fabricación defectuosa seconds

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1) making

2) manufacture

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SF manufacture

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femenino manufacture

- fabricación en serie

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= make, manufacture, manufacturing, fabrication, making.

Ex. Typically a patent abstract is informative, and includes in the case of an article, its method of making or manufacture.

Ex. Typically a patent abstract is informative, and includes in the case of an article, its method of making or manufacture.

Ex. An editor is a person who prepares for publication an item not his own and whose labour may be limited to supervision of the manufacturing.

Ex. Products from the same raw material are grouped then subdivided according to stage of fabrication.

Ex. A producer is the person with final responsibility for the making of a motion picture, including business aspects, management of the production, and the commercial success of the film.

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* cadena de fabricación = production line.

* coste de fabricación = manufacturing cost.

* de fabricación casera = homemade.

* excedencias de fabricación = factory surplus.

* fabricación de acero = steelmaking [steel making].

* fabricación de bombas = bomb manufacture.

* fabricación de libros = bookmaking [book making].

* fabricación de monedas = coinage, minting.

* fabricación de papel = paper-making [papermaking], paper manufacturing.

* fabricación de tapas = casemaking [case-making].

* fabricación de velas = chandlery.

* fabricación en serie = mass production.

* máquina de fabricación = manufacturing equipment.

* técnica de fabricación = construction technique.

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femenino manufacture

- fabricación en serie

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manufacture

televisores de fabricación japonesa Japanese-made televisions, televisions made o manufactured in Japan

[ S ] fabricación propia all our products are made on the premises

mass production

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◊ la fabricación de coches car manufacture;

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fabricación nf

manufacture;

un automóvil de fabricación nacional a domestically produced car;

una bomba de fabricación casera a home-made bomb

fabricación limpia [ecológica] environmentally friendly manufacturing;

fabricación en serie mass production

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f manufacturing

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fabricación nf, pl - ciones : manufacture

1 procedure, method.

2 proceedings (law).

3 encheiresis.

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► nombre masculino

1 (método) procedure

2 DERECHO proceedings plural

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SM (=sistema) process; (=método) means, method; (=trámites) procedure; (Jur) proceedings

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1) ( método) procedure; (Tec) process

2) (Der) proceedings (pl)

3) (RPl) ( de la policía) operation

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= mechanics, procedure, process, routine.

Ex. However, it is clear that the mechanics of searching post-coordinate indexes differ from those involved in searching pre-coordinate indexes.

Ex. To this end some consultative procedure is to be recommended.

Ex. The organisation of knowledge is a process that has been recognised as necessary for thousands of years.

Ex. Chain indexing is a simple mechanical routine for generating a limited number of index entries for a subject.

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* cambio de procedimiento = procedural change.

* de procedimiento = procedural.

* evaluación de procedimientos = process rating.

* manual de procedimiento = rules of procedure.

* normas de procedimiento = rules of procedure.

* procedimiento administrativo = administrative procedure.

* procedimiento algorítmico = algorithmic procedure.

* procedimiento a seguir = code of practice.

* procedimiento civil = civil proceedings.

* procedimiento consultivo = consultative procedure.

* procedimiento de cálculo = arithmetic.

* procedimiento de conexión = logon procedure.

* procedimiento de desconexión = logoff procedure.

* procedimiento de evaluación por expertos = refereeing procedure.

* procedimiento de inscripción = enrolment procedure.

* procedimiento de matrícula = enrolment procedure.

* procedimiento de reclamación = appeals process, appeals mechanism, appeals procedure.

* procedimiento de reclamaciones = grievance procedure.

* procedimiento de selección = selection procedures, screening procedure.

* procedimiento electroestático = electrostatic process.

* procedimiento legislativo = legislative proceeding.

* procedimiento rápido = fast track.

* procedimiento reglamentario = due process, procedural justice.

* procedimientos bibliotecarios = library procedures.

* relativo al procedimiento = procedural.

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1) ( método) procedure; (Tec) process

2) (Der) proceedings (pl)

3) (RPl) ( de la policía) operation

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A (método) procedure; ( Tec) process, system

el procedimiento a seguir en tales casos the procedure to be followed in such cases

los compuestos que se obtienen mediante este procedimiento the compounds obtained using this process o system

B ( Der) proceedings (pl)

C ( RPl) (de la policía) operation

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procedimiento nm

1. [método] procedure, method

2. Der proceedings

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1 ( proceso) procedure, method

2 JUR proceedings pl

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procedimiento nm

: procedure, process

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procedimiento n procedure

1 composition, work, piece, opus.

2 composition, article, essay, paper.

3 make-up, constitution, conformation, formation.

4 setting-up.

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► nombre femenino

1 (gen) composition

2 (acuerdo) agreement

3 (arreglo) arrangement

4 (en impresión) setting, composition

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hacer composición de lugar (decidirse) to make a plan of action 2 (formarse una idea) to get a picture of a situation

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1) (Mús, Quím, Arte) composition

2) (Educ) essay

3)

4) (Tip) typesetting

5) [de desacuerdo] settlement; [de personas] reconciliation

6) (=arreglo) arrangement

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1)

a) (de grupo, equipo) composition, makeup

b) ( de sustancia) composition

2) (Art, Fot, Mús) composition; (Educ) ( redacción) composition

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- composición de textos

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= composition, essay, make, setting, writing, make-up [makeup], constitution.

Ex. In particular, a title that consists solely of the name(s) of type(s) of composition requires the following elements in addition to the statement of the medium of performance: serial number, opus number or thematic index number, key.

Ex. In a journal most formal items including articles, essays, discussions and reviews can be expected to be accompanied by an abstract.

Ex. Typically a patent abstract is informative, and includes in the case of an article, its method of making or manufacture.

Ex. A companionship was a team of piecework compositors, led by one of their number, who co-operated in the setting of a book and submitted a single bill for the work, the proceeds of which were then divided amongst themselves.

Ex. This is a project for collaboration in formal report writing based on current social theories of writing.

Ex. Account also had to be taken of the disparate make-up and wide age-spread of a reader community which consists of Commission officials and trainees plus diverse visitors from outside.

Ex. The chemical constitution of these materials is described and their deterioration characteristics explained.

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* composición de canciones = songwriting [song-writing].

* composición de imágenes = image setting.

* composición demográfica = demographic composition.

* composición musical = musical composition.

* composición musical manida = war horse.

* composición original = creative writing.

* composición por confrontación de ideas = brain-writing.

* composición tipográfica = typesetting [type-setting].

* composición tipográfica automatizada = computerised typesetting.

* composición tipográfica por ordenador = computer typesetting.

* sala de composición = composing room.

* taller de trabajo sobre composición = writing workshop.

* técnicas de composición escrita = writing skills.

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1)

a) (de grupo, equipo) composition, makeup

b) ( de sustancia) composition

2) (Art, Fot, Mús) composition; (Educ) ( redacción) composition

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- composición de textos

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1 (de un grupo, equipo) composition, makeup

la actual composición de la junta the present composition o makeup of the board

2 (de una sustancia) composition

1 (obra) composition, work

2 ( Mús) (disciplina) composition

3 (ejercicio) composition

4 ( Art, Fot) composition

hacerse una composición de lugar: para que te hagas una composición de composición, la cocina es la cuarta parte de ésta just to give you an idea o to help you picture it, the kitchen is a quarter of the size of this one

se hizo una composición de composición y decidió irse he took stock of o sized up the situation and decided to leave

typesetting

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composición nf

1. [de sustancia, producto] composition

2. [de equipo, comité] composition, make-up

3. [obra literaria] work;

composición poética poetic composition, poem

4. [técnica musical] composition

5. [redacción] essay, composition ( sobre on)

6. [en fotografía, pintura] composition;

hacerse una composición de lugar to size up the situation;

no me hago una composición de lugar, ¿cómo es la casa? I can't quite visualize it, what's the house like?

7. Ling compounding, combination

8. [en imprenta] typesetting

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f composition

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composición nf, pl - ciones

1) obra: composition, work

2) : makeup, arrangement

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composición n composition

1 manufacture.

2 manufacture, product (economics).

3 factory.

3^rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: manufacturar.

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► nombre femenino

1 (acción) manufacture

2 (producto) product, manufactured article

3 (fábrica) factory

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1) (=fabricación) manufacture

2) (=producto) product

3) (=fábrica) factory

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a) ( fabricación) manufacture

b) ( artículo) product

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= manufacture, manufacturing.

Ex. Typically a patent abstract is informative, and includes in the case of an article, its method of making or manufacture.

Ex. An editor is a person who prepares for publication an item not his own and whose labour may be limited to supervision of the manufacturing.

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a) ( fabricación) manufacture

b) ( artículo) product

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1 (fabricación) manufacture

2 (artículo) product

la exportación de estas manufacturas the export of these products o manufactured goods

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3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

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manufactura nf

1. [actividad] manufacture

2. [producto] product;

las importaciones de manufacturas imports of manufactured goods

3. [fábrica] factory

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f manufacture

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manufactura nf

1) fabricación: manufacture

2) : manufactured item, product

3) fábrica: factory

the method of making use of something

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the method of making use of something

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SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology

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He was the fifth child of Charles and Ann Stalcrop Evans, and by the age of 15 he had four sisters and seven brothers. Nothing is known of his schooling, but at the age of 17 he was apprenticed to a Newport wheelwright and wagon-maker. At 19 he was enrolled in a Delaware Militia Company in the Revolutionary War but did not see active service. About this time he invented a machine for bending and cutting off the wires in textile carding combs. In July 1782, with his younger brother, Joseph, he moved to Tuckahoe on the eastern shore of the Delaware River, where he had the basic idea of the automatic flour mill. In July 1782, with his elder brothers John and Theophilus, he bought part of his father's Newport farm, on Red Clay Creek, and planned to build a mill there. In 1793 he married Sarah Tomlinson, daughter of a Delaware farmer, and joined his brothers at Red Clay Creek. He worked there for some seven years on his automatic mill, from about 1783 to 1790.

His system for the automatic flour mill consisted of bucket elevators to raise the grain, a horizontal screw conveyor, other conveying devices and a "hopper boy" to cool and dry the meal before gathering it into a hopper feeding the bolting cylinder. Together these components formed the automatic process, from incoming wheat to outgoing flour packed in barrels. At that time the idea of such automation had not been applied to any manufacturing process in America. The mill opened, on a non-automatic cycle, in 1785. In January 1786 Evans applied to the Delaware legislature for a twenty-five-year patent, which was granted on 30 January 1787 although there was much opposition from the Quaker millers of Wilmington and elsewhere. He also applied for patents in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Hampshire. In May 1789 he went to see the mill of the four Ellicot brothers, near Baltimore, where he was impressed by the design of a horizontal screw conveyor by Jonathan Ellicot and exchanged the rights to his own elevator for those of this machine. After six years' work on his automatic mill, it was completed in 1790. In the autumn of that year a miller in Brandywine ordered a set of Evans's machinery, which set the trend toward its general adoption. A model of it was shown in the Market Street shop window of Robert Leslie, a watch-and clockmaker in Philadelphia, who also took it to England but was unsuccessful in selling the idea there.

In 1790 the Federal Plant Laws were passed; Evans's patent was the third to come within the new legislation. A detailed description with a plate was published in a Philadelphia newspaper in January 1791, the first of a proposed series, but the paper closed and the series came to nothing. His brother Joseph went on a series of sales trips, with the result that some machinery of Evans's design was adopted. By 1792 over one hundred mills had been equipped with Evans's machinery, the millers paying a royalty of $40 for each pair of millstones in use. The series of articles that had been cut short formed the basis of Evans's The Young Millwright and Miller's Guide, published first in 1795 after Evans had moved to Philadelphia to set up a store selling milling supplies; it was 440 pages long and ran to fifteen editions between 1795 and 1860.

Evans was fairly successful as a merchant. He patented a method of making millstones as well as a means of packing flour in barrels, the latter having a disc pressed down by a toggle-joint arrangement. In 1801 he started to build a steam carriage. He rejected the idea of a steam wheel and of a low-pressure or atmospheric engine. By 1803 his first engine was running at his store, driving a screw-mill working on plaster of Paris for making millstones. The engine had a 6 in. (15 cm) diameter cylinder with a stroke of 18 in. (45 cm) and also drove twelve saws mounted in a frame and cutting marble slabs at a rate of 100 ft (30 m) in twelve hours. He was granted a patent in the spring of 1804. He became involved in a number of lawsuits following the extension of his patent, particularly as he increased the licence fee, sometimes as much as sixfold. The case of Evans v. Samuel Robinson, which Evans won, became famous and was one of these. Patent Right Oppression Exposed, or Knavery Detected, a 200-page book with poems and prose included, was published soon after this case and was probably written by Oliver Evans. The steam engine patent was also extended for a further seven years, but in this case the licence fee was to remain at a fixed level. Evans anticipated Edison in his proposal for an "Experimental Company" or "Mechanical Bureau" with a capital of thirty shares of $100 each. It came to nothing, however, as there were no takers. His first wife, Sarah, died in 1816 and he remarried, to Hetty Ward, the daughter of a New York innkeeper. He was buried in the Bowery, on Lower Manhattan; the church was sold in 1854 and again in 1890, and when no relative claimed his body he was reburied in an unmarked grave in Trinity Cemetery, 57th Street, Broadway.

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linear way/method of making records

τέχν-η, ἡ, ([etym.] τέκτων)

A art, skill, cunning of hand, esp. in metalworking, Od.3.433, 6.234, 11.614; also of a shipwright, Il.3.61; of a soothsayer, A.Ag. 249 (pl., lyr.), Eu.17, S.OT 389, etc.;

τέχναι ἑτέρων ἕτεραι Pi.N.1.25

;

ὤπασε τ. πᾶσαν Id.O.7.50

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2 craft, cunning, in bad sense, δολίη τ. Od.4.455, Hes.Th. 160: pl., arts, wiles, Od.8.327.332, Hes.Th. 496, 929;

δολίαις τέχναισι χρησάμενος Pi.N.4.58

; τέχναις τινός by his arts (or simply by his agency), Id.O.9.52, P.3.11; τέχνην κακὴν ἔχει he has a bad trick, Hes.Th. 770, cf. Pi.I.4(3).35(53), S Ph.88, etc.

3 way, manner, or means whereby a thing is gained, without any definite sense of art or craft, μηδεμιῇ τ. in no wise, Hdt.1.112; ἰθέῃ τ. straight way, Id.9.57; πάσῃ τ. by all means, Ar.Nu. 1323, Th.65, Ec. 366; παντοίᾳ τ. S.Aj. 752, etc.;

οὐκ ἀποστήσομαι.. οὔτε τ. οὔτε μηχανῇ οὐδεμιᾷ IG12.39.22

;

πάσῃ τ. καὶ μηχανῇ X.An.4.5.16

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μήτε τ. μήτε μηχανῇ μηδεμιᾷ Lys.13.95

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II an art, craft,

πᾶσαι τέχναι βροτοῖσιν ἐκ Προμηθέως A.Pr. 506

, cf. IG12.678; τὴν τ. ἐπίστασθαι to know the craft, Hdt.3.130; φλαύρως ἔχειν τὴν τ. ibid.;

τῆς τ. ἔμπειρος Ar.Ra. 811

; ταύτην τέχνην ἔχει he makes this his trade, Lys.1.16, cf. 6.7; ἐν τῇ τ. εἶναι practise it, S.OT 562, Pl.Prt. 317c; ἐπὶ τέχνῃ μαθεῖν τι to learn a thing professionally, opp. ἐπὶ παιδείᾳ, ib. 312b, cf. 315a;

τέχναι καὶ ἐργασίαι X.Mem.3.10.1

; τέχνην τὸ πρᾶγμα πεποιημένοι having made a trade of it, D.37.53; τέχνας ἀσκεῖν, μελετᾶν, ἐργάζεσθαι, to practise them,X. Cyr.1.6.26,41 ([voice] Pass.), Oec.4.3; πατρῴαν τέχναν ἐργάζεσθαι ἁλιεύεσθαι Πρακτικὰ Ἀρχ. Ἑτ.1932.52 (Dodona, iv B.C.); ἰατρὸς τὴν τ. POxy. 40.5 (ii A.D.); τεθεραπευκὼς ἀνεγκλήτως τῇ τ., of a barber, PEnteux. 47.3 (iii B.C.); παραμενῶ πρὸς ὑπηρεσίαν τῆς τ. (viz. weaving) Sammelb. 7358.20 (iii A.D.); ἀπὸ τεχνῶν τρέφεσθαι live by them, X.Lac. 7.1.

III an art or craft, i.e. a set of rules, system or method of making or doing, whether of the useful arts, or of the fine arts, Epich.171.11, Pl.Phdr. 245a, Arist.Rh. 1354a11, EN 1140a8;

ἡ ἐμπειρία τέχνην ἐποίησεν, ἡ δ' ἀπειρία τύχην Polus

ap. eund.Metaph. 981a4; ἡ περὶ τοὺς λόγους τ. the Art of Rhetoric, Pl.Phd. 90b; οἱ τὰς τ. τῶν λόγων συντιθέντες systems of rhetoric, Arist.Rh. 1354a12, cf. Isoc.13.19, Pl.Phdr. 271c, Phld.Rh.2.50 S., al.; hence title of various treatises on Rhetoric (v. VI; but rather tricks of Rhetoric, in Aeschin. 1.117); τέχνῃ by rules of art, Pl.Euthd. 282d;

ἢ φύσει ἢ τέχνῃ Id.R. 381b

;

τέχνῃ καὶ ἐπιστήμῃ Id. Ion 532c

; ἄνευ τέχνης, μετὰ τέχνης, Id.Phd. 89e: τ. defined as ἕξις ὁδοποιητική, Zeno Stoic.1.20, cf. Cleanth. ib.1.110.

IV = τέχνημα, work of art, handiwork,

κρατῆρες.., ἀνδρὸς εὔχειρος τέχνη S.OC 472

;

ὅπλοις.., Ἡφαίστου τέχνῃ Id.Fr. 156

, cf. Str.14.1.14, PLond.3.854.4 (ii A.D.), Paus.6.25.1, al.

V = συντεχνία, ἡ τ. τῶν λιθουργῶν, τῶν σακκοφόρων, Dumont-Homolle Mélanges d' archéol. et d' épigr.p.378 No.65,66 ([place name] Perinthus); τ. βυρσέων, συροποιῶν, IGRom.1.717,1482 (both Philippopolis); τοὺς καταλειπομένους ἀπὸ τῇς τ. BGU1572.12 (ii A.D.); ὁ χαλκεὺς ἀπὸ τῆς τ. SIG 1140 ([place name] Amphipolis).

VI treatise on Grammar, D.T. tit., or on Rhetoric, Anaximenes Lampsacenus tit.

SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors

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Budding was an engineer who described himself as a mechanic on his first patent papers and as a manager in later applications.

A rotary machine had been developed at Brimscombe Mill in Stroud for cutting the pile on certain clothes and Budding saw the potential of this principle for a machine for cutting grass on lawns. It is not clear whether Budding worked for the Lewis family, who owned the mill, or whether he saw the machines during their manufacture at the Phoenix Foundry. At the age of 35 Budding entered into partnership with John Ferrabee, who had taken out a lease on Thrupp Mill. They reached an agreement in which Ferrabee would pay to obtain letter patent on the mower and would cover all the development costs, after which they would have an equal share in the profits. The agreement also allowed Ferrabee to license the manufacture of the machine and in 1832 he negotiated with the agricultural manufacturer Ransomes, allowing them to manufacture the mower.

Budding invented a screw-shifting spanner at a time when he might have been working as a mechanic at Thrupp Mill. He later rented a workshop in which he produced Pepperbox pistols. In the late 1830s he moved to Dursley, where he became Manager for Mr G.Lister, who made clothing machinery. Together they patented an improved method of making cylinders for carding engines, but Budding required police protection from those who saw their jobs threatened by the device. He made no fortune from his inventions and died at the age of 50.

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SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing

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He was a confidential secretary to the Emperor. He became Director of the Imperial Workshops and he is said to have invented, or sponsored the invention of, paper around the year 105 AD. Recent studies, however, suggest that paper was already known in China two centuries earlier. The method of making it has hardly varied in principle since that time. The raw materials, then usually old fishing nets and clothing rags, were boiled with water, to which alkali in the form of wood ash was sometimes added. The resulting pulp was then beaten in a stone mortar with a stone or a wooden mallet. The pulp was then mixed and stirred with a large amount of water, and a sieve or mould (formed on a wooden frame carrying a mat of thin reeds sewn together) was dipped into it and was shaken to help the fibres in the layer of pulp to interlock and thus form a sheet of paper. The rest of the process consisted, then as now, of getting rid of the water: the sheets of paper were dried and bleached by leaving them to lie in the sun.

Some of China's many inventions were achieved independently in Western Europe, but it seems that Europe's knowledge of papermaking stems from the Chinese. It was not until the eighth century that it passed into the Islamic world and so, first by contact with the Moors in Spain in the twelfth century, into Western Europe.

Cai Lun was later made a marquis. Further promotion followed when he was regarded as the god of papermaking.

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SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy

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His father was a mason and brickmaker but, anxious to improve himself, Cort set up in London in 1765 as a navy agent, said to have been a profitable business. He recognized that, at that time, the conversion of pig iron to malleable or wrought iron, which was needed in increasing quantities as developments in industry and mechanical engineering gathered pace, presented a bottleneck in the ironmaking process. The finery hearth was still in use, slow and inefficient and requiring the scarce charcoal as fuel. To tackle this problem, Cort gave up his business and acquired a furnace and slitting mill at Fontley, near Fareham in Hampshire. In 1784 he patented his puddling process, by which molten pig iron on the bed of a reverberatory furnace was stirred with an iron bar and, by the action of the flame and the oxygen in the air, the carbon in the pig iron was oxidized, leaving nearly pure iron, which could be forged to remove slag. In this type of furnace, the fuel and the molten iron were separated, so that the cheaper coal could be used as fuel. It was the stirring action with the iron bar that gave the name "puddling" to the process. Others had realized the problem and reached a similar solution, notably the brothers Thomas and George Cranage, but only Cort succeeded in developing a commercially viable process. The laborious hammering of the ball of iron thus produced was much reduced by an invention of the previous year, 1783. This too was patented. The iron was passed between grooved rollers to form it into bars. Cort entered into an agreement with Samuel Jellico to set up an ironworks at Gosport to exploit his inventions. Samuel's father Adam, Deputy Paymaster of the Navy, advanced capital for this venture, Cort having expended much of his own resources in the experimental work that preceded his inventions. However, it transpired that Jellico senior had, unknown to Cort, used public money to advance the capital; the Admiralty acted to recover the money and Cort lost heavily, including the benefits from his patents. Rival ironmasters were quick to pillage the patents. In 1790, and again the following year, Cort offered unsuccessfully to work for the military. Finally, in 1794, at the instigation of the Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger, Cort was paid a pension of £200 per year in recognition of the value of his improvements in the technology of ironmaking, although this was reduced by deductions to £160. After his death, the pension to his widow was halved, while some of his children received a pittance. Without the advances made by Cort, however, the iron trade could not have met the rapidly increasing demand for iron during the industrial revolution.

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