Midland Railway

SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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After an apprenticeship with E.B.Wilson, Leeds, Johnson worked successively for the Great Northern, Manchester Sheffield \& Lincolnshire, Edinburgh \& Glasgow and Great Eastern Railways before being appointed Locomotive Superintendent of the Midland Railway in 1873. There he remained for the rest of his working life, becoming notable for well-designed, well-finished locomotives. Of these, the most famous were his 4–2–2 express locomotives, introduced in 1887. The use of a single pair of driving-wheels was made possible at this late date by application of steam sanding gear (invented in 1886 by F. Holt) to enable them to haul heavy trains without slipping. In 1901, almost at the end of his career, he produced the first Midland compound 4–4–0, with a single internal high-pressure cylinder and two external low-pressure ones. The system had been devised by W.M.Smith, working on the North Eastern Railway under Wilson Worsdell. These locomotives were successful enough to be developed and built in quantity by Johnson's successors and were adopted as a standard locomotive by the London Midland \& Scottish Railway after the grouping of 1923.

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SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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Pullman was initially a cabinet-maker in Albion, New York, and then became a road-works contractor in Chicago. Observing a need for improved sleeping accommodation on trains, he arranged in 1858 with the Chicago \& Alton Railroad to convert two of their coaches into sleeping cars by incorporating upper berths hinged to the sides of the car. These and a third car entered service in 1859 and were popular with passengers, but other railways were reluctant to adopt them.

Pullman moved to the Colorado mining area and kept a general store, but in 1863 he returned to Chicago. With Ben Field he spent a year building the car Pioneer, which not only incorporated the folding upper berths but also had seats arranged to convert into lower berths. When Pioneer entered service, the travelling public was enthusiastic: Pullman and Field built more cars, and an increasing number of railways arranged to operate them under contract. In 1867 Pullman and Field organized the Pullman Palace Car Company, which grew to have five car-building plants. Pullman introduced a combined sleeping/restaurant car in 1867 and the dining car in 1868.

In 1872 James Allport, General Manager of the Midland Railway in Britain, toured the USA and was impressed by Pullman cars. He arranged with Pullman for the American company to ship a series of Pullman cars to Britain in parts for Midland to assemble at its works at Derby. The first, a sleeping car, was completed early in 1874 and entered service on the Midland Railway. Several others followed the same year, including the first Pullman Parlor Car, a luxury coach for day rather than overnight use, to enter service in Europe. Pullman formed the Pullman Palace Car Company (Europe), and although the Midland Railway purchased the Pullman cars running on its system a few years later, Pullman cars were used on many other railways in Britain (notably the London Brighton \& South Coast Railway) and on the continent of Europe. In 1881 the Pullman Parlor Car Globe, running in Britain, became the first vehicle to be illuminated by electric light.

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SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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George Stephenson was the son of the fireman of the pumping engine at Wylam colliery, and horses drew wagons of coal along the wooden rails of the Wylam wagonway past the house in which he was born and spent his earliest childhood. While still a child he worked as a cowherd, but soon moved to working at coal pits. At 17 years of age he showed sufficient mechanical talent to be placed in charge of a new pumping engine, and had already achieved a job more responsible than that of his father. Despite his position he was still illiterate, although he subsequently learned to read and write. He was largely self-educated.

In 1801 he was appointed Brakesman of the winding engine at Black Callerton pit, with responsibility for lowering the miners safely to their work. Then, about two years later, he became Brakesman of a new winding engine erected by Robert Hawthorn at Willington Quay on the Tyne. Returning collier brigs discharged ballast into wagons and the engine drew the wagons up an inclined plane to the top of "Ballast Hill" for their contents to be tipped; this was one of the earliest applications of steam power to transport, other than experimentally.

In 1804 Stephenson moved to West Moor pit, Killingworth, again as Brakesman. In 1811 he demonstrated his mechanical skill by successfully modifying a new and unsatisfactory atmospheric engine, a task that had defeated the efforts of others, to enable it to pump a drowned pit clear of water. The following year he was appointed Enginewright at Killingworth, in charge of the machinery in all the collieries of the "Grand Allies", the prominent coal-owning families of Wortley, Liddell and Bowes, with authorization also to work for others. He built many stationary engines and he closely examined locomotives of John Blenkinsop's type on the Kenton \& Coxlodge wagonway, as well as those of William Hedley at Wylam.

It was in 1813 that Sir Thomas Liddell requested George Stephenson to build a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway: Blucher made its first trial run on 25 July 1814 and was based on Blenkinsop's locomotives, although it lacked their rack-and-pinion drive. George Stephenson is credited with building the first locomotive both to run on edge rails and be driven by adhesion, an arrangement that has been the conventional one ever since. Yet Blucher was far from perfect and over the next few years, while other engineers ignored the steam locomotive, Stephenson built a succession of them, each an improvement on the last.

During this period many lives were lost in coalmines from explosions of gas ignited by miners' lamps. By observation and experiment (sometimes at great personal risk) Stephenson invented a satisfactory safety lamp, working independently of the noted scientist Sir Humphry Davy who also invented such a lamp around the same time.

In 1817 George Stephenson designed his first locomotive for an outside customer, the Kilmarnock \& Troon Railway, and in 1819 he laid out the Hetton Colliery Railway in County Durham, for which his brother Robert was Resident Engineer. This was the first railway to be worked entirely without animal traction: it used inclined planes with stationary engines, self-acting inclined planes powered by gravity, and locomotives.

On 19 April 1821 Stephenson was introduced to Edward Pease, one of the main promoters of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway (S \& DR), which by coincidence received its Act of Parliament the same day. George Stephenson carried out a further survey, to improve the proposed line, and in this he was assisted by his 18-year-old son, Robert Stephenson, whom he had ensured received the theoretical education which he himself lacked. It is doubtful whether either could have succeeded without the other; together they were to make the steam railway practicable.

At George Stephenson's instance, much of the S \& DR was laid with wrought-iron rails recently developed by John Birkinshaw at Bedlington Ironworks, Morpeth. These were longer than cast-iron rails and were not brittle: they made a track well suited for locomotives. In June 1823 George and Robert Stephenson, with other partners, founded a firm in Newcastle upon Tyne to build locomotives and rolling stock and to do general engineering work: after its Managing Partner, the firm was called Robert Stephenson \& Co.

In 1824 the promoters of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) invited George Stephenson to resurvey their proposed line in order to reduce opposition to it. William James, a wealthy land agent who had become a visionary protagonist of a national railway network and had seen Stephenson's locomotives at Killingworth, had promoted the L \& MR with some merchants of Liverpool and had carried out the first survey; however, he overreached himself in business and, shortly after the invitation to Stephenson, became bankrupt. In his own survey, however, George Stephenson lacked the assistance of his son Robert, who had left for South America, and he delegated much of the detailed work to incompetent assistants. During a devastating Parliamentary examination in the spring of 1825, much of his survey was shown to be seriously inaccurate and the L \& MR's application for an Act of Parliament was refused. The railway's promoters discharged Stephenson and had their line surveyed yet again, by C.B. Vignoles.

The Stockton \& Darlington Railway was, however, triumphantly opened in the presence of vast crowds in September 1825, with Stephenson himself driving the locomotive Locomotion, which had been built at Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s Newcastle works. Once the railway was at work, horse-drawn and gravity-powered traffic shared the line with locomotives: in 1828 Stephenson invented the horse dandy, a wagon at the back of a train in which a horse could travel over the gravity-operated stretches, instead of trotting behind.

Meanwhile, in May 1826, the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway had successfully obtained its Act of Parliament. Stephenson was appointed Engineer in June, and since he and Vignoles proved incompatible the latter left early in 1827. The railway was built by Stephenson and his staff, using direct labour. A considerable controversy arose c. 1828 over the motive power to be used: the traffic anticipated was too great for horses, but the performance of the reciprocal system of cable haulage developed by Benjamin Thompson appeared in many respects superior to that of contemporary locomotives. The company instituted a prize competition for a better locomotive and the Rainhill Trials were held in October 1829.

Robert Stephenson had been working on improved locomotive designs since his return from America in 1827, but it was the L \& MR's Treasurer, Henry Booth, who suggested the multi-tubular boiler to George Stephenson. This was incorporated into a locomotive built by Robert Stephenson for the trials: Rocket was entered by the three men in partnership. The other principal entrants were Novelty, entered by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, and Sans Pareil, entered by Timothy Hackworth, but only Rocket, driven by George Stephenson, met all the organizers' demands; indeed, it far surpassed them and demonstrated the practicability of the long-distance steam railway. With the opening of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1830, the age of railways began.

Stephenson was active in many aspects. He advised on the construction of the Belgian State Railway, of which the Brussels-Malines section, opened in 1835, was the first all-steam railway on the European continent. In England, proposals to link the L \& MR with the Midlands had culminated in an Act of Parliament for the Grand Junction Railway in 1833: this was to run from Warrington, which was already linked to the L \& MR, to Birmingham. George Stephenson had been in charge of the surveys, and for the railway's construction he and J.U. Rastrick were initially Principal Engineers, with Stephenson's former pupil Joseph Locke under them; by 1835 both Stephenson and Rastrick had withdrawn and Locke was Engineer-in-Chief. Stephenson remained much in demand elsewhere: he was particularly associated with the construction of the North Midland Railway (Derby to Leeds) and related lines. He was active in many other places and carried out, for instance, preliminary surveys for the Chester \& Holyhead and Newcastle \& Berwick Railways, which were important links in the lines of communication between London and, respectively, Dublin and Edinburgh.

He eventually retired to Tapton House, Chesterfield, overlooking the North Midland. A man who was self-made (with great success) against colossal odds, he was ever reluctant, regrettably, to give others their due credit, although in retirement, immensely wealthy and full of honour, he was still able to mingle with people of all ranks.

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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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SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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Knight was initially employed as a clerk at the Midland Railway in Derby, and in 1846 he had a job in the audit office of the Brighton Railway. From 1854 to 1869 he was Superintendent of the South Eastern Railway and then became manager of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, a post he held until his death. During this period many improvements were put in hand, including the interlocking of signals, the block system, the incorporation of Westinghouse brakes (in 1878), Pullman cars (1877) and electric lighting.

In 1868 it was decided to erect the first set of traffic lights in London in Bridge Street, New Palace Yard, Westminster, and the authorities naturally sought the advice of an engineer familiar with railway practice. Thus John Knight was called in, and red and green lights mounted on the ends of semaphore arms were duly installed. Unfortunately, a fault in the gas supply of this set of lights caused an explosion which killed a police constable.

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SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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At the age of 13, Kirtley was a pupil of George Stephenson on the Stockton \& Darlington Railway. He subsequently became a fireman and then a driver of locomotives: he drove the first locomotive to enter London on the London \& Birmingham Railway. When the Midland Railway was formed in 1844 he was appointed Locomotive Superintendent. Ever since the Act of Parliament for the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway had required that its locomotives consume their own smoke (probably as a reaction to the clouds of black smoke emitted by steamboats at Liverpool), the usual fuel for locomotives had been coke. Early multi-tubular boilers, with their small fireboxes and short tubes, were in any case unsuitable for coal because they did not allow the burning gases sufficient time to combust properly. Many engineers attempted to solve the problem with weird and complex boiler designs. Kirtley and Charles Markham, who was working under him, succeeded by inserting a deflector plate above the firedoor and an arch of firebricks in the front of the firebox: this helped to maintain the high temperatures needed and lengthened the route by which the gases travelled. The brick arch and deflector plate became the usual components of locomotive fireboxes, and expensive coke was replaced as fuel by coal.

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1) Общая лексика: material report for, medial rectus, medial rectus muscle, медиальная прямая мышца, см. medial rectus

2) Компьютерная техника: Maintenance Release, Masked Rom, Master Reset, Multiple Record

3) Авиация: maintenance record

4) Медицина: modified release, МВ (МВ - препараты с модифицированным высвобождением - modified-release tablets)

5) Американизм: Male Right

6) Спорт: Medium Runner, Middle Relief, Mitsubishi Racing, Mountain Rider

7) Военный термин: Machine Room, Maintenance Ratio, Marine reserve, Material Requirements, Max Rounds, Military Road, Milk Run, Miss Rate, Missiles and Rockets, Motorized Rifle, machine records, machine rifle, maintenance requirements, maintenance reserve, maintenance review, management requirements, management reserve, manpower requirements, manufacturer's representative, map reading, map reference, marginal return, maritime reconnaissance, maritime regiment, massage register, material request, maximum readiness, medical record, medium range, memorandum receipt (имущества), memorandum report, military railroad, military readiness, military regulation, military representative, military requirements, military route, minor repair, missile receiver, missile reference, mission radius, mission reliability, mission report, mission-ready, mobilization regulation, modification request, modification requirement, monthly report, monthly review, morning report, movement report, muster report, военный округ (military region)

8) Техника: magnetoresistor, mate's receipt, medium frequency, microfiche, milliroentgen, minimal requirement, mobile radar, moderate frequency, monitoring report, multifunction radar, reticular reaction in Malpighian bodies

9) Шутливое выражение: Minnesota Rules

10) Химия: Mica Reactive, Moderately Resistant

11) Строительство: resisting moment

12) Религия: Most Righteous

13) Железнодорожный термин: Malayan Railway, Midland Railway

14) Юридический термин: Master of the Rolls

15) Грубое выражение: Model Rules

16) Кино: Mature Readers

17) Политика: Mauritania

18) Сокращение: Marathi, Marker Ranger, Master of Rolls, Military Region, Miniatures Rules, Mission Rehearsal, Molasses Residue or Simulated Mustard (Chemical warfare blister agent), Motor Rifle, Multi-Role, maintainability and reliability, maintenance and repair, marble, maximum range, medium-range, memorandum of receipt, mobilization regulations, municipal reform, mitral regurgitation, недостаточность митрального клапана

19) Университет: Multiclass Ranking

20) Физика: magnetoresistance

21) Физиология: Maximum to right, Medicare Returned, Mental Representation, Mental Retardation, Methicillin Resistant, Minimum Rest, Miscellaneous Remedies

22) Электроника: Magnetic Resonance, Magneto Resistance, Microwave Radiometer, Mid Range

23) Вычислительная техника: memory reclaimer, memory register, Modified Read (Fax), Magneto - Resistive (HDD), MODEM Ready (MODEM)

24) Нефть: marine rig, meter run, морская буровая установка (marine rig), морское буровое основание (marine rig), норма профилактики (maintenance ratio), осмотр с целью технического обслуживания (maintenance review), рейс измерительного зонда в скважину (meter run), management reporting

25) Картография: mooring ring

26) Банковское дело: добавочный доход, предельный доход (marginal revenue)

27) Пищевая промышленность: Mature Ripening

28) Фирменный знак: Mecham's Racing, Merchant Republic, Motorola

29) Реклама: исследование мотивации

30) СМИ: Midnight Reign, Mike And Rich, Mixed Review

31) Деловая лексика: Make Replacement, Management Review, Model Released

32) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Mixed refrigerant compressor, Modification, Repair & Maintenance Study, material requisition (for purchase), заявка на отпуск материалов (material requisition), микрорадиография, media relations

33) Образование: Multimedia Resource

34) Складское дело: требование на отпуск материалов (material request)

35) Инвестиции: marginal revenue

36) Полимеры: mineral rubber, modulus of rupture, moment of resistance

37) Программирование: Magic Return, Memory Read

38) Автоматика: manipulation robot

39) Телефония: Media routing

40) Сахалин Р: material requisition, mixed refrigerant

41) Химическое оружие: monitor room

42) Макаров: reticular reaction (in the Malpighian bodies)

43) Расширение файла: Magneto Resistive, Memory Information Register, Modem Ready

44) Нефть и газ: manual reset value, marshalling rack, metal roofing

45) Маркетология: marketing review

46) Электротехника: magnetic relay, master relay

47) Имена и фамилии: Mark Robb, Mike Rich

48) Снабжение: material review

49) Должность: Medical Representative, Mr Right

50) Правительство: Mcquarrie Rock, Mystic River

51) НАСА: Measurement Of Red, Medium Rate, Mirror Reflector

52) Единицы измерений: Magic Rating

53) AMEX. Morgans Foods, Inc.

1) Общая лексика: material report for, medial rectus, medial rectus muscle, медиальная прямая мышца, см. medial rectus

2) Компьютерная техника: Maintenance Release, Masked Rom, Master Reset, Multiple Record

3) Авиация: maintenance record

4) Медицина: modified release, МВ (МВ - препараты с модифицированным высвобождением - modified-release tablets)

5) Американизм: Male Right

6) Спорт: Medium Runner, Middle Relief, Mitsubishi Racing, Mountain Rider

7) Военный термин: Machine Room, Maintenance Ratio, Marine reserve, Material Requirements, Max Rounds, Military Road, Milk Run, Miss Rate, Missiles and Rockets, Motorized Rifle, machine records, machine rifle, maintenance requirements, maintenance reserve, maintenance review, management requirements, management reserve, manpower requirements, manufacturer's representative, map reading, map reference, marginal return, maritime reconnaissance, maritime regiment, massage register, material request, maximum readiness, medical record, medium range, memorandum receipt (имущества), memorandum report, military railroad, military readiness, military regulation, military representative, military requirements, military route, minor repair, missile receiver, missile reference, mission radius, mission reliability, mission report, mission-ready, mobilization regulation, modification request, modification requirement, monthly report, monthly review, morning report, movement report, muster report, военный округ (military region)

8) Техника: magnetoresistor, mate's receipt, medium frequency, microfiche, milliroentgen, minimal requirement, mobile radar, moderate frequency, monitoring report, multifunction radar, reticular reaction in Malpighian bodies

9) Шутливое выражение: Minnesota Rules

10) Химия: Mica Reactive, Moderately Resistant

11) Строительство: resisting moment

12) Религия: Most Righteous

13) Железнодорожный термин: Malayan Railway, Midland Railway

14) Юридический термин: Master of the Rolls

15) Грубое выражение: Model Rules

16) Кино: Mature Readers

17) Политика: Mauritania

18) Сокращение: Marathi, Marker Ranger, Master of Rolls, Military Region, Miniatures Rules, Mission Rehearsal, Molasses Residue or Simulated Mustard (Chemical warfare blister agent), Motor Rifle, Multi-Role, maintainability and reliability, maintenance and repair, marble, maximum range, medium-range, memorandum of receipt, mobilization regulations, municipal reform, mitral regurgitation, недостаточность митрального клапана

19) Университет: Multiclass Ranking

20) Физика: magnetoresistance

21) Физиология: Maximum to right, Medicare Returned, Mental Representation, Mental Retardation, Methicillin Resistant, Minimum Rest, Miscellaneous Remedies

22) Электроника: Magnetic Resonance, Magneto Resistance, Microwave Radiometer, Mid Range

23) Вычислительная техника: memory reclaimer, memory register, Modified Read (Fax), Magneto - Resistive (HDD), MODEM Ready (MODEM)

24) Нефть: marine rig, meter run, морская буровая установка (marine rig), морское буровое основание (marine rig), норма профилактики (maintenance ratio), осмотр с целью технического обслуживания (maintenance review), рейс измерительного зонда в скважину (meter run), management reporting

25) Картография: mooring ring

26) Банковское дело: добавочный доход, предельный доход (marginal revenue)

27) Пищевая промышленность: Mature Ripening

28) Фирменный знак: Mecham's Racing, Merchant Republic, Motorola

29) Реклама: исследование мотивации

30) СМИ: Midnight Reign, Mike And Rich, Mixed Review

31) Деловая лексика: Make Replacement, Management Review, Model Released

32) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Mixed refrigerant compressor, Modification, Repair & Maintenance Study, material requisition (for purchase), заявка на отпуск материалов (material requisition), микрорадиография, media relations

33) Образование: Multimedia Resource

34) Складское дело: требование на отпуск материалов (material request)

35) Инвестиции: marginal revenue

36) Полимеры: mineral rubber, modulus of rupture, moment of resistance

37) Программирование: Magic Return, Memory Read

38) Автоматика: manipulation robot

39) Телефония: Media routing

40) Сахалин Р: material requisition, mixed refrigerant

41) Химическое оружие: monitor room

42) Макаров: reticular reaction (in the Malpighian bodies)

43) Расширение файла: Magneto Resistive, Memory Information Register, Modem Ready

44) Нефть и газ: manual reset value, marshalling rack, metal roofing

45) Маркетология: marketing review

46) Электротехника: magnetic relay, master relay

47) Имена и фамилии: Mark Robb, Mike Rich

48) Снабжение: material review

49) Должность: Medical Representative, Mr Right

50) Правительство: Mcquarrie Rock, Mystic River

51) НАСА: Measurement Of Red, Medium Rate, Mirror Reflector

52) Единицы измерений: Magic Rating

53) AMEX. Morgans Foods, Inc.

1) Общая лексика: material report for, medial rectus, medial rectus muscle, медиальная прямая мышца, см. medial rectus

2) Компьютерная техника: Maintenance Release, Masked Rom, Master Reset, Multiple Record

3) Авиация: maintenance record

4) Медицина: modified release, МВ (МВ - препараты с модифицированным высвобождением - modified-release tablets)

5) Американизм: Male Right

6) Спорт: Medium Runner, Middle Relief, Mitsubishi Racing, Mountain Rider

7) Военный термин: Machine Room, Maintenance Ratio, Marine reserve, Material Requirements, Max Rounds, Military Road, Milk Run, Miss Rate, Missiles and Rockets, Motorized Rifle, machine records, machine rifle, maintenance requirements, maintenance reserve, maintenance review, management requirements, management reserve, manpower requirements, manufacturer's representative, map reading, map reference, marginal return, maritime reconnaissance, maritime regiment, massage register, material request, maximum readiness, medical record, medium range, memorandum receipt (имущества), memorandum report, military railroad, military readiness, military regulation, military representative, military requirements, military route, minor repair, missile receiver, missile reference, mission radius, mission reliability, mission report, mission-ready, mobilization regulation, modification request, modification requirement, monthly report, monthly review, morning report, movement report, muster report, военный округ (military region)

8) Техника: magnetoresistor, mate's receipt, medium frequency, microfiche, milliroentgen, minimal requirement, mobile radar, moderate frequency, monitoring report, multifunction radar, reticular reaction in Malpighian bodies

9) Шутливое выражение: Minnesota Rules

10) Химия: Mica Reactive, Moderately Resistant

11) Строительство: resisting moment

12) Религия: Most Righteous

13) Железнодорожный термин: Malayan Railway, Midland Railway

14) Юридический термин: Master of the Rolls

15) Грубое выражение: Model Rules

16) Кино: Mature Readers

17) Политика: Mauritania

18) Сокращение: Marathi, Marker Ranger, Master of Rolls, Military Region, Miniatures Rules, Mission Rehearsal, Molasses Residue or Simulated Mustard (Chemical warfare blister agent), Motor Rifle, Multi-Role, maintainability and reliability, maintenance and repair, marble, maximum range, medium-range, memorandum of receipt, mobilization regulations, municipal reform, mitral regurgitation, недостаточность митрального клапана

19) Университет: Multiclass Ranking

20) Физика: magnetoresistance

21) Физиология: Maximum to right, Medicare Returned, Mental Representation, Mental Retardation, Methicillin Resistant, Minimum Rest, Miscellaneous Remedies

22) Электроника: Magnetic Resonance, Magneto Resistance, Microwave Radiometer, Mid Range

23) Вычислительная техника: memory reclaimer, memory register, Modified Read (Fax), Magneto - Resistive (HDD), MODEM Ready (MODEM)

24) Нефть: marine rig, meter run, морская буровая установка (marine rig), морское буровое основание (marine rig), норма профилактики (maintenance ratio), осмотр с целью технического обслуживания (maintenance review), рейс измерительного зонда в скважину (meter run), management reporting

25) Картография: mooring ring

26) Банковское дело: добавочный доход, предельный доход (marginal revenue)

27) Пищевая промышленность: Mature Ripening

28) Фирменный знак: Mecham's Racing, Merchant Republic, Motorola

29) Реклама: исследование мотивации

30) СМИ: Midnight Reign, Mike And Rich, Mixed Review

31) Деловая лексика: Make Replacement, Management Review, Model Released

32) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Mixed refrigerant compressor, Modification, Repair & Maintenance Study, material requisition (for purchase), заявка на отпуск материалов (material requisition), микрорадиография, media relations

33) Образование: Multimedia Resource

34) Складское дело: требование на отпуск материалов (material request)

35) Инвестиции: marginal revenue

36) Полимеры: mineral rubber, modulus of rupture, moment of resistance

37) Программирование: Magic Return, Memory Read

38) Автоматика: manipulation robot

39) Телефония: Media routing

40) Сахалин Р: material requisition, mixed refrigerant

41) Химическое оружие: monitor room

42) Макаров: reticular reaction (in the Malpighian bodies)

43) Расширение файла: Magneto Resistive, Memory Information Register, Modem Ready

44) Нефть и газ: manual reset value, marshalling rack, metal roofing

45) Маркетология: marketing review

46) Электротехника: magnetic relay, master relay

47) Имена и фамилии: Mark Robb, Mike Rich

48) Снабжение: material review

49) Должность: Medical Representative, Mr Right

50) Правительство: Mcquarrie Rock, Mystic River

51) НАСА: Measurement Of Red, Medium Rate, Mirror Reflector

52) Единицы измерений: Magic Rating

53) AMEX. Morgans Foods, Inc.

1) Общая лексика: material report for, medial rectus, medial rectus muscle, медиальная прямая мышца, см. medial rectus

2) Компьютерная техника: Maintenance Release, Masked Rom, Master Reset, Multiple Record

3) Авиация: maintenance record

4) Медицина: modified release, МВ (МВ - препараты с модифицированным высвобождением - modified-release tablets)

5) Американизм: Male Right

6) Спорт: Medium Runner, Middle Relief, Mitsubishi Racing, Mountain Rider

7) Военный термин: Machine Room, Maintenance Ratio, Marine reserve, Material Requirements, Max Rounds, Military Road, Milk Run, Miss Rate, Missiles and Rockets, Motorized Rifle, machine records, machine rifle, maintenance requirements, maintenance reserve, maintenance review, management requirements, management reserve, manpower requirements, manufacturer's representative, map reading, map reference, marginal return, maritime reconnaissance, maritime regiment, massage register, material request, maximum readiness, medical record, medium range, memorandum receipt (имущества), memorandum report, military railroad, military readiness, military regulation, military representative, military requirements, military route, minor repair, missile receiver, missile reference, mission radius, mission reliability, mission report, mission-ready, mobilization regulation, modification request, modification requirement, monthly report, monthly review, morning report, movement report, muster report, военный округ (military region)

8) Техника: magnetoresistor, mate's receipt, medium frequency, microfiche, milliroentgen, minimal requirement, mobile radar, moderate frequency, monitoring report, multifunction radar, reticular reaction in Malpighian bodies

9) Шутливое выражение: Minnesota Rules

10) Химия: Mica Reactive, Moderately Resistant

11) Строительство: resisting moment

12) Религия: Most Righteous

13) Железнодорожный термин: Malayan Railway, Midland Railway

14) Юридический термин: Master of the Rolls

15) Грубое выражение: Model Rules

16) Кино: Mature Readers

17) Политика: Mauritania

18) Сокращение: Marathi, Marker Ranger, Master of Rolls, Military Region, Miniatures Rules, Mission Rehearsal, Molasses Residue or Simulated Mustard (Chemical warfare blister agent), Motor Rifle, Multi-Role, maintainability and reliability, maintenance and repair, marble, maximum range, medium-range, memorandum of receipt, mobilization regulations, municipal reform, mitral regurgitation, недостаточность митрального клапана

19) Университет: Multiclass Ranking

20) Физика: magnetoresistance

21) Физиология: Maximum to right, Medicare Returned, Mental Representation, Mental Retardation, Methicillin Resistant, Minimum Rest, Miscellaneous Remedies

22) Электроника: Magnetic Resonance, Magneto Resistance, Microwave Radiometer, Mid Range

23) Вычислительная техника: memory reclaimer, memory register, Modified Read (Fax), Magneto - Resistive (HDD), MODEM Ready (MODEM)

24) Нефть: marine rig, meter run, морская буровая установка (marine rig), морское буровое основание (marine rig), норма профилактики (maintenance ratio), осмотр с целью технического обслуживания (maintenance review), рейс измерительного зонда в скважину (meter run), management reporting

25) Картография: mooring ring

26) Банковское дело: добавочный доход, предельный доход (marginal revenue)

27) Пищевая промышленность: Mature Ripening

28) Фирменный знак: Mecham's Racing, Merchant Republic, Motorola

29) Реклама: исследование мотивации

30) СМИ: Midnight Reign, Mike And Rich, Mixed Review

31) Деловая лексика: Make Replacement, Management Review, Model Released

32) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Mixed refrigerant compressor, Modification, Repair & Maintenance Study, material requisition (for purchase), заявка на отпуск материалов (material requisition), микрорадиография, media relations

33) Образование: Multimedia Resource

34) Складское дело: требование на отпуск материалов (material request)

35) Инвестиции: marginal revenue

36) Полимеры: mineral rubber, modulus of rupture, moment of resistance

37) Программирование: Magic Return, Memory Read

38) Автоматика: manipulation robot

39) Телефония: Media routing

40) Сахалин Р: material requisition, mixed refrigerant

41) Химическое оружие: monitor room

42) Макаров: reticular reaction (in the Malpighian bodies)

43) Расширение файла: Magneto Resistive, Memory Information Register, Modem Ready

44) Нефть и газ: manual reset value, marshalling rack, metal roofing

45) Маркетология: marketing review

46) Электротехника: magnetic relay, master relay

47) Имена и фамилии: Mark Robb, Mike Rich

48) Снабжение: material review

49) Должность: Medical Representative, Mr Right

50) Правительство: Mcquarrie Rock, Mystic River

51) НАСА: Measurement Of Red, Medium Rate, Mirror Reflector

52) Единицы измерений: Magic Rating

53) AMEX. Morgans Foods, Inc.

SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Textiles

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Titus Salt arrived in Bradford with his father, who was a wool merchant in the town, in 1822. He soon set up his own company and it was there that he experimented with the textile worsted. Alpaca wool comes from an animal of the camel family that resembles the llama, and flocks of domesticated breeds of the animal had been raised in the high Andes since the days of the Incas. The wool was introduced into Europe via Spain and, later, Germany and France. The first attempts to spin and weave the yarn in England were made in 1808, but despite experimentation over the years the material was difficult to work. It was in 1836 that Salt evolved his method of utilizing a cotton warp with part alpaca weft. The method proved a great success and Bradford gained a reputation as a manufacturing centre for alpaca wool, exporting both yarn and cloth in quantity, especially to the USA. By 1850 Salt, who owned six mills, was Bradford's biggest employer and was certainly its richest citizen. He decided to move out of the city and built a new mill works, the architects of which were Lockwood and Mawson, on the banks of the River Aire a few miles from the city. Around the works, between 1851 and 1871, he built houses, a hospital, library, church, institute and almshouses for his workers. The buildings were solid, good-standard structures of local stone and the houses were pleasantly situated, with their amenities making them seem palaces compared to the slums in which other Bradford textile workers lived at the time. The collection of buildings was the first example in Britain of a "model new town", and was, indeed still is, a remarkable prototype of its kind. Apart from being a philanthropist and social reformer, Salt was also concerned with taking advantage of the technical developments of his time. His mill works, which eventually covered ten acres of land, was of fashionably Italianate architectural style (its chimney even a copy of the campanile of the Church of Santa Maria Gloriosa in Venice), although its structure was of iron framing. The weaving shed held 1,200 looms and had capacity for 3,000 workers, who produced 30,000 yards of cloth per day. Water from the river was used to produce steam to power the matchinery used in the manufacturing processes of scouring, dyeing and finishing. For the export of goods, the nearby Leeds-Liverpool Canal linked the works to Britain's chief ports, and the Midland Railway (an extension of the LeedsBradford line which opened in 1846) was of great use for the same purpose.

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SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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Stanier's career started when he was Office Boy at the Great Western Railway's Swindon works. He was taken on as a pupil in 1892 and steady promotion elevated him to Works Manager in 1920, under Chief Mechanical Engineer George Churchward. In 1923 he became Principal Assistant to Churchward's successor, C.B.Collett. In 1932, at the age of 56 and after some forty years' service with the Great Western Railway (GWR), W.A.Stanier was appointed Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London Midland \& Scottish Railway (LMS). This, the largest British railway, had been formed by the amalgamation in 1923 of several long-established railways, including the London \& North Western and the Midland, that had strong and disparate traditions in locomotive design. A coherent and comprehensive policy had still to emerge; Stanier did, however, inherit a policy of reducing the number of types of locomotives, in the interest of economy, by the withdrawal and replacement of small classes, which had originated with constituent companies.

Initially as replacements, Stanier brought in to the LMS a series of highly successful standard locomotives; this practice may be considered a development of that of G.J.Churchward on the GWR. Notably, these new locomotives included: the class 5, mixed-traffic 4–6–0; the 8F heavy-freight 2–8–0; and the "Duchess" 4–6–2 for express passenger trains. Stanier also built, in 1935, a steam-turbine-driven 4–6–2, which became the only steam-turbine locomotive in Britain to have an extended career in regular service, although the economies it provided were insufficient for more of the type to be built. From 1932–3 onwards, and initially as part of a programme to economize on shunting costs by producing a single-manned locomotive, the LMS started to develop diesel shunting locomotives. Stanier delegated much of the responsibility for these to C.E.Fairburn. From 1939 diesel-electric shunting locomotives were being built in quantity for the LMS: this was the first instance of adoption of diesel power on a large scale by a British main-line railway. In a remarkably short time, Stanier transformed LMS locomotive stock, formerly the most backward of the principal British railways, to the point at which it was second to none. He was seconded to the Government as Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Production in 1942, and retired two years later.

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SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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Vignoles, who was of Huguenot descent, was orphaned in infancy and brought up in the family of his grandfather, Dr Charles Hutton FRS, Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. After service in the Army he travelled to America, arriving in South Carolina in 1817. He was appointed Assistant to the state's Civil Engineer and surveyed much of South Carolina and subsequently Florida. After his return to England in 1823 he established himself as a civil engineer in London, and obtained work from the brothers George and John Rennie.

In 1825 the promoters of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) lost their application for an Act of Parliament, discharged their engineer George Stephenson and appointed the Rennie brothers in his place. They in turn employed Vignoles to resurvey the railway, taking a route that would minimize objections. With Vignoles's route, the company obtained its Act in 1826 and appointed Vignoles to supervise the start of construction. After Stephenson was reappointed Chief Engineer, however, he and Vignoles proved incompatible, with the result that Vignoles left the L \& MR early in 1827.

Nevertheless, Vignoles did not sever all connection with the L \& MR. He supported John Braithwaite and John Ericsson in the construction of the locomotive Novelty and was present when it competed in the Rainhill Trials in 1829. He attended the opening of the L \& MR in 1830 and was appointed Engineer to two railways which connected with it, the St Helens \& Runcorn Gap and the Wigan Branch (later extended to Preston as the North Union); he supervised the construction of these.

After the death of the Engineer to the Dublin \& Kingstown Railway, Vignoles supervised construction: the railway, the first in Ireland, was opened in 1834. He was subsequently employed in surveying and constructing many railways in the British Isles and on the European continent; these included the Eastern Counties, the Midland Counties, the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyme \& Manchester (which proved for him a financial disaster from which he took many years to recover), and the Waterford \& Limerick. He probably discussed rail of flat-bottom section with R.L. Stevens during the winter of 1830–1 and brought it into use in the UK for the first time in 1836 on the London \& Croydon Railway: subsequently rail of this section became known as "Vignoles rail". He considered that a broader gauge than 4 ft 8½ in. (1.44 m) was desirable for railways, although most of those he built were to this gauge so that they might connect with others. He supported the atmospheric system of propulsion during the 1840s and was instrumental in its early installation on the Dublin \& Kingstown Railway's Dalkey extension. Between 1847 and 1853 he designed and built the noted multi-span suspension bridge at Kiev, Russia, over the River Dnieper, which is more than half a mile (800 m) wide at that point.

Between 1857 and 1863 he surveyed and then supervised the construction of the 155- mile (250 km) Tudela \& Bilbao Railway, which crosses the Cantabrian Pyrenees at an altitude of 2,163 ft (659 m) above sea level. Vignoles outlived his most famous contemporaries to become the grand old man of his profession.

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SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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Churchward was articled to the Locomotive Superintendent of the South Devon Railway in 1873, and when the South Devon was absorbed by the Great Western Railway in 1876 he moved to the latter's Swindon works. There he rose by successive promotions to become Works Manager in 1896, and in 1897 Chief Assistant to William Dean, who was Locomotive Carriage and Wagon Superintendent, in which capacity Churchward was allowed extensive freedom of action. Churchward eventually succeeded Dean in 1902: his title changed to Chief Mechanical Engineer in 1916.

In locomotive design, Churchward adopted the flat-topped firebox invented by A.J.Belpaire of the Belgian State Railways and added a tapered barrel to improve circulation of water between the barrel and the firebox legs. He designed valves with a longer stroke and a greater lap than usual, to achieve full opening to exhaust. Passenger-train weights had been increasing rapidly, and Churchward produced his first 4–6– 0 express locomotive in 1902. However, he was still developing the details—he had a flair for selecting good engineering practices—and to aid his development work Churchward installed at Swindon in 1904 a stationary testing plant for locomotives. This was the first of its kind in Britain and was based on the work of Professor W.F.M.Goss, who had installed the first such plant at Purdue University, USA, in 1891. For comparison with his own locomotives Churchward obtained from France three 4–4–2 compound locomotives of the type developed by A. de Glehn and G. du Bousquet. He decided against compounding, but he did perpetuate many of the details of the French locomotives, notably the divided drive between the first and second pairs of driving wheels, when he introduced his four-cylinder 4–6–0 (the Star class) in 1907. He built a lone 4–6–2, the Great Bear, in 1908: the wheel arrangement enabled it to have a wide firebox, but the type was not perpetuated because Welsh coal suited narrow grates and 4–6–0 locomotives were adequate for the traffic. After Churchward retired in 1921 his successor, C.B.Collett, was to enlarge the Star class into the Castle class and then the King class, both 4–6–0s, which lasted almost as long as steam locomotives survived in service. In Church ward's time, however, the Great Western Railway was the first in Britain to adopt six-coupled locomotives on a large scale for passenger trains in place of four-coupled locomotives. The 4–6–0 classes, however, were but the most celebrated of a whole range of standard locomotives of advanced design for all types of traffic and shared between them many standardized components, particularly boilers, cylinders and valve gear.

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SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives, Steam and internal combustion engines

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Caprotti graduated as a mechanical engineer at Turin Royal Polytechnic College and spent some years in the motor car industry. After researching the application of poppet valves to railway locomotives, he invented his rotary cam valve gear for poppet valves in 1915. Compared with usual slide and piston valves and valve gears, it offered independent timing of inlet and exhaust valves and a saving in weight. Valve gear to Caprotti's design was first fitted in 1920 to a 2−6−0 locomotive of the Italian State Railways, and was subsequently widely used there and elsewhere. Caprotti valve gear was first applied in Britain in 1926 to a Claughton class 4−6−0 of the London, Midland \& Scottish Railway, resulting in substantial fuel savings compared with a similar locomotive fitted with Walschaert's valve gear and piston valves. Others of the class were then fitted similarly. Caprotti valve gear never came into general use in Britain and its final application was in 1954 to British Railways class 8 4−6−2 no. 71000; this was intended as the prototype of a class of standard locomotives for express trains, but the class was never built, because diesel and electric locomotives took their place. Some components survived scrapping, and a reconstruction of the locomotive is in working order.

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