| 词汇 | prince rupert |
| 词源 | Prince Rupert; Prince Rupert’s drops, etc. General of the Royalist armies against Cromwell during the Civil War, and ad- miral of the British navy in the Dutch Wars, Prince Rupert (1619–82), grandson of England’s James I, was a multitalented military man also strongly interested in art and science. One of the earliest mezzotinters, his Head of St. John the Baptist is justly famous, and he experimented with guns, shot, and gunpowder. Prince Rupert invented the modified brass called Prince Rupert’s metal, the alloy resembling gold and consisting of 60 to 80 per- cent copper and 15 to 40 percent zinc. Prince Rupert’s drops, which he also devised, are toys made by dropping molten glass into water, the glass forming small tadpoles which explode into dust if their tails are nipped off. The port of Prince Rupert in British Columbia bears the prince’s name also, as does Rupert’s Land, once the name for all the land in Canada that drained into Hudson Bay, Prince Rupert having been the first governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company when it was formed in 1670. |
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