omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
IRIAF Parastu-14. Parastu-14 (), is an Iranian trainer aircraft developed by the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force and produced by HESA.  The Parastu-14 entered service with the IRIAF after passing preliminary tests.

Unveiling 
Parastu-14 trainer aircraft was introduced during an unveiling ceremony in "Hunting base of Shahid Major General Pilot Hossein Lashgari" in September 2013, and was added to Iran's military air-force. According to the deputy commander of the "Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force"  --Mohsen Darreh Baghi (محسن دره باغی)-- the production of this kind of training-aircraft which are done by using advanced aeronautical technologies, will be continued.

References

2000s Iranian military trainer aircraft
Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
Post–Cold War military equipment of Iran
Aircraft manufactured in Iran
Iranian military-related lists
Missile Shower System. The Missile Shower System () is an automated, rail-mounted multiple ballistic missile launcher designed to enable a rapid barrage of medium range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) to be launched from Iran's underground missile silos. Each system has the ability to carry and fire five Emad precision-guided missiles with a range of 1700 km and maneuverable warheads as shown in the unveiling-ceremony. The system has been built by the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and was unveiled on November 4, 2020.]

Overview 
Each system consists of a rail mounted wagon with the ability to vertically carry five missiles, the vertically stowed missile "magazine" then brings the groups of missiles into their launch positions for rapid, consecutive launching from the underground silo. This system is the first of its kind, and has no parallels anywhere else in the world in the missile arsenals of other countries.

The Shower System offers several advantages compared to the conventional method of launching a single missile from a single silo at a time:

 In a total war scenario, especially fighting an enemy with air superiority (e.g. the U.S.), when underground silos can only launch missiles one at a time, they can only launch a few missiles before being detected and hit by a counter strike.  The missile magazine system allows Iran to launch significantly more missiles before any likely retaliation.
 It allows Iran to overwhelm enemy anti-ballistic missile defense systems with a rapid barrage of a large number of medium-range ballistic missiles.
 Since the missiles on their individual platforms are ready to fire, there is no need to reload individual launchers using a crane or trans-loader, thus storing the missiles more efficiently and taking up less space at the site.

A missile magazine-type base has been discovered to be under construction near Khorgo, Hormozgan province.

Unveiling 
The Iranian "Missile Shower System" has been unveiled on 4 November 2020 by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander Major General Hossein Salami. Salami said at the mentioned unveiling ceremony: "Our missile power guarantees the withdrawal of enemies (from the region)." He also added: our deterrent and defense capabilities provide Iran with great power which supports the country in demonstrating its political will and imposing it on the enemy if necessary.

See also 
List of military equipment manufactured in Iran
Amirali Hajizadeh
Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam

References 

Surface-to-surface missiles of Iran
Ballistic missiles of Iran
Post–Cold War weapons of Iran
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Railway weapons
Iranian military-related lists
Timothy Alden (inventor). Timothy Alden (February 3, 1823 – December 4, 1858), was an American inventor, known for The Alden-type, a typesetting machine.

Biography 
Alden was born at Barnstable, Massachusetts, on February 3, 1823, sixth in descent from John Alden, the Puritan. Other sources refers he was born on June 14, 1819. When very young he was apprenticed to his brother, who was a printer, and at the age of seventeen began to plan a machine "for setting and distributing type".

It took five years for his crude idea to develop into a practical reality, and then he produced a composing and distributing machine, the type arranged in cells around the circumference of a horizontal wheel, as the wheel revolves the receivers pick up the type as directed by the operator. He removed to New York City in 1846, and thenceforth applied himself sedulously to his favourite idea with such success, that a practical, though imperfect, machine was completed and patented in various countries in 1856; the English patent is No. 3089, December 29, 1856, "for settings and distributing printing types." The U.S. patent is No. 18175, on September 15, 1857, with classifications "details of, or accessories for, machines for mechanical composition using matrices for individual characters which are selected and assembled for type casting or moulding" and "arrangements or devices for distributing matrices or space bands after casting or moulding."

This machine was improved by his brother Henry W. Alden, after the death of Timothy, and was the pioneer in type-setting machines in the United States, although it did not come into extensive practical use. He died in New York City, on December 4, 1858.

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Otto A.G.O. 50 hp. The Otto A.G.O. 50 hp aircraft engine from 1911 was a four-cylinder, water cooled inline engine built by the German Gustav Otto Flugmaschinenwerke.

Design and development

The Otto A.G.O. (Aeromotor Gustav Otto) 50 hp engine was designed by Hans Geisenhof in 1911 at the Gustav Otto Flugmaschinenwerke. It had a bore and stroke of  and produced about  at 1,200 rpm.

The cylinders were cast separately from iron and then machined. They were grouped together to a single block, joined at their cooling jackets by means of flanges and bolts. There were two side valves per cylinder, which were operated from the camshaft, which was located on the left side of the engine block and driven from the crankshaft by spur gears.
All four cylinders were fed by a single carburettor. A single spark plug per cylinder was mounted above the inlet valve, with the magneto located at the control side of the engine, driven from the crankshaft via an intermediate spur gear.

The crankshaft was supported by one intermediate and two outer plain bearings, with two additional thrust ball bearings at the propeller end. Lubrication was pressure fed, with an oil pump feeding oil to the crankshaft bearings.

Applications

Otto Renn-Doppeldecker (1912) racing biplane

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1910s aircraft piston engines
Otto aircraft engines
Jun Zhu (physicist). Jun Zhu is a Chinese-American experimental condensed matter physicist known for her research in valleytronics and more generally on electronic transport in two-dimensional materials, particularly graphene. She is a professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University.

Education and career
Zhu graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1996, and completed her Ph.D. in 2003 at Columbia University, working there with Horst Ludwig Störmer. After postdoctoral research at Cornell University, she joined the Pennsylvania State University physics department as a faculty member in 2006.

Recognition
In 2020 Zhu was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for fundamental advances in the understanding of charge-, valley- and spin-transport in 2D materials".

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American physicists
American women physicists
Chinese women physicists
University of Science and Technology of China alumni
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Pennsylvania State University faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women scientists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Saidpur railway workshop. Saidpur railway workshop is a railway workshop in Bangladesh situated at Saidpur, Nilphamari District and operated by Bangladesh Railway. It is one of the two railway workshops in Bangladesh (the other being Pahartali railway workshop in Chittagong) where maintenance and repair of railway coaches and wagons are done. It is also the largest railway workshop of the country.

Details 
In 1870, Saidpur railway workshop was established as a meter-gauge steam locomotive repair shed on a 110-acre land. Later, with the installation of plants and machines to repair meter-gauge and broad-gauge coaches and wagons, the workshop became fully equipped in 1953 at 800 acres of land. There are 25 different shops where repair work is done and around 1,200 items of spare parts and tools for carriage and wagon are manufactured.

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Bangladesh Railway
Railway workshops
Saidpur Upazila
Beau Parry. Beau Parry is an American inventor, known for his contributions in the field of biometric encryption and liveness detection. He is also the founder of BRIVAS, a biometric technology company that offers biometric encryption services for consumers, enterprises, and government.
In 2012, Parry founded BRIVAS in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2015 he received a U.S. patent for biometric encryption to stop digital identity fraud. Parry achieved a granted patent that claims cloud based biometric liveness detection wherein the verification enables access to data stored in a blockchain. Parry also holds a patent that protects deterministic bio-signature keybinding that utilizes one or more biometrics along with contextual data from GPS or other sensors. Parry delivered a talk "Seeing is Believing" in a TEDx event in October 2018.  Parry was educated at Cincinnati Country Day School and later attended The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he studied Economics and played linebacker under Coach Mack Brown.

In December 2023, BRIVAS partnered with Dan Leckrone (formerly The TPL Group) to create BRIVAS II, LLC, a biometric patent portfolio for commercialization.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American inventors
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Iwa Khola Hydropower Project. Iwa Khola Hydropower Project (Nepali: ईवा खोला जलविद्युत आयोजना) is a run-of-river hydro-electric plant located in Sawalakhu, Taplejung District of Nepal. The flow from Iwa River is used to generate 9.90 MW electricity.  The plant is owned and developed by Rairang Hydropower Development Company Limited. The plant started generating electricity since 2076-06-20 B.S. The generation licence will expire in 2107-03-27 BS, after which the plant will be handed over to the government.

The power station is connected to the national grid and it sells electricity to Nepal Electricity Authority.

Finance
The project was financed by a consortium of banks led by the Bank of Kathmandu. The consortium partners are Machhapuchchhre Bank, Nepal Credit and Commerce Bank, Siddhartha Bank and Citizen Bank. The total project cost is estimated at NPR 1.60 billion. Out of the total project cost, 65% is financed by the consortium.

Rairang Hydropower Development Company Limited is a subsidiary company of Ridi hydropower development company limited with 268 shareholders.

See also

List of power stations in Nepal

References

External links
Official website of the plant 

Hydroelectric power stations in Nepal
Run-of-the-river power stations
Dams in Nepal
Buildings and structures in Taplejung District
Arcfox Lite. The Arcfox Lite is an all-electric microcar manufactured by BAIC under the Arcfox brand between 2017 and 2020.

Overview 

In 2016, the Chinese automaker BAIC Group introduced the pre-production Lite R300 model, which was originally intended to power the BJEV electric car sub-brand. Ultimately, the car went on sale under the newly established Arcfox brand at the end of 2017, as another model with electrically powered microcars steadily gaining popularity in China.

In terms of design, the Lite adopts the avant-garde form of a hatchback with a short, stepped rear and two-color body paint, as well as a distinctive, luminous strip between the headlights.

Specifications 
The Lite's electrical system is co-created by a 16.4 kWh battery, developing a total power of 49 hp and a maximum torque of 120 Nm. The maximum range of the vehicle on a single charge is approximately 150 kilometers.

References 

Lite
Cars introduced in 2017
Cars discontinued in 2020
Production electric cars
Microcars
German submarine U-1011. German submarine U-1011 was a Type VIIC/41 U-boat ordered by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. Laid down on 12 March 1943, at Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, as yard number 211, the incomplete submarine fell victim to an RAF bombing raid on 25 July 1943. Planned repair work was cancelled on 22 July 1944.

Design
German Type VIIC/41 submarines were preceded by the heavier Type VIIC submarines. U-1011 had a displacement of  when at the surface and  while submerged. She had a total length of , a pressure hull length of , an overall beam of , a height of , and a draught of . The submarine was powered by two Germaniawerft F46 four-stroke, six-cylinder supercharged diesel engines producing a total of  for use while surfaced, two BBC GG UB 720/8 double-acting electric motors producing a total of  for use while submerged. She had two shafts and two  propellers. The boat was capable of operating at depths of up to .

The submarine had a maximum surface speed of  and a maximum submerged speed of . When submerged, the boat could operate for  at ; when surfaced, she could travel  at . U-1011 was fitted with five  torpedo tubes (four fitted at the bow and one at the stern), fourteen torpedoes or 26 TMA or TMB Naval mines, one  SK C/35 naval gun, (220 rounds), one  Flak M42 and two  C/30 anti-aircraft guns. The boat had a complement of between forty-four and fifty-two.

See also
 Battle of the Atlantic

References

Bibliography

German Type VIIC/41 submarines
World War II submarines of Germany
Ships built in Hamburg
UniCOLT. UniCOLT is a family of 4x4 military logistical vehicles manufactured by the Sri Lanka Electrical and Mechanical Engineers for use by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.

Design 
UniCOLT is almost entire locally manufactured with Sri Lankan made parts except for their engines and chassis and comes in multiple variants for different roles . They are equipped with Air Conditioned Cabins, Audio system with reverse camera, GPS Tracking and Engine overheating sensors.

Variants 

 UniCOLT MPT: Multi Purpose Truck variant 
 UniCOLT GE:  Diesel Gully Emptier with 5000 litre capacity
 UniCOLT WB:  Water Bowser variant with a tank capacity of 8000 litres

References

Post–Cold War military equipment of Sri Lanka
Military trucks
Vehicles of Sri Lanka
Military vehicles introduced in the 2020s
Peter Furth. Peter G Furth is a researcher and professor at Northeastern University known for his work in transit planning, traffic signals, and bicycle infrastructure. Furth is also considered an expert on Dutch cycling policy and history. He is an advocate for European style cycling infrastructure to be brought to the United States. Furth developed the concept of "Bicycle Priority Lane markings" in 2009 which have since been implemented in several US cities. He also developed the "Level of Traffic Stress" method for categorizing cycling routes, which has been adopted as an organizing concept for some local cycling maps as well as research.

He is opposed to the concept of "vehicular cycling" developed by John Forester and instead supports the implementation of low-stress cycling networks. Furth is also an advocate for increased pedestrian zones in downtown areas.

Furth is the son of Hans G. Furth, a renowned psychology professor.

Education 
Furth has a BS, MS and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Notable work 
Furth has authored over 70 publications in the transportation research field. He was a contributing author to the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide. Furth has received the best paper award from the Transportation Research Board twice, once in 1988 and once in 2004.

References 

Northeastern University faculty
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Cycling advocates
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Wooden Ships and Iron Men (1996 video game). Wooden Ships and Iron Men is a 1996 computer wargame developed by Stanley Associates and published by Avalon Hill. It is an adaptation of the board wargame Wooden Ships and Iron Men.

Gameplay
Wooden Ships and Iron Men is a computer wargame that simulates historical naval warfare, around the time of the Napoleonic Wars.

Development
Wooden Ships and Iron Men was developed by Stanley Associates and published by Avalon Hill, as an adaptation of the publisher's board wargame Wooden Ships and Iron Men. The two companies had previously worked together on 5th Fleet. Stanley's Mike Inella said that the team wanted to make "a PC treatment [of Wooden Ships] that completely eliminated any feeling of counting hexes". One change to the design was an increase in the number of wind directions from four to eight. The game was under production for more than two years.

Reception

Wooden Ships and Iron Men sold fewer than 50,000 units globally. This was part of a trend for Avalon Hill games during the period; Terry Coleman of Computer Gaming World wrote in late 1998 that "no AH game in the past five years" had reached the mark.

Wooden Ships and Iron Men was a finalist for Computer Gaming Worlds 1996 "Wargame of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Battleground 4: Shiloh. The magazine's wargame columnist Terry Coleman gave it his 1996 "Most Pleasant Surprise" award, and dubbed it "easily the best game ever on the Age of Sail".

See also
Wooden Ships and Iron Men (1987)

References

External links

1996 video games
Avalon Hill video games
Computer wargames
DOS games
DOS-only games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Napoleonic Wars video games
Naval video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games based on board games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the 18th century
Stanley Associates games
Otto A.G.O. 70 hp. The Otto A.G.O. 70 hp aircraft engine was a six-cylinder, water cooled inline engine built by the German Gustav Otto Flugmaschinenwerke.

Design and development

The Otto A.G.O. (Aeromotor Gustav Otto) 70 hp engine was developed from the preceding four-cylinder 50 hp type by Hans Geisenhof at the Gustav Otto Flugmaschinenwerke.
It kept the same general design and also had the same bore and stroke of , producing about  at 1,200 rpm.

The cylinders were cast separately from iron and then machined.
They were grouped together to a single block, joined at their cooling jackets by means of flanges and bolts.
There were two side valves per cylinder, which were operated from the camshaft, which was located on the left side of the engine block and driven from the crankshaft by spur gears.
The conjoined cylinder block incorporated a single intake duct running through the water jackets. 
Two Cudell-G.A.-carburettors were placed together mid-engine and fed into this intake duct from both ends via a common intake pipe.
The intake pipe and the carburettors were enclosed by heating jackets, which were integrated into the coolant circulation.
There was a single spark plug per cylinder, with the magneto located at the control side of the engine, driven from the crankshaft via an intermediate spur gear.

The crankshaft was supported by two intermediate and two outer plain bearings, with two additional thrust ball bearings at the propeller end.
Lubrication was pressure fed, with an oil pump feeding oil to the crankshaft bearings.

Specifications

See also

References

Bibliography 

1910s aircraft piston engines
Otto aircraft engines
Enrico Palermo. Enrico Palermo is an Australian mechanical engineer, businessman and the Head of the Australian Space Agency. He was the former President of The Spaceship Company, which develops and manufactures spaceplanes for Virgin Galactic, and the former Chief Operating Officer at Virgin Galactic, whose VSS Unity is undergoing flight trials to become the world’s first passenger spaceplane.

Education 
Palermo holds two degrees from the University of Western Australia (UWA): a BEng in mechanical engineering (2002) and a BSc in physics and applied mathematics (2000). At UWA he was a Clough scholar and a member of the University’s Cooperative Education for Enterprise Development (CEED) Program, for which he completed a thesis in mine planning for Rio Tinto.

He won a scholarship to the Space Studies Program at the International Space University, Strasbourg, France, graduating in 2006.

Business career 
After graduation Palermo worked for Woodside Energy as a mechanical engineer. In 2005, he became a business analyst at a UK-based engineering firm, where he specialised in composite materials. He joined Virgin Galactic as an operations executive in 2006, becoming one of the firm's first ten full-time employees. He was the technical liaison between Virgin Galactic and its then-partner Scaled Composites. He also drafted the business plan that established The Spaceship Company and became that firm's first employee.

Palermo was General Manager of The Spaceship Company between 2016 and 2018, and its President from 2018 to 2020. He joined Virgin Galactic as its Chief Operating Officer in 2020. He was also involved in Virgin Galactic's high-mach, sub-hypersonic commercial winged vehicle projects.

In 2019, Palermo and Richard Branson donated to the Smithsonian Museum the engine used in the VSS Unity’s first spaceflight.

On 13 November 2020, the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that Palermo would lead the Australian Space Agency from January 2021, replacing inaugural Head Dr. Megan Clark.

Personal life 
Palermo was born in Perth, Australia. He lives in Adelaide, Australia with his wife Nadia, whom he met studying at Chisholm Catholic College. The couple has two children.

At university Palermo became involved with Formula SAE, a student design competition to develop a Formula-style racing car. Palermo started off working on the car's electrics and engine before taking part as a driver in the competition's 2001 season.

He has twice been a finalist judge for Google’s Science Fairs. In 2014 he was invited to deliver the Warren Centre Innovation Lecture, Beyond Earth.

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21st-century Australian engineers
Australian aerospace engineers
21st-century Australian businesspeople
Businesspeople in aviation
Australian aviation pioneers
Space advocates
The Spaceship Company
University of Western Australia alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people