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61 Roebling, Washington Augustus
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering[br]b. 26 May 1837 Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, USAd. 21 July 1926 Trenton, New Jersey, USA.[br]American civil engineer.[br]The son of John Augustus Roebling, he graduated in 1857 from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a civil engineer, and joined his father in his suspension bridge construction work. He served in the Civil War as a colonel of engineers in the Union Army, and in 1867, two years after the end of the war, he went to Europe to study new methods of sinking underwater foundations by means of compressed air. These new methods were employed in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, of which he took charge on his father's death in 1869. Timber pneumatic caissons were used, with a maximum pressure of 34 psi (2.4 kg/cm2) above atmospheric pressure. Two years after work on the piers had started in the caissons, Roebling, who had been working constantly with the men on the foundations of the piers, was carried unconscious out of the caisson, a victim of decompression sickness, then known as “caisson disease”. He was paralysed and lost the use of his voice. From then on he directed the rest of the work from the sickroom of his nearby house, his wife, Emily Warren Roebling, helping with his instructions and notes and carrying them out to the workforce; she even read a statement from him to the American Society of Civil Engineers. The erection of the cables, which were of steel, began in August 1876 and took twenty-six months to complete. In 1881 eleven trustees and Emily Warren Roebling walked across temporary planking, but the decking of the total span was not completed until 1885, fourteen years after construction of the bridge had started. The Brooklyn Bridge was Roebling's last major work, although following the death of his nephew in 1921 he was forced to head again the management of Roebling \& Company, though aged 84 and an invalid.[br]Further ReadingD.B.Steinman and S.R.Watson, 1941, Bridges and their Builders, New York: Dover Books.D.McCullough, 1982, The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the BrooklynBridge, New York: Simon \& Schuster.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Roebling, Washington Augustus
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62 висячий
1) friction
2) hanging
3) pendent
4) pending
5) pendulous
6) suspended
– висячий бок
– висячий замок
– висячий мост
– ход висячий
кабельный висячий мост — cable suspension bridge
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63 висячий мост без балки жёсткости
Engineering: instiffened suspension bridge, unstiffened suspension bridgeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > висячий мост без балки жёсткости
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64 цепной висячий мост
1) Engineering: chain suspension bridge2) Railway term: eye bar suspension bridgeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > цепной висячий мост
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65 Hängebrücke
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66 wiszący
adj* * *a.(t. o lampie) hanging; ( o skórze) loose; ( o gnieździe) pensile; most wiszący suspension bridge; ogrody wiszące hanging gardens.The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > wiszący
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67 asma köprü
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68 pont suspendu
Dictionnaire d'ingénierie, d'architecture et de construction > pont suspendu
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69 Fachwerkhängebrücke
Fachwerkhängebrücke f lattice suspension bridge, trelliswork suspension bridgeDeutsch-Englisch Fachwörterbuch Architektur und Bauwesen > Fachwerkhängebrücke
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70 Transportation
Portugal's transportation system consists of 820 kilometers (492 miles) of navigable waterways, 3,630 kilometers (2,178 miles) of railroad, and 73,660 kilometers (44,196 miles) of roads, of which 12,660 (7,596 miles) are unpaved. Improving Portugal's roads and railroads were major priorities during the Estado Novo. In 1946, all of Portugal's private railroad companies were amalgamated into one, the Companhia Portuguesa de Caminhos de Ferro, which was granted a monopoly for rail transport. In 1959, the electrified line from Lisbon to Cascais and the Lisbon metro (subway) opened. Steam engines were gradually replaced with electric and diesel locomotives. During the Estado Novo, the length of Portugal's road network increased threefold and were considered good by European standards in 1950. However, accelerated economic development and the increase in the number of vehicles during the 1960s and 1970s outstripped road capacity, and Portuguese roads became the most dangerous in western Europe.Bridge building was also an Estado Novo priority, with bridges over the Douro at Oporto and the suspension bridge (the longest in Europe) at Lisbon being the most impressive examples. The Estado Novo also improved port facilities in Lisbon and Oporto, and built a new deep-water port at Sines. The Estado Novo also built airports at Lisbon (Portela), Oporto (Pedras Rubras), Faro in the Algarve, and Funchal on Madeira to encourage tourism. In 1946, a government-owned airline, Transportes Aéreas Portugueses (TAP), was created and began operating flights within Portugal and to the major cities of western Europe, several larger cities in the United States, South America, and the capital cities of Portugal's colonies in Africa.After joining the European Union (EU), Portugal began an ambitious program to modernize its transportation networks in 1986. During the 1990s, the nationalized railroad, airline, trucking, and bus companies were restructured and/or privatized. With the help of EU monies, Portugal's road network was upgraded and superhighways ( auto estradas) completed from Lisbon to Oporto and Faro in the Algarve, and from Lisbon and Oporto into Spain. Portugal's railroad network was upgraded to handle high-speed trains (TGVs) between the country's major cities and to Madrid. To facilitate logistics during Expo '98, a new metro station (Oriente) was opened and a new bridge (Vasco da Gama Bridge) built across the Tagus. In the meantime, Lisbon's international airport at Portela, despite steady improvements, could no longer accommodate efficiently the increasing air traffic. An important part of the plan to modernize the Lisbon region's transportation system is the long-debated construction of an additional airport, across the Tagus River, with adjoining roads and underground metro, set to open between 2010 and 2012. -
71 несущий трос
bearer cable, carrier cable, carrying cable, messenger cable, suspension cable, suspension-bridge cable, messenger, ( воздушного кабеля) support strand, suspender, carrying wire, messenger wire, suspension wire* * * -
72 підвісний
hanging, pendulous, suspended, pendant, overhead; suspension; telhperпідвісний кабель — suspension cable, hookup wire
підвісний молот (для забивання паль) — monkey, tup
підвісний паливний бак — external fuel tank, slipper fuel tank
підвісний шнур — drop cord, pendant cord
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73 висячий
1. pendent2. pending3. suspended4. hanging; suspensionвисячий мост; цепной мост — suspension bridge
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74 канатный висячий мост
1) Engineering: rope bridge2) Construction: cable-stayed bridge3) Railway term: cable suspension bridgeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > канатный висячий мост
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75 навесной мост
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76 цепной мост
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77 висячий мост
free-arch bridge, hanging bridge, (несущая конструкция пролётного строения - балки жёсткости - поддерживается висячими поясами из кабелей или шарнирных цепей, закрепляемых на пилонах) suspension bridgeРусско-английский словарь по строительству и новым строительным технологиям > висячий мост
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78 Ellet, Charles
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering[br]b. 1 January 1810 Penn's Manor, Pennsylvania, USAd. 21 June 1862 Cairo, Illinois, USA[br]American engineer who built the world's first long-span wire-cable bridge.[br]Ellet worked for three years as a surveyor and assistant engineer and then studied at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He travelled widely in Europe and returned to the USA in 1832. In 1842 he completed the first wire suspension bridge in the USA at Fairmont, Pennsylvania, and in 1846–9 redesigned and built the world's first long-span wire-cable bridge over the Ohio River at Wheeling. It had a central span of 308 m (1,010 ft). It failed in 1854 due to aerodynamic instability. He invented naval rams and in the American Civil War he equipped nine Mississippi river boats as rams; they defeated a fleet of Confederate rams. He died in battle.[br]Further ReadingThe Macmillan Dictionary of Biography, 1981.IMcN -
79 висящ мост със закотвени носещи кабели
anchored suspension bridgeanchored suspension bridgesБългарски-Angleščina политехнически речник > висящ мост със закотвени носещи кабели
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80 всящ мост с неподвжана гредова конструкция
siffened suspension bridgesiffened suspension bridgesБългарски-Angleščina политехнически речник > всящ мост с неподвжана гредова конструкция
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