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PATENT TERMS ТНТ №006служебное изобретение (изобретение, созданное в порядке выполнения служебных обязанностей) -
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Англо-русский словарь по исследованиям и ноу-хау > service invention
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7 invention
- invention in contemplation
- invention made in common
- invention reduced to practice
- hide the invention
- invention of application
- invention of no avail
- abandoned invention
- accidental invention
- actual invention
- additional invention
- AEC contract invention
- aggregative invention
- alleged invention
- atomic energy invention
- basic invention
- biotechnological invention
- broad invention
- chemical invention
- claimed invention
- cognate inventions
- combination invention
- communicated inventions
- company's invention
- competing invention
- complete invention
- contemplated invention
- dead wood invention
- declassified invention
- defense invention
- defensive invention
- dependent invention
- derived invention
- design invention
- developing invention
- disclosed invention
- distinct invention
- domestic invention
- economic invention
- efficiency promoting invention
- employee's invention
- epoch-making invention
- finished invention
- foreign invention
- fraudulent invention
- free invention
- frivolous invention
- fully disclosed invention
- fundamental invention
- gene-based invention
- generic invention
- home invention
- immature invention
- imperfect invention
- incidental invention
- incomplete invention
- independent invention
- individual invention
- ineffective invention
- injurious invention
- interfering invention
- joint invention
- labor saving invention
- later invention
- main invention under the PCT
- method invention
- military invention
- narrow invention
- new invention
- novel invention
- obvious invention
- ordinary invention
- original invention
- outsider's invention
- paper invention
- patentable invention
- patented invention
- pioneer invention
- pioneering invention
- practical invention
- practically operative invention
- prior invention
- process invention
- proposed invention
- protected invention
- purported invention
- recognized invention
- recommended invention
- registered invention
- revolutionizing invention
- scandalous invention
- secret invention
- service invention
- simple invention
- specific invention
- subordinate invention
- supplementary invention
- supposed invention
- trivial invention
- unfinished invention
- unobvious invention
- unpatentable invention
- unpatented invention
- unrealizable invention
- useful invention
- utility invention
- vicious invention
- works invention
- worthless invention* * *изобретение (решение технической задачи, обладающее новизной и дающее положительный эффект) -
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1) изобретение2) фабрикация (дела, обвинения)•- employee's invention
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1) служба; обслуговування, сервіс; послуга; повинність; вручення ( судового документа); відбування ( покарання); виконання постанови суду; оплата; погашення ( боргу)2) атриб. службовий3) обслуговувати; оплачувати; погашати (борг); здійснювати технічний огляд•- service by publication
- service certificate
- service contract
- service crime
- service fee
- service invention
- service job
- service law
- service life
- service mark application
- service need
- service of appeal
- service of attachment
- service of execution
- service of notice
- service of pleading
- service of pleadings
- service of process
- service of public office
- service of sentence
- service of summons
- service of term
- service of warrant
- service of writ
- service officer
- service on a jury
- service on a person
- service passport
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пат. служебное изобретение (изобретение, созданное в связи с выполнением автором своих служебных обязанностей; права на него обычно принадлежат работодателю)Syn:service invention, company's inventionAnt:See:* * * -
11 home
1. сущ.1)а) общ. дом, жилищеSyn:See:home delivery, home health aides, home health care services, homeowner, home sales party, home service, home shopping, home shopping catalogue, home work, home worker, home workingб) общ. логово, нора, гнездо (место, где живет какое-л. животное)2) общ. родной дом, родинаSyn:2. прил.1)а) общ. домашний; бытовойhome service agent — агент, обслуживающий на дому
Syn:See:, home appliance repairers, home audit, home banking, home consumption 1), home economics, 2), home equity, home goods, home management, home office 2), home production, home service 1),2,3, home video equipment, home contents insurance, Home Furnishings Stores, Home furniture, furnishings, and equipment stores, Home furniture, furnishings, and equipment stores, Home furniture, furnishings, and equipment storesб) общ. жилищный ( связанный с вопросами владения домом)See:home loan, home policy 2), home sales 1), home warranty, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, Home Owners' Loan Act, Home Owners' Loan Corporation, home extension loan, home improvement contractor, home improvement loan, home ownership loanв) общ. приусадебный (расположенный рядом с домом, жилищем)See:г) общ. главный, основнойhome office — головной офис, штаб-квартира
See:home office 1)д) общ. исходный (о возвращении в первоначальное положение или достижении указанного положения)2) эк. внутренний (напр., о рынке); отечественныйSyn:domestic 2)Ant:home affairs, home bias, home commerce, home consumption 2), home currency, home demand, 1), home industry 1), home invention, home manufacture, home market, home patent, home policy 1), home sales 2), Home Secretary, home service 4), home trade, Home Office, home rule, home runSee:home affairs, home bias, home commerce, home consumption 2), home currency, home demand, 1), home industry 1), home invention, home manufacture, home market, home patent, home policy 1), home sales 2), Home Secretary, home service 4), home trade, Home Office, home rule, home run* * *дом, жилище. . Словарь экономических терминов . -
12 Gabor, Dennis (Dénes)
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. 5 June 1900 Budapest, Hungaryd. 9 February 1979 London, England[br]Hungarian (naturalized British) physicist, inventor of holography.[br]Gabor became interested in physics at an early age. Called up for military service in 1918, he was soon released when the First World War came to an end. He then began a mechanical engineering course at the Budapest Technical University, but a further order to register for military service prompted him to flee in 1920 to Germany, where he completed his studies at Berlin Technical University. He was awarded a Diploma in Engineering in 1924 and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering in 1927. He then went on to work in the physics laboratory of Siemens \& Halske. He returned to Hungary in 1933 and developed a new kind of fluorescent lamp called the plasma lamp. Failing to find a market for this device, Gabor made the decision to abandon his homeland and emigrate to England. There he joined British Thompson-Houston (BTH) in 1934 and married a colleague from the company in 1936. Gabor was also unsuccessful in his attempts to develop the plasma lamp in England, and by 1937 he had begun to work in the field of electron optics. His work was interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1939, although as he was not yet a British subject he was barred from making any significant contribution to the British war effort. It was only when the war was near its end that he was able to return to electron optics and begin the work that led to the invention of holography. The theory was developed during 1947 and 1948; Gabor went on to demonstrate that the theories worked, although it was not until the invention of the laser in 1960 that the full potential of his invention could be appreciated. He coined the term "hologram" from the Greek holos, meaning complete, and gram, meaning written. The three-dimensional images have since found many applications in various fields, including map making, medical imaging, computing, information technology, art and advertising. Gabor left BTH to become an associate professor at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1949, a position he held until his retirement in 1967. In 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on holography.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsRoyal Society Rumford Medal 1968. Franklin Institute Michelson Medal 1968. CBE 1970. Nobel Prize for Physics 1971.Bibliography1948. "A new microscopic principle", Nature 161:777 (Gabor's earliest publication on holography).1949. "Microscopy by reconstructed wavefronts", Proceedings of the Royal Society A197: 454–87.1951, "Microscopy by reconstructed wavefronts II", Proc. Phys. Soc. B, 64:449–69. 1966, "Holography or the “Whole Picture”", New Scientist 29:74–8 (an interesting account written after laser beams were used to produce optical holograms).Further ReadingT.E.Allibone, 1980, contribution to Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 26: 107–47 (a full account of Gabor's life and work).JW -
13 Morse, Samuel Finley Breeze
SUBJECT AREA: Telecommunications[br]b. 27 April 1791 Charlestown, Massachusetts, USAd. 2 April 1872 New York City, New York, USA[br]American portrait painter and inventor, b est known for his invention of the telegraph and so-called Morse code.[br]Following early education at Phillips Academy, Andover, at the age of 14 years Morse went to Yale College, where he developed interests in painting and electricity. Upon graduating in 1810 he became a clerk to a Washington publisher and a pupil of Washington Allston, a well-known American painter. The following year he travelled to Europe and entered the London studio of another American artist, Benjamin West, successfully exhibiting at the Royal Academy as well as winning a prize and medal for his sculpture. Returning to Boston and finding little success as a "historical-style" painter, he built up a thriving portrait business, moving in 1818 to Charleston, South Carolina, where three years later he established the (now defunct) South Carolina Academy of Fine Arts. In 1825 he was back in New York, but following the death of his wife and both of his parents that year, he embarked on an extended tour of European art galleries. In 1832, on the boat back to America, he met Charles T.Jackson, who told him of the discovery of the electromagnet and fired his interest in telegraphy to the extent that Morse immediately began to make suggestions for electrical communications and, apparently, devised a form of printing telegraph. Although he returned to his painting and in 1835 was appointed the first Professor of the Literature of Art and Design at the University of New York City, he began to spend more and more time experimenting in telegraphy. In 1836 he invented a relay as a means of extending the cable distance over which telegraph signals could be sent. At this time he became acquainted with Alfred Vail, and the following year, when the US government published the requirements for a national telegraph service, they set out to produce a workable system, with finance provided by Vail's father (who, usefully, owned an ironworks). A patent was filed on 6 October 1837 and a successful demonstration using the so-called Morse code was given on 6 January 1838; the work was, in fact, almost certainly largely that of Vail. As a result of the demonstration a Bill was put forward to Congress for $30,000 for an experimental line between Washington and Baltimore. This was eventually passed and the line was completed, and on 24 May 1844 the first message, "What hath God wrought", was sent between the two cities. In the meantime Morse also worked on the insulation of submarine cables by means of pitch tar and indiarubber.With success achieved, Morse offered his invention to the Government for $100,000, but this was declined, so the invention remained in private hands. To exploit it, Morse founded the Magnetic Telephone Company in 1845, amalgamating the following year with the telegraph company of a Henry O'Reilly to form Western Union. Having failed to obtain patents in Europe, he now found himself in litigation with others in the USA, but eventually, in 1854, the US Supreme Court decided in his favour and he soon became very wealthy. In 1857 a proposal was made for a telegraph service across the whole of the USA; this was completed in just over four months in 1861. Four years later work began on a link to Europe via Canada, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands and Russia, but it was abandoned with the completion of the transatlantic cable, a venture in which he also had some involvement. Showered with honours, Morse became a generous philanthropist in his later years. By 1883 the company he had created was worth $80 million and had a virtual monopoly in the USA.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsLLD, Yale 1846. Fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences 1849. Celebratory Banquet, New York, 1869. Statue in New York Central Park 1871. Austrian Gold Medal of Scientific Merit. Danish Knight of the Danneborg. French Légion d'honneur. Italian Knight of St Lazaro and Mauritio. Portuguese Knight of the Tower and Sword. Turkish Order of Glory.BibliographyE.L.Morse (ed.), 1975, Letters and Journals, New York: Da Capo Press (facsimile of a 1914 edition).Further ReadingJ.Munro, 1891, Heroes of the Telegraph (discusses his telegraphic work and its context).C.Mabee, 1943, The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel Morse; reprinted 1969 (a detailed biography).KFBiographical history of technology > Morse, Samuel Finley Breeze
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14 AIDS
1) Общая лексика: СПИД, синдром приобретённого иммунного дефицита, синдром приобретённого иммунодефицита2) Медицина: (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) СПИД (Синдром приобретённого иммунодефицита)3) Военный термин: ADCOM Information Display System, Advanced Identification System, Air Force intelligence data system, American Invention To Disrupt Sex, Army information and data system, Army inventory of data systems, Atlantic Institute for Defense Study, Automated Infantry Data System, action information display system, administrative information data system, advanced integrated data system, advanced integrated display system, aerospace intelligence data system, airborne information display system, aircraft integrated data system, aircraft intrusion detection system, automated information data system, automated information dissemination system, automated integrated data system, automated inventory distribution system4) Техника: automated identification division system, automated information directory service, automated intelligence data system, automatic intelligence data system, automation instrument data service5) Шутливое выражение: American Invention To Discourage Sex, As If Doing Something6) Метеорология: Air Improvement Disruption Syndrome7) Грубое выражение: Adios Infected Dick Suckers, All In Deep Shit, Anally Injected Death Sentence, Another Infected Dick Sucker, Another Infected Dying Sodomite, Arsehole Injected Death Sentence, As I Die Slowly, Asshole Infected Don't Screw, Asshole Infected Dont Screw, Asshole Injected Death Sentence, I'm a lame ass.8) Сокращение: Acoustic Intelligence Data System, Advanced Integrated Display System (USA), Airborne Integrated Data System, acquired immune deficiency syndrome9) Физиология: Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome10) Вычислительная техника: Automatic Installation and Diagnostic Service, синдром приобретённого инфицирования диска11) Иммунология: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome12) Автоматика: advanced interactive debugging system13) Авиационная медицина: airborne integrated display system14) AMEX. Almost Ideal Demand System -
15 aids
1) Общая лексика: СПИД, синдром приобретённого иммунного дефицита, синдром приобретённого иммунодефицита2) Медицина: (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) СПИД (Синдром приобретённого иммунодефицита)3) Военный термин: ADCOM Information Display System, Advanced Identification System, Air Force intelligence data system, American Invention To Disrupt Sex, Army information and data system, Army inventory of data systems, Atlantic Institute for Defense Study, Automated Infantry Data System, action information display system, administrative information data system, advanced integrated data system, advanced integrated display system, aerospace intelligence data system, airborne information display system, aircraft integrated data system, aircraft intrusion detection system, automated information data system, automated information dissemination system, automated integrated data system, automated inventory distribution system4) Техника: automated identification division system, automated information directory service, automated intelligence data system, automatic intelligence data system, automation instrument data service5) Шутливое выражение: American Invention To Discourage Sex, As If Doing Something6) Метеорология: Air Improvement Disruption Syndrome7) Грубое выражение: Adios Infected Dick Suckers, All In Deep Shit, Anally Injected Death Sentence, Another Infected Dick Sucker, Another Infected Dying Sodomite, Arsehole Injected Death Sentence, As I Die Slowly, Asshole Infected Don't Screw, Asshole Infected Dont Screw, Asshole Injected Death Sentence, I'm a lame ass.8) Сокращение: Acoustic Intelligence Data System, Advanced Integrated Display System (USA), Airborne Integrated Data System, acquired immune deficiency syndrome9) Физиология: Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome10) Вычислительная техника: Automatic Installation and Diagnostic Service, синдром приобретённого инфицирования диска11) Иммунология: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome12) Автоматика: advanced interactive debugging system13) Авиационная медицина: airborne integrated display system14) AMEX. Almost Ideal Demand System -
16 Smith, Sir Francis Pettit
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 9 February 1808 Copperhurst Farm, near Hythe, Kent, Englandd. 12 February 1874 South Kensington, London, England[br]English inventor of the screw propeller.[br]Smith was the only son of Charles Smith, Postmaster at Hythe, and his wife Sarah (née Pettit). After education at a private school in Ashford, Kent, he took to farming, first on Romney Marsh, then at Hendon, Middlesex. As a boy, he showed much skill in the construction of model boats, especially in devising their means of propulsion. He maintained this interest into adult life and in 1835 he made a model propelled by a screw driven by a spring. This worked so well that he became convinced that the screw propeller offered a better method of propulsion than the paddle wheels that were then in general use. This notion so fired his enthusiasm that he virtually gave up farming to devote himself to perfecting his invention. The following year he produced a better model, which he successfully demonstrated to friends on his farm at Hendon and afterwards to the public at the Adelaide Gallery in London. On 31 May 1836 Smith was granted a patent for the propulsion of vessels by means of a screw.The idea of screw propulsion was not new, however, for it had been mooted as early as the seventeenth century and since then several proposals had been advanced, but without successful practical application. Indeed, simultaneously but quite independently of Smith, the Swedish engineer John Ericsson had invented the ship's propeller and obtained a patent on 13 July 1836, just weeks after Smith. But Smith was completely unaware of this and pursued his own device in the belief that he was the sole inventor.With some financial and technical backing, Smith was able to construct a 10 ton boat driven by a screw and powered by a steam engine of about 6 hp (4.5 kW). After showing it off to the public, Smith tried it out at sea, from Ramsgate round to Dover and Hythe, returning in stormy weather. The screw performed well in both calm and rough water. The engineering world seemed opposed to the new method of propulsion, but the Admiralty gave cautious encouragement in 1839 by ordering that the 237 ton Archimedes be equipped with a screw. It showed itself superior to the Vulcan, one of the fastest paddle-driven ships in the Navy. The ship was put through its paces in several ports, including Bristol, where Isambard Kingdom Brunel was constructing his Great Britain, the first large iron ocean-going vessel. Brunel was so impressed that he adapted his ship for screw propulsion.Meanwhile, in spite of favourable reports, the Admiralty were dragging their feet and ordered further trials, fitting Smith's four-bladed propeller to the Rattler, then under construction and completed in 1844. The trials were a complete success and propelled their lordships of the Admiralty to a decision to equip twenty ships with screw propulsion, under Smith's supervision.At last the superiority of screw propulsion was generally accepted and virtually universally adopted. Yet Smith gained little financial reward for his invention and in 1850 he retired to Guernsey to resume his farming life. In 1860 financial pressures compelled him to accept the position of Curator of Patent Models at the Patent Museum in South Kensington, London, a post he held until his death. Belated recognition by the Government, then headed by Lord Palmerston, came in 1855 with the grant of an annual pension of £200. Two years later Smith received unofficial recognition when he was presented with a national testimonial, consisting of a service of plate and nearly £3,000 in cash subscribed largely by the shipbuilding and engineering community. Finally, in 1871 Smith was honoured with a knighthood.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1871.Further ReadingObituary, 1874, Illustrated London News (7 February).1856, On the Invention and Progress of the Screw Propeller, London (provides biographical details).Smith and his invention are referred to in papers in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 14 (1934): 9; 19 (1939): 145–8, 155–7, 161–4, 237–9.LRDBiographical history of technology > Smith, Sir Francis Pettit
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17 Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson
[br]b. 31 October 1828 Sunderland, Englandd. 27 May 1914 Warlingham, Surrey, England[br]English chemist, inventor in Britain of the incandescent electric lamp and of photographic processes.[br]At the age of 14 Swan was apprenticed to a Sunderland firm of druggists, later joining John Mawson who had opened a pharmacy in Newcastle. While in Sunderland Swan attended lectures at the Athenaeum, at one of which W.E. Staite exhibited electric-arc and incandescent lighting. The impression made on Swan prompted him to conduct experiments that led to his demonstration of a practical working lamp in 1879. As early as 1848 he was experimenting with carbon as a lamp filament, and by 1869 he had mounted a strip of carbon in a vessel exhausted of air as completely as was then possible; however, because of residual air, the filament quickly failed.Discouraged by the cost of current from primary batteries and the difficulty of achieving a good vacuum, Swan began to devote much of his attention to photography. With Mawson's support the pharmacy was expanded to include a photographic business. Swan's interest in making permanent photographic records led him to patent the carbon process in 1864 and he discovered how to make a sensitive dry plate in place of the inconvenient wet collodian process hitherto in use. He followed this success with the invention of bromide paper, the subject of a British patent in 1879.Swan resumed his interest in electric lighting. Sprengel's invention of the mercury pump in 1865 provided Swan with the means of obtaining the high vacuum he needed to produce a satisfactory lamp. Swan adopted a technique which was to become an essential feature in vacuum physics: continuing to heat the filament during the exhaustion process allowed the removal of absorbed gases. The inventions of Gramme, Siemens and Brush provided the source of electrical power at reasonable cost needed to make the incandescent lamp of practical service. Swan exhibited his lamp at a meeting in December 1878 of the Newcastle Chemical Society and again the following year before an audience of 700 at the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society. Swan's failure to patent his invention immediately was a tactical error as in November 1879 Edison was granted a British patent for his original lamp, which, however, did not go into production. Parchmentized thread was used in Swan's first commercial lamps, a material soon superseded by the regenerated cellulose filament that he developed. The cellulose filament was made by extruding a solution of nitro-cellulose in acetic acid through a die under pressure into a coagulating fluid, and was used until the ultimate obsolescence of the carbon-filament lamp. Regenerated cellulose became the first synthetic fibre, the further development and exploitation of which he left to others, the patent rights for the process being sold to Courtaulds.Swan also devised a modification of Planté's secondary battery in which the active material was compressed into a cellular lead plate. This has remained the central principle of all improvements in secondary cells, greatly increasing the storage capacity for a given weight.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1904. FRS 1894. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1898. First President, Faraday Society 1904. Royal Society Hughes Medal 1904. Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur 1881.Bibliography2 January 1880, British patent no. 18 (incandescent electric lamp).24 May 1881, British patent no. 2,272 (improved plates for the Planté cell).1898, "The rise and progress of the electrochemical industries", Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 27:8–33 (Swan's Presidential Address to the Institution of Electrical Engineers).Further ReadingM.E.Swan and K.R.Swan, 1968, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan F.R.S., Newcastle upon Tyne (a detailed account).R.C.Chirnside, 1979, "Sir Joseph Swan and the invention of the electric lamp", IEEElectronics and Power 25:96–100 (a short, authoritative biography).GWBiographical history of technology > Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson
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18 employee
сущ.1) упр., эк. тр. (наемный) работник, сотрудник; служащий; рабочий (работающий на предприятии или в организации по трудовому договору за заработную плату или оклад, как правило, на позициях, не относящихся к управленческим)state employee — государственный [правительственный\] служащий
executive employee — руководитель, руководящий работник
office [clerical\] employee — конторский [канцелярский\] служащий, работник офиса
railway employee — железнодорожник, работник железной дороги
secretarial employee — служащий секретариата, канцелярский служащий
technical employee — технический служащий [работник\]
high-salaried [high-salary\] employee — высокооплачиваемый работник*, работник с высоким окладом*
low-salaried [low-salary\] employee — низкооплачиваемый работник*, работник с низким окладом*
employee bonus — премия работнику, надбавка к зарплате работника
Syn:See:administrative employee, confidential employee, contract employee, emergency employee, essential employee, exempt employee, federal employee, field employee, full-time employee, highly compensated employee, hourly employee, indeterminate employee, key employee, leased employee, long-term employee, managerial employee, nonexempt employee, non-exempt employee, nonhighly compensated employee, non-highly compensated employee, non-resident employee, office employee, part-time employee, professional employee, public employee, resident employee, retired employee, salaried employee, salary employee, state employee, temporary employee, wage employee, waged employee, employee benefits, employee buy-out, employee contribution, employee deferrals, employee director, employee discrimination, employee dishonesty, employee educational benefit, employee expenses, employee insurance, employee invention, employee involvement, employee leasing, employee magazine, employee maintenance, employee motivation, employee organization, employee participation, employee potential, employee rating, employee referral, employee relations, employee report, employee representation, employee representative, employee retention, employee share option, employee share ownership, employee stock option, employee stock ownership, employee trust, employee trust fund, employee turnover, employee welfare, employee's contribution, employees insurance, employees' insurance, employee's invention, employees' stock plan, all-employee share scheme, cafeteria employee benefit plan, employee-employer match, employee-employer matching, employee-owned company, employer-employee match, employer-employee matching, employer-employee relations, employee savings plan, harassment by low-level employees, revenue per employee, sales per employee, value added per employee, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Confederation of Health Service Employees, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists, National Union of Public Employees, employer, collective agreement, collective bargaining, salaryman2) упр., эк. тр., мн. персонал, штат, кадрыSyn:
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19 Gutenberg, Johann Gensfleisch zum
SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing[br]b. c. 1394–9 Mainz, Germanyd. 3 February 1468 Mainz, Germany[br]German inventor of printing with movable type.[br]Few biographical details are known of Johann Gensfleisch zum Gutenberg, yet it has been said that he was responsible for Germany's most notable contribution to civilization. He was a goldsmith by trade, of a patrician family of the city of Mainz. He seems to have begun experiments on printing while a political exile in Strasbourg c. 1440. He returned to Mainz between 1444 and 1448 and continued his experiments, until by 1450 he had perfected his invention sufficiently to justify raising capital for its commercial exploitation.Circumstances were propitious for the invention of printing at that time. Rises in literacy and prosperity had led to the formation of a social class with the time and resources to develop a taste for reading, and the demand for reading matter had outstripped the ability of the scribes to satisfy it. The various technologies required were well established, and finally the flourishing textile industry was producing enough waste material, rag, to make paper, the only satisfactory and cheap medium for printing. There were others working along similar lines, but it was Gutenberg who achieved the successful adaptation and combination of technologies to arrive at a process by which many identical copies of a text could be produced in a wide variety of forms, of which the book was the most important. Gutenberg did make several technical innovations, however. The two-piece adjustable mould for casting types of varying width, from T to "M", was ingenious. Then he had to devise an oil-based ink suitable for inking metal type, derived from the painting materials developed by contemporary Flemish artists. Finally, probably after many experiments, he arrived at a metal alloy of distinctive composition suitable for casting type.In 1450 Gutenberg borrowed 800 guldens from Johannes Fust, a lawyer of Mainz, and two years later Fust advanced a further 800 guldens, securing for himself a partnership in Gutenberg's business. But in 1455 Fust foreclosed and the bulk of Gutenberg's equipment passed to Peter Schöffer, who was in the service of Fust and later married his daughter. Like most early printers, Gutenberg seems not to have appreciated, or at any rate to have been able to provide for, the great dilemma of the publishing trade, namely the outlay of considerable capital in advance of each publication and the slowness of the return. Gutenberg probably retained only the type for the 42- and 36-line bibles and possibly the Catholicon of 1460, an encyclopedic work compiled in the thirteenth century and whose production pointed the way to printing's role as a means of spreading knowledge. The work concluded with a short descriptive piece, or colophon, which is probably by Gutenberg himself and is the only output of his mind that we have; it manages to omit the names of both author and printer.Gutenberg seems to have abandoned printing after 1460, perhaps due to failing eyesight as well as for financial reasons, and he suffered further loss in the sack of Mainz in 1462. He received a kind of pension from the Archbishop in 1465, and on his death was buried in the Franciscan church in Mainz. The only major work to have issued for certain from Gutenberg's workshop is the great 42-line bible, begun in 1452 and completed by August 1456. The quality of this Graaf piece of printing is a tribute to Gutenberg's ability as a printer, and the soundness of his invention is borne out by the survival of the process as he left it to the world, unchanged for over three hundred years save in minor details.[br]Further ReadingA.Ruppel, 1967, Johannes Gutenberg: sein Leben und sein Werk, 3rd edn, Nieuwkoop: B.de Graaf (the standard biography), A.M.L.de Lamartine, 1960, Gutenberg, inventeur de l'imprimerie, Tallone.Scholderer, 1963, Gutenberg, Inventor of Printing, London: British Museum.S.H.Steinberg, 1974, Five Hundred Years of Printing 3rd edn, London: Penguin (provides briefer details).LRDBiographical history of technology > Gutenberg, Johann Gensfleisch zum
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прил.1)а) общ. иностранный; зарубежный, заграничный; чужеземный (расположенный за пределами данной страны, относящийся к другим странам)foreign producer — иностранный [зарубежный\] производитель
See:, foreign company, foreign corporation, foreign currency, foreign entity, foreign exchange 1),3, foreign flag, foreign goods, foreign invention, foreign inventor, foreign investor, foreign judgement, foreign jurisdiction, foreign market 1), foreign operation 2), foreign owner, foreign ownership, foreign parent, foreign patent, foreign patentee, foreign patenting, foreign person, foreign price, foreign products, foreign sale, foreign service national, foreign stock 2), foreign subsidiary, foreign wares, foreign workerб) общ. внешний, иностранный (связанный с другими странами, с ведением дел с другими странами)foreign financing — иностранное [зарубежное\] финансирование
foreign transaction — зарубежная сделка [операция\]
See:foreign account, foreign advertising, foreign affairs, foreign agent, foreign aid, foreign applicant, foreign assets, foreign balance, foreign capital, foreign bill, foreign bond, foreign business, foreign commerce, foreign competition, foreign credit, foreign debt, foreign draft, foreign economic policy, foreign exchange 2), foreign exports, foreign fund, foreign income, foreign investment, foreign liabilities, foreign licensing, foreign market 2), foreign marketing, foreign operation 1), foreign policy, foreign politics, foreign price shock, Foreign Secretary, foreign sector, foreign service, foreign stock 1), foreign trade, Foreign Agents Registration Act, Foreign Bank Supervision Enhancement Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Foreign Economic Trends, Foreign Agricultural Service, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, Foreign Credit Insurance Association, Foreign Credit Insurance Corporation, Foreign Credit Interchange Bureau, Foreign Investment Advisory Service, Foreign Investment Review Agency, Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program, Foreign Market Development Program, Foreign Service Institute, Foreign Access Zone, foreign air-carrier permit, Foreign Buyer Program, foreign purchases effect2) общ. незнакомый; чужой; постороннийThe name was foreign to me. — Это имя было мне незнакомо.
3) общ. чуждый, несвойственный; несоответствующийforeign flavour [odour\]— посторонний привкус [запах\]
* * *иностранные юридические и физические лица, другие государства, международные организации, осуществляющие инвестиции в иностранной валюте
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