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inv, pred1) ( across) hinüber;come \over here komm hierher;let's go \over there where the children are komm, gehen hinüber zu den Kindern;she brought some flowers \over to her neighbour sie brachte ein paar Blumen hinüber zu ihrer Nachbarin/ihrem Nachbarn;why don't you come \over for dinner on Thursday? kommt doch am Donnerstag zum Abendessen zu uns;to go \over to the enemy zum Feind überlaufen;( towards speaker) herüber;\over here hier herüber;they walked \over to us sie liefen zu uns herüber;he is flying \over from the States tomorrow er kommt morgen aus den Staaten 'rüber ( fam)she is coming \over from England for the wedding sie kommt aus England herüber für die Hochzeit;( on the other side) drüben;I've got a friend \over in Munich ein Freund von mir lebt in München;\over there dort drüben;to move [sth] \over [etw] [beiseite] rücken2) ( another way up)the dog rolled \over onto its back der Hund rollte sich auf den Rücken;to turn \over umdrehen;to turn a page \over [eine Seite] umblättern;\over and \over [immer wieder] um sich akk selbst;the children rolled \over and \over down the gentle slope die Kinder kugelten den leichten Abhang hinunter3) ( downwards)to fall \over hinfallen;to knock sth \over etw umstoßen4) ( changing hands)could you two change \over, please würdet ihr beiden bitte die Plätze tauschen;pass it \over here when you've finished reiche es [mir] herüber, wenn du fertig bist;to hand \over prisoners of war Kriegsgefangene übergeben;to swap sth \over ( Brit) etw umtauschen5) ( finished)to be \over vorbei [o aus] sein;the game was \over by 5 o'clock das Spiel war um 5 Uhr zu Ende;it's all \over between us zwischen uns ist es aus;that's all \over now das ist jetzt vorbei, damit ist es jetzt aus;to be all \over bar the shouting so gut wie gelaufen sein ( fam)to get sth \over with etw abschließen;to get sth \over and done with etw hinter sich akk bringen6) ( remaining) übrig;left \over übrig gelassen;there were a few sandwiches left \over ein paar Sandwiches waren noch übrig7) (thoroughly, in detail)to talk sth \over etw durchsprechen;to think sth \over etw überdenkenall \over alles noch einmal;I'll make you write it all \over ich lasse dich alles noch einmal schreiben;\over and \over immer [o wieder und] wieder9) ( to another speaker)and now it's \over to John Regis for his report wir geben jetzt weiter an John Regis und seinen Bericht;now we're going \over to Wembley for commentary zum Kommentar schalten wir jetzt hinüber nach Wembley\over and out Ende [der Durchsage] ( fam)this shirt cost me \over £50! dieses Hemd hat mich über £50 gekostet!;don't fill the water \over the line das Wasser nicht über die Linie auffüllen;people who are 65 and \over Menschen, die 65 Jahre oder älter sindPHRASES:to give \over die Klappe halten (sl)to hold sth \over etw verschieben prepthe bridge \over the motorway die Brücke über der Autobahn;she put a new tablecloth \over the table sie breitete eine neue Tischdecke über den Tisch;he spilled wine \over his shirt er goss sich Wein über sein Hemd;she leaned \over the table to get the bottle sie lehnte über den Tisch um die Flasche zu greifen;drive \over the bridge and then turn left fahren sie über die Brücke und dann links abbiegen;from the top of the tower you could see for miles \over the city von dem Aussichtsturm konnte man über Meilen über die Stadt sehen;I looked \over my shoulder ich schaute über meine Schulter;he looked \over his newspaper er guckte über die Zeitungonce we were \over the bridge als wir über die Brücke hinüber waren;the village is just \over the next hill das Dorf liegt hinter dem nächsten Hügel;the diagram is \over the page das Diagramm ist auf der nächsten Seite;they live just \over the road from us sie wohnen auf der anderen Straßenseite von unshe sat there, bent \over his books er saß da, über seine Bücher gebeugt;we're lucky to have a roof \over our heads wir haben Glück, dass wir ein Dach überm Kopf haben;his jacket was hanging \over the back of his chair seine Jacke hing über seine Rückenlehne;( moving above) über +akk;a flock of geese passed \over eine Schar von Gänsen flog über uns hinweg;to jump \over sth über etw akk springenall \over überall in +dat;all \over Britain überall in Großbritannien;all \over the world in der ganzen Welt;we travelled all \over the country wir sind durch das ganze Land gereist;she had blood all \over her hands sie hatte die Hände voller Blut;you've got mustard all \over your face du hast Senf überall im Gesicht, du hast das ganze Gesicht voller Senf;to show sb \over the house jdm das Haus zeigenmuch has happened \over the last six months vieles ist passiert in den letzten sechs Monaten;\over the years he became more and more depressed mit den Jahren wurde er immer deprimierter;shall we talk about it \over a cup of coffee? sollen wir das bei einer Tasse Kaffee besprechen?;gentlemen are asked not to smoke \over dinner die Herren werden gebeten, während des Essens nicht zu rauchen;I was in Seattle \over the summer ich war im Sommer in Seattle;he was stuck \over a difficult question er war bei einer schweren Frage stecken geblieben;she fell asleep \over her homework sie nickte bei ihren Hausaufgaben ein6) (more than, longer than) über +dat;he values money \over anything else für ihn geht Geld über alles andere;they are already 25 million dollars \over budget sie haben das Budget bereits um 25 Millionen Dollar;he will not survive \over the winter er wird den Winter nicht überstehen;\over and above über +dat... hinaus;she receives an extra allowance \over and above the usual welfare payments sie bekommt über den üblichen Sozialhilfeleistungen hinaus eine zusätzliche Beihilfe;\over and above that darüber hinaus7) ( through)he told me \over the phone er sagte es mir am Telefon;we heard the news \over the radio wir hörten die Nachricht im Radiohe has authority \over thirty employees er hat Autorität über dreißig Mitarbeiter;her husband always did have a lot of influence \over her ihr Mann hat schon immer einen großen Einfluss auf sie gehabt;the victory \over the French at Waterloo der Sieg über die Franzosen bei Waterloo;she has a regional sales director \over her sie hat einen regionalen Verkaufsdirektor über ihr;a colonel is \over a sergeant in the army in der Armee steht ein Oberst über einem Sergeantthere's no point in arguing \over it es hat keinen Sinn, darüber zu streiten;she was puzzling \over the political cartoon sie rätselte über die Karikatur;don't fret \over him - he'll be alright mach dir keine Sorgen um ihn - es wird ihm schon gut gehen;there was public outcry \over the death of a young teenager es herrschte öffentliche Empörung über den Tod eines Teenagerscould you go \over my essay again? kannst du nochmal meinen Aufsatz durchschauen;she checked \over the list once more sie sah sich noch einmal die Liste durch;he always had to watch \over his younger brother er musste öfters auf seinen jüngeren Bruder aufpassenlet's go \over this one more time lass es uns noch einmal durchsprechen;we've been \over this before - no TV until you've done your homework das hatten wir doch alles schon - kein Fernsehen bis du deine Hausaufgaben gemacht hastis he \over the flu yet? hat er seine Erkältung auskuriert?;he's not fully recovered but he's certainly \over the worst er hat sich zwar noch nicht gänzlich erholt, aber er hat das Schlimmste überstanden;to be/get \over sb über jdm hinweg sein/kommen48 \over 7 is roughly 7 48 durch 7 ist ungefähr 7;2 \over 5 is the same as 40% zweifünftel entsprechen 40% -
42 Soixante-huit
, or 68the milestone year in French life and politics in the second half of the 20th century, when protests by students and workers almost brought down the French government, and led to sweeping changes in French society. The events of 68 were inspired and led by the young generation of the time, wishing to break out of the rather stuffy and conventional society of the time. They coincided with, though initially took a different form to, the 'youth revolution' in Britain and the USA; but while the UK's youth revolution was essentially social and cultural, and led by pop music and op art, France's revolution was political and cultural, a protest against the weight of the Gaullist state.The events of May 68 started on the drab concrete campus of the sprawling university of Nanterre in the northern suburbs of Paris, and quickly spread to other universities, notably the Sorbonne. Student leaders, among them DanielCohn- Bendit and Alain Krivine, called for radical change and the end of the 'bourgeois state'; students erected barricades in the Latin Quarter, and were soon joined by workers, notably from the huge Renault plant at Boulogne Billancourt in the Paris suburbs. Though political, the movement sidelined all existing political parties, including the Communists, considered by the new left-wing as being an 'obsolete' political force.Faced with turmoil on the streets and a partial collapse of French society, President de Gaulle fled to Germany on 29th May, before returning and promising new elections. But by the time the elections took place, theGrenelle agreements had been negotiated with the trade unions, the heat had died down, and many French people had become seriously alarmed by the turn of events. In the June elections, the Gaullist majority was returned to power with an increased majority.The events nevertheless marked the beginning of the end for de Gaulle. In 1969 he organised a referendum on decentralisation, promising to step down if the referendum failed. To a certain extent, de Gaulle's vision of decentralisation was not that wanted by the voters; but in addition, the referendum became seen as a plebiscite on the Gaullist system, rather than on decentralisation. The referendum proposal was rejected by 52.4% of voters, and de Gaulle stepped down.It is certain that a new France, less hide-bound, more emancipated and more free, emerged in the aftermath of 68. Whether this would have happened anyway, and whether the means justified the end, are questions about which there is still considerable debate in France to this day.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Soixante-huit
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43 face
[feɪs] 1. сущ.1)а) лицо, физиономияbeautiful / handsome — красивое лицо
to look smb. in the face — смотреть кому-л. в глаза
to come / meet face to face — встречаться лицом к лицу
Walker had arrived in London. His face was in every print shop. — Уокер прибыл в Лондон. Его изображение красовалось в каждом магазине гравюр и эстампов.
black in the face — побагровевший (от гнева, злости, усилий)
Syn:2) разг. человек, лицо; чувакNow this face was the ideal man for me to have a deal with. — Для меня этот парень был идеальным партнёром.
I ran into young Bingo Little. "Hello, face," I said. (P. G. Wodehouse) — Я наскочил на Малыша Бинго. "Привет, мордаха", - сказал я.
Syn:3) разг. макияж, косметикаSyn:4)sad / long face — печальный, мрачный вид
to keep a serious face — сохранять серьёзное выражение лица, сохранять внешнюю серьёзность
straight face — бесстрастное лицо; невозмутимый вид
Syn:б) гримасаto draw / make / pull faces — корчить рожи
to make / pull a face — скривиться, сморщиться
She made a face like she'd eaten a lemon. — Она сморщилась так, словно съела лимон.
Syn:5) разг. нахальство, наглость, дерзость; самоуверенностьto show a face — держаться вызывающе, нагло
After forgetting my lines, I didn't have the face to go back on stage. — После того как я забыл свои слова, у меня не хватило наглости снова выйти на сцену.
Syn:nerve, boldness, daring, pluck, self-assurance, mettle, spunk, confidence, bravado, grit, cheek, front, sand, brass, gall, effrontery, impudence6) внешний видto adopt / put on a / the face of smth. — принимать какой-л. вид, строить из себя кого-л.
He adopted / put on the face of innocence. — Он принял невинный вид.
Syn:7) репутация, престиж, достоинствоThe scandal was hushed up in an effort to save face. — Скандал замяли, чтобы спасти репутацию.
He's beginning to get face in that company. — Он становится важным человеком в компании.
to lose face — потерять лицо, ударить лицом в грязь, потерять престиж
to save face — сохранить лицо, спасти репутацию, не уронить достоинства
Syn:8) циферблат, табло ( приборов)9) лицевая сторона, лицо (медали, ткани, игральных карт)I scratched the face of my belt buckle. — Я поцарапал пряжку пояса.
Syn:10) лицо, индивидуальный облик, отличительные чертыThe railways changed the face of Britain. — Железные дороги изменили облик Британии.
11)а) фасад (наружная, видимая часть строения)б) открытый склон, склон холмав) стенка лунки ( в гольфе)г) грань (кристалла, алмаза, геометрического тела)12)а) тех. режущая кромка, лезвие ( инструмента); плоский боёк ( молота); поверхность коренного зуба для перетирания пищиб) спорт. ударяющая поверхность (клюшки для гольфа, хоккейной клюшки, крикетной биты), струнная поверхность ( теннисной ракетки)13) воен. фас ( первые несколько шеренг в построении пехоты)14) покрытие, облицовка15) горн. забой; плоскость забоя16) полигр.; = type face шрифт, комплект, гарнитура ( шрифта)17) стр. ширина ( доски)••at / in / on the first face — на первый взгляд
in the face of the sun / of day — открыто, при свете дня
to fling / cast / throw smth. in smb.'s face — бросать что-л. в лицо кому-л. (обвинения, упреки)
to fly in the face of smb. / smth. — противодействовать, бросать вызов кому-л. / чему-л.
to set one's face against smb. / smth. — (решительно) противиться кому-л. / чему-л.
to travel on / run one's face — амер. использовать привлекательную внешность для достижения цели
to laugh in smb.'s face — смеяться кому-л. в лицо
to say smth. to smb.'s face — говорить что-л. (прямо) в лицо, глаза кому-л.
to put a new face on smth. — представить что-л. в новом свете
It's written all over his face. — Это у него на лбу написано
- have two faces- open one's face
- shut one's face
- before smb.'s face
- in the face of smth.
- in face of smth.
- face of the earth 2. гл.1) стоять лицом к лицу, встречатьсяThe opponents faced each other across the chessboard. — Оппоненты встретились за шахматной доской.
Syn:2) выходить, быть обращённым (к кому-л. / чему-л.); быть повёрнутым ( в определённую сторону)The little chapel faces eastwards. — Эта небольшая часовня обращена к востоку.
Syn:3) сталкиваться ( с неприятностями); смело смотреть в лицо ( опасности)I could not face going there alone. — Я не мог поехать туда один.
A man will face almost anything rather than possible ridicule. — Человек может перенести практически всё, кроме перспективы стать посмешищем.
4)а) ( face with) ставить перед (чем-л.)to be faced with the necessity of doing smth. — быть поставленным перед необходимостью что-л. сделать
to face smb. with irrefutable evidence — представлять кому-л. неопровержимые улики
Faced with the threat of losing their jobs, the workers decided to go back to work. — Поставленные перед угрозой потерять работу, рабочие решили вернуться на свои места.
б) стоять перед (кем-л.; о проблеме)The great problem faces every inquirer into the causes of colliery explosions. — Огромная проблема стоит перед каждым, кто расследует причины взрывов на шахтах.
5)а) скомандовать поворот, заставить повернутьсяHe faced them to the door as if directing them out. — Он развернул их в сторону двери, как бы выпроваживая.
He faced them to the left and marched them westward in a long column. — Он скомандовал им повернуться налево и длинной колонной повёл их в западном направлении.
б) повернуться, развернуться по команде"About face!" shouted the officer. — "Кру-гом!" скомандовал офицер.
6) карт. раскрывать, поворачивать лицом вверх ( игральную карту)7) украшать, отделывать (одежду, мебель)The uniform was red faced with yellow. — Форма была красная с жёлтой отделкой.
The cabinet is faced with a walnut veneer. — Шкаф отделан ореховым шпоном.
The dressmaker faced the inside of the woollen suit with silk. — Портниха подшила шёлковую подкладку к шерстяному костюму.
Syn:8) облицовывать; наносить покрытиеThe more modern fence is faced with stone. — Более современный забор облицован камнем.
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44 in
Модный, стильный. Это хорошо известное слово в начале 1960-х гг. считалось жаргонным. Впоследствии оно стало символом различного рода причуд моды 60-х гг. и вошло в разговорную речь. К середине 70-х гг. слово утратило свою популярность и сейчас считается довольно устаревшим. The in-thing — название, которое давалось любому модному явлению.Years ago it was the in-thing to wear hot pants (brief, close-fitting shorts worn by young women in Britain in the early 1970s), but any girl wearing them nowadays would be considered rather odd. — Несколько лет назад были модны
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45 Manuel II, king
(1890-1932)The last reigning king of Portugal, and the last of the Braganza dynasty to rule. Born in 1890, the son of King Carlos I and Queen Amélia, young Manuel witnessed the murder of his father and his elder brother, the heir apparent, Dom Luís, by anarchists in the streets of Lisbon, on 1 February 1908. In the same carriage as his mortally wounded father and brother, and himself wounded, Manuel survived to ascend the throne. His brief reign was troubled by political instability, factionalism, and rising republicanism. As the republican revolution succeeded, Manuel and his family, including the Queen Mother Amélia, fled from the bombarded Necessidades Palace in Lisbon to the Mafra Palace. Rather than abdicate or remain as a prisoner of the republic, Manuel fled by ship to exile in Great Britain, where he remained for the rest of his life. Occupying himself with his hobby of collecting rare Portuguese books, Manuel died prematurely at age 42, in 1932, at his estate south of London. -
46 Serra, José Francisco Correa da
(1750-1823)Known in history by the name "the Abbé Correa da Serra," this famous Portuguese figure of the Enlightenment, man of letters, diplomat, traveler, botanist, and intellectual spent many years abroad in Great Britain, Italy, and the young republic of the United States. Patronized by the powerful, rich Duke of Lafões and ordained as a priest at age 25, Correa da Serra received a doctorate in Italy two years later and soon undertook diplomatic missions abroad for Portugal. Minister for Portugal in the United States of America from 1816 to 1820, he became a close friend and longtime correspondent of Thomas Jefferson. In historic Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's stately home, in recent restorations one bedroom has been officially designated as Correa da Serra's room. Correa da Serra was one of the founders of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and had a wide correspondence with the scientific minds of the French Enlightenment. He was honored for his contributions to the field of botany in a number of other countries as well. In 1822, at the end of his life, he was elected to the new Constitutional Cortes in Lisbon.Historical dictionary of Portugal > Serra, José Francisco Correa da
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47 popular
popular ['pɒpjʊlə(r)](a) (well-liked → person) populaire;∎ she's very popular with her pupils elle est très populaire auprès de ses élèves, ses élèves l'aiment beaucoup;∎ Britain's most popular TV personality la personnalité la plus populaire de la télévision britannique;∎ he was a very popular president ce fut un président très populaire;∎ to make oneself popular (with) se rendre populaire (auprès de);∎ his views have not made him popular with the authorities à cause de ses opinions, il est mal vu des autorités;∎ he isn't very popular with his men il n'est pas très bien vu de ses hommes, ses hommes ne l'aiment pas beaucoup;∎ I'm not going to be very popular when they find out it's my fault! je ne vais pas être bien vu quand ils découvriront que c'est de ma faute!(b) (appreciated by many → product, colour) populaire; (→ restaurant, resort) très couru, très fréquenté;∎ the movie was very popular in Europe le film a été un très grand succès en Europe;∎ the most popular book of the year le livre le plus vendu ou le best-seller de l'année;∎ videotapes are a popular present les vidéocassettes sont des cadeaux très appréciés;∎ it's very popular with the customers les clients l'apprécient beaucoup;∎ a popular line un article qui se vend bien;∎ it's always been a popular café with young people ce café a toujours été très populaire auprès des jeunes∎ contrary to popular belief contrairement à ce que les gens croient;∎ a popular misconception une erreur répandue ou fréquente;∎ on or by popular demand à la demande générale;∎ it's an idea that enjoys great popular support c'est une idée qui a l'approbation générale ou de tous;∎ popular unrest mécontentement m populaire(d) (of or for the people) populaire;∎ a book of popular mechanics un livre de mécanique pour tous ou à la portée de tous;∎ quality goods at popular prices marchandises fpl de qualité à des prix abordables►► Politics popular front front m populaire;Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Front m populaire de libération de la Palestine;popular music musique f populaire;the popular press la presse à grand tirage et à sensation -
48 Braun, Wernher Manfred von
[br]b. 23 March 1912 Wirsitz, Germanyd. 16 June 1977 Alexandria, Virginia, USA[br]German pioneer in rocket development.[br]Von Braun's mother was an amateur astronomer who introduced him to the futuristic books of Jules Verne and H.G.Wells and gave him an astronomical telescope. He was a rather slack and undisciplined schoolboy until he came across Herman Oberth's book By Rocket to Interplanetary Space. He discovered that he required a good deal of mathematics to follow this exhilarating subject and immediately became an enthusiastic student.The Head of the Ballistics and Armaments branch of the German Army, Professor Karl Becker, had asked the engineer Walter Dornberger to develop a solid-fuel rocket system for short-range attack, and one using liquid-fuel rockets to carry bigger loads of explosives beyond the range of any known gun. Von Braun joined the Verein für Raumschiffsfahrt (the German Space Society) as a young man and soon became a leading member. He was asked by Rudolf Nebel, VfR's chief, to persuade the army of the value of rockets as weapons. Von Braun wisely avoided all mention of the possibility of space flight and some financial backing was assured. Dornberger in 1932 built a small test stand for liquid-fuel rockets and von Braun built a small rocket to test it; the success of this trial won over Dornberger to space rocketry.Initially research was carried out at Kummersdorf, a suburb of Berlin, but it was decided that this was not a suitable site. Von Braun recalled holidays as a boy at a resort on the Baltic, Peenemünde, which was ideally suited to rocket testing. Work started there but was not completed until August 1939, when the group of eighty engineers and scientists moved in. A great fillip to rocket research was received when Hitler was shown a film and was persuaded of the efficacy of rockets as weapons of war. A factory was set up in excavated tunnels at Mittelwerk in the Harz mountains. Around 6,000 "vengeance" weapons were built, some 3,000 of which were fired on targets in Britain and 2,000 of which were still in storage at the end of the Second World War.Peenemünde was taken by the Russians on 5 May 1945, but by then von Braun was lodging with many of his colleagues at an inn, Haus Ingeburg, near Oberjoch. They gave themselves up to the Americans, and von Braun presented a "prospectus" to the Americans, pointing out how useful the German rocket team could be. In "Operation Paperclip" some 100 of the team were moved to the United States, together with tons of drawings and a number of rocket missiles. Von Braun worked from 1946 at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, and in 1950 moved to Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. In 1953 he produced the Redstone missile, in effect a V2 adapted to carry a nuclear warhead a distance of 320 km (199 miles). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was formed in 1958 and recruited von Braun and his team. He was responsible for the design of the Redstone launch vehicles which launched the first US satellite, Explorer 1, in 1958, and the Mercury capsules of the US manned spaceflight programme which carried Alan Shepard briefly into space in 1961 and John Glenn into earth orbit in 1962. He was also responsible for the Saturn series of large, staged launch vehicles, which culminated in the Saturn V rocket which launched the Apollo missions taking US astronauts for the first human landing on the moon in 1969. Von Braun announced his resignation from NASA in 1972 and died five years later.[br]Bibliography1981, with F.L.Ordway, History of Rocketry and Space TravelFurther ReadingP.Marsh, 1985, The Space Business, Penguin. J.Trux, 1985, The Space Race, New English Library. T.Osman, 1983, Space History, Michael Joseph.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Braun, Wernher Manfred von
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49 Carnegie, Andrew
SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy[br]b. 25 November 1835 Dunfermline, Fife, Scotlandd. 11 August 1919 Lenox, Massachusetts, USA[br]Scottish industrialist and philanthropist.[br]Andrew Carnegie was a highly successful entrepreneur and steel industrialist rather than an engineer, but he made a significant contribution to engineering both through his work in industry and through his philanthropic and educational activities. His parents emigrated to the United States in 1848 and the family settled in Pennsylvania. Beginning as a telegraph boy in Pittsburgh in 1850, the young Carnegie rose through successful enterprises in railways, bridges, locomotives and rolling stock, pursuing a process of "Vertical integration" in the iron and steel industry which led to him becoming the leading American ironmaster by 1881. His interests in the Carnegie Steel Company were incorporated in the United States Steel Corporation in 1901, when Carnegie retired from business and devoted himself to philanthropy. He was particularly involved in benefactions to provide public libraries in the United States, Great Britain and other English-speaking countries. Remembering his ancestry, he was especially generous toward Scottish universities, as a result of which he was elected Rector of the University of St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university, by its students. Other large endowments were made for funds in recognition of heroic deeds, and he financed the building of the Temple of Peace at The Hague.[br]Bibliography1889, The Gospel of Wealth (sets out his views on the responsible use of riches).Further ReadingJ.F.Wall, 1989, Andrew Carnegie, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.AB -
50 Dyer, Henry
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering[br]b. 1848 Scotlandd. 4 September 1918[br]Scottish engineer and educator.[br]Henry Dyer was educated at Andersen's College and Glasgow University. He was apprenticed to the Glasgow marine engineer Alexander Kirk, and in 1870 he became an early holder of a Whitworth Scholarship. He was recruited at the age of 24 to establish the Tokyo Engineers' College in 1873. He had been recommended to Matheson, the Scottish businessman who was acting for the Japanese government, by W.J.M. Rankine of Glasgow University, who regarded Dyer as one of his most outstanding students. Dyer secured the services of a team of able young British engineers and scientists to staff the college, which opened in 1873 with 56 students and became the Imperial College of Engineering. Together they gave the first generation of Japanese engineers a firm grounding in engineering theory and practice. Dyer served as Principal and Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. He left Tokyo in 1882 and returned to Britain. The remainder of his career was rather an anticlimax, although he became an active supporter of the technical education movement and was involved in the development of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, of which he was a Life Governor.[br]Further ReadingWho was Who, 1916–28.W.H.Brock, 1981, "The Japanese connexion", BJHS 14:227–43.AB -
51 Farman, Henri
SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace[br]b. 26 May 1874 Paris, Franced. 17 July 1958 Paris, France[br]French aeroplane designer who modified Voisin biplanes and later, with his brother Maurice (b. 21 March 1877 Paris, France; d. 26 February 1964 Paris, France), created a major aircraft-manufacturing company.[br]The parents of Henri and Maurice Farman were British subjects living in Paris, but their sons lived all their lives in France and became French citizens. As young men, both became involved in cycle and automobile racing. Henri (or Henry—he used both versions) turned his attention to aviation in 1907 when he bought a biplane from Gabriel Voisin. Within a short time he had established himself as one of the leading pilots in Europe, with many record-breaking flights to his credit. Farman modified the Voisin with his own improvements, including ailerons, and then in 1909 he designed the first Farman biplane. This became the most popular biplane in Europe from the autumn of 1909 until well into 1911 and is one of the classic aeroplanes of history. Meanwhile, Maurice Farman had also begun to design and build biplanes; his first design of 1909 was not a great success but from it evolved two robust biplanes nicknamed the "Longhorn" and the "Shorthorn", so called because of their undercarriage skids. In 1912 the brothers joined forces and set up a very large factory at Billancourt. The "Longhorn" and "Shorthorn" became the standard training aircraft in France and Britain during the early years of the First World War. The Farman brothers went on to produce a number of other wartime designs, including a large bomber. After the war the Farmans produced a series of large airliners which played a key role in establishing France as a major airline operator. Most famous of these was the Goliath, a twin-engined biplane capable of carrying up to twelve passengers. This was produced from 1918 to 1929 and was used by many airlines, including the Farman Line. The brothers retired when their company was nationalized in 1937.[br]Bibliography1910, The Aviator's Companion, London (with his brother Dick Farman).Further ReadingM.Farman, 1901, 3,000 kilomètres en ballon, Paris (an account of several balloon flights from 1894 to 1900).J.Liron, 1984, Les Avions Farman, Paris (provides comprehensive descriptions of all Farman aircraft).Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War I, 1990, London (reprint) (gives details of all early Farman aircraft).J.Stroud, 1966, European Aircraft since 1910, London (provides details about Farman air-liners).JDS -
52 Heinkel, Ernst
[br]b. 24 January 1888 Grünbach, Remstal, Germanyd. 30 January 1958 Stuttgart, Germany[br]German aeroplane designer who was responsible for the first jet aeroplane to fly.[br]The son of a coppersmith, as a young man Ernst Heinkel was much affected by seeing the Zeppelin LZ 4 crash and burn out at Echterdringen, near Stuttgart. After studying engineering, in 1910 he designed his first aeroplane, but it crashed; he was more successful the following year when he made a flight in it, with an engine on hire from the Daimler company. After a period working for a firm near Munich and for LVG at Johannisthal, near Berlin, he moved to the Albatros Company of Berlin with a monthly salary of 425 marks. In May 1913 he moved to Lake Constance to work on the design of sea-planes and in May 1914 he moved again, this time to the Brandenburg Company, where he remained as a designer until 1922, when he founded his own company, Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke. Following the First World War, German companies were not allowed to build military aircraft, which was frustrating for Heinkel whose main interest was high-speed aircraft. His sleek He 70 airliner, built for Lufthansa, was designed to carry four passengers at high speeds: indeed it broke many records in 1933. Lufthansa decided it needed a larger version capable of carrying ten passengers, so Heinkel produced his most famous aeroplane, the He 111. Although it was designed as a twin-engined airliner on the surface, secretly Heinkel was producing a bomber. The airliner version first flew on Lufthansa routes in 1936, and by 1939 almost 1,000 bombers were in service with the Luftwaffe. A larger four-engined bomber, the He 177, ran into development problems and it did not see service until late in the Second World War. Heinkel's quest for speed led to the He 176 rocket-powered research aeroplane which flew on 20 June 1939, but Hitler and Goering were not impressed. The He 178, with Dr Hans von Ohain's jet engine, made its historic first flight a few weeks later on 27 August 1939; this was almost two years before the maiden flight in Britain of the Gloster E 28/39, powered by Whittle's jet engine. This project was a private venture by Heinkel and was carried out in great secrecy, so the world's first jet aircraft went almost unnoticed. Heinkel's jet fighters, the He 280 and the He 162, were never fully operational. After the war, Heinkel in 1950 set up a new company which made bicycles, motor cycles and "bubble" cars.[br]Bibliography1956, He 1000, trans. M.Savill, London: Hutchinson (the English edition of his autobiography).Further ReadingJ.Stroud, 1966, European Transport Aircraft since 1910, London.Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II, London: Jane's; reprinted 1989.P. St J.Turner, 1970, Heinkel: An Aircraft Album, London.H.J.Nowarra, 1975, Heinkel und seine Flugzeuge, Munich (a comprehensive record of his aircraft).JDS / IMcN -
53 Jobard, Jean-Baptiste-Ambroise Marcelin
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 14 May 1792 Baissey, Haute-Marne, Franced. 27 October 1861 Brussels, Belgium[br]French technologist, promoter of Belgian industry.[br]After attending schools in Langres and Dijon, Jobard worked in Groningen and Maastricht as a cadastral officer from 1811 onwards. After the Netherlands had been constituted as a new state in 1814, he became a Dutch citizen in 1815 and settled in Brussels. In 1825, when he had learned of the invention of lithography by Alois Senefelder, he retired and established a renowned lithographic workshop in Belgium, with considerable commercial profit. After the political changes which led to the separation of Belgium from the Netherlands in 1830, he devoted his activities to the progress of science and industry in this country, in the traditional idea of enlightenment. His main aim was to promote all branches of the young economy, to which he contributed with ceaseless energy. He cultivated especially the transfer of technology in many articles he wrote on his various journeys, such as to Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland, and he continued to do so when he became the Director of the Museum of Industry in Brussels in 1841, editing its Bulletin until his death. Jobard, as a member of societies for the encouragement of arts and industry in many countries, published on almost any subject and produced many inventions. Being a restless character by nature, and having, in addition, a strong attitude towards designing and constructing, he also contributed to mining technology in 1828 when he was the first European to practise successfully the Chinese method of rope drilling near Brussels.[br]Bibliography1840, Plan d'organisation du Musée de l'industrie, présenté au Ministre de l'interieur, Brussels.1844, Machines à vapeur, arrêtes et instructions, Brussels.1846, Comment la Belgique peut devenir industrielle, à propos de la Société d'exportation, Brussels.considérées comme blason de l'industrie et du commerce, dédié à la Société des inventeurs et protecteurs de l'industrie, Brussels.1855, Discours prononcé à l'assemblée des industriels réunis pour l'adoption de la marque obligatoire, Paris.Further ReadingH.Blémont, 1991, article in Dictionnaire de biographie française, Paris, pp. 676–7 (for a short account of his life).A.Siret, 1888–9, article in Biographie nationale de belgique, Vol. X, Brussels, col. 494– 500 (provides an impressive description of his restless character and a selected bibliography of his many publications.T.Tecklenburg, 1900, Handbuch der Tiefbohrkunde, 2nd edn, Vol. IV, Berlin, pp. 7–8 (contains detailed information on his method of rope drilling).WKBiographical history of technology > Jobard, Jean-Baptiste-Ambroise Marcelin
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54 Lubetkin, Berthold
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building[br]b. 12 December 1901 Tiflis, Georgiad. 23 October 1990 Bristol, England[br]Soviet émigré architect who, through the firm of Tecton, wins influential in introducing architecture of the modern international style into England.[br]Lubetkin studied in Moscow, where in the years immediately after 1917 he met Vesnin and Rodchenko and absorbed the contemporary Constructivist ideas. He then moved on to Paris and worked with Auguste Perret, coming in on the ground floor of the modern movement. He went to England in 1930 and two years later formed the Tecton group, leading six young architects who had newly graduated from the Architectural Association in London. Lubetkin's early commissions in England were for animals rather than humans. He designed the gorilla house (1932) at the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens, after which came his award-winning Penguin Pool there, a sculptural blend of curved planes in reinforced concrete. He also worked at Whipsnade and at Dudley Zoo. The name of Tecton had quickly became synonymous with modern methods of design and structure, particularly the use of reinforced concrete; such work was not common in the 1930s in Britain. In 1938–9 the firm was responsible for another pace-setting design, the Finsbury Health Centre in London. Tecton was disbanded during the Second World War, and although it was reformed in the late 1940s it did not recover its initiative in leading the field of modern work. Lubetkin lived on to be an old man but his post-war career did not fulfil his earlier promise and brilliance. He was appointed Architect-Planner of the Peterlee New Town in 1948, but he resigned after a few years and no other notable commissions materialized. In 1982 the Royal Institute of British Architects belatedly remembered him with the award of their Gold Medal.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsRIBA Gold Medal 1982.Further ReadingJohn Allan, 1992, Architecture and the Tradition of Progress, RIBA publications. R.Furneaux Jordan, 1955, "Lubetkin", Architectural Review 36–44.P.Coe and M.Reading, 1981, Lubetkin and Tecton, University of Bristol Arts Council.DY -
55 Napier, Robert
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 18 June 1791 Dumbarton, Scotlandd. 23 June 1876 Shandon, Dunbartonshire, Scotland[br]Scottish shipbuilder one of the greatest shipbuilders of all time, known as the "father" of Clyde shipbuilding.[br]Educated at Dumbarton Grammar School, Robert Napier had been destined for the Church but persuaded his father to let him serve an apprenticeship as a blacksmith under him. For a while he worked in Edinburgh, but then in 1815 he commenced business in Glasgow, the city that he served for the rest of his life. Initially his workshop was in Camlachie, but it was moved in 1836 to a riverside factory site at Lancefield in the heart of the City and again in 1841 to the Old Shipyard in the Burgh of Govan (then independent of the City of Glasgow). The business expanded through his preparedness to build steam machinery, beginning in 1823 with the engines for the paddle steamer Leven, still to be seen a few hundred metres from Napier's grave in Dumbarton. His name assured owners of quality, and business expanded after two key orders: one in 1836 for the Honourable East India Company; and the second two years later for the Royal Navy, hitherto the preserve of the Royal Dockyards and of the shipbuilders of south-east England. Napier's shipyard and engine shops, then known as Robert Napier and Sons, were to be awarded sixty Admiralty contracts in his lifetime, with a profound influence on ship and engine procurement for the Navy and on foreign governments, which for the first time placed substantial work in the United Kingdom.Having had problems with hull subcontractors and also with the installation of machinery in wooden hulls, in 1843 Napier ventured into shipbuilding with the paddle steamer Vanguard, which was built of iron. The following year the Royal Navy took delivery of the iron-hulled Jackall, enabling Napier to secure the contract for the Black Prince, Britain's second ironclad and sister ship to HMS Warrior now preserved at Portsmouth. With so much work in iron Napier instigated studies into metallurgy, and the published work of David Kirkaldy bears witness to his open-handedness in assisting the industry. This service to industry was even more apparent in 1866 when the company laid out the Skelmorlie Measured Mile on the Firth of Clyde for ship testing, a mile still in use by ships of all nations.The greatest legacy of Robert Napier was his training of young engineers, shipbuilders and naval architects. Almost every major Scottish shipyard, and some English too, was influenced by him and many of his early foremen left to set up rival establishments along the banks of the River Clyde. His close association with Samuel Cunard led to the setting up of the company now known as the Cunard Line. Napier designed and engined the first four ships, subcontracting the hulls of this historic quartet to other shipbuilders on the river. While he contributed only 2 per cent to the equity of the shipping line, they came back to him for many more vessels, including the magnificent paddle ship Persia, of 1855.It is an old tradition on the Clyde that the smokestacks of ships are made by the enginebuilders. The Cunard Line still uses red funnels with black bands, Napier's trademark, in honour of the engineer who set them going.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnight Commander of the Dannebrog (Denmark). President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1864. Honorary Member of the Glasgow Society of Engineers 1869.Further ReadingJames Napier, 1904, The Life of Robert Napier, Edinburgh, Blackwood.J.M.Halliday, 1980–1, "Robert Napier. The father of Clyde shipbuilding", Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 124.Fred M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde. A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, Cambridge: PSL.FMW -
56 Paul, Lewis
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]d. April 1759 Brook Green, London, England[br]English inventor of hand carding machines and partner with Wyatt in early spinning machines.[br]Lewis Paul, apparently of French Huguenot extraction, was quite young when his father died. His father was Physician to Lord Shaftsbury, who acted as Lewis Paul's guardian. In 1728 Paul made a runaway match with a widow and apparently came into her property when she died a year later. He must have subsequently remarried. In 1732 he invented a pinking machine for making the edges of shrouds out of which he derived some profit.Why Paul went to Birmingham is unknown, but he helped finance some of Wyatt's earlier inventions. Judging by the later patents taken out by Paul, it is probable that he was the one interested in spinning, turning to Wyatt for help in the construction of his spinning machine because he had no mechanical skills. The two men may have been involved in this as early as 1733, although it is more likely that they began this work in 1735. Wyatt went to London to construct a model and in 1736 helped to apply for a patent, which was granted in 1738 in the name of Paul. The patent shows that Paul and Wyatt had a number of different ways of spinning in mind, but contains no drawings of the machines. In one part there is a description of sets of rollers to draw the cotton out more finely that could have been similar to those later used by Richard Arkwright. However, it would seem that Paul and Wyatt followed the other main method described, which might be called spindle drafting, where the fibres are drawn out between the nip of a pair of rollers and the tip of the spindle; this method is unsatisfactory for continuous spinning and results in an uneven yarn.The spinning venture was supported by Thomas Warren, a well-known Birmingham printer, Edward Cave of Gentleman's Magazine, Dr Robert James of fever-powder celebrity, Mrs Desmoulins, and others. Dr Samuel Johnson also took much interest. In 1741 a mill powered by two asses was equipped at the Upper Priory, Birmingham, with, machinery for spinning cotton being constructed by Wyatt. Licences for using the invention were sold to other people including Edward Cave, who established a mill at Northampton, so the enterprise seemed to have great promise. A spinning machine must be supplied with fibres suitably prepared, so carding machines had to be developed. Work was in hand on one in 1740 and in 1748 Paul took out another patent for two types of carding device, possibly prompted by the patent taken out by Daniel Bourn. Both of Paul's devices were worked by hand and the carded fibres were laid onto a strip of paper. The paper and fibres were then rolled up and placed in the spinning machine. In 1757 John Dyer wrote a poem entitled The Fleece, which describes a circular spinning machine of the type depicted in a patent taken out by Paul in 1758. Drawings in this patent show that this method of spinning was different from Arkwright's. Paul endeavoured to have the machine introduced into the Foundling Hospital, but his death in early 1759 stopped all further development. He was buried at Paddington on 30 April that year.[br]Bibliography1738, British patent no. 562 (spinning machine). 1748, British patent no. 636 (carding machine).1758, British patent no. 724 (circular spinning machine).Further ReadingG.J.French, 1859, The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, London, App. This should be read in conjunction with R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester, which shows that the roller drafting system on Paul's later spinning machine worked on the wrong principles.A.P.Wadsworth and J.de L.Mann, 1931, The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600–1780, Manchester (provides good coverage of the partnership of Paul and Wyatt and the early mills).E.Baines, 1835, History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, London (this publication must be mentioned, but is now out of date).A.Seymour-Jones, 1921, "The invention of roller drawing in cotton spinning", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 1 (a more modern account).RLH -
57 Peter the Great (Pyotr Alekseyevich Romanov)
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 10 June 1672 (30 May 1672 Old Style) Moscow, Russiad. 8 February 1725 (28 January 1725 Old Style) St Petersburg, Russia[br]Russian Tsar (1682–1725), Emperor of all the Russias (1722–5), founder of the Russian Navy, shipbuilder and scientist; as a shipbuilder he was known by the pseudonym Petr Mikhailov.[br]Peter the Great was a man with a single-minded approach to problems and with passionate and lifelong interests in matters scientific, military and above all maritime. The unusual and dominating rule of his vast lands brought about the age of Russian enlightenment, and ensured that his country became one of the most powerful states in Europe.Peter's interest in ships and shipbuilding started in his childhood; c. 1687 he had an old English-built day sailing boat repaired and launched, and on it he learned the rudiments of sailing and navigation. This craft (still preserved in St Petersburg) became known as the "Grandfather of the Russian Navy". In the years 1688 to 1693 he established a shipyard on Lake Plestsheev and then began his lifelong study of shipbuilding by visiting and giving encouragement to the industry at Archangelsk on the White Sea and Voronezh in the Sea of Azov. In October 1696, Peter took Azov from the Turks, and the Russian Fleet ever since has regarded that date as their birthday. Setting an example to the young aristocracy, Peter travelled to Western Europe to widen his experience and contacts and also to learn the trade of shipbuilding. He worked in the shipyards of Amsterdam and then at the Naval Base of Deptford on the Thames.The war with Sweden concentrated his attention on the Baltic and, to establish a base for trading and for the Navy, the City of St Petersburg was constructed on marshland. The Admiralty was built in the city and many new shipyards in the surrounding countryside, one being the Olonez yard which in 1703 built the frigate Standart, the first for the Baltic Fleet, which Peter himself commanded on its first voyage. The military defence of St Petersburg was effected by the construction of Kronstadt, seawards of the city.Throughout his life Peter was involved in ship design and it is estimated that one thousand ships were built during his reign. He introduced the building of standard ship types and also, centuries ahead of its time, the concept of prefabrication, unit assembly and the building of part hulls in different places. Officially he was the designer of the ninety-gun ship Lesnoe of 1718, and this may have influenced him in instituting Rules for Shipbuilders and for Seamen. In 1716 he commanded the joint fleets of the four naval powers: Denmark, Britain, Holland and Russia.He established the Marine Academy, organized and encouraged exploration and scientific research, and on his edict the St Petersburg Academy of Science was opened. He was not averse to the recruitment of foreigners to key posts in the nation's service. Peter the Great was a remarkable man, with the unusual quality of being a theorist and an innovator, in addition to the endowments of practicality and common sense.[br]Further ReadingRobert K.Massie, 1981, Peter the Great: His Life and Work, London: Gollancz.Henri Troyat, 1979, Pierre le Grand; pub. in English 1988 as Peter the Great, London: Hamish Hamilton (a good all-round biography).AK / FMWBiographical history of technology > Peter the Great (Pyotr Alekseyevich Romanov)
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58 Radcliffe, William
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]b. 1761 Mellor, Cheshire, Englandd. 1842 Mellor, Cheshire, England[br]English inventor of the sizing machine.[br]Radcliffe was brought up in the textile industry and learned carding and spinning as a child. When he was old enough, he became a weaver. It was a time when there were not enough weavers to work up all the yarn being spun on the recently invented spinning machines, so some yarn was exported. Radcliffe regarded this as a sin; meetings were held to prohibit the export, and Radcliffe promised to use his best endeavours to discover means to work up the yarn in England. He owned a mill at Mellor and by 1801 was employing over 1,000 hand-loom weavers. He wanted to improve their efficiency so they could compete against power looms, which were beginning to be introduced at that time.His first step was to divide up as much as possible the different weaving processes, not unlike the plan adopted by Arkwright in spinning. In order to strengthen the warp yarns made of cotton and to reduce their tendency to fray during weaving, it was customary to apply an adhesive substance such as starch paste. This was brushed on as the warp was unwound from the back beam during weaving, so only short lengths could be treated before being dried. Instead of dressing the warp in the loom as was hitherto done, Radcliffe had it dressed in a separate machine, relieving the weaver of the trouble and saving the time wasted by the method previously used. Radcliffe employed a young man names Thomas Johnson, who proved to be a clever mechanic. Radcliffe patented his inventions in Johnson's name to avoid other people, especially foreigners, finding out his ideas. He took out his first patent, for a dressing machine, in March 1803 and a second the following year. The combined result of the two patents was the introduction of a beaming machine and a dressing machine which, in addition to applying the paste to the yarns and then drying them, wound them onto a beam ready for the loom. These machines enabled the weaver to work a loom with fewer stoppages; however, Radcliffe did not anticipate that his method of sizing would soon be applied to power looms as well and lead to the commercial success of powered weaving. Other manufacturers quickly adopted Radcliffe's system, and Radcliffe himself soon had to introduce power looms in his own business.Radcliffe improved the hand looms themselves when, with the help of Johnson, he devised a cloth taking-up motion that wound the woven cloth onto a roller automatically as the weaver operated the loom. Radcliffe and Johnson also developed the "dandy loom", which was a more compact form of hand loom and was also later adapted for weaving by power. Radcliffe was among the witnesses before the Parliamentary Committee which in 1808 awarded Edmund Cartwright a grant for his invention of the power loom. Later Radcliffe was unsuccessfully to petition Parliament for a similar reward for his contributions to the introduction of power weaving. His business affairs ultimately failed partly through his own obstinacy and his continued opposition to the export of cotton yarn. He lived to be 81 years old and was buried in Mellor churchyard.[br]Bibliography1811, Exportation of Cotton Yarn and Real Cause of the Distress that has Fallen upon the Cotton Trade for a Series of Years Past, Stockport.1828, Origin of the New System of Manufacture, Commonly Called "Power-Loom Weaving", Stockport (this should be read, even though it is mostly covers Radcliffe's political aims).Further ReadingA.Barlow, 1870, The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power, London (provides an outline of Radcliffe's life and work).W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (a general background of his inventions). R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (a general background).D.J.Jeremy, 1981, Transatlantic Industrial Revolution. The Diffusion of Textile Technologies Between Britain and America, 1790–1830s, Oxford (discusses the spread of the sizing machine in America).RLH -
59 Short, Hugh Oswald
SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace[br]b. 16 January 1883 Derbyshire, Englandd. 4 December 1969 Haslemere, England[br]English co-founder, with his brothers Horace Short (1872–1917) and Eustace (1875–1932), of the first company to design and build aeroplanes in Britain.[br]Oswald Short trained as an engineer; he was largely self-taught but was assisted by his brothers Eustace and Horace. In 1898 Eustace and the young Oswald set up a balloon business, building their first balloon in 1901. Two years later they sold observation balloons to the Government of India, and further orders followed. Meanwhile, in 1906 Horace designed a high-altitude balloon with a spherical pressurized gondola, an idea later used by Auguste Piccard, in 1931. Horace, a strange genius with a dominating character, joined his younger brothers in 1908 to found Short Brothers. Their first design, based on the Wright Flyer, was a limited success, but No. 2 won a Daily Mail prize of £1,000. In the same year, 1909, the Wright brothers chose Shorts to build six of their new Model A biplanes. Still using the basic Wright layout, Horace designed the world's first twin-engined aeroplane to fly successfully: it had one engine forward of the pilot, and one aft. During the years before the First World War the Shorts turned to tractor biplanes and specialized in floatplanes for the Admiralty.Oswald established a seaplane factory at Rochester, Kent, during 1913–14, and an airship works at Cardington, Bedfordshire, in 1916. Short Brothers went on to build the rigid airship R 32, which was completed in 1919. Unfortunately, Horace died in 1917, which threw a greater responsibility onto Oswald, who became the main innovator. He introduced the use of aluminium alloys combined with a smooth "stressed-skin" construction (unlike Junkers, who used corrugated skins). His sleek biplane the Silver Streak flew in 1920, well ahead of its time, but official support was not forthcoming. Oswald Short struggled on, trying to introduce his all-metal construction, especially for flying boats. He eventually succeeded with the biplane Singapore, of 1926, which had an all-metal hull. The prototype was used by Sir Alan Cobham for his flight round Africa. Several successful all-metal flying boats followed, including the Empire flying boats (1936) and the ubiquitous Sunderland (1937). The Stirling bomber (1939) was derived from the Sunderland. The company was nationalized in 1942 and Oswald Short retired the following year.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsHonorary Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Freeman of the City of London. Oswald Short turned down an MBE in 1919 as he felt it did not reflect the achievements of the Short Brothers.Bibliography1966, "Aircraft with stressed skin metal construction", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (November) (an account of the problems with patents and officialdom).Further ReadingC.H.Barnes, 1967, Shorts Aircraft since 1900, London; reprinted 1989 (a detailed account of the work of the Short brothers).JDS -
60 Slater, Samuel
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]b. 9 June 1768 Belper, Derbyshire, Englandd. 21 April 1835 USA[br]Anglo-American manufacturer who established the first American mill to use Arkwright's spinning system.[br]Samuel's father, William, was a respected independent farmer who died when his son was aged 14; the young Slater was apprenticed to his father's friend, Jedediah Strutt for six and a half years at the beginning of 1783. He showed mathematical ability and quickly acquainted himself thoroughly with cotton-spinning machinery made by Arkwright, Hargreaves and Crompton. After completing his apprenticeship, he remained for a time with the Strutts to act as Supervisor for a new mill.At that time it was forbidden to export any textile machinery or even drawings or data from England. The emigration of textile workers was forbidden too, but in September 1789 Slater left for the United States in disguise, having committed the details of the construction of the cotton-spinning machinery to memory. He reached New York and was employed by the New York Manufacturing Company.In January 1790 he met Moses Brown in Providence, Rhode Island, and on 5 April 1790 he signed a contract to construct Arkwright's spinning machinery for Almy \& Brown. It took Slater more than a year to get the machinery operational because of the lack of skilled mechanics and tools, but by 1793 the mill was running under the name of Almy, Brown \& Slater. In October 1791 Slater had married Hannah Wilkinson, and in 1798 he set up his own mill in partnership with his father-in-law, Orziel Wilkinson. This mill was built in Pawtucket, near the first mill, but other mills soon followed in Smithville, Rhode Island, and elsewhere. Slater was the Incorporator, and for the first fifteen years was also President of the Manufacturer's Bank in Pawtucket. It was in his business role and as New England's first industrial capitalist that Slater made his most important contributions to the emergence of the American textile industry.[br]Further ReadingG.S.White, 1836, Memoirs of Samuel Philadelphia (theearliestaccountofhislife). Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XVII. Scientific American 63. P.E.Rivard, 1974, Samuel Slater, Father of American Manufactures, Slater Mill. D.J.Jeremy, 1981, Transatlantic Industrial Revolution. The Diffusion of TextileTechnologies Between Britain and America, 1790–1830s, Oxford (covers Slater's activities in the USA very fully).RLH
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Britain Yearly Meeting — (BYM) is the umbrella body for the Religious Society of Friends in Britain (England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Isles and the Isle of Man). It is among the many yearly meetings of Friends around the world. It assembles and publishes the core… … Wikipedia
Britain's Road to Socialism — (BRS) is the programme of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB) and is adhered to by the Young Communist League (YCL) and the editorship of the British daily newspaper The Morning Star . It was first published in February 1951 as the programme of… … Wikipedia
Young Ireland — (Irish: Éire Óg ) was a political, cultural and social movement, which was to revolutionise the way that Irish nationalism was perceived as a political force in Irish society. From its beginnings in the late 1830s, its influence was to extend… … Wikipedia
Young Egypt Party — Hizb Misr El Fatah Chairman Mr.Abdul Hakim Abdul Majid Khalil Founded October 1933 (original Young Egypt Party); October 12, 1989 Headquarters Cairo … Wikipedia
YOUNG, DAVID IVOR, BARON YOUNG OF GRAFFHAM — (1932– ), British businessman and politician. Lord Young of Graffham was born in London, the son of a flour merchant, and the brother of stuart young , who became the chairman of the BBC. Lord Young was educated at a London public school,… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Young Lives — is an international research project on childhood poverty that was established in 2000 and is based at the University of Oxford s Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), Great Britain. Young Lives, by its declaration, is… … Wikipedia
