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  • 1 form

    1. noun
    1) (type, style) Form, die

    form of address — [Form der] Anrede

    in human form — in menschlicher Gestalt; in Menschengestalt

    in the form of — in Form von od. + Gen.

    in book form — in Buchform; als Buch

    2) no pl. (shape, visible aspect) Form, die; Gestalt, die

    take form — Gestalt annehmen od. gewinnen

    3) (printed sheet) Formular, das
    4) (Brit. Sch.) Klasse, die
    5) (bench) Bank, die
    6) no pl., no indef. art. (Sport): (physical condition) Form, die

    peak form — Bestform, die

    out of form — außer Form; nicht in Form

    in [good] form — (lit. or fig.) [gut] in Form

    she was in great form at the party — (fig.) bei der Party war sie groß in Form

    on/off form — (lit. or fig.) in/nicht in Form

    7) (Sport): (previous record) bisherige Leistungen

    on/judging by [past/present] form — (fig.) nach der Papierform

    true to form — (fig.) wie üblich od. zu erwarten

    good/bad form — gutes/schlechtes Benehmen

    9) (figure) Gestalt, die
    10) (Ling.) Form, die
    2. transitive verb
    1) (make; also Ling.) bilden

    be formed from something — aus etwas entstehen

    2) (shape, mould) formen, gestalten ( into zu); (fig.) formen [Charakter usw.]
    3) sich (Dat.) bilden [Meinung, Urteil]; gewinnen [Eindruck]; fassen [Entschluss, Plan]; kommen zu [Schluss]; (acquire, develop) entwickeln [Vorliebe, Gewohnheit, Wunsch]; schließen [Freundschaft]
    4) (constitute, compose, be, become) bilden

    Schleswig once formed [a] part of Denmark — Schleswig war einmal ein Teil von Dänemark

    5) (establish, set up) bilden [Regierung]; gründen [Bund, Verein, Firma, Partei, Gruppe]
    3. intransitive verb
    (come into being) sich bilden; [Idee:] sich formen, Gestalt annehmen
    * * *
    I 1. [fo:m] noun
    1) ((a) shape; outward appearance: He saw a strange form in the darkness.) die Form, die Gestalt
    2) (a kind, type or variety: What form of ceremony usually takes place when someone gets a promotion?) die Art
    3) (a document containing certain questions, the answers to which must be written on it: an application form.) das Formular
    4) (a fixed way of doing things: forms and ceremonies.) die Formalität
    5) (a school class: He is in the sixth form.) die Klasse
    2. verb
    1) (to make; to cause to take shape: They decided to form a drama group.) bilden, gründen
    2) (to come into existence; to take shape: An idea slowly formed in his mind.) Gestalt annehmen
    3) (to organize or arrange (oneself or other people) into a particular order: The women formed (themselves) into three groups.) formieren
    4) (to be; to make up: These lectures form part of the medical course.) bilden
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    - be in good form
    - in the form of     II [fo:m] noun
    (a long, usually wooden seat: The children were sitting on forms.) die Bank
    * * *
    [fɔ:m, AM fɔ:rm]
    I. n
    1. (type, variety) Form f, Art f; of a disease Erscheinungsbild nt; of energy Typ m
    the dictionary is also available in electronic \form es ist auch eine elektronische Version des Wörterbuchs erhältlich
    flu can take several different \forms eine Grippe kann sich in verschiedenen Formen äußern
    art \form Kunstform f
    \form of exercise Sportart f
    \form of government Regierungsform f
    \form of a language Sprachvariante f
    life \form Lebensform f
    \form of transport Transportart f
    \forms of worship Formen fpl der Gottesverehrung
    2. no pl (particular way) Form f, Gestalt f
    support in the \form of money Unterstützung in Form von Geld
    help in the \form of two police officers Hilfe in Gestalt von zwei Polizeibeamten
    the training programme takes the \form of a series of workshops die Schulung wird in Form einer Serie von Workshops abgehalten
    in any [shape or] \form in jeglicher Form
    he's opposed to censorship in any shape or \form er ist gegen jegliche Art von Zensur
    in some \form or other auf die eine oder andere Art
    3. (document) Formular nt
    application \form Bewerbungsbogen m
    booking \form BRIT
    reservation \form AM Buchungsformular nt
    entry \form Anmeldeformular m
    order \form Bestellschein m
    printed \form Vordruck m
    to complete [or esp BRIT fill in] [or esp AM fill out] a \form ein Formular ausfüllen
    4. (shape) Form f; of a person Gestalt f
    her slender \form ihre schlanke Gestalt
    the lawn was laid out in the \form of a figure eight der Rasen war in Form einer Acht angelegt
    they made out a shadowy \form in front of them vor ihnen konnten sie den Umriss einer Gestalt ausmachen
    the human \form die menschliche Gestalt
    to take \form Form [o Gestalt] annehmen
    5. no pl ART, LIT, MUS (arrangement of parts) Form f
    \form and content Form und Inhalt
    shape and \form Form und Gestalt
    6. no pl (physical condition) Form f, Kondition f
    I really need to get back in \form ich muss wirklich mal wieder etwas für meine Kondition tun
    to be in excellent [or superb] \form in Topform sein
    to be in good \form [gut] in Form sein
    to be out of \form nicht in Form sein
    7. no pl (performance) Leistung f
    the whole team was on good \form die ganze Mannschaft zeigte vollen Einsatz
    she was in great \form at her wedding party bei ihrer Hochzeitsfeier war sie ganz in ihrem Element
    Sunset's recent \forms are excellent die letzten Formen von Sunset sind hervorragend
    to study the \form die Form prüfen
    9. no pl esp BRIT (procedure) Form f; BRIT
    what's the \form? was ist üblich [o das übliche Verfahren]?
    conventional social \forms konventionelle Formen gesellschaftlichen Umgangs
    a matter of \form eine Formsache
    partners of employees are invited as a matter of \form die Partner der Angestellten werden der Form halber eingeladen
    for \form['s sake] aus Formgründen
    to be good/bad \form BRIT ( dated) sich gehören/nicht gehören
    in due [or proper] \form formgerecht
    to run true to \form wie zu erwarten [ver]laufen
    true to \form he arrived an hour late wie immer kam er eine Stunde zu spät
    10. esp BRIT SCH (class) Klasse f; (secondary year group) Jahrgangsstufe f
    11. LING Form f
    what's the infinitive \form of the verb? wie lautet der Infinitiv von dem Verb?
    12. no pl BRIT (sl: criminal record) Vorstrafenregister nt
    to have \form vorbestraft sein
    [printing] \form [Satz]form f
    14. TECH (shuttering) Verschalung f fachspr
    15. BRIT HUNT (hare's lair) Sasse f fachspr
    16. BOT Form f, Forma f fachspr
    17. (formula) Formel f
    18. PHILOS Form f
    matter and \form Stoff und Form
    19.
    ▶ attack is the best \form of defence ( saying) Angriff ist die beste Verteidigung prov
    II. vt
    ▪ to \form sth etw formen
    \form the dough into balls den Teig zu Bällchen formen
    these islands were \formed as a result of a series of volcanic eruptions diese Inseln entstanden durch eine Reihe von Vulkanausbrüchen
    ▪ to \form sth etw bilden
    they \formed themselves into three lines sie stellten sich in drei Reihen auf
    to \form a circle/queue einen Kreis/eine Schlange bilden
    to \form groups Gruppen bilden
    3. (set up)
    ▪ to \form sth etw gründen
    the company was \formed in 1892 die Firma wurde 1892 gegründet
    they \formed themselves into a pressure group sie gründeten eine Pressuregroup
    to \form an alliance with sb sich akk mit jdm verbünden
    to \form a band eine Band gründen
    to \form committee/government ein Komitee/eine Regierung bilden
    to \form friendships Freundschaften schließen
    to \form an opinion about sth sich dat eine Meinung über etw akk bilden
    a newly-\formed political party eine neu gegründete politische Partei
    to \form a relationship eine Verbindung eingehen
    ▪ to \form sth etw bilden [o darstellen]
    the trees \form a natural protection from the sun's rays die Bäume stellen einen natürlichen Schutz gegen die Sonnenstrahlen dar
    to \form the basis of sth die Grundlage einer S. gen bilden
    to \form the core [or nucleus] of sth den Kern einer S. gen bilden
    to \form part of sth Teil einer S. gen sein
    5. LING
    to \form a sentence/the past tense/a new word einen Satz/die Vergangenheit[szeit]/ein neues Wort bilden
    ▪ to \form sth/sb etw/jdn formen
    the media play an important role in \forming public opinion die Medien spielen eine große Rolle bei der öffentlichen Meinungsbildung
    to \form sb's character jds Charakter formen
    III. vi sich akk bilden; idea, plan Gestalt annehmen
    ▪ to \form into sth sich akk zu etw akk formen
    his strong features \formed into a smile of pleasure ein vergnügtes Lächeln legte sich auf seine markanten Züge
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    [fɔːm]
    1. n
    1) Form f

    forms of worship — Formen pl der Gottesverehrung

    a form of apology —

    2) (= condition, style, guise) Form f, Gestalt f

    in the form of — in Form von or +gen; (with reference to people) in Gestalt von or +gen

    water in the form of ice —

    3) (= shape) Form f; (of person) Gestalt f
    4) (ART, MUS, LITER: structure) Form f
    5) (PHILOS) Form f
    6) (GRAM) Form f

    the plural form — die Pluralform, der Plural

    7) no pl (= etiquette) (Umgangs)form f

    he did it for form's sake — er tat es der Form halber

    it's bad form — so etwas tut man einfach nicht

    8) (= document) Formular nt, Vordruck m
    9) (= physical condition) Form f, Verfassung f

    to be in fine or good form — gut in Form sein, in guter Form or Verfassung sein

    to be on/off form — in/nicht in or außer Form sein

    he was in great form that evening —

    on past form — auf dem Papier

    10) (esp Brit: bench) Bank f
    11) (Brit SCH) Klasse f
    12) no pl (Brit inf

    = criminal record) to have form — vorbestraft sein

    13) (TECH: mould) Form f
    14)
    See:
    = forme
    15) (of hare) Nest nt, Sasse f (spec)
    2. vt
    1) (= shape) formen, gestalten (into zu); (GRAM) plural, negative bilden
    2) (= train, mould) child, sb's character formen
    3) (= develop) liking, desire, idea, habit entwickeln; friendship schließen, anknüpfen; opinion sich (dat) bilden; impression gewinnen; plan ausdenken, entwerfen
    4) (= set up, organize) government, committee bilden; company, society, political party gründen, ins Leben rufen
    5) (= constitute, make up) part, basis bilden

    the committee is formed of... — der Ausschuss wird von... gebildet

    6) (= take the shape or order of) circle, pattern bilden
    3. vi
    1) (= take shape) Gestalt annehmen
    2) (ESP MIL) sich aufstellen or formieren, antreten

    /into two lines —

    to form into a square to form into battle order — sich im Karree aufstellen sich zur Schlachtordnung formieren

    * * *
    form [fɔː(r)m]
    A s
    1. Form f, Gestalt f:
    take form Form oder Gestalt annehmen (a. fig);
    in the form of in Form von (od gen);
    in tablet form in Tablettenform
    2. TECH Form f:
    a) Fasson f
    b) Schablone f
    3. Form f:
    a) Art f:
    form of government Regierungsform;
    forms of life Lebensformen; → address B 1
    b) Art f und Weise f, Verfahrensweise f
    c) System n, Schema n: → due A 10
    4. Formular n, Vordruck m:
    form letter Schemabrief m
    5. (literarische etc) Form
    6. Form f ( auch LING), Fassung f (eines Textes etc):
    a) Wortart f,
    b) morphologische Klasse
    7. PHIL Form f:
    a) Wesen n, Natur f
    b) Gestalt f
    c) Platonismus: Idee f
    8. Erscheinungsform f, -weise f
    9. Sitte f, Brauch m
    10. (herkömmliche) gesellschaftliche Form, Manieren pl, Benehmen n:
    good (bad) form guter (schlechter) Ton;
    it is good (bad) form es gehört sich (nicht);
    for form’s sake der Form halber
    11. Formalität f: → matter A 3
    12. Zeremonie f
    13. MATH, TECH Formel f:
    form of oath JUR Eidesformel
    14. (körperliche oder geistige) Verfassung, Form f:
    on form der Form nach;
    on (bes US in) (in bad, out of, off) form (nicht) in Form;
    feel in good form sich gut in Form fühlen;
    at the top of one’s form, in great form in Hochform;
    be in very poor form in einem Formtief stecken
    15. a) ( besonders lange) Bank (ohne Rückenlehne)
    b) Br obs (Schul) Bank f
    16. besonders Br (Schul) Klasse f:
    form master (mistress) Klassenlehrer(in)
    17. Br meist forme TYPO (Druck)Form f
    18. Br sl Vorstrafen(liste) pl(f):
    he’s got form er ist vorbestraft
    B v/i
    1. formen, gestalten ( beide:
    into zu;
    after, on, upon nach):
    form a government eine Regierung bilden;
    form a company eine Gesellschaft gründen;
    they formed themselves into groups sie schlossen sich zu Gruppen zusammen;
    they formed themselves into two groups sie bildeten zwei Gruppen
    2. den Charakter etc formen, bilden
    3. a) einen Teil etc bilden, ausmachen, darstellen
    b) dienen als
    4. (an)ordnen, zusammenstellen
    5. MIL (into) formieren (in akk), aufstellen (in dat)
    6. einen Plan etc fassen, entwerfen, ersinnen
    7. sich eine Meinung bilden: → idea 1
    8. Freundschaft etc schließen
    9. eine Gewohnheit annehmen
    10. LING Wörter bilden
    11. TECH (ver)formen, fassonieren, formieren
    C v/i
    1. Form oder Gestalt annehmen, sich formen, sich gestalten, sich bilden, entstehen (alle auch fig)
    2. auch form up MIL antreten, sich formieren ( into in akk)
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) (type, style) Form, die

    form of address — [Form der] Anrede

    in human form — in menschlicher Gestalt; in Menschengestalt

    in the form of — in Form von od. + Gen.

    in book form — in Buchform; als Buch

    2) no pl. (shape, visible aspect) Form, die; Gestalt, die

    take form — Gestalt annehmen od. gewinnen

    3) (printed sheet) Formular, das
    4) (Brit. Sch.) Klasse, die
    5) (bench) Bank, die
    6) no pl., no indef. art. (Sport): (physical condition) Form, die

    peak form — Bestform, die

    out of form — außer Form; nicht in Form

    in [good] form — (lit. or fig.) [gut] in Form

    she was in great form at the party — (fig.) bei der Party war sie groß in Form

    on/off form — (lit. or fig.) in/nicht in Form

    7) (Sport): (previous record) bisherige Leistungen

    on/judging by [past/present] form — (fig.) nach der Papierform

    true to form — (fig.) wie üblich od. zu erwarten

    good/bad form — gutes/schlechtes Benehmen

    9) (figure) Gestalt, die
    10) (Ling.) Form, die
    2. transitive verb
    1) (make; also Ling.) bilden
    2) (shape, mould) formen, gestalten ( into zu); (fig.) formen [Charakter usw.]
    3) sich (Dat.) bilden [Meinung, Urteil]; gewinnen [Eindruck]; fassen [Entschluss, Plan]; kommen zu [Schluss]; (acquire, develop) entwickeln [Vorliebe, Gewohnheit, Wunsch]; schließen [Freundschaft]
    4) (constitute, compose, be, become) bilden

    Schleswig once formed [a] part of Denmark — Schleswig war einmal ein Teil von Dänemark

    5) (establish, set up) bilden [Regierung]; gründen [Bund, Verein, Firma, Partei, Gruppe]
    3. intransitive verb
    (come into being) sich bilden; [Idee:] sich formen, Gestalt annehmen
    * * *
    Schulklasse f. n.
    Form -en f.
    Formblatt n.
    Formular -e n.
    Gattung -en f.
    Gestalt -en f.
    Schalung -en f. (seating) n.
    Schulbank m. v.
    bilden v.
    formen v.
    gestalten v.

    English-german dictionary > form

  • 2 form

    1. II
    form in some manner form slowly (quickly, rapidly, readily, etc.) медленно и т. д. образовываться /возникать, появляться/; this year ice formed early and stayed late в этом году все рано замерзло и поздно оттаяло
    2. III
    1) form smth., smb. form a square (a circle, a pool, a cloud, etc.) образовать квадрат и т. д.; form the plural of a noun (the present participle of a verb, etc.) образовать множественное числе существительного и т. д.; the baby is able to form short words but unable to form sentences ребенок может произносить короткие слова, но не умеет составлять предложения; his lips could hardly form a word он с трудом мог слово вымолвить; water forms ice вода образует лед; form a garden разбить сад; form a class (a company, a society, a circle, a club, an orchestra, a regiment, an army, an alliance, etc.) организовывать /создавать, формировать/ группу и т. д.; form a square (a circle, a rhomb, etc.) построить квадрат и т. д.; form a queue образовать очередь; the president invited him to form a ministry президент предложил ему сформировать министерство
    2) form smth., smb. this essay forms part of my book этот очерк является частью моей книги; these parts together form a whole [взятые, составленные] вместе эти части образуют одно целое; he forms one of the family он член нашей семьи
    3) form smth. form the mind (the faculties) развивать ум (способности); form the character формировать характер; form an individual style вырабатывать индивидуальный стиль; form good habits вырабатывать хорошие навыки, приобретать хорошие привычки
    4) form smth. form a plan выработать /разработать/ план; form an opinion (a judgement) составить мнение (суждение); form a conclusion прийти к выводу /заключению/; you can form some idea of the ship's size вы можете составить представление о размере корабля; he formed an image of the girl ой представил себе облик этой девушки
    3. XI
    1) be formed the teacher explained to the class how the plural of English nouns is formed учитель объяснил классу, как в английском языке образуется множественное число существительных; be formed by smth. it is formed by decomposition (by erosion, by this process, etc.) это происходит /получается/ в результате распада и т. д., be formed upon /after/ smth. be formed after a pattern (upon a new model, etc.) сделать по трафарету и т. д.; this boat has been formed upon a modern design эта шлюпка построена по современному проекту
    2) be formed of smth. be formed of several parts (of a number of hills, etc.) состоять из нескольких частей и т. д; Japan is formed of four big islands Япония состоит из четырех крупных островов; Япония расположена на четырех крупных островах
    3) be formed at some place his habits were formed at school привычки у него сложились в школе; be formed by smb. his character was formed by his teachers ( by his parents, etc.) на формирование его характера повлияли преподаватели и т. д.
    4. XVI
    1) form in (on, across, etc.) smth. form in the sky (on the hills, on the ground, in the air, etc.) образовываться в небе и т. д.; crystals formed in the retort в реторте образовались кристаллы; clouds formed over the mountains над горами собрались тучи, а sheet of ice has formed right across the river ледяная пелена сковала реку; form in /into/ smth. form in /into/ line (in file, in fours, in companies, in ranks, etc.) (построиться в линейку и т. д.; form at some condition ice forms at a temperature of 32 "F лед образуется при тридцата двух градусах по Фаренгейту
    2) form in some place these ideas have long been forming in his mind эти мысли давно уже зрели в его уме; а plan was slowly forming in his mind у него медленно созревал план; form in (among, etc.) smb. a spirit of discontent was forming in (among) the people в народе зрел /нарастал/ дух недовольства
    5. XXI1
    1) form smth. after /upon, in accordance with/ smth. form smth. after a pattern (after a mould, upon this model, in accordance with his design, etc.) создавать /строить/ что-л. по образцу и т. д.; form a sentence upon a certain pattern построить предложение по определенной модели; form smth. from /out of/ smth. form toys from wood (figurines out of plasticine, little animals from some strange substance, etc.) делать игрушки из дерева и т. д.; form a little goat out of clay вылепить козленка из глины; form a boat out of wood выточить кораблик из дерева; form nouns from adjectives образовать существительные от прилагательных; form a word from the initial letters of the title составить слово из начальных букв заглавия; form smth., smb. into smth. he formed the feather into a very good imitation of a butterfly он смастерил из перышка бабочку, очень похожую на настоящую; they formed themselves into a committee они организовали комитет, в который сами же и вошли; form smth., smb. in (to) smth. form a regiment into columns (a company into a line, the men in a file, etc.) построить полк колоннами и т. д., form smth. for smb., smth. form a class for beginners организовать класс для начинающих, form a schedule for one's journey составить маршрут путешествия
    2) form smb. by smth. form smb. by discipline ( by care, by severity, by attention, by tenderness, etc.) использовать дисциплину и т. д. в качестве меры воспитания кого-л., воспитывать кого-л. при немощи дисциплины и т. д. form smth. on /after/ smth. form one's style on good models развивать / совершенствовать/ свой стиль на хороших образцах

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > form

  • 3 form

    fɔ:m
    1. сущ.
    1) форма;
    внешний вид;
    очертание to assume, take the form of smth. ≈ принимать форму чего-л. to assume human form ≈ принимать человеческий вид a fiend in human form ≈ волк в овечьей шкуре The cookies were in the form of squares. ≈ Булочки были квадратной формы. Syn: configuration, contour, figure, outline, shape, structure
    2) фигура( особ. человека) This coat really fits one's form. ≈ Это пальто действительно хорошо сидит на фигуре. Syn: body, figure, shape, build, physique
    3) форма, вид abridged, condensed form ≈ сокращенная форма, сокращенный вариант concise form ≈ краткая форма convenient form, handy form ≈ удобная форма revised form ≈ исправленная форма The book came out in abridged form. ≈ Книга издана в сокращенной форме. Ice is water in another form. ≈ Лед - это вода только в другом виде. Syn: appearance, phase, aspect, manifestation
    4) вид, разновидность The ant is a form of insect. ≈ Муравей - это вид насекомых. Syn: type, variety, kind, sort;
    genus, species, genre, class
    5) порядок;
    общепринятая форма in due form ≈ в должной форме, по всем правилам
    6) бланк, образец, форма;
    анкета to fill in a form брит., to fill out a form амер., to fill up a form уст. ≈ заполнить бланк tax form ≈ декларация о доходах tax return form ≈ бланк декларации о доходах application form
    7) формальность;
    церемония, этикет, установленный порядок They didn't follow the traditional form of the marriage service. ≈ Они не придерживались традиционных форм бракосочетания. Syn: prescribed method, rule, habit, proceeding, practice, ritual;
    etiquette, conventionality
    8) манеры, поведение good form, proper form ≈ хороший тон, хорошие манеры bad form ≈ дурной тон, плохие манеры It's bad form to come late to a formal reception. ≈ На официальную встречу опаздывать неприлично. Syn: social behavior, manner, deportment, conduct, style, mode;
    way, manner
    9) готовность, состояние;
    хорошая спортивная форма The horse is in form. ≈ Лошадь вполне подготовлена к бегам. off form ≈ не в форме She was in superb form today. ≈ Она была сегодня в превосходной форме. If she's in form, she can win the match easily. ≈ Если она будет сегодня в форме, она легко выиграет матч. Syn: trim, fettle, fitness, shape, top condition, healthy condition
    10) скамья
    11) класс( в школе) in the fourth form ≈ в четвертом классе
    12) нора( зайца)
    13) грам. форма bound form colloquial form combining form diminutive form free form inflectional form obsolete form plural form singular form surface form underlying form
    14) иск. вид, форма;
    композиция You paint well, but your work lacks form. ≈ С красками у тебя все в порядке, но в твоей картине нет формы. Syn: order, system, structure, harmony, arrangement;
    shapeliness, proportion, symmetry
    15) тех. модель, форма When the cement has hardened, the form is removed. ≈ Когда цемент затвердеет, форма удаляется. Syn: mold, cast, frame, framework, matrix
    16) полигр. печатная форма
    17) строит. опалубка
    18) ж.-д. формирование( поездов)
    19) расписание racing form ≈ расписание скачек, программа скачек
    2. гл.
    1) а) придавать форму, вид to form chopped beef into patties ≈ делать лепешки из кусков говядины б) принимать форму, вид
    2) а) составлять, образовывать The sofa is formed of three separate sections. ≈ Диван составлен из трех отдельных секций. б) включать в себя, содержать ∙ Syn: compose, comprise, make up, constitute;
    serve to make up
    3) а) создавать;
    формулировать( идею, план и т. п.) б) создаваться, возникать
    4) воспитывать, вырабатывать, формировать (характер, качества и т. п.) ;
    дисциплинировать;
    приобретать He formed the habit of peering over his glasses. ≈ У него выработалась привычка смотреть поверх очков. Syn: develop, acquire, contract, pick up
    5) а) формировать, образовывать;
    воен. формировать (части) ;
    ж.-д. формировать (поезда) They formed an army out of rabble. ≈ Они сформировали армию из толпы. б) формироваться, образовываться;
    строиться
    6) тех. формовать Syn: mould
    7) забираться в нору (о зайце) ∙ form up форма;
    внешний вид;
    очертание - without shape or * бесформенный - in any shape or * в любом виде - in the * of a cube в форме куба - to take * принять должную форму - to take the * of smth. принимать вид /форму/ чего-л. - the cloud was changing its * облако меняло очертания фигура (человека) - well-proportioned * пропорциональное сложение, хорошая фигура - fair of face and * с прекрасным лицом и фигурой - I saw a well-known * standing before me я увидел перед собой хорошо знакомую фигуру обличье - Proteus was able to appear in the * of any animal Протей мог являться в обличье любого животного стать (лошади) форма, вид - literary * литературная форма - in tabular * в виде таблицы - in the * of a sonnet в форме сонета - in the * of a drama в драматической форме - * and substance форма и содержание - a sense of * чувство формы вид, разновидность;
    тип - *s of animal and vegetable life формы животной и растительной жизни - it's a * of influenza это особая форма гриппа - a * of activity род деятельности стиль, манера - his * in swimming is bad он плавает плохо /плохим стилем/ - bad * дурной тон;
    плохие манеры - the rules of good * правила хорошего тона состояние;
    форма (часто спортивная) ;
    готовность - to be in( good) * быть в хорошем состоянии;
    быть в хорошей спортивной форме;
    быть в ударе - to be in bad *, to be out of * быть в плохом состоянии;
    быть в плохой( спортивной) форме;
    быть не в ударе, "не в форме" - to round into * (спортивное) приобретать спортивную форму настроение, душевное состояние - Jack was in great * at the dinner party Джек был в приподнятом настроении на званом обеде формальность;
    проформа - as a matter of *, for *'s sake для проформы, формально - to attach importance to *s придавать значение формальностям церемония, порядок - in due * по всем правилам - found in good and due * (дипломатическое) найденные в должном порядке и надлежащей форме (о полномочиях) - * of action (юридическое) процессуальная форма установившаяся форма выражения;
    формула - the * of greeting формула приветствия класс (в школе) - upper *s старшие классы - first * младший класс форма, бланк, образец;
    анкета - printed * печатный бланк - a * for a deed бланк /форма/ для соглашения - a * of application форма заявления - to fill in /up/ a * заполнить бланк /анкету и т. п./ длинная скамья, скамейка нора (зайца) (грамматика) форма слова( специальное) форма исполнения (машины) модель, тип, образец;
    торговый сорт( металла и т. п.) (техническое) форма для литья (полиграфия) печатная форма (строительство) форма;
    опалубка - * removal распалубка( математическое) выражение придавать форму, вид - to * a piece of wood into a certain shape придавать куску дерева определенную форму - to * smth. after /upon, from, by, in accordance with/ a pattern создавать /делать/ что-л. по определенному образцу - state *ed after the Roman republic государство, созданное по образцу Римской республики принимать форму, вид составлять, образовывать;
    формировать - these parts together * a perfect whole эти части образуют вместе гармоничное целое - the rain *ed large pools on the lawn от дождя на газоне образовались большие лужи - the clouds *ed a veil over the mountain-top облака затянули вершину горы - the baby is beginning to * short words ребенок начинает произносить короткие слова образовываться;
    формироваться - crystals *ed in the retort в реторте образовались кристаллы - clouds are *ing on the hills на вершинах холмов сгущаются облака (грамматика) образовывать - to * the plural of the noun образовать множественное число существительного создавать, составлять;
    формулировать - to * an idea создавать себе представление - to * an opinion составить мнение - to * a plan создать /выработать/ план - to * a habit приобрести привычку, привыкнуть( к чему-л.) возникать, оформляться - the idea slowly *ed in my mind эта мысль постепенно становилась у меня более отчетливой представлять собой;
    являться - chocolate *s a wholesome substitute for staple food шоколад является полноценным заменителем основных продуктов питания - bonds *ed the bulk of his estate основную часть его состояния представляли облигации тренировать, дисциплинировать;
    воспитывать;
    развивать - to * the mind развивать ум - to * the character воспитывать характер - to * a child by care воспитывать ребенка заботливо - to * good habits прививать хорошие привычки /навыки хорошего поведения/ формировать, организовывать;
    образовывать, создавать - to * a class for beginners создать группу начинающих - to * an army формировать армию - to * a government формировать правительство - to * a society организовывать общество - the children were *ed into small groups дети были разбиты на небольшие группы - they *ed themselves into a committee они сорганизовались в комитет( военное) строить - to * a column вытягиваться в колонну (военное) строиться( специальное) формировать (специальное) формовать (садоводчество) обрезать, подвергать обрезке;
    формировать крону забираться, забиваться в нору (о зайце) форма (таксономическая единица) account ~ документ бухгалтерского учета adjustment ~ схема регулирования bill ~ бланк векселя bill ~ бланк счета bill ~ вексельный формуляр blank ~ чистый бланк business tax ~ бланк налоговой декларации для предпринимателя charge ~ форма платежа cheque ~ бланк чека claim ~ бланк заявления о выплате страхового возмещения clausal ~ вчт. стандартная форма coding ~ вчт. бланк программирования company ~ форма компании complete a ~ заполнять бланк contract ~ форма контракта customs declaration ~ бланк таможенной декларации customs ~ таможенный формуляр data collection ~ вчт. форма для сбора данных deposit ~ депозитный бланк draft ~ эскиз бланка due ~ установленная форма due ~ установленный образец entry ~ вчт. бланк ввода информации export ~ экспортный формуляр form анкета ~ бланк ~ вид, разновидность ~ воспитывать, вырабатывать (характер, качества и т. п.) дисциплинировать;
    тренировать ~ заключать (договор) ~ класс (в школе) ~ нора (зайца) ~ образец, бланк;
    анкета ~ образовывать ~ стр. опалубка ~ основывать ~ полигр. печатная форма ~ порядок;
    общепринятая форма;
    in due form в должной форме, по всем правилам ~ придавать или принимать форму, вид;
    to form a vessel out of clay вылепить сосуд из глины ~ скамья ~ создавать(ся), образовывать(ся) ;
    I can form no idea of his character не могу составить себе представления о его характере ~ создавать ~ составить ~ составлять;
    parts form a whole части образуют целое ~ составлять ~ состояние, готовность;
    the horse is in form лошадь вполне подготовлена к бегам ~ сформировать ~ установленный образец, проформа, бланк, формуляр, анкета ~ установленный образец ~ утверждать ~ учреждать, образовывать, основывать ~ фигура (особ. человека) ~ тех. форма, модель ~ иск. форма, вид;
    literary form литературная форма ~ грам. форма ~ форма;
    внешний вид;
    очертание;
    in the form of a globe в форме шара;
    to take the form (of smth.) принять форму (чего-л.) ~ вчт. форма ~ форма ~ формальность, этикет, церемония;
    good (bad) form хороший( дурной) тон, хорошие (плохие) манеры ~ ж.-д. формирование (поездов) ~ воен. формирование, построение ~ ж.-д. формировать (поезда) ~ воен. формировать (части) ~ формировать(-ся), образовывать(ся) ;
    строиться ~ формировать ~ тех. формовать ~ формуляр forme: forme =form ~ придавать или принимать форму, вид;
    to form a vessel out of clay вылепить сосуд из глины ~ for advance statement форма заявления об авансовых платежах ~ for estimating future income форма для оценки будущего дохода ~ of a summons бланк судебной повестки ~ of a writ форма искового заявления ~ of borrowing форма займа ~ of cooperation форма кооперации ~ of government форма правительства ~ of government форма правления ~ of organization форма организации ~ of request бланк заявки ~ of request форма запроса ~ of request форма требования ~ of sales форма продажи ~ of saving форма сбережения ~ of taxation форма налогообложения ~ of tender форма заявки ~ of tender форма предложения giro in-payment ~ бланк для платежа в системе жиросчетов giro transfer ~ бланк для жироперевода ~ формальность, этикет, церемония;
    good (bad) form хороший (дурной) тон, хорошие (плохие) манеры horizontal ~ выч. бланк счета ~ состояние, готовность;
    the horse is in form лошадь вполне подготовлена к бегам ~ создавать(ся), образовывать(ся) ;
    I can form no idea of his character не могу составить себе представления о его характере in (good) ~ в ударе in (good) ~ "в форме" (о спортсмене) ~ форма;
    внешний вид;
    очертание;
    in the form of a globe в форме шара;
    to take the form (of smth.) принять форму (чего-л.) in-payment ~ форма платежа income tax ~ бланк декларации на подоходный налог inquiry ~ анкета legal ~ правовая форма legal ~ юридическая форма letter ~ образец письма linguistic ~ лингвистическая форма ~ иск. форма, вид;
    literary form литературная форма market ~ форма рынка missing letter ~ утерянный бланк письма model ~ типовая форма money order ~ бланк денежного перевода mortgage deed ~ бланк залогового сертификата mortgage deed ~ бланк ипотечного свидетельства narrative ~ форма отчета order ~ бланк заказа order ~ бланк требования order ~ форма приказа outpayment ~ форма выплаты ~ составлять;
    parts form a whole части образуют целое payment notification ~ бланк уведомления о платеже postal note ~ бланк почтового перевода на сумму до 5 долл. (США) postal order ~ бланк денежного перевода printed ~ печатный бланк proposal ~ бланк заявки на торгах receipt ~ бланк квитанции receipt ~ образец расписки reduced ~ вчт. приведенная форма registration ~ регистрационный бланк reply ~ бланк для ответа report ~ анкета report ~ опросный лист report ~ переписной бланк report ~ форма статистического опросного листа requisition ~ бланк заявки requisition ~ форма заявки screen ~ file вчт. файл экранных форм sentential ~ вчт. сентенциальная форма share transfer ~ форма передачи права собственности на акции signature ~ образец подписи stamped ~ бланк со штампом standard ~ вчт. стандартная форма statement ~ форма заявления table ~ вчт. табличная форма tabular ~ полигр. плоская печатная форма tabular ~ вчт. табличная форма ~ форма;
    внешний вид;
    очертание;
    in the form of a globe в форме шара;
    to take the form (of smth.) принять форму (чего-л.) tax ~ бланк налоговой декларации transfer ~ бланк перевода

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > form

  • 4 form

    I
    1. [fɔ:m] n
    1. форма; внешний вид; очертание

    to take the form of smth. - принимать вид /форму/ чего-л.

    2. 1) фигура ( человека)

    well-proportioned form - пропорциональное сложение, хорошая фигура

    I saw a well-known form standing before me - я увидел перед собой хорошо знакомую фигуру

    2) обличье

    Proteus was able to appear in the form of any animal - Протей мог являться в обличье любого животного

    3) стать ( лошади)
    3. форма, вид

    literary [musical] form - литературная [музыкальная] форма

    4. вид, разновидность; тип
    5. стиль, манера

    his form in swimming is bad - он плавает плохо /плохим стилем/

    bad [good] form - дурной [хороший] тон; плохие [хорошие] манеры

    6. 1) состояние; форма ( часто спортивная); готовность

    to be in (good) form - а) быть в хорошем состоянии; б) быть в хорошей (спортивной) форме; в) быть в ударе

    to be in bad form, to be out of form - а) быть в плохом состоянии; б) быть в плохой (спортивной) форме; в) быть не в ударе, «не в форме»

    to round into form - спорт. приобретать спортивную форму

    2) настроение, душевное состояние

    Jack was in great form at the dinner party - Джек был в приподнятом настроении на званом обеде

    7. 1) формальность; проформа

    as a matter of form, for form's sake - для проформы, формально

    2) церемония, порядок

    found in good and due form - дип. найденные в должном порядке и надлежащей форме ( о полномочиях)

    form of action - юр. процессуальная форма

    3) установившаяся форма выражения; формула
    8. класс ( в школе)

    upper [lower] forms - старшие [младшие] классы

    9. форма, бланк, образец; анкета

    printed [telegraph] form - печатный [телеграфный] бланк

    a form for a deed - бланк /форма/ для соглашения

    to fill in /up/ a form - заполнить бланк /анкету и т. п./

    10. длинная скамья, скамейка
    11. нора ( зайца)
    12. грам. форма слова
    13. спец.
    1) форма исполнения ( машины)
    2) модель, тип, образец; торговый сорт (металла и т. п.)
    14. тех. форма для литья
    15. полигр. печатная форма
    16. стр. форма; опалубка
    17. (математическое) выражение
    2. [fɔ:m] v
    1. 1) придавать форму, вид

    to form a piece of wood into a certain shape - придавать куску дерева определённую форму

    to form smth. after /upon, from, by, in accordance with/ a pattern - создавать /делать/ что-л. по определённому образцу

    state formed after the Roman republic - государство, созданное по образцу Римской республики

    2) принимать форму, вид
    2. 1) составлять, образовывать; формировать

    these parts together form a perfect whole - эти части образуют вместе гармоничное целое

    the rain formed large pools on the lawn - от дождя на газоне образовались большие лужи

    the clouds formed a veil over the mountain-top - облака затянули вершину горы

    the baby is beginning to form short words - ребёнок начинает произносить короткие слова

    2) образовываться; формироваться
    3) грам. образовывать

    to form the plural of a noun - образовать множественное число существительного

    3. 1) создавать, составлять; формулировать

    to form a plan - создать /выработать/ план

    to form a habit - приобрести привычку, привыкнуть (к чему-л.)

    2) возникать, оформляться

    the idea slowly formed in my mind - эта мысль постепенно становилась у меня более отчётливой

    4. представлять собой; являться

    chocolate forms a wholesome substitute for staple food - шоколад является полноценным заменителем основных продуктов питания

    bonds formed the bulk of his estate - основную часть его состояния представляли облигации

    5. тренировать, дисциплинировать; воспитывать; развивать

    to form a child by care [by attention, by severity] - воспитывать ребёнка заботливо [внимательно, строго]

    to form good habits - прививать хорошие привычки /навыки хорошего поведения/

    6. формировать, организовывать; образовывать, создавать

    the children were formed into small groups - дети были разбиты на небольшие группы

    7. воен.
    1) строить
    2) строиться
    8. спец.
    1) формировать
    2) формовать
    9. сад. обрезать, подвергать обрезке; формировать крону
    10. забираться, забиваться в нору ( о зайце)
    II [fɔ:m] = forma

    НБАРС > form

  • 5 form

    I
    1. [fɔ:m] n
    1. форма; внешний вид; очертание

    to take the form of smth. - принимать вид /форму/ чего-л.

    2. 1) фигура ( человека)

    well-proportioned form - пропорциональное сложение, хорошая фигура

    I saw a well-known form standing before me - я увидел перед собой хорошо знакомую фигуру

    2) обличье

    Proteus was able to appear in the form of any animal - Протей мог являться в обличье любого животного

    3) стать ( лошади)
    3. форма, вид

    literary [musical] form - литературная [музыкальная] форма

    4. вид, разновидность; тип
    5. стиль, манера

    his form in swimming is bad - он плавает плохо /плохим стилем/

    bad [good] form - дурной [хороший] тон; плохие [хорошие] манеры

    6. 1) состояние; форма ( часто спортивная); готовность

    to be in (good) form - а) быть в хорошем состоянии; б) быть в хорошей (спортивной) форме; в) быть в ударе

    to be in bad form, to be out of form - а) быть в плохом состоянии; б) быть в плохой (спортивной) форме; в) быть не в ударе, «не в форме»

    to round into form - спорт. приобретать спортивную форму

    2) настроение, душевное состояние

    Jack was in great form at the dinner party - Джек был в приподнятом настроении на званом обеде

    7. 1) формальность; проформа

    as a matter of form, for form's sake - для проформы, формально

    2) церемония, порядок

    found in good and due form - дип. найденные в должном порядке и надлежащей форме ( о полномочиях)

    form of action - юр. процессуальная форма

    3) установившаяся форма выражения; формула
    8. класс ( в школе)

    upper [lower] forms - старшие [младшие] классы

    9. форма, бланк, образец; анкета

    printed [telegraph] form - печатный [телеграфный] бланк

    a form for a deed - бланк /форма/ для соглашения

    to fill in /up/ a form - заполнить бланк /анкету и т. п./

    10. длинная скамья, скамейка
    11. нора ( зайца)
    12. грам. форма слова
    13. спец.
    1) форма исполнения ( машины)
    2) модель, тип, образец; торговый сорт (металла и т. п.)
    14. тех. форма для литья
    15. полигр. печатная форма
    16. стр. форма; опалубка
    17. (математическое) выражение
    2. [fɔ:m] v
    1. 1) придавать форму, вид

    to form a piece of wood into a certain shape - придавать куску дерева определённую форму

    to form smth. after /upon, from, by, in accordance with/ a pattern - создавать /делать/ что-л. по определённому образцу

    state formed after the Roman republic - государство, созданное по образцу Римской республики

    2) принимать форму, вид
    2. 1) составлять, образовывать; формировать

    these parts together form a perfect whole - эти части образуют вместе гармоничное целое

    the rain formed large pools on the lawn - от дождя на газоне образовались большие лужи

    the clouds formed a veil over the mountain-top - облака затянули вершину горы

    the baby is beginning to form short words - ребёнок начинает произносить короткие слова

    2) образовываться; формироваться
    3) грам. образовывать

    to form the plural of a noun - образовать множественное число существительного

    3. 1) создавать, составлять; формулировать

    to form a plan - создать /выработать/ план

    to form a habit - приобрести привычку, привыкнуть (к чему-л.)

    2) возникать, оформляться

    the idea slowly formed in my mind - эта мысль постепенно становилась у меня более отчётливой

    4. представлять собой; являться

    chocolate forms a wholesome substitute for staple food - шоколад является полноценным заменителем основных продуктов питания

    bonds formed the bulk of his estate - основную часть его состояния представляли облигации

    5. тренировать, дисциплинировать; воспитывать; развивать

    to form a child by care [by attention, by severity] - воспитывать ребёнка заботливо [внимательно, строго]

    to form good habits - прививать хорошие привычки /навыки хорошего поведения/

    6. формировать, организовывать; образовывать, создавать

    the children were formed into small groups - дети были разбиты на небольшие группы

    7. воен.
    1) строить
    2) строиться
    8. спец.
    1) формировать
    2) формовать
    9. сад. обрезать, подвергать обрезке; формировать крону
    10. забираться, забиваться в нору ( о зайце)
    II [fɔ:m] = forma

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  • 6 form

    1. сущ.
    1) общ. форма; внешний вид
    2) общ. форма, вид, разновидность
    3) общ. состояние; форма

    to be in ( good) form — быть в хорошем состоянии [в хорошей спортивной форме, в ударе\]

    to be in bad form [out of form\] — быть в плохом состоянии [в плохой спортивной форме, не в ударе, не в форме\]

    4) общ. формальность; церемония, установленный порядок; формула (как установившаяся форма выражения чего-л.)

    as a matter of form, for form's sake — для проформы, формально

    5) общ. форма, бланк

    to fill in [up\] a form — заполнить бланк [анкету и т. п.\]

    Syn:
    See:
    6) юр. судимость; "полицейское досье"

    You can get at least a five for getting captured with a shooter especially if you've got a bit of form behind you. — Ты можешь получить по крайней мере пять лет за ношение огнестрельного оружия, особенно если у тебя уже были судимости.

    There's loads of form written down on my conviction card. — В моем досье записана масса судимостей.

    See:
    7) обр., преим. брит. класс ( в школе)

    upper [lower\] forms — старшие [младшие\] классы

    8) пром. модель; (литейная) форма

    When the cement has hardened, the form is removed. — Когда цемент затвердел, форма удаляется.

    9) соц. форма (по Г. Зиммелю: универсальный принцип социального взаимодействия, стоящий за многообразием "содержания"; изучение таких форм Зиммель считал основной задачей социологии, которую называл "геометрией социальной жизни")
    See:
    2. гл.
    1) упр. придавать [принимать\] форму, вид

    to form smth. after [upon, from, by, in accordance with\] a pattern — создавать [делать\] что-л. по определенному образцу

    to form the clay into a head — вылепить голову из глины.

    2) общ. создавать(ся), основывать(ся), образовывать(ся)

    to form a plan — создать [выработать\] план

    to form a habit — приобрести привычку, привыкнуть (к чему-л.)

    This wall forms the background of the stage setting. — Эта стена образует задний план сцены.

    3) упр. формировать, организовывать; образовывать, создавать; основывать, учреждать (напр., фирму, организацию)

    They formed themselves into a committee. — Они объединились в комитет.

    Social groups form everywhere. — Социальные группы образуются повсюду.

    4) псих. формировать (напр., взгляды); утверждать в сознании; тренировать, дисциплинировать, воспитывать; развивать (духовно, интеллектуально, физически)

    to form a child by care [by attention, by severity\] — воспитывать ребенка заботливо [внимательно, строго\]

    to form good habits — прививать хорошие привычки [навыки хорошего поведения\]

    5) общ. представлять собой; являться
    6) с.-х. обрезать, подвергать обрезке ( сад); формировать крону
    * * *
    . . Словарь экономических терминов .

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > form

  • 7 Daniell, John Frederick

    SUBJECT AREA: Electricity
    [br]
    b. 12 March 1790 London, England
    d. 13 March 1845 London, England
    [br]
    English chemist, inventor of the Daniell primary electric cell.
    [br]
    With an early bias towards science, Daniell's interest in chemistry was formed when he joined a relative's sugar-refining business. He formed a lifelong friendship with W.T.Brande, Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, and together they revived the journal of the Royal Institution, to which Daniell submitted many of his early papers on chemical subjects. He made many contributions to the science of meteorology and in 1820 invented a hydrometer, which became widely used and gave precision to the measurement of atmospheric moisture. As one of the originators of the Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Daniell edited several of its early publications. His work on crystallization established his reputation as a chemist and in 1831 he was appointed the first Professor of Chemistry at King's College, London, where he was largely responsible for establishing its department of applied science. He was also involved in the Chemical Society of London and served as its Vice-President. At King's College he began the research into current electricity with which his name is particularly associated. His investigations into the zinc-copper cell revealed that the rapid decline in power was due to hydrogen gas being liberated at the positive electrode. Daniell's cell, invented in 1836, employed a zinc electrode in dilute sulphuric acid and a copper electrode in a solution of copper sulphate, the electrodes being separated by a porous membrane, typically an unglazed earthenware pot. He was awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society for his invention which avoided the "polarization" of the simple cell and provided a further source of current for electrical research and for commercial applications such as electroplating. Although the high internal resistance of the Daniell cell limited the current and the potential was only 1.1 volts, the voltage was so unchanging that it was used as a reference standard until the 1870s, when J. Lattimer Clark devised an even more stable cell.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1814. Royal Society Rumford Medal 1832, Copley Medal 1837, Royal Medal 1842.
    Bibliography
    1836, "On voltaic combinations", Phil. Transactions of the Royal Society 126:107–24, 125–9 (the first report of his experiments).
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1845, Proceedings of the Royal Society, 5:577–80.
    J.R.Partington, 1964, History of Chemistry, Vol. IV, London (describes the Daniell cell and his electrical researches).
    B.Bowers, 1982, History of Electric Light and Power, London.
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  • 8 Siemens, Dr Ernst Werner von

    [br]
    b. 13 December 1816 Lenthe, near Hanover, Germany
    d. 6 December 1892 Berlin, Germany
    [br]
    German pioneer of the dynamo, builder of the first electric railway.
    [br]
    Werner von Siemens was the eldest of a large family and after the early death of his parents took his place at its head. He served in the Prussian artillery, being commissioned in 1839, after which he devoted himself to the study of chemistry and physics. In 1847 Siemens and J.G. Halske formed a company, Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens und Halske, to manufacture a dial telegraph which they had developed from an earlier instrument produced by Charles Wheatstone. In 1848 Siemens obtained his discharge from the army and he and Halske constructed the first long-distance telegraph line on the European continent, between Berlin and Frankfurt am Main.
    Werner von Siemens's younger brother, William Siemens, had settled in Britain in 1844 and was appointed agent for the Siemens \& Halske company in 1851. Later, an English subsidiary company was formed, known from 1865 as Siemens Brothers. It specialized in manufacturing and laying submarine telegraph cables: the specialist cable-laying ship Faraday, launched for the purpose in 1874, was the prototype of later cable ships and in 1874–5 laid the first cable to run direct from the British Isles to the USA. In charge of Siemens Brothers was another brother, Carl, who had earlier established a telegraph network in Russia.
    In 1866 Werner von Siemens demonstrated the principle of the dynamo in Germany, but it took until 1878 to develop dynamos and electric motors to the point at which they could be produced commercially. The following year, 1879, Werner von Siemens built the first electric railway, and operated it at the Berlin Trades Exhibition. It comprised an oval line, 300 m (985 it) long, with a track gauge of 1 m (3 ft 3 1/2 in.); upon this a small locomotive hauled three small passenger coaches. The locomotive drew current at 150 volts from a third rail between the running rails, through which it was returned. In four months, more than 80,000 passengers were carried. The railway was subsequently demonstrated in Brussels, and in London, in 1881. That same year Siemens built a permanent electric tramway, 1 1/2 miles (2 1/2 km) long, on the outskirts of Berlin. In 1882 in Berlin he tried out a railless electric vehicle which drew electricity from a two-wire overhead line: this was the ancestor of the trolleybus.
    In the British Isles, an Act of Parliament was obtained in 1880 for the Giant's Causeway Railway in Ireland with powers to work it by "animal, mechanical or electrical power"; although Siemens Brothers were electrical engineers to the company, of which William Siemens was a director, delays in construction were to mean that the first railway in the British Isles to operate regular services by electricity was that of Magnus Volk.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Honorary doctorate, Berlin University 1860. Ennobled by Kaiser Friedrich III 1880, after which he became known as von Siemens.
    Further Reading
    S.von Weiher, 1972, "The Siemens brothers, pioneers of the electrical age in Europe", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 45 (describes the Siemens's careers). C.E.Lee, 1979, The birth of electric traction', Railway Magazine (May) (describes Werner Siemens's introduction of the electric railway).
    Transactions of the Newcomen Society (1979) 50: 82–3 (describes Siemens's and Halske's early electric telegraph instruments).
    Transactions of the Newcomen Society (1961) 33: 93 (describes the railless electric vehicle).
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  • 9 Bevan, Edward John

    [br]
    b. 11 December 1856 Birkenhead, England
    d. 17 October 1921 London, England
    [br]
    English co-inventor of the " viscose rayon " process for making artificial silk.
    [br]
    Bevan began his working life as a chemist in a soap works at Runcorn, but later studied chemistry at Owens College, Manchester. It was there that he met and formed a friendship with C.F. Cross, with whom he started to work on cellulose. Bevan moved to a paper mill in Scotland but then went south to London, where he and Cross set up a partnership in 1885 as consulting and analytical chemists. Their work was mainly concerned with the industrial utilization of cellulose, and with the problems of the paper and jute industries. Their joint publication, A Text-book of Paper-making, which first appeared in 1888 and went into several editions, became the standard reference and textbook on the subject. The book has a long introductory chapter on cellulose.
    In 1892 Cross, Bevan and Clayton Beadle discovered viscose, or sodium cellulose xanthate, and took out the patent which was to be the foundation of the "viscose rayon" industry. They had their own laboratory at Station Avenue, Kew Gardens, where they carried out much work that eventually resulted in viscose: cellulose, usually in the form of wood pulp, was treated first with caustic soda and then with carbon disulphide to form the xanthate, which was then dissolved in a solution of dilute caustic soda to produce a viscous liquid. After being aged, the viscose was extruded through fine holes in a spinneret and coagulated in a dilute acid to regenerate the cellulose as spinnable fibres. At first there was no suggestion of spinning it into fibre, but the hope was to use it for filaments in incandescent electric light bulbs. The sheen on the fibres suggested their possible use in textiles and the term "artificial silk" was later introduced. Cross and Bevan also discovered the acetate "Celanese", which was cellulose triacetate dissolved in acetone and spun in air, but both inventions needed much development before they could be produced commercially.
    In 1892 Bevan turned from cellulose to food and drugs and left the partnership to become Public Analyst to Middlesex County Council, a post he held until his death, although in 1895 he and Cross published their important work Cellulose. He was prominent in the affairs of the Society of Public Analysts and became one of its officials.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1888, with C.F.Cross, A Text-book of Papermaking.
    1892, with C.F.Cross and C.Beadle, British patent no. 8,700 (viscose). 1895, with C.F.Cross, Cellulose.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1921, Journal of the Chemical Society.
    Obituary, 1921, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry.
    Edwin J.Beer, 1962–3, "The birth of viscose rayon", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 35 (an account of the problems of developing viscose rayon; Beer worked under Cross in the Kew laboratories).
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  • 10 Cross, Charles Frederick

    [br]
    b. 11 December 1855 Brentwood, Middlesex, England
    d. 15 April 1935 Hove, England
    [br]
    English chemist who contributed to the development of viscose rayon from cellulose.
    [br]
    Cross was educated at the universities of London, Zurich and Manchester. It was at Owens College, Manchester, that Cross first met E.J. Bevan and where these two first worked together on the nature of cellulose. After gaining some industrial experience, Cross joined Bevan to set up a partnership in London as analytical and consulting chemists, specializing in the chemistry and technology of cellulose and lignin. They were at the Jodrell laboratory, Kew Gardens, for a time and then set up their own laboratory at Station Avenue, Kew Gardens. In 1888, the first edition of their joint publication A Textbook of Paper-making, appeared. It went into several editions and became the standard reference and textbook on the subject. The long introductory chapter is a discourse on cellulose.
    In 1892, Cross, Bevan and Clayton Beadle took out their historic patent on the solution and regeneration of cellulose. The modern artificial-fibre industry stems from this patent. They made their discovery at New Court, Carey Street, London: wood-pulp (or another cheap form of cellulose) was dissolved in a mixture of carbon disulphide and aqueous alkali to produce sodium xanthate. After maturing, it was squirted through fine holes into dilute acid, which set the liquid to give spinnable fibres of "viscose". However, it was many years before the process became a commercial operation, partly because the use of a natural raw material such as wood involved variations in chemical content and each batch might react differently. At first it was thought that viscose might be suitable for incandescent lamp filaments, and C.H.Stearn, a collaborator with Cross, continued to investigate this possibility, but the sheen on the fibres suggested that viscose might be made into artificial silk. The original Viscose Spinning Syndicate was formed in 1894 and a place was rented at Erith in Kent. However, it was not until some skeins of artificial silk (a term to which Cross himself objected) were displayed in Paris that textile manufacturers began to take an interest in it. It was then that Courtaulds decided to investigate this new fibre, although it was not until 1904 that they bought the English patents and developed the first artificial silk that was later called "rayon". Cross was also concerned with the development of viscose films and of cellulose acetate, which became a rival to rayon in the form of "Celanese". He retained his interest in the paper industry and in publishing, in 1895 again collaborating with Bevan and publishing a book on Cellulose and other technical articles. He was a cultured man and a good musician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1917.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1917.
    Bibliography
    1888, with E.J.Bevan, A Text-book of Papermaking. 1892, British patent no. 8,700 (cellulose).
    Further Reading
    Obituary Notices of the Royal Society, 1935, London. Obituary, 1935, Journal of the Chemical Society 1,337. Chambers Concise Dictionary of Scientists, 1989, Cambridge.
    Edwin J.Beer, 1962–3, "The birth of viscose rayon", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 35 (an account of the problems of developing viscose rayon; Beer worked under Cross in the Kew laboratories).
    C.Singer (ed.), 1978, A History of Technology, Vol. VI, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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  • 11 Edwards, Humphrey

    [br]
    fl. c.1808–25 London (?), England
    d. after 1825 France (?)
    [br]
    English co-developer of Woolf s compound steam engine.
    [br]
    When Arthur Woolf left the Griffin Brewery, London, in October 1808, he formed a partnership with Humphrey Edwards, described as a millwright at Mill Street, Lambeth, where they started an engine works to build Woolf's type of compound engine. A number of small engines were constructed and other ordinary engines modified with the addition of a high-pressure cylinder. Improvements were made in each succeeding engine, and by 1811 a standard form had been evolved. During this experimental period, engines were made with cylinders side by side as well as the more usual layout with one behind the other. The valve gear and other details were also improved. Steam pressure may have been around 40 psi (2.8 kg/cm2). In an advertisement of February 1811, the partners claimed that their engines had been brought to such a state of perfection that they consumed only half the quantity of coal required for engines on the plan of Messrs Boulton \& Watt. Woolf visited Cornwall, where he realized that more potential for his engines lay there than in London; in May 1811 the partnership was dissolved, with Woolf returning to his home county. Edwards struggled on alone in London for a while, but when he saw a more promising future for the engine in France he moved to Paris. On 25 May 1815 he obtained a French patent, a Brevet d'importation, for ten years. A report in 1817 shows that during the previous two years he had imported into France fifteen engines of different sizes which were at work in eight places in various parts of the country. He licensed a mining company in the north of France to make twenty-five engines for winding coal. In France there was always much more interest in rotative engines than pumping ones. Edwards may have formed a partnership with Goupil \& Cie, Dampierre, to build engines, but this is uncertain. He became a member of the firm Scipion, Perrier, Edwards \& Chappert, which took over the Chaillot Foundry of the Perrier Frères in Paris, and it seems that Edwards continued to build steam engines there for the rest of his life. In 1824 it was claimed that he had made about 100 engines in England and another 200 in France, but this is probably an exaggeration.
    The Woolf engine acquired its popularity in France because its compound design was more economical than the single-cylinder type. To enable it to be operated safely, Edwards first modified Woolf s cast-iron boiler in 1815 by placing two small drums over the fire, and then in 1825 replaced the cast iron with wrought iron. The modified boiler was eventually brought back to England in the 1850s as the "French" or "elephant" boiler.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Most details about Edwards are to be found in the biographies of his partner, Arthur Woolf. For example, see T.R.Harris, 1966, Arthur Woolf, 1766–1837, The Cornish Engineer, Truro: D.Bradford Barton; Rhys Jenkins, 1932–3, "A Cornish Engineer, Arthur Woolf, 1766–1837", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 13. These use information from the originally unpublished part of J.Farey, 1971, A Treatise on the Steam Engine, Vol. II, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.
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  • 12 Acres, Birt

    [br]
    b. 23 July 1854 Virginia, USA
    d. 1918
    [br]
    American photographer, inventor and pioneer cinematographer.
    [br]
    Born of English parents and educated in Paris, Acres travelled to England in the 1880s. He worked for the photographic manufacturing firm Elliott \& Co. in Barnet, near London, and became the Manager. He became well known through his frequent lectures, demonstrations and articles in the photographic press. The appearance of the Edison kinetoscope in 1893 seems to have aroused his interest in the recording and reproduction of movement.
    At the beginning of 1895 he took his idea for a camera to Robert Paul, an instrument maker, and they collaborated on the building of a working camera, which Acres used to record the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race on 30 March 1895. He filmed the Derby at Epsom on 29 May and the opening of the Kiel Canal in June, as well as ten other subjects for the kinetoscope, which were sold by Paul. Acres's association with Paul ended in July 1895. Acres had patented the camera design, the Kinetic Lantern, on 27 May 1895 and then went on to design a projector with which he gave the first successful presentation of projected motion pictures to take place in Britain, at the Royal Photographic Society's meeting on 14 January 1896. At the end of the month Acres formed his own business, the Northern Photographic Company, to supply film stock, process and print exposed film, and to make finished film productions.
    His first shows to the public, using the renamed Kineopticon projector, started in Piccadilly Circus on 21 March 1896. He later toured the country with his show. He was honoured with a Royal Command Performance at Marlborough House on 21 July 1896 before members of the royal family. Although he made a number of films for his own use, they and his equipment were used only for his own demonstrations. His last contribution to cinematography was the design and patenting in 1898 of the first low-cost system for amateur use, the Birtac, which was first shown on 25 January 1899 and marketed in May of that year. It used half-width film, 17.5 mm wide, and the apparatus served as camera, printer and projector.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society 1895.
    Bibliography
    27 May 1895 (the Kinetic Lantern).
    9 June 1898 (the Birtac).
    Further Reading
    J.Barnes, 1976, The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, London. B.Coe, 1980, The History of Movie Photography, London.
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  • 13 Pratt, Francis Ashbury

    [br]
    b. 15 February 1827 Woodstock, Vermont, USA
    d. 10 February 1902 Hartford, Connecticut, USA
    [br]
    American mechanical engineer and machine-tool manufacturer.
    [br]
    Francis A.Pratt served an apprenticeship as a machinist with Warren Aldrich, and on completing it in 1848 he entered the Gloucester Machine Works as a journeyman machinist. From 1852 to 1854 he worked at the Colt Armory in Hartford, Connecticut, where he met his future partner, Amos Whitney. He then became Superintendent of the Phoenix Iron Works, also at Hartford and run by George S.Lincoln \& Company. While there he designed the well-known "Lincoln" miller, which was first produced in 1855. This was a development of the milling machine built by Robbins \& Lawrence and designed by F.W. Howe, and incorporated a screw drive for the table instead of the rack and pinion used in the earlier machine.
    Whitney also moved to the Phoenix Iron Works, and in 1860 the two men 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, F.A.Pratt being elected President. The firm specialized in making machine tools and tools particularly for the armament industry. In the 1870s Pratt made no less than ten trips to Europe gaining orders for equipping armouries in many different countries. 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. Pratt remained President of the company until 1898, after which he served as their Consulting Engineer for a short time before retiring from professional life. He was granted a number of patents relating to machine tools. He was a founder member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1880 and was elected a vice-president in 1881. He was an alderman of the city of Hartford.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Vice-President, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1881.
    Further Reading
    J.W.Roe, 1916, English and American Tool Builders, New Haven; reprinted 1926, New York, and 1987, Bradley, 111. (describes the origin and development of the Pratt \& Whitney Company).
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  • 14 Thomson, Sir William, Lord Kelvin

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    b. 26 June 1824 Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland)
    d. 17 December 1907 Largs, Scotland
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    Irish physicist and inventor who contributed to submarine telegraphy and instrumentation.
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    After education at Glasgow University and Peterhouse, Cambridge, a period of study in France gave Thomson an interest in experimental work and instrumentation. He became Professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow in 1846 and retained the position for the rest of his career, establishing the first teaching laboratory in Britain.
    Among his many contributions to science and engineering was his concept, introduced in 1848, of an "absolute" zero of temperature. Following on from the work of Joule, his investigations into the nature of heat led to the first successful liquefaction of gases such as hydrogen and helium, and later to the science of low-temperature physics.
    Cable telegraphy gave an impetus to the scientific measurement of electrical quantities, and for many years Thomson was a member of the British Association Committee formed in 1861 to consider electrical standards and to develop units; these are still in use. Thomson first became Scientific Adviser to the Atlantic Telegraph Company in 1857, sailing on the Agamemnon and Great Eastern during the cable-laying expeditions. He invented a mirror galvanometer and more importantly the siphon recorder, which, used as a very sensitive telegraph receiver, provided a permanent record of signals. He also laid down the design parameters of long submarine cables and discovered that the conductivity of copper was greatly affected by its purity. A major part of the success of the Atlantic cable in 1866 was due to Thomson, who received a knighthood for his contribution.
    Other instruments he designed included a quadrant electrostatic voltmeter to measure high voltages, and his "multi-cellular" instrument for low voltages. They could be used on alternating or direct current and were free from temperature errors. His balances for precision current measurement were widely used in standardizing laboratories.
    Thomson was a prolific writer of scientific papers on subjects across the whole spectrum of physics; between 1855 and 1866 he published some 110 papers, with a total during his life of over 600. In 1892 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Kelvin of Largs. By the time of his death he was looked upon as the "father" of British physics, but despite his outstanding achievements his later years were spent resisting change and progress.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1866. Created Lord Kelvin of Largs 1892. FRS 1851. President, Royal Society 1890–4. An original member of the Order of Merit 1902. President, Society of Telegraph Engineers 1874. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1889 and 1907. Royal Society Royal Medal 1856, Copley Medal 1883.
    Bibliography
    1872, Reprints of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism, London; 1911, Mathematical and Physical Papers, 6 vols, Cambridge (collections of Thomson's papers).
    Further Reading
    Silvanus P.Thompson, 1910, The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, 2 vols, London (an uncritical biography).
    D.B.Wilson, 1987, Kelvin and Stokes: A Comparative Study in Victorian Physics, Bristol (provides a present-day commentary on all aspects of Thomson's work).
    J.G.Crowther, 1962, British Scientists of the 19th Century, London, pp. 199–257 (a short critical biography).
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  • 15 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.
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    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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  • 16 Language

       Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)
       It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)
       It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)
       Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)
       It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)
       [A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]
       Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling it
       Solving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into another
       LANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)
       We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)
       We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.
       The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)
       9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own Language
       The forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)
       It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)
       In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)
       In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)
       [It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)
       he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.
       The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)
       The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.
       But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)
       The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)
        t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)
       A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)
       Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)
       It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)
       First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....
       Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)
       If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)
        23) Language Is Inevitably Influenced by Specific Contexts of Human Interaction
       Language cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)
       By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)
       Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)

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  • 17 Psychology

       We come therefore now to that knowledge whereunto the ancient oracle directeth us, which is the knowledge of ourselves; which deserveth the more accurate handling, by how much it toucheth us more nearly. This knowledge, as it is the end and term of natural philosophy in the intention of man, so notwithstanding it is but a portion of natural philosophy in the continent of nature.... [W]e proceed to human philosophy or Humanity, which hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate, or distributively; the other congregate, or in society. So as Human philosophy is either Simple and Particular, or Conjugate and Civil. Humanity Particular consisteth of the same parts whereof man consisteth; that is, of knowledges which respect the Body, and of knowledges that respect the Mind... how the one discloseth the other and how the one worketh upon the other... [:] the one is honored with the inquiry of Aristotle, and the other of Hippocrates. (Bacon, 1878, pp. 236-237)
       The claims of Psychology to rank as a distinct science are... not smaller but greater than those of any other science. If its phenomena are contemplated objectively, merely as nervo-muscular adjustments by which the higher organisms from moment to moment adapt their actions to environing co-existences and sequences, its degree of specialty, even then, entitles it to a separate place. The moment the element of feeling, or consciousness, is used to interpret nervo-muscular adjustments as thus exhibited in the living beings around, objective Psychology acquires an additional, and quite exceptional, distinction. (Spencer, 1896, p. 141)
       Kant once declared that psychology was incapable of ever raising itself to the rank of an exact natural science. The reasons that he gives... have often been repeated in later times. In the first place, Kant says, psychology cannot become an exact science because mathematics is inapplicable to the phenomena of the internal sense; the pure internal perception, in which mental phenomena must be constructed,-time,-has but one dimension. In the second place, however, it cannot even become an experimental science, because in it the manifold of internal observation cannot be arbitrarily varied,-still less, another thinking subject be submitted to one's experiments, comformably to the end in view; moreover, the very fact of observation means alteration of the observed object. (Wundt, 1904, p. 6)
       It is [Gustav] Fechner's service to have found and followed the true way; to have shown us how a "mathematical psychology" may, within certain limits, be realized in practice.... He was the first to show how Herbart's idea of an "exact psychology" might be turned to practical account. (Wundt, 1904, pp. 6-7)
       "Mind," "intellect," "reason," "understanding," etc. are concepts... that existed before the advent of any scientific psychology. The fact that the naive consciousness always and everywhere points to internal experience as a special source of knowledge, may, therefore, be accepted for the moment as sufficient testimony to the rights of psychology as science.... "Mind," will accordingly be the subject, to which we attribute all the separate facts of internal observation as predicates. The subject itself is determined p. 17) wholly and exclusively by its predicates. (Wundt, 1904,
       The study of animal psychology may be approached from two different points of view. We may set out from the notion of a kind of comparative physiology of mind, a universal history of the development of mental life in the organic world. Or we may make human psychology the principal object of investigation. Then, the expressions of mental life in animals will be taken into account only so far as they throw light upon the evolution of consciousness in man.... Human psychology... may confine itself altogether to man, and generally has done so to far too great an extent. There are plenty of psychological text-books from which you would hardly gather that there was any other conscious life than the human. (Wundt, 1907, pp. 340-341)
       The Behaviorist began his own formulation of the problem of psychology by sweeping aside all medieval conceptions. He dropped from his scientific vocabulary all subjective terms such as sensation, perception, image, desire, purpose, and even thinking and emotion as they were subjectively defined. (Watson, 1930, pp. 5-6)
       According to the medieval classification of the sciences, psychology is merely a chapter of special physics, although the most important chapter; for man is a microcosm; he is the central figure of the universe. (deWulf, 1956, p. 125)
       At the beginning of this century the prevailing thesis in psychology was Associationism.... Behavior proceeded by the stream of associations: each association produced its successors, and acquired new attachments with the sensations arriving from the environment.
       In the first decade of the century a reaction developed to this doctrine through the work of the Wurzburg school. Rejecting the notion of a completely self-determining stream of associations, it introduced the task ( Aufgabe) as a necessary factor in describing the process of thinking. The task gave direction to thought. A noteworthy innovation of the Wurzburg school was the use of systematic introspection to shed light on the thinking process and the contents of consciousness. The result was a blend of mechanics and phenomenalism, which gave rise in turn to two divergent antitheses, Behaviorism and the Gestalt movement. The behavioristic reaction insisted that introspection was a highly unstable, subjective procedure.... Behaviorism reformulated the task of psychology as one of explaining the response of organisms as a function of the stimuli impinging upon them and measuring both objectively. However, Behaviorism accepted, and indeed reinforced, the mechanistic assumption that the connections between stimulus and response were formed and maintained as simple, determinate functions of the environment.
       The Gestalt reaction took an opposite turn. It rejected the mechanistic nature of the associationist doctrine but maintained the value of phenomenal observation. In many ways it continued the Wurzburg school's insistence that thinking was more than association-thinking has direction given to it by the task or by the set of the subject. Gestalt psychology elaborated this doctrine in genuinely new ways in terms of holistic principles of organization.
       Today psychology lives in a state of relatively stable tension between the poles of Behaviorism and Gestalt psychology.... (Newell & Simon, 1963, pp. 279-280)
       As I examine the fate of our oppositions, looking at those already in existence as guide to how they fare and shape the course of science, it seems to me that clarity is never achieved. Matters simply become muddier and muddier as we go down through time. Thus, far from providing the rungs of a ladder by which psychology gradually climbs to clarity, this form of conceptual structure leads rather to an ever increasing pile of issues, which we weary of or become diverted from, but never really settle. (Newell, 1973b, pp. 288-289)
       The subject matter of psychology is as old as reflection. Its broad practical aims are as dated as human societies. Human beings, in any period, have not been indifferent to the validity of their knowledge, unconcerned with the causes of their behavior or that of their prey and predators. Our distant ancestors, no less than we, wrestled with the problems of social organization, child rearing, competition, authority, individual differences, personal safety. Solving these problems required insights-no matter how untutored-into the psychological dimensions of life. Thus, if we are to follow the convention of treating psychology as a young discipline, we must have in mind something other than its subject matter. We must mean that it is young in the sense that physics was young at the time of Archimedes or in the sense that geometry was "founded" by Euclid and "fathered" by Thales. Sailing vessels were launched long before Archimedes discovered the laws of bouyancy [ sic], and pillars of identical circumference were constructed before anyone knew that C IID. We do not consider the ship builders and stone cutters of antiquity physicists and geometers. Nor were the ancient cave dwellers psychologists merely because they rewarded the good conduct of their children. The archives of folk wisdom contain a remarkable collection of achievements, but craft-no matter how perfected-is not science, nor is a litany of successful accidents a discipline. If psychology is young, it is young as a scientific discipline but it is far from clear that psychology has attained this status. (Robinson, 1986, p. 12)

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  • 18 Graham, George

    SUBJECT AREA: Horology
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    b. c.1674 Cumberland, England
    d. 16 November 1751 London, England
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    English watch-and clockmaker who invented the cylinder escapement for watches, the first successful dead-beat escapement for clocks and the mercury compensation pendulum.
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    Graham's father died soon after his birth, so he was raised by his brother. In 1688 he was apprenticed to the London clockmaker Henry Aske, and in 1695 he gained his freedom. He was employed as a journeyman by Tompion in 1696 and later married his niece. In 1711 he formed a partnership with Tompion and effectively ran the business in Tompion's declining years; he took over the business after Tompion died in 1713. In addition to his horological interests he also made scientific instruments, specializing in those for astronomical use. As a person, he was well respected and appears to have lived up to the epithet "Honest George Graham". He befriended John Harrison when he first went to London and lent him money to further his researches at a time when they might have conflicted with his own interests.
    The two common forms of escapement in use in Graham's time, the anchor escapement for clocks and the verge escapement for watches, shared the same weakness: they interfered severely with the free oscillation of the pendulum and the balance, and thus adversely affected the timekeeping. Tompion's two frictional rest escapements, the dead-beat for clocks and the horizontal for watches, had provided a partial solution by eliminating recoil (the momentary reversal of the motion of the timepiece), but they had not been successful in practice. Around 1720 Graham produced his own much improved version of the dead-beat escapement which became a standard feature of regulator clocks, at least in Britain, until its supremacy was challenged at the end of the nineteenth century by the superior accuracy of the Riefler clock. Another feature of the regulator clock owed to Graham was the mercury compensation pendulum, which he invented in 1722 and published four years later. The bob of this pendulum contained mercury, the surface of which rose or fell with changes in temperature, compensating for the concomitant variation in the length of the pendulum rod. Graham devised his mercury pendulum after he had failed to achieve compensation by means of the difference in expansion between various metals. He then turned his attention to improving Tompion's horizontal escapement, and by 1725 the cylinder escapement existed in what was virtually its final form. From the following year he fitted this escapement to all his watches, and it was also used extensively by London makers for their precision watches. It proved to be somewhat lacking in durability, but this problem was overcome later in the century by using a ruby cylinder, notably by Abraham Louis Breguet. It was revived, in a cheaper form, by the Swiss and the French in the nineteenth century and was produced in vast quantities.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1720. Master of the Clockmakers' Company 1722.
    Bibliography
    Graham contributed many papers to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, in particular "A contrivance to avoid the irregularities in a clock's motion occasion'd by the action of heat and cold upon the rod of the pendulum" (1726) 34:40–4.
    Further Reading
    Britten's Watch \& Clock Maker's Handbook Dictionary and Guide, 1978, rev. Richard Good, 16th edn, London, pp. 81, 84, 232 (for a technical description of the dead-beat and cylinder escapements and the mercury compensation pendulum).
    A.J.Turner, 1972, "The introduction of the dead-beat escapement: a new document", Antiquarian Horology 8:71.
    E.A.Battison, 1972, biography, Biographical Dictionary of Science, ed. C.C.Gillespie, Vol. V, New York, 490–2 (contains a résumé of Graham's non-horological activities).
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  • 19 Stephenson, Robert

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    b. 16 October 1803 Willington Quay, Northumberland, England
    d. 12 October 1859 London, England
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    English engineer who built the locomotive Rocket and constructed many important early trunk railways.
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    Robert Stephenson's father was George Stephenson, who ensured that his son was educated to obtain the theoretical knowledge he lacked himself. In 1821 Robert Stephenson assisted his father in his survey of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway and in 1822 he assisted William James in the first survey of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway. He then went to Edinburgh University for six months, and the following year Robert Stephenson \& Co. was named after him as Managing Partner when it was formed by himself, his father and others. The firm was to build stationary engines, locomotives and railway rolling stock; in its early years it also built paper-making machinery and did general engineering.
    In 1824, however, Robert Stephenson accepted, perhaps in reaction to an excess of parental control, an invitation by a group of London speculators called the Colombian Mining Association to lead an expedition to South America to use steam power to reopen gold and silver mines. He subsequently visited North America before returning to England in 1827 to rejoin his father as an equal and again take charge of Robert Stephenson \& Co. There he set about altering the design of steam locomotives to improve both their riding and their steam-generating capacity. Lancashire Witch, completed in July 1828, was the first locomotive mounted on steel springs and had twin furnace tubes through the boiler to produce a large heating surface. Later that year Robert Stephenson \& Co. supplied the Stockton \& Darlington Railway with a wagon, mounted for the first time on springs and with outside bearings. It was to be the prototype of the standard British railway wagon. Between April and September 1829 Robert Stephenson built, not without difficulty, a multi-tubular boiler, as suggested by Henry Booth to George Stephenson, and incorporated it into the locomotive Rocket which the three men entered in the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway's Rainhill Trials in October. Rocket, was outstandingly successful and demonstrated that the long-distance steam railway was practicable.
    Robert Stephenson continued to develop the locomotive. Northumbrian, built in 1830, had for the first time, a smokebox at the front of the boiler and also the firebox built integrally with the rear of the boiler. Then in Planet, built later the same year, he adopted a layout for the working parts used earlier by steam road-coach pioneer Goldsworthy Gurney, placing the cylinders, for the first time, in a nearly horizontal position beneath the smokebox, with the connecting rods driving a cranked axle. He had evolved the definitive form for the steam locomotive.
    Also in 1830, Robert Stephenson surveyed the London \& Birmingham Railway, which was authorized by Act of Parliament in 1833. Stephenson became Engineer for construction of the 112-mile (180 km) railway, probably at that date the greatest task ever undertaken in of civil engineering. In this he was greatly assisted by G.P.Bidder, who as a child prodigy had been known as "The Calculating Boy", and the two men were to be associated in many subsequent projects. On the London \& Birmingham Railway there were long and deep cuttings to be excavated and difficult tunnels to be bored, notoriously at Kilsby. The line was opened in 1838.
    In 1837 Stephenson provided facilities for W.F. Cooke to make an experimental electrictelegraph installation at London Euston. The directors of the London \& Birmingham Railway company, however, did not accept his recommendation that they should adopt the electric telegraph and it was left to I.K. Brunel to instigate the first permanent installation, alongside the Great Western Railway. After Cooke formed the Electric Telegraph Company, Stephenson became a shareholder and was Chairman during 1857–8.
    Earlier, in the 1830s, Robert Stephenson assisted his father in advising on railways in Belgium and came to be increasingly in demand as a consultant. In 1840, however, he was almost ruined financially as a result of the collapse of the Stanhope \& Tyne Rail Road; in return for acting as Engineer-in-Chief he had unwisely accepted shares, with unlimited liability, instead of a fee.
    During the late 1840s Stephenson's greatest achievements were the design and construction of four great bridges, as part of railways for which he was responsible. The High Level Bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle and the Royal Border Bridge over the Tweed at Berwick were the links needed to complete the East Coast Route from London to Scotland. For the Chester \& Holyhead Railway to cross the Menai Strait, a bridge with spans as long-as 460 ft (140 m) was needed: Stephenson designed them as wrought-iron tubes of rectangular cross-section, through which the trains would pass, and eventually joined the spans together into a tube 1,511 ft (460 m) long from shore to shore. Extensive testing was done beforehand by shipbuilder William Fairbairn to prove the method, and as a preliminary it was first used for a 400 ft (122 m) span bridge at Conway.
    In 1847 Robert Stephenson was elected MP for Whitby, a position he held until his death, and he was one of the exhibition commissioners for the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the early 1850s he was Engineer-in-Chief for the Norwegian Trunk Railway, the first railway in Norway, and he also built the Alexandria \& Cairo Railway, the first railway in Africa. This included two tubular bridges with the railway running on top of the tubes. The railway was extended to Suez in 1858 and for several years provided a link in the route from Britain to India, until superseded by the Suez Canal, which Stephenson had opposed in Parliament. The greatest of all his tubular bridges was the Victoria Bridge across the River St Lawrence at Montreal: after inspecting the site in 1852 he was appointed Engineer-in-Chief for the bridge, which was 1 1/2 miles (2 km) long and was designed in his London offices. Sadly he, like Brunel, died young from self-imposed overwork, before the bridge was completed in 1859.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1849. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1849. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1856. Order of St Olaf (Norway). Order of Leopold (Belgium). Like his father, Robert Stephenson refused a knighthood.
    Further Reading
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, London: Longman (a good modern biography).
    J.C.Jeaffreson, 1864, The Life of Robert Stephenson, London: Longman (the standard nine-teenth-century biography).
    M.R.Bailey, 1979, "Robert Stephenson \& Co. 1823–1829", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 50 (provides details of the early products of that company).
    J.Kieve, 1973, The Electric Telegraph, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.
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  • 20 Johansson, Carl Edvard

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    b. 15 March 1864 Orebro, Sweden
    d. 30 September 1943 Eskilstuna, Sweden
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    Swedish metrologist and inventor of measuring-gauge blocks.
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    Carl Edvard Johansson was first apprenticed to a shoemaker, but he soon abandoned that career. In 1882 he went to America to join his brother Arvid working at a sawmill in the summer; in winter the brothers obtained further general education at the Gustavus Adolphus College at St Peter, Minnesota. They returned to Sweden in November 1884 and in the following year Carl obtained employment with a small engineering firm which rented a workshop in the government small-arms factory at Eskilstuna. In his spare time he attended the Eskilstuna Technical College and in 1888 he was accepted as an apprentice armourer inspector. After completion of his apprenticeship he was appointed an armourer inspector, and it was in his work of inspection that he realized that the large number of gauges then required could be reduced if several accurate gauges could be used in combination. This was in 1896, and the first set of gauges was made for use in the rifle factory. With these, any dimension between 1 mm and 201 mm could be made up to the nearest 0.01 mm, the gauges having flat polished surfaces that would adhere together by "wringing". Johansson obtained patents for the system from 1901, but it was not until c.1907 that the sets of gauges were marketed generally. Gauges were made in inch units for Britain and America—slightly different as the standards were not then identical. Johansson formed his own company to manufacture the gauges in 1910, but he did not give up his post in the rifle factory until 1914. By the 1920s Johansson gauges were established as the engineering dimensional standards for the whole world; the company also made other precision measuring instruments such as micrometers and extensometers. A new company, C.E.Johansson Inc., was set up in America for manufacture and sales, and the gauges were extensively used in the American automobile industry. Henry Ford took a special interest and Johansson spent several years in a post with the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan, until he returned to Sweden in 1936.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Honorary Doctorates, Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter and Wayne University, Detroit. Swedish Engineering Society John Ericsson Gold Medal. American Society of Mechanical Engineers Gold Medal.
    Further Reading
    K.J.Hume, 1980, A History of Engineering Metrology, London, pp. 54–66 (a short biography).
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