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See also:BRINDLEY, 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 (1716-1772) , See also:English engineer, was See also:born at Thornsett, See also:Derbyshire, in 1716. His parents were in. very humble circumstances, and he received little or no See also:education. At the See also:age of seventeen he was apprenticed to a millwright near See also:Macclesfield, and soon after completing • his See also:apprenticeship he set up in business for himself as a wheelwright at See also:Leek, quickly becoming known for his ingenuity and skill in repairing all kinds of machinery. In 1752 he designed and set, up an See also:engine for draining some See also:coal-pits at See also:Clifton in See also:Lancashire. Three years later he extended his reputation by completing the 'machinery for a See also:silk-See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill at See also:Congleton. In 1754, when the See also:duke of See also:Bridge-See also:water was anxious to improve the outlets for the coal on his estates, Brindley advised the construction of a See also:canal from See also:Worsley to See also:Manchester. The difficulties in the Way were See also:great, but all were surmounted by his See also:genius, and his. crowning %riumph was the construction of an See also:aqueduct to carry the canal at an See also:elevation of 39 ft. over the See also:river Irwell at See also:Barton. The great success of this canal encouraged similar projects, and Brindley was soon engaged in extending his first See also:work to the See also:Mersey, at See also:Runcorn. He then designed and nearly completed what he called the See also:Grand See also:Trunk Canal, connecting the See also:Trent and See also:Humber with the Mersey. The See also:Staffordshire and See also:Worcestershire, the See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford and the See also:Chester-See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field Canals were also planned by him, and altogether he laid out over 36o m. of canals. He died at Turnhurst, Staffordshire, on the 3oth of See also:September 1772. Brindley retained to the last a See also:peculiar roughness of See also:character and demeanour; but his innate See also:power of thought more than compensated for his lack of training. It is told of him that when in any difficulty he used to retire to See also:bed, and there remain thinking out his problem until the See also:solution became clear to him. His See also:mechanical ingenuity and fertility of resource were very remarkable, and he undoubtedly possessed the See also:engineering See also:faculty in a very high degree. He was an enthusiastic believer in canals, and his reported See also:answer, when asked the use of navigable See also:rivers, " To feed canals," is characteristic, if not altogether See also:authentic.
End of Article: BRINDLEY, JAMES (1716-1772)
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