omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
W. B. Davis Hosiery Mill. The W. B. Davis Hosiery Mill (also known as the Alabama Builders' Hardware Manufacturing Company Complex) is a historic industrial complex in Fort Payne, Alabama, United States. It opened in 1884 in the midst of Fort Payne's economic boom, manufacturing building hardware and supplies. The main building, which features Colonial Revival details, is three stories tall, with 12-over-12 sash windows on each floor. An 85-foot (26-meter) chimney has a flared top and corbeled brick course, imitating a doric order column. By 1890, hopes that large quantities of iron ore and other minerals would be discovered in the Fort Payne district proved to be ill-founded. The ABHMC and seven of Fort Payne's other large manufacturers merged in an effort to remain in business, but they were unable to avoid bankruptcy.

The mill building was purchased in 1909 by hosiery executive W. B. Davis, and converted it into a factory providing ribbing, knitting, and looping. The operation was soon expanded to include dyeing, shaping, and packaging, as it became the largest employer in Fort Payne and gave the town its nickname of the "Sock Capital of the World". The factory underwent a large expansion beginning in 1927, including a large wing off of the main building, a knitting building, an expanded boiler room, other storage buildings, and an annex across the street. In 1948 the company was sold, and in 1974 a new building was constructed adjacent with production moved out of the original building.

The complex was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 1976 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The Annex was added to the National Register listing in 1992.

References

National Register of Historic Places in DeKalb County, Alabama
Colonial Revival architecture in Alabama
Buildings and structures completed in 1884
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage
Hosiery
Institute of Advanced Technology, University of Science and Technology of China. The Institute of Advanced Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (IAT, USTC; ) is a research institute affiliated with the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and located in Hefei, Anhui, China. It was jointly founded by Anhui provincial government, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei municipal government and the USTC in 2012.

Research projects

Quantum Communication Satellite
Quantum Communication Satellite's main function is sending entangled photon to all world, for achieving fully classified communication.

Pan Jianwei, Professor of University of Science and Technology of China published a scientific article stating their first space quantum communication experiment on 4, June, 2013. The experiment was finished in 2010 or before using a Germany satellite CHAMP launched in July, 2000. The satellite was out of orbit in September, 2010. On 2011, Pan's project was approved by Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Quantum Communication Beijing-Shanghai Route
On January 12, 2014, China decided to build Quantum Communication Beijing-Shanghai Route.

External links
Official website
QUESS, Quantum Experiments at Space Scale

References

Research institutes in China
J. F. Coleman. James Francis Coleman (June 2, 1918 – May 13, 2014), nicknamed "Skeets", was an American military fighter and test pilot.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Coleman joined the United States Marine Corps in 1941. During the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, he was a fighter pilot flying dive bombing missions. After the war, he received an aeronautical engineering degree from UCLA. From 1948 to 1950, he oversaw the operation of the now-defunct Del Mar Airport in San Diego, California. He would go on to work in sales and marketing for aviation companies, such as North American Aviation and Fairchild Aircraft.

In 1951, Convair, an airplane manufacturer, was one of two companies contracted by the U.S. Navy to construct and test a vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) fighter. Convair created the tail-sitter XFY Pogo. Coleman, a Marine reservist and Convair employee, was chosen to be its test pilot when it was ready in 1954. Although the Pogo's liftoffs and transitions went smoothly, Coleman and other pilots had difficulty landing it, which had to be done visually from the cockpit. The Pogo project would prove to be unwieldy and was discontinued. About the project, Coleman stated, "It was a developmental power plant, it was a developmental airplane, a developmental concept. It's pretty hard to tie all of those together without having a lot of risk." For being the first pilot to successfully maneuver a VTOL fighter, Coleman was awarded the Harmon Trophy in 1954.

Coleman resigned from Convair, it was announced on 3 April 1956.

In 2014, Coleman died of natural causes at an assisted-living facility in Oceanside, California. He was 95. He was survived by three children.

References

External links
 In Memoriam James F. "Skeets" Coleman
  piloting the Convair XFY Pogo
 New York Times article archiving Coleman's Pogo test
  in a Camel cigarette commercial

1918 births
2014 deaths
Military personnel from Chicago
United States Marine Corps officers
United States Marine Corps pilots of World War II
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
American test pilots
Novena (computing platform). Novena is an open-source computing hardware project designed by Andrew "bunnie" Huang and Sean "Xobs" Cross. The initial design of Novena started in 2012. It was developed by Sutajio Ko-usagi Pte. Ltd. and funded by a crowdfunding campaign which began on April 15, 2014. The first offering was a 1.2 GHz Freescale Semiconductor i.MX6 quad-core ARM architecture computer closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA. It was offered in "desktop", "laptop", or "heirloom laptop" form, or as a standalone motherboard.

On May 19, 2014, the crowdfunding campaign concluded having raised just over 280% of its target. The extra funding allowed the project to achieve the following four "stretch goals", with the three hardware stretch goals being shipped in the form of add-on boards that use the Novena's special high-speed I/O expansion header, as seen in the upper-left of the Novena board:

 Development of free and open source graphics drivers for the on-board video accelerator (etnaviv)
 Inclusion of a general-purpose breakout board providing 16 FPGA outputs and eight FPGA inputs (3.3 or 5 V gang-selectable via software), six 10-bit analog inputs (up to 200 ksps sample rate) and two 10-bit analog outputs (~100 ksps max rate)
 Inclusion of a "ROMulator" breakout board capable of emulating TSOP NAND flash devices
 Inclusion of a MyriadRF software-defined radio at all hardware-purchasing backing levels.

The Novena shipped with a screwdriver, as users are required to install the battery themselves, screw on the LCD bezel of their choice, and obtain speakers as a kit instead of using speaker boxes. Owners of a 3D printer can make and fine tune their own speaker box. The mainboards were manufactured by AQS, an electronics manufacturing services provider.

See also

 Open-source hardware
 Modular smartphone

References

External links
 Novena page on Sutajio Ko-Usagi's wiki
 Building an Open Source Laptop
 The Novena Open Laptop
 Novena Five-Year Anniversary: End-of-Life

Laptops
Open-source hardware
American inventions
Computer-related introductions in 2014
Modular design
Assumburg. The Assumburg, also known as Het Huis Assenburg (English: The House Assenburg), is a windmill located on the Veerweg 1 in Nieuw-Vossemeer, Steenbergen, in the province of North Brabant, Netherlands. Built in 1780 in The Zaan district, the windmill functioned as oil mill, until it was moved to its current location in 1897, when it became a gristmill. The mill was built as a tower mill with a bottom support of 5.20 meters high, and its sails have a span of 22.20 meters. The mill is a national monument (nr 30611) since 15 May 1973.

Gallery of images

References 

Windmills in North Brabant
Rijksmonuments in North Brabant
Smock mills in the Netherlands
Grinding mills in the Netherlands
Windmills completed in 1897
Steenbergen
Patricia Brown (engineer). Patricia L. Brown (born October 1, 1928) was the first female chemical engineer to graduate from Southwestern Louisiana Institute. She was one out of a total of two female chemical engineers at Stephan Company in 1993.

Education
Patricia Brown graduated from Southwestern Louisiana Institute as the first female chemical engineer in 1947. Then she earned her master's degree in chemistry from the University of Texas in 1949.

Career 
Brown taught chemistry at Smith College. She became a research associate at Albany Medical College. Then she worked for Ethyl Corporation in Detroit. Here, she began her career as a technical information resources specialist.

In 1955, Brown became a technical writer at Bettis Atomic Power Division Westinghouse. Then she became an Information Services Supervisor at Texas Instruments in 1957. She left Texas Instruments to do research in information storage and retrieval at Battelle Memorial Institute. After that, she worked in technical information management at Baxter Laboratories in Illinois. Brown remained in the field of information and research for the rest of her career until her retirement from Stepan Company. She learned skills in data analysis, system design, reporting and publishing, computer operations and management.

In addition to SWE, Brown is affiliated with the American Society for Information Science, the American Chemical Society, and the Society for Technical Communication.

"Today, most of the women who are graduating in engineering recognize that their engineering background may put them in a totally different area than actual hands-on engineering."– Patricia Brown

Society of Women Engineers 
Brown served was a lifelong active member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and served as the society's seventh president from 1961 to 1963. She co-founded the Detroit section of SWE in 1952. She was one of the first members, a Charter Member, of the South Ohio SWE section. When she arrived in Dallas, there was no regional section of SWE, so she kept in touch at the national level.

She was a key Member in helping keep SWE afloat in the late 1950s, when money was scarce and membership was low.

While Brown was president of SWE, she worked with Lillian Moller Gilbreth to help advance SWE's goals to encourage women engineers to succeed. As president, because of a minor miscommunication, Brown presented an honorary award to Marlene Schmidt, a German engineer who was also Miss Universe at the time. She attempted to persuade Grace Hopper to help SWE's cause as well, but Hopper did not believe in a separate society for women.

See also
 Society of Women Engineers
 American Society for Information Science
 American Chemical Society
 Society for Technical Communication

References

1928 births
Living people
20th-century American women engineers
20th-century American engineers
University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni
People from Lafayette, Louisiana
21st-century women engineers
21st-century American women
American chemical engineers
Women chemical engineers
Presidents of the Society of Women Engineers
Hoffman Construction Company. Hoffman Construction Company is a privately held construction company founded in 1922 based in Portland, Oregon, United States.

History
Lee Hoffman (May 15, 1850 - August 8, 1959) moved to Portland in the 1870s with his family and worked constructing bridges and other projects, including the Bull Run pipeline. 

The company started out building primarily apartment buildings and industrial structures in Portland. It had grown to more than 400 employees by 1928. 

Hoffman expanded to Seattle in 1929. The firm also built Cushman Dam No. 2 that year near Shelton, Washington, for Tacoma Power and Light.
Eric Hoffman (1923–2016) became president of the company in 1956 and chair in 1974. Lee Hawley Hoffman died on August 8, 1959. Cecil Drinkward came to Hoffman in 1967 as a vice president, and his son Wayne joined in 1985. Cecil Drinkward became president in 1974. In the late 1960s, the company shifted emphasis from paper and forestry industry to commercial construction.

After Hoffman completed an expansion at the Snake River Correctional Institute in Eastern Oregon, the state audited the work on the project in 1999. Auditors alleged some overpayments, while the company and the Oregon Department of Corrections disputed those allegations. 

The Intel D1X project built by Hoffman was named as the largest construction project in Oregon history in 2017. Intel hired Hoffman for this project in 2010. The newspaper reports "several billion dollars" but the exact amount is a "closely guarded secret". In 2015, Hoffman filed a $50.8 million lien on the D1X. In December 2017, The Oregonian followed up to report that Hoffman had withdrawn the "mysterious $50 million lien". Intel said "The terms and conditions of the resolution are confidential,"

Hoffman moved into the Fox Tower in downtown Portland in 2000 after constructing the building and added a permanent lobby exhibit showcasing the company's history. The company is re-locating to Lake Oswego in 2025.

Hoffman Construction was issued a warning by the City of Portland in September 2020 for having utilized a subcontractor that obtained women-owned status fraudulently so they can be awarded jobs as a subcontractor on Portland city government projects under a program designed to help disadvantaged business. This came after the subcontractor under question was caught.

Hoffman is known for building the Fox Tower, Memorial Coliseum, the Oregon Convention Center and the Wells Fargo Center.

References

Footnotes

Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States
Companies based in Portland, Oregon
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1922
1922 establishments in Oregon
Privately held companies based in Oregon
Perfluoro-1,3-dimethylcyclohexane. Perfluoro-1,3-dimethylcyclohexane is a fluorocarbon liquid—a perfluorinated derivative of the hydrocarbon 1,3-dimethylcyclohexane. It is chemically and biologically inert.

Manufacture
Perfluoro-1,3-dimethylcyclohexane can be manufactured by the Fowler process, which involves moderating the action of elemental fluorine with cobalt fluoride in the gas phase from meta-xylene. This is preferred as the starting material over 1,3-dimethylcyclohexane as less fluorine is required.

Properties
Perfluoro-1,3-dimethylcyclohexane is chemically inert and thermally stable (to over 400 °C). 

It is a clear, colorless liquid, with a relatively high density, low viscosity and low surface tension that will rapidly evaporate. It is a relatively good solvent for gases, but a poor solvent for solids and liquids.

In common with other cyclic perfluorocarbons, perfluoro-1,3-dimethylcyclohexane can be detected at extremely low concentrations, making it ideal as a tracer.

Applications
 Heat transfer agent
 Dielectric fluid
 Perfluorocarbon tracer

References 

Fluorocarbons
Halogenated solvents
Coolants
Perfluoromethylcyclohexane. Perfluoromethylcyclohexane is a fluorocarbon liquid—a perfluorinated derivative of the hydrocarbon methylcyclohexane. It is chemically and biologically inert.

Manufacture
Perfluoromethylcyclohexane can be manufactured by the Fowler process, which involves moderating the action of elemental fluorine with cobalt fluoride in the gas phase from toluene. This is preferred as the starting material over methylcyclohexane as less fluorine is required.

Properties
Perfluoromethylcyclohexane is chemically inert and thermally stable (to over 400 °C). It is non-toxic.

It is a clear, colorless liquid, with a relatively high density, low viscosity and low surface tension that will rapidly evaporate. It is a relatively good solvent for gases, but a poor solvent for solids and liquids.

In common with other cyclic perfluorocarbons, perfluoromethylcyclohexane can be detected at extremely low concentrations, making it ideal as a tracer.

Applications
 Heat transfer agent
 Dielectric fluid
 Perfluorocarbon tracer

References 

Fluorocarbons
Halogenated solvents
Coolants
Sanhua. Sanhua Holding Group Co., Ltd. (三花控股集团有限公司) is a global manufacturer of controls and components for the HVAC & Refrigeration  home appliance, automotive air conditioning and thermal management industries.

Brief introduction
It is one of China's manufacturers and exporters of control parts and components for air conditioners, refrigeration, home appliance, automotive air conditioning and thermal management. It is one of the world's largest reversing valve manufacturers.
Customers include Carrier, Johnson Controls, Miele, Emerson, Heatcraft, Lennox, Manitowoc, Panasonic, Daikin, Mitsubishi Electric, Samsung, LG, Gree, Haier, GM, Valeo, DENSO, DELPHI and other manufacturers.

Company history
 Sanhua Holding Group was founded in 1984, in Zhejiang, as a refrigeration components manufacturer. Over the next 10 years the company added components for air conditioning valves, such as the Reversing Valve.
 After 2004 a Research  and Development Department was added, which works with Zhejiang University.
 In 2005 the company went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under the code (002050:Shenzhen).
 In 2007 Sanhua acquired Ranco Valve division (Invensys), from then on, its reversing valve market share is more than 60%.
 In 2008 Sanhua intelligent (the public company) won China Quality Award, which marked the best product quality in manufacture industry.
 In 2012 Sanhua acquired Aweco (Home Appliances), and R- Squared Puckett Inc., in the field of microchannel heat exchangers.
 In 2016 Sanhua was invited to attend B20(one session of G20 Summit) as it is renowned in its sector. 
 In 2017 Sanhua built automotive tech center in N.America, and TXV line started in Mexico. At the same year, Sanhua Automotive won PACE Award for its Electronic Expansion Valve(EXV) which has satisfied many global carmakers' high expectations for balanced system performance and value.

References

External links
Official China Website
Official China group Website
Official Europe website
Official North American Website
Airconspares

Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning companies
Manufacturing companies of China
Chinese brands
Companies based in Hangzhou
Cooling technology
Heat pumps
Manufacturing companies established in 1984
Chinese companies established in 1984
1984 in Hangzhou
Patricia D. Lopez. Patricia Diane Lopez (Patty Lopez) is an American computer scientist noted for her research on computer vision, image processing,  and image enhancement. Her most notable work is her early efforts on neural networks, modeling human vision and imaging patents.

She is also noted for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She is a founding member of Latinas in Computing, serves on the CAHSI, Anita Borg Institute, and CRA-W Boards, and was the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2013 General Co-Chair.

Biography
Lopez received three degrees from New Mexico State University, a B.S. in Computer Science with honors in 1980, a M.S. in Computer Science with a minor in EE and Psychology in 1982,  and a Ph.D in Computer Science in 1989. From 1983-1989 she was part of the Vision and Robotics group at New Mexico State University. In 1989 she joined Hewlett Packard Co. as an R&D Software Design Engineer developing image processing algorithms and photo imaging software, and in 2000 as an Imaging Scientist responsible for new imaging technologies. In 2008, she moved to Intel Corporation as a Component Design Engineer for Logic Validation and in 2010 as a Platform Applications Engineer for the Mission Critical Data Center. Anita Borg Institute wrote a biography about her.

Awards

Her notable awards include:

 James F. Cole Memorial Award for Service, New Mexico State University Alumni Association, 2018
 SWE Advocating Women in Engineering Award 2015
 Great Minds in STEM/HENAAC, Community Service Award, 2010 - Award winners have demonstrated leadership in the minority engineering, science, and technology community through volunteer work, contributions and other activities that are not part of their current job description
 Hewlett Packard Diversity and Inclusion Award, 2004
 New Mexico State University Distinguished Alumna, College of Arts and Sciences, Technical, 2003
 Hewlett Packard Campus Recognition Program Award, 2003
 Hewlett Packard Technical Leadership Award, 2001

References

External links
 Intel Corporation:  Patricia D. Lopez, Mission Critical Data Center

American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Living people
New Mexico State University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Intel people
Hewlett-Packard people
People from Española, New Mexico
21st-century American women
Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics. Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of radiophysics and quantum electronics. It is the English translation of the Russian journal IIzvestiya VUZ. Radiofizika. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Radiophysical Research Institute (Russian Ministry of Education and Science) and the N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod. The journal was established in 1958 and the editor-in-chief is Vladimir V. Kocharovsky.

Abstracting and indexing 
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 0.770.

References

External links 
 

Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Quantum mechanics journals
English-language journals
Monthly journals
Academic journals established in 1958
Sodium germanate. Sodium germanate is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Na2GeO3. It exists as a colorless solid. Sodium germanate is primarily used for the synthesis of other germanium compounds.

Preparation and reactions
Sodium germanate can be prepared by the fusion of germanium oxide with sodium hydroxide at high temperatures:
2NaOH  +  GeO2  →  Na2GeO3  +  H2O
An intermediate in this reaction is the protonated derivative NaHGeO3, which is a water-soluble salt.

Structure

it is structurally analogous to sodium metasilicate, Na2SiO3, consisting of polymeric GeO32− anions made up of vertex sharing {GeO4} tetrahedra.

See also
 Germanate

References

Germanates
Sodium compounds
2d3. 2d3 Sensing is an American motion imagery software company based in Irvine, California. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of UK-based OMG plc. Using structure from motion, the company’s suite of products can extract information from images or videos by recreating, manipulating, and enhancing imagery to visualize two-dimensional data into three dimensions. 2d3 follows a COTS  business model and conforms to and influences emerging standards such as MISB (Motion Imagery Standards Board) and STANAG.

History 
Found in 1999, 2d3 focused on the application of computer vision based technology to specific use cases, such as the entertainment, law enforcement, defense, and medical imaging industries. The company’s initial product, Boujou, was used in the film industry and won a Primetime Emmy Award for technical achievement.
 
In 2006, 2d3 adopted the COTS model and entered the growing aerial imagery market. The company developed real-time forensic tools for FMV (full motion video) enhancement, which facilitated the conversion of geospatial metadata into intelligence.
 
In 2011, the company acquired digital media management and processing firm, Sensing Systems, Inc., and the resulting merged company was renamed to 2d3 Sensing.

In 2015, the company was acquired by The Boeing Company's subsidiary company Insitu.

References

External links
 2d3 Sensing
 Insitu

Software companies based in California
Technology companies established in 1999
Companies based in Irvine, California
Defunct software companies of the United States
1999 establishments in California
Remote sensing companies