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1 Allen, Horatio
[br]b. 10 May 1802 Schenectady, New York, USAd. 1 January 1890 South Orange, New Jersey, USA[br]American engineer, pioneer of steam locomotives.[br]Allen was the Resident Engineer for construction of the Delaware \& Hudson Canal and in 1828 was instructed by J.B. Jervis to visit England to purchase locomotives for the canal's rail extension. He drove the locomotive Stourbridge Lion, built by J.U. Rastrick, on its first trial on 9 August 1829, but weak track prevented its regular use.Allen was present at the Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in October 1829. So was E.L.Miller, one of the promoters of the South Carolina Canal \& Rail Road Company, to which Allen was appointed Chief Engineer that autumn. Allen was influential in introducing locomotives to this railway, and the West Point Foundry built a locomotive for it to his design; it was the first locomotive built in the USA for sale. This locomotive, which bore some resemblance to Novelty, built for Rainhill by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, was named Best Friend of Charleston. On Christmas Day 1830 it hauled the first scheduled steam train to run in America, carrying 141 passengers.In 1832 the West Point Foundry built four double-ended, articulated 2–2–0+0–2–2 locomotives to Horatio Allen's design for the South Carolina railroad. From each end of a central firebox extended two boiler barrels side by side with common smokeboxes and chimneys; wheels were mounted on swivelling sub-frames, one at each end, beneath these boilers. Allen's principal object was to produce a powerful locomotive with a light axle loading.Allen subsequently became a partner in Stillman, Allen \& Co. of New York, builders of marine engines, and in 1843 was President of the Erie Railroad.[br]Further ReadingJ.Marshall, 1978, A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.Dictionary of American Biography.R.E.Carlson, 1969, The Liverpool \& Manchester Railway Project 1821–1831, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.J.F.Stover, 1961, American Railroads, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.J.H.White Jr, 1994, "Old debts and new visions", in Common Roots—Separate Branches, London: Science Museum, 79–82.PJGR -
2 Cooper, Peter
[br]b. 12 February 1791 New York, USAd. 4 April 1883 New York, USA[br]American entrepreneur and steam locomotive pioneer.[br]Cooper had minimal formal education, but following a childhood spent helping his small-businessman father, he had by his early twenties become a prosperous glue maker. In 1828, with partners, he set up an ironworks at Baltimore. The Baltimore \& Ohio Railroad, intended for horse haulage, was under construction and, to confound those sceptical of the powers of steam, Cooper built a steam locomotive, with vertical boiler and single vertical cylinder, that was so small that it was called Tom Thumb. Nevertheless, when on test in 1830, it proved a match for horse power and became one of the first locomotives to run on an American railway. Cooper did not, however, personally take this line of development further; rather, he built up a vast industrial empire and later in life became a noted philanthropist.[br]Further ReadingJ.F.Stover, 1961, American Railroads, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Dictionary of American Biography.PJGR -
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5 Stevens, John
[br]b. 1749 New York, New York, USAd. 6 March 1838 Hoboken, New Jersey, USA[br]American pioneer of steamboats and railways.[br]Stevens, a wealthy landowner with an estate at Hoboken on the Hudson River, had his attention drawn to the steamboat of John Fitch in 1786, and thenceforth devoted much of his time and fortune to developing steamboats and mechanical transport. He also had political influence and it was at his instance that Congress in 1790 passed an Act establishing the first patent laws in the USA. The following year Stevens was one of the first recipients of a US patent. This referred to multi-tubular boilers, of both watertube and firetube types, and antedated by many years the work of both Henry Booth and Marc Seguin on the latter.A steamboat built in 1798 by John Stevens, Nicholas J.Roosevelt and Stevens's brother-in-law, Robert R.Livingston, in association was unsuccessful, nor was Stevens satisfied with a boat built in 1802 in which a simple rotary steam-en-gine was mounted on the same shaft as a screw propeller. However, although others had experimented earlier with screw propellers, when John Stevens had the Little Juliana built in 1804 he produced the first practical screw steamboat. Steam at 50 psi (3.5 kg/cm2) pressure was supplied by a watertube boiler to a single-cylinder engine which drove two contra-rotating shafts, upon each of which was mounted a screw propeller. This little boat, less than 25 ft (7.6 m) long, was taken backwards and forwards across the Hudson River by two of Stevens's sons, one of whom, R.L. Stevens, was to help his father with many subsequent experiments. The boat, however, was ahead of its time, and steamships were to be driven by paddle wheels until the late 1830s.In 1807 John Stevens declined an invitation to join with Robert Fulton and Robert R.Living-ston in their development work, which culminated in successful operation of the PS Clermont that summer; in 1808, however, he launched his own paddle steamer, the Phoenix. But Fulton and Livingston had obtained an effective monopoly of steamer operation on the Hudson and, unable to reach agreement with them, Stevens sent Phoenix to Philadelphia to operate on the Delaware River. The intervening voyage over 150 miles (240 km) of open sea made Phoenix the first ocean-going steamer.From about 1810 John Stevens turned his attention to the possibilities of railways. He was at first considered a visionary, but in 1815, at his instance, the New Jersey Assembly created a company to build a railway between the Delaware and Raritan Rivers. It was the first railway charter granted in the USA, although the line it authorized remained unbuilt. To demonstrate the feasibility of the steam locomotive, Stevens built an experimental locomotive in 1825, at the age of 76. With flangeless wheels, guide rollers and rack-and-pinion drive, it ran on a circular track at his Hoboken home; it was the first steam locomotive to be built in America.[br]Bibliography1812, Documents Tending to Prove the Superior Advantages of Rail-ways and Steam-carriages over Canal Navigation.He took out patents relating to steam-engines in the USA in 1791, 1803, and 1810, and in England, through his son John Cox Stevens, in 1805.Further ReadingH.P.Spratt, 1958, The Birth of the Steamboat, Charles Griffin (provides technical details of Stevens's boats).J.T.Flexner, 1978, Steamboats Come True, Boston: Little, Brown (describes his work in relation to that of other steamboat pioneers).J.R.Stover, 1961, American Railroads, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Transactions of the Newcomen Society (1927) 7: 114 (discusses tubular boilers).J.R.Day and B.G.Wilson, 1957, Unusual Railways, F.Muller (discusses Stevens's locomotive).PJGR -
6 Massachusetts
[ˏmæsǝˊtʃu:sɪts] Массачусетс, ведущий штат Новой Англии на северо-востоке Атлантического побережья США <по назв. индейск. племени Massachuset (от masa большой + wachusett гора)>. Полное назв.: Содружество Массачусетс [Commonwealth of Massachusetts]. Сокращение: MA. Прозвища: «штат у залива» [*Bay State], «старая колония» [*Old Colony], «пуританский штат» [*Puritan State], «штат печёных бобов» [*Baked Bean State]. Житель штата: *Bay Stater. Столица: г. Бостон [*Boston III]. Девиз: «С мечом в руках мы жаждем мира, но только мира под сенью свободы» (лат. ‘Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem’ — ‘By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty’). Песня штата: «Все славят Массачусетс» [‘All hail to Massachusetts’]. Цветок: цветок боярышника [*mayflower]. Дерево: американский вяз [American elm]. Птица: гаичка, американская синица [*chickadee]. Напиток: клюквенный сок [*cranberry juice]. Животное: лошадь Моргана [Morgan horse]. Насекомое: божья коровка [*ladybug]. Площадь: 21,5 тыс. кв. км (18,284 sq. mi.) (45- е место). Население (1992): ок. 6 млн. (13- е место). Крупнейшие города: Бостон [*Boston III], Вустер [Worcester], Кеймбридж [*Cambridge], Фол-Ривер [Fall River], Нью-Бедфорд [*New Bedford], Куинси [Quincy]. Экономика. Ведущий штат Новой Англии с преобладанием производств, требующих мало сырья, но высококвалифицированной рабочей силы (машиностроение, электротехническая промышленность и др.). Особое развитие получила радиоэлектроника. В XIX в. в штате преобладали текстильная [Beverly, Lowell, *New Bedford, Lawrence] и обувная отрасли промышленности [Lynn, Brockton, Haverhill]. Сейчас (1990) ведущие отрасли экономики: услуги, торговля, машиностроение. Основная продукция (1990): электро- и электронное оборудование, промышленное оборудование, печатная продукция и полиграфия, металлоизделия. Сельское хозяйство пригородного типа, штат является основным поставщиком клюквы [*Cape Cod cranberries]. Основные культуры: клюква, тепличные овощи. Животноводство (1983): крупного рогатого скота — 120 тыс., свиней — 50 тыс., овец — 8 тыс., лошадей и пони — 125 тыс., птицы — 3,6 млн. Массачусетс занимает ведущее место в рыболовстве (особ. трески). Продукция рыболовства (1992): на 280,6 млн. долл. Лесное хозяйство: белая сосна, дуб, другие твёрдодревесные породы. Минералы: песок и гравий, камень, известняк. История. На территории штата пуританами [*Pilgrim Fathers], высадившимися с корабля «Мэйфлауэр» [*‘Mayflower, The’ I] в 1620, была основана первая постоянная английская колония Плимут [*Plymouth]. После первой тяжёлой зимы, собрав осенью обильный урожай, колонисты отметили первый в истории США День благодарения [*Thanksgiving Day]. Сопротивление индейцев было подавлено после войны с «королём Филиппом» [King Philip’s War] в 1675—76 гг. С середины XVIII в. Массачусетс становится одним из основных центров движения за независимость североамериканских колоний [*Boston Massacre, *Boston Tea Party], на его территории происходят первые вооружённые столкновения между повстанцами [*minutemen] и английскими войсками (см. Lexington and Concord, Battle of). После Войны за независимость Массачусетс был центром восстания во главе с Шейсом [*Shay’s rebellion]. В 1920-е гг. внимание мировой общественности было приковано к судебному процессу над профсоюзными активистами Сакко и Ванцетти [*Sacco—Vanzetti]. Достопримечательности: Кейп-Код [*Cape Cod]; Плимутская скала [*Plymouth Rock]; «Маршрут свободы» [*Freedom Trail]; концерты популярной музыки «Попс» [*Boston ‘Pops’ concerts]; Музей изящных искусств [*Boston Museum of Fine Arts] в Бостоне; Музей Арнольда Арборетума [Arnold Arboretum]; деревня колониального периода [Old Sturbridge Village]; исторический посёлок шейкеров; памятные места, связанные с минитменами [Minute Men Historical Park]; курорт Кейп-Код [*Cape Cod] с колонией художников в Провинстауне [*Provincetown]; Беркширский музыкальный фестиваль [Berkshire Music Festval]; танцевальный фестиваль Джейкоба [Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival] и др. Знаменитые массачусетцы: Адамс, Джон [*Adams, John], 2-й президент США; Адамс, Джон Куинси [*Adams, John Quincy], 6-й президент США; Адамс, Самуэль [*Adams, Samuel], один из лидеров освободительной борьбы за независимость североамериканских колоний; Элджер, Хорейшо [*Alger, Horatio], писатель; Аттакс, Криспус [Attucks, Crispus], матрос-мулат, оказавшийся в числе первых жертв Американской революции; Энтони, Сьюзан [*Anthony, Susan], активистка движения за предоставление избирательных прав женщинам; Бартон, Клара [*Barton, Clara], медсестра, основавшая Американский Красный Крест; Белл, Александр Грэм [*Bell, Alexander Graham], изобретатель телефона; Дикинсон, Эмили [*Dickinson, Emily], поэтесса; Эмерсон, Ралф Уолдо [*Emerson, Ralph Waldo], философ и писатель; Хэнкок, Джон [*Hancock, John], политический деятель времён Американской революции; Хомер, Уинслоу [*Homer, Winslow], художник; Кеннеди, Джон Ф. [*Kennedy, John Fitzgerald], 35-й президент США; Морзе, Самуэль [*Morse, Samuel F. B.], изобретатель; По, Эдгар [*Poe, Edgar Allen], писатель и поэт; Ревир, Пол [*Revere, Paul], патриот; Сарджент, Джон [*Sargent, John Singer], художник; Торо, Генри [*Thoreau, Henry David], философ и писатель; Уистлер, Джеймс [*Whistler, James], художник. Ассоциации: первая колония в Америке, основанная «отцами-пилигримами» [*Pilgrim Fathers], высадившимися с борта корабля «Мэйфлауэр» [*‘Mayflower, The’ I]; ассоциируется с пуританизмом [*Baked Beans], судебными процессами над ведьмами [*Salem witch trials], началом Войны за независимость (см. Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre, Old North Church, Paul Revere’s midnight ride, minutemen, Concord, Lexington), престижностью высших учебных заведений [*Harvard University, *Massachusetts Institute of Technology, *Radcliff college], снобизмом бостонского высшего общества и политическими традициями семьи Кеннеди [Kennedy family], высоким уровнем музыкального искусства [*Boston Symphony Orchestra, *Boston Pops] и самыми плохими водителями [‘the worst drivers in the world’]; Массачусетс славится треской, клюквой [*Cape Cod cranberries], тортами [Boston cream pies]; известны его спортивные команды: футбольная «Бостонские патриоты» [*‘Boston Patriots’], баскетбольная «Бостонские кельты» [*‘Boston Celtics’], бейсбольная «Красные носки» [*‘Red Sox’]США. Лингвострановедческий англо-русский словарь > Massachusetts
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7 Revolutionary War
Война за независимость США. Началась с перестрелки у Лексингтона и Конкорда [Lexington and Concord, Battle of] в 1775 и продолжалась вплоть до сражения у Йорктауна [Yorktown, Battle of] в 1781. Главнокомандующим американскими войсками был ген. Джордж Вашингтон, вместе с ним были Этан Аллен [*Allen, Ethan], Бенедикт Арнольд [*Arnold, Benedict], вставший затем на путь предательства, Горацио Гейтс [Gates, Horatio], Джон Пол Джонс [*Jones, John Paul] и др. Английскими войсками командовали Чарлз Корнуоллис [*Cornwallis, Charles], Томас Гейдж [*Gage, Thomas], Уильям Хау [Howe, William] и др. Американцам большую помощь оказывала Франция как флотом, так и войсками, за независимость североамериканских колоний сражался французский политический деятель и профессиональный военный маркиз де Лафайет [*Lafayette]. Война закончилась подписанием Парижского договора в 1783США. Лингвострановедческий англо-русский словарь > Revolutionary War
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8 Jervis, John Bloomfield
[br]b. 14 December 1795 Huntingdon, New York, USAd. 12 January 1885 Rome, New York, USA[br]American pioneer of civil engineering and locomotive design.[br]Jervis assisted in the survey and construction of the Erie Canal, and by 1827 was Chief Engineer of the Delaware \& Hudson Canal and, linked with it, the Carbondale Railroad. He instructed Horatio Allen to go to England to purchase locomotives in 1828, and the locomotive Stourbridge Lion, built by J.U. Rastrick, was placed on the railway in 1829. It was the first full-size locomotive to run in America, but the track proved too weak for it to be used regularly. In 1830 Jervis became Chief Engineer to the Mohawk \& Hudson Rail Road, which was the first railway in New York State and was opened the following year. In 1832 the 4–2–0 locomotive Experiment was built to his plans by West Point Foundry: it was the first locomotive to have a leading bogie or truck. Jervis was subsequently associated with many other extensive canals and railways and pioneered economic analysis of engineering problems to enable, for example, the best choice to be made between two possible routes for a railroad.[br]Bibliography1861, Railway Property, New York.Further ReadingJ.H.White Jr, 1979, A History of the American Locomotive-Its Development: 1830–1880, New York: Dover Publications Inc.J.K.Finch, 1931, "John Bloomfield Jervis, civil engineer", Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 11.PJGRBiographical history of technology > Jervis, John Bloomfield
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9 Rastrick, John Urpeth
[br]b. 26 January 1780 Morpeth, Englandd. 1 November 1856 Chertsey, England[br]English engineer whose career spanned the formative years of steam railways, from constructing some of the earliest locomotives to building great trunk lines.[br]John Urpeth Rastrick, son of an engineer, was initially articled to his father and then moved to Ketley Ironworks, Shropshire, c. 1801. In 1808 he entered into a partnership with John Hazledine at Bridgnorth, Shropshire: Hazledine and Rastrick built many steam engines to the designs of Richard Trevithick, including the demonstration locomotive Catch-Me-Who-Can. The firm also built iron bridges, notably the bridge over the River Wye at Chepstow in 1815–16.Between 1822 and 1826 the Stratford \& Moreton Railway was built under Rastrick's direction. Malleable iron rails were laid, in one of the first instances of their use. They were supplied by James Foster of Stourbridge, with whom Rastrick went into partnership after the death of Hazledine. In 1825 Rastrick was one of a team of engineers sent by the committee of the proposed Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) to carry out trials of locomotives built by George Stephenson on the Killingworth Waggonway. Early in 1829 the directors of the L \& MR, which was by then under construction, sent Rastrick and James Walker to inspect railways in North East England and report on the relative merits of steam locomotives and fixed engines with cable haulage. They reported, rather hesitantly, in favour of the latter, particularly the reciprocal system of Benjamin Thompson. In consequence the Rainhill Trials, at which Rastrick was one of the judges, were held that October. In 1829 Rastrick constructed the Shutt End colliery railway in Worcestershire, for which Foster and Rastrick built the locomotive Agenoria; this survives in the National Railway Museum. Three similar locomotives were built to the order of Horatio Allen for export to the USA.From then until he retired in 1847 Rastrick found ample employment surveying railways, appearing as a witness before Parliamentary committees, and supervising construction. Principally, he surveyed the southern part of the Grand Junction Railway, which was built for the most part by Joseph Locke, and the line from Manchester to Crewe which was eventually built as the Manchester \& Birmingham Railway. The London \& Brighton Railway (Croydon to Brighton) was his great achievement: built under Rastrick's supervision between 1836 and 1840, it included three long tunnels and the magnificent Ouse Viaduct. In 1845 he was Engineer to the Gravesend \& Rochester Railway, the track of which was laid through the Thames \& Medway Canal's Strood Tunnel, partly on the towpath and partly on a continuous staging over the water.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1837.Bibliography1829, with Walker, Report…on the Comparative Merits of Locomotive and Fixed Engines, Liverpool.Further ReadingC.F.Dendy Marshall, 1953, A History of Railway Locomotives Down to the End of the Year 1831, The Locomotive Publishing Co.R.E.Carlson, 1969, The Liverpool \& Manchester Railway Project 1821–1831, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.C.Hadfield and J.Norris, 1962, Waterways to Stratford, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles (covers Stratford and Moreton Railway).See also: Stephenson, RobertPJGR
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