New York USA

[-ˈjɔ:k, AM -ˈjɔ:rk]

I. n New York nt

II. adj New Yorker attr

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New York [ˌnjuːˈjɔː(r)k; US besonders ˌnuː-] s New York n

a) Staat im Osten der USA

b) größte Stadt der USA

N.Y. abk New York

New York (staat in het noordoosten v.d. USA; belangrijke stad in de USA)

New York (stat i nordöstra USA; viktig stad i USA)

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n. viktig dagstidning som ges ut I New York City (är läst genom hela USA, ansedd vara en av de ledande tidningarna I USA)

USA's førende fondsbørs. Forkortes NYSE.

USA's førende fondsbørs. Forkortes NYSE.

A a.

1 nuovo; novello; recente; fresco; moderno: a new idea, un'idea nuova; new economy, new economy (l'insieme delle attività economiche basate sulle nuove tecnologie informatiche e di rete); That's a new word to me, questa parola mi è nuova, ignota; new and second-hand books, libri nuovi e libri di seconda mano; DIALOGO → - New phone- Have you got a new phone?, hai un telefono nuovo?; new potatoes, patate novelle; spanking new (o brand new) nuovo di zecca

2 nuovo; diverso: DIALOGO → - Ordering wine- I'll be right back with a new bottle, arrivo subito con un'altra bottiglia; DIALOGO → - Building work- We are looking for a new place, stiamo cercando un'altra casa

B n. [u]

– the new, ciò che è nuovo; il nuovo

● (mus., filos.) New Age, New Age; (GB) New Age traveller, persona senza fissa dimora che rifiuta i valori della società moderna □ new blood, sangue nuovo ( anche fig.); persone nuove, forze nuove, ricambi; ( anche) idee nuove, innovazioni □ a new broom, una scopa nuova; (fig.) un nuovo assunto; uno nominato di fresco; un nuovo capo □ ( sport) new buy, nuovo acquisto; neo acquisto □ (fam. USA) new-collar, piccolo borghese di origini operaie □ new-day, alla moda, aggiornato, moderno: new-day conveyances, i moderni mezzi di trasporto □ (stor., in USA) the New Deal, il ‘New Deal’ (del Presidente F.D. Roosevelt, dopo il 1932) □ (in USA) New Englander, abitante (o nativo) della Nuova Inghilterra □ the new entrants, le nuove leve (di lavoratori); i nuovi concorrenti ( in un mercato) □ (econ.) New Keynesian economics, economia neokeynesiana □ (polit.) New Labour, il nuovo partito laburista ( quello di Tony Blair) □ (polit.) the New Left, la nuova sinistra □ (polit.) New Leftist, membro della nuova sinistra □ ( arte, moda, ecc.) new look, new look □ new moon, luna nuova ( non la si vede dalla terra), novilunio; nuova luna, primo quarto di luna, falce di luna crescente □ (in GB, dopo il 1971) new penny, nuovo penny ( moneta pari a 1 centesimo di sterlina) □ ( sport) new professional, neoprofessionista □ a new release, una novità (spec. discografica) □ the new rich, gli arricchiti; i nuovi ricchi □ (polit.) the New Right, la nuova destra □ New Scotland Yard, la (nuova) sede della Polizia «Metropolitana» di Londra □ (fin.) new shares, azioni di nuova emissione □ new snow, neve nuova; neve fresca □ (agric.) new soil, terreno vergine □ (relig.) the New Testament, il Nuovo Testamento □ new town, città satellite □ (in GB) new university, nuova università ( nome nuovo, dal 1992 dato ai vecchi ‘politecnici’) □ new wave, (cinem.) nouvelle vague; (mus.) new wave □ (geogr.) the New World, il Nuovo Mondo □ New Year, Anno Nuovo □ the New Year holidays, le vacanze di Capodanno □ New Year's Day, Capodanno; il primo dell'anno NOTE DI CULTURA: ► bank holiday, sotto bank (2) □ New Year's eve, la vigilia di capodanno; l'ultimo dell'anno □ New Year's resolution, proposito per l'anno nuovo □ New Yorker, newyorchese; nuovayorchese □ (fam. USA) New Yorky, tipico di New York □ (geogr.) New Zealand, Nuova Zelanda: I love New Zealand, adoro la Nuova Zelanda; We're going to New Zealand, andiamo in Nuova Zelanda; She lives in New Zealand, abita in Nuova Zelanda □ New Zealander, neozelandese: She's married to a New Zealander, ha sposato un neozelandese □ as good as new, come nuovo; quasi nuovo □ ever new, in continuo rinnovamento; sempre nuovo □ to feel like a new man, sentirsi rinato □ (fam., iron.) So what else is new?, bella novità!; sai che novità! □ That's nothing new, non è una novità NOTA D'USO: - new o news?-.

avv. (di solito, nei composti:)

1 di recente; di fresco; da poco tempo: new-made, fatto di recente; new-found, scoperto da poco; new-mown hay, fieno falciato di fresco; a new-coined word, una parola coniata di fresco

2 di nuovo; nuovamente: new-built, costruito di nuovo; ricostruito

● ( di un fiore) new-blown, appena sbocciato □ new-fashioned, alla moda □ a new-fledged bird, un uccellino che ha appena messo le ali □ new-laid eggs, uova appena deposte; uova fresche.

(recently) vor kurzem; frisch [gebacken, gewaschen, geschnitten]; gerade erst [erblüht]

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1) (having only just happened, been built, made, bought etc: She is wearing a new dress; We are building a new house.) neu

2) (only just discovered, experienced etc: Flying in an aeroplane was a new experience for her.) neu

3) (changed: He is a new man.) neu

4) (just arrived etc: The schoolchildren teased the new boy.) neu

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[nju:, AM nu:, nju:]

I. adj

1. (latest) neu

that's nothing \new! das ist nichts Neues!

what's \new in the fashion world? was gibt's Neues in der Welt der Mode?

▪ to be the \new sth:

soup is the \new sandwich Sandwiches haben ausgedient, jetzt isst man Suppe

to be the \newest fad [or craze] ( fam) der letzte Schrei sein fam

2. attr (different) neu

\new boy/girl/kid (in school) Neue(r) f(m), neuer Schüler/neue Schülerin; ( fig: as members) Neue(r) f(m) fam

\new broom BRIT neuer Chef/neue Chefin

N\new Deal AM POL Reformprogramm nt

\new start neuer Anfang, Neuanfang m

3. pred (unfamiliar) neu

to be a \new one on sb neu für jdn sein; (inexperienced) unerfahren

she's \new to the job sie ist neu in dem Job

I'm \new around here ich bin neu hier

4. (not second-hand) neu

\new clothes neue Kleider

brand \new brandneu

5. (fresh) neu, frisch

\new blood frisches Blut

\new lease of [or AM on] life neuer Auftrieb

\new man/woman neuer Mann/neue Frau

to feel like a \new man/woman sich akk wie neugeboren fühlen

6. (previously unknown) neu

Sally and Richard are getting married — really, that's a \new one on me Sally und Richard heiraten — wirklich, das ist mir neu

to take a \new twist eine neue Wendung nehmen

▶ a \new broom sweeps clean ( prov) neue Besen kehren gut prov

II. n no pl

▪ the \new das Neue

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adj (+er)

1) neu

2) (= fresh) potatoes neu; wine neu, jung; bread frisch

3) (= modern, novel) modern; fashion, style neu

4) (= lately arrived, inexperienced) person, pupil, recruit neu

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new [njuː; US auch nuː]

A adj (adv → newly)

1. allg neu:

nothing new nichts Neues;

that is not new to me das ist mir nichts Neues, das weiß ich schon;

be new to the program(me) neu im Programm sein;

what’s new? was gibt es Neues?;

new mother junge Mutter; → arrival 3, broom A 1, leaf A 4

2. LING neu, modern

3. besonders pej neumodisch

4. neu (Kartoffeln, Obst etc), frisch (Brot, Milch etc):

new snow Neuschnee m

5. neu (entdeckt oder erschienen oder erstanden oder geschaffen):

new coinage Neuprägung f (Wort etc);

new moon Neumond m;

new publications Neuerscheinungen;

the new woman die Frau von heute, die moderne Frau

6. unerforscht:

new ground Neuland n (a. fig)

7. neu (gewählt oder ernannt) (Präsident etc)

8. (to)

a) (jemandem) unbekannt

b) (noch) nicht vertraut (mit einer Sache), (noch) unerfahren oder ungeübt (in dat)

c) (jemandem) (noch) neu oder ungewohnt

9. neu, ander(er, e, es), besser:

feel a new man sich wie neugeboren fühlen;

lead a new life ein neues (besseres) Leben führen

10. neu, erneut:

a new start ein neuer Anfang

11. (besonders bei Ortsnamen) Neu…

B adv

1. neuerlich, erneut

2. neu, frisch (besonders in Zusammensetzungen):

new-built neu erbaut

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(recently) vor kurzem; frisch [gebacken, gewaschen, geschnitten]; gerade erst [erblüht]

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neu adj.

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SUBJECT AREA: Telecommunications

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Following early education at Phillips Academy, Andover, at the age of 14 years Morse went to Yale College, where he developed interests in painting and electricity. Upon graduating in 1810 he became a clerk to a Washington publisher and a pupil of Washington Allston, a well-known American painter. The following year he travelled to Europe and entered the London studio of another American artist, Benjamin West, successfully exhibiting at the Royal Academy as well as winning a prize and medal for his sculpture. Returning to Boston and finding little success as a "historical-style" painter, he built up a thriving portrait business, moving in 1818 to Charleston, South Carolina, where three years later he established the (now defunct) South Carolina Academy of Fine Arts. In 1825 he was back in New York, but following the death of his wife and both of his parents that year, he embarked on an extended tour of European art galleries. In 1832, on the boat back to America, he met Charles T.Jackson, who told him of the discovery of the electromagnet and fired his interest in telegraphy to the extent that Morse immediately began to make suggestions for electrical communications and, apparently, devised a form of printing telegraph. Although he returned to his painting and in 1835 was appointed the first Professor of the Literature of Art and Design at the University of New York City, he began to spend more and more time experimenting in telegraphy. In 1836 he invented a relay as a means of extending the cable distance over which telegraph signals could be sent. At this time he became acquainted with Alfred Vail, and the following year, when the US government published the requirements for a national telegraph service, they set out to produce a workable system, with finance provided by Vail's father (who, usefully, owned an ironworks). A patent was filed on 6 October 1837 and a successful demonstration using the so-called Morse code was given on 6 January 1838; the work was, in fact, almost certainly largely that of Vail. As a result of the demonstration a Bill was put forward to Congress for $30,000 for an experimental line between Washington and Baltimore. This was eventually passed and the line was completed, and on 24 May 1844 the first message, "What hath God wrought", was sent between the two cities. In the meantime Morse also worked on the insulation of submarine cables by means of pitch tar and indiarubber.

With success achieved, Morse offered his invention to the Government for $100,000, but this was declined, so the invention remained in private hands. To exploit it, Morse founded the Magnetic Telephone Company in 1845, amalgamating the following year with the telegraph company of a Henry O'Reilly to form Western Union. Having failed to obtain patents in Europe, he now found himself in litigation with others in the USA, but eventually, in 1854, the US Supreme Court decided in his favour and he soon became very wealthy. In 1857 a proposal was made for a telegraph service across the whole of the USA; this was completed in just over four months in 1861. Four years later work began on a link to Europe via Canada, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands and Russia, but it was abandoned with the completion of the transatlantic cable, a venture in which he also had some involvement. Showered with honours, Morse became a generous philanthropist in his later years. By 1883 the company he had created was worth $80 million and had a virtual monopoly in the USA.

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SUBJECT AREA: Telecommunications

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At the age of 15 Field left home to seek his fortune in New York, starting work on Broadway as an errand boy for $1 per week. Returning to Massachusetts, in 1838 he became an assistant to his brother Matthew, a paper-maker, leaving to set up his own business two years later. By the age of 21 he was also a partner in a New York firm of paper wholesalers, but this firm collapsed because of large debts. Out of the wreckage he set up Cyrus W.Field \& Co., and by 1852 he had paid off all the debts. With $250,000 in the bank he therefore retired and travelled in South America. Returning to the USA, he then became involved with the construction of a telegraph line in Newfoundland by an English engineer, F.N. Osborne. Although the company collapsed, he had been fired by the dream of a transatlantic cable and in 1854 was one of the founders of the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company. He began to promote surveys and hold discussions with British telegraph pioneers and with Isambard Brunel, who was then building the Great Eastern steamship. In 1856 he helped to set up the Atlantic Telegraph Company in Britain and, as a result of his efforts and those of the British physicist and inventor Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), work began in 1857 on the laying of the first transatlantic cable from Newfoundland to Ireland. After many tribulations the cable was completed on 5 August 1857, but it failed after barely a month. Following several unsuccessful attempts to repair and replace it, the cable was finally completed on 27 July 1866. Building upon his success, Field expanded his business interests. In 1877 he bought a controlling interest in and was President of the New York Elevated Railroad Company. He also helped develop the Wabash Railroad and became owner of the New York Mail and Express newspaper; however, he subsequently suffered large financial losses.

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SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace

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Curtiss started his career in the bicycle business, then became a designer of motor-cycle engines, and in 1904 he designed and built an airship engine. The success of his engine led to him joining the Aerial Experimental Association (AEA), founded by the inventor Alexander Graham Bell. Working with the AEA, Curtiss built several engines and designed a biplane, June Bug, in which he won a prize for the first recorded flight of over 1 km (1,100yd) in the USA. In 1909 Curtiss joined forces with Augustus M.Herring, who had earlier flown Octave Chanute's gliders, to form the Herring-Curtiss Company. Their Gold Bug was a success and led to the Golden Flyer, in which Glenn Curtiss won the Gordon Bennett Cup at Rheims in France with a speed of 75.7 km/h (47 mph). At this time the Wright brothers accused Curtiss and the new Curtiss Aeroplane Company of infringing their patent rights, and a bitter lawsuit ensued. The acrimony subsided during the First World War and in 1929 the two companies merged to form the Curtiss-Wright Corporation.

Curtiss had started experimenting with water-based aircraft in 1908, but it was not until 1911 that he managed to produce a successful float-plane. He then co-operated with the US Navy in developing catapults to launch aircraft from ships at sea. During the First World War, Curtiss produced the JN-4 Jenny trainer, which became probably his best-known design. This sturdy bi-plane continued in service long after the war and was extensively used by "barnstorming" pilots at air shows and for early mail flights. In 1919 a Navy-Curtiss NC-4 flying boat achieved the first flight across the Atlantic, having made the crossing in stages, refuelling en route. Curtiss himself, however, had little interest in aviation in his later years and turned his attention to real-estate development in Florida.

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SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology, Mining and extraction technology

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Bissell first pursued a career in education, as Professor of Languages at the University of Norwich, Vermont, and then as Superintendent of Schools in New Orleans. After dabbling in journalism, he turned to law and was admitted to the Bar in New York City in 1853. The following year he was deeply impressed by the picture of a derrick on the label on a bottle of brine from Samuel M.Kier's brine well. Bissell saw in it a new possibility of producing petroleum and, with Jonathan G.Elveleth, formed the world's first oil company, the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company, on 30 December 1854. The Company obtained a sample of oil at Hibbard Farm, Titusville, Pennsylvania, and sent it for examination to Benjamin Silliman Jr, Professor of Chemistry at Yale University. He reported on 16 April 1855 that by simple means nearly all the oil could be converted into useful substances. Bissell acted on this and began drilling near Oil Creek, Pennsylvania. On 27 August 1859 his contractor struck oil at 60 ft (18 m). This date is usually taken as the starting point of the modern oil industry, even though oil had been obtained two years earlier in Europe by drilling near Hannover and at Ploesti in Romania. Bissell returned to New York in 1863 and spent the rest of his life promoting enterprises connected with the oil industry.

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SUBJECT AREA: Canals

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After gaining his degree at Columbia College, Clinton studied law and then entered politics. After a defeat in 1795 he studied natural science, until in 1798 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1802 he was elected to the US Senate, but he resigned in 1803 to become Mayor of New York City; he occupied this post, apart from two short breaks, until 1815, when he was removed from office. He was very concerned for the welfare of ordinary people and introduced many improvements. From 1815 Clinton devoted himself to what was to become the Erie Canal. He had already been appointed one of the canal commissioners in 1810 and had himself surveyed a possible route to Lake Erie that would be a safer passage from New York to the Great Lakes in the event of war with Great Britain. The war of 1812, in fact, interfered with the project, but in 1816 Clinton realized that the time was propitious. He arranged meetings, and on 17 April 1816 the legislature adopted his idea and a new survey for a link between the Hudson and Lake Erie was undertaken. In March 1817 he became Governor of New York State and vigorously pursued the canal scheme both in writing and by personal supervision of the works. Party politics removed him from his post as Canal Commissioner on 12 April 1824, but in November he was re-elected as Governor. He held this position when the Erie Canal (362 miles or 583 km long) and the Champlain Canal (71 miles or 114 km) were opened in 1825. In his character he was overbearing, but he was administratively competent.

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SUBJECT AREA: Steam and internal combustion engines

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Porter graduated from Hamilton College, New York, in 1845, read law in his father's office, and in the autumn of 1847 was admitted to the Bar. He practised for six or seven years in Rochester, New York, and then in New York City. He was drawn into engineering when aged about 30, first through a client who claimed to have invented a revolutionary type of engine and offered Porter the rights to it as payment of a debt. Having lent more money, Porter saw neither the man nor the engine again. Porter followed this with a similar experience over a patent for a stone dressing machine, except this time the machine was built. It proved to be a failure, but Porter set about redesigning it and found that it was vastly improved when it ran faster. His improved machine went into production. It was while trying to get the steam engine that drove the stone dressing machine to run more smoothly that he made a discovery that formed the basis for his subsequent work.

Porter took the ordinary Watt centrifugal governor and increased the speed by a factor of about ten; although he had to reduce the size of the weights, he gained a motion that was powerful. To make the device sufficiently responsive at the right speed, he balanced the centrifugal forces by a counterweight. This prevented the weights flying outwards until the optimum speed was reached, so that the steam valves remained fully open until that point and then the weights reacted more quickly to variations in speed. He took out a patent in 1858, and its importance was quickly recognized. At first he manufactured and sold the governors himself in a specially equipped factory, because this was the only way he felt he could get sufficient accuracy to ensure a perfect action. For marine use, the counterweight was replaced by a spring.

Higher speed had brought the advantage of smoother running and so he thought that the same principles could be applied to the steam engine itself, but it was to take extensive design modifications over several years before his vision was realized. In the winter of 1860–1, J.F. Allen met Porter and sketched out his idea of a new type of steam inlet valve. Porter saw the potential of this for his high-speed engine and Allen took out patents for it in 1862. The valves were driven by a new valve gear designed by Pius Fink. Porter decided to display his engine at the International Exhibition in London in 1862, but it had to be assembled on site because the parts were finished in America only just in time to be shipped to meet the deadline. Running at 150 rpm, the engine caused a sensation, but as it was non-condensing there were few orders. Porter added condensing apparatus and, after the failure of Ormerod Grierson \& Co., entered into an agreement with Joseph Whitworth to build the engines. Four were exhibited at the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle, but Whitworth and Porter fell out and in 1868 Porter returned to America.

Porter established another factory to build his engine in America, but he ran into all sorts of difficulties, both mechanical and financial. Some engines were built, and serious production was started c. 1874, but again there were further problems and Porter had to leave his firm. High-speed engines based on his designs continued to be made until after 1907 by the Southwark Foundry and Machine Company, Philadelphia, so Porter's ideas were proved viable and led to many other high-speed designs.

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SUBJECT AREA: Broadcasting, Electronics and information technology, Telecommunications

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As a Jewish boy in Russia, Sarnoff spent several years preparing to be a Talmudic Scholar, but in 1900 the family emigrated to the USA and settled in Albany, New York. While at public school and at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, he helped the family finances by running errands, selling newspapers and singing the liturgy in the synagogue. After a short period as a messenger boy with the Commercial Cable Company, in 1906 he became an office boy with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America (see G. Marconi). Having bought a telegraph instrument with his first earnings, he taught himself Morse code and was made a junior telegraph operator in 1907. The following year he became a wireless operator at Nantucket Island, then in 1909 he became Manager of the Marconi station at Sea Gate, New York. After two years at sea he returned to a shore job as wireless operator at the world's most powerful station at Wanamaker's store in Manhattan. There, on 14 April 1912, he picked up the distress signals from the sinking iner Titanic, remaining at his post for three days.

Rewarded by rapid promotion (Chief Radio Inspector 1913, Contract Manager 1914, Assistant Traffic Manager 1915, Commercial Manager 1917) he proposed the introduction of commercial radio broadcasting, but this received little response. Consequently, in 1919 he took the job of Commercial Manager of the newly formed Radio Corporation of America (RCA), becoming General Manager in 1921, Vice- President in 1922, Executive Vice-President in 1929 and President in 1930. In 1921 he was responsible for the broadcasting of the Dempsey-Carpentier title-fight, as a result of which RCA sold $80 million worth of radio receivers in the following three years. In 1926 he formed the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Rightly anticipating the development of television, in 1928 he inaugurated an experimental NBC television station and in 1939 demonstrated television at the New York World Fair. Because of his involvement with the provision of radio equipment for the armed services, he was made a lieutenant-colonel in the US Signal Corps Reserves in 1924, a full colonel in 1931 and, while serving as a communications consultant to General Eisenhower during the Second World War, Brigadier General in 1944.

With the end of the war, RCA became a major manufacturer of television receivers and then invested greatly in the ultimately successful development of shadowmask tubes and receivers for colour television. Chairman and Chief Executive from 1934, Sarnoff held the former post until his retirement in 1970.

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See also: Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma

SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building

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James Bogardus was neither architect nor engineer but he manufactured iron grinding machinery and was known especially for inventing his engraving and die-sinking machinery. He completed his first iron-fronted building in 1848, the five-storeyed chemist shop of John Milhau at 183 Broadway in New York City, but the building for which he is best known was the slightly later example (begun in 1848) that was created as a factory for his own use. This four-storeyed structure was in Center Street, New York City, and its exterior consisted entirely of cast-iron piers and lintels. He went on to build other iron structures around the middle of the century, and these early examples were both functional and attractive, with their simple classical columns and plain architraves contrasting with the heavier and richer ornamentation of such buildings in the second half of the century.

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SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering

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Gaskill's father was a farmer near New York, where the son attended the local schools until he was 16 years old. At the age of 13 he already showed his mechanical aptitude by inventing a revolving hayrake, which was not exploited because the family had no money. His parents moved to Lockport, New York, where Harvey became a student at Lockport Union School and then the Poughkeepsie Commercial College, from which he graduated in 1866. After a period in his uncle's law office, he entered the firm of Penfield, Martin \& Gaskill to manufacture a patent clock. Then he was involved in a planing mill and a sash-and-blind manufactory. He devised a clothes spinner and a horse hayrake, but he did not manufacture them. In 1873 he became a draughtsman in the Holly Manufacturing Company in Lockport, which made pumping machinery for waterworks. He was promoted first to Engineer and then to Superintendent of the company in 1877. In 1885 he became a member of the Board of Directors and Vice-President. But for his untimely death, he might have become President. He was also a director of several other manufacturing concerns, public utilities and banks. In 1882 he produced a pump driven by a Woolf compound engine, which was the first time that rotary power with a crank and flywheel had been applied in waterworks. His design was more compact, more economical and lower in cost than previous types and gave the Holly Company a considerable advantage for a time over their main rivals, the Worthington Pump \& Machinery Company. These steam pumps became very popular in the United States and the type was also adopted in Britain.

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