Henry, James J.

SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping

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After graduating in 1935 from the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, New York, Henry served in different government agencies until 1938 when he joined the fast expanding US Maritime Commission. He assisted in the design and construction of troop-carrying vessels, Cl cargo ships, and he supervised the construction of two wartime attack transports. At the end of hostilities, he set up as a consultant naval architect and by 1951 had incorporated the business as J.J.Henry \& Company Inc. The opportunities that consultancy gave him were grasped eagerly; he became involved in the conversion of war-built tonnage to peaceful purposes (such as T2 tankers to ore carriers), the development of the new technologies of the carriage of liquefied gases at cryogenic temperatures and low pressures and, possibly the greatest step forward of all, the development of containerization. Containerization and the closely related field of barge transportation were to provide considerable business during the 1960s and the 1970s. The company designed the wonderful 33-knot container ships for Sea-Land and the auspicious Sea-bee barge carriers for the Lykes Brothers of New Orleans. James Henry's professional achievements were recognized internationally when he was elected President of the (United States) Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in 1969. By then he had served on many boards and committees and was especially honoured to be Chairman of the Board of Trustees of his graduating college, the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture of New York.

◙ n. הנרי ג'יימס (1843-1916), סופר אמריקאי שהשתקע בלונדון (אנגליה), מחבר "השגרירים", "טבעת החנק" ועוד

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SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping

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The son of Patrick Bell, a millwright, Henry had two sisters and an elder brother and was educated at the village school. When he was 9 years old Henry was sent to lodge in Falkirk with an uncle and aunt of his mother's so that he could attend the school there. At the age of 12 he left school and agreed to become a mason with a relative. In 1783, after only three years, he was bound apprentice to his Uncle Henry, a millwright at Jay Mill. He stayed there for a further three years and then, in 1786, joined the firm of Shaw \& Hart, shipbuilders of Borrowstoneness. These were to be the builders of William Symington's hull for the Charlotte Dundas. He also spent twelve months with Mr James Inglis, an engineer of Bellshill, Lanarkshire, and then went to London to gain experience, working for the famous John Rennie for some eighteen months. By 1790 he was back in Glasgow, and a year later he took a partner, James Paterson, into his new business of builder and contractor, based in the Trongate. He later referred to himself as "architect", and his partnership with Paterson lasted seven years. He is said to have invented a discharging machine for calico printing, as well as a steam dredger for clearing the River Clyde.

The Baths Hotel was opened in Helensburgh in 1808, with the hotel-keeper, who was also the first provost of the town, being none other than Henry Bell. It has been suggested that Bell was also the builder of the hotel and this seems very likely. Bell installed a steam engine for pumping sea water out of the Clyde and into the baths, and at first ran a coach service to bring customers from Glasgow three days a week. The driver was his brother Tom. The coach was replaced by the Comet steamboat in 1812.

While Henry was busy with his provost's duties and making arrangements for the building of his steamboat, his wife Margaret, née Young, whom he married in March 1794, occupied herself with the management of the Baths Hotel. Bell did not himself manufacture, but supervised the work of experts: John and Charles Wood of Port Glasgow, builders of the 43ft 6 in. (13.25 m)-long hull of the Comet; David Napier of Howard Street Foundry for the boiler and other castings; and John Robertson of Dempster Street, who had previously supplied a small engine for pumping water to the baths at the hotel in Helensburgh, for the 3 hp engine. The first trials of the finished ship were held on 24 July 1812, when she was launched from Wood's yard. A regular service was advertised in the Glasgow Chronicle on 5 August and was the first in Europe, preceded only by that of Robert Fulton in the USA. The Comet continued to run until 1820, when it was wrecked.

Bell received little reward for his promotion of steam navigation, merely small pensions from the Clyde trustees and others. He was buried at the parish church of Rhu.

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1886-1982

   Henry King, hermano mayor de Louis King, es un personaje mitico en el mundo del Hollywood clasico. Nacido en Christianburg, Virginia, fue actor de teatro antes de entrar en el cine. Director de mas de cien peliculas entre mudas y sonoras, actor desde mitad de la segunda decada del siglo XX, fue capaz de dirigir dramas, historias de amor, comedias, peliculas de aventuras y, desde luego, un selecto punado de westerns. De sus casi 120 filmes, mas de la mitad son mudos y entre ellos hay que destacar un interesante western, Flor del desierto (The Win ning of Barbara Worth, 1926), con Ronald Colman. No demasiado creativo tal vez, destaca por la firmeza de sus puestas en escena, a las que dotaba de todas las virtudes, y de no pocos de los defectos inherentes a los guiones que manejaba. A partir de la realizacion de Jesse James su filmografia mejora notablemente, incluyendo algunos filmes de aventuras y peliculas de notable intensidad dramatica, co mo El cisne negro (The Black Swan, 1942), Captain from Castile (1947), La colina del adios (Love Is a Many Splen dored Thing, 1955) y la que seria su ultima realizacion, Suave es la noche (Tender Is the Night, 1962), basada en la novela de Scott Fitzge rald. Sus cuatro westerns son de autentica antologia y, paradojicamente, muy distintos unos de otros. Destaca el uso que hace, en los dos ultimos, del actor Gregory Peck. Henry King fue uno de los 36 fundadores de la Academia de las Ciencias y Artes Cinematograficas.

   FILMOGRAFIA

    Ramona (Ramona). 1936. 90 minutos. Technicolor. Fox. Loretta Young, Don Ameche.

    Jesse James (Tierra de audaces). 1939. 105 minutos. Technicolor. Fox. Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly.

    The Gunfighter (El pistolero). 1950. 84 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Fox. Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell.

    The Bravados (El vengador sin piedad). 1958. 98 minutos. Color DeLuxe. CinemaScope. TCR (Fox). Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd.

SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering

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James Nasmyth was the youngest son of Alexander Nasmyth (1758–1840), the portrait and landscape painter. According to his autobiography he was named James Hall after his father's friend, the geologist Sir James Hall (1761–1832), but he seems never to have used his second name in official documents. He received an elementary education at Edinburgh High School, but left at the age of 12. He attended evening classes at the Edinburgh School of Arts for the instruction of Mechanics between 1821 and 1825, and gained experience as a mechanic at an early age in his father's workshop. He shared these early experiences with his brother George, who was only a year or so older, and in the 1820s the brothers built several model steam engines and a steam-carriage capable of carrying eight passengers on the public roads. In 1829 Nasmyth obtained a position in London as personal assistant to Henry Maudslay, and after Maudslay's death in February 1831 he remained with Maudslay's partner, Joshua Field, for a short time. He then returned to Edinburgh, where he and his brother George started in a small way as general engineers. In 1834 they moved to a small workshop in Manchester, and in 1836, with the aid of financial backing from some Manchester businessmen, they established on a site at Patricroft, a few miles from the city, the works which became known as the Bridgewater Foundry. They were soon joined by a third partner, Holbrook Gaskell (1813–1909), who looked after the administration of the business, the firm then being known as Nasmyths Gaskell \& Co. They specialized in making machine tools, and Nasmyth invented many improvements so that they soon became one of the leading manufacturers in this field. They also made steam locomotives for the rapidly developing railways. James Nasmyth's best-known invention was the steam-hammer, which dates from 1839 but was not patented until 1842. The self-acting control gear was probably the work of Robert Wilson and ensured the commercial success of the invention. George Nasmyth resigned from the partnership in 1843 and in 1850 Gaskell also resigned, after which the firm continued as James Nasmyth \& Co. James Nasmyth himself retired at the end of 1856 and went to live at Penshurst, Kent, in a house which he named "Hammerfield" where he devoted his time mainly to his hobby of astronomy. Robert Wilson returned to become Managing Partner of the firm, which later became Nasmyth, Wilson \& Co. and retained that style until its closure in 1940. Nasmyth's claim to be the sole inventor of the steam-hammer has been disputed, but his patent of 1842 was not challenged and the fourteen-year monopoly ensured the prosperity of the business so that he was able to retire at the age of 48. At his death in 1890 he left an estate valued at £243,805.

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   Nacido en Sacramento, California, acostumbraba a acompanar a su madre, actriz, cuando los rodajes no se hacian en estudio. El mismo fue actor infantil, pero despues de un parentesis impuesto por la guerra, decidio pasar al otro lado de la camara convirtiendose en un honesto y atareado ayudante de direccion durante los anos 20. Ya por entonces comenzo su larga colaboracion con Paramount, que sobrevivio hasta el final, aunque en los anos 40 tambien trabajo extensamente con 20th Century-Fox. A comienzos de los anos 30, Henry Hathaway comienza a dirigir, y comienza a dirigir westerns, basados en novelas de Zane Grey. Son un total de ocho, interpretados, con una sola excepcion, por Randolph Scott; peliculas de una hora de duracion aproximadamente que, sin embargo, tienen algo que otros productos similares de esos anos no tienen. Acaso se trata del sello de la productora, sin duda la que procuraba lanzar al mercado las peliculas mas elegantes; acaso, la versatilidad de un realizador novel llamado a abordar empresas mas ilustres. Lo consiguio poco despues, en 1936, con The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, una de sus obras emblematicas y, sin duda, una estupenda pelicula y un magnifico western, que se mueve en una linea claramente fronteriza en relacion con las senas de identidad del genero. Claro que ya antes habia dirigido una de sus obras mas populares, Tres lanceros bengalies (The Lives of a Bengal Lan cer, 1935). Los anos 40 encuentran a Hathaway inmerso en proyectos variopintos: peliculas de aventuras mas o menos exoticas, cine negro, algun que otro melodrama con tintes patrioticos… Son, basicamente, anos Fox, que ofrecen filmes tan logrados como The House on 92nd Street (La casa de la calle 92, 1945) y El beso de la muerte (Kiss of Death, 1947), con un antologico Richard Widmark. En los anos 50, mas de lo mismo, solidas muestras de cine de genero, alguna que otra pelicula mitica como Niagara (1953) y tres westerns memorables. No resistire la tentacion de destacar, entre ellos, El jardin del Diablo, situada en los albores de la pantalla ancha del CinemaScope, donde el realizador, entre otras virtudes, da buenas muestras de como aprovechar el formato. No solo eso, claro; la pelicula es un apasionante viaje vital en el que parecen haberse intercambiado los extremos, porque se parte de algo parecido a la muerte y se camina hacia la vida, simbolizada por una sugerente puesta de sol sobre la que se aproximan dos siluetas. Los anos 60 y los comienzos de los 70 nos muestran al fin a un director veterano, lleno de recursos narrativos que, casi sin darse cuenta, abusa a veces un poco de ellos, lo que no le impide ser, sin la menor duda, uno de los grandes nombres del western. A el se debe lo mas logrado de esa megaproduccion que pretendio ser La conquista del Oeste, particularmente el ultimo de sus fragmentos, The Outlaws. Cada western de Hen ry Hathaway es digno de una reflexion detallada. Al final de ella se llega a conclusiones como la de que, efectivamente, estamos ante un punado de peliculas mas importantes de lo que su superficie permite sospechar, importancia que es capaz de vencer el obstaculo, en otras ocasiones insuperable, de la falta de unidad. En efecto, el mundo de Hathaway es multifacetico, acaso conceptualmente poco fundamentado, pero, como no hay mal que por bien no venga, ello evita el peligro de un monolitismo esteril, que ha conducido a tantos creadores a elaborar universos de tedio, eso si, muy personales.

   FILMOGRAFIA

    Heritage of the Desert (El legado de la estepa). 1932. 60 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Paramount. Randolph Scott, Sally Blaine.

    Wild Horse Mesa. 1932. 65 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Paramount. Randolph Scott, Sally Blaine.

    The Thundering Herd (La horda maldita). 1933. 62 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Paramount. Randolph Scott, Judith Allen, Harry Carey.

    Under the Tonto Rim (Estaba escrito). 1933. 63 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Paramount. Stuart Edwin, Fred Kohler, Verna Hillie.

    Sunset Pass (El paso del ocaso). 1933. 61 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Paramount. Randolph Scott, Kathleen Burke, Tom Keene.

    Man of the Forest (El hombre del bosque). 1933. 62 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Paramount. Randolph Scott, Verna Hillie, Harry Carey.

    To the Last Man. 1933. 70 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Paramount. Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston.

    The Last Round-Up (El ultimo rodeo). 1934. 61 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Paramount. Randolph Scott, Barbara Fritchie, Fred Kohler.

    The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. 1936. 102 minutos. Technicolor. Paramount. Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Beulah Bondi.

    Brigham Young – Frontiersman. 1940. 114 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Fox. Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy.

    The Shepherd of the Hills. 1941. 98 minutos. Technicolor. Paramount. John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi.

    Rawhide (El correo del infierno). 1951. 89 minutos. Blanco y Negro. Fox. Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger.

    Garden of Evil (El jardin del diablo). 1954. 100 minutos. Technicolor. CinemaScope. Fox. Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark, Hugh Marlowe, Cameron Mitchell, Rita Moreno.

    From Hell to Texas (Del infierno a Texas). 1958. 100 minutos. Color DeLuxe. CinemaScope. Fox. Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Chill Wills, Dennis Hopper.

    North to Alaska (Alaska, tierra de oro). 1960. 122 minutos. Color DeLuxe. CinemaScope. Fox. John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Capucine, Ernie Kovacs, Fabian.

    How the West Was Won (La conquista del Oeste) (co-d.: John Ford, George Marshall). Episodios: The Rivers (El rio),The Plains (Las llanuras)

    The Outlaws (Los bandidos). 1962. 165 minutos (duracion total). Metrocolor. Super Cinerama. MGM. Caroll Baker, James Stewart, Lee J. Cobb, Debbie Reynolds.

    The Sons of Katie Elder (Los cuatro hijos de Katie Elder). 1965. 122 minutos. Technicolor. Panavision. Paramount. John Wayne, Dean Martin, Martha Hyer, Earl Holliman.

    Nevada Smith (Nevada Smith). 1966. 128 minutos. Eastmancolor. Pana vision. Avco/Solar Productions. Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette.

    5 Card Stud (El poker de la muerte). 1968. 103 minutos. Technicolor. Hall Wallis Productions (Paramount). Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowell.

    True Grit (Valor de ley). 1969. 128 minutos. Technicolor. Paramount. John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby.

    Shoot Out (Circulo de fuego). 1971. 95 minutos. Technicolor. Universal. Gregory Peck, Susan Tyrell, Robert F. Lyons, Rita Gam.

SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping

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Lithgow attended Glasgow Academy and then spent a year in Paris. In 1901 he commenced a shipyard apprenticeship with Russell \& Co., where his father, William Lithgow, was sole proprietor. For years Russell's had topped the Clyde tonnage output and more than once had been the world's leading yard. Along with his brother Henry, Lithgow in 1908 was appointed a director, and in a few years he was Chairman and the yard was renamed Lithgows Ltd. By the outbreak of the First World War the Lithgow brothers were recognized as good shipbuilders and astute businessmen. In 1914 he joined the Royal Artillery; he rose to the rank of major and served with distinction, but his skills in administration were recognized and he was recalled home to become Director of Merchant Shipbuilding when British shipping losses due to submarine attack became critical. This appointment set a pattern, with public duties becoming predominant and the day-to-day shipyard business being organized by his brother. During the interwar years, Lithgow served on many councils designed to generate work and expand British commercial interests. His public appointments were legion, but none was as controversial as his directorship of National Shipbuilders Security Ltd, formed to purchase and "sterilize" inefficient shipyards that were hindering recovery from the Depression. To this day opinions are divided on this issue, but it is beyond doubt that Lithgow believed in the task in hand and served unstintingly. During the Second World War he was Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs and was one of the few civilians to be on the Board of Admiralty. On the cessation of hostilities, Lithgow devoted time to research boards and to the expansion of the Lithgow Group, which now included the massive Fairfield Shipyard as well as steel, marine engineering and other companies.

Throughout his life Lithgow worked for the Territorial Army, but he was also a devoted member of the Church of Scotland. He gave practical support to the lona Community, no doubt influenced by unbounded love of the West Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

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1908-2000

   Originalmente montador y de prestigio (John Ford, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman, Henry Hathaway se encuentran entre sus “clientes”), se incorpora a mediados de los 50 a la television como director de episodios de distintas series, cometido del que sale de vez en cuando para dirigir un largometraje. A sus peliculas no les faltaron medios materiales, que no aprovecho en exceso.

   FILMOGRAFIA

    Sierra Baron. 1958. 80 minutos. Color DeLuxe. CinemaScope. Fox. Brian Keith, Rita Gam, Rick Jason, Mala Powers.

    Villa! 1958. 72 minutos. Color DeLuxe. CinemaScope. Fox. Brian Keith, Cesar Romero, Margia Dean.

    The Sad Horse. 1959. 78 minutos. Color DeLuxe. CinemaScope. Fox. David Ladd, Chill Wills, Patrice Wymore.

    One Foot in Hell (Un pie en el infierno). 1960. 90 minutos. Color DeLuxe. CinemaScope. Fox. Alan Ladd, Don Murray, Dolores Michaels, Dan O’Herlihy.

    …and Now Miguel. 1996. 95 minutos. Technicolor. Techniscope. Universal. Guy Stockwell, Pat Cardi, Michael Ansara.

SUBJECT AREA: Steam and internal combustion engines

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Corliss's father was a physician and surgeon. The son was educated at Greenwich, New York, but while he showed an aptitude for mathematics and mechanics he first of all became a storekeeper and then clerk, bookkeeper, salesperson and official measurer and inspector of the cloth produced at W.Mowbray \& Son. He went to the Castleton Academy, Vermont, for three years and at the age of 21 returned to a store of his own in Greenwich. Complaints about stitching in the boots he sold led him to patent a sewing machine. He approached Fairbanks, Bancroft \& Co., Providence, Rhode Island, machine and steam engine builders, about producing his machine, but they agreed to take him on as a draughtsman providing he abandoned it. Corliss moved to Providence with his family and soon revolutionized the design and construction of steam engines. Although he started working out ideas for his engine in 1846 and completed one in 1848 for the Providence Dyeing, Bleaching and Calendering Company, it was not until March 1849 that he obtained a patent. By that time he had joined John Barstow and E.J.Nightingale to form a new company, Corliss Nightingale \& Co., to build his design of steam-engines. He used paired valves, two inlet and two exhaust, placed on opposite sides of the cylinder, which gave good thermal properties in the flow of steam. His wrist-plate operating mechanism gave quick opening and his trip mechanism allowed the governor to regulate the closure of the inlet valve, giving maximum expansion for any load. It has been claimed that Corliss should rank equally with James Watt in the development of the steam-engine. The new company bought land in Providence for a factory which was completed in 1856 when the Corliss Engine Company was incorporated. Corliss directed the business activities as well as technical improvements. He took out further patents modifying his valve gear in 1851, 1852, 1859, 1867, 1875, 1880. The business grew until well over 1,000 workers were employed. The cylindrical oscillating valve normally associated with the Corliss engine did not make its appearance until 1850 and was included in the 1859 patent. The impressive beam engine designed for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition by E. Reynolds was the product of Corliss's works. Corliss also patented gear-cutting machines, boilers, condensing apparatus and a pumping engine for waterworks. While having little interest in politics, he represented North Providence in the General Assembly of Rhode Island between 1868 and 1870.

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SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Mining and extraction technology

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Greathead came to England in 1859 to complete his education. In 1864 he began a three-year pupillage with the civil engineer Peter W. Barlow, after which he was engaged as an assistant engineer on the extension of the Midland Railway from Bedford to London. In 1869 he was entrusted with the construction of the Tower Subway under the River Thames; this was carried out using a cylindrical wrought-iron shield which was forced forward by six large screws as material was excavated in front of it. This work was completed the same year. In 1870 he set himself up as a consulting engineer, and from 1873 he was Resident Engineer on the Hammersmith and Richmond extensions of the Metropolitan District Railway. He assisted in the preparation of several other railway projects including the Regent's Canal Railway in 1880, the Dagenham Dock and the Metropolitan Outer Circle Railways in 1881, a new line from London to Eastbourne and a number of Irish light railways. He worked on a bill for the City and South London Railway, which was built between 1886 and 1890; here compressed air was used to prevent the inrush of water, a method for tunnelling which was generally adopted from then on. He invented apparatus for the application of water to excavate in front of the shield as well as for injecting cement-grout behind the lining of the tunnel.

He was joint engineer with Sir Douglas Fox for the construction of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, and held the same post with W.R.Galbraith on the Waterloo and City Railway; he was also associated with Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker in the construction of the Central London Railway. He died, aged 52, before the completion of some of these projects.

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letter [ˈletə^r]

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   a. [of alphabet] lettre f

• to the letter à la lettre

   b. ( = written communication) lettre f

• by letter par lettre

   c. ( = literature) man of letters homme m de lettres

2. compounds

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► letter-card noun (British) carte-lettre f

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1) lettre f (to pour; from de)

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