See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:GREATHEAD (1844–1896)
, See also:British engineer, was See also:born at Grahamstown, Cape See also:Colony, on the 6th of See also:August 1844
.
He migrated to See also:England in 1859, and in 1864 was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of P
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See also:Barlow, from whom he became acquainted with the See also:shield See also:system of tunnelling with which his name is especially associated
.
Barlow, indeed, had a strong belief in the shield, and was the author of a See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme for facilitating the See also:traffic of See also:London by the construction of underground See also:railways See also:running in See also:cast-See also:iron tubes constructed by its aid
.
To show what the method could do, it was resolved to make a subway under the See also:Thames near the See also:Tower, but the troubles encountered by See also:Sir M
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See also:Brunel in the Thames See also:Tunnel, where also a shield was employed, made See also:engineers hesitate to undertake the subway, even though it was of very much smaller dimensions (6 ft
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7 in
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1 See also:Great Falls was a See also:pioneer among the cities of the See also:state in the development of a See also:park system
.
When the See also:city was first settled its site was a " barren See also:tract of See also:sand, thinly covered with See also:buffalo-grass and patches of See also:sage See also:brush." The first settler, See also:Paris See also:Gibson, of Minneapolis, began the planting of trees, which, though not indigenous, See also:grew well
.
The city's sidewalks are bordered by strips of See also:lawn, in which there is a See also:row of trees, and the city maintains a large nursery where trees are grown for this purpose
.
A See also:general state See also:law (1901) placing the parking of cities on a See also:sound See also:financial basis is due very largely to the impulse furnished by Great Falls
.
See an See also:article, " Great Falls, the Pioneer Park City of See also:Montana," by C
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H
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See also:Forbes-See also:Lindsay, in the Craftsman for See also:November 1908
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See also:internal See also:diameter) than the tunnel
.
At this juncture See also:Greathead came forward and offered to take up the See also:contract; and he successfully carried it through in 1869 without finding any See also:necessity to resort to the use of compressed See also:air, which Barlow in 1867 had suggested might be employed in See also:water-bearing strata
.
After this he began to practise on his own See also:account, and mainly divided his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time between railway construction and taking out See also:patents for improvements in his shield, and for other inventions such as the " Ejector " See also:fire-hydrant
.
See also:Early in the 'eighties he began to See also:work in See also:conjunction with a See also:company whose aim was to introduce into London from See also:America the Hallidie system of See also:cable See also:traction, and in 1884 an See also:act of See also:Parliament was obtained authorizing what is now the City & See also:South London Railway-a See also:tube-railway to be worked by cables
.
This was begun in 1886, and the tunnels were driven by means of the Greathead shield, compressed air being used at those points where water-bearing See also:gravel was encountered
.
During the progress of the See also:works See also:electrical traction became so far See also:developed as to be See also:superior to cables; the See also:idea of using the latter was therefore abandoned, and when the railway was opened in 1890 it was as an electrical one
.
Greathead was engaged in two-other important under-ground lines in London-the See also:Waterloo & City and the Central London
.
He lived to see the tunnels of the former completed under the Thames, but the latter was scarcely begun at the time of his See also:death, which happened at See also:Streatham, in the south of London, on the 21st of See also:October 1896
.
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