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121 Drake, Edwin Laurentine
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 29 March 1819 Greenville, New York, USAd. 8 November 1880 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA[br]American pioneer oil driller.[br]He worked on his father's farm, was a clerk in a hotel and a store, and then became an express agent at a railway company in Springfield, Massachusetts, c.1845. After he had been working as a railway conductor in New Haven, Connecticut, for eight years, he resigned because of ill health. Owning some stocks in a Pennsylvania rock-oil company, which gathered oil from ground-level seepages mainly for medicinal use, he was engaged by this company and moved to Titusville, Pennsylvania, at the age of almost 40. After studying salt-well drilling by cable tool, which was still percussive, he became enthusiastic about the idea of using the same method to drill for oil, especially after researches in chemistry had revealed this new sort of fossil energy some years before.As a manager of the Seneca Oil Company, which referred to him as "Colonel" in letters of introduction simply to impress people with such titles, Drake began drilling in 1858, almost at the same time as pole-tool drilling for oil was started in Germany. His main contribution to the technology was the use of an iron pipe driven through the quicksand and the bedrock to prevent the bore-hole from filling. After nineteen months he struck oil at a depth of 21 m (69 ft) in August 1859. This was the first time that petroleum was struck at its source and the first proof of the presence of oil reservoirs within the earth's surface. Drake inaugurated the search for and the exploitation of the deep oil resources of the world and he initiated the science of petroleum engineering which became established at the beginning of the twentieth century.Drake failed to patent his drilling method; he was content being an oil commission merchant and Justice of the Peace in Titusville, which like other places in Pennsylvania became a boom town. Four years later he went to New York, where he lost all his money in oil speculations. He became very ill again and lived in poverty in Vermont and New Jersey until 1873, when he moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he was pensioned by the state of Pennsylvania. The city of Titusville erected a monument to him and founded the Drake Museum.[br]Further ReadingDictionary of American Biography, Vol. III, pp. 427–8.Ida M.Tarbell, 1904, "The birth of industry", History of the Standard Oil Company, Vol. I, New York (gives a lively description of the booming years in Pennsylvania caused by Drake's successful drilling).H.F.Williamson and A.R.Daum, 1959, The American Petroleum Industry. The Age of Illumination, Evans ton, Ill.WKBiographical history of technology > Drake, Edwin Laurentine
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122 Jobard, Jean-Baptiste-Ambroise Marcelin
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 14 May 1792 Baissey, Haute-Marne, Franced. 27 October 1861 Brussels, Belgium[br]French technologist, promoter of Belgian industry.[br]After attending schools in Langres and Dijon, Jobard worked in Groningen and Maastricht as a cadastral officer from 1811 onwards. After the Netherlands had been constituted as a new state in 1814, he became a Dutch citizen in 1815 and settled in Brussels. In 1825, when he had learned of the invention of lithography by Alois Senefelder, he retired and established a renowned lithographic workshop in Belgium, with considerable commercial profit. After the political changes which led to the separation of Belgium from the Netherlands in 1830, he devoted his activities to the progress of science and industry in this country, in the traditional idea of enlightenment. His main aim was to promote all branches of the young economy, to which he contributed with ceaseless energy. He cultivated especially the transfer of technology in many articles he wrote on his various journeys, such as to Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland, and he continued to do so when he became the Director of the Museum of Industry in Brussels in 1841, editing its Bulletin until his death. Jobard, as a member of societies for the encouragement of arts and industry in many countries, published on almost any subject and produced many inventions. Being a restless character by nature, and having, in addition, a strong attitude towards designing and constructing, he also contributed to mining technology in 1828 when he was the first European to practise successfully the Chinese method of rope drilling near Brussels.[br]Bibliography1840, Plan d'organisation du Musée de l'industrie, présenté au Ministre de l'interieur, Brussels.1844, Machines à vapeur, arrêtes et instructions, Brussels.1846, Comment la Belgique peut devenir industrielle, à propos de la Société d'exportation, Brussels.considérées comme blason de l'industrie et du commerce, dédié à la Société des inventeurs et protecteurs de l'industrie, Brussels.1855, Discours prononcé à l'assemblée des industriels réunis pour l'adoption de la marque obligatoire, Paris.Further ReadingH.Blémont, 1991, article in Dictionnaire de biographie française, Paris, pp. 676–7 (for a short account of his life).A.Siret, 1888–9, article in Biographie nationale de belgique, Vol. X, Brussels, col. 494– 500 (provides an impressive description of his restless character and a selected bibliography of his many publications.T.Tecklenburg, 1900, Handbuch der Tiefbohrkunde, 2nd edn, Vol. IV, Berlin, pp. 7–8 (contains detailed information on his method of rope drilling).WKBiographical history of technology > Jobard, Jean-Baptiste-Ambroise Marcelin
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123 податливость накопления
[lang name="Russian"]аккумулирование, накопление энергии — energy storage
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. воспользоваться; максимально использовать; можно использовать; наиболее эффективно использовать; пользоваться; применять; широко использовать•Advantage is taken of this fact in some turbojet engines.
•Unique processes and equipment have been successfully applied in the mining and refining of potash salts.
•The great majority of amplifiers are electronic and depend (or rely) upon transistors and chips for their operation.
•These projects can draw on the data from five tests.
•The new relay employs three sets of contacts.
•To harness atomic energy for peaceful uses,...
•This reaction may be harnessed to perform work.
•The power unit makes use of a standard electric starter.
•These vehicles rely on ambient air as a source of oxygen.
•This nonreciprocity has as yet not been turned to useful account in antennas.
•At present, these laboratories are being utilized to test timbers.
•Such high precision makes it possible to employ (or use, or utilize) laser radiation as a primary standard of length and time.
•With electricity farmers could run useful devices of all kinds.
•This offers the possibility of putting hydrides to work in heat pumps.
•These techniques take advantage of the laser's high spectral intensity.
•Lasers are exploited to heat plasmas with short pulses of light.
•Double-break or multibreak devices can exploit this effect even at higher voltages.
•The author's suggestions were picked up by the Japanese who ran some preliminary tests on eleven pure elements.
•The steam from a dry field can be put to use() other than power production.
•The newest accelerators exploit the same fundamental principles as the first ones.
•Simplifying assumptions have been invoked to separate the two processes for individual study.
•If this natural gas can be tapped, there would be a tremendous source of fuel.
II•When all the even (or odd) integers are used up, there will still be half the series...
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•We have covered this event in Chap. 12.
•The purpose of this chapter is to give an account of the movement of energy in the astronomical world.
II•This equation governs the flow under such conditions.
•This enabled the Newtonian mechanics to represent (or describe) planetary motions to a high degree of approximation.
•This paper is concerned with experimental control systems.
•The article deals with (or outlines) the modifications at the power station.
•The article presents (or describes) a method...
•The point on the flywheel traces (or describes) a circle with a circumference 2π.
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•This method differs from the above in that it commences with the shock Mach number.
•This solution differs in ( the fact) that only certain amounts of vibrational energy are allowed.
•Constant-pressure processes are different in that the volume of the system changes.
•Some minerals are distinctive in that they are common in metamorphic rocks and rarely found in igneous rocks.
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•This method offers savings in production time.
•Removal of the denaturing conditions brings about the formation of...
•This research has culminated in the discovery of...
•The use of a driving belt could give rise to vibrations.
•If solute concentration varies over many atomic distances, a variation in lattice parameter will result.
•Flapping of the belt could result in poor finish.
•The current in the motor increases, and the result is overheating.
•Uneven removal of excess metal tends to redistribute stresses.
•In areas where present climates are not conducive to the deposition of...
II•The mixture is adjusted to pH 6.8.
•Biotin deficiency in animals is associated with dermatitis, loss of hair,...
•Thermal stresses sometimes produce surface cracking.
•A small error in ψ will eventually produce a significant error in the fields.
•The change in contact resistance effects the desired current change.
•These collisions can involve either a gain or loss in mechanical energy.
•Continued condensation causes the period of rotation to shorten.
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•To devise a technique for measuring...
•New methods of energy conversion are being devised.
•A method is currently being sought to induce vortex breakdown behind wide-bodied transport jets.
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