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Martha J. B. Thomas. Martha J. B. Thomas, MBA (13 March 1926 – 16 October 2006) was an American chemical engineer and analytical chemist.

She is particularly known for her work on phosphorus.

Life and education 
Martha Jane Bergin was born in West Roxbury, Boston, on 13 March 1926 to Augusta and John Bergin. As a child she attended Girls Latin School. She graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1945 with a Bachelor of Science degree, after which she obtained a PhD in chemistry from Boston University in 1953, while working at Sylvania Electric Products. Later in life, she received an MBA at Boston's Northeastern University in 1983.

Career and research 
Thomas began her professional career in 1945 at Sylvania Electric Products, where she became the head of the Phosphor Research and Development Section  in 1970. During her time at Sylvania she established their first phosphor pilot plants. She also taught chemistry in Boston University's evening division between 1952 and 1970. She was a director of technical services at GTE Electrical Products Group in Danvers, Massachusetts, US, working for the company for over four decades. During that time she made "23 official improvements in lightbulbs".

Thomas held 24 patents for improving lighting technology and manufacturing, covering, for example, fluorescent lamps and phosphor chemistry. One of her most important contributions was the development of a white phosphorus powder coating for fluorescent tubes creating a much more daylight-like light. She also developed a phosphor-based treatment that increase the brightness of mercury lamps by 10%.

Awards and honors 
Thomas was awarded the Achievement Award of the Society of Women Engineers 1965. The award was given "in recognition of her significant contributions to the science of chemistry as an engineer, educator, and administrator, while fulfilling her duties as a wife and mother." She was an active member of the organisation.

In 1991 she was named the New England Inventor by the Museum of Science in Boston, an award given to individuals "whose application of science and technology, creativity, and independent thought has positively impacted society".

She was the recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University.

Personal life 
Martha Jane Bergin married George Thomas, a government scientist, at St Brigid's Church in Millbury on 29 October 1955 and they had four daughters, Augusta, Anne, Abigail and Susan.

On retirement in 1990, the couple moved Westport, Massachusetts, and after her husband's death, Thomas moved to live with her daughter Susan's family in Royal Palm Beach Florida.

Martha J.B. Thomas died at her home on 16 Oct 2006 at the age of 80. She was buried in Holyhood Cemetery in Brighton Massachusetts.

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1926 births
2006 deaths
People from Boston
20th-century American chemists
American chemical engineers
Northeastern University alumni
Boston University alumni
Radcliffe College alumni
People from West Roxbury, Boston
Women chemical engineers
Boston Latin Academy alumni
British University of Bahrain. The British University of Bahrain (BUB) is a private university located in Saar, in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Established in 2018 in partnership with the University of Salford in Manchester, it awards undergraduate British degrees in the country.

Academic programmes
The programmes being offered at the British University of Bahrain are exactly identical to the ones being offered at the University of Salford. There is a College of Business,  College of Engineering and Built Environment, and College of Information and Communication Technology; each with several bachelor's degrees offered.

Campus
BUB is located in a purpose-built ten storey building in the Saar area of Bahrain. The campus includes a 424-seater auditorium, a high-tech learning resource centre, contemporary recreational and work spaces as well as more than fifty classrooms, workshops, and laboratories. The campus is located adjacent to a shopping mall, which offers students a wide range of additional facilities, including a hyper-market, 13-screen cinema complex, and a wide range of retail outlets, cafes, restaurants, and recreational facilities. The university also serves as a testing centre for the IELTS exam.

See also
 List of universities in Bahrain

References

2018 establishments in Bahrain
Universities in Bahrain
Universities and colleges established in 2018
Colony 28. Colony 28 is a science fiction-themed platform game developed for MS-DOS by Napoleon Games and published by JRC Interactive in 1997.

Plot
Earth was attacked by aliens in 2013 and conquered in few weeks. Humanity was enslaved, and Earth was given the name Colony 28. Humans are turned into obedient androids who work for the aliens. Five years later, the protagonist of the game, which is turned into a cyborg, preserves his memories due to a malfunction. He then turns against the aliens and helps the human resistance.

Gameplay
The game is a side-scrolling platform game. The player controls a combat robot and shoots enemies that try to destroy him. There are multiple tasks that player has to fulfill in every level. Once they complete the tasks, they move to the next level.

Development
The game was developed by team called 5th Dimension led by Martin Matějka. Matějka met Jindřich Rohlík during development, and 5th Dimension joined Rohlík's Napoleon Games. Napoleon Games finished the game in 1997. Colony 28 is inspired by games such as Another World and Flashback.

Reception
The game has received mostly positive reviews. Petr Bulíř of Level gave the game a score of 60%. He stated that the game is similar to Flashback. He noted game's high difficulty. Bulíř praised game's atmosphere and music, but was critical of its animations and graphics. He also praised the story, particularly its ending.

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1997 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
JRC Interactive games
Napoleon Games games
Platformers
Science fiction video games
Single-player video games
Video games about alien invasions
Video games about cyborgs
Video games developed in the Czech Republic
Video games set in 2013
Frederick Robert Vere Douglas-Hamilton. Frederick Robert Vere Douglas-Hamilton (1843–1917) was an engineer of Scottish ancestry. He was descended from James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton.

Biography
He was born in London on 7 December 1843, the eldest son of diplomat Frederic Douglas-Hamilton and Marina (born Norton). 
He grew up in London and Madeira, and studied mathematics and civil engineering in Karlsruhe. He later worked as a railway engineer on the construction of the Schwarzwaldbahn. In 1873 he married Josefine Baumann, the daughter of an innkeeper in Hornberg. From 1910 until his death he lived in Bad Cannstatt.

Ancestry
 James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, 1658–1712
 Lord Anne Hamilton, 1709–1748
 Charles Powell Hamilton, 1747–1825
 Augustus Barrington Price Anne Powell Hamilton, 1781–1849 
 Frederic Douglas-Hamilton, 1815–1887 
 Frederick Robert Vere Douglas-Hamilton

Death
He died at Bad Cannstatt in 1917 and is buried in the Uff-Kirchhof cemetery.

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Frederick
Scottish engineers
1843 births
1917 deaths
Fritz Cockerell. Fritz Cockerell (1889-1965) was a German pioneer of motorcycle, automotive and engine construction.

Biography
Fritz Cockerell (born 25 November 1889 in Munich, died 16 April 1965) was a German pioneer of motorcycle, automotive and engine construction. His real name was Friedrich Gockerell, but in his published patent documents, he is referred to as Fritz Cockerell.

Fritz Cockerell initially worked as a machinist in an airship factory and later in steam turbine construction at Maffei. He then moved to Rapp Motorenwerke, which later became Bayerische Motorenwerke (BMW), where he worked as a test engineer. Later, with Hans Meixner and Otto Landgraf, he founded the Megola works in Munich for the production of the Megola motorcycle. This was characterized by a five-cylinder rotary engine in the front wheel and around 2,000 units were built. The Megola was added to the temporary exhibition "The art of the motorcycle" by the Guggenheim Museum in 1998.

Cockerell operated the  and developed in-house an eight-cylinder two-stroke engine for a "German people-determined sports car" and a four-cylinder two-stroke engine, which was used for installation in a few prototypes of a car and a two-wheeler. Cockerell was more successful with auxiliary bike engines and light motorcycles, which were considered very reliable and sold under his own name. He later devoted himself to research on diesel engines for aircraft, turbine engines and the Wankel engine.

References

External links 
 Biography of Fritz Gockerell
 Die Meisterdinger von Nürnberg: Cockerell Motorrad-Typen 1919 - 1924
 Die Meisterdinger von Nürnberg / Konstrukteure: Friedrich Gockerell

Further reading

    Siegfried Rauch; Frank Rönicke: Männer und Motorräder - ein Jahrhundert deutscher Motorradentwicklung. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, .
    Michael Schick: Fritz Gockerell - Biografie eines Motorenkonstrukteurs. 1. Auflage. Selbstverlag, Laupheim 2017, , P.349.

Engineers from Munich
1889 births
1965 deaths
Craig tube. A Craig tube is an item of apparatus used in small-scale (up to about 100 mg) preparative and analytical chemistry, particularly for recrystallisation. It was invented by Lyman C. Craig and Otto W. Post.

A Craig tube consists of two parts. The first is a stout-walled test tube with a working volume of about 1-5 ml (say, 7-8 cm in length and 1-1.5 cm in diameter). There is a constriction towards the open end of the tube. The second is a loosely-fitting generally-cylindrical stopper, possibly with a teardrop-shaped head, of glass or of another inert material such as PTFE, which seats on the constriction.

Recrystallisation is carried out in the usual manner, by dissolving the solid to be purified in a solvent and causing crystals of the solid to form. The stopper can be used to protect the solution from atmospheric contamination. The crystals are separated from the mother liquor by placing the tube and stopperinvertedin a centrifuge tube, followed by centrifugation. The stopper allows the mother liquor to pass into the centrifuge tube but retains the crystals, which can subsequently be recrystallised again or collected.

The apparatus has the advantages that the crystallised product is relatively dry, is free from contamination by fibres from filter paper, and can be recovered more efficiently than from a sinter funnel.

Craig tubes can be made by competent glassblowers, and are also available commercially.

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Laboratory glassware
Fandom for Robots. "Fandom for Robots" is a 2017 science fiction short story by Vina Jie-Min Prasad. It was first published in Uncanny Magazine.

Synopsis
Computron — the world's first and only sentient robot — discovers anime, online fandom, and fan fiction.

Reception

"Fandom for Robots" was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 2017 and the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Tangent Online considered it to be "a feel-good tale with good humor and heart".

References

External links
Text of the story

2017 short stories
Science fiction short stories
Short stories about robots
Works originally published in Uncanny Magazine
Aircraft Museum Kathmandu. Aircraft Museum Kathmandu is an aviation museum located in Sinamangal, Kathmandu, Nepal. The museum is inside an Airbus A330-300 of Turkish Airlines that only flew for about eight months before suffering a runway excursion at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu in March 2015. It was established under a joint initiative by the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal and pilot Bed Upreti and his trust. This museum was officially opened to public on 28 November, 2017.  The museum's exhibits include the aircraft's original cockpit setting, model and miniature aircraft and items documenting the history of Nepalese aviation. The museum is the second of its kind in Nepal, after Bed Upreti had already set up a similar, yet smaller aviation museum, the  Aircraft Museum Dhangadhi in Dhangadhi in Western Nepal. The museum cost around NPRs 70 million.

References

2017 establishments in Nepal
Civil aviation in Nepal
Museums in Kathmandu
Archives in Nepal
R. Srinivasan (businessman). R. Srinivasan is an Indian businessman. He is the founder of Redington India, a US$4.2 billion technology products supply chain solution company operating in India, the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey. Prior to starting Redington, he spent three years in Indonesia with a leading textile company between 1978 and 1981. Srinivasan also had significant stints with Reader's Digest and the Coca-Cola Corporation in India. Srinivasan holds an electrical engineering degree from Madras University and an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

He is the chairman of SSN Institutions, sits on the board of HCL Technologies, Arena Bilgisayar San. ve Tic. A.S. (a listed company in Turkey) and Easyaccess Financial Services. He is also a trustee of Kidney Help Trust, Chennai, vice president of Music Academy, Chennai and member of management committee of Vidya Mandir Sr. Secondary School, Chennai.

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Living people
Indian business executives
Indian company founders
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad alumni
University of Madras alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
ABFC Thaiyak. ABFC Thaiyak (pronounced “tie-yak”) is a patrol vessel used by the Customs Marine Unit of the Australian Border Force, primarily stationed at  the Ashmore and Cartier Islands and is also known as the Long Term Ashmore Capability (LTAC) vessel. Its name, meaning spear, is based on suggestions from Torres Strait Islander crew members who had consulted with their elders.

Construction
In 2013 Strategic Marine was awarded the contract to build the 40-metre on-station Long Term Ashmore Capability (LTAC) vessel for Gardline Australia Pty Ltd on behalf of the Government of Australia. The vessel was designed by MMD Naval Architects to provide border protection services in Australia's northern waters therefore to be reliable and flexibly self-sufficient for longterm deployment in tropical regions. The vessel employs a steel hull with aluminium superstructure.

It has medical facilities for first aid along with an isolation facility.

Austere accommodation is provided for up to 24 transportees. In addition, sheltered deck space allows for  a short term holding capability for 25 additional passengers.

The vessel was constructed at the Strategic Marine shipyards in Vung Tau, Vietnam  and was launched in March 2014.

Operational history
The Minister for Immigration and Border Protection,  Scott Morrison, attended a naming ceremony for the vessel at Victoria Quay in Fremantle Harbour on 20 June 2014. He said Thaiyak would significantly improve Australia's capability in the detection and response to  maritime threats in Australia's northern waters.

The vessel is not armed but carries small arms  consisting of Glock pistols for Australian Border Force boarding party officers along with other personal defence equipment on board.

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Ships built in Vietnam
Patrol vessels of the Marine Unit (Australian Border Force)
2014 ships
Fritz Huber (engineer). Fritz Huber (1881-1942) was a German mechanical engineer and designer of the Lanz Bulldog tractor.

Biography
Huber was born on 8 March 1881 in Wasserburg am Inn. He came from an old family of engineers. In Munich, he first attended the industrial school, then he began studying at the local technical college. He successfully completed his studies in 1903 and went on to work in France and Switzerland. After his return to Germany, he got a job at the Grade company in Magdeburg, where he devoted himself to the construction of high-quality two-stroke engines. He also built the first hot-bulb engines at the Climax plant in Vienna and improved their running characteristics with adjustable injectors and improved mass balance. On 20 September 1916, he obtained employment with Heinrich Lanz AG in Mannheim. He constructed gasoline-powered tractors for the German army in the First World War. Between 1918 and 1921 he developed a single-cylinder hot-bulb engine for stationary work. This engine was later used in the Lanz Bulldog, the first German heavy-oil tractor in mass production. Because of the First World War, the testing of the concept had to be postponed but, from 1920, the development and construction of the Bulldog got under way. The tractor got its name because of its external resemblance to a bulldog and Fritz Huber is considered the "Father of the Bulldogs".  In 1942, Huber retired because of illness. He died on 14 April 1942 in Mannheim.

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Engineers from Bavaria
1881 births
1942 deaths
People from Wasserburg am Inn
Potassium amyl xanthate. Potassium amyl xanthate (/pəˈtæsiəm ˌæmɪl ˈzænθeɪt/) is an organosulfur compound with the chemical formula CH3(CH2)4OCS2K. It is a pale yellow powder with a pungent odor that is soluble in water. It is widely used in the mining industry for the separation of ores using the flotation process.

Production and properties
As typical for xanthates, potassium amyl xanthate is prepared by reacting n-amyl alcohol with carbon disulfide and potassium hydroxide.
 CH3(CH2)4OH  +  CS2  +  KOH →  CH3(CH2)4OCS2K  +  H2O

Potassium amyl xanthate is a pale yellow powder.  Its solutions are relatively stable between pH 8 and 13 with a maximum of stability at pH 10.

Related compounds
Sodium amyl xanthate is used in the separation of nickel and copper from their ores.

Safety
The  is 90-148 mg/kg (oral, rat). 

It is a biodegradable compound.

References

Salts
Organosulfur compounds
Jane Simpson (engineer). Jane Simpson is the Head of Asset Creation at Severn Trent Water. She was the first woman to be Chief Engineer at Network Rail.

Education 
Simpson grew up in Coventry. She was inspired to become an engineer when she made a light bulb work on the WISE Campaign bus in the 1980s. She was advised to consider a career in teaching or being a nursery nurse. Simpson has been a lifelong member of the Scouts. She gained her Baden-Powell Award as a Guide and her Queen's Scout Award as a Venture Scout. She left school at 16 and started an apprenticeship at General Electric.  They went on to sponsor her to complete a degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering at Coventry University. She completed a master's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Birmingham.

Career 
Simpson joined British Rail in Quayside Tower as a graduate in 1996, which was the year of its privatisation. Working in one of the maintenance companies for infrastructure, she became Overhead Line Engineer in 1998. She led the Overhead line between Euston and Rugby. She was the first woman to hold the role, and says that male engineers did not know how to behave in front of her. She worked for Marconi Communications and returned Network Rail in 2004. She joined the Infrastructure Maintenance Department in 2009, and was promoted to Director of Route Asset Management of the London and North Western Railway in 2011. She was responsible for the electrification of train lines in the North of England. She became a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology in 2014.

She became Chief Engineer in 2015. She was responsible for £600 million of projects, and ensured that money was spent correctly to improve the UK's rail infrastructure. She championed innovation in engineering whilst ensuring the customer saw the value of all investment. These included mechatronics and small track-side robots which could provide intelligent inspection in situ. She led a multimillion-pound project to digitise information systems at Network Rail.

In 2016 she was listed as one of the UK's Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering. She was chosen as one of the 20 Most Inspirational Women in Rail.

She was appointed to Severn Trent in July 2016. Here she is responsible for all above ground infrastructure, including ensuring water is clean, waste water is treated and that renewable energy is explored. She was listed in the Top 100 Women to Watch in the 2017 FTSE Board Report.

Simpson is a campaigner for increased diversity in engineering. At Network Rail, she launched work experience and open evenings to attract more girls into the profession. She is a trustee of The Scout Association.

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Engineers from the West Midlands (county)
British women engineers
British electrical engineers
Alumni of Coventry University
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century British women engineers
Linda Miller (engineer). Linda Jean Miller  (born 1961) is an American civil engineer who works for Bechtel. She is currently director of the excavation works for the Sydney Metro project, having recently been in charge of Crossrail's Farringdon Station.

Education 
Miller is from Arizona. She has a bachelor's degree in engineering from United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. After graduating, Miller started her career in the United States Army, where she flew helicopters. She earned a master's degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career 
Miller has worked at Bechtel for more than 35 years. Throughout her career she has been a champion of engineering projects that leave a positive legacy. While working on the Boston Central Artery, a 161-mile road and tunnel project, she appeared on a PBS documentary. She worked on a new launch project at Cape Canaveral and the Seattle Monorail Project.

She worked on the Connaught Tunnel, a Victorian rail tunnel built in 1878 between Stratford and North Woolwich. At the start the team only had 135 year-old drawings as a guide, and had to use giant props to support the excavation. She described the project as 'open heart surgery'. She thinks it is boom time for tunnelling, with new technology putting the UK at the cutting-edge. She was seconded as project manager of Farringdon station. The station includes platform and concourse tunnels, ticket halls, escalators, and adits built using sprayed concrete lining. In March 2017, Miller left the UK and moved to Australia to begin work on the Sydney Metro.

She encourages all young women she meets to consider careers in engineering; including the children of Crossrail staff.  She was selected as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering in the UK in 2016. That year, she was shortlisted for the WISE Campaign 2016 Woman of the Year Award. She appeared on the BBC Two documentary about Crossrail, The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway. She has been a speaker at the Royal Institution, the Institution of Civil Engineers and Farringdon station. In 2017 she was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for "services to engineering and to promoting gender equality".

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1961 births
United States Military Academy alumni
Engineers from Arizona
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
American railway civil engineers
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Living people
21st-century women engineers
ILS (company). ILS Oy (formerly Insinööritoimisto Lehtonen & Siirilä Oy) is a Finnish engineering company that specializes in winter navigation and the design and development of ice-class ships.

The company was involved in the building of an eco-friendly icebreaker Polaris, which entered service in early 2017.

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Shipbuilding companies of Finland
Engineering companies of Finland