charge jointly

1) обременение вещи; залоговое право | обременять вещь, обременять залогом

2) обязательство; обязанность; ответственность | вменять в обязанность; возлагать обязанность

3) предписание; требование; поручение | предписывать; требовать; поручать

4) обвинение; пункт обвинения | обвинять

5) аргументация в исковом заявлении в опровержение предполагаемых доводов ответчика

6) письменная детализация требований стороны по делу

7) заключительное обращение судьи к присяжным ( перед вынесением ими вердикта)

8) обращение взыскания

9) заведывание; руководство; ведение; попечение

10) лицо, находящееся на попечении

11) цена; расход; начисление; сбор; налог | назначить цену; возлагать расход на кого-л.; начислять; облагать

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- charge of crime

1) ведення ( чогось); піклування; ціна; видаток; орендна плата; нарахування; сума позову; збір, мито; податок; доручення, завдання, місія; завідування; обов'язок, зобов'язання; вимога; заставне право; обтяження ( речі); обвинувачення, звинувачення, ставлення за вину; відповідальність; пункт обвинувачення; обвинувальний висновок; обернення догани ( або стягнення); письмова деталізація вимог сторони у справі; особа, яка перебуває під опікою (піклуванням); напуття присяжним ( з боку голови суду); аргументація по справі; аргументація у позовній заяві на спростування можливих аргументів відповідача; військ. висновок суду; розм. в'язень

2) стягувати, збирати, обкладати; нараховувати, покладати видатки ( на когось); призначати ціну; доручати; покладати (обов'язки, функції тощо), зобов'язувати; вимагати; обтяжувати заставою; обвинувачувати, звинувачувати, висувати обвинувачення ( проти когось); інструктувати (напучувати) присяжних засідателів ( про голову суду)

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- charge a jury

SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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George Stephenson was the son of the fireman of the pumping engine at Wylam colliery, and horses drew wagons of coal along the wooden rails of the Wylam wagonway past the house in which he was born and spent his earliest childhood. While still a child he worked as a cowherd, but soon moved to working at coal pits. At 17 years of age he showed sufficient mechanical talent to be placed in charge of a new pumping engine, and had already achieved a job more responsible than that of his father. Despite his position he was still illiterate, although he subsequently learned to read and write. He was largely self-educated.

In 1801 he was appointed Brakesman of the winding engine at Black Callerton pit, with responsibility for lowering the miners safely to their work. Then, about two years later, he became Brakesman of a new winding engine erected by Robert Hawthorn at Willington Quay on the Tyne. Returning collier brigs discharged ballast into wagons and the engine drew the wagons up an inclined plane to the top of "Ballast Hill" for their contents to be tipped; this was one of the earliest applications of steam power to transport, other than experimentally.

In 1804 Stephenson moved to West Moor pit, Killingworth, again as Brakesman. In 1811 he demonstrated his mechanical skill by successfully modifying a new and unsatisfactory atmospheric engine, a task that had defeated the efforts of others, to enable it to pump a drowned pit clear of water. The following year he was appointed Enginewright at Killingworth, in charge of the machinery in all the collieries of the "Grand Allies", the prominent coal-owning families of Wortley, Liddell and Bowes, with authorization also to work for others. He built many stationary engines and he closely examined locomotives of John Blenkinsop's type on the Kenton \& Coxlodge wagonway, as well as those of William Hedley at Wylam.

It was in 1813 that Sir Thomas Liddell requested George Stephenson to build a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway: Blucher made its first trial run on 25 July 1814 and was based on Blenkinsop's locomotives, although it lacked their rack-and-pinion drive. George Stephenson is credited with building the first locomotive both to run on edge rails and be driven by adhesion, an arrangement that has been the conventional one ever since. Yet Blucher was far from perfect and over the next few years, while other engineers ignored the steam locomotive, Stephenson built a succession of them, each an improvement on the last.

During this period many lives were lost in coalmines from explosions of gas ignited by miners' lamps. By observation and experiment (sometimes at great personal risk) Stephenson invented a satisfactory safety lamp, working independently of the noted scientist Sir Humphry Davy who also invented such a lamp around the same time.

In 1817 George Stephenson designed his first locomotive for an outside customer, the Kilmarnock \& Troon Railway, and in 1819 he laid out the Hetton Colliery Railway in County Durham, for which his brother Robert was Resident Engineer. This was the first railway to be worked entirely without animal traction: it used inclined planes with stationary engines, self-acting inclined planes powered by gravity, and locomotives.

On 19 April 1821 Stephenson was introduced to Edward Pease, one of the main promoters of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway (S \& DR), which by coincidence received its Act of Parliament the same day. George Stephenson carried out a further survey, to improve the proposed line, and in this he was assisted by his 18-year-old son, Robert Stephenson, whom he had ensured received the theoretical education which he himself lacked. It is doubtful whether either could have succeeded without the other; together they were to make the steam railway practicable.

At George Stephenson's instance, much of the S \& DR was laid with wrought-iron rails recently developed by John Birkinshaw at Bedlington Ironworks, Morpeth. These were longer than cast-iron rails and were not brittle: they made a track well suited for locomotives. In June 1823 George and Robert Stephenson, with other partners, founded a firm in Newcastle upon Tyne to build locomotives and rolling stock and to do general engineering work: after its Managing Partner, the firm was called Robert Stephenson \& Co.

In 1824 the promoters of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) invited George Stephenson to resurvey their proposed line in order to reduce opposition to it. William James, a wealthy land agent who had become a visionary protagonist of a national railway network and had seen Stephenson's locomotives at Killingworth, had promoted the L \& MR with some merchants of Liverpool and had carried out the first survey; however, he overreached himself in business and, shortly after the invitation to Stephenson, became bankrupt. In his own survey, however, George Stephenson lacked the assistance of his son Robert, who had left for South America, and he delegated much of the detailed work to incompetent assistants. During a devastating Parliamentary examination in the spring of 1825, much of his survey was shown to be seriously inaccurate and the L \& MR's application for an Act of Parliament was refused. The railway's promoters discharged Stephenson and had their line surveyed yet again, by C.B. Vignoles.

The Stockton \& Darlington Railway was, however, triumphantly opened in the presence of vast crowds in September 1825, with Stephenson himself driving the locomotive Locomotion, which had been built at Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s Newcastle works. Once the railway was at work, horse-drawn and gravity-powered traffic shared the line with locomotives: in 1828 Stephenson invented the horse dandy, a wagon at the back of a train in which a horse could travel over the gravity-operated stretches, instead of trotting behind.

Meanwhile, in May 1826, the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway had successfully obtained its Act of Parliament. Stephenson was appointed Engineer in June, and since he and Vignoles proved incompatible the latter left early in 1827. The railway was built by Stephenson and his staff, using direct labour. A considerable controversy arose c. 1828 over the motive power to be used: the traffic anticipated was too great for horses, but the performance of the reciprocal system of cable haulage developed by Benjamin Thompson appeared in many respects superior to that of contemporary locomotives. The company instituted a prize competition for a better locomotive and the Rainhill Trials were held in October 1829.

Robert Stephenson had been working on improved locomotive designs since his return from America in 1827, but it was the L \& MR's Treasurer, Henry Booth, who suggested the multi-tubular boiler to George Stephenson. This was incorporated into a locomotive built by Robert Stephenson for the trials: Rocket was entered by the three men in partnership. The other principal entrants were Novelty, entered by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, and Sans Pareil, entered by Timothy Hackworth, but only Rocket, driven by George Stephenson, met all the organizers' demands; indeed, it far surpassed them and demonstrated the practicability of the long-distance steam railway. With the opening of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1830, the age of railways began.

Stephenson was active in many aspects. He advised on the construction of the Belgian State Railway, of which the Brussels-Malines section, opened in 1835, was the first all-steam railway on the European continent. In England, proposals to link the L \& MR with the Midlands had culminated in an Act of Parliament for the Grand Junction Railway in 1833: this was to run from Warrington, which was already linked to the L \& MR, to Birmingham. George Stephenson had been in charge of the surveys, and for the railway's construction he and J.U. Rastrick were initially Principal Engineers, with Stephenson's former pupil Joseph Locke under them; by 1835 both Stephenson and Rastrick had withdrawn and Locke was Engineer-in-Chief. Stephenson remained much in demand elsewhere: he was particularly associated with the construction of the North Midland Railway (Derby to Leeds) and related lines. He was active in many other places and carried out, for instance, preliminary surveys for the Chester \& Holyhead and Newcastle \& Berwick Railways, which were important links in the lines of communication between London and, respectively, Dublin and Edinburgh.

He eventually retired to Tapton House, Chesterfield, overlooking the North Midland. A man who was self-made (with great success) against colossal odds, he was ever reluctant, regrettably, to give others their due credit, although in retirement, immensely wealthy and full of honour, he was still able to mingle with people of all ranks.

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1) Общая лексика: capacity supply agreement

2) Компьютерная техника: Communications Streaming Architecture, carrier servicing area

3) Авиация: код-шеринговое соглашение (an interline agreement on jointly operated flights), code sharing agreement (an interline agreement on jointly operated flights), код-шеринг

4) Морской термин: Canada Shipping Act, Канадский Закон о судоходстве

5) Медицина: Central Sleep Apnea

6) Американизм: Commuter Student Association, Confederate States Alliance

7) Военный термин: Central Security Agency, Central Supplies Agency, Central Supplies Agency of NATO, Chief Scientific Adviser, Chief Scientist, Army, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, Chief of Staff, US Army, Combat Support Associates, Communications Agency, Communications Satellite Act, Confederate States Army, Controlled Shooting Area, Corps Storage Area, Corps Support Activity, central supply agency, close support area, combat surveillance agency, combat system architecture, commercial service area, commercial service authorization, computer system analyst, conical scan antenna, contractor support area, cross-service agreement, customer supply assistance, Combat Support Agency (ies)

8) Техника: Computing Service Association, Cryogenic Society of America, carry-save adder, chopper-stabilized amplifier, conditional sum adder, core special assembly, core structure accident

9) Сельское хозяйство: Community Supported Agricultural, Community Supported Agriculture, Consumer Supported Agriculture

10) Шутливое выражение: Can't Stand America

11) Математика: Cross Sectional Area

12) Британский английский: Child Support Agency

13) Юридический термин: Child Sexual Abuse, Community Safety Agency, Controlled Substances Act, Crime Syndicate Of America, Оценка Химической Безопасности (Chemical Safety Assessment( Регламент REACH)), Consulting Services Agreement

14) Фармакология: Crystalline Sodium Amoxicillin

15) Грубое выражение: Customer Shit Accepter, Cute Sexy Angel

16) Телекоммуникации: Call Service Area, Carrier Service Area, Carrier Serving Area

17) Сокращение: Canadian Space Agency, Candidate Supplemental Application (in USPS employee application process), Chief Scientific Adviser, defence scientific staff (UK), Chief of Staff, Army, Common Support Aircraft (US Navy), Common Support Aircraft, Computer Sciences of Australia Pty Limited, Computer System Architects Ltd (UK), Corps Supply Area, Customer / Supplier Agreement (USPS, 2008), Communication Signal Analyser, Confederate States of America

18) Университет: Cambodian Student Association, Center For Supercomputing Applications, Central Student Accounting, Chinese Student Association, Chinese Students Association

19) Электроника: CIM systems architecture

20) Вычислительная техника: China Software Alliance, Chip System Architecture, Client Service Agent, Communication Signal Analyzer, common system area, Communication Streaming Architecture (Intel, MCH, DNB)

21) Нефть: casing set at, Канадская ассоциация по стандартизации (Canadian Standards Association)

22) Иммунология: Clinical Skills Assessment, chicken serum albumin

23) Канадский термин: Canadian Securities Administrators (Канадские комиссии по регулированию рынка ценных бумаг)

24) Фирменный знак: Continental Security Agency

25) Целлюлозно-бумажная промышленность: Civil, Structural, Architectural( архитектурно-строительные решения)

26) СМИ: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

27) Деловая лексика: Common Sense Approach

28) Бурение: обсадная колонна спущена до глубины (casing set at), Critical Speed Application

29) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Канадская ассоциация стандартов (Canadian Standard Association), Civil, Structural, Architectural

30) Сетевые технологии: API-интерфейс ведения календаря и планирования, Calendaring and Scheduling API, client/server architecture, архитектура клиент/сервер, контроллер безопасности сети с централизованным управлением, общая системная область защиты

31) Полимеры: Canadian Standards Association

32) Автоматика: common service area

33) Пластмассы: Canadian Standards Associates

34) Сахалин Р: Canadian Standard Association, Canadian standard association

35) Научный термин: "Coordination and support actions" (Проекты типа "Coordination and support actions" направлены на координацию, согласование, налаживание связей и объединение научных проектов, программ, правил и норм программы FP7)

36) Медицинская техника: charge sampling amplifier

37) Химическое оружие: Chemical storage area, Chief of Staff of the Army, configuration status accounting

38) Авиационная медицина: cross section area

39) Макаров: cost of solar array

40) Безопасность: Cisco Security Agent

41) Расширение файла: InterComm ASCII Sheet File, Ultimate Ride Roller Coaster file, Calendaring and Scheduling API (IBM)

42) Карачаганак: Condensate Sales Agreement (Договор купли-продажи газового конденсата, ДКПГК)

43) Рыболовство: (Catch-Survey Analysis) модель популяционного анализа на основе синтеза учётных и промысловых индексов

44) Электротехника: corrugated seamless aluminum (sheath)

45) Должность: Certified Senior Advisor, Chief Software Architect, Community Standard Advisor, Customer Support Advisor, Customer Support Associate, Customized Services Administrator, Customized Services Administrators

46) Правительство: Consolidated Statutes Annotated

47) NYSE. Casting Society Of America

1) Общая лексика: capacity supply agreement

2) Компьютерная техника: Communications Streaming Architecture, carrier servicing area

3) Авиация: код-шеринговое соглашение (an interline agreement on jointly operated flights), code sharing agreement (an interline agreement on jointly operated flights), код-шеринг

4) Морской термин: Canada Shipping Act, Канадский Закон о судоходстве

5) Медицина: Central Sleep Apnea

6) Американизм: Commuter Student Association, Confederate States Alliance

7) Военный термин: Central Security Agency, Central Supplies Agency, Central Supplies Agency of NATO, Chief Scientific Adviser, Chief Scientist, Army, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, Chief of Staff, US Army, Combat Support Associates, Communications Agency, Communications Satellite Act, Confederate States Army, Controlled Shooting Area, Corps Storage Area, Corps Support Activity, central supply agency, close support area, combat surveillance agency, combat system architecture, commercial service area, commercial service authorization, computer system analyst, conical scan antenna, contractor support area, cross-service agreement, customer supply assistance, Combat Support Agency (ies)

8) Техника: Computing Service Association, Cryogenic Society of America, carry-save adder, chopper-stabilized amplifier, conditional sum adder, core special assembly, core structure accident

9) Сельское хозяйство: Community Supported Agricultural, Community Supported Agriculture, Consumer Supported Agriculture

10) Шутливое выражение: Can't Stand America

11) Математика: Cross Sectional Area

12) Британский английский: Child Support Agency

13) Юридический термин: Child Sexual Abuse, Community Safety Agency, Controlled Substances Act, Crime Syndicate Of America, Оценка Химической Безопасности (Chemical Safety Assessment( Регламент REACH)), Consulting Services Agreement

14) Фармакология: Crystalline Sodium Amoxicillin

15) Грубое выражение: Customer Shit Accepter, Cute Sexy Angel

16) Телекоммуникации: Call Service Area, Carrier Service Area, Carrier Serving Area

17) Сокращение: Canadian Space Agency, Candidate Supplemental Application (in USPS employee application process), Chief Scientific Adviser, defence scientific staff (UK), Chief of Staff, Army, Common Support Aircraft (US Navy), Common Support Aircraft, Computer Sciences of Australia Pty Limited, Computer System Architects Ltd (UK), Corps Supply Area, Customer / Supplier Agreement (USPS, 2008), Communication Signal Analyser, Confederate States of America

18) Университет: Cambodian Student Association, Center For Supercomputing Applications, Central Student Accounting, Chinese Student Association, Chinese Students Association

19) Электроника: CIM systems architecture

20) Вычислительная техника: China Software Alliance, Chip System Architecture, Client Service Agent, Communication Signal Analyzer, common system area, Communication Streaming Architecture (Intel, MCH, DNB)

21) Нефть: casing set at, Канадская ассоциация по стандартизации (Canadian Standards Association)

22) Иммунология: Clinical Skills Assessment, chicken serum albumin

23) Канадский термин: Canadian Securities Administrators (Канадские комиссии по регулированию рынка ценных бумаг)

24) Фирменный знак: Continental Security Agency

25) Целлюлозно-бумажная промышленность: Civil, Structural, Architectural( архитектурно-строительные решения)

26) СМИ: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

27) Деловая лексика: Common Sense Approach

28) Бурение: обсадная колонна спущена до глубины (casing set at), Critical Speed Application

29) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Канадская ассоциация стандартов (Canadian Standard Association), Civil, Structural, Architectural

30) Сетевые технологии: API-интерфейс ведения календаря и планирования, Calendaring and Scheduling API, client/server architecture, архитектура клиент/сервер, контроллер безопасности сети с централизованным управлением, общая системная область защиты

31) Полимеры: Canadian Standards Association

32) Автоматика: common service area

33) Пластмассы: Canadian Standards Associates

34) Сахалин Р: Canadian Standard Association, Canadian standard association

35) Научный термин: "Coordination and support actions" (Проекты типа "Coordination and support actions" направлены на координацию, согласование, налаживание связей и объединение научных проектов, программ, правил и норм программы FP7)

36) Медицинская техника: charge sampling amplifier

37) Химическое оружие: Chemical storage area, Chief of Staff of the Army, configuration status accounting

38) Авиационная медицина: cross section area

39) Макаров: cost of solar array

40) Безопасность: Cisco Security Agent

41) Расширение файла: InterComm ASCII Sheet File, Ultimate Ride Roller Coaster file, Calendaring and Scheduling API (IBM)

42) Карачаганак: Condensate Sales Agreement (Договор купли-продажи газового конденсата, ДКПГК)

43) Рыболовство: (Catch-Survey Analysis) модель популяционного анализа на основе синтеза учётных и промысловых индексов

44) Электротехника: corrugated seamless aluminum (sheath)

45) Должность: Certified Senior Advisor, Chief Software Architect, Community Standard Advisor, Customer Support Advisor, Customer Support Associate, Customized Services Administrator, Customized Services Administrators

46) Правительство: Consolidated Statutes Annotated

47) NYSE. Casting Society Of America

SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology, Mining and extraction technology, Weapons and armour

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The son of a barber-surgeon who deserted his family to serve in the Swedish army, Nobel showed little interest in academic pursuits as a child and was sent to sea at the age of 16, but jumped ship in Egypt and was eventually employed as an architect by the pasha. Returning to Sweden, he won a scholarship to the Stockholm School of Architecture, where he studied from 1821 to 1825 and was awarded a number of prizes. His interest then leaned towards mechanical matters and he transferred to the Stockholm School of Engineering. Designs for linen-finishing machines won him a prize there, and he also patented a means of transforming rotary into reciprocating movement. He then entered the real-estate business and was successful until a fire in 1833 destroyed his house and everything he owned. By this time he had married and had two sons, with a third, Alfred (of Nobel Prize fame; see Alfred Nobel), on the way. Moving to more modest quarters on the outskirts of Stockholm, Immanuel resumed his inventions, concentrating largely on India rubber, which he applied to surgical instruments and military equipment, including a rubber knapsack.

It was talk of plans to construct a canal at Suez that first excited his interest in explosives. He saw them as a means of making mining more efficient and began to experiment in his backyard. However, this made him unpopular with his neighbours, and the city authorities ordered him to cease his investigations. By this time he was deeply in debt and in 1837 moved to Finland, leaving his family in Stockholm. He hoped to interest the Russians in land and sea mines and, after some four years, succeeded in obtaining financial backing from the Ministry of War, enabling him to set up a foundry and arms factory in St Petersburg and to bring his family over. By 1850 he was clear of debt in Sweden and had begun to acquire a high reputation as an inventor and industrialist. His invention of the horned contact mine was to be the basic pattern of the sea mine for almost the next 100 years, but he also created and manufactured a central-heating system based on hot-water pipes. His three sons, Ludwig, Robert and Alfred, had now joined him in his business, but even so the outbreak of war with Britain and France in the Crimea placed severe pressures on him. The Russians looked to him to convert their navy from sail to steam, even though he had no experience in naval propulsion, but the aftermath of the Crimean War brought financial ruin once more to Immanuel. Amongst the reforms brought in by Tsar Alexander II was a reliance on imports to equip the armed forces, so all domestic arms contracts were abruptly cancelled, including those being undertaken by Nobel. Unable to raise money from the banks, Immanuel was forced to declare himself bankrupt and leave Russia for his native Sweden. Nobel then reverted to his study of explosives, particularly of how to adapt the then highly unstable nitroglycerine, which had first been developed by Ascanio Sobrero in 1847, for blasting and mining. Nobel believed that this could be done by mixing it with gunpowder, but could not establish the right proportions. His son Alfred pursued the matter semi-independently and eventually evolved the principle of the primary charge (and through it created the blasting cap), having taken out a patent for a nitroglycerine product in his own name; the eventual result of this was called dynamite. Father and son eventually fell out over Alfred's independent line, but worse was to follow. In September 1864 Immanuel's youngest son, Oscar, then studying chemistry at Uppsala University, was killed in an explosion in Alfred's laboratory: Immanuel suffered a stroke, but this only temporarily incapacitated him, and he continued to put forward new ideas. These included making timber a more flexible material through gluing crossed veneers under pressure and bending waste timber under steam, a concept which eventually came to fruition in the form of plywood.

In 1868 Immanuel and Alfred were jointly awarded the prestigious Letterstedt Prize for their work on explosives, but Alfred never for-gave his father for retaining the medal without offering it to him.

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SUBJECT AREA: Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Public utilities

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After attending Owens College, Manchester, Hopkinson was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1867 to read for the Mathematical Tripos. An appointment in 1872 with the lighthouse department of the Chance Optical Works in Birmingham directed his attention to electrical engineering. His most noteworthy contribution to lighthouse engineering was an optical system to produce flashing lights that distinguished between individual beacons. His extensive researches on the dielectric properties of glass were recognized when he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society at the age of 29. Moving to London in 1877 he became established as a consulting engineer at a time when electricity supply was about to begin on a commercial scale. During the remainder of his life, Hopkinson's researches resulted in fundamental contributions to electrical engineering practice, dynamo design and alternating current machine theory. In making a critical study of the Edison dynamo he developed the principle of the magnetic circuit, a concept also arrived at by Gisbert Kapp around the same time. Hopkinson's improvement of the Edison dynamo by reducing the length of the field magnets almost doubled its output. In 1890, in addition to-his consulting practice, Hopkinson accepted a post as the first Professor of Electrical Engineering and Head of the Siemens laboratory recently established at King's College, London. Although he was not involved in lecturing, the position gave him the necessary facilities and staff and student assistance to continue his researches. Hopkinson was consulted on many proposals for electric traction and electricity supply, including schemes in London, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds. He also advised Mather and Platt when they were acting as contractors for the locomotives and generating plant for the City and South London tube railway. As early as 1882 he considered that an ideal method of charging for the supply of electricity should be based on a two-part tariff, with a charge related to maximum demand together with a charge for energy supplied. Hopkinson was one the foremost expert witnesses of his day in patent actions and was himself the patentee of over forty inventions, of which the three-wire system of distribution and the series-parallel connection of traction motors were his most successful. Jointly with his brother Edward, John Hopkinson communicated the outcome of his investigations to the Royal Society in a paper entitled "Dynamo Electric Machinery" in 1886. In this he also described the later widely used "back to back" test for determining the characteristics of two identical machines. His interest in electrical machines led him to more fundamental research on magnetic materials, including the phenomenon of recalescence and the disappearance of magnetism at a well-defined temperature. For his work on the magnetic properties of iron, in 1890 he was awarded the Royal Society Royal Medal. He was a member of the Alpine Club and a pioneer of rock climbing in Britain; he died, together with three of his children, in a climbing accident.

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SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology

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The son of an ore miner in Saxony, Kind was engaged in his father's profession for some years before he joined Glenck's drillings for salt at Stotternheim, Thuringia. There in 1835, after trying for five years, he self-reliantly put down a 340 m (1,100 ft) deep well; his success lay in his use of fish joints of a similar construction to those used shortly before by von Oeynhausen in Westphalia. In order to improve their operational possibilities in aquiferous wells, in 1842 he developed his own free-fall device between the rod and the drill, which enabled the chisel to reach the bottom of the hole without hindrance. His invention was patented in France. Four years later, at Mondorf, Luxembourg, he put down a 736 m (2,415 ft) deep borehole, the deepest in the world at that time.

Kind contributed further considerable improvements to deep drilling and was the first successfully to replace iron rods with wooden ones, on account of their buoyancy in water. The main reasons for his international reputation were his attempts to bore out shafts, which he carried out for the first time in the region of Forbach, France, in 1848. Three years later he was engaged in the Ruhr area by a Belgian-and English-financed mining company, later the Dahlbusch mining company in Gelsenkirchen, to drill a hole that was later enlarged to 4.4 m (14 1/2 ft) and made watertight by lining. Although he had already taken out a patent for boring and lining shafts in 1849 in Belgium, his wooden support did not qualify. It was the Belgian engineer Joseph Chaudron, in charge of the mining company, who overcame the difficulty of making the bottom of the borehole watertight. In 1854 they jointly founded a shaft-sinking company in Brussels which specialized in aquiferous formations and operated internationally.

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SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities

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While he was attending the Military School at Mannheim, Reichenbach drew attention to himself due to the mathematical instruments that he had designed. On the recommendation of Count Rumford in Munich, the Bavarian government financed a two-year stay in Britain so that Reichenbach could become acquainted with modern mechanical engineering. He returned to Mannheim in 1793, and during the Napoleonic Wars he was involved in the manufacture of arms. In Munich, where he was in the service of the Bavarian state from 1796, he started producing precision instruments in his own time. His basic invention was the design of a dividing machine for circles, produced at the end of the eighteenth century. The astronomic and geodetic instruments he produced excelled all the others for their precision. His telescopes in particular, being perfect in use and of solid construction, soon brought him an international reputation. They were manufactured at the MathematicMechanical Institute, which he had jointly founded with Joseph Utzschneider and Joseph Liebherr in 1804 and which became a renowned training establishment. The glasses and lenses were produced by Joseph Fraunhofer who joined the company in 1807.

In the same year he was put in charge of the technical reorganization of the salt-works at Reichenhall. After he had finished the brine-transport line from Reichenhall to Traunstein in 1810, he started on the one from Berchtesgaden to Reichenhall which was an extremely difficult task because of the mountainous area that had to be crossed. As water was the only source of energy available he decided to use water-column engines for pumping the brine in the pipes of both lines. Such devices had been in use for pumping purposes in different mining areas since the middle of the eighteenth century. Reichenbach knew about the one constructed by Joseph Karl Hell in Slovakia, which in principle had just been a simple piston-pump driven by water which did not work satisfactorily. Instead he constructed a really effective double-action water-column engine; this was a short time after Richard Trevithick had constructed a similar machine in England. For the second line he improved the system and built a single-action pump. All the parts of it were made of metal, which made them easy to produce, and the pumps proved to be extremely reliable, working for over 100 years.

At the official opening of the line in 1817 the Bavarian king rewarded him generously. He remained in the state's service, becoming head of the department for roads and waterways in 1820, and he contributed to the development of Bavarian industry as well as the public infrastructure in many ways as a result of his mechanical skill and his innovative engineering mind.

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SUBJECT AREA: Automotive engineering, Land transport

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Royce was the younger son of a flour miller. His father's death forced him to earn his own living from the age of 10 selling newspapers, as a post office messenger boy, and in other jobs. At the age of 14, he became an apprentice at the Great Northern Railway's locomotive works, but was unable to complete his apprenticeship due to a shortage of money. He moved to a tool company in Leeds, then in 1882 he became a tester for the London Electric Light \& Power Company and attended classes at the City \& Guilds Technical College. In the same year, the company made him Chief Electrical Engineer for the lighting of the streets of Liverpool.

In 1884, at the age of 21, he founded F.H. Royce \& Co (later called Royce Ltd, from 1894 to 1933) with a capital of £70, manufacturing arc lamps, dynamos and electric cranes. In 1903, he bought a 10 hp Deauville car which proved noisy and unreliable; he therefore designed his own car. By the end of 1903 he had produced a twocylinder engine which ran for many hundreds of hours driving dynamos; on 31 March 1904, a 10 hp Royce car was driven smoothly and silently from the works in Cooke Street, Manchester. This car so impressed Charles S. Rolls, whose London firm were agents for high-class continental cars, that he agreed to take the entire output from the Manchester works. In 1906 they jointly formed Rolls-Royce Ltd and at the end of that year Royce produced the first 40/50 hp Silver Ghost, which remained in production until 1925 when it was replaced by the Phantom and Wraith. The demand for the cars grew so great that in 1908 manufacture was transferred to a new factory in Derby.

In 1911 Royce had a breakdown due to overwork and his lack of attention to taking regular meals. From that time he never returned to the works but continued in charge of design from a drawing office in his home in the south of France and later at West Wittering, Sussex, England. During the First World War he designed the Falcon, Hawk and Condor engines as well as the VI2 Eagle, all of which were liquid-cooled. Later he designed the 36.7-litre Rolls-Royce R engines for the Vickers Supermarine S.6 and S.6B seaplanes which were entered for the Schneider Trophy (which they won in 1929 and 1931, the 5.5 having won in 1927 with a Napier Lion engine) and set a world speed record of 408 mph (657 km/h) in 1931; the 1941 Griffon engine was derived from the R.

Royce was an improver rather than an innovator, though he did invent a silent form of valve gear, a friction-damped slipper flywheel, the Royce carburettor and a spring drive for timing gears. He was a modest man with a remarkable memory who concentrated on perfecting the detail of every component. He married Minnie Punt, but they had no children. A bust of him at the Derby factory is captioned simply "Henry Royce, Mechanic".

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SUBJECT AREA: Electricity

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Weber began scientific experiments at an early age and entered the University of Halle, where he came under the influence of J.S.C.Schweigger, inventor of the galvanometer. Completing his education with a dissertation on the theory of organ pipes and making important contributions to the science of acoustics, he was awarded a lectureship and later an assistant professorship at Halle. Weber was offered the Chair of Physics at Göttingen in 1831 and jointly with Gauss began investigations into the precision measurement of magnetic quantities. In 1841 he invented the electrodynamometer type of electrical measuring instrument. This was a development of the galvanometer in which, instead of a needle, a small coil was suspended within an outer coil. A current flowing through both coils tended to turn the inner coil, the sine of the angle through which the suspending wires were twisted being proportional to the square of the strength of the current. A variation of the electrodynamometer was capable of measuring directly the power in electrical circuits.

The introduction by Weber of a system of absolute units for the measurement of electrical quantities was a most important step in electrical science. He had a considerable influence on the British Association committees on electrical standards organized in 1861 to promote a coherent system of electrical units. Weber's ideas also led him to define elementary electric particles, ascribing mass and charge to them. His name was used for a time before 1883 as the unit of electric current, until the name "ampere" was proposed by Helmholtz. Since 1948 the term "weber" has been used for the SI unit of magnetic flux.

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