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Synchronous (electric vehicle). Synchronous is an electric car concept by Ukrainian company Electric Marathon International.

History
According to the statement of CEO Electric Marathon International Andriy Bilyi, the development of the prototype took about one year – from 2015 till 2016. The development works were also joint by the Ukrainian partners, a design agency SkyRye (Kyiv) and an engineering company Eco-Factor (Odesa). Company E-Line» (Dnipro) developed the charging station specially for the model Synchronous.

In April 2016 the functional prototype of Synchronous was first introduced at the international conference dedicated to the eco-friendly transport and renewable energy sources EVER 2016. In May 2016 the electric vehicle was presented in Kyiv.

The prototype is designed in retro-futurism style. According to the designer Vladyslav Karpets, it was initially agreed to make it look like a vintage carriage.

Synchronous was created as a municipal taxi, a hotel shuttle or an excursion car.

According to several media sources, Synchronous is the first electric car prototype fully developed and assembled in Ukraine 

The body of the car is made of fiberglass. Vehicles length, width and height are 4490x2100x2200 mm. The electric vehicle has an asynchronous front axle engine, charged by Lithium-ion accumulator. The car has 19-inch disks, rear view camera, air conditioner with autonomous charging from solar panel located on top of the car's roof and a multimedia system. Six passengers can be inside the car, the driver has a separated glass cabin.

In May–June 2016 the concept of Synchronous electric vehicle took part in trans-European electric rally Electric Marathon 2016 Lviv Monte Carlo. Together with other participants the electric car visited such cities and towns as Lviv, Novoyavorivsk (Ukraine), Rzeszow, Wieliczka (Poland), Ostrava, Brno (Czech Republic), Samorin (Slovakia), Wiener-Neustadt, Forchdorf, Bad-Schallerbach (Austria), Munich, Ulm, Baden-Baden, Freiburg (Germany), Beckenried, Bellinzona (Switzerland), Parma, Bologna, Larderello, Pisa, Alassio (Italy), Menton (France) and Monte Carlo (Monaco).

References

External links 
 Synchronous project official website
 Electric Marathon International company official website
 Synchronous e-vehicle Facebook page

Electric concept cars
Cars of Ukraine
Colin Scott-Moncrieff. Colonel Sir Colin Campbell Scott-Moncrieff  (3 August 1836 – 6 April 1916) was a British engineer, soldier and civil servant, best known for repairing the Nile Barrage and reorganizing the irrigation system of Egypt in the 1880s.

Early life and India 

Scott-Moncrieff was born in 1836, the son of Robert Scott Moncrieff. After training at the East India Company's establishment in Addiscombe, he was commissioned into the Bengal Engineers, party of the Company's private army which was soon integrated into the British army.

He arrived in India in 1858, and was involved in clearing-up operations after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, but was soon employed in the Indian irrigation system, becoming Chief Engineer of the Jumna Canal, then Superintending Engineer of the Ganges Canal from 1869–77, and Chief Engineer of Burma until 1883.  He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Star of India in 1878.

Egypt 

Retiring with the honorary rank of Colonel, on his way home he was summoned to Cairo to meet Lord Dufferin who offered him "the keys of the Nile" – the position of Director of Irrigation for Egypt, then still nominally part of the Ottoman Empire, but in practice controlled by the British.

His first priority was the Nile Barrage, designed to retain water to irrigate the Delta, which had been built at great expense between 1843 and 1862 but soon abandoned when cracks appeared in its structure. Scott Moncrieff arranged for a trial closing of the gates allowing a limited operation, while carefully monitoring the cracks. The results were so successful in terms of improved agricultural yield that he was able to ask for, and get, a million pounds for a complete repair and strengthening of the Barrage, which was carried out between 1885 and 90. Over a period of nine years he reorganised the whole irrigation system and "was so successful in improving the whole irrigation system that Egypt, from being a bankrupt country, became comparatively flourishing". For his work in Egypt he was appointed KCMG.

After Egypt 

Scott-Moncrieff returned to Britain in 1892 and served as Under-Secretary for Scotland from 1892 to 1902.

From 1901 to 1903, at the invitation of Lord Curzon, the Viceroy, Scott-Moncrieff served as President of a Commission to investigate and report on the prospects for further developing the Indian irrigation system. For this work he was promoted to a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in the 1903 Durbar Honours.

His great-nephew was C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, the famed first translator into English of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.

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Royal Engineers officers
1836 births
1916 deaths
Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
British East India Company Army officers
Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard
Spandau Arsenal. Spandau Arsenal was the centre for development of military small arms for Imperial Germany from the Industrial Revolution until 1919.  Spandau engineered and tested improved infantry weapons.

History

The Royal Prussian Rifle Factory was established on the river Havel at Potsdam in 1722 by Frederick William I of Prussia. The facility was leased to private manufacturers until machinery was moved upstream to the confluence with river Spree in the westernmost Berlin borough of Spandau about 1850. Early arsenal operations were east of the Spandau Citadel, but the arsenal later expanded into the Renaissance fortress. Spandau became the focus of government small arms production through the Second Industrial Revolution until the arsenal was demilitarised by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
Following demilitarisation, arsenal machinery was used for manufacture of civilian goods by the state-owned conglomerate Deutsche Werke AG. By the 1930s, the arsenal became a laboratory for development of organophosphate insecticides. The citadel became a museum following World War II.

Firearms production
Weapons manufactured at Spandau included:
Potsdam musket 1809
Dreyse needle gun
Mauser Model 1871
Gewehr 1888
Gewehr 98
MG 08

See also
 Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken, which was another, earlier producer of the German Empire's Maxim guns

Sources

Berlin SpandauCitadel
Berlin SpandauCitadel
Arsenal
Alkoxylation. Alkoxylation is a chemical reaction that involves the addition of an epoxide to another compound.  The usual manifestation of this reaction is ethoxylation of alcohols (ROH), in which case ethylene oxide is the alkoxylating agent:
ROH  +  C2H4O   →   ROCH2CH2OH
Another industrially significant epoxide is propylene oxide (PO, OCH2CHCH3).  PO is mainly used for alkoxylation to produce polyether polyols.  The alkoxylation process is shown in simplified form:
ROH  +  n OCH2CHCH3   →    R(OCH2CHCH3)nOH
Polyols derived from PO have complex stereochemistry owing to the chirality of the propylene oxide.  These polyols are used on a large scale to produce polyurethanes, by condensation with diisocyanates.

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Addition reactions
Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard Company. Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard Company (ASRY), () is a Multinational Arab company based in Al Hidd, Bahrain. The company was founded in 1977, by seven OAPEC member countries: Bahrain, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates.

The company offers shipbuilding and vessel repair services and manufactures towing tugs, work and crew boats, and offshore service vessels. The company's repair services include crank shaft replacement, new crank shaft insertion, crane barge to pipe laying vessel conversion, pipe laying barge conversion, propeller repair, steel machining, pipe fabrication, painting and hydro blasting, and electrical, electronic, and instrumentation repairs and installations.

References

External links 
 
 ASRY on OAPEC website

Shipbuilding companies of the United Arab Emirates
Eriksen M/25. The Eriksen M/25 was a prototype light machine gun designed and built by the Norwegian gunsmith Johan Emil Barbat Eriksen in 1925. A single prototype of the weapon was manufactured and saw service with the Norwegian Army during the Norwegian Campaign in 1940.

Design details
Johan Emil Barbat Eriksen was employed by the Norwegian armaments factory Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk and worked on several automatic weapon projects in his spare time, one of which was the Eriksen M/25.

The Eriksen M/25 was  long, with a barrel length of . It weighed  and fired 6.5×55mm rounds. The rate of fire is unknown.

The design of the action of the weapon combined functions of several different machine guns of the same era. The action consisted of a sliding breech block connected to a rotary crank, which in turn was operated by an off-set connecting rod, driven by the piston rod of the weapon. The feeding system was also unconventional, utilizing a box magazine mounted on the left side of the gun, holding 10 stripper clips with five rounds each. The stripper clips were fed one at a time through the gun from left to right where the empty clips were ejected, not unlike the Japanese Type 11 light machine gun which utilised a similar feature. It used the rear sight and the barrel of the Krag–Jørgensen rifle.

Operational use
A prototype of the design was built in 1925, and was probably the only unit ever manufactured. It was sent to the British Committee of Investigation of Small Arms for trials in 1927, but did not receive approval. The British showed limited interest in the weapon from the outset, decided against procuring 6.5×55mm ammunition, and thus limited their testing to examination of the prototype without test firing. Eriksen patented his inventions in the United Kingdom.

The prototype was used by the Norwegian Army fighting German forces in the Norwegian Campaign in 1940. This specific weapon was issued to Sergeant Håkon Lunde on 14 April 1940 when he was mobilized at Raufoss, and he carried it for several days before hiding it in Oslo. The gun remained hidden until the end of the Second World War in Europe in May 1945, when Lunde brought it back to his house and kept it.

In 1996 Lunde gave the Eriksen M/25 prototype to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum, which refurbished and exhibited it. The magazine for the weapon was lost before the gun was donated to the museum.

References

Bibliography

External links
 Forgotten Weapons: The Eriksen Machine Gun

Light machine guns
Machine guns of Norway
World War II machine guns
Trial and research firearms
Opel Tech 1. The Opel Tech 1 Concept was a research vehicle and concept car developed by Opel, which was a subsidiary of General Motors at the time. It was exhibited at the 1981 International Motor Show Germany (IAA) in Frankfurt. The car was based on the fourth-generation Opel Kadett D and used the platform, which was called the T Car. The vehicle was designed by Erhard Schnell and foreshadowed some of the design aspects found on production Opel/Vauxhall cars released throughout the 1980s.

Body
The design targeted a peak of aerodynamics and reached a drag coefficient of 0.235 cw thanks in part to a panoramic windshield. Some of the car's aerodynamic features made it into production form on both the 1984 Opel Kadett E and the 1986 Opel Omega – most evidently its front-end styling. The Tech 1's wheel design entered into mass production as an alloy wheel option on top-spec models of the Opel Rekord E2/Vauxhall Carlton.

Interior
All controls were push buttons; only the steering wheel, gear lever and foot controls were conventional.

References

Compact cars
Tech 1
Car models
Swarm robotic platforms. Swarm robotic platforms apply swarm robotics in multi-robot collaboration. They take inspiration from nature (e.g. collective problem solving mechanisms seen in nature such as honey bee aggregation). The main goal is to control a large number of robots (with limited sensing/processing ability) to accomplish a common task/problem. Hardware limitation and cost of robot platforms limit current research in swarm robotics to mostly performed by simulation software (e.g. Stage, ARGoS). On the other hand, simulation of swarm scenarios that needs large numbers of agents is extremely complex and often inaccurate due to poor modelling of external conditions and limitation of computation.

Comparison of platforms 

Several mobile robot platforms have previously been developed to study swarm applications.

References 

Network software comparisons
Robotics lists
Aspen HYSYS. Aspen HYSYS (or simply HYSYS) is a chemical process simulator currently developed by AspenTech used to mathematically model chemical processes, from unit operations to full chemical plants and refineries. HYSYS is able to perform many of the core calculations of chemical engineering, including those concerned with mass balance, energy balance, vapor-liquid equilibrium, heat transfer, mass transfer, chemical kinetics, fractionation, and pressure drop.   HYSYS is used extensively in industry and academia for steady-state and dynamic simulation, process design, performance modeling, and optimization.

Etymology

HYSYS is a portmanteau formed from Hyprotech, the name of the company which created the software, and Systems.

History
HYSYS was first conceived and created by the Canadian company Hyprotech, founded by researchers from the University of Calgary. The HYSYS Version 1.1 Reference Volume was published in 1996.
In May 2002, AspenTech acquired Hyprotech, including HYSYS. Following a 2004 ruling by the United States Federal Trade Commission, AspenTech was forced to divest its Hyprotech assets, including HYSYS source code, ultimately selling these to Honeywell. Honeywell was also able to hire a number of HYSYS developers, ultimately mobilizing these resources to produce UniSim. The divestment agreement specified that Aspentech would retain rights to market and develop most Hyprotech products (including HYSYS) royalty-free. As of 2024, AspenTech continues to produce HYSYS.

References 

Chemical synthesis
Chemical engineering software
Karabük Kardemir Iron-Steel Museum. Karabük Kardemir Iron-steel Museum () is a museum in Karabük, Turkey. Kardemir is the name of the Turkish steel production plant in Karabük. Demir-Çelik in the native name is Turkish for "Iron-Steel"

The museum was established on 14 June 1984 within the Kardemir plant.

Most of the exhibits are about iron works. In the first hall, the images about the construction of the plant in late 1930s, samples of the early production, modern steel construction elements such as angle irons, structural steels, etc. are exhibited. In the second hall there are mockups of steel elements used in engineering such as spare parts of heavy industry, radio and TV transmitter antenna elements, locomotives hoists etc. In the archives section of the museum historical books and images are kept. Although not an archaeology museum, the museum is authorized to control the archaeological finds in the Karabük Province.

In 2006, the company made correspondence with the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Turkey and the building's museum qualification was abolished. A new museum building is planned to be built in the future, and the museum activity was terminated in 2013 and its materials were protected within the company.

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Buildings and structures in Karabük Province
Museums in Turkey
1984 establishments in Turkey
Tourist attractions in Karabük Province
Museums established in 1984
David Hiram Williams. David Hiram Williams (1812–1848) was a Welsh geological surveyor who created the first maps credited to the Geological Survey of India.

David H. Williams was born in Llangyfelach, Swansea, on 5 October 1812, the second son of David William and Hannah. His father had progressed from being a labourer to mineral surveying, and the help father and his son gave William Logan with mapping coal in the Swansea area was probably a large factor in Henry de la Beche's decision in 1839 to make D.H.Williams his first employee for the Ordnance Geological Survey. D.H.Williams is acknowledged as sole or joint surveyor on numerous 1st edition geological maps and  sections of England and Wales, from Pembrokeshire to Somerset, and Flintshire to Shropshire.

At the end of 1845, Williams was engaged by the East India Company as 'Surveyor of coal districts and superintendent of coal works, Bengal' (between Calcutta and Benares). In 1847 he introduced Joseph Hooker to travelling in India.

On 4 February 1848, Williams was appointed the "Geological Surveyor of the Geological Survey of India". He died of fever at Hazareebaugh on 15 November 1848.

Williams published a map, plus horizontal and vertical sections, of the Damoodah coalfield in December 1847.
 Detailed reports of his work in India, with recommendations for introducing iron works, were published posthumously in London  and then Calcutta.

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1812 births
1848 deaths
Welsh geologists
PoolParty Semantic Suite. The PoolParty Semantic Suite is a technology platform provided by the Semantic Web Company. The EU-based company belongs to the early pioneers of the Semantic Web movement. The product uses standards-based technologies, namely the Resource Description Framework (RDF), as defined by W3C, which prevents vendor lock-in.

References

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Java platform software
Natural language processing software
Semantic Web
Ontology editors
Edmund Godfrey-Faussett. Brigadier General Edmund Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett   (25 August 1868 – 29 May 1942) was a British career soldier with the Royal Engineers, a vexillologist and official of The Boy Scouts Association.

Godfrey-Faussett was born in Canterbury, the son of the antiquary Thomas Godfrey Faussett. He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers as a second-lieutenant on 17 February 1888, was promoted to lieutenant on 17 February 1891, and to captain on 1 September 1898. He served in South Africa during the Second Boer War, attached to the Telegraph battalion, where he took part in the advance and Relief of Kimberley (October 1899 to February 1900), then served in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic. Following the occupation of Transvaal, he was Director of Transvaal Telegraphs. For his services, he received the brevet rank of major on 29 November 1900. Following the end of the war in June 1902, he returned home with other men of his division on the SS Pinemore, arriving at Southampton in October that year to be posted at Aldershot.

He served with the original British Expeditionary Force in 1914 and earned the 1914 Star with Clasps and Roses, as well as the CMG in February 1915, was promoted to temporary brigadier general in May 1918, and retired from the army in 1922.

Godfrey-Faussett, a personal friend of Robert Baden-Powell, became The Boy Scouts Association's Commissioner for training leaders.
He led The Boy Scouts Association contingent at the 4th World Scout Jamboree in Hungary. In the 1930s he wrote Flags: Their Design and Use. A Handbook For Scouts, Guides and Others. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Kingsley C. Dassanaike worked to promote Scouting for the deaf and blind to Godfrey-Faussett.

In 1897, he married Mabel Gertrude Hemming, daughter of Sir Augustus Hemming, and they had a son and daughter. He died suddenly in 1942 at his home in Annes, Hadlow Down, Kent.

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The Scout Association
Vexillologists
1868 births
1942 deaths
British brigadiers
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Military personnel from Canterbury
British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
British Army generals of World War I
PROCAT. PROCAT was a further education college based in Basildon, Essex, England, with an additional campus in Canvey Island. PROCAT is an acronym of "Prospect College of Advanced Technology", and the college specialises in engineering and construction training. In 2018, it merged with South Essex College and is now is a brand name for their provision.

History
PROCAT was started in 1969 by the Engineering Industry Training Board (EITB) as SENTRA to train engineering apprentices. They were originally located at 83 Vanguard Way, Shoeburyness before opening a further site at Fairfax Drive, Southend-on-Sea.

During the 1990s SENTRA started using the trading name Prospects Training and moved into further training areas including Construction.

During the 00s Prospects purchased the Pegasus Training Centre in Basildon, and changed the company name to Prospects Learning Foundation, trading as Prospects College. They then initially took over as trustees of Thorpe Bay School in Southend in 2006, moving its Southend centre to this location in 2010 and rebranding it Futures Community College. In 2007 they moved into new premises in Crompton Close, Basildon.

In 2012 a new £10m centre in Basildon was opened next door to the existing Basildon centre. This was followed by a further centre on Canvey Island in 2013.

In 2015 Prospects College become the first new incorporated FE college in 20 years and was rebranded PROCAT. In January 2016 it was announced that the Southend Centre would close for the expansion of Futures College.

In March 2017 it was announced that PROCAT had won the contract to manage the Transport for London Tunnelling & Underground Construction Academy (TUCA) which had originally been setup by the Crossrail project.

In May 2018 PROCAT was told by the FE commissioner that they were unlikely to be able to deal with their financial difficulties alone and were told to merge by the end of 2018. In June 2018, David Sherlock, chairman of PROCAT announced that they had agreed to merge with South Essex College but stay an independent brand within the group specializing in technical, engineering and construction training. The new Stephenson Road campus of South Essex College was opened under the PROCAT brand.

References

External links
PROCAT Website - www.procat.ac.uk

Educational institutions established in 1969
Further education colleges in Essex
1969 establishments in England