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101 shipbuilder
['ʃɪpˌbɪldə]сущ.а) судостроитель, кораблестроительSyn:б) судостроительная компания, судостроительное предприятие -
102 shipbuilder
судостроитель имя существительное: -
103 shipwright
кораблестроитель имя существительное: -
104 Fife, William
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 15 June 1857 Fairlie, Scotlandd. 11 August 1944 Fairlie, Scotland[br]Scottish naval architect and designer of sailing yachts of legendary beauty and performance.[br]Following his education at Brisbane Academy in Largs, William Fife (the third generation of the name) became apprenticed at the age of 14 to the already famous yacht-building yard owned by his family at Fairlie in Ayrshire. On completion of his apprenticeship, he joined the Paisley shipbuilders John Fullerton \& Co. to gain experience in iron shipbuilding before going on as Manager to the Marquis of Ailsa's Culzean Steam Launch and Yacht Works. Initially the works was sited below the famous castle at Culzean, but some years later it moved a few miles along the Ayrshire Coast to Maidens. The Culzean Company was wound up in 1887 and Fife then returned to the family yard, where he remained for the rest of his working life. Many outstanding yachts were the product of his hours on the drawing board, including auxiliary sailing cruisers, motor yachts and well-known racing craft. The most outstanding designs were for two of Sir Thomas Lipton's challengers for the America's Cup: Shamrock I and Shamrock III. The latter yacht was tested at the Ship Model Experiment Tank owned by Denny of Dumbarton before being built at their Leven Shipyard in 1903. Shamrock III may have been one of the earliest America's Cup yachts to have been designed with a high level of scientific input. The hull construction was unusual for the early years of the twentieth century, being of alloy steel with decks of aluminium.William Fife was decorated for his service to shipbuilding during the First World War. With the onset of the Great Depression the shipyard's output slowed, and in the 1930s it was sold to other interests; this was the end of the 120-year Fife dynasty.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsOBE c.1919.FMW -
105 NTSA
naval telecommunications system architect - разработчик системы дальней связи ВМФ -
106 architecture
nounnaval/railway architecture — Schiff[s]-/Eisenbahnbau, der
2) (structure, lit. or fig.) Konstruktion, die3) (Computing) [System]architektur, die* * *[- ə]noun (the art of designing buildings: He's studying architecture; modern architecture.) die Architektur* * *archi·tec·ture[ˈɑ:kɪtektʃəʳ, AM ˈɑ:rkətektʃɚ]n no pl* * *['Aːkɪtektʃə(r)]nArchitektur f (ALSO COMPUT); (of building also) Baustil m* * *architecture [ˈɑː(r)kıtektʃə(r)] s1. Architektur f:a) Baukunst fb) Bauart f, Baustil m2. auch fig (Auf)Bau m, Struktur f, Anlage f, Konstruktion f3. a) Bau(werk) m(n), Gebäude nb) koll Gebäude pl, Bauten plarch. abk1. archaic2. archaism3. archery4. archipelago5. architect7. architecture* * *nounnaval/railway architecture — Schiff[s]-/Eisenbahnbau, der
2) (structure, lit. or fig.) Konstruktion, die3) (Computing) [System]architektur, die* * *n.Architektur n.Bauweise -n f.Bauwesen - n. -
107 NTSA
1) Техника: naval telecommunications system architect2) Сокращение: National Training Systems Association (USA), Navy Tactical Support Activity office (USA)3) Вычислительная техника: Netware Telephony Services Architecture4) Расширение файла: NetWare Telephony Services Architecture (Novell) -
108 chief
1. n глава, руководитель; лидер; начальник, шеф; заведующий, директорchief of the hill — «комендант горы»
chief of a library — заведующий библиотекой, директор библиотеки
chief of police — начальник полиции, полицмейстер
2. n разг. шеф, чиф3. n вождь; властитель, повелитель4. n геральд. верхняя часть щита5. a главный; руководящий; старшийchief librarian — заведующий библиотекой, директор библиотеки
Chief of Naval Staff — начальник морского штаба ; первый морской лорд
6. a основной; важнейший, главныйchief problem — основная проблема, главный вопрос
the chief thing to do — основное, что нужно сделать
Синонимический ряд:1. first (adj.) arch; capital; cardinal; central; champion; dominant; first; foremost; fundamental; head; key; leading; main; major; number one; outstanding; paramount; predominant; preeminent; pre-eminent; premier; primary; prime; principal; prominent; star; stellar; top2. head (noun) boss; captain; chieftain; cock; commander; director; dominator; head; headman; hierarch; honcho; leader; lord; master; overseer; ringleader; ruler; supervisor3. notable (noun) big; big boy; big gun; big shot; big-timer; bigwig; character; dignitary; eminence; great gun; heavyweight; high-muck-a-muck; lion; luminary; muckamuck; mugwump; nabob; nawob; notability; notable; personage; personality; pooh-bah; pot; somebody; VIPАнтонимический ряд:follower; minor; secondary; trifling; trivial; underling; unimportant -
109 marine
marine [mə'ri:n]1 noun(a) (ships collectively) marine f∎ familiar go tell it to the marines! mon œil!, à d'autres!(a) (underwater) marin►► marine architect ingénieur m des constructions navales;marine artist peintre m de marines;marine bill of lading connaissement m maritime;marine biologist biologiste m marin;marine biology biologie f marine;marine engineer mécanicien m de bord;marine engineering génie m maritime;marine insurance assurance f maritime;marine insurance policy police f d'assurance maritime;marine life vie f marine;marine risk risque m maritime;marine surveyor visiteur m ou inspecteur m de navires -
110 Fuller, Richard Buckminster
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building[br]b. 12 July 1895 Milton, Massachusetts, USAd. 1 July 1983 Los Angeles, California, USA[br]American engineer, designer and inventor noted particularly for his creation of the geodesic dome.[br]After naval service during the First World War, Fuller worked for some time in the building industry with his father, who was an architect. In 1927 he became interested in trying to solve social problems by providing good, low-cost housing for an expanding population. Utilizing modern techniques applicable in other industries, such as the design of aircraft and ships, he produced his "Dymaxion House", which was transportable and cheap. This was followed in 1946 by his aluminium, stressed-skin, prefabricated house. The geodesic dome is the structural concept for which Fuller is particularly known. It was patented in 1954 and 300,000 were built over a thirty-year period. He had envisaged the dome being utilized on smaller or larger, simple or complex patterns for a wide variety of needs such as enclosing a covered area for a house, a botanical garden, an exhibition pavilion, a factory, a weather station or, indeed, an entire city. A famous example that he designed was that for the US pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal. A geodesic dome is generally spherical in form, the chief structural elements of which are interconnected in a geodesic pattern, i.e. one in which the lines connecting two points are the shortest possible. The structure is composed of slender, lightweight struts (usually of aluminium) arranged in geometrical patterns, with the metal skeleton covered by a light, plastic material. Inside the dome, all the space is usable and the climate is controllable. Fuller wrote and lectured widely on his patented invention, explaining the importance of structural research particularly in relation to world needs.[br]Bibliography1975, Synergetics: Exploration on the Geometry of Thinking, Macmillan.1973, with R.W.Marks, The Dymaxion World of Buckminster Fuller, New York: Reprint Anchor.Further ReadingM.Pawley, 1990, Buckminster Fuller, Trefoil Books.DYBiographical history of technology > Fuller, Richard Buckminster
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111 Nobel, Immanuel
[br]b. 1801 Gävle, Swedend. 3 September 1872 Stockholm, Sweden[br]Swedish inventor and industrialist, particularly noted for his work on mines and explosives.[br]The son of a barber-surgeon who deserted his family to serve in the Swedish army, Nobel showed little interest in academic pursuits as a child and was sent to sea at the age of 16, but jumped ship in Egypt and was eventually employed as an architect by the pasha. Returning to Sweden, he won a scholarship to the Stockholm School of Architecture, where he studied from 1821 to 1825 and was awarded a number of prizes. His interest then leaned towards mechanical matters and he transferred to the Stockholm School of Engineering. Designs for linen-finishing machines won him a prize there, and he also patented a means of transforming rotary into reciprocating movement. He then entered the real-estate business and was successful until a fire in 1833 destroyed his house and everything he owned. By this time he had married and had two sons, with a third, Alfred (of Nobel Prize fame; see Alfred Nobel), on the way. Moving to more modest quarters on the outskirts of Stockholm, Immanuel resumed his inventions, concentrating largely on India rubber, which he applied to surgical instruments and military equipment, including a rubber knapsack.It was talk of plans to construct a canal at Suez that first excited his interest in explosives. He saw them as a means of making mining more efficient and began to experiment in his backyard. However, this made him unpopular with his neighbours, and the city authorities ordered him to cease his investigations. By this time he was deeply in debt and in 1837 moved to Finland, leaving his family in Stockholm. He hoped to interest the Russians in land and sea mines and, after some four years, succeeded in obtaining financial backing from the Ministry of War, enabling him to set up a foundry and arms factory in St Petersburg and to bring his family over. By 1850 he was clear of debt in Sweden and had begun to acquire a high reputation as an inventor and industrialist. His invention of the horned contact mine was to be the basic pattern of the sea mine for almost the next 100 years, but he also created and manufactured a central-heating system based on hot-water pipes. His three sons, Ludwig, Robert and Alfred, had now joined him in his business, but even so the outbreak of war with Britain and France in the Crimea placed severe pressures on him. The Russians looked to him to convert their navy from sail to steam, even though he had no experience in naval propulsion, but the aftermath of the Crimean War brought financial ruin once more to Immanuel. Amongst the reforms brought in by Tsar Alexander II was a reliance on imports to equip the armed forces, so all domestic arms contracts were abruptly cancelled, including those being undertaken by Nobel. Unable to raise money from the banks, Immanuel was forced to declare himself bankrupt and leave Russia for his native Sweden. Nobel then reverted to his study of explosives, particularly of how to adapt the then highly unstable nitroglycerine, which had first been developed by Ascanio Sobrero in 1847, for blasting and mining. Nobel believed that this could be done by mixing it with gunpowder, but could not establish the right proportions. His son Alfred pursued the matter semi-independently and eventually evolved the principle of the primary charge (and through it created the blasting cap), having taken out a patent for a nitroglycerine product in his own name; the eventual result of this was called dynamite. Father and son eventually fell out over Alfred's independent line, but worse was to follow. In September 1864 Immanuel's youngest son, Oscar, then studying chemistry at Uppsala University, was killed in an explosion in Alfred's laboratory: Immanuel suffered a stroke, but this only temporarily incapacitated him, and he continued to put forward new ideas. These included making timber a more flexible material through gluing crossed veneers under pressure and bending waste timber under steam, a concept which eventually came to fruition in the form of plywood.In 1868 Immanuel and Alfred were jointly awarded the prestigious Letterstedt Prize for their work on explosives, but Alfred never for-gave his father for retaining the medal without offering it to him.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsImperial Gold Medal (Russia) 1853. Swedish Academy of Science Letterstedt Prize (jointly with son Alfred) 1868.BibliographyImmanuel Nobel produced a short handwritten account of his early life 1813–37, which is now in the possession of one of his descendants. He also had published three short books during the last decade of his life— Cheap Defence of the Country's Roads (on land mines), Cheap Defence of the Archipelagos (on sea mines), and Proposal for the Country's Defence (1871)—as well as his pamphlet (1870) on making wood a more physically flexible product.Further ReadingNo biographies of Immanuel Nobel exist, but his life is detailed in a number of books on his son Alfred.CM
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