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  • 21 Socialist Party / Partido Socialista

    (PS)
       Although the Socialist Party's origins can be traced back to the 1850s, its existence has not been continuous. The party did not achieve or maintain a large base of support until after the Revolution of 25 April 1974. Historically, it played only a minor political role when compared to other European socialist parties.
       During the Estado Novo, the PS found it difficult to maintain a clandestine existence, and the already weak party literally withered away. Different groups and associations endeavored to keep socialist ideals alive, but they failed to create an organizational structure that would endure. In 1964, Mário Soares, Francisco Ramos da Costa, and Manuel Tito de Morais established the Portuguese Socialist Action / Acção Socialista Português (ASP) in Geneva, a group of individuals with similar views rather than a true political party. Most members were middle-class professionals committed to democratizing the nation. The rigidity of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) led some to join the ASP.
       By the early 1970s, ASP nuclei existed beyond Portugal in Paris, London, Rome, Brussels, Frankfurt, Sweden, and Switzerland; these consisted of members studying, working, teaching, researching, or in other activities. Extensive connections were developed with other foreign socialist parties. Changing conditions in Portugal, as well as the colonial wars, led several ASP members to advocate the creation of a real political party, strengthening the organization within Portugal, and positioning this to compete for power once the regime changed.
       The current PS was founded clandestinely on 19 April 1973, by a group of 27 exiled Portuguese and domestic ASP representatives at the Kurt Schumacher Academy of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Bad Munstereifel, West Germany. The founding philosophy was influenced by nondogmatic Marxism as militants sought to create a classless society. The rhetoric was to be revolutionary to outflank its competitors, especially the PCP, on its left. The party hoped to attract reform-minded Catholics and other groups that were committed to democracy but could not support the communists.
       At the time of the 1974 revolution, the PS was little more than an elite faction based mainly among exiles. It was weakly organized and had little grassroots support outside the major cities and larger towns. Its organization did not improve significantly until the campaign for the April 1975 constituent elections. Since then, the PS has become very pragmatic and moderate and has increasingly diluted its socialist program until it has become a center-left party. Among the party's most consistent principles in its platform since the late 1970s has been its support for Portugal's membership in the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Union (EU), a view that clashed with those of its rivals to the left, especially the PCP. Given the PS's broad base of support, the increased distance between its leftist rhetoric and its more conservative actions has led to sharp internal divisions in the party. The PS and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) are now the two dominant parties in the Portuguese political party system.
       In doctrine and rhetoric the PS has undergone a de-Marxification and a movement toward the center as a means to challenge its principal rival for hegemony, the PSD. The uneven record of the PS in general elections since its victory in 1975, and sometimes its failure to keep strong legislative majorities, have discouraged voters. While the party lost the 1979 and 1980 general elections, it triumphed in the 1983 elections, when it won 36 percent of the vote, but it still did not gain an absolute majority in the Assembly of the Republic. The PSD led by Cavaco Silva dominated elections from 1985 to 1995, only to be defeated by the PS in the 1995 general elections. By 2000, the PS had conquered the commanding heights of the polity: President Jorge Sampaio had been reelected for a second term, PS prime minister António Guterres was entrenched, and the mayor of Lisbon was João Soares, son of the former socialist president, Mário Soares (1986-96).
       The ideological transformation of the PS occurred gradually after 1975, within the context of a strong PSD, an increasingly conservative electorate, and the de-Marxification of other European Socialist parties, including those in Germany and Scandinavia. While the PS paid less attention to the PCP on its left and more attention to the PSD, party leaders shed Marxist trappings. In the 1986 PS official program, for example, the text does not include the word Marxism.
       Despite the party's election victories in the mid- and late-1990s, the leadership discovered that their grasp of power and their hegemony in governance at various levels was threatened by various factors: President Jorge Sampaio's second term, the constitution mandated, had to be his last.
       Following the defeat of the PS by the PSD in the municipal elections of December 2001, Premier Antônio Guterres resigned his post, and President Sampaio dissolved parliament and called parliamentary elections for the spring. In the 17 March 2002 elections, following Guterres's resignation as party leader, the PS was defeated by the PSD by a vote of 40 percent to 38 percent. Among the factors that brought about the socialists' departure from office was the worsening post-September 11 economy and disarray within the PS leadership circles, as well as charges of corruption among PS office holders. However, the PS won 45 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections of 2005, and the leader of the party, José Sócrates, a self-described "market-oriented socialist" became prime minister.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Socialist Party / Partido Socialista

  • 22 departmentalism

    сущ.
    1) упр. = departmentalization 1),

    While departmentalism has been the accepted pattern of organisation, it can have important drawbacks: departmental structure creates barriers to communication across the authority, co-operation between departments can lead to conflict, departments can have different goals to the authority. — Несмотря на то что департаментализация является общепринятой моделью потсроения организационной структуры, у нее могут быть серьезные недостатки, напр., нарушение взаимосвязей между подразделениями, появление конфликтов, возникновение у каждого из подразделений собственных целей, отличных от целей организации.

    2) упр. местничество, ведомственность ( стремление подразделения к достижению собственных целей)

    to replace narrow departmentalism with more integrated, "joined up" ways of working — заменить узковедомственный подход более совершенными методами работы в команде

    Syn:
    See:
    3) пол. департаментализм (модель принятия политических решений, при которой решения являются результатом взаимосогласованной работы основных министерств (ведомств) и оформляются как их коллективные решения)
    See:

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > departmentalism

  • 23 public broadcasting service

    1) СМИ., гос. упр. общественное вещание (вещание некоммерческих СМИ на средства, собранные со слушателей и телезрителей)
    2) СМИ, гос. упр. = !
    "
    может быть, просто ""public broadcasting"", а не ""public broadcasting service""?
    "
    !
    "
    The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States, with some member stations available over the air and by cable in Canada. While the term ""broadcasting"" encompasses both radio and television, PBS only covers TV; public radio in the United States is served by National Public Radio, as well as content providers American Public Media, and Public Radio International.
    "
    PBS was founded on November 3, 1969,[1\] at which time it took over many of the functions of its predecessor, National Educational Television (NET) (which merged with station WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET). It commenced broadcasting on Monday, October 5, 1970. In 1973, it merged with Educational Television Stations.
    PBS is a non-profit, private corporation which is owned collectively by its member stations.[2\] However, its operations are largely funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Its headquarters are in Arlington, Virginia.
    Unlike the commercial television broadcast model of American networks such as ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW and MyNetworkTV, in which affiliates give up portions of their local advertising airtime in exchange for network programming, PBS member stations pay substantial fees for the shows acquired and distributed by the national organization.
    "
    This relationship means that PBS member stations have greater latitude in local scheduling than their commercial counterparts. Scheduling of PBS-distributed series may vary greatly from market to market. This can be a source of tension as stations seek to preserve their localism and PBS strives to market a consistent national line-up. However, PBS has a policy of ""common carriage"" requiring most stations to clear the national prime time programs on a common schedule, so that they can be more effectively marketed on a national basis. This setup is in many ways similar to the pre-2002 British ITV system of having some ""networked"" programs shown nationwide on all network contractors, and the remainder of scheduling being up to individual affiliates.
    " "
    Unlike its radio counterpart, National Public Radio, PBS has no central program production arm or news department. All of the programming carried by PBS, whether news, documentary, or entertainment, is created by (or in most cases produced under contract with) other parties, such as individual member stations. WGBH in Boston is one of the largest producers of educational programming. News programs are produced by WETA-TV in Washington, D.C., WNET in New York and WPBT in Miami. The Charlie Rose interview show, Secrets of the Dead, NOW, Nature, Cyberchase, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer come from or through WNET in New York. Once a program is offered to and accepted by PBS for distribution, PBS (and not the member station that supplied the program) retains exclusive rights for rebroadcasts during the period for which such rights were granted; the suppliers do maintain the right to sell the program in non-broadcast media such as DVDs, books, and sometimes PBS licensed merchandise (but sometimes grant such ancillary rights as well to PBS).
    " "
    PBS stations are commonly operated by non-profit organizations, state agencies, local authorities (e.g., municipal boards of education), or universities in their community of license. In some states, PBS stations throughout the entire state may be organized into a single regional ""subnetwork"" (e.g., Alabama Public Television). Unlike Canada's CBC/SRC, PBS does not own any of the stations that broadcast its programming. This is partly due to the origins of the PBS stations themselves, and partly due to historical license issues.
    "
    In the modern broadcast marketplace, this organizational structure is considered outmoded by some media critics. A common restructuring proposal is to reorganize the network so that each state would have one PBS affiliate which would broadcast state-wide. However, this proposal is controversial, as it would reduce local community input into PBS programming, especially considering how PBS stations are significantly more community-oriented, according to the argument, than their commercial counterparts.
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    Англо-русский экономический словарь > public broadcasting service

  • 24 ultra-high-strength steel

    особовысокопрочная сталь

    Like other recent Ford vehicles, the new C-MAX makes extensive use of high-strength and ultra-high-strength steels in key areas of its bodyshell, minimising weight while helping the structure to meet the most stringent global safety requirements. — Как другие последние автомобили Ford, новый C-MAX широко использует высокопрочную и особовысокопрочную сталь в ключевых местах каркаса кузова, минимизируя тем самым вес и помогая конструкции соответствовать самым строгим мировым нормам по технике безопасности.

    Англо-русский универсальный дополнительный практический переводческий словарь И. Мостицкого > ultra-high-strength steel

  • 25 stand

    [stænd] 1. past tense, past participle - stood; verb
    1) (to be in an upright position, not sitting or lying: His leg was so painful that he could hardly stand; After the storm, few trees were left standing.) stati
    2) ((often with up) to rise to the feet: He pushed back his chair and stood up; Some people like to stand (up) when the National Anthem is played.) vstati
    3) (to remain motionless: The train stood for an hour outside Newcastle.) stati
    4) (to remain unchanged: This law still stands.) veljati
    5) (to be in or have a particular place: There is now a factory where our house once stood.) stati
    6) (to be in a particular state, condition or situation: As matters stand, we can do nothing to help; How do you stand financially?) stati
    7) (to accept or offer oneself for a particular position etc: He is standing as Parliamentary candidate for our district.) kandidirati
    8) (to put in a particular position, especially upright: He picked up the fallen chair and stood it beside the table.) postaviti
    9) (to undergo or endure: He will stand (his) trial for murder; I can't stand her rudeness any longer.) prestati; prenašati
    10) (to pay for (a meal etc) for (a person): Let me stand you a drink!) dati za
    2. noun
    1) (a position or place in which to stand ready to fight etc, or an act of fighting etc: The guard took up his stand at the gate; I shall make a stand for what I believe is right.) položaj
    2) (an object, especially a piece of furniture, for holding or supporting something: a coat-stand; The sculpture had been removed from its stand for cleaning.) stojalo
    3) (a stall where goods are displayed for sale or advertisement.) stojnica
    4) (a large structure beside a football pitch, race course etc with rows of seats for spectators: The stand was crowded.) tribuna
    5) ((American) a witness box in a law court.) prostor za priče
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    - standing 3. noun
    1) (time of lasting: an agreement of long standing.) trajanje
    2) (rank or reputation: a diplomat of high standing.) ugled
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    4. adjective
    ((of an airline passenger or ticket) costing or paying less than the usual fare, as the passenger does not book a seat for a particular flight, but waits for the first available seat.) na čakalnem seznamu
    5. adverb
    (travelling in this way: It costs a lot less to travel stand-by.) potovati v aranžmaju stand-by
    - standing-room
    - make someone's hair stand on end
    - stand aside
    - stand back
    - stand by
    - stand down
    - stand fast/firm
    - stand for
    - stand in
    - stand on one's own two feet
    - stand on one's own feet
    - stand out
    - stand over
    - stand up for
    - stand up to
    * * *
    I [stænd]
    noun
    stanje (na nogah), položaj, mesto; stališče; tribuna, oder; stojnica, začasna prodajalna na trgu; stojalo, mizica, regal, polica; photography stativ; postaja, postajališče, parkirni prostor za taksije; zastoj (tudi figuratively), ustavitev, odpor; theatre gostovanje igralcev, trajanje gostovanja; American (še) nepožeto žito; (še) neposekan gozd; zajezena voda; obsolete garnitura; obsolete dialectal roj (čebel), history krdelo (vojakov); juridically American prostor za priče
    a stand of arms — popolna oprema z orožjem za vojaka, puška s priborom
    book-stand — stojnica, kiosk za prodajo knjig
    grand stand — uradna (glavna) tribuna (na tekmah, dirkah itd.)
    news stand American kiosk za prodajo časopisov
    one-night stand theatre enkratno (igralsko) gostovanje
    to be at a stand obsolete odreveneti, obstrmeti (od začudenja), biti zbegan, zmeden
    to be brought (to come) to a stand — ustaviti se, zastati, obstati
    to bring to a stand — (za)ustaviti, privesti do ustavitve, do zastoja
    to make a stand — upirati se, ustavljati se (čemu)
    he took his stand on the letter figuratively oprl, skliceval se je na pismo
    to take the stand American juridically nastopiti kot priča, potrditi s prisego (on s.th. kaj)
    II [stænd]
    1.
    intransitive verb
    stati (na nogah itd.); dosegati stalno višino v stoječem položaju; postaviti se pokonci; biti nameščen, ležati, biti, nahajati se; stati na mestu, nehati se premikati, (za)ustaviti se; ostati brez sprememb, veljati tudi vnaprej, ne izgubiti moči (veljave); zadržati, obdržati svoj dosedanji položaj; zavzemati se ( for za); zagovarjati ( for kaj); zavzemati stanoviten odnos do česa; nasprotovati ( against čemu), upirati se; vztrajati, vzdržati, ostajati; oklevati, bati se (at česa), ustrašiti se; sestajati (in iz); skladati se, biti v skladu ( with z); kandidirati, biti kandidat ( for za); nabrati se, zbrati se; (za)pihati, pri(haja)ti (o vetru); colloquially stati, veljati; biti v prid (komu), koristiti; nautical pluti, držati se določene smeri (for, to proti); stopiti ( back nazaj)
    stand! — stoj!
    stand at ease! military voljno!
    stand fast! military British English mirno!, military American vod, stoj!
    to stand aghast — zgroziti se, osupniti
    to stand against s.o. — postaviti se proti, uveljaviti se proti komu
    to stand at attention military stati v pozoru
    we will stand by whatever he says — z vsem, kar bo rekel, bomo soglašali
    to stand corrected — uvideti, priznati svojo krivdo
    I won't stand for this American tega ne bom trpel (prenašal)
    to stand for s.o. (with s.o.) — potegniti se za koga, potegniti s kom
    to stand gaping — stati in zijati, zijala prodajati
    to stand good — ostati veljaven, obdržati svojo veljavo (vrednost)
    to stand in line American stati in čakati v vrsti
    to stand in terror of s.o. — bati se koga
    it stands me in 8 shillings a bottle colloquially steklenica me stane 8 šilingov
    to stand neutral — biti, ostati nevtralen
    to stand on ceremony — paziti (gledati) na etiketo, ceremonialno se obnašati
    to stand on one's own feet — stati na lastnih nogah, figuratively opravljati svoje zadeve brez tuje pomoči
    stand on me for that slang zanesi se name glede tega!
    she stands over the girl while she does her homework — ona pazi na (nadzira) deklico, ko dela domačo nalogo
    to stand pat slang ostati trden
    to stand the racket slang plačati ceno, globo
    to stand security (surety, sponsor) for s.o. — biti porok, jamčiti za koga
    to stand still — mirovati, ostati miren, ustaviti se
    to stand to one's guns (one's colours) figuratively trdno vztrajati pri svojem (prepričanju, mnenju), military držati postojanko
    to stand to one's oars — pošteno, krepko zaveslati
    to stand to it that... — vztrajati na tem, da...
    to stand upon one's trial juridically stati, biti pred sodiščem
    to stand (a) watch nautical , to stand guard military biti na straži
    to stand well with s.o. — dobro se razumeti (shajati) s kom
    if it stands with honour — če se sklada s častjo;
    2.
    transitive verb
    postaviti; ustaviti; zoperstaviti se, upirati se (čemu); prenašati, prenesti, trpeti (koga, kaj); podvreči se, prestati; colloquially dati (plačati) za; stati (biti) pred (čem)
    to stand an assault — vzdržati, upreti se napadu
    to stand a drink colloquially dati za pijačo
    to stand a chance — imeti možnost (priliko, priložnost, upanje, šanso)
    to stand the test — prestati preizkušnjo, izkazati se, obnesti se
    to stand one's trial — biti zaslišan pred sodiščcm;

    English-Slovenian dictionary > stand

  • 26 rear

    I 1. noun
    1) (back part) hinterer Teil

    at — or (Amer.)

    in the rear of — im hinteren Teil (+ Gen.)

    2) (back) Rückseite, die

    be in or bring up the rear — den Schluss bilden

    to the rear of the house there is... — hinter dem Haus ist...

    3) (Mil.) rückwärtiger Teil
    4) (coll.): (buttocks) Hintern, der (ugs.)
    2. adjective
    hinter... [Eingang, Tür, Blinklicht]; Hinter[achse, -rad]
    II 1. transitive verb
    1) großziehen [Kind, Familie]; halten [Vieh]; hegen [Wild]
    2) (lift up) heben [Kopf]

    rear its ugly head — (fig.) seine hässliche Fratze zeigen

    2. intransitive verb
    [Pferd:] sich aufbäumen
    * * *
    I 1. [riə] noun
    1) (the back part of something: There is a second bathroom at the rear of the house; The enemy attacked the army in the rear.) die Rückseite, die Nachhut
    2) (the buttocks, bottom: The horse kicked him in his rear.) der Hintern
    2. adjective
    (positioned behind: the rear wheels of the car.) Rück-...
    - academic.ru/118128/rear-admiral">rear-admiral
    - rearguard II [riə] verb
    1) (to feed and care for (a family, animals etc while they grow up): She has reared six children; He rears cattle.) aufziehen
    2) ((especially of a horse) to rise up on the hind legs: The horse reared in fright as the car passed.) sich aufbäumen
    3) (to raise (the head etc): The snake reared its head.) heben
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    * * *
    rear1
    [rɪəʳ, AM rɪr]
    I. n
    ▪ the \rear der hintere Teil
    we went to the \rear of the house wir gingen hinter das Haus
    2. MIL Nachhut f
    3. ANAT ( fam: buttocks) Hintern m fam
    a kick in the \rear ein Tritt m in den Hintern
    to be a pain in the \rear einem [fürchterlich] auf den Wecker gehen fam
    4.
    ▶ to bring up the \rear [of sth] die Nachhut [einer S. gen] bilden
    II. adj attr, inv
    1. (backward) hintere(r, s), Hinter-
    \rear entrance Hintereingang m
    \rear legs of an animal Hinterbeine pl
    2. AUTO Heck-
    \rear axle/wheel Hinterachse f/-rad nt
    \rear seat Rücksitz m
    \rear window Heckscheibe f
    rear2
    [rɪəʳ, AM rɪr]
    I. vt
    1. usu passive (bring up)
    to \rear an animal ein Tier aufziehen
    to \rear a child ein Kind großziehen [o aufziehen
    2. (breed)
    to \rear livestock Vieh züchten
    to hand-\rear an animal ein Tier aufziehen
    to \rear crops/plants Getreide/Pflanzen anbauen
    to \rear one's head den Kopf heben
    5. ( form: erect)
    to \rear a structure ein Gebäude errichten
    6.
    ▶ to \rear its [ugly] head ( pej) seine [hässliche] Fratze zeigen pej
    II. vi
    1. (rise up on hind legs) horse, pony sich akk aufbäumen
    2. (rise high)
    ▪ to \rear above [or over] sth building, mountain sich akk über etw akk erheben, etw überragen
    * * *
    I [rɪə(r)]
    1. n
    1) (= back part) hinterer Teil; (inf = buttocks) Hintern m (inf)

    in or at the rear — hinten (of in +dat )

    to be situated at/to(wards) the rear of the plane — hinten im Flugzeug/am hinteren Ende des Flugzeugs sein

    2) (MIL) Schwanz m (der Truppe)
    2. adj
    1) Hinter-, hintere(r, s)
    2) (AUT) Heck-
    II
    1. vt
    1) (esp Brit) animals, family großziehen, aufziehen
    2)

    to rear its head (animal) — den Kopf zurückwerfen; (snake) sich aufstellen

    violence/racism reared its ugly head (again) — die Gewalt/der Rassismus kam (wieder) zum Vorschein

    2. vi
    (horse) sich aufbäumen
    * * *
    rear1 [rıə(r)]
    A s
    1. Hinter-, Rückseite f:
    at (US in) the rear of the house hinter dem Haus;
    in the rear of the house hinten im Haus
    2. Hintergrund m:
    in the rear of im Hintergrund (gen)
    3. SCHIFF, AUTO Heck n
    4. bring up the rear SCHIFF, MIL, SPORT die Nachhut bilden
    5. umg Hintern m:
    give sb a kick in the rear jemandem in den Hintern treten
    B adj
    1. hinter(er, e, es), Hinter…, Rück…:
    rear axle TECH Hinterachse f;
    rear building Rückgebäude n;
    a) hinter(st)er Teil, Ende n,
    b) umg Hintern m;
    rear entrance Hintereingang m;
    rear exit Hinterausgang m;
    rear fog lamp AUTO Nebelschlussleuchte f;
    rear lamp ( oder light) AUTO etc Br Rück-, Schlusslicht n;
    rear seat AUTO Rücksitz m;
    rear suspension TECH Hinterradaufhängung f
    2. SCHIFF, AUTO Heck…:
    rear drive Heckantrieb m;
    rear engine Heckmotor m;
    rear spoiler Heckspoiler m;
    rear window Heckscheibe f;
    rear wiper AUTO Heckscheibenwischer m
    3. MIL rückwärtig
    rear2 [rıə(r)]
    A v/t
    1. ein Kind auf-, großziehen, Tiere züchten, Pflanzen ziehen, anbauen
    2. ARCH errichten, (er)bauen
    3. eine Leiter etc aufrichten, -stellen
    4. den Kopf heben
    B v/i
    1. auch rear up sich aufbäumen (Pferd)
    2. oft rear up (auf-, hoch)ragen
    * * *
    I 1. noun
    1) (back part) hinterer Teil

    at — or (Amer.)

    in the rear of — im hinteren Teil (+ Gen.)

    2) (back) Rückseite, die

    be in or bring up the rear — den Schluss bilden

    to the rear of the house there is... — hinter dem Haus ist...

    3) (Mil.) rückwärtiger Teil
    4) (coll.): (buttocks) Hintern, der (ugs.)
    2. adjective
    hinter... [Eingang, Tür, Blinklicht]; Hinter[achse, -rad]
    II 1. transitive verb
    1) großziehen [Kind, Familie]; halten [Vieh]; hegen [Wild]
    2) (lift up) heben [Kopf]

    rear its ugly head — (fig.) seine hässliche Fratze zeigen

    2. intransitive verb
    [Pferd:] sich aufbäumen
    * * *
    adj.
    Hinter- präfix.
    Rück- präfix.
    hinterster adj. n.
    Heck -e n.
    Rückseite f.

    English-german dictionary > rear

  • 27 recapitalize

    FINANCE (company) recapitaliser, changer la structure financière de

    China is still deflating, its banking system needs to be recapitalized, but [the] government's ability to raise enough taxes to do it is poor, while consumers save and do not spend to protect their own futures.

    English-French business dictionary > recapitalize

  • 28 footprint

    •• * Актуальное слово footprint не совсем удачно отражено в большинстве переводных словарей: след, отпечаток – вот и все. Упущено значение, описываемое в American Heritage Dictionary как the surface space occupied by a structure or device: the footprint of a building; a microcomputer with a space-saving footprint... Видимо, для словарных целей это можно перевести как площадь/очертания в основании (в градостроении принят термин пятно застройки). В переводе второго примера вполне можно сказать микрокомпьютер, занимающий минимум места (компьютерный словарь ABBYY Lingvo дает вариант перевода опорная поверхность; площадь основания [ устройства]). Также из области компьютерной техники: memory footprint – занимаемый, требуемый объем памяти.

    •• AHD дает еще два технических значения: 3. An area within which a spacecraft is supposed to land. 4. A designated area affected or covered by a device or phenomenon: the footprint of a communications satellite. В первом случае – ( расчетный) район посадки, а во втором можно, наверное, сказать зона охвата. В автомобильном контексте footprint – пятно контакта ( шины).
    •• Очень часто это слово встречается в словосочетаниях ecological footprint и military footprint. В этих случаях оно довольно капризно в переводе.
    •• Что касается ecological footprint, то, казалось бы, все просто – воздействие человека на природу или экологическое воздействие.
    •• В переводе следующего примера такой вариант вполне приемлем:
    •• Humanity’s use of natural resources, or Ecological Footprint, has exceeded the regenerative capacity of the Earth since the 1980s. The finding is outlined in a paper to be published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
    •• Но оказывается, ecological footprint – это и количественный показатель. Две цитаты с экологических сайтов:
    •• The ecological footprint is an accounting tool for ecological resources. Categories of human consumption are translated into areas of productive land required to provide resources and assimilate waste products. The ecological footprint is a measure of how sustainable our life-styles are.
    •• Вторая цитата содержит конкретную величину:
    •• The ecological footprint of the average Canadian adds up to 4.8 hectares. This is the total amount of land required for food, housing, transport, consumer goods and services.
    •• Вариант коэффициент экологического воздействия не подходит, поскольку коэффициент, насколько я знаю, не измеряется в таких абсолютных мерах площади, как гектар. Возможно, стоит калькировать этот термин – экологический след, и на российских экологических сайтах это словосочетание встречается уже довольно часто.
    •• В военной терминологии значение этого слова, по мнению специалистов, еще не устоялось – оно может означать район выпадения радиоактивных осадков, а также зона поражения, например, при разрыве снаряда. В ином употреблении это слово встречалось в высказываниях министра обороны США Рамсфелда, и, по-моему, можно говорить о появлении нового значения. Во всяком случае, для переводных словарей это интересно (в толковых словарях невключение этого значения может быть оправдано аргументом, что это просто метафорическое употребление слова). Несколько примеров.
    •• Статья в International Herald Tribune называется A shrinking global footprint for US forces. Далее в тексте это слово не встречается, но первое предложение раскрывает смысл заголовка:
    •• In the wake of war, the Pentagon is positioned to rethink where troops are based abroad as well as military priorities.
    •• Две цитаты из газеты Сhristian Science Monitor:
    •• 1. The Pentagon’s goal: shrink its footprint in foreign lands, but retain enough power and flexibility to defend American interests.
    •• 2. With a bigger footprint in Iraq, the US would also gain greater access to a region where it has been relatively limited since the days of Iran’s pro-US Shah.
    •• Как мне кажется, самым лучшим вариантом для перевода этого значения footprint было бы развертывание или присутствие.
    •• Встречается и контекстуальное употребление, близкое к значению влияние:
    •• Even while traveling in Europe and the Middle East ( nine countries in eight days), Rice’s footprint could be felt on decisionmaking back in Washington. (Chrisrtian Science Monitor) - Даже находясь в поездке по Европе и Ближнему Востоку, Райс оказывала сильное влияние на решения, принимаемые в Вашингтоне.
    •• Но и здесь, пожалуй, может подойти присутствие: Присутствие Райс в процессе принятия решений ощущалось даже тогда, когда она разъезжала по Европе и Ближнему Востоку.

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  • 29 litotes

    a two-component structure in which two negations are joined to give a possessive evaluation
    - the first component is always the negative particle "not", while the second, always negative in semantics, varies in form from a negatively affixed word (as above) to a negative phrase

    Her face was not unpretty. (K.Kesey)

    It was not unnatural if Gilbert felt a certain embarrassment. (E.Waugh)

    The idea was not totally erroneous. The thought did not displease me. (I.Murdoch)

    Source: V.A.K.
    ••
    a) is a stylistic device consisting of a peculiar use of negative constructions: the negation plus noun or adjective serves to establish a positive feature in a person or thing
    - is a deliberate understatement used to produce stylistic effect: it is a negation that includes affirmation;
    - is a means by which the natural logical and linguistic property of negation can be strengthened;

    He found that this was no easy task.

    - is used in different styles of speech, excluding those which may be called the matter-of-fact styles, like official style and scientific prose
    b) a construction with two negations

    not unlike, not unpromising, not displeased

    Soames, with his lips and his squared chin was not unlike a bull dog. (J.Galsworthy)

    Source: I.R.G.

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  • 30 about one's ears

    (about (амер. around) one's ears)
    1) рухнувший (обыкн. употр. с гл. to bring, to fall, to tumble)

    Suddenly, without warning, the ground under their feet shakes and the nouses come tumbling about their ears. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Then and Now’, ch. XXVII) — Вдруг неожиданно почва заколебалась под ногами, и дома рухнули у них на глазах.

    Why should that uncouth pair sit here childless while the place crumbles about their ears. (E. Waugh, ‘Brideshead Revisited’, book III, ch. 5) — Почему эта гротескная чета должна доживать здесь свой век в бездетности, на погибель роду и дому?

    2) рухнувший, разлетевшийся в прах (о мечтах, иллюзиях и т. п.)

    All the fair structure of their hopes came crashing about their ears. (U. Sinclair, ‘The Jungle’, ch. VI) — Чудесное здание их надежд рухнуло.

    For a moment he saw everything that he had built up begin to tumble about his ears. (W. Du Bois, ‘Mansart Builds a School’, ch. XI) — В глазах у Мансарта помутилось, ему показалось, что все созданное им с таким трудом рушится.

    All her dreams had tumbled about her ears so fast in one short day, she could hardly get her breath. (D. Hewett, ‘Bobbin Up’, ch. 16) — За один короткий день разлетелись в прах все ее мечты, и она никак не могла прийти в себя.

    3) причиняющий беспокойство, создающий затруднения, неприятности; вызывающий нарекания

    This was no scene to put our minds at rest; a couple of armed men in sea-clothes found quarreling over a treasure, not many miles from where a pirate had been captured - here was enough to bring the whole country about our ears. (R. L. Stevenson, ‘The Master of Ballantrae’, ch. III) — Все это не могло не обеспокоить нас: весть о встрече с двумя вооруженными моряками, ссорящимися над грудой денег неподалеку от того места, где был захвачен пиратский корабль, - такая весть могла поднять против нас всю округу.

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  • 31 Doubling (Dry And Wet)

    DOUBLING (Dry and Wet).
    Dry doubling is carried on for yarn that is required oozy after twisting, such as for hosiery, also if to be bleached or dyed. This system leaves the thread in an open condition. Wet doubling produces a smooth and clean yarn and the liquid used causes the fibres to adhere to the body of the thread, while the twisting process also binds them together to give a more solid structure and increases the strength. Water only is used for counts up to about 2/60's, but for the finer counts it is usual to add a soap or special solution.

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  • 32 Stock Machine

    Woollen cloths were originally felted by being trampled underfoot while saturated with a suitable felting liquor. The " stocks " reproduce this treading action, thereby not merely compressing the fabric and ensuring contraction in a general sense, but also bursting the thread structure, thus developing the typical woollen fabric in a manner quite beyond the milling machine. The milling part of the machine takes the form of a huge hammer head, raised by a revolving wheel a certain height and then allowed to drop of its own weight upon the cloth or positively driven against the cloth by crankshaft action.

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  • 33 Portuguese Communist Party

    (PCP)
       The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) has evolved from its early anarcho-syndicalist roots at its formation in 1921. This evolution included the undisciplined years of the 1920s, during which bolshevization began and continued into the 1930s, then through the years of clandestine existence during the Estado Novo, the Stalinization of the 1940s, the "anarcho-liberal shift" of the 1950s, the emergence of Maoist and Trotskyist splinter groups of the 1960s, to legalization after the Revolution of 25 April 1974 as the strongest and oldest political party in Portugal. Documents from the Russian archives have shown that the PCP's history is not a purely "domestic" one. While the PCP was born on its own without Soviet assistance, once it joined the Communist International (CI), it lost a significant amount of autonomy as CI officials increasingly meddled in PCP internal politics by dictating policy, manipulating leadership elections, and often financing party activities.
       Early Portuguese communism was a mix of communist ideological strands accustomed to a spirited internal debate, a lively external debate with its rivals, and a loose organizational structure. The PCP, during its early years, was weak in grassroots membership and was basically a party of "notables." It was predominantly a male organization, with minuscule female participation. It was also primarily an urban party concentrated in Lisbon. The PCP membership declined from 3,000 in 1923 to only 40 in 1928.
       In 1929, the party was reorganized so that it could survive clandestinely. As its activity progressed in the 1930s, a long period of instability dominated its leadership organs as a result of repression, imprisonments, and disorganization. The CI continued to intervene in party affairs through the 1930s, until the PCP was expelled from the CI in 1938-39, apparently because of its conduct during police arrests.
       The years of 1939-41 were difficult ones for the party, not only because of increased domestic repression but also because of internal party splits provoked by the Nazi-Soviet pact and other foreign actions. From 1940 to 1941, two Communist parties struggled to attract the support of the CI and accused each other of "revisionism." The CI was disbanded in 1943, and the PCP was not accepted back into the international communist family until its recognition by the Cominform in 1947.
       The reorganization of 1940-41 finally put the PCP under the firm control of orthodox communists who viewed socialism from a Soviet perspective. Although Soviet support was denied the newly reorganized party at first, the new leaders continued its Stalinization. The enforcement of "democratic centralism" and insistence upon the "dictatorship of the proletariat" became entrenched. The 1940s brought increased growth, as the party reached its membership apex of the clandestine era with 1,200 members in 1943, approximately 4,800 in 1946, and 7,000 in 1947.
       The party fell on hard times in the 1950s. It developed a bad case of paranoia, which led to a witch hunt for infiltrators, informers, and spies in all ranks of the party. The lower membership figures who followed the united antifascist period were reduced further through expulsions of the "traitors." By 1951, the party had been reduced to only 1,000 members. It became a closed, sectarian, suspicious, and paranoiac organization, with diminished strength in almost every region, except in the Alentejo, where the party, through propaganda and ideology more than organizational strength, was able to mobilize strikes of landless peasants in the early 1950s.
       On 3 January 1960, Álvaro Cunhal and nine other political prisoners made a spectacular escape from the Peniche prison and fled the country. Soon after this escape, Cunhal was elected secretary-general and, with other top leaders, directed the PCP from exile. Trotskyite and Maoist fractions emerged within the party in the 1960s, strengthened by the ideological developments in the international communist movement, such as in China and Cuba. The PCP would not tolerate dissent or leftism and began purging the extreme left fractions.
       The PCP intensified its control of the labor movement after the more liberal syndical election regulations under Prime Minister Mar- cello Caetano allowed communists to run for leadership positions in the corporative unions. By 1973, there was general unrest in the labor movement due to deteriorating economic conditions brought on by the colonial wars, as well as by world economic pressures including the Arab oil boycott.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, the PCP enjoyed a unique position: it was the only party to have survived the Estado Novo. It emerged from clandestinity as the best organized political party in Portugal with a leadership hardened by years in jail. Since then, despite the party's stubborn orthodoxy, it has consistently played an important role as a moderating force. As even the Socialist Party (PS) was swept up by the neoliberal tidal wave, albeit a more compassionate variant, increasingly the PCP has played a crucial role in ensuring that interests and perspectives of the traditional Left are aired.
       One of the most consistent planks of the PCP electoral platform has been opposition to every stage of European integration. The party has regularly resisted Portuguese membership in the European Economic Community (EEC) and, following membership beginning in 1986, the party has regularly resisted further integration through the European Union (EU). A major argument has been that EU membership would not resolve Portugal's chronic economic problems but would only increase its dependence on the world. Ever since, the PCP has argued that its opposition to membership was correct and that further involvement with the EU would only result in further economic dependence and a consequent loss of Portuguese national sovereignty. Further, the party maintained that as Portugal's ties with the EU increased, the vulnerable agrarian sector in Portugal would risk further losses.
       Changes in PCP leadership may or may not alter the party's electoral position and role in the political system. As younger generations forget the uniqueness of the party's resistance to the Estado Novo, public images of PCP leadership will change. As the image of Álvaro Cunhal and other historical communist leaders slowly recedes, and the stature of Carlos Carvalhas (general secretary since 1992) and other moderate leaders is enhanced, the party's survival and legitimacy have strengthened. On 6 March 2001, the PCP celebrated its 80th anniversary.
        See also Left Bloc.

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  • 34 grupo

    Gen Mgt
    a group of companies in Mexico, based on a parent company or central family. Grupos may be involved in a crosssection of industries, much like a conglomerate company. Some grupos are integrated financially, legally, and administratively, while others have a looser structure with stockholding interests and interrelated directorates.

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  • 35 Bouch, Sir Thomas

    SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. 22 February 1822 Thursby, Cumberland, England
    d. 1880 Moffat
    [br]
    English designer of the ill-fated Tay railway bridge.
    [br]
    The third son of a merchant sea captain, he was at first educated in the village school. At the age of 17 he was working under a Mr Larmer, a civil engineer, constructing the Lancaster and Carlisle railway. He later moved to be a resident engineer on the Stockton \& Darlington Railway, and from 1849 was Engineer and Manager of the Edinburgh \& Northern Railway. In this last position he became aware of the great inconvenience caused to traffic by the broad estuaries of the Tay and the Forth on the eastern side of Scotland. The railway later became the Edinburgh, Perth \& Dundee, and was then absorbed into the North British in 1854 when Bouch produced his first plans for a bridge across the Tay at an estimated cost of £200,000. A bill was passed for the building of the bridge in 1870. Prior to this, Bouch had built many bridges up to the Redheugh Viaduct, at Newcastle upon Tyne, which had two spans of 240 ft (73 m) and two of 260 ft (79 m). He had also set up in business on his own. He is said to have designed nearly 300 miles (480 km) of railway in the north, as well as a "floating railway" of steam ferries to carry trains across the Forth and the Tay. The Tay bridge, however, was his favourite project; he had hawked it for some twenty years before getting the go-ahead, and the foundation stone of the bridge was laid on 22 July 1871. The total length of the bridge was nearly two miles (3.2 km), while the shore-to-shore distance over the river was just over one mile (1.6 km). It consisted of eighty-five spans, thirteen of which, i.e. "the high girders", were some 245 ft (75 m) long and 100 ft (30 m) above water level to allow for shipping access to Perth, and was a structure of lattice girders on brick and masonry piers topped with ironwork. The first crossing of the bridge was made on 26 September 1877, and the official opening was on 31 May 1878. On Sunday 28 December 1879, at about 7.20 pm, in a wind of probably 90 mph (145 km/h), the thirteen "high girders" were blown into the river below, drowning the seventy-five passengers and crew aboard the 5.20 train from Burntisland. A Court of Enquiry was held and revealed design faults in that the effect of wind pressure had not been adequately taken into account, faults in manufacture in the plugging of flaws in the castings, and inadequate inspection and maintenance; all of these faults were attributed to Bouch, who had been knighted for the building of the bridge. He died at his house in Moffat four months after the enquiry.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted. Cross of St George.
    Further Reading
    John Prebble, 1956, The High Girders.
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  • 36 Butler, Edward

    [br]
    b. 1863
    d. 1940
    [br]
    English motoring pioneer, designer of a motor tricycle.
    [br]
    In 1884 Butler patented a design for a motor tricycle that was shown that year at the Stanley Cycle Show and in the following year at the Inventions Exhibition. In 1887 he patented his "Petrol-tricycle", which was built the following year. The cycle was steered through its two front wheels, while it was driven through its single rear wheel. The motor, which was directly connected to the rear wheel hub by means of overhung cranks, consisted of a pair of water-cooled 2 1/4 in. (57 mm) bore cylinders with an 8 in. (203 mm) stroke working on the Clerk two-stroke cycle. Ignition was by electric spark produced by a wiper breaking contact with the piston, adopted from Butler's own design of electrostatic ignition machine; this was later replaced by a Ruhmkorff coil and a battery. There was insufficient power with direct drive and the low engine speed of c.100 rpm, producing a road speed of approximately 12 mph (19 km/h), so Butler redesigned the engine with a 6 3/4 in. (171 mm) stroke and a four-stroke cycle with an epicyclic reduction gear drive of 4:1 and later 6:1 ratio which could run at 600 rpm. The combination of restrictive speed-limit laws and shortsightedness of his backers prevented development, despite successful road demonstrations. Interest was non-existent by 1895, and the following year this first English internal combustion engined motorcycle was broken up for the scrap value of some 163 lb (74 kg) of copper and brass contained in its structure.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    C.F.Caunter, 1982, Motor Cycles, 3rd edn, London: HMSO/Science Museum.
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  • 37 Byron, Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace

    [br]
    b. 12 December 1815 Piccadilly Terrace, London, England
    d. 23 November 1852 East Horsley, Surrey, England
    [br]
    English mathematician, active in the early development of the calculating machine.
    [br]
    Educated by a number of governesses in a number of houses from Yorkshire to Ealing, she was the daughter of a hypochondriac mother and her absent, separated, husband, the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. As a child a mysterious and undiagnosed illness deprived her "of the use of her limbs" and she was "obliged to use crutches". The complaint was probably psychosomatic as it cleared up when she was 17 and was about to attend her first court ball. On 8 July 1835 she was married to William King, 1st Earl of Lovelace. She later bore two sons and a daughter. She was an avid student of science and in particular mathematics, in the course of which Charles Babbage encouraged her. In 1840 Babbage was invited to Turin to present a paper on his analytical engine. In the audience was a young Italian military engineer, L.F.Menabrea, who was later to become a general in Garibaldi's army. The paper was written in French and published in 1842 in the Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève. This text was translated into English and published with extensive annotations by the Countess of Lovelace, appearing in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs. The Countess thoroughly understood and appreciated Babbage's machine and the clarity of her description was so great that it is undoubtedly the best contemporary account of the engine: even Babbage recognized the Countess's description as superior to his own. Ada often visited Babbage in his workshop and listened to his explanations of the structure and use of his engines. She shared with her husband a love of horse-racing and, with Babbage, tried to develop a system for backing horses. Babbage and the Earl apparently stopped their efforts in time, but the Countess lost so heavily that she had to pawn all her family jewels. Her losses at the 1851 Derby alone amounted to £3,200, while borrow-ing a further £1,800 from her husband. This situation involved her in being blackmailed. She became an opium addict due to persistent pain from gastritis, intermittent anorexia and paroxys-mal tachycardia. Charles Babbage was always a great comfort to her, not only for their shared mathematical interests but also as a friend helping in all manner of small services such as taking her dead parrot to the taxidermist. She died after a protracted illness, thought to be cancer, at East Horsley Towers.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    D.Langley Moore, 1977, Ada, Countess of Lovelace: Byron's Legitimate Daughter, John Murray.
    P.Morrison and E.Morrison, 1961, Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engine, Dover Publications.

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  • 38 Fauvelle, Pierre-Pascal

    [br]
    b. 4 June 1797 Rethel, Ardennes, France
    d. 19 December 1867 Perpignan, France
    [br]
    French inventor of hydraulic boring.
    [br]
    While attending the drilling of artesian wells in southern France in 1833, Fauvelle noticed that the debris from the borehole was carried out by the ascending water. This observation caused him to conceive the idea that the boring process need not necessarily be interrupted in order to clear the hole with an auger. It took him eleven years to develop his idea and to find financial backing to carry out his project in practice. In 1844, within a period of fifty-four days, he secretly bored an artesian well 219 m (718 ft) deep in Perpignan. One year later he secured his invention with a patent in France, and with another the following year in Spain.
    Fauvelle's process involved water being forced by a pressure pump through hollow rods to the bottom of the drill, whence it ascended through the annular space between the rod and the wall of the borehole, thus flushing the mud up to the surface. This method was similar to that of Robert Beart who had secured a patent in Britain but had not put it into practice. Although Fauvelle was not primarily concerned with the rotating action of the drill, his hydraulic boring method and its subsequent developments by his stepson, Alphonse de Basterot, formed an important step towards modern rotary drilling, which began with the work of Anthony F. Lucas near Beaumont, Texas, at the turn of the twentieth century. In the 1870s Albert Fauck, who also contributed important developments to the structure of boring rigs, had combined Fauvelle's hydraulic system with core-boring in the United States.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1846, "Sur un nouveau système de forage", Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, pp. 438–40; also printed in 1847 in Le Technologiste 8, pp. 87–8.
    Further Reading
    A.Birembeaut, 1968, "Pierre-Pascal Fauvelle", Dictionnaire de biographie française, vol. 13, pp. 808–10; also in L'Indépendant, Perpignan, 5–10 February (biography).
    A.de Basterot, 1868, Puits artésiens, sondages de mines, sondages d'études, système
    Fauvelle et de Basterot, Brussels (a detailed description of Fauvelle's methods and de Basterot's developments).
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  • 39 Garnier, Tony

    [br]
    b. 13 August 1869 Lyon, France
    d. 19 January 1948 Bedoule, France
    [br]
    French architect and urban planner, a pioneer of the concept of segregation of pedestrian and wheeled traffic and of the use of concrete in building construction.
    [br]
    Garnier spent almost all his life in Lyon, apart from the years that he passed in Rome as a result of winning the Prix de Rome in 1889. While there, he evolved his concept of the cité industrielle, plans of which he exhibited and published early in the twentieth century. This was an idealized town, powered electrically, with its industrial areas separated from leisure ones. Garnier envisaged flat-roofed buildings supported on pilotis, with glass cladding, a steel structure, and extensive use of concrete. He proposed that each family should occupy its own house in a garden-city concept. In 1905 Garnier became city architect to Lyon, where he was able to carry out some of his ideas of the cité industrielle. He used concrete widely in such schemes as the municipal stadium, the Abattoirs de la Mouche and various housing schemes.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Conseil Supérieur de l'Orde des Architectes. Honorary Degree Princeton University, USA.
    Bibliography
    1932, Une Cité industrielle, Paris: Vincent.
    Further Reading
    C.Pawlowski, 1967, Tony Garnier et les débuts de l'urbanisme functionnel en France, Paris: Centre de la Recherche d'Urbanisme.
    M.Rovigalti, 1985, Tony Garnier: Architettura per la città industriale, Rome: Officini Edizioni.
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  • 40 Smeaton, John

    [br]
    b. 8 June 1724 Austhorpe, near Leeds, Yorkshire, England
    d. 28 October 1792 Austhorpe, near Leeds, Yorkshire, England
    [br]
    English mechanical and civil engineer.
    [br]
    As a boy, Smeaton showed mechanical ability, making for himself a number of tools and models. This practical skill was backed by a sound education, probably at Leeds Grammar School. At the age of 16 he entered his father's office; he seemed set to follow his father's profession in the law. In 1742 he went to London to continue his legal studies, but he preferred instead, with his father's reluctant permission, to set up as a scientific instrument maker and dealer and opened a shop of his own in 1748. About this time he began attending meetings of the Royal Society and presented several papers on instruments and mechanical subjects, being elected a Fellow in 1753. His interests were turning towards engineering but were informed by scientific principles grounded in careful and accurate observation.
    In 1755 the second Eddystone lighthouse, on a reef some 14 miles (23 km) off the English coast at Plymouth, was destroyed by fire. The President of the Royal Society was consulted as to a suitable engineer to undertake the task of constructing a new one, and he unhesitatingly suggested Smeaton. Work began in 1756 and was completed in three years to produce the first great wave-swept stone lighthouse. It was constructed of Portland stone blocks, shaped and pegged both together and to the base rock, and bonded by hydraulic cement, scientifically developed by Smeaton. It withstood the storms of the English Channel for over a century, but by 1876 erosion of the rock had weakened the structure and a replacement had to be built. The upper portion of Smeaton's lighthouse was re-erected on a suitable base on Plymouth Hoe, leaving the original base portion on the reef as a memorial to the engineer.
    The Eddystone lighthouse made Smeaton's reputation and from then on he was constantly in demand as a consultant in all kinds of engineering projects. He carried out a number himself, notably the 38 mile (61 km) long Forth and Clyde canal with thirty-nine locks, begun in 1768 but for financial reasons not completed until 1790. In 1774 he took charge of the Ramsgate Harbour works.
    On the mechanical side, Smeaton undertook a systematic study of water-and windmills, to determine the design and construction to achieve the greatest power output. This work issued forth as the paper "An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills" and exerted a considerable influence on mill design during the early part of the Industrial Revolution. Between 1753 and 1790 Smeaton constructed no fewer than forty-four mills.
    Meanwhile, in 1756 he had returned to Austhorpe, which continued to be his home base for the rest of his life. In 1767, as a result of the disappointing performance of an engine he had been involved with at New River Head, Islington, London, Smeaton began his important study of the steam-engine. Smeaton was the first to apply scientific principles to the steam-engine and achieved the most notable improvements in its efficiency since its invention by Newcomen, until its radical overhaul by James Watt. To compare the performance of engines quantitatively, he introduced the concept of "duty", i.e. the weight of water that could be raised 1 ft (30 cm) while burning one bushel (84 lb or 38 kg) of coal. The first engine to embody his improvements was erected at Long Benton colliery in Northumberland in 1772, with a duty of 9.45 million pounds, compared to the best figure obtained previously of 7.44 million pounds. One source of heat loss he attributed to inaccurate boring of the cylinder, which he was able to improve through his close association with Carron Ironworks near Falkirk, Scotland.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1753.
    Bibliography
    1759, "An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
    Towards the end of his life, Smeaton intended to write accounts of his many works but only completed A Narrative of the Eddystone Lighthouse, 1791, London.
    Further Reading
    S.Smiles, 1874, Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie, London. A.W.Skempton, (ed.), 1981, John Smeaton FRS, London: Thomas Telford. L.T.C.Rolt and J.S.Allen, 1977, The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen, 2nd edn, Hartington: Moorland Publishing, esp. pp. 108–18 (gives a good description of his work on the steam-engine).
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