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1 booth
[buːð] (American) [-θ] noun1) a tent or stall, especially at a fair:خَيْمَةٌ (في سوق)the fortuneteller's booth.
2) a small compartment for a given purpose:كشك، كُشْك ، غُرفَة الهاتِفa polling-booth.
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2 Booth
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3 Booth, Henry
[br]b. 4 April 1789 Liverpool, Englandd. 28 March 1869 Liverpool, England[br]English railway administrator and inventor.[br]Booth followed his father as a Liverpool corn merchant but had great mechanical aptitude. In 1824 he joined the committee for the proposed Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) and after the company obtained its Act of Parliament in 1826 he was appointed Treasurer.In 1829 the L \& MR announced a prize competition, the Rainhill Trials, for an improved steam locomotive: Booth, realizing that the power of a locomotive depended largely upon its capacity to raise steam, had the idea that this could be maximized by passing burning gases from the fire through the boiler in many small tubes to increase the heating surface, rather than in one large one, as was then the practice. He was apparently unaware of work on this type of boiler even then being done by Marc Seguin, and the 1791 American patent by John Stevens. Booth discussed his idea with George Stephenson, and a boiler of this type was incorporated into the locomotive Rocket, which was built by Robert Stephenson and entered in the Trials by Booth and the two Stephensons in partnership. The boiler enabled Rocket to do all that was required in the trials, and far more: it became the prototype for all subsequent conventional locomotive boilers.After the L \& MR opened in 1830, Booth as Treasurer became in effect the general superintendent and was later General Manager. He invented screw couplings for use with sprung buffers. When the L \& MR was absorbed by the Grand Junction Railway in 1845 he became Secretary of the latter, and when, later the same year, that in turn amalgamated with the London \& Birmingham Railway (L \& BR) to form the London \& North Western Railway (L \& NWR), he became joint Secretary with Richard Creed from the L \& BR.Earlier, completion in 1838 of the railway from London to Liverpool had brought problems with regard to local times. Towns then kept their own time according to their longitude: Birmingham time, for instance, was 7¼ minutes later than London time. This caused difficulties in railway operation, so Booth prepared a petition to Parliament on behalf of the L \& MR that London time should be used throughout the country, and in 1847 the L \& NWR, with other principal railways and the Post Office, adopted Greenwich time. It was only in 1880, however, that the arrangement was made law by Act of Parliament.[br]Bibliography1835. British patent no. 6,814 (grease lubricants for axleboxes). 1836. British patent no. 6,989 (screw couplings).Booth also wrote several pamphlets on railways, uniformity of time, and political matters.Further ReadingH.Booth, 1980, Henry Booth, Ilfracombe: Arthur H.Stockwell (a good full-length biography, the author being the great-great-nephew of his subject; with bibliography).R.E.Carlson, 1969, The Liverpool \& Manchester Railway Project 1821–1831, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.PJGR -
4 Booth, Hubert Cecil
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Domestic appliances and interiors, Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Ports and shipping[br]b. 1871 Gloucester, England d. 1955[br]English mechanical, civil and construction engineer best remembered as the inventor of the vacuum cleaner.[br]As an engineer Booth contributed to the design of engines for Royal Navy battleships, designed and supervised the erection of a number of great wheels (in Blackpool, Vienna and Paris) and later designed factories and bridges.In 1900 he attended a demonstration, at St Paneras Station in London, of a new form of railway carriage cleaner that was supposed to blow the dirt into a container. It was not a very successful experiment and Booth, having considered the problem carefully, decided that sucking might be better than blowing. He tried out his idea by placing a piece of damp cloth over an upholstered armchair. When he sucked air by mouth through his cloth the dirt upon it was tangible proof of his theory.Various attempts were being made at this time, especially in America, to find a successful cleaner of carpets and upholstery. Booth produced the first truly satisfactory machine, which he patented in 1901, and coined the term "vacuum cleaner". He formed the Vacuum Cleaner Co. (later to become Goblin BVC Ltd) and began to manufacture his machines. For some years the company provided a cleaning service to town houses, using a large and costly vacuum cleaner (the first model cost £350). Painted scarlet, it measured 54×10×42 in. (137×25×110 cm) and was powered by a petrol-driven 5 hp piston engine. It was transported through the streets on a horse-driven van and was handled by a team of operators who parked outside the house to be cleaned. With the aid of several hundred feet of flexible hose extending from the cleaner through the windows into all the rooms, the machine sucked the dirt of decades from the carpets; at the first cleaning the weight of many such carpets was reduced by 50 per cent as the dirt was sucked away.Many attempts were made in Europe and America to produce a smaller and less expensive machine. Booth himself designed the chief British model in 1906, the Trolley- Vac, which was wheeled around the house on a trolley. Still elaborate, expensive and heavy, this machine could, however, be operated inside a room and was powered from an electric light fitting. It consisted of a sophisticated electric motor and a belt-driven rotary vacuum pump. Various hoses and fitments made possible the cleaning of many different surfaces and the dust was trapped in a cloth filter within a small metal canister. It was a superb vacuum cleaner but cost 35 guineas and weighed a hundredweight (50 kg), so it was difficult to take upstairs.Various alternative machines that were cheaper and lighter were devised, but none was truly efficient until a prototype that married a small electric motor to the machine was produced in 1907 in America.[br]Further ReadingThe Story of the World's First Vacuum Cleaner, Leatherhead: BSR (Housewares) Ltd. See also Hoover, William Henry.DY -
5 Booth capturing
n. the act of seizing and controlling a polling station so that many fraudulent votes may be cast there.Iभारतीय अंग्रेजी खिचड़ी (Indian-English slang) > Booth capturing
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6 noise booth
шумоподавляющее ограждение; звукозащитное ограждение; звукозащитная камера; звукозащитная кабина; см. также sound enclosure (booth)Англо-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > noise booth
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7 trade booth
Англо-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > trade booth
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8 trade show exhibition booth
Англо-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > trade show exhibition booth
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9 phone booth
noun= telephone booth.كُشْك الهاتِف العُمومي -
10 Gas mask fitting booth
Chemical weapons: GMFBУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Gas mask fitting booth
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11 Gas mask tester booth
Chemical weapons: GMTBУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Gas mask tester booth
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12 Protective mask fitting booth
Chemical weapons: PMFBУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Protective mask fitting booth
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13 Protective mask tester booth
Chemical weapons: PMTBУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Protective mask tester booth
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14 Second Opinion Booth
Mass media: SOBУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Second Opinion Booth
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15 fuel-handling operator booth
Engineering: FHOBУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > fuel-handling operator booth
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16 telephone booth
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17 drive-up booth
Англо-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > drive-up booth
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18 exhaust booth
сварочная кабина с механической вентиляцией (полузакрытая зона, в которой движение струи воздуха используется для удаления дыма, газов и частиц материалов, выделяющихся при сварке)Англо-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > exhaust booth
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19 laminar flow booth
скафандированный монтажный стол (стол, изолированный от внешней среды с безвихревым потоком воздуха, используемый в производстве жидкокристаллических индикаторов)Англо-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > laminar flow booth
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20 off-line teaching booth
автономная (не связанная с ЭВМ, управляющей автоматической линией или участком станков) кабина для обучения (оператором роботов, входящих в состав этой линии или участка)Англо-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > off-line teaching booth
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