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the Severn

  • 1 Severn

    Severn ['sevən]
    the Severn la Severn
    ►► the Severn Bridge le pont sur la Severn (pont suspendu reliant le sud-ouest de l'Angleterre au sud du pays de Galles)

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  • 2 Severn (the)

    (Place names) Severn (the) /ˈsɛvən/

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  • 3 Severn (the)

    (Place names) Severn (the) /ˈsɛvən/

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  • 4 самая длинная река Англии

    the Thames (по Белорусской энциклопедии в 18-ти томах) or the Severn

    Дополнительный универсальный русско-английский словарь > самая длинная река Англии

  • 5 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

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  • 6 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

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  • 7 bore

    I 1. transitive verb
    (make hole in) bohren
    2. intransitive verb
    (drill) bohren ( for nach)
    3. noun
    1) (of firearm, engine cylinder) Bohrung, die; (of tube, pipe) Innendurchmesser, der
    2) (calibre) Kaliber, das
    II 1. noun

    it's a real borees ist wirklich ärgerlich

    2) (dull person) Langweiler, der (ugs. abwertend)
    2. transitive verb
    (weary) langweilen

    bore somebody to death or to tears — (coll.) jemanden zu Tode langweilen

    III
    see academic.ru/5992/bear">bear II
    * * *
    [bo:]
    past tense; = bear I
    * * *
    bore1
    [bɔ:ʳ, AM bɔ:r]
    n Flutwelle f
    the Severn \bore die Severn-Flutwelle
    bore2
    [bɔ:ʳ, AM bɔ:r]
    bore3
    [bɔ:ʳ, AM bɔ:r]
    I. n
    1. (thing) langweilige Sache
    what a \bore wie langweilig
    2. (person) Langweiler(in) m(f)
    a crashing \bore BRIT ein furchtbarer Langweiler/eine furchtbare Langweilerin
    II. vt
    to \bore sb [with sth] jdn [mit etw dat] langweilen
    to \bore sb to death [or to tears] ( fig) jdn zu Tode langweilen
    bore4
    [bɔ:ʳ, AM bɔ:r]
    I. n
    1. ( spec: of pipe) Innendurchmesser m
    2. (calibre) Kaliber nt
    a small-\bore shotgun ein kleinkalibriges Gewehr
    3. (hole) Bohrloch nt
    II. vt
    to \bore sth etw bohren
    to \bore a hole in sth ein Loch in etw akk bohren
    III. vi
    to \bore through [or into] sth etw durchbohren; ( fig)
    her eyes \bored into me ihre Augen durchbohrten mich
    * * *
    I [bɔː(r)]
    1. vt
    hole, well, tunnel bohren; rock durchbohren
    2. vi
    bohren ( for nach)
    3. n
    (of shotgun, cannon) Kaliber nt II
    1. n
    1) (= person) Langweiler m

    what a bore he is! — das ist ein Langweiler!, der kann einen langweilen or anöden (inf)

    the club/office bore — der Langweiler vom Dienst

    2)

    (= thing, profession, situation etc) to be a bore — langweilig sein

    3)

    (= nuisance) don't be a bore —

    he's a bore, he never wants... — er ist eine Plage, er will nie...

    it's such a bore having to go —

    2. vt
    langweilen

    to bore sb stiff or to death or to tears, to bore the pants off sb (inf)jdn zu Tode langweilen

    to be/get bored — sich langweilen

    I'm bored — mir ist es langweilig, ich langweile mich

    he is bored with his job/her — seine Arbeit/sie langweilt ihn

    he was bored with reading/life — er war des Lesens/Lebens überdrüssig (geh), er hatte das Lesen/Leben über

    III pret IV
    n
    (= tidal wave) Flutwelle f
    * * *
    bore1 [bɔː(r); US auch ˈbəʊər]
    A s
    1. TECH Bohrung f:
    a) Bohrloch n
    b) Innendurchmesser m
    2. Bergbau: Bohr-, Schieß-, Sprengloch n
    3. MIL, TECH Bohrung f, Seele f, Kaliber n (eines Gewehrlaufs etc)
    4. GEOL Ausflussöffnung f (eines Geysirs)
    B v/t
    1. ( besonders aus)bohren, durchbohren:
    bore a well einen Brunnen bohren
    2. durchdringen, sich durchbohren durch:
    bore one’s way sich (mühsam) einen Weg bahnen ( into in dat od akk; through durch)
    3. SPORT umg einen anderen Läufer, ein anderes Rennpferd abdrängen
    C v/i
    1. bohren, Bohrungen machen, (Bergbau) schürfen ( for nach)
    2. TECH
    a) (bei Holz) (ins Volle) bohren
    b) (bei Metall) (aus-, auf)bohren
    3. fig durch- oder vordringen, sich einen Weg bahnen ( beide:
    to bis, zu, nach), sich (hinein)bohren ( into in akk)
    bore2 [bɔː(r); US auch ˈbəʊər]
    A s
    1. a) langweilige oder stumpfsinnige oder fade Sache:
    the book is a bore to read das Buch ist langweilig
    b) besonders Br umg unangenehme oder lästige Sache:
    what a bore! wie ärgerlich!;
    it’s a bore having to do it again es ist ärgerlich, es noch einmal tun zu müssen
    2. a) Langweiler(in), fader Kerl
    b) besonders Br umg lästiger Kerl:
    he’s a real bore der geht einem ganz schön auf die Nerven
    B v/t
    1. langweilen:
    bore sb to death ( oder stiff, to tears) umg j-n‚zu Tode langweilen;
    I was bored stiff by his speech seine Rede hat mich zu Tode gelangweilt;
    be ( oder feel) bored sich langweilen, Lang(e)weile haben;
    I’m getting bored with ( oder of) the subject das Thema fängt an, mich zu langweilen;
    the bored expression on his face sein gelangweilter Gesichtsausdruck; pants 1
    2. besonders Br umg jemandem lästig sein oder auf die Nerven gehen
    bore3 [bɔː(r); US auch ˈbəʊər] s Springflut f, Flutwelle f
    bore4 [bɔː(r); US auch ˈbəʊər] prät von bear1
    * * *
    I 1. transitive verb 2. intransitive verb
    (drill) bohren ( for nach)
    3. noun
    1) (of firearm, engine cylinder) Bohrung, die; (of tube, pipe) Innendurchmesser, der
    2) (calibre) Kaliber, das
    II 1. noun
    2) (dull person) Langweiler, der (ugs. abwertend)
    2. transitive verb
    (weary) langweilen

    I'm bored — ich langweile mich; ich habe Langeweile

    bore somebody to death or to tears — (coll.) jemanden zu Tode langweilen

    III
    see bear II
    * * *
    n.
    Bohrung -en f. (into, through) v.
    sich bohren (in, durch) v. v.
    langweilen v.

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  • 9 bore

    1. bore [bɔ:ʳ, Am bɔ:r] n
    Flutwelle f;
    the Severn \bore die Severn-Flutwelle
    2. bore [bɔ:ʳ, Am bɔ:r] pt of bear
    3. bore [bɔ:ʳ, Am bɔ:r] n
    1) ( thing) langweilige Sache;
    what a \bore wie langweilig
    2) ( person) Langweiler(in) m(f);
    a crashing \bore ( Brit) ein furchtbarer Langweiler/eine furchtbare Langweilerin vt
    to \bore sb [with sth] jdn [mit etw dat] langweilen;
    to \bore sb to death [or to tears]; ( fig) jdn zu Tode langweilen
    4. bore [bɔ:ʳ, Am bɔ:r] n
    1) (spec: of pipe) Innendurchmesser m
    2) ( calibre) Kaliber nt;
    a small-\bore shotgun ein kleinkalibriges Gewehr
    3) ( hole) Bohrloch nt vt
    to \bore sth etw bohren;
    to \bore a hole in sth ein Loch in etw akk bohren vi
    to \bore through sth etw durchbohren; ( fig)
    her eyes \bored into me ihre Augen durchbohrten mich

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  • 10 Telford, Thomas

    SUBJECT AREA: Canals, Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. 9 August 1757 Glendinning, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
    d. 2 September 1834 London, England.
    [br]
    Scottish civil engineer.
    [br]
    Telford was the son of a shepherd, who died when the boy was in his first year. Brought up by his mother, Janet Jackson, he attended the parish school at Westerkirk. He was apprenticed to a stonemason in Lochmaben and to another in Langholm. In 1780 he walked from Eskdale to Edinburgh and in 1872 rode to London on a horse that he was to deliver there. He worked for Sir William Chambers as a mason on Somerset House, then on the Eskdale house of Sir James Johnstone. In 1783–4 he worked on the new Commissioner's House and other buildings at Portsmouth dockyard.
    In late 1786 Telford was appointed County Surveyor for Shropshire and moved to Shrewsbury Castle, with work initially on the new infirmary and County Gaol. He designed the church of St Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth, and also the church at Madley. Telford built his first bridge in 1790–2 at Montford; between 1790 and 1796 he built forty-five road bridges in Shropshire, including Buildwas Bridge. In September 1793 he was appointed general agent, engineer and architect to the Ellesmere Canal, which was to connect the Mersey and Dee rivers with the Severn at Shrewsbury; William Jessop was Principal Engineer. This work included the Pont Cysyllte aqueduct, a 1,000 ft (305 m) long cast-iron trough 127 ft (39 m) above ground level, which entailed an on-site ironworks and took ten years to complete; the aqueduct is still in use today. In 1800 Telford put forward a plan for a new London Bridge with a single cast-iron arch with a span of 600 ft (183 m) but this was not built.
    In 1801 Telford was appointed engineer to the British Fisheries Society "to report on Highland Communications" in Scotland where, over the following eighteen years, 920 miles (1,480 km) of new roads were built, 280 miles (450 km) of the old military roads were realigned and rebuilt, over 1,000 bridges were constructed and much harbour work done, all under Telford's direction. A further 180 miles (290 km) of new roads were also constructed in the Lowlands of Scotland. From 1804 to 1822 he was also engaged on the construction of the Caledonian Canal: 119 miles (191 km) in all, 58 miles (93 km) being sea loch, 38 miles (61 km) being Lochs Lochy, Oich and Ness, 23 miles (37 km) having to be cut.
    In 1808 he was invited by King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden to assist Count Baltzar von Platen in the survey and construction of a canal between the North Sea and the Baltic. Telford surveyed the 114 mile (183 km) route in six weeks; 53 miles (85 km) of new canal were to be cut. Soon after the plans for the canal were completed, the King of Sweden created him a Knight of the Order of Vasa, an honour that he would have liked to have declined. At one time some 60,000 soldiers and seamen were engaged on the work, Telford supplying supervisors, machinery—including an 8 hp steam dredger from the Donkin works and machinery for two small paddle boats—and ironwork for some of the locks. Under his direction an ironworks was set up at Motala, the foundation of an important Swedish industrial concern which is still flourishing today. The Gotha Canal was opened in September 1832.
    In 1811 Telford was asked to make recommendations for the improvement of the Shrewsbury to Holyhead section of the London-Holyhead road, and in 1815 he was asked to survey the whole route from London for a Parliamentary Committee. Construction of his new road took fifteen years, apart from the bridges at Conway and over the Menai Straits, both suspension bridges by Telford and opened in 1826. The Menai bridge had a span of 579 ft (176 m), the roadway being 153 ft (47 m) above the water level.
    In 1817 Telford was appointed Engineer to the Exchequer Loan Commission, a body set up to make capital loans for deserving projects in the hard times that followed after the peace of Waterloo. In 1820 he became the first President of the Engineers Institute, which gained its Royal Charter in 1828 to become the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was appointed Engineer to the St Katharine's Dock Company during its construction from 1825 to 1828, and was consulted on several early railway projects including the Liverpool and Manchester as well as a number of canal works in the Midlands including the new Harecastle tunnel, 3,000 ft (914 m) long.
    Telford led a largely itinerant life, living in hotels and lodgings, acquiring his own house for the first time in 1821, 24 Abingdon Street, Westminster, which was partly used as a school for young civil engineers. He died there in 1834, after suffering in his later years from the isolation of deafness. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRSE 1803. Knight of the Order of Vasa, Sweden 1808. FRS 1827. First President, Engineers Insitute 1820.
    Further Reading
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1979, Thomas Telford, London: Penguin.
    C.Hadfield, 1993, Thomas Telford's Temptation, London: M. \& M.Baldwin.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Telford, Thomas

  • 11 Trevithick, Richard

    [br]
    b. 13 April 1771 Illogan, Cornwall, England
    d. 22 April 1833 Dartford, Kent, England
    [br]
    English engineer, pioneer of non-condensing steam-engines; designed and built the first locomotives.
    [br]
    Trevithick's father was a tin-mine manager, and Trevithick himself, after limited formal education, developed his immense engineering talent among local mining machinery and steam-engines and found employment as a mining engineer. Tall, strong and high-spirited, he was the eternal optimist.
    About 1797 it occurred to him that the separate condenser patent of James Watt could be avoided by employing "strong steam", that is steam at pressures substantially greater than atmospheric, to drive steam-engines: after use, steam could be exhausted to the atmosphere and the condenser eliminated. His first winding engine on this principle came into use in 1799, and subsequently such engines were widely used. To produce high-pressure steam, a stronger boiler was needed than the boilers then in use, in which the pressure vessel was mounted upon masonry above the fire: Trevithick designed the cylindrical boiler, with furnace tube within, from which the Cornish and later the Lancashire boilers evolved.
    Simultaneously he realized that high-pressure steam enabled a compact steam-engine/boiler unit to be built: typically, the Trevithick engine comprised a cylindrical boiler with return firetube, and a cylinder recessed into the boiler. No beam intervened between connecting rod and crank. A master patent was taken out.
    Such an engine was well suited to driving vehicles. Trevithick built his first steam-carriage in 1801, but after a few days' use it overturned on a rough Cornish road and was damaged beyond repair by fire. Nevertheless, it had been the first self-propelled vehicle successfully to carry passengers. His second steam-carriage was driven about the streets of London in 1803, even more successfully; however, it aroused no commercial interest. Meanwhile the Coalbrookdale Company had started to build a locomotive incorporating a Trevithick engine for its tramroads, though little is known of the outcome; however, Samuel Homfray's ironworks at Penydarren, South Wales, was already building engines to Trevithick's design, and in 1804 Trevithick built one there as a locomotive for the Penydarren Tramroad. In this, and in the London steam-carriage, exhaust steam was turned up the chimney to draw the fire. On 21 February the locomotive hauled five wagons with 10 tons of iron and seventy men for 9 miles (14 km): it was the first successful railway locomotive.
    Again, there was no commercial interest, although Trevithick now had nearly fifty stationary engines completed or being built to his design under licence. He experimented with one to power a barge on the Severn and used one to power a dredger on the Thames. He became Engineer to a project to drive a tunnel beneath the Thames at Rotherhithe and was only narrowly defeated, by quicksands. Trevithick then set up, in 1808, a circular tramroad track in London and upon it demonstrated to the admission-fee-paying public the locomotive Catch me who can, built to his design by John Hazledine and J.U. Rastrick.
    In 1809, by which date Trevithick had sold all his interest in the steam-engine patent, he and Robert Dickinson, in partnership, obtained a patent for iron tanks to hold liquid cargo in ships, replacing the wooden casks then used, and started to manufacture them. In 1810, however, he was taken seriously ill with typhus for six months and had to return to Cornwall, and early in 1811 the partners were bankrupt; Trevithick was discharged from bankruptcy only in 1814.
    In the meantime he continued as a steam engineer and produced a single-acting steam engine in which the cut-off could be varied to work the engine expansively by way of a three-way cock actuated by a cam. Then, in 1813, Trevithick was approached by a representative of a company set up to drain the rich but flooded silver-mines at Cerro de Pasco, Peru, at an altitude of 14,000 ft (4,300 m). Low-pressure steam engines, dependent largely upon atmospheric pressure, would not work at such an altitude, but Trevithick's high-pressure engines would. Nine engines and much other mining plant were built by Hazledine and Rastrick and despatched to Peru in 1814, and Trevithick himself followed two years later. However, the war of independence was taking place in Peru, then a Spanish colony, and no sooner had Trevithick, after immense difficulties, put everything in order at the mines then rebels arrived and broke up the machinery, for they saw the mines as a source of supply for the Spanish forces. It was only after innumerable further adventures, during which he encountered and was assisted financially by Robert Stephenson, that Trevithick eventually arrived home in Cornwall in 1827, penniless.
    He petitioned Parliament for a grant in recognition of his improvements to steam-engines and boilers, without success. He was as inventive as ever though: he proposed a hydraulic power transmission system; he was consulted over steam engines for land drainage in Holland; and he suggested a 1,000 ft (305 m) high tower of gilded cast iron to commemorate the Reform Act of 1832. While working on steam propulsion of ships in 1833, he caught pneumonia, from which he died.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Trevithick took out fourteen patents, solely or in partnership, of which the most important are: 1802, Construction of Steam Engines, British patent no. 2,599. 1808, Stowing Ships' Cargoes, British patent no. 3,172.
    Further Reading
    H.W.Dickinson and A.Titley, 1934, Richard Trevithick. The Engineer and the Man, Cambridge; F.Trevithick, 1872, Life of Richard Trevithick, London (these two are the principal biographies).
    E.A.Forward, 1952, "Links in the history of the locomotive", The Engineer (22 February), 226 (considers the case for the Coalbrookdale locomotive of 1802).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Trevithick, Richard

  • 12 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

  • 13 Gooch, Sir Daniel

    [br]
    b. 24 August 1816 Bedlington, Northumberland, England
    d. 15 October 1889 Clewer Park, Berkshire, England
    [br]
    English engineer, first locomotive superintendent of the Great Western Railway and pioneer of transatlantic electric telegraphy.
    [br]
    Gooch gained experience as a pupil with several successive engineering firms, including Vulcan Foundry and Robert Stephenson \& Co. In 1837 he was engaged by I.K. Brunel, who was then building the Great Western Railway (GWR) to the broad gauge of 7 ft 1/4 in. (2.14 m), to take charge of the railway's locomotive department. He was just 21 years old. The initial locomotive stock comprised several locomotives built to such extreme specifications laid down by Brunel that they were virtually unworkable, and two 2–2–2 locomotives, North Star and Morning Star, which had been built by Robert Stephenson \& Co. but left on the builder's hands. These latter were reliable and were perpetuated. An enlarged version, the "Fire Fly" class, was designed by Gooch and built in quantity: Gooch was an early proponent of standardization. His highly successful 4–2–2 Iron Duke of 1847 became the prototype of GWR express locomotives for the next forty-five years, until the railway's last broad-gauge sections were narrowed. Meanwhile Gooch had been largely responsible for establishing Swindon Works, opened in 1843. In 1862 he designed 2–4–0 condensing tank locomotives to work the first urban underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway in London. Gooch retired in 1864 but was then instrumental in arranging for Brunel's immense steamship Great Eastern to be used to lay the first transatlantic electric telegraph cable: he was on board when the cable was successfully laid in 1866. He had been elected Member of Parliament for Cricklade (which constituency included Swindon) in 1865, and the same year he had accepted an invitation to become Chairman of the Great Western Railway Company, which was in financial difficulties; he rescued it from near bankruptcy and remained Chairman until shortly before his death. The greatest engineering work undertaken during his chairmanship was the boring of the Severn Tunnel.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1866 (on completion of transatlantic telegraph).
    Bibliography
    1972, Sir Daniel Gooch, Memoirs and Diary, ed. R.B.Wilson, with introd. and notes, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.
    Further Reading
    A.Platt, 1987, The Life and Times of Daniel Gooch, Gloucester: Alan Sutton (puts Gooch's career into context).
    C.Hamilton Ellis, 1958, Twenty Locomotive Men, Ian Allan (contains a good short biography).
    J.Kieve, 1973, The Electric Telegraph, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles, pp. 112–5.
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Gooch, Sir Daniel

  • 14 pleasant region

    Общая лексика: лакомый кусочек (The Welsh next attracted his ambition; and, to annex the pleasant region between the Severn and the Wye to his Mercian territories, he entered Wales with a powerful army. (После этого предметом его притязаний оказалис)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > pleasant region

  • 15 Sabrina

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

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > Sabrina

  • 16 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

  • 17 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

  • 18 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

  • 19 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

  • 20 STS

    1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Sequence Tagged Site
    5) Психиатрия: Suicidality Tracking Scale
    8) Юридический термин: Simple Terminal Statement, Sober Till Saturday, упрощённая система налогообложения (сокр. от "simplified tax system"; англ. термин взят из публикации Australian Taxation Office, Australian Government)
    9) Автомобильный термин: service throttle system (lamp)
    12) Сокращение: Satellite Transmission Systems Inc. (USA), Seeker Trade Study, Stockpile to Target Sequence (nuclear weapons), Subcommittee on Telecommunications Security (of NTISSC), Supervisory Training System (at W. F. Bolger Management Academy and others), Support & Test Station, System Technical Support, satellite-to-satellite, special treatment steel, Space Transportation System (NASA; space shuttle)
    16) Электроника: Standard Test Signal
    17) Вычислительная техника: Synchronous Transport Signal, Synchronous Time Stamps (SDH), Space Transportation System (space shuttle, NASA)
    19) Генетика: ДНК-маркирующий сайт (уникальная для данного локуса олигонуклеотидная последовательность, которая может быть использована для его идентификации методом полимеразной цепной реакции), sequence tagged site
    20) Иммунология: serologic test for syphilis
    21) Космонавтика: Space Transportation Systems
    23) Пищевая промышленность: Sulfonylurea Tolerant Soybeans
    25) Деловая лексика: Service Technicians Society
    26) Образование: Students Teaching Students
    29) Автоматика: single tube system, standard tooling system
    30) Океанография: Science, Technology, and Society
    31) Химическое оружие: Significant Threshold Shift, Stockpile Tracking System
    32) Безопасность: Sound Telecommunication Security
    33) Расширение файла: Microsoft C/C++ Project STatus information, Song format (Scream Tracker), Music format (Scream Tracker Song, ST 2.0-2.3)
    36) Фантастика Star Trek Soldiers
    37) Чат: Site To See
    40) СМС: Stay The Same
    41) AMEX. Supreme Industries, Inc.

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > STS

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