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41 arbetare
labourer, worker, workmanackordsarbetare; piece workerfackarbetare; skilled laborer, skilled workeroskolad arbetare; unskilled workmanskiftarbetare; shift workertempoarbetare; semi skilled workertimlönearbetare; time rate workertransportarbetare; haulage man -
42 haul
[ho:l] 1. verb1) (to pull with great effort or difficulty: Horses are used to haul barges along canals.) σέρνω2) (to carry by some form of transport: Coal is hauled by road and rail.) μεταφέρω2. noun1) (a strong pull: He gave the rope a haul.) τράβηγμα2) (the amount of anything, especially fish, that is got at one time: The fishermen had a good haul; The thieves got away from the jeweller's with a good haul.) ψαριά,μπάζα•- haulage- haulier
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43 charge
1. n1) цена, плата2) pl расходы, издержки3) налог; сбор; начисление4) долговое обязательство; дебет6) обременение вещи; залоговое право7) обвинение8) юр. обращение взыскания9) обязанность; ответственность
- acceptance charge
- account operation charge
- accrued charges
- activity charges
- actual charges
- additional charge
- additional charges
- administration charge
- administrative charge
- admission charge
- amendment charge
- amortization charges
- average charges
- back charges
- baggage charge
- bank charge for custody of securities
- bank charges
- banking charges
- banking service charge
- baseless charges
- basic charge
- berth charge
- boatmen in charge
- cable charges
- cancellation charge
- capital charges
- carriage charges
- carrying charge
- carrying charges
- checking charges
- collecting charges
- collection charge
- collection charges
- commission charge
- commission charge for a L/C
- community charge
- constant charges
- consular charge
- container charge
- corruption charges
- crane charge
- customs-clearance charges
- daily charge
- decoration charges
- deferred charges
- delivery charge
- delivery charges
- demurrage charges
- departmental charges
- depreciation charges
- designing charges
- detention charges
- direct charges
- discharging charge
- discount charges
- discounting charges
- disinfection charge
- distribution charges
- dock charges
- documentation charges
- embezzlement charge
- emission charge
- encashment charges
- engineering charge
- establishment charges
- estimated charges
- excess charge
- excess baggage charge
- excess weight charge
- exorbitant charges
- extra charge
- extra charges
- finance charge
- financing charge
- financing charges
- fiscal charges
- fixed charge
- fixed charges
- flat charge
- floating charge
- fluctuating charges
- forwarding charges
- freight charges
- frontier charge
- general average and salvage charges
- handling charges
- haulage charges
- hauling charges
- heavy charges
- heavy lifting charges
- heavy rental charges
- hiring charge
- hotel charges
- import charge
- incidental charges
- incurred charges
- indirect charges
- industry track charges
- insurance charge
- insurance charges
- interest charge
- interest charges on capital
- issuance charge
- lading charges
- land charge
- landing charges
- late charge
- levelling charges
- lighter charges
- loading charges
- loan charges
- local charges
- lock charges
- mailing charges
- maintenance charges
- management charges
- minimum charge
- moderate charge
- monthly charge
- mortgage charges
- municipal charges
- night charge
- nonrecurring charge
- one-off charge
- one-time charge
- overhead charges
- overtime charges
- packing charges
- packaging charges
- particular charges
- penalty charge
- per diem charge
- period charges
- pollution charge
- port charges
- porterage charge
- postal charges
- prior charges
- proforma charges
- protest charge
- protest charges
- quay handling charges
- quay landing charges
- quay loading charges
- railway charge
- rate charge
- reconsigning charge
- recovery charges
- redraft charges
- reduced charge
- remittance charge
- remittance charges
- remittance charge for international money orders
- rent charges
- rental charge
- repairing charges
- reweighing charges
- river charge
- salvage charges
- securities fraud charges
- separate charge
- service charge
- service charge on a loan
- shifting charge
- shipping charges
- siding charge
- special charge
- standard charge
- standing charges
- stevedoring charge
- stevedoring charges
- storage charge
- storage charges
- storing charge
- sue charges
- supplementary charges
- surrender charge
- survey charges
- taring charges
- telephone charges
- telex charges
- terminal charges
- token charge
- towage charges
- towing charges
- transaction charge
- transhipment charge
- transit charge
- transport charges
- transportation charge
- transportation charges
- trimming charges
- trust charges
- unloading charge
- unloading charges
- valuation charges
- variable charges
- vehicle ownership charge
- veterinary charges
- waggon hire charge
- warehouse charge
- warehouse charges
- warehousing charge
- weighbridge charge
- weighing charges
- wharfage charges
- winchmen charge
- charges against revenue
- charge for admission
- charges for advertising
- charges for amortization of intangible fixed assets
- charges for carriage
- charge for cheque processing
- charge for clearance
- charge for coining
- charge for collection
- charges for conveyance
- charge for credit
- charge for cross-border funds transfer
- charge for delivery
- charges for depreciation of tangible fixed assets
- charge for engineering
- charge for excess withdrawal
- charge for freight
- charge for interest
- charge for issue of documents
- charge for noting
- charges for the opening of a L/C
- charges for overtime work
- charges for provisions for depreciation of financial fixed assets
- charges for provisions for depreciation of gold and precious metals
- charges for provisions for depreciation of investment securities
- charges for provisions for doubtful debts
- charges for public utility services
- charges for services
- charges for services and facilities
- charges forward
- charges of advertising
- charge of embezzlement
- charge on assets
- charge on imports
- charge on income
- charge on land
- charge on property
- charges forward
- charges paid in advance
- at a charge
- at extra charge
- at a moderate charge
- at no charge
- without charge
- all charges borne
- all charges deducted
- all charges included
- free of charge
- less charges
- be in charge of
- bear charges
- bill the charges
- bring on charge
- calculate charges
- collect charges
- compute charges
- defray the charges
- fix charges
- impose charges
- incur charges
- levy a charge
- levy corruption charges
- make a charge
- put on charge
- reverse charges
- take on charge2. v1) назначать цену; взимать плату3) записывать, относить на счет; дебетовать
- charge a commission
- charge a fee
- charge payment against debt
- charge up
- expenses charged forwardEnglish-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > charge
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44 equipment
оборудование; снаряжение; оснащение; оснастка (напр. станка); приспособления; приборы; аппаратура; арматура; принадлежности; подвижной состав; воен. материальная часть; боевая техника- equipment arrangement - equipment availability - equipment building - equipment capital costs - equipment casualty - equipment certificate - equipment certification - equipment certification requirement - equipment check - equipment checkout - equipment clock - equipment compatibility - equipment condition data - equipment damage - equipment dependability - equipment depot - equipment design failure - equipment error - equipment facilities - equipment failure - equipment failure information - equipment failure log - equipment for road construction - equipment for the manufacture of asbestos cement - equipment identification register - equipment identity register - equipment in place - equipment inspection - equipment-intermodulation noise - equipment investments - equipment lay-out - equipment layout - equipment lease - equipment leasing - equipment level controller - equipment location - equipment longevity - equipment maintenance facility - equipment maintenance management program - equipment maintenance officer - equipment maintenance ratio - equipment maintenance report - equipment maintenance team - equipment manufacturer code - equipment manufacturing failure - equipment-modification list - equipment monitoring - equipment nomenclature - equipment operating procedure - equipment operation test - equipment package - equipment performance log - equipment performance report - equipment placement - equipment programming - equipment protection device - equipment qualification - equipment rack - equipment ready date - equipment rebuilding - equipment reference book - equipment regulation - equipment reliability - equipment reliability status report - equipment repair time - equipment replacement - equipment replacement network - equipment reservation - equipment revamping - equipment review board - equipment room - equipment safety - equipment salvage - equipment schedule - equipment serviceability criterion - equipment side - equipment specifications - equipment spendings - equipment status board - equipment status chart - equipment status indication - equipment status log - equipment supervision - equipment terminal - equipment unavailability - equipment upgrading - equipment wire - accessory equipment - acoustic emission equipment - acoustical equipment - actuated equipment - add-on equipment - air equipment - air-chucking equipment - air-conditioning equipment - air-humidifying equipment - air-painting equipment - ancillary equipment - answering equipment - assembly equipment - balancing equipment - blasting equipment - board equipment - bolt-on equipment - brake equipment - built-in test equipment - calibration equipment - CAM equipment - capital equipment - cargo handling equipment - carrying and lifting equipment - centrifugal pumping equipment - checking equipment - collective protective equipment - compressor equipment - computer-aided test equipment - computer-automated equipment - concrete-handling equipment - consumption equipment - controllable balancing equipment - conveying equipment - coolant clarification equipment - cost-effective equipment - crane equipment - crane electrical equipment - crushing and screening equipment - data-processing equipment - dedicated equipment - defective equipment - de-icer equipment - demonstration equipment - detection equipment - detritus equipment - diagnosis equipment - diagnostic equipment - digital readout equipment - dimensional-inspection equipment - direction-finding equipment - driven equipment - durable equipment - electrical equipment - electrical discharge equipment - electroheat equipment - electrothermal equipment - emergency equipment - energy equipment - energy-intensive equipment - erection equipment - exhibition equipment - experimental equipment - external test equipment - FA-related equipment - fabricating equipment - fabrication equipment - factory-installed equipment - failed equipment - farming equipment - faulty equipment - feeding equipment - field-balancing equipment - filling equipment - finishing equipment - fire-fighting equipment - fire safety equipment - fixed equipment - fixed path equipment - flatness testing equipment - fuel handling equipment - gaging equipment - garage equipment - garage-repair equipment - gas equipment - gas-welding equipment - gear testing equipment - general-purpose equipment - general test equipment - grading equipment - greasing equipment - grit-dredging equipment - handling equipment - hard automation equipment - haulage equipment - hauling equipment - heat-treating equipment - hi-fi equipment - high-fi equipment - high-technology equipment - higher-horsepower equipment - homemade fire-fighting equipment - hydraulic equipment - hydraulic tracing equipment - idle equipment - ignition equipment - independent equipment - industrial equipment - industrial cleaning equipment - input equipment - inspection equipment - installation equipment - installed equipment - instrumental equipment - instrumented equipment - interconnecting equipment - jaw-type work-holding equipment - joining equipment - laboratory equipment - lifting equipment - lighting equipment - loading equipment - loading and unloading equipment for dryer cars - machine-tool equipment - machining equipment - maintenance equipment - maintenance-and-support equipment - manipulating equipment - manually controlled equipment - manufacturing equipment - material-handling equipment - materials-handling equipment - material mining equipment - MDI equipment - measurement-processing equipment - measuring and control equipment - measuring equipment - mechanical handling equipment - metal-cutting equipment - metering equipment - microprocessing equipment - microwave heating equipment - military equipment - mill-turn equipment - mobile equipment - monitoring equipment - mountable pile-driving equipment - multidimension gaging equipment - multisensor equipment - noise abatement equipment - non-assembled equipment - nonrepairable equipment - nonstandard equipment - off-road equipment - operational equipment - optional equipment - outdated equipment - outmoded equipment - out-of-repair equipment - paint equipment - parts-handling equipment - parts-washing equipment - pattern equipment - peripheral equipment - personal protection equipment - personal protective equipment - pipeline equipment - pipeline-laying equipment - pipeline-scraping equipment - pneumatic equipment - pile-driving equipment - piling equipment - portable jacking equipment - postprocess gaging equipment - preparatory machining equipment - presetting equipment - primary equipment - primary machining equipment - process control monitoring equipment - process equipment - process monitoring equipment - processing equipment - production equipment - production test equipment - professional drilling equipment - protective equipment - proving-and-indicating equipment - pulling-and-running equipment - pump-and-compressor equipment - pumping equipment - quarry equipment - reconditioning equipment - redundant equipment - refrigeration equipment - rejected equipment - reliable equipment - remote control equipment - remove an equipment - repair equipment - repairable equipment - reserve equipment - residential equipment - retrofit equipment - rippers equipment - road-building equipment - rope-suspended boom equipment - rotating equipment - round trip equipment - safeguarding equipment - safety equipment - safety-survival equipment - secondary equipment - self-balancing equipment - sensing equipment - service checkout equipment - service equipment - snow-cleaning equipment - snow-handling equipment - spare equipment - spark erosion equipment - special support equipment - special test equipment - standalone equipment - standard equipment - standby equipment - supervisory equipment - supplementary equipment - support equipment - supporting equipment - surface-measuring equipment - swarf-handling equipment - tank cleaning equipment - telescopic equipment - test equipment - test-and-maintenance equipment - testing equipment - tool equipment - tool-holding equipment - tooling equipment - tool-setting equipment - touch-probe inspection equipment - towing equipment - tracer equipment - traction-type equipment - training equipment - transferring equipment - transport equipment - transportation equipment - turning gaging equipment - unattended equipment - underground equipment - universal equipment - unrepairable equipment - up-to-date construction equipment - used equipment - utility equipment - value-added equipment - vandalproof equipment - vehicle greasing equipment - warehousing equipment - waste-minimization equipment - water-fed equipment - water-purification equipment - water quality monitoring equipment - water-treatment equipment - weed-control equipment - weighing equipment - weld deposition equipment - welding equipment - welding deposition equipment - wheel alignment equipment - work-holding equipment - workover equipment -
45 track
колея; путь; рельсовый путь; трасса; авто. расстояние между колёсами автомобиля (передними или задними); гусеница; гусеничная цепь; трак; звено гусеничной цепи; гусеничный трак; протектор шины; трелёвочный валок; транспортёр; конвейер; направляющая; направляющее устройство; направление; курс; дорожка качения (подшипника); канавка (резьбы); токопроводящая дорожка; полоса; просёлок, трек; велодром; борозда; след; воен. сопровождение (цели); слежение (за целью); II прокладывать путь; прокладывать колею; оставлять следы; следить; отслеживать; адресовать груз- track adjusting bracket - track adjusting wheel - track angle - track assemble forcing pin - track assembly - track bar - track bushing - track carrying wheel - track centerline - track centers - track charting - track choke - track circuit leaksge - track cleaner - track combine - track connection - track control arm - track curvature - track deflection - track diagram - track discharge - track distance - track frame support collar - track frames equalizer - track gage - track group - track group coil - track guard - track guide ring - track-guided - track guiding wheel - track holding - track idler - track idler bracket - track idler guard - track in range - track jumper - track lable - track layer - track laying - track-laying mover - track length - track-lift - track lifter - track link clogging - track link counterbore - track link key - track link pin - track maintenance toll - track master bushing - track master link bushing - track master link pin - track master pin - track measurement car - track-mounted all-hydraulic drill rig - track mover - track oscillated design - track packing machine - track pin - track pin hole - track pinch bar - track pitch - track pitch extension - track pitch gage - track plate - track plotting - track press - track press conveyor - track press ram - track press tool holder bar - track profile - track protection - track rail assembly - track registration detector - track relay - track release housing - track release mechanism - track release yoke - track-riding loader - track-riding manipulator - track road - track roller bearing - track roller bushing - track roller flange - track rollers - track scale - track scales - track shaft - track shifting machine - track shoulder - track stringer - track support roller - track system - track tamping machine - track target - track tension - track tensioning roller - track time - track twist - track-type carrier - track-type excavator - track-type loader - track-type skidder - track-type tractor - track-type vehicle - track velocity - track vibration - track wheel - track wheel guard - track width - adjacent track - adjustable track - AGV track - automated guided vehicle track - annular track - assembly track - auxilliary track - bad-order track - bridge-crane track - buffer track - buried wire track - cam track - car track - cloud track - conductive track - continuous welded rail track - control track - conveyor track - counter-rotating tracks - crane track - data track - dead-end track - dead-level track - departure track - discontinuos track - door track - double track - draw-out track - dredge track - drum track - dru-jointed track - electrified track - exit track - factory track - feed track - flexible track - fog track - freight track - gate track - gear track - gravity track - guide track - helical track - humping track - input track - insulated track - interchange track - jointed track - load track - loading track - locomotive holding track - loosen track - low-pressure track - main draw-out track - main-line track - narrow-gauge track - output track - overhead track - roller track - side track - storage track - table track - target track - taxi track - transfer track - unload track - unloading track - wear track - wheel track -
46 unit
1) агрегат; установка2) блок; секция; узел; элемент; звено3) объект4) предмет6) единица || единичный7) шкала•unit in the large — мат. единица в целом
- auxiliary power unitto take as a unit — мат. принимать за единицу
- box unit- ground power unit - ground power-supply unit - infra-red heating unit - load distribution unit - load following unit - magnetic variation unit - nuclear steam-raising unit - pulse gating unit - pulse shaping unit - scrap breaking unit - service data unit - servo control unit - shared-path control unit - thermal imaging unit - threshold logic unit - two-phase milking unit -
47 haul
[ho:l] 1. verb1) (to pull with great effort or difficulty: Horses are used to haul barges along canals.) tirer2) (to carry by some form of transport: Coal is hauled by road and rail.) transporter2. noun1) (a strong pull: He gave the rope a haul.) effort2) (the amount of anything, especially fish, that is got at one time: The fishermen had a good haul; The thieves got away from the jeweller's with a good haul.) prise, butin•- haulage- haulier - a long haul -
48 haul
[ho:l] 1. verb1) (to pull with great effort or difficulty: Horses are used to haul barges along canals.) puxar2) (to carry by some form of transport: Coal is hauled by road and rail.) carrear2. noun1) (a strong pull: He gave the rope a haul.) puxão2) (the amount of anything, especially fish, that is got at one time: The fishermen had a good haul; The thieves got away from the jeweller's with a good haul.) butim•- haulage- haulier - a long haul -
49 Locke, Joseph
[br]b. 9 August 1805 Attercliffe, Yorkshire, Englandd. 18 September 1860 Moffat, Scotland[br]English civil engineer who built many important early main-line railways.[br]Joseph Locke was the son of a colliery viewer who had known George Stephenson in Northumberland before moving to Yorkshire: Locke himself became a pupil of Stephenson in 1823. He worked with Robert Stephenson at Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s locomotive works and surveyed railways, including the Leeds \& Selby and the Canterbury \& Whitstable, for George Stephenson.When George Stephenson was appointed Chief Engineer for construction of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1826, the first resident engineer whom he appointed to work under him was Locke, who took a prominent part in promoting traction by locomotives rather than by fixed engines with cable haulage. The pupil eventually excelled the master and in 1835 Locke was appointed in place of Stephenson as Chief Engineer for construction of the Grand Junction Railway. He introduced double-headed rails carried in chairs on wooden sleepers, the prototype of the bullhead track that became standard on British railways for more than a century. By preparing the most detailed specifications, Locke was able to estimate the cost of the railway much more accurately than was usual at that time, and it was built at a cost close to the estimate; this made his name. He became Engineer to the London \& Southampton Railway and completed the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyme \& Manchester Railway, including the 3-mile (3.8 km) Woodhead Tunnel, which had been started by Charles Vignoles. He was subsequently responsible for many British main lines, including those of the companies that extended the West Coast Route northwards from Preston to Scotland. He was also Engineer to important early main lines in France, notably that from Paris to Rouen and its extension to Le Havre, and in Spain and Holland. In 1847 Locke was elected MP for Honiton.Locke appreciated early in his career that steam locomotives able to operate over gradients steeper than at first thought practicable would be developed. Overall his monument is not great individual works of engineering, such as the famous bridges of his close contemporaries Robert Stephenson and I.K. Brunel, but a series of lines built economically but soundly through rugged country without such works; for example, the line over Shap, Cumbria.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsOfficier de la Légion d'honneur, France. FRS. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1858–9.Further ReadingObituary, 1861, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 20. L.T.C.Rolt, 1962, Great Engineers, London: G. Bell \& Sons, ch. 6.Industrial Heritage, 1991, Vol. 9(2):9.See also: Brassey, ThomasPJGR -
50 Stephenson, George
[br]b. 9 June 1781 Wylam, Northumberland, Englandd. 12 August 1848 Tapton House, Chesterfield, England[br]English engineer, "the father of railways".[br]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.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsPresident, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, on its formation in 1847. Order of Leopold (Belgium) 1835. Stephenson refused both a knighthood and Fellowship of the Royal Society.Bibliography1815, jointly with Ralph Dodd, British patent no. 3,887 (locomotive drive by connecting rods directly to the wheels).1817, jointly with William Losh, British patent no. 4,067 (steam springs for locomotives, and improvements to track).Further ReadingL.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, Longman (the best modern biography; includes a bibliography).S.Smiles, 1874, The Lives of George and Robert Stephenson, rev. edn, London (although sycophantic, this is probably the best nineteenthcentury biography).PJGR
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