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Excerpt from A Treatise on Isometrical Drawing: As Applicable to Geological and Mining Plans In the construction Of Geological Maps, and Of Plans and Sections Of Mines, Isometrical Drawing produces a clear and interesting delineation of the various strata, and combines many peculiar advantages which cannot be Obtained by any other method. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Railways afford such facilities for travelling that many parts of the Continent and more especially Belgium, the Rhine, and Switzerland are well-known to all who can now and then devote a few months, or even a few weeks, to going abroad, or, as it is often termed, crossing the Channel, which, by the way, is sometimes the most formidable part of the whole journey. Numerous well-written books, and frequent, clearj and able narratives in magazines and newspapers, afford to those who stay at home much information as to what is to be seen not only in well-known Europe, but in more distant parts of the world. To add much original or important matter to this stock of information is scarcely the purpose of the present work, inasmuch as a journey of some hundreds of miles in three weeks does not afford sufficient leisure to collect much that is either new or specially interesting. The following pages contain a coirect narrative of a visit to some places which are not so generally known as the other countries to which I have alluded. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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Thomas Sopwith was born January 18, 1888, into a family distinguished for several generations in engineering and business. As the eighth child, and first boy, he was named Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith. While still young he lost his father in a hunting accident.
Sopwith did not distinguish himself academically in the private schools he attended as the son of a reasonably well-off family.
What he began in 1913 would grow to become half of the British aerospace industry in the post-World War II era.
He went on to study engineering and his elder sisters began to make good marriages for themselves. Though not rich, he inherited an income and the unshakable support of his sisters. With a friend, seventeen-year-old Thomas began a business in the motor trade that soon grew into a successful Rolls-Royce dealership.
Returning home aboard his yacht in the summer of 1910, he discovered that there was an airplane nearby. He took a ride aloft and immediately caught, as he said, the "flying bug. " The "Flying Bug" Leads to the Camel After too few lessons he bought a primitive airplane and tried to fly. His subsequent crash landing was not unusual.
Soon he possessed Britain's 31st aviator's certificate and an expensive hobby. Wishing to recoup expenses, a solution lay in winning some of the easy money then offered as prizes. Quickly he captured several distance prizes.
The following year, 1911, he made a successful American tour. With his winnings he started his first aviation business, a flying school. Among his important, well-placed students was Major Hugh Trenchard, later "father of the Royal Air Force" (RAF). However, the lack of a good aircraft led Sopwith to build his own.
He was relatively successful selling them in the small prewar market and won the 1914 Schneider Trophy. However, no one was prepared for World War l's demand. Thomas Sopwith had nearly completed his career as a pilot but had just begun his life as an airplane engineer and industrialist. His company went from ten employees to several thousand.
Despite the enormous and disruptive growth, he created a flow of new airplanes of which the remarkable Camel was the most famous.
By the end of 1918, 18, 000 Sopwith airplanes had been built. The Armistice brought a depression, and peacetime offered no compensating uses of aircraft.
He paid off creditors and liquidated the Sopwith company. He started a new small company building motorcycles under the Hawker name, after pilot Harry G. Hawker.
As aviation recovered, Sopwith would become a behind-the-scenes chairman in a successful industrial empire. The Hurricane in World War II The Hawker Aircraft company was successful with several metal biplanes in the mid-19206; however, modern monoplane designs were rebuffed.
The company became an ever more successful exporter while supplying the RAF with a majority of its inventory. Sopwith added enormously to his aviation holdings in the 1936 by purchasing Avro, Armstrong Whitworth, and other major firms. Acquisitions of such size were, he said, the most frightening moments of his career.
Almost equally bold was his next decision.
He recognized the inevitability of war and began building a new monoplane fighter without a government order. In World War II the extra months of Hurricane fighter production helped save England.
His wartime factories also produced airplanes of enduring fame, including Britain's best bombers, the Lancaster, and the Allies' first jet fighter, the Meteor.
As always, Sopwith remained in the background and deflected any attention to the managers of his industrial groups. Even as chairman he spoke little unless it was necessary, but behind the scenes his influence and probing questions tended to settle matters. He was known for his charming manner and could be very convincing. All admired his ability to select the most able managers, delegating to them control of individual companies. He always described his successes in business and so many fields as "pure luck. " Sopwith was best known publicly as a yachtsman.
In 1913 he held the world powerboat speed record at 55 miles per hour. In 1934 he sought to win the America's Cup for Britain but lost in a questionable decision. Trying again in 1937, he was fairly beaten.
Another War, Another Fighter Plane Following "England's finest hour, " the postwar years were a disappointment. British aviation suffered particularly.
Government decisions injured the home industry, which also suffered from too many small firms. In the 19606 the government ordered the firms to merge. His companies, called the Hawker Siddeley group, had created some of the finest postwar fighters and bombers, even created the "jump-jet, " a whole new type of airplane.
However, by 1963, at 75 years old, Sopwith had retired as chairman and assumed an ever smaller role.
Usually engaged in several interests, he never gave work undivided attention, interspersing hunting, travel, and other diversions. Honors, politics, or office of any sort played little role for him, although he was knighted in 1953.
He died January 27, 1989.
In the 1982 Falkland Islands War the Harrier jump-jet, a single seat V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff and landing), played an important part in Great Britain's defeat of Argentina.
Still, individually, British firms lacked the depth needed to compete with America and had more than their share of problems, including the Hawker Siddeley group. Sopwith's competing factories merged along with outsiders to form one of two major British combines. His group was one of the largest in the world, with a combined employment that reached 130, 000.
Finally the government dictated a single state-owned aviation company and Hawker Siddeley became a non-aviation firm.
He was also a member of the Great Britain national ice hockey team that won the gold medal at the first ever European Championships in 1910.
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He was a member of the Air Squadron.
He avoided public prominence throughout his life. It was the first instance of what proved to be a remarkable soundness of judgment in business. He enjoyed motor racing, speedboats, and sailing yachts, as well as ballooning, which then was stylish and put him in contact with prominent people.
He had long been moving in the highest social circles, having married Beatrix Hore-Ruthven, of Irish nobility, in 1914. Following her death, he married Phyllis Brodie in 1932 and had one son, Thomas Edward.
