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1 район первоочередного освоения

priority development area

Russian-English dictionary of construction > район первоочередного освоения
2 zone

zone [zon]

1. feminine noun

a. zone ; (Transport) travel zone

• zone d'élevage (Agriculture) cattle-breeding area

• zone de pêche fishing zone

• zone d'influence (d'un pays) sphere of influence (of a country)

• la zone des combats the combat zone

• zone de haute/basse pression area of high/low pressure

• dans cette affaire, des zones d'ombre subsistent encore some aspects of this business remain very unclear

• de troisième zone (figurative) third-rate

b. la zone (inf) ( = quartiers pauvres) the slums ; ( = marginalité) the dropout lifestyle

• c'est la zone ! it's the pits! (inf)

• enlève ce bric-à-brac de ton jardin, ça fait zone (inf) get rid of that junk in your garden, it looks like a tip (inf)

2. compounds

► zone d'activités business park

► zone d'aménagement concerté urban development zone

► zone artisanale (small) industrial estate (Brit) or park (US)

► zone bleue ≈ restricted parking zone

► zone dangereuse danger zone

► zone de dépression or dépressionnaire trough of low pressure

► zone de dialogue (Computing) dialogue (Brit) or dialog (US) box

► zone d'éducation prioritaire area targeted for special help in education

► zone d'environnement protégé environmentally protected zone

► zone franche free zone

► zone frontalière border area

► zone industrielle industrial estate (Brit) or park (US)

► zone interdite no-go area

► zone libre (French history) unoccupied France

• passer/se réfugier en zone libre to enter/take refuge in the unoccupied zone ► zone de libre-échange free trade area

► zone monétaire monetary zone

► zone occupée (French history) occupied zone

► zone piétonne or piétonnière pedestrian precinct

► zone à risque (catastrophes naturelles) disaster-prone area ; (criminalité) high-risk area

► zone tampon (Military) buffer zone ; (Computing) buffer

► zone de turbulences (Aviation) area of turbulence ; (figurative) trouble spot

► zone urbaine urban area

► zone urbaine sensible priority zone for urban regeneration

► zone à urbaniser en priorité urban development zone

* * *
zon
nom féminin

1) ( secteur) zone, area

zone interdite — no-go area GB, off-limits area; ( sur un panneau) no entry

2) fig ( domaine) area

zone de recherche — area of research

3) ( banlieue pauvre)

la zone — the slum belt

de seconde zone — second-rate

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Phrasal Verbs:

- zone d'activités

- zone d'aménagement concerté

- zone artisanale

- zone bleue

- zone d'environnement protégé

- zone euro

- zone industrielle

- zone libre

- zone de libre-échange

- zone occupée

- zone sinistrée

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zon nf
1) (= lieu) zone, area

2) INFORMATIQUE field

3) (quartiers défavorisés)

la zone — the slum belt

4) * (= désordre)

c'est la zone! — it's a pit in here!

5) (autre locution)

de seconde zone — second-rate

* * *

zone nf

1 ( secteur) zone, area; zone de radiation/combat radiation/combat zone; zone de pêche fishing zone; zone de cultures agricultural area; zone de turbulences Météo area of turbulence; zone interdite no-go area GB, off-limits area; ( sur un panneau) no entry;

2 fig ( domaine) area; zone de recherche area of research; zone floue/d'ombre blurred/shady area;

3 ( banlieue pauvre) la zone the slum belt; de seconde zone second-rate.

Composés

zone d'activités business park; zone d'aménagement concerté, ZAC Admin integrated development zone; zone d'aménagement différé, ZAD Admin area set aside for development; zone artisanale small industrial estate GB ou park; zone bleue Aut restricted parking zone; zone de chalandise Admin, Comm catchment area; zone de données Ordinat data field; zone d'environnement protégé environmental protection zone; zone érogène Physiol erogenous zone; zone euro Euro Zone; zone d'exclusion aérienne Mil no-fly zone; zone franc Fin franc area; zone franche Écon free zone; zone frontière border area; zone industrielle industrial estate GB ou park US; zone d'influence Pol sphere ou area of influence; zone libre Hist unoccupied France; zone de libre-échange Écon free-trade area; zone monétaire Fin monetary area; zone occupée Hist occupied France; zone postale Postes postal area ou zone GB, zone of improved postage, ZIP US; zone sterling Fin sterling area; zone sensible lit potential trouble-spot; fig potential trouble area; zone sinistrée Admin disaster area; zone tampon Mil, Pol buffer zone; zone à urbaniser en priorité, ZUP priority development area.

[zon] nom féminin

1. [domaine] zone, area

zone de flou ou d'incertitude ou d'ombre grey area

la zone d'activité du directeur commercial the commercial manager's area

la zone d'influence de l'Asie Asia's sphere of influence

2. ANATOMIE

zone érogène erogenous zone

3. ADMINISTRATION [surface délimitée] area, zone

zone d'aménagement concerté → link=ZAC ZAC

zone bleue restricted parking area

zone industrielle industrial estate (UK) ou park (US)

zone piétonnière ou piétonne pedestrian area ou precinct (UK)

zone résidentielle residential area

zone de stationnement interdit no parking area

zone à urbaniser en priorité → link=ZUP ZUP

ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE

zones des salaires wage bands subject to the same percentage reduction

4. HISTOIRE

zone libre/occupée unoccupied/occupied France

5. GÉOGRAPHIE

zone désertique desert belt

zone forestière forest belt

zone glaciale/tempérée/torride frigid/temperate/torrid zone

zone de végétation vegetation zone

6. MÉTÉOROLOGIE

zone de dépression, zone dépressionnaire trough of low pressure

7. GÉOLOGIE & MATHÉMATIQUES zone

8. FINANCE

zone franc franc area monetary zone where the franc was the principal currency

zone monétaire monetary zone

9. INFORMATIQUE

zone de données data field

zone de mémoire storage area

10. MILITAIRE

zone d'exclusion aérienne no-fly zone

zone tampon buffer zone

11. (péjoratif)

c'est la zone

a. (familier) [quartier pauvre] it's a really rough area

b. [désordre] it's a real mess ou tip

cette famille, c'est vraiment la zone they're real dropouts in that family

de deuxième zone locution adjectivale

second-rate, second-class

de troisième zone locution adjectivale

third-rate

ZONE

1. The Paris area is divided into fare zones for public transport. Zones 1 and 2 cover metropolitan Paris and certain areas of the nearby suburbs. The remaining zones cover the outer suburbs: j'habite en zone 3, une carte orange quatre zones.

2. France is divided into three zones (A, B and C), the schools in the different zones taking their mid-term breaks and Easter holidays at different times to avoid swamping the roads, the public transport system and tourist infrastructure.

Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > zone
3 зона первоочерёдной городской застройки

Construction: preferential urbanization area, priority development area

Универсальный русско-английский словарь > зона первоочерёдной городской застройки
4 район первоочерёдного освоения

Construction: priority development area

Универсальный русско-английский словарь > район первоочерёдного освоения
5 zone à urbaniser en priorité

f
(ZUP) priority development area

Dictionnaire d'ingénierie, d'architecture et de construction > zone à urbaniser en priorité
6 ZUP

f
(zone à urbaniser en priorité) priority development area

Dictionnaire d'ingénierie, d'architecture et de construction > ZUP
7 zona

f.

1 zone, area (espacio).

¿vives por la zona? do you live around here? (por aquí)

ésta es la zona de copas de la ciudad this is the center of the city's nightlife

zona azul restricted parking zone (de estacionamiento)

zona de carga y descarga loading bay

zona catastrófica disaster area

zona comercial shopping area

zona erógena erogenous zone

zona de exclusión exclusion zone

zona euro euro zone

zona franca (commerce) free-trade zone

zona de guerra war zone

zona de libre comercio free-trade zone

zona peatonal pedestrian precinct

zona protegida conservation area (natural)

zona residencial residential area

zona verde park, green area; (grande) lawn (pequeña)

2 key.

3 zona.

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zona

► nombre femenino

1 area

2 (fronteriza, militar) zone

► nombre masculino

1 MEDICINA (herpes) shingles

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FRASEOLOGÍA

zona azul parking meter zone

zona edificada built-up area

zona fronteriza border zone

zona glacial frigid zone

zona templada temperate zone

zona tórrida torrid zone

zona verde green zone

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noun f.

area, district, zone

* * *

SF

1) [en país, región] area

las zonas afectadas por las inundaciones — the areas affected by flooding

las zonas más ricas/remotas/deprimidas del país — the richest/remotest/most depressed areas o parts of the country

la zona norte/sur/este/oeste de la isla — the northern/southern/eastern/western part of the island

comimos en uno de los restaurantes típicos de la zona — we ate in a restaurant typical of the area, we ate in a typical local restaurant

• zonas costeras — coastal areas

• zona montañosa o de montaña — mountainous area, mountainous region

• zonas rurales — rural areas

• zonas turísticas — tourist areas

• zonas urbanas — urban areas

zona catastrófica — disaster area

zona de combate — combat zone

zona de conflicto — (Mil) conflict zone

zona de desarrollo — development area

zona de exclusión (aérea) — (air) exclusion zone

zona de guerra — war zone

zona de influencia — area of influence

zona de libre comercio — free-trade zone, free-trade area

zona de peligro — danger zone, danger area

zona de picnic — picnic area

zona de seguridad — security zone

zona desnuclearizada — nuclear-free zone

zona euro — Eurozone

los países de la zona euro — the Eurozone countries

zona franca — duty-free zone

zona fronteriza — [gen] border area; (Mil) border zone

zona húmeda — wetland

zona industrial — industrial area

zona militar — military zone, military area

zona roja — Esp Republican territory

zona segura — safe zone

2) [en ciudad] area

zona azul — Esp (Aut) ≈ pay-and-display area

zona centro — centre

los aparcamientos de la zona centro — city centre car parks

zona cero — Ground Zero

• zona comercial — [para negocios en general] commercial district; [solo de tiendas] shopping area

• zona de copas, ¿dónde está la zona de copas? — where do people go out to drink?

zona de ensanche — development area

• zona edificada — built-up area

zona marginada — CAm slum area

zona peatonal — pedestrian precinct

zona residencial — residential area

zona roja — LAm red-light district

zona rosa — Méx partly pedestrianized zone, so called because of its pink paving stones

zona verde — green space

3) [en edificio, recinto] area

las zonas comunes de la prisión — the communal areas of the prison

zona de no fumadores — no smoking area

zona ancha — (Dep) midfield

zona de castigo — (Dep) sin bin

zona de penumbra, zona de sombra — (lit) shaded area; (fig) area of secrecy

zona oscura, las zonas oscuras de la personalidad — the hidden areas of the personality

las zonas oscuras de la política — the shady o murky areas of politics

zona técnica — technical area

4) (Geog) zone

zona glacial — glacial zone

zona templada — temperate zone

zona tórrida — torrid zone

5) (Anat, Med) area

las zonas próximas a la columna vertebral — the areas around the spinal column

sentí un dolor por la zona del hombro — I felt a pain around my shoulder

zona erógena — erogenous zone

zona lumbar — lumbar region

6) (Baloncesto) free-zone lane

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femenino

1) (área, región) area

fue declarada zona neutral — it was declared a neutral zone

zona de influencia — sphere of influence

zona de carga y descarga — loading and unloading only

- zona catastrófica or de emergencia

- zona cero

- zona comercial

- zona de castigo

- zona del euro

- zona de libre comercio

- zona desnuclearizada or no nuclear

- zona de tolerancia

- zona franca

- zona industrial

- zona parachoque or tampón

- zona peatonal

- zona roja

- zona verde

2) ( en baloncesto) free-throw lane, three-second area

* * *

= area, zone, bit, radius, area, service area, tract.

Ex. The area in which standards for bibliographic description have had the most impact is in catalogues and catalogue record data bases.

Ex. But now the traditional industrial zone is declining and a new 'technopolis' is proposed for the area.

Ex. The assistant in charge of a section will see that their bit is kept tidy and will keep an eye open for thieves.

Ex. The fact that the library can only attract people within a relatively small radius means that it has no alternative but to serve whoever lives -- or works -- in that radius.

Ex. Libraries usually arrange separate areas where current periodicals, maps, government publications, early printed books and manuscripts are housed.

Ex. The study examined the relative use of different service areas of the library = El estudio analizó al uso relativo de las diferentes zonas de la biblioteca.

Ex. Protecting the remaining large tracts of tropical forests is not a financially impossible task.

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* biblioteca de la zona ártica = arctic library.

* biblioteca de zona rural = rural library.

* ciencia de las zonas polares = polar science.

* de la zona de entre mareas = intertidal.

* dividir en zonas = zone.

* en la zona de = in the land of.

* en + Posesivo + zona = in + Posesivo + neck of the woods.

* ser zona prohibida = be off limits.

* una zona de = a stretch of.

* usar sobre la zona afectada = use + topically.

* zona abierta = open area.

* zona activa = hot spot.

* zona alejada = reaches.

* zona alveolar = alveolar region.

* zona bélica = war zone.

* zona béntica, la = benthic zone, the.

* zona central = midsection [mid-section].

* zona central de un Lugar = heartland.

* zona cero = ground zero.

* zona climática = climatic zone.

* zona comercial = business district, shopping area, shopping district.

* zona con aparatos electrónicos = equipment area.

* zona con césped = grassy area.

* zona costera = seafront, coastal area.

* zona de amortiguamiento = buffer zone.

* zona de aterrizaje = landing site, landing area, landing area.

* sitio de aterrizaje = landing area.

* zona de bienestar = comfort zone.

* zona de captación = catchment area.

* zona de carga = loading dock, loading bay.

* zona de columpios y pistas deportivas = playground.

* zona de comodidad = comfort zone.

* zona de confort = comfort zone.

* zona de cultivo del trigo = wheatbelt.

* zona de descanso = rest area.

* zona de desempleo = pocket of unemployment.

* zona de estudio = study area, study facilities.

* zona de exclusión aérea = no-fly zone.

* zona de guerra = war zone.

* zona del centro = midsection [mid-section].

* zona del euro, la = euro zone, the, euro zone, the, euro area, the.

* zona del interior = hinterland.

* zona de los tres estados = tristate area.

* zona de no fumadores = non-smoking area.

* zona de ocio = leisure facilities.

* zona de ocupación = zone of occupation, occupation zone.

* zona de pasto = feeding ground, grazing area.

* zona deprimida del centro de la ciudad = inner city.

* zona de producción de trigo = wheatbelt.

* zona de recogida de lo sobrante = overflow area.

* zona de recreo = playground.

* zona desnuclearizada = nuclear-free zone, nuclear-free.

* zona despejada = open area.

* zona de transición = buffer zone.

* zona dolorida = sore point, sore spot.

* zona entre mareas = intertidal zone.

* zona geográfica = geographical area.

* zona gris = grey area [gray area].

* zona habitable = living area.

* zona húmeda = wetland.

* zona industrial = industrial area.

* zona interior despoblada = backcountry.

* zona junto a la playa = beachfront.

* zona libre de humo = smoke-free zone, smoke-free area.

* zona limítrofe = fringe area.

* zona marginada = deprived area.

* zona menos favorecida = less favoured area.

* zona neutral = buffer zone.

* zona pantanosa = marshland, marsh, marshy area, fen.

* zona para casas móviles = mobile home park, trailer park.

* zona para sentarse = seating area.

* zona peligrosa = no-go area.

* zona penumbrosa = twilight zone.

* zona problemática = problem area.

* zona prohibida = no-go area.

* zona protegida = safe haven, safe harbour, protected area.

* zona pública = public area.

* zona residencial = residential area, suburban area, estate.

* zona rural = country, rural area, hinterland, countryside, rural region.

* zona sin cultivar = wildland.

* zonas inhabitadas del interior = back country.

* zonas más alejadas = outlying areas.

* zonas salvajes del interior = back country.

* zona suburbana = suburban area.

* zona tampón = buffer zone.

* zona tectónica = fault zone.

* zona templada, la = temperate zone, the.

* zona tórrida, la = torrid zone, the.

* zona urbana = urban area.

* zona verde = parkland area, grassy area.

* * *

femenino

1) (área, región) area

fue declarada zona neutral — it was declared a neutral zone

zona de influencia — sphere of influence

zona de carga y descarga — loading and unloading only

- zona catastrófica or de emergencia

- zona cero

- zona comercial

- zona de castigo

- zona del euro

- zona de libre comercio

- zona desnuclearizada or no nuclear

- zona de tolerancia

- zona franca

- zona industrial

- zona parachoque or tampón

- zona peatonal

- zona roja

- zona verde

2) ( en baloncesto) free-throw lane, three-second area

* * *

= area, zone, bit, radius, area, service area, tract.

Ex: The area in which standards for bibliographic description have had the most impact is in catalogues and catalogue record data bases.

Ex: But now the traditional industrial zone is declining and a new 'technopolis' is proposed for the area.

Ex: The assistant in charge of a section will see that their bit is kept tidy and will keep an eye open for thieves.

Ex: The fact that the library can only attract people within a relatively small radius means that it has no alternative but to serve whoever lives -- or works -- in that radius.

Ex: Libraries usually arrange separate areas where current periodicals, maps, government publications, early printed books and manuscripts are housed.

Ex: The study examined the relative use of different service areas of the library = El estudio analizó al uso relativo de las diferentes zonas de la biblioteca.

Ex: Protecting the remaining large tracts of tropical forests is not a financially impossible task.

* biblioteca de la zona ártica = arctic library.

* biblioteca de zona rural = rural library.

* ciencia de las zonas polares = polar science.

* de la zona de entre mareas = intertidal.

* dividir en zonas = zone.

* en la zona de = in the land of.

* en + Posesivo + zona = in + Posesivo + neck of the woods.

* ser zona prohibida = be off limits.

* una zona de = a stretch of.

* usar sobre la zona afectada = use + topically.

* zona abierta = open area.

* zona activa = hot spot.

* zona alejada = reaches.

* zona alveolar = alveolar region.

* zona bélica = war zone.

* zona béntica, la = benthic zone, the.

* zona central = midsection [mid-section].

* zona central de un Lugar = heartland.

* zona cero = ground zero.

* zona climática = climatic zone.

* zona comercial = business district, shopping area, shopping district.

* zona con aparatos electrónicos = equipment area.

* zona con césped = grassy area.

* zona costera = seafront, coastal area.

* zona de amortiguamiento = buffer zone.

* zona de aterrizaje = landing site, landing area, landing area.

* sitio de aterrizaje = landing area.

* zona de bienestar = comfort zone.

* zona de captación = catchment area.

* zona de carga = loading dock, loading bay.

* zona de columpios y pistas deportivas = playground.

* zona de comodidad = comfort zone.

* zona de confort = comfort zone.

* zona de cultivo del trigo = wheatbelt.

* zona de descanso = rest area.

* zona de desempleo = pocket of unemployment.

* zona de estudio = study area, study facilities.

* zona de exclusión aérea = no-fly zone.

* zona de guerra = war zone.

* zona del centro = midsection [mid-section].

* zona del euro, la = euro zone, the, euro zone, the, euro area, the.

* zona del interior = hinterland.

* zona de los tres estados = tristate area.

* zona de no fumadores = non-smoking area.

* zona de ocio = leisure facilities.

* zona de ocupación = zone of occupation, occupation zone.

* zona de pasto = feeding ground, grazing area.

* zona deprimida del centro de la ciudad = inner city.

* zona de producción de trigo = wheatbelt.

* zona de recogida de lo sobrante = overflow area.

* zona de recreo = playground.

* zona desnuclearizada = nuclear-free zone, nuclear-free.

* zona despejada = open area.

* zona de transición = buffer zone.

* zona dolorida = sore point, sore spot.

* zona entre mareas = intertidal zone.

* zona geográfica = geographical area.

* zona gris = grey area [gray area].

* zona habitable = living area.

* zona húmeda = wetland.

* zona industrial = industrial area.

* zona interior despoblada = backcountry.

* zona junto a la playa = beachfront.

* zona libre de humo = smoke-free zone, smoke-free area.

* zona limítrofe = fringe area.

* zona marginada = deprived area.

* zona menos favorecida = less favoured area.

* zona neutral = buffer zone.

* zona pantanosa = marshland, marsh, marshy area, fen.

* zona para casas móviles = mobile home park, trailer park.

* zona para sentarse = seating area.

* zona peligrosa = no-go area.

* zona penumbrosa = twilight zone.

* zona problemática = problem area.

* zona prohibida = no-go area.

* zona protegida = safe haven, safe harbour, protected area.

* zona pública = public area.

* zona residencial = residential area, suburban area, estate.

* zona rural = country, rural area, hinterland, countryside, rural region.

* zona sin cultivar = wildland.

* zonas inhabitadas del interior = back country.

* zonas más alejadas = outlying areas.

* zonas salvajes del interior = back country.

* zona suburbana = suburban area.

* zona tampón = buffer zone.

* zona tectónica = fault zone.

* zona templada, la = temperate zone, the.

* zona tórrida, la = torrid zone, the.

* zona urbana = urban area.

* zona verde = parkland area, grassy area.

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zona

feminine

A (área, región) area

¿por qué zona viven? what area do they live in?

en la zona fronteriza in the border area o zone

zonas montañosas mountainous areas o regions

por esa zona no hay servicio de autobuses there is no bus service in that area

fue declarada zona neutral it was declared a neutral zone

zona de influencia sphere of influence

[ S ] zona de carga y descarga loading and unloading only

Compuestos:

● zona azul

( Esp) limited-time parking zone, pay-and-display area ( BrE)

● zona catastrófica

disaster area

● zona cero

ground zero

● zona comercial

commercial district, business quarter o area

● zona de castigo

penalty area

● zona de combate

combat zone o area

● zona de crisis

crisis zone

● zona de embarque de pasajeros

boarding area

● zona de ensanche

( Esp) area of new development

● zona de escaramuza

line of scrimmage

● zona de exclusión

exclusion zone

● zona de exclusión aérea

no-fly zone

● zona de guerra

war zone

● zona del conflicto

war zone

● zona de libre comercio

free-trade zone

● zona de máxima seguridad

maximum security zone o area

● zona de peligro

danger area o zone

● zona de pruebas

test site, testing ground

● zona de salidas

departure lounge o area

● zona desnuclearizada

nuclear-free zone o area

● zona de tolerancia

red-light district

● zona erógena

erogenous zone

● zona euro

eurozone

● zona franca

duty-free zone

● zona industrial

industrial park, industrial estate ( BrE)

● zona militar

military zone o area

● zona nacional

( Esp) ( Hist) Nationalist-held territory

● zona no nuclear

nuclear-free zone o area

● zona parachoque

buffer zone

● zona peatonal

pedestrian precinct o zone o area

● zona roja

( AmL) (zona de prostitución) red-light district; ( Esp fam) (durante la guerra civil) Republican-held territory

● zona sin cobertura

( Telec) dead zone

● zona tampón

buffer zone

● zona templada

temperate zone o region

● zona tropical

tropical zone o region

● zona verde

park, green space

B (en baloncesto) free-throw lane, three-second area

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zona sustantivo femenino
1 (área, región) area;
◊ fue declarada zona neutral it was declared a neutral zone;

( on signs) zona de carga y descarga loading and unloading only;
◊ zona comercial commercial district;

zona de castigo penalty area;
zona industrial industrial park;
zona peatonal pedestrian precinct;
zona roja (AmL) ( zona de prostitución) red-light district;
zona verde park, green space;
zona cero ( en Nueva York) ground zero
2 ( en baloncesto) free-throw lane, three-second area
zona sustantivo femenino
1 zone
2 (de un territorio, gran extensión) area, region
zona de obras, work area
zona de operaciones, operational zone
zona militar, military zone
zona verde, park, green space
3 Dep zone
' zona' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
acampada
- antinuclear
- arrasar
- barrio
- cabaña
- ciudad
- comisionada
- comisionado
- concurrida
- concurrido
- construcción
- contingente
- deprimida
- deprimido
- desalojar
- este
- expolio
- franca
- franco
- francófona
- francófono
- glacial
- huerta
- milimétrica
- milimétrico
- oasis
- pacificar
- peinar
- peinada
- peinado
- rastrear
- rastreo
- riego
- sombra
- teatro
- urbanización
- vecindario
- vinícola
- apartado
- azucarero
- bajío
- cabezón
- campo
- carga
- cargue
- combate
- comercial
- concreto
- conflictivo
- desértico
English:
area
- belt
- busing
- clearance
- coastal
- compound
- country
- danger area
- decline
- demonstrate
- disaster area
- enclose
- enclosure
- enter
- grey area
- industrial area
- local
- pedestrianize
- precinct
- scour
- seal off
- smokeless zone
- stricken
- testing ground
- unemployment
- waterfront
- well-known
- zone
- area code
- around
- canvass
- catchment area
- district
- diverse
- division
- extreme
- -free
- green
- ground
- high
- incoming
- industrial
- inner
- locally
- neighborhood
- no-fly zone
- off
- out
- pedestrian
- red

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zona nf

1. [espacio, área] zone, area;

una zona montañosa/turística a mountainous/tourist area;

la zona norte/sur de la isla the northern/southern part of the island;

en las zonas más aisladas/pobres in the most remote/poorest areas;

¿vives por la zona? [por aquí] do you live around here?;

ésta es la zona de copas de la ciudad this is the centre of the city's nightlife

Comp
zona azul [de estacionamiento] restricted parking zone;
zona de carga y descarga loading bay o US zone;

zona catastrófica disaster area;

zona centro Br city centre, US downtown;

zona cero [en Nueva York] ground zero;

zona climática climatic zone;

zona comercial shopping area;

zona conflictiva trouble spot;

zona de conflicto [en guerra] war zone, battle zone;

zona edificada built-up area;

zona erógena erogenous zone;

zona euro euro zone;

zona de exclusión exclusion zone;
Com zona franca free-trade zone;
zona de no fumadores no-smoking area;

zona glacial glacial region;

zona de guerra war zone;

zona húmeda wetland area;

zona intermareal intertidal zone;
Meteo zona de inversión thermal o temperature inversion zone;
zona de libre comercio free-trade zone;

zona de marca [en rugby] in-goal area;

zona militar military area o zone;
Esp zona nacional [en la guerra] = the area controlled by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War;
zona peatonal pedestrian area o precinct;

zona protegida [natural] conservation area;

zona residencial residential area;

zona roja Esp [en la guerra] = term used by Nationalists to refer to Republican-controlled areas during the Spanish Civil War;
Am [de prostitución] red-light district;
Zona Rosa [en México DF] = elegant tourist and shopping area in Mexico City;

zona de seguridad [entre países] buffer zone;

zona templada temperate zone;
Am Anticuado zona de tolerancia red-light district;
zona tórrida tropics, Espec torrid zone;

zona de urgente reindustrialización = region given priority status for industrial investment, Br ≈ enterprise zone;

zona verde [grande] park, green area;
[pequeña] lawn
2. [en baloncesto] [área] key

3. [en baloncesto] [violación] three-seconds violation

* * *

zona

f

1 area, zone

2 en baloncesto: parte del campo key; violación three-seconds violation

* * *

zona nf

: zone, district, area

* * *

zona n

1. (área) area

es una zona muy tranquila it's a very quiet area

una zona comercial a commercial area

2. (militar, geográfica) zone

zona de guerra war zone

zona peatonal pedestrian zone

zona verde green space

Spanish-English dictionary > zona
8 kehitysalue

• underdeveloped region

• underdeveloped area

• development area

• less developed region

• priority area

Suomi-Englanti sanakirja > kehitysalue
9 esquema

m.

1 diagram.

2 sketch, skeleton, design, diagram.

3 way of thinking.

4 scheme, plan, schedule, rede.

5 layout.

* * *

esquema

► nombre masculino

1 (gráfica) diagram

2 (plan) outline, plan

* * *

noun m.

sketch

* * *

SM

1) [en esbozo] (=resumen) outline; (=diagrama) diagram; (=dibujo) sketch

me hice un esquema de la lección — I prepared an outline of the lesson

un esquema de conexiones eléctricas — a wiring diagram

le hice un esquema del centro de la ciudad — I did him a sketch map of the centre of town

2) (=conjunto de ideas) thinking, way of thinking

sus esquemas mentales están anclados en el pasado — his thinking o way of thinking is rooted in the past

criticó los esquemas ideológicos del partido — he criticized the party's ideology

- romper esquemas

romperle los esquemas a algn * —

no me imaginaba que fueras a hacerte monja, me has roto todos los esquemas — I never imagined you'd become a nun, you've really thrown me *

3) (Rel, Fil) schema

* * *

masculino

1) ( croquis) sketch, diagram; ( sinopsis) outline

2) ( de ideas)

el esquema liberal — liberal philosophy o thinking

no se sale de sus esquemas — she doesn't change her way of thinking

romperle los esquemas a alguien — (fam) ( echar abajo - conceptos) to shatter somebody's preconceptions; (- planes) to ruin somebody's plans

* * *

= framework, schema [schemas/schemata, -pl.], schematisation [schematization, -USA], schematic, landscape.

Ex. The intention is to establish a general framework, and then to give exceptions or further explanation and examples for each area in turn.

Ex. A schema of information sciences is put forward with the plea that any discussion of information and information science should first declare the definitions to be used.

Ex. The proposed schematisation provides librarians who have collection development responsibilities with a mechanism for assigning a specific priority to each selection.

Ex. The schematic for this structure can be found in figure 2.1.

Ex. During the post-war period international organizations have become a prominent feature of the international landscape.

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* esquema del cableado eléctrico = wiring diagram.

* esquema general = outline, overview.

* esquemas = schemata [schema, -sing.].

* romper los esquemas = think out(side) + (of) the box.

* * *

masculino

1) ( croquis) sketch, diagram; ( sinopsis) outline

2) ( de ideas)

el esquema liberal — liberal philosophy o thinking

no se sale de sus esquemas — she doesn't change her way of thinking

romperle los esquemas a alguien — (fam) ( echar abajo - conceptos) to shatter somebody's preconceptions; (- planes) to ruin somebody's plans

* * *

= framework, schema [schemas/schemata, -pl.], schematisation [schematization, -USA], schematic, landscape.

Ex: The intention is to establish a general framework, and then to give exceptions or further explanation and examples for each area in turn.

Ex: A schema of information sciences is put forward with the plea that any discussion of information and information science should first declare the definitions to be used.

Ex: The proposed schematisation provides librarians who have collection development responsibilities with a mechanism for assigning a specific priority to each selection.

Ex: The schematic for this structure can be found in figure 2.1.

Ex: During the post-war period international organizations have become a prominent feature of the international landscape.

* esquema del cableado eléctrico = wiring diagram.

* esquema general = outline, overview.

* esquemas = schemata [schema, -sing.].

* romper los esquemas = think out(side) + (of) the box.

* * *

esquema

masculine

A

1 (croquis) sketch, diagram

2

(sinopsis): mándales un esquema del argumento/guión send them an outline o a synopsis of the plot/script

hazte un esquema de lo que quieres decir draw up an outline o a plan of what you want to say

el esquema narrativo de la novela es simple the novel has a simple plot

B

(de ideas): la interpretación de nuestra realidad con esquemas ajenos the use of foreign ways of thinking o foreign perceptions to try to understand our own situation

proyectos opuestos al esquema liberal projects at odds with liberal philosophy o thinking

es imposible sacarla de sus esquemas you'll never get her to change her way of thinking

romperle los esquemas a algn ( fam) (echar abajo — conceptos) to shatter sb's preconceptions; (— planes) to ruin sb's plans

* * *

esquema sustantivo masculino
1 ( croquis) sketch, diagram;
( sinopsis) outline
2 ( de ideas):
◊ el esquema liberal liberal philosophy o thinking;

no se sale de sus esquemas she doesn't change her way of thinking
esquema sustantivo masculino
1 (dibujo) diagram, sketch
2 (resumen de ideas) outline: les quiero presentar un esquema de nuestros objetivos, I'd like to submit an outline of our objectives
3 (base) preconceptions, philosophy: tiene unos esquemas de comportamiento muy maduros, he conducts himself in a mature manner
' esquema' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
cuadro
- guion
English:
diagram
- frame
- skeleton
- outline
- plan

* * *

esquema nm

1. [gráfico] diagram;

hazme un esquema de la ruta hasta tu casa draw me a map of the route to your house

2. [resumen] outline;

hacerse un esquema to draw up an outline

3. [estructura]
los esquemas mentales de un niño a child's view of the world;

los esquemas de comportamiento del enfermo anoréxico the behaviour patterns of anorexics;

Comp

romper los esquemas a alguien: sus ideas sobre las drogas me rompieron los esquemas his ideas on drugs really challenged my preconceptions;

ya tenía el itinerario preparado pero su respuesta me rompió los esquemas I had already worked out the itinerary but her answer threw all my plans up in the air

* * *

esquema

m

1 ( croquis) sketch, diagram;

en esquema mostrar in diagrammatic form; explicar briefly

2 ( sinopsis) outline, summary

* * *

esquema nf

bosquejo: outline, sketch, plan

* * *

esquema n

1. (diagrama) diagram

2. (resumen) outline

Spanish-English dictionary > esquema
10 principal

adj.

1 main, principal.

lo principal es… the main thing is…

puerta principal front door

2 chief, big-league, blue-chip, boss.

m.

first floor (British), second floor (United States) (plant).

* * *

principal

► adjetivo

1 main, chief

■ lo principal es que duerma bien the main thing is that he sleeps well

► nombre masculino

1 (piso) first floor, US second floor

* * *

adj.

1) principal

2) main

3) foremost

4) major

* * *

1. ADJ

1) (=más importante) [gen] principal, main; [crítico, adversario] foremost; [piso] first, second (EEUU)

interpreta el papel principal — she plays the leading role

lo principal es que el problema se ha solucionado — the main thing is the problem has been solved

2) [persona, autoridad] illustrious

2. SM

1) (=persona) head, chief, principal

2) (Econ) principal, capital

3) (Teat) dress circle

4) (=piso) first floor, second floor (EEUU)

* * *
I
adjetivo <entrada/carretera/calle> main

el papel principal — the main part o leading role

el personaje principal — the main character

lo principal es que... — the main thing is that...

lo principal es la salud — there's nothing more important than your health
II
masculino

a) (Fin) principal, capital

b) (en teatro, cine) dress circle, mezzanine (AmE)

* * *

= capital, chief, dominant, essential, foremost, leading, main, major, primary, principal, top, key, lead, premier, overriding, prime, staple, number one, top-of-mind, cardinal, master.

Ex. Following internal discussion, it was agreed that a new library should be given the University's top priority in any forthcoming capital building project.

Ex. This section reviews the chief factors that must be taken into account in selecting an appropriate software package.

Ex. English is the dominant language for the dissemination of information.

Ex. The preceding chapter has introduced the essential characteristics of bibliographic descriptions.

Ex. Foremost among those recommendations was one pertaining to the development of a UNIMARC format for authorities.

Ex. In addition to her reputation as a leading expert in information control, Phyllis Richmond is another of ISAD's official reviewers of the AACR2's draft.

Ex. The main rule, however, is do not have loose cables hanging all over the place -- not only is it unsightly but also extremely dangerous.

Ex. This scheme aims for a more helpful order than the major schemes, by following the groupings of subjects as they are taught in schools.

Ex. The primary components in this area are place of publication, publisher's name and date of publication (that is, the date of edition).

Ex. If responsibility is shared between mor than three persons or corporate bodies (and no principal author is indicated), then entry is made under the title.

Ex. ISI's indexes let you locate research in the world's top journals by citation, title word, author, institution, or journal.

Ex. This meeting brought together representatives of the key organizations in the community.

Ex. The United Nations declared 1990 as International Literacy Year (ILY) with Unesco designated as the lead agency for ILY.

Ex. It is the country's premier research library for the natural sciences, engineering, technology and industrial property.

Ex. Consequently, the overriding demand made by the academic community is bibliographical in nature.

Ex. For instance, my sporting goods store is on the ground level and to the right -- prime mall location.

Ex. UK libraries and the BBC Continuing Education have the same staple customer group.

Ex. Eyestrain is the number one complaint of computer users.

Ex. Computer security is a top-of-mind subject for both IT managers and their corporate bosses.

Ex. To underestimate your enemy is committing the cardinal mistake and often the last you'll make!.

Ex. The great significance of a fully developed network will be that it will relieve libraries of the necessity of maintaining their own copies of the master data base.

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* actividad principal = core activity.

* actor principal = lead character, leading man.

* actor principal, el = main character, the, main actor, the.

* administrador principal = top administrator.

* apartarse de los caminos principales = go + off-road.

* asesor principal = senior adviser, senior consultant.

* calle principal, la = high street, the, main street, the.

* carretera principal = major road.

* comida principal = main meal.

* consejero principal = senior adviser, senior consultant.

* director principal = senior director.

* dormitorio principal = master bedroom, master suite.

* el principal = the number one.

* en la corriente principal de = in the mainstream of.

* en la tendencia principal de = in the mainstream of.

* frase que recoge el tema principal del artículo = topic sentence.

* fuente principal de información = chief source of information.

* guía principal = guiding principle.

* la cosa principal = the number one thing.

* la parte principal de = the bulk of.

* motivo principal = prime cause.

* papel principal = title role.

* parte principal del texto = meat of the text.

* personaje principal = lead character.

* personaje principal, el = main character, the, main actor, the.

* plato principal = entrée, main entrée.

* ponencia principal = keynote presentation.

* primero y principal = first and foremost.

* principal razón = prime cause.

* principal sospechoso = leading suspect.

* principal sostén de la familia = breadwinner [bread winner].

* programa principal = Core Programme.

* protagonista principal = centrepiece [centerpiece, -USA], lead character.

* protagonista principal, el = main character, the, main actor, the.

* recurso principal = primary resource.

* semiprincipal = semi-main.

* ser lo principal de = be at the core of, be at the heart of.

* * *
I
adjetivo <entrada/carretera/calle> main

el papel principal — the main part o leading role

el personaje principal — the main character

lo principal es que... — the main thing is that...

lo principal es la salud — there's nothing more important than your health
II
masculino

a) (Fin) principal, capital

b) (en teatro, cine) dress circle, mezzanine (AmE)

* * *

= capital, chief, dominant, essential, foremost, leading, main, major, primary, principal, top, key, lead, premier, overriding, prime, staple, number one, top-of-mind, cardinal, master.

Ex: Following internal discussion, it was agreed that a new library should be given the University's top priority in any forthcoming capital building project.

Ex: This section reviews the chief factors that must be taken into account in selecting an appropriate software package.

Ex: English is the dominant language for the dissemination of information.

Ex: The preceding chapter has introduced the essential characteristics of bibliographic descriptions.

Ex: Foremost among those recommendations was one pertaining to the development of a UNIMARC format for authorities.

Ex: In addition to her reputation as a leading expert in information control, Phyllis Richmond is another of ISAD's official reviewers of the AACR2's draft.

Ex: The main rule, however, is do not have loose cables hanging all over the place -- not only is it unsightly but also extremely dangerous.

Ex: This scheme aims for a more helpful order than the major schemes, by following the groupings of subjects as they are taught in schools.

Ex: The primary components in this area are place of publication, publisher's name and date of publication (that is, the date of edition).

Ex: If responsibility is shared between mor than three persons or corporate bodies (and no principal author is indicated), then entry is made under the title.

Ex: ISI's indexes let you locate research in the world's top journals by citation, title word, author, institution, or journal.

Ex: This meeting brought together representatives of the key organizations in the community.

Ex: The United Nations declared 1990 as International Literacy Year (ILY) with Unesco designated as the lead agency for ILY.

Ex: It is the country's premier research library for the natural sciences, engineering, technology and industrial property.

Ex: Consequently, the overriding demand made by the academic community is bibliographical in nature.

Ex: For instance, my sporting goods store is on the ground level and to the right -- prime mall location.

Ex: UK libraries and the BBC Continuing Education have the same staple customer group.

Ex: Eyestrain is the number one complaint of computer users.

Ex: Computer security is a top-of-mind subject for both IT managers and their corporate bosses.

Ex: To underestimate your enemy is committing the cardinal mistake and often the last you'll make!.

Ex: The great significance of a fully developed network will be that it will relieve libraries of the necessity of maintaining their own copies of the master data base.

* actividad principal = core activity.

* actor principal = lead character, leading man.

* actor principal, el = main character, the, main actor, the.

* administrador principal = top administrator.

* apartarse de los caminos principales = go + off-road.

* asesor principal = senior adviser, senior consultant.

* calle principal, la = high street, the, main street, the.

* carretera principal = major road.

* comida principal = main meal.

* consejero principal = senior adviser, senior consultant.

* director principal = senior director.

* dormitorio principal = master bedroom, master suite.

* el principal = the number one.

* en la corriente principal de = in the mainstream of.

* en la tendencia principal de = in the mainstream of.

* frase que recoge el tema principal del artículo = topic sentence.

* fuente principal de información = chief source of information.

* guía principal = guiding principle.

* la cosa principal = the number one thing.

* la parte principal de = the bulk of.

* motivo principal = prime cause.

* papel principal = title role.

* parte principal del texto = meat of the text.

* personaje principal = lead character.

* personaje principal, el = main character, the, main actor, the.

* plato principal = entrée, main entrée.

* ponencia principal = keynote presentation.

* primero y principal = first and foremost.

* principal razón = prime cause.

* principal sospechoso = leading suspect.

* principal sostén de la familia = breadwinner [bread winner].

* programa principal = Core Programme.

* protagonista principal = centrepiece [centerpiece, -USA], lead character.

* protagonista principal, el = main character, the, main actor, the.

* recurso principal = primary resource.

* semiprincipal = semi-main.

* ser lo principal de = be at the core of, be at the heart of.

* * *

principal¹

adjective

‹entrada› main; ‹carretera/calle› main

el papel principal lo hacía Azucena Romero the main part o leading role was played by Azucena Romero

el personaje principal se suicida al final the main character commits suicide at the end

lo principal es que no se hizo daño the main thing is that he didn't hurt himself

lo principal es la salud there's nothing more important than your health

principal²

masculine

1 ( Fin) principal, capital

2 (en un teatro, cine) upper balcony ( AmE), upper circle ( BrE)

* * *

principal adjetivo
main;
‹ papel› leading ( before n);
◊ lo principal es que… the main thing is that…

principal adjetivo main, principal

' principal' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
central
- constreñir
- dirección
- director
- directora
- eclipsar
- maestra
- maestro
- mayor
- nudo
- puerta
- requerir
- sita
- sito
- soler
- subdirector
- subdirectora
- mayordomo
- mayoritario
- plato
- portón
- protagonista
English:
already
- anchor
- attraction
- averse
- bed
- body
- bomb
- bread-and-butter
- by
- central
- chief
- dash
- deputy
- dinner
- do
- enjoy
- flagship
- foremost
- head
- high
- high road
- imagine
- irony
- lead
- lead off from
- lead story
- leading
- leading lady
- leading man
- main
- mainland
- mainstay
- master
- mind
- objective
- on
- opposed
- premier
- primary
- prime
- principal
- road
- runaway
- title role
- trunk road
- upstage
- course
- limb
- major
- rat

* * *

principal

♦ adj

1. [más importante] main, principal;

me han dado el papel principal de la obra de teatro I've been given the leading o lead role in the play;

puerta principal front door;

lo principal the main thing

2. [oración] main

♦ nm

1. [piso] Br first floor, US second floor

2. Fin principal

* * *

principal

I adj main, principal;

lo principal the main o most important thing

II m second floor, Br

first floor

* * *

principal adj

1) : main, principal

2) : foremost, leading

principal nm

: capital, principal

* * *

principal¹ adj main

los puntos principales the main points

lo principal the main thing

principal² n first floor

viven en el principal they live on the first floor

Spanish-English dictionary > principal
11 Noyce, Robert

SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology

[br]

b. 12 December 1927 Burlington, Iowa, USA

[br]

American engineer responsible for the development of integrated circuits and the microprocessor chip.

[br]

Noyce was the son of a Congregational minister whose family, after a number of moves, finally settled in Grinnell, some 50 miles (80 km) east of Des Moines, Iowa. Encouraged to follow his interest in science, in his teens he worked as a baby-sitter and mower of lawns to earn money for his hobby. One of his clients was Professor of Physics at Grinnell College, where Noyce enrolled to study mathematics and physics and eventually gained a top-grade BA. It was while there that he learned of the invention of the transistor by the team at Bell Laboratories, which included John Bardeen, a former fellow student of his professor. After taking a PhD in physical electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953, he joined the Philco Corporation in Philadelphia to work on the development of transistors. Then in January 1956 he accepted an invitation from William Shockley, another of the Bell transistor team, to join the newly formed Shockley Transistor Company, the first electronic firm to set up shop in Palo Alto, California, in what later became known as "Silicon Valley".

From the start things at the company did not go well and eventually Noyce and Gordon Moore and six colleagues decided to offer themselves as a complete development team; with the aid of the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Company, the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation was born. It was there that in 1958, contemporaneously with Jack K. Wilby at Texas Instruments, Noyce had the idea for monolithic integration of transistor circuits. Eventually, after extended patent litigation involving study of laboratory notebooks and careful examination of the original claims, priority was assigned to Noyce. The invention was most timely. The Apollo Moon-landing programme announced by President Kennedy in May 1961 called for lightweight sophisticated navigation and control computer systems, which could only be met by the rapid development of the new technology, and Fairchild was well placed to deliver the micrologic chips required by NASA.

In 1968 the founders sold Fairchild Semicon-ductors to the parent company. Noyce and Moore promptly found new backers and set up the Intel Corporation, primarily to make high-density memory chips. The first product was a 1,024-bit random access memory (1 K RAM) and by 1973 sales had reached $60 million. However, Noyce and Moore had already realized that it was possible to make a complete microcomputer by putting all the logic needed to go with the memory chip(s) on a single integrated circuit (1C) chip in the form of a general purpose central processing unit (CPU). By 1971 they had produced the Intel 4004 microprocessor, which sold for US$200, and within a year the 8008 followed. The personal computer (PC) revolution had begun! Noyce eventually left Intel, but he remained active in microchip technology and subsequently founded Sematech Inc.

[br]

Principal Honours and Distinctions

Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Medal 1966. National Academy of Engineering 1969. National Academy of Science. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Medal of Honour 1978; Cledo Brunetti Award (jointly with Kilby) 1978. Institution of Electrical Engineers Faraday Medal 1979. National Medal of Science 1979. National Medal of Engineering 1987.

Bibliography

1955, "Base-widening punch-through", Proceedings of the American Physical Society.

30 July 1959, US patent no. 2,981,877.

Further Reading

T.R.Reid, 1985, Microchip: The Story of a Revolution and the Men Who Made It, London: Pan Books.

KF

Biographical history of technology > Noyce, Robert
12 Oberth, Hermann Julius

SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace

[br]

b. 25 June 1894 Nagyszeben, Transylvania (now Sibiu, Romania)

d. 29 December 1989 Nuremberg, Germany

[br]

Austro-Hungarian lecturer who is usually regarded, with Robert Goddard, as one of the "fathers" of modern astronautics.

[br]

The son of a physician, Oberth originally studied medicine in Munich, but his education was interrupted by the First World War and service in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Wounded, he passed the time by studying astronautics. He apparently simulated weightlessness and worked out the design for a long-range liquid-propelled rocket, but his ideas were rejected by the War Office; after the war he submitted them as a dissertation for a PhD at Heidelberg University, but this was also rejected. Consequently, in 1923, whilst still an unknown mathematics teacher, he published his ideas at his own expense in the book The Rocket into Interplanetary Space. These included a description of how rockets could achieve a sufficient velocity to escape the gravitational field of the earth. As a result he gained international prestige almost overnight and learned of the work of Robert Goddard and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. After correspondence with the Goddard and Tsiolkovsky, Oberth published a further work in 1929, The Road to Space Travel, in which he acknowledged the priority of Goddard's and Tsiolkovski's calculations relating to space travel; he went on to anticipate by more than thirty years the development of electric and ionic propulsion and to propose the use of giant mirrors to control the weather. For this he was awarded the annual Hirsch Prize of 10,000 francs. From 1925 to 1938 he taught at a college in Mediasch, Transylvania, where he carried out experiments with petroleum and liquid-air rockets. He then obtained a lecturing post at Vienna Technical University, moving two years later to Dresden University and becoming a German citizen. In 1941 he became assistant to the German rocket engineer Werner von Braun at the rocket development centre at Peenemünde, and in 1943 he began work on solid propellants. After the Second World War he spent a year in Switzerland as a consultant, then in 1950 he moved to Italy to develop solid-propellant anti-aircraft rockets for the Italian Navy. Five years later he moved to the USA to carry out advanced rocket research for the US Army at Huntsville, Alabama, and in 1958 he retired to Feucht, near Nuremberg, Germany, where he wrote his autobiography.

[br]

Principal Honours and Distinctions

French Astronautical Society REP-Hirsch Prize 1929. German Society for Space Research Medal 1950. Diesel German Inventors Medal 1954. American Astronautical Society Award 1955. German Federal Republic Award 1961. Institute of Aviation and Astronautics Medal 1969.

Bibliography

1923, Die Rakete zu den Planetenraumen; repub. 1934 as The Rocket into Interplanetary Space (autobiography).

1929, Wege zur Raumschiffahrt [Road to Space Travel].

1959, Stoff und Leben [Material and Life].

Further Reading

R.Spangenburg and D.Moser, 1990, Space People from A to Z, New York: Facts on File. H.Wulforst, 1991, The Rocketmakers: The Dreamers who made Spaceflight a Reality, New York: Crown Publishers.

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13 Azores Islands

   Atlantic archipelago of nine islands: Terceira, São Miguel, Santa Maria, Corvo, Graciosa, São Jorge, Faial, Pico, and Flores. This autonomous region of Portugal is 9,365 square kilometers (5,821 square miles) in area. First settled in the 1420s by Portuguese and Flemish colonists, the economy of the archipelago passed through various phases. The Azores' main crops in four phases were, in the 15th and 16th centuries, wheat and sugar; in the 17th century, woods; in the 18th and 19th centuries, oranges; and in the 20th century, cattle, dairy products, tobacco, and pineapples.

   Their location some 1,448 kilometers (900 miles) west of Portugal and over 1,769 kilometers (1,100 miles) from the eastern coast of the United States, and on major sea and trade routes, influenced the islands' development. Major themes of their history are isolation, North American influence, neglect by Portugal, and emigration to North America. As of the 19th century, large numbers of Azoreans immigrated to the United States. By the last quarter of the 20th century, statistics suggested, more people of Azorean descent lived in North America than inhabited the still sparely settled islands. Since World War I, when the U.S. Navy maintained a base at Ponta Delgada, São Miguel island, the Azores' society and economy have been influenced by foreign military base activity. In World War II (1943), British forces used an air base (Lajes) on Terceira island, under an agreement with Portugal, and thereafter the United States made a similar arrangement at Santa Maria. From 1951 on, the U.S. administered an air base at Lajes, Terceira, under North Atlantic Treaty Organization auspices. With that, American assistance and military base funds have played an important role in the archipelago's still largely unindustrialized economy.

   Since the 1960s, several Azorean independence movements have emerged, as well as other groups that advocate that the islands become part of the United States. Such movements have been encouraged by the islands' isolation, a troubled economy, and the fact that Portugal has never made developing the islands a major priority. After the fall of the dictatorship in 1974, the democratic Portugal organized new efforts to assist the Azores and, in the 1976 Constitution, the Azores were declared an autonomous region of Portugal with greater rights of self-government and management. In the 1990s, emigration from the Azores to both the United States and Canada continued, although not at the pace of earlier periods. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of overseas Portuguese from the Azores Islands resided in the eastern United States, California, and Canada.

Historical dictionary of Portugal > Azores Islands
14 Argand, François-Pierre Amis

SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology, Domestic appliances and interiors, Public utilities

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b. 5 July 1750 Geneva, Switzerland

d. October 1803 London, England

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Swiss inventor of the Argand lamp.

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Son of a clockmaker, he studied physics and chemistry under H.-D. de Saussure (1740– 99). In 1775 he moved to Paris, where he taught chemistry and presented a paper on electrical phenomena to the Académie Royale des Sciences. He assisted the Montgolfier brothers in their Paris balloon ascents.

From 1780 Argand spent some time in Montpellier, where he conceived the idea of the lamp that was to make him famous. It was an oil lamp with gravity oil feed, in which the flame was enlarged by burning it in a current of air induced by two concentric iron tubes. It produced ten times the illumination of the simple oil lamp. From the autumn of 1783 to summer 1785, Argand travelled to London and Birmingham to promote the manufacture and sale of his lamp. Upon his return to Paris, he found that his design had been plagiarized; with others, Argand sought to establish his priority, and Paul Abeille published a tract, Déscouverte des lampes à courant d'air et à cylindre (1785). As a result, the Académie granted Argand a licence to manufacture the lamp. However, during the Revolution, Argand's factories were destroyed and his licence annulled. He withdrew to Versoix, near Geneva. In 1793, the English persuaded him to take refuge in England and tried, apparently without success, to obtain recompense for his losses.

Argand is also remembered for his work on distillation and on the water distributor or hydraulic ram, which was conceived with Joseph Montgolfier in 1797 and recognized by the grant of a patent in the same year.

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Further Reading

M.Schroder, 1969, The Armand Burner: Its Origin and Development in France and England, 1781–1800, Odense University Press.

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Biographical history of technology > Argand, François-Pierre Amis
15 Armstrong, Edwin Howard

SUBJECT AREA: Broadcasting, Electronics and information technology, Telecommunications

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b. 18 December 1890 New York City, New York, USA

d. 31 January 1954 New York City, New York, USA

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American engineer who invented the regenerative and superheterodyne amplifiers and frequency modulation, all major contributions to radio communication and broadcasting.

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Interested from childhood in anything mechanical, as a teenager Armstrong constructed a variety of wireless equipment in the attic of his parents' home, including spark-gap transmitters and receivers with iron-filing "coherer" detectors capable of producing weak Morse-code signals. In 1912, while still a student of engineering at Columbia University, he applied positive, i.e. regenerative, feedback to a Lee De Forest triode amplifier to just below the point of oscillation and obtained a gain of some 1,000 times, giving a receiver sensitivity very much greater than hitherto possible. Furthermore, by allowing the circuit to go into full oscillation he found he could generate stable continuous-waves, making possible the first reliable CW radio transmitter. Sadly, his claim to priority with this invention, for which he filed US patents in 1913, the year he graduated from Columbia, led to many years of litigation with De Forest, to whom the US Supreme Court finally, but unjustly, awarded the patent in 1934. The engineering world clearly did not agree with this decision, for the Institution of Radio Engineers did not revoke its previous award of a gold medal and he subsequently received the highest US scientific award, the Franklin Medal, for this discovery.

During the First World War, after some time as an instructor at Columbia University, he joined the US Signal Corps laboratories in Paris, where in 1918 he invented the superheterodyne, a major contribution to radio-receiver design and for which he filed a patent in 1920. The principle of this circuit, which underlies virtually all modern radio, TV and radar reception, is that by using a local oscillator to convert, or "heterodyne", a wanted signal to a lower, fixed, "intermediate" frequency it is possible to obtain high amplification and selectivity without the need to "track" the tuning of numerous variable circuits.

Returning to Columbia after the war and eventually becoming Professor of Electrical Engineering, he made a fortune from the sale of his patent rights and used part of his wealth to fund his own research into further problems in radio communication, particularly that of receiver noise. In 1933 he filed four patents covering the use of wide-band frequency modulation (FM) to achieve low-noise, high-fidelity sound broadcasting, but unable to interest RCA he eventually built a complete broadcast transmitter at his own expense in 1939 to prove the advantages of his system. Unfortunately, there followed another long battle to protect and exploit his patents, and exhausted and virtually ruined he took his own life in 1954, just as the use of FM became an established technique.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Institution of Radio Engineers Medal of Honour 1917. Franklin Medal 1937. IERE Edison Medal 1942. American Medal for Merit 1947.

Bibliography

1922, "Some recent developments in regenerative circuits", Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers 10:244.

1924, "The superheterodyne. Its origin, developments and some recent improvements", Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers 12:549.

1936, "A method of reducing disturbances in radio signalling by a system of frequency modulation", Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers 24:689.

Further Reading

L.Lessing, 1956, Man of High-Fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong, pbk 1969 (the only definitive biography).

W.R.Maclaurin and R.J.Harman, 1949, Invention \& Innovation in the Radio Industry.

J.R.Whitehead, 1950, Super-regenerative Receivers.

A.N.Goldsmith, 1948, Frequency Modulation (for the background to the development of frequency modulation, in the form of a large collection of papers and an extensive bibliog raphy).

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Biographical history of technology > Armstrong, Edwin Howard
16 Davy, Sir Humphry

SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology, Mining and extraction technology

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b. 17 December 1778 Penzance, Cornwall, England

d. 29 May 1829 Geneva, Switzerland

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English chemist, discoverer of the alkali and alkaline earth metals and the halogens, inventor of the miner's safety lamp.

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Educated at the Latin School at Penzance and from 1792 at Truro Grammar School, Davy was apprenticed to a surgeon in Penzance. In 1797 he began to teach himself chemistry by reading, among other works, Lavoisier's elementary treatise on chemistry. In 1798 Dr Thomas Beddoes of Bristol engaged him as assistant in setting up his Pneumatic Institution to pioneer the medical application of the newly discovered gases, especially oxygen.

In 1799 he discovered the anaesthetic properties of nitrous oxide, discovered not long before by the chemist Joseph Priestley. He also noted its intoxicating qualities, on account of which it was dubbed "laughing-gas". Two years later Count Rumford, founder of the Royal Institution in 1800, appointed Davy Assistant Lecturer, and the following year Professor. His lecturing ability soon began to attract large audiences, making science both popular and fashionable.

Davy was stimulated by Volta's invention of the voltaic pile, or electric battery, to construct one for himself in 1800. That enabled him to embark on the researches into electrochemistry by which is chiefly known. In 1807 he tried decomposing caustic soda and caustic potash, hitherto regarded as elements, by electrolysis and obtained the metals sodium and potassium. He went on to discover the metals barium, strontium, calcium and magnesium by the same means. Next, he turned his attention to chlorine, which was then regarded as an oxide in accordance with Lavoisier's theory that oxygen was the essential component of acids; Davy failed to decompose it, however, even with the aid of electricity and concluded that it was an element, thus disproving Lavoisier's view of the nature of acids. In 1812 Davy published his Elements of Chemical Philosophy, in which he presented his chemical ideas without, however, committing himself to the atomic theory, recently advanced by John Dalton.

In 1813 Davy engaged Faraday as Assistant, perhaps his greatest service to science. In April 1815 Davy was asked to assist in the development of a miner's lamp which could be safely used in a firedamp (methane) laden atmosphere. The "Davy lamp", which emerged in January 1816, had its flame completely surrounded by a fine wire mesh; George Stephenson's lamp, based on a similar principle, had been introduced into the Northumberland pits several months earlier, and a bitter controversy as to priority of invention ensued, but it was Davy who was awarded the prize for inventing a successful safety lamp.

In 1824 Davy was the first to suggest the possibility of conferring cathodic protection to the copper bottoms of naval vessels by the use of sacrificial electrodes. Zinc and iron were found to be equally effective in inhibiting corrosion, although the scheme was later abandoned when it was found that ships protected in this way were rapidly fouled by weeds and barnacles.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Knighted 1812. FRS 1803; President, Royal Society 1820. Royal Society Copley Medal 1805.

Bibliography

1812, Elements of Chemical Philosophy.

1839–40, The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, 9 vols, ed. John Davy, London.

Further Reading

J.Davy, 1836, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy, London (a classic biography). J.A.Paris, 1831, The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, London (a classic biography). H.Hartley, 1967, Humphry Davy, London (a more recent biography).

J.Z.Fullmer, 1969, Cambridge, Mass, (a bibliography of Davy's works).

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Biographical history of technology > Davy, Sir Humphry
17 Kilby, Jack St Clair

SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology

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b. 8 November 1923 Jefferson City, Missouri, USA

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American engineer who filed the first patents for micro-electronic (integrated) circuits.

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Kilby spent most of his childhood in Great Bend, Kansas, where he often accompanied his father, an electrical power engineer, on his maintenance rounds. Working in the blizzard of 1937, his father borrowed a "ham" radio, and this fired Jack to study for his amateur licence (W9GTY) and to construct his own equipment while still a student at Great Bend High School. In 1941 he entered the University of Illinois, but four months later, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was enlisted in the US Army and found himself working in a radio repair workshop in India. When the war ended he returned to his studies, obtaining his BSEE from Illinois in 1947 and his MSEE from the University of Wisconsin. He then joined Centralab, a small electronics firm in Milwaukee owned by Globe-Union. There he filed twelve patents, including some for reduced titanate capacitors and for Steatite-packing of transistors, and developed a transistorized hearing-aid. During this period he also attended a course on transistors at Bell Laboratories. In May 1958, concerned to gain experience in the field of number processing, he joined Texas Instruments in Dallas. Shortly afterwards, while working alone during the factory vacation, he conceived the idea of making monolithic, or integrated, circuits by diffusing impurities into a silicon substrate to create P-N junctions. Within less than a month he had produced a complete oscillator on a chip to prove that the technology was feasible, and the following year at the 1ERE Show he demonstrated a germanium integrated-circuit flip-flop. Initially he was granted a patent for the idea, but eventually, after protracted litigation, priority was awarded to Robert Noyce of Fairchild. In 1965 he was commissioned by Patrick Haggerty, the Chief Executive of Texas Instruments, to make a pocket calculator based on integrated circuits, and on 14 April 1971 the world's first such device, the Pocketronic, was launched onto the market. Costing $150 (and weighing some 2½ lb or 1.1 kg), it was an instant success and in 1972 some 5 million calculators were sold worldwide. He left Texas Instruments in November 1970 to become an independent consultant and inventor, working on, amongst other things, methods of deriving electricity from sunlight.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Medal 1966. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers David Sarnoff Award 1966; Cledo Brunetti Award (jointly with Noyce) 1978; Medal of Honour 1986. National Academy of Engineering 1967. National Science Medal 1969. National Inventors Hall of Fame 1982. Honorary DEng Miami 1982, Rochester 1986. Honorary DSc Wisconsin 1988. Distinguished Professor, Texas A \& M University.

Bibliography

6 February 1959, US patent no. 3,138,743 (the first integrated circuit (IC); initially granted June 1964).

US patent no. 3,819,921 (the Pocketronic calculator).

Further Reading

T.R.Reid, 1984, Microchip. The Story of a Revolution and the Men Who Made It, London: Pan Books (for the background to the development of the integrated circuit). H.Queisser, 1988, Conquest of the Microchip, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

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Biographical history of technology > Kilby, Jack St Clair
18 Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph

SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology, Telecommunications

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b. 12 June 1851 Penkhull, Staffordshire, England

d. 22 August 1940 Lake, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

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English physicist who perfected Branly's coherer; said to have given the first public demonstration of wireless telegraphy.

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At the age of 8 Lodge entered Newport Grammar School, and in 1863–5 received private education at Coombs in Suffolk. He then returned to Staffordshire, where he assisted his father in the potteries by working as a book-keeper. Whilst staying with an aunt in London in 1866–7, he attended scientific lectures and became interested in physics. As a result of this and of reading copies of English Mechanic magazine, when he was back home in Hanley he began to do experiments and attended the Wedgewood Institute. Returning to London c. 1870, he studied initially at the Royal College of Science and then, from 1874, at University College, London (UCL), at the same time attending lectures at the Royal Institution.

In 1875 he obtained his BSc, read a paper to the British Association on "Nodes and loops in chemical formulae" and became a physics demonstrator at UCL. The following year he was appointed a physics lecturer at Bedford College, completing his DSc in 1877. Three years later he became Assistant Professor of Mathematics at UCL, but in 1881, after only two years, he accepted the Chair of Experimental Physics at the new University College of Liverpool. There began a period of fruitful studies of electricity and radio transmission and reception, including development of the lightning conductor, discovery of the "coherent" effect of sparks and improvement of Branly's coherer, and, in 1894, what is said to be the first public demonstration of the transmission and reception (using a coherer) of wireless telegraphy, from Lewis's department store to the clock tower of Liverpool University's Victoria Building. On 10 May 1897 he filed a patent for selective tuning by self-in-ductance; this was before Marconi's first patent was actually published and its priority was subsequently upheld.

In 1900 he became the first Principal of the new University of Birmingham, where he remained until his retirement in 1919. In his later years he was increasingly interested in psychical research.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Knighted 1902. FRS 1887. Royal Society Council Member 1893. President, Society for Psychical Research 1901–4, 1932. President, British Association 1913. Royal Society Rumford Medal 1898. Royal Society of Arts Albert Medal 1919. Institution of Electrical Engineers Faraday Medal 1932. Fourteen honorary degrees from British and other universities.

Bibliography

1875, "The flow of electricity in a plane", Philosophical Magazine (May, June and December).

1876, "Thermo-electric phenomena", Philosophical Magazine (December). 1888, "Lightning conductors", Philosophical Magazine (August).

1889, Modern Views of Electricity (lectures at the Royal Institution).

10 May 1897, "Improvements in syntonized telegraphy without line wires", British patent no. 11,575, US patent no. 609,154.

1898, "Radio waves", Philosophical Magazine (August): 227.

1931, Past Years, An Autobiography, London: Hodder \& Stoughton.

Further Reading

W.P.Jolly, 1974, Sir Oliver Lodge, Psychical Resear cher and Scientist, London: Constable.

E.Hawks, 1927, Pioneers of Wireless, London: Methuen.

See also: Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph

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Biographical history of technology > Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph
19 Morton, William Thomas Green

SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology

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b. 1819 Charlton, Massachusetts, USA

d. 1868 New York, USA

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American dentist, pioneer of inhalation anaesthesia using ether.

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He received his dental training at Baltimore College of Dental Surgery and by 1842 was in a short-lived partnership with Horace Wells. Following the latter's successful dental anaesthesia using nitrous oxide in 1844 and his later failures of general anaesthesia, Morton embarked on a period of medical training at Massachusetts Medical College. The use of ether had been suggested by an acquaintance, Charles Jackson, a chemist and geologist, and in 1846 Morton commenced his investigations with a dog, himself and two assistants as subjects. The first major operation under ether general anaesthesia was performed at the Massachusetts General Hospital in October 1846. The technique speedily gained widespread acceptance in America and Europe. Morton's later life was bedevilled by prolonged acrimony over the question of priority of the discovery.

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Bibliography

1847, Remarks on the Proper Mode of Administering Sulphuric Ether by Inhalation, Boston.

Further Reading

W.J.Morton, 1905, Memoranda Relating to the Discovery of Surgical Anaesthesia.

B.M.Duncum, 1947, Development of Inhalational Anaesthesia.

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Biographical history of technology > Morton, William Thomas Green
20 Ohain, Hans Joachim Pabst von

SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace

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b. 14 December 1911 Dessau, Germany

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German engineer who designed the first jet engine to power an aeroplane successfully.

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Von Ohain studied engineering at the University of Göttingen, where he carried out research on gas-turbine engines, and centrifugal compressors in particular. In 1935 he patented a design for a jet engine (in Britain, Frank Whittle patented his jet-engine design in 1930). Von Ohain was recruited by the Heinkel company in 1936 to develop an engine for a jet aircraft. Ernst Heinkel was impressed by von Ohain's ideas and gave the project a high priority. The first engine was bench tested in September 1937. A more powerful version was developed and tested in air, suspended beneath a Heinkel dive-bomber, during the spring of 1939. A new airframe was designed to house the revolutionary power plant and designated the Heinkel He 178. A short flight was made on 24 August 1939 and the first recognized flight on 27 August. This important achievement received only a lukewarm response from the German authorities. Von Ohain's turbojet engine had a centrifugal compressor and developed a thrust of 380 kg (837 lb). An improved, more powerful, engine was developed and installed in a new twin-engined fighter design, the He 280. This flew on 2 April 1941 but never progressed beyond the prototype stage. By this time two other German companies, BMW and Junkers, were constructing successful turbojets with axial compressors: luckily for the Allies, Hitler was reluctant to pour his hard-pressed resources into this new breed of jet fighters. After the war, von Ohain emigrated to the United States and worked for the Air Force there.

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Bibliography

1929, "The evolution and future of aeropropulsion system", The Jet Age. 40 Years of Jet Aviation, Washington, DC: National Air \& Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Further Reading

Von Ohain's work is described in many books covering the history of aviation, and aero engines in particular, for example: R.Schlaifer and S.D.Heron, 1950, Development of Aircraft Engines and fuels, Boston. G.G.Smith, 1955, Gas Turbines and Jet Propulsion.

Grover Heiman, 1963, Jet Pioneers.

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Biographical history of technology > Ohain, Hans Joachim Pabst von

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