* John Urpeth Rastrick retires from Foster, Rastrick and Company, the English firm that built the first steam locomotives for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.

* November 1-John Urpeth Rastrick, English steam locomotive builder and partner in Foster, Rastrick and Company ( b. 1780 ).

* January 26-John Urpeth Rastrick, English steam locomotive builder and partner in Foster, Rastrick and Company ( died 1856 ).< ref >

John Urpeth Rastrick ( 26 January 1780 – 1 November 1856 ) was one of the first English steam locomotive builders.

* June 24-James Foster and John Urpeth Rastrick partner to form Foster, Rastrick and Company, the English firm that built the first steam locomotives for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.

Three notable figures from the early days of engineering were selected as judges: John Urpeth Rastrick, a locomotive engineer of Stourbridge, Nicholas Wood, a mining engineer from Killingworth with considerable locomotive design experience and John Kennedy, a Manchester cotton spinner and a major proponent of the railway.

The ward of Rastrick is bordered to the north by the River Calder, which separates it from the ward of Brighouse.

Across the road from this Church is Rastrick Parish Centre, the Church hall for St Matthew's Church.

Allen wrote back in July that four locomotives had been ordered, three from Foster, Rastrick and Company and one from Robert Stephenson and Company, for the D & H.

Rastrick retired from active life in 1847, moving to Sayes Court, Addlestone, Chertsey in Surrey which was an eight-bedroom mansion in of grounds.

The area around the Parish Church is known as " Top o't ' Town " and the area around the Junction public house is known as " Bottom o't ' Town ", this reflects the days when Rastrick had its own governance in the form of a Town Board whose Offices and lock-up were situated halfway between the two, on Ogden Lane.

The United Kingdom Census 2001 gave the Brighouse / Rastrick subdivison of the West Yorkshire Urban Area a population of 32, 360.

In its early history, it was a hamlet of the nearby village of Rastrick.

A wooden structure called Rastrick Bridge was recorded in 1275.

This included Rastrick but not Hipperholme, which became an urban district.

Brighouse was the original home of the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, founded in 1881 and associated with neighbouring Rastrick.

They originally formed under the name The Brighouse and Rastrick Temperance Brass Band taking their current title in the early 20th century.

Junction ( Rastrick ) were crowned champions on 20 April 2008.

Rastrick is a village in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near Halifax.

It is perhaps best known for its association, along with its neighbour Brighouse, with the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band.

The name Rastrick is thought to be Viking in origin, with the ".. ick " formation being common to many Norwegian Viking placenames, including " Jorvick ", the Viking name for York.

Rastrick is well known for its pubs and the " Rastrick Run " is a popular pub crawl.

Rastrick is a village and a ward of Calderdale, a metropolitan borough within the ceremonial county of West Yorkshire in England.

The parish of Rastrick was recorded on 1 July 1837 as part of the Halifax Registration District.

Rastrick became a ward of Calderdale, with boundaries similar to those of the original parish.

The traditional north western boundary between Elland and Rastrick was the edge of the escarpment, but the Elland Ward boundary is further east, encompassing parts of the old parish of Rastrick as far as Dewsbury Road and the crossroads with New Hey Road.

Rastrick has its own Library which can be found on Crowtrees Lane and a Doctors surgery at Rastrick Health Centre which is on Chapel Croft.

The highest point in the village is Round Hill which is adjacent to the grounds of Rastrick Cricket Club.

( Note how strongly the upper lats and serratus are worked in this fine exercise because of the pin-point concentration of force which the dumbbell variation affords ).

The results of present observations of the thermal radio emission of the moon are consistent with the very low thermal conductivity of the surface layer which was derived from the variation in the infrared emission during eclipses ( e.g., Garstung, 1958 ).

What data there are on growth indicate considerable variation in rate ; ;

While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.

Biological anthropologists are interested in both human variation and in the possibility of human universals ( behaviors, ideas or concepts shared by virtually all human cultures ) They use many different methods of study, but modern population genetics, participant observation and other techniques often take anthropologists " into the field ," which means traveling to a community in its own setting, to do something called " fieldwork.

Marco Polo's systematic observations of nature, anthropology, and geography are another example of studying human variation across space.

In the lingo of the poker variation Texas Hold ' em, the hole cards Ace – King ( unsuited ) are sometimes referred to as an " Anna Kournikova ", a term introduced by the poker commentator Vince van Patten during a WPT tournament because it " looks great but never wins ".

According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

When they are realized without much allophonic variation, a simple ( i. e. ' broad ') transcription is used.

It is now appreciated that most or all gene loci are highly polymorphic, with multiple alleles, whose frequencies vary from population to population, and that a great deal of genetic variation is hidden in the form of alleles that do not produce obvious phenotypic differences.

Contributions from these ethnic foods have become as common as traditional " American " fares such as hot dogs, hamburgers, beef steak, which are derived from German cuisine, ( chicken-fried steak, for example, is a variation on German schnitzel ), cherry pie, Coca-Cola, milkshakes, fried chicken ( Fried chicken is of Scottish and African influence ) and so on.

Chromatic aberrations are caused by dispersion, the variation of a lens's refractive index with wavelength.

There are also natural mechanisms for variation including climate oscillations, changes in solar activity, variations in the Earth's orbit, and volcanic activity.

Beads are available in many different designs, sizes, colors, and materials, allowing much variation among bead artisans and projects.

It had been pointed out previously by J. J. Thomson in his series of lectures at Yale University in May 1903 that the dynamic equilibrium between the velocity generated by a concentration gradient given by Fick's law and the velocity due to the variation of the partial pressure caused when ions are set in motion " gives us a method of determining Avogadro's Constant which is independent of any hypothesis as to the shape or size of molecules, or of the way in which they act upon each other ".

Both versions are initiated by a bid of four notrump ( 4NT ), and the entire family of conventions may be called Blackwood 4NT in both versions, or Key Card 4NT in the key card variation.

In various ways, some accidental, the seeds are sown, and the variation in yields are observed more readily than they would be in the wild.

" One variation is that crawfish boils are more popular in the southern regons of Louisiana, while pies are favored further north.

Therefore there are now a huge variety of different styles and types of map-for example, one area which has evolved a specific and recognisable variation are those used by public transport organisations to guide passengers, namely urban rail and metro maps, many of which are loosely based on 45 degree angles as originally perfected by Harry Beck and George Dow.

At maturity level 5, processes are concerned with addressing statistical common causes of process variation and changing the process ( for example, to shift the mean of the process performance ) to improve process performance.

In mineralogy, diamond ( from the ancient Greek αδάμας – adámas " unbreakable ") is an allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice.