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nоборудование; снаряжение; оснащение
- advanced equipment
- agricultural equipment
- accessory equipment
- ancillary equipment
- assembly line equipment
- audiovisual equipment
- automated equipment
- automatic equipment
- auxiliary equipment
- basic equipment
- business equipment
- capital equipment
- capitalized equipment
- cargo-handling equipment
- carrier equipment
- cine equipment
- clerical equipment
- commercial equipment
- competitive equipment
- complete equipment
- complex equipment
- construction equipment
- contract equipment
- damaged equipment
- data transmission equipment
- delivered equipment
- defective equipment
- durable equipment
- efficient equipment
- electric equipment
- electrical equipment
- electronic equipment
- electronic payment equipment
- emergency equipment
- erected equipment
- erecting equipment
- exhibition equipment
- factory equipment
- farm equipment
- fast-wearing equipment
- fire-fighting equipment
- first-rate equipment
- food-packaging equipment
- handling equipment
- heavy equipment
- heavy-duty equipment
- high-fi equipment
- hi-fi equipment
- high-precision equipment
- high quality equipment
- high-technology equipment
- hoisting and conveying equipment
- home equipment
- idle equipment
- imported equipment
- incomplete equipment
- industrial equipment
- installed equipment
- labour-displacing equipment
- labour-saving equipment
- lifting equipment
- loading equipment
- loading-unloading equipment
- main equipment
- maintenance equipment
- manufacturing equipment
- materials-handling equipment
- mechanical equipment
- metallurgical equipment
- miscellaneous equipment
- missing equipment
- modern equipment
- modified equipment
- morally obsolete equipment
- mounted equipment
- nondurable equipment
- nonstandard equipment
- nuclear equipment
- obsolete equipment
- office equipment
- operating equipment
- operative equipment
- optional equipment
- ordered equipment
- outdated equipment
- overhaul equipment
- oversized equipment
- packing equipment
- patent equipment
- peripheral equipment
- permanent equipment
- plant equipment
- port equipment
- portable equipment
- power-generating equipment
- process equipment
- process control equipment
- producers' durable equipment
- production equipment
- productive equipment
- purchased equipment
- rapidly-wearing equipment
- repair equipment
- rental equipment
- replaceable equipment
- revenue equipment
- ro-ro equipment
- quick-wearing equipment
- safety equipment
- second-hand equipment
- secondary equipment
- semi-automatic equipment
- service equipment
- serial equipment
- shop equipment
- short-lived equipment
- short-shipped equipment
- sophisticated equipment
- specialized equipment
- special-purpose equipment
- stand equipment
- standard equipment
- standby equipment
- storage equipment
- technical equipment
- technological equipment
- third generation equipment
- transport equipment
- transportation equipment
- unique equipment
- unserviceable equipment
- up-to-date equipment
- used equipment
- weighing equipment
- working equipment
- worn-out equipment
- equipment of high quality
- equipment of home manufacture
- equipment of new generations
- equipment of serial production
- equipment on display
- assemble equipment
- buy equipment
- check equipment
- deal in equipment
- deliver equipment
- design equipment
- dismantle equipment
- erect equipment
- improve equipment
- install equipment
- lease equipment
- manufacture equipment
- market equipment
- modify equipment
- mount equipment
- obtain equipment
- pack equipment
- procure equipment
- produce equipment
- purchase equipment
- put equipment into operation
- reject defective equipment
- rent equipment
- repair equipment
- retain equipment
- secure equipment
- sell equipment
- service equipment
- ship equipment
- supply equipment
- upgrade equipment
- use equipment
- utilize equipmentEnglish-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > equipment
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22 people
n1) народ2) родные, родственники3) служащие, персонал
- advertising people
- common people
- country people
- efficient people
- engineering people
- farm people
- moneyed people
- old people
- operating people
- operational people
- qualified people
- senior people
- service people
- skilled people
- technical people
- village peopleEnglish-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > people
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23 personnel
nперсонал, штат; кадры; аппарат
- additional personnel
- administrative personnel
- armed forces personnel
- auxiliary personnel
- buyer's personnel
- duty personnel
- efficient personnel
- engineering personnel
- executive personnel
- experienced personnel
- fabrication personnel
- field personnel
- flight personnel
- foreign personnel
- highly-qualified personnel
- highly-skilled personnel
- information personnel
- inspection personnel
- key personnel
- line personnel
- maintenance personnel
- management personnel
- managerial personnel
- managing personnel
- military personnel
- office and management personnel
- operating personnel
- operational personnel
- production personnel
- professional personnel
- qualified personnel
- quality assurance personnel
- quality control personnel
- reliability assurance personnel
- salaried personnel
- sales personnel
- scientific personnel
- seller's personnel
- service personnel
- shipping personnel
- skilled personnel
- supervisory personnel
- support personnel
- technical personnel
- trade personnel
- trained personnelEnglish-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > personnel
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24 product
nпродукт, продукция, изделие
- advanced products
- agricultural products
- aircraft products
- all-season product
- ancillary products
- animal products
- animal and plant products
- annual product
- auxiliary product
- aviation products
- banking product
- basic products
- bespoke banking product
- branded products
- bulky product
- capital-intensive product
- capitalized product
- captive product
- certified product
- characteristic product
- chemical products
- commercial product
- commodity product
- comparable products
- comparative products
- competitive products
- complete product
- conforming product
- consumer product
- consumption product
- custom-made product
- dairy products
- defensive products
- delivered products
- different products
- differentiated products
- diversified products
- domestic products
- dumped products
- end product
- engineering products
- excess product
- expensive products
- export products
- exported products
- factory products
- factory-made products
- farm products
- final product
- finished product
- first-class product
- first-rate product
- flexible products
- fodder products
- food products
- foreign products
- foreign-made products
- forest products
- fresh products
- frozen products
- genetically modified products
- good quality product
- gross product
- gross domestic product
- gross national product
- half-finished product
- hard-to-move product
- hard-to-sell product
- health care products
- high-grade product
- highly effective products
- highly efficient products
- highly technical product
- high-priced products
- high-quality products
- high-reliability product
- high-technology products
- home product
- home-made product
- home-used product
- hottest-selling products
- imported products
- industrial products
- industrialized products
- inedible products
- inland product
- insurance product
- intermediate product
- joint products
- labour-intensive product
- licensed product
- listed products
- livestock products
- low-priced products
- made-to-order product
- main product
- manufactured products
- marginal product
- marginal revenue product
- marginal value product
- marketable product
- merchantable sales product
- multi-use product
- national product
- net product
- net domestic product
- net material product
- net national product
- newly designed product
- noncapitalized product
- nonpatentable product
- nonstandard product
- nonstorable product
- obsolescent product
- off-standard product
- patentable product
- patented product
- perishable product
- piggyback product
- pioneer product
- potential gross national product
- primary product
- prime product
- prime quality product
- private label product
- processed product
- promising product
- promoted product
- proprietary product
- proven product
- purchased product
- qualified product
- quality product
- questionable product
- ready-made product
- real net national product
- rejected product
- related products
- respective products
- returned product
- revised product
- rival product
- saleable products
- science-intensive products
- secondary product
- semifinished product
- semimanufactured product
- semiprocessed product
- semistandard product
- serial products
- sideline products
- similar products
- single-use product
- slow-moving product
- social product
- sold products
- sophisticated products
- special products
- spoiled products
- standard products
- standardized product
- substandard product
- substitution product
- superior product
- surplus product
- tangible product
- timber and paper products
- top quality product
- total product
- tying products
- unidentified product
- unfinished products
- unified product
- unmarketable products
- unpatented product
- unsaleable product
- useless product
- various products
- waste products
- product of industry
- product of labour
- products of superior quality
- products of vegetable and animal origin
- product superior in quality
- advertise a product
- assess a product
- deal in products
- demonstrate a product
- develop new products
- evaluate a product
- exchange products
- exhibit products
- feature products
- freeze products
- guarantee a product
- introduce a product into the market
- label a product
- launch a product
- list products
- manufacture products
- process products
- sell products
- show products
- store products
- turn out productsEnglish-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > product
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25 programme
1. nпрограмма; план
- ad hoc programme
- adjustment programme
- administrative programme
- advertising programme
- advertising and promotional programme
- allocation programme
- application programme
- approved programme
- audit programme
- austerity programme
- baseline programme
- bilateral programme
- bills programme
- broadened programme
- budgeting programme
- business support programme
- buy-out programme
- census programme
- certification programme
- commercial paper programme
- commissioning programme
- common programme
- comprehensive programme
- construction programme
- control programme
- cost-effectiveness programme
- crash programme
- credit programme
- current programme
- demonstration programme
- design programme
- detailed programme
- development programme
- diagnostic programme
- diversification programme
- economic programme
- efficient programme
- emergency programme
- engineering programme
- evaluation programme
- exhibition programme
- expansion programme
- expense reduction programme
- experimental programme
- exploration programme
- export programme
- extended programme
- extension programme
- extra-budgetary programme
- feasible programme
- federal programme
- financial programme
- follow-up programme
- framework programme
- frequent buyer programme
- general programme
- general work programme
- harvesting programme
- health care programme
- heavy programme
- import programme
- index programme
- indicative programme
- industrial programme
- industrialization programme
- industry-oriented programme
- inspection programme
- investigation programme
- investment programme
- joint programme
- large-scale programme
- licensed programme
- licensing programme
- loading programme
- long-range programme
- long-term programme
- management programme
- manufacturing programme
- marketing programme
- military programme
- modernization programme
- modified programme
- operating programme
- operational programme
- operative programme
- optimum programme
- original programme
- output programme
- output control programme
- outreach programme
- package programme
- packaged computer programme
- pilot programme
- preliminary programme
- price support programme
- priority programme
- privatization programme
- processing programme
- product improvement programme
- production programme
- promotion programme
- proposed programme
- public housing programme
- public welfare programme
- public works programme
- purchasing programme
- purpose-oriented programme
- quality programme
- quality check programme
- rebuilding programme
- recovery programme
- reinterview programme
- relief programme
- research programme
- restructuring programme
- revised programme
- safety programme
- sale-and-leaseback programme
- sales programme
- sales development programme
- sales promotion programme
- selling programme
- source programme
- special programme
- sponsored programme
- stabilization programme
- standardization programme
- standby lending programme
- stock-buyback programme
- target programme
- technical programme
- technological programme
- testing programme
- training programme
- turnaround programme
- updating programme
- user programme
- working programme
- World Food Programme
- zero-defects programme
- programme for economic rehabilitation
- programme for exploration
- programme for investigation
- programme for research
- programme of action
- programme of cooperation
- programme of demonstration
- programme of development
- programme of financing
- programme of instruction
- programme of purchases
- programme of training
- programme of a visit
- programme of work
- agree upon a programme
- approve a programme
- carry out a programme
- commit smb to a programme
- continue with a programme
- co-finance a programme
- coordinate programmes
- cooperate in a programme
- curtail the investment programme
- define a programme
- develop a programme
- disclose a programme
- draw up a programme
- elaborate a programme
- endorse a programme
- establish a programme
- execute a programme
- finance a programme
- formulate a programme
- implement a programme
- initiate a programme
- launch a programme
- lay down a programme
- maintain a programme
- make a programme
- map out a programme
- modify a programme
- negotiate a programme
- offer a programme
- prepare a programme
- project a programme
- propose a programme
- realize a programme
- reconsider a programme
- revise a programme
- roll back a programme
- sponsor a programme
- squeeze social programmes
- suspend a programme
- work out a programme2. vсоставлять программу или план; планировать; программироватьEnglish-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > programme
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26 staff
1. n1) штат (служащих)2) персонал, личный состав
- administrative staff
- advisory staff
- attendant staff
- catering staff
- clerical staff
- competent staff
- coordinating staff
- directing staff
- editorial staff
- efficient staff
- executive staff
- fabrication staff
- farm staff
- field staff
- general staff
- highly qualified staff
- incompetent staff
- indoor staff
- junior staff
- key engineering staff
- local staff
- maintenance staff
- management staff
- managerial staff
- managing staff
- medical staff
- office staff
- operating staff
- operational staff
- operative staff
- part-time staff
- permanent staff
- process control staff
- production staff
- qualified staff
- regular staff
- salaried staff
- sales staff
- senior staff
- service staff
- skilled staff
- substantive staff
- supervision staff
- supervisory staff
- teaching staff
- technical staff
- temporary staff
- trained staff
- training staff
- voluntary staff
- staff of a ministry
- appoint staff
- be on the staff
- be short of staff
- dismiss staff
- employ staff
- engage staff
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27 equipment
оборудование; снаряжение; оснащениеequipment for the manufacture of asbestos cement — оборудование для производства асбестоцементных изделий
equipment for the manufacture of ceramic products — оборудование для производства керамических материалов
- air equipment - air-conditioning equipment - air-humidifying equipment - air-painting equipment - automatic sampling equipment - cargo handling equipment - carrying and lifting equipment - construction equipment - crane equipment - crushing equipment - crushing and concentration equipment - crushing and screening equipment - decontaminating equipment - defective equipment - detritus equipment - direct-chlorine-feed equipment - durable equipment - earthmoving equipment - efficient earthmoving equipment - emergency equipment - erection equipment - exhibition equipment - fire-fighting equipment - fixed equipment - garage-repair equipment - gathering frames equipment - grit-dredging equipment - groundwater level-lowering equipment - handling equipment - hauling equipment - high-fi equipment - hi-fi equipment - homemade fire-fighting equipment - idle equipment - industrial cleaning equipment - installed equipment - kiln car conveying equipment - laboratory equipment - lime-handling equipment - loading and unloading equipment for dryer cars - manufacturing equipment - material mining equipment - measuring and control equipment - mountable pile-driving equipment - non-assembled equipment - nonstandard equipment - operational equipment - outdated equipment - pile-driving equipment - piling equipment - professional drilling equipment - quarry equipment - repair equipment - residential equipment - ripper's equipment - road-building equipment - rope-suspended boom equipment - safety equipment - sampling equipment - snow-cleaning equipment - standby equipment - stressing equipment - supplementary equipment - telescopic equipment - testing equipment - underwater construction equipment - universal equipment - up-to-date construction equipment - used equipment - vandalproof equipment - vehicle greasing equipment - water-purification equipment - water quality monitoring equipment - water-treatment equipment - weighing equipment - weld deposition equipment - welding deposition equipment - welding equipmentequipment for the manufacture of prefabricated reinforced concrete — оборудование для производства сборного железобетона
* * *оборудование- air equipmentequipment found to be damaged — оборудование с обнаруженными неисправностями ( после контрольного осмотра)
- air handling equipment
- application equipment
- automatic points equipment
- automatic spray equipment
- auxiliary building equipment
- carrying and lifting equipment
- compaction equipment
- compressed-air equipment
- concrete equipment
- concrete placing equipment
- construction equipment
- dust separation equipment
- earthmoving equipment
- EDM equipment
- electrical equipment of buildings
- electronic distance measuring equipment
- erecting equipment
- excavating equipment
- factory equipment
- fire control portable equipment
- fire-extinguishing equipment
- fire-protection equipment
- flame-cleaning equipment
- front-end equipment
- grouting equipment
- high-performance equipment
- high-pressure equipment
- hoisting equipment
- hydraulic equipment
- jacking equipment
- jacking equipment for lift slab
- joint sealing equipment
- laboratory equipment
- lifting equipment
- load-and-carry equipment
- load cell weighing equipment
- loading equipment
- materials-handling equipment
- measuring equipment
- mechanical handling equipment
- mobile equipment
- monitoring equipment
- motor-driven equipment
- office equipment
- own equipment
- oxygen flame-grooving equipment
- personal protective equipment
- pile driving equipment
- piling equipment
- play equipment
- pneumatic equipment
- portable equipment
- protective face equipment
- protective head equipment
- refrigeration equipment
- reverse circulating drilling equipment
- road repair equipment
- safety equipment
- scarifying equipment
- self-contained equipment
- service equipment
- shotcrete equipment
- signaling equipment
- site equipment
- snow clearing equipment
- specialized equipment
- spray equipment
- stationary equipment
- stressing equipment
- technical equipment
- tensioning equipment
- testing equipment
- track equipment
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фин., бирж. теория случайных блужданий (теория, согласно которой курсы акций, валют и фьючерсные цены изменяются бессистемно, и их нельзя предсказать на базе прошлых конъюнктурных данных; противоположна техническому анализу; данная теория была предложена в начале 20 в. и оставалась популярной до 1970-х гг.; теория случайного блуждания является частным случаем слабой формы гипотезы эффективных рынков)Syn:See:The new English-Russian dictionary of financial markets > random walk
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29 bureaucracy
Gen Mgtan organization structure with a rigid hierarchy of personnel, regulated by set rules and procedures. Max Weber believed that a bureaucracy was technically the most efficient form of organization. He described a bureaucracy as an organization structured around official functions that are bound by rules, each function having its own specified competence. The functions are structured into offices, which are organized into a hierarchy that follows technical rules and norms. Managers in a bureaucracy possess a rational-legal type of authority derived from the office they hold. Bureaucracies have been criticized for eradicating inspiration and creativity in favor of impersonality and the mundaneness and regularity of corporate life. This was best described in William H. Whyte’s The Organization Man, published in 1956, in which the individual was taken over by the bureaucratic machine in the name of efficiency. A more recent and humorous interpretation of life in a bureaucracy has been depicted by Scott Adams in The Dilbert Principle (1996). The term bureaucracy has gradually become a pejorative synonym for excessive and time-consuming paperwork and administration. Bureaucracies fell subject to delayering and downsizing from the 1980s onward, as the flatter organization became the target structure to ensure swifter market response and organizational flexibility. -
30 Toyota production system
Opsa manufacturing system, developed by Toyota in Japan after World War II, which aims to increase production efficiency by the elimination of waste in all its forms. The Toyota production system was invented, and made to work, by Taiichi Ohno. Japan’s fledgling car-making industry was suffering from poor productivity, and Ohno was brought into Toyota with an initial assignment of catching up with the productivity levels of Ford’s car plants. In analyzing the problem, he decided that although Japanese workers must be working at the same rate as their American counterparts, waste and inefficiency were the main causes of their different productivity levels. Ohno identified waste in a number of forms, including overproduction, waiting time, transportation problems, inefficient processing, inventory, and defective products. The philosophy of TPS is to remove or minimize the influence of all these elements. In order to achieve this, TPS evolved to operate under lean production conditions. It is made up of soft, or cultural aspects, such as automation with the human touch— autonomation—and hard, or technical, aspects, which include just-in-time, kanban, and production smoothing. Each aspect is equally important and complementary. TPS has proven itself to be one of the most efficient manufacturing systems in the world but although leading companies have adopted it in one form or another, few have been able to replicate the success of Toyota.Abbr. TPS -
31 Belling, Charles Reginald
SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors[br]b. 11 May 1884 Bodmin, Cornwall, Englandd. 8 February 1965 while on a cruise[br]English electrical engineer best known as the pioneer of the wire-wound clay-former heating element which made possible the efficient domestic electric fire.[br]Belling was educated at Burts Grammar School in Lostwithiel, Cornwall, and at Crossley Schools in Halifax, Yorkshire. In 1903 he was apprenticed to Crompton \& Co. at Chelmsford in Essex, the firm that in 1894 offered for sale the earliest electric heaters. These electric radiant panels were intended as heating radiators or cooking hotplates, but were not very successful because, being cast-iron panels into which heating wires had been embedded in enamel, they tended to fracture due to the different rates of thermal expansion of the iron and the enamel. Other designs of electric heaters followed, notably the introduction of large, sausage-shaped carbon filament bulbs fitted into a fire frame and backed by reflectors. This was the idea of H. Dowsing, a collaborator of Crompton, in 1904.After qualifying in 1906, Belling left Crompton \& Co. and went to work for Ediswan at Ponders End in Hertfordshire. He left in 1912 to set up his own business, which he began in a small shed in Enfield. With a small staff and capital of £450, he took out his first patent for his wire-wound-former electric fire in the same year. The resistance wire, made from nickel-chrome alloy such as that patented in 1906 by A.L. Marsh, was coiled round a clay former. Six such bars were attached to a cast-iron frame with heating control knobs, and the device was marketed as the Standard Belling Fire. Advertised in 1912, the fire was an immediate success and was followed by many other variations. Improvements to the first model included wire safety guards, enamel finishes and a frame ornamented with copper and brass.Belling turned his attention to hotplates, cookers, immersion heaters, electric irons, water urns and kettles, producing the Modernette Cooker (1919), the multi-parabola fire bar (1921), the plate and dish warmer (1924), the storage heater (1926) and the famous Baby Belling cookers, the first of which appeared in 1929. By 1955 business had developed so well that Belling opened another factory at Burnley, Lancashire. He partly underwrote, for the amount of £1 million, a proposed scientific technical college for the electrical industry at Enfield.[br]Further Reading1985, Dictionary of Business Biography, Butterworth.G.Jukes, 1963, The Story of Belling, Belling and Co. Ltd (produced by the company in its Golden Jubilee year).DYBiographical history of technology > Belling, Charles Reginald
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32 Chevenard, Pierre Antoine Jean Sylvestre
SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy[br]b. 31 December 1888 Thizy, Rhône, Franced. 15 August 1960 Fontenoy-aux-Roses, France[br]French metallurgist, inventor of the alloys Elinvar and Platinite and of the method of strengthening nickel-chromium alloys by a precipitate ofNi3Al which provided the basis of all later super-alloy development.[br]Soon after graduating from the Ecole des Mines at St-Etienne in 1910, Chevenard joined the Société de Commentry Fourchambault et Decazeville at their steelworks at Imphy, where he remained for the whole of his career. Imphy had for some years specialized in the production of nickel steels. From this venture emerged the first austenitic nickel-chromium steel, containing 6 per cent chromium and 22–4 per cent nickel and produced commercially in 1895. Most of the alloys required by Guillaume in his search for the low-expansion alloy Invar were made at Imphy. At the Imphy Research Laboratory, established in 1911, Chevenard conducted research into the development of specialized nickel-based alloys. His first success followed from an observation that some of the ferro-nickels were free from the low-temperature brittleness exhibited by conventional steels. To satisfy the technical requirements of Georges Claude, the French cryogenic pioneer, Chevenard was then able in 1912 to develop an alloy containing 55–60 per cent nickel, 1–3 per cent manganese and 0.2–0.4 per cent carbon. This was ductile down to −190°C, at which temperature carbon steel was very brittle.By 1916 Elinvar, a nickel-iron-chromium alloy with an elastic modulus that did not vary appreciably with changes in ambient temperature, had been identified. This found extensive use in horology and instrument manufacture, and even for the production of high-quality tuning forks. Another very popular alloy was Platinite, which had the same coefficient of thermal expansion as platinum and soda glass. It was used in considerable quantities by incandescent-lamp manufacturers for lead-in wires. Other materials developed by Chevenard at this stage to satisfy the requirements of the electrical industry included resistance alloys, base-metal thermocouple combinations, magnetically soft high-permeability alloys, and nickel-aluminium permanent magnet steels of very high coercivity which greatly improved the power and reliability of car magnetos. Thermostatic bimetals of all varieties soon became an important branch of manufacture at Imphy.During the remainder of his career at Imphy, Chevenard brilliantly elaborated the work on nickel-chromium-tungsten alloys to make stronger pressure vessels for the Haber and other chemical processes. Another famous alloy that he developed, ATV, contained 35 per cent nickel and 11 per cent chromium and was free from the problem of stress-induced cracking in steam that had hitherto inhibited the development of high-power steam turbines. Between 1912 and 1917, Chevenard recognized the harmful effects of traces of carbon on this type of alloy, and in the immediate postwar years he found efficient methods of scavenging the residual carbon by controlled additions of reactive metals. This led to the development of a range of stabilized austenitic stainless steels which were free from the problems of intercrystalline corrosion and weld decay that then caused so much difficulty to the manufacturers of chemical plant.Chevenard soon concluded that only the nickel-chromium system could provide a satisfactory basis for the subsequent development of high-temperature alloys. The first published reference to the strengthening of such materials by additions of aluminium and/or titanium occurs in his UK patent of 1929. This strengthening approach was adopted in the later wartime development in Britain of the Nimonic series of alloys, all of which depended for their high-temperature strength upon the precipitated compound Ni3Al.In 1936 he was studying the effect of what is now known as "thermal fatigue", which contributes to the eventual failure of both gas and steam turbines. He then published details of equipment for assessing the susceptibility of nickel-chromium alloys to this type of breakdown by a process of repeated quenching. Around this time he began to make systematic use of the thermo-gravimetrie balance for high-temperature oxidation studies.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsPresident, Société de Physique. Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur.Bibliography1929, Analyse dilatométrique des matériaux, with a preface be C.E.Guillaume, Paris: Dunod (still regarded as the definitive work on this subject).The Dictionary of Scientific Biography lists around thirty of his more important publications between 1914 and 1943.Further Reading"Chevenard, a great French metallurgist", 1960, Acier Fins (Spec.) 36:92–100.L.Valluz, 1961, "Notice sur les travaux de Pierre Chevenard, 1888–1960", Paris: Institut de France, Académie des Sciences.ASDBiographical history of technology > Chevenard, Pierre Antoine Jean Sylvestre
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33 Strachey, Christopher
SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology[br]b. 16 November 1916 Englandd. 18 May 1975 Oxford, England[br]English physicist and computer engineer who proposed time-sharing as a more efficient means of using a mainframe computer.[br]After education at Gresham's School, London, Strachey went to King's College, Cambridge, where he completed an MA. In 1937 he took up a post as a physicist at the Standard Telephone and Cable Company, then during the Second World War he was involved in radar research. In 1944 he became an assistant master at St Edmunds School, Canterbury, moving to Harrow School in 1948. Another change of career in 1951 saw him working as a Technical Officer with the National Research and Development Corporation, where he was involved in computer software and hardware design. From 1958 until 1962 he was an independent consultant in computer design, and during this time (1959) he realized that as mainframe computers were by then much faster than their human operators, their efficiency could be significantly increased by "time-sharing" the tasks of several operators in rapid succession. Strachey made many contributions to computer technology, being variously involved in the design of the Manchester University MkI, Elliot and Ferranti Pegasus computers. In 1962 he joined Cambridge University Mathematics Laboratory as a senior research fellow at Churchill College and helped to develop the programming language CPL. After a brief period as Visiting Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he returned to the UK in 1966 as Reader in Computation and Fellow of Wolfeon College, Oxford, to establish a programming research group. He remained there until his death.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsDistinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society 1972.Bibliography1961, with M.R.Wilkes, "Some proposals for improving the efficiency of Algol 60", Communications of the ACM 4:488.1966, "Systems analysis and programming", Scientific American 25:112. 1976, with R.E.Milne, A Theory of Programming Language Semantics.Further ReadingJ.Alton, 1980, Catalogue of the Papers of C. Strachey 1916–1975.M.Campbell-Kelly, 1985, "Christopher Strachey 1916–1975. A biographical note", Annals of the History of Computing 7:19.M.R.Williams, 1985, A History of Computing Technology, London: Prentice-Hall.KF -
34 Thomson, Elihu
SUBJECT AREA: Electricity[br]b. 29 March 1853 Manchester, Englandd. 13 March 1937 Swampscott, Massachusetts, USA[br]English (naturalized) American electrical engineer and inventor.[br]Thomson accompanied his parents to Philadelphia in 1858; he received his education at the Central High School there, and afterwards remained as a teacher of chemistry. At this time he constructed several dynamos after studying their design, and was invited by the Franklin Institute to give lectures on the subject. After observing an arc-lighting system operating commercially in Paris in 1878, he collaborated with Edwin J. Houston, a senior colleague at the Central High School, in working out the details of such a system. An automatic regulating device was designed which, by altering the position of the brushes on the dynamo commutator, maintained a constant current irrespective of the number of lamps in use. To overcome the problem of commutation at the high voltages necessary to operate up to forty arc lamps in a series circuit, Thomson contrived a centrifugal blower which suppressed sparking. The resulting system was efficient and reliable with low operating costs. Thomson's invention of the motor meter in 1882 was the first of many such instruments for the measurement of electrical energy. In 1886 he invented electric resistance welding using low-voltage alternating current derived from a transformer of his own design. Thomson's work is recorded in his technical papers and in the 700plus patents granted for his inventions.The American Electric Company, founded to exploit the Thomson patents, later became the Thomson-Houston Company, which was destined to be a leader in the electrical manufacturing industry. They entered the field of electric power in 1887, supplying railway equipment and becoming a major innovator of electric railways. Thomson-Houston and Edison General Electric were consolidated to form General Electric in 1892. Thomson remained associated with this company throughout his career.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsChevalier and Officier de la Légion d'honneur 1889. American Academy of Arts and Sciences Rumford Medal 1901. American Institute of Electrical Engineers Edison Medal 1909. Royal Society Hughes Medal 1916. Institution of Electrical Engineers Kelvin Medal 1923, Faraday Medal 1927.Bibliography1934, "Some highlights of electrical history", Electrical Engineering 53:758–67 (autobiography).Further ReadingD.O.Woodbury, 1944, Beloved Scientist, New York (a full biography). H.C.Passer, 1953, The Electrical Manufacturers: 1875–1900, Cambridge, Mass, (describes Thomson's industrial contribution).K.T.Compton, 1940, Biographical Memoirs of Elihu Thomson, Washington, DCovides an abridged list of Thomson's papers and patents).GW -
35 Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander
[br]b. 13 April 1892 Brechin, Angus, Scotlandd. 6 December 1973 Inverness, Scotland[br]Scottish engineer and scientific adviser known for his work on radar.[br]Following education at Brechin High School, Watson-Watt entered University College, Dundee (then a part of the University of St Andrews), obtaining a BSc in engineering in 1912. From 1912 until 1921 he was Assistant to the Professor of Natural Philosophy at St Andrews, but during the First World War he also held various posts in the Meteorological Office. During. this time, in 1916 he proposed the use of cathode ray oscillographs for radio-direction-finding displays. He joined the newly formed Radio Research Station at Slough when it was opened in 1924, and 3 years later, when it amalgamated with the Radio Section of the National Physical Laboratory, he became Superintendent at Slough. At this time he proposed the name "ionosphere" for the ionized layer in the upper atmosphere. With E.V. Appleton and J.F.Herd he developed the "squegger" hard-valve transformer-coupled timebase and with the latter devised a direction-finding radio-goniometer.In 1933 he was asked to investigate possible aircraft counter-measures. He soon showed that it was impossible to make the wished-for radio "death-ray", but had the idea of using the detection of reflected radio-waves as a means of monitoring the approach of enemy aircraft. With six assistants he developed this idea and constructed an experimental system of radar (RAdio Detection And Ranging) in which arrays of aerials were used to detect the reflected signals and deduce the bearing and height. To realize a practical system, in September 1936 he was appointed Director of the Bawdsey Research Station near Felixstowe and carried out operational studies of radar. The result was that within two years the East Coast of the British Isles was equipped with a network of radar transmitters and receivers working in the 7–14 metre band—the so-called "chain-home" system—which did so much to assist the efficient deployment of RAF Fighter Command against German bombing raids on Britain in the early years of the Second World War.In 1938 he moved to the Air Ministry as Director of Communications Development, becoming Scientific Adviser to the Air Ministry and Ministry of Aircraft Production in 1940, then Deputy Chairman of the War Cabinet Radio Board in 1943. After the war he set up Sir Robert Watson-Watt \& Partners, an industrial consultant firm. He then spent some years in relative retirement in Canada, but returned to Scotland before his death.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1942. CBE 1941. FRS 1941. US Medal of Merit 1946. Royal Society Hughes Medal 1948. Franklin Institute Elliot Cresson Medal 1957. LLD St Andrews 1943. At various times: President, Royal Meteorological Society, Institute of Navigation and Institute of Professional Civil Servants; Vice-President, American Institute of Radio Engineers.Bibliography1923, with E.V.Appleton \& J.F.Herd, British patent no. 235,254 (for the "squegger"). 1926, with J.F.Herd, "An instantaneous direction reading radio goniometer", Journal ofthe Institution of Electrical Engineers 64:611.1933, The Cathode Ray Oscillograph in Radio Research.1935, Through the Weather Hours (autobiography).1936, "Polarisation errors in direction finders", Wireless Engineer 13:3. 1958, Three Steps to Victory.1959, The Pulse of Radar.1961, Man's Means to his End.Further ReadingS.S.Swords, 1986, Technical History of the Beginnings of Radar, Stevenage: Peter Peregrinus.KFBiographical history of technology > Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander
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