omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Hiram Hutchinson. Hiram Hutchinson (c. 1808–1869) was an American industrialist of British origin. In 1853 he founded a rubber company in France that was the predecessor of Hutchinson SA, a multinational industrial conglomerate. The company was sold by his family in 1898, 29 years after Hutchinson's death.

Biography 
Having acquired patent rights to the vulcanisation of rubber from Charles Goodyear in 1853, Hutchinson went to France to set up a mill in Châlette-sur-Loing, Loiret. He came up with the idea of producing rubber boots after he noticed that French farmers wore  wooden clogs that kept them coming home with their feet wet and muddy. He then copied the design of the Duke of Wellington's Hessian boots to manufacture a variation that was both cheap and waterproof. This is the reason why rubber boots were also called "welly". It was also used extensively in the trenches during World War I.

Hiram spent roughly a year in France, enough time to initiate manufacturing and turning over management of the factory to his son, Alcander. The facility was established on the site of a former royal paper mill and employed foreign laborers after World War I. The Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping, along with 214 Chinese, was one of these laborers. He lived in a shack behind the factory since 1922.

Later, Hutchinson returned to the United States, where he conducted research on other applications of rubber, which he (correctly) predicted would be useful for a variety of products, including tires, boots, and sealant, all of which are now manufactured by Hutchinson SA.

Despite undergoing corporate restructuring on more than one occasion, Hutchinson's company still operates the original plant at Châlette-sur-Loing.

Hutchinson married a woman from the Tlingit tribe called Mary. The couple had a son, Millard, who was born around 1867.

References

American industrialists
1800s births
1869 deaths
19th-century American businesspeople
James W. Plummer. James W. Plummer (January 29, 1920 – January 16, 2013) was an engineer who served as the fifth Director of the National Reconnaissance Office. Plummer was the first Director NRO to come from the private industry. He previously served as the Lockheed Corporation program manager for the CORONA and LANYARD imaging systems. Plummer focused on developing the second generation of U.S. satellites – the electro-optical systems. He earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1953. In 2005 he received the Charles Stark Draper Prize for his contributions to the CORONA project. He died at Medford, Oregon in 2013. He was 92.

References

External links
National Reconnaissance Office: Directors List

Directors of the National Reconnaissance Office
Nixon administration personnel
Ford administration personnel
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
1920 births
2013 deaths
Draper Prize winners
American aerospace engineers
People from Idaho Springs, Colorado
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fokker (disambiguation). Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer founded in 1912 by Dutch aviation pioneer Anthony Fokker.

Fokker may also refer to:

Fokker I, a human-powered aircraft built by brothers Jan and Cor Fokker in the early 1930s 
Fokker Rocks in Antarctica, named so because a Fokker airplane was damaged and abandoned there in 1928
Fokker Technologies, Dutch aerospace company founded in 2011; named for Anthony Fokker
VFW-Fokker, company involved in rocket and spacelab development; named for Anthony Fokker

People with the surname
Adriaan Fokker (1887–1972), Dutch physicist and musician
Anthony Fokker (1890–1939), Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer
Hans Fokker (1900–1943), Dutch Olympic sailor
Herman Fokker (1921–2001), Dutch engineer and politician
Jan Piet Fokker (1942–2010), Dutch Olympic field hockey player

See also

 
 Focker (disambiguation)

Dutch-language surnames
Occupational surnames
Patronymic surnames
Christopher Gutteridge. Christopher Gutteridge (born 2 February 1976) is a Systems, Information and Web programmer, part of the IT Innovation team in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. He is known for being the lead developer for GNU EPrints
and for being an advocate for Open Data, Linked Data and the Open Web.

Notable achievements 
Ted Nelson acknowledged Gutteridge's work, in 2001–2, creating an implementation of transquotation for Nelson's Xanadu project.

In May 2005 Gutteridge won the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group award for his work on the Open Archive Software: GNU EPrints. The UKUUG awards an annual prize to give particular recognition to the development of free and open-source software in the UK.

In March 2011 Gutteridge launched data.southampton.ac.uk, which provides open access to a number of non-confidential administrative datasets at the University of Southampton
and which won the 2012, Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year.

In October 2017, Gutteridge was awarded the Jason Farradane Award for his outstanding contribution to the information profession

References

External links 
 University of Southampton Open Data Service

Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of the University of Southampton
British computer scientists
Dalhousie University Faculty of Engineering. The Faculty of Engineering at Dalhousie University is a faculty of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

History 
The Faculty of Engineering was officially founded on 1 April 1997 with the merger of the Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS) into Dalhousie University. Dalhousie University had previously established an engineering faculty in 1905, but it was expensive to maintain, and in 1906, it was merged into the TUNS, which was established by a consortium of provincial universities and other interested bodies.

The Faculty of Engineering traces its history to the School of Engineering at TUNS and the Department of Engineering's 2-year diploma program of the Faculty of Science at Dalhousie University.

Departments 
The Faculty of Engineering includes the following departments:

 Civil and Resource Engineering
 Electrical & Computer Engineering
 Engineering Mathematics & Internetworking
 Industrial Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering
 Process Engineering & Applied Science
 Biomedical Engineering

References

External links 
 Faculty of Engineering website

Engineering
Dalhousie
1907 establishments in Nova Scotia
Universities and colleges established in 1907
Ferguson, Pailin & Co. Ferguson, Pailin & Co. was an English electrical engineering company based in Higher Openshaw, Manchester. The company was established in 1913, by Samuel Ferguson and George Pailin to manufacture electrical switchgear.

The company acquired Mottram Hall to give employees an opportunity to go on affordable holidays during World War II. The company bought three properties in 1939/40 in order to provide holidays for staff and workers during the war. Mottram Hall was bought for the works, a small hotel in Llandudno for the middle level staff and a property in Criccieth for senior staff. Mottram Hall was sold as surplus to requirements by GEC in 1968 and is now a luxury country house hotel.

The company was acquired by Associated Electrical Industries (AEI) in 1928. Following the restructuring of AEI in 1960, Ferguson, Pailin & Co ceased to be a separate subsidiary and was merged into AEI switchgear. Following the takeover of AEI by GEC in 1967, the Higher Openshaw works became part of GEC Switchgear. In 1989, GEC merged its electrical engineering interests with those of Alsthom to form GEC Alsthom. The factory was later closed by Alstom in 2003, with most of the employees finishing on 22 November 2002. The main business was transferred to ALSTOM POWER in Stafford, Lichfield Road. The After Sales business of ALSTOM Transmission & Distribution (T&D) looking after all the spares, repairs and the extensions to all the legacy switchgear products i.e. BVP17, VMX, MX36, MX51, MX81, HMX36, HWX, HWX A, HMC1072, HMC1172 & VISAX was transferred to Frederick Road, Salford, the old Norweb building. In January 2004 ALSTOM sold the business to AREVA T&D a French owned company. In June 2008 the After Sales business was moved to Cavendish Place on the Birchwood Park estate near Warrington. 
In January 2011 AREVA T&D was sold to Schneider Electric. The main business that was originally transferred to Stafford is now a part of the main switchgear business at the Schneider Electric, Jack Lane factory in Leeds.

The original factory building on Buckley Street was knocked down some years ago. Now a Morrisons superstore. The main factory off Edge Lane was also demolished in 2022 to make way for a new housing development (Lovell).

References

External links
 http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Ferguson_Pailin
 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ferguson-Pailin-Openshaw/142403332547275

Defunct companies based in Manchester
Manufacturing companies based in Manchester
Electrical engineering companies of the United Kingdom
Manufacturing companies established in 1913
1913 establishments in England
1960 disestablishments in England
Engineering companies of England
Associated Electrical Industries
Bharati-class interceptor boat. Bharati-class of interceptor boats are a series of fifteen watercraft being built by Bharati Shipyard for the Indian Coast Guard.

Description
The vessels in the series have an aluminium hull, and have a length of 28 meters, with beam of 6 meters and draught of 1.2 meters. They are powered by twin MTU Caterpillar engines having capacity of 1630 kW each. They have Articulate Surface Piercing Propulsion and can attain a speed of more than 35 knots. The vessels can perform high-speed interception, close-coast patrol, low-intensity maritime operations, search-and-rescue and surveillance. They have a complement of one officer and 12 sailors. They are being constructed as per a  contract signed with the Ministry of Defence, which was announced on 6 March 2009.

The first Bharati-class interceptor boat has IRS no. 40567 and its pennant no. is C-154. It was commissioned in Mumbai on 22 February 2013 in the presence of Maharashtra Chief Secretary J.K. Banthia and S.P.S. Basra, Inspector General (IG), Coast Guard Region (West). It was constructed by Bharati shipyards units at Vasco Da Gama.

Ships of the class

See also
 Cochin Fast Patrol Vessels
 L&T fast interceptor craft
 ABG fast interceptor craft
 Swallow Craft Class
 AMPL Class

References

External links
 Rs 281 Crore defence vessel order to Bharati Shipyard

Fast attack craft of the Indian Coast Guard
Patrol boat classes
Auxiliary search and rescue ship classes
William Skinner (British Army officer). Lieutenant-General William Skinner (1700 – 25 December 1780) was Chief Royal Engineer of Great Britain from 1757 until his death in 1780. He is best known for his work on the fortifications of Menorca and Gibraltar although he considered his work on Fort George to be his "monument".

Life
Skinner was born in St. Kitts in 1700; his parents Thomas and Elizabeth died when he was young and he was adopted by his aunt, Mrs Lambert. She remarried Captain Talbot Edwards, chief engineer in Barbados and the Leeward Islands, who was later appointed Deputy Chief Engineer of Great Britain. He was educated in Paris and Vienna.

Career
Skinner was accepted as a practitioner engineer on 11 May 1719. The next few years were spent working on defences in Devonport, Menorca and Gibraltar; his survey of the peninsula proved of great value during the 1727 Thirteenth Siege of Gibraltar where he was rewarded with additional pay for his achievements.  He was promoted steadily serving eventually as Director of engineering in Gibraltar.

In 1746 he was sent to Scotland where the government intended to increase the fortifications now that the Jacobite Rebellion had been ended. In 1751, he began work on Fort George which cost over 100,000 pounds and was made to Skinner's design. Skinner was to refer to the fort as his "monument" and would manage every detail which John Adam oversaw as the main contractor.

James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley became Governor of Gibraltar in 1756 and set about improving the fortifications. These changes came under the notice and criticism of Lord George Sackville and Skinner wrote a report describing their inefficiency and arbitrariness. The two of them attended the House of Commons in 1758 where O'Hara harangued Skinner who took the anger in good humour. There appears to have been no long term damage as O'Hara was given the rank of field marshal in 1763.

Skinner died in Greenwich still working on Christmas Day 1780. His widow, Margaret, and his granddaughter both received exceptional annuities as there was some regret that Skinner had not been as well as he might have been. Despite spending huge sums his personal wealth at his death was a single house and a £500 annuity. Skinner's son was drowned in 1861 but his grandson, William Campbell Skinner was a successful American engineer.

References

1700 births
1780 deaths
Royal Engineers officers
People from Saint Kitts
British Army lieutenant generals
British military personnel of the Anglo-Spanish War (1727–1729)
Nivio Ziviani. Nivio Ziviano (born 27 August 1946) is a Brazilian computer scientist working primarily in information retrieval and recommendation systems. He is an emeritus professor in the Computer Science department of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where he leads the Laboratory for Treating Information (LATIN). Ziviani is known for cofounding multiple companies, including Akwan Information Technologies, bought by Google in 2005 and Kunumi, bought by Banco Bradesco (a large Brazilian Bank) in 2024

Biography 
As a child, Ziviani suffered from polio. Ziviani went on to obtain a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, 1971, a master's degree in informatics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, 1976, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Waterloo, 1982, where we has supervised by Gaston Gonnet. Ziviani played an important role in establishing Computer Science undergraduate courses in Brazil.  

Throughout his career, he cofounded multiple startups that were later adquired by larger companies. In 1998, he cofounded the Miner Technology Group in 1998, which was acquired by Grupo Folha de S.Paulo/UOL in 1999.  In 2000, he cofounded the Akwan Information Technologies in 2000, bought by Google in 2005. Google went on to establish its headquarters in Latin America in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, after the purchase. In 2016, he cofounded the start-up Kunumi, which was adquired by  Banco Bradesco (a large Brazilian Bank) in 2024

Books 

 Projeto de Algoritmos Com implementações em Pascal e em C (Cengage Learning, , Third Edition, 2010) (in Portuguese). This book was also published in Spanish.
 Projeto de Algoritmos Com implementações em Java e C++ (Thomson Learning, , Second Edition, 2007) (in Portuguese).

Awards 
Ziviani has received multiple honors and awards, including:

 Being elected a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. 
 Being appointed to the Brazilian, National Order of Scientific Merit as a Commendator.

References

External links

1946 births
Living people
Academic staff of the Federal University of Minas Gerais
University of Waterloo alumni
Narasaka–Prasad reduction. The Narasaka–Prasad reduction, sometimes simply called Narasaka reduction, is a diastereoselective reduction of β-hydroxy ketones to the corresponding syn-dialcohols. The reaction employs a boron chelating agent, such as BBu2OMe, and a reducing agent, commonly sodium borohydride. This protocol was first discovered by Narasaka in 1984.

The reaction proceeds through the 6-membered transition state shown below. Chelation by the boron agent favors hydride delivery from the top face because it leads directly to the more stable chair-like conformation of the product (Fürst-Plattner Rule). The intermolecular hydride delivery from NaBH4 therefore proceeds via an axial attack from the opposite face with respect to the existing alcohol.

This reaction can be contrasted with the similar Evans–Saksena reduction that employs a different boron reagent in order to achieve intramolecular hydride delivery from the same face of the alcohol, thus producing the anti-diol.

The Narasaka–Prasad reduction has been employed in many total syntheses in the literature, such as discodermolide

See also 
Evans–Tishchenko reaction

References 

Name reactions
Microsoft Fresh Paint. Fresh Paint is a painting app developed by Microsoft and released on May 25, 2012.

History
Fresh Paint originated from a Microsoft Research project known as Project Gustav, an endeavor to reproduce the behavior of physical oil paint on a digital medium. To push the boundaries of simulating oil on a digital medium, the research team created a physics model that precisely replicated on a screen what would happen in the real world if you combined oil, a surface and a tool such as a paint brush. Two publications, Detail-Preserving Paint Modeling for 3D Brushes and Simple Data-Driven Modeling of Brushes, were released as a result of the team’s findings.

After a variety of internal testing Project, Gustav was codenamed Digital Art. Partnering with The Museum of Modern Art, Digital Art was tested for a year by 60,000 people. With feedback culled from MoMA, developers expanded the existing physics model, experimenting with how real oil paint blended and reacted to the texture of a canvas. After final adjustments were made, Digital Art was rebranded as Fresh Paint. It was released to the public on 25 May 2012.

See also
 Digital art 
 Museum of Modern Art 
 Digital painting
 Microsoft Paint
 ArtRage

References

External links
 Official Website (Archived in 2017)

2012 software
Graphics software
Fresh Paint
Raster graphics editors
Universal Windows Platform apps
Windows Phone software
Freeware
John E. McGlade. John E. McGlade (born 1954) is an American businessman. He is the former chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Air Products.

Biography

Early life and education
John McGlade was born in 1954 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering in 1976 and an MBA in 1980, both from Lehigh University.

Career
He joined Air Products in 1976. He became president and chief executive officer in October 2007, and chairman of the board in April 2008.

He sits on the board of directors of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, the American Chemistry Council, and the executive committee of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness. He is a member of the American Society of Chemical Industry. He sits on the board of trustees of his alma mater, Lehigh University.

In 2012, he earned US$11.36 million.

References

External links
Biography at Air Products

1954 births
Living people
American businesspeople
American chemical industry businesspeople
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company people
Lehigh University alumni
People from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Shaheed Bhagat Singh State University. Shaheed Bhagat Singh State University (SBS State University), previously known as Shaheed Bhagat Singh State Technical Campus and Shaheed Bhagat Singh College of Engineering and Technology, is a state university located in Ferozepur, Punjab. The institution was established by the Government of Punjab in 1995. It is fully supported by the Punjab Government and is registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act of 1860. In 2021, the institute was granted university status and renamed to Shaheed Bhagat Singh State University by Punjab Act No. 10 of 2021.

Affiliation
The university is AICTE approved, Academically Autonomous under UGC act and was affiliated to I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar and follows semester system of education. Each academic year is divided into two semester- July/August to December and January to June/July. University examinations are held at the end of each semester.

Departments

Faculty members of various departments

Courses Offered

B.Tech
All the courses of Engineering are of four years duration (eight semesters). 

 5% additional seats for admission in 1st year for Fee-Waiver Scheme and 
 20% additional seats for direct admission to 2nd year for diploma holder students through lateral entry scheme.

Diploma
All the courses of Diploma are of three years duration (six semesters).

M. Tech (Regular)
All the courses of M. Tech (Regular) are of two years duration (four semesters).

Management

Computer Applications
All these courses are of three years duration (six semesters).

PTU Regional Center for Part-Time M.Tech
All the courses of M. Tech (Part-Time) are of three years duration (six semesters).

References 

Engineering colleges in Punjab, India
Universities in Punjab, India
Memorials to Bhagat Singh
1995 establishments in Punjab, India
Educational institutions established in 1995
HMS Cadmus (1903). HMS Cadmus was a  of the Royal Navy. She was launched at Sheerness in 1903, spent her entire career in the Far East and was sold at Hong Kong in 1921.

Design
Cadmus was constructed of copper-sheathed steel to a design by William White, the Royal Navy Director of Naval Construction. Her propulsion was provided by a J. Samuel White three-cylinder vertical triple expansion steam engine developing  and driving twin screws. She and her sisters were an evolution of the Condor-class sloop, carrying more coal, which in turn gave a greater length and displacement. This class comprised the very last screw sloops built for the Royal Navy, and Espiegle was the last Royal Navy ship built with a figurehead. Her sister ship  was the last to sport a figurehead till her breaking up in 1923.

Sail plan
As designed and built the class was fitted with a barquentine-rigged sail plan. After  was lost in a gale in 1901, the Admiralty abandoned sails entirely. Espiegle was never fitted with sails, and the rest of the class had their yards removed in 1914. The official attitude to sails and the loss of yards did not completely prevent the use of sails, and log entries show that fore-and-aft sails were being used in Odin as late as April 1920.

Armament
The class was armed with six 4-inch/25-pdr (1ton) quick-firing breechloaders and four 3-pounder quick-firing breechloaders, as well as several machine guns.

Construction
Cadmus was laid down at Sheerness Dockyard on 11 March 1902, and launched on 29 April 1903. She was commissioned in 1904 for the Far East.

Service history

Cadmus started her career on the Australia Station, where she arrived on 13 July 1904; her maiden voyage to Australia was accomplished in record time for a sloop.  She was refitted at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney in 1905.

In May 1905, she was ordered to follow Clio to the China Station and served there for the rest of her career. She recommissioned at Hong Kong on 18 October 1912, and remained on the China Station during World War I. In November 1914 she arrived at Direction Island in the Indian Ocean a week after the battle between Emden and Sydney to bury the sailors killed in action. She was in Singapore during the Sepoy Mutiny of February 1915, and her crew was involved in capturing the mutineers. In 1920, she was listed as "unallocated" at Hong Kong.

Fate
She was sold at Hong Kong on 1 September 1921.

References 

Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. 

  Transcription of ship's logbooks October 1913 to July 1920

1903 ships
Cadmus-class sloops
Victorian-era sloops of the United Kingdom
World War I sloops of the United Kingdom