omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Mastraggelis. Mastraggelis was the brand name of the company founded by the Mastraggelis Brothers in Aigaleo (Athens), Greece. Mastraggelis became mostly known for its production of bus bodies, as well as other metal structures, but it also produced complete three-wheeled trucks between 1968 and 1974. The trucks, not particularly successful compared to other Greek three wheelers, could be distinguished by their characteristic cab design.

References 
  (Republished by the University of Patras Science Park, 2007.) 
 

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Greece
Three-wheeled motor vehicles
Neo (French law enforcement agencies mobile terminals). NEO is a project aimed to provide French police officers and gendarmes with mobile terminals with a secure broadband connection. It is based on a version of Android developed by the national agency of the security of the information systems (ANSSI) with the support of the service for technologies and information systems of homeland security (ST[SI]²). NEO stands for new operational equipment. The gendarmerie uses the acronym NeoGend to designate this terminal.

History 

The project to create a modern tool for mobile police and gendarmerie forces began in 2014. Its outcome will occur in 2017 with the distribution of the mobile devices throughout the national territory.

Here is a summary of the different stages of the project :
    
 September 2014: launch of the project
 October 2014: creation of the steering committee between the different development actors
 Fall 2014: definition of the first applications to integrate, choice of the secured android solution Secdroid
 December 2014: selection of the gendarmerie group of the department of the Nord and the departmental public security department of Seine-et-Marne to experiment the tool
 June 2015: first smartphones and tablets distributed in experimental sites
 September to November 2015: distribution of 1650 devices in the department of Nord and Seine-et-Marne and choice of the Burgundy region and the Seine-Maritime for a second phase of tests
 March to June 2016: distribution of 3,500 equipment in Burgundy-Franche-Comté and Seine-Maritime.
 September 2016: distribution in the gendarmerie units at the national level of a collective equipment (6000 devices)
 End of 2016: distribution of 10000 collective and individual devices at the national level
 September 2017: planned deployment to all police and gendarmerie forces (90 000 devices)

Technical platform
The device work under an Android platform was modified to include a VPN linked to two electronic certificates: one for the device and the other for the user. This makes it possible to secure communications and to keep track of the actions performed by each user.

In terms of connectivity, these devices can use conventional operated networks but also specific networks of security forces based on Tetrapol with a Bluetooth connexion.
Champion Motors Tower. Champion Motors Tower is a 40-floor skyscraper located on ‘Sheshet Hayamim’ street in the Tel Aviv District city of Bnei Brak, Israel. The tower is 160 meters high (525 ft) and when it opened in 2013 it was the fifth tallest building in Israel. The tower is a part of the Bnei Brak Business Center. It is called hugging buildings, due to the visual appearance of hugging.

Characteristics and history
The site on which the tower was built was formerly a car lot owned by the ‘Champion Motors’ company, an Israeli importer for automobile manufacturers such as Audi, Volkswagen, Seat and Skoda. In 2009, the company's activity was transferred to other sites and a new service center was established in Petah Tikva. At first there was a plan to build a 16-floor tower for ‘Champion Motors’, but later in 2011, almost a year after the construction started, the design was changed to a 40-floor tower.

The project's floor space includes about 50,000 square meters built on an 8,000 square meter field. Underground there are five floors of parking, and at street level there are car showrooms for Audi, Volkswagen, Seat and Skoda. The rest of the tower is used for offices.

In 2011, during construction, the insurance company Migdal purchased a one-third interest in the tower for 70 million shekels and became a partner in the funding of the construction.

The building received minor damage and was evacuated in the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake.

See also
List of tallest buildings in Israel

External links

References

Skyscraper office buildings in Israel
Office buildings completed in 2013
21st-century architecture in Turkey
Sandip University, Nashik. Sandip University  is a private university, located in Nashik, Maharashtra, India. The university was established in 2017. Formerly a campus in Sijoul, Madhubani district, Bihar, it became a separate private university, Sandip University, Sijoul. It offers various undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Schools 
 School of Computer Sciences & Engineering
 School of Design (UX Design)
 School of Law
 School of Commerce & Management Studies
 School of Pharmaceutical Science
 School of Sciences
 School of Fashion Design & Beauty Cosmetology
 School of Interior Design

References

Private universities in India
Universities in Maharashtra
Education in Nashik
Universities and colleges established in 2015
2015 establishments in Maharashtra
Certus Gearless Company. Certus Gearless Company Ltd. was a British manufacturer of automobiles from 1907 to 1908 in London.

The company produced two models. The smaller model used a two-cylinder engine. The larger model was propelled by a 4-cylinder engine from Aster with a displacement of 3000 cm³. The distinguishing feature of both models was the use of a friction drive. Few units were produced.

References
 Harald Linz, Halwart Schrader: Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie. United Soft Media Verlag, München 2008, .
 George N. Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A–F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, .

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Vehicle manufacture in London
Defunct companies based in London
1900s cars
Aldric Saucier. Aldric Saucier (April 29, 1936 – December 8, 2016) was an American scientist and whistleblower. Saucier lost his job and security clearance after he criticized the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1992.

Early life
Aldric Saucier was born on April 29, 1936, in Maine.

Career
Saucier started his career as a navigator with the United States Army Air Corps. In 1969, he worked on Apollo 11. He also worked on "the Ballistic Missile Defense Ground based free electron laser in 1983 and the Star Wars Program in 1991."

In October 1986, while working on the Strategic Defense Initiative (also known as Star Wars), Saucier sent a letter of complaint to James A. Abrahamson, alleging a pattern of "mismanagement and abuse,"  as well as "wasteful spending on research and development." By 1987, he was demoted. In February 1992, he was dismissed on the grounds of poor performance. His mental health was also "question[ed]" by his detractors, and he was surveilled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. However, Democratic Congressman John Conyers believed it was done in retaliation, and he asked Army Secretary Michael P. W. Stone to overturn the dismissal, which he did. By March 1992, the allegations were reviewed by Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, and Saucier was given whistleblower protection. By April 1992, his security clearance was revoked after the Army found an error on a form he had filled out in 1969, where it was claimed he had graduated from UCLA instead of simply attending classes there.

Saucier was represented by the Government Accountability Project.

In 1996, Saucier ran for Congress in Maine's 2nd district as an independent. He came in third with 4.7% of the vote, in a race that was won by incumbent Democrat John Baldacci.

Personal life and death
Saucier resided in Fort Fairfield, Maine, until he moved to Fairfax, Virginia, where he died on December 8, 2016, at age 80.

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1936 births
2016 deaths
People from Fort Fairfield, Maine
People from Fairfax, Virginia
American whistleblowers
American scientists
Strategic Defense Initiative
Lewis Kingman. Lewis Kingman (February 26, 1845 – January 23, 1912) was a civil engineer, who surveyed and built several thousands of miles of railroad lines.

Biography
Lewis Kingman was born in North Bridgewater, Massachusetts (today known as Brockton, Massachusetts) on February 26, 1845 to Isaac Kingman and Sibil Ames. He studied engineering with Shedd & Edison, a civil engineering company in Boston, Massachusetts. Initially, he worked in the oil fields of Pennsylvania, but later turned his sights towards the railroads.

In 1868 he began to work at the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad and was responsible for building lines in Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and Mexico. In 1880 he surveyed and built the line from Flagstaff to Needles through what became Kingman, Arizona.  Kingman, Arizona was named after him, as he had brought transportation and subsequently settlement to isolated areas.

He died suddenly in Mexico City, Mexico on January 22, 1912, leaving a wife, four sons, and a daughter.

References

1845 births
1912 deaths
American railway civil engineers
Engineers from Massachusetts
Robert O. Ritchie. Robert Oliver Ritchie is the H.T. and Jessie Chua Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and senior faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Education 
Ritchie received Master of Arts (MA), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Doctor of Science (ScD) degrees in physics and materials science from the University of Cambridge. During his PhD, he worked with John F. Knott.

Career and research 
Ritchie is known for his research into the mechanics and micromechanisms of fracture and fatigue of a broad range of biological and structural materials, where he has provided a microstructural basis for their damage tolerance and fatigue limits.   his interests are focused on high entropy alloys and bulk metallic glasses, the structural integrity of human bone, and the development of novel structural materials from biologically inspired engineering.

Awards and honors 
Ritchie has won numerous awards including the David Turnbull Lectureship from the Materials Research Society in 2013, the Acta Materialia Gold Medal in 2014, and the Morris Cohen Award from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) in 2017. He was also the inaugural winner of the Sir Alan Cottrell Gold Medal from the International Congress on Fracture in 2009. In 2006, Ritchie was distinguished with the August Wöhler Medal given by the European Structural Integrity Society.  

Ritchie is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Engineering of the United States, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2017.

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Foreign members of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
Ke Jun. Ke Jun (; 23 June 1917 – 8 August 2017) was a Chinese metallurgist who specialized in forming bainite. He was elected the Chinese Academy of Sciences academician in 1980.
Born in 1917, Ke graduated from the Chemistry Department of Wuhan University in 1938. He gained his doctorate degree at the University of Birmingham in Britain in 1948. He died in Beijing on 8 August 2017 at the age of 100.

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1917 births
2017 deaths
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Chemists from Jilin
Chinese men centenarians
Chinese metallurgists
Educators from Jilin
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
People from Changchun
Academic staff of the University of Science and Technology Beijing
National Wuhan University alumni
Eucaine. Eucaine, also known as β-eucaine or Betacaine, is a drug that was previously used as a local anesthetic. It was designed as an analog of cocaine and was one of the first synthetic chemical compounds to find general use as an anesthetic. It is a white, crystalline solid.  Prior to World War I, Britain imported eucaine from Germany. During the war, a team including Jocelyn Field Thorpe and Martha Annie Whiteley developed a synthesis in Britain.

The brand name Betacaine can sometimes refer to a preparation containing lidocaine, not eucaine.

Synthesis

Condensation of diacetonamine [625-04-7] (1) with acetaldehyde (paraldehyde) rather than acetone gives the piperidone containing one less methyl group, i.e. 2,2,6-trimethylpiperidin-4-one [3311-23-7] (2). Reduction of the ketone with sodium amalgam gives the alcohol as a mixture of isomers, 2,2,6-trimethylpiperidin-4-ol (3). Benzoylation then affords beta-eucaine (4).

See also
 α-Eucaine, a related local anesthetic

References

External links
 

Local anesthetics
Piperidines
Benzoate esters
PowerSouth Energy Cooperative. PowerSouth Energy Cooperative is an electrical Generation and Transmission (G&T) cooperative based in Andalusia, Alabama, providing wholesale power to 16 electric distribution cooperatives and four municipal systems in Alabama and northwest Florida. PowerSouth was founded as Alabama Electric Cooperative (AEC) in 1941 and changed its name to PowerSouth in 2008. The cooperative operates one of very rare salt cavern-based compressed-air energy storage installations.

References

External links
PowerSouth Energy Cooperative

Electric generation and transmission cooperatives in the United States
Cooperatives based in Alabama
Moskalyev SAM-13. The Moskalyev SAM-13 (Russian: Москалев САМ-13) was a prototype twin-engined single-seat low-wing fighter built in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

Design and development
The design of the SAM-13 followed similar principles to that of the Fokker D.XXIII: to build a lightweight twin-engined fighter with benign single-engined flying characteristics. Moskalyev's design could well have been influenced directly by the D.XXIII, which had been exhibited at the 1938 Paris Salon, differing mainly in size.

The SAM-13 was built largely from wood, with steel fittings in high stress areas and welded steel-tube engine mounts. It was powered by two  Voronezh MV-6 6-cylinder, air-cooled, inverted in-line engines mounted at the front and rear of the fuselage nacelle, driving 2-bladed, variable pitch propellers.

The sharply tapered wings supported tail-booms which in turn supported the tailplane, elevators, single centrally-mounted fin and rudder. The wings also housed the retractable main undercarriage units which retracted inwards. The nose undercarriage was attached to the front engine mounting and retracted rearwards.

Armament of the SAM-13 was intended to be 4x  ShKAS machine-guns: two in the fuselage top decking firing through the propeller disc, and one at each end of the wing centre-section.

Operational history
First flown in 1940 by Nikolay D Fikson, the SAM-13 proved difficult to handle, requiring long runs to take off and land, with poor climb performance and low ceiling.

After the first flight and subsequent tests, the poor flying qualities of the SAM-13 were being addressed when the Germans invaded during Operation Barbarossa. By Spring 1941 the SAM-13 was undergoing tests at LII, piloted by Mark L Gallai, even being entered for a summer air race. All flying ceased after the German invasion, which prompted destruction of the aircraft.

Specifications (SAM-13)

References

Further reading

External links 

SAM-13 at Ctrl-c.liu.se
SAM-13 at Valka.cz (In English)
SAM-13 at Airwar.ru (In Russian)

Moskalyev aircraft

Low-wing aircraft
Twin-engined push-pull aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1940
Abandoned military aircraft projects of the Soviet Union
Drawer slides roll forming machine. A drawer slide roll forming machine is a cold roll forming machine used to manufacture drawer slides. They have similarities with roofing roll formed products, but require a higher performance and skills in profile forming.

These machines are also known under various names such as slide rail making machine, slide make machine and telescopic channel roll forming equipment.

Process of slide roll forming 

The basic production flow of drawer slide machine is roll forming, punching, and cut off to length. 

Processes of drawer slides roll forming is a continuous cold rolled steel strip passing through a plurality set of upper and lower shaped rollers, and then punching, embossing, straightening, and cut off to length. Straightening is an important part to avoid material twisting or curling. A roll forming line is often provided with straightening mechanism to make sure the material is nicely formed in a predetermined shape to meet the original design.

Every slide rail varies in some detailed design, which requires a customized production line to meet the expected profile. This means that the manufacture of a different types of roll slides may require a different machine or reconfiguration of the setup. The development takes time and costs, especially for undermount drawer slides. The profile is not as easy as contoured profile like roofing; in other words, slides roll forming requires advanced technology in manufacturing.

One disadvantage of drawer slides roll forming equipment is rollers can be only used to roll form one kind of profile design, which rollers must be changed when making different types or model of drawer slides profile. Complicated designs can incur large costs.

Types of drawer slides 

A drawer slide or drawer runner is the part of a drawer which allows the sliding movement. Examples of uses are in home furniture hardware, office appliance, and industrial equipment, including kitchen cabinets, oven slides, rails for sliding doors, fridge slides (used for coolers, etc.

There are various types of drawer slide in the market to apply for different usages, price points and features. A good slide rail defined by smoothness, tight tolerance, and loading capacity.

Features which may be incorporated in a drawer slide include:
 Telescopic channel slide, which allow the drawer to be fully extended and consist of outer, middle and inner rails. These are also called 3-section slides, as opposed to 2-section slides which can not be opened fully.
 Concealed slides or undermount slide rails, which are generally mounted on the underside of the drawer and therefore is not visible from either the side or above when the drawer is opened
 Ball bearing slide or steel ball slides, which have ball bearings to make the drawers slide easier
 Soft close, a feature which brakes the drawer velocity in the last part of closing, and thereafter closes itself

See also
Roll forming
Drawer slides

References

Metal forming
Metalworking tools
Khouzestan Steel Company. Khouzestan Steel Company (KSC) () is an Iranian steel manufacturing company located in the major city of Ahvaz. It is currently the second-largest producer of raw steel in Iran, following Isfahan Mobarakeh Steel Company. The company's factory, spanning 8.3 square kilometers, is situated near Ahvaz (10 kilometers on the Ahvaz–Imam Khomeini Port road), and its headquarters are also located in Ahvaz.

History
Khouzestan Steel Company was established on April 1, 2018, as the first complex for direct reduction and electric arc furnace steel production in Iran. However, its inauguration took place in 1989 by Ali Khamenei (the then President).
Khouzestan Steel, along with HEPCO, Ahvaz Rolling Mills Co., Shahin Rolling Mills, Shahdad Rolling Mills, Shahrokh Rolling Mills, Khouzestan Metal Industries Complex, Shahbaz Factory, and many other mines in Iran, such as the Sarcheshmeh copper mine, belonged to the Rezaei brothers before the Iranian Revolution. They were confiscated after the revolution and subsequently came under government control.

Products
Khouzestan Steel Company produces three main products:

Billet, also known as bloom, is an intermediate product of steel rolling with a cross-sectional area smaller than 230 square centimeters. The cross-sectional shape of this product is either circular or square with a width of less than 15 centimeters. Billets are mainly used for the production of rebar and wire.

Slab is a semi-finished and intermediate product of steel obtained from the process of billet rolling or continuous casting. Unlike blooms and billets, the cross-sectional shape of slabs is rectangular and not square. Slabs are used as raw material for the production of flat-rolled products, including coils and hot-rolled sheets.

Bloom, also known as bloom ingot, is a type of steel ingot with a width greater than 15 centimeters and a cross-sectional area larger than 23 square centimeters. Blooms are primarily used for the production of rails, beams, channels, tubes, and other similar products. When pure steel is extracted from raw materials, it is cast into bloom or bloom ingot molds.

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Steel companies of Iran
Khuzestan province
Companies established in 1967
Companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange
Iron ore mining companies
Companies in the TSE TEFIX-30
Ron Crane (engineer). Ronald Cooper Crane (June 1, 1950 - June 19, 2017) was an American electrical engineer recognized for designing the EtherLink, the first network interface controller for the IBM PC.  He was also a co-founder of 3Com and a co-inventor of Ethernet.

Biography
Crane graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. He then attended Stanford University initially planning to pursue a doctorate degree in electrical engineering. In 1973, while pursuing his doctorate degree at Stanford, Crane joined the TCP/IP protocol research team, headed by Vint Cerf.  In 2005, a "Birth of the Internet" plaque was installed on the Stanford grounds, and Crane's name, among others, is listed on the plaque as being a fundamental contributor to the birth of the Internet.

Crane left Stanford in 1974, accepting a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering instead of his planned doctorate degree, and began to work at the Xerox Systems Development Division, a spinoff of Xerox PARC, where he was responsible for enhancing the original Ethernet transmission system.  Crane joined Bob Metcalfe at 3Com as the fourth employee and co-founder in 1979.  It was at 3Com where Crane developed the 3C100, the first Thick Ethernet transceiver for the IBM PC, which went on to be the first major product offered by 3Com.

Crane founded LAN Media Corporation in 1992.  It was later acquired by SBE Incorporated in 2000, which was, in turn, acquired by Neonode in 2007.

In 2006, Crane endowed a professorship at MIT to support energy-related research.

Crane died on June 19, 2017, from complications of an aggressive form of prostate cancer.  A memorial event was held at the Computer History Museum and attended by over 100 esteemed colleagues, friends and family.  Bob Metcalfe gave the closing speech.

In 2019, a book entitled "The 3Com story" was published, that, in part, documents Crane's contributions to networking and 3Com.

References

American electrical engineers
Internet pioneers
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
Scientists at PARC (company)
1950 births
2017 deaths