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  • 101 Field, Joshua

    [br]
    b. 1786 Hackney, London, England
    d. 11 August 1863 Balham Hill, Surrey, England
    [br]
    English mechanical engineer, co-founder of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
    [br]
    Joshua Field was educated at a boarding school in Essex until the age of 16, when he obtained employment at the Royal Dockyards at Portsmouth under the Chief Mechanical Superintendent, Simon Goodrich (1773–1847), and later in the drawing office at the Admiralty in Whitehall. At this time, machinery for the manufacture of ships' blocks was being made for the Admiralty by Henry Maudslay, who was in need of a competent draughtsman, and Goodrich recommended Joshua Field. This was the beginning of Field's long association with Maudslay; he later became a partner in the firm which was for many years known as Maudslay, Sons \& Field. They undertook a variety of mechanical engineering work but were renowned for marine steam engines, with Field being responsible for much of the design work in the early years. Joshua Field was the eldest of the eight young men who in 1818 founded the Institution of Civil Engineers; he was the first Chairman of the Institution and later became a vice-president. He was the only one of the founders to be elected President and was the first mechanical engineer to hold that office. James Nasmyth in his autobiography relates that Joshua Field kept a methodical account of his technical discussions in a series of note books which were later indexed. Some of these diaries have survived, and extracts from the notes he made on a tour of the industrial areas of the Midlands and the North West in 1821 have been published.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1836. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1848–9. Member, Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers 1835; President 1848.
    Bibliography
    1925–6, "Joshua Field's diary of a tour in 1821 through the Midlands", introd. and notes J.W.Hall, Transactions of the Newcomen Society 6:1–41.
    1932–3, "Joshua Field's diary of a tour in 1821 through the provinces", introd. and notes E.C. Smith, Transactions of the Newcomen Society 13:15–50.
    RTS

    Biographical history of technology > Field, Joshua

  • 102 Donkin, Bryan IV

    [br]
    b. 29 April 1903 London, England
    d. 17 October 1964 Albury, Surrey, England
    [br]
    English electrical engineer.
    [br]
    Bryan Donkin IV was the son of S.B.Donkin (1871–1952) and the great-great-grandson of Bryan Donkin I (1768–1855). He was educated at Gresham's School in Holt, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He served a three-year apprenticeship with the English Electric Company Ltd, followed by a special one-year course with the General Electric Company of America. He became a partner in the consulting firm of Kennedy \& Donkin in 1933 (see Donkin, Bryan III) and was associated with the construction of 132 kV and 275 kV overhead-transmission lines in Britain and with many electricity generating schemes. He was responsible for the design of the Pimlico district heating scheme, and was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Association of Supervising Electrical Engineers 1954–6. President, Engineer's Guild 1954–6. President, Junior Institution of Engineers 1956–7. Vice-President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1960–4.
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    Biographical history of technology > Donkin, Bryan IV

  • 103 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

  • 104 Wood, Henry Alexander Wise

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
    [br]
    b. 1 March 1866 New York, USA
    d. 9 April 1939 USA
    [br]
    American manufacturer and inventor of printing machinery, including a stereotype casting machine.
    [br]
    The son of a Congressman and mayor of New York, Wood was educated at Media Academy in Pennsylvania, specializing in scientific subjects. The death of his father in 1881 prevented his going on to college and he went to work at the Campbell Printing and Manufacturing Company, of which he became President in 1896. In the meantime, he had married the daughter of J.L.Brower, the previous head of the company. Later business consolidations brought into being the Wood Newspaper Machine Corporation.
    Wood was responsible for a series of inventions that brought great benefit to the newspaperprinting processes. Most notable was the Autoplate, patented first in 1900 and finally in 1903. This enabled a whole page of newspaper type to be cast in metal at once, saving much time and effort in the forming of stereotypes; this invention earned him the Elliott Cresson gold medal of the Franklin Institute in 1909. Other inventions were the Autoreel, a high-speed press-feeder device, and the Autopaster, which automatically replaced a spent paper roll with a new one in a newspaper press, without the need to stop the press. Wood's improved presses and inventions increased the speed of newspaper production from 24,000 to 60,000 copies per hour, printed and folded.
    He was also much interested in aviation and was an early member of the Aero Club of America, becoming its Vice-President for six years. He helped to found the magazine Flying and was its Editor from 1911 to 1919. He had predicted the part played by aircraft and submarines during the Second World War and was invited to join a panel of consulting inventors and engineers to assist the development of the US Navy. He was soon at odds with the authorities, however, and he resigned in 1915. After the war, he spent time in vigorous campaigning against immigration, America's entry into the League of Nations and on many other issues, in all of which he was highly controversial. Nevertheless, he retained his interest in the newspaper-machinery business, remaining President of his company until 1935 and Chairman of the Board thereafter. In 1934 he became Chairman of the NRA Code Authority of the newspaper-machine industry.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1939, New York Times (10 April). Obituary, 1939, New York Herald Tribune (10 April).
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Wood, Henry Alexander Wise

  • 105 nominate

    1) певної класифікації, певного встановленого виду
    2) призначати ( на посаду тощо); висувати, пропонувати ( кандидатуру)
    •
    - nominate a vice-president
    - nominate as vice-president
    - nominate as one's candidate
    - nominate contract
    - nominate for election
    - nominate for office
    - nominate for presidency
    - nominate for president
    - nominate to fill the vacancy

    English-Ukrainian law dictionary > nominate

  • 106 momentum

    •• Momentum impetus gained by movement (Oxford American Dictionary).

    •• У меня есть одна, довольно простая, рекомендация по переводу этого слова, но прежде чем ее предложить, хочу привести несколько взятых без особого отбора примеров: In the U.S. the $103 billion-a-year industry is slowing down, and McDonald’s is feeling the loss of momentum hardest (Time). Like the President, Starr is developing a tendency to get a little momentum going, then do something to trip himself up (Time).
    •• Два интересных примера приводит Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, определяющий momentum как something held to resemble a force of motion of a moving body: The music not only lacks passion; it even lacks momentum of any sort (Winthrop Sargent). ...moved along by the momentum of events (Norman Cousins).
    •• Примеры из книги Генри Киссинджера Diplomacy: Communist expansion... seemed to possess enough momentum to sweep the fragile new nations of Southeast Asia....America’s exceptionalism, which had conferred such momentum on postwar reconstruction, began turning on itself. [Exceptionalism – вера в собственную исключительность.]
    •• Наиболее полные и современные переводные словари предлагают переводы, отталкивающиеся от значения этого слова как физического термина: инерция движения, импульс, кинетическая энергия. Приводится известное словосочетание gather/gain momentum и вполне корректный перевод – набирать силу/темп. Есть, однако, одно русское слово, которое подходит почти всегда (в том числе и практически во всех приведенных выше примерах) и отсутствует среди словарных эквивалентов – динамика (пусть читатель сам попробует «встроить» это слово в свой перевод). Такие «переводческие эквиваленты» – не всегда идеальные, но способные выручить во многих ситуациях – надо иметь в запасе, особенно устному переводчику. Это, конечно, не означает, что они могут выручить всегда.
    •• Вот пример из статьи в New York Times, где описывается поток пожертвований на благотворительные цели в связи с гибелью принцессы Дианы: “There has been a large volume of donations,” said... an executive at the law firm handling the fund. [She] said the momentum was such that she would give a briefing to the press every morning this week. В переводе можно так и сказать – поток пожертвований столь велик, что...
    •• Пример из книги Киссинджера: The momentum was clearly all in the direction of further increases [in troop numbers]. – Все толкало к дальнейшему наращиванию численности войск.
    •• Еще один интересный пример, при переводе которого возможен контекстуальный вариант возрастающая вероятность: With momentum building at the Justice department for the appointment of a new independent counsel to investigate Vice-President Al Gore’s campaign funding practices, Mr. Gore has hired two former Watergate prosecutors to head off such a move (New York Times).
    •• В следующем примере перевод тоже должен быть контекстуальным: The President and his representatives trumpeted their support for the International Criminal Court, contributing to their court’s momentum and suggesting that in the end the U.S. would grudgingly sign on (Wall Street Journal). – Президент и его представители всячески афишировали свою поддержку идеи международного уголовного суда, помогая ей завоевывать все более прочные позиции и по существу давая понять, что в конце концов США подпишут соглашение.

    English-Russian nonsystematic dictionary > momentum

  • 107 block

    1. тумба (в городе)
    2. тектонический блок
    3. смонтированный из блоков
    4. программный блок
    5. пробковый блок
    6. пачка
    7. парирование броска
    8. определённое количество электроэнергии в кВт•ч (при коммерческих расчётах)
    9. ковка начерно
    10. квартал (города)
    11. квартал
    12. глыба
    13. блокировка (для защиты)
    14. блок элементов телевизионного изображения
    15. блок (прибора или аппарата)
    16. блок (в спорте (управление Играми))
    17. блок (в обработке текста)
    18. блок (в вычислительных сетях)

     

    блок (в вычислительных сетях)
    Единица информации, содержащая заголовок и информационное поле. 
    [ http://www.lexikon.ru/dict/net/index.html]

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    блок
    Часть текста, определенная пользователем, с которой проводят операции обработки текста.
    [ ГОСТ Р ИСО/МЭК 2382-23-2004]

    Тематики

    Обобщающие термины

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    блок
    Совокупность функций, которые подчиняются президенту и старшему вице-президенту и возглавляются вице-президентом.
    [Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]

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    block
    Set of functions, which report to President and the Senior vice-president and are headed by Vice-president.
    [Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]

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    блок (прибора или аппарата)
    —
    [Я.Н.Лугинский, М.С.Фези-Жилинская, Ю.С.Кабиров. Англо-русский словарь по электротехнике и электроэнергетике, Москва, 1999 г.]

    Тематики

    • электротехника, основные понятия

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    блок элементов телевизионного изображения
    Совокупность минимальных фрагментов телевизионного изображения, предназначенная для дискретного косинусного преобразования с энтропийным кодированием телевизионного видеосигнала с целью сокращения пространственной и энтропийной избыточности.
    Примечание
    При этом формируется матрица коэффициентов - амплитуд базисных косинусоидальных функций разных частот.
    [ ГОСТ Р 52210-2004]

    Тематики

    • телевидение, радиовещание, видео

    Обобщающие термины

    • цифровые сигналы и потоки, их формирование и обработка

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    блокировка (для защиты)
    Устройство, объединяющее одно или несколько защитных устройств или аппаратов с системой управления и/или всей или частью электросети, питающей машину.
    [ ГОСТ Р МЭК 60204-1-2007]

    Тематики

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    глыба
    массив
    сплошная масса
    целик
    (геол.)
    [ http://slovarionline.ru/anglo_russkiy_slovar_neftegazovoy_promyishlennosti/]

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    Синонимы

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    квартал
    Часть застроенной территории города, ограниченная улицами
    [Терминологический словарь по строительству на 12 языках (ВНИИИС Госстроя СССР)]

    Тематики

    • город, населенный пункт

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    квартал (города)
    —
    [А.С.Гольдберг. Англо-русский энергетический словарь. 2006 г.]

    Тематики

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    ковка начерно
    Предварительная кузнечная операция грубого распределения металла для подготовки к окончательной обработке.
    [ http://www.manual-steel.ru/eng-a.html]

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    определённое количество электроэнергии в кВт•ч (при коммерческих расчётах)
    —
    [Я.Н.Лугинский, М.С.Фези-Жилинская, Ю.С.Кабиров. Англо-русский словарь по электротехнике и электроэнергетике, Москва, 1999]

    Тематики

    • электротехника, основные понятия

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    парирование броска
    Синоним термина сейв.
    [Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]

    EN

    block
    Another term for save.
    [Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]

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    Синонимы

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    пачка
    пакет (листов сердечника)
    —
    [Я.Н.Лугинский, М.С.Фези-Жилинская, Ю.С.Кабиров. Англо-русский словарь по электротехнике и электроэнергетике, Москва, 1999 г.]

    Тематики

    • электротехника, основные понятия

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    пробковый блок
    Изделие, обычно прямоугольного сечения, толщина которого незначительно меньше его ширины.
    Примечание
    Блоки могут быть получены агломерацией или склеиванием кусков натуральной пробки.
    [ ГОСТ Р ИСО 633-2011]

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    программный блок
    Синтаксически определенное составное предложение, образующее область действия объявленных в нем объектов.
    [ ГОСТ 28397-89]

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    смонтированный из блоков
    блочной конструкции
    —
    [ http://slovarionline.ru/anglo_russkiy_slovar_neftegazovoy_promyishlennosti/]

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    тумба
    Небольшой каменный, бетонный или чугунный столбик для ограждения тротуаров или установки дорожного знака
    [Терминологический словарь по строительству на 12 языках (ВНИИИС Госстроя СССР)]

    Тематики

    • город, населенный пункт

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    9. Программный блок

    Block

    Синтаксически определенное составное предложение, образующее область действия объявленных в нем объектов

    Источник: ГОСТ 28397-89: Языки программирования. Термины и определения оригинал документа

    Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > block

  • 108 cabinet

    1. сущ.
    1) пол. кабинет [совет\], министров, правительство
    а) (в условиях президентской системы правления, напр., в США: неофициальный традиционный орган, включающий в себя основных министров, который собирается для обсуждения политики и консультирования президента; решения имеют рекомендательный характер)
    See:
    б) (в условиях парламентской системы правления, напр., в Великобритании: руководящая группа министров, назначаемая премьер-министром для выработки государственной политики; принимает решения, за которые несет коллективную ответственность)

    to construct [to form\] a cabinet — сформировать кабинет

    The Cabinet meets on Thursday morning — Кабинет собирается утром по четвергам.

    Syn:
    See:
    2) гос. упр. заседание кабинета (министров)

    The Prime Minister held a cabinet yesterday. — Премьер-министр провел вчера заседание кабинета министров.

    The decision was taken at Thursday's cabinet. — Решение было принято на заседании кабинета министров, проводившемся в четверг.

    Syn:
    3)
    а) потр. шкаф с выдвижными ящиками; застекленный шкафчик; камера; ящик; футляр; шкатулка; ларец
    б) торг. шкаф, витрина, прилавок

    ice-cream cabinet — холодильный шкаф [прилавок\] для мороженого

    4) бирж., амер. шкаф, (металлический) ящик, кабинет* (ящик, в котором хранятся лимитные приказы до их исполнения)
    See:
    2. прил.
    1) гос. упр. министерский, правительственный, относящийся к кабинету [совету\] министров
    2) общ. кабинетный (кабинетного формата; также в переносном смысле: непубличный)
    See:

    * * *
    "кабинет", шкаф, ящик: металлический ящик, в котором хранятся лимитные приказы до их исполнения фондовыми "специалистами" или "маркетмейкерами" (США); см. cabinet crowd;

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > cabinet

  • 109 board of directors

    board of directors MGT (jarg) Board m of Directors, Board m, Verwaltungsrat m; Direktion f (the members of the board of directors are officially chosen by the shareholders to sit on an authoritative standing committee or governing body, it includes often major shareholders as well as the president, vice-president, secretary, comptroller and the executive directors of the company, including the CEO; normally the chairman of the board is the president, but quite often it’s the CEO; der Board wird meist auf drei Jahre von den Aktionären gewählt; er vertritt in der US-Corporation das Unternehmen nach außen und berichtet an die Aktionäre; das Tagesgeschäft wird an die geschäftsführenden Officers oder Board-Mitglieder des Exekutiv-Ausschusses –executive committee– delegiert; der Board ist ein einstufiges, monistisches Unternehmensaufsichts- und -leitungsmodell –single-tier system– interne Aufsichts- und Kontrollfunktionen werden innerhalb des Board von den Non-Executive Directors, Non-Executive Officers oder Outside Directors – nicht geschäftsführende Board-Mitglieder, nicht geschäftsführende Directors, Directors ohne Geschäftsbereich – wahrgenommen)

    Englisch-Deutsch Fachwörterbuch der Wirtschaft > board of directors

  • 110 Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander

    [br]
    b. 13 April 1892 Brechin, Angus, Scotland
    d. 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 Distinctions
    Knighted 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.
    Bibliography
    1923, 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 of
    the 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 Reading
    S.S.Swords, 1986, Technical History of the Beginnings of Radar, Stevenage: Peter Peregrinus.
    KF

    Biographical history of technology > Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander

  • 111 White, Sir William Henry

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 2 February 1845 Devonport, England
    d. 27 February 1913 London, England
    [br]
    English naval architect distinguished as the foremost nineteenth-century Director of Naval Construction, and latterly as a consultant and author.
    [br]
    Following early education at Devonport, White passed the Royal Dockyard entry examination in 1859 to commence a seven-year shipwright apprenticeship. However, he was destined for greater achievements and in 1863 passed the Admiralty Scholarship examinations, which enabled him to study at the Royal School of Naval Architecture at South Kensington, London. He graduated in 1867 with high honours and was posted to the Admiralty Constructive Department. Promotion came swiftly, with appointment to Assistant Constructor in 1875 and Chief Constructor in 1881.
    In 1883 he left the Admiralty and joined the Tyneside shipyard of Sir W.G. Armstrong, Mitchell \& Co. at a salary of about treble that of a Chief Constructor, with, in addition, a production bonus based on tonnage produced! At the Elswick Shipyard he became responsible for the organization and direction of shipbuilding activities, and during his relatively short period there enhanced the name of the shipyard in the warship export market. It is assumed that White did not settle easily in the North East of England, and in 1885, following negotiations with the Admiralty, he was released from his five-year exclusive contract and returned to public service as Director of Naval Construction and Assistant Controller of the Royal Navy. (As part of the settlement the Admiralty released Philip Watts to replace White, and in later years Watts was also to move from that same shipyard and become White's successor as Director of Naval Construction.) For seventeen momentous years White had technical control of ship production for the Royal Navy. The rapid building of warships commenced after the passing of the Naval Defence Act of 1889, which authorized directly and indirectly the construction of around seventy vessels. The total number of ships built during the White era amounted to 43 battleships, 128 cruisers of varying size and type, and 74 smaller vessels. While White did not have the stimulation of building a revolutionary capital ship as did his successor, he did have the satisfaction of ensuring that the Royal Navy was equipped with a fleet of all-round capability, and he saw the size, displacement and speed of the ships increase dramatically.
    In 1902 he resigned from the Navy because of ill health and assumed several less onerous tasks. During the construction of the Cunard Liner Mauretania on the Tyne, he held directorships with the shipbuilders Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, and also the Parsons Marine Turbine Company. He acted as a consultant to many organizations and had an office in Westminster. It was there that he died in February 1913.
    White left a great literary legacy in the form of his esteemed Manual of Naval Architecture, first published in 1877 and reprinted several times since in English, German and other languages. This volume is important not only as a text dealing with first principles but also as an illustration of the problems facing warship designers of the late nineteenth century.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    KCB 1895. Knight Commander of the Order of the Danneborg (Denmark). FRS. FRSE. President, Institution of Civil Engineers; Mechanical Engineers; Marine Engineers. Vice- President, Institution of Naval Architects.
    Bibliography
    Further Reading
    D.K.Brown, 1983, A Century of Naval Construction, London.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > White, Sir William Henry

  • 112 VPOTUS

    VPOTUS, codenaam gebruikt voor vice president Al Gore in computers in Het Witte Huis die onmiddellijk verschijnen na elke beweging (zie ook POTUS & FLOTUS)
    VPOTUS (Vice President of the United States)

    English-Dutch dictionary > VPOTUS

  • 113 face

    (a) face value, American face amount (of banknote, traveller's cheque) valeur f nominale; (of stamp, share) valeur faciale
    face time (meeting) = rencontre en face à face entre deux personnes (par opposition aux contacts par téléphone ou courrier électronique); (on TV) temps m de présence à l'écran

    America Online executives covered both bases as Chairman-CEO Steve Case and President-COO Bob Pittman hit the Allen dealmaker fest and George Vradenburg, senior vice president-global and strategic policy, accompanied Clinton on his tour of Los Angeles' Watts district. Any face time between Vradenburg and the President likely included discussion of AOL's desire to gain access to the cable industry's high-speed broadband pipe.

    English-French business dictionary > face

  • 114 momentum

    1) инерция движения, импульс, кинетическая энергия

    gather/gain momentum — набирать силу/темп

    1. In the U.S. the $103 billion-a-year industry is slowing down, and McDonald's is feeling the loss of momentum hardest (Time).

    2. The music not only lacks passion; it even lacks momentum of any sort (Winthrop Sargent).

    3. "There has been a large volume of donations," said... an executive at the law firm handling the fund. (She) said the momentum was such that she would give a briefing to the press every morning this week (New York Times). —...поток пожертвований столь велик, что…

    4. The momentum was clearly all in the direction of further increases (in troop numbers). — Все толкало к дальнейшему наращиванию численности войск.

    5. With momentum building at the Justice department for the appointment of a new independent counsel to investigate Vice-President Al Gore's campaign funding practices, Mr. Gore has hired two former Watergate prosecutors to head off such a move (New York Times). — (Здесь возможен контекстуальный вариант "возрастающая вероятность").

    6. The President and his representatives trumpeted their support for (the International Criminal Court), contributing to their court's momentum and suggesting that in the end the U.S. would grudgingly sign on (Wall Street Journal). — Президент и его представители всячески афишировали свою поддержку идеи международного уголовного суда, помогая ей завоевывать все более прочные позиции и по существу давая понять, что в конце концов США подпишут соглашение.

    The English annotation is below. (English-Russian) > momentum

  • 115 Santana Lopes, Pedro Miguel de

    (1956-)
       Portuguese lawyer and politician, and prime minister (2004-05). Born in Lisbon in 1956, Santana Lopes took a law degree from the University of Lisbon and was a Student Union leader. In 1976, he joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and became a legal advisor to Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro. Santana Lopes has always considered himself a follower of the late Sá Carneiro. In 1986, he became assistant state secretary to Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva, and the following year was elected to the European Parliament, in which he served for two years. In 1991, Cavaco Silva named him secretary of state for culture. He served in various other posts, including mayor of Lisbon, and he founded a weekly newspaper, Semanário.
       In 1998, Santana Lopes withdrew from politics after being negatively depicted in a private television station comic sketch. Instead, he continued in politics and rose to the vice-presidency of the PSD. José Manuel Durão Barroso resigned in July 2004 to become president of the European Commission, and Santana Lopes became PSD leader. Since his party was the major partner in the governing coalition at this time and Barroso had resigned his post, Santana Lopes succeeded him.
       Santana Lopes' brief premiership was fraught with difficulties. The national economy was in a crisis, and there were frequent cabinet shuffles, factionalism among PSD leaders, and questions being raised about the competence of Santana Lopes to govern effectively. President Jorge Sampaio called a parliamentary election for February 2005, following the resignation of the minister of sport from the cabinet and that minister's attacks on the prime minister's conduct. The Socialist Party (PS) under José Sócrates won the election, and Santana Lopes left office to resume his post as mayor of Lisbon. Santana Lopes, however, after in-fighting with his party and following the party's failure to endorse him as a candidate for the upcoming municipal elections, resigned this post one month before the election of February 2005.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Santana Lopes, Pedro Miguel de

  • 116 Gaskill, Harvey Freeman

    [br]
    b. 19 January 1845 Royalton, New York, USA
    d. 1 April 1889 Lockport, New York, USA
    [br]
    American mechanical engineer, inventor of the water-pumping engine with flywheel and reciprocating pumps.
    [br]
    Gaskill's father was a farmer near New York, where the son attended the local schools until he was 16 years old. At the age of 13 he already showed his mechanical aptitude by inventing a revolving hayrake, which was not exploited because the family had no money. His parents moved to Lockport, New York, where Harvey became a student at Lockport Union School and then the Poughkeepsie Commercial College, from which he graduated in 1866. After a period in his uncle's law office, he entered the firm of Penfield, Martin \& Gaskill to manufacture a patent clock. Then he was involved in a planing mill and a sash-and-blind manufactory. He devised a clothes spinner and a horse hayrake, but he did not manufacture them. In 1873 he became a draughtsman in the Holly Manufacturing Company in Lockport, which made pumping machinery for waterworks. He was promoted first to Engineer and then to Superintendent of the company in 1877. In 1885 he became a member of the Board of Directors and Vice-President. But for his untimely death, he might have become President. He was also a director of several other manufacturing concerns, public utilities and banks. In 1882 he produced a pump driven by a Woolf compound engine, which was the first time that rotary power with a crank and flywheel had been applied in waterworks. His design was more compact, more economical and lower in cost than previous types and gave the Holly Company a considerable advantage for a time over their main rivals, the Worthington Pump \& Machinery Company. These steam pumps became very popular in the United States and the type was also adopted in Britain.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    As well as obituaries appearing in many American engineering journals on Gaskill's death, there is an entry in the Dictionary of American Biography, 1931, Vol. VII, New York, C.Scribner's Sons.
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Gaskill, Harvey Freeman

  • 117 Kettering, Charles Franklin

    [br]
    b. 29 August 1876 near Londonsville, Ohio, USA
    d. 25 November 1958 Dayton, Ohio, USA
    [br]
    American engineer and inventor.
    [br]
    Kettering gained degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering from Ohio State University. He was employed by the National Construction Register (NCR) of Dayton, Ohio, where he devised an electric motor for use in cash registers. He became Head of the Inventions Department of that company but left in 1909 to form, with the former Works Manager of NCR, Edward A. Deeds, the Dayton Engineering Laboratories (later called Delco), to develop improved lighting and ignition systems for automobiles. In the first two years of the new company he produced not only these but also the first self-starter, both of which were fitted to the Cadillac, America's leading luxury car. In 1914 he founded Dayton Metal Products and the Dayton Wright Airplane Company. Two years later Delco was bought by General Motors. In 1925 the independent research facilities of Delco were moved to Detroit and merged with General Motors' laboratories to form General Motors Research Corporation, of which Kettering was President and General Manager. (He had been Vice-President of General Motors since 1920.) In that position he headed investigations into methods of achieving maximum engine performance as well as into the nature of friction and combustion. Many other developments in the automobile field were made under his leadership, such as engine coolers, variable-speed transmissions, balancing machines, the two-way shock absorber, high-octane fuel, leaded petrol or gasoline, fast-drying lacquers, crank-case ventilators, chrome plating, and the high-compression automobile engine. Among his other activities were the establishment of the Charles Franklin Kettering Foundation for the Study of Chlorophyll and Photosynthesis at Antioch College, and the founding of the Sloan- Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City. He sponsored the Fever Therapy Research Project at Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton, which developed the hypertherm, or artificial fever machine, for use in the treatment of disease. He resigned from General Motors in 1947.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Kettering, Charles Franklin

  • 118 McNeill, Sir James McFadyen

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 19 August 1892 Clydebank, Scotland
    d. 24 July 1964 near Glasgow, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish naval architect, designer of the Cunard North Atlantic Liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth.
    [br]
    McNeill was born in Clydebank just outside Glasgow, and was to serve that town for most of his life. After education at Clydebank High School and then at Allan Glen's in Glasgow, in 1908 he entered the shipyard of John Brown \& Co. Ltd as an apprentice. He was encouraged to matriculate at the University of Glasgow, where he studied naval architecture under the (then) unique Glasgow system of "sandwich" training, alternately spending six months in the shipyard, followed by winter at the Faculty of Engineering. On graduating in 1915, he joined the Army and by 1918 had risen to the rank of Major in the Royal Field Artillery.
    After the First World War, McNeill returned to the shipyard and in 1928 was appointed Chief Naval Architect. In 1934 he was made a local director of the company. During the difficult period of the 1930s he was in charge of the technical work which led to the design, launching and successful completion of the great liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. Some of the most remarkable ships of the mid-twentieth century were to come from this shipyard, including the last British battleship, HMS Vanguard, and the Royal Yacht Britannia, completed in 1954. From 1948 until 1959, Sir James was Managing Director of the Clydebank part of the company and was Deputy Chairman by the time he retired in 1962. His public service was remarkable and included chairmanship of the Shipbuilding Conference and of the British Ship Research Association, and membership of the Committee of Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order 1954. CBE 1950. FRS 1948. President, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 1947–9. Honorary Vice-President, Royal Institution of Naval Architects. Military Cross (First World War).
    Bibliography
    1935, "Launch of the quadruple-screw turbine steamer Queen Mary", Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects 77:1–27 (in this classic paper McNeill displays complete mastery of a difficult subject; it is recorded that prior to launch the estimate for travel of the ship in the River Clyde was 1,194 ft (363.9 m), and the actual amount recorded was 1,196 ft (364.5m)!).
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > McNeill, Sir James McFadyen

  • 119 Townes, Charles Hard

    [br]
    b. 28 July 1915 Greenville, South Carolina, USA
    [br]
    American physicist who developed the maser and contributed to the development of the laser.
    [br]
    Charles H.Townes entered Furman University, Greenville, at the early age of 16 and in 1935 obtained a BA in modern languages and a BS in physics. After a year of postgraduate study at Duke University, he received a master's degree in physics in 1936. He then went on to the California Institute of Technology, where he obtained a PhD in 1939. From 1939 to 1947 he worked at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, mainly on airborne radar, although he also did some work on radio astronomy. In 1948 he joined Columbia University as Associate Professor of Physics and in 1950 was appointed a full professor. He was Director of the University's Radiation Laboratory from 1950 to 1952, and from 1952 to 1955 he was Chairman of the Physics Department.
    To meet the need for an oscillator generating very short wavelength electromagnetic radiation, Townes in 1951 realized that use could be made of the different natural energy levels of atoms and molecules. The practical application of this idea was achieved in his laboratory in 1953 using ammonia gas to make the device known as a maser (an acronym of microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). The maser was developed in the next few years and in 1958, in a joint paper with his brother-in-law Arthur L. Schawlow, Townes suggested the possibility of a further development into optical frequencies or an optical maser, later known as a laser (an acronym of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). Two years later the first such device was made by Theodore H. Maiman.
    In 1959 Townes was given leave from Columbia University to serve as Vice-President and Director of Research at the Institute for Defense Analyses until 1961. He was then appointed Provost and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1967 he became University Professor of Physics at the University of California, where he has extended his research interests in the field of microwave and infra-red astronomy. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Astronomical Society.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Nobel Prize for Physics 1964. Foreign Member, Royal Society of London. President, American Physical Society 1967. Townes has received many awards from American and other scientific societies and institutions and honorary degrees from more than twenty universities.
    Bibliography
    Townes is the author of many scientific papers and, with Arthur L.Schawlow, of
    Microwave Spectroscopy (1955).
    1980, entry, McGraw-Hill Modern Scientists and Engineers, Part 3, New York, pp. 227– 8 (autobiography).
    1991, entry, The Nobel Century, London, p. 106 (autobiography).
    Further Reading
    T.Wasson (ed.), 1987, Nobel Prize Winners, New York, pp. 1,071–3 (contains a short biography).
    RTS

    Biographical history of technology > Townes, Charles Hard

  • 120 Whitney, Amos

    [br]
    b. 8 October 1832 Biddeford, Maine, USA
    d. 5 August 1920 Poland Springs, Maine, USA
    [br]
    American mechanical engineer and machine-tool manufacturer.
    [br]
    Amos Whitney was a member of the same distinguished family as Eli Whitney. His father was a locksmith and machinist and he was apprenticed at the age of 14 to the Essex Machine Company of Lawrence, Massachusetts. In 1850 both he and his father were working at the Colt Armory in Hartford, Connecticut, where he first met his future partner, F.A. Pratt. They both subsequently moved to the Phoenix Iron Works, also at Hartford, and in 1860 they started in a small way doing machine work on their own account. In 1862 they took a third partner, Monroe Stannard, and enlarged their workshop. The business continued to expand, but Pratt and Whitney remained at the Phoenix Iron Works until 1864 and in the following year they built their first new factory. The Pratt \& Whitney Company was incorporated in 1869 with a capital of $350,000, Amos Whitney being appointed General Superintendent. The firm specialized in making machine tools and tools particularly for the armament industry. Pratt \& Whitney was one of the leading firms developing the system of interchangeable manufacture which led to the need to establish national standards of measurement. The Rogers-Bond Comparator, developed with the backing of Pratt \& Whitney, played an important part in the establishment of these standards, which formed the basis of the gauges of many various types made by the firm.
    Amos Whitney was made Vice-President of Pratt \& Whitney Company in 1893 and was President from 1898 until 1901, when the company was acquired by the Niles- Bement-Pond Company: he then remained as one of the directors. He was elected a Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1913.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    J.W.Roe, 1916, English and American Tool Builders, New Haven; reprinted 1926, New York, and 1987, Bradley, Ill. (describes the origin and development of the Pratt \& Whitney Company).
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