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West Hartlepool

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This article is about the place. For the Rugby Football Club, see West Hartlepool R.F.C. West Hartlepool map, 1859 West Hartlepool refers to the western part of what has since the 1960s been known as the borough of Hartlepool in North East England. It was originally formed in 1854 as the result of the opening of seaside docks and railways that connected the docks to cities to the east and west. [1] [2] Contents 1 History 2 Sport 3 Gallery 4 See also 5 References 6 External links History The town of West Hartlepool was founded by Ralph Ward Jackson after having established the Stockton and Hartlepool Railway in 1839. [ citation needed ] The area, having just one farm house in 1845, steadily grew into a centre for shipping and railway transportation. [2] [3] The West Hartlepool Harbour and Dock (8 acres (0.032 km 2 )) opened on 1 June 1847. Five years later, also on 1 June, the Jackson dock (14 acres (0.057 km 2 )) opened as well as a rai...

Compound steam engine

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For compound steam locomotives, see Compound locomotive. Cutaway of triple expansion compound steam engine, 1888 A Robey horizontal 'cross-compound' steam engine: the smaller, high-pressure cylinder is on the left; the larger, low-pressure cylinder on the right A compound steam engine unit is a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages. [1] [2] A typical arrangement for a compound engine is that the steam is first expanded in a high-pressure (HP) cylinder, then having given up heat and losing pressure, it exhausts directly into one or more larger-volume low-pressure (LP) cylinders. Multiple-expansion engines employ additional cylinders, of progressively lower pressure, to extract further energy from the steam. [3] Invented in 1781, this technique was first employed on a Cornish beam engine in 1804. Around 1850, compound engines were first introduced into Lancashire textile mills. Contents 1 Compound systems 1.1 Compounding...

张维桢

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张维桢 可以指: 張維楨 (上海),江蘇上海人,清華大學校長羅家倫夫人,畢業於密歇根大學,曾任國民參政會參政員、立法委員。 张维桢 (华容),湖南华容人,中国共产党工人运动领袖,1982年当选中顾委委员。 这是一个人名消歧义页 ,羅列了具有相同的名字的人物的条目。 如果您是通过某條目的内部链接而转到本页,希望您能協助修正该處的内部链接,將它指向正确的条目中。 This page is only for reference, If you need detailed information, please check here

Ministry of War Transport

Ministry of War Transport Department overview Formed 1 May 1941  ( 1941-05-01 ) Preceding agencies Ministry of Shipping Ministry of Transport Dissolved April 1946 Superseding agency Ministry of Transport Jurisdiction Government of the United Kingdom Ministers responsible Frederick Leathers (1 May 1941 – 3 August 1945) Alfred Barnes (3 August 1945 – April 1946) Department executive Cyril Hurcomb, Permanent Secretary The Ministry of War Transport ( MoWT ) was a department of the British Government formed early in the Second World War to control transportation policy and resources. It was formed by merging the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of Transport, bringing responsibility for both shipping and land transport to a single department, and easing problems of co-ordination of transport in wartime. The MoWT was founded on 1 May 1941, when Lord Leathers was appointed Minister of War Transport. Following the general election of Ju...