Fleeming Jenkin - of Hythe, had been in the family since 1633, and was held from the Crown by the feudal service of six men and a constable to defend the sea-way at Sandgate. The family had settled in Kent during the reign of Henry VIII, and claimed to have come from Yorkshire. They bore the arms of Jenkin ap Phillip of St. Mellons, who traced his descent from 'Guaith Voeth,' Lord of Cardigan. While cruising in the West Indies, carrying specie, or chasing buccaneers and slavers, Charles Jenkin, was introduced to the family of a fellow midshipman, son of Mr. Jackson, Custos Rotulorum of Kingston, Jamaica, and fell in love with Henrietta Camilla, the youngest daughter. Jackson came of Yorkshire stock, said to be of Scottish origin, and Susan, his wife, was a.
History of the British railway system - a ticket, expect a purpose-built passenger train to turn up at a given time and take you to your destination on track of four feet eight-and-a-half inches (1.435 m) gauge designed for steam locomotives to haul passengers and operated as one system. This was the start of railways as we know them today. Of course, there had been railways in Britain for centuries, mostly primitive wooden tracks with single trucks pulled by hand or by horse. These developed during the Industrial Revolution into sophisticated lines of iron track with some ambitious engineering works. The most advanced of these were the Stratford-upon-Avon and Moreton-in-Marsh Tramway, and the Cromford and High Peak railway in Derbyshire. But they all, even the Stockton and Darlington railway opened in 1825, had important differences from modern railways:.
Walthamstow - station: Walthamstow Central tube station (Victoria Line) Nearest railway stations: Blackhorse Road railway station Queen's Road railway station St James Street railway station Walthamstow Central railway station Wood Street railway station =See Also= The History of Walthamstow Statistics and further info about Walthamstow The KnoWhere Guide to Walthamstow The William Morris Gallery.
St Katharine Docks - St Katharine Docks The St Katharine Docks were one of the commercial docks serving London, and are situated on the north side of the river Thames just east (ie, downstream) of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. Sanctioned by an Act of Parliament in 1825, the scheme was designed by engineer Thomas Telford (his only major project in London) and started in May 1827. To create as much quayside as possible, the docks were designed in the form of two linked basins (East and West), both accessed via an entrance lock from the Thames. Steam engines (manufactured to a design by James Watt and Matthew Boulton) kept the water level in the basins about four feet above that of the tidal river. Telford aimed to.
St. Charles Avenue Streetcar - St. Charles Avenue Streetcar According to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the St. Charles Avenue Streetcar line in New Orleans, Louisiana is the oldest continuously operating street railway system in the world. The line starts uptown, on Carollton Avenue, curves to follow the bend of the Mississippi River, proceeds past entrances to Audubon Zoo, Tulane University and Loyola University, continues through the Garden District, and ends at Canal Street downtown, a distance of about fifteen miles. The line still uses streetcars which were common all over the United States in the early parts of the 20th century. The line was founded as the New Orleans and Carollton Rail Road Company in February 1833. Service began in 1835, originally without a dedicated right-of-way, although one was.
National Trust Properties in England - Mill Peckover House Ramsey Abbey Gatehouse Wicken Fen Wimpole Hall Cheshire Alderley Edge Hare Hill Little Moreton Hall Lyme Park Nether Alderley Mill QuarryBank Mill and Styal Country Park Tatton Park Cornwall Antony Boscastle Carnewas & Bedruthan Steps Cornish Mines & Engines Cotehele Glendurgan Garden Godolphin Estate Godrevy Lanhydrock Lawrence House The Levant Steam Engine St Anthony Head St Michael's Mount Tintagel Old Post Office Trelissick Garden Trengwainton Garden Trerice Cumbria Acorn Bank Garden and Watermill Aira Force Beatrix Potter Gallery Borrowdale Buttermere and Ennerdale Cartmel Priory Gatehouse Tarn Hows Dalton Castle Derwent Island House Fell Foot Park Gondola, Coniston Water Grasmere and Great Langdale Hawkshead and Claife Hill Top Sizergh Castle Stagshaw Garden Townend Ullswater Wasdale, Eskdale and Duddon Windermere and Troutbeck Wordsworth House Derbyshire Calke Abbey Hardwick Hall High.
List of WOSM members - sex (United States) or race (Israel). World Organization of the Scout Movement Members Country Membership (from 2000 or most recent available info) Name of Member Organization Year Current Scouting Organization joined WOSM Year Member Organization was founded Albania 1,730 Besa Skaut Albania 1999 1922 Algeria 11,120 Scouts Musulmans Algériens 1963 1939 Angola 13,777 Associação de Escuteros de Angola 1998 1998 Argentina 44,981 Scouts de Argentina 1922 1912 Armenia 2,256 Hayastani Azgayin Scautakan Sharjum Kazmakerputiun 1997 1912 Australia 98,084 Scouts Australia 1953 1908 Austria 13,785 Pfadfinder und Pfadfinderinnen Österreichs 1922 1912 Azerbaijan 1,414 Azerbaican Skaut Assosiasiyasi 2000 1997 the Bahamas 729 The Scout Association of the Bahamas 1974 1913 Bahrain 1,820 Boy Scouts of Bahrain 1970 1953 Bangladesh 908,435 Bangladesh Scouts 1974 19 Barbados 3,032 Barbados Boy Scouts Association 1969 1972 Belarus.
Locomotive - in the outermost carriage, with controls which communicate with the locomotive through wiring along the train. The train is thus pulled by the locomotive when moving in one direction, and pushed in the other. A variation of this occurs when a train consists of a set of carriages with a locomotive at each end, both of which are controlled by a driver in the leading locomotive. Drivers are instructed by signals when they may start or must stop. See railway signalling A steam locomotive at the Gare du Nord, Paris, France, in 1930. Long freight trains sometimes have locomotives at the front and rear, and even in the middle of the train. This reduces the force on the couplings between the freight vehicles. In this case, control signals are usually sent.
Horsepower - for power, the watt (W). However, the idea of horsepower persists as a handy term in many languages, particularly in the automotive industry for listing the maximum power of internal-combustion engines. The various types of horsepower are: Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 hp 2 RAC horsepower 3 PS 4 pk 5 CV 6 ch 7 bhp 8 ihp hp According to the most common definition of horsepower, one horsepower is defined as exactly: 1 hp = 745.69987158227022 W The horsepower was first used by James Watt during a business venture where his steam engines substituted horses. It was defined that a horse can lift 33,000 pounds with a speed of 1 foot per minute: 33,000 ft·lb·min-1. (This is equivalent to approximately 15,000 kg at 30 cm.) WebCars! What is horsepower? RAC.
German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis - Such commerce raiders do not usually engage other warships, but rather seek to sink enemy shipping, similar to the work done by submarines. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Design of Atlantis 1.1 Weapons and Aircraft 1.2 Engines 2 History of Atlantis 2.3 Atlantis, Krim, and Kasii Maru 2.4 City of Exeter 2.5 The Scientist 2.6 Cape Agulhas 2.7 Tirranna, City of Baghdad, and the Kemmendine 2.8 Talleyrand and King City 2.9 Athelking, Benarty, Commissaire Ramel, Durmitor, Teddy, and Ole Jacob 2.10 Automedon and its Secret Cargo 2.11 Antarctica and Africa 2.12 Zamzam 2.13 Bismarck is Sunk 2.14 U-68, U-126, a Nightmare, and HMS Devonshire 2.15 Sunk and Sunk Again Design of Atlantis This ship was 155m long and displaced 7,862 tons. She had a single funnel amidships. She had a crew.
Dundee - to flee south to Kilspindie. Robert Bruce In 1296 and 1303, Edward I visited Dundee with hostile intent. Edward is said to have removed the town's charter. The cause of the first occupation was John Balliol's renunciation of Edward's authority in 1295. Subsequently, Wallace returned in 1297 to capture Dundee Castle, built on Black Rock. The castle was repaired by Edward I, only to be completely destroyed by Robert the Bruce in 1312. In 1309, Robert the Bruce was proclaimed King of Scots here. Later, in 1327, Bruce re-affirmed the town's royal status. Richard II In 1385, during the Hundred years war, hostilities between England and France were renewed once again - the French King Charles VI brought the Scots into the war under the terms of the Auld Alliance. In.
1998 - heavy metal waste into the Guadiamar River. The pollution threatens the sensitive ecosystem and endangered species of Doñana National Park, Spain's largest nature reserve, but is diverted into the Guadalquivir River. Up to 10,000 hectares of farmland are ruined by the spill. [1] May 7 - Apple Computer unveils the iMac. May 7 - Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history. May 11 - Nuclear testing: In the Rajasthan Desert, India conducts its second series of underground nuclear tests (the first were in 1974) and inflaming its rival neighbor Pakistan (who already has nuclear weapons). May 13 - Following India's second round of nuclear tests the United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on the nation. May 15 - Iraq disarmament crisis:.
Analytical engine - until about 100 years later. Babbage began by designing and partially constructing his Difference engine, a mechanical special purpose computer designed to tabulate logarithms and trigonometric functions by evaluating approximating polynomials. When he realized that a much more general design was possible, he started to work on the analytical engine instead. The machine was to be powered by a steam engine and would have been over 30 metres long and 10 metres wide. The input (programs and data) were to be provided to the machine on punch cards, a method being used at the time to direct mechanical looms. For output, the machine was planned to have a printer, a curve plotter and a bell. The machine could also punch numbers onto cards to be read in later. It employed ordinary.
Carbon monoxide - lesions. Avoid contact with cryogenic liquid. Eyes Inhalation can cause long-term problems with vision. More info Hazardous Chemical Database SI units were used where possible. Unless otherwise stated, standard conditions were used. Disclaimer and references Carbon monoxide, chemical formula CO, is a colourless, odourless, flammable and highly toxic gas. It is a major product of the incomplete combustion of carbon and carbon-containing compounds. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Toxicity 2 Physiological Role 3 Chemistry Toxicity Carbon monoxide is emitted by cars, because the temperature is too low to effect complete oxidation of the CO to CO2, because the time (i.e., the residence time) available in the combustion chamber is too short, or because there is insufficient oxygen present. Usually, it is more difficult to design and operate a combustor for very.
Tomahawk missile - and storage, and to act as a launch tube. The submarine AUR is launched from torpedo or vertical tubes (e.g. the later Los Angeles class submarines). Surface ships employ a vertical launching system (VLS). A solid fuel booster with steering vanes in its exhaust is used for launch and to provide steering during the initial few seconds of flight while the wings and control surfaces are deployed. The Tomahawk is launched on a preset course above the water and, as it crosses over land, switches to an inertial and Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM) system to guide the missile to its target with terminal guidance from the Digital Scene Matching Area Correlation (DSMAC) sytem, producing an accuracy of around 10m. The Block III TLAMs, entered service in 1993, have an extended range.
Tower Bridge - as London Bridge, which is in fact the next bridge upstream. Nearby places The bridge is near the Design Museum, the Tom Blau gallery, the Tower of London, St Katharine Docks, and St Saviours Dock. The north end is near Tower Hill tube station, Tower Gateway DLR station (Docklands Light Railway). The south end is quite a walk away from London Bridge station. To the south of Tower Bridge is Tower Bridge Road which is part of the London Inner Ring Road. Design In the second half of the nineteenth century increased commercial development in the East End of London led to a requirement for a new river crossing downstream of London Bridge. However, a traditional bridge could not be built because it would cut off access to the port facilities.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - and television 10 Colleges and universities in Philadephia 11 Professional sports teams 12 List of museums 13 List of sites of interest 14 Events 15 External Links History Philadelphia was a planned city founded and developed by William Penn, a Quaker. It was a major center of the independence movement in the American Revolutionary War. For a time in the 18th century, Philadelphia was the largest city in the Americas north of Mexico City, and second only to London in size in the British Empire. An early railroad center, Philadelphia was the original home of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, the world's largest builder of steam locomotives (which relocated to nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania). The Pennsylvania Railroad, once America's largest railroad by revenue and traffic volume and at one time the largest public.
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion - Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion is a way to generate electricity using the temperature difference of seawater at different depths. See also Renewable energy and Heat engine for general additional info. The oceans, that constitute some 70% of the earth's surface area are a huge storage reservoir of the solar input. This, if economically tapped on a large scale, could be a solution to some of the human population's energy problems. The energy extraction potential is one or two orders of magnitude higher than other ocean energy options. OTEC utilizes the temperature difference that exists between the surface waters heated by the sun and the colder deep (up to 1000 mts) waters to run a heat engine. This source and sink provides a temperature difference of 20°C in ocean areas within 20°.
Model railway - models of railways at a reduced scale, including both engines, carriages or rolling stock, tracks and associated buildings and scenery. Model railway engines are generally operated by low voltage DC electricity supplied via the tracks. The earliest forms of model railways are the 'Carpet Railways' which first appeared in the 1840s. Model railways in the early twentieth century ran using wind-up clockwork or miniature steam engines instead; and steam or clockwork driven engines are still sought by collectors. The size of the engines depends on the scale being used. The four major scales used in the English-speaking world are: G-scale, O, HO (or OO), and N, although there is growing interest in Z. Somewhat different scales are used in Continental Europe. Engine sizes can vary from around 20 cm tall for.
HMS Sceptre - Deptford. On June 20, after a shakedown period, she came into Plymouth for a refit, sailing again on June 28 under the command of Captain A.C. Dickson to join the Channel fleet. In July 1803, she sailed for the East Indies station. On December 21, 1803, in the eastern Indian Ocean, Sceptre and Albion captured the French ship Clarisse, 12 and her crew of 157 men. In 1804, Captain Joseph Bingham, formerly of St. Fiorenzo, assumed command of Sceptre. On November 11, 1806, HMS Sceptre and Cornwallis under Captain Johnston made a dash into St. Paul's Bay, Isle of Bourbon, and attacked the shipping there, which consisted of the frigate Semillante, three armed ships and twelve captured British ships. (The eight ships that had been earlier taken by Semillante were valued.
