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patent for a design

  • 1 Patent

    Adj. umg., Idee etc.: clever; stärker: brilliant; ein patenter Kerl a good bloke, a great guy; auch Frau: a good sort; sie ist eine patente Frau she’s all right (Am. alright), she’s great
    * * *
    das Patent
    letters patent; patent
    * * *
    Pa|tẹnt [pa'tɛnt]
    nt -(e)s, -e
    1) (= Erfindung, Urkunde) patent (für etw for sth, auf etw on sth)

    etw als or zum Patent anmelden, ein Patent auf or für etw anmelden — to apply for a patent on or for sth

    "(zum) Patent angemeldet" — "patent pending"

    2) (= Ernennungsurkunde) commission
    3) (Sw) permit, licence (Brit), license (US)
    4) (inf = Mechanismus) apparatus

    der Haken, so ein blödes Patent — this hook, the stupid thing

    * * *
    (an official licence from the government giving one person or business the right to make and sell a particular article and to prevent others from doing the same: She took out a patent on her design; ( also adjective) a patent process.) patent
    * * *
    Pa·tent
    <-[e]s, -e>
    [paˈtɛnt]
    nt
    1. (amtlicher Schutz) patent
    durch \Patent geschützt patented
    ein \Patent abtreten/verletzen to surrender/infringe a patent
    etw als [o zum] \Patent anmelden, ein \Patent auf etw akk anmelden to apply for a patent on sth
    ein \Patent auf etw akk haben to have a patent on sth
    2. (Ernennungsurkunde) commission
    3. SCHWEIZ (staatliche Erlaubnis) permit, licence [or AM -se]
    * * *
    das; Patent[e]s, Patente
    1) (Schutz) patent

    ein Patent auf etwas (Akk.) haben/etwas zum od. als Patent anmelden — have/apply for a patent for something

    2) (Erfindung) [patented] invention
    3) (Ernennungsurkunde) certificate [of appointment]; (eines Kapitäns) master's certificate; (eines Offiziers) commission
    * * *
    Patent n; -(e)s, -e
    1. JUR patent (
    auf for);
    ein Patent anmelden/erteilen apply for/issue a patent;
    Patent angemeldet patent pending;
    das Patent erlischt the patent lapses ( oder expires)
    2. MIL commission;
    sein Patent erwerben get one’s commission
    * * *
    das; Patent[e]s, Patente
    1) (Schutz) patent

    ein Patent auf etwas (Akk.) haben/etwas zum od. als Patent anmelden — have/apply for a patent for something

    2) (Erfindung) [patented] invention
    3) (Ernennungsurkunde) certificate [of appointment]; (eines Kapitäns) master's certificate; (eines Offiziers) commission
    * * *
    -e n.
    patent n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Patent

  • 2 patent

    Adj. umg., Idee etc.: clever; stärker: brilliant; ein patenter Kerl a good bloke, a great guy; auch Frau: a good sort; sie ist eine patente Frau she’s all right (Am. alright), she’s great
    * * *
    das Patent
    letters patent; patent
    * * *
    Pa|tẹnt [pa'tɛnt]
    nt -(e)s, -e
    1) (= Erfindung, Urkunde) patent (für etw for sth, auf etw on sth)

    etw als or zum Patent anmelden, ein Patent auf or für etw anmelden — to apply for a patent on or for sth

    "(zum) Patent angemeldet" — "patent pending"

    2) (= Ernennungsurkunde) commission
    3) (Sw) permit, licence (Brit), license (US)
    4) (inf = Mechanismus) apparatus

    der Haken, so ein blödes Patent — this hook, the stupid thing

    * * *
    (an official licence from the government giving one person or business the right to make and sell a particular article and to prevent others from doing the same: She took out a patent on her design; ( also adjective) a patent process.) patent
    * * *
    Pa·tent
    <-[e]s, -e>
    [paˈtɛnt]
    nt
    1. (amtlicher Schutz) patent
    durch \Patent geschützt patented
    ein \Patent abtreten/verletzen to surrender/infringe a patent
    etw als [o zum] \Patent anmelden, ein \Patent auf etw akk anmelden to apply for a patent on sth
    ein \Patent auf etw akk haben to have a patent on sth
    2. (Ernennungsurkunde) commission
    3. SCHWEIZ (staatliche Erlaubnis) permit, licence [or AM -se]
    * * *
    das; Patent[e]s, Patente
    1) (Schutz) patent

    ein Patent auf etwas (Akk.) haben/etwas zum od. als Patent anmelden — have/apply for a patent for something

    2) (Erfindung) [patented] invention
    3) (Ernennungsurkunde) certificate [of appointment]; (eines Kapitäns) master's certificate; (eines Offiziers) commission
    * * *
    patent adj umg, Idee etc: clever; stärker: brilliant;
    ein patenter Kerl a good bloke, a great guy; auch Frau: a good sort;
    sie ist eine patente Frau she’s all right (US alright), she’s great
    * * *
    das; Patent[e]s, Patente
    1) (Schutz) patent

    ein Patent auf etwas (Akk.) haben/etwas zum od. als Patent anmelden — have/apply for a patent for something

    2) (Erfindung) [patented] invention
    3) (Ernennungsurkunde) certificate [of appointment]; (eines Kapitäns) master's certificate; (eines Offiziers) commission
    * * *
    -e n.
    patent n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > patent

  • 3 patent

    [ˈpeɪtənt] (American) [ˈpæ-]
    1. noun
    an official licence from the government giving one person or business the right to make and sell a particular article and to prevent others from doing the same:

    ( also adjective) a patent process.

    بَراءَة الإخْتِراع
    2. verb
    to obtain a patent for; He patented his new invention.
    يَحْصَل على بَراءَة الإخْتِراع

    Arabic-English dictionary > patent

  • 4 Patent Satin Quilt

    MITCHELINE, or PATENT SATIN QUILT
    A quilt woven on a jacquard loom with operating comber boards and two shafts of healds. It is a compound cloth composed of two plain cloths very firmly interwoven. The design is made by the two cloths interchanging. The bulk of these quilts are woven from all grey yarns and bleached afterwards, but colour is often used for the ground with the figure showing in white. Many qualities are sold, and an average sample has 36's warp and 30's weft for ground, with 16's warp and 4's weft for figuring. The fine warp and weft weave together to form ground, with the coarse warp and weft forming figure. ———————— See Mitcheline.

    Dictionary of the English textile terms > Patent Satin Quilt

  • 5 патент на промышленный образец

    Banks. Exchanges. Accounting. (Russian-English) > патент на промышленный образец

  • 6 patente

    adj.
    1 obvious.
    su dolor era patente he was clearly in pain
    2 patent, manifest, evident, irrefutable.
    f.
    1 patent.
    tener la patente de algo to hold the patent on o for something
    2 registration number (British), license number (United States). (Southern Cone)
    3 permit, license plate, licence plate.
    pres.subj.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: patentar.
    * * *
    1 (evidente) obvious, patent
    1 patent
    \
    patente de corso HISTORIA letter of marque 2 figurado free rein, carte blanche
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [mentira, muestra] clear

    su enojo era patente — his annoyance was plain to see, he was plainly o patently o clearly annoyed

    • hacer algo patente — to reveal sth, show sth clearly

    • quedar patente — to become patently clear o obvious

    2) (Com) patent
    3) Cono Sur * (=excelente) superb, great
    2. SF
    1) [de invento, producto] patent

    de patente — Cono Sur first-rate

    2) (Jur) (=permiso) licence, license (EEUU), authorization

    patente de corso — ( Hist) letter(s) of marque

    3) Cono Sur (Aut) licence plate, license plate (EEUU); (=carnet) driving licence, driver's license (EEUU)
    3.
    SM Caribe patent medicine
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo clear, evident

    es patente que... — clearly o obviously...

    II
    1) ( de invento) patent
    2) (Auto)
    a) (CS) ( impuesto) road tax; ( placa) license* plate, numberplate (BrE)

    el número de la patente — the (registration) number o (AmE) the license number

    b) (Col) ( carnet de conducir) driver's license*
    3) (Chi) ( de profesional) registration fee ( paid to a professional association)
    III
    adverbio (CS) clearly
    * * *
    = patent, obvious, self-evident, clear [clearer -comp., clearest -sup.], patent.
    Ex. Aperture cards, where the full text of the document is kept in a special index card in the form of a microfiche, have been used for various collections of, for instance, patents and technical drawings.
    Ex. If this is not the case then the title to be used as a heading for a work is less obvious.
    Ex. Such conventions are so ingrained in American library practice that it is easy to forget they are not self-evident.
    Ex. In practice the distinction between one term and the next is not very clear.
    Ex. It was patent that they could not compete on equal terms with the economic and social forces of a complex civilization.
    ----
    * base de datos de patentes = WPI.
    * de patentes = patenting.
    * derecho de patentes = patent law.
    * derechos de patente = patent rights.
    * hacerse patente = become + clear, bring + home, come through.
    * información sobre patentes = patent information.
    * leyes sobre patentes = patent law.
    * oficina de patentes = patent office.
    * patente de refinamiento petrolífero = refining patent.
    * patentes = patent literature.
    * relativo a las patentes = patenting.
    * titular de una patente = patentee.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo clear, evident

    es patente que... — clearly o obviously...

    II
    1) ( de invento) patent
    2) (Auto)
    a) (CS) ( impuesto) road tax; ( placa) license* plate, numberplate (BrE)

    el número de la patente — the (registration) number o (AmE) the license number

    b) (Col) ( carnet de conducir) driver's license*
    3) (Chi) ( de profesional) registration fee ( paid to a professional association)
    III
    adverbio (CS) clearly
    * * *
    = patent, obvious, self-evident, clear [clearer -comp., clearest -sup.], patent.

    Ex: Aperture cards, where the full text of the document is kept in a special index card in the form of a microfiche, have been used for various collections of, for instance, patents and technical drawings.

    Ex: If this is not the case then the title to be used as a heading for a work is less obvious.
    Ex: Such conventions are so ingrained in American library practice that it is easy to forget they are not self-evident.
    Ex: In practice the distinction between one term and the next is not very clear.
    Ex: It was patent that they could not compete on equal terms with the economic and social forces of a complex civilization.
    * base de datos de patentes = WPI.
    * de patentes = patenting.
    * derecho de patentes = patent law.
    * derechos de patente = patent rights.
    * hacerse patente = become + clear, bring + home, come through.
    * información sobre patentes = patent information.
    * leyes sobre patentes = patent law.
    * oficina de patentes = patent office.
    * patente de refinamiento petrolífero = refining patent.
    * patentes = patent literature.
    * relativo a las patentes = patenting.
    * titular de una patente = patentee.

    * * *
    clear, obvious
    con el sufrimiento patente en sus rostros with suffering written all over their faces
    era patente su esfuerzo por controlarse he was visibly trying not to lose his temper
    dejó patente cuál era su objetivo he made his aim quite clear
    es patente que no sirve it's patently obvious that it's no use
    se hizo patente la necesidad de crear puestos de trabajo the need to create jobs became evident o clear
    sacar la patente to take out a patent
    tienen la patente para este diseño they hold the patent for this design
    Compuestos:
    ( Hist) letters of marque (pl)
    le han dado patente de corso para actuar he's been given carte blanche
    registration certificate
    B ( Auto)
    1 (CS) (impuesto) road tax; (placa) license* plate, numberplate ( BrE)
    le tomaron el número de la patente they took down the (registration) number o ( AmE) the license number of his car
    2 ( Col) (carnet de conducir) driving license*
    D (en tejido) ribbing
    ( RPl) clearly
    * * *

     

    Del verbo patentar: ( conjugate patentar)

    patenté es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

    patente es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

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

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    patentar    
    patente
    patentar ( conjugate patentar) verbo transitivo
    1 ‹ marca› to register;
    ‹ invento› to patent
    2 (CS) ‹ coche› to register
    patente adjetivo
    clear, evident;

    ■ sustantivo femenino
    1 ( de invento) patent
    2 (Auto)
    a) (CS) ( impuesto) road tax;

    ( placa) license( conjugate license) plate, numberplate (BrE);

    b) (Col) ( carnet de conducir) driving license( conjugate license)

    patentar verbo transitivo to patent
    patente
    I adj (claro, evidente) patent, obvious
    II f (de un invento) patent
    ' patente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    franco
    - registrar
    English:
    disappointment
    - overt
    - patent
    - blatant
    - license
    - number
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    [descontento, indignación] obvious, evident; [demostración, prueba] clear;
    su dolor era patente he was clearly in pain;
    la declaración dejó patente el fracaso de la cumbre it was obvious o clear from the statement that the summit had failed;
    el nerviosismo se hizo patente en su actuación her nervousness showed in her performance;
    su enfado quedó patente con su respuesta her reply made it clear she was angry
    ♦ nf
    1. [de invento] patent;
    tiene la patente de este invento he holds the patent on o for this invention;
    RP Fam Hum
    sacar patente de algo: ese sacó patente de bobo he's as stupid as they come
    patente de invención patent
    2. [autorización] licence
    Hist patente de corso letter(s) of marque; Fig
    se cree que tiene patente de corso para hacer lo que quiera she thinks she has carte blanche to do what she likes;
    patente de navegación certificate of registration
    3. CSur [matrícula] Br number plate, US license plate
    4. CSur [impuesto] [de circulación] road tax;
    [de perro] (dog) licence
    5. Chile [cuota] membership fee, Br subscription
    * * *
    I adj clear, obvious
    II f
    1 patent;
    oficina de patentes patent office
    2 L.Am.
    AUTO license plate, Br
    numberplate
    * * *
    patente adj
    evidente: obvious, patent
    ♦ patentemente adv
    : patent

    Spanish-English dictionary > patente

  • 7 патент на промышленный образец

    1) Engineering: design paper
    3) Economy: design patent

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > патент на промышленный образец

  • 8 Miller, Patrick

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 1731 Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 9 December 1815 Dalswinton, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish merchant and banker, early experimenter in powered navigation and in ship form.
    [br]
    In his own words, Patrick Miller was "without a sixpence" in his early youth; this is difficult to prove one way or another as he ended his life as Director and Deputy Governor of the Bank of Scotland. One thing is clear however, that from his earliest days, in common with most of his counterparts of the late eighteenth century, he was interested in experimental and applied science. Having acquired a substantial income from other sources, Miller was able to indulge his interest in ships and engineering. His first important vessel was the trimaran Edinburgh, designed by him and launched at Leith in 1786. Propulsion was man-powered using paddle wheels positioned in the spaces between the outer and central hulls. This led to several trials of similar craft on the Forth in the 1780s, and ultimately to the celebrated Dalswinton Loch trials. In 1785 Miller had purchased the Dumfriesshire estate of Dalswinton and commenced a series of experiments on agricultural development and other matters. With the help of William Symington he built a double-hull steamship with internal paddle wheels which was tested on the Loch in 1788. The 7.6 m (25 ft) long ship travelled at 5 mph (8 km/h) on her trials, and according to unsubstantiated tradition carried a group of well-known people including the poet Robert Burns (1759–1796).
    Miller carried out many more important experiments and in 1796 obtained a patent for the design of shallow-drafted ships able to carry substantial cargo on flat bottoms. His main achievement may have been to stimulate William Symington, who at the beginning of the nineteenth century went on to design and build two of the world's first important steamships, each named Charlotte Dundas, for service on the Forth and Clyde Canal.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    H.Philip Spratt, 1958, The Birth of the Steamboat, London: Griffiths. W.S.Harvey and G.Downs-Rose, 1980, William Symington, Inventor and Engine
    Builder, London: Northgate.
    F.M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde. A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, Cambridge: PSL.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Miller, Patrick

  • 9 патент на промышленный паспорт

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > патент на промышленный паспорт

  • 10 Trevithick, Richard

    [br]
    b. 13 April 1771 Illogan, Cornwall, England
    d. 22 April 1833 Dartford, Kent, England
    [br]
    English engineer, pioneer of non-condensing steam-engines; designed and built the first locomotives.
    [br]
    Trevithick's father was a tin-mine manager, and Trevithick himself, after limited formal education, developed his immense engineering talent among local mining machinery and steam-engines and found employment as a mining engineer. Tall, strong and high-spirited, he was the eternal optimist.
    About 1797 it occurred to him that the separate condenser patent of James Watt could be avoided by employing "strong steam", that is steam at pressures substantially greater than atmospheric, to drive steam-engines: after use, steam could be exhausted to the atmosphere and the condenser eliminated. His first winding engine on this principle came into use in 1799, and subsequently such engines were widely used. To produce high-pressure steam, a stronger boiler was needed than the boilers then in use, in which the pressure vessel was mounted upon masonry above the fire: Trevithick designed the cylindrical boiler, with furnace tube within, from which the Cornish and later the Lancashire boilers evolved.
    Simultaneously he realized that high-pressure steam enabled a compact steam-engine/boiler unit to be built: typically, the Trevithick engine comprised a cylindrical boiler with return firetube, and a cylinder recessed into the boiler. No beam intervened between connecting rod and crank. A master patent was taken out.
    Such an engine was well suited to driving vehicles. Trevithick built his first steam-carriage in 1801, but after a few days' use it overturned on a rough Cornish road and was damaged beyond repair by fire. Nevertheless, it had been the first self-propelled vehicle successfully to carry passengers. His second steam-carriage was driven about the streets of London in 1803, even more successfully; however, it aroused no commercial interest. Meanwhile the Coalbrookdale Company had started to build a locomotive incorporating a Trevithick engine for its tramroads, though little is known of the outcome; however, Samuel Homfray's ironworks at Penydarren, South Wales, was already building engines to Trevithick's design, and in 1804 Trevithick built one there as a locomotive for the Penydarren Tramroad. In this, and in the London steam-carriage, exhaust steam was turned up the chimney to draw the fire. On 21 February the locomotive hauled five wagons with 10 tons of iron and seventy men for 9 miles (14 km): it was the first successful railway locomotive.
    Again, there was no commercial interest, although Trevithick now had nearly fifty stationary engines completed or being built to his design under licence. He experimented with one to power a barge on the Severn and used one to power a dredger on the Thames. He became Engineer to a project to drive a tunnel beneath the Thames at Rotherhithe and was only narrowly defeated, by quicksands. Trevithick then set up, in 1808, a circular tramroad track in London and upon it demonstrated to the admission-fee-paying public the locomotive Catch me who can, built to his design by John Hazledine and J.U. Rastrick.
    In 1809, by which date Trevithick had sold all his interest in the steam-engine patent, he and Robert Dickinson, in partnership, obtained a patent for iron tanks to hold liquid cargo in ships, replacing the wooden casks then used, and started to manufacture them. In 1810, however, he was taken seriously ill with typhus for six months and had to return to Cornwall, and early in 1811 the partners were bankrupt; Trevithick was discharged from bankruptcy only in 1814.
    In the meantime he continued as a steam engineer and produced a single-acting steam engine in which the cut-off could be varied to work the engine expansively by way of a three-way cock actuated by a cam. Then, in 1813, Trevithick was approached by a representative of a company set up to drain the rich but flooded silver-mines at Cerro de Pasco, Peru, at an altitude of 14,000 ft (4,300 m). Low-pressure steam engines, dependent largely upon atmospheric pressure, would not work at such an altitude, but Trevithick's high-pressure engines would. Nine engines and much other mining plant were built by Hazledine and Rastrick and despatched to Peru in 1814, and Trevithick himself followed two years later. However, the war of independence was taking place in Peru, then a Spanish colony, and no sooner had Trevithick, after immense difficulties, put everything in order at the mines then rebels arrived and broke up the machinery, for they saw the mines as a source of supply for the Spanish forces. It was only after innumerable further adventures, during which he encountered and was assisted financially by Robert Stephenson, that Trevithick eventually arrived home in Cornwall in 1827, penniless.
    He petitioned Parliament for a grant in recognition of his improvements to steam-engines and boilers, without success. He was as inventive as ever though: he proposed a hydraulic power transmission system; he was consulted over steam engines for land drainage in Holland; and he suggested a 1,000 ft (305 m) high tower of gilded cast iron to commemorate the Reform Act of 1832. While working on steam propulsion of ships in 1833, he caught pneumonia, from which he died.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Trevithick took out fourteen patents, solely or in partnership, of which the most important are: 1802, Construction of Steam Engines, British patent no. 2,599. 1808, Stowing Ships' Cargoes, British patent no. 3,172.
    Further Reading
    H.W.Dickinson and A.Titley, 1934, Richard Trevithick. The Engineer and the Man, Cambridge; F.Trevithick, 1872, Life of Richard Trevithick, London (these two are the principal biographies).
    E.A.Forward, 1952, "Links in the history of the locomotive", The Engineer (22 February), 226 (considers the case for the Coalbrookdale locomotive of 1802).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Trevithick, Richard

  • 11 Arnold, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Horology
    [br]
    b. 1735/6 Bodmin (?), Cornwall, England
    d. 25 August 1799 Eltham, London, England
    [br]
    English clock, watch, and chronometer maker who invented the isochronous helical balance spring and an improved form of detached detent escapement.
    [br]
    John Arnold was apprenticed to his father, a watchmaker, and then worked as an itinerant journeyman in the Low Countries and, later, in England. He settled in London in 1762 and rapidly established his reputation at Court by presenting George III with a miniature repeating watch mounted in a ring. He later abandoned the security of the Court for a more precarious living developing his chronometers, with some financial assistance from the Board of Longitude. Symbolically, in 1771 he moved from the vicinity of the Court at St James's to John Adam Street, which was close to the premises of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures \& Commerce.
    By the time Arnold became interested in chronometry, Harrison had already demonstrated that longitude could be determined by means of a timekeeper, and the need was for a simpler instrument that could be sold at an affordable price for universal use at sea. Le Roy had shown that it was possible to dispense with a remontoire by using a detached escapement with an isochronous balance; Arnold was obviously thinking along the same lines, although he may not have been aware of Le Roy's work. By 1772 Arnold had developed his detached escapement, a pivoted detent which was quite different from that used on the European continent, and three years later he took out a patent for a compensation balance and a helical balance spring (Arnold used the spring in torsion and not in tension as Harrison had done). His compensation balance was similar in principle to that described by Le Roy and used riveted bimetallic strips to alter the radius of gyration of the balance by moving small weights radially. Although the helical balance spring was not completely isochronous it was a great improvement on the spiral spring, and in a later patent (1782) he showed how it could be made more truly isochronous by shaping the ends. In this form it was used universally in marine chronometers.
    Although Arnold's chronometers performed well, their long-term stability was less satisfactory because of the deterioration of the oil on the pivot of the detent. In his patent of 1782 he eliminated this defect by replacing the pivot with a spring, producing the spring detent escapement. This was also done independendy at about the same time by Berthoud and Earnshaw, although Earnshaw claimed vehemently that Arnold had plagiarized his work. Ironically it was Earnshaw's design that was finally adopted, although he had merely replaced Arnold's pivoted detent with a spring, while Arnold had completely redesigned the escapement. Earnshaw also improved the compensation balance by fusing the steel to the brass to form the bimetallic element, and it was in this form that it began to be used universally for chronometers and high-grade watches.
    As a result of the efforts of Arnold and Earnshaw, the marine chronometer emerged in what was essentially its final form by the end of the eighteenth century. The standardization of the design in England enabled it to be produced economically; whereas Larcum Kendall was paid £500 to copy Harrison's fourth timekeeper, Arnold was able to sell his chronometers for less than one-fifth of that amount. This combination of price and quality led to Britain's domination of the chronometer market during the nineteenth century.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    30 December 1775, "Timekeepers", British patent no. 1,113.
    2 May 1782, "A new escapement, and also a balance to compensate the effects arising from heat and cold in pocket chronometers, and for incurving the ends of the helical spring…", British patent no. 1,382.
    Further Reading
    R.T.Gould, 1923, The Marine Chronometer: Its History and Development, London; reprinted 1960, Holland Press (provides an overview).
    V.Mercer, 1972, John Arnold \& Son Chronometer Makers 1726–1843, London.
    DV

    Biographical history of technology > Arnold, John

  • 12 патент

    м. patent

    патент закрепляет за патентообладателем исключительное право на изобретение — a patent confers the right to the patent holder to exclude others from using his invention; a patent is the grant to its owner of the right to exclude others from the use of his invention

    получать патент на … — take out a patent for …

    описание патента; содержание патента — patent specification

    «зонтичный» патент, широкоохватный патент — umbrella patent

    отмена патента; аннулирование патента — repeal of a patent

    патент на изделие; патент на вещество — product patent

    Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > патент

  • 13 Thomson, James

    [br]
    b. 16 February 1822 Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland)
    d. 8 May 1892 Glasgow, Scotland
    [br]
    Irish civil engineer noted for his work in hydraulics and for his design of the "Vortex" turbine.
    [br]
    James Thomson was a pupil in several civil-engineering offices, but the nature of the work was beyond his physical capacity and from 1843 onwards he devoted himself to theoretical studies. Hhe first concentrated on the problems associated with the expansion of liquids when they reach their freezing point: water is one such example. He continued this work with his younger brother, Lord Kelvin (see Thomson, Sir William).
    After experimentation with a "feathered" paddle wheel as a young man, he turned his attention to water power. In 1850 he made his first patent application, "Hydraulic machinery and steam engines": this patent became his "Vortex" turbine design. He settled in Belfast, the home of the MacAdam-Fourneyron turbine, in 1851, and as a civil engineer became the Resident Engineer to the Belfast Water Commissioners in 1853. In 1857 he was appointed Professor of Civil Engineering and Surveying at Queen's College, Belfast.
    Whilst it is understood that he made his first turbine models in Belfast, he came to an arrangement with the Williamson Brothers of Kendal to make his turbine. In 1856 Williamsons produced their first turbine to Thomson's design and drawings. This was the Vortex Williamson Number 1, which produced 5 hp (3.7 kW) under a fall of 31 ft (9.4 m) on a 9 in. (23 cm) diameter supply. The rotor of this turbine ran in a horizontal plane. For several years the Williamson catalogue described their Vortex turbine as "designed by Professor James Thomson".
    Thomson continued with his study of hydraulics and water flow both at Queen's College, Belfast, and, later, at Glasgow University, where he became Professor in 1873, succeeding Macquorn Rankine, another famous engineer. At Glasgow, James Thomson studied the flow in rivers and the effects of erosion on river beds. He was also an authority on geological formations such as the development of the basalt structure of the Giant's Causeway, north of Belfast.
    James Thomson was an extremely active engineer and a very profound teacher of civil engineering. His form of water turbine had a long life before being displaced by the turbines designed in the twentieth century.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1850, British patent no. 13,156 "Hydraulic machinery and steam engines".
    Further Reading
    Gilkes, 1956, One Hundred Years of Water Power, Kendal.
    KM

    Biographical history of technology > Thomson, James

  • 14 diseño

    m.
    1 design, blueprint, layout, schema.
    2 designing.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: diseñar.
    * * *
    1 design
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=actividad) design

    diseño asistido por ordenador, diseño asistido por computador — LAm computer-aided design

    2) (=dibujo) (Arte) drawing, sketch; (Cos) pattern
    * * *
    masculino design

    muebles/ropa de diseño — designer furniture/clothes

    * * *
    = design, pattern, layout.
    Ex. Thus in index or catalogue or data base design the indexer must choose an appropriate blend of recall and precision for each individual application.
    Ex. In the same way that citation orders may have more or less theoretical foundations, equally reference generation may follow a predetermined pattern.
    Ex. Diagrammatic presentation of the layout of the collection conveniently placed, for example, near the entrance.
    ----
    * de diseño abierto = open-plan, open-planned.
    * defecto de diseño = design fault.
    * diseño abierto = open plan.
    * diseño arquitectónico = architectural design.
    * diseño asistido por ordenador (CAD) = computer-aided design (CAD).
    * diseño curricular = curriculum design.
    * diseño de construcción en forma de cubo = deep plan.
    * diseño de edificios = building design.
    * diseño de ficheros = file design.
    * diseño de interiores = interior design.
    * diseño de jardines = landscape design.
    * diseño de la cubierta = cover design.
    * diseño de moda = fashion design.
    * diseño de pantalla = skin.
    * diseño de planes de estudios = curriculum design.
    * diseño de sistemas = systems design.
    * diseño de tipos = type design [type-design].
    * diseño floral = floral design.
    * diseño gráfico = graphic design.
    * diseño industrial = industrial design.
    * diseño técnico = technical design, engineering design.
    * diseño textil = textile design.
    * droga de diseño = club drug, designer drug.
    * piso de diseño abierto = open floor.
    * planificación del diseño = design planning.
    * realizar un diseño = execute + design.
    * ropa de diseño = designer clothes, designer clothes.
    * técnica de diseño = design technique.
    * vestido de diseño = designer dress.
    * * *
    masculino design

    muebles/ropa de diseño — designer furniture/clothes

    * * *
    = design, pattern, layout.

    Ex: Thus in index or catalogue or data base design the indexer must choose an appropriate blend of recall and precision for each individual application.

    Ex: In the same way that citation orders may have more or less theoretical foundations, equally reference generation may follow a predetermined pattern.
    Ex: Diagrammatic presentation of the layout of the collection conveniently placed, for example, near the entrance.
    * de diseño abierto = open-plan, open-planned.
    * defecto de diseño = design fault.
    * diseño abierto = open plan.
    * diseño arquitectónico = architectural design.
    * diseño asistido por ordenador (CAD) = computer-aided design (CAD).
    * diseño curricular = curriculum design.
    * diseño de construcción en forma de cubo = deep plan.
    * diseño de edificios = building design.
    * diseño de ficheros = file design.
    * diseño de interiores = interior design.
    * diseño de jardines = landscape design.
    * diseño de la cubierta = cover design.
    * diseño de moda = fashion design.
    * diseño de pantalla = skin.
    * diseño de planes de estudios = curriculum design.
    * diseño de sistemas = systems design.
    * diseño de tipos = type design [type-design].
    * diseño floral = floral design.
    * diseño gráfico = graphic design.
    * diseño industrial = industrial design.
    * diseño técnico = technical design, engineering design.
    * diseño textil = textile design.
    * droga de diseño = club drug, designer drug.
    * piso de diseño abierto = open floor.
    * planificación del diseño = design planning.
    * realizar un diseño = execute + design.
    * ropa de diseño = designer clothes, designer clothes.
    * técnica de diseño = design technique.
    * vestido de diseño = designer dress.

    * * *
    A (proceso, actividad) design
    la teoría del diseño inteligente the theory of intelligent design
    Compuestos:
    ● diseño asistido por computadora ( AmL) or ( Esp) ordenador
    computer-aided design
    interior design
    fashion design
    graphic design
    industrial design
    textile design
    B (resultado) design
    construcciones de diseño funcional buildings with a functional design
    un defecto en el diseño a design fault
    el diseño de esta tela es muy llamativo this fabric has a very striking design
    muebles/ropa de diseño designer furniture/clothes
    Compuesto:
    patent o patented design
    * * *

     

    Del verbo diseñar: ( conjugate diseñar)

    diseño es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    diseñó es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    diseñar    
    diseño
    diseñar ( conjugate diseñar) verbo transitivo ‹moda/mueble/máquina› to design;
    ‹parque/edificio› to design, plan
    diseño sustantivo masculino
    design;

    blusas de diseño francés French-designed blouses;
    ropa de diseño designer clothes
    diseñar verbo transitivo to design
    diseño sustantivo masculino design

    ' diseño' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    actual
    - gráfica
    - gráfico
    - idear
    - línea
    - ordenador
    - sencilla
    - sencillez
    - sencillo
    - trazado
    - atrevido
    - complicado
    - estampar
    - exclusividad
    - exclusivo
    - lunar
    - práctico
    - trabajado
    English:
    CAD
    - check
    - checked
    - design
    - designer
    - floral
    - graphic design
    - hounds-tooth
    - inconvenient
    - inlaid
    - layout
    - pattern
    - polka dot
    - unusual
    - vile
    - eye
    - graphic
    - graphics
    - lay
    - stream
    - style
    * * *
    1. [creación] design;
    se dedica al diseño she works in design;
    la cocina tiene un diseño muy original the kitchen has a very original design;
    el diseño de la falda es de Borgia the skirt is designed by Borgia;
    bar de diseño trendy bar;
    drogas de diseño designer drugs;
    ropa de diseño designer clothes
    Informát diseño asistido por ordenador computer-aided design; Educ diseño curricular curriculum design;
    diseño gráfico graphic design;
    diseño industrial industrial design;
    diseño de interiores interior design;
    diseño de modas fashion design
    2. [dibujo] drawing, sketch
    3. [con palabras] outline
    * * *
    m design
    * * *
    : design
    * * *
    diseño n design

    Spanish-English dictionary > diseño

  • 15 Singer, Isaac Merritt

    [br]
    b. 27 October 1811 Pittstown, New York, USA
    d. 23 July 1875 Torquay, Devonshire, England
    [br]
    American inventor of a sewing machine, and pioneer of mass production.
    [br]
    The son of a millwright, Singer was employed as an unskilled labourer at the age of 12, but later gained wide experience as a travelling machinist. He also found employment as an actor. On 16 May 1839, while living at Lockport, Illinois, he obtained his first patent for a rock-drilling machine, but he soon squandered the money he made. Then in 1849, while at Pittsburgh, he secured a patent for a wood-and metal-carving machine that he had begun five years previously; however, a boiler explosion in the factory destroyed his machine and left him penniless.
    Near the end of 1850 Singer was engaged to redesign the Lerow \& Blodgett sewing machine at the Boston shop of Orson C.Phelps, where the machine was being repaired. He built an improved version in eleven days that was sufficiently different for him to patent on 12 August 1851. He formed a partnership with Phelps and G.B. Zieber and they began to market the invention. Singer soon purchased Phelps's interest, although Phelps continued to manufacture the machines. Then Edward Clark acquired a one-third interest and with Singer bought out Zieber. These two, with dark's flair for promotion and marketing, began to create a company which eventually would become the largest manufacturer of sewing machines exported worldwide, with subsidiary factories in England.
    However, first Singer had to defend his patent, which was challenged by an earlier Boston inventor, Elias Howe. Although after a long lawsuit Singer had to pay royalties, it was the Singer machine which eventually captured the market because it could do continuous stitching. In 1856 the Great Sewing Machine Combination, the first important pooling arrangement in American history, was formed to share the various patents so that machines could be built without infringements and manufacture could be expanded without fear of litigation. Singer contributed his monopoly on the needle-bar cam with his 1851 patent. He secured twenty additional patents, so that his original straight-needle vertical design for lock-stitching eventually included such refinements as a continuous wheel-feed, yielding presser-foot, and improved cam for moving the needle-bar. A new model, introduced in 1856, was the first to be intended solely for use in the home.
    Initially Phelps made all the machines for Singer. Then a works was established in New York where the parts were assembled by skilled workers through filing and fitting. Each machine was therefore a "one-off" but Singer machines were always advertised as the best on the market and sold at correspondingly high prices. Gradually, more specialized machine tools were acquired, but it was not until long after Singer had retired to Europe in 1863 that Clark made the change to mass production. Sales of machines numbered 810 in 1853 and 21,000 ten years later.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    12 August 1851, US patent no. 8,294 (sewing machine)
    Further Reading
    Biographies and obituaries have appeared in Appleton's Cyclopedia of America, Vol. V; Dictionary of American Biography, Vol XVII; New York Times 25 July 1875; Scientific American (1875) 33; and National Cyclopaedia of American Biography.
    D.A.Hounshell, 1984, From the American System to Mass Production 1800–1932. The
    Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States, Baltimore (provides a thorough account of the development of the Singer sewing machine, the competition it faced from other manufacturers and production methods).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Singer, Isaac Merritt

  • 16 Ingersoll, Simon

    [br]
    b. 3 March 1818 Stamford, Connecticut, USA
    d. 24 July 1894 Stamford, Connecticut, USA
    [br]
    American mechanic, inventor of a rock drill
    [br]
    Ingersoll worked on his father's farm and spent much of his time carrying out all kinds of mechanical experiments until 1839, when he went to Long Island, New York, to work on another farm. Having returned home in 1858, he received several patents for different mechanical devices, but he did not know how to turn his inventive talent into economic profit. His patents were sold to others for money to continue his work and support his family. In 1870, working again on Long Island, he by chance came into contact with New York City's largest contractor, who urged him to design a mechanical rock drill in order to replace hand drills in the rock-excavation business. Within one year Ingersoll built several models and a full-size machine at the machine shop of Henry Clark Sergeant, who contributed several improvements. They secured a joint patent in 1871, which was soon followed by a patent for a rock drill with tappet-valve motion.
    Although the Ingersoll Drill Company was established, he again sold the patent rights and went back to Stamford, where he continued his inventive work and gained several more patents for improving the rock drill. However, he never understood how to make a fortune from his patents, and he died almost penniless. His former partner, Sergeant, who had formed his own drill company on the basis of an entirely novel valve motion which led to compressed air being used as a power source, in 1888 established the Ingersoll- Sergeant Drill Company, which in 1905 merged with Rand Drill Company, which had been a competitor, to form the Ingersoll-Rand Company. This merger led to many achievements in manufacturing rock drills and air compressors at a time when there was growing demand for such machinery.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of American Biography (articles on both Ingersoll and Sergeant). W.L.Saunders, 1910, "The history of the rock drill and of the Ingersoll-Rand Company", Compressed Air Magazine: 3,679–80 (a lively description of the way in which he was encouraged to design the rock drill).
    WK

    Biographical history of technology > Ingersoll, Simon

  • 17 Howe, William

    SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. 12 May 1803 Spencer, Massachusetts, USA
    d. 19 September 1852 Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
    [br]
    American bridge engineer.
    [br]
    He was uncle of Elias Howe and spent his youth in the neighbourhood of his birthplace, primarily as a farmer. In 1838 he was commissioned to build a bridge at Warren, Massachusetts, for the Boston \& Albany Railway. He worked on this for two years, incorporating some novel features for which he applied for patents. His design was a truss with wooden diagonals and vertical iron ties in single and double systems which was said to be an improvement on the Long type of truss, introduced by Colonel Stephen Long in 1830. Howe was the first to incorporate the rectangular truss frame. Soon after this, he was to use his patent truss over the Connecticut River at Springfield for the Western Railroad. So successful was he that he became engaged for the rest of his life in the design of bridges and roof trusses, which, together with selling royalties for the rights to his patents, brought to him a considerable fortune. Many Howe truss bridges were built until the introduction of the iron bridge. In 1846 he took out a third patent for an improvement in the original rectangular truss, consisting of a curved timber member rising from each buttress to the centre of the span and greatly adding to the strength.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of American Biography, 1932–3, New York: Charles Scribner.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Howe, William

  • 18 Curr, John

    [br]
    b. 1756 Kyo, near Lanchester, or in Greenside, near Ryton-on-Tyne, Durham, England
    d. 27 January 1823 Sheffield, England
    [br]
    English coal-mine manager and engineer, inventor of flanged, cast-iron plate rails.
    [br]
    The son of a "coal viewer", Curr was brought up in the West Durham colliery district. In 1777 he went to the Duke of Norfolk's collieries at Sheffield, where in 1880 he was appointed Superintendent. There coal was conveyed underground in baskets on sledges: Curr replaced the wicker sledges with wheeled corves, i.e. small four-wheeled wooden wagons, running on "rail-roads" with cast-iron rails and hauled from the coal-face to the shaft bottom by horses. The rails employed hitherto had usually consisted of plates of iron, the flange being on the wheels of the wagon. Curr's new design involved flanges on the rails which guided the vehicles, the wheels of which were unflanged and could run on any hard surface. He appears to have left no precise record of the date that he did this, and surviving records have been interpreted as implying various dates between 1776 and 1787. In 1787 John Buddle paid tribute to the efficiency of the rails of Curr's type, which were first used for surface transport by Joseph Butler in 1788 at his iron furnace at Wingerworth near Chesterfield: their use was then promoted widely by Benjamin Outram, and they were adopted in many other English mines. They proved serviceable until the advent of locomotives demanded different rails.
    In 1788 Curr also developed a system for drawing a full corve up a mine shaft while lowering an empty one, with guides to separate them. At the surface the corves were automatically emptied by tipplers. Four years later he was awarded a patent for using double ropes for lifting heavier loads. As the weight of the rope itself became a considerable problem with the increasing depth of the shafts, Curr invented the flat hemp rope, patented in 1798, which consisted of several small round ropes stitched together and lapped upon itself in winding. It acted as a counterbalance and led to a reduction in the time and cost of hoisting: at the beginning of a run the loaded rope began to coil upon a small diameter, gradually increasing, while the unloaded rope began to coil off a large diameter, gradually decreasing.
    Curr's book The Coal Viewer (1797) is the earliest-known engineering work on railway track and it also contains the most elaborate description of a Newcomen pumping engine, at the highest state of its development. He became an acknowledged expert on construction of Newcomen-type atmospheric engines, and in 1792 he established a foundry to make parts for railways and engines.
    Because of the poor financial results of the Duke of Norfolk's collieries at the end of the century, Curr was dismissed in 1801 despite numerous inventions and improvements which he had introduced. After his dismissal, six more of his patents were concerned with rope-making: the one he gained in 1813 referred to the application of flat ropes to horse-gins and perpendicular drum-shafts of steam engines. Curr also introduced the use of inclined planes, where a descending train of full corves pulled up an empty one, and he was one of the pioneers employing fixed steam engines for hauling. He may have resided in France for some time before his death.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1788. British patent no. 1,660 (guides in mine shafts).
    1789. An Account of tin Improved Method of Drawing Coals and Extracting Ores, etc., from Mines, Newcastle upon Tyne.
    1797. The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion; reprinted with five plates and an introduction by Charles E.Lee, 1970, London: Frank Cass, and New York: Augustus M.Kelley.
    1798. British patent no. 2,270 (flat hemp ropes).
    Further Reading
    F.Bland, 1930–1, "John Curr, originator of iron tram roads", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 11:121–30.
    R.A.Mott, 1969, Tramroads of the eighteenth century and their originator: John Curr', Transactions of the Newcomen Society 42:1–23 (includes corrections to Fred Bland's earlier paper).
    Charles E.Lee, 1970, introduction to John Curr, The Coal Viewer and Engine Builder's Practical Companion, London: Frank Cass, pp. 1–4; orig. pub. 1797, Sheffield (contains the most comprehensive biographical information).
    R.Galloway, 1898, Annals of Coalmining, Vol. I, London; reprinted 1971, London (provides a detailed account of Curr's technological alterations).
    WK / PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Curr, John

  • 19 Bollée, Ernest-Sylvain

    [br]
    b. 19 July 1814 Clefmont (Haute-Marne), France
    d. 11 September 1891 Le Mans, France
    [br]
    French inventor of the rotor-stator wind engine and founder of the Bollée manufacturing industry.
    [br]
    Ernest-Sylvain Bollée was the founder of an extensive dynasty of bellfounders based in Le Mans and in Orléans. He and his three sons, Amédée (1844–1917), Ernest-Sylvain fils (1846–1917) and Auguste (1847-?), were involved in work and patents on steam-and petrol-driven cars, on wind engines and on hydraulic rams. The presence of the Bollées' car industry in Le Mans was a factor in the establishment of the car races that are held there.
    In 1868 Ernest-Sylvain Bollée père took out a patent for a wind engine, which at that time was well established in America and in England. In both these countries, variable-shuttered as well as fixed-blade wind engines were in production and patented, but the Ernest-Sylvain Bollée patent was for a type of wind engine that had not been seen before and is more akin to the water-driven turbine of the Jonval type, with its basic principle being parallel to the "rotor" and "stator". The wind drives through a fixed ring of blades on to a rotating ring that has a slightly greater number of blades. The blades of the fixed ring are curved in the opposite direction to those on the rotating blades and thus the air is directed onto the latter, causing it to rotate at a considerable speed: this is the "rotor". For greater efficiency a cuff of sheet iron can be attached to the "stator", giving a tunnel effect and driving more air at the "rotor". The head of this wind engine is turned to the wind by means of a wind-driven vane mounted in front of the blades. The wind vane adjusts the wind angle to enable the wind engine to run at a constant speed.
    The fact that this wind engine was invented by the owner of a brass foundry, with all the gear trains between the wind vane and the head of the tower being of the highest-quality brass and, therefore, small in scale, lay behind its success. Also, it was of prefabricated construction, so that fixed lengths of cast-iron pillar were delivered, complete with twelve treads of cast-iron staircase fixed to the outside and wrought-iron stays. The drive from the wind engine was taken down the inside of the pillar to pumps at ground level.
    Whilst the wind engines were being built for wealthy owners or communes, the work of the foundry continued. The three sons joined the family firm as partners and produced several steam-driven vehicles. These vehicles were the work of Amédée père and were l'Obéissante (1873); the Autobus (1880–3), of which some were built in Berlin under licence; the tram Bollée-Dalifol (1876); and the private car La Mancelle (1878). Another important line, in parallel with the pumping mechanism required for the wind engines, was the development of hydraulic rams, following the Montgolfier patent. In accordance with French practice, the firm was split three ways when Ernest-Sylvain Bollée père died. Amédée père inherited the car side of the business, but it is due to Amédée fils (1867– 1926) that the principal developments in car manufacture came into being. He developed the petrol-driven car after the impetus given by his grandfather, his father and his uncle Ernest-Sylvain fils. In 1887 he designed a four-stroke single-cylinder engine, although he also used engines designed by others such as Peugeot. He produced two luxurious saloon cars before putting Torpilleur on the road in 1898; this car competed in the Tour de France in 1899. Whilst designing other cars, Amédée's son Léon (1870–1913) developed the Voiturette, in 1896, and then began general manufacture of small cars on factory lines. The firm ceased work after a merger with the English firm of Morris in 1926. Auguste inherited the Eolienne or wind-engine side of the business; however, attracted to the artistic life, he sold out to Ernest Lebert in 1898 and settled in the Paris of the Impressionists. Lebert developed the wind-engine business and retained the basic "stator-rotor" form with a conventional lattice tower. He remained in Le Mans, carrying on the business of the manufacture of wind engines, pumps and hydraulic machinery, describing himself as a "Civil Engineer".
    The hydraulic-ram business fell to Ernest-Sylvain fils and continued to thrive from a solid base of design and production. The foundry in Le Mans is still there but, more importantly, the bell foundry of Dominique Bollée in Saint-Jean-de-Braye in Orléans is still at work casting bells in the old way.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    André Gaucheron and J.Kenneth Major, 1985, The Eolienne Bollée, The International Molinological Society.
    Cénomane (Le Mans), 11, 12 and 13 (1983 and 1984).
    KM

    Biographical history of technology > Bollée, Ernest-Sylvain

  • 20 Kapp, Gisbert Johann Eduard Karl

    SUBJECT AREA: Electricity
    [br]
    b. 2 September 1852 Mauer, Vienna, Austria
    d. 10 August 1922 Birmingham, England
    [br]
    Austrian (naturalized British in 1881) engineer and a pioneer of dynamo design, being particularly associated with the concept of the magnetic circuit.
    [br]
    Kapp entered the Polytechnic School in Zurich in 1869 and gained a mechanical engineering diploma. He became a member of the engineering staff at the Vienna International Exhibition of 1873, and then spent some time in the Austrian navy before entering the service of Gwynne \& Co. of London, where he designed centrifugal pumps and gas exhausters. Kapp resolved to become an electrical engineer after a visit to the Paris Electrical Exhibition of 1881 and in the following year was appointed Manager of the Crompton Co. works at Chelmsford. There he developed and patented the dynamo with compound field winding. Also at that time, with Crompton, he patented electrical measuring instruments with over-saturated electromagnets. He became a naturalized British subject in 1881.
    In 1886 Kapp's most influential paper was published. This described his concept of the magnetic circuit, providing for the first time a sound theoretical basis for dynamo design. The theory was also developed independently by J. Hopkinson. After commencing practice as a consulting engineer in 1884 he carried out design work on dynamos and also electricity-supply and -traction schemes in Germany, Italy, Norway, Russia and Switzerland. From 1891 to 1894 much of his time was spent designing a new generating station in Bristol, officially as Assistant to W.H. Preece. There followed an appointment in Germany as General Secretary of the Verband Deutscher Electrotechniker. For some years he edited the Electrotechnische Zeitschrift and was also a part-time lecturer at the Charlottenberg Technical High School in Berlin. In 1904 Kapp was invited to accept the new Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Birmingham, which he occupied until 1919. He was the author of several books on electrical machine and transformer design.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Institution of Civil Engineers Telford Medal 1886 and 1888. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1909.
    Bibliography
    10 October 1882, with R.E.B.Crompton, British patent no. 4,810; (the compound wound dynamo).
    1886, "Modern continuous current dynamo electric machines and their engines", Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 83: 123–54.
    Further Reading
    D.G.Tucker, 1989, "A new archive of Gisbert Kapp papers", Proceedings of the Meeting on History of Electrical Engineering, IEE 4/1–4/11 (a transcript of an autobiography for his family).
    D.G.Tucker, 1973, Gisbert Kapp 1852–1922, Birmingham: Birmingham University (includes a bibliography of his most important publications).
    GW

    Biographical history of technology > Kapp, Gisbert Johann Eduard Karl

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