Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! River engineering is the process of planned human intervention in the course, characteristics or flow of a river with the intention of producing some defined benefit. People have intervened in the natural course and behaviour of rivers since before recorded history - to manage the water resources, to protect against flooding or to make passage along or across rivers easier. From Roman times, rivers have been used as a source of hydropower. From the late 20th century, river engineering has had environmental concerns broader than immediate human benefit and some river engineering projects have been concerned exclusively with the restoration or protection of natural characteristics and habitats....
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The RL10 is a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine used on the Centaur, S-IV and DCSS upper stages. Built in the United States of America by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, the RL10 burns cryogenic liquid hydrogen & liquid oxygen propellants, with each engine producing 64.7–110 kN (14,545–24,729 lbf) of thrust in vacuum depending on the version in use. The RL10 was the first liquid hydrogen rocket engine to be built in the United States, and development of the engine by Marshall Space Flight Center and Pratt & Whitney began in the 1950s, with the first flight occurring in 1961. Several versions of the engine have been flown, with two, the RL10A-4-2 and the RL10B-2, still being produced and...
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM) had a system for aircraft designation which was an attempt by the aviation bureaucracy of the Third Reich to standardize and produce an identifier for each aircraft type produced in Germany. It was in use from 1933 to 1945 though many pre-1933 aircraft were included and the system had changes over those years. List of RLM aircraft, the RLM-GL/C list. Mainly aircraft of the WWII Luftwaffe, but also civilian airliners and sport planes. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1304-0562-5
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! RMS Empress of Ireland was an ocean liner built in 1905 by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP). This Empress was distinguished by the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) prefix in front of her name because the British government and Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) had decades earlier reached agreement on a mail subsidy contract between Britain and Hong Kong via Canada.While steaming on the Saint Lawrence River in fog, the Empress was struck amidships by the Norwegian collier (coal freighter) SS Storstad; and the fatally damaged vessel sank very quickly in the early morning of 29 May 1914. This accident claimed 1,024 lives, making it the...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner built by Swan, Hunter Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Le RMS Olympic est un paquebot transatlantique britannique, construit par les chantiers Harland and Wolff pour la White Star Line. Il est le sister-ship des infortunes Titanic et Britannic. Contrairement a ces derniers, l’Olympic a eu une longue et brillante carriere (1911 - 1935), et en a tire le surnom d’« Old Reliable » (en francais, « le Vieux Fidele »). Cette carriere a neanmoins ete marquee par plusieurs collisions avec d'autres navires. La plus importante de ces collisions, avec le croiseur HMS Hawke a eu pour principale consequence de retarder le depart du Titanic de pres d’un mois. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...
ISBN: 978-6-1318-3179-9
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first RMS Windsor Castle, along with her sister, SS Arundel Castle, was an ocean liner laid down by the Union-Castle Line for service from the United Kingdom to South Africa. Originally laid down in 1916, their construction was held up by the First World War. They were not completed until 1922. They were the only four-stacked ocean liners built for a route other than the transatlantic. During the thirties, Windsor and Arundel were given refits to make them look more modern. This included reducing their funnels from four to two, and they both were given raked, more modern bows, which slightly increased their length. Данное издание не является оригинальным....
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A road case is a box specifically built to protect musical instruments, motion picture equipment, audio and lighting production equipment, properties, or other sensitive equipment when it must be moved between locations, or frequently thrown around by airport baggage-handling personnel. A large number of varying-sized road cases can be built to outfit the needs of an entire touring production company, or custom designed individually for a specific industry or product. Most road cases are constructed of three main layers. An outer layer of laminate known as ABS acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, which is adhered to a middle layer of lightweight 3/16" to 1/2" cabinet-grade plywood such as birch,...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The term road metal refers to the crushed rock used for road beds and surfaces, foundations and railway embankments, among other things. The use of road metal dates back to antiquity, but was more recently pioneered by John Loudon McAdam in the late 18th century. The word metal comes from the Latin "metallum" and the Greek "metallon" meaning "mine, quarry, ore, metal". The reference to crushed rock thus becomes more apparent. The term is relatively rarely used today, with "gravel" being more typically used and understood. One of the places where it is still in common usage is New Zealand. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Road hogs, also known as Detroit Iron, is an amateur style of stock car racing, popular at race tracks in the Midwestern United States. Vehicles typical in this division include sedans and luxury cars of the 1970s, weighing between four and five thousand pounds. They are typically found in junkyards, with less than $1,000 being invested by the race teams. Road Hog racing can take place or either dirt or paved tracks. The Midwestern United States (in the U.S. generally referred to as the Midwest) is one of the four geographic regions within the United States of America used by the United States Census Bureau in its reporting. Данное издание не является...
ISBN: 978-6-1320-0951-7
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Houston, Texas, USA, with a city population of about 2.2 million and metro population over 5.7 million, has undergone ongoing construction to serve the many thousands of cars using the major freeways, most built in the 1950s and 1960s. The two decades were a time of expansion for Houston, and after the Interstate Highway System was established in the late 1950s, Houston shifted focus onto automobile transportation, leaving behind rail transportation. To handle the large traffic flow to and from Galveston and NASA Johnson Space Center, the Texas Department of Transportation has commissioned a two projects: one to...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A road roller (sometimes called a roller-compactor, or just roller) is a compactor type engineering vehicle used to compact soil, gravel, concrete, or asphalt in the construction of roads and foundations.In some parts of the world, road rollers are still known colloquially as steam rollers, regardless of their method of propulsion. This typically only applies to the largest examples (used for road-making).Since the effectiveness of a roller depends to a large extent on its weight, self-powered vehicles replaced horse-drawn rollers from the mid 1800s. The first such vehicles were steam rollers. Double-cylinder designs were preferred. Single-cylinder steam rollers were uncommon and unpopular, as...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Road Transport Authority of Burma is part of that country's Ministry of Rail Transportation. It was founded in 1959 as Naypyidaw Transport Company. In 1962 it became BURMA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (BEDC). In 1963 it changed to Road transport Group. In 1972 it changed its name to Road Transport Corporation, and in 1989 it became Road Transport Authority under the Ministry of Railroad Transport. Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar, is the largest country by geographical area in Indochina (mainland Southeast Asia). The country is bordered by People's Republic of China on the north-east, Laos on the east, Thailand on the south-east, Bangladesh on the west, India on the north-west and...
ISBN: 978-3-6399-9008-9
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Road Crime Unit is a term used to describe pro-active units derived from traffic policing departments in the United Kingdom. Whilst the term is far from generic, certain forces have established such units whose mandate is to pro-actively target certain crime offences (robbery, burglary etc) where there is likely to be a link to the use of a motor vehicle in the commission of the crime. The Road Policing Unit (RPU) is the term for the traffic unit within the majority of British police forces. RPU officers are responsible for patrolling the main motorways and large roads throughout the territorial police force area. In addition to their general road policing duties, they assist with various...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
The Swedish Road Administration (Swedish: Vagverket) was a government agency in Sweden. Its primary responsibility was to organise building and maintenance of the road network in Sweden. Its headquarters were located in Borlange. The Swedish Road Administration was founded in 1841 as The Royal Board for Public Road and Water Structures (Swedish: Kongliga styrelsen for allmanna wag- och wattenbyggnader) and was responsible for Sweden's canals and roads. In 2009 the responsibility for the vehicle register and issuing of drivers' licenses, was moved to a new authority, Transportstyrelsen. At the same time the department for the actual road work was separated from Vagverket into a government owned company, called Svevia. For a number of year...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A road foreman of engines is the traditional title of the person in charge of and the supervisor of, a railroad engineer. An engineer who wishes to enter the management ranks on a railroad becomes a road foreman of engines. His job is the overall supervision and to instruct, discipline, train a railroad engineer. He is essentially an engineers' boss. In the United States, engineers are licensed by the Federal Railroad Administration for their craft. Railroads had to designate who can supervise an engineer. Since only a person who is a licensed engineer can instruct and supervise an engineer in his craft, the road foremen were designated as designated supervisor of locomotive engineers (DSLE)....
ISBN: 978-6-1320-0963-0
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Road Safety Authority, RSA, is an Irish organisation, established in September 2006, charged with the task of improving safety on Irish roads and established under the Road Safety Authority Act 2006. It was established in response to the high amount of deaths on Irish roads. The current chairperson of the RSA is Irish broadcaster and former host of the Late Late Show Gay Byrne. Amongst the functions of the RSA are the promotion of road safety, research on accidents and road safety, driver testing and licensing, as well as establishing vehicle-related and other safe driving standards. The RSA is also responsible for monitoring progress of The National Road Safety Strategy (2007-2012) which...
ISBN: 978-6-1305-7170-2
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Road and Bridge Construction Company Limited is a subsidiary company of China Communications Construction Group. It mainly engages in highway, bridge, port, tunnel, drainage and other civil engineering constructions. It also engages in production and sales of road machineries. Its total asset is about 4.3 billion RMB and the net asset is about 1.5 billion RMB. Its large constructions include Shanghai Donghai Bridge, Hangzhou Bay Bridge, Shanghai Chongming Yue River Channel Yangtze River Bridge and Zhoushan Jintang Bridge, etc. In January 2009, Road and Bridge Construction was accused by the World Bank of “suspicions of collusion” in the bidding for road development work in the Philippines,...
ISBN: 978-6-1320-1219-7
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A road diet is a technique in transportation planning whereby a road is reduced in number of travel lanes and/or effective width in order to achieve systemic improvements. A typical road diet technique is to reduce the number of lanes on a roadway cross-section. One of the most common applications of a road diet is to improve safety in the context of two-way streets with 4-lane sections. In this case, two travel lanes in each direction are converted into a 3-lane section with one travel lane in each direction, optional bicycle lanes, and a two-way turn lane in the middle. The two-way turn lane can be transitioned into dedicated left turn lanes (in countries that drive on the right-hand side of...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Roads and Trails Fund Act created a permanent Federal fund which states could use to cover 10% of the cost for road construction or reconstruction, supervising, inspecting, actual building, and incurrence of all costs incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a road. A road is an identifiable thoroughfare, route, way or path between two places which may or may not be available for use by the public; public roads, especially major roads connecting significant destinations are termed highways. Modern roads are normally smoothed, paved, or otherwise prepared to allow easy travel although historically many roads were simply recognizable routes without any formal construction or...
ISBN: 978-6-1320-1211-1
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