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  • 101 falto de éxito

    • unsuccessful
    • without success

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > falto de éxito

  • 102 epäonnistuneesti

    • unsuccessfully
    • without success

    Suomi-Englanti sanakirja > epäonnistuneesti

  • 103 безуспешно

    1. кратк. форма от безуспешный
    2.
    unsuccessfully, without success; to no effect
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    кратк. форма от безуспешный

    Новый русско-английский словарь > безуспешно

  • 104 albeit

    [ɔːl'biːɪt]
    conj заст.
    хоч; проте́; одна́к, але́

    he tried, albeit without success — він намага́вся, проте́ безуспі́шно

    English-Ukrainian transcription dictionary > albeit

  • 105 deal

    I [diːl] n
    1) количество, некоторое количество

    A great deal of her money goes to rent. — Значительная часть ее денег идет на оплату квартиры.

    There is a good deal of sense (of truth) in it. — В этом есть большая доля смысла (правды/истины).

    The speaker has a good deal of poise. — Оратор хорошо держится.

    - good deal better
    - good deal of time
    - great deal of food
    - great deal of money
    - read a great deal
    - know a good deal
    - make a great deal of damage
    - see a great deal of each other
    - make a good deal of fuss about it
    - put smb to give smb a great deal of trouble
    - it costs a good deal
    - this is saying a good deal
    - it means a great deal
    2) сделка, соглашение

    He was given a fair deal. — С ним честно поступили. /С ним вели честную игру.

    He got a raw deal from the manager. — Управляющий был к нему несправедлив.

    He lost all his money in a single deal. — На одной единственой сделке он потерял все свое состояние.

    - fair deal
    - business deal
    - government-to-government deal
    - barter deal
    - grain deals
    - package deal
    - shady deal
    - new deal in education
    - give smb a raw deal
    - urge a new deal for women
    - ask for a new deal
    - lose a lot of money in one deal
    - do a deal with smb
    - make a deal with smb
    - make a deal for grain
    - call off a deal
    - often big deal
    - deal is off
    3) раздача (карт), сдача (карт в карточной игре), кон

    I lost heavily in the last deal. — На последней раздаче я крупно проиграл.

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    USAGE:
    Deal 1. образует обороты a good deal, a great deal, количественно определяющие неисчисляемые существительные и глаголы. Вне этих оборотов существительное deal в значении количества не употребляется: there was a good deal of scandal in connection with this name по поводу этого имени были большие скандалы; he laughed a good deal that evening в тот вечер он много смеялся
    II [diːl] v
    1) торговать, заниматься торговлей, вести дела (с кем-либо)

    This shop deals in woollen goods. — Этот магазин торгует суконными изделиями.

    We deal with many customers. — Мы работаем с большим количеством заказчиков.

    - deal in smth
    - deal in steel
    2) иметь дело (с кем-либо, чем-либо)

    I don't want you to deal with such people. — Я не хочу, чтобы ты общался с такими людьми.

    He is an easy pwrson to deal with. He is an easy person to deal with. — С ним легко договориться.

    - deal with smb, smth
    - he is a pleasant person to deal with
    3) касаться, рассматривать
    - book deals with a number of questions
    - book deal with war
    - history deals with facts
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    WAYS OF DOING THINGS:
    Глагол to deal with c общим значением "справляться с чем-либо трудным, делать что-либо, чтобы разрешить трудную проблему или найти выход из трудного положения" может быть передан также глаголами to handle, to grapple with, to tackle.
    Глагол to handle - "справляться с положением вещей эффективно и квалифицированно": she could handle anything that went wrong with her car она умела справляться со всякой неполадкой в своей машине; don't worry, I can easily handle it не волнуйся, я легко с этим справлюсь; there will be some problems but nothing that you can handle возник ряд затруднений, но тебе с ними не справиться.
    Глагол to tackle - "совершить решительную попытку разрешить трудную проблему или ситуацию": that's the problem, how can we tackle it? в этом-то и вопрос, как мы это можем решить?; talk to someone who's been throught all this, see how they tackled it поговори с кем-либо, кто через это прошел и посмотри, как они выходили из этого положения.
    Глагол to grapple with - "пытаться найти выход из трудного положения в течение длительного времени": we've been grappling with this problem for months, but without success мы бьемся над этой проблемой уже несколько месяцев, но все безуспешно; we have grappled with a number of moral issues мы искали выход из ряда проблем морального характера

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > deal

  • 106 neuspješno

    adv unsuccessfully, without success

    Hrvatski-Engleski rječnik > neuspješno

  • 107 не помнить себя

    разг.
    do smth. with complete abandon; be beside oneself with anxiety (terror, etc.); not realize what one is doing

    Страшная догадка блеснула у меня в уме. Я бросился к конторщику и, не помня себя от волнения, крепко вцепился рукой в его плечо. (А. Куприн, Олеся) — A terrible conviction flashed upon me. I rushed to the clerk and clutched at his shoulder, beside myself with anxiety.

    Людвига ожидала всего, только не возвращения мужа. Несколько мгновений она пыталась овладеть голосом, но безуспешно. Не помня себя, она выбежала из комнаты. (Н. Островский, Рождённые бурей) — The homecoming of her husband was the last thing in the world Ludwiga had been expecting. For several instants she tried to summon up her voice, without success. Then, stunned, not realizing what she was doing, she rushed from the room.

    Танк, на котором находился Толокно, шёл теперь на всей ярости своего мотора и гремел вперёд пушечным огнём, и бойцы, бывшие на машине, кричали, не помня и не слыша себя, воодушевлённые мощью боя. (А. Платонов, В сторону заката солнца) — Tolokno's tank was now forging ahead, its engine straining at full fury, spurting thunderous bursts from its mighty barrel, and the men perched on its body roared wildly, with complete abandon, animated by the powerful spirit of battle.

    Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > не помнить себя

  • 108 Cotton Grass

    The downy bristles, or so-called fibres of the grass-like sedge - Eriophorum latifolium - which grows on the bogs and marshes of the hilly districts of England. Attempts have been made to use the fibres, which are not spirally twisted, for spinning of yarns, but without success. Examples of cloth made from the fibre are to be seen in Kew Gardens.

    Dictionary of the English textile terms > Cotton Grass

  • 109 ἀποτευκτικός

    A causing failure or miscarriage,

    τινός Hippod.

     ap. Stob.4.39.26; liable to failure, Phld.Rh.1.72 S., Arr.Epict.3.6.6, 3.26.14, Ptol.Tetr. 161. Adv.

    - κῶς

     without success,

    Arr.Epict.4.10.6

    .

    Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > ἀποτευκτικός

  • 110 справляться

    I
    гл.
    Русский глагол справляться указывает на какие-либо трудности в преодолении преимущественно отрицательных явлений. Английские соответствия кроме этого общего значения также указывают па характер действия, характер достигнутого им желаемого результата, на сопутствующие обстоятельства и т. п., при этом сами обстоятельства не обязательно имеют отрицательный характер.
    1. to deal (with) — пытаться справиться с чем-либо затруднительным (контролировать ситуацию и правильно действовать для ожителыюго решения проблемы): The government should find way to deal with growing unemployment. — Правительство должно найти пути, чтобы справиться с растущей безвинней./Правительство должно найти пути, чтобы решить проблему растушей безработицы. The situation is so complicated that I really do not know how to deal with it. — Ситуация так сложна, что я даже не знаю, как к ней подступиться. Now that Tom is back home I have no problems with my children, he knows how to deal with naughty spoilt children. — Теперь, когда Том опять дома, у меня нет проблем с детьми. Он знает, как справиться с избалованными и капризными детьми. The problem may be best dealt with by ignoring it. — Возможно, наш лучший способ справиться с этой проблемой — просто игнорировать ее. We don't know how the company is going to deal with the situation. — Нам неизвестно, как компания собирается действовать в создавшихся условиях. My main duty was to deal with the complaints of the customers. — Moeй главной обязанностью было решать вопросы, связанные с жалобами клиентов. Do you think you can deal with all the mail by lunchtime? — Как ты думаешь, ты до ленча справишься со всей этой почтой? I am not sure how we should deal with it. — Я неуверен, как мы должны действовать в данном случае.
    2. to manage — справляться с чем-либо, управляться с чем-либо, управлять (суметь сделать что-либо, справиться с чем-либо очень трудным, особенно после многократных попыток; правильно действовать для достижения положительного результата, направлять действия других для получения лучшего результата): to manage to do smth — суметь что-либо сделать/справиться с чем-либо; to manage smth — справиться с чем-либо Не can't manage the boat alone. — Он один с лодкой не справится. Не finally managed to find a new fiat. — Наконец он сумел найти новую квартиру. She managed to fight off her attacker and escaped down the street. — Она смогла отбросить нападавшего и убежала от него. I've only managed to finish the first three chapters so far. — Пока я справился только с первыми тремя главами. She did not think she could jump that far, but somehow she managed it. — Она не думала, что сможет сделать такой большой прыжок, но все-таки ей это удалось. They are attempting to swim across the English Channel, do you think they will manage it? — Как ты думаешь, они смогут переплыть Ла-Манш?/ Как ты думаешь, их попытка переплыть Ла-Манш увенчается успехом? My aunt managed so well after her husband died. — Моя тетя смогла стойко перенести смерть своего мужа./Моя тетя смогла оправиться после смерти своего мужа. Couldn't you have managed to say something nice about the meal? — Неужели ты не мог сказать хоть что-нибудь приятное о трапезе?/Неужели ты не мог сказать что-нибудь хорошее о еде? I don't know how he manages on what he earns. — Непонятно, как он ухитряется прожить на то малое, что получает./Непонятно, как ему удается прожить на то малое, что он зарабатывает.
    3. to succeed — преуспевать, удаваться, справляться ( успешно сделать что-либо желательное): to succeed in doing smth — добиться чего-либо/успешно сделать что-либо We at last succeeded in making contact with our neighbours. — Нам наконец удалось установить контакт с нашими соседями. He succeeded as a playwright/in business. — Он преуспел как драматург./Он преуспел в делах./Он сделал хорошую карьеру. If you try hard enough, I'm sure you will succeed. — Если ты очень попираешься, я уверен, ты добьешься успеха.
    4. to cope (with) — разрешить что-либо трудное, завершить что-либо трудное: I told her I could not cope with it, I was not well enough. — Я сказал ей, что мне с этим не справиться, так как я был нездоров. She is very inexperienced, but I'm sure she can cope. — Она очень неопытна, но я уверен, что она справится. We must think of a new way of coping with the situation. — Нам надо найти другой выход, чтобы справиться с создавшимся положением.
    5. to overcome — справляться, преодолевать (успешно разрешить или справиться с какой-либо трудной проблемой, предполагает устранение трудностей): I have always wanted to overcome my fear of spiders. — Мне всегда хотелось преодолеть свой страх перед пауками./Мне всегда хотелось справиться со своим страхом перед пауками. I his school overcame the problem of funding by getting a local firm to sponser them. — Эта школа смогла разрешить свои проблемы с финансированием, добившись того, что одна местная фирма стала их спонсировать.
    6. tо come/to get to grips with — справляться, Продумать, подойти вплотную ( к решению чего-либо), разобраться ( как поступать в очень трудных обстоятельствах): The present government hasn't failed to come to grips with the country's economics problem. — Сегодняшнее/нынешнее правительство смогло решить экономические проблемы страны. Teachers must be prepared to spend time getting to grips with, new technology. — Учителя должны быть готовы потратить много времени, чтобы овладеть новой технологией. No country has realty come to grips with the problem of nuclear waste utilization. — Ни одна страна в действительности не смогла решить проблемы утилизации ядерных отходов.
    7. tо have smth under control — справляться, успешно справляться ( с чем-либо), держать ситуацию под контролем ( успешно справиться с создавшимся в данный момент положением): The police have the situation under control. — Полиция держит ситуацию под контролем./Полиция справляется с создавшейся ситуацией. The flight was very bumpy but the pilot assured us that everything was under control. — Хотя самолет очень трясло, летчик уверил нас, что ситуация под контролем.
    8. to rise to the occasion — оказаться на высоте, справиться ( с неожиданной проблемой или неожиданно возникшей ситуацией): Steve, who was seldom surprised by anything, rose to the occasion at once — Стив, которого никогда ничто не удивляло, и на этот раз оказался на высоте./Стив, которого никогда ничто не удивляло, и на этот раз сразу сообразил, что делать. There was a moment's silence, when Stella rising to the occasion said. «Please, come in, gentlemen». — На минуту воцарилось молчание, но Стелла оказалась на высоте, сказав: «Пожалуйста, входите, господа».
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    гл.
    Русский глагол справляться относится к умению обращаться с материальными объектами, одушевленными предметами и объектами умственной деятельности. В английском языке такое общее значение передается глаголом to deal, остальные эквиваленты, сохраняя это общее значение, уточняют объекты, на которые направлены усилия.
    1. to deal with — справляться ( с чем-либо), пытаться справить ся ( с чем-либо) (справляться с чем-либо трудным, делать что-либо, что бы найти выход из трудного положения или решить трудную проблему): Не is the only person who can deal with this matter. — Он единственным человек, который может справиться с этим делом. The manager will deal with this question. — Этот вопрос рассмотрит и решит управляющий. She is good at dealing with children. — Она умеет справляться с детьми «I'll deal with him» he threatened. — Он пригрозил: «Я им займусь!»
    2. to handle — обращаться с чем-либо, справляться (с кем либо, с чем-либо) ( справляться с положением вещей эффективно и квалифицированио): She could handle anything that went wrong with her car. — Она умела справляться со всякими неполадками в своей машине. Don't worry. I can easily handle it. — He волнуйся, я легко с этим справлюсь. There will be some problems but nothing that you cannot handle. — Возникнет ряд затруднений, но ничего такого, с чем бы ты не справился
    3. to tackle — справляться, справиться (предпринять решительную попытку разрешить трудную проблему или ситуацию, обычно социально значимую): That's the problem, how can we tackle it? — В этом-то и вопрос, как мы это можем решить? Talk to someone who's been through all this, see how they tackled it. — Поговори с кем-нибудь, кто через это прошел, и посмотри, как они в этом случае поступали./Поговори с кем-нибудь, кто через это прошел, посмотри, как они с этим справились./ Поговори с кем-нибудь, кто через это прошел, и посмотри, что они сделали. Successive governments have failed to tackle the question of homelessness. — Все последующие правительства не смогли справиться с проблемой бездомности. The ministry came out with a new initiative to tackle the shortage of teachers. — Министерство выступило с новой инициативой решения проблемы нехватки учителей. They are too powerful for you to tackle on your own. — Они слишком влиятельны, чтобы вы могли справиться с ними в одиночку.
    4. to grapple with — справляться, справиться, пытаться справиться, пытаться решить, биться над чем-либо: to grapple with a problem — биться над проблемой The government continues to grapple with the issue of public transport. — Правительство пытается найти решение проблемы общественного траспорта. We've been grappling with this problem for months, but without success. — Мы бьемся над этой проблемой уже несколько месяцев, но все безуспешно/безрезультатно. We have grappled with a number of moral issues. — Мы искали выход из ряда проблем морального характера.

    Русско-английский объяснительный словарь > справляться

  • 111 Argand, François-Pierre Amis

    [br]
    b. 5 July 1750 Geneva, Switzerland
    d. October 1803 London, England
    [br]
    Swiss inventor of the Argand lamp.
    [br]
    Son of a clockmaker, he studied physics and chemistry under H.-D. de Saussure (1740– 99). In 1775 he moved to Paris, where he taught chemistry and presented a paper on electrical phenomena to the Académie Royale des Sciences. He assisted the Montgolfier brothers in their Paris balloon ascents.
    From 1780 Argand spent some time in Montpellier, where he conceived the idea of the lamp that was to make him famous. It was an oil lamp with gravity oil feed, in which the flame was enlarged by burning it in a current of air induced by two concentric iron tubes. It produced ten times the illumination of the simple oil lamp. From the autumn of 1783 to summer 1785, Argand travelled to London and Birmingham to promote the manufacture and sale of his lamp. Upon his return to Paris, he found that his design had been plagiarized; with others, Argand sought to establish his priority, and Paul Abeille published a tract, Déscouverte des lampes à courant d'air et à cylindre (1785). As a result, the Académie granted Argand a licence to manufacture the lamp. However, during the Revolution, Argand's factories were destroyed and his licence annulled. He withdrew to Versoix, near Geneva. In 1793, the English persuaded him to take refuge in England and tried, apparently without success, to obtain recompense for his losses.
    Argand is also remembered for his work on distillation and on the water distributor or hydraulic ram, which was conceived with Joseph Montgolfier in 1797 and recognized by the grant of a patent in the same year.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    M.Schroder, 1969, The Armand Burner: Its Origin and Development in France and England, 1781–1800, Odense University Press.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Argand, François-Pierre Amis

  • 112 Bettini, Gianni

    SUBJECT AREA: Recording
    [br]
    b. 1860 Novara, Italy
    d. 27 February 1938 San Remo, Italy
    [br]
    Italian developer of equipment for recording, duplicating and reproducing phonograph cylinders.
    [br]
    He was a nobleman and an Italian cavalry lieutenant and went to the USA, where he married Daisy Abbott (of Stamford, Connecticut). From 1888 he made amateur recordings of a wide circle of artistic acquaintances and improved the recording diaphragm attachment by the development of a "spider" (a mechanical link that attacks the diaphragm in several points on its surface, rather than in the centre only). From 1892, through the Bettini Phonograph Laboratories, he published recordings of operatic artists and selections, and this led to the development of improved duplicating techniques by the so-called pantographic method. In 1901 he sold his US company and moved to Paris, although he continued to publish both cylinders and discs. In 1908 Bettini made a venture into cinematography, without success.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    US patent no. 409,003 (the "spider" device). US patent no. 488,381 (duplication).
    Further Reading
    O.Read and W.L.Welch, 1959, From Tin Foil to Stereo, Indianapolis: Howard W.Sams, pp. 69–78.
    GB-N

    Biographical history of technology > Bettini, Gianni

  • 113 Eisler, Paul

    [br]
    b. 1907 Vienna, Austria
    [br]
    Austrian engineer responsible for the invention of the printed circuit.
    [br]
    At the age of 23, Eisler obtained a Diploma in Engineering from the Technical University of Vienna. Because of the growing Nazi influence in Austria, he then accepted a post with the His Master's Voice (HMV) agents in Belgrade, where he worked on the problems of radio reception and sound transmission in railway trains. However, he soon returned to Vienna to found a weekly radio journal and file patents on graphical sound recording (for which he received a doctorate) and on a system of stereoscopic television based on lenticular vertical scanning.
    In 1936 he moved to England and sold the TV patent to Marconi for £250. Unable to find a job, he carried out experiments in his rooms in a Hampstead boarding-house; after making circuits using strip wires mounted on bakelite sheet, he filed his first printed-circuit patent that year. He then tried to find ways of printing the circuits, but without success. Obtaining a post with Odeon Theatres, he invented a sound-level control for films and devised a mirror-drum continuous-film projector, but with the outbreak of war in 1939, when the company was evacuated, he chose to stay in London and was interned for a while. Released in 1941, he began work with Henderson and Spalding, a firm of lithographic printers, to whom he unwittingly assigned all future patents for the paltry sum of £1. In due course he perfected a means of printing conducting circuits and on 3 February 1943 he filed three patents covering the process. The British Ministry of Defence rejected the idea, considering it of no use for military equipment, but after he had demonstrated the technique to American visitors it was enthusiastically taken up in the US for making proximity fuses, of which many millions were produced and used for the war effort. Subsequently the US Government ruled that all air-borne electronic circuits should be printed.
    In the late 1940s the Instrument Department of Henderson and Spalding was split off as Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd, with Eisler as Technical Director. In 1949 he filed a further patent covering a multilayer system; this was licensed to Pye and the Telegraph Condenser Company. A further refinement, patented in the 1950s, the use of the technique for telephone exchange equipment, but this was subsequently widely infringed and although he negotiated licences in the USA he found it difficult to license his ideas in Europe. In the UK he obtained finance from the National Research and Development Corporation, but they interfered and refused money for further development, and he eventually resigned from Technograph. Faced with litigation in the USA and open infringement in the UK, he found it difficult to establish his claims, but their validity was finally agreed by the Court of Appeal (1969) and the House of Lords (1971).
    As a freelance inventor he filed many other printed-circuit patents, including foil heating films and batteries. When his Patent Agents proved unwilling to fund the cost of filing and prosecuting Complete Specifications he set up his own company, Eisler Consultants Ltd, to promote food and space heating, including the use of heated cans and wallpaper! As Foil Heating Ltd he went into the production of heating films, the process subsequently being licensed to Thermal Technology Inc. in California.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1953, "Printed circuits: some general principles and applications of the foil technique", Journal of the British Institution of Radio Engineers 13: 523.
    1959, The Technology of Printed Circuits: The Foil Technique in Electronic Production.
    1984–5, "Reflections of my life as an inventor", Circuit World 11:1–3 (a personal account of the development of the printed circuit).
    1989, My Life with the Printed Circuit, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Lehigh University Press.
    KF

    Biographical history of technology > Eisler, Paul

  • 114 Goodyear, Charles

    [br]
    b. 29 December 1800 New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    d. 1 July 1860 New York, USA
    [br]
    American inventor of the vulcanization of rubber.
    [br]
    Goodyear entered his father's country hardware business before setting up his own concern in Philadelphia. While visiting New York, he noticed in the window of the Roxburgh India Rubber Company a rubber life-preserver. Goodyear offered to improve its inflating valve, but the manager, impressed with Goodyear's inventiveness, persuaded him to tackle a more urgent problem, that of seeking a means of preventing rubber from becoming tacky and from melting or decomposing when heated. Goodyear tried treatments with one substance after another, without success. In 1838 he started using Nathaniel M.Hayward's process of spreading sulphur on rubber. He accidentally dropped a mass of rubber and sulphur on to a hot stove and noted that the mixture did not melt: Goodyear had discovered the vulcanization of rubber. More experiments were needed to establish the correct proportions for a uniform mix, and eventually he was granted his celebrated patent no. 3633 of 15 June 1844. Goodyear's researches had been conducted against a background of crippling financial difficulties and he was forced to dispose of licences to vulcanize rubber at less than their real value, in order to pay off his most pressing debts.
    Goodyear travelled to Europe in 1851 to extend his patents. To promote his process, he designed a spectacular exhibit for London, consisting of furniture, floor covering, jewellery and other items made of rubber. A similar exhibit in Paris in 1855 won him the Grande Médaille d'honneur and the Croix de la Légion d'honneur from Napoleon III. Patents were granted to him in all countries except England. The improved properties of vulcanized rubber and its stability over a much wider range of temperatures greatly increased its applications; output rose from a meagre 31.5 tonnes a year in 1827 to over 28,000 tonnes by 1900. Even so, Goodyear profited little from his invention, and he bequeathed to his family debts amounting to over $200,000.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Grande Médaille d'honneur 1855. Croix de la Légion d'honneur 1855.
    Bibliography
    15 June 1844, US patent no. 3633 (vulcanization of rubber).
    1853, Gum Elastic and Its Varieties (includes some biographical material).
    Further Reading
    B.K.Pierce, 1866, Trials of an Inventor: Life and Discoveries of Charles Goodyear.
    H.Allen, 1989, Charles Goodyear: An Intimate Biographical Sketch, Akron, Ohio: Goodyear Tire \& Rubber Company.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Goodyear, Charles

  • 115 Mole, Lancelot de

    SUBJECT AREA: Weapons and armour
    [br]
    b. 13 March 1880 Adelaide, Australia
    d. 6 May 1950 Sydney, Australia
    [br]
    Australian engineer and early tank designer.
    [br]
    De Mole's father was an architect and surveyor and he himself followed a similar avenue as a draughtsman working on mining, surveying and engineering projects in Australia. It was in 1911, while surveying in particularly rough terrain in Western Australia, that he first conceived the idea of the tank as a tracked, armoured vehicle capable of traversing the most difficult ground. He drew up detailed plans and submitted them to the War Office in London the following year, but although they were rejected, not all the plans were returned to him. When war broke out in 1914 he tried without success to interest the Australian authorities, even after he had constructed a model at their request. A further blow came in 1916, when the first tanks, built by the British, appeared on the battlefields of France and looked remarkably similar in design to his own. Believing that he could play a significant role in further tank development, but lacking the funds to travel to Britain, de Mole eventually succeeded, after an initial rejection by a medical board, in enlisting in the Australian Army, which got him to England at the beginning of 1918. He immediately took his model to the British Inventions Committee, who were sufficiently impressed to pass it to the Tank Board, who promptly mislaid it for six weeks. Meanwhile, in March 1918, Private de Mole was ordered to France and was unable to take matters further. On his return to England in early 1919 he made a formal claim for a reward for his invention, but this was turned down on the grounds that no direct link could be established between his design and the first tanks that were built. Even so, the Inventions Committee did authorize a sum of money to cover his expenses, and in 1920 de Mole was a made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
    Returning to Australia, de Mole worked as an engineer in the design branch of the Sydney Water Board. He continued to invent, but none of his designs, which covered a wide range of items, were ever taken up.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    CBE 1920.
    Further Reading
    Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1918, Vol. 8.
    A.J.Smithers, 1986, A New Excalibur: The Development of the Tank 1909–1939, London: Leo Cooper (for illustrations of the model of his tank).
    Mention of his invention is made in a number of books on the history of the tank.
    CM

    Biographical history of technology > Mole, Lancelot de

  • 116 Trevithick, Richard

    [br]
    b. 13 April 1771 Illogan, Cornwall, England
    d. 22 April 1833 Dartford, Kent, England
    [br]
    English engineer, pioneer of non-condensing steam-engines; designed and built the first locomotives.
    [br]
    Trevithick's father was a tin-mine manager, and Trevithick himself, after limited formal education, developed his immense engineering talent among local mining machinery and steam-engines and found employment as a mining engineer. Tall, strong and high-spirited, he was the eternal optimist.
    About 1797 it occurred to him that the separate condenser patent of James Watt could be avoided by employing "strong steam", that is steam at pressures substantially greater than atmospheric, to drive steam-engines: after use, steam could be exhausted to the atmosphere and the condenser eliminated. His first winding engine on this principle came into use in 1799, and subsequently such engines were widely used. To produce high-pressure steam, a stronger boiler was needed than the boilers then in use, in which the pressure vessel was mounted upon masonry above the fire: Trevithick designed the cylindrical boiler, with furnace tube within, from which the Cornish and later the Lancashire boilers evolved.
    Simultaneously he realized that high-pressure steam enabled a compact steam-engine/boiler unit to be built: typically, the Trevithick engine comprised a cylindrical boiler with return firetube, and a cylinder recessed into the boiler. No beam intervened between connecting rod and crank. A master patent was taken out.
    Such an engine was well suited to driving vehicles. Trevithick built his first steam-carriage in 1801, but after a few days' use it overturned on a rough Cornish road and was damaged beyond repair by fire. Nevertheless, it had been the first self-propelled vehicle successfully to carry passengers. His second steam-carriage was driven about the streets of London in 1803, even more successfully; however, it aroused no commercial interest. Meanwhile the Coalbrookdale Company had started to build a locomotive incorporating a Trevithick engine for its tramroads, though little is known of the outcome; however, Samuel Homfray's ironworks at Penydarren, South Wales, was already building engines to Trevithick's design, and in 1804 Trevithick built one there as a locomotive for the Penydarren Tramroad. In this, and in the London steam-carriage, exhaust steam was turned up the chimney to draw the fire. On 21 February the locomotive hauled five wagons with 10 tons of iron and seventy men for 9 miles (14 km): it was the first successful railway locomotive.
    Again, there was no commercial interest, although Trevithick now had nearly fifty stationary engines completed or being built to his design under licence. He experimented with one to power a barge on the Severn and used one to power a dredger on the Thames. He became Engineer to a project to drive a tunnel beneath the Thames at Rotherhithe and was only narrowly defeated, by quicksands. Trevithick then set up, in 1808, a circular tramroad track in London and upon it demonstrated to the admission-fee-paying public the locomotive Catch me who can, built to his design by John Hazledine and J.U. Rastrick.
    In 1809, by which date Trevithick had sold all his interest in the steam-engine patent, he and Robert Dickinson, in partnership, obtained a patent for iron tanks to hold liquid cargo in ships, replacing the wooden casks then used, and started to manufacture them. In 1810, however, he was taken seriously ill with typhus for six months and had to return to Cornwall, and early in 1811 the partners were bankrupt; Trevithick was discharged from bankruptcy only in 1814.
    In the meantime he continued as a steam engineer and produced a single-acting steam engine in which the cut-off could be varied to work the engine expansively by way of a three-way cock actuated by a cam. Then, in 1813, Trevithick was approached by a representative of a company set up to drain the rich but flooded silver-mines at Cerro de Pasco, Peru, at an altitude of 14,000 ft (4,300 m). Low-pressure steam engines, dependent largely upon atmospheric pressure, would not work at such an altitude, but Trevithick's high-pressure engines would. Nine engines and much other mining plant were built by Hazledine and Rastrick and despatched to Peru in 1814, and Trevithick himself followed two years later. However, the war of independence was taking place in Peru, then a Spanish colony, and no sooner had Trevithick, after immense difficulties, put everything in order at the mines then rebels arrived and broke up the machinery, for they saw the mines as a source of supply for the Spanish forces. It was only after innumerable further adventures, during which he encountered and was assisted financially by Robert Stephenson, that Trevithick eventually arrived home in Cornwall in 1827, penniless.
    He petitioned Parliament for a grant in recognition of his improvements to steam-engines and boilers, without success. He was as inventive as ever though: he proposed a hydraulic power transmission system; he was consulted over steam engines for land drainage in Holland; and he suggested a 1,000 ft (305 m) high tower of gilded cast iron to commemorate the Reform Act of 1832. While working on steam propulsion of ships in 1833, he caught pneumonia, from which he died.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Trevithick took out fourteen patents, solely or in partnership, of which the most important are: 1802, Construction of Steam Engines, British patent no. 2,599. 1808, Stowing Ships' Cargoes, British patent no. 3,172.
    Further Reading
    H.W.Dickinson and A.Titley, 1934, Richard Trevithick. The Engineer and the Man, Cambridge; F.Trevithick, 1872, Life of Richard Trevithick, London (these two are the principal biographies).
    E.A.Forward, 1952, "Links in the history of the locomotive", The Engineer (22 February), 226 (considers the case for the Coalbrookdale locomotive of 1802).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Trevithick, Richard

  • 117 Winsor, Frederick Albert

    SUBJECT AREA: Public utilities
    [br]
    b. 1763 Brunswick, Germany
    d. 11 May 1830 Paris, France
    [br]
    German pioneer of gas lighting,
    [br]
    He was born Frederic Albrecht Winzer but anglicized his name after settling in England. His interest in gas lighting was aroused by the experiments of Philippe Lebon in Paris in 1802. Winsor had little scientific knowledge or engineering ability, but was well endowed with confidence and enterprise. He alone among the early practitioners of gas-making envisaged a central plant supplying a number of users through gas mains. He managed to discover the essentials of Lebon's process and tried without success to exploit it on the European continent. So he moved to England in 1803 and settled first in Grosvenor Square and then in Pall Mall. He gave public demonstrations of gas lighting at the Lyceum Theatre in London and in 1804 took out his first patent. In December he lit Pall Mall, the first street to be illuminated by gas. Winsor then began to promote a grandiose scheme for the formation of a National Light and Heat Company. He struggled against bitter opposition both in and out of Parliament to obtain sanction for his company, and it was only after the third attempt that the Gas Light \& Coke Company received its charter in 1812. However, Winsor lacked the knowledge to devise successful gas-producing plant, even with the help of the German immigrant chemist F.C.Accum. Winsor was dismissed in 1812 and returned to Paris the following year, while the company recovered with the appointment of an able engineer, Samuel Clegg. Winsor formed a company in Paris to install gas lighting, but that failed in 1819.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    W.Matthew, 1827, An Historical Sketch of the Origin, Progress and Present State of Gaslighting, London.
    E.G.Stewart, 1958, Town Gas, Its Manufacture and Distribution, London: Science Museum.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Winsor, Frederick Albert

  • 118 as a last resort

       1) кaк пocлeднee cpeдcтвo, в кpaйнeм cлучae, в пocлeднюю oчepeдь [этим. фр.]
        I thumped the machine without success and as a last resort put in a foreign coin. Out came the stamps (Woman's Own). I shall seek his advice, but it will be in the last resort
       2) в кoнцe кoнцoв, в кoнeчнoм cчётe, итoгe
        What follows may only apply to myself. If it does, I am sorry, but it cannot be helped: in the last resort, a man can do no more than translate his own experience into words (/ B. Priestley)

    Concise English-Russian phrasebook > as a last resort

  • 119 essay

    kb. 1 karangan, esei (sastra). 2 Acad.: skripsi. -kkt. mencoba, berusaha. We essayed a crossing of the river without success Kami mencoba menyebrangi sungai itu tanpa hasil.

    English-Malay dictionary > essay

  • 120 عبثا

    عَبَثًا \ in vain: without success: He tried in vain to save her life. His efforts were in vain.

    Arabic-English dictionary > عبثا

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