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1 be in the same street as smb.
(be in the same street as smb. (или smth.))быть таким же, как кто-л. (или что-л.)I'm really in the same street as those knobbly little boys down there. In fact the farther away from the streets I went, Neddy, the more I knew that the only people I understood and liked and trusted were my own people of the abyss. (J. Aldridge, ‘Heroes of the Empty View’, ch. 15) — Я недалеко ушла от тех мальчуганов, что шныряют вон там, на улице. И скажу тебе, Недди: чем больше я от них отдалялась, тем ясней делалось мне, что если я кого-нибудь люблю и понимаю, если я верю кому-нибудь, так только им, людям с моей улицы, тем, кого называют людьми дна.
Why, this coat isn't in the same street as the one you bought last year. (DEI) — Ну, это пальто ни в какое сравнение не идет с тем, которое вы купили в прошлом году.
As a scholar he is not in the same street as his predecessor in the post. (ECI) — Как ученый он значительно уступает, своему предшественнику на этом посту.
Large English-Russian phrasebook > be in the same street as smb.
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2 be of the same mind
1) придерживаться одного или того же мнения; соглашаться (тж. be of a или one mind) [be of one mind этим. библ. 2 Corinthians XIII, 1]The French laid seige to the city, and the officers of the garrison... seeing no help for it, were of a mind to capitulate... (W. S. Maugham, ‘Don Fernando’, ch. II) — Французские войска осадили город, и все офицеры осажденного гарнизона... понимая безвыходность положения, считали, что необходимо капитулировать...
...you can be sure that he and I are of one mind in this matter. (I. Murdoch, ‘An Accidental Man’) —...мы с твоим отцом относимся к этому одинаково.
A year ago he formed an unfavourable opinion of her character and he's of the same mind today. (DCE) — Год назад у него сложилось о ней неблагоприятное мнение, не изменилось оно и по сей день.
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3 same
same [seɪm]1. adjective• to be the same age/shape avoir le même âge/la même forme• the same books as... les mêmes livres que...• they turned out to be one and the same person en fin de compte il s'agissait d'une seule et même personne• to go the same way as sb aller dans la même direction que qn ; (figurative) suivre l'exemple de qn2. pronoun• it's the same as... c'est la même chose que...• I would do the same again si c'était à refaire, je recommencerais• things go on just the same ( = monotonously) rien ne change• and the same to you! (good wishes) à vous aussi !• same here! (inf) moi aussi !• all the same, he refused il a quand même refusé3. compounds* * *[seɪm] 1.1) ( identical) mêmeto be the same — être le or la même
in the same way — ( in a similar manner) de la même manière (as que); ( likewise) de même
to think the same way on ou about something — être du même avis sur quelque chose
to go the same way as — lit aller dans la même direction que; fig connaître le même sort que
it amounts ou comes to the same thing — cela revient au même
2) ( for emphasis) ( very) même (as que)the same one — le/la même
‘ready the same day’ — ‘prêt dans la journée’
the very same — exactement le or la même
3) ( unchanged) mêmeto be still the same — être toujours le/la même
it's/he's the same as ever — c'est/il est toujours pareil
2.to remain ou stay the same — ne pas changer
the same adverbial phrase de la même façon3.the same pronoun1) ( the identical thing) la même chose (as que)the same applies to ou goes for — il en va de même pour
the same to you! — ( in greeting) à toi aussi, à toi de même!; ( of insult) et toi-même! (colloq)
it'll be more of the same! — péj c'est reparti pour un tour!
2) Law celui-ci/celle-ci m/f••all the same... —
just the same,... — tout de même,...
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4 same
A adj1 ( identical) même ; to be the same être le or la même ; the result was the same le résultat était le même ; people are the same everywhere les gens sont partout les mêmes ; you're all the same! vous êtes tous les mêmes! ; it's the same everywhere c'est partout la même chose ; it is the same for c'est la même chose pour ; it is the same with il en est de même pour ; to look the same être pareil ; they all look the same to him pour lui, ils sont tous pareils ; to be the same as sth être comme qch ; a bag the same as the one I lost un sac comme celui que j'ai perdu ; it is the same as doing c'est comme de faire ; one wine is the same as another to him pour lui un vin en vaut un autre ; the same time last week la semaine dernière à la même heure ; the same time last year l'année dernière à la même époque ; same time same place même heure même endroit ; in the same way ( in a similar manner) de la même manière (as que) ; ( likewise) de même ; to do sth (in) the same way that sb else does faire qch comme qn d'autre ; we did it the same way as you on a fait comme toi ; to feel the same way about avoir les mêmes sentiments à l'égard de ; to think the same way on ou about sth être du même avis sur qch ; to go the same way as lit aller dans la même direction que ; fig connaître le même sort que ; the same thing la même chose ; it's the same thing c'est pareil ; it amounts ou comes to the same thing cela revient au même ; it's all the same to me ça m'est complètement égal ; if it's all the same to you si ça ne te fait rien ;2 ( for emphasis) ( very) même (as que) ; the same one le/la même ; ‘ready the same day’ ‘prêt dans la journée’ ; that same week la même semaine ; later that same day/week plus tard dans la journée/semaine ; in that same house dans cette même maison ; those same people ceux-là mêmes ; at the same time ( all contexts) en même temps ; they are one and the same (person) il s'agit d'une seule et même personne ; the very same exactement le or la même ; the very same day that le jour même où ;3 ( unchanged) même ; it's still the same town c'est toujours la même ville ; she's not the same woman ce n'est plus la même femme ; to be still the same être toujours le/la même ; things are just the same as before rien n'a changé ; it's/he's the same as ever c'est/il est toujours pareil ; my views are the same as they always were mes opinions n'ont pas changé ; she's much the same elle n'a pas beaucoup changé ; to remain ou stay the same ne pas changer ; things can't stay the same forever rien n'est immuable ; things were never the same again rien n'était plus comme avant ; it's not the same without you ce n'est pas pareil sans toi ; life wouldn't be the same without la vie ne serait plus la même sans ; the same old routine/excuse/clothes toujours la même routine/la vieille excuse/les mêmes vieux vêtements ; same old John, always late! ça c'est bien John, toujours en retard! ; ⇒ story.B the same adv phr [act, speak, dress] de la même façon ; they're pronounced the same ils se prononcent de la même façon ; to feel the same (as sb) penser comme qn ; to feel the same about avoir les mêmes sentiments à l'égard de ; life goes on just the same la vie continue comme d'habitude ; I love you just the same je t'aime toujours autant.1 gen ( the identical thing) la même chose (as que) ; I'll have the same je prendrai la même chose ; the same applies to ou goes for… il en va de même pour… ; to say the same about en dire autant de ; the same cannot be said of on ne peut pas en dire autant de ; to do the same as sb faire comme qn ; and we're hoping to do the same et on espère en faire autant ; I would do the same for you j'en ferais autant pour toi ; I'll do the same for you one day un jour j'en ferai autant pour toi ; I'd do the same again je recommencerais ; the same to you! ( in greeting) à toi aussi, à toi de même! ; ( of insult) et toi-même ○ ! ; (the) same again please! la même chose s'il vous plaît! ; it'll be more of the same! péj c'est reparti pour un tour! ; (the) same here ○ ! moi aussi! ; -
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[seɪm] 1.1) (identical) stesso, medesimothe result is the same — il risultato è il medesimo o lo stesso
it is the same with — è lo stesso per, lo stesso capita per
to be the same as sth. — essere come qcs.
the same thing — la stessa cosa, lo stesso
it amounts o comes to the same thing non fa alcuna differenza; it's all the same to me — per me è lo stesso o è uguale
2) (for emphasis) stesso (as di)"ready the same day" — "pronto in giornata"
the very same — proprio o esattamente lo stesso
3) (unchanged) stessoit's, he's the same as ever — è sempre lo stesso, è lo stesso di sempre
my views are the same as they always were — le mie opinioni sono sempre le stesse o non sono cambiate
2. 3.to remain o stay the same rimanere lo stesso, non cambiare; things were never the same again nulla era più come prima; it's not the same without you non è lo stesso senza di te; the same old excuse — la stessa vecchia scusa
the same — lo stesso, la stessa cosa (as di)
the same applies to o goes for... lo stesso dicasi di...; to say the same about dire altrettanto di; to do the same as sb. fare lo stesso di; and we're hoping to do the same e speriamo di fare altrettanto; I'd do the same again rifarei la stessa cosa; the same to you! altrettanto! (the) same again please! un altro, per favore! (the) same here! — colloq. anch'io! anche a o per me!
2) dir.the same — il medesimo, la medesima
"are you Mr X?" - "the same" — "è lei il sig. X?" - "in persona"
••all the same... just the same,... ciononostante..., comunque...; thanks all the same grazie lo stesso; life goes on just the same — la vita va avanti lo stesso
* * *[seim] 1. adjective1) (alike; very similar: The houses in this road are all the same; You have the same eyes as your brother (has).) stesso, identico2) (not different: My friend and I are the same age; He went to the same school as me.) stesso3) (unchanged: My opinion is the same as it always was.) stesso2. pronoun((usually with the) the same thing: He sat down and we all did the same.) lo stesso3. adverb((usually with the) in the same way: I don't feel the same about you as I did.) allo stesso modo- at the same time
- be all the same to
- same here
- same-sex marriage* * *[seɪm] 1.1) (identical) stesso, medesimothe result is the same — il risultato è il medesimo o lo stesso
it is the same with — è lo stesso per, lo stesso capita per
to be the same as sth. — essere come qcs.
the same thing — la stessa cosa, lo stesso
it amounts o comes to the same thing non fa alcuna differenza; it's all the same to me — per me è lo stesso o è uguale
2) (for emphasis) stesso (as di)"ready the same day" — "pronto in giornata"
the very same — proprio o esattamente lo stesso
3) (unchanged) stessoit's, he's the same as ever — è sempre lo stesso, è lo stesso di sempre
my views are the same as they always were — le mie opinioni sono sempre le stesse o non sono cambiate
2. 3.to remain o stay the same rimanere lo stesso, non cambiare; things were never the same again nulla era più come prima; it's not the same without you non è lo stesso senza di te; the same old excuse — la stessa vecchia scusa
the same — lo stesso, la stessa cosa (as di)
the same applies to o goes for... lo stesso dicasi di...; to say the same about dire altrettanto di; to do the same as sb. fare lo stesso di; and we're hoping to do the same e speriamo di fare altrettanto; I'd do the same again rifarei la stessa cosa; the same to you! altrettanto! (the) same again please! un altro, per favore! (the) same here! — colloq. anch'io! anche a o per me!
2) dir.the same — il medesimo, la medesima
"are you Mr X?" - "the same" — "è lei il sig. X?" - "in persona"
••all the same... just the same,... ciononostante..., comunque...; thanks all the same grazie lo stesso; life goes on just the same — la vita va avanti lo stesso
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6 same
seim
1. adjective1) (alike; very similar: The houses in this road are all the same; You have the same eyes as your brother (has).) parecido; mismo; igual2) (not different: My friend and I are the same age; He went to the same school as me.) mismo3) (unchanged: My opinion is the same as it always was.) mismo, igual
2. pronoun((usually with the) the same thing: He sat down and we all did the same.) lo mismo
3. adverb((usually with the) in the same way: I don't feel the same about you as I did.) del mismo modo, de la misma manera- at the same time
- be all the same to
- same here
- same-sex marriage
same1 adj mismoat the same time a la vez / al mismo tiemposame2 adv igual / de la misma manerasame3 pron igualthe same to you! ¡igualmente!tr[seɪm]1 (not different) mismo,-a2 (alike) mismo,-a, igual, idéntico,-a■ you men are all the same! ¡los hombres sois todos iguales!1 SMALLCOMMERCE/SMALL (previously mentioned thing) el mismo, la misma■ estimate for repairing door and varnishing of same presupuesto para reparar la puerta y barnizar la misma1 the same lo mismo1 the same (same person) el mismo, la misma■ are you Phil Rogers? - The same! ¿es usted Phil Rogers? - ¡El mismo!■ the very same el mismísimo, la mismísima1 igual, del mismo modo\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLall the same a pesar de todoin the same breath inmediatamente despuésit's all the same to me me da igual, me da lo mismojust the same a pesar de todoon the same wavelength en la misma ondaone and the same el mismo, la misma, lo mismosame difference es igualsame here yo tambiénthanks all the same gracias de todas manerasthe same again, please lo mismo de antes, por favor, otro por favorthe same as igual que, comothe same old story la misma historia de siemprethe same to you! ¡igualmente!to amount the same thing venir a ser lo mismoto be in the same boat estar en el mismo barco, estar en la misma situaciónto be of the same mind opinar lo mismosame ['seɪm] adj: mismo, igualthe results are the same: los resultados son igualeshe said the same thing as you: dijo lo mismo que túsame pron: mismoit's all the same to me: me da lo mismothe same to you!: ¡igualmente!adj.• idéntico, -a adj.• igual adj.• mero, -a adj.• mismo, -a adj.• propio, -a adj.adj.indef.• mismo adj.indef.n.• mismo s.m.pron.• mismo pron.
I seɪmadjective (before n) mismo, mismayou men are all the same — todos los hombres son or (Esp) sois iguales
the same AS something: we're in the same position as before/as you estamos igual que antes/en tu misma situación; that dress is the same as mine ese vestido es igual al mío; the same thing happened to me a mí me pasó lo mismo; same time, same place a la misma hora en el mismo sitio; I'm glad you see things the same way (as) I do me alegro de que veas las cosas como yo; they are one and the same (person/thing) son la mismísima persona/cosa; on that very same day — ese mismísimo día
II
a)I've had enough - same here! — (colloq) ya estoy harto - ya somos dos (fam)
have a nice vacation!- same to you! — felices vacaciones! - igualmente! or lo mismo digo!
b)all the same, just the same — igual; (as linker) de todas formas or maneras, así y todo, sin embargo, no obstante (frml)
it's all the same to me/you/them — me/te/les da lo mismo, me/te/les da igual
III
they're written differently but pronounced the same — se escriben distinto, pero se pronuncian igual
[seɪm]how do you feel? - about the same — ¿qué tal estás? - más o menos igual
1.ADJ mismo•
we sat at the same table as usual — nos sentamos en la (misma) mesa de siempretheir house is almost the same as ours — su casa es casi igual a or que la nuestra
"how's Derek?" - "same as usual/ever" — -¿qué tal está Derek? -como siempre
same day delivery — entrega f en el mismo día
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they are much the same — son más o menos iguales•
they ask the same old questions — siempre hacen las mismas preguntas, hacen las mismas preguntas de siempre•
the very same day/person — justo ese mismo día/esa misma personado you still feel the same way about me? — ¿aún sientes lo mismo por mí?
do you still feel the same way about it? — ¿sigues pensando lo mismo?, ¿lo sigues viendo de la misma forma?
boat 1., breath 1., 1), language 1., 1), mind 1., 6), story I, 1., 1), tar 2., token 1., wavelengthto go the same way as sth/sb — (fig) pej seguir el mismo camino que algo/algn
2. PRON1)I'd do the same again — volvería a hacer lo mismo, haría lo mismo otra vez
the same again! — (in bar etc) ¡otra de lo mismo!
no, but thanks all the same — no, pero de todas formas, gracias
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I want the best for him, the same as you — quiero lo mejor para él, igual que tú•
the same goes for you — eso también va por ti•
same here! * — ¡yo también!•
one and the same — el mismo/la misma•
(and the) same to you! * — (returning insult) ¡lo mismo digo!; (returning good wishes) ¡igualmente!•
"Mr. Smith?" - "the very same!" — -¿el Sr. Smith? -¡el mismo!2) (Comm)* * *
I [seɪm]adjective (before n) mismo, mismayou men are all the same — todos los hombres son or (Esp) sois iguales
the same AS something: we're in the same position as before/as you estamos igual que antes/en tu misma situación; that dress is the same as mine ese vestido es igual al mío; the same thing happened to me a mí me pasó lo mismo; same time, same place a la misma hora en el mismo sitio; I'm glad you see things the same way (as) I do me alegro de que veas las cosas como yo; they are one and the same (person/thing) son la mismísima persona/cosa; on that very same day — ese mismísimo día
II
a)I've had enough - same here! — (colloq) ya estoy harto - ya somos dos (fam)
have a nice vacation!- same to you! — felices vacaciones! - igualmente! or lo mismo digo!
b)all the same, just the same — igual; (as linker) de todas formas or maneras, así y todo, sin embargo, no obstante (frml)
it's all the same to me/you/them — me/te/les da lo mismo, me/te/les da igual
III
they're written differently but pronounced the same — se escriben distinto, pero se pronuncian igual
how do you feel? - about the same — ¿qué tal estás? - más o menos igual
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7 the gamut of smth.
(the (whole) gamut of smth.)вся гамма, вся полнота, весь диапазон чего-л. (обыкн. употр. с гл. to run)It was dry! All the same zinnias were gorgeous this year; and she proceeded to pick some. They ran the gamut in her hand from deepest red through pink to lemon-yellow... (J. Galsworthy, ‘Maid in Waiting’, ch. II) — Какая ужасная сушь! А все-таки циннии в этом году чудесные; и Динни принялась их рвать. Букет в ее руке горел всеми цветами радуги - от темно-красного до розового и лимонно-желтого...
...she ran the gamut of tears to anger, through denial and cajolery back to tears again. (W. Faulkner, ‘Collected Short Stories’, ‘Centaur in Brass’) —...его жена то плакала, то сердилась, то все отрицала, то переходила к лести, а потом опять плакала.
Mother and I did that scene over and over again... Mother running the whole gamut of emotions, instructing me. (N. Coward, ‘Present Indicative’, part I, ch. 5) — Мы снова и снова отрабатывали с мамой эту сцену... Мама, наставляя меня, переживала гамму самых разнообразных чувств.
The position of legal adviser to a Company is very responsible... he must have the whole gamut of legal business as it affects commerce at his finger's ends. (SPI) — Положение юрисконсульта компании весьма ответственное... он назубок должен знать все тонкости законов, имеющих отношение к коммерции.
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8 same
1. [seım] n (the same)то же самое, одно и то жеto say [to do] the same - говорить [делать] одно и то же
he got up and I did the same - он поднялся, и я сделал то же самое
a Happy New Year to you! - The same to you! - поздравляю вас с Новым годом! - Вас также!
2. [seım] a редк.same here - разг. я того же мнения; и у меня то же самое (происходит); и я тоже
однообразный3. [seım] adv (the same)the choruses were perhaps a little same - хоровые номера были несколько однообразны
так же, таким же образомcan you feel the same towards him as you used to? - можешь ли ты относиться к нему так же, как прежде?
old people do not feel the same about sport as young ones do - старики относятся к спорту не так, как молодёжь
you still look the same - вы выглядите, как и прежде
when I am away things go on just the same - когда меня нет, всё идёт так же
4. [seım] indef pronall /just/ the same - а) всё-таки, тем не менее; I feel anxious all the same - и тем не менее я беспокоюсь; thank you all the same - всё же разрешите вас поблагодарить; he is often rude, but I like him all /just/ the same - он часто грубит, но я всё-таки люблю его; the word is French, all the same it is in common use - это французское слово, но тем не менее оно широко употребляется; б) всё равно, безразлично; it is all the same to me - мне это безразлично
1. 1) (обыкн. the same) тот же самый, этот же, один и тот жеat the same time - в одно и то же время, одновременно
to settle several matters at the same time - решать одновременно несколько дел
to belong to one and the same class - принадлежать к одному и тому же классу
to put smth. back in the same place - положить что-л. обратно на то же самое место
she was always the same little girl to me - для меня она всегда оставалась всё той же маленькой девочкой
that is the very same tune I heard yesterday - этот самый мотив я слышал вчера
these same boasted heroes were the first to run away - и именно эти хвалёные герои первыми бросились бежать
what is the use of this same patience? - в чём же смысл этого терпения?
2. (обыкн. the same)1) такой же, одинаковыйin the same way - точно так же, таким же образом
the same sort of thing - то же самое, одно и то же
to hold the same opinion as the majority - придерживаться мнения большинства
to give the same answer as before - ответить так же, как и раньше
the same causes produce the same effects - одинаковые причины порождают одинаковые следствия
sailors received the same pay as soldiers - матросам платили столько же, сколько и солдатам
they get the same wages for the same work - они получают одинаковую зарплату за одну и ту же работу
to be exactly the same height [width, depth] - быть точно такой же /одинаковой/ высоты [ширины, глубины]
one cannot eat the same food every day - нельзя есть одно и то же каждый день
2) не изменившийся, не претерпевший изменений3. канц. вышеупомянутыйwith reference to our letter and your answer to same - говоря о нашем письме и вашем ответе на него
please, return same by return of post - пожалуйста, отправьте его (вышеупомянутое письмо и т. п.) обратной почтой
to repairing table 15 shillings, to polishing same 10 shillings - за ремонт стола 15 шиллингов, за его полировку 10 шиллингов
we have heard from Mr. Jones and have written to same - мы получили от м-ра Джоунза письмо и ответили ему
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9 same
̈ɪseɪm I
1. мест.;
указ. (как прил.) тот (же) самый;
одинаковый, равный;
равносильный, тождественный, идентичный The same causes produce the same effects. ≈ Одни и те же причины порождают одинаковые следствия. The same observations are true of the others also. ≈ Эти же наблюдения верны и в отношении других случаев. They belong to the same family. ≈ Они принадлежат к одной и той же семье. To me she was always the same little girl. ≈ Для меня она оставалась все той же маленькой девочкой. much the same very same Syn: identical, equal, such
2. мест.;
указ. (как сущ.) одно и то же, то же самое We must all do the same. ≈ Мы должны делать одно и то же.
3. мест.;
указ. (как нареч.) таким же образом, так же all the same just the same II
1. прил.
1) монотонный, однообразный Syn: monotonous
2) одинаковый
2. сущ.;
юр.;
коммерч. вышеупомянутый;
он, его и т. п. (the *) то же самое, одно и то же - to say the * говорить одно и то же - he got up and I did the * он поднялся, и я сделал то же самое - it is the * everywhere всюду одно и то же - a Happy New Year to you! - The * to you! поздравляю вас с Новым годом! - Вас также! - * here (разговорное) я того же мнения;
и у меня то же самое (происходит) ;
и я тоже - coat lined with the * пальто на подкладке из того же материала (редкое) однообразный - the choruses were perhaps a little * хоровые номера были несколько однообразны - the fear of being too * страх быть однообразным (the *) так же, таким же образом - can you feel the * towards him as you used to? можешь ли ты относиться к нему так же, как прежде? - old people do not feel the * about sport as young ones do старики относятся к спорту не так, как молодежь - you still look the * вы выглядите, как и прежде - much the * почти такой же - just the * точно так же - when I am away things go on just the * когда меня нет, все идет так же - all /just/ the * все-таки, тем не менее;
все равно, безразлично - I feel anxious all the * и тем не менее я беспокоюсь - thank you all the * все же разрешите вас поблагодарить - he is often rude, but I like him all /just/ the * он часто грубит, но я все-таки люблю его - the word is French, all the * it is in common use это французское слово, но тем не менее оно широко употребляется - it is all the * to me мне это безразлично (обыкн. the *) тот же самый, этот же, один и тот же - the * night в ту же ночь - at the * time в одно и то же время, одновременно - to settle several matters at the * time решать одновременно несколько дел - to belong to one and the * class принадлежать к одному и тому же классу - to put smth. back in the * place положить что-л. обратно на то же самое место - he is no longer the * man он уже совсем не тот - she was always the * little girl to me для меня она всегда оставалась все той же маленькой девочкой - still the * queer old fellow он все такой же чудак - one and the * person один и тот же человек - on the * ground на том же основании - the very * day в тот же самый день - that is the very * tune I heard yesterday этот самый мотив я слышал вчера (в сочетании с this, that, these, those при усилении или противопоставлении): - that * day (устаревшее) именно в тот (же самый) день - these * boasted heroes were the first to run away именно эти хваленые герои первыми бросились бежать - what is the use of this * patience? в чем же смысл этого терпения? (обыкн. the *) такой же, одинаковый - in the * way точно так же, таким же образом - the * sort of thing то же самое, одно и то же - at the * price по такой же цене - on the * day as this last year в тот же самый день в прошлом году - on the * day every year в один и тот же день каждый год - to hold the * opinion as the majority придерживаться мнения большинства - to give the * answer as before ответить так же, как и раньше - the * causes produce the * effects одинаковые причины порождают одинаковые следствия - sailors received the * pay as soldiers матросам платили столько же, сколько и солдатам - they get the * wages for the * work они получают одинаковую зарплату за одну и ту же работу - he is of the * age as myself он одного возраста со мной - his name is the * as mine мы с ним однофамильцы - to be exactly the * height быть точно такой же /одинаковой/ высоты - one cannot eat the * food every day нельзя есть одно и то же каждый день - it amounts to the * thing это сводится к одному и тому же - she was always the * to me она ко мне относилась всегда одинаково не изменившийся, не претерпевший изменений - the patient is much about the * больной почти в таком же состоянии - I found her just the * я нашел ее все в том же положении (канцелярское) вышеупомянутый - with reference to our letter and your answer to * говоря о нашем письме и вашем ответе на него - please, return * by return of post пожалуйста, отправьте его ( вышеупомянутое письмо и т. п.) обратной почтой - to repairing table 15 shillings, to polishing * 10 shillings за ремонт стола 15 шиллингов, за его полировку 10 шиллингов - we have heard from Mr. Jones and have written to * мы получили от мистера Джоунза письмо и ответили ему all the ~ все равно, безразлично;
it's all the same to me мне все равно all the ~ всетаки;
тем не менее;
thank you all the same все же разрешите поблагодарить вас he would do the ~ again он бы снова сделал то же самое ~ таким же образом, так же;
I see the same through your glasses as I do through mine в ваших очках я вижу так же, как и в своих all the ~ все равно, безразлично;
it's all the same to me мне все равно just the ~ таким же образом just the ~ тем не менее, всетаки ~ однообразный;
the life is perhaps a little same жизнь, пожалуй, довольно однообразна to me she was always the ~ little girl для меня она оставалась все той же маленькой девочкой the patient is much about the ~ состояние больного почти такое же;
the very same точно такой же same юр., ком. вышеупомянутый;
он, его ~ одно и то же, то же самое;
we must all say (do) the same мы все должны говорить (делать) одно и то же ~ однообразный;
the life is perhaps a little same жизнь, пожалуй, довольно однообразна ~ таким же образом, так же;
I see the same through your glasses as I do through mine в ваших очках я вижу так же, как и в своих ~ тот (же) самый;
одинаковый the ~ causes produce the ~ effects одни и те же причины порождают одинаковые следствия the ~ observations are true of the others also эти же наблюдения верны и в отношении других случаев they belong to the ~ family они принадлежат к одной и той же семье;
to say the same thing twice over повторять одно и то же дважды a symptom of the ~ nature аналогичный симптом;
much the same почти такой же all the ~ всетаки;
тем не менее;
thank you all the same все же разрешите поблагодарить вас they belong to the ~ family они принадлежат к одной и той же семье;
to say the same thing twice over повторять одно и то же дважды the patient is much about the ~ состояние больного почти такое же;
the very same точно такой же ~ одно и то же, то же самое;
we must all say (do) the same мы все должны говорить (делать) одно и то же -
10 same
1. n то же самое, одно и то жеhe got up and I did the same — он поднялся, и я сделал то же самое
a Happy New Year to you! — The same to you! — поздравляю вас с Новым годом! — Вас также!
2. a редк. однообразный3. adv так же, таким же образомcan you feel the same towards him as you used to? — можешь ли ты относиться к нему так же, как прежде?
old people do not feel the same about sport as young ones do — старики относятся к спорту не так, как молодёжь
you still look the same — вы выглядите, как и прежде
just the same — точно такой же; все равно
in the same manner as … — таким же образом, как …
4. indef pron тот же самый, этот же, один и тот жеat the same time — в одно и то же время, одновременно
she was always the same little girl to me — для меня она всегда оставалась всё той же маленькой девочкой
5. indef pron такой же, одинаковыйin the same way — точно так же, таким же образом
the same sort of thing — то же самое, одно и то же
to give the same answer as before — ответить так же, как и раньше
sailors received the same pay as soldiers — матросам платили столько же, сколько и солдатам
the same as — так же; как
cast in the same mould — одинаковый ;
6. indef pron не изменившийся, не претерпевший изменений7. indef pron канц. вышеупомянутыйplease, return same by return of post — пожалуйста, отправьте его обратной почтой
Синонимический ряд:1. coinciding (adj.) coinciding; corresponding; matching2. colorless (adj.) colorless; colourless; drab; uniform3. consistent (adj.) consistent; constant; invariable; unchanging; unfailing; unvarying4. duplicate (adj.) duplicate; equal; equivalent; even; identic; indistinguishable; tantamount5. exact (adj.) exact; selfsame; very6. identical (adj.) identical; similar; twin7. like (adj.) alike; interchanging; like; related; substituteАнтонимический ряд:different; dissimilar -
11 McCormick, Cyrus
SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology[br]b. 1809 Walnut Grove, Virginia, USAd. 1884 USA[br]American inventor of the first functionally and commercially successful reaping machine; founder of the McCormick Company, which was to become one of the founding companies of International Harvester.[br]Cyrus McCormick's father, a farmer, began to experiment unsuccessfully with a harvesting machine between 1809 and 1816. His son took up the challenge and gave his first public demonstration of his machine in 1831. It cut a 4 ft swathe, but, wanting to perfect the machine, he waited until 1834 before patenting it, by which time he felt that his invention was threatened by others of similar design. In the same year he entered an article in the Mechanics Magazine, warning competitors off his design. His main rival was Obed Hussey who contested McCormick's claim to the originality of the idea, having patented his own machine six months before McCormick.A competition between the two machines was held in 1843, the judges favouring McCormick's, even after additional trials were conducted after objections of unfairness from Hussey. The rivalry continued over a number of years, being avidly reported in the agricultural press. The publicity did no harm to reaper sales, and McCormick sold twenty-nine machines in 1843 and fifty the following year.As the westward settlement movement progressed, so the demand for McCormick's machine grew. In order to be more central to his markets, McCormick established himself in Chicago. In partnership with C.M.Gray he established a factory to produce 500 harvesters for the 1848 season. By means of advertising and offers of credit terms, as well as production-line assembly, McCormick was able to establish himself as sole owner and also control all production, under the one roof. By the end of the decade he dominated reaper production but other developments were to threaten this position; however, foreign markets were appearing at the same time, not least the opportunities of European sales stimulated by the Great Exhibition in 1851. In the trials arranged by the Royal Agricultural Society of England the McCormick machine significantly outperformed that of Hussey's, and as a result McCormick arranged for 500 to be made under licence in England.In 1874 McCormick bought a half interest in the patent for a wire binder from Charles Withington, a watchmaker from Janesville, Wisconsin, and by 1885 a total of 50,000 wire binders had been built in Chicago. By 1881 McCormick was producing twine binders using Appleby's twine knotter under a licence agreement, and by 1885 the company was producing only twine binders. The McCormick Company was one of the co-founders of the International Harvester Company in 1901.[br]Bibliography1972, The Century of the Reaper, Johnson Reprint (the original is in the New York State Library).Further ReadingGraeme Quick and Wesley Buchele, 1978, The Grain Harvesters, American Society of Agricultural Engineers (deals in detail with McCormick's developments).G.H.Wendell, 1981, 150 Years of International Harvester, Crestlink (though more concerned with the machinery produced by International Harvester, it gives an account of its originating companies).T.W.Hutchinson, 1930, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Seedtime 1809–1856; ——1935, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Harvest 1856–1884 (both attempt to unravel the many claims surrounding the reaper story).Herbert N.Casson, 1908, The Romance of the Reaper, Doubleday Page (deals with McCormick, Deering and the formation of International Harvester).AP -
12 Priestman, William Dent
SUBJECT AREA: Steam and internal combustion engines[br]b. 23 August 1847 Sutton, Hull, Englandd. 7 September 1936 Hull, England[br]English oil engine pioneer.[br]William was the second son and one of eleven children of Samuel Priestman, who had moved to Hull after retiring as a corn miller in Kirkstall, Leeds, and who in retirement had become a director of the North Eastern Railway Company. The family were strict Quakers, so William was sent to the Quaker School in Bootham, York. He left school at the age of 17 to start an engineering apprenticeship at the Humber Iron Works, but this company failed so the apprenticeship was continued with the North Eastern Railway, Gateshead. In 1869 he joined the hydraulics department of Sir William Armstrong \& Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, but after a year there his father financed him in business at a small, run down works, the Holderness Foundry, Hull. He was soon joined by his brother, Samuel, their main business being the manufacture of dredging equipment (grabs), cranes and winches. In the late 1870s William became interested in internal combustion engines. He took a sublicence to manufacture petrol engines to the patents of Eugène Etève of Paris from the British licensees, Moll and Dando. These engines operated in a similar manner to the non-compression gas engines of Lenoir. Failure to make the two-stroke version of this engine work satisfactorily forced him to pay royalties to Crossley Bros, the British licensees of the Otto four-stroke patents.Fear of the dangers of petrol as a fuel, reflected by the associated very high insurance premiums, led William to experiment with the use of lamp oil as an engine fuel. His first of many patents was for a vaporizer. This was in 1885, well before Ackroyd Stuart. What distinguished the Priestman engine was the provision of an air pump which pressurized the fuel tank, outlets at the top and bottom of which led to a fuel atomizer injecting continuously into a vaporizing chamber heated by the exhaust gases. A spring-loaded inlet valve connected the chamber to the atmosphere, with the inlet valve proper between the chamber and the working cylinder being camoperated. A plug valve in the fuel line and a butterfly valve at the inlet to the chamber were operated, via a linkage, by the speed governor; this is believed to be the first use of this method of control. It was found that vaporization was only partly achieved, the higher fractions of the fuel condensing on the cylinder walls. A virtue was made of this as it provided vital lubrication. A starting system had to be provided, this comprising a lamp for preheating the vaporizing chamber and a hand pump for pressurizing the fuel tank.Engines of 2–10 hp (1.5–7.5 kW) were exhibited to the press in 1886; of these, a vertical engine was installed in a tram car and one of the horizontals in a motor dray. In 1888, engines were shown publicly at the Royal Agricultural Show, while in 1890 two-cylinder vertical marine engines were introduced in sizes from 2 to 10 hp (1.5–7.5 kW), and later double-acting ones up to some 60 hp (45 kW). First, clutch and gearbox reversing was used, but reversing propellers were fitted later (Priestman patent of 1892). In the same year a factory was established in Philadelphia, USA, where engines in the range 5–20 hp (3.7–15 kW) were made. Construction was radically different from that of the previous ones, the bosses of the twin flywheels acting as crank discs with the main bearings on the outside.On independent test in 1892, a Priestman engine achieved a full-load brake thermal efficiency of some 14 per cent, a very creditable figure for a compression ratio limited to under 3:1 by detonation problems. However, efficiency at low loads fell off seriously owing to the throttle governing, and the engines were heavy, complex and expensive compared with the competition.Decline in sales of dredging equipment and bad debts forced the firm into insolvency in 1895 and receivers took over. A new company was formed, the brothers being excluded. However, they were able to attend board meetings, but to exert no influence. Engine activities ceased in about 1904 after over 1,000 engines had been made. It is probable that the Quaker ethics of the brothers were out of place in a business that was becoming increasingly cut-throat. William spent the rest of his long life serving others.[br]Further ReadingC.Lyle Cummins, 1976, Internal Fire, Carnot Press.C.Lyle Cummins and J.D.Priestman, 1985, "William Dent Priestman, oil engine pioneer and inventor: his engine patents 1885–1901", Proceedings of the Institution ofMechanical Engineers 199:133.Anthony Harcombe, 1977, "Priestman's oil engine", Stationary Engine Magazine 42 (August).JBBiographical history of technology > Priestman, William Dent
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13 Stephenson, Robert
[br]b. 16 October 1803 Willington Quay, Northumberland, Englandd. 12 October 1859 London, England[br]English engineer who built the locomotive Rocket and constructed many important early trunk railways.[br]Robert Stephenson's father was George Stephenson, who ensured that his son was educated to obtain the theoretical knowledge he lacked himself. In 1821 Robert Stephenson assisted his father in his survey of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway and in 1822 he assisted William James in the first survey of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway. He then went to Edinburgh University for six months, and the following year Robert Stephenson \& Co. was named after him as Managing Partner when it was formed by himself, his father and others. The firm was to build stationary engines, locomotives and railway rolling stock; in its early years it also built paper-making machinery and did general engineering.In 1824, however, Robert Stephenson accepted, perhaps in reaction to an excess of parental control, an invitation by a group of London speculators called the Colombian Mining Association to lead an expedition to South America to use steam power to reopen gold and silver mines. He subsequently visited North America before returning to England in 1827 to rejoin his father as an equal and again take charge of Robert Stephenson \& Co. There he set about altering the design of steam locomotives to improve both their riding and their steam-generating capacity. Lancashire Witch, completed in July 1828, was the first locomotive mounted on steel springs and had twin furnace tubes through the boiler to produce a large heating surface. Later that year Robert Stephenson \& Co. supplied the Stockton \& Darlington Railway with a wagon, mounted for the first time on springs and with outside bearings. It was to be the prototype of the standard British railway wagon. Between April and September 1829 Robert Stephenson built, not without difficulty, a multi-tubular boiler, as suggested by Henry Booth to George Stephenson, and incorporated it into the locomotive Rocket which the three men entered in the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway's Rainhill Trials in October. Rocket, was outstandingly successful and demonstrated that the long-distance steam railway was practicable.Robert Stephenson continued to develop the locomotive. Northumbrian, built in 1830, had for the first time, a smokebox at the front of the boiler and also the firebox built integrally with the rear of the boiler. Then in Planet, built later the same year, he adopted a layout for the working parts used earlier by steam road-coach pioneer Goldsworthy Gurney, placing the cylinders, for the first time, in a nearly horizontal position beneath the smokebox, with the connecting rods driving a cranked axle. He had evolved the definitive form for the steam locomotive.Also in 1830, Robert Stephenson surveyed the London \& Birmingham Railway, which was authorized by Act of Parliament in 1833. Stephenson became Engineer for construction of the 112-mile (180 km) railway, probably at that date the greatest task ever undertaken in of civil engineering. In this he was greatly assisted by G.P.Bidder, who as a child prodigy had been known as "The Calculating Boy", and the two men were to be associated in many subsequent projects. On the London \& Birmingham Railway there were long and deep cuttings to be excavated and difficult tunnels to be bored, notoriously at Kilsby. The line was opened in 1838.In 1837 Stephenson provided facilities for W.F. Cooke to make an experimental electrictelegraph installation at London Euston. The directors of the London \& Birmingham Railway company, however, did not accept his recommendation that they should adopt the electric telegraph and it was left to I.K. Brunel to instigate the first permanent installation, alongside the Great Western Railway. After Cooke formed the Electric Telegraph Company, Stephenson became a shareholder and was Chairman during 1857–8.Earlier, in the 1830s, Robert Stephenson assisted his father in advising on railways in Belgium and came to be increasingly in demand as a consultant. In 1840, however, he was almost ruined financially as a result of the collapse of the Stanhope \& Tyne Rail Road; in return for acting as Engineer-in-Chief he had unwisely accepted shares, with unlimited liability, instead of a fee.During the late 1840s Stephenson's greatest achievements were the design and construction of four great bridges, as part of railways for which he was responsible. The High Level Bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle and the Royal Border Bridge over the Tweed at Berwick were the links needed to complete the East Coast Route from London to Scotland. For the Chester \& Holyhead Railway to cross the Menai Strait, a bridge with spans as long-as 460 ft (140 m) was needed: Stephenson designed them as wrought-iron tubes of rectangular cross-section, through which the trains would pass, and eventually joined the spans together into a tube 1,511 ft (460 m) long from shore to shore. Extensive testing was done beforehand by shipbuilder William Fairbairn to prove the method, and as a preliminary it was first used for a 400 ft (122 m) span bridge at Conway.In 1847 Robert Stephenson was elected MP for Whitby, a position he held until his death, and he was one of the exhibition commissioners for the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the early 1850s he was Engineer-in-Chief for the Norwegian Trunk Railway, the first railway in Norway, and he also built the Alexandria \& Cairo Railway, the first railway in Africa. This included two tubular bridges with the railway running on top of the tubes. The railway was extended to Suez in 1858 and for several years provided a link in the route from Britain to India, until superseded by the Suez Canal, which Stephenson had opposed in Parliament. The greatest of all his tubular bridges was the Victoria Bridge across the River St Lawrence at Montreal: after inspecting the site in 1852 he was appointed Engineer-in-Chief for the bridge, which was 1 1/2 miles (2 km) long and was designed in his London offices. Sadly he, like Brunel, died young from self-imposed overwork, before the bridge was completed in 1859.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1849. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1849. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1856. Order of St Olaf (Norway). Order of Leopold (Belgium). Like his father, Robert Stephenson refused a knighthood.Further ReadingL.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, London: Longman (a good modern biography).J.C.Jeaffreson, 1864, The Life of Robert Stephenson, London: Longman (the standard nine-teenth-century biography).M.R.Bailey, 1979, "Robert Stephenson \& Co. 1823–1829", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 50 (provides details of the early products of that company).J.Kieve, 1973, The Electric Telegraph, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.PJGR -
14 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Land transport, Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Ports and shipping, Public utilities, Railways and locomotives[br]b. 9 April 1806 Portsea, Hampshire, Englandd. 15 September 1859 18 Duke Street, St James's, London, England[br]English civil and mechanical engineer.[br]The son of Marc Isambard Brunel and Sophia Kingdom, he was educated at a private boarding-school in Hove. At the age of 14 he went to the College of Caen and then to the Lycée Henri-Quatre in Paris, after which he was apprenticed to Louis Breguet. In 1822 he returned from France and started working in his father's office, while spending much of his time at the works of Maudslay, Sons \& Field.From 1825 to 1828 he worked under his father on the construction of the latter's Thames Tunnel, occupying the position of Engineer-in-Charge, exhibiting great courage and presence of mind in the emergencies which occurred not infrequently. These culminated in January 1828 in the flooding of the tunnel and work was suspended for seven years. For the next five years the young engineer made abortive attempts to find a suitable outlet for his talents, but to little avail. Eventually, in 1831, his design for a suspension bridge over the River Avon at Clifton Gorge was accepted and he was appointed Engineer. (The bridge was eventually finished five years after Brunel's death, as a memorial to him, the delay being due to inadequate financing.) He next planned and supervised improvements to the Bristol docks. In March 1833 he was appointed Engineer of the Bristol Railway, later called the Great Western Railway. He immediately started to survey the route between London and Bristol that was completed by late August that year. On 5 July 1836 he married Mary Horsley and settled into 18 Duke Street, Westminster, London, where he also had his office. Work on the Bristol Railway started in 1836. The foundation stone of the Clifton Suspension Bridge was laid the same year. Whereas George Stephenson had based his standard railway gauge as 4 ft 8½ in (1.44 m), that or a similar gauge being usual for colliery wagonways in the Newcastle area, Brunel adopted the broader gauge of 7 ft (2.13 m). The first stretch of the line, from Paddington to Maidenhead, was opened to traffic on 4 June 1838, and the whole line from London to Bristol was opened in June 1841. The continuation of the line through to Exeter was completed and opened on 1 May 1844. The normal time for the 194-mile (312 km) run from Paddington to Exeter was 5 hours, at an average speed of 38.8 mph (62.4 km/h) including stops. The Great Western line included the Box Tunnel, the longest tunnel to that date at nearly two miles (3.2 km).Brunel was the engineer of most of the railways in the West Country, in South Wales and much of Southern Ireland. As railway networks developed, the frequent break of gauge became more of a problem and on 9 July 1845 a Royal Commission was appointed to look into it. In spite of comparative tests, run between Paddington-Didcot and Darlington-York, which showed in favour of Brunel's arrangement, the enquiry ruled in favour of the narrow gauge, 274 miles (441 km) of the former having been built against 1,901 miles (3,059 km) of the latter to that date. The Gauge Act of 1846 forbade the building of any further railways in Britain to any gauge other than 4 ft 8 1/2 in (1.44 m).The existence of long and severe gradients on the South Devon Railway led to Brunel's adoption of the atmospheric railway developed by Samuel Clegg and later by the Samuda brothers. In this a pipe of 9 in. (23 cm) or more in diameter was laid between the rails, along the top of which ran a continuous hinged flap of leather backed with iron. At intervals of about 3 miles (4.8 km) were pumping stations to exhaust the pipe. Much trouble was experienced with the flap valve and its lubrication—freezing of the leather in winter, the lubricant being sucked into the pipe or eaten by rats at other times—and the experiment was abandoned at considerable cost.Brunel is to be remembered for his two great West Country tubular bridges, the Chepstow and the Tamar Bridge at Saltash, with the latter opened in May 1859, having two main spans of 465 ft (142 m) and a central pier extending 80 ft (24 m) below high water mark and allowing 100 ft (30 m) of headroom above the same. His timber viaducts throughout Devon and Cornwall became a feature of the landscape. The line was extended ultimately to Penzance.As early as 1835 Brunel had the idea of extending the line westwards across the Atlantic from Bristol to New York by means of a steamship. In 1836 building commenced and the hull left Bristol in July 1837 for fitting out at Wapping. On 31 March 1838 the ship left again for Bristol but the boiler lagging caught fire and Brunel was injured in the subsequent confusion. On 8 April the ship set sail for New York (under steam), its rival, the 703-ton Sirius, having left four days earlier. The 1,340-ton Great Western arrived only a few hours after the Sirius. The hull was of wood, and was copper-sheathed. In 1838 Brunel planned a larger ship, some 3,000 tons, the Great Britain, which was to have an iron hull.The Great Britain was screwdriven and was launched on 19 July 1843,289 ft (88 m) long by 51 ft (15.5 m) at its widest. The ship's first voyage, from Liverpool to New York, began on 26 August 1845. In 1846 it ran aground in Dundrum Bay, County Down, and was later sold for use on the Australian run, on which it sailed no fewer than thirty-two times in twenty-three years, also serving as a troop-ship in the Crimean War. During this war, Brunel designed a 1,000-bed hospital which was shipped out to Renkioi ready for assembly and complete with shower-baths and vapour-baths with printed instructions on how to use them, beds and bedding and water closets with a supply of toilet paper! Brunel's last, largest and most extravagantly conceived ship was the Great Leviathan, eventually named The Great Eastern, which had a double-skinned iron hull, together with both paddles and screw propeller. Brunel designed the ship to carry sufficient coal for the round trip to Australia without refuelling, thus saving the need for and the cost of bunkering, as there were then few bunkering ports throughout the world. The ship's construction was started by John Scott Russell in his yard at Millwall on the Thames, but the building was completed by Brunel due to Russell's bankruptcy in 1856. The hull of the huge vessel was laid down so as to be launched sideways into the river and then to be floated on the tide. Brunel's plan for hydraulic launching gear had been turned down by the directors on the grounds of cost, an economy that proved false in the event. The sideways launch with over 4,000 tons of hydraulic power together with steam winches and floating tugs on the river took over two months, from 3 November 1857 until 13 January 1858. The ship was 680 ft (207 m) long, 83 ft (25 m) beam and 58 ft (18 m) deep; the screw was 24 ft (7.3 m) in diameter and paddles 60 ft (18.3 m) in diameter. Its displacement was 32,000 tons (32,500 tonnes).The strain of overwork and the huge responsibilities that lay on Brunel began to tell. He was diagnosed as suffering from Bright's disease, or nephritis, and spent the winter travelling in the Mediterranean and Egypt, returning to England in May 1859. On 5 September he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralysed, and he died ten days later at his Duke Street home.[br]Further ReadingL.T.C.Rolt, 1957, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, London: Longmans Green. J.Dugan, 1953, The Great Iron Ship, Hamish Hamilton.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
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15 Ohm, Georg Simon
SUBJECT AREA: Electricity[br]b. 16 March 1789 Erlangen, near Nuremberg, Germanyd. 6 July 1854 Munich, Germany[br]German physicist who laid the foundations of electrical science with his discovery of Ohm's Law.[br]Given the same first name as his father, Johann, at his baptism, Ohm was generally known by the name of Georg to avoid confusion. While still a child he became interested in science and learned many of his basic skills from his father, a mechanical engineer. After basic education he attended the Gymnasium at Erlangen for a year, then in 1805 he entered the University of Erlangen. Probably for financial reasons, he left after three terms in 1806 and obtained a post as a mathematics tutor at a school in Gottstadt, Switzerland, where he may well have begun to experiment with electrical circuits. In 1811 he returned to Erlangen. He appears to have obtained his doctorate in the same year. After studying physics for a year, he became a tutor at the Studienanstalt (girls' secondary school) at Bamberg in Bavaria. There, in 1817, he wrote a book on the teaching of geometry in schools, as a result of which King Freidrich Wilhelm III of Prussia had him appointed Oberlehrer (Senior Master) in Mathematics and Physics at the Royal Consistory in Cologne. He continued his electrical experiments and in 1826 was given a year's leave of absence to concentrate on this work, which culminated the following year in publication of his "Die galvanische Kette", in which he demonstrated his now-famous Law, that the current in a resistor is proportional to the applied voltage and inversely proportional to the resistance. Because he published only a theoretical treatment of his Law, without including the supporting experimental evidence, his conclusions were widely ignored and ridiculed by the eminent German scientists of his day; bitterly disappointed, he was forced to resign his post at the Consistory. Reduced to comparative poverty he took a position as a mathematics teacher at the Berlin Military School. Fortunately, news of his discovery became more widely known, and in 1833 he was appointed Professor at the Nuremberg Polytechnic School. Two years later he was given the Chair of Higher Mathematics at the University of Erlangen and the position of State Inspector of Scientific Education. Honoured by the Royal Society of London in 1841 and 1842, in 1849 he became Professor of Physics at Munich University, apost he held until his death.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsRoyal Society Copley Medal 1841. FRS 1842.Bibliography1817, "Grundlinien zu einer zweckmàssigen Behandlung der Geometric als hohern Bildungsmittels an vorbereitenden Lehranstalt".1827, "Die galvanische Kette, mathematische bearbeit".Further ReadingF.E.Terman, 1943, Radio Engineers' Handbook, New York: McGraw-Hill, Section 3 (for circuit theory based on Ohm's Law).See also: Thévénin, Léon CharlesKF -
16 Porsche, Ferdinand
[br]b. 3 September 1875 Maffersdorf, Austriad. 30 January 1952 Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany[br]Austrian automobile engineer, designer of the Volkswagen car.[br]At the age of fifteen, Porsche built a complete electrical installation for his home. In 1894 he went to technical school in Vienna. Four years later he became Manager of the test department of the Bela Egger concern, which later became part of the Brown Boveri organization where he became the first Assistant in the calculating section. In 1899 he joined the long-established coachbuilders Jacob Lohner, and in 1902 a car of his design with mixed drive won the 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) class in the Exelberg races. In 1905 he joined the Austro-Daimler Company as Technical Director; his subsequent designs included an 85 hp mixed-drive racing car in 1907 and in 1912 an air-cooled aircraft engine which came to be known in later years as the "great-grandfather" of the Volkswagen engine. In 1916, he became Managing Director of Austro-Daimler.In 1921 he designed his first small car, which, appearing under the name of Sasch, won its class in the 1922 Targa Florio, a gruelling road-race in Italy. In 1923 Porsche left Austro-Daimler and joined the Daimler Company in Untertürk-heim, near Stuttgart, Germany. In 1929 he joined the firm of Steyr in Austria as a director and chief engineer, and in 1930 he set up his own independent design office in Stuttgart. In 1932 he visited Russia, and in the same year completed the design calculations for the Auto-Union racing car.In 1934, with his son Ferry (b. 1909), he prepared a plan for the construction of the German "people's car", a project initiated by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime; in June of that year he signed a contract for the design work on the Volkswagen. Racing cars of his design were also successful in 1934: the rear-engined Auto-Union won the German Grand Prix, and another Au to-Union car took the Flying Kilometre speed record at 327 km/h (203.2 mph). In 1935 Daimler-Benz started preproduction on the Volkswagen. The first trials of the cars took place in the autumn of 1936, and the following year thirty experimental cars were built by Daimler-Benz. In that year, Porsche visited the United States, where he met Henry Ford; in October an Auto-Union took the Flying Five Kilometre record at 404.3 km/h (251.2 mph). On 26 May 1938, the foundation stone of the Volkswagen factory was laid in Wolfsburg, near Braunschweig, Germany.In October 1945 Ferdinand Porsche was arrested by a unit of the United States Army and taken to Hessen; the French army removed him to Baden-Baden, then to Paris and later to Dijon. During this time he was consulted by Renault engineers regarding the design of their 4CV and designed a diesel-engined tractor. He was finally released on 5 August 1947. His last major work before his death was the approval of the design for the Cisitalia Grand Prix car.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsPoetting Medal 1905. Officer's Cross of Franz Josef 1916. Honorary PhD, Vienna Technical University 1916. Honorary PhD, University of Stuttgart 1924.Further ReadingK.Ludvigsen, 1983, Porsche: Excellence Was Expected: The Complete History of the Sports and Racing Cars, London: Frederick Muller.T.Shuler and G.Borgeson, 1985, "Origin and Evolution of the VW Beetle", AutomobileQuarterly (May).M.Toogood, 1991, Porsche—Germany's Legend, London: Apple Press.IMcN -
17 Dow, Herbert Henry
SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy[br]b. 26 February 1866 Belleville, Ontario, Canadad. 15 October 1930 Rochester, Minnesota, USA[br]American industrial chemist, pioneer manufacturer of magnesium alloys.[br]Of New England ancestry, his family returned there soon after his birth and later moved to Cleveland, Ohio. In 1884, Dow entered the Case School of Applied Science, graduating in science four years later. His thesis dealt partly with the brines of Ohio, and he was persuaded to present a paper on brine to the meeting of the American Association for he Advancement of Science being held in Cleveland the same year. That entailed visits to collect samples of brines from various localities, and led to the observation that their composition varied, one having a higher lithium content while another was richer in bromine. This study of brines proved to be the basis for his career in industrial chemistry. In 1888 Dow was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the Homeopathic Hospital College in Cleveland, but he continued to work on brine, obtaining a patent in the same year for extracting bromine by blowing air through slightly electrolysed brine. He set up a small company to exploit the process, but it failed; the process was taken up and successfully worked by the Midland Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan. The electrolysis required a direct-current generator which, when it was installed in 1892, was probably the first of its kind in America. Dow next set up a company to produce chlorine by the electrolysis of brine. It moved to Midland in 1896, and the Dow Central Company purchased the Midland Chemical Company in 1900. Its main concern was the manufacture of bleaching powder, but the company continued to grow, based on Dow's steady development of chemical compounds that could be derived from brines. His search for further applications of chlorine led to the making of insecticides and an interest in horticulture. Meanwhile, his experience at the Homeopathic Hospital doubtless fired an interest in pharmaceuticals. One of the substances found in brine was magnesium chloride, and by 1918 magnesium metal was being produced on a small scale by electrolysis. An intensive study of its alloys followed, leading to the large-scale production of these important light-metal alloys, under the name of Dowmetals. Two other "firsts" achieved by the company were the synthetic indigo process and the production of the element iodine in the USA. The Dow company became one of the leading chemical manufacturers in the USA, and at the same time Dow played an active part in public life, serving on many public and education boards.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsSociety of Chemical Industry Perkin Medal 1930.BibliographyDow was granted 65 patents for a wide range of chemical processes.Further ReadingObituary, 1930, Ind. Eng. Chem. (October)."The Dow Chemical Company", 1925, Ind. Eng. Chem. (September)LRD -
18 Hamilton, Harold Lee (Hal)
[br]b. 14 June 1890 Little Shasta, California, USAd. 3 May 1969 California, USA[br]American pioneer of diesel rail traction.[br]Orphaned as a child, Hamilton went to work for Southern Pacific Railroad in his teens, and then worked for several other companies. In his spare time he learned mathematics and physics from a retired professor. In 1911 he joined the White Motor Company, makers of road motor vehicles in Denver, Colorado, where he had gone to recuperate from malaria. He remained there until 1922, apart from an eighteenth-month break for war service.Upon his return from war service, Hamilton found White selling petrol-engined railbuses with mechanical transmission, based on road vehicles, to railways. He noted that they were not robust enough and that the success of petrol railcars with electric transmission, built by General Electric since 1906, was limited as they were complex to drive and maintain. In 1922 Hamilton formed, and became President of, the Electro- Motive Engineering Corporation (later Electro-Motive Corporation) to design and produce petrol-electric rail cars. Needing an engine larger than those used in road vehicles, yet lighter and faster than marine engines, he approached the Win ton Engine Company to develop a suitable engine; in addition, General Electric provided electric transmission with a simplified control system. Using these components, Hamilton arranged for his petrol-electric railcars to be built by the St Louis Car Company, with the first being completed in 1924. It was the beginning of a highly successful series. Fuel costs were lower than for steam trains and initial costs were kept down by using standardized vehicles instead of designing for individual railways. Maintenance costs were minimized because Electro-Motive kept stocks of spare parts and supplied replacement units when necessary. As more powerful, 800 hp (600 kW) railcars were produced, railways tended to use them to haul trailer vehicles, although that practice reduced the fuel saving. By the end of the decade Electro-Motive needed engines more powerful still and therefore had to use cheap fuel. Diesel engines of the period, such as those that Winton had made for some years, were too heavy in relation to their power, and too slow and sluggish for rail use. Their fuel-injection system was erratic and insufficiently robust and Hamilton concluded that a separate injector was needed for each cylinder.In 1930 Electro-Motive Corporation and Winton were acquired by General Motors in pursuance of their aim to develop a diesel engine suitable for rail traction, with the use of unit fuel injectors; Hamilton retained his position as President. At this time, industrial depression had combined with road and air competition to undermine railway-passenger business, and Ralph Budd, President of the Chicago, Burlington \& Quincy Railroad, thought that traffic could be recovered by way of high-speed, luxury motor trains; hence the Pioneer Zephyr was built for the Burlington. This comprised a 600 hp (450 kW), lightweight, two-stroke, diesel engine developed by General Motors (model 201 A), with electric transmission, that powered a streamlined train of three articulated coaches. This train demonstrated its powers on 26 May 1934 by running non-stop from Denver to Chicago, a distance of 1,015 miles (1,635 km), in 13 hours and 6 minutes, when the fastest steam schedule was 26 hours. Hamilton and Budd were among those on board the train, and it ushered in an era of high-speed diesel trains in the USA. By then Hamilton, with General Motors backing, was planning to use the lightweight engine to power diesel-electric locomotives. Their layout was derived not from steam locomotives, but from the standard American boxcar. The power plant was mounted within the body and powered the bogies, and driver's cabs were at each end. Two 900 hp (670 kW) engines were mounted in a single car to become an 1,800 hp (l,340 kW) locomotive, which could be operated in multiple by a single driver to form a 3,600 hp (2,680 kW) locomotive. To keep costs down, standard locomotives could be mass-produced rather than needing individual designs for each railway, as with steam locomotives. Two units of this type were completed in 1935 and sent on trial throughout much of the USA. They were able to match steam locomotive performance, with considerable economies: fuel costs alone were halved and there was much less wear on the track. In the same year, Electro-Motive began manufacturing diesel-electrie locomotives at La Grange, Illinois, with design modifications: the driver was placed high up above a projecting nose, which improved visibility and provided protection in the event of collision on unguarded level crossings; six-wheeled bogies were introduced, to reduce axle loading and improve stability. The first production passenger locomotives emerged from La Grange in 1937, and by early 1939 seventy units were in service. Meanwhile, improved engines had been developed and were being made at La Grange, and late in 1939 a prototype, four-unit, 5,400 hp (4,000 kW) diesel-electric locomotive for freight trains was produced and sent out on test from coast to coast; production versions appeared late in 1940. After an interval from 1941 to 1943, when Electro-Motive produced diesel engines for military and naval use, locomotive production resumed in quantity in 1944, and within a few years diesel power replaced steam on most railways in the USA.Hal Hamilton remained President of Electro-Motive Corporation until 1942, when it became a division of General Motors, of which he became Vice-President.[br]Further ReadingP.M.Reck, 1948, On Time: The History of the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corporation, La Grange, Ill.: General Motors (describes Hamilton's career).PJGRBiographical history of technology > Hamilton, Harold Lee (Hal)
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19 Lewis, John
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]fl. c. 1815 England[br]English developer of a machine for shearing woollen cloth with rotary cutters.[br]To give a smooth surface to cloth such as the old English broadcloth, the nap was raised and then sheared off. Hand-operated shears of enormous size were used to cut the fibres that stuck up when the cloth was laid over a curved table top. Great skill was required to achieve a smooth finish. Various attempts, such as that in 1784 by James Harmer, a clergyman of Sheffield, were made to mechanize the process by placing several pairs of shears in a frame and operating them by cranks, but success was not achieved. Samuel G. Dow of Albany, New York, patented a rotary shearer in England in 1794, and there was Samuel Dore in the same year too. John Lewis never claimed that he invented the rotary cutter, and it is possible that he made have seen drawings or actual examples of these earlier machines. His claim in his patent of 1815 was that, for the first time, he brought together a number of desirable features in one machine for shearing cloth to achieve the first really successful example. The local story in the Stroudwater district in Gloucestershire is that Lewis obtained this idea from Budding, who as a lad worked for the Lewis family, clothiers at Brinscombe Mills; Budding invented a lawn mower with rotary barrel blades that works on the same principle, patenting it in 1830. In the shearing machine, the cloth was moved underneath the blades, which could be of the same width so that only one operation was needed for each side. Other inventors had similar ideas, and a Stroud engineer, Stephen Price, took out a patent a month after Lewis did. These machines spread quickly in the Gloucestershire textile industry, and by 1830 hand-shearing was extinct. John Lewis was the son of Joseph, who had inherited the Brinscombe Mills in 1790 but must have died before 1815, when his children mortgaged the property for £12,000. Joseph's three sons, George, William and John, worked the mill for a time, but in 1840 William was there alone.[br]Bibliography1815, British patent no. 3,945 (rotary shearing machine).Further ReadingJ. de L.Mann, 1971, The Cloth Industry in the West of England from 1660 to 1880, Oxford (the best account of the introduction of the shearing machines).J.Tann, 1967, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills, Newton Abbot (includes notes about the Brinscombe Mills).K.G.Ponting, 1971, The Woollen Industry of South-West England, Bath; and H.A.Randall, 1965–6, "Some mid-Gloucestershire engineers and inventors", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 38 (both mention Lewis's machine).RLH -
20 Saxby, John
[br]b. 17 August 1821 Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, Englandd. 22 April 1913 Hassocks, Sussex, England[br]English railway signal engineer, pioneer of interlocking.[br]In the mid-1850s Saxby was a foreman in the Brighton Works of the London Brighton \& South Coast Railway, where he had no doubt become familiar with construction of semaphore signals of the type invented by C.H. Gregory; the London-Brighton line was one of the first over which these were installed. In the 1850s points and signals were usually worked independently, and it was to eliminate the risk of accident from conflicting points and signal positions that Saxby in 1856 patented an arrangement by which related points and signals would be operated simultaneously by a single lever.Others were concerned with the same problem. In 1855 Vignier, an employee of the Western Railway of France, had made an interlocking apparatus for junctions, and in 1859 Austin Chambers, who worked for the North London Railway, installed at Kentish Town Junction an interlocking lever frame in which a movement that depended upon another could not even commence until the earlier one was completed. He patented it early in 1860; Saxby patented his own version of such an apparatus later the same year. In 1863 Saxby left the London Brighton \& South Coast Railway to enter into a partnership with J.S.Farmer and established Saxby \& Farmer's railway signalling works at Kilburn, London. The firm manufactured, installed and maintained signalling equipment for many prominent railway companies. Its interlocking frames made possible installation of complex track layouts at increasingly busy London termini possible.In 1867 Saxby \& Farmer purchased Chambers's patent of 1860, Later developments by the firm included effective interlocking actuated by lifting a lever's catch handle, rather than by the lever itself (1871), and an improved locking frame known as the "gridiron" (1874). This was eventually superseded by tappet interlocking, which had been invented by James Deakin of the rival firm Stevens \& Co. in 1870 but for which patent protection had been lost through non-renewal.Saxby \& Farmer's equipment was also much used on the European continent, in India and in the USA, to which it introduced interlocking. A second manufacturing works was set up in 1878 at Creil (Oise), France, and when the partnership terminated in 1888 Saxby moved to Creil and managed the works himself until he retired to Sussex in 1900.[br]Bibliography1856, British patent no. 1,479 (simultaneous operation of points and signals). 1860, British patent no. 31 (a true interlocking mechanism).1867, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 538 (improvements to the interlocking mechanism patented in 1860).1870, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 569 (the facing point lock by plunger bolt).1871, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 1,601 (catch-handle actuated interlocking) 1874, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 294 (gridiron frame).Further ReadingWestinghouse Brake and Signal Company, 1956, John Saxby (1821–1913) and His Part in the Development of Interlocking and of the Signalling Industry, London (published to mark the centenary of the 1856 patent).PJGR
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