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2 Smithsonian Institute
American: SIУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Smithsonian Institute
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3 Smithsonian Institute
Смитсоновский институт (США)Англо-русский словарь по экономике и финансам > Smithsonian Institute
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4 Smithsonian Magazine
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7 Smithsonian Institution
Крупный комплекс культурно-просветительских и научных учреждений. Квазигосударственное агентство [quasi-public agency; quasi-public corporation]. Институт основан на средства, завещанные англичанином Дж. Смитсоном [ Smithson, James], по отдельному закону, принятому Конгрессом США в 1846. В состав совета управляющих [board of regents] входят вице-президент США, Верховный судья, по три члена Сената и Палаты представителей США и девять американских граждан [citizen members], утвержденных Конгрессом. Комплекс Смитсоновского института включает Национальный музей дизайна Купера-Хьюитта [Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum] (в г. Нью-Йорке), Музей и парк скульптур Дж. Хиршхорна [ Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden], Галерею азиатского искусства А. М. Сэклера [ Arthur M. Sackler Gallery], Национальный музей африканского искусства [ National Museum of African Art], Национальный музей авиации и космонавтики [ National Air and Space Museum], Национальный музей американского искусства [ National Museum of American Art], Национальный музей американской истории [ National Museum of American History], Национальную портретную галерею [ National Portrait Gallery], Национальный зоологический парк [ National Zoological Park], Художественную галерею Фрира [Freer Gallery of Art], Национальный музей естественной истории [ National Museum of Natural History], Национальный музей американских индейцев [ National Museum of the American Indian], Смитсоновский институт изучения тропиков [Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute] (в Панаме), Астрофизическую обсерваторию [ Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory] и др. Центр сценических искусств Кеннеди [ John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts], Международный центр ученых Вудро Вильсона [ Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars] и Национальная художественная галерея [ National Gallery of Art] относятся к Институту, но управляются отдельно. Находится в г. Вашингтоне. Печатает ежемесячник "Смитсониан" [ Smithsonian], научные журналы и труды, путеводители. Получил ласково-ироничное прозвище "чердак страны" [Nation's Attic], то есть место, где хранится все, что уже не нужно, но жалко выброситьEnglish-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Smithsonian Institution
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8 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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9 Smithsonian
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10 SI
1) Общая лексика: СИ2) Компьютерная техника: Semi Iterative, Single Inheritance, Socket Interface, Standard Interface, Sub Indices, scintillation index, системный интегратор (сокр. от "systems integrator")3) Медицина: stimulation index4) Американизм: Smithsonian Institute, Special Inquiry, Supplemental Instruction5) Спорт: Sport Influenced, Sports Information6) Военный термин: Security Intelligence, Special Instructions, Special Interest, Support Installation, secret information, secret intelligence, security identity, security information, selected item, selective identification, sergeant instructor, service inspection, service instruction, ship item, shipping instruction, signal instruction, signal-to-interference, special instruction, special intelligence, specific inventory, spot inspection, spot inventory, staff inspector, standardization and interoperability, standing instruction, station identification, supply instruction, surveillance and inspection, systems integration7) Техника: Shuttle interrogator, Synchrotron Injector Division, safety injection, satellite interrogator, scene identification, security inspector, semi insulating, shift-in character, signature identification, sine integral, site index, space integrating, spaceborne interrogator, speed indicator, stellar identification, stress intensity, strong interaction, surveillance inspection, surveillance instruction, synchrotron injector, systeme international d'unites8) Математика: Systeme International, стохастически возрастающий (stochastically increasing)9) Метеорология: Scientific Instrumentation10) Железнодорожный термин: Union Pacific Railroad Company11) Юридический термин: Special Investigations12) Автомобильный термин: starting index13) Биржевой термин: Stockmarket Indices, swing index14) Грубое выражение: Sexual Innuendo, Shitty Import, Slow Idiot15) География: Словения16) Дипломатический термин: Socialist International17) Оптика: step index18) Политика: Slovenia19) Телевидение: serial-data in20) Сокращение: International System of Units, Sandwich Islands, Sergeant Instructor (British Army), Seriously Injured, Singhalese, Sino Indian, Staten Island, System Integration, System of Units, salinity indicator, table lookup21) Текстиль: Slightly Imperfect22) Физиология: Sacro Iliac, Sacroiliac, Self Inflicted, Self Injury, Self Inserted, Slightly Insane, sucrase-isomaltase23) Электроника: Semi-Insulating, Signal Integrity24) Вычислительная техника: Shift-In, System Information, sample interval, service information, shift in, speed index, system integrator, индекс-регистр источника, SPARC International (organization, Hersteller), Source Index (register, CPU, Intel, Assembler), индекс быстродействия, индекс источника, переход на нижний регистр, системный интегратор25) Нефть: System International d'Unites, solidification index, закрытый, остановленный (о скважине; shut-in), shut-in (well)26) Картография: slough27) Банковское дело: сумма продаж ценных бумаг без покрытия (short interest)28) Транспорт: International System, Sequential Injection29) Пищевая промышленность: Something In, Substitution Instance30) Фирменный знак: SCI Corporation, Southport Inn31) СМИ: Side Information, Sports Illustrated, Stand In32) Деловая лексика: Seller Identification, Software Independent, Solution Integration33) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Simulation Study, Site instruction, le Systeme International d'Unites, sensitivity indicator, silt index34) Образование: Slow And Ignorant, Speech/Language Impairment35) Инвестиции: short interest36) Сетевые технологии: Selectable Interface, Slow Import38) Программирование: Signed Integer, Source Index39) Сахалин Р: Statutory Instrument, международная система единиц СИ40) Океанография: Smithsonian Institution41) Сахалин Ю: shut in42) Химическое оружие: Systems Integrator, site investigation43) Хроматография: Specified and Identified Impurities44) Макаров: simple interval, surface ionization45) Безопасность: Secure Internet46) Нефть и газ: Shell International47) Электротехника: switching impulse48) Имена и фамилии: Sultan Ismail49) Чат: Silly I, Simply Irresistible50) NYSE. ACM Government Spectrum Fund, Inc.51) Единицы измерений: System International, System Internationale -
11 Si
1) Общая лексика: СИ2) Компьютерная техника: Semi Iterative, Single Inheritance, Socket Interface, Standard Interface, Sub Indices, scintillation index, системный интегратор (сокр. от "systems integrator")3) Медицина: stimulation index4) Американизм: Smithsonian Institute, Special Inquiry, Supplemental Instruction5) Спорт: Sport Influenced, Sports Information6) Военный термин: Security Intelligence, Special Instructions, Special Interest, Support Installation, secret information, secret intelligence, security identity, security information, selected item, selective identification, sergeant instructor, service inspection, service instruction, ship item, shipping instruction, signal instruction, signal-to-interference, special instruction, special intelligence, specific inventory, spot inspection, spot inventory, staff inspector, standardization and interoperability, standing instruction, station identification, supply instruction, surveillance and inspection, systems integration7) Техника: Shuttle interrogator, Synchrotron Injector Division, safety injection, satellite interrogator, scene identification, security inspector, semi insulating, shift-in character, signature identification, sine integral, site index, space integrating, spaceborne interrogator, speed indicator, stellar identification, stress intensity, strong interaction, surveillance inspection, surveillance instruction, synchrotron injector, systeme international d'unites8) Математика: Systeme International, стохастически возрастающий (stochastically increasing)9) Метеорология: Scientific Instrumentation10) Железнодорожный термин: Union Pacific Railroad Company11) Юридический термин: Special Investigations12) Автомобильный термин: starting index13) Биржевой термин: Stockmarket Indices, swing index14) Грубое выражение: Sexual Innuendo, Shitty Import, Slow Idiot15) География: Словения16) Дипломатический термин: Socialist International17) Оптика: step index18) Политика: Slovenia19) Телевидение: serial-data in20) Сокращение: International System of Units, Sandwich Islands, Sergeant Instructor (British Army), Seriously Injured, Singhalese, Sino Indian, Staten Island, System Integration, System of Units, salinity indicator, table lookup21) Текстиль: Slightly Imperfect22) Физиология: Sacro Iliac, Sacroiliac, Self Inflicted, Self Injury, Self Inserted, Slightly Insane, sucrase-isomaltase23) Электроника: Semi-Insulating, Signal Integrity24) Вычислительная техника: Shift-In, System Information, sample interval, service information, shift in, speed index, system integrator, индекс-регистр источника, SPARC International (organization, Hersteller), Source Index (register, CPU, Intel, Assembler), индекс быстродействия, индекс источника, переход на нижний регистр, системный интегратор25) Нефть: System International d'Unites, solidification index, закрытый, остановленный (о скважине; shut-in), shut-in (well)26) Картография: slough27) Банковское дело: сумма продаж ценных бумаг без покрытия (short interest)28) Транспорт: International System, Sequential Injection29) Пищевая промышленность: Something In, Substitution Instance30) Фирменный знак: SCI Corporation, Southport Inn31) СМИ: Side Information, Sports Illustrated, Stand In32) Деловая лексика: Seller Identification, Software Independent, Solution Integration33) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Simulation Study, Site instruction, le Systeme International d'Unites, sensitivity indicator, silt index34) Образование: Slow And Ignorant, Speech/Language Impairment35) Инвестиции: short interest36) Сетевые технологии: Selectable Interface, Slow Import38) Программирование: Signed Integer, Source Index39) Сахалин Р: Statutory Instrument, международная система единиц СИ40) Океанография: Smithsonian Institution41) Сахалин Ю: shut in42) Химическое оружие: Systems Integrator, site investigation43) Хроматография: Specified and Identified Impurities44) Макаров: simple interval, surface ionization45) Безопасность: Secure Internet46) Нефть и газ: Shell International47) Электротехника: switching impulse48) Имена и фамилии: Sultan Ismail49) Чат: Silly I, Simply Irresistible50) NYSE. ACM Government Spectrum Fund, Inc.51) Единицы измерений: System International, System Internationale -
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1) Общая лексика: СИ2) Компьютерная техника: Semi Iterative, Single Inheritance, Socket Interface, Standard Interface, Sub Indices, scintillation index, системный интегратор (сокр. от "systems integrator")3) Медицина: stimulation index4) Американизм: Smithsonian Institute, Special Inquiry, Supplemental Instruction5) Спорт: Sport Influenced, Sports Information6) Военный термин: Security Intelligence, Special Instructions, Special Interest, Support Installation, secret information, secret intelligence, security identity, security information, selected item, selective identification, sergeant instructor, service inspection, service instruction, ship item, shipping instruction, signal instruction, signal-to-interference, special instruction, special intelligence, specific inventory, spot inspection, spot inventory, staff inspector, standardization and interoperability, standing instruction, station identification, supply instruction, surveillance and inspection, systems integration7) Техника: Shuttle interrogator, Synchrotron Injector Division, safety injection, satellite interrogator, scene identification, security inspector, semi insulating, shift-in character, signature identification, sine integral, site index, space integrating, spaceborne interrogator, speed indicator, stellar identification, stress intensity, strong interaction, surveillance inspection, surveillance instruction, synchrotron injector, systeme international d'unites8) Математика: Systeme International, стохастически возрастающий (stochastically increasing)9) Метеорология: Scientific Instrumentation10) Железнодорожный термин: Union Pacific Railroad Company11) Юридический термин: Special Investigations12) Автомобильный термин: starting index13) Биржевой термин: Stockmarket Indices, swing index14) Грубое выражение: Sexual Innuendo, Shitty Import, Slow Idiot15) География: Словения16) Дипломатический термин: Socialist International17) Оптика: step index18) Политика: Slovenia19) Телевидение: serial-data in20) Сокращение: International System of Units, Sandwich Islands, Sergeant Instructor (British Army), Seriously Injured, Singhalese, Sino Indian, Staten Island, System Integration, System of Units, salinity indicator, table lookup21) Текстиль: Slightly Imperfect22) Физиология: Sacro Iliac, Sacroiliac, Self Inflicted, Self Injury, Self Inserted, Slightly Insane, sucrase-isomaltase23) Электроника: Semi-Insulating, Signal Integrity24) Вычислительная техника: Shift-In, System Information, sample interval, service information, shift in, speed index, system integrator, индекс-регистр источника, SPARC International (organization, Hersteller), Source Index (register, CPU, Intel, Assembler), индекс быстродействия, индекс источника, переход на нижний регистр, системный интегратор25) Нефть: System International d'Unites, solidification index, закрытый, остановленный (о скважине; shut-in), shut-in (well)26) Картография: slough27) Банковское дело: сумма продаж ценных бумаг без покрытия (short interest)28) Транспорт: International System, Sequential Injection29) Пищевая промышленность: Something In, Substitution Instance30) Фирменный знак: SCI Corporation, Southport Inn31) СМИ: Side Information, Sports Illustrated, Stand In32) Деловая лексика: Seller Identification, Software Independent, Solution Integration33) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Simulation Study, Site instruction, le Systeme International d'Unites, sensitivity indicator, silt index34) Образование: Slow And Ignorant, Speech/Language Impairment35) Инвестиции: short interest36) Сетевые технологии: Selectable Interface, Slow Import38) Программирование: Signed Integer, Source Index39) Сахалин Р: Statutory Instrument, международная система единиц СИ40) Океанография: Smithsonian Institution41) Сахалин Ю: shut in42) Химическое оружие: Systems Integrator, site investigation43) Хроматография: Specified and Identified Impurities44) Макаров: simple interval, surface ionization45) Безопасность: Secure Internet46) Нефть и газ: Shell International47) Электротехника: switching impulse48) Имена и фамилии: Sultan Ismail49) Чат: Silly I, Simply Irresistible50) NYSE. ACM Government Spectrum Fund, Inc.51) Единицы измерений: System International, System Internationale -
13 Смитсоновский институт
1) Economy: Smithsonian Institute2) USA: Smithsonian institution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Смитсоновский институт
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14 Henry, Joseph
[br]b. 17 December 1797 Albany, New York, USAd. 13 May 1878 Washington, DC, USA[br]American scientist after whom the unit of inductance is named.[br]Sent to stay with relatives at the age of 6 because of the illness of his father, when the latter died in 1811 Henry was apprenticed to a silversmith and then turned to the stage. Whilst he was ill himself, a book on science fired his interest and he began studying at Albany Academy, working as a tutor to finance his studies. Initially intending to pursue medicine, he then spent some time as a surveyor before becoming Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Albany Academy in 1826. There he became interested in the improvement of electromagnets and discovered that the use of an increased number of turns of wire round the core greatly increased their power; by 1831 he was able to supply to Yale a magnet capable of lifting almost a ton weight. During this time he also discovered the principles of magnetic induction and self-inductance. In the same year he made, but did not patent, a cable telegraph system capable of working over a distance of 1 mile (1.6 km). It was at this time, too, that he found that adiabatic expansion of gases led to their sudden cooling, thus paving the way for the development of refrigerators. For this he was recommended for, but never received, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. Five years later he became Professor of Natural Philosophy at New Jersey College (later Princeton University), where he deduced the laws governing the operation of transformers and observed that changes in magnetic flux induced electric currents in conductors. Later he also observed that spark discharges caused electrical effects at a distance. He therefore came close to the discovery of radio waves. In 1836 he was granted a year's leave of absence and travelled to Europe, where he was able to meet Michael Faraday. It was with his help that in 1844 Samuel Morse set up the first patented electric telegraph, but, sadly, the latter seems to have reaped all the credit and financial rewards. In 1846 he became the first secretary of the Washington Smithsonian Institute and did much to develop government support for scientific research. As a result of his efforts some 500 telegraph stations across the country were equipped with meteorological equipment to supply weather information by telegraph to a central location, a facility that eventually became the US National Weather Bureau. From 1852 he was a member of the Lighthouse Board, contributing to improvements in lighting and sound warning systems and becoming its chairman in 1871. During the Civil War he was a technical advisor to President Lincoln. He was a founder of the National Academy of Science and served as its President for eleven years.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsPresident, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1849. President, National Academy of Science 1893–1904. In 1893, to honour his work on induction, the International Congress of Electricians adopted the henry as the unit of inductance.Bibliography1824. "On the chemical and mechanical effects of steam". 1825. "The production of cold by the rarefaction of air".1832, "On the production of currents \& sparks of electricity \& magnetism", AmericanJournal of Science 22:403."Theory of the so-called imponderables", Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 6:84.Further ReadingSmithsonian Institution, 1886, Joseph Henry, Scientific Writings, Washington DC.KF -
15 ‘nation attic’
шутл. Смитсоновский институт [*Smithsonian Institute] <букв. чердак нации>США. Лингвострановедческий англо-русский словарь > ‘nation attic’
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16 quasi-official agency
гос. упр., амер. квази-государственный орган*, квазигосударственное агентство* (официально не является органом исполнительной власти, однако по закону обязано публиковать информацию о своей деятельности в "Федеральном журнале")Syn:See: -
17 Währungsabkommen
Währungsabkommen n WIWI exchange rate agreement, ERA* * *n <Vw> exchange rate agreement (ERA)* * *Währungsabkommen
monetary (currency) agreement, monetary convention;
• Washingtoner Währungsabkommen Smithsonian Agreement (Br.);
• Währungsabstände monetary gaps;
• Währungsabteilung foreign exchange department;
• Währungsabwertung currency (exchange) depreciation, depreciation of currency, devaluation;
• Währungsanarchie monetary anarchy;
• Währungsänderung currency change-over;
• Währungsangaben monetary references;
• Währungsangleichung currency adjustment, adjustment of currencies;
• Währungsanleihe [foreign] currency loan;
• Währungsaufruhr monetary turmoil;
• Währungsaufwertung appreciation of a currency, currency revaluation (appreciation), exchange appreciation;
• Währungsausgleich equation of exchange (currency), exchange (quantity) equation;
• Währungsausgleichsfonds Exchange Equalization Fund (US), Exchange Equalization Account (Br.);
• Währungsausgleichszollzuschlag exchange compensation duty;
• Währungsausschuss monetary committee, national monetary commission;
• beratender Währungsausschuss (EU) Monetary Committee with advisory status;
• Währungsausweitung currency expansion;
• Währungsbank bank of issue;
• Währungsbehörden monetary (financial) authorities;
• Währungsbeirat monetary council;
• Währungsbereich currency (monetary) area;
• Währungsbeschränkungen currency (monetary) restrictions;
• Währungsbestände eines Devisenausländers non-resident sterling (Br.);
• Währungsbestimmungen currency (monetary) regulations;
• Währungsbeziehungen exchange arrangements;
• Währungsblock currency bloc;
• Währungsbuchführung multi-currency accounting;
• Währungsbuchhaltung currency accounting;
• Währungschaos monetary chaos;
• Währungscode currency (monetary) code;
• Währungsdeckung backing of notes;
• Währungsdisparitäten currency disparities;
• Währungsdisziplin monetary discipline;
• Währungsdumping currency dumping;
• Währungsdurcheinander monetary mess;
• Währungseinflüsse monetary influences;
• parallele Währungseingabe dual currency input;
• Währungseinheit monetary unit (standard), primary money;
• ausländische Währungseinheit foreign-currency unit;
• Währungsentwertung currency depreciation;
• Währungsexperte, Währungsfachmann currency economist;
• Währungsflucht currency evasion;
• Internationaler Währungsfonds (IMF) International Monetary Fund (IWF);
• Währungsfragen questions of currency, currency problems (questions);
• Währungsgarantie exchange risk guarantee;
• Währungsgebiet currency (monetary) area, monetary scene;
• Währungsgefährdung jeopardizing of currency;
• Währungsgeld standard money;
• Währungsgesetz currency law;
• Währungsgesetzgebung currency legislation;
• Währungsgesundung currency reform;
• Währungsgewinn exchange profit, monetary (currency) gain;
• nicht realisierte Währungsgewinne unrealized translation gains;
• Währungsgold stock of monetary gold;
• Währungsguthaben foreign currency balance, reserve assets, deposits of currency;
• Währungshoheit monetary sovereignty;
• Währungshüter monetary official;
• Währungshypothek mortgage on the currency;
• Währungsinflation monetary inflation;
• Währungsinstanzen monetary authorities;
• Europäisches Währungsinstitut European Monetary Institute;
• Währungsintegration monetary integration;
• Währungskapazitäten monetary leaders;
• Währungskatastrophe monetary disaster;
• Währungsklausel currency (exchange, standard) clause;
• Währungskommission monetary commission;
• Währungskompetenz monetary competence (US);
• Währungskonferenz monetary conference;
• Währungskontext monetary context;
• Währungskonto foreign-exchange account;
• Währungskontrolle controlled currency;
• Währungskonvergenz monetary convergence;
• Währungskonvertibilität convertibility of currency;
• uneingeschränkte Währungskonvertibilität unlimited currency convertibility;
• Währungskorb basket unit of account (currencies);
• Währungskredit foreign currency loan;
• Währungskrise monetary (currency) crisis, crisis in the money market;
• feste Währungskurse pegged exchange rates;
• Währungslage monetary situation;
• Währungsmacht (EU) monetary power;
• Währungsmanipulation, Währungsmanöver currency manipulation;
• Währungsmaßnahmen monetary measures;
• Währungsmechanismus monetary system;
• Währungsneuordnung monetary (currency) reform;
• Währungsoption currency option;
• Währungsorgan monetary body;
• Währungspanik money panic;
• Währungsparität equivalence of exchange, par value (parity) of a currency;
• seine Währungsparität langsam ändern to crawl one’s parity;
• Währungsparität neu festsetzen to re-establish the parity;
• Währungspolitik currency (monetary) policy;
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SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology[br]b. 1861 USAd. 1943 USA[br]African-American agriculturalist.[br]In 1896 Carver was invited by Booker T.Washington, noted for his efforts to improve the education of African American craftspeople after the Civil War, to join the teaching staff at the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Carver became renowned for his innovative work in developing agricultural products, particularly from the peanut, sweet potato and cowpea. He was one of the first agriculturalists of that time to promote the use of organic fertilizers, and he was noted for his work in the hybridization of local plants. In spite of these achievements, his immediate impact on the African American farming community lay in promoting agricultural education and extension work. In 1897 Carver was appointed the first director of the Tuskegee agricultural experiment station. Here, he developed teaching techniques in agricultural education, such as issuing a series of clearly-written information bulletins. He also devised the first mobile school in the American South, which consisted of a farm wagon equipped with educational material and travelled from farm to farm, demonstrating the latest agricultural techniques.Carver was granted only three patents: one in 1923 for a cosmetic and two, in 1925 and 1927, for processes for making pigments.[br]Further ReadingP.P.James, 1989, The Real McCoy: African American Invention and Innovation 2619– 1930, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 69–70.LRDBiographical history of technology > Carver, George Washington
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19 Goddard, Dr Robert Hutchings
SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace[br]b. 5 October 1882 Worcester, Massachusetts, USAd. 10 August 1945 Baltimore, Maryland, USA[br]American inventory developer of rocket propulsion.[br]At the age of seventeen Goddard climbed a tree and, seeing the view from above, he became determined to make some device with which to ascend towards the planets. In an autobiography, published in 1959 in the journal Astronautics, he stated, "I was a different boy when I descended the ladder. Life now had a purpose for me." His first idea was to launch a projectile by centrifugal force, but in 1909 he started to design a rocket that was to be multi-stage and fuelled by liquid oxygen and hydrogen. Not long before the First World War he produced a report, "A method of reaching extreme altitudes", which was for the Smithsonian Institution and was published in book form in 1919. During the war he worked on solid-fuelled rockets as weapons. His book contained notes on the amount of fuel required to raise 1 lb (454 g) of payload to an infinite altitude. He incurred ridicule as "the moon man" when he proposed the use of flash powder to indicate successful arrival on the moon. In 1923 he severed his connections with military work and returned to the University of Massachusetts. On 16 March 1926 he launched the world's first liquid-fuelled rocket from his aunt's farm in Auburn, Massachusetts; powered by gasoline and liquid oxygen, it flew to a height of 12 m (40 ft) and travelled 54 m (177 ft) in 2.4 seconds.In November 1929 he met the aviator Charles Lindbergh, who persuaded both the Guggenheim Foundation and the Carnegie Institute to support Goddard's experiments financially. He moved to the more suitable location of the Mescalere Ranch, near Roswell, New Mexico, where he worked until 1941. His liquid-fuelled rockets reached speeds of 1,100 km/h (700 mph) and heights of 2,500 m (8,000ft). He investigated the use of the gyroscope to steady his rockets and the assembly of power units in clusters to increase the total thrust. In 1941 he moved to the naval establishment at Annapolis, Maryland, working on liquid-fuelled rockets to assist the take-off of aircraft from carriers. He worked for the US Government on this and the development of military rockets until his death from throat cancer in 1945. In all, he was granted 214 patents, roughly three per year of his life.In 1960 the US Government admitted infringement of Goddard's patents during the rocket programme of the 1950s and awarded his widow a payment of $1,000,000, while the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) honoured him by naming the Goddard Spaceflight Center near Washington, DC, after him. The Goddard Memorial Library at Clark University, in his home town of Worcester, Massachusetts, was also named in his honour.[br]Further ReadingA.Osman, 1983, Space History, London: Michael Joseph. P.Marsh, 1985, The Space Business, Harmondsworth: Penguin.K.C.Parley, 1991, Robert H.Goddard, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press. T.Streissguth, 1994, Rocket Man: The Story of Robert Goddard, Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Goddard, Dr Robert Hutchings
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20 Johnson, Eldridge Reeves
SUBJECT AREA: Recording[br]b. 18 February 1867 Wilmington, Delaware, USAd. 14 November 1945 Moorestown, New Jersey, USA[br]American industrialist, founder and owner of the Victor Talking Machine Company; developer of many basic constructions in mechanical sound recording and the reproduction and manufacture of gramophone records.[br]He graduated from the Dover Academy (Delaware) in 1882 and was apprenticed in a machine-repair firm in Philadelphia and studied in evening classes at the Spring Garden Institute. In 1888 he took employment in a small Philadelphia machine shop owned by Andrew Scull, specializing in repair and bookbinding machinery. After travels in the western part of the US, in 1891 he became a partner in Scull \& Johnson, Manufacturing Machinists, and established a further company, the New Jersey Wire Stitching Machine Company. He bought out Andrew Scull's interest in October 1894 (the last instalment being paid in 1897) and became an independent general machinist. In 1896 he had perfected a spring motor for the Berliner flat-disc gramophone, and he started experimenting with a more direct method of recording in a spiral groove: that of cutting in wax. Co-operation with Berliner eventually led to the incorporation of the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901. The innumerable court cases stemming from the fact that so many patents for various elements in sound recording and reproduction were in very many hands were brought to an end in 1903 when Johnson was material in establishing cross-licencing agreements between Victor, Columbia Graphophone and Edison to create what is known as a patent pool. Early on, Johnson had a thorough experience in all matters concerning the development and manufacture of both gramophones and records. He made and patented many major contributions in all these fields, and his approach was very business-like in that the contribution to cost of each part or process was always a decisive factor in his designs. This attitude was material in his consulting work for the sister company, the Gramophone Company, in London before it set up its own factories in 1910. He had quickly learned the advantages of advertising and of providing customers with durable equipment and records. This motivation was so strong that Johnson set up a research programme for determining the cause of wear in records. It turned out to depend on groove profile, and from 1911 one particular profile was adhered to and processes for transforming the grooves of valuable earlier records were developed. Without precise measuring instruments, he used the durability as the determining factor. Johnson withdrew more and more to the role of manager, and the Victor Talking Machine Company gained such a position in the market that the US anti-trust legislation was used against it. However, a generation change in the Board of Directors and certain erroneous decisions as to product line started a decline, and in February 1926 Johnson withdrew on extended sick leave: these changes led to the eventual sale of Victor. However, Victor survived due to the advent of radio and the electrification of replay equipment and became a part of Radio Corporation of America. In retirement Johnson took up various activities in the arts and sciences and financially supported several projects; his private yacht was used in 1933 in work with the Smithsonian Institution on a deep-sea hydrographie and fauna-collecting expedition near Puerto Rico.[br]BibliographyJohnson's patents were many, and some were fundamental to the development of the gramophone, such as: US patent no. 650,843 (in particular a recording lathe); US patent nos. 655,556, 655,556 and 679,896 (soundboxes); US patent no. 681,918 (making the original conductive for electroplating); US patent no. 739,318 (shellac record with paper label).Further ReadingMrs E.R.Johnson, 1913, "Eldridge Reeves Johnson (1867–1945): Industrial pioneer", manuscript (an account of his early experience).E.Hutto, Jr, "Emile Berliner, Eldridge Johnson, and the Victor Talking Machine Company", Journal of AES 25(10/11):666–73 (a good but brief account based on company information).E.R.Fenimore Johnson, 1974, His Master's Voice was Eldridge R.Johnson, Milford, Del.(a very personal biography by his only son).GB-NBiographical history of technology > Johnson, Eldridge Reeves
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