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Weale's Series
John Weale (1791 – December 18, 1862 in Maida Vale) was an English publisher of popular scientific, architectural, engineering and educational works. Life He went into the trade first with George Priestley in St Giles, London who died around 1812, and worked then with Priestley's widow. He took a particular interest in the study of architecture. In 1823 he issued a bibliographical ''Catalogue of Works on Architecture and the Fine Arts'', of which a new edition appeared in 1854. He bought the architectural publishing business at 59 High Holborn built up by Isaac Taylor and his son Josiah Taylor as The Architectural Library, after Josiah's death in 1834. He followed the ''Catalogue'' in 1849–50 with a ''Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering'', a work which reached a fifth edition in 1876. Weale died in London on 18 December 1862. Works Weale published also: * ''Steam Navigation, Tredgold on the Steam Engine, Appendix A,'' edited and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maida Vale
Maida Vale ( ) is an affluent residential district consisting of the northern part of Paddington in West London, west of St John's Wood and south of Kilburn. It is also the name of its main road, on the continuous Edgware Road. Maida Vale is part of the City of Westminster, 3.1 miles (5.0 km) north-west of Charing Cross. It has many late Victorian and Edwardian blocks of mansion flats. The area is home to the BBC Maida Vale Studios. Name The name derives from a pub called ''The Maida'', the hanging board of which used to show a likeness of Sir John Stuart, under which was the legend ''Sir John Stuart, the hero of Maida''. General Sir John Stuart was made Count of Maida, a town in Calabria, by King Ferdinand IV of Naples and III of Sicily, after victory at the Battle of Maida in 1806. The pub stood on Edgware Road near the Regent's Canal until about 2000. In recent years, a different pub (formerly ''The Truscott Arms'') has been renamed ''The Hero of Maida'', but is in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Snow Harris
Sir William Snow Harris (1 April 1791 – 22 January 1867) was a British physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin. Life and work Harris was born in Plymouth on 1 April 1791. His family was well established as solicitors in the town, and he went to Plymouth grammar school. His childhood in the seaport which included the naval dockyard renamed Devonport gave him an enduring interest in ships. He went to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine and qualified as a physician, then returned to Plymouth and set up a medical practice. His interest in the emerging scienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Donaldson (agricultural Writer)
John Donaldson may refer to: Academics and scholars *John Dalgleish Donaldson (born 1941), mathematician and father of Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark *John Donaldson (agriculturalist) (1799–1876), British agriculturalist and professor of botany * John Donaldson (economist) (born 1948), economist at Columbia Business School *John William Donaldson (1811–1861), British philologist and biblical scholar *John Donaldson (music scholar) (1789–1865), English music scholar and educator Politics and law *John Donaldson (Australian politician) (1841–1896), Treasurer of Queensland *John Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Lymington (1920–2005), British judge *Jack Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge (1907–1998), British politician Sports *John Donaldson (Australian cricketer) (born 1950), Australian cricketer * John Donaldson (New Zealand cricketer) (1919–1984), New Zealand cricketer *John Donaldson (footballer), Scottish footballer *John Donaldson (pitcher) (1891–1970), bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Henry Andrews (painter)
George Henry Andrews (1926 – September 3, 1997) was a Liberian sports journalist and later minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs of Liberia. He presided over a pivotal election in the 1990s. Life Andrews was born in Cape Palmas, Liberia in 1926. His father, Lawrence Andrews, had impregnated a native girl and felt too ashamed to admit being the father of the child. Lawrence condemned the girl as a liar and left the area. He would not see his son again for nearly 40 years. Andrews grew up in abject poverty, but as a descendant of Americo-Liberian, being fair skinned through the blood of his father, he managed to use the perceived social status to get a scholarship to high school. Andrews excelled in school. Perhaps because he felt the need to nullify his father's complete rejection, he pushed himself and was valedictorian of every academic class he ever entered. His mother died in 1941 and he later said he was ashamed because part of him had always been embarrassed by the fact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Baker (civil Engineer)
Thomas or Tom Baker may refer to: Politicians * Thomas Cheseman or Thomas Baker ( 1488–1536 or later), Member of Parliament for Rye * Thomas Baker (died 1625), Member of Parliament for Arundel * Tom Baker (Nebraska politician) (born 1948), member of Nebraska Legislature * Thomas Guillaume St. Barbe Baker (1895–1966), Fascist activist and former British Army and RAF officer * Colonel Thomas Baker (1810–1872), founder of Bakersfield, California * Thomas Baker (Alaska politician) (born 1995), Alaska state representative Sports * Thomas Baker (cricketer) (born 1981), English cricketer who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Northamptonshire County Cricket Club * George Baker (footballer) (1936-2024), Wales international football player, commonly called George * Tom Baker (bowler) (born 1954), American bowler * Tom Baker (1930s pitcher) (1913–1991), Major League Baseball pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants * Tom Baker (1960s pitcher) (1934–1980 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institution Of Civil Engineers
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom. Based in London, ICE has over 92,000 members, of whom three-quarters are located in the UK, while the rest are located in more than 150 other countries. The ICE aims to support the civil engineering profession by offering professional qualification, promoting education, maintaining professional ethics, and liaising with industry, academia and government. Under its commercial arm, it delivers training, recruitment, publishing and contract services. As a professional body, ICE aims to support and promote professional learning (both to students and existing practitioners), managing professional ethics and safeguarding the status of engineers, and representing the interests of the profession in dealings with government, etc. It sets standards for membership of the body; works with industry and academia to progress engineering standards a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Institution Of British Architects
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three supplemental charters and a new charter granted in 1971. Founded as the Institute of British Architects in London in 1834, the RIBA retains a central London headquarters at 66 Portland Place as well as a network of regional offices. Its members played a leading part in promotion of architectural education in the United Kingdom; the RIBA Library, also established in 1834, is one of the three largest architectural libraries in the world and the largest in Europe. The RIBA also played a prominent role in the development of UK architects' registration bodies. The institute administers some of the oldest architectural awards in the world, including RIBA President's Medals Students Award, the Royal Gold Medal, and the Stirling Prize. It also manages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fellow Of The Geological Society
The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom. It is the oldest national geological society in the world and the largest in Europe with more than 12,000 Fellows. Fellows are entitled to the postnominal FGS (Fellow of the Geological Society), over 2,000 of whom are Chartered Geologists (CGeol). The Society is a Registered Charity, No. 210161. It is also a member of the Science Council, and is licensed to award Chartered Scientist to qualifying members. The mission of the society is: "Making geologists acquainted with each other, stimulating their zeal, inducing them to adopt one nomenclature, facilitating the communication of new facts and ascertaining what is known in their science and what remains to be discovered". History The Society was founded on 13 November 1807 at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, in the Covent Garden district of London. It was partly the outcome of a previous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Field (chemist)
George Field (1777?–1854), was an English chemist. He was born in or about 1777 at Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, of a family long settled in that town, and was educated at St. Peter's school there. When about eighteen years of age he came to London to seek a profession. He thought he saw an opening in the careful application of chemistry to pigments and dyes. War on the continent, by stopping the supply of Rose madder, madder from Holland, threatened to impede his progress. This obstacle, however, led him to consider the nature of its cultivation, and with a well-devised project he waited on Sir Joseph Banks for his advice, and, as he hoped, his co-operation. Sir Joseph, after unsuccessfully attempting to cultivate madder in Essex, had made up his mind that it could not be done in England. Horticulture and inventions Field then commenced the Horticulture, cultivation in his own garden, and from roots of his own growth produced beautiful specimens of colouring matter. A contrivance, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lacy Garbett
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy and Ned. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Talbot Bury
Thomas Talbot Bury (26 November 1809 – 23 February 1877) was a British architect and lithographer. There seems to be some dispute about Bury's date of birth. According to Grace's Guide, the 1877 Institution of Civil Engineers Obituaries gives a DOB as 26th of September 1811, the Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 Vol.1 and the Library of Congress agree. The Royal Academy gives a date of simply 1809 and the Science Museum agrees with them. Bury was articled to Augustus Charles Pugin in 1824 and started his own practice in Soho in 1830. At various times he collaborated with other notable architects including Charles Lee ( partners between 1845 and 1849), Lewis Vulliamy and A. W. N. Pugin, with whom he detailed the Houses of Parliament under Sir Charles Barry. Bury's works included thirty-five churches and chapels, fifteen parsonages, twelve schools and twenty other large public buildings and private homes. His ecclesiastical works included St Mary the Virgin's Church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Leeds
William Henry Leeds (1786–1866) was an English architectural critic and journalist. Life Leeds was born in 1786 in Norfolk. He was credited by John George Cochrane and others as one of the anonymous translators of the anthology of German short stories ''Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations'' (1823). Leeds was a frequent contributor to the ''Foreign Quarterly Review'' in the 1830s,Margaret Belcher, ''A.W.N. Pugin: an annotated critical bibliography'', 1987, p.468 writing for them on Russian literature as well as architecture. In the 1840s he wrote for the ''Westminster Review''.O. Boucher-Rivalain, 'William Henry Leeds (1786-1866), architectural critic, and his contribution to the Westminster Review in the 1840s ', ''Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens'', 55, pp.33-41 From 1839 to 1854 he edited the ''Civil Engineer's and Architect's Journal'', and from 1855 to 1856 edited ''Land and Building News''. S. A. Allibone, ''Critical Dictionary of English Literature and Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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