Early railways ( c. 1840s ) experimented with continuous bearing railtrack, in which the rail was supported along its length, with examples including Brunel's Baulk road on the Great Western Railway, as well as use on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway to a design by John Hawkshaw, and elsewhere.

Several of the former pathways through the fields form the routes of parts of today's road system, in particular Wimbledon Park Road and its continuation through Southfields Passage, which was the field path from Wimbledon to Wandsworth, Kimber Road and The Baulk, both of which were field paths and can be seen on old maps of the area.

Other profiles of rail include: Bullhead rail ; Grooved rail ; Vignoles rail (' flat-bottomed rail '); Flanged T rail ; Bridge rail ( inverted U shaped used in Baulk road ; Barlow rail ( inverted V ); and Grooved rail.

* Yard line: An imaginary line one yard from the boundary.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

If any part of the ball reaches any part of the imaginary vertical plane transected by this line while in-bounds and in possession of a player whose team is striving toward that end of the field, this is considered a touchdown and scores six points for the team whose player has advanced the ball to, or recovered the ball in, this position.

Nevertheless, the line in the old observatory's courtyard today differs no more than a few metres from that imaginary line which is now the Prime Meridian of the world.

In American and Canadian football a line of scrimmage is an imaginary transverse line ( across the width of the football field ) beyond which a team cannot cross until the next play has begun.

In animal cells, the cell pinches inward where the imaginary line used to be ( the area of the cell membrane that pinches to form the two daughter cells is called the cleavage furrow ), separating the two developing nuclei.

The imaginary hypotenuse looked along the line of sight to the celestial body or marked the edge of a shadow cast by the vertical leg on the horizontal leg.

Nevertheless, the country may conveniently be visualized in general terms as divided in three by an imaginary line drawn eastward from the Khyber Pass and another drawn southwest from Islamabad down the middle of the country.

Roughly, then, the northern highlands are north of the imaginary east-west line ; the Balochistan Plateau is to the west of the imaginary southwest line ; and the Indus Plain lies to the east of that line.

Strategic plays in polo are based on the " line of the ball ", an imaginary line created by the ball as it travels down the field.

The combined sails fit into an imaginary aerofoil outline, so that the most forward sails are more in line with the wind, whereas the more aft sails are more in line with the course followed.

An " edit cursor ", an imaginary insertion point, could be moved by special commands that operated with line numbers of specific text strings ( context ).

A three-dimensional object rotates always around an imaginary line called a rotation axis.

The optical axis is an imaginary line that defines the path along which light propagates through the system.

If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper.

) Some observers argue that, while academicians often perceive themselves as members of an elite, their influence is mostly imaginary: " Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Popper argued that totalitarianism was founded on " conspiracy theories " which drew on imaginary plots driven by paranoid scenarios predicated on tribalism, chauvinism, or racism.

Surface forces or contact forces, expressed as force per unit area, can act either on the bounding surface of the body, as a result of mechanical contact with other bodies, or on imaginary internal surfaces that bound portions of the body, as a result of the mechanical interaction between the parts of the body to either side of the surface ( Euler-Cauchy's stress principle ).

Usually set in imaginary worlds, comic fantasy often includes puns on and parodies of other works of fantasy.

Don Quixote has a run-in with traders from Toledo, who " insult " the imaginary Dulcinea, one of whom severely beats Don Quixote and leaves him on the side of the road.

Third, a variant of this conjugation trick, which is sometimes preferable because it requires no modification of the data values, involves swapping real and imaginary parts ( which can be done on a computer simply by modifying pointers ).

For a flow, it will occur when there are eigenvalues on the imaginary axis.

He channelled his medieval interests into a peculiar secret hobby: In a filing cabinet he maintained a collection of imaginary buildings, most of them described as being made out of some kind of metal, which he drew on little cards.

" We simply cannot do without auxiliary constructions ", as Theodor Fontane once said ... dwelling on imaginary wish fulfillments '.

Gilbert wrote, " The Mikado of the opera was an imaginary monarch of a remote period and cannot by any exercise of ingenuity be taken to be a slap on an existing institution.

" Written by Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda, the Galactopedia purports to be based on Galaxy Quest encyclopedias, technical manuals, and other imaginary books.

Every holomorphic function can be separated into its real and imaginary parts, and each of these is a solution of Laplace's equation on R < sup > 2 </ sup >.

Fantasizers score high on absorption scales, find it easy to block out real-world stimuli without hypnosis, spend much time daydreaming, report imaginary companions as a child and grew up with parents who encouraged imaginary play.

The idea of the monster had never dawned on me, but then I noted that the strange fish would not yield a long article, and I decided to promote the imaginary being to the rank of monster without further ado.

The " Slumberland " of the title soon acquired a double meaning, referring not only to Morpheus's fairy kingdom, but to the state of sleep itself: Nemo would have dream-adventures in other imaginary lands, on the Moon and Mars, and in our own " real " world, made fantastic by the dream-state.

A prominent feature of the series was the imaginary flea circus where plays were enacted on tiny sets using nothing but special effects to show the movement of things too small to see and sounds with Bentine's commentary.

The show was hosted with members of the Ill Out Crew, various staple partners Paul has worked with throughout his career such as Don Newkirk ( who closes engineer Al Watt's imaginary 3 Feet High and Rising game show and also appears on 3rd Bass's The Gas Face .).

Then he kept Blackman awake for more than an hour while he did an imaginary dialogue between his wife and himself in which, discussing the evening, he was continually berated.

Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.

The 4-volume work was an imaginary travel journal, one of the first historical novels, which Klemperer called " the encyclopedia of the new cult of the antique " in the late 18th century.

This led to the creation of an imaginary world: the African kingdom of " Angria " which was illustrated with maps and watercolour renderings.

Jorge Luis Borges wrote a contemporary bestiary of sorts, the Book of Imaginary Beings, which collects imaginary beasts from bestiaries and fiction.

The show's offices are located nearby at the corner of JFK Street and Brattle Street in Harvard Square, marked as " Dewey, Cheatem & Howe ", the imaginary law firm to which they refer on-air.

which has a pole in ( zero imaginary part ).

In their leisure time the children created a number of fantasy worlds, which were featured in stories they wrote and enacted about the imaginary adventures of their toy soldiers along with the Duke of Wellington and his sons, Charles and Arthur Wellesley.

Several other fictional books were invented by the same author, including an entire bibliography for the fictional author Pierre Menard, as well as an imaginary novel, purportedly written by a Bombay lawyer named Mir Bahadur Ali, entitled " The Approach to Al-Mu ' tasim ," which was " reviewed " by Borges in his story of the same name.

The Rader-Brenner algorithm ( 1976 ) is a Cooley – Tukey-like factorization but with purely imaginary twiddle factors, reducing multiplications at the cost of increased additions and reduced numerical stability ; it was later superseded by the split-radix variant of Cooley – Tukey ( which achieves the same multiplication count but with fewer additions and without sacrificing accuracy ).

If is a quaternion valued spinor, is quaternion hermitian 4x4 matrix coming from Sp ( 8 ) and is a pure imaginary quaternion ( both of which are 4-vector bosons ) then the interaction term is:

In Lacan's analysis, Hamlet unconsciously assumes the role of phallus — the cause of his inaction — and is increasingly distanced from reality " by mourning, fantasy, narcissism and psychosis ", which create holes ( or lack ( manque )) in the real, imaginary, and symbolic aspects of his psyche.

The theatre of my tale is this earth, the one in which we now live, but the historical period is imaginary.

Subsequent historians examining the Early Modern witch trials, particularly Carlo Ginzburg, Eva Pocs and Emma Wilby have also emphasised that the accounts in many of the witch trials represent visionary experiences, containing within them imaginary and surreal elements, which goes against Murray's rationalization of the trial accounts.

The first documented appearance of the word " nerd " is as the name of a creature in Dr. Seuss's book If I Ran the Zoo ( 1950 ), in which the narrator Gerald McGrew claims that he would collect " a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too " for his imaginary zoo.

" Whereas reason and convenience indicate to us an uniform standard for all quantities ; which I shall call the Georigan standard ; and that is only to divide every integer in each species into eight equal parts, and every part again into 8 real or imaginary particles, as far as is necessary.