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production innovation

  • 1 новое изделие

    4) Quality control: production innovation

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > новое изделие

  • 2 рационализация

    1) General subject: development engineering, facelift (процесса), facelifting
    5) Accounting: job simplification
    6) Psychology: sour grapes mechanism
    7) Oil: streamlining
    10) Production: innovation
    11) EBRD: rationalisation

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > рационализация

  • 3 novatorstvo

    n introduction of (production) innovations, (production) innovation efforts/ /movement
    * * *
    • contraption

    Hrvatski-Engleski rječnik > novatorstvo

  • 4 jefe

    adj.
    chief, top.
    m.
    1 boss, principal, chief, manager.
    2 chief, chieftain, leader, ringleader.
    3 boss, woman in charge, headwoman, top woman.
    4 boss.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 boss, head, chief
    2 COMERCIO (hombre) manager; (mujer) manageress
    3 PLÍTICA leader
    4 MILITAR officer in command
    ► interjección ¡jefe!
    1 familiar waiter!
    1 familiar the old lady, the wife
    \
    jefe de estación station master
    jefe de Estado Head of State
    jefe de Estado Mayor Chief of Staff
    jefe de redacción editor in chief
    jefe de ventas sales manager
    jefe supremo commander-in-chief
    * * *
    (f. - jefa)
    noun
    1) boss
    2) head
    * * *
    jefe, -a
    SM / F
    1) (=superior) boss; (=director) head; (Pol) leader; (Com) manager; (Mil) officer in command; [de tribu] chief

    ¿quién es el jefe aquí? — who's in charge around here?

    jefe/a civil — Caribe registrar

    jefe/a de almacén — warehouse manager/manageress

    jefe/a de bomberos — fire chief, chief fire officer

    jefe/a de cabina — (Aer) chief steward/stewardess

    jefe/a de camareros — head waiter/waitress

    jefe/a de cocina — head chef

    jefe/a de equipo — team leader

    jefe/a de estación — station master, station manager

    jefe/a de estado — head of state

    jefe/a de estado mayor — chief of staff

    jefe/a de estudios — (Escol) director of studies

    jefe/a de filas — (Pol) party leader

    jefe/a de máquinas — (Náut) chief engineer

    jefe/a de márketing — marketing manager

    jefe/a de obras — site manager

    jefe/a de oficina — office manager/manageress

    jefe/a de personal — personnel manager

    jefe/a de pista — ringmaster

    jefe/a de plató — (Cine, TV) floor manager

    jefe/a de producción — production manager

    jefe/a de protocolo — chief of protocol

    jefe/a de realización — (Cine, TV) production manager

    jefe/a de redacción — editor-in-chief

    jefe/a de sala — head waiter/waitress

    jefe/a de taller — foreman

    jefe/a de tren — guard, conductor (EEUU)

    jefe/a de ventas — sales manager

    jefe/a ejecutivo/a — chief executive

    jefe/a supremo/a — commander-in-chief

    2) [como apelativo]

    ¡oiga jefe! — hey!, mate! *

    sí, mi jefe — esp LAm yes, sir o boss

    * * *
    - fa masculino, femenino, jefe masculino y femenino
    a) ( superior) boss
    b) ( de empresa) manager; ( de sección) head; ( de tribu) chief
    c) (Pol) leader
    d) ( como apelativo) buddy (AmE colloq), mate (BrE colloq)
    e) jefes masculino plural (fam) ( padres) folks (pl) (colloq)
    * * *
    = boss [bosses, -pl.], chief, employer, chief honcho, top official, top position, head honcho, honcho, gaffer, leader.
    Ex. The dependence on bosses for recognition, rewards, and advancement breeds an artificiality of relationship, a need to be polite and agreeable.
    Ex. He subsequently served as chief of that Division, chief of the Serial Record Division, Assistant Director for Cataloging of the Processing Department, Director of the Processing Department, and Assistant Librarian of Processing Services.
    Ex. But we have an obligation to these students, to their future employers and colleagues, to society in general and to ourselves to ensure that our 'processing' makes an important difference.
    Ex. 'We should be more sympathetic and persuasive with the chief honchos'.
    Ex. Some who felt that many of the top officials in libraries and professional organizations were men.
    Ex. In spite of the preponderance of women in the profession 44 of 61 top positions are held by men.
    Ex. Only 17 percent of head honchos say research and development (R&D) drives innovation in their business, a new study has found.
    Ex. Of course, no one but a few honchos at IBM and Oracle know the real answer.
    Ex. Watford gaffer believes his team's home games hold the key to their ability to survive in the Premiership.
    Ex. The proud mother, as a result, had been a leader in the fight to establish a program for the 'gifted and talented' in the public school system.
    ----
    * ¡cómo se nota que no está el jefe! = while the cat's away, the mice will play.
    * editor jefe = editor-in-chief.
    * jefa de oficina de correos = postmistress.
    * jefe de cocina = chef.
    * jefe de escuadrón = squadron leader.
    * jefe de espías = spymaster.
    * jefe de estado = head of state, chief of state.
    * jefe de facturación = billing clerk.
    * jefe de la tribu = tribal chief.
    * jefe del estado mayor = Chief of Staff.
    * jefe de los servicios de gestión del conocimiento = chief knowledge officer (CKO).
    * jefe de los servicios de información = chief information officer (CIO).
    * jefe del servicio de catalogación = cataloguing head.
    * jefe del servicio de referencia = reference head.
    * jefe de milicia = warlord.
    * jefe de oficina = office manager.
    * jefe de oficina de correos = postmaster.
    * jefe de personal = personnel officer, welfare officer, staff manager.
    * jefe de personal de la biblioteca = library personnel officer.
    * jefe de policía = chief constable, police chief.
    * jefe de prensa = press officer.
    * jefe de recursos humanos = human resource manager.
    * jefe de sección = section head.
    * jefe de taller = overseer.
    * jefe militar = army official, army officer.
    * muchos jefes y pocos trabajadores = too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
    * ser el jefe = be in charge, call + the shots, be the boss, call + the tune, rule + the roost.
    * * *
    - fa masculino, femenino, jefe masculino y femenino
    a) ( superior) boss
    b) ( de empresa) manager; ( de sección) head; ( de tribu) chief
    c) (Pol) leader
    d) ( como apelativo) buddy (AmE colloq), mate (BrE colloq)
    e) jefes masculino plural (fam) ( padres) folks (pl) (colloq)
    * * *
    = boss [bosses, -pl.], chief, employer, chief honcho, top official, top position, head honcho, honcho, gaffer, leader.

    Ex: The dependence on bosses for recognition, rewards, and advancement breeds an artificiality of relationship, a need to be polite and agreeable.

    Ex: He subsequently served as chief of that Division, chief of the Serial Record Division, Assistant Director for Cataloging of the Processing Department, Director of the Processing Department, and Assistant Librarian of Processing Services.
    Ex: But we have an obligation to these students, to their future employers and colleagues, to society in general and to ourselves to ensure that our 'processing' makes an important difference.
    Ex: 'We should be more sympathetic and persuasive with the chief honchos'.
    Ex: Some who felt that many of the top officials in libraries and professional organizations were men.
    Ex: In spite of the preponderance of women in the profession 44 of 61 top positions are held by men.
    Ex: Only 17 percent of head honchos say research and development (R&D) drives innovation in their business, a new study has found.
    Ex: Of course, no one but a few honchos at IBM and Oracle know the real answer.
    Ex: Watford gaffer believes his team's home games hold the key to their ability to survive in the Premiership.
    Ex: The proud mother, as a result, had been a leader in the fight to establish a program for the 'gifted and talented' in the public school system.
    * ¡cómo se nota que no está el jefe! = while the cat's away, the mice will play.
    * editor jefe = editor-in-chief.
    * jefa de oficina de correos = postmistress.
    * jefe de cocina = chef.
    * jefe de escuadrón = squadron leader.
    * jefe de espías = spymaster.
    * jefe de estado = head of state, chief of state.
    * jefe de facturación = billing clerk.
    * jefe de la tribu = tribal chief.
    * jefe del estado mayor = Chief of Staff.
    * jefe de los servicios de gestión del conocimiento = chief knowledge officer (CKO).
    * jefe de los servicios de información = chief information officer (CIO).
    * jefe del servicio de catalogación = cataloguing head.
    * jefe del servicio de referencia = reference head.
    * jefe de milicia = warlord.
    * jefe de oficina = office manager.
    * jefe de oficina de correos = postmaster.
    * jefe de personal = personnel officer, welfare officer, staff manager.
    * jefe de personal de la biblioteca = library personnel officer.
    * jefe de policía = chief constable, police chief.
    * jefe de prensa = press officer.
    * jefe de recursos humanos = human resource manager.
    * jefe de sección = section head.
    * jefe de taller = overseer.
    * jefe militar = army official, army officer.
    * muchos jefes y pocos trabajadores = too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
    * ser el jefe = be in charge, call + the shots, be the boss, call + the tune, rule + the roost.

    * * *
    jefe -fa
    masculine, feminine
    1 (superior) boss
    aquí el jefe soy yo I'm the boss here, I'm in charge here
    2 (de una sección, un departamento) head
    4 (de un partido, una banda) leader
    5 (como apelativo) buddy ( AmE colloq), mate ( BrE colloq), guv ( BrE colloq dated)
    6 jefes mpl ( fam) (padres) folks (pl) ( colloq), parents (pl)
    Compuestos:
    ● jefe/jefa de bomberos
    fire chief
    ● jefe/jefa de cocina
    chef
    ● jefe/jefa de departamento
    head of department
    ● jefe/jefa de estación
    stationmaster
    ● jefe/jefa de Estado
    head of state
    ● jefe/jefa de Estado Mayor
    Chief of Staff
    ● jefe/jefa de estudios
    director of studies
    ● jefe/jefa de filas
    group leader
    ● jefe/jefa de gobierno
    (primer ministro) prime minister; (presidente) president
    ● jefe/jefa de la guerrilla
    guerrilla leader
    ● jefe/jefa de la oposición
    leader of the opposition
    ● jefe/jefa de la policía
    chief of police
    ● jefe/jefa de los espías
    spymaster
    ● jefe/jefa de máquinas
    chief engineer
    ● jefe/jefa de negociado
    head of section, head of department
    ● jefe/jefa de oficina
    chief clerk, office manager
    ● jefe/jefa de personal
    personnel manager
    ● jefe/jefa de planta
    floor manager
    ● jefe/jefa de producción
    production manager
    ● jefe/jefa de producto
    product manager
    ● jefe/jefa de redacción
    editor-in-chief
    ● jefe/jefa de sección
    section head
    ● jefe/jefa de seguridad
    chief of security
    ● jefe/jefa de taller
    supervisor, foreman
    ● jefe/jefa de tren
    head conductor, train manager ( BrE)
    ● jefe/jefa de ventas
    sales manager
    * * *

     

    jefe
    ◊ -fa sustantivo masculino, femenino, jefe sustantivo masculino y femenino

    a) ( superior) boss;


    jefe de personal/ventas personnel/sales manager;
    jefe de redacción editor-in-chief

    ( de sección) head;
    ( de tribu) chief
    c) (Pol) leader;

    ◊ jefe de Estado/gobierno head of state/government

    jefe,-a sustantivo masculino y femenino
    1 boss
    Com manager
    jefe de estación, station master
    jefe de informativos, news editor
    jefe de personal, personnel manager
    jefe de redacción, editor-in-chief
    jefe de ventas, sales manager
    2 (líder) leader: es el jefe de la tribu, he's the chief of the tribe
    jefe de Estado, Head of State
    3 Mil comandante en jefe, commander-in-chief
    ' jefe' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    arder
    - bailar
    - bebida
    - cabestro
    - congraciarse
    - definitivamente
    - encima
    - faltar
    - gastar
    - gusano
    - jefa
    - mondarse
    - patrón
    - patrona
    - patrono
    - quemada
    - quemado
    - redactor
    - redactora
    - sapo
    - sheriff
    - tal
    - trinar
    - abajo
    - canciller
    - citar
    - comandante
    - condición
    - enfermero
    - facultar
    - mandar
    - pensar
    - plantear
    - quedar
    - rabiar
    - robar
    - salir
    - ver
    English:
    absence
    - abuse
    - anybody
    - approachable
    - around
    - ask for
    - bluster
    - boss
    - busywork
    - by
    - by-product
    - chancellor
    - chief
    - chieftain
    - clear
    - comeback
    - cow
    - deal with
    - departmental
    - deputy
    - discount
    - doormat
    - edit
    - even
    - expect
    - forceful
    - foreman
    - forge
    - frustrated
    - grievance
    - guard
    - head
    - higher-up
    - imagine
    - in
    - initially
    - leader
    - manager
    - marshal
    - mate
    - of
    - pass over
    - pat
    - pool
    - postmaster
    - promise
    - Secretary of State
    - sister
    - staff nurse
    - take over
    * * *
    jefe, -a nm,f
    1. [persona al mando] boss;
    [de empresa] manager, f manageress; [líder] leader; [de tribu, ejército] chief; [de departamento] head; Mil
    en jefe in-chief;
    Méx Fam
    como jefe: entró a la oficina como jefe he walked into the office as if he owned the place
    jefe de bomberos fire chief;
    jefe de compras purchasing manager;
    jefe de estación stationmaster;
    jefe de Estado head of state;
    jefe del estado mayor chief of staff;
    jefe de estudios director of studies;
    Dep jefe de fila(s) team leader [driver or cyclist];
    jefe de gabinete chief of staff;
    jefe de gobierno prime minister;
    una reunión de jefes de gobierno a meeting of heads of government;
    jefe de policía police chief, chief of police, Br chief constable;
    jefe de prensa press officer;
    jefe de producción production manager;
    jefe de producto product line manager;
    jefe de protocolo chief of protocol;
    jefe de proyecto project manager;
    jefe de redacción editor-in-chief;
    jefe de sección departmental head o chief;
    jefe de ventas sales manager
    2. Fam [como apelativo]
    pregúntale al jefe qué se debe ask the guy for the bill;
    jefe, pónganos dos cervezas give us two beers, Br guv o US mac
    3. Méx Fam [padre, madre] old man, f old girl
    4. Esp Fam
    mis jefes [mis padres] my folks
    * * *
    m, jefa f de departamento, organización head; ( superior) boss; POL leader; de tribu chief
    :
    mi jefe my dad fam ;
    mi jefa my mom fam
    * * *
    jefe, -fa n
    1) : chief, head, leader
    jefe de bomberos: fire chief
    2) : boss
    * * *
    jefe n
    1. (superior) boss [pl. bosses]
    3. (de un partido, de una asociación) leader

    Spanish-English dictionary > jefe

  • 5 innovazione

    f innovation
    * * *
    innovazione s.f. innovation, change: introdurre innovazioni in un processo produttivo, to introduce innovations in a production process; innovazione tecnica, technical change; innovazione tecnologica, technological innovation; innovazioni sociali, social changes.
    * * *
    [innovat'tsjone]
    sostantivo femminile innovation
    * * *
    innovazione
    /innovat'tsjone/
    sostantivo f.
    innovation.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > innovazione

  • 6 novità

    f invar novelty
    ( notizia) piece or item of news
    essere una novità sul mercato be new on the market
    * * *
    novità s.f.
    1 novelty; newness; ( originalità) originality: la novità di una situazione, the novelty of a situation; quelle poesie colpiscono per la novità della forma, those poems are particularly striking because of the originality of their form; questi mobili sono notevoli per la novità della linea, this furniture is remarkable for the newness of its design
    2 ( cosa nuova) novelty; ( innovazione) innovation, change: le novità della moda, the latest fashions; non ero stato informato della novità, I had not been informed of the change; per loro fu una novità, it was a new experience for them; i vecchi odiano le novità, old people hate change; tenersi al corrente delle novità, to keep up with new ideas; queste sono le ultime novità del settore, these are the latest developments in the field; introdurre delle novità in un processo produttivo, to introduce innovations into (o to make changes in) a production process // novità libraria, new book; novità teatrale, new play; novità discografiche, new releases
    3 ( notizia) news [U]: le novità del giorno, the news of the day; che novità ci sono?, what is the news?; non ho altre novità da raccontarti, I haven't got any other news to tell you // che novità sono queste?, what ever is the world coming to?
    * * *
    [novi'ta]
    sostantivo femminile invariabile
    1) (aspetto nuovo, originalità) novelty, freshness

    fare qcs. per il gusto della novità — to do sth. for the novelty

    2) (cosa nuova) novelty; (sviluppo, cambiamento) innovation, change

    novità d'autunno — abbigl. new autumn fashions

    "novità editoriali" — "just out", "just published"

    3) (notizia) news U
    * * *
    novità
    /novi'ta/
    f.inv.
     1 (aspetto nuovo, originalità) novelty, freshness; fare qcs. per il gusto della novità to do sth. for the novelty
     2 (cosa nuova) novelty; (sviluppo, cambiamento) innovation, change; non è una novità! that's nothing new! è una novità per me that's a new one on me; l'ultima novità the latest word; novità d'autunno abbigl. new autumn fashions; le ultime novità della moda the latest in fashion; "novità editoriali" "just out", "just published"
     3 (notizia) news U; ci sono novità? any news? telefonami se ci sono novità give me a ring if there is anything new.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > novità

  • 7 Monro, Philip Peter

    SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology
    [br]
    b. 27 May 1946 London, England
    [br]
    English biologist, inventor of a water-purification process by osmosis.
    [br]
    Monro's whole family background is engineering, an interest he did not share. Instead, he preferred biology, an enthusiasm aroused by reading the celebrated Science of Life by H.G. and G.P.Wells and Julian Huxley. Educated at a London comprehensive school, Monro found it necessary to attend evening classes while at school to take his advanced level science examinations. Lacking parental support, he could not pursue a degree course until he was 21 years old, and so he gained valuable practical experience as a research technician. He resumed his studies and took a zoology degree at Portsmouth Polytechnic. He then worked in a range of zoology and medical laboratories, culminating after twelve years as a Senior Experimental Officer at Southampton Medical School. In 1989 he relinquished his post to devote himself fall time to developing his inventions as Managing Director of Hampshire Advisory and Technical Services Ltd (HATS). Also in 1988 he obtained his PhD from Southampton University, in the field of embryology.
    Monro had meanwhile been demonstrating a talent for invention, mainly in microscopy. His most important invention, however, is of a water-purification system. The idea for it came from Michael Wilson of the Institute of Dental Surgery in London, who evolved a technique for osmotic production of sterile oral rehydration solutions, of particular use in treating infants suffering from diarrhoea in third-world countries. Monro broadened the original concept to include dried food, intravenous solutions and even dried blood. The process uses simple equipment and no external power and works as follows: a dry sugar/salts mixture is sealed in one compartment of a double bag, the common wall of which is a semipermeable membrane. Impure water is placed in the empty compartment and the water transfers across the membrane by the osmotic force of the sugar/salts. As the pores in the membrane exclude all viruses, bacteria and their toxins, a sterile solution is produced.
    With the help of a research fellowship granted for humanitarian reasons at King Alfred College, Winchester, the invention was developed to functional prototype stage in 1993, with worldwide patent protection. Commercial production was expected to follow, if sufficient financial backing were forthcoming. The process is not intended to replace large installations, but will revolutionize the small-scale production of sterile water in scattered third-world communities and in disaster areas where normal services have been disrupted.
    HATS was awarded First Prize in the small business category and was overall prize winner in the Toshiba Year of Invention, received a NatWest/BP award for technology and a Prince of Wales Award for Innovation.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1993, with M.Wilson and W.A.M.Cutting, "Osmotic production of sterile oral rehydration solutions", Tropical Doctor 23:69–72.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Monro, Philip Peter

  • 8 capacité

    capacité [kapasite]
    feminine noun
       a. ( = contenance) capacity
    • capacité de mémoire/de stockage (Computing) memory/disk capacity
       b. ( = aptitude) ability
    * * *
    kapasite
    1) ( aptitude) ability
    2) ( potentiel) capacity

    capacité de mémoire — Informatique memory capacity ou size

    •
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    kapasite nf
    1) (pouvoir de faire qch) [production, adaptation, résistance, stockage, innovation, nuisance] capacity
    2) (= compétence) ability
    3) [récipient, stade] capacity

    d'une capacité de... — with a capacity of...

    4) TECHNIQUE, INFORMATIQUE, [disque dur, carte mémoire] capacity
    * * *
    A nf
    1 ( aptitude) ability; capacité de qn/qch à faire capacity of sb/sth to do; la capacité d'évolution des employés the employees' capacity to progress; un chercheur d'une grande capacité a researcher of great ability, a very talented researcher; tes capacités d'imagination/d'analyse your capacity for imagining/analysing; avoir capacité à faire Jur to be qualified to do;
    2 ( potentiel) capacity; capacité exportatrice/de production export/production capacity; capacité d'intervention Mil intervention capacity; capacité de 100 mégawatts 100 megawatt capacity; capacités de stockage storage capacity; capacité de mémoire Ordinat memory capacity ou size;
    3 ( contenance) capacity; un récipient de grande capacité a large capacity container; capacité d'accueil d'un hôtel/d'une prison capacity of a hotel/of a prison; un avion d'une capacité de 200 places a plane with a capacity of 200; la capacité d'accueil d'une ville touristique the number of visitors a tourist resort can accommodate; machine à laver à capacité variable washing machine with variable load settings.
    B capacités nfpl ( talent) abilities; capacités intellectuelles/physiques intellectual/physical abilities; je ne doute pas de vos capacités I have no doubts as to your ability ou abilities.
    capacité civile civil capacity; capacité électrostatique capacitance; capacité en droit Univ, Jur basic legal qualification; capacité légale Jur legal capacity, legal competence; capacité respiratoire Méd vital capacity; capacité thermique Phys thermal capacity; capacité thoracique = capacité respiratoire.
    [kapasite] nom féminin
    1. [aptitude] ability, capability
    avoir la capacité de faire quelque chose to have the ability to do something, to be capable of doing something
    avoir une grande capacité de travail to be capable of ou to have a capacity for hard work
    2. [d'un récipient, d'une salle, d'un véhicule] capacity
    capacité vitale ou thoracique ANATOMIE & PHYSIOLOGIE vital capacity
    4. INFORMATIQUE & TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS capacity
    6. [diplôme]
    ————————
    capacités nom féminin pluriel

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > capacité

  • 9 Issigonis, Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine (Alec)

    [br]
    b. 18 November 1906 Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey
    d. 2 October 1988 Birmingham, England
    [br]
    British automobile designer whose work included the Morris Minor and the Mini series.
    [br]
    His father was of Greek descent but was a naturalized British subject in Turkey who ran a marine engineering business. After the First World War, the British in Turkey were evacuated by the Royal Navy, the Issigonis family among them. His father died en route in Malta, but the rest of the family arrived in England in 1922. Alec studied engineering at Battersea Polytechnic for three years and in 1928 was employed as a draughtsman by a firm of consulting engineers in Victoria Street who were working on a form of automatic transmission. He had occasion to travel frequently in the Midlands at this time and visited many factories in the automobile industry. He was offered a job in the drawing office at Humber and lived for a couple of years in Kenilworth. While there he met Robert Boyle, Chief Engineer of Morris Motors (see Morris, William Richard), who offered him a job at Cowley. There he worked at first on the design of independent front suspension. At Morris Motors, he designed the Morris Minor, which entered production in 1948 and continued to be manufactured until 1971. Issigonis disliked mergers, and after the merger of Morris with Austin to form the British Motor Corporation (BMC) he left to join Alvis in 1952. The car he designed there, a V8 saloon, was built as a prototype but was never put into production. Following his return to BMC to become Technical Director in 1955, his most celebrated design was the Mini series, which entered production in 1959. This was a radically new concept: it was unique for its combination of a transversely mounted engine in unit with the gearbox, front wheel drive and rubber suspension system. This suspension system, designed in cooperation with Alex Moulton, was also a fundamental innovation, developed from the system designed by Moulton for the earlier Alvis prototype. Issigonis remained as Technical Director of BMC until his retirement.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Peter King, 1989, The Motor Men. Pioneers of the British Motor Industry, London: Quiller Press.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Issigonis, Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine (Alec)

  • 10 Port Wine

       Portugal's most famous wine and leading export takes its name from the city of Oporto or porto, which means "port" or "harbor" in Portuguese. Sometimes described as "the Englishman's wine," port is only one of the many wines produced in continental Portugal and the Atlantic islands. Another noted dessert wine is Madeira wine, which is produced on the island of Madeira. Port wine's history is about as long as that of Madeira wine, but the wine's development is recent compared to that of older table wines and the wines Greeks and Romans enjoyed in ancient Lusitania. During the Roman occupation of the land (ca. 210 BCE-300 CE), wine was being made from vines cultivated in the upper Douro River valley. Favorable climate and soils (schist with granite outcropping) and convenient transportation (on ships down the Douro River to Oporto) were factors that combined with increased wine production in the late 17th century to assist in the birth of port wine as a new product. Earlier names for port wine ( vinho do porto) were descriptive of location ("Wine of the Douro Bank") and how it was transported ("Wine of [Ship] Embarkation").
       Port wine, a sweet, fortified (with brandy) aperitif or dessert wine that was designed as a valuable export product for the English market, was developed first in the 1670s by a unique combination of circumstances and the action of interested parties. Several substantial English merchants who visited Oporto "discovered" that a local Douro wine was much improved when brandy ( aguardente) was added. Fortification prevented the wine from spoiling in a variety of temperatures and on the arduous sea voyages from Oporto to Great Britain. Soon port wine became a major industry of the Douro region; it involved an uneasy alliance between the English merchant-shippers at Oporto and Vila Nova de Gaia, the town across the river from Oporto, where the wine was stored and aged, and the Portuguese wine growers.
       In the 18th century, port wine became a significant element of Britain's foreign imports and of the country's establishment tastes in beverages. Port wine drinking became a hallowed tradition in Britain's elite Oxford and Cambridge Universities' colleges, which all kept port wine cellars. For Portugal, the port wine market in Britain, and later in France, Belgium, and other European countries, became a vital element in the national economy. Trade in port wine and British woolens became the key elements in the 1703 Methuen Treaty between England and Portugal.
       To lessen Portugal's growing economic dependence on Britain, regulate the production and export of the precious sweet wine, and protect the public from poor quality, the Marquis of Pombal instituted various measures for the industry. In 1756, Pombal established the General Company of Viticulture of the Upper Douro to carry out these measures. That same year, he ordered the creation of the first demarcated wine-producing region in the world, the port-wine producing Douro region. Other wine-producing countries later followed this Portuguese initiative and created demarcated wine regions to protect the quality of wine produced and to ensure national economic interests.
       The upper Douro valley region (from Barca d'Alva in Portugal to Barqueiros on the Spanish frontier) produces a variety of wines; only 40 percent of its wines are port wine, whereas 60 percent are table wines. Port wine's alcohol content varies usually between 19 and 22 percent, and, depending on the type, the wine is aged in wooden casks from two to six years and then bottled. Related to port wine's history is the history of Portuguese cork. Beginning in the 17th century, Portuguese cork, which comes from cork trees, began to be used to seal wine bottles to prevent wine from spoiling. This innovation in Portugal helped lead to the development of the cork industry. By the early 20th century, Portugal was the world's largest exporter of cork.

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  • 11 Bedson, George

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
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    b. 3 November 1820 Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England
    d. 12 December 1884 Manchester (?), England
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    English metallurgist, inventor of the continuous rolling mill.
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    He acquired a considerable knowledge of wire-making in his father's works before he took a position in 1839 at the works of James Edleston at Warrington. From there, in 1851, he went to Manchester as Manager of Richard Johnson \& Sons' wire mill, where he remained for the rest of his life. It was there that he initiated several important improvements in the manufacture of wire. These included a system of circulating puddling furnace water bottoms and sides, and a galvanizing process. His most important innovation, however, was the continuous mill for producing iron rod for wiredrawing. Previously the red-hot iron billets had to be handled repeatedly through a stand or set of rolls to reduce the billet to the required shape, with time and heat being lost at each handling. In Bedson's continuous mill, the billet entered the first of a succession of stands placed as closely to each other as possible and emerged from the final one as rod suitable for wiredrawing, without any intermediate handling. A second novel feature was that alternate rolls were arranged vertically to save turning the piece manually through a right angle. That improved the quality as well as the speed of production. Bedson's first continuous mill was erected in Manchester in 1862 and had sixteen stands in tandem. A mill on this principle had been patented the previous year by Charles While of Pontypridd, South Wales, but it was Bedson who made it work and brought it into use commercially. A difficult problem to overcome was that as the piece being rolled lengthened, its speed increased, so that each pair of rolls had to increase correspondingly. The only source of power was a steam engine working a single drive shaft, but Bedson achieved the greater speeds by using successively larger gear-wheels at each stand.
    Bedson's first mill was highly successful, and a second one was erected at the Manchester works; however, its application was limited to the production of small bars, rods and sections. Nevertheless, Bedson's mill established an important principle of rolling-mill design that was to have wider applications in later years.
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    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1884, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 27:539–40. W.K.V.Gale, 1969, Iron and Steel, London: Longmans, pp. 81–2.
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  • 12 De Forest, Lee

    [br]
    b. 26 August 1873 Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
    d. 30 June 1961 Hollywood, California, USA
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    American electrical engineer and inventor principally known for his invention of the Audion, or triode, vacuum tube; also a pioneer of sound in the cinema.
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    De Forest was born into the family of a Congregational minister that moved to Alabama in 1879 when the father became President of a college for African-Americans; this was a position that led to the family's social ostracism by the white community. By the time he was 13 years old, De Forest was already a keen mechanical inventor, and in 1893, rejecting his father's plan for him to become a clergyman, he entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Following his first degree, he went on to study the propagation of electromagnetic waves, gaining a PhD in physics in 1899 for his thesis on the "Reflection of Hertzian Waves from the Ends of Parallel Wires", probably the first US thesis in the field of radio.
    He then joined the Western Electric Company in Chicago where he helped develop the infant technology of wireless, working his way up from a modest post in the production area to a position in the experimental laboratory. There, working alone after normal working hours, he developed a detector of electromagnetic waves based on an electrolytic device similar to that already invented by Fleming in England. Recognizing his talents, a number of financial backers enabled him to set up his own business in 1902 under the name of De Forest Wireless Telegraphy Company; he was soon demonstrating wireless telegraphy to interested parties and entering into competition with the American Marconi Company.
    Despite the failure of this company because of fraud by his partners, he continued his experiments; in 1907, by adding a third electrode, a wire mesh, between the anode and cathode of the thermionic diode invented by Fleming in 1904, he was able to produce the amplifying device now known as the triode valve and achieve a sensitivity of radio-signal reception much greater than possible with the passive carborundum and electrolytic detectors hitherto available. Patented under the name Audion, this new vacuum device was soon successfully used for experimental broadcasts of music and speech in New York and Paris. The invention of the Audion has been described as the beginning of the electronic era. Although much development work was required before its full potential was realized, the Audion opened the way to progress in all areas of sound transmission, recording and reproduction. The patent was challenged by Fleming and it was not until 1943 that De Forest's claim was finally recognized.
    Overcoming the near failure of his new company, the De Forest Radio Telephone Company, as well as unsuccessful charges of fraudulent promotion of the Audion, he continued to exploit the potential of his invention. By 1912 he had used transformer-coupling of several Audion stages to achieve high gain at radio frequencies, making long-distance communication a practical proposition, and had applied positive feedback from the Audion output anode to its input grid to realize a stable transmitter oscillator and modulator. These successes led to prolonged patent litigation with Edwin Armstrong and others, and he eventually sold the manufacturing rights, in retrospect often for a pittance.
    During the early 1920s De Forest began a fruitful association with T.W.Case, who for around ten years had been working to perfect a moving-picture sound system. De Forest claimed to have had an interest in sound films as early as 1900, and Case now began to supply him with photoelectric cells and primitive sound cameras. He eventually devised a variable-density sound-on-film system utilizing a glow-discharge modulator, the Photion. By 1926 De Forest's Phonofilm had been successfully demonstrated in over fifty theatres and this system became the basis of Movietone. Though his ideas were on the right lines, the technology was insufficiently developed and it was left to others to produce a system acceptable to the film industry. However, De Forest had played a key role in transforming the nature of the film industry; within a space of five years the production of silent films had all but ceased.
    In the following decade De Forest applied the Audion to the development of medical diathermy. Finally, after spending most of his working life as an independent inventor and entrepreneur, he worked for a time during the Second World War at the Bell Telephone Laboratories on military applications of electronics.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers Medal of Honour 1922. President, Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers 1930. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Edison Medal 1946.
    Bibliography
    1904, "Electrolytic detectors", Electrician 54:94 (describes the electrolytic detector). 1907, US patent no. 841,387 (the Audion).
    1950, Father of Radio, Chicago: WIlcox \& Follett (autobiography).
    De Forest gave his own account of the development of his sound-on-film system in a series of articles: 1923. "The Phonofilm", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 16 (May): 61–75; 1924. "Phonofilm progress", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 20:17–19; 1927, "Recent developments in the Phonofilm", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 27:64–76; 1941, "Pioneering in talking pictures", Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 36 (January): 41–9.
    Further Reading
    G.Carneal, 1930, A Conqueror of Space (biography).
    I.Levine, 1964, Electronics Pioneer, Lee De Forest (biography).
    E.I.Sponable, 1947, "Historical development of sound films", Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 48 (April): 275–303 (an authoritative account of De Forest's sound-film work, by Case's assistant).
    W.R.McLaurin, 1949, Invention and Innovation in the Radio Industry.
    C.F.Booth, 1955, "Fleming and De Forest. An appreciation", in Thermionic Valves 1904– 1954, IEE.
    V.J.Phillips, 1980, Early Radio Detectors, London: Peter Peregrinus.
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    Biographical history of technology > De Forest, Lee

  • 13 новшество в сфере производства

    General subject: innovation in production

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > новшество в сфере производства

  • 14 competition

    Gen Mgt
    rivalry between companies to achieve greater market share. Competition between companies for customers will lead to product innovation and improvement, and ultimately lower prices. The opposite of market competition is either a monopoly or a controlled economy, where production is governed by quotas. A company that is leading the market is said to have achieved competitive advantage.

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  • 15 product management

    Mktg
    a system for the coordination of all the stages through which a product passes during its life cycle. Product management involves control of a product from its innovation and development to its decline. The process is coordinated by a product manager who focuses on the marketing of the product but may also be responsible for pricing, packaging, branding, research and development, production, distribution, sales targets, and product performance appraisal. This cross-departmental approach is based on the theory that a dedicated product management system will lead to tighter control over the product, and thus higher sales and profits. A brand manager fulfills a similar function to a product manager, concentrating on products within one brand.

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  • 16 Alleyne, Sir John Gay Newton

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
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    b. 8 September 1820 Barbados
    d. 20 February 1912 Falmouth, Cornwall, England
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    English iron and steel manufacturer, inventor of the reversing rolling mill.
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    Alleyne was the heir to a baronetcy created in 1769, which he succeeded to on the death of his father in 1870. He was educated at Harrow and at Bonn University, and from 1843 to 1851 he was Warden at Dulwich College, to the founder of which the family claimed to be related.
    Alleyne's business career began with a short spell in the sugar industry at Barbados, but he returned to England to enter Butterley Iron Works Company, where he remained for many years. He was at first concerned with the production of rolled-iron girders for floors, especially for fireproof flooring, and deck beams for iron ships. The demand for large sections exceeded the capacity of the small mills then in use at Butterley, so Alleyne introduced the welding of T-sections to form the required H-sections.
    In 1861 Alleyne patented a mechanical traverser for moving ingots in front of and behind a rolling mill, enabling one person to manipulate large pieces. In 1870 he introduced his major innovation, the two-high reversing mill, which enabled the metal to be passed back and forth between the rolls until it assumed the required size and shape. The mill had two steam engines, which supplied the motion in opposite directions. These two inventions produced considerable economies in time and effort in handling the metal and enabled much heavier pieces to be processed.
    During Alleyne's regime, the Butterley Company secured some notable contracts, such as the roof of St Paneras Station, London, in 1868, with the then-unparalleled span of 240 ft (73 m). The manufacture and erection of this awe-inspiring structure was a tribute to Alleyne's abilities. In 1872 he masterminded the design and construction of the large railway bridge over the Old Maas at Dordrecht, Holland. Alleyne also devised a method of determining small quantities of phosphorus in iron and steel by means of the spectroscope. In his spare time he was a skilled astronomical observer and metalworker in his private workshop.
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    Bibliography
    1875, "The estimation of small quantities of phosphorus in iron and steel by spectrum analysis", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute: 62.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1912, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute: 406–8.
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    Biographical history of technology > Alleyne, Sir John Gay Newton

  • 17 Ayre, Sir Amos Lowrey

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 23 July 1885 South Shields, England
    d. 13 January 1952 London, England
    [br]
    English shipbuilder and pioneer of the inter-war "economy" freighters; Chairman of the Shipbuilding Conference.
    [br]
    Amos Ayre grew up on the Tyne with the stimulus of shipbuilding and seafaring around him. After an apprenticeship as a ship draughtsman and distinction in his studies, he held responsible posts in the shipyards of Belfast and later Dublin. His first dramatic move came in 1909 when he accepted the post of Manager of the new Employment Exchange at Govan, then just outside Glasgow. During the First World War he was in charge of fleet coaling operations on the River Forth, and later was promoted Admiralty District Director for shipyard labour in Scotland.
    Before the conclusion of hostilities, with his brother Wilfrid (later Sir Wilfrid Ayre) he founded the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company in Fife. Setting up on a green field site allowed the brothers to show innovation in design, production and marketing. Such was their success that the new yard was busy throughout the Depression, building standard ships which incorporated low operating costs with simplicity of construction.
    Through public service culminating in the 1929 Safety of Life at Sea Conference, Amos Ayre became recognized not only as an eminent naval architect, but also as a skilled negotiator. In 1936 he was invited to become Chairman of the Shipbuilding Conference and thereby virtual leader of the industry. As war approached he planned with meticulous care the rearrangement of national shipbuilding capacity, enabling Britain to produce standard hulls ranging from the legendary TID tugs to the standard freighters built in Sunderland or Port Glasgow. In 1939 he became Director of Merchant Shipbuilding, a position he held until 1944, when with typical foresight he asked to be released to plan for shipbuilding's return to normality.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1937. KBE 1943. Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
    Bibliography
    1919, "The theory and design of British shipbuilding", The Syren and Shipping, London.
    Further Reading
    Wilfrid Ayre, 1968, A Shipbuilders Yesterdays, Fife (published privately). James Reid, 1964, James Lithgow, Master of Work, London.
    Maurice E.Denny, 1955, "The man and his work" (First Amos Ayre Lecture), Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects vol. 97.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Ayre, Sir Amos Lowrey

  • 18 Matzeliger, Jan

    [br]
    b. 1852 Surinam
    d. 1889 Lynn, Massachusetts, (?) USA
    [br]
    African-American inventor of the shoe-lasting machine.
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    He served an apprenticeship as a machinist in his native country, Surinam. As a young man he emigrated to New England in the USA, but he was unable to secure employment in his trade. To survive, he took various odd jobs, including sewing soles on to shoes in a factory at Lynn, Massachusetts, a centre of the shoemaking industry. Much of the shoemaking process had already been mechanized, but lasting remained laborious, painstaking hand work. Matzeliger turned his undoubted inventive powers to mechanizing this operation. It took him four years to achieve a working model of a mechanical last that could be patented. By this time his health and finances had been undermined by the struggle to reach this stage; to raise funds he had to dispose of two-thirds of his rights in his patent to two local investors. Eventually he demonstrated a trial model of his lasting machine and successfully lasted seventy-five pairs of shoes. Not satisfied with that, Matzeliger went on to produce two improved machines, protected by further patents. Finally, the United Shoe Machine Company bought up his patents, but that relief came too late to prevent Matzeliger from dying in poor circumstances. The mechanization of shoe lasting made a significant contribution to the manufacture of shoes, raising production and reducing costs. It also effectively extinguished the final element of skilled hand work required in shoemaking, earning him considerable unpopularity among the workers who were about to be displaced, and resulting in the machine being derogatorily nicknamed "Niggerhead".
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    Further Reading
    P.P.James, 1989, The Real McCoy: African-American Invention and Innovation 1619– 1930, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 70–2.
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    Biographical history of technology > Matzeliger, Jan

  • 19 Rillieux, Norbert

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    b. 1800 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    d. 1894 France
    [br]
    African-American inventor of a sugar-evaporation process.
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    A free black, he was the son of Vincent Rillieux, a white engineer, and Constance Vivant, a quadroon. The family was prosperous enough to send him to France to be educated, at the Ecole Centrale in Paris. There he studied engineering and later taught mechanical engineering, developing a special interest in thermodynamics and steampower. In 1830 he devised a vacuum evaporation system with industrial possibilities, but he was unable to interest any French firms in the device. He therefore returned to New Orleans and ob-tained his first patent in 1843. Two years later he was able to have the evaporation system installed on a plantation to refine sugar. It soon demonstrated its worth, for planters were able to recoup the cost of the plant within a year through raised production and reduced operating costs. It came to be the generally accepted method for processing sugar-cane juice, and the price of refined sugar fell so that white sugar ceased to be a luxury food for the rich.
    Rillieux's patents protected him from repeated efforts to counterfeit the process, which thus earned him considerable wealth. However, because of increasing hostility and discriminatory laws against blacks in New Orleans, he did not long enjoy it and he returned to France, taking up the study of egyptology.
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    Further Reading
    P.P.James, 1989, The Real McCoy: AfricanAmerican Invention and Innovation 1619– 1930, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 41–3.
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