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41 distinguishing
a отличительный; характерныйСинонимический ряд:1. typical (adj.) characteristic; different; differentiating; distinctive; idiosyncratic; illustrative; individual; particular; peculiar; peculiar to one; representative; specific; typical2. characterizing (verb) characterizing; individualizing; individuating; qualifying; signalizing; singularizing3. exalting (verb) aggrandizing; dignifying; erecting; exalting; glorifying; honoring; magnifying; pedestaling or pedestalling; subliming4. honouring (verb) distinguishing; elevating; ennobling; honouring; signalising5. identifying (verb) diagnosing; fingering; identifying; pinpointing; placing; recognizing; spotting6. marking (verb) characterising; differentiating; discerning; discriminating; extricating; individualising; knowing; make out; marking; pick out; separating; set apart; severing; telling7. seeing (verb) beholding; descrying; espying; minding; noticing; noting; observing; perceiving; remarking; seeing; twigging; viewing -
42 Constitution Cords
These are very heavy cotton cloths and the broadest cords made. Heavy fustian looms are required to weave them. The design is usually on 12 ends and 12 picks requiring 8 staves. A variety made in Oldham is 31 in full 42 reed 300 picks per inch 2/30's twist 18's weft. The reed and weft vary every alternate pile pick is securely, bound in the cloth which makes it firm. Constitutions and cables have broad floats or races, which are some distance apart and are usually cut by machines of two kinds. No 1 machine is provided with a number of circular discs corresponding to that of the races to be cut. These discs are mounted on a revolving shaft and as the cloth passes underneath the discs sever the float threads. No 2 comprises a specially formed knife supported in a moveable holder, which is traversed laterally the distance from one cord to another, after each length of cut is completed. The cloth to be cut is presented to the knife at a convenient angle, and is caused to meet the edge of the knife by means of revolving rollers around one of which it is wound as the cutting proceeds. The machine has an automatic stop motion which operates immediately a fault is made.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Constitution Cords
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43 Counting Glass
A small instrument used for counting the number of threads to the inch in a fabric. The Manchester Testing House method is as follows: - The glass is placed in such a position that the extreme edge of the first thread can only just be seen; this is counted as the first thread. If the actual number of threads per inch is required, there is no better method than to measure off six inches, and count all the threads from end to end. This can be done under a glass, marking each tenth thread as a check upon the result; the ink marks should be at equal distances apart if the counting is correct, and in other ways this method facilitates correctness. At the, Manchester Testing House ten counts of reed or pick are generally made from different parts of the cloth, and the average of these is accepted. -
44 Velvet
Originally velvet was a fabric made with a short dense pile woven from silk warp. Now the term is applied to fabrics made partly of silk or rayon, and partly of other materials, and to fabrics made entirely of other yarns, besides being indiscriminately confused with velveteen, which is a weft pile texture. There is a constructional difference between warp and weft pile textures. In warp pile velvets the length of the pile is determined by the size of the pile wire, or in other ways, and the pile is cut in the loom. Many velvets are woven double, face-to-face, and cut apart while on the loom. In weft pile velvets the length of pile- is determined by the length of the pile weft floats, and the pile is cut in a supplementary operation after the cloth has left the loom. The distinguishing feature of velvet is a succession of rows of short cut tufts of fibres standing so close together as to present a uniform surface with a rich appearance and entrancing softness to the touch. The quality of velvets is determined by the closeness of the pile tufts and the manner in which they are bound to the ground texture. Various weaves are used according to the weight of fabrics, yarns used, and density of pile desired. The binding of the tufts usually follows one or two systems, either single tufts which are held by only one binding pick, as shown at S, or fast pile tufts which are interwoven with three weft picks as shown at W.
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45 Keller, Arthur
[br]b. 18 August 1901 New York City, New York, USA d. 1983[br]American engineer and developer of telephone switching equipment who was instrumental in the development of electromechanical recording and stereo techniques.[br]He obtained a BSc in electrical engineering at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, in 1923 and an MSc from Yale University, and he did postgraduate work at Columbia University. Most of the time he was also on the staff of the Bell Telephone Laboratories. The Bell Laboratories and its predecessors had a long tradition in research in speech and hearing, and in a team of researchers under H.C. Harrison, Keller developed a number of definite improvements in electrical pick-ups, gold-sputtering for matrix work and electrical disc recording equipment. From 1931 onwards the team at Bell Labs developed disc recording for moving pictures and entered into collaboration with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra concerning transmission and recording of high-fidelity sound over wires, and stereo techniques. Keller developed a stereo recording system for disc records independently of A.D. Blumlein that was used experimentally in the Bell Labs during the 1930s. During the Second World War Keller was in a team developing sonar (sound navigation and ranging) for the US Navy. After the war he concentrated on switching equipment for telephone exchanges and developed a miniature relay. In 1966 he retired from the Bell Laboratories, where he had been Director of several departments, ending as Director of the Switching Apparatus Laboratory. After retirement he was a consultant internationally, concerning electromechanical devices in particular. When, in 1980, the Bell Laboratories decided to issue LP re-recordings of a number of the experimental records made during the 1930s, Keller was brought in from retirement to supervise the project and decide on the selections.[br]BibliographyKeller was inventor or co-inventor of forty patents, including: US patent no. 2,114,471 (the principles of stereo disc recording); US patent no. 2,612,586 (tape guides with air lubrication); US patent no. 3,366,901 (a miniature crossbar switch).Apart from a large number of highly technical papers, Keller also wrote the article "Phonograph" in the 1950 and 1957 editions of Encyclopaedia Britannica.1986, Reflections of a Stereo Pioneer, San Francisco: San Francisco Press (an honest, personal account).GB-N
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