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Англо-русский строительный словарь. — М.: Русский Язык. С.Н.Корчемкина, С.К.Кашкина, С.В.Курбатова. 1995.
Англо-русский словарь строительных терминов > civil engineering practice
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Строительство: методы возведения инженерных сооруженийУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > civil engineering practice
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Англо-русский строительный словарь > civil engineering practice
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- nпрактика; методика; (технологические) приёмы; система
- accepted engineering practice
- approved practice
- architectural practices
- building practice
- civil engineering practice
- concrete practice
- construction practice
- customary practice
- erection practice
- forming practice
- general practice
- good practice
- hot weather practice
- job practice
- jointing practice
- placing practice
- poor practice
- professional practice
- recommended practice for construction
- recommended practice
- safety practice
- shotcreting practice
- site practice
- site engineering practice
- slinging practice
- standard practice for curing concrete
- standard practice for making concrete
- traditional construction practice
Англо-русский строительный словарь. — М.: Русский Язык. С.Н.Корчемкина, С.К.Кашкина, С.В.Курбатова. 1995.
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1) практика; применение, осуществление на практике2) обычай, обыкновение; установившийся порядок•- civil engineering practice - erecting practice - established construction practice - general practice - improved welding practice - poor construction practice - safe construction practice* * *практика; методика; (технологические) приёмы; система- accepted engineering practice
- approved practice
- architectural practices
- building practice
- civil engineering practice
- concrete practice
- construction practice
- customary practice
- erection practice
- forming practice
- general practice
- good practice
- hot weather practice
- job practice
- jointing practice
- placing practice
- poor practice
- professional practice
- recommended practice for construction
- recommended practice
- safety practice
- shotcreting practice
- site practice
- site engineering practice
- slinging practice
- standard practice for curing concrete
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8 методы возведения инженерных сооружений
Construction: civil engineering practiceУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > методы возведения инженерных сооружений
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9 Rankine, William John Macquorn
SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering[br]b. 5 July 1820 Edinburgh, Scotlandd. 1872[br][br]Rankine was educated at Ayr Academy and Glasgow High School, although he appears to have learned much of his basic mathematics and physics through private study. He attended Edinburgh University and then assisted his father, who was acting as Superintendent of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway. This introduction to engineering practice was followed in 1838 by his appointment as a pupil to Sir John MacNeill, and for the next four years he served under MacNeill on his Irish railway projects. While still in his early twenties, Rankine presented pioneering papers on metal fatigue and other subjects to the Institution of Civil Engineers, for which he won a prize, but he appears to have resigned from the Civils in 1857 after an argument because the Institution would not transfer his Associate Membership into full Membership. From 1844 to 1848 Rankine worked on various projects for the Caledonian Railway Company, but his interests were becoming increasingly theoretical and a series of distinguished papers for learned societies established his reputation as a leading scholar in the new science of thermodynamics. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1853. At the same time, he remained intimately involved with practical questions of applied science, in shipbuilding, marine engineering and electric telegraphy, becoming associated with the influential coterie of fellow Scots such as the Thomson brothers, Napier, Elder, and Lewis Gordon. Gordon was then the head of a large and successful engineering practice, but he was also Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Glasgow, and when he retired from the Chair to pursue his business interests, Rankine, who had become his Assistant, was appointed in his place.From 1855 until his premature death in 1872, Rankine built up an impressive engineering department, providing a firm theoretical basis with a series of text books that he wrote himself and most of which remained in print for many decades. Despite his quarrel with the Institution of Civil Engineers, Rankine took a keen interest in the institutional development of the engineering profession, becoming the first President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, which he helped to establish in 1857. Rankine campaigned vigorously for the recognition of engineering studies as a full university degree at Glasgow, and he achieved this in 1872, the year of his death. Rankine was one of the handful of mid-nineteenth century engineers who virtually created engineering as an academic discipline.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1853. First President, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, 1857.Bibliography1858, Manual of Applied Mechanics.1859, Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers.1862, Manual of Civil Engineering.1869, Manual of Machinery and Millwork.Further ReadingJ.Small, 1957, "The institution's first president", Proceedings of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland: 687–97.H.B.Sutherland, 1972, Rankine. His Life and Times.ABBiographical history of technology > Rankine, William John Macquorn
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10 Gordon, Lewis Dunbar Brodie
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering[br]b. 6 March 1815 Edinburgh, Scotlandd. 1876[br]Scottish civil engineer.[br]Lewis Gordon attended the High School in Edinburgh and Edinburgh University. He was unusual amongst British engineers of his generation in also spending some time at foreign educational establishments, including the School of Mines at Freiberg in Saxony and the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He served under Marc Brunel in the final stages of the construction of the Thames Tunnel, from 1837 to 1840. After this, he set up a civil engineering partnership with Lawrence Hill in Glasgow in 1840 and was then appointed as the first holder of the Regius Chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at Glasgow University, 1841–55. He seems to have been frustrated by the lack of facilities at Glasgow, and handed over to his deputy, W.J.M. Rankine in 1855, in order to concentrate on his growing private practice which he had been building up during his professorship at the university. His practice was involved in designing iron bridges and introducing wire rope into Britain; he also became involved with submarine cables and telegraphy. With Charles Liddell, he was the engineer for several railways in England and Wales, including the Crumlin Viaduct on the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway.[br]Further ReadingAlthough he was frequently referred to in accounts of the period, there appears to be no good biographical work on Gordon. However, see Buchanan, 1989, The Engineers.ABBiographical history of technology > Gordon, Lewis Dunbar Brodie
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11 Pole, William
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering[br]b. 22 April 1814 Birmingham, Englandd. 1900[br]English engineer and educator.[br]Although primarily an engineer, William Pole was a man of many and varied talents, being amongst other things an accomplished musician (his doctorate was in music) and an authority on whist. He served an apprenticeship at the Horsley Company in Birmingham, and moved to London in 1836, when he was employed first as Manager to a gasworks. In 1844 he published a study of the Cornish pumping engine, and he also accepted an appointment as the first Professor of Engineering in the Elphinstone College at Bombay. He spent three pioneering years in this post, and undertook the survey work for the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. Before returning to London in 1848 he married Matilda Gauntlett, the daughter of a clergyman.Back in Britain, Pole was employed by James Simpson, J.M.Rendel and Robert Stephenson, the latter engaging him to assist with calculations on the Britannia Bridge. In 1858 he set up his own practice. He kept a very small office, choosing not to delegate work to subordinates but taking on a bewildering variety of commissions for government and private companies. In the first category, he made calculations for government officials of the main drainage of the metropolis and for its water supply. He lectured on engineering to the Royal Engineers' institution at Chatham, and served on a Select Committee to enquire into the armour of warships and fortifications. He became a member of the Royal Commission on the Railways of Great Britain and Ireland (the Devonshire Commission, 1867) and reported to the War Office on the MartiniHenry rifle. He also advised the India Office about examinations for engineering students. The drafting and writing up of reports was frequently left to Pole, who also made distinguished contributions to the official Lives of Robert Stephenson (1864), I.K. Brunel (1870) and William Fairbairn (1877). For other bodies, he acted as Consulting Engineer in England to the Japanese government, and he assisted W.H.Barlow in calculations for a bridge at Queensferry on the Firth of Forth (1873). He was consulted about many urban water supplies.Pole joined the Institution of Civil Engineers as an Associate in 1840 and became a Member in 1856. He became a Member of Council, Honorary Secretary (succeeding Manby in 1885–96) and Honorary Member of the Institution. He was interested in astronomy and photography, he was fluent in several languages, was an expert on music, and became the world authority on whist. In 1859 he was appointed Professor of Civil Engineering at University College London, serving in this office until 1867. Pole, whose dates coincided closely with those of Queen Victoria, was one of the great Victorian engineers: he was a polymath, able to apply his great abilities to an amazing range of different tasks. In engineering history, he deserves to be remembered as an outstanding communicator and popularizer.[br]Bibliography1843, "Comparative loss by friction in beam and direct-action engines", Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 2:69.Further ReadingDictionary of National Biography, London.Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 143:301–9.AB -
12 Downing, Samuel
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering[br]b. 19 July 1811 Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow, Irelandd. 21 April 1882[br]Irish engineer and teacher.[br]Samuel Downing had a formative influence on the development of engineering education in Ireland. He was educated at Kilkenny College and Trinity College, Dublin, where he took a BA in 1834. He subsequently attended courses in natural philosophy at Edinburgh, before taking up work as a railway and bridge engineer. Amongst structures on which he worked were the timber viaduct connecting Portland Island to the mainland in Dorset, England, and the curved viaduct at Coed-re-Coed on the Taff Vale Railway, Wales. In 1847 he was persuaded to return to Trinity College, Dublin, as Assistant to Sir John MacNeill, who had been appointed Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering on its establishment in 1842. MacNeill always found it difficult to give up time on his engineering practice to spend on his teaching duties, so the addition of Downing to the staff gave a great impetus to the effectiveness of the School. When MacNeill retired from the Chair in 1852, Downing was his obvious successor and held the post until his death. For thirty years Downing devoted his engineering expertise and the energy of his warm personality to the School of Engineering and its students, of whom almost four hundred passed through the School in the years when he was responsible for it.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsAssociate Member, Institution of Civil Engineers 1852.BibliographyFurther ReadingProceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 72:310–11.AB -
13 EP
1) Общая лексика: ОПР, Experimental Programme2) Медицина: электрофизиология (ЭФ)3) Военный термин: ELINT Processor, Electronic Protection, early production, earth penetrator, electric primer, electronic patrol, electronics package, electronics panel, emergency planning, emission policy, ending period, enemy position, engine performance, engineer personnel, engineering personnel, engineering philosophy, engineering practice, engineering process, enlisted personnel, entrucking point, estimated position, expanding point4) Техника: electro pneumatic, electronic package, electronic photography, electrostatic powder, emergency plan, emergency power, engineering prototype, epoxide, equipment piece, etched plate5) Математика: оценка вероятности (estimated probability), точка равновесия (equilibrium point)6) Экономика: (economic profit) экономическая прибыль7) Финансы: (Equator principles) экваториальные приниципы (Образное название международно-признанного эталона для оценки и управления социальными и экологическими рисками проектного финансирования)8) Автомобильный термин: exhaust pressure9) Музыка: альбом (extended play), мини-альбом, пластинка, миньон (от англ. Extended Play. Запись, которая содержит больше музыки, чем сингл, но меньше, чем альбом.), мини-альбом10) Телекоммуникации: entrance point11) Сокращение: Civil aircraft marking (Iran), Earth Penetrating, Electronic Protection (Now known as ECCM), Electronic Protection (formerly ECCM), Emergency Preparedness, European Parliament, Exercise Practice, Experience Points, Extended Play, epitaxial planar, electrically polarized (relay)12) Вычислительная техника: editing program, electronic publishing, end of program, entry point, evaluation program, конец программы, программа оценки, программа-редактор, электронная издательская деятельность, электронные издательские системы13) Нефть: additive extreme-pressure lubricant, electric pump, electromagnetic pipe inspection log, engineering and procurement, engineering procurement, experimental program, mix ethane-propane mix, противозадирный (о смазке, extreme pressure), взрывозащищённый (explosion-proof), extreme pressure (lubricant)14) Экология: environmental protection15) Патенты: Европейский патент16) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Earning Power, Exploration and Production, end point (temperature at which all of a fraction is vaporized)17) Полимеры: easy-processing, effective pressure, end/picks, epoxy plastic, epoxy polymers, ethylene-propylene, extreme pressure18) Автоматика: exploration procedure19) Сахалин Р: Exploration & Production20) Химическое оружие: emergency procedure, equipment procurement, extracting procedure21) Физическая химия: entrance potential (в масс-спектроскопии)22) Макаров: electrically polarized, epoxy resin23) Расширение файла: Electrophotographic Engine24) Фармация: Европейская Фармакопея (Сокращенно Евр.Ф.) -
14 Ep
1) Общая лексика: ОПР, Experimental Programme2) Медицина: электрофизиология (ЭФ)3) Военный термин: ELINT Processor, Electronic Protection, early production, earth penetrator, electric primer, electronic patrol, electronics package, electronics panel, emergency planning, emission policy, ending period, enemy position, engine performance, engineer personnel, engineering personnel, engineering philosophy, engineering practice, engineering process, enlisted personnel, entrucking point, estimated position, expanding point4) Техника: electro pneumatic, electronic package, electronic photography, electrostatic powder, emergency plan, emergency power, engineering prototype, epoxide, equipment piece, etched plate5) Математика: оценка вероятности (estimated probability), точка равновесия (equilibrium point)6) Экономика: (economic profit) экономическая прибыль7) Финансы: (Equator principles) экваториальные приниципы (Образное название международно-признанного эталона для оценки и управления социальными и экологическими рисками проектного финансирования)8) Автомобильный термин: exhaust pressure9) Музыка: альбом (extended play), мини-альбом, пластинка, миньон (от англ. Extended Play. Запись, которая содержит больше музыки, чем сингл, но меньше, чем альбом.), мини-альбом10) Телекоммуникации: entrance point11) Сокращение: Civil aircraft marking (Iran), Earth Penetrating, Electronic Protection (Now known as ECCM), Electronic Protection (formerly ECCM), Emergency Preparedness, European Parliament, Exercise Practice, Experience Points, Extended Play, epitaxial planar, electrically polarized (relay)12) Вычислительная техника: editing program, electronic publishing, end of program, entry point, evaluation program, конец программы, программа оценки, программа-редактор, электронная издательская деятельность, электронные издательские системы13) Нефть: additive extreme-pressure lubricant, electric pump, electromagnetic pipe inspection log, engineering and procurement, engineering procurement, experimental program, mix ethane-propane mix, противозадирный (о смазке, extreme pressure), взрывозащищённый (explosion-proof), extreme pressure (lubricant)14) Экология: environmental protection15) Патенты: Европейский патент16) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Earning Power, Exploration and Production, end point (temperature at which all of a fraction is vaporized)17) Полимеры: easy-processing, effective pressure, end/picks, epoxy plastic, epoxy polymers, ethylene-propylene, extreme pressure18) Автоматика: exploration procedure19) Сахалин Р: Exploration & Production20) Химическое оружие: emergency procedure, equipment procurement, extracting procedure21) Физическая химия: entrance potential (в масс-спектроскопии)22) Макаров: electrically polarized, epoxy resin23) Расширение файла: Electrophotographic Engine24) Фармация: Европейская Фармакопея (Сокращенно Евр.Ф.) -
15 ep
1) Общая лексика: ОПР, Experimental Programme2) Медицина: электрофизиология (ЭФ)3) Военный термин: ELINT Processor, Electronic Protection, early production, earth penetrator, electric primer, electronic patrol, electronics package, electronics panel, emergency planning, emission policy, ending period, enemy position, engine performance, engineer personnel, engineering personnel, engineering philosophy, engineering practice, engineering process, enlisted personnel, entrucking point, estimated position, expanding point4) Техника: electro pneumatic, electronic package, electronic photography, electrostatic powder, emergency plan, emergency power, engineering prototype, epoxide, equipment piece, etched plate5) Математика: оценка вероятности (estimated probability), точка равновесия (equilibrium point)6) Экономика: (economic profit) экономическая прибыль7) Финансы: (Equator principles) экваториальные приниципы (Образное название международно-признанного эталона для оценки и управления социальными и экологическими рисками проектного финансирования)8) Автомобильный термин: exhaust pressure9) Музыка: альбом (extended play), мини-альбом, пластинка, миньон (от англ. Extended Play. Запись, которая содержит больше музыки, чем сингл, но меньше, чем альбом.), мини-альбом10) Телекоммуникации: entrance point11) Сокращение: Civil aircraft marking (Iran), Earth Penetrating, Electronic Protection (Now known as ECCM), Electronic Protection (formerly ECCM), Emergency Preparedness, European Parliament, Exercise Practice, Experience Points, Extended Play, epitaxial planar, electrically polarized (relay)12) Вычислительная техника: editing program, electronic publishing, end of program, entry point, evaluation program, конец программы, программа оценки, программа-редактор, электронная издательская деятельность, электронные издательские системы13) Нефть: additive extreme-pressure lubricant, electric pump, electromagnetic pipe inspection log, engineering and procurement, engineering procurement, experimental program, mix ethane-propane mix, противозадирный (о смазке, extreme pressure), взрывозащищённый (explosion-proof), extreme pressure (lubricant)14) Экология: environmental protection15) Патенты: Европейский патент16) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Earning Power, Exploration and Production, end point (temperature at which all of a fraction is vaporized)17) Полимеры: easy-processing, effective pressure, end/picks, epoxy plastic, epoxy polymers, ethylene-propylene, extreme pressure18) Автоматика: exploration procedure19) Сахалин Р: Exploration & Production20) Химическое оружие: emergency procedure, equipment procurement, extracting procedure21) Физическая химия: entrance potential (в масс-спектроскопии)22) Макаров: electrically polarized, epoxy resin23) Расширение файла: Electrophotographic Engine24) Фармация: Европейская Фармакопея (Сокращенно Евр.Ф.) -
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c black pont [pɔ̃]1. masculine nouna. bridgeb. (sur bateau) deck• pont avant/arrière fore/rear deck• tout le monde sur le pont ! all hands on deck!d. ( = vacances) extra day(s) off (taken between two public holidays or a public holiday and a weekend)• faire le pont to make a long weekend of it → FÊTES LÉGALES2. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The expression faire le pont refers to the practice of taking a Monday or Friday off to make a long weekend if a public holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday. The French commonly take an extra day off work to give four consecutive days' holiday at « l'Ascension », « le 14 juillet » and « le 15 août ».* * *pɔ̃
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nom masculin1) Architecture, Construction, Bâtiment bridge2) ( liens) link, tie3) ( vacances) extended weekend ( including day(s) between a public holiday and a weekend)4) Nautisme deck5) Automobile axle6) Sport crab
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ponts nom masculin plurielPhrasal Verbs:••il coulera beaucoup d'eau sous les ponts avant que... — it will be a long time before...
* * *pɔ̃ nm1) (= édifice) bridge2) NAVIGATION deck3) AUTOMOBILES4) (locutions)Nous faisons le pont pour la Pentecôte. — We're taking a long weekend for Whitsun.
* * *A nm2 ( liens) fig link (avec with), tie (avec with); couper les ponts to break off all contact; il a coupé les ponts avec sa famille he has broken with his family;3 ( vacances) extended weekend (including day(s) between a public holiday and a weekend); faire le pont to make a long weekend of it; lundi je fais le pont I'm taking Monday off;4 Naut deck; tout le monde sur le pont! all hands on deck!; pont principal/supérieur main/upper deck; pont avant/pont arrière foredeck/reardeck; bâtiment à deux ponts two-decker;5 Aut axle; pont avant/arrière front/rear axle;6 Sport crab; faire le pont to do the crab;7 Électrotech bridge (circuit).pont aérien airlift; pont aux ânes lit pons asinorum; fig truism; pont basculant bascule bridge; pont de bateaux pontoon bridge; pont à béquilles portal bridge; pont élévateur hydraulic ramp; pont d'envol flight deck; pont flottant pontoon bridge; pont de graissage hydraulic ramp; pont levant vertical-lift bridge; pont mobile movable bridge; pont à péage toll bridge; pont roulant (overhead) travellingGB crane; pont suspendu suspension bridge; pont thermique thermal bridge; pont tournant swing bridge; pont transbordeur transporter bridge; Pont des Soupirs Bridge of Sighs.coucher sous les ponts to sleep rough, to be a tramp; il coulera beaucoup d'eau sous les ponts avant que… it will be a long time before…; brûler les ponts derrière soi to burn one's boats ou bridges; faire un pont d'or à qn to offer sb a large sum to accept a job.[pɔ̃] nom masculinpont mobile/suspendu movable/suspension bridgepont à bascule ou basculant bascule ou balance bridgea. [routier] swing bridgeb. [ferroviaire] turntablefaire/promettre un pont d'or à quelqu'un to offer/to promise somebody a fortune (so that they'll take on a job)se porter ou être solide comme le Pont-Neuf to be as fit as a fiddlebateau à deux/trois ponts two/three deckerpont inférieur/principal lower/main deckpont arrière aft ou after deckpont supérieur upper ou top decka. [levez-vous] everybody up!b. [mettez-vous au travail] let's get down to business!3. [week-end] long weekendle 11 novembre tombe un jeudi, je vais faire le pont the 11th of November is on Thursday, I'll take Friday off (and have a long weekend)4. [structure de manutention]pont élévateur ou de graissage garage ramp, car lift, elevator platformpont roulant gantry ou travelling crane5. AUTOMOBILE6. AÉRONAUTIQUE7. GÉOMÉTRIE8. MILITAIREPonts et Chaussées nom masculin pluriel -
17 Doane, Thomas
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Railways and locomotives[br]b. 20 September 1821 Orleans, Massachusetts, USAd. 22 October 1897 West Townsend, Massachusetts, USA[br]American mechanical engineer.[br]The son of a lawyer, he entered an academy in Cape Cod and, at the age of 19, the English Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, for five terms. He was then in the employ of Samuel L. Fenton of Charlestown, Massachusetts. He served a three-year apprenticeship, then went to the Windsor White River Division of the Vermont Central Railroad. He was Resident Engineer of the Cheshire Railroad at Walpote, New Hampshire, from 1847 to 1849, and then worked in independent practice as a civil engineer and surveyor until his death. He was involved with nearly all the railroads running out of Boston, especially the Boston \& Maine. In April 1863 he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Hoosac Tunnel, which was already being built. He introduced new engineering methods, relocated the line of the tunnel and achieved great accuracy in the meeting of the borings. He was largely responsible for the development in the USA of the advanced system of tunnelling with machinery and explosives, and pioneered the use of compressed air in the USA. In 1869 he was Chief Engineer of the Burlington \& Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska, laying down some 240 miles (386 km) of track in four years. During this period he became interested in the building of a Congregational College at Crete, Nebraska, for which he gave the land and which was named after him. In 1873 he returned to Charlestown and was again appointed Chief Engineer of the Hoosac Tunnel. At the final opening of the tunnel on 9 February 1875 he drove the first engine through. He remained in charge of construction for a further two years.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsPresident, School of Civil Engineers.Further ReadingDuncan Malone (ed.), 1932–3, Dictionary of American Biography, New York: Charles Scribner.IMcN -
18 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 -
19 Hosking, William
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering[br]b. 1800d. 1861[br]Australian architect and engineer.[br]William Hosking was appointed Professor of'the arts and construction' at King's College, London, in 1840. He was an architect and engineer who moved to England in 1819 after working as a builder in Sydney. He thus represents an unusually early example of the reverse migration of professional talent between Britain and its colonies. He exhibited drawings in London, becoming a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1830 and Fellow of the Royal Institution of British Architects in 1835. He was then caught up, like so many of his contemporaries with engineering ability, in railway building, working on the West London Railway. From 1840 to his death in 1861 he occupied the Chair at King's College, making a pioneering contribution to the development of engineering education in Britain. He published his Theory, Practice and Architecture of Bridges in 1843, and contributed to the design for the British Museum reading room.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFellow of the Society of Antiquaries 1830. FRIBA 1835.Bibliography1843, Theory, Practice and Architecture of Bridges.Further ReadingDictionary of National Biography, London.AB -
20 MacNeill, Sir John Benjamin
[br]b. 1793 (?) Mount Pleasant, near Dundalk, Louth, Irelandd. 2 March 1880[br]Irish railway engineer and educator.[br]Sir John MacNeill became a pupil of Thomas Telford and served under him as Superintendent of the Southern Division of the Holyhead Road from London to Shrewsbury. In this capacity he invented a "Road Indicator" or dynamometer. Like other Telford followers, he viewed the advent of railways with some antipathy, but after the death of Telford in 1834 he quickly became involved in railway construction and in 1837 he was retained by the Irish Railway Commissioners to build railways in the north of Ireland (Vignoles received the commission for the south). Much of his subsequent career was devoted to schemes for Irish railways, both those envisaged by the Commissioners and other private lines with more immediately commercial objectives. He was knighted in 1844 on the completion of the Dublin \& Drogheda Railway along the east coast of Ireland. In 1845 MacNeill lodged plans for over 800 miles (1,300 km) of Irish railways. Not all of these were built, many falling victim to Irish poverty in the years after the Famine, but he maintained a large staff and became financially embarrassed. His other schemes included the Grangemouth Docks in Scotland, the Liverpool \& Bury Railway, and the Belfast Waterworks, the latter completed in 1843 and subsequently extended by Bateman.MacNeill was an engineer of originality, being the person who introduced iron-lattice bridges into Britain, employing the theoretical and experimental work of Fairbairn and Eaton Hodgkinson (the Boyne Bridge at Drogheda had two such spans of 250ft (76m) each). He also devised the Irish railway gauge of 5 ft 2 in. (1.57 m). Consulted by the Board of Trinity College, Dublin, regarding a School of Engineering in 1842, he was made an Honorary LLD of the University and appointed the first Professor of Civil Engineering, but he relinquished the chair to his assistant, Samuel Downing, in 1846. MacNeill was a large and genial man, but not, we are told, "of methodical and business habit": he relied heavily on his subordinates. Blindness obliged him to retire from practice several years before his death. He was an early member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, joining in 1827, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1838.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1838.Further ReadingDictionary of National Biography. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers73:361–71.ABBiographical history of technology > MacNeill, Sir John Benjamin
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