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  • 1 read

    [red]
    past tense, past participle; = read
    * * *
    I [ri:d]
    noun
    branje, čitanje; čas (oddih, pavza) za branje
    to take a read — (malo) brati, čitati
    II [ri:d]
    1.
    transitive verb
    brati, čitati, razbrati; prebrati, prečitati (off, through); (raz)rešiti, reševati (uganke); preučiti (up); razlagati, tolmačiti, pojasnjevati; predavati, učiti (s čitanjem), seznaniti koga s pisateljevimi mislimi; napoved(ov)ati, prerokovati; zvedeti, doznati (iz časopisa); študirati; uspavati koga z branjem (into, to sleep); (o toplomeru) (po)kazati, (za)beležiti
    to read s.th. to s.o. — čitati komu kaj
    to read s.o. like a book figuratively točno koga spregledati (spoznati, razumeti)
    to read s.o.'s face — brati komu na obrazu
    to read s.o.'s fortune — prerokovati komu prihodnost
    with whom do you read Greek? — pri kom študirate grščino?
    to read music — brati note, igrati po notah
    to read a manuscript — oceniti, recenzirati rokopis
    to read s.o. a lesson — ošteti koga, brati komu levite
    do you read me? — me razumeš?
    how do you read this passage? — kako razumete ta odstavek?
    to read the riot act — dati zadnje svarilo o posledicah slabega vedenja (npr. pri izgredih, demonstracijah pred vojaškim posegom)
    to read s.th. into a text — hoteti brati v besedilu nekaj, česar v njem ni
    she likes being read to — ona ima rada, da ji kaj berejo
    the thermometer reads 30° C in the shade — termometer kaže 30° C v senci;
    2.
    intransitive verb
    brati, čitati; dati se brati; glasiti se; zvedeti z branjem, brati (about, of o); študirati, učiti se, pripravljati se, pripraviti se za izpit ( for za)
    III [red]
    1.
    preterite & past participle od to read;
    2.
    adjective
    bran, čitan; načitan (in v)
    a well-read man — načitan, izobražen človek

    English-Slovenian dictionary > read

  • 2 read

    1. I
    1) learn (teach smb.) to read учиться (научить кого-л.) читать; be (un)able to read (не) уметь читать; he can neither read nor write он не умеет ни читать, ни писать; I've no time (I haven't enough time) to read /for reading/ у меня нет (достаточно) времени, чтобы читать /для чтения/; I've finished reading я дочитал; did he speak extempore or read? он говорил [без подготовки] или читал?
    2) what does the thermometer (speedometer, etc.) read ? что показывает термометр и т.д.?, какая температура и т.д.?
    2. II
    1) read i n some manner read slowly (fluently, softly, intelligibly, indistinctly, monotonously, etc.) читать медленно и т.д.; read aloud out loud/ (просчитать вслух; read word by word читать слово за словом; read at sight читать с листа; read for some time read all day long читать весь, день напролет; she's learning to read now сейчас она учится читать; read far into the night читать /зачитываться/ далека за полночь
    2) read in some manner the sentence (the passage, etc.) reads oddly /queerly/ это предложение и т.д. странно звучит; the play does not read well эта пьеса при чтении не производит впечатления; the play reads hatter than it acts пьеса читается лучше, чем звучит со сцены; the passage reads thus вот, что гласит этот отрывок; read at some time how does the sentence read now? как теперь звучит /сформулировано/ это предложение?
    3) read in some manner you must read harder [next term] вам надо больше заниматься [в будущем /следующем/ семестре]
    3. III
    read smth.
    1) read a letter (a book, a newspaper, a manuscript, poetry, Shakespeare, etc.) читать письмо и т.д.; read English (German, etc.) читать по-английски и т.д.; he can read several languages он умеет читать на нескольких языках; on the ring one can read these words... на кольце можно прочитать такие слова...; read a will зачитывать завещание; read proofs print. читать /держать, править/ корректуру
    2) read a lecture (a report, a paper, a sermon, etc.) читать лекцию и т.д.
    3) the clause reads both ways статьи можно понимать /толковать/ двояко; а rule that reads two different ways правило, которое можно понимать и так, и этак; for "fail", a misprint, read "fall" вкралась опечатка: вместо "fail" читайте "fall"
    4) read hieroglyphs (Chinese characters, the clock, etc.) разбирать /расшифровывать/ иероглифы и т.д.; read the Morse system знать азбуку Морзе; read a map читать карту; read a piece of music разобрать музыкальную пьесу; а motorist must be able to read traffic signs автомобилист должен уметь разбираться в дорожных знаках; read a riddle разгадать загадку; read dreams толковать /разгадывать/ сны; read smb.'s fortune предсказывать кому-л. судьбу; read smb.'s thought читать чьи-л. мысли; read men's hearts читать в людских сердцах
    6) read a thermometer (a barometer, an electric meter, etc.) снимать показания термометра и т.д.; read smb.'s blood pressure измерять кому-л. кровяное давление; read an angle topog. измерить угол
    7) read history (physics, etc.) изучать историю и т.д.
    4. IV
    1) read smth. in some manner read smth. silently (easily, clearly, aloud, etc.) читать что-л. молча и т.д., read smth. over and over снова и снова перечитывать что-л.; read it out loud прочтите это вслух; he cannot read English or German fluently он не умеет бегло читать ни по-английски, ни по-немецки; she reads poetry very well она очень хорошо читает стихи; read smth. at some time I like to read books at night я люблю читать книги ночью; have you read your mail yet? вы уже прочитали свою почту?; few read this author nowadays в наши дни немногие читают этого писателя
    2) read smth. at some time can the child read the clock yet? ребенок умеет уже узнавать время по часам? || read music at sight читать ноты с листа
    3) read smth. in some manner I read it differently я это не так понимаю
    5. V
    read smb. smth.
    1) read smb. a letter (a story, etc.) (просчитать кому-л. письмо и т.д.
    2) read smb. a lesson (a [severe] lecture) прочитать кому-л. нотацию (сделать [суровое] внушение)
    6. VI
    read smth. in some state few will read it dry-eyed немногие прочтут это, не прослезившись
    7. XI
    1) be read the boy had been read the story of Cinderella мальчику прочли сказку о Золушке; be read to for some time the invalid is read to for several hours daily больному каждый день читают вслух по нескольку часов; be read by smb. this is largely read by young men эту книгу больше всего читает молодежь
    2) be read after the will had been read после оглашения завещания; read and aproved заслушано и одобрено (о протоколе, плане и т.п.)
    3) be read in some manner clause that may be read several ways статья, допускающая несколько толкований; his letters have to be read between the lines его письма следует читать между строк; be read as smth. my silence is not to be read as consent мое молчание нельзя считать согласием /принимать за согласие/
    8. XVI
    1) read about /of /smth., smb. read about a disaster (of smb.'s death, of heroes of other days, of his success, etc.) (про)читать о катастрофе и т.д.; I've just been reading about it я как раз об этом только что читал; read from /out of /smth., smb. read from /out of/ a book a) вычитать [что-л.] в книге; б) процитировать что-л. из книги; read from Shakespeare читать из [произведений] Шекспира; read to smb. read to the children читать детям; read to oneself читать про себя; read before smb. read before the class читать перед классом /всему классу/; read at (by) smth. read at meals (at night, etc.) читать за едой и т.д., read by turns читать по очереди || read between the lines читать между строк; read in some place read in bed (in trains, etc.) читать в постели и т.д., read in a certain voice read in a low (in a firm, in a sure, in a clear, etc.) voice читать тихим и т.д. голосом; read with (without) smth. read with [much] enthusiasm (with expression, with poetical rapture, etc.) читать с [большим] энтузиазмом и т.д., read with the lips читать [шевели] губами; the blind read with their fingers слепые читают с помощью пальцев; read without expression читать без [всякого] выражения; read without glasses /spectacles/ читать без очков; read for smth. read for amusement and relaxation читать для развлечения и отдыха; read in smth. read in smb.'s eyes (in smb.'s heart, in smb.'s face, etc.) читать в чьих-л. глазах и т.д.; read in some language read in some foreign language (in Spanish, in Turkish, etc.) читать на каком-л. иностранном языке и т.д.
    2) read to (in) smth. this ticket reads to Boston в билете сказано "до Бостона"; how does this passage read in the original (in translation)? как звучит этот отрывок в оригинале (в переводе)?
    3) read for smth. read for an examination (for a degree, for honours, etc.) готовиться к экзамену и т.д.; read for the law учиться на юридическом факультете; read for the Bar готовиться к адвокатуре; read (up)on smth. read (up)on a subject готовиться [к экзамену] по какому-л. предмету
    9. XVIII
    read oneself into some state read oneself hoarse (stupid, blind, etc.) дочитаться до хрипоты и т.д.
    10. XIX1
    read like smth. the book reads like a translation (like a novel, like a wild dream, like a threat, like a lie, etc.) книга читается /воспринимается/ как перевод и т.д.; this does not read like a child's composition когда читаешь это сочинение, то не возникает /не создается/ впечатления, что оно написано ребенком; the autobiography reads like a novel эту автобиографию читаешь, как роман
    11. XX3
    || the document (the letter, etc.) reads as follows... документ и т.д. гласит следующее...; the passage quoted (the telegram, etc.) reads as follows... в цитате и т.д. говорится, что...
    12. XXI1
    1) read smth. to smb. read a story to the children (a letter to one's brother, etc.) (про)читать детям рассказ и т.д.; read the letter to yourself прочтите письмо про себя; read smth., smb. in smth. read smth. in the newspaper (in a book, etc.) (про)читать что-л. в газете и т.д.; read an author in the original читать какого-л. автора в оригинале; read smth. with (without) smth. read English poetry with interest (with intelligence, with appreciation, with expression, etc.) читать английскую поэзию с интересом и т.д.; I can't see to read the name without a light без света я не могу прочитать фамилию; read smth. by (in) a certain light read smth. by candle-light (by noonlight, in twilight, etc.) читать что-л. при свече и т.д.; read smb. to some state read smb. (oneself) to sleep усыпить кого-л. (себя) чтением
    2) read smth. to smb. read a report to the meeting a) огласить отчет на заседании; б) сделать доклад на собрании; read a sermon to smb. прочесть кому-л. нотацию, давать кому-л. наставления
    3) read smth. by smth. read a telegram by code расшифровать /прочитать/ телеграмму с помощью кода; read smth. in smth. read smb.'s thoughts (smb.'s open nature, etc.) in his eyes (in his countenance, etc.) читать чьи-л. мысли и т.д. по глазам и т.д.; you can read a person's character in his face по лицу можно определить характер человека; read smb.'s future in tea-leaves = гадать кому-л. на кофейной гуще; read smth. instead of smth. read "of" instead of "for" print. вместо "for" следует читать "of" || read smth. between the lines читать между строк; I could read jealousy between the lines между строк явно проглядывала ревность [, водившая пером автора]; read smth. into smth. видеть что-л. в чем-л.; read sarcasm into a letter усмотреть в письме насмешку; you read too much into the text вы вычитали из текста то, чего в нем нет; we sometimes read our own thoughts into a poet's words мы иногда вкладываем свой собственный смысл в слова поэта; read a compliment into what was meant as a rebuke истолковать как комплимент то, что должно было быть /звучать/ упреком
    4) read smth. at smth. he's reading physics at Cambridge он в Кембридже изучает физику
    13. XXIII1 |
    || read smb. like a book прекрасно понимать кого-л., видеть кого-л. насквозь
    14. XXIV1
    read smth. as smth. read silence as consent (the dark and cloudy sky as the threat of a storm, etc.) рассматривать /считать, толковать/ молчание как согласие и т.д.
    15. XXV
    1) read when... (that...) he was reading when I called он читал, когда я позвонил; I've read somewhere that it's not true (that revenge is wild justice, etc.) я где-то читал /прочел/, что это неправда и т.д.
    2) read that... the paragraph reads to the effect that all men are equal в этом абзаце говорится /провозглашается/, что все люди равны

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > read

  • 3 Hopkinson, John

    [br]
    b. 27 July 1849 Manchester, England
    d. 27 August 1898 Petite Dent de Veisivi, Switzerland
    [br]
    English mathematician and electrical engineer who laid the foundations of electrical machine design.
    [br]
    After attending Owens College, Manchester, Hopkinson was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1867 to read for the Mathematical Tripos. An appointment in 1872 with the lighthouse department of the Chance Optical Works in Birmingham directed his attention to electrical engineering. His most noteworthy contribution to lighthouse engineering was an optical system to produce flashing lights that distinguished between individual beacons. His extensive researches on the dielectric properties of glass were recognized when he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society at the age of 29. Moving to London in 1877 he became established as a consulting engineer at a time when electricity supply was about to begin on a commercial scale. During the remainder of his life, Hopkinson's researches resulted in fundamental contributions to electrical engineering practice, dynamo design and alternating current machine theory. In making a critical study of the Edison dynamo he developed the principle of the magnetic circuit, a concept also arrived at by Gisbert Kapp around the same time. Hopkinson's improvement of the Edison dynamo by reducing the length of the field magnets almost doubled its output. In 1890, in addition to-his consulting practice, Hopkinson accepted a post as the first Professor of Electrical Engineering and Head of the Siemens laboratory recently established at King's College, London. Although he was not involved in lecturing, the position gave him the necessary facilities and staff and student assistance to continue his researches. Hopkinson was consulted on many proposals for electric traction and electricity supply, including schemes in London, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds. He also advised Mather and Platt when they were acting as contractors for the locomotives and generating plant for the City and South London tube railway. As early as 1882 he considered that an ideal method of charging for the supply of electricity should be based on a two-part tariff, with a charge related to maximum demand together with a charge for energy supplied. Hopkinson was one the foremost expert witnesses of his day in patent actions and was himself the patentee of over forty inventions, of which the three-wire system of distribution and the series-parallel connection of traction motors were his most successful. Jointly with his brother Edward, John Hopkinson communicated the outcome of his investigations to the Royal Society in a paper entitled "Dynamo Electric Machinery" in 1886. In this he also described the later widely used "back to back" test for determining the characteristics of two identical machines. His interest in electrical machines led him to more fundamental research on magnetic materials, including the phenomenon of recalescence and the disappearance of magnetism at a well-defined temperature. For his work on the magnetic properties of iron, in 1890 he was awarded the Royal Society Royal Medal. He was a member of the Alpine Club and a pioneer of rock climbing in Britain; he died, together with three of his children, in a climbing accident.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1878. Royal Society Royal Medal 1890. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1890 and 1896.
    Bibliography
    7 July 1881, British patent no. 2,989 (series-parallel control of traction motors). 27 July 1882, British patent no. 3,576 (three-wire distribution).
    1901, Original Papers by the Late J.Hopkinson, with a Memoir, ed. B.Hopkinson, 2 vols, Cambridge.
    Further Reading
    J.Greig, 1970, John Hopkinson Electrical Engineer, London: Science Museum and HMSO (an authoritative account).
    —1950, "John Hopkinson 1849–1898", Engineering 169:34–7, 62–4.
    GW

    Biographical history of technology > Hopkinson, John

  • 4 Ellington, Edward Bayzard

    [br]
    b. 2 August 1845 London, England
    d. 10 November 1914 London, England
    [br]
    English hydraulic engineer who developed a direct-acting hydraulic lift.
    [br]
    Ellington was educated at Denmark Hill Grammar School, London, after which he became articled to John Penn of Greenwich. He stayed there until 1868, working latterly in the drawing office after a period of erecting plant and attending trials on board ship. For some twelve months he superintended the erection of Glengall Wharf, Old Kent Road, and the machinery used therein.
    In 1869 he went into partnership with Bryan Johnson of Chester, the company being known as Johnson \& Ellington, manufacturing mining and milling machinery. Under Ellington's influence, the firm specialized in the manufacture of hydraulic machinery. In 1874 the company acquired the right to manufacture the Brotherhood three-cylinder hydraulic engine; the company became the Hydraulic Engineering Company Ltd of Chester. Ellington developed a direct-acting hydraulic lift with a special balance arrangement that was smooth-acting and economical in water. He described the lift in a paper that was read to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in 1882.
    Soon after Ellington joined the Chester firm, an Act of Parliament was passed, mainly due to his efforts, for the distribution of water under high pressure for the working of passenger and goods lifts and other hydraulic machinery in large towns. In 1872 he initiated the first hydraulic mains company at Hull, thus proving the practicability of the system of a high-pressure water-mains supply. Ellington remained as engineer to the Hull company until he was appointed a director in 1875. He was general manager and engineer of the General Hydraulic Power Company, which operated in London and had subsidiaries in Liverpool (opened in 1889), Manchester (1894) and Glasgow (1895). He maintained an interest in all these companies, as general manager and engineer, until his death.
    In 1895 he read another paper, "On hydraulic power in towns", to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. In 1911 he became President of the IMechE; his Presidential Address was on the education of young engineers. In 1913 he delivered the Thomas Hawksley Lecture on "Water as a mechanical agent". He was Chairman of the Building Committee during the extension of the Institution's headquarters. Ellington was also a Member of Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a member of the Société des Ingé-nieurs Civils de France and a Governor of Imperial College of Science and Technology.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1875; Member of Council 1898– 1903; President 1911–12.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Ellington, Edward Bayzard

  • 5 curso

    m.
    1 year.
    2 course (lecciones).
    un curso de inglés/informática an English/computing course
    curso por correspondencia correspondence course
    curso intensivo crash course
    3 textbook (texto, manual).
    4 course (dirección) (de río, acontecimientos).
    dar curso a algo to give free rein to something; (dar rienda suelta) to process o deal with something (tramitar)
    en el curso de una semana ha habido tres accidentes there have been three accidents in the course of a week
    la situación comenzará a mejorar en el curso de un año the situation will begin to improve within a year
    en curso current; (mes, año) in progress (trabajo)
    seguir su curso to go on, to continue
    5 trend, development.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: cursar.
    * * *
    1 (dirección) course, direction
    2 EDUCACIÓN (nivel) year, class; (materia) course; (escolar) school year
    ■ ¿cuándo empieza el curso? when do classes start?
    3 (río) flow, current
    \
    dar curso a algo (tramitar) to deal with something 2 (dar libertad) to give free rein to something
    dejar que las cosas sigan su curso figurado to let things take their course
    en el curso de... figurado during the course of...
    estar en curso figurado to be under way
    año en curso current year
    curso acelerado crash course
    mes en curso current month
    moneda de curso legal legal tender
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (Escol, Univ) (=año escolar) year; (=clase) year, class ( esp EEUU)

    los alumnos del segundo curso — second year pupils, the second years

    curso escolar — school year, academic year

    2) (=estudios) course

    apertura/clausura de curso — beginning/end of term

    curso acelerado — crash course, intensive course

    curso intensivo — crash course, intensive course

    3) [de río] course

    curso de agua, curso fluvial — watercourse

    4) (=desarrollo) course

    • en curso, el proceso judicial está en curso — the case is under way o in progress

    el año en curso — the present year, the current year

    • en el curso de, en el curso de la entrevista — during the interview, in o during the course of the interview

    5) frm

    • dar curso a algo, dar curso a una solicitud — to deal with an application

    dar libre curso a algo: dio libre curso a sus pensamientos — he gave free rein to his thoughts

    6) (Com)
    * * *
    1) (Educ)
    a) ( año académico) year

    el curso escolar/universitario — the academic year

    b) ( clases) course
    c) ( grupo de alumnos) year
    2)
    a) (transcurso, desarrollo) course

    el año/el mes en curso — (frml) the current year/month (frml)

    dar curso a algo — (a una instancia/solicitud) to start to process something; ( a la imaginación) to give free rein to something

    b) ( de río) course

    monedas/billetes de curso legal — legal tender, legal currency

    * * *
    1) (Educ)
    a) ( año académico) year

    el curso escolar/universitario — the academic year

    b) ( clases) course
    c) ( grupo de alumnos) year
    2)
    a) (transcurso, desarrollo) course

    el año/el mes en curso — (frml) the current year/month (frml)

    dar curso a algo — (a una instancia/solicitud) to start to process something; ( a la imaginación) to give free rein to something

    b) ( de río) course

    monedas/billetes de curso legal — legal tender, legal currency

    * * *
    curso1
    1 = course, taught course, year, course unit, grade.

    Ex: Earlier in this course we defined a compound subject as consisting, at the level of summarization, of a basic subject and two or more of its isolates.

    Ex: During the early 1970s European studies became a fashionable growth area boosted by the trend towards inter-disciplinarity in taught courses.
    Ex: General lectures to a whole year, or even several courses, are supplemented with more specialised tutorials or practicals, frequently in small groups.
    Ex: This paper discusses the library education programme in the 1st library school in Nigeria to offer the course unit system as operated in the USA.
    Ex: Each grade tackles a different genre e.g. fifth graders read historical fiction.
    * alumno de cuarto curso = fourth grader.
    * alumno de primer curso = first grader.
    * alumno de quinto curso = fifth grader.
    * alumno de segundo curso = second grader.
    * alumno de séptimo curso = seventh grader.
    * alumno de sexto curso = sixth grader.
    * alumno de tercer curso = third grader.
    * alumno de un curso = grader.
    * asistir a un curso = attend + course.
    * bibliografía recomendada para el curso = course reading.
    * calificación del curso = course grade.
    * celebrar un curso especial = hold + institute.
    * curso académico = academic course.
    * curso acelerado = crash course.
    * curso a distancia = telecourse.
    * curso a tiempo completo = full-time course.
    * curso con créditos = credit course.
    * curso de clases magistrales = lecture course.
    * curso de diplomatura = undergraduate course, honours course.
    * curso de formación = training course.
    * curso de formación continua = continuing education course.
    * curso de iniciación = induction course.
    * curso de licenciatura = postgraduate course.
    * curso de orientación = orientation.
    * curso de reciclaje = refresher course, retraining course.
    * curso de verano = summer institute, summer session.
    * curso escolar = school year.
    * curso inferior = junior class.
    * curso intensivo = intensive course, crash course.
    * curso intensivo con residencia = residential programme.
    * curso introductorio = induction course.
    * curso mixto de clases y práctica en la empresa = sandwich course.
    * curso modular = modular course.
    * curso para alumnos con matrícula libre = part-time course.
    * curso por correspondencia = correspondence course.
    * curso que abarca varias disciplinas = umbrella course.
    * curso que tiene lugar fuera de la universidad = extension course, off-campus course.
    * cursos = coursework [course work].
    * cursos de gestión de información = management course.
    * cursos de verano = summer school.
    * cursos en línea = courseware.
    * curso superior = senior class.
    * cursos virtuales = courseware.
    * demasiado mayor para su curso = overage for grade.
    * director de curso = course leader.
    * discurso de fin de curso = commencement salutatory.
    * diseñador de curso = course planner.
    * documentación de un curso = course pack.
    * estudiante de cursos superiores = upperclassman.
    * estudiante de último curso = final year student.
    * estudiante universitario de último curso = senior major.
    * hacer un curso = take + course.
    * material del curso = course material, curriculum material, curriculum resource.
    * nota del curso = course grade.
    * oferta de cursos = course offering.
    * ofrecer un curso = offer + course.
    * organizar un curso = arrange + course, run + course.
    * primer curso = first grade.
    * programa de curso = course program(me).
    * programa del curso = course syllabus.
    * quinto curso = fifth grade.
    * realización de cursos = coursework [course work].
    * repetición de cursos = grade retention.
    * segundo curso = second grade.
    * sistema virtual de gestión de cursos = course management system.

    curso2
    2 = course.

    Ex: The course of the race contains many steep hills, often paved with cobblestones.

    * bibliografía en curso = current bibliography.
    * curso de agua = water body [waterbody].
    * curso de un río = course of a river.
    * desviarse del curso = veer from + course.
    * en curso = in process, underway [under way], in progress, ongoing [on-going], afoot, current, under preparation.
    * en el curso de la historia = in the course of history.
    * en el curso normal de = in the mainstream of.
    * en el curso normal de las cosas = in the normal run of things, in the normal run of events.
    * en el curso normal de los acontecimientos = in the normal run of events, in the normal run of things.
    * fichero de catalogación en curso = in-process cataloguing file.
    * marcar el curso = chart + course.
    * moneda de curso legal = legal tender.
    * proyecto en curso = work in progress.
    * publicación periódica en curso = current periodical.
    * publicación seriada en curso = current serial.
    * revista en curso = current journal.
    * seguir un curso de acción = follow + track.
    * trabajo en curso = work in progress.

    * * *
    A ( Educ)
    está en (el) tercer curso he's in the third year
    el curso escolar/universitario the academic year
    2 (clases) course
    está haciendo un curso de contabilidad she's doing an accountancy course, she's doing a course in accountancy o accounting
    una chica de mi curso a girl in my year
    Compuestos:
    ● curso acelerado or intensivo
    crash o intensive course
    (en Esp) ( Hist) pre-university course
    correspondence course
    B
    1
    (transcurso, desarrollo): en el curso de la reunión in the course of o during the meeting
    seguir atentamente el curso de los acontecimientos to follow the development of events very closely
    es su segunda visita en el curso del año it is her second visit this year
    el año/el mes/la semana en curso ( frml); the current year/month/week ( frml)
    dar curso a algo ‹a una instancia/solicitud› to start to process sth;
    ‹a la imaginación› to give free rein to sth
    dio libre curso a su indignación he gave vent to his indignation
    2 (de un río) course
    ríos de curso rápido fast flowing rivers
    C
    (circulación): monedas/billetes de curso legal legal tender, legal currency
    * * *

     

    Del verbo cursar: ( conjugate cursar)

    curso es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    cursó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    cursar    
    curso
    cursar ( conjugate cursar) verbo transitivo ( estudiar):

    cursó estudios de Derecho she did o studied o (BrE) read Law
    curso sustantivo masculino
    1 (Educ)


    el curso escolar/universitario the academic year
    b) (de inglés, mecanografía) course;

    ◊ curso intensivo crash o intensive course;

    Ccurso de Orientación Universitaria ( en Esp) pre-university course;
    curso por correspondencia correspondence course
    2
    a) (transcurso, desarrollo) course;



    3 ( circulación):

    cursar verbo transitivo
    1 (estudiar) to study
    2 (enviar) to send
    (tramitar) to process
    curso sustantivo masculino
    1 (marcha de acontecimientos, río) course
    (transcurso) en el curso de estos años he ido conociéndola, I've got to know her over the years
    estará listo en el curso de esta semana, it'll be ready in the course of this week
    año o mes en curso, current year o month
    2 (rumbo, trayectoria) course: cada uno siguió su curso, each of them took his own course
    3 (año académico) year
    (niños de una misma clase) class
    4 (clases sobre una materia) course
    5 Fin moneda de curso legal, legal tender
    ' curso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    COU
    - de
    - dinamizar
    - entrada
    - entrado
    - ser
    - iniciación
    - invertir
    - marcha
    - nos
    - pelada
    - pelado
    - reciclaje
    - retener
    - satisfacción
    - seguir
    - acabar
    - acceso
    - acelerado
    - año
    - apertura
    - apuntar
    - base
    - bibliografía
    - corriente
    - corto
    - cursar
    - cursillo
    - delegado
    - dictar
    - duración
    - elemental
    - grado
    - iniciar
    - inscribir
    - inscripción
    - pasar
    - perder
    - preámbulo
    - preparatorio
    - programa
    - repetir
    - reprobar
    - sacar
    - semestral
    - semestre
    - teórico
    - terminar
    - torcer
    - tutor
    English:
    A-level
    - academy
    - advanced
    - ancillary
    - correspondence course
    - course
    - crash course
    - current
    - go along with
    - graduate
    - intensive
    - legal tender
    - nature
    - ongoing
    - PGCE
    - postgraduate
    - profit
    - progress
    - required
    - sandwich course
    - senior
    - tender
    - year
    - bias
    - blow
    - correspondence
    - drop
    - form
    - foundation
    - go
    - grade
    - home
    - legal
    - lower
    - on
    - process
    - program
    - retrain
    - sophomore
    - summer
    - though
    * * *
    curso nm
    1. [año académico] year;
    ¿en qué curso estás? what year are you in?
    curso académico academic year;
    curso escolar school year
    2. [lecciones] course;
    un curso de inglés/informática an English/computing course
    curso por correspondencia correspondence course;
    curso intensivo crash course;
    Educ curso puente = intermediate course which enables a university student to change degree courses
    3. [grupo de alumnos] class
    4. [texto, manual] textbook
    5. [evolución] [de acontecimientos] course;
    [de la economía] trend;
    el curso de la enfermedad es positivo he has taken a turn for the better;
    dar curso a algo [dar rienda suelta] to give free rein to sth;
    [tramitar] to process sth, to deal with sth;
    en el curso de una semana ha habido tres accidentes there have been three accidents in the course of a week;
    la situación comenzará a mejorar en el curso de un año the situation will begin to improve within a year;
    en curso [mes, año] current;
    [trabajo] in progress;
    seguir su curso to go on, to continue
    6. [circulación]
    billete/moneda de curso legal legal tender
    7. [de río] course;
    el curso alto/medio the upper/middle reaches
    * * *
    m
    1 course;
    en el curso de in the course of
    2 COM
    :
    moneda de curso legal legal tender
    3 EDU
    :
    pasar de curso move up a grade;
    perder el curso miss the school year;
    repetir curso repeat a grade
    * * *
    curso nm
    1) : course, direction
    2) : school year
    3) : course, subject (in school)
    * * *
    1. (en general) course
    2. (año) year
    ¿qué curso haces? what year are you in?

    Spanish-English dictionary > curso

  • 6 Stephenson, George

    [br]
    b. 9 June 1781 Wylam, Northumberland, England
    d. 12 August 1848 Tapton House, Chesterfield, England
    [br]
    English engineer, "the father of railways".
    [br]
    George Stephenson was the son of the fireman of the pumping engine at Wylam colliery, and horses drew wagons of coal along the wooden rails of the Wylam wagonway past the house in which he was born and spent his earliest childhood. While still a child he worked as a cowherd, but soon moved to working at coal pits. At 17 years of age he showed sufficient mechanical talent to be placed in charge of a new pumping engine, and had already achieved a job more responsible than that of his father. Despite his position he was still illiterate, although he subsequently learned to read and write. He was largely self-educated.
    In 1801 he was appointed Brakesman of the winding engine at Black Callerton pit, with responsibility for lowering the miners safely to their work. Then, about two years later, he became Brakesman of a new winding engine erected by Robert Hawthorn at Willington Quay on the Tyne. Returning collier brigs discharged ballast into wagons and the engine drew the wagons up an inclined plane to the top of "Ballast Hill" for their contents to be tipped; this was one of the earliest applications of steam power to transport, other than experimentally.
    In 1804 Stephenson moved to West Moor pit, Killingworth, again as Brakesman. In 1811 he demonstrated his mechanical skill by successfully modifying a new and unsatisfactory atmospheric engine, a task that had defeated the efforts of others, to enable it to pump a drowned pit clear of water. The following year he was appointed Enginewright at Killingworth, in charge of the machinery in all the collieries of the "Grand Allies", the prominent coal-owning families of Wortley, Liddell and Bowes, with authorization also to work for others. He built many stationary engines and he closely examined locomotives of John Blenkinsop's type on the Kenton \& Coxlodge wagonway, as well as those of William Hedley at Wylam.
    It was in 1813 that Sir Thomas Liddell requested George Stephenson to build a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway: Blucher made its first trial run on 25 July 1814 and was based on Blenkinsop's locomotives, although it lacked their rack-and-pinion drive. George Stephenson is credited with building the first locomotive both to run on edge rails and be driven by adhesion, an arrangement that has been the conventional one ever since. Yet Blucher was far from perfect and over the next few years, while other engineers ignored the steam locomotive, Stephenson built a succession of them, each an improvement on the last.
    During this period many lives were lost in coalmines from explosions of gas ignited by miners' lamps. By observation and experiment (sometimes at great personal risk) Stephenson invented a satisfactory safety lamp, working independently of the noted scientist Sir Humphry Davy who also invented such a lamp around the same time.
    In 1817 George Stephenson designed his first locomotive for an outside customer, the Kilmarnock \& Troon Railway, and in 1819 he laid out the Hetton Colliery Railway in County Durham, for which his brother Robert was Resident Engineer. This was the first railway to be worked entirely without animal traction: it used inclined planes with stationary engines, self-acting inclined planes powered by gravity, and locomotives.
    On 19 April 1821 Stephenson was introduced to Edward Pease, one of the main promoters of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway (S \& DR), which by coincidence received its Act of Parliament the same day. George Stephenson carried out a further survey, to improve the proposed line, and in this he was assisted by his 18-year-old son, Robert Stephenson, whom he had ensured received the theoretical education which he himself lacked. It is doubtful whether either could have succeeded without the other; together they were to make the steam railway practicable.
    At George Stephenson's instance, much of the S \& DR was laid with wrought-iron rails recently developed by John Birkinshaw at Bedlington Ironworks, Morpeth. These were longer than cast-iron rails and were not brittle: they made a track well suited for locomotives. In June 1823 George and Robert Stephenson, with other partners, founded a firm in Newcastle upon Tyne to build locomotives and rolling stock and to do general engineering work: after its Managing Partner, the firm was called Robert Stephenson \& Co.
    In 1824 the promoters of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) invited George Stephenson to resurvey their proposed line in order to reduce opposition to it. William James, a wealthy land agent who had become a visionary protagonist of a national railway network and had seen Stephenson's locomotives at Killingworth, had promoted the L \& MR with some merchants of Liverpool and had carried out the first survey; however, he overreached himself in business and, shortly after the invitation to Stephenson, became bankrupt. In his own survey, however, George Stephenson lacked the assistance of his son Robert, who had left for South America, and he delegated much of the detailed work to incompetent assistants. During a devastating Parliamentary examination in the spring of 1825, much of his survey was shown to be seriously inaccurate and the L \& MR's application for an Act of Parliament was refused. The railway's promoters discharged Stephenson and had their line surveyed yet again, by C.B. Vignoles.
    The Stockton \& Darlington Railway was, however, triumphantly opened in the presence of vast crowds in September 1825, with Stephenson himself driving the locomotive Locomotion, which had been built at Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s Newcastle works. Once the railway was at work, horse-drawn and gravity-powered traffic shared the line with locomotives: in 1828 Stephenson invented the horse dandy, a wagon at the back of a train in which a horse could travel over the gravity-operated stretches, instead of trotting behind.
    Meanwhile, in May 1826, the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway had successfully obtained its Act of Parliament. Stephenson was appointed Engineer in June, and since he and Vignoles proved incompatible the latter left early in 1827. The railway was built by Stephenson and his staff, using direct labour. A considerable controversy arose c. 1828 over the motive power to be used: the traffic anticipated was too great for horses, but the performance of the reciprocal system of cable haulage developed by Benjamin Thompson appeared in many respects superior to that of contemporary locomotives. The company instituted a prize competition for a better locomotive and the Rainhill Trials were held in October 1829.
    Robert Stephenson had been working on improved locomotive designs since his return from America in 1827, but it was the L \& MR's Treasurer, Henry Booth, who suggested the multi-tubular boiler to George Stephenson. This was incorporated into a locomotive built by Robert Stephenson for the trials: Rocket was entered by the three men in partnership. The other principal entrants were Novelty, entered by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, and Sans Pareil, entered by Timothy Hackworth, but only Rocket, driven by George Stephenson, met all the organizers' demands; indeed, it far surpassed them and demonstrated the practicability of the long-distance steam railway. With the opening of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1830, the age of railways began.
    Stephenson was active in many aspects. He advised on the construction of the Belgian State Railway, of which the Brussels-Malines section, opened in 1835, was the first all-steam railway on the European continent. In England, proposals to link the L \& MR with the Midlands had culminated in an Act of Parliament for the Grand Junction Railway in 1833: this was to run from Warrington, which was already linked to the L \& MR, to Birmingham. George Stephenson had been in charge of the surveys, and for the railway's construction he and J.U. Rastrick were initially Principal Engineers, with Stephenson's former pupil Joseph Locke under them; by 1835 both Stephenson and Rastrick had withdrawn and Locke was Engineer-in-Chief. Stephenson remained much in demand elsewhere: he was particularly associated with the construction of the North Midland Railway (Derby to Leeds) and related lines. He was active in many other places and carried out, for instance, preliminary surveys for the Chester \& Holyhead and Newcastle \& Berwick Railways, which were important links in the lines of communication between London and, respectively, Dublin and Edinburgh.
    He eventually retired to Tapton House, Chesterfield, overlooking the North Midland. A man who was self-made (with great success) against colossal odds, he was ever reluctant, regrettably, to give others their due credit, although in retirement, immensely wealthy and full of honour, he was still able to mingle with people of all ranks.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, on its formation in 1847. Order of Leopold (Belgium) 1835. Stephenson refused both a knighthood and Fellowship of the Royal Society.
    Bibliography
    1815, jointly with Ralph Dodd, British patent no. 3,887 (locomotive drive by connecting rods directly to the wheels).
    1817, jointly with William Losh, British patent no. 4,067 (steam springs for locomotives, and improvements to track).
    Further Reading
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, Longman (the best modern biography; includes a bibliography).
    S.Smiles, 1874, The Lives of George and Robert Stephenson, rev. edn, London (although sycophantic, this is probably the best nineteenthcentury biography).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Stephenson, George

  • 7 pass

    I
    1. [pɑ:s] n
    I
    1. 1) проход; путь

    the guide showed us the pass through the wood - проводник показал нам путь через лес

    2) путь, подход, ключ (к чему-л.)
    3) канал

    the government's power to shut and open the passes of trade - полномочия правительства открывать и закрывать каналы торговли

    2. проход, узкая улица, переулок; проулок
    3. ущелье, дефиле, перевал, седловина

    the Pass of Thermopylae - ист. Фермопильское ущелье

    the height of the pass is... - высота перевала...

    4. 1) воен. стратегическое укрепление, высота

    they defended the pass of the bridge - они обороняли предмостное укрепление

    2) форт, крепость в горах
    5. 1) фарватер, пролив, судоходное русло; судоходный канал
    2) рыбоход
    3) редк. брод, переезд ( на реке)
    6. горн. проход, пропускное отверстие; скат, ходок для людей
    7. метал. калибр или ручей валка
    8. горн. топографическая съёмка
    9. ав.
    1) неточно рассчитанный заход на посадку
    2) прохождение, пролёт ( самолёта)

    close pass - пролёт на небольшом расстоянии, близкий пролёт

    II

    pass of heat - теплопередача, переход тепла

    2. смерть
    3. карт. пас

    ♢

    a pass in review - воен. прохождение торжественным маршем

    to gain /to hold, to keep/ the pass - защищать своё дело

    to sell the pass - книжн. предать своих сторонников, своё дело и т. п.

    2. [pɑ:s] v
    I
    1. идти; проходить; проезжать

    to see smb. pass - видеть, как кто-то проходит

    to pass into [out of] the room - пройти в комнату [выйти из комнаты]

    please let me pass - пожалуйста, дайте мне пройти

    we passed through the town without stopping - мы проехали через город не останавливаясь

    the road passes close to the village - дорога проходит недалеко от деревни

    2. 1) проходить мимо, миновать

    to pass smb. in the street - встретить кого-л. на улице

    did you pass him on the road? - вы не встретили его по дороге?

    he has passed the fifty mark - разг. ему перевалило за пятьдесят

    2) обгонять (о машине, водителе)
    3) пройти (мимо), пропустить, прозевать

    to pass the stop - пропустить /прозевать/ остановку

    3. 1) не обратить внимания, пренебречь (тж. pass by)

    his rude remark passed without rebuke - его грубое замечание не встретило отпора

    I can't pass the matter by without making a protest - я не могу не выразить протеста по этому поводу

    2) пройти незамеченным, сойти (тж. pass unheeded, unnoticed или unobserved)

    the statement was allowed to pass unchallenged - никто не выступал против его заявления; никто ему не возражал

    4. 1) проходить (через что-л.), переезжать; пересекать, переправляться

    to pass an ocean [a desert, a frontier, a range of hills] - пересекать океан [пустыню, границу, горный хребет]

    2) перевозить, проводить (через что-л.)

    the barks passed horses and munitions - на барках перевозили лошадей и снаряжение

    a canal sufficient to pass boats of 25 tons - канал, через который могут пройти суда водоизмещением в 25 тонн

    3) просовывать

    to pass one's hand between iron bars - просунуть руку между железными прутьями

    5. 1) передавать (тж. pass over)

    pass me the butter, please - пожалуйста, передайте мне масло

    read the book and pass it to my brother - прочтите книгу и передайте её моему брату

    they passed buckets of water from hand to hand - они передавали вёдра с водой из рук в руки

    pass the word to reduce the weight of the load - скажите, чтобы уменьшили вес груза

    2) спорт. передавать, пасовать
    3) карт. пасовать, объявлять пас
    6. 1) (to, into) переходить

    to pass to the next item on the agenda - переходить к следующему пункту повестки дня

    to pass to smb. - переходить к кому-л.

    the manuscript passed into the hands of a specialist - рукопись попала в руки специалиста

    to pass to the reserve - воен. переходить в запас

    to pass from joy to tears - то радоваться /веселиться/, то плакать

    in descending the mountain we passed from snow to rain - спускаясь с горы, мы попали из снега в дождь

    hey pass! - иди! (восклицание фокусника, когда вещь якобы должна перейти в другое место)

    2) превращаться, переходить из одного состояния в другое

    a substance passes from a solid to a liquid state - вещество переходит из твёрдого состояния в жидкое

    when water boils it passes into steam - когда вода кипит, она превращается в пар

    3) переходить или передаваться по наследству (тж. pass over)

    his title passed to his eldest son - его титул был унаследован старшим сыном

    7. идти, проходить, протекать ( о времени)

    we have passed the early stage of our work - первый этап нашей работы уже завершён

    8. (про)мелькнуть, появиться

    a change passed over his face /countenance/ - он переменился в лице

    9. пройти; исчезнуть; прекратиться (тж. pass off)

    all things must pass - всё преходяще; всё проходит

    10. подходить, годиться

    this part of your article will pass - эта часть вашей статьи пройдёт /годится/

    11. происходить, случаться, иметь место

    did you see [hear] what was passing? - вы видели [слышали], что случилось?

    12. выхолить за пределы; быть выше

    to pass the £1,000 mark - превысить 1000 фунтов

    it passes belief /comprehension/ - этому нельзя поверить; это невероятно

    he did not pass the limit of his faculties - он не вышел за рамки своих возможностей

    the grief that passes show - горе, которое нельзя выразить словами

    13. ответить на (какое-л.) действие тем же действием, обменяться (приветствиями, взглядами и т. п.)

    to pass offices - обменяться услугами /любезностями/

    the articles passing between the two countries - товары, которыми обмениваются эти две страны

    words passed between them - они поссорились /поругались/

    the correspondence that has passed between us - переписка, в которой мы состояли

    tell me everything that passed between you - расскажите мне подробно, что произошло между вами

    II А
    1. проводить (время, день и т. п.; тж. pass away)

    what can we do to pass the time? - как (бы) нам провести время?

    2. проводить (щёткой, рукой и т. п.)

    to pass a hand over one's eye [across one's forehead, through one's hair] - провести рукой по глазам [по лбу, по волосам]

    to pass a wet sponge over smth. - а) провести мокрой губкой по чему-л.; б) стереть память о чём-л.; забыть что-л.

    he passed a wet sponge over his early life - он постарался забыть /перечеркнуть/ свою прошлую жизнь

    3. удовлетворять (требованиям, нормам и т. п.)
    4. 1) пройти ( испытание)
    2) выдержать, сдать ( экзамен)

    to pass exams with distinction /honours/ - сдать экзамены с отличием

    to pass master - получить звание магистра, главы колледжа и т. п.

    3) ставить ( зачёт); пропустить ( экзаменующегося)

    don't be afraid, we shall pass you - не бойтесь, мы вам поставим зачёт

    5. 1) пройти (цензуру, досмотр и т. п.)
    2) пропустить (через цензуру и т. п.)

    he had passed for the press all the sheets of the book - он подписал к печати все листы книги

    6. 1) утверждать (план, расход и т. п.)
    2) принимать (решение, резолюцию, закон и т. п.)

    to pass a bill [a resolution] - принимать закон [резолюцию]

    the majority will pass the bill - законопроект пройдёт большинством голосов

    the village was passed to be a township by the Council - совет принял решение считать эту деревню городом

    3) быть принятым, получить одобрение (о законе и т. п.)

    the bill passed the House of Commons - палата общин утвердила законопроект

    7. 1) выносить (приговор, решение)

    to pass sentence upon smb. - вынести приговор кому-л.

    the court passed sentence on him today - суд сегодня вынес приговор по его делу

    2) быть вынесенным
    8. высказывать ( суждение); делать ( замечание)

    to pass an opinion on /upon/ smth. - высказать мнение по поводу чего-л.

    I can't pass an opinion on your work without examining it thoroughly - я не могу высказать своего мнения о вашей работе, не прочитав её внимательно

    to pass censure /criticism, a remark, a comment/ upon smb., smth. - критиковать кого-л., что-л., сделать замечание кому-л., по поводу чего-л.

    9. 1) пускать в обращение (деньги, обыкн. фальшивые)

    he was arrested for passing forged notes - его арестовали за то, что он распространял фальшивые деньги

    2) быть в обращении, иметь хождение ( о деньгах)

    a Bank of England note used to pass anywhere - раньше банкнота Английского банка имела хождение везде

    10. (from)
    1) отходить, уклоняться (от принципов, курса и т. п.)

    to pass from a course [principle] - отклониться от своего пути /от курса/ [от своих принципов]

    2) умереть, отойти

    there has passed from among us a man who held a high position in English literature - от нас ушёл человек, произведения которого занимают значительное место в английской литературе

    11. (through) испытывать (лишения, трудности)
    12. (for) сойти (за кого-л.); слыть (кем-л.)

    he was forty but he might have passed for younger - ему было сорок, но можно было дать меньше

    in this small town he passed for a man of considerable means - в этом маленьком городке он слыл зажиточным человеком

    13. пропускать, протягивать ( верёвку); обвязывать ( верёвкой)

    to pass a rope /a cord/ round a pack - обвязать тюк верёвкой

    they passed a rope round the calf's hind legs - они связали верёвкой задние ноги телёнка

    14. амер. открывать ( ключом)

    all these doors should be passed with one key - все эти двери должны открываться одним ключом

    15. пронзить, проткнуть (кинжалом, шпагой)

    he passed his sword through his enemy's body - он пронзил своим мечом тело врага

    16. делать выпад, нападать ( фехтование)
    17. спорт. брать ( препятствие)

    to pass a hurdle - взять /пройти/ барьер

    18. делать пассы ( в фокусах)
    19. юр. изготовить, оформить ( документ)
    20. плутовать ( в картах)
    21. мед.
    1) иметь ( стул)
    2) испускать ( мочу)

    to pass urine /water/ - мочиться

    22. не объявить выплату ( регулярного дивиденда)

    to pass a dividend - амер. не назначить дивиденда

    concerns which not only passed dividends but went bankrupt - концерны, которые не только не выплатили дивиденды, но и обанкротились

    23. выдавать себя за белого (о мулате, квартероне и т. п.); скрывать своё негритянское происхождение

    ♢

    to pass by the name of... - быть известным под именем..., называться...

    to pass one's word /pledge/ - давать слово /клятву, обещание/

    to pass one's word for smb., smth. - поручиться за кого-л., что-л.

    no food has passed my lips since the morning - у меня во рту маковой росинки с утра не было

    to pass current - а) иметь денежную стоимость; б) быть обычным, общепринятым; в) распространяться как слух

    to pass on the torch - передавать знания /традиции/

    to pass the time of day - уст. поздороваться

    to pass (a) good morning /the compliments of the day/ - уст. пожелать доброго утра, поздороваться

    to pass in the checks - сл. умереть

    to pass the buck - амер. сл. свалить ответственность (на кого-л.)

    II [pɑ:s] n
    I
    1. сдача экзамена без отличия
    2. 1) посредственная оценка; проходной балл, зачёт
    2) оценка «посредственно» ( 3 балла в фигурном катании)
    II тк. sing
    (трудное, критическое) положение или состояние

    to bring to pass - совершать; осуществлять

    to bring things to a desperate pass - довести до крайности /до бедственного положения/

    to come to pass - происходить, случаться

    that things should have come to this pass! - как можно было довести это до такого состояния!

    things have come to a strange [serious] pass - дела приняли странный [серьёзный] оборот

    III
    1. пасс, движение рук (гипнотизёра, фокусника)
    2. фокус

    to perform a pass - сделать /показать/ фокус

    3. уст. остроумная выходка, выпад
    4. спорт. передача; пас

    flip pass - «подброшенная» передача

    to make a pass - а) передавать (мяч), делать передачу; б) нанести удар рапирой

    5. выпад ( фехтование)

    ♢

    to make a pass at smb. - а) делать выпад против кого-л.; б) пытаться ухаживать ( за женщиной)

    II [pɑ:s] n
    1. 1) пропуск, паспорт

    security pass - пропуск, выданный службой безопасности

    he got his pass and health certificate - он получил свой паспорт и справку о состоянии здоровья

    2) пароль

    to sell the pass - а) продать пароль ( неприятелю); б) выдать тайну, стать предателем

    2. воен.
    1) разрешение не присутствовать на поверке; отпускной билет; увольнительная
    2) амер. краткосрочный отпуск

    a soldier on a pass - солдат, имеющий краткосрочный отпуск

    3. бесплатный билет; контрамарка

    to grant smb. a free pass on the railway - выдать кому-л. бесплатный железнодорожный билет

    IV [pæs] сокр. от passenger

    НБАРС > pass

  • 8 Babbage, Charles

    [br]
    b. 26 December 1791 Walworth, Surrey, England
    d. 18 October 1871 London, England
    [br]
    English mathematician who invented the forerunner of the modern computer.
    [br]
    Charles Babbage was the son of a banker, Benjamin Babbage, and was a sickly child who had a rather haphazard education at private schools near Exeter and later at Enfield. Even as a child, he was inordinately fond of algebra, which he taught himself. He was conversant with several advanced mathematical texts, so by the time he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1811, he was ahead of his tutors. In his third year he moved to Peterhouse, whence he graduated in 1814, taking his MA in 1817. He first contributed to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1815, and was elected a fellow of that body in 1816. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society in 1820 and served in high office in it.
    While he was still at Cambridge, in 1812, he had the first idea of calculating numerical tables by machinery. This was his first difference engine, which worked on the principle of repeatedly adding a common difference. He built a small model of an engine working on this principle between 1820 and 1822, and in July of the latter year he read an enthusiastically received note about it to the Astronomical Society. The following year he was awarded the Society's first gold medal. He submitted details of his invention to Sir Humphry Davy, President of the Royal Society; the Society reported favourably and the Government became interested, and following a meeting with the Chancellor of the Exchequer Babbage was awarded a grant of £1,500. Work proceeded and was carried on for four years under the direction of Joseph Clement.
    In 1827 Babbage went abroad for a year on medical advice. There he studied foreign workshops and factories, and in 1832 he published his observations in On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. While abroad, he received the news that he had been appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. He held the Chair until 1839, although he neither resided in College nor gave any lectures. For this he was paid between £80 and £90 a year! Differences arose between Babbage and Clement. Manufacture was moved from Clement's works in Lambeth, London, to new, fireproof buildings specially erected by the Government near Babbage's house in Dorset Square, London. Clement made a large claim for compensation and, when it was refused, withdrew his workers as well as all the special tools he had made up for the job. No work was possible for the next fifteen months, during which Babbage conceived the idea of his "analytical engine". He approached the Government with this, but it was not until eight years later, in 1842, that he received the reply that the expense was considered too great for further backing and that the Government was abandoning the project. This was in spite of the demonstration and perfectly satisfactory operation of a small section of the analytical engine at the International Exhibition of 1862. It is said that the demands made on manufacture in the production of his engines had an appreciable influence in improving the standard of machine tools, whilst similar benefits accrued from his development of a system of notation for the movements of machine elements. His opposition to street organ-grinders was a notable eccentricity; he estimated that a quarter of his mental effort was wasted by the effect of noise on his concentration.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1816. Astronomical Society Gold Medal 1823.
    Bibliography
    Babbage wrote eighty works, including: 1864, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher.
    July 1822, Letter to Sir Humphry Davy, PRS, on the Application of Machinery to the purpose of calculating and printing Mathematical Tables.
    Further Reading
    1961, Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines: Selected Writings by Charles Babbage and Others, eds Philip and Emily Morrison, New York: Dover Publications.
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  • 9 Riley, James

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
    [br]
    b. 1840 Halifax, England
    d. 15 July 1910 Harrogate, England
    [br]
    English steelmaker who promoted the manufacture of low-carbon bulk steel by the open-hearth process for tin plate and shipbuilding; pioneer of nickel steels.
    [br]
    After working as a millwright in Halifax, Riley found employment at the Ormesby Ironworks in Middlesbrough until, in 1869, he became manager of the Askam Ironworks in Cumberland. Three years later, in 1872, he was appointed Blast-furnace Manager at the pioneering Siemens Steel Company's works at Landore, near Swansea in South Wales. Using Spanish ore, he produced the manganese-rich iron (spiegeleisen) required as an additive to make satisfactory steel. Riley was promoted in 1874 to be General Manager at Landore, and he worked with William Siemens to develop the use of the latter's regenerative furnace for the production of open-hearth steel. He persuaded Welsh makers of tin plate to use sheets rolled from lowcarbon (mild) steel instead of from charcoal iron and, partly by publishing some test results, he was instrumental in influencing the Admiralty to build two naval vessels of mild steel, the Mercury and the Iris.
    In 1878 Riley moved north on his appointment as General Manager of the Steel Company of Scotland, a firm closely associated with Charles Tennant that was formed in 1872 to make steel by the Siemens process. Already by 1878, fourteen Siemens melting furnaces had been erected, and in that year 42,000 long tons of ingots were produced at the company's Hallside (Newton) Works, situated 8 km (5 miles) south-east of Glasgow. Under Riley's leadership, steelmaking in open-hearth furnaces was initiated at a second plant situated at Blochairn. Plates and sections for all aspects of shipbuilding, including boilers, formed the main products; the company also supplied the greater part of the steel for the Forth (Railway) Bridge. Riley was associated with technical modifications which improved the performance of steelmaking furnaces using Siemens's principles. He built a gasfired cupola for melting pig-iron, and constructed the first British "universal" plate mill using three-high rolls (Lauth mill).
    At the request of French interests, Riley investigated the properties of steels containing various proportions of nickel; the report that he read before the Iron and Steel Institute in 1889 successfully brought to the notice of potential users the greatly enhanced strength that nickel could impart and its ability to yield alloys possessing substantially lower corrodibility.
    The Steel Company of Scotland paid dividends in the years to 1890, but then came a lean period. In 1895, at the age of 54, Riley moved once more to another employer, becoming General Manager of the Glasgow Iron and Steel Company, which had just laid out a new steelmaking plant at Wishaw, 25 km (15 miles) south-east of Glasgow, where it already had blast furnaces. Still the technical innovator, in 1900 Riley presented an account of his experiences in introducing molten blast-furnace metal as feed for the open-hearth steel furnaces. In the early 1890s it was largely through Riley's efforts that a West of Scotland Board of Conciliation and Arbitration for the Manufactured Steel Trade came into being; he was its first Chairman and then its President.
    In 1899 James Riley resigned from his Scottish employment to move back to his native Yorkshire, where he became his own master by acquiring the small Richmond Ironworks situated at Stockton-on-Tees. Although Riley's 1900 account to the Iron and Steel Institute was the last of the many of which he was author, he continued to contribute to the discussion of papers written by others.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute 1893–5. Vice-President, Iron and Steel Institute, 1893–1910. Iron and Steel Institute (London) Bessemer Gold Medal 1887.
    Bibliography
    1876, "On steel for shipbuilding as supplied to the Royal Navy", Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects 17:135–55.
    1884, "On recent improvements in the method of manufacture of open-hearth steel", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 2:43–52 plus plates 27–31.
    1887, "Some investigations as to the effects of different methods of treatment of mild steel in the manufacture of plates", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 1:121–30 (plus sheets II and III and plates XI and XII).
    27 February 1888, "Improvements in basichearth steel making furnaces", British patent no. 2,896.
    27 February 1888, "Improvements in regenerative furnaces for steel-making and analogous operations", British patent no. 2,899.
    1889, "Alloys of nickel and steel", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 1:45–55.
    Further Reading
    A.Slaven, 1986, "James Riley", in Dictionary of Scottish Business Biography 1860–1960, Volume 1: The Staple Industries (ed. A.Slaven and S. Checkland), Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 136–8.
    "Men you know", The Bailie (Glasgow) 23 January 1884, series no. 588 (a brief biography, with portrait).
    J.C.Carr and W.Taplin, 1962, History of the British Steel Industry, Harvard University Press (contains an excellent summary of salient events).
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  • 10 list

    ̈ɪlɪst I
    1. сущ.
    1) список, перечень, реестр, инвентарь on a list ≈ по списку She was third on the list. ≈ Она была третьей по списку. to compile list, draw up list, make list ≈ составлять список to enter in a list ≈ вносить в список to go down, read down a list ≈ читать список to head a list ≈ стоять первым в списке alphabetical list casualty list duty list guest list hit list legal list mailing list shopping list waiting list
    2) каталог Syn: catalogue
    3) сл. перечисление меринов, находящихся в процессе тренировок (о бегах) to put on the list сл. ≈ кастрировать
    2. гл.
    1) вносить в список;
    составлять список;
    регистрировать to list for service ≈ вносить в списки военнообязанных Syn: enumerate register
    2.
    2) относить к какой-л. категории He lists himself as a political liberal. ≈ Он считает себя либералом.
    3) архаич. а) перех. вербовать Syn: recruit
    2. б) непер. поступать на военную службу Syn: enlist
    4) стоить по каталогу Syn: a car that lists for $12,000 ≈ автомобиль, который стоит 12 тыс. долларов по каталогу II
    1. сущ. крен, наклон to take a list ≈ накрениться Syn: heel II
    1., careen
    1., tilt I
    1.
    2. гл. крениться, накреняться Syn: careen
    2.
    1), heel II
    2., cant I
    2.
    2), slant
    2., slope
    2.
    1), tilt I
    2.
    1), tip II
    2.
    1) III
    1. сущ.
    1) а) кромка, край б) кайма, оторочка( на одежде, обыкн. из другой ткани) ∙ list slippers ≈ комнатные туфли из обрезков (кожи, материи) Syn: border
    1., edge
    1., selvage, band I
    1. в) полоска, лента Syn: strip I
    1. г) прядь волос д) архит. поясок, листель Syn: listel
    2) мн. огороженное место;
    арена( турнира, состязания) enter the lists
    2. гл.
    1) отрезать узкую полоску земли
    2) обрабатывать (землю) с помощью листера IV
    1. сущ.;
    архаич. желание, стремление;
    склонность Syn: desire
    1., craving, longing
    1., inclination
    2. гл.;
    архаич. желать, хотеть Syn: desire
    2., crave список;
    перечень, реестр - duty * расписание дежурств - the active * (военное) список кадрового состава;
    кадровый состав - diplomatic * дипломатический список - the waiting * список очередности - to make a * составлять список - to enter in a * вносить в список - to stand first on the * быть на первом месте в списке прейскурант - * price цена по прейскуранту каталог вносить в список;
    составлять список - to * smb.'s name вносить чью-л. фамилию в список - to * all one's books составить список всех своих книг - to * for service вносить в список военнообязанных (устаревшее) = enlist относить к какой-л. категории - she *s herself as an artist она считает себя художницей (коммерческое) стоить по прейскуранту - a radio that *s for $10 over the sale price радиоприемник, который по прейскуранту стоит на 10 долларов больше, чем на распродаже край, кромка;
    бордюр, кайма полоска, обрезок( сукна, кожи и т. п.) - * slippers комнатные туфли из обрезков (сукна, кожи и т. п.) прядь (волос) поручень( перил) (архитектура) листель, поясок pl огороженное место;
    арена (турнира, состязания) - to enter the *s бросить вызов;
    принять вызов pl арена борьбы;
    сфера разногласий (морское) наклон, крен - to take a * накрениться - to have a bad * сильно крениться - to give the ship a * заставить корабль накрениться (морское) крениться, накреняться (тж. * off) (сельскохозяйственное) листеровать, обрабатывать листером (устаревшее) слушать;
    выслушивать с вниманием (устаревшее) желать, хотеть - let him do what he *s пусть он делает, что хочет или что ему нравится access ~ вчт. таблица доступа argument ~ вчт. список параметров argument type ~ вчт. список типов параметров association ~ вчт. ассоциативный список associative ~ вчт. ассоциативный список attribute-value ~ вчт. список свойств available ~ вчт. список имеющихся устройств bidirectional ~ двусторонний опросный лист bidirectional ~ двусторонний статистический формуляр bring up a ~ вчт. извлекать список case ~ перечень судебных дел cause ~ перечень судебных заседаний cause ~ список дел к слушанию chained ~ вчт. список с использованием указателей coalition ~ список членов коалиции code ~ суд. сигнальный регистр compile ~ составлять перечень contents ~ содержание control ~ вчт. управляющая таблица daily case ~ ежедневный перечень судебных дел data ~ вчт. список данных discrepancy ~ перечень разногласий display ~ вчт. дисплейный файл drive ~ вчт. перечень файлов дисковода embargo ~ ограничительный список ~ список, перечень, реестр;
    инвентарь;
    to enter in a list вносить в список;
    to make a list составлять список;
    duty list расписание дежурств to enter the ~s бросить вызов to enter the ~s принять вызов to enter the ~s участвовать в состязании file ~ вчт. список файлов free entry ~ список товаров, не облагаемых пошлиной freight ~ перечень грузов history ~ вчт. предыстория holiday ~ упр. список отпусков honours ~ список получивших почетные звания в течение года identifier ~ вчт. таблица имен import ~ вчт. список импорта installation ~ вчт. список установки inverted ~ вчт. инвертированный список jurors' ~ состав присяжных jurors' ~ список присяжных linked ~ вчт. список с использованием указателей list разг. см. enlist ~ амер. с.-х. борозда, сделанная листером ~ вносить в список;
    составлять список;
    to list for service вносить в списки военнообязанных ~ вносить в список, составлять список ~ вносить в список ~ мор. крен, наклон;
    to take a list накрениться ~ крениться, накреняться ~ кромка, каемка;
    кайма, оторочка, бордюр;
    край ~ курсовой бюллетень ~ архит. листель ~ амер. обрабатывать землю листером ~ pl огороженное место;
    арена (турнира, состязания) ~ опросный бланк ~ опросный лист ~ переписной лист ~ перечень ~ перечень ценных бумаг ~ вчт. перечислять ~ реестр ~ составлять список ~ список, перечень, реестр, инвентарь ~ список, перечень, реестр;
    инвентарь;
    to enter in a list вносить в список;
    to make a list составлять список;
    duty list расписание дежурств ~ вчт. список ~ список ~ статистический формуляр ~ attr. сделанный из каймы, полос, обрезков;
    list slippers комнатные туфли из обрезков (кожи, материи) ~ вносить в список;
    составлять список;
    to list for service вносить в списки военнообязанных ~ of accessions док. каталог новых поступлений ~ of accounts список счетов ~ of approved suppliers список одобренных поставщиков ~ of arrears ведомость просроченных платежей ~ of authorized signatures список лиц, имеющих право подписи ~ of balances ведомость состояния счетов ~ of bonds drawn for redemption таблица погашаемых облигаций ~ of creditors список кредиторов ~ of customer undertakings перечень обязательств клиентов ~ of customers список клиентов ~ of debtors список дебиторов ~ of debtors список должников ~ of deficiencies торг. дефектная ведомость ~ of documents перечень документов ~ of drawings таблица выигрышей ~ of eligible jurors список присяжных заседателей, имеющих право на избрание ~ of employees список работников ~ of employees список служащих ~ of exhibits список экспонатов ~ of exhibits objects список вещественных доказательств ~ of exposures список потенциальных убытков ~ of goods and services перечень товаров и услуг ~ of ledger balances ведомость остатков по бухгалтерским книгам ~ of members список членов ~ of mortgages according to rank список закладных по категориям ~ of names список фамилий ~ of opening balances ведомость начальных остатков ~ of potential jurors список кандидатов в присяжные заседатели ~ of proposed legislation перечень предложенных законов ~ of proved claims перечень обоснованных исков ~ of stock-exchange quotations таблица биржевых курсов ~ of stolen goods опись похищенных товаров ~ of tenants список арендаторов ~ of titles перечень документов, удостоверяющих право собственности ~ on the stock exchange допускать ценную бумагу к официальной торговле на фондовой бирже ~ attr. сделанный из каймы, полос, обрезков;
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    инвентарь;
    to enter in a list вносить в список;
    to make a list составлять список;
    duty list расписание дежурств make a ~ составлять список multithreaded ~ вчт. мультисписок nonjury ~ рассмотрение дела без участия присяжных nonparty ~ список беспартийных official ~ официальный список ценных бумаг, котируемых на Лондонской фондовой бирже one-of-a-kind ~ вчт. список определенной структуры order ~ список заказов packing ~ упаковочный лист packing ~ упаковочный реестр pick ~ вчт. список обрабатывавшихся файлов positive ~ точный список price ~ отпечатанный лист с продажной ценой на разные товары одной компании, прайс-лист price ~ прейскурант priority ~ вчт. список очередности property ~ вчт. список свойств push-down ~ вчт. стек push-up ~ вчт. очередь sailings ~ расписание движения судов selection ~ вчт. список выбора sensitivity ~ вчт. список сигналов запуска share ~ список акций share ~ фондовая курсовая таблица space ~ вчт. список свободных ячеек stock ~ курсовой бюллетень stock-exchange ~ курсовой бюллетень subscription ~ подписной лист subscription: ~ attr. подписной;
    subscription list подписной лист summary ~ вчт. сводный список supplementary ~ дополнительный курсовой бюллетень supplementary ~ дополнительный перечень ценных бумаг ~ мор. крен, наклон;
    to take a list накрениться tender ~ список заявок на торгах tender ~ список оферт threaded ~ вчт. связный список value ~ вчт. список значений waiting ~ вчт. очередь waiting ~ список очередников;
    список кандидатов на должность waiting ~ список очередников waiting ~ список очередности заказов waiting ~ список очередности заявок waiting: ~ ждущий;
    waiting list список кандидатов (на должность, на получение жилплощади и т. п.) want ~ список необходимых товаров watch ~ список ценных бумаг, за которым ведется наблюдение

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > list

  • 11 Wilkes, Maurice Vincent

    [br]
    b. 26 June 1913 Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England
    [br]
    English physicist who was jointly responsible for the construction of the EDS AC computer.
    [br]
    Educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge, where he began to make radio sets and read Wireless World, Wilkes went to St John's College, Cambridge, in 1931, graduating as a Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos in 1934. He then carried out research at the Cavendish Laboratory, becoming a demonstrator in 1937. During the Second World War he worked on radar, differential analysers and operational research at the Bawdsey Research Station and other air-defence establishments. In 1945 he returned to Cambridge as a lecturer and as Acting Director of the Mathematical (later Computer) Laboratory, serving as Director from 1946 to 1970.
    During the late 1940s, following visits to the USA for computer courses and to see the ENIAC computer, with the collaboration of colleagues he constructed the Cambridge University digital computer EDSAC (for Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer), using ultrasonic delay lines for data storage. In the mid-1950s a second machine, EDSAC2, was constructed using a magnetic-core memory. In 1965 he became Professor of Computer Technology. After retirement he worked for the Digital Electronic Corporation (DEC) from 1981 to 1986, serving also as Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1981 to 1985. In 1990 he became a research strategy consultant to the Olivetti Research Directorate.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1956. First President, British Computer Society 1957–60. Honorary DSc Munich 1978, Bath 1987. Honorary DTech Linkoping 1975. FEng 1976. Institution of Electrical Engineers Faraday Medal 1981.
    Bibliography
    1948, "The design of a practical high-speed computing machine", Proceedings of the Royal Society A195:274 (describes EDSAC).
    1949, Oscillation of the Earth's Atmosphere.
    1956, Automatic Digital Computers, London: Methuen. 1966, A Short Introduction to Numerical Analysis.
    1968, Time-Sharing Computer Systems: McDonald \& Jane's.
    1979, The Cambridge CAP Computer and its Operating System: H.Holland.
    1985, Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (autobiography).
    Further Reading
    B.Randell (ed.), 1973, The Origins of Digital Computers, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
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  • 12 Froude, William

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 1810 Dartington, Devon, England
    d. 4 May 1879 Simonstown, South Africa
    [br]
    English naval architect; pioneer of experimental ship-model research.
    [br]
    Froude was educated at a preparatory school at Buckfastleigh, and then at Westminster School, London, before entering Oriel College, Oxford, to read mathematics and classics. Between 1836 and 1838 he served as a pupil civil engineer, and then he joined the staff of Isambard Kingdom Brunel on various railway engineering projects in southern England, including the South Devon Atmospheric Railway. He retired from professional work in 1846 and lived with his invalid father at Dartington Parsonage. The next twenty years, while apparently unproductive, were important to Froude as he concentrated his mind on difficult mathematical and scientific problems. Froude married in 1839 and had five children, one of whom, Robert Edmund Froude (1846–1924), was to succeed him in later years in his research work for the Admiralty. Following the death of his father, Froude moved to Paignton, and there commenced his studies on the resistance of solid bodies moving through fluids. Initially these were with hulls towed through a house roof storage tank by wires taken over a pulley and attached to falling weights, but the work became more sophisticated and was conducted on ponds and the open water of a creek near Dartmouth. Froude published work on the rolling of ships in the second volume of the Transactions of the then new Institution of Naval Architects and through this became acquainted with Sir Edward Reed. This led in 1870 to the Admiralty's offer of £2,000 towards the cost of an experimental tank for ship models at Torquay. The tank was completed in 1872 and tests were carried out on the model of HMS Greyhound following full-scale towing trials which had commenced on the actual ship the previous year. From this Froude enunciated his Law of Comparisons, which defines the rules concerning the relationship of the power required to move geometrically similar floating bodies across fluids. It enabled naval architects to predict, from a study of a much less expensive and smaller model, the resistance to motion and the power required to move a full-size ship. The work in the tank led Froude to design a model-cutting machine, dynamometers and machinery for the accurate ruling of graph paper. Froude's work, and later that of his son, was prodigious and covered many fields of ship design, including powering, propulsion, rolling, steering and stability. In only six years he had stamped his academic authority on the new science of hydrodynamics, served on many national committees and corresponded with fellow researchers throughout the world. His health suffered and he sailed for South Africa to recuperate, but he contracted dysentery and died at Simonstown. He will be remembered for all time as one of the greatest "fathers" of naval architecture.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS. Honorary LLD Glasgow University.
    Bibliography
    1955, The Papers of William Froude, London: Institution of Naval Architects (the Institution also published a memoir by Sir Westcott Abell and an evaluation of his work by Dr R.W.L. Gawn of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors; this volume reprints all Froude's papers from the Institution of Naval Architects and other sources as diverse as the British Association, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Institution of Civil Engineers.
    Further Reading
    A.T.Crichton, 1990, "William and Robert Edmund Froude and the evolution of the ship model experimental tank", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 61:33–49.
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  • 13 Randall, Sir John Turton

    SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology
    [br]
    b. 23 March 1905 Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England
    d. 16 June 1984 Edinburgh, Scotland
    [br]
    English physicist and biophysicist, primarily known for the development, with Boot of the cavity magnetron.
    [br]
    Following secondary education at Ashton-inMakerfield Grammar School, Randall entered Manchester University to read physics, gaining a first class BSc in 1925 and his MSc in 1926. From 1926 to 1937 he was a research physicist at the General Electric Company (GEC) laboratories, where he worked on luminescent powders, following which he became Warren Research Fellow of the Royal Society at Birmingham University, studying electronic processes in luminescent solids. With the outbreak of the Second World War he became an honorary member of the university staff and transferred to a group working on the development of centrimetric radar. With Boot he was responsible for the development of the cavity magnetron, which had a major impact on the development of radar.
    When Birmingham resumed its atomic research programme in 1943, Randall became a temporary lecturer at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. The following year he was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, but in 1946 he moved again to the Wheatstone Chair of Physics at King's College, London. There his developing interest in biophysical research led to the setting up of a multi-disciplinary group in 1951 to study connective tissues and other biological components, and in 1950– 5 he was joint Editor of Progress in Biophysics. From 1961 until his retirement in 1970 he was Professor of Biophysics at King's College and for most of that time he was also Chairman of the School of Biological Sciences. In addition, for many years he was honorary Director of the Medical Research Council Biophysics Research Unit.
    After he retired he returned to Edinburgh and continued to study biological problems in the university zoology laboratory.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1962. FRS 1946. FRS Edinburgh 1972. DSc Manchester 1938. Royal Society of Arts Thomas Gray Memorial Prize 1943. Royal Society Hughes Medal 1946. Franklin Institute John Price Wetherill Medal 1958. City of Pennsylvania John Scott Award 1959. (All jointly with Boot for the cavity magnetron.)
    Bibliography
    1934, Diffraction of X-Rays by Amorphous Solids, Liquids \& Gases (describes his early work).
    1953, editor, Nature \& Structure of Collagen.
    1976, with H.Boot, "Historical notes on the cavity magnetron", Transactions of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ED-23: 724 (gives an account of the cavity-magnetron development at Birmingham).
    Further Reading
    M.H.F.Wilkins, "John Turton Randall"—Bio-graphical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, London: Royal Society.
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  • 14 Barnaby, Kenneth C.

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. c.1887 England
    d. 22 March 1968 England
    [br]
    English naval architect and technical author.
    [br]
    Kenneth Barnaby was an eminent naval architect, as were his father and grandfather before him: his grandfather was Sir Nathaniel Barnaby KGB, Director of Naval Construction, and his father was Sydney W.Barnaby, naval architect of John I. Thornycroft \& Co., Shipbuilders, Southampton. At one time all three were members of the Institution of Naval Architects, the first time that this had ever occurred with three members from one family.
    Kenneth Barnaby served his apprenticeship at the Thornycroft shipyard in Southampton and later graduated in engineering from the Central Technical College, South Kensington, London. He worked for some years at Le Havre and at John Brown's shipyard at Clydebank before rejoining his old firm in 1916 as Assistant to the Shipyard Manager. In 1919 he went to Rio de Janeiro as a chief ship draughtsman, and finally he returned to Thornycroft, in 1924 he succeeded his father as Naval Architect, and remained in that post until his retirement in 1955, having been appointed a director in 1950.
    Barnaby had a wide knowledge and understanding of ships and ship design and during the Second World War he was responsible for much of the development work for landing craft, as well as for many other specialist ships built at the Southampton yard. His experience as a deep-sea yachtsman assisted him. He wrote several important books; however, none can compare with the Centenary Volume of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. In this work, which is used and read widely to this day by naval architects worldwide, he reviewed every paper presented and almost every verbal contribution made to the Transactions during its one hundred years.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    OBE 1945. Associate of the City and Guilds Institute. Royal Institution of Naval Architects Froude Gold Medal 1962. Honorary Vice-President, Royal Institution of Naval Architects 1960–8.
    Bibliography
    c.1900, Marine Propellers, London. 1949, Basic Naval Architecture, London.
    1960, The Institution of Naval Architects 1860–1960, London.
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  • 15 Williams, Sir Frederic Calland

    [br]
    b. 26 June 1911 Stockport, Cheshire, England
    d. 11 August 1977 Prestbury, Cheshire, England
    [br]
    English electrical engineer who invented the Williams storage cathode ray tube, which was extensively used worldwide as a data memory in the first digital computers.
    [br]
    Following education at Stockport Grammar School, Williams entered Manchester University in 1929, gaining his BSc in 1932 and MSc in 1933. After a short time as a college apprentice with Metropolitan Vickers, he went to Magdalen College, Oxford, to study for a DPhil, which he was awarded in 1936. He returned to Manchester University that year as an assistant lecturer, gaining his DSc in 1939. Following the outbreak of the Second World War he worked for the Scientific Civil Service, initially at the Bawdsey Research Station and then at the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Malvern, Worcestershire. There he was involved in research on non-incandescent amplifiers and diode rectifiers and the development of the first practical radar system capable of identifying friendly aircraft. Later in the war, he devised an automatic radar system suitable for use by fighter aircraft.
    After the war he resumed his academic career at Manchester, becoming Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the University Electrotechnical Laboratory in 1946. In the same year he succeeded in developing a data-memory device based on the cathode ray tube, in which the information was stored and read by electron-beam scanning of a charge-retaining target. The Williams storage tube, as it became known, not only found obvious later use as a means of storing single-frame, still television images but proved to be a vital component of the pioneering Manchester University MkI digital computer. Because it enabled both data and program instructions to be stored in the computer, it was soon used worldwide in the development of the early stored-program computers.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1976. OBE 1945. CBE 1961. FRS 1950. Hon. DSc Durham 1964, Sussex 1971, Wales 1971. First Royal Society of Arts Benjamin Franklin Medal 1957. City of Philadelphia John Scott Award 1960. Royal Society Hughes Medal 1963. Institution of Electrical Engineers Faraday Medal 1972. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Pioneer Award 1973.
    Bibliography
    Williams contributed papers to many scientific journals, including Proceedings of the Royal Society, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Wireless Engineer, Post Office Electrical Engineers' Journal. Note especially: 1948, with J.Kilburn, "Electronic digital computers", Nature 162:487; 1949, with J.Kilburn, "A storage system for use with binary digital computing machines", Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 96:81; 1975, "Early computers at Manchester University", Radio \& Electronic Engineer 45:327. Williams also collaborated in the writing of vols 19 and 20 of the MIT Radiation
    Laboratory Series.
    Further Reading
    B.Randell, 1973, The Origins of Digital Computers, Berlin: Springer-Verlag. M.R.Williams, 1985, A History of Computing Technology, London: Prentice-Hall. See also: Stibitz, George R.; Strachey, Christopher.
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  • 16 Bell, Alexander Graham

    SUBJECT AREA: Telecommunications
    [br]
    b. 3 March 1847 Edinburgh, Scotland
    d. 3 August 1922 Beinn Bhreagh, Baddeck, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
    [br]
    Scottish/American inventor of the telephone.
    [br]
    Bell's grandfather was a professor of elocution in London and his father an authority on the physiology of the voice and on elocution; Bell was to follow in their footsteps. He was educated in Edinburgh, leaving school at 13. In 1863 he went to Elgin, Morayshire, as a pupil teacher in elocution, with a year's break to study at Edinburgh University; it was in 1865, while still in Elgin, that he first conceived the idea of the electrical transmission of speech. He went as a master to Somersetshire College, Bath (now in Avon), and in 1867 he moved to London to assist his father, who had taken up the grandfather's work in elocution. In the same year, he matriculated at London University, studying anatomy and physiology, and also began teaching the deaf. He continued to pursue the studies that were to lead to the invention of the telephone. At this time he read Helmholtz's The Sensations of Tone, an important work on the theory of sound that was to exert a considerable influence on him.
    In 1870 he accompanied his parents when they emigrated to Canada. His work for the deaf gained fame in both Canada and the USA, and in 1873 he was apponted professor of vocal physiology and the mechanics of speech at Boston University, Massachusetts. There, he continued to work on his theory that sound wave vibrations could be converted into a fluctuating electric current, be sent along a wire and then be converted back into sound waves by means of a receiver. He approached the problem from the background of the theory of sound and voice production rather than from that of electrical science, and by 1875 he had succeeded in constructing a rough model. On 7 March 1876 Bell spoke the famous command to his assistant, "Mr Watson, come here, I want you": this was the first time a human voice had been transmitted along a wire. Only three days earlier, Bell's first patent for the telephone had been granted. Almost simultaneously, but quite independently, Elisha Gray had achieved a similar result. After a period of litigation, the US Supreme Court awarded Bell priority, although Gray's device was technically superior.
    In 1877, three years after becoming a naturalized US citizen, Bell married the deaf daughter of his first backer. In August of that year, they travelled to Europe to combine a honeymoon with promotion of the telephone. Bell's patent was possibly the most valuable ever issued, for it gave birth to what later became the world's largest private service organization, the Bell Telephone Company.
    Bell had other scientific and technological interests: he made improvements in telegraphy and in Edison's gramophone, and he also developed a keen interest in aeronautics, working on Curtiss's flying machine. Bell founded the celebrated periodical Science.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Legion of Honour; Hughes Medal, Royal Society, 1913.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 7 August 1922, The Times. Dictionary of American Biography.
    R.Burlingame, 1964, Out of Silence into Sound, London: Macmillan.
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  • 17 Boole, George

    [br]
    b. 2 November 1815 Lincoln, England
    d. 8 December 1864 Ballintemple, Coounty Cork, Ireland
    [br]
    English mathematician whose development of symbolic logic laid the foundations for the operating principles of modern computers.
    [br]
    Boole was the son of a tradesman, from whom he learned the principles of mathematics and optical-component manufacturing. From the early age of 16 he taught in a number of schools in West Yorkshire, and when only 20 he opened his own school in Lincoln. There, at the Mechanical Institute, he avidly read mathematical journals and the works of great mathematicians such as Lagrange, Laplace and Newton and began to tackle a variety of algebraic problems. This led to the publication of a constant stream of original papers in the newly launched Cambridge Mathematical Journal on topics in the fields of algebra and calculus, for which in 1844 he received the Royal Society Medal.
    In 1847 he wrote The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, which applied algebraic symbolism to logical forms, whereby the presence or absence of properties could be represented by binary states and combined, just like normal algebraic equations, to derive logical statements about a series of operations. This laid the foundations for the binary logic used in modern computers, which, being based on binary on-off devices, greatly depend on the use of such operations as "and", "nand" ("not and"), "or" and "nor" ("not or"), etc. Although he lacked any formal degree, this revolutionary work led to his appointment in 1849 to the Chair of Mathematics at Queen's College, Cork, where he continued his work on logic and also produce treatises on differential equations and the calculus of finite differences.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Royal Society Medal 1844. FRS 1857.
    Bibliography
    Boole's major contributions to logic available in republished form include George Boole: Investigation of the Laws of Thought, Dover Publications; George Boole: Laws of Thought, Open Court, and George Boole: Studies in Logic \& Probability, Open Court.
    1872, A Treatise on Differential Equations.
    Further Reading
    W.Kneale, 1948, "Boole and the revival of logic", Mind 57:149.
    G.C.Smith (ed.), 1982, George Boole \& Augustus de Morgan. Correspondence 1842– 1864, Oxford University Press.
    —, 1985, George Boole: His Life and Work, McHale.
    E.T.Bell, 1937, Men of Mathematics, London: Victor Gollancz.
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  • 18 Roebling, John Augustus

    SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. 12 July 1806 Muhlhausen, Prussia
    d. 22 July 1869 Brooklyn, New York, USA
    [br]
    German/American bridge engineer and builder.
    [br]
    The son of Polycarp Roebling, a tobacconist, he studied mathematics at Dr Unger's Pedagogium in Erfurt and went on to the Royal Polytechnic Institute in Berlin, from which he graduated in 1826 with honours in civil engineering. He spent the next three years working for the Prussian government on the construction of roads and bridges. With his brother and a group of friends, he emigrated to the United States, sailing from Bremen on 23 May 1831 and docking in Philadelphia eleven weeks later. They bought 7,000 acres (2,800 hectares) in Butler County, western Pennsylvania, and established a village, at first called Germania but later known as Saxonburg. Roebling gave up trying to establish himself as a farmer and found work for the state of Pennsylvania as Assistant Engineer on the Beaver River canal and others, then surveying a railroad route across the Allegheny Mountains. During his canal work, he noted the failings of the hemp ropes that were in use at that time, and recalled having read of wire ropes in a German journal; he built a rope-walk at his Saxonburg farm, bought a supply of iron wire and trained local labour in the method of wire twisting.
    At this time, many canals crossed rivers by means of aqueducts. In 1844, the Pennsylvania Canal aqueduct across the Allegheny River was due to be renewed, having become unsafe. Roebling made proposals which were accepted by the canal company: seven wooden spans of 162 ft (49 m) each were supported on either side by a 7 in. (18 cm) diameter cable, Roebling himself having to devise all the machinery required for the erection. He subsequently built four more suspension aqueducts, one of which was converted to a toll bridge and was still in use a century later.
    In 1849 he moved to Trenton, New Jersey, where he set up a new wire rope plant. In 1851 he started the construction (completed in 1855) of an 821 ft (250 m) long suspension railroad bridge across the Niagara River, 245 ft (75 m) above the rapids; each cable consisted of 3,640 wrought iron wires. A lower deck carried road traffic. He also constructed a bridge across the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Covington, a task which was much protracted due to the Civil War; this bridge was finally completed in 1866.
    Roebling's crowning achievement was to have been the design and construction of the bridge over the Hudson River between Brooklyn and Staten Island, New York, but he did not live to see its completion. It had a span of 1,595 ft (486 m), designed to bear a load of 18,700 tons (19,000 tonnes) with a headroom of 135 ft (41 m). The work of building had barely started when, at the Brooklyn wharf, a boat crushed Roebling's foot against the timbering and he died of tetanus three weeks later. His son, Washington Augustus Roebling, then took charge of this great work.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    D.B.Steinman and S.R.Watson, 1941, Bridges and their Builders, New York: Dover Books.
    D.McCullough, 1982, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge, New York: Simon \& Schuster.
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  • 19 Smith, Willoughby

    [br]
    b. 16 April 1828 Great Yarmouth, England
    d. 17 July 1891 Eastbourne, England
    [br]
    English engineer of submarine telegraph cables who observed that light reduced the resistance of selenium.
    [br]
    Smith joined the Gutta Percha Company, London, in 1848 and successfully experimented with the use of gutta-percha, a natural form of latex, for the insulation of conducting wires. As a result, he was made responsible for the laying of the first cross-Channel cable between Dover and Calais in 1850. Four years later he laid the first Mediterranean cable between Spezia, Italy, and Corsica and Sardinia, later extending it to Algeria. On its completion he became Manager of the Gutta Percha works, which in 1864 became the Telegraph and Construction Company. In 1865 he assisted on board the Great Eastern with the laying of the transatlantic cable by Bright.
    Clearly his management responsibilities did not stop him from experimenting practically. In 1866 he discovered that the resistance of a selenium rod was reduced by the action of incident light, an early discovery of the photoelectric effect more explicitly observed by Hertz and subsequently explained by Einstein. In 1883 he read a paper to the Society of Telegraph Engineers (later the Institution of Electrical Engineers), suggesting the possibility of wireless communication with moving trains, an idea that was later successfully taken up by others, and in 1888 he demonstrated the use of water as a practical means of communication with a lighthouse. Four years later, after his death, the system was tried between Alum Bay and the Needles in the Isle of Wight, and it was used subsequently for the Fastnet Rock lighthouse some 10 miles (16 km) off the south-west coast of Ireland.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Founder and Council Member of the Society of Telegraph Engineers 1871; President 1873.
    Bibliography
    The effect of light on the resistance of selenium was reported in a letter to the Vice- Chairman of the Society of Telegraph Engineers on 4 February 1873.
    7 June 1897, British patent no. 8,159 (the use of water, instead of cable, as a conductor).
    November 1888, article in Electrician (describes his idea of using water as a conductor, rather than cable).
    Further Reading
    E.Hawkes, 1927, Pioneers of Wireless, London: Methuen.
    C.T.Bright, 1898, Submarine Cables, Their History, Construction and Working.
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  • 20 Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph

    [br]
    b. 12 June 1851 Penkhull, Staffordshire, England
    d. 22 August 1940 Lake, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
    [br]
    English physicist who perfected Branly's coherer; said to have given the first public demonstration of wireless telegraphy.
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    At the age of 8 Lodge entered Newport Grammar School, and in 1863–5 received private education at Coombs in Suffolk. He then returned to Staffordshire, where he assisted his father in the potteries by working as a book-keeper. Whilst staying with an aunt in London in 1866–7, he attended scientific lectures and became interested in physics. As a result of this and of reading copies of English Mechanic magazine, when he was back home in Hanley he began to do experiments and attended the Wedgewood Institute. Returning to London c. 1870, he studied initially at the Royal College of Science and then, from 1874, at University College, London (UCL), at the same time attending lectures at the Royal Institution.
    In 1875 he obtained his BSc, read a paper to the British Association on "Nodes and loops in chemical formulae" and became a physics demonstrator at UCL. The following year he was appointed a physics lecturer at Bedford College, completing his DSc in 1877. Three years later he became Assistant Professor of Mathematics at UCL, but in 1881, after only two years, he accepted the Chair of Experimental Physics at the new University College of Liverpool. There began a period of fruitful studies of electricity and radio transmission and reception, including development of the lightning conductor, discovery of the "coherent" effect of sparks and improvement of Branly's coherer, and, in 1894, what is said to be the first public demonstration of the transmission and reception (using a coherer) of wireless telegraphy, from Lewis's department store to the clock tower of Liverpool University's Victoria Building. On 10 May 1897 he filed a patent for selective tuning by self-in-ductance; this was before Marconi's first patent was actually published and its priority was subsequently upheld.
    In 1900 he became the first Principal of the new University of Birmingham, where he remained until his retirement in 1919. In his later years he was increasingly interested in psychical research.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1902. FRS 1887. Royal Society Council Member 1893. President, Society for Psychical Research 1901–4, 1932. President, British Association 1913. Royal Society Rumford Medal 1898. Royal Society of Arts Albert Medal 1919. Institution of Electrical Engineers Faraday Medal 1932. Fourteen honorary degrees from British and other universities.
    Bibliography
    1875, "The flow of electricity in a plane", Philosophical Magazine (May, June and December).
    1876, "Thermo-electric phenomena", Philosophical Magazine (December). 1888, "Lightning conductors", Philosophical Magazine (August).
    1889, Modern Views of Electricity (lectures at the Royal Institution).
    10 May 1897, "Improvements in syntonized telegraphy without line wires", British patent no. 11,575, US patent no. 609,154.
    1898, "Radio waves", Philosophical Magazine (August): 227.
    1931, Past Years, An Autobiography, London: Hodder \& Stoughton.
    Further Reading
    W.P.Jolly, 1974, Sir Oliver Lodge, Psychical Resear cher and Scientist, London: Constable.
    E.Hawks, 1927, Pioneers of Wireless, London: Methuen.
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