the+manager+sent+for+me

SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping

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Symington was the son of the Superintendent of the Mines Company in Lanarkshire, and attended the local school. When he was 22 years old he was sent by Gilbert Meason, Manager of the Wanlockhead mines, to Edinburgh University. In 1779 he was working on the assembly of a Watt engine as an apprentice to his brother, George, and in 1786 he started experiments to modify a Watt engine in order to avoid infringing the separate condenser patent. He sought a patent for his alternative, which was paid for by Meason. He constructed a model steam road carriage which was completed in 1786; it was shown in Edinburgh by Meason, attracting interest but inadequate financial support. It had a horizontal cylinder and was non-condensing. No full-sized engine was ever built but the model secured the interest of Patrick Miller, an Edinburgh banker, who ordered an engine from Symington to drive an experimental boat, 25 ft (7.6 m) long with a dual hull, which performed satisfactorily on Dalswinton Loch in 1788. In the following year Miller ordered a larger engine for a bigger boat which was tried on the Forth \& Clyde Canal in December 1789, the component parts having been made by the Carron Company. The engine worked perfectly but had the effect of breaking the paddle wheels. These were repaired and further trials were successful but Miller lost interest and his experiments lapsed. Symington devoted himself thereafter to building stationary engines. He built other engines for mine pumping at Sanquhar and Leadhills before going further afield. In all, he built over thirty engines, about half of them being rotary. In 1800–1 he designed the engine for a boat for Lord Dundas, the Charlotte Dundas; this was apparently the first boat of that name and sailed on both the Forth and Clyde rivers. A second Charlotte Dundas with a horizontal cylinder was to follow and first sailed in January 1803 for the Forth \& Clyde Canal Company. The speed of the boat was only 2 mph (3 km/h) and much was made by its detractors of the damage said to be caused to the canal banks by its wash. Lord Dundas declined to authorize payment of outstanding accounts; Symington received little reward for his efforts. He died in the house of his son-in-law, Dr Robert Bowie, in Wapping, amidst heated controversy about the true inventor of steam navigation.

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• ВСЕГО-НАВСЕГО <ВСЕГО-НАВСЕ obs>

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⇒ merely, and nothing more:

- only;

- just;

- no more than;

- nothing but;

- at (the) most;

- [when used as an indep. sent] that's all (there is to it).

     ♦...У бедного Петруся всего-навсего была одна серая свитка... (Гоголь 5) Poor Petro had only one gray jacket... (5a).

     ♦ После некоторых колебаний я... отдал [управдому] паспорта и военный билет, из которого управдом узнал, видимо, с некоторым разочарованием, что я всего-навсего рядовой (Войнович 3). After some hesitation, I gave him [the building manager] the passports and my military service card, from which the building manager learned, apparently with some disappointment, that I was just rank-and-file (3a).

     ♦ Я опоздала на концерт всего-навсего на пять минут, но в зал меня уже не пустили. I was only at most five minutes late for the concert, but they still wouldn't let me in.

     ♦ Вот опять нам пришло на ум уотергейтское дело. Кто из нас, следивших за его перипетиями по передачам зарубежного радио, не приходил в изумление! Боже мой, из-за чего весь сыр-бор? Президент величайшей страны собирается кого-то подслушать. Всего-навсего (Войнович 3). Once again the Watergate affair comes to mind. Who among us, following its peripeteia on the foreign radio broadcasts, was not amazed? My heavens, what was all the commotion about? The President of the greatest country on earth wanted to eavesdrop on someone. That's all there was to it (3a).

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⇒ merely, and nothing more:

- only;

- just;

- no more than;

- nothing but;

- at (the) most;

- [when used as an indep. sent] that's all (there is to it).

     ♦...У бедного Петруся всего-навсего была одна серая свитка... (Гоголь 5) Poor Petro had only one gray jacket... (5a).

     ♦ После некоторых колебаний я... отдал [управдому] паспорта и военный билет, из которого управдом узнал, видимо, с некоторым разочарованием, что я всего-навсего рядовой (Войнович 3). After some hesitation, I gave him [the building manager] the passports and my military service card, from which the building manager learned, apparently with some disappointment, that I was just rank-and-file (3a).

     ♦ Я опоздала на концерт всего-навсего на пять минут, но в зал меня уже не пустили. I was only at most five minutes late for the concert, but they still wouldn't let me in.

     ♦ Вот опять нам пришло на ум уотергейтское дело. Кто из нас, следивших за его перипетиями по передачам зарубежного радио, не приходил в изумление! Боже мой, из-за чего весь сыр-бор? Президент величайшей страны собирается кого-то подслушать. Всего-навсего (Войнович 3). Once again the Watergate affair comes to mind. Who among us, following its peripeteia on the foreign radio broadcasts, was not amazed? My heavens, what was all the commotion about? The President of the greatest country on earth wanted to eavesdrop on someone. That's all there was to it (3a).

v/t

1. transport, carry, take; förm. convey; (verschicken) send; WIRTS. auch ship, forward; etw. mit der Post oder per Post befördern send s.th. by post, Am. send s.th through the mail; die Post befördert täglich 7 Millionen Sendungen the postal service handles ( liefert: delivers) 7 million items a day; jemand an die frische Luft oder ins Freie befördern hum. show s.o. the door; siehe auch transportieren; Jenseits, hinausbefördern

2. im Rang etc.: promote (zu to, to the position of); wann wirst du befördert? when is your promotion due ( oder coming through)?; er wurde zum Abteilungsleiter befördert he was promoted to head of department; er wurde zum Oberst befördert MIL. he was promoted to (the rank of) colonel

3. fördern

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to expedite;

(Rang erhöhen) to promote; to advance;

(transportieren) to carry; to ship; to dispatch; to forward; to transport; to convey

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1) Waren, Gepäck to transport, to carry; Personen to carry; Post to handle

2) (= dienstlich aufrücken lassen) to promote

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1) (to carry: Huge ships convey oil from the Middle East.) convey

2) (to raise to a higher position or to a higher rank etc: elevated to the post of manager.) elevate

3) (to carry by some form of transport: Coal is hauled by road and rail.) haul

4) (to raise (to a higher rank or position): He was promoted to head teacher.) promote

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1. (transportieren)

▪ jdn/etw \befördern to transport [or carry] sb/sth

das Gepäck \befördern lassen to have one's baggage sent

die Teilnehmer wurden mit dem Bus zum Tagungsort befördert participants were taken by bus to the conference venue

2. (jds Dienststellung anheben)

▪ jdn [zu etw dat] \befördern to promote sb [to sth]

3. (iron fam)

jdn vor die Tür [o ins Freie] \befördern to throw [or fam chuck] sb out

jdn nach draußen \befördern to escort sb outside; s.a. Jenseits

4. (geh)

▪ etw \befördern to promote [or foster] sth

▪ jdn [in etw dat] \befördern to support sb [in sth]

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1) carry; transport; convey

2) (aufrücken lassen) promote

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befördern v/t

1. transport, carry, take; form convey; (verschicken) send; WIRTSCH auch ship, forward;

etwas mit der Post oder

per Post befördern send sth by post, US send s.th through the mail;

die Post befördert täglich 7 Millionen Sendungen the postal service handles ( liefert: delivers) 7 million items a day;

jemand an die frische Luft oder

ins Freie befördern hum show sb the door; → auch transportieren; → Jenseits, hinausbefördern

2. im Rang etc: promote (

zu to, to the position of);

wann wirst du befördert? when is your promotion due ( oder coming through)?;

er wurde zum Abteilungsleiter befördert he was promoted to head of department;

er wurde zum Oberst befördert MIL he was promoted to (the rank of) colonel

3. → fördern

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1) carry; transport; convey

2) (aufrücken lassen) promote

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to advance v.

to carry v.

to ferry v.

to forward v.

to send v.

a letter sent to a potential employer together with a résumé. It is used when a jobseeker knows the exact position he or she is applying for, and the name of the person to whom the résumé is being sent. A cover letter is important because it is the first thing the hiring manager will read, and is key to them forming their first impression of the jobseeker. It must, therefore, be wellpresented, well-informed, concise, professional, and yet enthusiastic.

SUBJECT AREA: Steam and internal combustion engines

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A German born in Paris, he was educated in Augsburg and later in Munich, where he graduated first in his class. There he took some courses under Professor Karl von Linde, pioneer of mechanical refrigeration and an authority on thermodynamics, who pointed out the low efficiency of the steam engine. He went to work for the Linde Ice Machine Company as an engineer and later as Manager; there he conceived a new basic cycle and worked out its thermodynamics, which he published in 1893 as "The theory and construction of a rational heat motor". Compressing air adiabatically to one-sixteenth of its volume caused the temperature to rise to 1,000°F (540°C). Injected fuel would then ignite automatically without any electrical system. He obtained permission to use the laboratories of the Augsburg-Nuremburg Engine Works to build a single-cylinder prototype. On test it blew up, nearly killing Diesel. He proved his principle, however, and obtained financial support from the firm of Alfred Krupp. The design was refined until successful and in 1898 an engine was put on display in Munich with the result that many business people invested in Diesel and his engine and its worldwide production. Diesel made over a million dollars out of the invention. The heart of the engine is the fuel-injection pump, which operates at a pressure of c.500 psi (35 kg/cm). The first English patent for the engine was in 1892. The firms in Augsburg sent him abroad to sell his engine; he persuaded the French to adopt it for submarines, Germany having refused this. Diesel died in 1913 in mysterious circumstances, vanishing from the Harwich-Antwerp ferry.

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SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing, Photography, film and optics

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The son of a goldsmith, Pretsch learned the printing trade in Vienna, where he worked until 1831. He then took up a series of posts in Germany, Belgium and Holland before returning to Vienna, where in 1842 he joined the Imperial State Printing Office. The office was equipped with a photographic studio, and Pretsch was encouraged to explore applications of photography to printing and the graphic arts. In 1851 he was sent to London to take responsibility for the Austrian printing exhibits of the Great Exhibition. This event proved to be a significant international show case for photography and Pretsch saw a great number of recent innovations and made many useful contacts. On returning to Vienna, he began to develop a process for producing printing plates from photographs. Using Talbot's discovery that bichromated gelatine swells in water after exposure to light, he electrotyped the relief image obtained. In 1854 Pretsch resigned from his post in Vienna and travelled back to London, where he patented his process, calling it photogalvanography. He went on to form a business, the Photo-Galvano-Graphic Company, to print and market his pictures.

The Photographic Manager of the company was the celebrated photographer Roger Fenton, recently returned from his exploits on the battlefields of the Crimea. In 1856 the company issued a large serial work, Photographic Art Treasures, illustrated with Pretsch's pictures, which created considerable interest. The venture did not prove a commercial success, however, and although further plates were made and issued, Fenton found other interests to pursue and Pretsch was left to try to apply some of his ideas to lithography. This too had no successful outcome, and in 1863 Pretsch returned to Vienna. He was reappointed to a post at the Imperial State Printing Office, but his health failed and he made no further progress with his processes.

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