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61 Wedgwood, Josiah
SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors[br]baptized 12 July 1730 Burslem, Staffordshire, Englandd. 3 January 1795 Etruria Hall, Staffordshire, England[br]English potter and man of science.[br]Wedgwood came from prolific farming stock who, in the seventeenth century, had turned to pot-making. At the age of 9 his education was brought to an end by his father's death and he was set to work in one of the family potteries. Two years later an attack of smallpox left him with a weakness in his right knee which prevented him from working the potter's wheel. This forced his attention to other aspects of the process, such as design and modelling. He was apprenticed to his brother Thomas in 1744, and in 1752 was in partnership with Thomas Whieldon, a leading Staffordshire potter, until probably the first half of 1759, when he became a master potter and set up in business on his own account at Ivy House Works in Burslem.Wedgwood was then able to exercise to the full his determination to improve the quality of his ware. This he achieved by careful attention to all aspects of the work: artistic judgement of form and decoration; chemical study of the materials; and intelligent management of manufacturing processes. For example, to achieve greater control over firing conditions, he invented a pyrometer, a temperature-measuring device by which the shrinkage of prepared clay cylinders in the furnace gave an indication of the temperature. Wedgwood was the first potter to employ steam power, installing a Boulton \& Watt engine for crushing and other operations in 1782. Beyond the confines of his works, Wedgwood concerned himself in local issues such as improvements to the road and canal systems to facilitate transport of raw materials and products.During the first ten years, Wedgwood steadily improved the quality of his cream ware, known as "Queen's ware" after a set of ware was presented to Queen Charlotte in 1762. The business prospered and his reputation grew. In 1766 he was able to purchase an estate on which he built new works, a mansion and a village to which he gave the name Etruria. Four years after the Etruria works were opened in 1769, Wedgwood began experimenting with a barium compound combined in a fine-textured base allied to a true porcelain. The result was Wedgwood's most original and distinctive ware similar to jasper, made in a wide variety of forms.Wedgwood had many followers and imitators but the merit of initiating and carrying through a large-scale technical and artistic development of English pottery belongs to Wedgwood.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1783.BibliographyWedgwood contributed five papers to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, two in 1783 and 1790 on chemical subjects and three in 1782, 1784 and 1786 on his pyrometer.Further ReadingMeteyard, 1865, Life of Josiah Wedgwood, London (biography).A.Burton, 1976, Josiah Wedgwood: Biography, London: André Deutsch (a very readable account).LRD -
62 Whitehead, Robert
SUBJECT AREA: Weapons and armour[br]b. 3 January 1823 Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, Englandd. 19 November 1903 Shrivenham, Wiltshire, England[br]English inventor of the torpedo.[br]At the age of 14 Whitehead was apprenticed by his father, who ran a cotton-bleaching business, to an engineering firm in Manchester. He moved in 1847 to join his uncle, who was the Manager of another engineering firm, and three years later Whitehead set up on his own in Milan, where he made mechanical improvements to the silk-weaving industry and designed drainage machines for the Lombardy marshes.In 1848 he was forced to move from Italy because of the revolution and settled in Fiume, which was then part of Austria. There he concen-. trated on designing and building engines for warships, and in 1864 the Austrians invited him to participate in a project to develop a "floating torpedo". In those days the torpedo was synonymous with the underwater mine, and Whitehead believed that he could do better than this proposal and produce an explosive weapon that could propel itself through the water. He set to work with his son John and a mechanic, producing the first version of his torpedo in 1866. It had a range of only 700 yd (640 m) and a speed of just 7 knots (13 km/h), as well as depth-keeping problems, but even so, especially after he had reduced the last problem by the use of a "balance chamber", the Austrian authorities were sufficiently impressed to buy construction rights and to decorate him. Other navies quickly followed suit and within twenty years almost every navy in the world was equipped with the Whitehead torpedo, its main attraction being that no warship, however large, was safe from it. During this time Whitehead continued to improve on his design, introducing a servo-motor and gyroscope, thereby radically improving range, speed and accuracy.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsOrder of Max Joseph (Austria) 1868. Légion d'honneur 1884. Whitehead also received decorations from Prussia, Denmark, Portugal, Italy and Greece.Further ReadingDictionary of National Biography, 1912, Vol. 3, Suppl. 2, London: Smith, Elder.CM -
63 Whitworth, Sir Joseph
[br]b. 21 December 1803 Stockport, Cheshire, Englandd. 22 January 1887 Monte Carlo, Monaco[br]English mechanical engineer and pioneer of precision measurement.[br]Joseph Whitworth received his early education in a school kept by his father, but from the age of 12 he attended a school near Leeds. At 14 he joined his uncle's mill near Ambergate, Derbyshire, to learn the business of cotton spinning. In the four years he spent there he realized that he was more interested in the machinery than in managing a cotton mill. In 1821 he obtained employment as a mechanic with Crighton \& Co., Manchester. In 1825 he moved to London and worked for Henry Maudslay and later for the Holtzapffels and Joseph Clement. After these years spent gaining experience, he returned to Manchester in 1833 and set up in a small workshop under a sign "Joseph Whitworth, Tool Maker, from London".The business expanded steadily and the firm made machine tools of all types and other engineering products including steam engines. From 1834 Whitworth obtained many patents in the fields of machine tools, textile and knitting machinery and road-sweeping machines. By 1851 the company was generally regarded as the leading manufacturer of machine tools in the country. Whitworth was a pioneer of precise measurement and demonstrated the fundamental mode of producing a true plane by making surface plates in sets of three. He advocated the use of the decimal system and made use of limit gauges, and he established a standard screw thread which was adopted as the national standard. In 1853 Whitworth visited America as a member of a Royal Commission and reported on American industry. At the time of the Crimean War in 1854 he was asked to provide machinery for manufacturing rifles and this led him to design an improved rifle of his own. Although tests in 1857 showed this to be much superior to all others, it was not adopted by the War Office. Whitworth's experiments with small arms led on to the construction of big guns and projectiles. To improve the quality of the steel used for these guns, he subjected the molten metal to pressure during its solidification, this fluid-compressed steel being then known as "Whitworth steel".In 1868 Whitworth established thirty annual scholarships for engineering students. After his death his executors permanently endowed the Whitworth Scholarships and distributed his estate of nearly half a million pounds to various educational and charitable institutions. Whitworth was elected an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1841 and a Member in 1848 and served on its Council for many years. He was elected a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1847, the year of its foundation.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsBaronet 1869. FRS 1857. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1856, 1857 and 1866. Hon. LLD Trinity College, Dublin, 1863. Hon. DCL Oxford University 1868. Member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers 1864. Légion d'honneur 1868. Society of Arts Albert Medal 1868.Bibliography1858, Miscellaneous Papers on Mechanical Subjects, London; 1873, Miscellaneous Papers on Practical Subjects: Guns and Steel, London (both are collections of his papers to technical societies).1854, with G.Wallis, The Industry of the United States in Machinery, Manufactures, andUseful and Ornamental Arts, London.Further ReadingF.C.Lea, 1946, A Pioneer of Mechanical Engineering: Sir Joseph Whitworth, London (a short biographical account).A.E.Musson, 1963, "Joseph Whitworth: toolmaker and manufacturer", Engineering Heritage, Vol. 1, London, 124–9 (a short biography).D.J.Jeremy (ed.), 1984–6, Dictionary of Business Biography, Vol. 5, London, 797–802 (a short biography).W.Steeds, 1969, A History of Machine Tools 1700–1910, Oxford (describes Whitworth's machine tools).RTS -
64 advance
1. verb1) (to move forward: The army advanced towards the town; Our plans are advancing well; He married the boss's daughter to advance (= improve) his chances of promotion.) rykke fram; forbedre, øke2) (to supply (someone) with (money) on credit: The bank will advance you $500.) låne, forskuttere2. noun1) (moving forward or progressing: We've halted the enemy's advance; Great advances in medicine have been made in this century.) framrykning; framskritt2) (a payment made before the normal time: Can I have an advance on my salary?) forskudd3) ((usually in plural) an attempt at (especially sexual) seduction.) tilnærmelser3. adjective1) (made etc before the necessary or agreed time: an advance payment.) forskudds-, forskuddsvis2) (made beforehand: an advance booking.) på forhånd, forhånds-3) (sent ahead of the main group or force: the advance guard.) fortropps-•- advanced- in advanceframsteg--------fremmeIsubst. \/ədˈvɑːns\/1) fremrykning, fremmarsj, fremflyttingetterhvert som han ble eldre, kunne han ikke gjøre jobben sin godt nok2) fremskritt, fremgang, forbedring3) tilnærmelse, fremstøt, tilbud, forslag4) forskudd, forstrekning, lån5) stigning, økning6) opprykk, forfremmelse, avansement7) (amer.) fortroppin advance på forhånd, i forveien, på forskudd, forskuddsvisin advance of forut formake advances gjøre tilnærmelser gjøre fremskrittIIverb \/ədˈvɑːns\/1) flyte frem, rykke frem2) ( om forslag) fremme, fremsette3) fremskynde, fremme4) ( om penger) forskuttere, forstrekke, låne (ut)5) gå fremover\/videre, rykke frem, avansere, nærme seg6) gjøre fremskritt, forbedre seg, utvikle7) ( om priser) stige, gå opp, by over, øke8) avansere, bli forfremmet, stige i gradene9) ( gammeldags) heise (opp)advance a cause fremme en sakadvance on rykke frem motadvance somebody something gi noen noe på forskuddIIIadj. \/ədˈvɑːns\/1) forhånds-, for-2) forskudd -
65 come on
1.['] intransitive verb1) (continue coming, follow) kommencome on! — komm, komm/kommt, kommt!; (encouraging) na, komm; (impatient) na, komm schon; (incredulous) ach komm!
2) (make progress)3) (begin to arrive) [Nacht, Dunkelheit, Winter:] anbrechen4) (appear on stage or scene) auftreten2.['] transitive verb see academic.ru/14464/come_upon">come upon* * *1) (to appear on stage or the screen: They waited for the comedian to come on.) auftreten2) (hurry up!: Come on - we'll be late for the party!) los!, beeil´ dich!3) (don't be ridiculous!: Come on, you don't really expect me to believe that!) na, hör mal* * *◆ come onvi2. (expression of annoyance)\come on on! jetzt hör aber auf!3. (improve) vorankommen, Fortschritte machenhow's your English coming on? wie geht's mit deinem Englisch voran?how's your broken leg? — oh, it's coming on was macht dein gebrochenes Bein? — ah, schon wieder besserto \come on on strong ganz schön rangehen fam6. (begin) film, programme anfangen, beginnen; (start to work) heating, lights angehen; night, darkness hereinbrechenwhat time does the news \come on on? wann kommen die Nachrichten?the rain came on es begann zu regnenI've a cold coming on ich kriege eine Erkältungto have a headache/bad temper coming on Kopfschmerzen/schlechte Laune kriegen fam9. (age)he's coming on fifty er wird fünfzigto \come on on to a subject [or topic] ein Thema anschneiden* * *1. vi1) (= follow) nachkommen2)See:= come along4) (Brit: progress, develop) = come alongSee:= come alongit came on to rain, the rain came on — es begann zu regnen, es fing an zu regnen
I've a cold coming on —
7) (SPORT player) ins Spiel kommen; (THEAT, actor) auftreten, auf die Bühne kommen; (play) gegeben werden8) (inf)9) (inf= make impression, behave)
he tries to come on like a tough guy — er versucht, den starken Mann zu mimenhe came on with this bit about knowing the director — er gab damit an, den Direktor zu kennen
to come on strong — groß auftreten (inf)
2. vi +prep objSee:= come (up)on* * *come on v/i1. herankommen:a) komm (mit)!,b) komm her!,c) na, komm schon!; los!,2. beginnen, einsetzen:it came on to rain es begann zu regnen3. an die Reihe kommen4. THEATa) auftretenb) aufgeführt werden5. stattfinden6. a) wachsen, gedeihenb) vorankommen, Fortschritte machen* * *1.['] intransitive verb1) (continue coming, follow) kommencome on! — komm, komm/kommt, kommt!; (encouraging) na, komm; (impatient) na, komm schon; (incredulous) ach komm!
3) (begin to arrive) [Nacht, Dunkelheit, Winter:] anbrechen4) (appear on stage or scene) auftreten2.['] transitive verb see come upon -
66 qualification
n1) ограничение2) условие, оговорка3) обыкн. pl квалификация
- age qualification
- auditor's qualification
- educational qualification
- high professional qualification
- income qualification
- necessary qualification
- professional qualifications
- property qualification
- rating qualification
- residence qualification
- residential qualification
- tax qualification
- voting qualification
- qualification for dividend
- qualification for pension
- qualification in shares
- qualifications of personnel
- qualification of privileges
- with qualification
- without qualification
- improve one's qualificationEnglish-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > qualification
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