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61 EXPO '98
Portugal's world's fair, held from May to October 1998, set in Lisbon. Designed to commemorate and celebrate the 500th anniversary of Vasco da Gama's 1498 discovery of an all-water route to India, this was an ambitious undertaking for a small country with a developing economy. The setting of the exposition was remote eastern Lisbon, along the banks of the Tagus estuary. To facilitate logistics, Portugal opened a new Metro station (Oriente) for the Expo and the new Vasco da Gama Bridge, just northeast of the site. More than 10 million visitors, many of them from abroad but a large proportion from Spain and Portugal, arrived at the site by Metro, bus, taxi, or car and were guided by signs in three languages: Portuguese, Spanish, and English. To the dismay of Francophones, the choice of English and Spanish reflected both the nature of the globalization process and Portugal's growing connections with Europe and the wider world.The theme of Expo '98 was "The Oceans, Heritage for the Future," and the official mascot-symbol was "Gil," a cartoon characterization of a drop of ocean water, based on the suggestion of schoolchildren from the small town of Barrancos. Somewhat in the spirit of Disney's Mickey Mouse, "Gil" reflected cheeriness, but his message was serious, alerting the public to the fact that the oceans were endangered and fresh drinking water increasingly in short supply for a burgeoning world population. Among the outstanding structures at Expo '98 was the Pavilion of Portugal, designed by Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, and the Pavilion of the Oceans or the Oceanarium (which remained open to the public after the exposition closed), which was designed by an American architect.Despite the general success of the fair, critics gave mixed reviews to the historic commemoration of the Discoveries facets of the effort. No vessel from Vasco da Gama's 1497-99 famous voyage was reproduced at the fair's dockside exhibit—although there was a 19th-century sailing vessel and a reproduction of one of the vessels from Christopher Columbus's first voyage, constructed by Portuguese in Madeira—nor was there much else on Vasco da Gama in the Pavilion of Portugal. Instead, visitors were impressed with a multimedia show based on knowledge of a Portuguese shipwreck, a 17th-century nau, found by archaeologists in recent years. The sound and light show in this lovely space was magnificent. The most popular exhibits were the Oceanarium and the Utopia Pavilion, where lines could be hours long. Despite the fact that Expo '98 made only a weak effort to attract visitors from outside Europe, the general consensus was that it was a successful enterprise, unique in Portugal's record of historic and contemporary expositions since 1940. -
62 Edison, Thomas Alva
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications[br]b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USAd. 18 October 1931 Glenmont[br]American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.[br]He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMember of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.Further ReadingM.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.IMcN -
63 facultad
f.1 faculty.facultades (mentales) (mental) facultiesestá empezando a perder facultades his mind is beginning to go2 faculty (universitaria).facultad de Filosofía y Letras Arts Faculty, Faculty of Arts3 power, right.4 property.tiene la facultad de ablandar la madera it has the property of softening wood5 authorization, right, permission.6 institute, research center, research centre.imperat.2nd person plural (vosotros/vosotras) Imperative of Spanish verb: facultar.* * *1 (capacidad) faculty, ability2 (poder) faculty, power3 (universitaria) faculty, school\tener facultad para hacer algo to be authorized to do somethingfacultades mentales mental powers* * *noun f.1) faculty2) authority, power3) school* * *SF1) (=capacidad) facultyfirmó el testamento en pleno uso de sus facultades — he signed the will in full possession of his faculties
facultades mentales — mental faculties, mental powers
2) (=autoridad) power, authoritytener la facultad de hacer algo — to have the power o authority to do sth
3) (Univ) faculty* * *1) (capacidad, don) faculty2) (autoridad, poder) power, authority3) (Educ) faculty* * *1) (capacidad, don) faculty2) (autoridad, poder) power, authority3) (Educ) faculty* * *facultad11 = faculty.Ex: Sophia no sooner saw Blifil than she turned pale, and almost lost the use of all her faculties.
* conceder facultades = endow with + powers.* en plenitud de facultades = at + Posesivo + (very) best.* en pleno uso de + Posesivo + facultades físicas y mentales = of (a) sound mind, of (a) sound and disposing mind and memory, physically and mentally fit.* en pleno uso de + Posesivo + Posesivo + facultades mentales = mentally fit.* facultad de recordar = power of recall.* facultades humanas = human faculties.* facultad física = physical faculty.* facultad mental = mental faculty.* no estar en plenitud de facultades = be past + Posesivo + best.* perder las facultades = lose + Posesivo + faculties.* tener la facultad de = have + powers to.facultad22 = graduate school, university college, faculty.Ex: It was decided that checking of content and format should be left to the graduate school and academic departments = Se decidió que la comprobación del contenido y el formato debería dejarse a la facultad y a los departamentos universitarios.
Ex: This article describes the setting up of a permanent exhibition in the newly-created Clinical Research Unit Library at university college Galway, Eire.Ex: The article 'An exercise in archival exhibitionism' describes the display to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the University's faculty of Medicine.* facultad de biblioteconomía y documentación = graduate library school, LIS school.* Facultad de Biblioteconomía y Documentación (FBYD) = Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS).* facultad de ciencias de la educación = teachers college, teacher training college.* facultad de derecho = law school.* facultad de empresariales = Graduate School of Management, business school.* facultad de medicina = medical school, university medical school.* facultad universitaria = college.* junta de facultad = faculty board.* * *A (capacidad, don) facultyla facultad del habla the power o faculty of speechcon los años se van perdiendo facultades as you get older you start to lose your facultiesCompuesto:fpl mental faculties (pl)tiene perturbadas sus facultades mentales he is mentally disturbeden pleno uso de mis facultades mentales in full command o possession of my facultiesB (autoridad, poder) power, authorityeso no está dentro de sus facultades that is beyond the scope of your powersC ( Educ) facultyFacultad de Filosofía y Letras Arts FacultyFacultad de Medicina/Derecho Faculty of Medicine/Lawfue compañero mío de facultador en la facultad he was at college o ( BrE) university with me* * *
Del verbo facultar: ( conjugate facultar)
facultad es:
2ª persona plural (vosotros) imperativo
Multiple Entries:
facultad
facultar
facultad sustantivo femenino
1 ( capacidad) faculty;
facultades mentales (mental) faculties (pl)
2 (Educ) faculty;
facultar ( conjugate facultar) verbo transitivo (frml) facultad a algn para hacer algo [jefe/presidente] to authorize sb to do sth;
[carnet/documento] to entitle sb to do sth;
[ ley] to allow sb to do sth
facultad sustantivo femenino
1 (capacidad) faculty
perder facultades, to lose one's faculties
(disposición, aptitud) ability, competence: tiene grandes facultades para el dibujo, she has great drawing ability
2 Univ faculty, school
facultad de Económicas, Economics Faculty o Department
' facultad' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
encierro
- inteligencia
- juicio
- oído
- razón
- audición
- decano
- derecho
- habla
- pensamiento
- poder
- raciocinio
- uso
- voluntad
English:
dull
- faculty
- legislate
- memory
- power
- reason
- school
- sensation
- sense
- speech
- vision
- college
- law
- medical
- prom
* * *facultad nf1. [capacidad] faculty;facultades (mentales) (mental) faculties;está en pleno uso de sus facultades mentales she is in full possession of her mental faculties;está empezando a perder facultades his mind is beginning to go;un corredor con portentosas facultades físicas a runner with remarkable physical attributes;tiene grandes facultades para la pintura he's a very talented painter2. [centro universitario] faculty;estudio en la Facultad de Química I'm studying in the Faculty of Chemistry;Amllegué a las nueve de facultad I got back from the university at nine o'clockFacultad de Derecho Law Faculty, Faculty of Law;Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Arts Faculty, Faculty of Arts;Facultad de Humanidades Arts Faculty, Faculty of Arts;Facultad de Medicina Medical Faculty, Faculty of Medicine3. Am [enseñanza superior] college;mi hermano está en facultad my brother goes to college4. [poder] power, right;su cargo no le da facultad para autorizar compras his position doesn't allow him to authorize purchases5. [propiedad] property;tiene la facultad de ablandar la madera it has the property of softening wood* * *f2 ( autoridad) authority3:facultades pl mentales faculties* * *facultad nf1) : faculty, abilityfacultades mentales: mental faculties2) : authority, power3) : school (of a university)facultad de derecho: law school* * *facultad n3. (rama de estudios) Faculty -
64 facultad2
2 = graduate school, university college, faculty.Ex. It was decided that checking of content and format should be left to the graduate school and academic departments = Se decidió que la comprobación del contenido y el formato debería dejarse a la facultad y a los departamentos universitarios.Ex. This article describes the setting up of a permanent exhibition in the newly-created Clinical Research Unit Library at university college Galway, Eire.Ex. The article 'An exercise in archival exhibitionism' describes the display to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the University's faculty of Medicine.----* facultad de biblioteconomía y documentación = graduate library school, LIS school.* Facultad de Biblioteconomía y Documentación (FBYD) = Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS).* facultad de ciencias de la educación = teachers college, teacher training college.* facultad de derecho = law school.* facultad de empresariales = Graduate School of Management, business school.* facultad de medicina = medical school, university medical school.* facultad universitaria = college.* junta de facultad = faculty board. -
65 bestehen
Bestehen n 1. GEN existence; 2. BIL passing (einer Prüfung) • das 50-jährige Bestehen feiern GEN, MGT celebrate the fiftieth anniversary • seit Bestehen der Firma GEN ever since the firm was founded • seit Bestehen des Unternehmens GEN ever since the firm was founded* * *: nicht mehr bestehen< Geschäft> be extinguished* * *Bestehen
existence, (Forderung) insistence, persistence;
• seit Bestehen der Firma since the firm was founded;
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66 honderdjarig
1 [honderd jaar oud/durende] hundred-year-old2 [om de eeuw plaatsvindend] centenary♦voorbeelden:1 het honderdjarig bestaan vieren • celebrate the hundredth anniversary/the centenaryde Honderdjarige Oorlog • the Hundred Years' War -
67 חגג
חָגַג(b. h.; cmp. חוּג) ( to turn, (denom. of חַג) to celebrate an anniversary, to observe a festival, to make a periodical pilgrimage. Num. R. s. 20 אומה החוֹגֶגֶתוכ׳ a nation that celebrates three pilgrims festivals.Esp. to offer the pilgrims festive sacrifice (חֲגִיגָה). Ḥag.I, 6 מי שלא חַג … חיֹגֵגוכ׳ he who failed to offer on the first day …, may do so during the entire festive season. Pes.70b חֲגַגְתֶּם חגיגה you have offered ; a. fr. -
68 חָגַג
חָגַג(b. h.; cmp. חוּג) ( to turn, (denom. of חַג) to celebrate an anniversary, to observe a festival, to make a periodical pilgrimage. Num. R. s. 20 אומה החוֹגֶגֶתוכ׳ a nation that celebrates three pilgrims festivals.Esp. to offer the pilgrims festive sacrifice (חֲגִיגָה). Ḥag.I, 6 מי שלא חַג … חיֹגֵגוכ׳ he who failed to offer on the first day …, may do so during the entire festive season. Pes.70b חֲגַגְתֶּם חגיגה you have offered ; a. fr. -
69 праздновать пятидесятую годовщину со дня основания
Makarov: celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of (чего-л.)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > праздновать пятидесятую годовщину со дня основания
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70 праздновать пятидесятую годовщину со дня открытия
Makarov: celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of (чего-л.)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > праздновать пятидесятую годовщину со дня открытия
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71 het honderdjarig bestaan vieren
het honderdjarig bestaan vierencelebrate the hundredth anniversary/the centenaryVan Dale Handwoordenboek Nederlands-Engels > het honderdjarig bestaan vieren
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72 трехсотлетие
ср.
1) (годовщина) three-hundredth anniversary, tercentenary праздновать трехсотлетие чего-л. ≈ to celebrate the tercentenary of smth.
2) (срок в 300 лет) three hundred years мн., three centuries мн.tercentenaryБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > трехсотлетие
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73 праздновать пятидесятую годовщину со дня рождения
Makarov: celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of birth (кого-л.)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > праздновать пятидесятую годовщину со дня рождения
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74 neunhundertjährig
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75 двухсотлетие
с.1. ( годовщина) two-hundredth anniversary, bicentenaryпраздновать двухсотлетие чего-л. — celebrate the bicentenary of smth.
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76 пятисотлетие
с.1. ( годовщина) five-hundredth anniversary, quincentenaryпраздновать пятисотлетие чего-л. — celebrate the quincentenary of smth.
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77 трёхсотлетие
с.1. ( годовщина) three-hundredth anniversary, tercentenaryпраздновать трёхсотлетие чего-л. — celebrate the tercentenary of smth.
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78 четырёхсотлетие
с.1. ( годовщина) four-hundredth anniversary, quadricentennialпраздновать четырёхсотлетие чего-либо — celebrate the quadricentennial of smth.
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79 шестисотлетие
с.1. ( годовщина) six-hundredth anniversary, sexcentenaryпраздновать шестисотлетие чего-л. — celebrate the sexcentenary of smth.
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80 neunhundertjährig
neun·hun·dert·jäh·rig adjnine hundred-year-old attr;das \neunhundertjährige Bestehen von etw feiern to celebrate the nine hundredth anniversary of sthDeutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch für Studenten > neunhundertjährig
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