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1 Campbell Of Loudon Tartan
Scottish tartan of wide navy and green bars and black, white and yellow line stripes.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Campbell Of Loudon Tartan
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2 McAdam, John Loudon
[br]b. 21 September 1756 Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotlandd. 26 November 1836 Moffat, Dumfriesshire, Scotland[br]Scottish road builder, inventor of the macadam road surface.[br]McAdam was the son of one of the founder of the first bank in Ayr. As an infant, he nearly died in a fire which destroyed the family's house of Laywyne, in Carsphairn parish; the family then moved to Blairquhan, near Straiton. Thence he went to the parish school in Maybole, where he is said to have made a model section of a local road. In 1770, when his father died, he was sent to America where he was brought up by an uncle who was a merchant in New York. He stayed in America until the close of the revolution, becoming an agent for the sale of prizes and managing to amass a considerable fortune. He returned to Scotland where he settled at Sauchrie in Ayrshire. There he was a magistrate, Deputy-Lieutenant of the county and a road trustee, spending thirteen years there. In 1798 he moved to Falmouth in Devon, England, on his appointment as agent for revictualling of the Royal Navy in western ports.He continued the series of experiments started in Ayrshire on the construction of roads. From these he concluded that a road should be built on a raised foundation with drains formed on either side, and should be composed of a number of layers of hard stone broken into angular fragments of roughly cubical shape; the bottom layer would be larger rocks, with layers of progressively smaller rocks above, all bound together with fine gravel. This would become compacted and almost impermeable to water by the action of the traffic passing over it. In 1815 he was appointed Surveyor-General of Bristol's roads and put his theories to the test.In 1823 a Committee of the House of Commons was appointed to consider the use of "macadamized" roads in larger towns; McAdam gave evidence to this committee, and it voted to give him £10,000 for his past work. In 1827 he was appointed Surveyor-General of Roads and moved to Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. From there he made yearly visits to Scotland and it was while returning from one of these that he died, at Moffat in the Scottish Borders. He had married twice, both times to American women; his first wife was the mother of all seven of his children.McAdam's method of road construction was much cheaper than that of Thomas Telford, and did much to ease travel and communications; it was therefore adopted by the majority of Turnpike Trusts in Britain, and the macadamization process quickly spread to other countries.[br]Bibliography1819. A Practical Essay on the Scientific Repair and Preservation of Roads.1820. Present State of Road-Making.Further ReadingR.Devereux, 1936, John Loudon McAdam: A Chapter from the History of Highways, London: Oxford University Press.IMcN -
3 tarmac
Гудрон; шоссе, покрытое гудроном; бетонированная площадка перед ангаром в аэропорту. Tarmac — название покрытия многих дорог. Такое покрытие было создано в 1820-х гг. шотландским инженером Джоном Мак-Адамом (John Loudon McAdam) (1756—1836). Он использовал метод, при котором размельчённый камень смешивался с гравием, чтобы получить покрытие, которое быстро высыхало. Использование слоя смолы, гудрона (tar), чтобы уплотнить поверхностный слой, было более поздним изобретением, которое дало жизнь слову tarmacadam, позже сокращённому до tarmac. Существует и глагол to tarmac (покрывать гудроном). -
4 jay, Hume’s ground
—1. LAT Pseudopodoces ( Sarudny et Loudon)2. RUS тибетская ложносойка f3. ENG Hume’s ground jay4. DEU Höhlenhäher m5. FRA geai m terrestre de Hume1. LAT Pseudopodoces humilis ( Hume) [Podoces humilis Hume]2. RUS тибетская ложносойка f3. ENG Hume’s ground jay4. DEU Höhlenhäher m5. FRA geai m terrestre de HumeПЯТИЯЗЫЧНЫЙ СЛОВАРЬ НАЗВАНИЙ ЖИВОТНЫХ — птицы > jay, Hume’s ground
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1. LAT Pseudopodoces ( Sarudny et Loudon)2. RUS тибетская ложносойка f3. ENG Hume’s ground jay4. DEU Höhlenhäher m5. FRA geai m terrestre de Hume
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