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  • 81 take13

    1) take smb., smth. by (in, between, with, etc.) smth. take a child by the hand (him by the sleeve, an axe by the handle, a pen in one's hand, a stick between one's finger and thumb, coal with a pair of tongs, a butterfly with one's fingers, etc.) взять ребенка за руку и т.д.; take a man by the throat схватить /взять/ человека за горло; take a baby in one's arms взять ребенка на руки; he took a girl (me, his son, etc.) in his arms он обнял девушку и т.д.; take the stick between one's knees зажать палку между колен; take one's head between one's hands обхватить голову руками; take the trunk on one's back взвалить сундук себе на спину; take the bit between one's teeth закусить удила; take smth. from (from under, out of, etc.) smth. take a book from the table (a corkscrew from the shelf, etc.) взять книгу со стола и т.д.; take some paper from /out of/ a drawer (the fruit out of a bag, a handkerchief out of /from/ one's pocket, the pins out of one's hair, a cigarette out of the box, one's hands out of one's pockets, etc.) вытаскивать /вынимать/ бумагу из ящика и т.д.: take a box from under a chair вытаскивать ящик из-под стула; the dog took the food from my hand собака ела /брала пищу/ у меня из рук; take your hand off my shoulder (your foot off my toe, etc.) уберите руку с моего плеча и т.д.; can you take the spot out of these pants? можно вывести это пятно с брюк?; it took all the fun out of the game это испортило все удовольствие от игры; take smth. from smb. take a bone from a dog (the knife from the baby, the record from him, etc.) отбирать /отнимать/ кость у собаки и т.д. || take smb. under one's wing взять кого-л. под свое крылышко /под свою защиту/
    2) || take smb. in marriage жениться на ком-л. или выйти замуж за кого-л.; take a widow in marriage жениться на вдове, взять в жены вдову
    3) take smb., smth. with smb. take one's son (an assistant, a doctor, some money, a book, an overnight bag, etc.) with one захватить /взять с собой/ своего сына и т.д.; take me with you возьмите меня с собой; take letters with one (one's lunch with one, provisions with one, etc.) взять /захватить/ эти письма с собой и т.д.; take an umbrella with you прихватите [с собой] зонтик; take smth. to some place take the dishes to the kitchen (these letters to the post, the parcel to his house, etc.) относить тарелки на кухню и т.д.; take smth. to smb. take flowers to sick friends (your message to her, a book to your teacher, etc.) относить цветы больным друзьям и т.д.; take the news to him сообщить ему эту новость; take the matter to a lawyer пойти с этим делом к юристу; take smb. to smth. take the children to the cinema (one's wife to the theatre, etc.) сводить детей в кино и т.д.; take a friend to lunch угостить друга завтраком; take a girl to a dance сводить девушку на танцы; take smb. for smth. take a dog for a walk вывести собаку на прогулку
    4) take smth. from smb., smth. take presents from boy-friends (flowers from them, assistance from the government, etc.) принимать подарки от поклонников и т.д.
    5) take smth. for smth. take the blame for his failure (for her mistake, etc.) принять на себя вину за его провал и т.д.; take smth. upon oneself he takes a great deal upon himself он очень много на себя берет; take smth. for (of) smth. upon oneself take the responsibility for his safety (the office of president, the duties of a teacher, etc.) upon oneself взять на себя ответственность за его безопасность и т.д.; take it upon oneself to do smth. take it upon oneself to speak to them (to give orders, to say that, to speak to him personally, etc.) взять на себя /согласиться/ поговорить с ними и т.д.; take smth. with smth. take his remark (their advice, a compliment, etc.) with a smile (with a frown, with a laugh, etc.) встречать /реагировать на/ его замечание и т.д. улыбкой и т.д. || take smth. in bad part /in the wrong way/ принимать /истолковывать/ что-л. превратно; take smth. in good part не обижаться на что-л.; take smb. into one's confidence довериться кому-л.; take smb. into the secret доверить /поверить/ кому-л. тайну
    6) || take smb.'s side /smb.'s part/ in smth. встать на чью-л. сторону в чем-л.; take smb.'s side /smb.'s part/ in an argument /in a controversy/ (in a quarrel, in a fight, etc.) встать на чью-л. сторону в споре и т.д.; take advantage of smth. воспользоваться чем-л.; take advantage of smb.'s offer (of his presence, of her position, etc.) воспользоваться чьим-л. предложением и т.д.; take advantage of smb.'s trust (of her love', etc.) злоупотреблять чьим-л. доверием и т.д.
    7) take smth. for smth., smb. take a hall for a meeting (this room for my cousin, this suite for my friend, this building for a hospital, etc.) снимать зал для собрания /под собрание/ и т.д.; take smth. in some place take a house in the country (rooms in the suburbs, etc.) снимать дом загородом и т.д.; take smth. for some time take a cottage (a room, a house, etc.) for the summer (for a year, etc.) снимать /арендовать/ дачу и т.д. на лето и т.д.
    8) take smb. into smth. take your brother into the business взять вашего брата компаньоном в наше дело; take her into service брать ее на службу; take them into our firm принять их [на службу] в нашу фирму
    9) take smth. in smth. take a job in the city (a job in an office, etc.) наняться на работу в городе и т.д.; take a post in the firm занять какую-л. должность в фирме
    10) take smth. to (at, in, etc.) some place take a car to the ferry (a freighter to Europe, a train to Boston, etc.) поехать машиной до переправы и т.д.; take a plane to the North полететь самолетом на север; take a train at (in) N сесть на поезд в N
    11) take smth. for smth. take 25 dollars for the use of his car брать двадцать пять долларов за пользование машиной; will you take a check for the bill? можно уплатить вам по счету чеком?; what will you take for it? сколько вы за это хотите?; the man won't take a cent less for the car он не согласен уступить за машину ни цента
    12) take smb. on (in, across, over, etc.) smth. the blow took him on the nose (across the face, over the head, in the stomach, etc.) удар пришелся ему по носу и т.д.
    13) take smth. by smth. take a fortress (a place, a town, etc.) by force (by storm, by a ruse, by a clever manoeveur, etc.) захватить крепость и т.д. силой и т.д. || take smb. by surprise захватить кого-л. врасплох; take smb. in the act поймать /застать/ кого-л. на месте преступления
    14) take smth. from (off, out of) smth. take two from seven (one number from another, a sum out of one's income, etc.) вычесть два из семи и т.д.; this make-up took ten years off her age благодаря косметике она выглядит на десять лет моложе; they took it out of his pay они удержали это из его зарплаты; take 20 per cent off the price снизить цену на двадцать процентов; take a turn off the programme снять выступление /номер/, исключить выступление /номер/ из программы; take the dead leaves and branches off a plant обобрать сухие листья и ветви с растения; take the lid off the saucepan (a saucepan off the fire, etc.) снимать крышку с кастрюли и т.д.; take smb. off smth. take him off his work отстранять его от работы; take her off the assignment отобрать у нее это поручение; take them off the list вычеркнуть их из списка || take smth., smb. off smb.'s hands избавлять кого-л. от чего-л., кого-л.; I'll take it off your hands at t 10 я куплю это у вас за десять фунтов
    15) take smth. in smth. take the first prize in a competition (the highest mark in a subject, the first prize in Latin, first class honours in the tripos examination, etc.) получить первый приз на соревнованиях и т.д.; take the first place in a chess tournament занять первое место в шахматном турнире; take smth. at some place take one's degree at Oxford получать степень в Оксфорде; take i 100 at Ascot выиграть сто фунтов на скачках в Аскете
    16) || take a liking /а fancy/ to smth., smb. проникнуться добрыми чувствами к кому-л., чему-л.; he took a liking to this house (to this village, to a picture, etc.) ему понравился этот дом и т.д.; he took a liking to my sister ему приглянулась моя сестра; take a dislike to smb., smth. невзлюбить кого-л., что-л.; she took a dislike to me я ей не понравился; take an interest in smb., smth. заинтересоваться кем-л., чем-л.; take an interest in politics (in one's work, in one's neighbours, etc.) интересоваться политикой и т.д., проявлять интерес к политике и т.д.
    17) || take time over smth. не спешить делать что-л.; take one's time over the job не спеша выполнять работу; he took an hour over his dinner он обедал целый час
    19) take a certain size in smth. take tens in boots (sixes in gloves, etc.) носить десятый размер обуви и т.д.
    20) take smth. in (at) some place take one's meals in a hotel (at a restaurant, etc.) питаться в гостинице и т.д.; take the waters at a spa лечиться водами на курорте; take smth. with (in) smth. take cream with one's coffee (sugar in one's tea, etc.) пить кофе со сливками и т.д.; take smth. for smth. take an aspirin for a headache (some new medicine for one's liver, pills for insomnia, etc.) принимать аспирин от головной боли и т.д.; take smth. after (before, with) smth. take one tablet after each meal (a spoonful before dinner, a pill with milk, etc.) принимать по одной таблетке после каждой еды и т.д.
    21) take smth. to (at, for, etc.) smth. take tickets to the theatre (a box at the opera, seats for Hamlet, etc.) брать /покупать/ билеты в театр и т.д.
    22) take smb. in smth. take smb. in a new dress (in cap and gown, in a swim-suit, etc.) сфотографировать /снять/ кого-л. /, сделать чей-л. снимок/ в новом платье и т.д.; take smth. from smth. take a print from a negative отпечатать фотографию с негатива
    23) take smb., smth. for smb., smth. take you for someone else (him for an Englishman, the painting for a genuine Rembrandt, everything for truth, etc.) принимать вас за кого-то другого и т.д.; what do you take me for? за кого вы меня принимаете?; do you take me for a fool? вы что, меня дураком считаете?; take smb., smth. at (on) smth. they take the total population of the country at two and a half million они считают /полагают/, что население страны равно двум с половиной миллионам человек; I suppose we must take it at that я полагаю, мы должны поставить на этом точку; I take it on your say-so я соглашаюсь с этим, потому что вы так говорите /доверяю вам/
    24) take some subject's) in (at) smth. take as many subjects as possible in one's university days в студенческие годы изучать как можно больше дисциплин; she took four courses in her freshman year на первом курсе она изучала четыре предмета; she took French at school французский язык она изучала в школе; take smth. for (as) smth. I shall take this topic for my composition я возьму эту тему для сочинения; he took China as his subject oil выбрал Китай в качестве темы || take smth. in the examination сдавать экзамен по какому-л. предмету; take French in the exam держать экзамен по французскому языку
    25) take smb. in smth. take children in German давать детям уроки немецкого языка; take him in Latin заниматься с ним по латыни /латынью/
    26) take smth. during /at/ smth. take notes during /at/ a lecture вести конспект во время лекции, записывать лекцию; take smth. of smth. take notes of all he says (of all that passes, etc.) записывать все, что он говорит и т.д.; take minutes of the proceedings веста протокол заседания; take smth. on (in, by, from) smth. take a broadcast on tape (an film, etc.) записывать передачу на магнитную ленту и т.д.; take the minutes of a meeting in /by/ shorthand стенографировать протокол; take smth. from dictation писать что-л. под диктовку; take a letter from dictation писать письмо под диктовку
    27) take smth. from smth., smb. take its title from the name of the hero (a name from the place of battle, its name from the inventor, etc.) называться /получить название/ по имени героя и т.д.; take a passage from a book (a whole passage straight from Dickens, a quotation from his novel, etc.) взять отрывок из книги и т.д.; we take our numbers from the Arabs (our letters from the Romans, etc.) наша система цифр идет от /заимствована у/ арабов и т.д.
    28) take smb. in smth. the cold took me in the chest у меня [от простуды] заложило грудь
    29) take smth. to smth. take the next turning (road, street, etc.) to the left (to the right) свернуть налево (направо) у следующего поворота и т.д.; take the road to London (to the North, etc.) поехать по дороге [, ведущей] в Лондон и т.д.
    30) take smb. (in)to (through, across, etc.) some place take the man to the hospital (your friend to the station, the box to the hotel, her into the country, etc.) отправить /отвезти/ человека в больницу и т.д. ; they took him into a small room (into prison, into a cell, etc.) ere отвели или поместили в маленькую комнату и т.д.; the road (this path, the street, etc.) will take you to the river (to the village, through the centre of the town, etc.) эта дорога и т.д. приведет вас к реке и т.д.; the bus will take you into town (to London, etc.) этот автобус привезет /доставит/ вас в город и т.д.; only a tram will take you across the bridge через мост можно проехать только трамваем; take him over the house (the visitors round a museum, etc.) водить его по дому /показывать ему дом/ и т.д.; the work (business, etc.) took us to Paris эта работа и т.д. привела нас в Париж; take smb. into custody взять кого-л. под стражу; take smb. to smb. take a son to his mother отвести сына к матери; take smb. out of smth. take her out of the room выведите ее из комнаты; take him out of my way уберите его с моей дороги; take smth. from (out of, etc.) smth. take the case from court to court передавать дело из одного суда в другой; take the case out of court забрать дело из суда
    31) take smb. through smth. take the boy through a book (through the first two chapters, through his first job, etc.) помочь мальчику прочесть книгу и т.д.; take smb. through college помочь кому-л. [деньгами] окончить колледж; save enough money to take you through college скопить достаточную сумму [денег], чтобы заплатить за обучение в колледже
    32) aux || take pride in smth. гордиться чем-л.; take pride in his schoolwork (in one's appearance, in one's house and garden, etc.) гордиться своей работой или своими успехами в школе и т.д.; take credit for smth. приписывать себе /ставить себе в заслугу/ что-л.; he took credit for my work он приписал себе мои достижения; take offence at smth. обижаться /сердиться/ на что-л.; take offence at his remarks /at what he said/ сердиться на его замечания; take part in smth. принимать участие в чем-л.; take part in an enterprise (in the demonstration, in smb.'s sorrows, etc.) принимать участие в предприятии и т.д.; take pity on smb. пожалеть кого-л.; сжалиться над кем-л.; take pity on the poor man (on the losers, on the boy, etc.) пожалеть несчастного человека и т.д.; take notice of smb., smth. обратить внимание на кого-л., что-л.; don't take notice of him не обращайте на него внимания; take charge of smth., smb. принимать на себя ответственность за что-л., кого-л., take charge of the luggage (of the house, of the children, etc.) заняться багажом и т.д.; who is taking charge of the work while you are away? кто руководит работой в ваше отсутствие?; take care of smth., smb. (по)заботиться о чем-л., ком-л.; he will take care of that matter (of the account, etc.) он займется этим вопросом и т.д.; she will take саге of the baby она присмотрит за ребенком; take possession of smth. завладеть чем-л.; take hold of smth., smb. ухватиться за что-л., кого-л.; take hold of the rope (of the rail, of her arm, of the man, etc.) ухватиться за веревку и т.д.; take smb., smth. in hand взять кого-л., что-л. в руки; he took himself firmly in hand он взял себя в руки, он овладел собой; take smth., smb. into consideration /into account/ принимать что-л., кого-л. во внимание; take all these facts (the circumstances, her request, etc.) into consideration /into account/ принять во внимание /учесть/ все эти факты и т.д.; take it into one's head to do smth. (that...) coll. забрать себе в голову сделать что-л. (, что...)
    33) aux take smth. in (at, after, on, etc.) smth. take a seat in the rear сесть /занять место/ позади /сзади/; take a swing at the ball замахнуться для удара по мячу; take a nap after dinner вздремнуть после обеда; take an oath on smth. поклясться в чем-л. || take a glance round one бросить взгляд вокруг, оглядеться; take leave of smb. попрощаться с кем-л.

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > take13

  • 82 вести

    1) (вн.; помогать идти) lead (d), guide (d); direct (d)

    вести́ слепо́го — lead a blind man

    2) (вн.; возглавлять) lead (d)

    вести́ войска́ — lead the armies

    3) (вн.; управлять транспортным средством) drive (d); operate (d)

    вести́ маши́ну [соста́в] — drive a car [train]

    вести́ кора́бль — navigate / steer a ship

    вести́ самолёт — pilot / fly a plane

    4) (сов. провести́) (вн.; прокладывать) lay (d); build (d)

    вести́ газопрово́д — lay a gas main

    5) (сов. провести́) (тв.; двигать) move (d)

    вести́ смычко́м по стру́нам — run one's bow over the strings

    вести́ па́льцем по стро́чкам — follow the lines with one's finger

    6) (сов. привести́) (к; куда-л; о дороге, тропе и т.п.) lead (to); ( о двери) open (on), lead (to)

    куда́ ведёт э́та доро́га? — where does this road lead to?

    7) (сов. привести́) (к дт.; иметь следствия) lead to, result in

    э́то ни к чему́ не ведёт — this is leading nowhere

    8) (вн.; осуществлять, поддерживать) have (d), lead (d); carry on (d)

    вести́ разгово́р (о) — talk (about)

    вести́ перегово́ры (с тв.) — negotiate (with), carry on negotiations (with)

    вести́ перепи́ску (с тв.) — correspond (with), be in correspondence (with)

    вести́ бой — fight an action / battle, be engaged in battle

    вести́ ого́нь (по дт.) — fire (on); (снарядами тж.) shell (d)

    вести́ войну́ — wage war, fight a war

    вести́ борьбу́ (с тв.) — combat (d), struggle (against, with), carry on a struggle (against, with)

    вести́ кампа́нию — carry on a campaign

    вести́ проце́сс (с тв.) юр. — carry on a lawsuit (against), be at law (with)

    вести́ нау́чную рабо́ту — do research, be a researcher

    вести́ пра́вильный о́браз жи́зни — lead a regular life

    вести́ расска́з — tell a story

    9) (вн.; руководить) conduct (d), direct (d)

    вести́ кружо́к — conduct / run a circle

    вести́ собра́ние — preside over a meeting

    вести́ (чьё-л) хозя́йство — keep house (for smb)

    вести́ чьи-л дела́ — run the affairs (of)

    10) (вн.; заниматься кем-чем-л, отвечать за кого-что-л) be in charge (of); be responsible (for); take care (of)

    кто ведёт э́тот уча́сток рабо́ты? — who's in charge of this area of work?

    врач вёл пацие́нта три го́да — the physician advised the patient for three years

    11) спорт ( опережать) be in the lead

    вести́ в счёте — lead the score

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    вести́ счета́ [кни́ги] — keep account(s) [the books]

    вести́ себя́ — conduct oneself, behave

    вести́ себя́ ду́рно (гл. обр. о ребёнке) — misbehave

    веди́ себя́ хорошо́! — behave yourself!

    вести́ стол (быть тамадой) — do the honours

    вести́ своё нача́ло (от) — take rise (in), have its origin (in), originate (from / in)

    вести́ своё нача́ло от кого́-л — originate with / from smb

    вести́ свой род (от) — be descended (from)

    и бро́вью / у́хом не вести́ — not to move a muscle; pay no heed

    Новый большой русско-английский словарь > вести

  • 83 отдавать последний долг

    to pay one's last respects/honours мн. ч.

    Русско-английский словарь по общей лексике > отдавать последний долг

  • 84 почесть

    I жен.
    honour, laurels

    царские почести — regal/royal honours

    - воинские почести
    - наряд для последних воинских почестей
    - оказывать почести     II (кого-л./что-л. кем-л./чем-л.; за кого-л./что-л.)
    несовер. - почитать; совер. - почесть; устар.
    esteem, consider

    Русско-английский словарь по общей лексике > почесть

  • 85 high

    high [haɪ]
    haut ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b), 1 (d), 1 (f), 1 (g), 1 (m), 1 (o), 1 (p), 2 (a), 2 (b), 3 (a), 3 (b) élevé ⇒ 1 (b)-(e), 1 (k) grand ⇒ 1 (c), 1 (d) noble ⇒ 1 (e) aigu ⇒ 1 (g) excité ⇒ 1 (s) en haut ⇒ 2 (a)
    (a) (tall) haut;
    ∎ how high is that building? quelle est la hauteur de ce bâtiment?;
    ∎ the walls are three metres high les murs ont ou font trois mètres de haut, les murs sont hauts de trois mètres;
    ∎ the building is eight storeys high c'est un immeuble de ou à huit étages;
    ∎ the highest mountain in the country la plus haute montagne du pays;
    ∎ when I was only so high quand je n'étais pas plus grand que ça
    (b) (above ground level → river, tide) haut; (→ altitude, shelf) haut, élevé;
    ∎ built on high ground construit sur un terrain élevé;
    ∎ the sun was high in the sky le soleil était haut
    (c) (above average → number) grand, élevé; (→ speed, value) grand; (→ cost, price, rate) élevé; (→ salary) élevé, gros (grosse); (→ pressure) élevé, haut; (→ polish) brillant;
    ∎ to the highest degree au plus haut degré, à l'extrême;
    ∎ of the highest importance de première importance;
    ∎ to pay a high price payer le prix fort;
    ∎ to fetch a high price se vendre cher;
    ∎ to make a higher bid faire une offre supérieure, surenchérir;
    ∎ highest bidder surenchérisseur(euse) m,f;
    ∎ she suffers from high blood pressure elle a de la tension;
    ∎ also figurative to play for high stakes jouer gros (jeu);
    ∎ built to withstand high temperatures conçu pour résister à des températures élevées;
    ∎ he has a high temperature il a beaucoup de température ou fièvre;
    ∎ areas of high unemployment des régions à fort taux de chômage;
    ∎ ore with a high mineral content minerai m à haute teneur;
    ∎ milk is high in calcium le lait contient beaucoup de calcium;
    ∎ high winds des vents mpl violents, de grands vents mpl;
    ∎ Mathematics the highest common factor le plus grand commun diviseur
    (d) (better than average → quality) grand, haut; (→ standard) haut, élevé; (→ mark, score) élevé, bon; (→ reputation) bon;
    ∎ our chances of success remain high nos chances de succès restent très bonnes;
    ∎ to have a high opinion of sb avoir une bonne ou haute opinion de qn;
    ∎ he has a high opinion of himself il a une haute idée de lui-même;
    ∎ to have a high profile être très en vue;
    ∎ she speaks of you in the highest terms elle dit le plus grand bien de vous;
    ∎ one of the highest honours in the arts l'un des plus grands honneurs dans le monde des arts;
    ∎ Commerce & Finance high value added à haute valeur ajoutée
    (e) (honourable → ideal, thought) noble, élevé; (→ character) noble;
    ∎ a man of high principles un homme qui a des principes (élevés);
    ∎ he took a very high moral tone il prit un ton très moralisateur;
    ∎ she has very high moral standards elle a des principes (de moralité) très élevés
    ∎ a high official un haut fonctionnaire;
    ∎ we have it on the highest authority nous le tenons de la source la plus sûre;
    ∎ to have friends in high places avoir des relations haut placées, avoir le bras long;
    ∎ of high rank de haut rang
    (g) (sound, voice) aigu(uë); Music (note) haut
    ∎ high summer plein été m;
    ∎ it was high summer c'était au cœur de l'été;
    ∎ it's high time we were leaving il est grand temps qu'on parte
    ∎ resentment was high il y avait énormément de ressentiment;
    ∎ moments of high drama des moments mpl extrêmement dramatiques;
    ∎ high adventure grande aventure f;
    ∎ to be high farce tourner à la farce
    (j) British (complexion) rougeaud, rubicond;
    ∎ to have a high colour avoir le visage congestionné
    (k) (elaborate, formal → language, style) élevé, soutenu
    (l) (prominent → cheekbones) saillant
    (m) Cards haut;
    ∎ the highest card la carte maîtresse
    (n) British (meat) avancé, faisandé; (butter, cheese) rance
    (o) (remote) haut
    ∎ a high Tory un tory ultra-conservateur;
    ∎ a high Anglican un(e) anglican(e) de tendance conservatrice
    (s) (excited) excité, énervé; (cheerful) plein d'entrain, enjoué;
    ∎ to be in high spirits être plein d'entrain;
    ∎ our spirits were high nous avions le moral;
    ∎ familiar old-fashioned we had a high old time on s'est amusés comme des fous
    ∎ to be high (drugged) planer; figurative (euphoric) être dans un état d'euphorie□ ;
    ∎ high on cocaine défoncé à la cocaïne;
    ∎ figurative they were high on success ils ne se sentaient plus après ce succès;
    ∎ figurative he gets high on sailing il prend son pied en faisant de la voile;
    ∎ they were (as) high as kites (drunk) ils étaient bien partis; (drugged) ils planaient; (happy) ils avaient la pêche
    (a) (at, to a height) haut, en haut; (at a great altitude) à haute altitude, à une altitude élevée;
    ∎ up high en haut;
    ∎ higher up plus haut;
    ∎ higher and higher de plus en plus haut;
    ∎ he raised both hands high il a levé les deux mains en l'air;
    ∎ the kite flew high up in the sky le cerf-volant est monté très haut dans le ciel;
    ∎ she threw the ball high into the air elle a lancé le ballon très haut;
    ∎ the geese flew high over the fields les oies volaient très haut au-dessus des champs;
    ∎ the shelf was high above her head l'étagère était bien au-dessus de sa tête;
    ∎ he rose high in the company il a accédé aux plus hauts échelons de la société;
    ∎ figurative we looked high and low for him nous l'avons cherché partout;
    ∎ figurative to set one's sights high, to aim high viser haut;
    ∎ figurative they're flying high ils visent haut, ils voient grand;
    ∎ also figurative to hold one's head high porter la tête haute;
    ∎ figurative to leave sb high and dry laisser qn en plan
    ∎ they set the price/standards too high ils ont fixé un prix/niveau trop élevé;
    ∎ I turned the heating up high j'ai mis le chauffage à fond;
    ∎ he rose higher in my esteem il est monté encore plus dans mon estime;
    ∎ salaries can go as high as £50,000 les salaires peuvent monter jusqu'à ou atteindre 50 000 livres;
    ∎ I had to go as high as £50 il a fallu que j'aille ou que je monte jusqu'à 50 livres;
    ∎ the card players played high les joueurs de cartes ont joué gros (jeu);
    ∎ to run high (river) être en crue; (sea) être houleuse ou grosse;
    ∎ feelings were running high les esprits se sont échauffés
    (c) (in tone) haut;
    ∎ I can't sing that high je ne peux pas chanter aussi haut
    ∎ to live high off or on the hog vivre comme un roi ou nabab
    3 noun
    (a) (height) haut m;
    ∎ humorous the decision came from on high la décision fut prononcée en haut lieu
    ∎ to reach a new high atteindre un nouveau record;
    ∎ prices are at an all-time high les prix ont atteint leur maximum;
    ∎ the Stock Market reached a new high la Bourse a atteint un nouveau record ou maximum;
    ∎ the highs and lows (of share prices, career, life) les hauts mpl et les bas mpl
    (c) (setting → on iron, stove)
    ∎ I put the oven on high j'ai mis le four sur très chaud
    (d) Cars (fourth gear) quatrième f; (fifth gear) cinquième f
    (e) Meteorology (anticyclone) anticyclone m
    ∎ she's been on a permanent high since he came back elle voit tout en rose depuis son retour
    ∎ Religion the Most High le Très-Haut
    ►► Religion high altar maître-autel m;
    History High Antiquity Haute Antiquité f;
    American Cars high beam feux mpl de route;
    Swimming high board plongeoir m le plus haut;
    high camp (affectation) affectation f, cabotinage m; (effeminate behaviour) manières fpl efféminées; (style) kitsch m;
    high chair chaise f haute (pour enfants);
    British Religion High Church
    1 noun
    = fraction de l'Église d'Angleterre accordant une grande importance à l'autorité du prêtre, au rituel etc
    (a) = de tendance conservatrice dans l'Église anglicane;
    British Religion High Churchman = membre du mouvement conservateur à l'intérieur de l'Église anglicane;
    high comedy Theatre comédie f au dialogue brillant;
    ∎ figurative the debate ended in scenes of high comedy le débat se termina par des scènes du plus haut comique;
    Military high command haut commandement m;
    Administration high commission haut-commissariat m;
    Administration high commissioner haut-commissaire m;
    Law the High Court (of Justice) ≃ le tribunal de grande instance (principal tribunal civil en Angleterre et au pays de Galles);
    Law High Court judge ≃ juge m du tribunal de grande instance;
    Law the High Court of Judiciary = la plus haute instance de justice en Écosse;
    Military high explosive explosif m puissant;
    high fashion haute couture f;
    high fidelity haute-fidélité f;
    high finance haute finance f;
    familiar high five = tape amicale donnée dans la paume de quelqu'un, bras levé, pour le saluer, le féliciter ou en signe de victoire;
    ∎ they always give each other a high five when they meet ils se tapent dans la main à chaque fois qu'ils se voient;
    Electronics high frequency haute fréquence f;
    high gear Cars (fourth) quatrième f (vitesse f); (fifth) cinquième f (vitesse f);
    ∎ figurative they moved into high gear ils se sont dépêchés;
    High German haut allemand m;
    high heels hauts talons mpl;
    high jump Sport saut m en hauteur;
    ∎ British familiar figurative you're for the high jump when he finds out! qu'est-ce que tu vas prendre quand il l'apprendra!;
    Sport high jumper sauteur(euse) m,f (qui fait du saut en hauteur);
    the high life la grande vie;
    ∎ she has a taste for the high life elle a des goûts de luxe;
    ∎ to lead or to live the high life mener la grande vie;
    Religion high mass, High Mass grand-messe f;
    Computing high memory mémoire f haute;
    Computing high memory area zone f de mémoire haute;
    History the High Middle Ages le Haut Moyen Âge;
    high noon plein midi m;
    ∎ at high noon à midi pile;
    American Transport High Occupancy Vehicle = voiture particulière transportant au moins deux passagers;
    Religion high place haut lieu m;
    high point (major event → of news) événement m le plus marquant; (→ of evening, holiday) point m culminant, grand moment m; (→ of film, novel) point m culminant;
    ∎ the high point of the party le clou de la soirée;
    high priest Religion grand prêtre m;
    ∎ figurative the high priests of fashion les gourous mpl de la mode;
    high priestess Religion grande prêtresse f;
    ∎ figurative the high priestess of rock la grande prêtresse du rock;
    Linguistics high register language langage m élevé ou soutenu;
    Art high relief haut-relief m;
    high rise tour f (immeuble);
    high road (main road) route f principale, grand-route f; figurative (most direct route) bonne voie f;
    ∎ he's on the high road to success il est en bonne voie de réussir;
    ∎ the high road to fame la voie de la gloire;
    American familiar high roller (spendthrift) dépensier(ère)□ mf; (gambler) flambeur(euse) m,f;
    high school School (in UK) = établissement d'enseignement secondaire regroupant collège et lycée; (in US) lycée m;
    ∎ she's still at high school elle est toujours scolarisée ou va toujours au lycée;
    the high seas la haute mer;
    ∎ on the high seas en haute ou pleine mer;
    high season haute ou pleine saison f;
    ∎ during the high season en haute ou pleine saison;
    British Administration High Sheriff = dans les comtés anglais et gallois, représentant officiel du monarque;
    American high sign signe m;
    ∎ to give sb the high sign faire signe à qn;
    high society haute société f, grand monde m;
    high spirits pétulance f, vitalité f, entrain m;
    ∎ to be in high spirits avoir de l'entrain, être plein d'entrain;
    ∎ to put sb in high spirits mettre qn de bonne humeur;
    (a) (major event → of news) événement m le plus marquant; (→ of evening, holiday) point m culminant, grand moment m; (→ of film, novel) point m culminant
    (b) American (place) endroit m intéressant;
    ∎ we hit all the high spots (tourists) nous avons vu toutes les attractions touristiques;
    British the high street (street) la grand-rue, la rue principale; (shops) les commerçants mpl, le commerce;
    ∎ Commerce & Economics the high street has been badly hit by the recession les commerçants ont été durement touchés par la récession;
    British high table (for guests of honour) table f d'honneur; School & University table f des professeurs;
    British high tea = repas léger pris en début de soirée et accompagné de thé;
    high tech (technology) technologie f avancée ou de pointe; (style) hi-tech m inv;
    high tide (of ocean, sea) marée f haute; figurative (of success) point m culminant;
    ∎ at high tide à marée haute;
    Theatre high tragedy grande tragédie f;
    high treason haute trahison f;
    Electricity high voltage haute tension f;
    high water (of ocean, sea) marée f haute; (of river) crue f;
    ∎ the river is at high water le fleuve est en crue;
    high wire corde f raide ou de funambule;
    ∎ to walk the high wire marcher sur la corde raide
    ✾ Film 'High Noon' Zinnemann 'Le Train sifflera trois fois'

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  • 86 Beau de Rochas, Alphonse Eugène

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    b. 1815 France
    d. 1893 France
    [br]
    French railway engineer, patentee of a four-stroke cycle engine.
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    Renowned more for his ideas on technical matters than his practical deeds, Beau de Rochas was a prolific thinker. Within a few years he proposed a rail tunnel beneath the English Channel, a submarine telegraph, a new kind of drive for canal boats, the use of steel for high-pressure boilers and a method of improving the adhesion of locomotive wheels travelling the Alps.
    The most notable of Beau de Rochas's ideas occurred in 1862 when he was employed as Ingenieur Attaché to the Central de Chemins. With remarkable foresight, he expressed the theoretical considerations for the cycle of operations for the now widely used four-stroke cycle engine. A French patent of 1862 lapsed with a failure to pay the annuity and thus the proposals for a new motive power lapsed into obscurity. Resurrected some twenty years later, the Beau de Rochas tract figures prominently in patent litigation cases. In 1885, a German court upheld a submission by a German patent lawyer that Otto's four-stroke engine of 1876 infringed the Beau de Rochas patent. It remains a mystery why Beau de Rochas never emerged at any time to defend his claims. In France he is regarded as the inventor of the four-stroke cycle engine.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale, prize of 3000 francs, 1891.
    Bibliography
    1885, The Engineer 60:441 (an English translation of the Beau de Rochas tract).
    Further Reading
    B.Donkin, 1900, The Gas, Oil and Air Engine, London: p. 467.
    See also: Langen, Eugen
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  • 87 Clerke, Sir Clement

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
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    d. 1693
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    English entrepreneur responsible, with others, for attempts to introduce coal-fired smelting of lead and, later, of copper.
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    Clerke, from Launde Abbey in Leicestershire, was involved in early experiments to smelt lead using coal fuel, which was believed to have been located on the Leicestershire-Derbyshire border. Concurrently, Lord Grandison was financing experiments at Bristol for similar purposes, causing the downfall of an earlier unsuccessful patented method before securing his own patent in 1678. In that same year Clerke took over management of the Bristol works, claiming the ability to secure financial return from Grandison's methods. Financial success proved elusive, although the technical problems of adapting the reverberatory furnace to coal fuel appear to have been solved when Clerke was found to have established another lead works nearby on his own account. He was forced to cease work on lead in 1684 in respect of Grandison's patent rights. Clerke then turned to investigations into the coal-fired smelting of other metals and started to smelt copper in coal-fired reverberatory furnaces. By 1688–9 small supplied of merchantable copper were offered for sale in London in order to pay his workers, possibly because of further financial troubles. The practical success of his smelting innovation is widely acknowledged to have been the responsibility of John Coster and, to a smaller extent, Gabriel Wayne, both of whom left Clerke and set up separate works elsewhere. Clerke's son Talbot took over administration of his father's works, which declined still further and closed c. 1693, at about the time of Sir Clement's death. Both Coster and Wayne continued to develop smelting techniques, establishing a new British industry in the smelting of copper with coal.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Created baronet 1661.
    Further Reading
    Rhys Jenkins, 1934, "The reverberatory furnace with coal fuel", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 34:67–81.
    —1943–4, "Copper smelting in England: Revival at the end of the seventeenth century", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 24:78–80.
    J.Morton, 1985, The Rise of the Modern Copper and Brass Industry: 1690 to 1750, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Birmingham, 87–106.
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  • 88 Edison, Thomas Alva

    [br]
    b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA
    d. 18 October 1931 Glenmont
    [br]
    American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.
    [br]
    He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.
    At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.
    Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.
    He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.
    Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.
    Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.
    Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.
    In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.
    On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.
    Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.
    In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.
    In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.
    In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.
    In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.
    In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.
    Further Reading
    M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.
    R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.
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  • 89 Ferguson, Harry

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    b. 4 November 1884 County Down, Ireland
    d. 25 October 1960 England
    [br]
    Irish engineer who developed a tractor hydraulic system for cultivation equipment, and thereby revolutionized tractor design.
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    Ferguson's father was a small farmer who expected his son to help on the farm from an early age. As a result he received little formal education, and on leaving school joined his brother in a backstreet workshop in Belfast repairing motor bikes. By the age of 19 he had built his own bike and began hill-climbing competitions and racing. His successes in these ventures gained useful publicity for the workshop. In 1907 he built his own car and entered it into competitions, and in 1909 became the first person in Britain to build and fly a machine that was heavier than air.
    On the outbreak of the First World War he was appointed by the Irish Department of Agriculture to supervise the operation and maintenance of all farm tractors. His experiences convinced him that even the Ford tractor and the implements available for it were inadequate for the task, and he began to experiment with his own plough designs. The formation of the Ferguson-Sherman Corporation resulted in the production of thousands of the ploughs he had designed for the Ford tractor, but in 1928 Ford discontinued production of tractors, and Ferguson returned to Ireland. He immediately began to design his own tractor. Six years of development led to the building of a prototype that weighed only 16 cwt (813kg). In 1936 David Brown of Huddersfield, Yorkshire, began production of these tractors for Ferguson, but the partnership was not wholly successful and was dissolved after three years. In 1939 Ferguson and Ford reached their famous "Handshake agreement", in which no formal contract was signed, and the mass production of the Ford Ferguson system tractors began that year. During the next nine years 300,000 tractors and a million implements were produced under this agreement. However, on the death of Henry Ford the company began production, under his son, of their own tractor. Ferguson returned to the UK and negotiated a deal with the Standard Motor Company of Coventry for the production of his tractor. At the same time he took legal action against Ford, which resulted in that company being forced to stop production and to pay damages amounting to US$9.5 million.
    Aware that his equipment would only operate when set up properly, Ferguson established a training school at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire which was to be a model for other manufacturers. In 1953, by amicable agreement, Ferguson amalgamated with the Massey Harris Company to form Massey Ferguson, and in so doing added harvesting machinery to the range of equipment produced. A year later he disposed of his shares in the new company and turned his attention again to the motor car. Although a number of experimental cars were produced, there were no long-lasting developments from this venture other than a four-wheel-drive system based on hydraulics; this was used by a number of manufacturers on occasional models. Ferguson's death heralded the end of these developments.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Honorary DSc Queen's University, Belfast, 1948.
    Further Reading
    C.Murray, 1972, Harry Ferguson, Inventor and Pioneer. John Murray.
    AP

    Biographical history of technology > Ferguson, Harry

  • 90 Goodyear, Charles

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    b. 29 December 1800 New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    d. 1 July 1860 New York, USA
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    American inventor of the vulcanization of rubber.
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    Goodyear entered his father's country hardware business before setting up his own concern in Philadelphia. While visiting New York, he noticed in the window of the Roxburgh India Rubber Company a rubber life-preserver. Goodyear offered to improve its inflating valve, but the manager, impressed with Goodyear's inventiveness, persuaded him to tackle a more urgent problem, that of seeking a means of preventing rubber from becoming tacky and from melting or decomposing when heated. Goodyear tried treatments with one substance after another, without success. In 1838 he started using Nathaniel M.Hayward's process of spreading sulphur on rubber. He accidentally dropped a mass of rubber and sulphur on to a hot stove and noted that the mixture did not melt: Goodyear had discovered the vulcanization of rubber. More experiments were needed to establish the correct proportions for a uniform mix, and eventually he was granted his celebrated patent no. 3633 of 15 June 1844. Goodyear's researches had been conducted against a background of crippling financial difficulties and he was forced to dispose of licences to vulcanize rubber at less than their real value, in order to pay off his most pressing debts.
    Goodyear travelled to Europe in 1851 to extend his patents. To promote his process, he designed a spectacular exhibit for London, consisting of furniture, floor covering, jewellery and other items made of rubber. A similar exhibit in Paris in 1855 won him the Grande Médaille d'honneur and the Croix de la Légion d'honneur from Napoleon III. Patents were granted to him in all countries except England. The improved properties of vulcanized rubber and its stability over a much wider range of temperatures greatly increased its applications; output rose from a meagre 31.5 tonnes a year in 1827 to over 28,000 tonnes by 1900. Even so, Goodyear profited little from his invention, and he bequeathed to his family debts amounting to over $200,000.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Grande Médaille d'honneur 1855. Croix de la Légion d'honneur 1855.
    Bibliography
    15 June 1844, US patent no. 3633 (vulcanization of rubber).
    1853, Gum Elastic and Its Varieties (includes some biographical material).
    Further Reading
    B.K.Pierce, 1866, Trials of an Inventor: Life and Discoveries of Charles Goodyear.
    H.Allen, 1989, Charles Goodyear: An Intimate Biographical Sketch, Akron, Ohio: Goodyear Tire \& Rubber Company.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Goodyear, Charles

  • 91 Nipkow, Paul Gottlieb

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    b. 22 August 1860 Lauenburg, Pommern (now Lebork, Poland)
    d. 24 August 1940 Berlin, Germany
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    Polish electrical engineer who invented the Nipkow television scanning disc.
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    In 1884, while still a student engineer, Nipkow patented a mechanical television pick-up device using a disc with a spiral of twenty-four holes rotating at 600 rpm in front of a selenium cell. He also proposed a display on an identical synchronous disc in conjunction with a light-modulator based on the Faraday effect. Unfortunately it was not possible to realize a working system at the time because of the slow response of selenium cells and the lack of suitable electronic-sig-nal amplifiers; he was unable to pay the extension fees and so the patent lapsed. Others took up the idea, however, and in 1907 pictures were sent between London and Paris by wire. Subsequently, the principle was used by Baird, Ives, and Jenkins.
    For most of his working life after obtaining his doctorate, Nipkow was employed as an engineer by a company that made railway-signalling equipment, but his pioneering invention was finally recognized in 1934 when he was made Honorary President of the newly formed German Television Society.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, German Television Society 1934.
    Bibliography
    1884, German patent no. 30,105 (Nipkow's pioneering method of television image-scanning).
    Further Reading
    R.W.Hubbell, 1946, 4,000 Years of Television, London: G.Harrap \& Co.
    KF

    Biographical history of technology > Nipkow, Paul Gottlieb

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