omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Albion (1814 ship). Albion was launched at Fort Gloucester, Calcutta, India, in 1814. She wrecked on 13 January 1817 off Trincomalee, while on her way from Madras to London. Her crew and passengers were rescued.

 assisted in the rescue efforts. The officers of the Madras Establishment awarded Captain John Brett Purvis a silver plate worth £100 in recognition of his efforts.

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Eric Pillai. Eric Pillai is an Indian sound engineer, mixing engineer and music producer. He is best known for his mix of Aashiqui 2 soundtrack for which he won GiMA Award for Best Recording Engineer.

Early life and career
Pillai aspired to become a music producer and recording engineer since the age of 11. In 1999 he started working independently and in 2011 he built his own recording setup named as Future Sound of Bombay.

Accolades
Pillai won the GiMA Award for Best Recording Engineer for his mix of the soundtrack of Aashiqui 2. Pillai subsequently won International Indian Film Academy award, in the category of Best Recording Engineer for the song Galliyan.

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Living people
Indian record producers
Audio production engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Polyus Scientific Research Institute. Polyus () is a research institute and production association in Moscow, Russia. It is part of the Shvabe Holding (Rostec group).

The Polyus Scientific Research Institute (NII Polyus) is closely associated with the Polyus Scientific Production Association (NPO Polyus), a small factory, and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, all of which are located at the same address. NPO Polyus produces lasers and associated components, electronics articles, and electrovacuum devices.

NII Polyus works in the field of quantum electronics and develops and manufactures experimental models in the areas of cryoelectronics, magnetism, and electrovacuum devices. NII Polyus oversees several laboratories and production enterprises. These production enterprises are located in Moscow Oblast, Tula, Ulyanovsk, and the Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast.

NII Polyus has also developed missile laser technology, including laser gyroscopes for missile nose cone guidance, various other types of solid-state multi-purpose lasers, laser components, and electro-optic equipment. It has also carried out global positioning system work with Aeroflot and MiG aircraft.

History 
The Polyus Scientific Research Institute was established in 1962 on the initiative of Mitrofan Fedorovich Stelmakh, a scientist and specialist in the field of superhigh frequency technology. The Polyus Scientific Research Institute has been named after Stelmakh since 2001. The objectives of the institute were to develop quantum electronics devices for military purposes, medical equipment, and other applications.

In the 1970s, the NGO Polyus association was established. It included the head institute of the Polyus Research Institute, the Ulyanovsk Radio Tube Plant, the Vladykinsky Mechanical Plant, the Bogoroditsky Plant of Technochemical Products, and the Ozersk Mechanical Plant. At that time, the NPO Polyus employed about 20,000 people.

Currently the Institute employs about 1,200 employees, including 15 doctors of sciences, more than 70 candidates of sciences, 20 graduate students, and applicants. There is a graduate school. The MIPT and MIREA have basic departments at the Polyus Scientific Research Institute. Until the mid-2000s, it was also the basic department for the MIEM.

Products 
The Institute develops and manufactures laser speed meters, surveillance equipment detectors, semiconductor emitters, optical modules, water treatment systems, and medical equipment.

Directors 
The General Director of the Institute is Evgeny Viktorovich Kuznetsov.

References

External links

 Official website

Manufacturing companies of Russia
Research institutes in Russia
Companies based in Moscow
Shvabe Holding
Defence companies of the Soviet Union
Electronics companies of the Soviet Union
Ministry of the Electronics Industry (Soviet Union)
Research institutes in the Soviet Union
Mohamed Shaker El-Markabi. Mohamed Shaker El-Markabi () is an Egyptian engineer and government official. He became Minister of Electricity and Energy in 2014. He is Mohamed Hamed Shaker El-Markabi Professor of Electrical Power Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University.

Early life 
He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in 1968 and earned a doctorate in electrical engineering from the Imperial College, University of London in 1978.

Education 
 B.Sc. in Electrical Power Engineering from Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in 1968.
 M.Sc. in Electrical Power Engineering from Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in 1972.
 Ph.D. in Electrical Power Engineering from Imperial College, London University in 1978.

Career 
He taught at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, and began consultative work in 1982. He established an office advisory in the field of electrical and mechanical consulting. His office has a presence in multiple Arab countries. He worked as an engineer consultant for more than 1,500 projects, and worked with global consulting offices. He is the first Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy to introduce nuclear power to Egypt.

Recognition 
 "Premium Award in Science and Technology" from Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) UK in 1985.

References

External links 
 Dr. Mohamed Shaker El-Markabi

Cairo University alumni
Alumni of Imperial College London
Academic staff of Cairo University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Electricity and energy ministers of Egypt
21st-century Egyptian politicians
CCE Wakefield. CCE Wakefield is a large soft drinks factory in West Yorkshire owned by Coca-Cola Enterprises UK; it is the largest soft-drinks factory in Europe (by volume of drinks produced).

History
It was built in 1989 at the Wakefield 41 Business Park in Outwood. From the five years after 2009, Coca-Cola invested over £100m in the plant, and £240m had been invested at the site before 2009. The main office of CCEP is in Milton Keynes. The site was visited by David Cameron, when Prime Minister, in 2010 and June 2014.

Coca-Cola has six factories in the UK.

Production
The site produces 6,000 cans of soft drinks per minute, which is 100 per second, and up to 2,200 PET bottles a minute (HDPE bottle caps); this works out to up to one billion litres of soft drink a year. The factory can produce 40,000 PET bottles (empty) an hour.

Next door is a factory of (former) Rexam, that produces the metal cans. The plant sources its water from the nearby Ardsley Reservoir which is  to the west.

Structure
It is situated on the north of the Wakefield 41 industrial estate, next to the M1 motorway, about  from junction 41. The site has an area the size of 16 football pitches, but when aggregated with the company's own solar farm ( further north), the footprint covers 33 football pitches.

See also
 Arla Aylesbury, UK's and world's largest dairy

References

External links
 Manufacturing at Coca-Cola UK

1989 establishments in England
Buildings and structures in Wakefield
Coca-Cola buildings and structures
Commercial buildings completed in 1989
Economy of West Yorkshire
Manufacturing plants in England
Bottling plants
Roger Wootton. Leslie Roger Wootton (29 June 1944 – 5 July 2017) was an aeronautical engineer and balloonist. He was dean of engineering for City University and in 1966 prepared a report on the aircraft maintenance industry for the British Civil Aviation Authority.

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Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)
Paula Bonta. Paula Bonta is an Argentinian-Canadian computer scientist and educational software designer. She is known for developing programming environments for children, most notably contributing to the design of the Scratch programming language before it was even called Scratch. She co-founded the Playful Invention Company, a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab noted for developing the Programmable Cricket, with Mitchel Resnick and Brian Silverman and serves as Lead Designer. She was also the design director for several award-winning software products for children, including MicroWorlds and the "My Make Believe" series of products from Logo Computer Systems, Inc. She has a degree in computer science and a graduate degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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MIT Media Lab people
Computer science educators
Argentine women computer scientists
Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni
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Tetraethoxymethane. Tetraethoxymethane is a chemical compound which is formally formed by complete ethylation of the hypothetical orthocarbonic acid C(OH)4 (orthocarbonic acid violates the Erlenmeyer rule and is unstable in free state).

History
Tetraethoxymethane was described the first time in 1864.

Synthesis 
The preparation of tetraethoxymethane from the highly toxic trichloronitromethane is known in the literature and achieves only yields of 46-49 to 58%:

The obvious synthetic route from tetrachloromethane does not provide the desired product, as in the homologous tetramethoxymethane.

Starting from the less toxic trichloroacetonitrile (compared with trichloronitromethane), higher yields can be obtained (up to 85%). An alternative reaction, bypassing problematic reactants, is the reaction of dialkyltin dialkoxides with carbon disulfide at elevated temperature in an autoclave:

Another route reacts thallous ethoxide with carbon disulfide in dry methylene dichloride.

A more recent synthesis starts directly from sodium ethoxide, tin(IV)chloride, and carbon disulfide.

Properties 
Tetraethoxymethane is a water-clear, aromatic or fruity smelling, liquid of low-viscosity which is unstable against strong acids and strong bases.

Uses 
Tetraethoxymethane can be used as a solvent and for the alkylation of CH-acidic compounds (e.g. phenols and carboxylic acids). In addition, it reacts with amines, enol ethers and sulfonamides, whereby spiro compounds can also be obtained. Spiro orthocarbonates (SOCs) are of some industrial interest, as they are used as additives for reducing shrinkage during the polymerization of epoxides (they are used as expanding monomers).

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Orthocarbonates
Ethoxy compounds
JSC Dux. Open Joint Stock Company Dux (formerly Moscow Kommunar Machine-Building Plant; ) is a company based in Moscow, Russia. It produces air-to-air missiles and launching systems for fighter aircraft and aircraft cabin instrument and components.

The company was established in 1893 During the war the factory produced RS-82 rockets, Berezin UB machine guns and other weapons.

From 1963 to 1992 the company was known as Moscow Kommunar Machine-Building Plant. In 1992 the plant became known as Open Joint Stock Company Dux.

See also

 Dux Factory

References

External links
 Official website

Manufacturing companies based in Moscow
Defence companies of the Soviet Union
Ministry of the Aviation Industry (Soviet Union)
Aircraft component manufacturers of the Soviet Union
Air-to-air missile manufacturers of Russia
Aquaflex. Aquaflex is a company in Southern California that was founded in 2000 as a research, development and manufacturer focusing on niche products to address failures in conventional solutions. Aquaflex specializes in construction brand of waterproof flooring installation and concrete repair products, centered around its patented waterproof adhesive technology.

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Thomson Dam (Minnesota). Thomson Dam, also known as the Thomson Hydro Station or Thomson Water Project, is an embankment and concrete gravity dam on the Saint Louis River near the town of Thomson in northeastern Minnesota, United States. It consists of a 1600-foot (488 m) long primary structure and multiple supplementary dams which, together with precambrian rock outcrops known as the Thomson formation, impound the river to create Thomson Reservoir.

The tallest dam in the complex is 51.6 feet (16 m) and the longest is 3500 feet (1067 m). A series of gate houses, a canal, forebay, and underground penstocks supply a hydropower plant located 3 miles away in Jay Cooke State Park. With an installed capacity of 72 MW and an annual generation of approximately 280 GWh, the Thomson project is the largest hydroelectric facility in the state.

History 

Thomson Dam was completed in 1907 by Great Northern Power, an operating division of the Great Northern Railway. The generating station was expanded in 1914 with the addition of Unit 4. Unit 5 was added in 1918 and Unit 6 in 1948. Railroad tracks built into the generator floor allowed for installation and maintenance of the equipment. The complex was later transferred to the Saint Louis Power Company. Today it is owned by Minnesota Power, a division of Allete, Inc.

Heavy rains in June 2012 created an historic flood in the region which overtopped the dam, breached the forebay canal and severely damaged the hydroelectric station. Following $90 million in reconstruction and upgrades, including the addition of a new emergency spillway, the facility came back online in November, 2014. Additional upgrades will continue through 2018, including removal of the original 46kV transmission line equipment in favor of other, higher voltage equipment that was added later.

Structures 
The most visible part of Thomson Dam is the primary structure straddling the Saint Louis River channel near Minnesota State Highway 210. However, the Thomson Project is actually composed of multiple dams and control structures, several of which have been rebuilt and merged over the years. Today the United States Army Corps of Engineers National Inventory of Dams (NID) counts 18 structures as part of the complex, with 14 formally listed as separate.

See also 
 List of dams and reservoirs in Minnesota

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Dams in Minnesota
Hydroelectric power plants in Minnesota
Buildings and structures in Carlton County, Minnesota
1907 establishments in Minnesota
Dams completed in 1907
David V. Ragone. David Vincent Ragone (May 16, 1930 – March 20, 2023) was an American metallurgist, famous for the Ragone chart. He served the third president of Case Western Reserve University from 1980 to 1987 and the 9th dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering from 1972 to 1980.

Life and career
Ragone was born in New York City, New York, on May 16, 1930.

Ragone studied metallurgy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1951 and a Master of Science degree in 1952. In 1953, he graduated with a Ph.D.  In the same year, he began teaching at the University of Michigan as an associate professor and later as a professor. He specialized in the fields of thermodynamics, chemical engineering, and metallurgy.

From 1962 to 1967 he worked with General Atomics, a subsidiary of the armaments company General Dynamics. There he was chairman of the department for material research. His research involved material investigations for the development of a gas-cooled nuclear reactor.

Ragone continued to teach metallurgy at a research university, this time at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After being a dean of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College from 1970 to 1972, he eventually returned to the University of Michigan, where he was appointed Dean of Engineering.

From 1980 to 1987, Ragone served as President of Case Western Reserve University, a research university in the Cleveland, Ohio. In 1988, he moved back to his alma mater, MIT, where he taught thermodynamics and physical chemistry until 1998.

Ragone died in Hingham, Massachusetts on March 20, 2023, at the age of 92.

Writings
 Thermodynamics of Materials (1995)

References

External links
 Case Western Reserve University bio

1930 births
2023 deaths
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Case Western Reserve University faculty
Dartmouth College faculty
University of Michigan faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Presidents of Case Western Reserve University
People from New York City
Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge. The Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge is the third longest hanging bridge for pedestrian use in the world. It is located in Randa, Switzerland and replaced the defunct , which had been damaged by a rock slide. The bridge spans 494 meters (1621 feet), and upon its inauguration on 30  July 2017 became the longest suspension bridge built for pedestrian travel. The bridge runs 85 metres (279 feet) above the ground at its highest point. It employs  of cables, and has a system that prevents it from swinging. The bridge is part of Europaweg, a hiking path between the Swiss villages of Zermatt and Grächen.

See also
 Europa Hut, located around  northeast of the bridge
 List of notable pedestrian bridges

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Pedestrian bridges in Switzerland
Simple suspension bridges
21st-century architecture in Switzerland
Land Environment Air Picture Provision. Land Environment Air Picture Provision (LEAPP) is a British military capability introduced in early 2015.  The capability was developed as part of a UK specific requirement to deliver a highly mobile local fused Recognised Air Picture capability to land component and formation headquarters.  Its development was led by Lockheed Martin (UK) along with a number of other defence contractors, including SAAB.

Utility
The capability is currently fielded with 49 (Inkerman) Battery Royal Artillery (a Royal Regiment of Artillery sub-unit commanded by a Royal Air Force Squadron Leader) under the command of 16th Regiment Royal Artillery. This system can both generate a local air picture, utilising its integral Giraffe-Agile Multi Beam (G-AMB) radar, and fuse it with a wider Air Picture from other platforms such as land and air based radars, to provide and disseminate a local Recognised Air Picture to Land Forces.

The capability provides early Air Defence warning at Brigade and Divisional level and can assist with Battlespace Management. This capability is in high demand across UK Defence and whilst it is designed primarily to support armoured brigades, it is also held at readiness against the Air Assault Task Force (AATF), Lead Armoured Task Force (LATF) and the Vanguard Armoured Infantry Brigade (VAIB). The capability is scalable and consists of a number of components which can be deployed independently of one another if required.  Whilst the Giraffe Radar is integral to the system it is not essential to allow the capability to operate if other radar platforms are available.

Operators

 British Army – 1 Battery, serving with the Royal Regiment of Artillery

References

Military equipment of the United Kingdom
Command and control
Radar
IBM La Gaude. The IBM La Gaude Study and Research Centre (Centre d'études et recherches IBM La Gaude) was a computer research laboratory for IBM in La Gaude, just west of Nice on the Côte d'Azur (French Riviera) on France's southeastern coast. In the 1990s, it became a presentation centre for IBM Business Solutions. IBM left the site for the city of Nice in 2015.

World's first computer-controlled business telephone systems
French IBM engineers developed the world's first computer-controlled business telephone systems at IBM La Gaude.

1962 laboratory relocation from Paris to La Gaude
IBM moved its French research and product-development laboratory from Paris to a spectacular, purpose-built, 35,000 square-metre building, designed by the architect Marcel Breuer, in 23 hectares of rough countryside near the village of La Gaude overlooking Nice and Nice airport. IBM chose the location because it could attract the cream of French engineers to work on the French Riviera, it was close to France's second-largest airport, and because it complied with the French government's policy to decentralise from Paris and build away from urban centres.

Initially 700 people, mostly engineers, worked there. By 1987 there were 1,500 engineers in the original B1 building. The B2 building was built in 1969 and B3 (with a patio) in 1978. From 1984 to 1986 reinforcements were made to reduce the risk of earthquake damage. Staff included IBM employees from other European countries and the USA. In 2015 most staff were displaced to a new centre nearer Nice.

Products
IBM La Gaude developed telecommunication products for IBM's worldwide markets. For European markets there were the IBM 1750, 2750 and 3750 Switching Systems (world-wide the first electronic computer-controlled business telephone systems widely called PABXs — Private Automatic Branch Exchanges). For world markets La Gaude engineers developed the IBM 270x series of communication controllers, modems, and other IBM products.

In 1963, IBM La Gaude established a satellite link to IBM Endicott in the USA — at 3,300 words per minute.

Relocation from La Gaude
On 25 October 2007, more than 200 employees demonstrated against the transfer of personnel to AT&T.

In August 2015, some 530 IBM staff moved from La Gaude to the new IBM Innovation Center Nice in the  high-tech district by the River Var close to Nice. Some IBM staff continued to work at IBM La Gaude; the buildings are also used by other organisations.

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William Hutchison McMillan. William Hutchison McMillan OBE MIME FRSE  (1886-9 June 1947) was a British mining engineer. He was Head of the Department of Mining and Fuels at University College, Nottingham then Professor of Mining in Edinburgh. In authorship he usually appears as W. H. McMillan.

Life

He was born in 1886 and attended Stirling High School. He studied mining engineering at the University of Glasgow graduating with a BSc in 1908. From 1908 to 1911 he was Assistant Professor of Mining at the University of Glasgow. He then moved to Nottingham to head the Department of Mining and Fuels. He lived at 29 Carisbrooke Drive in Nottingham.

In 1936 he came to Edinburgh living at 5 Gordon Terrace in the south of the city. He was Professor of Mining for both the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University. In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His [proposers were Alexander  Robert Horne, Sir Thomas Henry Holland, Sir Thomas Hudson Beare and James Cameron Smail .

In the Second World War he was Regional Mining Supplies Officer for Scotland, as part of the Ministry of Fuel.

He died on 9 June 1947 and on 12 June received the Order of the British Empire (OBE). The award was not intended to be posthumous.

Publications

Recent Developments in Mine Lighting (1938)
Lighting in and about Mines
Mine Illumination

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1886 births
1947 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Scottish mining engineers
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Academics of the University of Glasgow
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
 Scottish non-fiction writers