omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Ariel Hotel. The Ariel Hotel is a circular hotel very close to London Heathrow Airport.

The hotel was built for J. Lyons and Co. in 1960, and designed by Russell Diplock & Associates. It was "Britain’s first significant airport hotel", and the first hotel to be built at 'London Airport' (as it was known up to 1966), its completion being timed to coincide with the opening of the Oceanic Terminal (now Terminal 3). It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 December 1960.

According to a promotional fold-out brochure published by the hotel in March 1962, the hotel's name referenced the 1842 Aerial Steam Carriage  monoplane design of William Samuel Henson and John Stringfellow. The brochure explained “In a sense the ‘Ariel’ is an ancestor of the great airliners… [and today] the name ‘Ariel’ is once more important in the world of flying. The Ariel Hotel, the first circular hotel in Europe, stands beside London Airport”.

The hotel was built with 185 rooms, and its doughnut design allows it to offer dedicated single-bed rooms around the inside ring, an unusual feature among Heathrow hotels.

It was acquired in 1978 by the Forte Group as a Posthouse, and in 2001 it was bought by Bass/Six Continents which became the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) which put it in their Holiday Inn brand. After a couple of ownership changes, in 2015 the hotel was managed by the Redefine BDL Hotels (RBH) group who continued to run it as a Holiday Inn franchise. As of 2023 the hotel operates under the Best Western brand to which it transferred around 2021. It is advertised as having 184 rooms.

On 15 February 2020, the hotel became a temporary quarantine centre during the COVID-19 pandemic and was closed to the general public for around a month.

, the website appears to be accepting bookings as normal.

References

External links
 Official site

Hotels in London
Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Hillingdon
Buildings and structures at Heathrow Airport
Hotels established in 1960
Hotel buildings completed in 1960
Digital terminal adapter. A Digital transport/terminal adapter (or DTA) is a device used by cable companies who are switching to all-digital cable systems. They typically have an RF input for receiving service, and a modulated output on Channel 3 or 4 that allows a TV to be set to channel 3 or 4 and have the tuner change channels. They are also deployed by cable companies who are encrypting digital signals to cut down on cable theft.

These devices go under several names, such as Digital Terminal Adapter, Digital Transport Adapter, or Digital Adapter. They generally do not offer pay-per-view or DVR support, but Rovi (formerly Macrovision) is deploying an on-screen guide that would allow subscribers to see what is on TV at the moment. Digital adapters are intended for rooms with less used TVs or for basic cable subscribers.

History
As part of Comcast Project Cavalry (also referred to as the Digital Migration), all customers starting in 2009 who subscribed to expanded cable would need a DTA device or traditional cable box to keep viewing affected channels. Project Cavalry was intended to clear bandwidth for DOCSIS 3.0 services including faster internet, and additional HD programming. Since 2012–2014, all channels on Comcast-operated cable systems are encrypted to prevent theft of service.

Launching DTAs and decryption devices with embedded security and not relying on a device such as CableCARD became problematic, as the FCC banned integrated security from cable tuners in 2007. Eventually, the cable companies overcame this and launched the digital adapters.

Comcast has since introduced the XiD set-top box with the same form factor as the original DTA design but adds an HDMI output and access to X1 DVRs and channels via its digital cable and IP tuning abilities. In 2012, an HD-DTA was launched adding an HDMI connection and RF remote support to the original DTA design.

Other cable operators including Cox, Mediacom, and several others have since adopted the digital adapter technology that Comcast pioneered in 2009.

References

Cable television technology
Charlie Emery. Charlie Emery is a pinball podcaster and pinball machine designer from the United States. He runs "Spooky Pinball".

Career
Emery started with a retheme project of Godzilla based on a Williams firepower II. He went on to design his own pinball machine called "pinball zombies from beyond the grave", which has been turned into a Rob Zombie themed pinball with updated layout. He currently runs a pinball company called "Spooky Pinball", named after his podcast. Spooky Pinball finished manufacturing 150 units of "America's Most Haunted" designed by Benjamin Heckendorn as of January 2016.

Emery worked for Signcraft screen printing in Galena, IL from 1992-2013 before starting his pinball company.  Many of the techniques he learned have carried over to pinball, including direct printing to playfields and cabinets.  He has been podcasting since April 2010.  He often has his family on, including his two kids (Corwin "Bug" Emery and Morgan "Squirrel" Emery) who do skits to advertise products, as well as pinball and horror related celebrities.  In the past year, Charlie has handed the reins of the podcast over to his son bug, dubbing it the "bugcast".  On the February 2021 podcast they announced that they would be shifting from podcasting to more video content.

Games Manufactured
 America's Most Haunted - Ben Heck designer (March 2014)
 Rob Zombie Spookshow International - Charlie Emery designer (February 2016)
 Domino's Spectacular Pizza Adventure- Adam Gacek & Charlie Emery designer (July 2016)
 Jetsons Pinball - contract manufacturer for The Pinball Company (March 2017)
 Total Nuclear Annihilation - Scott Danesi designer (August 2017)
 Alice Cooper's Nightmare Castle - Charlie Emery designer (April 2018)
 Rick and Morty - Scott Danesi designer (January 2020)
 Halloween - Group design (July 2021)
 Ultraman - Group design (July 2021)
 Total Nuclear Annihilation CE Remake (September 2022)
 Scooby Doo (December 2022)
 Looney Tunes
 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
 Evil Dead (November 2024)

Movies
 Things that go bump in the night (Fall 2016)

References

http://thingsthatgobumpmovie.com

Living people
1969 births
People from Benton, Wisconsin
Pinball people
SS Tum Tum. SS Tum Tum was a Steamship used to move building stone from the granite quarry on the lake shore south of Vernon, BC. She had a total of 8 horsepower. Some speculate she was the Skookum alias Tut Tut with a slight name change as they were similar in number of horsepower.

See also

References

Steamships of Canada
Tugboats of Canada
Sonex Aircraft Teros. The Teros is a UAV developed by Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation.

Development

The NASC Teros UAS is a single-engine, low wing, V tail monoplane developed by Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation in collaboration with Sonex using the Sonex built Aircraft Waiex as a base airframe, powered by a turbocharged AeroConversions AeroVee 2180 engine, with fixed tricycle landing gear.

Sleek, aerobatic, and highly adaptable, the Teros from Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation is the perfect airframe for a multitude of UAV applications. Designed to meet the expanding requirement for an extended range, high altitude aircraft, the Teros can operate in a wide range of environments and excel at the most challenging missions.

The rugged and resilient Teros was derived from a proven airframe that has logged thousands of mishap-free flight hours. Its robust and unique construction makes it highly durable without adding unnecessary weight or sacrificing payload capacity. Putting it simply, the Teros is an American-Made solution that does the job at a fraction of the cost of similarly capable unmanned aerial vehicles.

Specifications (Teros)

References

External links

2010s United States sport aircraft
Unmanned aerial vehicles
V-tail aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Teros
Low-wing aircraft
Woods Reservoir. Woods Reservoir is a 3,600 acre reservoir created by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for use as a cooling system for the United States Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center.  The US Air Force and Arnold Engineering Development Center own and operate Woods Reservoir.  

The reservoir and dam were built primarily for cooling for the Wind Tunnels that would be built on the base.  According to a study by  St. Louis, Missouri-based engineering firm Sverdrup & Parcel, the amount of water required annually for AEDC operations would be more than 22.4 billion gallons. Of this, the vast majority – nearly 21 billion gallons – would serve as cooling water for the test facilities. The remainder would be used for air conditioning, sanitary water and fire protection.  A pump house was built at the reservoir to pump water to a holding reservoir on base for eventual use.

Woods reservoir was named in  honor of the late Col. Lebbeus B. Woods who was responsible for much of the early organizing, staffing and master planning for the center project.

Construction began in late 1950 and Woods Reservoir opened for public fishing and recreation on May 30, 1953

It is located in Franklin and Coffee counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. At its deepest, the lake reaches  (by the Elk River Dam .)  Full pool elevation is 960 feet-mean sea level and winter pool elevation is 957 feet-mean sea level.

Fishing is a popular sport on the reservoir with 4 fishing piers.  The best fishing opportunities are for Largemouth Bass, Crappie, White Bass, Yellow Bass, and Channel Catfish.

References

Reservoirs in Tennessee
Protected areas of Franklin County, Tennessee
Protected areas of Coffee County, Tennessee
Bodies of water of Franklin County, Tennessee
Bodies of water of Coffee County, Tennessee
Flisom. Flisom is a developer and manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) thin film solar cells located near Zurich, Switzerland, founded in 2005. The company produces high-efficiency CIGS thin film solar modules on flexible plastic foil using proprietary roll-to-roll manufacturing techniques. 

The innovative manufacturing technology enables price competition with established c-si PV manufacturing systems at a comparatively smaller production scale. Furthermore, the lightweight, flexible, jet-black and thin solar panels potentially can bring down the overall costs for fully installed solar PV systems. This is about half the cost of conventional PV technology based on crystalline silicon.

Potential applications for flexible lightweight CIGS modules include building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), applied photovoltaics (BAPV), as well as customized solar panels for Transportation & Mobility and portable rollable power systems.

History 
Flisom AG was founded in 2005 as a spin-off company of ETH Zurich, and has a long-standing research partnership with Empa – the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology, which has been developing this type of flexible solar cell to world record efficiencies of 20.4%. The world record for CIGS cells based in laboratory conditions has since been further increased by ZSW () and stands at 21.7% as of July 2015. Since this record was achieved on glass substrate, Flisom's research partner Empa is still the holder of the world record with 20.4% cell efficiency on a polymeric substrate.

In April 2023, Flisom sells its 15MW Zurich production facility to the US company Ascent Solar Technologies, together with the licensing of the associated rights to use the intellectual property.

Technology 
The company's production technology is based on a roll-to-roll manufacturing process of flexible solar modules, involving deposition of thin films of CIGS absorber material onto a polymer foil substrate made of polyimide. The key processes of depositing the absorber material in this manner has been proprietarily developed by the company itself. As of 2015, a 15 MW pilot production line is being commissioned in a new facility in Niederhasli near Zurich, Switzerland.

See also 
 List of CIGS companies
 Solar Frontier
 Thin film solar cell
 Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

References

External links 
 Flisom: Flexible PV from Lab to Fab 
 Empa Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics 

Thin-film cell manufacturers
Sustainable energy
Swiss brands
List of United States Army tactical truck engines. In the late 1930s the US Army began setting requirements for custom built tactical trucks, winning designs would be built in quantity. As demand increased during WWII some standardized designs were built by other manufactures.

Most trucks had gasoline (G) engines until the early 1960s, when multifuel (M) and diesel (D) engines were introduced. Since then diesel fuel has increasingly been used, the last gasoline engine vehicles were built in 1985.

Most engines have been water-cooled with inline (I) cylinders, but V types (V) and opposed (O) engines have also been used. Three air-cooled engines were used in two very light trucks. Gasoline engines up to WWII were often valve in block design (L-head), during the war more overhead valve (ohv) engines were used, and after the war all new engines (except 1 F-head and 1 Overhead camshaft (ohc)) have been ohv. All diesel engines have ohv, they can be naturally aspired, supercharged  (SC), or turbocharged (TC).

The same engines have been used in different trucks, and larger trucks often have had different engines during their service life. Because of application and evolution, the same engine often has different power ratings. Ratings are in SAE gross horsepower.

The front of an engine is the fan end, the rear is the flywheel end, right and left are as viewed from the rear, regardless of how the engine is mounted in the vehicle. Engines in the tables are water-cooled and naturally aspirated unless noted.

AM General/Kaiser Jeep/Willys

Caterpillar

Chevrolet – GMC

Continental

Cummins

Detroit Diesel

Dodge-Fargo

Ford

Hall-Scott

Hercules

International Harvester

LeRoi

Mack

REO

Notes

References

Works cited 

 
 
 

Military trucks of the United States
United States Army tactical truck engines
Tactical truck engines
United States Army tactical truck engines
Anisur Khuda-Bukhsh. Anisur Rahman Khuda-Bukhsh (born 26 September 1948) is a professor of zoology at the University of Kalyani in West Bengal, India, and a homeopathy researcher. In 2003, he published a study which claimed that homeopathic Arsenicum album reduced arsenic-caused liver toxicity in mice. He has also done research on treating arsenic-induced diabetes in mice using a product consisting of insulin wrapped in a coat of nanoparticles; Khuda-Bukhsh and his collaborators describe this product as "nano-insulin". Nature Asia describes an article published in peer review journal of Integrative Medicine about the action of homeopathy in gene expression.

References

20th-century Indian zoologists
Indian homeopaths
Academic staff of the University of Kalyani
Alternative medicine researchers
Living people
1948 births
Indian diabetologists
FG-02. The FG-02 was a Chinese solid rocket motor burning polysulfide polymer-based composite propellant. It was developed by China Hexi Chemical and Machinery Corporation (also known as the 6th Academy of CASIC) for use in the Long March 1 third stage. It has a total nominal mass of , of which  is propellant load. It has an average thrust of  with a specific impulse of 254 seconds burning for 38 seconds, with a total impulse of . It used spin stabilization and a timing device to ignite in flight.

The Long March 1 is basically a DF-4 with a solid third stage and a fairing. So the FG-02 was developed as the third stage to add to the stack. It was initially tested on two launches aboard T-7A sounding rockets to validate high altitude ignitions. Both successful flights were performed in August 1968. Before going into the launch vehicle, the propellant load was increased from  to . It performed just two orbital flights, both from Jiuquan and both successful. The first was on April 24, 1970, to orbit the indigenous satellite, the Dong Fang Hong I. And the second was on March 3, 1971, on the Shijian 1 mission.

See also
 Dong Fang Hong I
 Long March 1

References

Rocket stages
Rocket engines of China
Solid-fuel rockets
2015 WPI Engineers football team. The 2015 WPI Engineers football team represented Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the 2015 NCAA Division III football season. It marked the Engineers' 126th overall season and the team played its home games at Alumni Stadium in Worcester, Massachusetts. They were led by sixth year head coach Chris Robertson. They were a member of the Liberty League.

The Engineers finished the season with a winning record of 7-4.

Schedule
The 2015 schedule was officially released on June 22, 2015. WPI will face all seven Liberty League opponents: RPI, Hobart, Union, Merchant Marine, St. Lawrence, Rochester, and Springfield. They are also scheduled to play four non-conference games: MIT of the New England Football Conference (NEFC), Worcester State of the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MSCAC), and Norwich of the NEFC.

References

WPI
WPI Engineers football seasons
WPI Engineers football
Teardrop (electronics). A teardrop is typically drop-shaped feature on a printed circuit board and can be found on the junction of vias or contact pads.

Purpose
The main purpose of teardrops is to enhance structural integrity in presence of thermal or mechanical stresses, for example due to vibration or flexing. Structural integrity may be compromised, e.g., by misalignment during drilling, so that too much copper may be removed by the drill hole in the area where a trace connects to the pad or via. An extra advantage is the enlarging of manufacturing tolerances, making manufacturing easier and cheaper.

Shape

While a typical shape of a teardrop is straight-line tapering, they may be concave. This type of teardrop is also called filleting or straight. To produce a snowman-shaped teardrop, a secondary pad of smaller size is added at the junction overlapping with the primary pad (hence the nickname).

Necking

For similar reasons, a technique called trace necking reduces (or necks down) the width of a trace that approaches a narrower pad of a surface-mounted device or a through-hole with a diameter that is less than the width of the trace, or when the trace passes through bottlenecks (for example, between the pads of a component).

References

External links

High Frequency PCB

Printed circuit board manufacturing
George Walker Thomson. George Walker Thomson (1883 – 7 July 1949) was a Scottish trade unionist.

Born in Glasgow, Thomson studied at Allan Glen's School and the Glasgow School of Art.  During this time, he became a supporter of guild socialism, and for a while was secretary of the Clarion Scouts in the city.

Although he began working as a model builder, he soon followed his father into engineering, completing an apprenticeship with Ross & Duncan before studying at the Royal Technical College.  He then worked as a draughtsman designing boilers and joined the new Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen (AESD).  He was elected to its executive in 1917, where was a close associate of general secretary Peter Doig, who had studied with Thomson at the School of Art, and he became the union's convenor later the same year.

During World War I, Thomson was joint editor of The Guildsman, the Glasgow publication of the National Guilds League.  This experience enabled him to become editor of the AESD's revived publication, The Draughtsman, in 1918, working full-time on the publication from 1920 until 1948, when he retired due to poor health.

In 1935, Thomson was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and he served as President of the TUC in 1946/47  He was also active in the National Federation of Professional Workers and the Labour Party, where he was secretary of the Science Advisory Committee.

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1883 births
1949 deaths
Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art
Alumni of the University of Strathclyde
Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress
People educated at Allan Glen's School
Trade unionists from Glasgow
Presidents of the Trades Union Congress
MulticoreWare. MulticoreWare Inc is a software development company, offering products and services related to HEVC video compression, machine learning (specifically, convolutional neural networks), compilers for heterogeneous computing, and software performance optimization services. MulticoreWare's customers include AMD, Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm and Telestream. The company was founded in 2009 and has offices in the United States, China and India.

References 

Business software companies
Companies based in California
Technology companies established in 2009
Software companies of the United States
Technology companies of the United States
Web service providers
2009 establishments in California
Companies based in San Jose, California
Gordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science and Technology. The Gordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science and Technology (formerly the Solid-State Science and Technology Award) was established by The Electrochemical Society in 1971 to recognize individuals distinguished for outstanding contributions to solid-state science and technology. The award is presented every two years, and recipients receive a silver medal, wall plaque, cash prize, Society Life membership, and a complimentary meeting registration.

History 
Despite the fact that the solid-state community represented a major force in The Electrochemical Society, there was no form of recognition at the Society level of achievements in the field prior to the establishment of this award. Known as the Solid-State Science and Technology Award until 2005, the award was then renamed after Intel co-founder and author of Moore's Law, Gordon E. Moore, who is a long-time member of The Electrochemical Society.

Notable Recipients 

As listed by ECS:

 2023 Fred Roozeboom
 2021 Hiroshi Iwai
 2019 David J. Lockwood
 2015 Yue Kuo
 2005 Dennis Hess
 1999 Isamu Akasaki
 1995 Wayne L. Worrell
 1993 Bruce E. Deal
 1987 Alfred Y. Cho
 1985 Jerry M. Woodall
 1983 Nick Holonyak, Jr.
 1981 Gerald L. Pearson
 1979 Morton B. Panish
 1977 Robert N. Hall
 1973 William G. Pfann

See also

 List of chemistry awards

References

External links 
 Gordon E. Moore Medal Recipients

Materials science awards
Electrochemistry
Merritt engine. The  Merritt engine is a design conceived by Dan Merritt, an  engineer at Coventry University. Rather than being entirely new, it is a development of the standard petrol engine.  The engine is intended to provide "diesel levels of efficiency through a lean-burn strategy similar to that of direct injection".  Merritt proposes that fuel/air mixing is not done in the cylinder, but takes place beforehand in a special chamber designed to promote swirl.   

The Merritt technique is also known as MUSIC – for Merritt Unthrottled Spark Ignition Combustion. Brian Knibb, an engineer  in Derby, UK, says it is relatively straightforward to modify existing engines to run in this way. “To produce MUSIC engines, a factory would simply need to change the cylinder head fitted to engines, leaving the cylinders and the rest unchanged.”

References

Engines