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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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William Cockerill began his career in Lancashire by making "roving billies" and flying shuttles. He was reputed to have an extraordinary mechanical genius and it is said that he could make models of almost any machine. He followed in the footsteps of many other enterprising British engineers when in 1794 he went to St Petersburg in Russia, having been recommended as a skilful artisan to the Empress Catherine II. After her death two years later, her successor Paul sent Cockerill to prison because he failed to finish a model within a certain time. Cockerill, however, escaped to Sweden where he was commissioned to construct the locks on a public canal. He attempted to introduce textile machinery of his own invention but was unsuccessful and so in 1799 he removed to Verviers, Belgium, where he established himself as a manufacturer of textile machinery. In 1802 he was joined by James Holden, who before long set up his own machine-building business. In 1807 Cockerill moved to Liège where, with his three sons (William Jnr, Charles James and John), he set up factories for the construction of carding machines, spinning frames and looms for the woollen industry. He secured for Verviers supremacy in the woollen trade and introduced at Liège an industry of which England had so far possessed the monopoly. His products were noted for their fine craftsmanship, and in the heyday of the Napoleonic regime about half of his output was sold in France. In 1813 he imported a model of a Watt steam-engine from England and so added another range of products to his firm. Cockerill became a naturalized Belgian subject c. 1810, and a few years later he retired from the business in favour of his two younger sons, Charles James and John (b. 30 April 1790 Haslingden, Lancashire, England; d. 19 June 1840 Warsaw, Poland), but in 1830 at Andenne he converted a vast factory formerly used for calico printing into a paper mill. Little is known of his eldest son William, but the other two sons expanded the enterprise, setting up a woollen factory at Berlin after 1815 and establishing at Seraing-on-the-Meuse in 1817 blast furnaces, an iron foundry and a machine workshop which became the largest on the European continent. William Cockerill senior died in 1832 at the Château du Behrensberg, the residence of his son Charles James, near Aix-la-Chapelle.

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SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Public utilities

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He was the third child and the eldest of three boys born to John Murdoch and Anna Bruce. His father, a millwright and joiner, spelled his name Murdock on moving to England. He was educated for some years at Old Cumnock Parish School and in 1777, with his father, he built a "wooden horse", supposed to have been a form of cycle. In 1777 he set out for the Soho manufactory of Boulton \& Watt, where he quickly found employment, Boulton supposedly being impressed by the lad's hat. This was oval and made of wood, and young William had turned it himself on a lathe of his own manufacture. Murdock quickly became Boulton \& Watt's representative in Cornwall, where there was a flourishing demand for steam-engines. He lived at Redruth during this period.

It is said that a number of the inventions generally ascribed to James Watt are in fact as much due to Murdock as to Watt. Examples are the piston and slide valve and the sun-and-planet gearing. A number of other inventions are attributed to Murdock alone: typical of these is the oscillating cylinder engine which obviated the need for an overhead beam.

In about 1784 he planned a steam-driven road carriage of which he made a working model. He also planned a high-pressure non-condensing engine. The model carriage was demonstrated before Murdock's friends and travelled at a speed of 6–8 mph (10–13 km/h). Boulton and Watt were both antagonistic to their employees' developing independent inventions, and when in 1786 Murdock set out with his model for the Patent Office, having received no reply to a letter he had sent to Watt, Boulton intercepted him on the open road near Exeter and dissuaded him from going any further.

In 1785 he married Mary Painter, daughter of a mine captain. She bore him four children, two of whom died in infancy, those surviving eventually joining their father at the Soho Works. Murdock was a great believer in pneumatic power: he had a pneumatic bell-push at Sycamore House, his home near Soho. The pattern-makers lathe at the Soho Works worked for thirty-five years from an air motor. He also conceived the idea of a vacuum piston engine to exhaust a pipe, later developed by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company's railway and the forerunner of the atmospheric railway.

Another field in which Murdock was a pioneer was the gas industry. In 1791, in Redruth, he was experimenting with different feedstocks in his home-cum-office in Cross Street: of wood, peat and coal, he preferred the last. He designed and built in the backyard of his house a prototype generator, washer, storage and distribution plant, and publicized the efficiency of coal gas as an illuminant by using it to light his own home. In 1794 or 1795 he informed Boulton and Watt of his experimental work and of its success, suggesting that a patent should be applied for. James Watt Junior was now in the firm and was against patenting the idea since they had had so much trouble with previous patents and had been involved in so much litigation. He refused Murdock's request and for a short time Murdock left the firm to go home to his father's mill. Boulton \& Watt soon recognized the loss of a valuable servant and, in a short time, he was again employed at Soho, now as Engineer and Superintendent at the increased salary of £300 per year plus a 1 per cent commission. From this income, he left £14,000 when he died in 1839.

In 1798 the workshops of Boulton and Watt were permanently lit by gas, starting with the foundry building. The 180 ft (55 m) façade of the Soho works was illuminated by gas for the Peace of Paris in June 1814. By 1804, Murdock had brought his apparatus to a point where Boulton \& Watt were able to canvas for orders. Murdock continued with the company after the death of James Watt in 1819, but retired in 1830 and continued to live at Sycamore House, Handsworth, near Birmingham.

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SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Railways and locomotives, Steam and internal combustion engines, Textiles, Weapons and armour

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John George Bodmer (as he was known in England) showed signs of great inventive ability even as a child. Soon after completing his apprenticeship to a local millwright, he set up his own work-shop at Zussnacht. One of his first inventions, in 1805, was a shell which exploded on impact. Soon after this he went into partnership with Baron d'Eichthal to establish a cotton mill at St Blaise in the Black Forest. Bodmer designed the water-wheels and all the machinery. A few years later they established a factory for firearms and Bodmer designed special machine tools and developed a system of interchangeable manufacture comparable with American developments at that time. More inventions followed, including a detachable bayonet for breech-loading rifles and a rifled, breech-loading cannon for 12 lb (5.4 kg) shells.

Bodmer was appointed by the Grand Duke of Baden to the posts of Director General of the Government Iron Works and Inspector of Artillery. He left St Blaise in 1816 and entered completely into the service of the Grand Duke, but before taking up his duties he visited Britain for the first time and made an intensive five-month tour of textile mills, iron works, workshops and similar establishments.

In 1821 he returned to Switzerland and was engaged in setting up cotton mills and other engineering works. In 1824 he went back to England, where he obtained a patent for his improvements in cotton machinery and set up a mill near Bolton incorporating his ideas. His health failing, he was obliged to return to Switzerland in 1828, but he was soon busy with engineering works there and in France. In 1833 he went to England again, first to Bolton and four years later to Manchester in partnership with H.H.Birley. In the next ten years he patented many more inventions in the fields of textile machinery, steam engines and machine tools. These included a balanced steam engine, a mechanical stoker, steam engine valve gear, gear-cutting machines and a circular planer or vertical lathe, anticipating machines of this type later developed in America by E.P. Bullard. The metric system was used in his workshops and in gearing calculations he introduced the concept of diametral pitch, which then became known as "Manchester Pitch". The balanced engine was built in stationary form and in two locomotives, but although their running was remarkably smooth the additional complication prevented their wider use.

After the death of H.H.Birley in 1846, Bodmer removed to London until 1848, when he went to Austria. About 1860 he returned to his native town of Zurich. He remained actively engaged in all kinds of inventions up to the end of his life. He obtained fourteen British patents, each of which describes many inventions; two of these patents were extended beyond the normal duration of fourteen years. Two others were obtained on his behalf, one by his brother James in 1813 for his cannon and one relating to railways by Charles Fox in 1847. Many of his inventions had little direct influence but anticipated much later developments. His ideas were sound and some of his engines and machine tools were in use for over sixty years. He was elected a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1835.

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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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

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

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

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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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

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

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See also: Cartwright, Revd Edmund

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22) Фирменный знак: Master Specialties

23) Холодильная техника: modified atmosphere

24) СМИ: Media Access

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29) ЕБРР: monitoring adviser

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4) Американизм: Mutual Agreement

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21) Нефть: massive anhydrite, mud acid, анализ ремонтопригодности (maintainability analysis), анализ технического обслуживания (maintainability analysis), глинокислота (mud acid), грязевая кислота (mud acid)

22) Фирменный знак: Master Specialties

23) Холодильная техника: modified atmosphere

24) СМИ: Media Access

25) Деловая лексика: Management Action, Marketing And Advertising, магистр - специалист по коммерческой терминологии на двух языках (commercial languages), магистр - специалист по коммерческой терминологии на одном языке (commercial language), магистр гуманитарных наук (Master of Arts), магистр политических и экономических наук (econ.), магистр экономических наук (econ.)

26) Бурение: мощная свита ангидритов (massive anhydrite)

27) Образование: магистр - специалист по коммерческой терминологии на одном языке/нескольких языках (commercial languages)

28) Сетевые технологии: Message Area

29) ЕБРР: monitoring adviser

30) Полимеры: maleic anhydride

31) Контроль качества: maintainability, moving average

32) Океанография: Meteorological Applications

33) Авиационная медицина: mental addition

34) SAP.тех. атрибут мониторинга

35) Электротехника: magnetic amplifier

36) Имена и фамилии: Martha Anderson (china paintings)

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38) Общественная организация: Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

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1) Общая лексика: moving averages

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4) Американизм: Mutual Agreement

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7) Химия: Methyl Acrylate, Метилакрилат (Methyl acrylate), метиловый эфир акриловой кислоты

8) Математика: скользящее среднее (moving average)

9) Метеорология: Middle Air

10) Юридический термин: Made And Attempted, Male Adult

11) Экономика: ( manager assistant) заместитель управляющего

12) География: Массачусетс

13) Кино: Suitable for Mature Audiences only

14) Металлургия: Matched Angles, metals and alloys

15) Политика: Madagascar

16) Психология: mental age

17) Сокращение: Maritime Administration, Massachusetts (US state), Massachusetts, Medical Assistant (UK Royal Navy), Middle Ages, Military Adviser, Military Assistant (British Army), Military Attache (British Army), Mission Abort, Mobilisation Augmentee, Multi-chambered Auto-injector, master, maximum accuracy range, mental ability, mercury arc, metal anchor, military astronautics, mission assembly, moist air, Master of Arts (degree), Mature Audiences (TV program rating), (USN Rating) Master-At-Arms, MANPRINT Assessment, Maanantai (Finnish: Monday), Machine Accountant (Naval Rating), Madagascar (Malagasy), Magister Artium (Master of Arts), Mai^tre E`s Arts (French: Master of Arts), Main Assist (Everquest), Maintaining Activity, Maintenance Action, Maintenance Administrator, Maintenance Agreement, Maintenance and Adaptation (ATMF), Major Arcana (Lineage 2 game armor set), Makarska, Croatia (license plate), Makeshift Apathy (Michigan music group), Malev Hungarian Airlines Limited - Hungary (IATA airline code), Management Accounts, Management Activity, Management Advocate, Management Agent (metadirectory services), Manitoba, Mannheim, Germany (license plate), Manual (welding), Manual Assist (nursing), Maranhao (Brazil), Margin Agreement, Marijuana Anonymous, Marin Academy (California), Market America (independent entrepenurial corporation founded by James H Ridinger), Marketing Authorization, Martha Argerich (pianist), Martial Artist (gaming), Mass Analyzer, Master Administrator, Master of Audiology, Masurium (element), Materials, Materials Analyst, Mathematics, MatureAsskickers (gaming clan), Maximum Allowance, Mildly Amused, Mean Average (mathematics), Measurement and Analysis (process area; Capability Maturity Model Integration), Mechanical Advantage (machines), Mechanical Ambush, Mechanical Animals (Marilyn Manson album), MediArchive (website), Medical Administrator, Medical Advisor, Medical Attendant, Medicare Advantage, Mega Annum (one million years, geological chronology), Memory Administration, Mesh Antenna, Message Analysis, Meta Analysis, помощник врача (сокр. от medical assistant), фельдшер (сокр. от medical assistant), Methanandamide, Metropolitan Area Network, Microsoft Access, Middle Assyrian, Military Academy (West Point, NY), Military Aircrew, Military Applications, Military Assistant, MJU Alert (Hekimian), Mini Alert (System Sensor Sounder), Minnehaha Academy (Minneapolis), Minor Actinide, Minor Arterial (State highway Information), Miscible Accounting, Missed Abortion, Missed Appointment, Missed Approach, Mission Assignment, Mission Assurance (Homeland Defense), Mittelalter (German: Middle Ages), Mobile Allocation (PCS - GSM), Mobile Armor (Gundam series), Mobile Service, Mobility Agent, Mobilization Assistant, Molecular Absorption, Moored Alongside, Morbid Angel (band), Morocco (ISO country code, top level domain), Mortuary Affairs, Motorcycling Australia, Motorist Assist, Move Along, Multi-Access, Multi-Alert (system sensor brand name), Multichambered Autoinjector, Multiple Access, Multiple Answer, Multiple Award, Music Ant (online guide for music software), Willys-Overland 1/4 Ton 4 X 4 Truck (1st Model of WWII Jeep), Marketing Authorization - регистрационное удостоверение (РУ)

18) Физиология: Medical authorization, Metamorphic Anamorphosis, Moderately Advanced, Muscle Activity

19) Электроника: Main Amplifier, Mechanical Advantage, Milliammeter, Multi-channel Analyser

20) Вычислительная техника: Management Agent, Massachusetts (US state postal designation)

21) Нефть: massive anhydrite, mud acid, анализ ремонтопригодности (maintainability analysis), анализ технического обслуживания (maintainability analysis), глинокислота (mud acid), грязевая кислота (mud acid)

22) Фирменный знак: Master Specialties

23) Холодильная техника: modified atmosphere

24) СМИ: Media Access

25) Деловая лексика: Management Action, Marketing And Advertising, магистр - специалист по коммерческой терминологии на двух языках (commercial languages), магистр - специалист по коммерческой терминологии на одном языке (commercial language), магистр гуманитарных наук (Master of Arts), магистр политических и экономических наук (econ.), магистр экономических наук (econ.)

26) Бурение: мощная свита ангидритов (massive anhydrite)

27) Образование: магистр - специалист по коммерческой терминологии на одном языке/нескольких языках (commercial languages)

28) Сетевые технологии: Message Area

29) ЕБРР: monitoring adviser

30) Полимеры: maleic anhydride

31) Контроль качества: maintainability, moving average

32) Океанография: Meteorological Applications

33) Авиационная медицина: mental addition

34) SAP.тех. атрибут мониторинга

35) Электротехника: magnetic amplifier

36) Имена и фамилии: Martha Anderson (china paintings)

37) Фармация: Marketing authorisation

38) Общественная организация: Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

39) Должность: Master of Arts, Modern Arts, Multicultural Assistant

40) Чат: Mildly Apathetic

41) Единицы измерений: Mega Anna, Mega Annum

1) Общая лексика: moving averages

2) Компьютерная техника: Maya Ascii

3) Медицина: mitral annulus, mitral atresia

4) Американизм: Mutual Agreement

5) Военный термин: Mediterranean area, Militia Act, Mindless Automaton, Ministry of Aviation, Mission Assessment, Missions Advisor, machine account, maintainability analysis, maintenance, maintenance ability, maintenance actions, maintenance area, manpower administration, manpower allotment, manpower authorization, manual, manufacturing and assembly, map analysis, maritime airfield, marshalling area, material authorization, maximum accuracy, mechanical aptitude, medical assistance, medium altitude, medium artillery, mess attendant, mileage allowance, military academy, military aircraft, military allocations, military assistance, military attache, military aviation, military aviator, missile alert, missile assembly, mission accomplished, mission analysis, mission area, mobilization augmentee, monitoring agency, mountain artillery, multichannel analyzer, muzzle action

6) Техника: My Age, maintenance analysis, megampere, memory address, mill annealed, военное обозначение кассет, обозначение для самолётных радиостанций (принятое МСЭ), радиомаяк с вертикальными излучателями

7) Химия: Methyl Acrylate, Метилакрилат (Methyl acrylate), метиловый эфир акриловой кислоты

8) Математика: скользящее среднее (moving average)

9) Метеорология: Middle Air

10) Юридический термин: Made And Attempted, Male Adult

11) Экономика: ( manager assistant) заместитель управляющего

12) География: Массачусетс

13) Кино: Suitable for Mature Audiences only

14) Металлургия: Matched Angles, metals and alloys

15) Политика: Madagascar

16) Психология: mental age

17) Сокращение: Maritime Administration, Massachusetts (US state), Massachusetts, Medical Assistant (UK Royal Navy), Middle Ages, Military Adviser, Military Assistant (British Army), Military Attache (British Army), Mission Abort, Mobilisation Augmentee, Multi-chambered Auto-injector, master, maximum accuracy range, mental ability, mercury arc, metal anchor, military astronautics, mission assembly, moist air, Master of Arts (degree), Mature Audiences (TV program rating), (USN Rating) Master-At-Arms, MANPRINT Assessment, Maanantai (Finnish: Monday), Machine Accountant (Naval Rating), Madagascar (Malagasy), Magister Artium (Master of Arts), Mai^tre E`s Arts (French: Master of Arts), Main Assist (Everquest), Maintaining Activity, Maintenance Action, Maintenance Administrator, Maintenance Agreement, Maintenance and Adaptation (ATMF), Major Arcana (Lineage 2 game armor set), Makarska, Croatia (license plate), Makeshift Apathy (Michigan music group), Malev Hungarian Airlines Limited - Hungary (IATA airline code), Management Accounts, Management Activity, Management Advocate, Management Agent (metadirectory services), Manitoba, Mannheim, Germany (license plate), Manual (welding), Manual Assist (nursing), Maranhao (Brazil), Margin Agreement, Marijuana Anonymous, Marin Academy (California), Market America (independent entrepenurial corporation founded by James H Ridinger), Marketing Authorization, Martha Argerich (pianist), Martial Artist (gaming), Mass Analyzer, Master Administrator, Master of Audiology, Masurium (element), Materials, Materials Analyst, Mathematics, MatureAsskickers (gaming clan), Maximum Allowance, Mildly Amused, Mean Average (mathematics), Measurement and Analysis (process area; Capability Maturity Model Integration), Mechanical Advantage (machines), Mechanical Ambush, Mechanical Animals (Marilyn Manson album), MediArchive (website), Medical Administrator, Medical Advisor, Medical Attendant, Medicare Advantage, Mega Annum (one million years, geological chronology), Memory Administration, Mesh Antenna, Message Analysis, Meta Analysis, помощник врача (сокр. от medical assistant), фельдшер (сокр. от medical assistant), Methanandamide, Metropolitan Area Network, Microsoft Access, Middle Assyrian, Military Academy (West Point, NY), Military Aircrew, Military Applications, Military Assistant, MJU Alert (Hekimian), Mini Alert (System Sensor Sounder), Minnehaha Academy (Minneapolis), Minor Actinide, Minor Arterial (State highway Information), Miscible Accounting, Missed Abortion, Missed Appointment, Missed Approach, Mission Assignment, Mission Assurance (Homeland Defense), Mittelalter (German: Middle Ages), Mobile Allocation (PCS - GSM), Mobile Armor (Gundam series), Mobile Service, Mobility Agent, Mobilization Assistant, Molecular Absorption, Moored Alongside, Morbid Angel (band), Morocco (ISO country code, top level domain), Mortuary Affairs, Motorcycling Australia, Motorist Assist, Move Along, Multi-Access, Multi-Alert (system sensor brand name), Multichambered Autoinjector, Multiple Access, Multiple Answer, Multiple Award, Music Ant (online guide for music software), Willys-Overland 1/4 Ton 4 X 4 Truck (1st Model of WWII Jeep), Marketing Authorization - регистрационное удостоверение (РУ)

18) Физиология: Medical authorization, Metamorphic Anamorphosis, Moderately Advanced, Muscle Activity

19) Электроника: Main Amplifier, Mechanical Advantage, Milliammeter, Multi-channel Analyser

20) Вычислительная техника: Management Agent, Massachusetts (US state postal designation)

21) Нефть: massive anhydrite, mud acid, анализ ремонтопригодности (maintainability analysis), анализ технического обслуживания (maintainability analysis), глинокислота (mud acid), грязевая кислота (mud acid)

22) Фирменный знак: Master Specialties

23) Холодильная техника: modified atmosphere

24) СМИ: Media Access

25) Деловая лексика: Management Action, Marketing And Advertising, магистр - специалист по коммерческой терминологии на двух языках (commercial languages), магистр - специалист по коммерческой терминологии на одном языке (commercial language), магистр гуманитарных наук (Master of Arts), магистр политических и экономических наук (econ.), магистр экономических наук (econ.)

26) Бурение: мощная свита ангидритов (massive anhydrite)

27) Образование: магистр - специалист по коммерческой терминологии на одном языке/нескольких языках (commercial languages)

28) Сетевые технологии: Message Area

29) ЕБРР: monitoring adviser

30) Полимеры: maleic anhydride

31) Контроль качества: maintainability, moving average

32) Океанография: Meteorological Applications

33) Авиационная медицина: mental addition

34) SAP.тех. атрибут мониторинга

35) Электротехника: magnetic amplifier

36) Имена и фамилии: Martha Anderson (china paintings)

37) Фармация: Marketing authorisation

38) Общественная организация: Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

39) Должность: Master of Arts, Modern Arts, Multicultural Assistant

40) Чат: Mildly Apathetic

41) Единицы измерений: Mega Anna, Mega Annum

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SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing

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

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

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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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Joseph Crossley was the second son of John, the founder of a carpet-weaving firm in Halifax. He did not figure much in public life for he was essentially a business man. It was under his direct superintendence that most of the extensions at Dean Clough Mill, Halifax, were built, and to a very great degree the successful working of the vast establishment that these mills became, covering fifteen acres, was due to him. In 1864 the firm became a limited-liability company, worth over a million pounds c.1880.

The company's vital patents for the power-driven carpet looms were taken out in his name. The first, in 1850 in the names of Joseph Crossley, George Collier and James Hudson, was for weaving carpets in a manner similar to the way velvet was woven, with the pile warp threads passing over wires. After a couple of picks of weft, a wire was inserted from the side over the main warp threads but under the pile warp threads. These were lowered and another couple of weft shoots bound in the pile warp. The pile was cut with a knife running along a slot in the top of the wire, and then the wire was removed. There was a further patent in 1851, in the name of Joseph Crossley alone, for improvements in the manufacture of Brussels and cut-pile carpets. An interesting part of this patent was the use of a partly coloured warp to make patterns in the carpets. These vital patents gave the Crossley brothers their dominance in carpet weaving; production on their power looms was six times quicker than by hand. Like his brothers, one of whom was Francis Crossley, he was a great benefactor to charities. The brothers built the Crossley Orphan Home at a cost of £50,000 and endowed it with about £3,000 a year.

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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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The claims of Highs to have invented both the spinning jenny and the waterframe have been dismissed by most historians. Thomas Highs was a reedmaker of Leigh, Lancashire. In about 1763 he had as a neighbour John Kay, the clockmaker from Warrington, whom he employed to help him construct his machines. During this period they were engaged in making a spinning jenny, but after several months of toil, in a fit of despondency, they threw the machine through the attic window. Highs persevered, however, and made a jenny that could spin six threads. The comparatively sophisticated arrangements for drawing and twisting at the same time, as depicted by Guest (1823), suggest that this machine came after the one invented by James Hargreaves. Guest claims that Highs made this machine between 1764 and 1766 and in the following two years constructed another, in which the spindles were placed in a circle. In 1771 Highs moved to Manchester, where he constructed a double jenny that was displayed at the Manchester Exchange, and received a subscription of £200 from the cotton manufacturers. However, all this occurred after Hargreaves had constructed his jenny. In the trial of Arkwright's patent during 1781, Highs gave evidence. He was recalled from Ireland, where he had been superintending the building of cotton-spinning machinery for Baron Hamilton's newly erected mill at Balbriggan, north of Dublin. Then in 1785, during the next trial of Arkwright's patent, Highs claimed that in 1767 he had made rollers for drawing out the cotton before spinning. This would have been for a different type of spinning machine, similar to the one later constructed by Arkwright. Highs was helped by John Kay and it was these rollers that Kay subsequently built for Arkwright. If the drawing shown by Guest is correct, then Highs was working on the wrong principles because his rollers were spaced too far apart and were not held together by weights, with the result that the twist would have passed into the drafting zone, producing uneven drawing.

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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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To give a smooth surface to cloth such as the old English broadcloth, the nap was raised and then sheared off. Hand-operated shears of enormous size were used to cut the fibres that stuck up when the cloth was laid over a curved table top. Great skill was required to achieve a smooth finish. Various attempts, such as that in 1784 by James Harmer, a clergyman of Sheffield, were made to mechanize the process by placing several pairs of shears in a frame and operating them by cranks, but success was not achieved. Samuel G. Dow of Albany, New York, patented a rotary shearer in England in 1794, and there was Samuel Dore in the same year too. John Lewis never claimed that he invented the rotary cutter, and it is possible that he made have seen drawings or actual examples of these earlier machines. His claim in his patent of 1815 was that, for the first time, he brought together a number of desirable features in one machine for shearing cloth to achieve the first really successful example. The local story in the Stroudwater district in Gloucestershire is that Lewis obtained this idea from Budding, who as a lad worked for the Lewis family, clothiers at Brinscombe Mills; Budding invented a lawn mower with rotary barrel blades that works on the same principle, patenting it in 1830. In the shearing machine, the cloth was moved underneath the blades, which could be of the same width so that only one operation was needed for each side. Other inventors had similar ideas, and a Stroud engineer, Stephen Price, took out a patent a month after Lewis did. These machines spread quickly in the Gloucestershire textile industry, and by 1830 hand-shearing was extinct. John Lewis was the son of Joseph, who had inherited the Brinscombe Mills in 1790 but must have died before 1815, when his children mortgaged the property for £12,000. Joseph's three sons, George, William and John, worked the mill for a time, but in 1840 William was there alone.

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SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology

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The son of the millwright James Meikle, who is credited with the introduction of the winnowing machine into Britain, Andrew Meikle followed in his father's footsteps. His inventive inclinations were first turned to developing his father's idea, and together with his own son George he built and patented a double-fan winnowing machine.

However, in the history of agricultural development Andrew Meikle is most famous for his invention of the threshing machine, patented in 1784. He had been presented with a model of a threshing mill designed by a Mr Ilderton of Northumberland, but after failing to make a full-scale machine work, he developed the concept further. He eventually built the first working threshing machine for a farmer called Stein at Kilbagio. The patent revolutionized farming practice because it displaced the back-breaking and soul-destroying labour of flailing the grain from the straw. The invention was of great value in Scotland and in northern England when the land was becoming underpopulated as a result of heavy industrialization, but it was bitterly opposed in the south of England until well into the nineteenth century. Although the introduction of the threshing machine led to the "Captain Swing" riots of the 1830s, in opposition to it, it shortly became universal.

Meikle's provisional patent in 1785 was a natural progression of earlier attempts by other millwrights to produce such a machine. The published patent is based on power provided by a horse engine, but these threshing machines were often driven by water-wheels or even by windmills. The corn stalks were introduced into the machine where they were fed between cast-iron rollers moving quite fast against each other to beat the grain out of the ears. The power source, whether animal, water or wind, had to cause the rollers to rotate at high speed to knock the grain out of the ears. While Meikle's machine was at first designed as a fixed barn machine powered by a water-wheel or by a horse wheel, later threshing machines became mobile and were part of the rig of an agricultural contractor.

In 1788 Meikle was awarded a patent for the invention of shuttered sails for windmills. This patent is part of the general description of the threshing machine, and whilst it was a practical application, it was superseded by the work of Thomas Cubitt.

At the turn of the century Meikle became a manufacturer of threshing machines, building appliances that combined the threshing and winnowing principles as well as the reciprocating "straw walkers" found in subsequent threshing machines and in conventional combine harvesters to the present day. However, he made little financial gain from his invention, and a public subscription organized by the President of the Board of Agriculture, Sir John Sinclair, raised £1,500 to support him towards the end of his life.

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SUBJECT AREA: Canals, Civil engineering

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Born into a prosperous farming family, he early demonstrated his natural mechanical and structural aptitude. As a boy he spent a great deal of time, often as a truant, near his home in the workshop of Andrew Meikle. Meikle was a millwright and the inventor of a threshing machine. After local education and an apprenticeship with Meikle, Rennie went to Edinburgh University until he was 22. He then travelled south and met James Watt, who in 1784 offered him the post of Engineer at the Albion Flour Mills, London, which was then under construction. Rennie designed all the mill machinery, and it was while there that he began to develop an interest in canals, opening his own business in 1791 in Blackfriars. He carried out work on the Kennet and Avon Canal and in 1794 became Engineer for the company. He meanwhile carried out other surveys, including a proposed extension of the River Stort Navigation to the Little Ouse and a Basingstoke-to-Salisbury canal, neither of which were built. From 1791 he was also engaged on the Rochdale Canal and the Lancaster Canal, as well as the great masonry aqueduct carrying the latter canal across the river Lune at Lancaster. He also surveyed the Ipswich and Stowmarket and the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigations. He advised on the Horncastle Canal in 1799 and on the River Ancholme in 1799, both of which are in Lincolnshire. In 1802 he was engaged on the Royal Canal in Ireland, and in the same year he was commissioned by the Government to prepare a plan for flooding the Lea Valley as a defence on the eastern approach to London in case Napoleon invaded England across the Essex marshes. In 1809 he surveyed improvements on the Thames, and in the following year he was involved in a proposed canal from Taunton to Bristol. Some of his schemes, particularly in the Fens and Lincolnshire, were a combination of improvements for both drainage and navigation. Apart from his canal work he engaged extensively in the construction and development of docks and harbours including the East and West India Docks in London, Holyhead, Hull, Ramsgate and the dockyards at Chatham and Sheerness. In 1806 he proposed the great breakwater at Plymouth, where work commenced on 22 June 1811.

He was also highly regarded for his bridge construction. These included Kelso and Musselburgh, as well as his famous Thames bridges: London Bridge (uncompleted at the time of his death), Waterloo Bridge (1810–17) and Southwark Bridge (1815–19). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1798.

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SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology

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John Ridley was a preacher in his youth, and then became a mill owner before migrating to Australia with his wife and daughters in 1839. Intending to continue his business in the new colony, he took with him a "Grasshopper" overbeam steam-engine made by James Watt, together with milling equipment. Cereal acreages were insufficient for the steam power he had available, and he expanded into saw milling as well as farming 300 acres. Aware of the Adelaide trials of reaping machines, he eventually built a prototype using the same principles as those developed by Wrathall Bull. After a successful trial in 1843 Ridley began the patent procedure in England, although he never completed the project. The agricultural press was highly enthusiastic about his machine, but when trials took place in 1855 the award went to a rival. The development of the stripper enabled a spectacular increase in the cereal acreage planted over the next decade. Ridley left Australia in 1853 and returned to England. He built a number of machines to his design in Leeds; however, these failed to perform in the much damper English climate. All of the machines were exported to South America, anticipating a substantial market to be exploited by Australian manufacturers.

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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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