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See also:LINDLEY, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1808–1900) , See also:English engineer, was See also:born in See also:London on the 7th of See also:September r8o8, and became 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 under See also:Francis See also:Giles, whom he assisted in designing the See also:Newcastle and See also:Carlisle and the London and See also:Southampton See also:railways. Leaving See also:England about 1837, he was engaged for a 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 in railway See also:work in various parts of See also:Europe, and then returned, as engineer-inchief to the See also:Hamburg-See also:Bergedorf railway, to Hamburg, near which See also:city he had received his See also:early See also:education, and to which he was destined to stand in much the same relation as See also:Baron See also:Haussmann to See also:Paris. His first achievement was to drain the See also:Hammer-See also:brook marshes, and so add some 1400 acres to the available See also:area of the city. His real opportunity, however, came with the See also:great See also:fire which See also:broke out on the 5th of May 1842 and burned for three days. He was entrusted with the direction of the operations to check its spread, and the strong See also:measures he adopted, including the blowing-up of the See also:town See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, brought his See also:life into danger with the See also:mob, who professed to see in him an English See also:agent charged with the destruction of the See also:port of Hamburg. After the extinction of the fire he was appointed consulting engineer to the See also:senate and town See also:council, to the See also:Water See also:Board and to the Board of See also:Works. He began with the construction of a See also:complete See also:sewerage See also:system on principles which did not See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape See also:criticism, but which experience showed to be See also:good. Between 1844 and 1848 water-works were established from his designs, the intake from the See also:Elbe being at Rothenburgsort. Subsidence tanks were used for clarification, but in 1853, when he designed large ex-tensions, he urged the substitution of See also:sand-filtration, which, however, was not adopted until the See also:cholera epidemic of 1892–1893 had shown the folly of the opposition directed against it. In 1846 he erected the Hamburg See also:gas-works; public See also:baths and See also:wash-houses were built, and large extensions to the port executed according to his plans in 1854; and he supervised the construction of the See also:Altona gas and water works in 1855. Among other services he rendered to the city may be mentioned the trigonometrical survey executed between 1848 and 186o, and the conduct of the negotiations which in 1852 resulted in the See also:sale of the " See also:Steelyard " on the See also:banks of the See also:Thames belonging to it ;ointly with the two other Hanseatic towns, See also:Bremen and See also:Lubeck. In 186o he See also:left Hamburg, and during the remaining nineteen years of his professional practice he was responsible for manyengineering works in various See also:European cities, among them being See also:Frankfort-on-the-See also:Main, See also:Warsaw, Pesth, See also:Dusseldorf, See also:Galatz and See also:Basel. In Frankfort he constructed sewerage works on the same principles as those he followed in Hamburg, and the system was widely imitated not only in Europe, but also in See also:America. He was also consulted in regard to water-works at See also:Berlin, See also:Kiel, See also:Stralsund, See also:Stettin and See also:Leipzig; he advised the New See also:River See also:Company of London on the See also:adoption of the See also:constant See also:supply system in 185r; and he was commissioned by the See also:British See also:Government to carry out various works in See also:Heligoland, including the big retaining See also:wall " Am Falm." He died at See also:Blackheath, London, on the 22nd of May 1900.
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