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2 Клондайк
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4 سرير كلونديك
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5 Treadgold, Arthur Newton Christian
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. August 1863 Woolsthorpe, Grantham, Lincolnshire, Englandd. 23 March 1951 London, England[br]English organizer of the Yukon gold fields in Canada, who introduced hydraulic mining.[br]A direct descendant of Sir Isaac Newton, Treadgold worked as a schoolmaster, mostly at Bath College, for eleven years after completing his studies at Oxford University. He gained a reputation as an energetic teacher who devoted much of his work to sport, but he resigned his post and returned to Oxford; here, in 1897, he learned of the gold rush in the Klondike in the Canadian northwest. With a view to making his own fortune, he took a course in geology at the London Geological College and in 1898 set off for Dawson City, in the Yukon Territory. Working as a correspondent for two English newspapers, he studied thoroughly the situation there; he decided to join the stampede, but as a rather sophisticated gold hustler.As there were limited water resources for sluicing or dredging, and underground mining methods were too expensive, Treadgold conceived the idea of hydraulic mining. He designed a ditch-and-siphon system for bringing large amounts of water down from the mountains; in 1901, after three years of negotiation with the Canadian government in Ottawa, he obtained permission to set up the Treadgold Concession to cover the water supply to the Klondike mining claims. This enabled him to supply giant water cannons which battered the hillsides, breaking up the gravel which was then sluiced. Massive protests by the individual miners in the Dawson City region, which he had overrun with his system, led to the concession being rescinded in 1904. Two years later, however, Treadgold began again, forming the Yukon Gold Company, initially in partnership with Solomon Guggenheim; he started work on a channel, completed in 1910, to carry water over a distance of 115 km (70 miles) down to Bonanza Creek. In 1919 he founded the Granville Mining Company, which was to give him control of all the gold-mining operations in the southern Klondike region. When he returned to London in the following year, the company began to fail, and in 1920 he went bankrupt with liabilities totalling more than $2 million. After the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation had been formed in 1923, Treadgold returned to the Klondike in 1925 in order to acquire the assets of the operating companies; he gained control and personally supervised the operations. But the company drifted towards disaster, and in 1930 he was dismissed from active management and his shares were cancelled by the courts; he fought for their reinstatement right up until his death.[br]Further ReadingL.Green, 1977, The Gold Hustlers, Anchorage, Alaska (describes this outstanding character and his unusual gold-prospecting career).WKBiographical history of technology > Treadgold, Arthur Newton Christian
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9 американская азартная карточная игра
General subject: KlondikeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > американская азартная карточная игра
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10 замораживание рыбы смесью льда и соли
General subject: Klondike (особ. сельди - для экспорта)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > замораживание рыбы смесью льда и соли
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11 золотоискатели, которые хлынули в Клондайк
General subject: prospectors who stampeded into the KlondikeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > золотоискатели, которые хлынули в Клондайк
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12 кровать для сна на открытом воздухе
Medicine: Klondike bed (с защитой от ветра)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > кровать для сна на открытом воздухе
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13 неисчерпаемый источник дохода
General subject: KlondikeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > неисчерпаемый источник дохода
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14 нечто, содержащее в себе источник богатства и неисчерпаемые запасы (чего-л.)
Conventional notation: klondike-likeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > нечто, содержащее в себе источник богатства и неисчерпаемые запасы (чего-л.)
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15 река Клондайк
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16 сельдевые промыслы
General subject: Klondike (у западного берега Шотландии)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > сельдевые промыслы
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17 экспортировать свежую сельдь на континент
General subject: KlondikeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > экспортировать свежую сельдь на континент
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18 нечто, содержащее в себе источник богатства и неисчерпаемые запасы
Conventional notation: (чего-л.) klondike-likeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > нечто, содержащее в себе источник богатства и неисчерпаемые запасы
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Klondike — may refer to one of the following: Contents 1 Place names 1.1 Canada 1.2 United States … Wikipedia
Klondike — [ klɔndaɪk] der, rechter Nebenfluss des Yukon River im Yukon Territory, Nordwestkanada, etwa 150 km lang, mündet bei Dawson. Der Goldfund am 16. 8. 1896 am Bonanza Creek, einem kurzen Nebenfluss des Klondike, löste einen Goldrausch aus. Bereits … Universal-Lexikon
Klondike — Klondike, von dem gleichnamigen Nebenfluß des Yukon durchströmte goldreiche Landschaft im äußersten Nordwesten von Kanada, die sich in den Stewart und Ogilvie Mountains bis 2500 m ü. M. erhebt und der im weitern Sinn auch die Gegend zwischen dem… … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
Klondike — (Klondyke, spr. deik), r. Nebenfluß des Jukon, mit seinen Zuflüssen Goldfelder enthaltend, im W. des kanad. Distr. Jukon, Hauptort des Goldfeldes Dawson [Karte: Nordamerika I, 3] … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
Klondike — (le) rivière du Canada (180 km), affl. du Yukon (r. dr.), célèbre parce qu on y a trouvé de l or (1896) … Encyclopédie Universelle
Klondike — tributary of the Yukon River in northwestern Canada, from Kutchin (Athabaskan) throndiuk, said to mean hammer water and to be a reference to the practice of driving stakes into the riverbed to support fish traps. Scene of a gold rush after 1896 … Etymology dictionary
Klondike — [klän′dīk΄] [Athabaskan < ?] 1. river in W Yukon Territory, Canada, flowing west into the Yukon River: c. 100 mi (161 km) 2. gold mining region surrounding this river: site of a gold rush (1897 98): usually used with the … English World dictionary
Klondike — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Klondike (homonymie). le Klondike Le Klondike le 14 août … Wikipédia en Français
Klondike — Unter Klondike versteht man: einen Fluss in Nordamerika, siehe Klondike River eine Region in Nordamerika, siehe Klondike Fields den Asteroid (3166) Klondike, siehe (3166) Klondike ein Computerspiel, siehe Klondike (Solitaire) s. a. Klondike… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Klondike — Hunker Creek Valley, Klondike. El Klondike o Clondike es una región del territorio del Yukón en el noroeste de Canadá, y al este de la frontera con Alaska. Se halla en torno al río Klondike, una pequeña corriente fluvial que ingresa en el río… … Wikipedia Español
Klondike — geographical name 1. river 90 miles (145 kilometers) Canada in central Yukon Territory flowing W into the Yukon 2. the Klondike River valley … New Collegiate Dictionary