omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Edward Raban (British Army officer). Brigadier-General Sir Edward Raban, KCB, KBE (8 August 1850 – 8 February 1927) was a British Army officer in the Royal Engineers.

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1850 births
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British Army generals of World War I
Royal Engineers officers
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at Sherborne School
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Oberheim DSX. The Oberheim DSX is a 9-track digital sequencer equipped with the Oberheim Serial Buss for connecting with the company's OB-Xa or OB-8 synthesizers and DMX drum machine. Connected and used together, Oberheim marketed these products as "The System". In addition to the Oberheim Serial Buss, the DSX has an 8-channel CV/Gate interface for sequencing traditional analog synthesizers.

Features

The DSX is capable of storing and sequencing over 6,000 events, over 10 songs of 10 patterns each. The DSX is capable of driving up to 16 voices concurrently. Sequences are stored in internal memory after power-off using static RAM which remains powered up from an internal NiCad battery.

The DSX equipped with the Oberheim Serial Buss, a pre-MIDI proprietary parallel bus designed to directly interface the DSX with Oberheim's OB-Xa or OB-8 synthesizers along with their DMX drum machine.  Connection was via a heavy 1:1 cable, which plugged from the host DSX to the target synthesizer using a rear DB-37 connector. The combination of the DSX, DMX and either OB-Xa or OB-8 were marketed by Oberheim as "The System".

Notable users

 Michael Beinhorn
 Trevor Horn
 Geddy Lee
 Mike Oldfield
 Steve Roach
 Sting

References

Music sequencers
Oberheim synthesizers
Thomas Ernest Stanton. Sir Thomas Ernest Stanton  (12 December 1865 - 30 August 1931) was a British mechanical engineer and a specialist in fluid dynamics and tribology. He was the first to construct a supersonic wind tunnel in 1921. The eponymous Stanton number is based on his research on the transfer of heat between metal surfaces through a separating thin layer of lubricating fluid.

Life
Stanton was born at Atherstone, Warwickshire to plumber Thomas and his wife Mary Ann Wagstaff. Educated at the local grammar school, he then apprenticed at Gimson and Co. engineers before going to Owens College, Manchester in 1887. He received a BSc in engineering in 1891 and worked for five years under Professor Osborne Reynolds. He then joined the University of Liverpool in 1896 and received a DSc in 1898 and became a professor the next year at University College, Bristol. He joined the National Physical Laboratory in 1901 and was involved in the testing of materials. He began wind tunnel studies in 1903 and by 1921 he had constructed a supersonic wind tunnel of 3 inch diameter going to 3.2 times the speed of sound for testing projectiles. This work was conducted secretly for the Britain's Ordnance Committee. It was here that he and Dorothy Marshall made studies on heat flow and found a relation between surface heat transfer rate, temperature difference and friction coefficients that is now known as Stanton number. Stanton was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1914 and was knighted in 1928 for his contributions to the wartime effort.

Stanton married Martha Grace Child in 1912 and they had two sons and a daughter, Hannah Margaret Stanton who was a leading anti-apartheid activist. He retired in 1930 and was living at Pevensy Bay where he was recovering after one surgery and preparing for another. His body was found, drowned, dressed in night clothes on 30 August 1931 off the beach near his family home.

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1865 births
1931 deaths
English mechanical engineers
Fellows of the Royal Society
Deaths by drowning in the United Kingdom
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Tribologists
Aerodynamicists
People from Atherstone
Knights Bachelor
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)
Cenal power station. Cenal power station is a 1320-megawatt coal-fired power station in Turkey in Çanakkale Province, which burns imported and local coal. The plant was financed by Turkish banks and is owned by Cengiz Holding and Alarko Holding and receives capacity payments. Environmentalists, such as Greenpeace, attempted to stop construction with protests, and legal action against the environmental impact assessments. Cenal is on the Global Coal Exit List. It is estimated that closing the plant by 2030, instead of when its licence ends in 2062, would prevent over 4000 premature deaths.

References

External links 
 Cenal power station on Global Energy Monitor

Coal-fired power stations in Turkey
Furniture repair. Furniture repair is the craft of making broken or worn furniture usable again.  It may include the preservation of old furniture, which is referred to as restoration. The craft of furniture repair requires a number of different skills including woodworking, metalworking, wood finishing, caning (furniture), woodturning, and upholstery.

Woodworking repair
Wood is most abundantly used raw material to make a furniture piece. Wood provides the structure for upholstered pieces and is what finishes are applied to.  Repairing wood requires knowledge of:
 Types of wood
 Types of furniture joinery
 Types of glue
 Woodworking techniques
 Woodworking tools

Some woodworking repairs can be done as DIY projects while others require more skilled woodworkers to complete.  The most complex repairs involve reproducing replacement parts as well as restoring antiques.

Finish repair
Refinishing means the existing finish is removed before a new finish is applied, whereas restoration refers to the process in which the original finish is cleaned, revived, and protected. Restoration protects the history and value of antique furniture.

Finish repair requires understanding the types of finishes and the corresponding techniques to clean, repair, and apply the finishes.  The most common finishes include:
 Boiled linseed oil
 Tung oil
 Wax
 Shellac
 Lacquer
 Polyurethane

Reupholstery
The process of recovering a piece of upholstered furniture with new fabric is called reupholstery.  It begins with removing the existing upholstery, including the dust cover, tacks, fabric, muslin, padding, burlap, webbing, and springs.  Once the furniture has been stripped of all upholstery, it can be repaired as the wooden joints of old furniture typically become loose.  New upholstery should be reinstalled with considerations of reusing some of the old materials, such as horsehair, or replacing it with new materials.

Antique restoration
Antiques need to be handled with care to preserve their value. As a rule of thumb, restoring up to 30 percent of the piece is acceptable on an antique. Any more than 30 percent seriously undermines the value.

Modern glue should not be used on the joints of antique furniture.  Hide glue should be used as can be disassembled in the future if repairs are needed.

Furniture repair industry
This industry is involved in reupholstering, refinishing, repairing and restoring furniture. The NIACS industry code is 811420 and includes:
 Reupholstering furniture
 Refinishing furniture
 Repairing and restoring furniture

Entertainment
 The Repair Shop is a British television show
 "Furniture To Go" was a television show on PBS by Ed Feldman and Joe L'Erario

References

Decorative arts
Furniture
Woodworking
Michael E. Fourney. Michael E. Fourney is an American registered professional engineer and professor.

Education 
Fourney earned his BS in aeronautical engineering from West Virginia University in 1958. He received his MS in 1960 and PhD in 1963 at the California Institute of Technology working with Albert T. Ellis.

Research and career 
After graduate school Fourney took a position at the University of  Washington.  He moved to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1972 holding positions of professor, department chair and chair of the faculty.  His work in applied solids and fluid mechanics topics utilized a wide range of optical techniques. Since retiring in 1994, he has held the position of professor emeritus in civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles and also runs Fourney Eng., Inc.. He was active in the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis and later renamed Society for Experimental Mechanics, serving as president from 1980 to 1981. Fourney was named an Honorary Member of the Society for Experimental Mechanics in 2001. He been very active and supportive of the SEM Educational Foundation.

Awards and recognition 
Society for Experimental Mechanics Lazan (1975)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Fellow (1984)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow (1987)
SEM Murray Lecture and Award (1990)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Tatnall (1996)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Honorary Member (2001)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Taylor (2004)
American Academy of Mechanics Fellow

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1936 births
21st-century American engineers
California Institute of Technology alumni
West Virginia University alumni
University of California, Los Angeles people
Fellows of the Society for Experimental Mechanics
20th-century American engineers
Living people
Isaac M. Daniel. Isaac Mordochai Daniel is a Greek-American engineer and professor.

Education 
Daniel attended the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. He received a B.S. in 1957, M.S. in 1959, and Ph.D. in 1964 in Civil Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Research and career 
After completing his PhD, Daniel stayed on at IIT, managing the ITT Research Institute which he inherited from August J. Durelli and as a professor. In 1982 he moved to Northwestern University where he was the Walter P. Murphy professor and Director of the Center for Intelligent Processing of Composites. He is now professor emeritus with Northwestern. His research encompassed composite materials, nondestructive evaluation, wave propagation, fracture mechanics, and nanotechnology. He was active in the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis and later renamed Society for Experimental Mechanics, being named an Honorary Member of the Society in 2007. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences. In 2002, a symposium in his honor was held in conjunction with 14th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the proceedings published in "Recent Advances in Experimental Mechanics - In Honor of Isaac M. Daniel.”

Awards and recognition 

 Society for Experimental Mechanics Hetényi (1969 & 1975)
 Society for Experimental Mechanics Fellow (1981)
 Society for Experimental Mechanics Lazan (1984)
 SEM Murray Lecture and Award (1998)
 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow (1999)
 Society for Experimental Mechanics Frocht (2006)
 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Associate Fellow (2006)
 Society for Experimental Mechanics Theocaris (2007)
 Society for Experimental Mechanics Honorary Member (2007)
 American Society for Composites Fellow (2007)
 Society for Experimental Mechanics Taylor (2014)
 Medal of Excellence in Composite Materials (2014)
 American Academy of Mechanics Fellow

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1933 births
20th-century American engineers
Illinois Institute of Technology alumni
Northwestern University faculty
Fellows of the Society for Experimental Mechanics
Living people
20th-century American academics
Sarah E. Petrie. Sarah Elaine B. Petrie is a Canadian and American physical chemist who worked for the research laboratories of Eastman Kodak and became known for her research on the thermal properties of glasses, polymers, and liquid crystals.

Petrie earned a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1957 from the University of Toronto, with the dissertation Dielectric behaviour of vapours adsorbed on porous and non-porous adsorbents, supervised by Robert L. McIntosh. By the same year she was working for the Kodak Research Laboratories. In 1977 she was appointed to a panel on polymers in the National Bureau of Standards and as an advisor to the office of chemistry and chemical technology of the National Research Council. She also served as a councilor to the American Chemical Society Division of Polymer Chemistry from 1979 to 1981. By 1994, when she served on the Committee on Polymer Science and Engineering of the National Research Council, she was listed as retired from Kodak.

In 1976, Petrie was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Polymer Physics.

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Living people
American chemists
American women chemists
Canadian chemists
Canadian women chemists
Physical chemists
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Fellows of the American Physical Society
Eric Beckman. Eric J. Beckman (born c. 1959) is an American engineer.

He is married to Joanne. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980, with a degree in chemical engineering. He worked for Monsanto Plastics and Resins and Union Carbide before opting to pursue further study, specializing in polymer chemistry and processing at the University of Massachusetts. Beckman earned his doctorate in 1988, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Battelle Memorial Institute's Pacific Northwest Laboratory. He joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty in 1989, and was named an associate professor in 1994, followed by a promotion to full professor in 1997. By 2000, Beckman had been appointed Bayer Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and associate dean for research at Pitt. Beckman later vacated the associate deanship to chair the department of chemical and petroleum engineering, and subsequently assumed the George M. Bevier Professorship of Engineering. Michael Lovell replaced Beckman as associate dean of research. Beckman cofounded Cohera Medical, Inc. in 2005. Through their work at the company, Beckman and Michael Buckley invented the surgical adhesive TissuGlu. In 2020, Beckman was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

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Living people
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
American chemical engineers
University of Massachusetts alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of Pittsburgh faculty
Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
Monsanto employees
Engineers from Pennsylvania
Engineers from Massachusetts
American inventors
21st-century American businesspeople
American company founders
Businesspeople from Pennsylvania
William N. Sharpe. William N. Sharpe Jr. is an American engineer and professor, the Alonzo G. Decker professor of mechanics engineering.

Education 
Sharpe earned a B.S. in 1960 and M.S. in 1961 from the North Carolina State University. He received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University in 1966.

Research and career 
After completing his PhD, Sharpe continued on at Johns Hopkins University as  the Alonzo G. Decker professor of mechanics engineering  and served as department chair from 1983 to 1995. Since retiring he is professor emeritus. He started his research employing optical techniques and particularly laser-based interferometry from his graduate work to interrogate fatigue and elastoplasticity of metals. With the invention of Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), he applied his method to the in situ measurement of MEMS mechanical properties at relevant length scales. He was active in the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis and later renamed Society for Experimental Mechanics, serving as president from 1984 to 1985. Sharpe was named an Honorary Member of the Society for Experimental Mechanics in 2012. He served as the Editor for the Springer Handbook of Experimental Solid Mechanics. After receiving the Ralph Coats Roe Award of the American Society for Engineering Education in 2007, he initiated the William N. Sharpe Jr. Award for Johns Hopkins University mechanical engineering students demonstrating significant leadership or achievement in extracurricular activities.

Awards and recognition 
Society for Experimental Mechanics Frocht (1966)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow (1986)
Humbolt Fellow (1990)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Tatnall (1992)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Fellow (1992)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Nadia Medal (1993)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Lazan (2001)
SEM Murray Lecture and Award (2002)
American Society of Engineering Education Ralph Coats Roe Award (2007)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Honorary Member (2012)

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American engineers
Living people
North Carolina State University alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Fellows of the Society for Experimental Mechanics
20th-century American engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon Ltd. American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon Ltd [1975] UKHL 1 is an English civil procedure case, concerning when an interim injunction may be obtained.

Facts
The claimant and appellant in this case was American Cyanamid, an American company that inter alia held a patent for absorbable surgical sutures. The defendant and respondent in this case was Ethicon Ltd, a British company that wanted to launch a surgical suture in the British market. American Cyanamid claimed that this surgical suture was in breach of their patent.

At first instance, American Cyanamid was granted an interim injunction against Ethicon, preventing Ethicon to use the type of surgical suture at issue until the trial of the patent infringement. 

On appeal of Ethicon, the Court of Appeal discharged the interim injunction. 

American Cyanamid appealed against this decision to the House of Lords. The House of Lords set out detailed guidelines on when courts should grant interim injunctions. In this case, the House of Lords decided that the balance of convenience lay with the appellant, American Cyanamid, and the appeal was allowed.

Judgment
The House of Lords set out the following guidance:

Reception
The second factor (whether damages are an adequate remedy) has been considered subsequently by the Court of Appeal in AB v CD where an interim injunction was upheld even though the contract between the parties contained a liquidated damages clause. The Court held that the damages clause was a secondary obligation between the parties, and the interim injunction served to enforce the primary obligation present in the agreement.

The points in the House of Lords' guidance have subsequently been referred to as the "American Cyanamid principles". Lord Justice Brown codified them into seven points, listed in Fellowes & Son v Fisher (1976). Newey J noted in 2011 that the threshold for determining whether there is a serious issue to be tried "is a relatively low one".

See also
English civil procedure

References

English remedy case law
English civil procedure
Injunctions in English law
Xu Xingchu. Xu Xingchu (; 7 January 1934 – 1 January 2022) was a Chinese engineer and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the 7th, 8th and 9th National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Biography 
Xu was born in Tianjin, on 7 January 1934. He secondary studied at Nanchang No. 1 High School. In 1951, he was accepted to Dalian University of Technology, majoring in machine tools. After university, he was despatched to the Design Office of the Second Bureau of the Ministry of Machinery Industry (now Beijing Machine Tool Research Institute) as an engineer. He died in Beijing on 1 January 2022, at the age of 87.

Honours and awards 
 1993 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

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1934 births
2022 deaths
People from Nanchang
Engineers from Jiangxi
Dalian University of Technology alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Members of the 7th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Members of the 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Members of the 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Chicago Dock and Canal Company. The Chicago Dock and Canal Company is a company established by William B. Ogden in 1857 which constructed civil works projects along the Chicago River. It currently operates as an equity-oriented real estate investment trust.

History
The company was established in 1857. One of the major investors involved in its founding was former Chicago mayor William B. Ogden, who received help from his lawyer, Abraham Lincoln (who would later go on to serve as United States president), in establishing the company. Odgen successfully worked with Lincoln to gain titles to river and lakefront properties.

In 1861, the company constructed the Ogden Slip.

Ogden, who had no children of his own, left a large share of the company to his niece Eleanor Wheeler after his 1877 death. She married Alexander C. McClurg.

The company was the plaintiff in the 1913 United States Supreme Court case Chicago Dock & Canal Co. v. Fraley.

The company was owned by descendants of relatives of William B. Ogden into the 1980s. In 1962, the company reconstituted itself as a real estate trust. In the 1980s, the company began making the land they owned available for residential and commercial development. They partnered with the real estate arm of Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States to form plans to redevelop their land in the vicinity of the Ogden Slip as Cityfront Center. This arrangement with Equitable had been in the works since the 1960s. Equitable had built the Equitable Building on adjacent property in the 1960s. Cityfront Center was a  multi-billion dollar megadevelopment. Equitable Life Insurance and the Chicago Dock and Canal Company were originally going to act as co-developers of a joint venture. However, their joint venture dissolved in late 1985, with Equitable retaining eleven acres of land west of Columbus Drive, where they developed such components of Cityfront Center as the NBC Tower. The Chicago Dock and Canal Company retained control over the rest of the land.

The company, officially, continues to act as a Chicago-based equity oriented real estate investment trust. However, in functionality, it was absorbed by Daniel McLean's MCL Companies in 1987.

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Companies established in 1857
1857 establishments in Illinois
Companies based in Chicago
Real estate companies of the United States
Prussian G 4.3. The Prussian G 4.3 was a class of 0-6-0 goods locomotive of the Prussian State Railways; they were manufactured between 1903 and 1907 by Union Giesserei in Königsberg. The type was developed with the aim of improving the running characteristics of 6-coupled locomotives. They proved a more capable design than the normal-type (G 4.2), and so had a higher maximum speed of .  However, they were quickly outclassed by increasing weight of freight trains. 

They were used for passenger and ordinary freight services, as well as express freight trains, mainly in the eastern divisions. Only 63 locomotives were manufactured, of which 39 were included in the 1923 DRG renumbering plan, as 53 296 and 297, and 53 301 to 53 337. In the final 1925 plan, the Reichsbahn renumbered the remaining 28 locomotives as 53 301 to 53 328. They were all retired by 1928.

After World War I, ten locomotives were transferred to Poland, and five to the Free City of Danzig. The PKP operated all 15 as class Th4. Nine locomotives were transferred to Belgium; they were not renumbered, and all were retired in 1923.

During World War II, three of the Danzig locomotives were taken back into the Reichsbahn fleet as 53 7751 to 53 7753. They passed to Deutsche Bundesbahn at the end of the war; one was sold to a sugar factory in 1946, but all were retired in 1951.

The locomotives were coupled to type pr 3 T 10.5 or pr 3 T 12 tenders.

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0-6-0 locomotives
G 04.3
Railway locomotives introduced in 1903
Standard gauge locomotives of Germany
C n2v locomotives
Union Giesserei locomotives
Freight locomotives