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  • 61 Schiffsbauindustrie

    die Schiffsbauindustrie
    shipbuilding industry

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Schiffsbauindustrie

  • 62 industria navale

    industria navale
    shipbuilding industry
    \
    →  navale

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > industria navale

  • 63 cantieristico agg

    [kantje'ristiko] cantieristico -a, -ci, -che

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > cantieristico agg

  • 64 cantieristica

    cantieristica s.f. (mar.) shipbuilding industry.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > cantieristica

  • 65 cantieristico

    agg [kantje'ristiko] cantieristico -a, -ci, -che

    Nuovo dizionario Italiano-Inglese > cantieristico

  • 66 scheepsbouw

    Van Dale Handwoordenboek Nederlands-Engels > scheepsbouw

  • 67 Schiffbauindustrie

    f
    shipbuilding industry

    Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch > Schiffbauindustrie

  • 68 Napier, Robert

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 18 June 1791 Dumbarton, Scotland
    d. 23 June 1876 Shandon, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish shipbuilder one of the greatest shipbuilders of all time, known as the "father" of Clyde shipbuilding.
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    Educated at Dumbarton Grammar School, Robert Napier had been destined for the Church but persuaded his father to let him serve an apprenticeship as a blacksmith under him. For a while he worked in Edinburgh, but then in 1815 he commenced business in Glasgow, the city that he served for the rest of his life. Initially his workshop was in Camlachie, but it was moved in 1836 to a riverside factory site at Lancefield in the heart of the City and again in 1841 to the Old Shipyard in the Burgh of Govan (then independent of the City of Glasgow). The business expanded through his preparedness to build steam machinery, beginning in 1823 with the engines for the paddle steamer Leven, still to be seen a few hundred metres from Napier's grave in Dumbarton. His name assured owners of quality, and business expanded after two key orders: one in 1836 for the Honourable East India Company; and the second two years later for the Royal Navy, hitherto the preserve of the Royal Dockyards and of the shipbuilders of south-east England. Napier's shipyard and engine shops, then known as Robert Napier and Sons, were to be awarded sixty Admiralty contracts in his lifetime, with a profound influence on ship and engine procurement for the Navy and on foreign governments, which for the first time placed substantial work in the United Kingdom.
    Having had problems with hull subcontractors and also with the installation of machinery in wooden hulls, in 1843 Napier ventured into shipbuilding with the paddle steamer Vanguard, which was built of iron. The following year the Royal Navy took delivery of the iron-hulled Jackall, enabling Napier to secure the contract for the Black Prince, Britain's second ironclad and sister ship to HMS Warrior now preserved at Portsmouth. With so much work in iron Napier instigated studies into metallurgy, and the published work of David Kirkaldy bears witness to his open-handedness in assisting the industry. This service to industry was even more apparent in 1866 when the company laid out the Skelmorlie Measured Mile on the Firth of Clyde for ship testing, a mile still in use by ships of all nations.
    The greatest legacy of Robert Napier was his training of young engineers, shipbuilders and naval architects. Almost every major Scottish shipyard, and some English too, was influenced by him and many of his early foremen left to set up rival establishments along the banks of the River Clyde. His close association with Samuel Cunard led to the setting up of the company now known as the Cunard Line. Napier designed and engined the first four ships, subcontracting the hulls of this historic quartet to other shipbuilders on the river. While he contributed only 2 per cent to the equity of the shipping line, they came back to him for many more vessels, including the magnificent paddle ship Persia, of 1855.
    It is an old tradition on the Clyde that the smokestacks of ships are made by the enginebuilders. The Cunard Line still uses red funnels with black bands, Napier's trademark, in honour of the engineer who set them going.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knight Commander of the Dannebrog (Denmark). President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1864. Honorary Member of the Glasgow Society of Engineers 1869.
    Further Reading
    James Napier, 1904, The Life of Robert Napier, Edinburgh, Blackwood.
    J.M.Halliday, 1980–1, "Robert Napier. The father of Clyde shipbuilding", Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 124.
    Fred M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde. A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, Cambridge: PSL.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Napier, Robert

  • 69 Schiffbaugesellschaft

    Schiffbaugesellschaft
    shipbuilding company;
    Schiffbauindustrie shipbuilding (shipping) industry;
    sein Geld in der Schiffbauindustrie angelegt haben to be interested in shipping;
    Schiffbauingenieur naval architect;
    Schiffbaukapazität shipbuilding capacity;
    Schiffbaukonjunktur shipbuilding boom;
    Schiffbaukonstrukteur shipbuilding draughtsman;
    Schiffbaukrise shipbuilding slump;
    Schiffbaumarkt shipbuilding market;
    Schiffbauprogramm shipbuilding program(me);
    Schiffbautechnik naval engineering.

    Business german-english dictionary > Schiffbaugesellschaft

  • 70 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

  • 71 aviación

    f.
    1 aviation, travel by air, flying.
    2 Air Force.
    * * *
    1 aviation
    2 MILITAR air force
    \
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=locomoción) aviation
    2) (Mil) air force
    * * *
    femenino ( civil) aviation; (Mil) air force
    * * *
    Ex. For example, aviation and aeronautics can be treated as branches of science in Physics, or as branches of useful arts in Engineering and Shipbuilding.
    ----
    * aviación comercial = commercial aviation.
    * industria de la aviación, la = aviation industry, the.
    * ingeniería de aviación = aviation engineering.
    * * *
    femenino ( civil) aviation; (Mil) air force
    * * *

    Ex: For example, aviation and aeronautics can be treated as branches of science in Physics, or as branches of useful arts in Engineering and Shipbuilding.

    * aviación comercial = commercial aviation.
    * industria de la aviación, la = aviation industry, the.
    * ingeniería de aviación = aviation engineering.

    * * *
    1 (civil) aviation
    2 ( Mil) air force
    * * *

    aviación sustantivo femenino ( civil) aviation;
    (Mil) air force
    aviación f (civil) aviation
    accidente de aviación, plane crash
    (militar) air force
    aviación civil, civil aviation
    ' aviación' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    sustentación
    - aeronáutica
    English:
    airfield
    - aviation
    - flying
    - squadron leader
    * * *
    1. [navegación] aviation;
    aviación civil civil aviation;
    aviación comercial commercial aviation
    2. [militar] air force
    * * *
    f
    1 aviation;
    2 MIL air force
    * * *
    aviación nf, pl - ciones : aviation

    Spanish-English dictionary > aviación

  • 72 naval

    adj.
    naval.
    * * *
    1 naval
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ [base] naval; [oficial] navy antes de s, naval; [compañía, industria] shipping antes de s ; [constructor] ship antes de s ; [capitán] sea antes de s ; [bloqueo] naval
    * * *
    adjetivo naval
    * * *
    = naval.
    Ex. Thus a book on 'the history of naval warships' may be sought under history, navy or warships.
    ----
    * armero naval = shipbuilder.
    * batalla naval = naval battle.
    * constructor naval = shipbuilder.
    * industria naval, la = shipping industry, the.
    * museo naval = naval museum.
    * tienda de efectos navales = chandlery.
    * * *
    adjetivo naval
    * * *

    Ex: Thus a book on 'the history of naval warships' may be sought under history, navy or warships.

    * armero naval = shipbuilder.
    * batalla naval = naval battle.
    * constructor naval = shipbuilder.
    * industria naval, la = shipping industry, the.
    * museo naval = naval museum.
    * tienda de efectos navales = chandlery.

    * * *
    naval
    * * *

    naval adjetivo
    naval
    naval adjetivo naval
    ' naval' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    base
    - escuela
    - arsenal
    - marino
    English:
    naval
    - shipbuilding
    - fleet
    - marine
    - sea
    - ship
    * * *
    naval adj
    naval
    * * *
    adj naval;
    base naval MIL naval base;
    construcción naval shipbuilding
    * * *
    naval adj
    : naval
    * * *
    naval adj naval

    Spanish-English dictionary > naval

  • 73 Peter the Great (Pyotr Alekseyevich Romanov)

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 10 June 1672 (30 May 1672 Old Style) Moscow, Russia
    d. 8 February 1725 (28 January 1725 Old Style) St Petersburg, Russia
    [br]
    Russian Tsar (1682–1725), Emperor of all the Russias (1722–5), founder of the Russian Navy, shipbuilder and scientist; as a shipbuilder he was known by the pseudonym Petr Mikhailov.
    [br]
    Peter the Great was a man with a single-minded approach to problems and with passionate and lifelong interests in matters scientific, military and above all maritime. The unusual and dominating rule of his vast lands brought about the age of Russian enlightenment, and ensured that his country became one of the most powerful states in Europe.
    Peter's interest in ships and shipbuilding started in his childhood; c. 1687 he had an old English-built day sailing boat repaired and launched, and on it he learned the rudiments of sailing and navigation. This craft (still preserved in St Petersburg) became known as the "Grandfather of the Russian Navy". In the years 1688 to 1693 he established a shipyard on Lake Plestsheev and then began his lifelong study of shipbuilding by visiting and giving encouragement to the industry at Archangelsk on the White Sea and Voronezh in the Sea of Azov. In October 1696, Peter took Azov from the Turks, and the Russian Fleet ever since has regarded that date as their birthday. Setting an example to the young aristocracy, Peter travelled to Western Europe to widen his experience and contacts and also to learn the trade of shipbuilding. He worked in the shipyards of Amsterdam and then at the Naval Base of Deptford on the Thames.
    The war with Sweden concentrated his attention on the Baltic and, to establish a base for trading and for the Navy, the City of St Petersburg was constructed on marshland. The Admiralty was built in the city and many new shipyards in the surrounding countryside, one being the Olonez yard which in 1703 built the frigate Standart, the first for the Baltic Fleet, which Peter himself commanded on its first voyage. The military defence of St Petersburg was effected by the construction of Kronstadt, seawards of the city.
    Throughout his life Peter was involved in ship design and it is estimated that one thousand ships were built during his reign. He introduced the building of standard ship types and also, centuries ahead of its time, the concept of prefabrication, unit assembly and the building of part hulls in different places. Officially he was the designer of the ninety-gun ship Lesnoe of 1718, and this may have influenced him in instituting Rules for Shipbuilders and for Seamen. In 1716 he commanded the joint fleets of the four naval powers: Denmark, Britain, Holland and Russia.
    He established the Marine Academy, organized and encouraged exploration and scientific research, and on his edict the St Petersburg Academy of Science was opened. He was not averse to the recruitment of foreigners to key posts in the nation's service. Peter the Great was a remarkable man, with the unusual quality of being a theorist and an innovator, in addition to the endowments of practicality and common sense.
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    Further Reading
    Robert K.Massie, 1981, Peter the Great: His Life and Work, London: Gollancz.
    Henri Troyat, 1979, Pierre le Grand; pub. in English 1988 as Peter the Great, London: Hamish Hamilton (a good all-round biography).
    AK / FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Peter the Great (Pyotr Alekseyevich Romanov)

  • 74 Riley, James

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
    [br]
    b. 1840 Halifax, England
    d. 15 July 1910 Harrogate, England
    [br]
    English steelmaker who promoted the manufacture of low-carbon bulk steel by the open-hearth process for tin plate and shipbuilding; pioneer of nickel steels.
    [br]
    After working as a millwright in Halifax, Riley found employment at the Ormesby Ironworks in Middlesbrough until, in 1869, he became manager of the Askam Ironworks in Cumberland. Three years later, in 1872, he was appointed Blast-furnace Manager at the pioneering Siemens Steel Company's works at Landore, near Swansea in South Wales. Using Spanish ore, he produced the manganese-rich iron (spiegeleisen) required as an additive to make satisfactory steel. Riley was promoted in 1874 to be General Manager at Landore, and he worked with William Siemens to develop the use of the latter's regenerative furnace for the production of open-hearth steel. He persuaded Welsh makers of tin plate to use sheets rolled from lowcarbon (mild) steel instead of from charcoal iron and, partly by publishing some test results, he was instrumental in influencing the Admiralty to build two naval vessels of mild steel, the Mercury and the Iris.
    In 1878 Riley moved north on his appointment as General Manager of the Steel Company of Scotland, a firm closely associated with Charles Tennant that was formed in 1872 to make steel by the Siemens process. Already by 1878, fourteen Siemens melting furnaces had been erected, and in that year 42,000 long tons of ingots were produced at the company's Hallside (Newton) Works, situated 8 km (5 miles) south-east of Glasgow. Under Riley's leadership, steelmaking in open-hearth furnaces was initiated at a second plant situated at Blochairn. Plates and sections for all aspects of shipbuilding, including boilers, formed the main products; the company also supplied the greater part of the steel for the Forth (Railway) Bridge. Riley was associated with technical modifications which improved the performance of steelmaking furnaces using Siemens's principles. He built a gasfired cupola for melting pig-iron, and constructed the first British "universal" plate mill using three-high rolls (Lauth mill).
    At the request of French interests, Riley investigated the properties of steels containing various proportions of nickel; the report that he read before the Iron and Steel Institute in 1889 successfully brought to the notice of potential users the greatly enhanced strength that nickel could impart and its ability to yield alloys possessing substantially lower corrodibility.
    The Steel Company of Scotland paid dividends in the years to 1890, but then came a lean period. In 1895, at the age of 54, Riley moved once more to another employer, becoming General Manager of the Glasgow Iron and Steel Company, which had just laid out a new steelmaking plant at Wishaw, 25 km (15 miles) south-east of Glasgow, where it already had blast furnaces. Still the technical innovator, in 1900 Riley presented an account of his experiences in introducing molten blast-furnace metal as feed for the open-hearth steel furnaces. In the early 1890s it was largely through Riley's efforts that a West of Scotland Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the Manufactured Steel Trade came into being; he was its first Chairman and then its President.
    In 1899 James Riley resigned from his Scottish employment to move back to his native Yorkshire, where he became his own master by acquiring the small Richmond Ironworks situated at Stockton-on-Tees. Although Riley's 1900 account to the Iron and Steel Institute was the last of the many of which he was author, he continued to contribute to the discussion of papers written by others.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute 1893–5. Vice-President, Iron and Steel Institute, 1893–1910. Iron and Steel Institute (London) Bessemer Gold Medal 1887.
    Bibliography
    1876, "On steel for shipbuilding as supplied to the Royal Navy", Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects 17:135–55.
    1884, "On recent improvements in the method of manufacture of open-hearth steel", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 2:43–52 plus plates 27–31.
    1887, "Some investigations as to the effects of different methods of treatment of mild steel in the manufacture of plates", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 1:121–30 (plus sheets II and III and plates XI and XII).
    27 February 1888, "Improvements in basichearth steel making furnaces", British patent no. 2,896.
    27 February 1888, "Improvements in regenerative furnaces for steel-making and analogous operations", British patent no. 2,899.
    1889, "Alloys of nickel and steel", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 1:45–55.
    Further Reading
    A.Slaven, 1986, "James Riley", in Dictionary of Scottish Business Biography 1860–1960, Volume 1: The Staple Industries (ed. A.Slaven and S. Checkland), Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 136–8.
    "Men you know", The Bailie (Glasgow) 23 January 1884, series no. 588 (a brief biography, with portrait).
    J.C.Carr and W.Taplin, 1962, History of the British Steel Industry, Harvard University Press (contains an excellent summary of salient events).
    JKA

    Biographical history of technology > Riley, James

  • 75 Armstrong, Sir William George, Baron Armstrong of Cragside

    [br]
    b. 26 November 1810 Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
    d. 27 December 1900 Cragside, Northumbria, England
    [br]
    English inventor, engineer and entrepreneur in hydraulic engineering, shipbuilding and the production of artillery.
    [br]
    The only son of a corn merchant, Alderman William Armstrong, he was educated at private schools in Newcastle and at Bishop Auckland Grammar School. He then became an articled clerk in the office of Armorer Donkin, a solicitor and a friend of his father. During a fishing trip he saw a water-wheel driven by an open stream to work a marble-cutting machine. He felt that its efficiency would be improved by introducing the water to the wheel in a pipe. He developed an interest in hydraulics and in electricity, and became a popular lecturer on these subjects. From 1838 he became friendly with Henry Watson of the High Bridge Works, Newcastle, and for six years he visited the Works almost daily, studying turret clocks, telescopes, papermaking machinery, surveying instruments and other equipment being produced. There he had built his first hydraulic machine, which generated 5 hp when run off the Newcastle town water-mains. He then designed and made a working model of a hydraulic crane, but it created little interest. In 1845, after he had served this rather unconventional apprenticeship at High Bridge Works, he was appointed Secretary of the newly formed Whittle Dene Water Company. The same year he proposed to the town council of Newcastle the conversion of one of the quayside cranes to his hydraulic operation which, if successful, should also be applied to a further four cranes. This was done by the Newcastle Cranage Company at High Bridge Works. In 1847 he gave up law and formed W.G.Armstrong \& Co. to manufacture hydraulic machinery in a works at Elswick. Orders for cranes, hoists, dock gates and bridges were obtained from mines; docks and railways.
    Early in the Crimean War, the War Office asked him to design and make submarine mines to blow up ships that were sunk by the Russians to block the entrance to Sevastopol harbour. The mines were never used, but this set him thinking about military affairs and brought him many useful contacts at the War Office. Learning that two eighteen-pounder British guns had silenced a whole Russian battery but were too heavy to move over rough ground, he carried out a thorough investigation and proposed light field guns with rifled barrels to fire elongated lead projectiles rather than cast-iron balls. He delivered his first gun in 1855; it was built of a steel core and wound-iron wire jacket. The barrel was multi-grooved and the gun weighed a quarter of a ton and could fire a 3 lb (1.4 kg) projectile. This was considered too light and was sent back to the factory to be rebored to take a 5 lb (2.3 kg) shot. The gun was a complete success and Armstrong was then asked to design and produce an equally successful eighteen-pounder. In 1859 he was appointed Engineer of Rifled Ordnance and was knighted. However, there was considerable opposition from the notably conservative officers of the Army who resented the intrusion of this civilian engineer in their affairs. In 1862, contracts with the Elswick Ordnance Company were terminated, and the Government rejected breech-loading and went back to muzzle-loading. Armstrong resigned and concentrated on foreign sales, which were successful worldwide.
    The search for a suitable proving ground for a 12-ton gun led to an interest in shipbuilding at Elswick from 1868. This necessitated the replacement of an earlier stone bridge with the hydraulically operated Tyne Swing Bridge, which weighed some 1450 tons and allowed a clear passage for shipping. Hydraulic equipment on warships became more complex and increasing quantities of it were made at the Elswick works, which also flourished with the reintroduction of the breech-loader in 1878. In 1884 an open-hearth acid steelworks was added to the Elswick facilities. In 1897 the firm merged with Sir Joseph Whitworth \& Co. to become Sir W.G.Armstrong Whitworth \& Co. After Armstrong's death a further merger with Vickers Ltd formed Vickers Armstrong Ltd.
    In 1879 Armstrong took a great interest in Joseph Swan's invention of the incandescent electric light-bulb. He was one of those who formed the Swan Electric Light Company, opening a factory at South Benwell to make the bulbs. At Cragside, his mansion at Roth bury, he installed a water turbine and generator, making it one of the first houses in England to be lit by electricity.
    Armstrong was a noted philanthropist, building houses for his workforce, and endowing schools, hospitals and parks. His last act of charity was to purchase Bamburgh Castle, Northumbria, in 1894, intending to turn it into a hospital or a convalescent home, but he did not live long enough to complete the work.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1859. FRS 1846. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Institution of Civil Engineers; British Association for the Advancement of Science 1863. Baron Armstrong of Cragside 1887.
    Further Reading
    E.R.Jones, 1886, Heroes of Industry', London: Low.
    D.J.Scott, 1962, A History of Vickers, London: Weidenfeld \& Nicolson.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Armstrong, Sir William George, Baron Armstrong of Cragside

  • 76 Verstaatlichung

    Verstaatlichung f WIWI nationalization, communization (ehemalige DDR: Kollektivierung)
    * * *
    f (ehemalige DDR: Kollektivierung) <Vw> nationalization, communization
    * * *
    Verstaatlichung
    nationalization (Br.), socialization;
    drohende Verstaatlichung nationalization threat (Br.);
    halbe Verstaatlichung semi-nationalization (Br.);
    Verstaatlichung der Banken bank nationalization (Br.);
    Verstaatlichung der Flugzeugindustrie aircraft nationalization (Br.);
    Verstaatlichung von Grund und Boden land nationalization (Br.);
    Verstaatlichung der Industrie nationalization of industry (Br.);
    Verstaatlichung der Schifffahrtsindustrie shipbuilding nationalization (Br.);
    Verstaatlichung der Stahlindustrie steel nationalization (Br.);
    Verstaatlichung der Stahlindustrie wieder aufheben to unscramble the steel industry;
    der Verstaatlichung entgehen to stay free of government ownership;
    von der Verstaatlichung am meisten bedroht sein to be in the front line of nationalization (Br.).

    Business german-english dictionary > Verstaatlichung

  • 77 Rowland, Thomas Fitch

    [br]
    b. 15 March 1831 New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    d. 13 December 1907 New York City, USA
    [br]
    American engineer and manufacturer, inventor of off-shore drilling.
    [br]
    The son of a grist miller, Rowland worked in various jobs until 1859 when he established his own business for the construction of wooden and iron steamships and for structural iron works, in Greenpoint, Long Island, New York. In 1860 he founded the Continental Works and during the American Civil War he started manufacturing gun carriages and mortar beds. He fitted out many vessels for the navy, and as a contractor for John Ericsson he built heavily armoured war vessels.
    He continued shipbuilding, but later diversified his business. He devoted great attention to the design of gas-works, constructing innovative storage facilities all over the United States, and he was concerned with the improvement of welding iron and steel plates and other processes in the steel industry. In the late 1860s he also began the manufacture of steam-engines and boilers for use in the new but expanding oil industry. In 1869 he took out a patent for a fixed platform for drilling for oil off-shore up to a depth of 15 m (49 ft). With this idea, just ten years after Edwin Drake's success in on-shore oil drilling in Titusville, Pennsylvania, Rowland pioneered the technology of off-shore drilling for petroleum in which the United States later became the leading nation.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    American Society of Civil Engineers: Director 1871–3, Vice-President 1886–7, Honorary Member 1899.
    Further Reading
    "Thomas Fitch Rowland", Dictionary of American Biography.
    WK

    Biographical history of technology > Rowland, Thomas Fitch

  • 78 головка блока цилиндров

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > головка блока цилиндров

  • 79 среднего размера

    2) Agriculture: average-sized
    3) Mathematics: of medium size
    4) Economy: medium-scale
    5) Automobile industry: middle-size
    6) Mining: medium-sized
    7) Information technology: mid-sized
    8) Automation: medium-size
    10) Shipbuilding: (medium range sized) MR sized

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > среднего размера

  • 80 шероховатость

    3) Literal: blemish
    6) Chemistry: pimpling
    7) Construction: coarseness, surface condition, tooth (поверхности после обработки)
    8) Mathematics: irregularity
    10) Polygraphy: raggedness
    11) Textile: hardness
    12) Information technology: smoothness
    13) Oil: rugosity (стенок скважины), roughness, unevenness
    14) Silicates: crisp, crispiness, pockmarks
    15) Mechanics: rub, ruggedness
    16) Cellulose: bendtsen smoothness
    17) Microelectronics: ripple
    18) Polymers: crispness, mattness, blast anchor pattern (структура поверхности( глубина впадинок) после дробеструйной обработки)
    20) Quality control: buckling (на литье)
    22) Electrochemistry: tooth (покрытия)
    23) Shipbuilding: drop stitch (в сочетании с существительным floor даёт тип шероховатости пола (для повышения сцепления))

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > шероховатость

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  • Shipbuilding — This article is about the construction of ships. For the song, see Shipbuilding (song). An expedition s shipwrights building a brigantine, 1541. Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and floating vessels. It normally takes place in a… …   Wikipedia

  • shipbuilding — shipbuilder ship‧build‧er [ˈʆɪpˌbɪldə ǁ ər] noun [countable] a company that makes ships shipbuilding noun [uncountable] : • key industries such as steel and shipbuilding * * * shipbuilding UK US /ˈʃɪpˌbɪldɪŋ/ noun [U] TRANSPORT, PRODUCTION ► …   Financial and business terms

  • industry —    Spain became a fully industrialized nation much later than most other western European nations. Although Catalonia and the Basque country could be considered industrialized regions by the end of the nineteenth century, the rest of Spain was… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

  • Shipbuilding —    Ship construction was an important branch of in dustry in the Low Countriesand the Netherlands, where transport by water was relatively easy. As early as the Middle Ages, coasters and canal boats were the main form of transportation for… …   Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands

  • industry — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ booming, growing, thriving ▪ one of the fastest growing industries in the world ▪ important, key, major ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

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