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  • 1 river

    'rivə
    (a large stream of water flowing across country: The Thames is a river; the river Thames; the Hudson River; (also adjective) a river animal.) río
    - riverside
    river n río
    tr['rɪvəSMALLr/SMALL]
    1 río
    river ['rɪvər] n
    : río m
    adj.
    fluvial adj.
    n.
    rio s.m.
    río s.m.
    'rɪvər, 'rɪvə(r)
    noun río m

    up/down river — río arriba/abajo

    to sell somebody down the river — traicionar a alguien; (before n) <traffic, port> fluvial; <mouth, basin> del río; < fish> de río or de agua dulce

    ['rɪvǝ(r)]
    1.
    N río m

    up/down river — río arriba/abajo

    - sell sb down the river
    2.
    CPD

    river basin Ncuenca f de río

    river fish Npez m de río

    river fishing Npesca f de río

    river mouth Ndesembocadura f del río

    river police Nbrigada f fluvial

    river traffic Ntráfico m fluvial

    * * *
    ['rɪvər, 'rɪvə(r)]
    noun río m

    up/down river — río arriba/abajo

    to sell somebody down the river — traicionar a alguien; (before n) <traffic, port> fluvial; <mouth, basin> del río; < fish> de río or de agua dulce

    English-spanish dictionary > river

  • 2 Severn River Naval Command

    English-Russian dictionary of planing, cross-planing and slotting machines > Severn River Naval Command

  • 3 Severn River Naval Command

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Severn River Naval Command

  • 4 Severn River Naval Command

    Military: SRNC

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Severn River Naval Command

  • 5 SEVERN (RIVER)

    [NPR]
    SABRINA (-AE) (F)

    English-Latin dictionary > SEVERN (RIVER)

  • 6 Bateman, John Frederick La Trobe

    [br]
    b. 30 May 1810 Lower Wyke, near Halifax, Yorkshire, England
    d. 10 June 1889 Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey, England
    [br]
    English civil engineer whose principal works were concerned with reservoirs, water-supply schemes and pipelines.
    [br]
    Bateman's maternal grandfather was a Moravian missionary, and from the age of 7 he was educated at the Moravian schools at Fairfield and Ockbrook. At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to a "civil engineer, land surveyor and agent" in Oldham. After this apprenticeship, Bateman commenced his own practice in 1833. One of his early schemes and reports was in regard to the flooding of the river Medlock in the Manchester area. He came to the attention of William Fairbairn, the engine builder and millwright of Canal Street, Ancoats, Manchester. Fairbairn used Bateman as his site surveyor and as such he prepared much of the groundwork for the Bann reservoirs in Northern Ireland. Whilst the reports on the proposals were in the name of Fairbairn, Bateman was, in fact, appointed by the company as their engineer for the execution of the works. One scheme of Bateman's which was carried forward was the Kendal Reservoirs. The Act for these was signed in 1845 and was implemented not for the purpose of water supply but for the conservation of water to supply power to the many mills which stood on the river Kent between Kentmere and Morecambe Bay. The Kentmere Head dam is the only one of the five proposed for the scheme to survive, although not all the others were built as they would have retained only small volumes of water.
    Perhaps the greatest monument to the work of J.F.La Trobe Bateman is Manchester's water supply; he was consulted about this in 1844, and construction began four years later. He first built reservoirs in the Longdendale valley, which has a very complicated geological stratification. Bateman favoured earth embankment dams and gravity feed rather than pumping; the five reservoirs in the valley that impound the river Etherow were complex, cored earth dams. However, when completed they were greatly at risk from landslips and ground movement. Later dams were inserted by Bateman to prevent water loss should the older dams fail. The scheme was not completed until 1877, by which time Manchester's population had exceeded the capacity of the original scheme; Thirlmere in Cumbria was chosen by Manchester Corporation as the site of the first of the Lake District water-supply schemes. Bateman, as Consulting Engineer, designed the great stone-faced dam at the west end of the lake, the "gothic" straining well in the middle of the east shore of the lake, and the 100-mile (160 km) pipeline to Manchester. The Act for the Thirlmere reservoir was signed in 1879 and, whilst Bateman continued as Consulting Engineer, the work was supervised by G.H. Hill and was completed in 1894.
    Bateman was also consulted by the authorities in Glasgow, with the result that he constructed an impressive water-supply scheme derived from Loch Katrine during the years 1856–60. It was claimed that the scheme bore comparison with "the most extensive aqueducts in the world, not excluding those of ancient Rome". Bateman went on to superintend the waterworks of many cities, mainly in the north of England but also in Dublin and Belfast. In 1865 he published a pamphlet, On the Supply of Water to London from the Sources of the River Severn, based on a survey funded from his own pocket; a Royal Commission examined various schemes but favoured Bateman's.
    Bateman was also responsible for harbour and dock works, notably on the rivers Clyde and Shannon, and also for a number of important water-supply works on the Continent of Europe and beyond. Dams and the associated reservoirs were the principal work of J.F.La Trobe Bateman; he completed forty-three such schemes during his professional career. He also prepared many studies of water-supply schemes, and appeared as professional witness before the appropriate Parliamentary Committees.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1860. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1878, 1879.
    Bibliography
    Among his publications History and Description of the Manchester Waterworks, (1884, London), and The Present State of Our Knowledge on the Supply of Water to Towns, (1855, London: British Association for the Advancement of Science) are notable.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1889, Proceedings of the Royal Society 46:xlii-xlviii. G.M.Binnie, 1981, Early Victorian Water Engineers, London.
    P.N.Wilson, 1973, "Kendal reservoirs", Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 73.
    KM / LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Bateman, John Frederick La Trobe

  • 7 Cubitt, William

    [br]
    b. 1785 Dilham, Norfolk, England
    d. 13 October 1861 Clapham Common, Surrey, England
    [br]
    English civil engineer and contractor.
    [br]
    The son of a miller, he received a rudimentary education in the village school. At an early age he was helping his father in the mill, and in 1800 he was apprenticed to a cabinet maker. After four years he returned to work with his father, but, preferring to leave the parental home, he not long afterwards joined a firm of agricultural-machinery makers in Swanton in Norfolk. There he acquired a reputation for making accurate patterns for the iron caster and demonstrated a talent for mechanical invention, patenting a self-regulating windmill sail in 1807. He then set up on his own as a millwright, but he found he could better himself by joining the engineering works of Ransomes of Ipswich in 1812. He was soon appointed their Chief Engineer, and after nine years he became a partner in the firm until he moved to London in 1826. Around 1818 he invented the treadmill, with the aim of putting prisoners to useful work in grinding corn and other applications. It was rapidly adopted by the principal prisons, more as a means of punishment than an instrument of useful work.
    From 1814 Cubitt had been gaining experience in civil engineering, and upon his removal to London his career in this field began to take off. He was engaged on many canal-building projects, including the Oxford and Liverpool Junction canals. He accomplished some notable dock works, such as the Bute docks at Cardiff, the Middlesborough docks and the coal drops on the river Tees. He improved navigation on the river Severn and compiled valuable reports on a number of other leading rivers.
    The railway construction boom of the 1840s provided him with fresh opportunities. He engineered the South Eastern Railway (SER) with its daringly constructed line below the cliffs between Folkestone and Dover; the railway was completed in 1843, using massive charges of explosive to blast a way through the cliffs. Cubitt was Consulting Engineer to the Great Northern Railway and tried, with less than his usual success, to get the atmospheric system to work on the Croydon Railway.
    When the SER began a steamer service between Folkestone and Boulogne, Cubitt was engaged to improve the port facilities there and went on to act as Consulting Engineer to the Boulogne and Amiens Railway. Other commissions on the European continent included surveying the line between Paris and Lyons, advising the Hanoverian government on the harbour and docks at Hamburg and directing the water-supply works for Berlin.
    Cubitt was actively involved in the erection of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851; in recognition of this work Queen Victoria knighted him at Windsor Castle on 23 December 1851.
    Cubitt's son Joseph (1811–72) was also a notable civil engineer, with many railway and harbour works to his credit.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1851. FRS 1830. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1850 and 1851.
    Further Reading
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Cubitt, William

  • 8 Darby, Abraham

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
    [br]
    b. 1678 near Dudley, Worcestershire, England
    d. 5 May 1717 Madely Court, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England
    [br]
    English ironmaster, inventor of the coke smelting of iron ore.
    [br]
    Darby's father, John, was a farmer who also worked a small forge to produce nails and other ironware needed on the farm. He was brought up in the Society of Friends, or Quakers, and this community remained important throughout his personal and working life. Darby was apprenticed to Jonathan Freeth, a malt-mill maker in Birmingham, and on completion of his apprenticeship in 1699 he took up the trade himself in Bristol. Probably in 1704, he visited Holland to study the casting of brass pots and returned to Bristol with some Dutch workers, setting up a brassworks at Baptist Mills in partnership with others. He tried substituting cast iron for brass in his castings, without success at first, but in 1707 he was granted a patent, "A new way of casting iron pots and other pot-bellied ware in sand without loam or clay". However, his business associates were unwilling to risk further funds in the experiments, so he withdrew his share of the capital and moved to Coalbrookdale in Shropshire. There, iron ore, coal, water-power and transport lay close at hand. He took a lease on an old furnace and began experimenting. The shortage and expense of charcoal, and his knowledge of the use of coke in malting, may well have led him to try using coke to smelt iron ore. The furnace was brought into blast in 1709 and records show that in the same year it was regularly producing iron, using coke instead of charcoal. The process seems to have been operating successfully by 1711 in the production of cast-iron pots and kettles, with some pig-iron destined for Bristol. Darby prospered at Coalbrookdale, employing coke smelting with consistent success, and he sought to extend his activities in the neighbourhood and in other parts of the country. However, ill health prevented him from pursuing these ventures with his previous energy. Coke smelting spread slowly in England and the continent of Europe, but without Darby's technological breakthrough the ever-increasing demand for iron for structures and machines during the Industrial Revolution simply could not have been met; it was thus an essential component of the technological progress that was to come.
    Darby's eldest son, Abraham II (1711–63), entered the Coalbrookdale Company partnership in 1734 and largely assumed control of the technical side of managing the furnaces and foundry. He made a number of improvements, notably the installation of a steam engine in 1742 to pump water to an upper level in order to achieve a steady source of water-power to operate the bellows supplying the blast furnaces. When he built the Ketley and Horsehay furnaces in 1755 and 1756, these too were provided with steam engines. Abraham II's son, Abraham III (1750–89), in turn, took over the management of the Coalbrookdale works in 1768 and devoted himself to improving and extending the business. His most notable achievement was the design and construction of the famous Iron Bridge over the river Severn, the world's first iron bridge. The bridge members were cast at Coalbrookdale and the structure was erected during 1779, with a span of 100 ft (30 m) and height above the river of 40 ft (12 m). The bridge still stands, and remains a tribute to the skill and judgement of Darby and his workers.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    A.Raistrick, 1989, Dynasty of Iron Founders, 2nd edn, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust (the best source for the lives of the Darbys and the work of the company).
    H.R.Schubert, 1957, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry AD 430 to AD 1775, London: Routledge \& Kegan Paul.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Darby, Abraham

  • 9 Pritchard, Thomas Farnolls

    SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. probably Shrewsbury, England
    d. 23 December 1777 Shrewsbury, England
    [br]
    English architect and builder renowned for designing the first cast-iron bridge in England.
    [br]
    In 1775 Pritchard designed the Ironbridge bridge, which was built over the River Severn by Abraham Darby of Coalbrookdale in 1777–9. It is constructed of five parallel arch ribs almost 200 ft (61 m) in length. The spandrels are filled by circles and ogee arch heads, while the roadway above is made from cast-iron plates 2½ in. (64 mm) thick. The bridge, which weighs 400 tons, was made in the Coalbrookdale foundry and took only three months to erect.
    DY

    Biographical history of technology > Pritchard, Thomas Farnolls

  • 10 join

    ‹oin
    1. verb
    1) ((often with up, on etc) to put together or connect: The electrician joined the wires (up) wrongly; You must join this piece (on) to that piece; He joined the two stories together to make a play; The island is joined to the mainland by a sandbank at low tide.) juntar, unir
    2) (to connect (two points) eg by a line, as in geometry: Join point A to point B.) unir
    3) (to become a member of (a group): Join our club!) hacerser socio de, afiliarse
    4) ((sometimes with up) to meet and come together (with): This lane joins the main road; Do you know where the two rivers join?; They joined up with us for the remainder of the holiday.) juntarse, confluir
    5) (to come into the company of: I'll join you later in the restaurant.) reunirse con, unirse a

    2. noun
    (a place where two things are joined: You can hardly see the joins in the material.) juntura
    - join hands
    - join in
    - join up

    join1 n juntura / costura
    join2 vb
    1. unir / juntar
    2. acompañar / reunirse
    will you join me for a coffee? ¿quieres tomar un café conmigo?
    3. reunirse
    4. hacerse socio / incorporarse / alistarse
    tr[ʤɔɪn]
    1 (bring together) juntar, unir
    2 (connect) unir, conectar
    3 (company etc) incorporarse a
    4 (armed forces) alistarse en; (police) ingresar en
    5 (club) hacerse socio,-a de
    6 (party) afiliarse a, ingresar en
    7 (be with somebody) reunirse con, unirse a
    would you like to join us for the evening? ¿les gustaría pasar la tarde con nosotros?
    will you join me in a whisky? ¿quiere tomar un whisky conmigo?
    1 juntarse, unirse
    2 (rivers) confluir; (roads) juntarse, empalmar
    1 juntura
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    join the club! ¡ya somos dos etc!
    to join battle with trabar batalla con
    to join forces aunar esfuerzos
    to join hands cogerse de las manos
    join ['ʤɔɪn] vt
    1) connect, link: unir, juntar
    to join in marriage: unir en matrimonio
    2) adjoin: lindar con, colindar con
    3) meet: reunirse con, encontrarse con
    we joined them for lunch: nos reunimos con ellos para almorzar
    4) : hacerse socio de (una organización), afiliarse a (un partido), entrar en (una empresa)
    join vi
    1) unite: unirse
    2) merge: empalmar (dícese de las carreteras), confluir (dícese de los ríos)
    3)
    to join up : hacerse socio, enrolarse
    v.
    acoplar v.
    adjuntar v.
    adunar v.
    agregar v.
    asociar v.
    combinar v.
    juntar v.
    ligar v.
    reunir v.
    reunirse con v.
    trabar v.
    unir v.
    unirse a v.

    I
    1. dʒɔɪn
    1) (fasten, link) \<\<ropes/wires\>\> unir; ( put together) \<\<tables\>\> juntar

    I joined an extra length onto the hosepipele añadí or le agregué un trozo a la manguera

    to join handstomarse or (esp Esp) cogerse* de la mano

    2)
    a) (meet, keep company with)

    we're going for a drink, won't o will you join us? — vamos a tomar algo ¿nos acompañas?

    you go ahead, I'll join you later — ustedes vayan que ya iré yo luego

    may I join you? — ¿le importa si me siento aquí?

    won't o will you join us for dinner? — ¿por qué no cenan con nosotros?

    I'd like you all to join me in a toast to... — quiero proponer un brindis por..., propongo que brindemos todos por...

    my husband joins me in wishing you a speedy recovery — (frml) tanto mi marido como yo le deseamos una pronta recuperación

    3)
    a) ( become part of) unirse a, sumarse a

    I joined the course in November — empecé el curso en noviembre, me uní al grupo en noviembre

    b) ( become member of) \<\<club\>\> hacerse* socio de; \<\<union\>\> afiliarse a; \<\<army\>\> alistarse en; \<\<firm\>\> entrar en or (AmL tb) entrar a, incorporarse a
    4)
    b) ( get onto)

    2.
    vi
    1) to join (together) \<\<parts/components\>\> unirse; \<\<groups\>\> unirse

    to join WITH somebody IN -ING: they join with me in congratulating you — se unen a mis felicitaciones, se hacen partícipes de mi enhorabuena (frml)

    2) ( merge) \<\<streams\>\> confluir*; \<\<roads\>\> empalmar, unirse
    3) ( become member) hacerse* socio
    Phrasal Verbs:

    II
    noun juntura f, unión f
    [dʒɔɪn]
    1. VT
    1) (=put together, link) [+ ends, pieces, parts] unir, juntar; [+ tables] juntar

    to join (together) two ends of a chainunir or juntar dos extremos de una cadena

    to join A to B, to join A and B — unir or juntar A con B

    join the dots to form a picture — una los puntos para formar un dibujo

    to join handscogerse or (LAm) tomarse de la mano

    2) (=merge with) [+ river] desembocar en, confluir con; [+ sea] desembocar en; [+ road] empalmar con

    where does the River Wye join the Severn? — ¿a qué altura desemboca el Wye en el Severn?, ¿dónde confluye el Wye con el Severn?

    3) (=enter, become part of) [+ university, firm, religious order] ingresar en, entrar en; [+ club, society] hacerse socio de; [+ political party] afiliarse a, hacerse miembro de; [+ army, navy] alistarse en, ingresar en; [+ queue] meterse en; [+ procession, strike, movement] sumarse a, unirse a

    join the club! * — ¡bienvenido al club!

    to join forces (with sb to do sth) — (gen) juntarse (con algn para hacer algo); (Mil) aliarse (con algn para hacer algo); (Comm) asociarse (con algn para hacer algo)

    we joined the motorway at junction 15 — nos metimos en la autopista por la entrada 15

    to join one's ship(=return to) volver a su buque; (=go on board) embarcar

    battle 1., 1), rank I, 1., 2)
    4) (=be with, meet) [+ person] acompañar a

    may I join you? (at table) ¿les importa que les acompañe?

    will you join us for dinner? — ¿nos acompañas a cenar?, ¿cenas con nosotros?

    if you're going for a walk, do you mind if I join you? — si vais a dar un paseo, ¿os importa que os acompañe?

    will you join me in or for a drink? — ¿se toma una copa conmigo?

    join us at the same time next week for... — (Rad, TV) la próxima semana tiene una cita con nosotros a la misma hora en...

    Paul joins me in wishing you... — al igual que yo, Paul te desea...

    they should join us in exposing government corruptiondeberían unirse or sumarse a nosotros para sacar a la luz la corrupción del gobierno

    2. VI
    1) (=connect) [ends, pieces, parts] unirse, juntarse
    2) (=merge) [roads] empalmar, juntarse; [rivers] confluir, juntarse; [lines] juntarse
    3)

    to join together (to do sth) — (=meet) [people] reunirse (para hacer algo); (=unite) [groups, organizations] unirse (para hacer algo); (=pool resources) asociarse (para hacer algo)

    to join with sb in doing sth — unirse a algn para hacer algo

    we join with you in hoping that... — compartimos su esperanza de que... + subjun, al igual que ustedes esperamos que... + subjun

    4) (=become a member) (of club) hacerse socio; (of political party) afiliarse, hacerse miembro
    3.
    N (in wood, crockery) juntura f, unión f ; (Tech) junta f
    * * *

    I
    1. [dʒɔɪn]
    1) (fasten, link) \<\<ropes/wires\>\> unir; ( put together) \<\<tables\>\> juntar

    I joined an extra length onto the hosepipele añadí or le agregué un trozo a la manguera

    to join handstomarse or (esp Esp) cogerse* de la mano

    2)
    a) (meet, keep company with)

    we're going for a drink, won't o will you join us? — vamos a tomar algo ¿nos acompañas?

    you go ahead, I'll join you later — ustedes vayan que ya iré yo luego

    may I join you? — ¿le importa si me siento aquí?

    won't o will you join us for dinner? — ¿por qué no cenan con nosotros?

    I'd like you all to join me in a toast to... — quiero proponer un brindis por..., propongo que brindemos todos por...

    my husband joins me in wishing you a speedy recovery — (frml) tanto mi marido como yo le deseamos una pronta recuperación

    3)
    a) ( become part of) unirse a, sumarse a

    I joined the course in November — empecé el curso en noviembre, me uní al grupo en noviembre

    b) ( become member of) \<\<club\>\> hacerse* socio de; \<\<union\>\> afiliarse a; \<\<army\>\> alistarse en; \<\<firm\>\> entrar en or (AmL tb) entrar a, incorporarse a
    4)
    b) ( get onto)

    2.
    vi
    1) to join (together) \<\<parts/components\>\> unirse; \<\<groups\>\> unirse

    to join WITH somebody IN -ING: they join with me in congratulating you — se unen a mis felicitaciones, se hacen partícipes de mi enhorabuena (frml)

    2) ( merge) \<\<streams\>\> confluir*; \<\<roads\>\> empalmar, unirse
    3) ( become member) hacerse* socio
    Phrasal Verbs:

    II
    noun juntura f, unión f

    English-spanish dictionary > join

  • 11 Chesapeake Bay

    Залив Атлантического океана на территории штатов Вирджиния и Мэриленд. Длина с севера на юг 314 км, ширина 5-48 км. Полуостров Делмарва [ Delmarva Peninsula] отделяет залив от океана. Вход в залив между мысом Чарльз [Cape Charles] на севере и мысом Генри [Cape Henry] на юге. Залив представляет собой затопленную долину нижнего течения р. Саскуэханна [ Susquehanna River]. С долины в залив впадают более 150 больших и малых рек, речек и рукавов, в том числе р. Патапско [Patapsco River] с портом Балтимор; р. Северн [Severn River] - подходит к г. Аннаполису [ Annapolis], где находится Военно-морская академия США [ Naval Academy, U.S.]; р. Патаксент [Patuxent River], р. Потомак [ Potomac River] - подходит к Вашингтону [ Washington, D.C.]; р. Йорк [York River]; р. Джеймс [ James River], в эстуарии которой находится бухта Хэмптон-Роудс [ Hampton Roads] с портами Норфолк и Ньюпорт-Ньюс. Вдоль Восточного берега [ Eastern Shore] - мелкие острова; здесь развит промысел устриц и креветок (общая длина береговой линии, затрагиваемой приливами, 8 тыс. км). Через залив проходит магистраль Берегового канала [ Intracoastal Waterway]. На берегах канала зоны отдыха - пляжи, лодочные базы, яхт-клубы. Район знаменит среди охотников и гурманов съедобными моллюсками, крабами, водной и другой дичью. Традиционный рыболовецкий промысел значительно пострадал от загрязнения окружающей среды, и с 1984 штаты, располагающиеся у залива [Bay states], совместно с федеральными властями предпринимают усилия по его очистке. Залив был впервые исследован испанцами в 1526 и назван Санта-Мария. Первое английское поселение было основано в Джеймстауне [ Jamestown] (устье р. Джеймс, в штате Вирджиния) 13 мая 1607. Первое английское поселение на территории штата Мэриленд было основано на острове Кент [Kent Island] в 1631

    English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Chesapeake Bay

  • 12 source ****

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  • 13 SRNC

    1) Военный термин: Severn River Naval Command
    2) Электроника: Serving Radio Network Controller

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > SRNC

  • 14 командование ВМС зоны реки Северн

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > командование ВМС зоны реки Северн

  • 15 Annapolis

    1.
    Город в центральной части штата Мэриленд; 35,8 тыс. жителей (2000). Административный центр (столица) штата и административный центр [ county seat] графства Энн Арандел [Ann Arundel County]. Порт при впадении р. Северн [Severn River] в Чесапикский залив [ Chesapeake Bay]. Военно-морская академия США [ Naval Academy, U.S.] (1845) играет большую роль в жизни и традициях приморского города. Колледж Св. Иоанна [St. John's College] (1784). Научно-исследовательский центр. Памятники истории США. Город основан вирджинскими пуританами [ Puritans] в 1649 как г. Провиденс [Providence]. С 1895 - современное название (сюда перенесен административный центр колонии Мэриленд из Сент-Мэрис-Сити), город с 1796. С 26 ноября 1783 по 3 июня 1784 служил столицей Соединенных Штатов. Здесь Вашингтон [ Washington, George] подал в отставку в 1783 с поста главнокомандующего армии США. В Аннаполисе был ратифицирован Версальский мирный договор (1784). Место проведения Аннаполийского конвента [ Annapolis Convention] в 1786
    2.

    English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Annapolis

  • 16 Naval Academy, U.S.

    Высшее военно-морское учебное заведение по подготовке офицеров для ВМС США [ Navy, U.S.] и Морской пехоты [ Marine Corps, U.S.]. Находится в г. Аннаполисе, шт. Мэриленд. Основано в 1845 как военно-морская школа [Naval School], переименовано в 1850. С 1976 принимаются девушки. Выпускники получают диплом бакалавра наук [ Bachelor of Science] и звание энсина [ Ensign] или второго лейтенанта [ Second Lieutenant] (для военно-морской авиации). Около 4,5 тыс. кадетов. Преподавательский состав состоит как из военных, так и гражданских лиц. Кандидаты для поступления в академию должны быть гражданами США [ citizen, U.S.] и иметь рекомендацию от одного из высших должностных лиц государства (65 человек получают ее от президента США). Городок [ campus] академии расположен на берегу р. Северн [Severn River]. Музей академии [U.S. Naval Academy Museum] известен богатой коллекцией экспонатов по истории флота. Там же находятся ростральная колонна "Монумент Триполи" [Tripoli Monument], зал Махэн-холл [Mahan Hall, Mahan, Alfred Thayer], часовня с могилой Дж. Джонса [ Jones, John Paul]
    тж United States Naval Academy

    English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Naval Academy, U.S.

  • 17 Sabrina

    Sabrīna, ae, f., a river of Britain, now the Severn, Tac. A. 12, 31.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Sabrina

  • 18 Williams, Sir Edward Leader

    SUBJECT AREA: Canals, Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. 28 April 1828 Worcester, England
    d. 1 June 1910 Altrincham, Cheshire, England
    [br]
    English civil engineer, designer and first Chief Engineer of the Manchester Ship Canal.
    [br]
    After an apprenticeship with the Severn Navigation, of which his father was Chief Engineer, Williams was engaged as Assistant Engineer on the Great Northern Railway, Resident Engineer at Shoreham Harbour and Engineer to the contractors for the Admiralty Pier at Dover. In 1856 he was appointed Engineer to the River Weaver Trust, and among the improvements he made was the introduction of the Anderton barge lift linking the Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal. After rejecting the proposal of a flight of locks he considered that barges might be lifted and lowered by hydraulic means. Various designs were submitted and the final choice fell on one by Edwin Clark that had two troughs counterbalancing each other through pistons. Movement of the troughs was initiated by introducing excess water into the upper trough to lift the lower. The work was carried out by Clark.
    In 1872 Williams became Engineer to the Bridgewater Navigation, enlarging the locks at Runcorn and introducing steam propulsion on the canal. He later examined the possibility of upgrading the Mersey \& Irwell Navigation to a Ship Canal. In 1882 his proposals to the Provisional Committee of the proposed Manchester Ship Canal were accepted. His scheme was to use the Mersey Channel as far as Eastham and then construct a lock canal from there to Manchester. He was appointed Chief Engineer of the undertaking.
    The canal's construction was a major engineering work during which Williams overcame many difficulties. He used the principle of the troughs on the Anderton lift as a guide for the construction of the Barton swing aqueduct, which replaced Brindley's original masonry aqueduct on the Bridgewater Canal. The first sod was cut at Eastham on 11 November 1887 and the lower portion of the canal was used for traffic in September 1891. The canal was opened to sea-borne traffic on 1 January 1894 and was formally opened by Queen Victoria on 21 May 1894. In acknowledgement of his work, a knighthood was conferred on him. He continued as Consulting Engineer until ill health forced his retirement.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted. Vice-President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1905–7.
    JHB

    Biographical history of technology > Williams, Sir Edward Leader

  • 19 SRNC

    English-Russian dictionary of planing, cross-planing and slotting machines > SRNC

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