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  • 121 связь


    communication
    передача информации из одного пункта в другой и от одного лица ипи оборудования к другому. — the transmission of information from one point, person, ог equipment to another.
    - (звено, обеспечивающее связь) — link
    - (кнопка ссо - системы сигнализации опасности захвата ла)hijack(ing) alert (alert)
    - (между системами) — interface, coupling
    - (механическая или электрическая)coupling
    - (связное оборудование, раздел 23 рэ) — communications (chapter 23, maintenance manual)
    - ану (автоматического иавигационного устройства) с дисс (доплеровским измеритепем) — dead-reckoning computer-todoppler navigation system interface, dr-to-dop interface
    -, беспоисковая и безподстроечная — crystal-stabilized communication
    -, взаимная (между блоками системы) — coupling, interface
    -, внешняя (связь между cвоим самолетом и другими самолетами или наземными радиостанциями) — communication between the aircraft and other aircraft or ground stations
    -, гальваническая — resistance coupling
    -, гибкая обратная — flexible feedback
    - гировертикали с астрокорректоромvertical reference-star tracker inferface
    -, двусторонняя — two-way communication
    связь между радиостанциями, имеющими передающее и приемное оборудование, — communication between radio stations, each having both transmitting and receiving equipment.
    -, двусторонняя (между самолетом и наземными радиостанциями) — air-ground communication. two-way communication between aircraft and ground stations.
    -, дуплексная — duplex communication
    -, жесткая обратная — direct feedback
    -, обратная — feedback (coupling)
    воздействие результатов функционирования системы (устройства) на характер дальнейшего функционировамня этой же системы, — part of a closed-loop system which brings back information about the condition under control, for comparison for the target value.
    -, обратная (тросовая, управпения передних колес) — follow-up cables
    -, обратная (управления поворотом колес передней стойки шасси) — nosewheel steering follow-up system
    -, обратная, внешняя — feedback
    -, обратная, внутренняя — salf feedback
    -, обратная, глубокая — large-amount feedback
    охватить глубокой обратной связью, — apply а large amount of feedback.
    -, обратная жесткая — direct /follow-up/ feedback
    -, обратная изодромная — proportional feedback
    -, обратная, по напряжению — voltage /parallel/ feedback
    -, обратная, пс переменному — ас feedback
    -, обратная, по постоянному — dс feedback
    -, обратная, по току — current /series/ feedback
    -, односторонняя — one-way communication
    относится к радиосвязной ипи переговорной системе, осуществляющей передачу от одной станции к другой станции, не имеющей передатчика, — applied to certain radiocommuunication or intercommunication systems whcrs a message is transnitted from oпе station to one or more receiving stations that have no transmitting apparatus.
    -, односторонняя (между наземной радиостанцией и самолетом) — ground-to-air communication. one-way communication from ground stations to aircraft.
    -, односторонняя (между самалетом и наземной радиостанцией) — air-to-ground communication. one-way communication from aircraft to ground stations.
    -, отрицательная обратная связь, которая при отклонении объекта от равновесия, вызывает нейтрализацию этого отклонения. — negative feedback, degeneration /inverse, stabilized/ feedback
    -, перекрестная (в системе) — cross-coupling
    -, положительная обратная способствует переходу объекта в другое равновесное состояние. — positive feedback, regeneration feedback
    -, радиотелеграфная — c-w communication
    -,радиотелефонная — voice communication
    - с автопилотом — autopilot coupling /interface/, coupling to autopilot

    facilities for coupling the system to the autopilot. the ons-to-ap interface.
    - самолета с самолетомair-to-air communication
    - с другими самолетамиcommunication with other aircraft
    -, симплексная — simplex operation
    связь между двумя радиостанциями, осуществляемая в данный период только в одном направлении. — communication that takes place in only one direction at а time between two stations.
    -, скоростная обратная — rate feedback coupling
    - с (наземными) радиосредствамиcontact

    at cohtrolled fields make initial contact 15 miles out.
    - cco (системы самолетной опасности)hijack alarm communication
    -, тактическая — tactical communications
    -, функциональная (взаимосвязь блоков, систем) — interface
    выходить на с. — establish communication
    выходить на внешнюю с. — establish communication between the aircraft and other aircraft or ground stations
    система, охваченная обратной с. — system incorporating feedback
    налаживать (устанавливать) с. — establish communication
    охватывать обратной с. — apply feedback around
    охваченный обратной с. — feedback-incorporated
    поддерживать с. — carry on /maintain/ communication(s)
    устанавливать с. — establish communication(s)
    устанавливать радиосвязь — establish /make/ radio contact, contact radio station

    Русско-английский сборник авиационно-технических терминов > связь

  • 122 Strutt, Jedediah

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
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    b. 26 July 1726 South Normanton, near Alfreton, Derbyshire, England
    d. 7 May 1797 Derby, England
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    English inventor of a machine for making ribbed knitting.
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    Jedediah Strutt was the second of three sons of William, a small farmer and maltster at South Normanton, near Alfreton, Derbyshire, where the only industry was a little framework knitting. At the age of 14 Jedediah was apprenticed to Ralph Massey, a wheelwright near Derby, and lodged with the Woollats, whose daughter Elizabeth he later married in 1755. He moved to Leicester and in 1754 started farming at Blackwell, where an uncle had died and left him the stock on his farm. It was here that he made his knitting invention.
    William Lee's knitting machine remained in virtually the same form as he left it until the middle of the eighteenth century. The knitting industry moved away from London into the Midlands and in 1730 a Nottingham workman, using Indian spun yarn, produced the first pair of cotton hose ever made by mechanical means. This industry developed quickly and by 1750 was providing employment for 1,200 frameworkers using both wool and cotton in the Nottingham and Derby areas. It was against this background that Jedediah Strutt obtained patents for his Derby rib machine in 1758 and 1759.
    The machine was a highly ingenious mechanism, which when placed in front of an ordinary stocking frame enabled the fashionable ribbed stockings to be made by machine instead of by hand. To develop this invention, he formed a partnership first with his brother-in-law, William Woollat, and two leading Derby hosiers, John Bloodworth and Thomas Stamford. This partnership was dissolved in 1762 and another was formed with Woollat and the Nottingham hosier Samuel Need. Strutt's invention was followed by a succession of innovations which enabled framework knitters to produce almost every kind of mesh on their machines. In 1764 the stocking frame was adapted to the making of eyelet holes, and this later lead to the production of lace. In 1767 velvet was made on these frames, and two years later brocade. In this way Strutt's original invention opened up a new era for knitting. Although all these later improvements were not his, he was able to make a fortune from his invention. In 1762 he was made a freeman of Nottingham, but by then he was living in Derby. His business at Derby was concerned mainly with silk hose and he had a silk mill there.
    It was partly his need for cotton yarn and partly his wealth which led him into partnership with Richard Arkwright, John Smalley and David Thornley to exploit Arkwright's patent for spinning cotton by rollers. Together with Samuel Need, they financed the Arkwright partnership in 1770 to develop the horse-powered mill in Nottingham and then the water-powered mill at Cromford. Strutt gave advice to Arkwright about improving the machinery and helped to hold the partnership together when Arkwright fell out with his first partners. Strutt was also involved, in London, where he had a house, with the parliamentary proceedings over the passing of the Calico Act in 1774, which opened up the trade in British-manufactured all-cotton cloth.
    In 1776 Strutt financed the construction of his own mill at Helper, about seven miles (11 km) further down the Derwent valley below Cromford. This was followed by another at Milford, a little lower on the river. Strutt was also a partner with Arkwright and others in the mill at Birkacre, near Chorley in Lancashire. The Strutt mills were developed into large complexes for cotton spinning and many experiments were later carried out in them, both in textile machinery and in fireproof construction for the mills themselves. They were also important training schools for engineers.
    Elizabeth Strutt died in 1774 and Jedediah never married again. The family seem to have lived frugally in spite of their wealth, probably influenced by their Nonconformist background. He had built a house near the mills at Milford, but it was in his Derby house that Jedediah died in 1797. By the time of his death, his son William had long been involved with the business and became a more important cotton spinner than Jedediah.
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    Bibliography
    1758. British patent no. 722 (Derby rib machine). 1759. British patent no. 734 (Derby rib machine).
    Further Reading
    For the involvement of Strutt in Arkwright's spinning ventures, there are two books, the earlier of which is R.S.Fitton and A.P.Wadsworth, 1958, The Strutts and the Arkwrights, 1758–1830, Manchester, which has most of the details about Strutt's life. This has been followed by R.S.Fitton, 1989, The Arkwrights, Spinners of Fortune, Manchester.
    R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (for a general background to the textile industry of the period).
    W.Felkin, 1967, History of the Machine-wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures, reprint, Newton Abbot (orig. pub. 1867) (covers Strutt's knitting inventions).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Strutt, Jedediah

  • 123 Madeira Islands, Archipelago of

       An autonomous region of Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean that consists of the islands of Madeira and Porto Santo and several smaller isles. The capital of the archipelago is Funchal on Madeira Island. The islands have a total area of 496 square kilometers (308 square miles) and are located about 1,126 kilometers (700 miles) southwest of Lisbon. Discovered uninhabited by Portuguese navigators between 1419 and 1425, but probably seen earlier by Italian navigators, the Madeiras were so named because of the extensive forests found on the islands' volcanic hills and mountains (the name Madeiras means wood or timber). Prince Henry of Aviz (Prince Henry the Navigator) was first responsible for the settlement and early colonization of these islands.
       The Madeiran economy was soon dominated by sugar plantations, which were begun when the Portuguese transplanted sugar plants from the Mediterranean. In the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, Madeira was worked largely by black African slaves brought from West Africa, and the islands produced sugar, cereals, and wine. Eventually the islands' fortunes were governed by a new kind of wine called "Madeira," developed in the 17th century. Madeira was produced using a heating process, and became famous as a sweet, fortified dessert wine popular both in Great Britain and in British North America. It was a favorite drink of America's Thomas Jefferson. The Madeira wine business was developed largely under British influence, management, and capital, although the labor was supplied by African slaves and Portuguese settlers. Two other main staples of these islands' economy were initially developed due to the initiatives of British residents as well. In the 18th century, Madeira became an early tourist attraction and health spa for Britain, and the islands' tourist facilities began to be developed. It was a British woman resident in the 19th century who introduced the idea of the Madeiran embroidered lace industry, an industry that sends its fine products not only to Portugal but all over the world.
       Since the 1950s, with new international airline connections with Britain and Portugal, the Madeiras have become a popular tourist destination and, along with Madeira wine, tourism became a major foreign exchange earner. Among European and British visitors especially, Madeira Island has attracted visitors who like flower and garden tours, challenging mountain walks, and water sports. Over the last century, a significant amount of Madeiran emigration has occurred, principally to the United States (California and Hawaii being the favored residential states), the Caribbean, and, more recently, South Africa. Since 1976, the Madeiras have been, like the Azores Islands, an autonomous region of Portugal.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Madeira Islands, Archipelago of

  • 124 another

    another [ə'nʌðə(r)]
    (a) (additional) un (une)… de plus, encore un (une);
    have another chocolate prenez un autre ou reprenez un chocolat;
    another cup of tea? vous reprendrez bien une tasse de thé?;
    another 5 miles encore 5 miles;
    can you wait another 10 minutes? peux-tu attendre encore 10 minutes?;
    another 5 minutes and we'd have missed the train 5 minutes de plus et on ratait le train;
    in another 3 weeks dans 3 semaines;
    without another word sans un mot de plus, sans ajouter un mot;
    and for another thing, he's ill et de plus il est malade;
    I don't want to see another fish as long as I live je ne veux plus voir un seul poisson de toute ma vie
    (b) (second) un (une) autre, un (une) second;
    we're thinking of getting another car (in addition to the one we have) nous pensons acheter une deuxième voiture;
    it could be another Vietnam ça pourrait être un second ou nouveau Viêt-nam;
    he is another Picasso c'est le nouveau Picasso
    (c) (different) un (une) autre;
    can't we do that another time? on ne peut pas remettre ça à plus tard ou à une autre fois?;
    let's do it another way faisons-le autrement;
    that's another matter entirely! ça, c'est une tout autre histoire!;
    we're thinking of getting another car (to replace the car we have) nous pensons acheter une nouvelle voiture ou changer de voiture
    (a) (a similar one) un (une) autre, encore un (une);
    a glass of milk and another of water un verre de lait et un verre d'eau;
    she finished one cigarette and lit another elle finit une cigarette et en alluma une autre;
    literary many another bien d'autres, beaucoup d'autres;
    one way or another d'une façon ou d'une autre;
    taking one thing with another, we just manage l'un dans l'autre, on arrive à joindre les deux bouts;
    what with one thing and another, I forgot avec tout ça j'ai oublié
    another of the girls une autre des filles;
    bring a dessert of one sort or another apportez un dessert, (n'importe lequel);
    science is one thing, art is another la science est une chose, l'art en est une autre
    one another l'un l'autre; (more than two people) les uns les autres;
    to help one another s'entraider;
    love one another aimez-vous les uns les autres;
    he and his wife adore one another lui et sa femme s'adorent;
    they give one another presents ils se donnent des cadeaux
    (d) archaic or literary (somebody else) un (une) autre;
    she loves another elle en aime un autre

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  • 125 up

    up [ʌp] (pt & pp upped, cont upping)
    A.
    all the way up, the whole way up, right up (to the top) (of stairs, hill) jusqu'en haut;
    he's on his way up il monte;
    they had coffee sent up ils ont fait monter du café;
    hang it higher up accrochez-le plus haut;
    wait till the moon comes up attends que la lune se lève;
    familiar he doesn't have very much up top c'est pas une lumière, il a pas inventé l'eau chaude ou le fil à couper le beurre;
    familiar she's got plenty up top elle en a dans le ciboulot
    (b) (in a higher position, at a higher level)
    she wears her hair up elle porte ses cheveux relevés;
    hold your head up high! redressez la tête!;
    heads up! attention!;
    up above au-dessus;
    the glasses are up above the plates les verres sont au-dessus des assiettes;
    up in the air en l'air;
    look at the kite up in the sky regardez le cerf-volant (là-haut) dans le ciel;
    I live eight floors up j'habite au huitième (étage);
    she lives three floors up from us elle habite trois étages au-dessus de chez nous;
    she's up in her room elle est en haut dans sa chambre;
    we spend our holidays up in the mountains nous passons nos vacances à la montagne;
    from up on the mountain du haut de la montagne;
    do you see her up on that hill? la voyez-vous en haut de ou sur cette colline?;
    what are you doing up there? qu'est-ce que vous faites là-haut?;
    the captain is up on deck le capitaine est en haut sur le pont;
    have you ever been up in a plane? avez-vous déjà pris l'avion?;
    up the top tout en haut;
    it's up on top of the wardrobe c'est sur le dessus de l'armoire;
    figurative she's up there with the best (of them) elle est parmi ou dans les meilleurs
    Charles has his hand up Charles a la main levée;
    wind the window up (in car) remontez la vitre;
    put your hood up relève ou mets ta capuche;
    she turned her collar up elle a relevé son col
    up you get! debout!;
    he helped me up il m'a aidé à me lever ou à me mettre debout;
    sit up straight! tiens-toi droit!;
    the trunk was standing up on end la malle était debout;
    familiar up and at them! grouillez-vous!
    get up! debout!;
    she got up late this morning elle s'est levée tard ce matin;
    she's always up and doing elle n'arrête jamais
    the body was lying face up le corps était couché sur le dos;
    I turned the poster right side up j'ai mis l'affiche dans le bon sens ou à l'endroit;
    put it the other way up retournez-le;
    he turned his hand palm up il a tourné la main paume vers le haut;
    familiar figurative he doesn't know which end is up il est bête comme ses pieds
    (g) (erected, installed)
    they're putting up a new hotel there ils construisent un nouvel hôtel là-bas;
    help me get the curtains/the pictures up aide-moi à accrocher les rideaux/les tableaux
    up on the blackboard au tableau;
    I saw an announcement up about it je l'ai vu sur une affiche
    careful, we've got some of the floorboards up attention au plancher, il manque des lattes;
    when we've got the carpet up… quand nous aurons enlevé la moquette…
    B.
    they came up for the weekend ils sont venus pour le week-end;
    it's cold up here il fait froid ici;
    up there là-bas;
    up north dans le nord
    (b) (in, to or from a larger place)
    up in Madrid à Madrid;
    she's up in Maine for the week elle passe une semaine dans le Maine;
    we're up from Munich nous venons ou arrivons de Munich;
    he was on his way up to town il allait en ville
    he's up at Oxford il est à Oxford
    there's a café up ahead il y a un café plus loin;
    the sign up ahead says 10 miles la pancarte là-bas indique 10 miles
    the clerk came up to him le vendeur s'est approché de lui ou est venu vers lui;
    a car drew up at the petrol pump une voiture s'est arrêtée à la pompe à essence;
    up came a small, blonde child un petit enfant blond s'est approché
    up close de près;
    I like to sit up front j'aime bien m'asseoir devant;
    when you get right up to her quand vous la voyez de près;
    they stood up close to one another ils se tenaient l'un contre l'autre ou tout près l'un de l'autre
    C.
    prices have gone up by 10 percent les prix ont augmenté ou monté de 10 pour cent;
    bread has gone up again le pain a encore augmenté;
    the temperature soared up into the thirties la température est montée au-dessus de trente degrés;
    they can cost anything from £750 up ils coûtent au moins 750 livres, on en trouve à partir de 750 livres;
    suitable for children aged seven and up convient aux enfants âgés de sept ans et plus;
    all ranks from sergeant up tous les rangs à partir de celui de sergent
    (b) (more loudly, intensely) plus fort;
    speak up parlez plus fort;
    he turned the radio up il a mis la radio plus fort
    D.
    drink up! finissez vos verres!;
    eat up your greens finis tes légumes;
    the river had dried up la rivière s'était asséchée
    he ripped the shirt up il a mis la chemise en lambeaux;
    I tore up the letter j'ai déchiré la lettre (en petits morceaux)
    add these figures up additionnez ces chiffres;
    the teacher gathered up his notes le professeur a ramassé ses notes
    E.
    he came up before the judge for rape il a comparu devant le juge pour viol;
    the murder case came up before the court today le meutre a été jugé aujourd'hui;
    she comes up before the board tomorrow elle paraît devant le conseil demain
    up (with) the Revolution! vive la Révolution!;
    Sport up the Lakers! allez les Lakers!
    A.
    the river is up le fleuve est en crue;
    the tide is up la marée est haute;
    before the sun was up avant le lever du soleil;
    prices are up on last year les prix ont augmenté par rapport à l'année dernière;
    the temperature is up in the twenties la température a dépassé les vingt degrés
    the blinds are up les stores sont levés;
    keep the windows up (in car) n'ouvrez pas les fenêtres;
    her hair was up (in a bun) elle avait un chignon;
    her hood was up so I couldn't see her face sa capuche était relevée, si bien que je ne voyais pas sa figure;
    figurative his defences were up il était sur ses gardes
    the up escalator l'escalier roulant qui monte
    the up train le train qui va en ville;
    the up platform le quai où l'on prend le train qui va en ville
    is she up yet? est-elle déjà levée ou debout?;
    we're normally up at 6 d'habitude nous nous levons à 6 heures;
    she was up late last night elle s'est couchée ou elle a veillé tard hier soir;
    they were up all night ils ne se sont pas couchés de la nuit, ils ont passé une nuit blanche
    was the ball up? la balle était-elle bonne?
    B.
    (a) (road) en travaux;
    road up (sign) travaux
    (b) (erected, installed)
    these buildings haven't been up long ça ne fait pas longtemps que ces immeubles ont été construits;
    are the new curtains up yet? les nouveaux rideaux ont-ils été posés?;
    when the tent's up quand la tente sera montée
    are the results up yet? les résultats sont-ils déjà affichés?
    C.
    (a) (finished, at an end) terminé;
    time is up! (on exam, visit) c'est l'heure!; (in game, on meter) le temps est écoulé!;
    when the month was up he left à la fin du mois, il est parti
    Madrid was two goals up Madrid menait de deux buts;
    Sport Georgetown was 13 points up on Baltimore Georgetown avait 13 points d'avance sur Baltimore;
    Golf to be one hole up avoir un trou d'avance;
    familiar I'm $50 up on you j'ai 50 dollars de plus que vous ;
    familiar to be one up on sb avoir un avantage sur qn
    (c) familiar (ready) prêt ;
    dinner's up le dîner est prêt
    the computer's up again l'ordinateur fonctionne à nouveau
    D.
    he seemed very up when I saw him il avait l'air en pleine forme quand je l'ai vu
    to be up on sth être au fait de qch ;
    he's really up on history il est fort ou calé en histoire ;
    she's always up with the latest trends elle est toujours au courant de la dernière mode
    E.
    to be up before a court/a judge comparaître devant un tribunal/un juge;
    she's up before the board tomorrow elle comparaît devant le conseil demain
    something's up (happening) il se passe quelque chose ; (wrong) quelque chose ne va pas ;
    what's up? (happening) qu'est-ce qui se passe? ; (wrong) qu'est-ce qu'il y a? ; American (as greeting) quoi de neuf?;
    what's up with you? (happening) quoi de neuf?; (wrong) qu'est-ce que tu as? ;
    do you know what's up? est-ce que tu sais ce qui se passe? ;
    something's up with Mum il y a quelque chose qui ne va pas chez maman, maman a quelque chose ;
    there's something up with the TV la télé débloque
    we carried our suitcases up the stairs nous avons monté nos valises;
    he ran up the stairs il a monté l'escalier en courant;
    she was up and down stairs all day elle montait et descendait les escaliers toute la journée;
    I climbed up the ladder je suis monté à l'échelle;
    the cat climbed up the tree le chat a grimpé dans l'arbre;
    the smoke went up my nose la fumée m'est montée par le nez;
    the gas goes up this pipe le gaz monte par ce tuyau;
    further up the wall plus haut sur le mur;
    literary up hill and down dale par monts et par vaux
    her flat is up those stairs son appartement est en haut de cet escalier;
    the cat is up a tree le chat est (perché) sur un arbre;
    we walked up the street nous avons monté la rue;
    she pointed up the street elle a montré le haut de la rue;
    she lives up this street elle habite dans cette rue;
    the café is just up the road le café se trouve plus loin ou plus haut dans la rue
    up the river en amont;
    a voyage up the Amazon une remontée de l'Amazone
    (d) British familiar (at, to) à ;
    he's up the pub il est au pub;
    I'm going up the shops je vais faire les courses
    up yours! va te faire voir!
    (a) (increase) augmenter;
    they have upped their prices by 25 percent ils ont augmenté leurs prix de 25 pour cent;
    also figurative to up the stakes monter la mise
    (b) (promote) lever, relever;
    the boss upped him to district manager le patron l'a bombardé directeur régional
    to up sticks plier bagages
    familiar she upped and left elle a fichu le camp;
    he just upped and hit him tout à coup il (s'est levé et) l'a frappé;
    he upped and married her en moins de deux, il l'a épousée
    6 noun
    (a) (high point) haut m;
    ups and downs (in land, road) accidents mpl; (of market) fluctuations fpl;
    I've had a lot of ups and downs in my life j'ai connu des hauts et des bas;
    we all have our ups and downs nous avons tous des hauts et des bas
    the market is on the up le marché est à la hausse;
    prices are on the up les prix sont en hausse
    (c) familiar (drug) amphet f, amphé f
    (a) (touching) contre;
    lean the ladder up against the window appuyez l'échelle contre la fenêtre
    you're up against some good candidates vous êtes en compétition avec de bons candidats;
    they don't know what they're up against! ils ne se rendent pas compte de ce qui les attend!;
    to be up against the law être dans l'illégalité;
    familiar to be up against it être dans le pétrin
    I've been up and about since 7 o'clock (gen) je suis levé depuis 7 heures;
    so you're up and about again? (after illness) alors tu n'es plus alité?
    he was jumping up and down il sautait sur place;
    she looked us up and down elle nous a regardés de haut en bas;
    the bottle bobbed up and down on the waves la bouteille montait et descendait sur les vagues;
    I was up and down all night (in and out of bed) je n'ai pas arrêté de me lever la nuit dernière
    (b) (to and fro) de long en large;
    I could hear him walking up and down je l'entendais faire les cent pas ou marcher de long en large;
    she walked up and down the platform elle faisait les cent pas sur le quai
    up and down the country dans tout le pays
    she's been very up and down lately elle a eu beaucoup de hauts et de bas ces derniers temps
    (a) (under consideration, about to undergo) à;
    the house is up for sale la maison est à vendre;
    the project is up for discussion on va discuter du projet;
    she's up for election elle est candidate ou elle se présente aux élections
    he's up for murder/speeding il va être jugé pour meurtre/excès de vitesse
    (c) familiar (interested in, ready for)
    are you still up for supper tonight? tu veux toujours qu'on dîne ensemble ce soir? ;
    he's up for anything il est toujours partant ;
    was she up for it? (willing to have sex) elle a bien voulu coucher?
    (a) (as far as) jusqu'à;
    he can count up to 100 il sait compter jusqu'à 100;
    the river is up to 25 feet wide le fleuve a jusqu'à 25 pieds de largeur;
    the bus can take up to 50 passengers le bus peut accueillir jusqu'à 50 passagers;
    I'm up to page 120 j'en suis à la page 120;
    up to and including Saturday jusqu'à samedi inclus;
    up to here jusqu'ici;
    up to or up until now jusqu'à maintenant, jusqu'ici;
    up to or up until then jusqu'alors, jusque-là;
    we were up to our knees in mud nous avions de la boue jusqu'aux genoux
    should he attend the meeting? - that's up to him est-ce qu'il doit assister à la réunion? - il fait ce qu'il veut ou c'est à lui de voir;
    which film do you fancy? - it's up to you quel film est-ce que tu veux voir? - c'est comme tu veux;
    it's entirely up to you whether you go or not il ne tient qu'à toi de rester ou de partir;
    if it were up to me… si c'était moi qui décidais ou à moi de décider…;
    it's up to them to pay damages c'est à eux ou il leur appartient de payer les dégâts
    to be up to doing sth être capable de faire qch;
    he's not up to heading the team il n'est pas capable de diriger l'équipe;
    my German is not up to translating novels mon niveau d'allemand ne me permet pas de traduire des romans;
    he's not up to it (not good enough) il n'est pas capable de le faire;
    are you going out tonight? - no, I don't feel up to it tu sors ce soir? - non, je n'en ai pas tellement envie;
    he's not up to the journey il n'est pas à même de faire le voyage;
    are you up to working or to work? êtes-vous capable de ou en état de travailler?;
    I'm not up to going back to work je ne suis pas encore en état de reprendre le travail;
    familiar the football team isn't up to much l'équipe de foot ne vaut pas grand-chose;
    familiar I don't feel up to much je ne me sens pas en super forme
    his work is not up to his normal standard son travail n'est pas aussi bon que d'habitude;
    the levels are up to standard les niveaux sont conformes aux normes;
    I don't feel up to par je ne me sens pas en forme
    (e) (engaged in, busy with)
    let's see what she's up to allons voir ce qu'elle fait ou fabrique;
    what have you been up to lately? qu'est-ce que tu deviens?;
    what's he been up to now? qu'est-ce qu'il a encore inventé?;
    what's he up to with that ladder? qu'est-ce qu'il fabrique avec cette échelle?;
    what are you up to with my girlfriend? qu'est-ce que tu lui veux à ma copine?;
    they're up to something ils manigancent quelque chose;
    she's up to no good elle prépare un mauvais coup;
    the things we got up to in our youth! qu'est-ce qu'on ou ce qu'on ne faisait pas quand on était jeunes!
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  • 126 Inoue Masaru

    [br]
    b. 1 August 1843 Hagi, Choshu, Japan
    d. 2 August 1910 London, England
    [br]
    Japanese "Father of Japanese Railways".
    [br]
    In the early 1860s, most travel in Japan was still by foot and the Japanese were forbidden by their government to travel abroad. Inoue was one of a small group of students who left Japan illegally in 1863 for London. There he studied English, mathematics and science, and afterwards mineralogy and railways. Inoue returned to Japan in 1868, when the new Meiji Government reopened the country to the outside world after some 200 years of isolation. Part of its policy, despite opposition, was to build railways; at Inoue's suggestion, the gauge of 3 ft 6 in. (1.07 m) was adopted. Initially capital, engineers, skilled labour and materials ranging from locomotives to pencils and stationery were all imported from Britain; Edmund Morel was the first Chief Engineer. In 1871 Inoue was appointed Director of the Government Railway Bureau and he became the driving force behind railway development in Japan for more than two decades. The first line, from Tokyo to Yokohama, was opened in 1872, to be followed by others, some of them at first isolated. The number of foreigners employed, most of them British, peaked at 120 in 1877 and then rapidly declined as the Japanese learned to take over their tasks. In 1878, at Inoue's instance, construction of a line entirely by Japanese commenced for the first time, with British engineers as consultants only. It was ten years before Japanese Railways' total route was 70 miles (113 km) long; over the next ten years, this increased to 1,000 miles (1,600 km) and the system continued to grow rapidly. During 1892–3, a locomotive was built in Japan for the first time, under the guidance of Locomotive Superintendent R.F.Trevithick, grandson of the pioneer Richard Trevithick: it was a compound 2–4–2 tank engine, with many parts imported from Britain. Locomotive building in Japan then blossomed so rapidly that imports were discontinued, with rare exceptions, from 1911. Meanwhile Inoue had retired in 1893; he was on a visit to England at the time of his death.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Viscount 1887.
    Bibliography
    1909, "Japanese communications: railroads", in Count Shigenobu Okuma (ed.), Fifty Years of New Japan (English version ed. M.B.Huish), Smith, Elder, Ch. 18.
    Further Reading
    T.Richards and K.C.Rudd, 1991 Japanese Railways in the Meiji Period 1868–1912, Uxbridge: Brunel University (one of the few readily available accounts in English of the origins of Japanese Railways).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Inoue Masaru

  • 127 Metcalf, John

    [br]
    b. 1717 Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England d. 1810
    [br]
    English pioneer road builder.
    [br]
    The son of poor working parents, at the age of 6 an attack of smallpox left him blind; however, this did not restrict his future activities, which included swimming and riding. He learned the violin and was much employed as the fiddle-player at country parties. He saved enough money to buy a horse on which he hunted. He took part in bowls, wrestling and boxing, being a robust six foot two inches tall. He rode to Whitby and went thence by boat to London and made other trips to York, Reading and Windsor. In 1740 Colonel Liddell offered him a seat in his coach from London to Harrogate, but he declined and got there more quickly on foot. He set up a one-horse chaise and a four-wheeler for hire in Harrogate, but the local innkeepers set up in competition in the public hire business. He went into the fish business, buying at the coast and selling in Leeds and other towns, but made little profit so he took up his violin again. During the rebellion of 1745 he recruited for Colonel Thornton and served to fight at Hexham, Newcastle and Falkirk, returning home after the Battle of Culloden. He then started travelling between Yorkshire, where be bought cotton and worsted stockings, and Aberdeen, where he sold horses. He set up a twice-weekly service of stage wagons between Knaresborough and York.
    In 1765 an Act was passed for a turnpike road between Harrogate and Boroughbridge and he offered to build the Master Surveyor, a Mr Ostler, three miles (5 km) of road between Minskip and Fearnly, selling his wagons and his interest in the carrying business. The road was built satisfactorily and on time. He then quoted for a bridge at Boroughbridge and for a turnpike road between Knaresborough and Harrogate. He built many other roads, always doing the survey of the route on his own. The roads crossed bogs on a base of ling and furze. Many of his roads outside Yorkshire were in Lancashire, Cheshire and Derbyshire. In all he built some 180 miles (290 km) of road, for which he was paid some £65,000.
    He worked for thirty years on road building, retiring in old age to a cotton business in Stockport where he had six spinning jennies and a carding engine; however, he found there was little profit in this so he gave the machinery to his son-in-law. The last road he built was from Haslington to Accrington, but due to the rise in labour costs brought about by the demand from the canal boom, he only made £40 profit on a £3,000 contract; the road was completed in 1792, when he retired to his farm at Spofforth at the age of 75. There he died, leaving a wife, four children, twenty grandchildren and ninety greatgrandchildren. His wife was the daughter of the landlord of the Granby Inn, Knaresborough.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    S.Smiles, Lives of the Engineers, Metcalfe, Telford: John Murray.
    IMcN

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  • 128 Riley, James

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

    Biographical history of technology > Riley, James

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