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it's 20 miles south of Birmingham

  • 1 south

    south [saʊθ]
    1 noun
    (a) Geography sud m;
    ∎ in the south au sud, dans le sud;
    ∎ the region to the south of Edinburgh la région au sud d'Édimbourg;
    ∎ two miles to the south trois kilomètres au sud;
    ∎ look towards the south regardez vers le sud;
    ∎ I was born in the south je suis né dans le Sud;
    ∎ in the south of India dans le sud de l'Inde;
    ∎ in the South of France dans le Midi (de la France);
    ∎ the wind is in the south le vent est au sud;
    ∎ the wind is coming from the south le vent vient ou souffle du sud;
    ∎ History the South (of United States) le Sud, les États mpl du Sud
    (b) Cards sud m
    (a) Geography sud (inv), du sud, méridional; (country, state) du Sud; (wall) exposé au sud;
    ∎ the south coast la côte sud;
    ∎ in south London dans le sud de Londres;
    ∎ in South India en Inde du Sud;
    ∎ the South Atlantic/Pacific l'Atlantique m/le Pacifique Sud;
    ∎ the South Seas les mers fpl du Sud;
    ∎ the South Bank = complexe sur la rive sud de la Tamise réunissant des salles de concert, des théâtres et des musées;
    ∎ the South Circular = voie rapide périphérique au sud de Londres
    (b) (wind) de sud, du sud
    au sud; (travel) vers le sud, en direction du sud;
    ∎ the village lies south of York le village est situé au sud de York;
    ∎ the living room faces south la salle de séjour est exposée au sud;
    ∎ the path heads (due) south le chemin va ou mène (droit) vers le sud;
    ∎ walk south until you come to a main road marchez vers le sud jusqu'à ce que vous arriviez à une route principale;
    ∎ I drove south for two hours j'ai roulé pendant deux heures en direction du sud;
    ∎ we're going south for our holidays nous allons passer nos vacances dans le Sud;
    ∎ I travelled south je suis allée vers le sud;
    ∎ to sail south naviguer cap sur le sud;
    ∎ it's 20 miles south of Birmingham c'est à 32 kilomètres au sud de Birmingham;
    ∎ they live down south ils habitent dans le Sud;
    ∎ south by east/west sud-quart-sud-est/-ouest;
    ∎ further south plus au sud
    ►► South Africa l'Afrique f du Sud;
    ∎ in South Africa en Afrique du Sud;
    ∎ the Republic of South Africa la République d'Afrique du Sud;
    1 noun
    Sud-Africain(e) m,f
    sud-africain, d'Afrique du Sud;
    South America l'Amérique f du Sud;
    ∎ in South America en Amérique du Sud; South American
    1 noun
    Sud-Américain(e) m,f
    sud-américain, d'Amérique du Sud;
    South Australia l'Australie-Méridionale f;
    ∎ in South Australia en Australie-Méridionale;
    Geography South Carolina la Caroline du Sud;
    ∎ in South Carolina en Caroline du Sud;
    Geography South Dakota le Dakota du Sud;
    ∎ in South Dakota dans le Dakota du Sud;
    South Georgia la Géorgie du Sud;
    Geography South Glamorgan le South Glamorgan, = comté du sud du pays de Galles;
    ∎ in South Glamorgan dans le South Glamorgan;
    South Island l'île f du Sud;
    South Korea la Corée du Sud;
    ∎ in South Korea en Corée du Sud; South Korean
    1 noun
    Sud-Coréen(enne) m,f, Coréen(enne) m,f du Sud
    sud-coréen;
    South Pole le pôle Sud;
    ∎ at the South Pole au pôle Sud;
    South Sea Bubble = krach financier de 1720 en Angleterre;
    South Sea Islands l'Océanie f;
    South Vietnam le Viêt-nam du Sud;
    ∎ in South Vietnam au Viêt-nam du Sud; South Vietnamese
    1 noun
    Sud-Vietnamien(enne) m,f;
    the South Vietnamese les Sud-Vietnamiens mpl
    sud-vietnamien;
    South Wales le sud du pays de Galles;
    South Yemen le Yémen du Sud;
    ∎ in South Yemen au Yémen du Sud;
    Geography South Yorkshire le South Yorkshire, = comté du nord de l'Angleterre;
    ∎ in South Yorkshire dans le South Yorkshire
    ⓘ THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE Ce krach financier eut lieu en 1720, après que la "South Sea Company" eut repris à son compte la dette nationale britannique en échange du monopole du commerce sur les mers du sud. Cette nouvelle provoqua une ruée sur les actions de la compagnie et une spéculation avide, entraînant la chute des cours et la ruine de nombreux investisseurs.

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  • 2 Birmingham

    1) Город на севере центральной части штата Алабама, в долине р. Джонс [Jones Valley], у южного подножия Аппалачей [ Appalachian Mountains]. 242,8 тыс. жителей (2000), крупнейший город штата. Административный центр [ county seat] округа Джефферсон [Jefferson County]. Основан в 1871 недалеко от крупных месторождений железной руды, доломита, угля и других полезных ископаемых и назван в честь одноименного английского города. Развивался как крупнейший на Юге [ South] центр металлургии, железнодорожный узел. В 60-е гг. XX в. - один из центров движения за гражданские права [ Civil War]. Утратил статус крупного промышленного центра после второй мировой войны; ныне экономика в значительной степени диверсифицирована. Торгово-финансовый центр. Тяжелое машиностроение, химическая, текстильная промышленность, высокотехнологичные отрасли. Порт, связанный каналом с Мексиканским заливом [ Mexico, Gulf of]. Бирмингем - крупный медицинский центр. Самфордский университет [Samford University] (1841), Колледж Майлса [ Miles College], Бирмингемский южный колледж [Birmingham-Southern College] (1856); филиал Алабамского университета [ Alabama, University of; at Birmingham] (1969), два местных колледжа [ community college]. Среди достопримечательностей - ботанический сад, японский сад [Japanese Gardens], зоопарк, памятник Вулкану [Vulcan] (древнеримский бог огня, покровитель металлургии и символ города; 1937) на вершине горы Ред [Red Mountain]. В городе есть симфонический оркестр и балетная труппа.
    2) Город на юго-востоке штата Мичиган, на р. Руж [Rouge, River], в 24 км к северу от г. Детройт [ Detroit], жилой пригород [ bedroom community]. 19,2 тыс. жителей (2000). Основан в 1819, статус города с 1933. Неподалеку - аэропорт Окленд-Трой [Oakland Troy Airport].
    3) Район в южной части г. Питсбурга [ Pittsburgh], шт. Пенсильвания, на р. Мононгахила [ Monongahela River], напротив центра города. Застройка района началась в 1811. Первоначально на берегу реки было крупное производство стекла. Ныне Бирмингем - преимущественно жилой район, населенный выходцами из стран Восточной Европы. На склонах горы Вашингтон [Washington, Mount] живут преуспевающие выходцы из Германии и их потомки [ German-Americans]

    English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Birmingham

  • 3 lie

    I 1. noun
    1) (false statement) Lüge, die

    tell lies/a lie — lügen

    no, I tell a lie,... — (coll.) nein, nicht dass ich jetzt lüge,... (ugs.)

    white lie — Notlüge, die

    2) (thing that deceives) [einzige] Lüge (fig.); Schwindel, der (abwertend)
    2. intransitive verb,
    lying lügen

    lie to somebody — jemanden be- od. anlügen

    II 1. noun
    (direction, position) Lage, die

    the lie of the land — (Brit. fig.): (state of affairs) die Lage der Dinge; die Sachlage

    2. intransitive verb,
    1) liegen; (assume horizontal position) sich legen

    many obstacles lie in the way of my success — (fig.) viele Hindernisse verstellen mir den Weg zum Erfolg

    she lay asleep/resting on the sofa — sie lag auf dem Sofa und schlief/ruhte sich aus

    lie still/dying — still liegen/im Sterben liegen

    2)

    lie idle — [Feld, Garten:] brachliegen; [Maschine, Fabrik:] stillstehen; [Gegenstand:] [unbenutzt] herumstehen (ugs.)

    let something/things lie — etwas/die Dinge ruhen lassen

    3) (be buried) [begraben] liegen
    4) (be situated) liegen
    5) (be spread out to view)

    the valley/plain/desert lay before us — vor uns lag das Tal/die Ebene/die Wüste

    a brilliant career lay before him — (fig.) eine glänzende Karriere lag vor ihm

    6) (Naut.)

    lie at anchor/in harbour — vor Anker/im Hafen liegen

    7) (fig.) [Gegenstand:] liegen
    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/42782/lie_about">lie about
    * * *
    I 1. noun
    (a false statement made with the intention of deceiving: It would be a lie to say I knew, because I didn't.) die Lüge
    2. verb
    (to say etc something which is not true, with the intention of deceiving: There's no point in asking her - she'll just lie about it.) lügen
    II present participle - lying; verb
    1) (to be in or take a more or less flat position: She went into the bedroom and lay on the bed; The book was lying in the hall.) liegen
    2) (to be situated; to be in a particular place etc: The farm lay three miles from the sea; His interest lies in farming.) liegen
    3) (to remain in a certain state: The shop is lying empty now.) sich befinden
    4) ((with in) (of feelings, impressions etc) to be caused by or contained in: His charm lies in his honesty.) bestehen
    •
    - lie back
    - lie down
    - lie in
    - lie in wait for
    - lie in wait
    - lie low
    - lie with
    - take lying down
    * * *
    lie1
    [laɪ]
    I. vi
    <- y->
    lügen
    ▪ to \lie about sth intentions, plans falsche Angaben über etw akk machen
    I used to \lie about my age ich habe immer ein falsches Alter angegeben
    ▪ to \lie about sb über jdn die Unwahrheit erzählen
    ▪ to \lie to sb jdn belügen
    ▶ to \lie through one's teeth wie gedruckt lügen fam
    II. vt
    <- y->
    to \lie one's way somewhere sich akk irgendwohin hineinschmuggeln
    ▪ to \lie one's way [or oneself] out of sth sich akk aus etw dat herausreden
    III. n Lüge f
    to be a pack [or BRIT tissue] of \lies erstunken und erlogen sein fam
    to be an outright \lie glatt gelogen sein fam
    to give the \lie to sb/sth jdn/etw Lügen strafen
    to tell \lies Lügen erzählen
    don't tell me \lies! lüg mich nicht an!
    her name is Paula, no, I tell a \lie — it's Pauline ihr Name ist Paula — nein, Moment, bevor ich etwas Falsches sage — sie heißt Pauline
    lie2
    [laɪ]
    I. n
    1. no pl (position) Lage f
    2. no pl esp BRIT, AUS (shape)
    the \lie of the land die Beschaffenheit des Geländes; ( fig) die Lage
    to find out the \lie of the land das Gelände erkunden; ( fig) die Lage sondieren [o peilen
    II. vi
    <-y-, lay, lain>
    1. (be horizontal, resting) liegen
    to \lie on one's back/in bed/on the ground auf dem Rücken/im Bett/auf dem Boden liegen
    to \lie in state aufgebahrt sein [o liegen]
    to \lie awake/quietly/still wach/ruhig/still [da]liegen
    to \lie flat flach liegen [bleiben]
    2. (be buried) ruhen
    here \lies the body of... hier ruht...
    3. (become horizontal) sich akk hinlegen
    \lie face down! leg dich auf den Bauch!
    4. (be upon a surface) liegen
    snow lay thickly over the fields auf den Feldern lag eine dicke Schneeschicht
    to \lie at the mercy of sb jds Gnade ausgeliefert sein
    to \lie in ruins in Trümmern liegen
    to \lie under a suspicion unter einem Verdacht stehen
    to \lie in wait auf der Lauer liegen
    to \lie dying im Sterben liegen
    to \lie empty leer stehen
    to \lie fallow brach liegen
    6. (remain) liegen bleiben
    the snow didn't \lie der Schnee blieb nicht liegen
    7. (be situated) liegen
    the road lay along the canal die Straße führte am Kanal entlang
    to \lie in anchor/harbour in Hamburg in Hamburg vor Anker/im Hafen liegen
    to \lie off the coast [or shore] vor der Küste liegen
    to \lie to the east/north of sth im Osten/Norden [o östlich/nördlich] einer S. gen liegen
    the river \lies 40 km to the south of us der Fluss befindet sich 40 km südlich von uns
    to \lie on the route to Birmingham auf dem Weg nach Birmingham liegen
    8. (weigh)
    to \lie heavily on sth schwer auf etw dat lasten
    to \lie heavily on sb's mind jdn schwer bedrücken
    to \lie heavily on sb's stomach jdm schwer im Magen liegen fam
    9. (be the responsibility of)
    ▪ to \lie on sb jdm obliegen geh
    ▪ to \lie with sb bei jdm liegen
    the choice/decision \lies [only] with you die Wahl/Entscheidung liegt [ganz allein] bei dir
    it \lies with you to decide es liegt an dir zu entscheiden
    the responsibility for the project \lies with us wir sind für das Projekt verantwortlich [o tragen die Verantwortung für das Projekt
    10. (be found)
    ▪ to \lie in sth in etw dat liegen
    where do your interests \lie? wo liegen deine Interessen?
    the cause of the argument \lies in the stubbornness on both sides die Ursache des Streits liegt in [o an] der Sturheit auf beiden Seiten
    the decision doesn't \lie in my power die Entscheidung [darüber] liegt nicht in meiner Macht
    11. BRIT (in a competition)
    to \lie bottom of/third in the table Tabellenletzter/-dritter sein
    to \lie in second place auf dem zweiten Platz liegen
    to \lie third dritter sein
    to \lie in front of/behind sb vor/hinter jdm liegen
    12. LAW claim, appeal zulässig sein
    13.
    ▶ to \lie doggo BRIT ( fam) sich akk mucksmäuschenstill verhalten fam
    ▶ to \lie low (escape search) untergetaucht sein; (avoid being noticed) sich akk unauffällig verhalten; (bide one's time) sich akk [im Verborgenen] bereithalten
    ▶ to see how the land \lies die Lage sondieren [o peilen]
    * * *
    I [laɪ]
    1. n
    Lüge f

    it's a lie! — das ist eine Lüge!, das ist gelogen!

    I tell a lie, it's actually tomorrow — das stimmt ja gar nicht or ich hab mich vertan, es ist morgen

    to give the lie to a claim — die Unwahrheit einer Behauptung (gen) zeigen or beweisen, eine Behauptung Lügen strafen (geh)

    2. vi
    lügen

    to lie to sb —

    3. vt

    to lie one's way out of sth — sich aus etw herauslügen

    II vb: pret lay, ptp lain
    1. n
    (= position) Lage f, Position f
    2. vi

    he lay where he had fallen — er blieb liegen, wo er hingefallen war

    lie on your back — leg dich auf den Rücken

    the snow didn't lie —

    to lie with sb ( Bibl old ) ( ) —,, old )

    2) (= be buried) ruhen
    3) (= be situated) liegen

    the runner who is lying third (esp Brit) — der Läufer, der auf dem dritten Platz liegt

    Uganda lies far from the coast — Uganda liegt weit von der Küste ab or entfernt

    our futures lie in quite different directions —

    you are young and your life lies before you — du bist jung, und das Leben liegt noch vor dir

    4) (= be, remain in a certain condition) liegen

    to lie low —

    5) (immaterial things) liegen

    it lies with you to solve the problem — es liegt bei dir, das Problem zu lösen

    his interests lie in music — seine Interessen liegen auf dem Gebiet der Musik or gelten der Musik

    he did everything that lay in his power to help us — er tat alles in seiner Macht Stehende, um uns zu helfen

    * * *
    lie1 [laı]
    A s Lüge f:
    tell lies ( oder a lie) lügen;
    that’s a lie! das ist eine Lüge!, das ist gelogen!;
    a) jemanden der Lüge bezichtigen,
    b) etwas, jemanden Lügen strafen, widerlegen;
    lies have short wings (Sprichwort) Lügen haben kurze Beine; → live1 B 2, white lie
    B v/i ppr lying [ˈlaııŋ]
    1. lügen:
    lie to sb jemanden belügen, jemanden anlügen;
    he lied (to them) about his past das, was er (ihnen) über seine Vergangenheit erzählte, war gelogen;
    she lied (to them) about her age sie machte sich (ihnen gegenüber) jünger oder älter, als sie tatsächlich war;
    lie through ( oder in) one’s teeth, lie in one’s throat umg das Blaue vom Himmel (herunter)lügen, wie gedruckt lügen
    2. lügen, trügen, täuschen, einen falschen Eindruck erwecken (Zahlen etc)
    C v/t lie to sb that … jemandem vorlügen, dass …;
    lie o.s. ( oder one’s way) out of sich herauslügen aus
    lie2 [laı]
    A s
    1. Lage f (auch fig):
    the lie of the land fig Br die Lage (der Dinge)
    2. Lager n (von Tieren)
    B v/i prät lay [leı], pperf lain [leın], ppr lying [ˈlaııŋ]
    1. liegen:
    a) allg im Bett etc liegen:
    all his books are lying about ( oder around) the room seine ganzen Bücher liegen im Zimmer herum; → ruin A 2, etc
    b) ausgebreitet, tot etc daliegen:
    lie dying im Sterben liegen
    c) gelegen sein, sich befinden:
    the town lies on a river die Stadt liegt an einem Fluss;
    lie second ( oder in second position) SPORT etc an zweiter Stelle oder auf dem zweiten Platz liegen;
    all his money is lying in the bank sein ganzes Geld liegt auf der Bank
    d) begründet liegen, bestehen ( beide:
    in in dat)
    e) begraben sein oder liegen, ruhen:
    here lies … hier ruht …
    2. liegen bleiben (Schnee)
    3. SCHIFF, MIL liegen (Flotte, Truppe)
    4. SCHIFF
    a) vor Anker liegen
    b) beidrehen: → lie along, lie off 1, lie to
    5. a) liegen:
    the goose lay heavy on his stomach die Gans lag ihm schwer im Magen
    b) fig lasten (on auf der Seele etc):
    his past lies heavily on him ( oder his mind) seine Vergangenheit lastet schwer auf ihm
    6. führen, verlaufen:
    7. (behind) stecken (hinter dat), der Grund sein (für oder gen)
    8. JUR zulässig sein (Klage etc):
    appeal lies to the Supreme Court Berufung kann vor dem Obersten Bundesgericht eingelegt werden
    9. lie with sb obs oder BIBEL jemandem beiliegen (mit jemandem schlafen)Besondere Redewendungen: as far as in me lies obs oder poet soweit es an mir liegt, soweit es in meinen Kräften steht;
    his greatness lies in his courage seine Größe liegt in seinem Mut (begründet);
    he knows where his interest lies er weiß, wo sein Vorteil liegt;
    lie in sb’s way
    a) jemandem zur Hand sein,
    b) jemandem möglich sein,
    c) in jemandes Fach schlagen,
    d) jemandem im Weg stehen his talents do not lie that way dazu hat er kein Talent;
    lie on sb JUR jemandem obliegen;
    the responsibility lies on you die Verantwortung liegt bei dir;
    lie on sb’s hands unbenutzt oder unverkauft bei jemandem liegen bleiben;
    lie to the north SCHIFF Nord anliegen;
    lie under an obligation eine Verpflichtung haben;
    lie under the suspicion of murder unter Mordverdacht stehen;
    lie under a sentence of death zum Tode verurteilt sein;
    the fault lies with him die Schuld liegt bei ihm;
    it lies with you to do it es liegt an dir oder es ist deine Sache, es zu tun; siehe Verbindungen mit den entsprechenden Substantiven etc
    * * *
    I 1. noun
    1) (false statement) Lüge, die

    tell lies/a lie — lügen

    no, I tell a lie,... — (coll.) nein, nicht dass ich jetzt lüge,... (ugs.)

    white lie — Notlüge, die

    2) (thing that deceives) [einzige] Lüge (fig.); Schwindel, der (abwertend)
    2. intransitive verb,
    lying lügen

    lie to somebody — jemanden be- od. anlügen

    II 1. noun
    (direction, position) Lage, die

    the lie of the land — (Brit. fig.): (state of affairs) die Lage der Dinge; die Sachlage

    2. intransitive verb,
    1) liegen; (assume horizontal position) sich legen

    many obstacles lie in the way of my success — (fig.) viele Hindernisse verstellen mir den Weg zum Erfolg

    she lay asleep/resting on the sofa — sie lag auf dem Sofa und schlief/ruhte sich aus

    lie still/dying — still liegen/im Sterben liegen

    2)

    lie idle — [Feld, Garten:] brachliegen; [Maschine, Fabrik:] stillstehen; [Gegenstand:] [unbenutzt] herumstehen (ugs.)

    let something/things lie — etwas/die Dinge ruhen lassen

    3) (be buried) [begraben] liegen
    4) (be situated) liegen

    the valley/plain/desert lay before us — vor uns lag das Tal/die Ebene/die Wüste

    a brilliant career lay before him — (fig.) eine glänzende Karriere lag vor ihm

    6) (Naut.)

    lie at anchor/in harbour — vor Anker/im Hafen liegen

    7) (fig.) [Gegenstand:] liegen

    I will do everything that lies in my power to help — ich werde alles tun, was in meiner Macht steht, um zu helfen

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    n.
    Lüge -n f. v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: lied) (•§ p.,p.p.: lay, lain•)
    = liegen v.
    (§ p.,pp.: lag, gelegen)
    lügen v.
    (§ p.,pp.: log, gelogen)

    English-german dictionary > lie

  • 4 Stephenson, Robert

    [br]
    b. 16 October 1803 Willington Quay, Northumberland, England
    d. 12 October 1859 London, England
    [br]
    English engineer who built the locomotive Rocket and constructed many important early trunk railways.
    [br]
    Robert Stephenson's father was George Stephenson, who ensured that his son was educated to obtain the theoretical knowledge he lacked himself. In 1821 Robert Stephenson assisted his father in his survey of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway and in 1822 he assisted William James in the first survey of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway. He then went to Edinburgh University for six months, and the following year Robert Stephenson \& Co. was named after him as Managing Partner when it was formed by himself, his father and others. The firm was to build stationary engines, locomotives and railway rolling stock; in its early years it also built paper-making machinery and did general engineering.
    In 1824, however, Robert Stephenson accepted, perhaps in reaction to an excess of parental control, an invitation by a group of London speculators called the Colombian Mining Association to lead an expedition to South America to use steam power to reopen gold and silver mines. He subsequently visited North America before returning to England in 1827 to rejoin his father as an equal and again take charge of Robert Stephenson \& Co. There he set about altering the design of steam locomotives to improve both their riding and their steam-generating capacity. Lancashire Witch, completed in July 1828, was the first locomotive mounted on steel springs and had twin furnace tubes through the boiler to produce a large heating surface. Later that year Robert Stephenson \& Co. supplied the Stockton \& Darlington Railway with a wagon, mounted for the first time on springs and with outside bearings. It was to be the prototype of the standard British railway wagon. Between April and September 1829 Robert Stephenson built, not without difficulty, a multi-tubular boiler, as suggested by Henry Booth to George Stephenson, and incorporated it into the locomotive Rocket which the three men entered in the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway's Rainhill Trials in October. Rocket, was outstandingly successful and demonstrated that the long-distance steam railway was practicable.
    Robert Stephenson continued to develop the locomotive. Northumbrian, built in 1830, had for the first time, a smokebox at the front of the boiler and also the firebox built integrally with the rear of the boiler. Then in Planet, built later the same year, he adopted a layout for the working parts used earlier by steam road-coach pioneer Goldsworthy Gurney, placing the cylinders, for the first time, in a nearly horizontal position beneath the smokebox, with the connecting rods driving a cranked axle. He had evolved the definitive form for the steam locomotive.
    Also in 1830, Robert Stephenson surveyed the London \& Birmingham Railway, which was authorized by Act of Parliament in 1833. Stephenson became Engineer for construction of the 112-mile (180 km) railway, probably at that date the greatest task ever undertaken in of civil engineering. In this he was greatly assisted by G.P.Bidder, who as a child prodigy had been known as "The Calculating Boy", and the two men were to be associated in many subsequent projects. On the London \& Birmingham Railway there were long and deep cuttings to be excavated and difficult tunnels to be bored, notoriously at Kilsby. The line was opened in 1838.
    In 1837 Stephenson provided facilities for W.F. Cooke to make an experimental electrictelegraph installation at London Euston. The directors of the London \& Birmingham Railway company, however, did not accept his recommendation that they should adopt the electric telegraph and it was left to I.K. Brunel to instigate the first permanent installation, alongside the Great Western Railway. After Cooke formed the Electric Telegraph Company, Stephenson became a shareholder and was Chairman during 1857–8.
    Earlier, in the 1830s, Robert Stephenson assisted his father in advising on railways in Belgium and came to be increasingly in demand as a consultant. In 1840, however, he was almost ruined financially as a result of the collapse of the Stanhope \& Tyne Rail Road; in return for acting as Engineer-in-Chief he had unwisely accepted shares, with unlimited liability, instead of a fee.
    During the late 1840s Stephenson's greatest achievements were the design and construction of four great bridges, as part of railways for which he was responsible. The High Level Bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle and the Royal Border Bridge over the Tweed at Berwick were the links needed to complete the East Coast Route from London to Scotland. For the Chester \& Holyhead Railway to cross the Menai Strait, a bridge with spans as long-as 460 ft (140 m) was needed: Stephenson designed them as wrought-iron tubes of rectangular cross-section, through which the trains would pass, and eventually joined the spans together into a tube 1,511 ft (460 m) long from shore to shore. Extensive testing was done beforehand by shipbuilder William Fairbairn to prove the method, and as a preliminary it was first used for a 400 ft (122 m) span bridge at Conway.
    In 1847 Robert Stephenson was elected MP for Whitby, a position he held until his death, and he was one of the exhibition commissioners for the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the early 1850s he was Engineer-in-Chief for the Norwegian Trunk Railway, the first railway in Norway, and he also built the Alexandria \& Cairo Railway, the first railway in Africa. This included two tubular bridges with the railway running on top of the tubes. The railway was extended to Suez in 1858 and for several years provided a link in the route from Britain to India, until superseded by the Suez Canal, which Stephenson had opposed in Parliament. The greatest of all his tubular bridges was the Victoria Bridge across the River St Lawrence at Montreal: after inspecting the site in 1852 he was appointed Engineer-in-Chief for the bridge, which was 1 1/2 miles (2 km) long and was designed in his London offices. Sadly he, like Brunel, died young from self-imposed overwork, before the bridge was completed in 1859.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1849. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1849. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1856. Order of St Olaf (Norway). Order of Leopold (Belgium). Like his father, Robert Stephenson refused a knighthood.
    Further Reading
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, London: Longman (a good modern biography).
    J.C.Jeaffreson, 1864, The Life of Robert Stephenson, London: Longman (the standard nine-teenth-century biography).
    M.R.Bailey, 1979, "Robert Stephenson \& Co. 1823–1829", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 50 (provides details of the early products of that company).
    J.Kieve, 1973, The Electric Telegraph, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Stephenson, Robert

  • 5 Palmer, John

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    b. 1743 Bath, Avon, England
    d. 1818 Bath, Avon, England
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    English pioneer in mail transport.
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    He was the son of a brewer and maltster and part-owner of a theatre in Bath. In his early 20s his father sent him to London to organize the petition for a licence for the Orchard Street theatre, which was granted in 1768. He then organized a series of post-chaises to transport ac-tors between this and another theatre in Bristol in which his father also had an interest. By 1782 he had ready a plan for a countrywide service of mail coaches to replace the existing arrangements of conveying the mail by post-boys and -girls mounted on horseback who were by law compelled to carry the mail "at a Rate of Six Miles in the Hour at least" on penalty of one month's hard labour if found loitering. Lord Camden, Member of Parliament for Bath, put Palmer's plan before Prime Minister Pitt, who approved of it. An experimental run was tried on 2 August 1782, a coach leaving Bristol at 4 pm and arriving in London at 8 am the next morning, to return the following night from London at 8 pm and reaching Bristol at 10 am. In March 1785 the Norwich Mail Coach was started and during that year services were started to Portsmouth, Dover, Exeter, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Chester, Holyhead, Worcester, South Wales and Milford Haven. A feature of importance was that each mail coach was accompanied by an armed guard. In August 1786 Palmer was appointed Surveyor and Comptroller-General of the Post Office at a salary of £1,500 per annum and a bonus depending on all revenue over £300,000 each year. The popularity of the new service is shown by the feet that by 1813 his 2 1/2 per cent bonus came to £50,000. Due to the intrigues of his deputy, he was removed from office, but he was given a pension of £3,000 a year. He received the freedom of some eighteen towns, was made Mayor of Bath and represented that constituency in Parliament four times.
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    Further Reading
    E.Vale, 1960, The Mail-Coach Men, London: Cassell.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Palmer, John

  • 6 Paxton, Sir Joseph

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    b. 3 August 1801 Milton Bryant, Bedfordshire, England
    d. 8 June 1865 Sydenham, London, England
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    English designer of the Crystal Palace, the first large-scale prefabricated ferrovitreous structure.
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    The son of a farmer, he had worked in gardens since boyhood and at the age of 21 was employed as Undergardener at the Horticultural Society Gardens in Chiswick, from where he went on to become Head Gardener for the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. It was there that he developed his methods of glasshouse construction, culminating in the Great Conservatory of 1836–40, an immense structure some 277 ft (84.4 m) long, 123 ft (37.5 m) wide and 67 ft (20.4 m) high. Its framework was of iron and its roof of glass, with wood to contain the glass panels; it is now demolished. Paxton went on to landscape garden design, fountain and waterway engineering, the laying out of the model village of Edensor, and to play a part in railway and country house projects.
    The structure that made Paxton a household name was erected in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851 and was aptly dubbed, by Punch, the Crystal Palace. The idea of holding an international exhibition for industry had been mooted in 1849 and was backed by Prince Albert and Henry Cole. The money for this was to be raised by public subscription and 245 designs were entered into a competition held in 1850; however, most of the concepts, received from many notable architects and engineers, were very costly and unsuitable, and none were accepted. That same year, Paxton published his scheme in the Illustrated London News and it was approved after it received over-whelming public support.
    Paxton's Crystal Palace, designed and erected in association with the engineers Fox and Henderson, was a prefabricated glasshouse of vast dimensions: it was 1,848 ft (563.3 m) long, 408 ft (124.4 m) wide and over 100 ft (30.5 m) high. It contained 3,300 iron columns, 2,150 girders. 24 miles (39 km) of guttering, 600,000 ft3 (17,000 m3) of timber and 900,000 ft2 (84,000 m) of sheet glass made by Chance Bros, of Birmingham. One of the chief reasons why it was accepted by the Royal Commission Committee was that it fulfilled the competition proviso that it should be capable of being erected quickly and subsequently dismantled and re-erected elsewhere. The Crystal Palace was to be erected at a cost of £79,800, much less than the other designs. Building began on 30 July 1850, with a labour force of some 2,000, and was completed on 31 March 1851. It was a landmark in construction at the time, for its size, speed of construction and its non-eclectic design, and, most of all, as the first great prefabricated building: parts were standardized and made in quantity, and were assembled on site. The exhibition was opened by Queen Victoria on 1 May 1851 and had received six million visitors when it closed on 11 October. The building was dismantled in 1852 and reassembled, with variations in design, at Sydenham in south London, where it remained until its spectacular conflagration in 1936.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1851. MP for Coventry 1854–65. Fellow Linnaean Society 1853; Horticultural Society 1826. Order of St Vladimir, Russia, 1844.
    Further Reading
    P.Beaver, 1986, The Crystal Palace: A Portrait of Victorian Enterprise, Phillimore. George F.Chadwick, 1961, Works of Sir Joseph Paxton 1803–1865, Architectural Press.
    DY

    Biographical history of technology > Paxton, Sir Joseph

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