prosperous industry

прс. 1. промисловість; індустрія; 2. галузь; галузь промисловості; галузь економічної діяльності

1. організована діяльність, яка забезпечує виробництво товарів (goods) і послуг (service¹) видобутком та переробкою сировини, виготовленням предметів споживання, матеріалів тощо; 2. окремий вид діяльності, науки, виробництва, напр. торгівля (trade), підприємництво (business²), послуги тощо

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advertising industry рекламна галузь • рекламна індустрія; agricultural industry сільськогосподарська галузь • сільськогосподарське виробництво; aircraft industry авіаційна промисловість; airline industry авіатранспортна галузь • авіалінії; allied industryies суміжні галузі промисловості; artisan industry кустарне виробництво; automobile industry автомобільна промисловість; aviation industry авіаційна промисловість; basic industry важка промисловість • основна галузь промисловості; building industry будівельна галузь; business service industry галузь ділових послуг; capital goods industry промисловість, яка виробляє засоби виробництва; capital-intensive industry капіталомістка галузь промисловості • капіталомістка промисловість; catering industry галузь ресторанного обслуговування на замовлення; chemical industry хімічна промисловість; clothing industry швейна промисловість; coal industry вугледобувна промисловість; communication industry галузь зв'язку і комунікацій; community services industry галузь суспільних послуг; construction industry будівельна галузь; consumer industry споживча галузь; consumer goods industry промисловість, яка виробляє споживчі товари • легка промисловість; continuous process industry галузь промисловості з неперервним виробничим процесом; cottage industry надомна промисловість; dairy industry молочна промисловість; diversified industry багатогалузева промисловість; electronic industry електронна промисловість; expanding industry галузь, що розвивається; extractive industry добувна промисловість; fashion industry пошиття модного одягу; fast food industry індустрія швидкого приготування їжі; finance industry фінансова галузь; fishing industry риболовна галузь; food industry харчова промисловість; food canning industry консервна промисловість; food processing industry харчова промисловість; forest industry лісова промисловість; foundry industry ливарна промисловість; fuel-producing industry галузь паливної промисловості; gas industry газова промисловість; growth industry галузь із дедалі більшим попитом; handicraft industry галузь із використанням ручної праці • кустарне (ремісниче) виробництво; heavy industry важка промисловість; high-tech industry наукомістка галузь промисловості; hunting industry мисливство; infant industry новостворена галузь промисловості; insurance industry страхування; iron industry залізорудна промисловість; key industry провідна галузь промисловості; labour-intensive industry трудомістка галузь промисловості; leather goods industry промисловість шкіряних товарів; light industry легка промисловість; livestock industry промислове тваринництво; local industry місцева промисловість; manufacturing industry обробна промисловість; market-orientated industry комерційна галузь промисловості; metallurgical industry металургійна промисловість; metal processing industry металообробна промисловість; mining industry добувна промисловість; mixed industry суміжна галузь промисловості; oil industry нафтодобувна галузь промисловості; oil processing industry нафтопереробна галузь промисловості; packaging industry фасувальна галузь промисловості; petrochemical industry нафтохімічна промисловість; petroleum industry нафтопереробна промисловість; pharmaceutical industry фармацевтична промисловість; primary industry видобувна промисловість; private industry приватна промисловість • приватне виробництво; prosperous industry успішна галузь; public industryies державні підприємства; public administration industry галузь, що знаходиться в державному управлінні; publishing industry видавнича справа; recreation industry індустрія розваг; regional industry місцева промисловість; regulated industry регульована галузь; related industry суміжна галузь; retail trade industry галузь роздрібної торгівлі; secondary industry обробна промисловість; service industry сфера послуг; shipbuilding industry суднобудівельна промисловість; steel industry сталеливарна промисловість; storage industry складська справа; sunrise industry перспективна галузь; sunset industry неперспективна галузь; tertiary industry третинна галузь • індустрія послуг; textile industry текстильна промисловість; timber industry лісова промисловість; tobacco industry тютюнова промисловість; tourism industry галузь туризму; trade industry торговельна галузь; transport industry транспортна галузь; wholesale industry галузь оптової торгівлі; woodwork and timber industry деревообробна промисловість

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to close down an industry закривати/закрити галузь (справу); to develop an industry розвивати/розвинути галузь; to expand an industry розвивати/розвинути галузь • збільшувати/збільшити обсяги випуску галузі; to finance an industry фінансувати галузь • фінансувати справу • фінансувати промисловість; to reorganize an industry перебудовувати/перебудувати галузь; to streamline industry упорядковувати/упорядкувати промисловість • раціоналізувати промисловість

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індустрія < польс. industria або нім. Industrie < фр. industrie — промисловість; промислова діяльність; промисел; майстерність; спритність < лат. industria — діяльність; старанність; працьовитість (ЕСУМ 2: 303)

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(industry) prospero (-a), fiorente, (businessman) di successo

SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology

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Born into a prosperous Jewish merchant family, Mond studied at the Polytechnic in Cassel and then under the distinguished chemists Hermann Kolbe at Marburg and Bunsen at Heidelberg from 1856. In 1859 he began work as an industrial chemist in various works in Germany and Holland. At this time, Mond was pursuing his method for recovering sulphur from the alkali wastes in the Leblanc soda-making process. Mond came to England in 1862 and five years later settled permanently, in partnership with John Hutchinson \& Co. at Widnes, to perfect his process, although complete success eluded him. He became a naturalized British subject in 1880.

In 1872 Mond became acquainted with Ernest Solvay, the Belgian chemist who developed the ammonia-soda process which finally supplanted the Leblanc process. Mond negotiated the English patent rights and set up the first ammoniasoda plant in England at Winnington in Cheshire, in partnership with John Brunner. After overcoming many difficulties by incessant hard work, the process became a financial success and in 1881 Brunner, Mond \& Co. was formed, for a time the largest alkali works in the world. In 1926 the company merged with others to form Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd (ICI). The firm was one of the first to adopt the eight-hour day and to provide model dwellings and playing fields for its employees.

From 1879 Mond took up the production of ammonia and this led to the Mond producer-gas plant, patented in 1883. The process consisted of passing air and steam over coal and coke at a carefully regulated temperature. Ammonia was generated and, at the same time, so was a cheap and useful producer gas. Mond's major discovery followed the observation in 1889 that carbon monoxide could combine with nickel in its ore at around 60°C to form a gaseous compound, nickel carbonyl. This, on heating to a higher temperature, would then decompose to give pure nickel. Mond followed up this unusual way of producing and purifying a metal and by 1892 had succeeded in setting up a pilot plant to perfect a large-scale process and went on to form the Mond Nickel Company.

Apart from being a successful industrialist, Mond was prominent in scientific circles and played a leading role in the setting up of the Society of Chemical Industry in 1881. The success of his operations earned him great wealth, much of which he donated for learned and charitable purposes. He formed a notable collection of pictures which he bequeathed to the National Gallery.

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tr['bʊːmɪŋ]

adjective

1 (noisy) que truena, que retumba

2 (voice) resonante

3 (prosperous) próspero,-a, en auge

booming (Sound)

• retumbante s.m.

a) < sound> retumbante

b) < industry> en auge

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a) < sound> retumbante

b) < industry> en auge

SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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At the beginning of the eighteenth century, silk weaving was one of the most prosperous trades in Britain, but it depended upon raw silk worked up on hand twisting or throwing machines. In 1702 Thomas Cotchett set up a mill for twisting silk by water-power at the northern end of an island in the river Derwent at Derby; this would probably have been to produce organzine, the hard twisted thread used for the warp when weaving silk fabrics. Such mills had been established in Italy beginning with the earliest in Bologna in 1272, but it would appear that Cotchett used Dutch silk-throwing machinery that was driven by a water wheel that was 13½ ft (4.1 m) in diameter and built by the local engineer, George Sorocold. The enterprise soon failed, but it was quickly revived and extended by Thomas and John Lombe with machinery based on that being used successfully in Italy.

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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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John Lombe's father, Henry Lombe, was a worsted weaver who married twice. John was the second son of the second marriage and was still a baby when his father died in 1695. John, a native of the Eastern Counties, was apprenticed to a trade and employed by Thomas Cotchett in the erection of Cotchett's silk mill at Derby, which soon failed however. Lombe went to Italy, or was sent there by his elder half-brother, Thomas, to discover the secrets of their throwing machinery while employed in a silk mill in Piedmont. He returned to England in 1716 or 1717, bringing with him two expert Italian workmen.

Thomas Lombe was a prosperous London merchant who financed the construction of a new water-powered silk mill at Derby which is said to have cost over £30,000. John arranged with the town Corporation for the lease of the island in the River Derwent, where Cotchett had erected his mill. During the four years of its construction, John first set up the throwing machines in other parts of the town. The machines were driven manually there, and their product helped to defray the costs of the mill. The silk-throwing machine was very complex. The water wheel powered a horizontal shaft that was under the floor and on which were placed gearwheels to drive vertical shafts upwards through the different floors. The throwing machines were circular, with the vertical shafts running through the middle. The doubled silk threads had previously been wound on bobbins which were placed on spindles with wire flyers at intervals around the outer circumference of the machine. The bobbins were free to rotate on the spindles while the spindles and flyers were driven by the periphery of a horizontal wheel fixed to the vertical shaft. Another horizontal wheel set a little above the first turned the starwheels, to which were attached reels for winding the silk off the bobbins below. Three or four sets of these spindles and reels were placed above each other on the same driving shaft. The machine was very complicated for the time and must have been expensive to build and maintain.

John lived just long enough to see the mill in operation, for he died in 1722 after a painful illness said to have been the result of poison administered by an Italian woman in revenge for his having stolen the invention and for the injury he was causing the Italian trade. The funeral was said to have been the most superb ever known in Derby.

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fat [fæt] (compar fatter, superl fattest, pt & pp fatted, cont fatting)

1 adjective

(a) (heavy, overweight → person) gros (grosse), gras; (→ cheeks, limb) gros (grosse); (→ face) joufflu;

∎ to get or to grow fat grossir, engraisser;

∎ she's getting fat elle prend de l'embonpoint;

∎ as fat as a pig gras comme un cochon ou un moine;

∎ figurative they had grown fat on their investments ils s'étaient enrichis ou engraissés grâce à leurs investissements

(b) (meat) gras

(c) (thick, hefty) gros (grosse);

∎ a fat book un gros livre, un livre épais;

∎ a fat wallet un portefeuille bien garni

(d) familiar (cheque, salary) gros^□ ;

∎ he made a fat profit il a fait de gros bénéfices

(e) (productive → year) gras, prospère; (→ land, soil) fertile, riche;

∎ American familiar to be in fat city être plein aux as

(f) familiar (idioms)

∎ get this into your fat head mets-toi ça dans la tête une fois pour toutes;

∎ I reckon you'll get it back - fat chance! je pense qu'on te le rendra - tu parles!;

∎ fat chance you have of winning! comme si tu avais la moindre chance de gagner!;

∎ a fat lot of good that'll do you! cela vous fera une belle jambe!;

∎ that was a fat lot of good or use! on est bien aidé avec ça!;

∎ a fat lot of difference that has made! ça a bien avancé les choses!;

∎ a fat lot of good it did him! ça l'a bien avancé!, le voilà bien avancé!;

∎ a fat lot he cares! il s'en fout pas mal!;

∎ a fat lot you know about it! comme si tu en savais quelque chose!;

∎ it's not over till the fat lady sings il ne faut jamais perdre espoir^□

2 noun

(a) (gen) & Anatomy graisse f;

∎ rolls of fat des bourrelets mpl de graisse

(b) Cookery (on raw meat) graisse f, gras m; (on cooked meat) gras m; (as cooking medium) matière f grasse; (as part of controlled diet) lipide m;

∎ we are trying to eat less fat nous nous efforçons de manger moins de matières grasses ou corps gras;

∎ this margarine is low in fat cette margarine est pauvre en matières grasses ou allégée;

∎ beef/mutton fat graisse f de bœuf/de mouton;

∎ pork fat saindoux m;

∎ fry in deep fat faites frire;

∎ fry in shallow fat faites revenir;

∎ familiar figurative the fat's in the fire ça va chauffer;

∎ to live off the fat of the land vivre comme un coq en pâte

3 transitive verb

engraisser;

∎ figurative to kill the fatted calf tuer le veau gras

►► familiar figurative fat cat (rich, prosperous) richard m; (in industry) = personne touchant un salaire extrêmement élevé de façon injustifiée;

fat content (teneur f en) matières fpl grasses;

American familiar fat farm centre m d'amaigrissement^□ ;

fat intake ration f de corps gras;

Agriculture fat stock bétail m d'engraissement

SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy

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Deville was the son of a prosperous shipowner with diplomatic duties in the Virgin Islands. With his elder brother Charles, who later became a distinguished physicist, he was sent to Paris to be educated. He took his degree in medicine in 1843, but before that he had shown an interest in chemistry, due particularly to the lectures of Thenard. Two years later, with Thenard's influence, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at Besançon. In 1851 he was able to return to Paris as Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. He remained there for the rest of his working life, greatly improving the standard of teaching, and his laboratory became one of the great research centres of Europe. His first chemical work had been in organic chemistry, but he then turned to inorganic chemistry, specifically to improve methods of producing the new and little-known metal aluminium. Essentially, the process consisted of forming sodium aluminium trichloride and reducing it with sodium to metallic aluminium. He obtained sodium in sufficient quantity by reducing sodium carbonate with carbon. In 1855 he exhibited specimens of the metal at the Paris Exhibition, and the same year Napoleon III asked to see them, with a view to using it for breastplates for the Army and for spoons and forks for State banquets. With the resulting government support, he set up a pilot plant at Jarvel to develop the process, and then set up a small company, the Société d'Aluminium at Nan terre. This raised the output of this attractive and useful metal, so it could be used more widely than for the jewellery to which it had hitherto been restricted. Large-scale applications, however, had to await the electrolytic process that began to supersede Deville's in the 1890s. Deville extended his sodium reduction method to produce silicon, boron and the light metals magnesium and titanium. His investigations into the metallurgy of platinum revolutionized the industry and led in 1872 to his being asked to make the platinum-iridium (90–10) alloy for the standard kilogram and metre. Deville later carried out important work in high-temperature chemistry. He grieved much at the death of his brother Charles in 1876, and his retirement was forced by declining health in 1880; he did not survive for long.

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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles, Weapons and armour

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The son of a prosperous farmer, Eli Whitney as a teenager showed more interest in mechanics than school work. At the age of 15 he began an enterprise business manufacturing nails in his father's workshop, even having to hire help to fulfil his orders. He later determined to acquire a university education and, his father having declined to provide funds, he taught at local schools to obtain the means to attend Leicester Academy, Massachusetts, in preparation for his entry to Yale in 1789. He graduated in 1792 and then decided to study law. He accepted a position in Georgia as a tutor that would have given him time for study; this post did not materialize, but on his journey south he met General Nathanael Greene's widow and the manager of her plantations, Phineas Miller (1764–1803). A feature of agriculture in the southern states was that the land was unsuitable for long-staple cotton but could yield large crops of green-seed cotton. Green-seed cotton was difficult to separate from its seed, and when Whitney learned of the problem in 1793 he quickly devised a machine known as the cotton gin, which provided an effective solution. He formed a partnership with Miller to manufacture the gin and in 1794 obtained a patent. This invention made possible the extraordinary growth of the cotton industry in the United States, but the patent was widely infringed and it was not until 1807, after amendment of the patent laws, that Whitney was able to obtain a favourable decision in the courts and some financial return.

In 1798 Whitney was in financial difficulties following the failure of the initial legal action against infringement of the cotton gin patent, but in that year he obtained a government contract to supply 10,000 muskets within two years with generous advance payments. He built a factory at New Haven, Connecticut, and proposed to use a new method of manufacture, perhaps the first application of the system of interchangeable parts. He failed to supply the firearms in the specified time, and in fact the first 500 guns were not delivered until 1801 and the full contract was not completed until 1809.

In 1812 Whitney made application for a renewal of his cotton gin patent, but this was refused. In the same year, however, he obtained a second contract from the Government for 15,000 firearms and a similar one from New York State which ensured the success of his business.

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