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Walter Wright Hats. Walter Wright hat manufacturer is one of the last remaining active hat factories in Luton, Bedfordshire from the time when it was the centre of hat manufacture in the UK and giving the name 'The Hatters' to Luton FC.

Hat making in Luton 
At the beginning of the 1800s the Napoleonic Wars blocked imports of straw plait and hats from the continent so Luton's businessmen and women set up factories both large and small to supply local and national markets with straw hats. As a result, the town expanded significantly in size and population from the mid 1800s onwards. Between the mid 19th and mid 20th centuries the hatting industry so dominated the town that hat-making became synonymous with Luton.

The Wright family have been involved in the manufacture of hats continuously for 300 years in Luton and the current Albion Road factory, which was founded by Walter Wright in 1889 with his wife Minnie Susan, is alleged to be the first custom built hat factory in Luton without a residence.

Current activity 
The current proprietor Philip Wright is the fourth generation of his family to manufacture hats at the original site.
After serving his apprenticeship Philip went on to study at the London College of Fashion which gave Walter Wright's traditional designs a new lease of life. Originally a major supplier to high street shops, demands from the retail industry worldwide for constantly cheaper prices and mass-produced product has forced the company of Walter Wright to focus on the bespoke high end of the market.

The factory is one of the last from the Victorian era in the UK to have all its original equipment and manufacturing processes intact and Philip runs regular 'Factory Tours' so the public can see hats being made from beginning to end. Philip also gives regular speeches on the Luton Hat Trade to social groups, historical societies, schools, colleges and universities.

The heritage of the factory has made Walter Wright Hats and Philip a popular subject for many TV programmes including Salvage Hunters and Michael Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys.

Walter Wright's long association with the Royal Family making hats for HRH The Princess Royal and Bearskin hats for the Coldstream Guards has led to royal visits including from HRH Prince Charles.

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Family-owned companies of the United Kingdom
Hat companies
Companies based in Bedfordshire
Manufacturing companies established in 1889
Peter Bonfield (engineer). Peter William Bonfield  is Vice Chancellor of the University of Westminster, UK. A materials engineer, he was President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in 2019-2020.

Early life
Bonfield received a master's degree in polymer science from Loughborough University, in 1985. He completed his PhD in wind energy.

Career
Prior to joining the University of Westminster, Bonfield was CEO of BRE Group, UK. He joined BRE as a research scientist in 1992. Earlier on, he was a research officer at the University of Bath, UK.

Award
Bonfield has received a number of awards. He received an honorary doctor of engineering from the University of Bath and  Hertfordshire University. He also received an honorary doctor of science from Loughborough University and Napier University. He received an OBE from the Queen for services to research and innovation in 2012. In the same year, he was elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK.

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Living people
1963 births
British engineers
Alumni of Loughborough University
Academics of the University of Bath
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Vice-chancellors of the University of Westminster
Swanson-Fahlin SF-1. The Swanson-Fahlin SF-1 was a high wing, two seat cabin aircraft with a small radial engine, designed in the United States and first flown in 1934. Only one was built.

Design and development

At the start of the collaboration between Swen Swanson and Ole Fahlin, Swanson had already designed several aircraft and Fahlin was better known for propeller design. Lacking manufacturing space of their own, and as they had chosen to design a smaller, less powerful development of the Swanson Coupe light aircraft around a Pobjoy engine, the facilities of the U.S. Pobjoy distributors, Nicholas-Beazely, provided a natural space for its construction.

The SF-1 was a high, cantilever, gull wing cabin aircraft of all-wood and canvas construction. The wing was mounted on the fuselage according to Swanson's patented design, which left the central section over the cabin clear, with a short, strut-supported, high dihedral part of the wing immediately outboard. In plan the wings were straight-tapered, with an unswept leading edge and rounded tips.

Its air-cooled, seven cylinder,  Pobjoy R radial engine was supplied with its own long-chord cowling which was merged smoothly into the forward fuselage. Gearing off-set the propeller drive shaft upwards. Behind, the SF-1's cabin for two, sitting side-by-side, was under the wing and was accessed via external steps and wide doors. At the rear the tail was conventional, with a near-triangular fin and deep, rounded rudder and a tailplane mounted near the top of the fuselage.  The elevators had a cut-out for rudder movement.

The SF-1's landing gear had independent legs with their struts enclosed in streamlined fairings and braced with streamlined tie-rods. Wheel track was . A pneumatic tailwheel was mounted at the extreme rear fuselage.

Operational history
The only SF-1 was first flown in 1934. Its subsequent history is uncertain, except that it was re-engined in about 1937 with a , flat-four Continental A-85.

Variants
 Swanson-Fahlin SF-2 An enlarged, more powerful variant with a Plymouth car engine.

Specifications

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High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
1930s United States sport aircraft
Jeremy Watson. Jeremy Daniel McKendrick Watson CBE FREng FIET is Emeritus Professor of Engineering Systems at University College London, UK. He was formerly President (2016–17) of the IET.

Early life
Watson studied Electronics at the University of London from 1972 - 1974. He was awarded a masters degree in Cybernetics in 1976. In 1982, he completed his PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Sussex, UK.

Career
Following an early career as an electronics designer and product manager at the Eurotherm group, Watson was BOC Edwards Technology Director, then Arup's Global Research Director and, concurrently Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) for the UK Department of Communities and Local Government (now MHCLG). He later joined the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences, initially serving as a Vice-Dean, where he is now Professor of Engineering Systems. (Emeritus from June 2024.) He works within the department of Science Technology Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP). Watson was also, until 08/21 the Chief Scientist & Engineer of BRE Group, UK. Until 2023, he was a member of the NPL Science and Technology Advisory Committee, and has been a visiting professor at Aston University, the University of Sussex and the University of Southampton, UK. Watson was from 2016 - 2024, the Director and Principal Investigator of the EPSRC-funded PETRAS National Centre of Excellence - a consortium of researchers from 24 universities working on making Internet of Things and Edge systems safe and secure. Recent interests include work to develop a cross-disciplinary Net Zero What Works Centre (NZWWC). He is a Fellow and recent trustee of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and was founding chair of the National Engineering Policy Centre committee at RAEng. Watson has served on the governing boards of Innovate UK and EPSRC, and was appointed to the UK Committee on Research Integrity (UKCORI) in 2022, where he is specialising in Engineering research integrity and AI.

Awards
Watson was elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2010. He was awarded a CBE by the Queen for services to Engineering in 2013.

References

Living people
British engineers
Academics of the University of Southampton
Alumni of the University of Sussex
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Year of birth missing (living people)
Granular base equivalency. Granular base equivalency or granular base equivalence (GBE) is a measure of total pavement thickness. Since pavement is composed of multiple layers with different physical properties, its total thickness is measured by GBE. GBE translates the thickness of different road layers to a number using a set of coefficients. So, to calculate the GBE, the depth of each layer should be multiplied by the granular equivalency factor for the material in that layer. In the next step the sum of the converted layer thicknesses is calculated. This sum is called granular base equivalency, which is a popular and important measure in pavement design and pavement performance modeling.

Example 
Here is an example of GBE calculation adopted from Piryonesi (2019). This example belongs to a road in the LTPP database. This road is made of  the following layers: subbase, base, and three layers of hot mixed asphalt concrete. Their thicknesses are given in millimeters in the following table. The total GBE for this road 805.7 millimeters.

References 

Pavements
Pavement engineering
Guanting Hydropower Station. Guanting Hydropower Station (), also spelled Guanting Hydropower Plant,  is the  first automatic power station designed and built by China, located on the upper reaches of the Yongding River in the western suburbs of Beijing. The source of power for the hydropower station is Guanting Reservoir, which generates electricity equivalent to more than 100,000 tons of coal per year.

History
Guanting Hydropower Station started construction in April 1954. On December 27, 1955, it was completed to generate electricity.

On December 26, 1955, Peng Zhen cut the ribbon for the commissioning of the first unit of the Guanting Hydropower Station. He pointed out that, "Guanting Hydropower Station not only generates electricity, but also trains and transports cadres".

Guanting Hydropower Station has 3 units. On December 27, 1955, its first unit  generated electricity. In May 1956, the second and third units were put into operation, with a total installed capacity of 30,000 kilowatts, accounting for 14.2% of the installed capacity of the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan power grid at that time.

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Dams in China
1955 establishments in China
Buildings and structures in Beijing
Inlay-class offshore patrol vessel. The Inlay-class offshore patrol vessel is a class of offshore patrol vessel (OPV) operated by the Myanmar Navy. The lead ship of the class is UMS Inlay. UMS Inlay was built at Thanlyin Naval Dockyard near Yangon with the help of technical assistance and equipment provided by Singapore-based companies. Launched in late November 2015, Inlay was commissioned in December 2017. Subsequently, Inma was commissioned in December 2021.

Design
The OPV is approximately  long with a beam of about  and is understood to displace at least 1,500 tons. It is powered by two diesel engines driving two propellers. The OPV is capable of operating a helicopter from its approximately -long flight deck and has a single hangar. A stern ramp is fitted for a rigid-hulled inflatable boat. The armament comprises manually operated  twin guns in Type 66 or 76 gun mount on the forecastle as well as two manually-operated heavy machine guns atop the hangar deck. Sensors include two Furuno navigation radars. 

The Inlay will supplement the two remaining Danish-built Osprey-class OPVs in service.

Ships of the class

See also

References

Patrol vessels of Myanmar
Ship classes built by Myanmar Navy
Harold D. Arnold. Harold DeForest Arnold (September 3, 1883 – July 10, 1933) was an electronics engineer and pioneer of radio communication and telephony. He served as the first director of research at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1925 to his death.

Life and work 
Arnold was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, to Calvin Arnold and Audra Allen. He studied at Wesleyan University for his BS and MS and then studied physics at the University of Chicago for his PhD.  He initially studied under Albert A. Michelson but when he confided to Robert Andrews Millikan that he would probably have to commit suicide as he could not meet Michelson's requirement, Millikan took Arnold over as his own student. When Frank B. Jewett was looking for someone to work on repeaters for transcontinental telephony, Arnold was suggested by Millikan. Arnold worked at the University of Chicago from 1907 to 1909 and served as a professor at Mount Allison University, from 1909 to 1910 and then at University of Chicago (1910). In 1911 he joined the Western Electric Company under Edwin H. Colpitts. His earliest work was in the development of a vacuum-tube based amplifiers beginning with improvements to Lee De Forest's triode “audion”. He worked on innovations that made it possible to demonstrate the first radio transmission between Arlington, Virginia, and Paris, France, in October 1915. During World War I he served as a captain in the signal corps. He developed and refined manufacturing techniques for vacuum tubes, oxide coatings for filaments, and other innovations for reliability and ease of replacement. Permalloy and Perminvar were developed by his team and this helped improve signal quality in undersea cables. Arnold received the John Scott Medal in 1928. 

Harold DeForest Arnold is one of the founders of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). with other renowned acousticians, at the Bell headquarters in New York City, on December 27, 1928.

One of his last projects was in the transmission of high quality sound, with the collaboration of Leopold Stokowski, conductor at the Philadelphia Orchestra that resulted in a live broadcast of a concert at Constitution Hall over telephone in April 1933. He died from a heart attack at his home in Summit, New Jersey.

Arnold married Leila Berman in 1908 and they had two daughters.

References

External links 
 World War I service record

1883 births
1933 deaths
American telecommunications engineers
University of Chicago alumni
People from Woodstock, Connecticut
People from Summit, New Jersey
Messerschmitt-Caudron MeC 164. The Messerschmitt-Caudron MeC 164 was a prototype airliner built in 1942 by Messerschmitt and Caudron to compete with the Siebel Si 204. It did not enter mass production.

Design and development 
The MeC 164 was designed in Germany by Messerschmitt as an 8-passenger airliner powered by two Argus As 411 inline engines as the Me 164.  as designed, it was lighter than the Si 204, but was expected to have worse performance than the competing aircraft.  Once design work was completed, Messerschmitt handed it over to Caudron in Issy-les-Moulineaux, which began construction of the prototype in 1942 under the designation MeC 164 V1.  However, construction of the prototype progressed slowly, and as a result the project was canceled.

Specifications (MeC 164 V1)

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References 

Messerschmitt aircraft
Caudron aircraft
1940s German airliners
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Samuel Graham (engineer). Samuel Graham, Jr. is an American engineer and currently the dean of the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. He was previously the Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School Chair and Professor at Georgia Tech. Graham is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and serves on the Advisory Board of the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Early life and education 
Graham studied engineering at Florida State University. He was a graduate student at Georgia Tech, where he earned a doctoral degree under the supervision of David L. McDowell in 1999. After completing his PhD research, Graham joined Sandia National Laboratories.

Research and career 
In 2003 Graham was appointed Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech, where he leads the Electronics Manufacturing and Reliability Laboratory. His research considers the fabrication, encapsulation and packaging of semiconductor devices. Specifically, Graham has studied wide bandgap semiconductors (including gallium nitride, GaN, gallium oxide and hafnium dioxide), and how they interact with their substrates (including silicon carbide). Such materials are often used in radio frequency communications. In these devices, thermal resistance at interfaces limits their performance. To understand how the operational stability of devices based on these materials, Graham makes use of electro-thermal and thermomechanical modeling.

Beyond his work on inorganic materials, Graham has worked on devices made from organic electronic materials. Using vacuum-based deposition to create ultrathin barriers that protect organic materials from degradation. Such barriers are essential for the realization of wearable devices and next-generation displays based upon these materials.

In 2018 Graham was appointed Eugene C. Gwaltney, Jr. School Chair at Georgia Tech. He has worked with Baratunde A. Cola to create the Academic and Research Leadership (ARL) program, which prepares minority engineers for careers in academia and industry.

In 2021 Graham was appointed dean of the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. Graham's new position began October 1, 2021.

Select publications

Personal life 
Graham is married with two children.

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American mechanical engineers
Florida State University alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
Georgia Tech faculty
Waterworks!. Waterworks! is a card-based strategy video game developed by Mateusz Sokalszczuk (also known by his online name scriptwelder) in co-operation with the University of Gdańsk and funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, which focuses on managing the water systems of the Polish city of Grudziądz during the Middle Ages.

Gameplay
Waterworks! is card-based, with the player using a series of cards in order to grow Grudziądz's water management system. As the game progresses, the water systems built become more complicated. The growing complexity of water systems the player must build correspond to those of the actual city of Grudziądz, which had to improve its waterworks as its population grew.

Development
Waterworks! was initially conceived by Waclaw Kulczykowski of the University of Gdańsk, who was developing a thesis on the water systems of Grudziadz. The game took about a year to develop. After release, a patch was released that fixed numerous bugs relating to the storage of resources.

Reception
Waterworks! was positively received by critics. PC Gamer, in their review of the game, described it as "a superbly designed resource-management strategy game", and praised its card mechanics.

References

Video games developed in Poland
2020 video games
Digital card games
Construction and management simulation games
Strategy video games
MacOS games
Video games set in Poland
Windows games
Armor Games games
Single-player video games
William Webb (engineer). William Webb FREng is a telecommunications engineer, and a visiting professor at the University of Southampton, UK. He was IET President 2014) and is a Director of Webb Search Ltd., UK.

Education
Webb was educated at University of Southampton, UK. He received his undergraduate degree in 1989 and Ph.D. degree in 1992.
He received his MBA from the same university in 1997.

Career
Webb started his career at Smith System Engineering Ltd. UK. He then worked for Motorola Inc. He joined PA Consulting UK to work on a number of telecommunications projects. He joined Ofcom UK as Head of R&D and worked on radio spectrum policy. He was one of the co-founders of Neul which was acquired by Huawei in 2014. Webb was President of IET UK (2014) and CEO of Weightless SIG. He is a director at Webb Search Ltd.

Awards
Webb received the IET Mountbatten Medal in 2018. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2005. He has received three honorary doctorate degrees, from University of Southampton, Anglia Ruskin University and University of Hertfordshire.

References

Living people
1967 births
English electrical engineers
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Academics of the University of Southampton
Alumni of the University of Southampton
Electric Loco Shed, Tughlakabad. Electric Loco Shed, Tughlakabad is a motive power depot performing locomotive maintenance and repair facility for electric locomotives of the Indian Railways, located at  in Delhi, India. It is a WCR shed in NR territory. It is one of the three electric locomotive sheds of the West Central Railway, this one belongs to Kota Division while others being at Itarsi and New Katni Jn. As of 1 March 2024, there are 300 locomotives in the shed.

Livery and markings

Tughlakabad ELS has its own logo and stencils. It is written on loco's body side as well as front & back side.

Locomotives

References

External links 

 Website
 Particulars
 maps of Indian Railway Loco Sheds
 showing the Tughlakabad Electric Loco Shed

Tuglakabad
Rail transport in Delhi
Buildings and structures in Delhi
1977 establishments in Delhi
Goods Vehicle Movement Service. The Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) is a UK government border control information technology system for coordinating the movement of vehicles. It is part of the government's measures for dealing with post-Brexit trade. The system is estimated to need to process 400 million customs declarations per year.

, the system is still in beta testing, and user testing of the system had only just started, with four months to go before the system needed to go live. The system was partially introduced on 1st January, 2021.

In September 2020, a survey of hauliers showed that over half had not heard of the existence of the GVMS.

References

See also 
 Common Transit Convention
 Operation Fennel

Brexit
Information technology in the United Kingdom
Export and import control
Electric Vehicle Association of America. The Electric Vehicle Association of America (EVAA) was established in 1910 to facilitate co-operation in improving the public understanding of electric vehicles. It was founded on the initiative of Arthur Williams. It existed as an independent organization until 1916 when it was absorbed by the National Electric Light Association (NELA) of which it became the Electric Vehicle Section.

When Williams first proposed the project on 6 May 1910 to a group of engineers involved in the industry, the original conception was of an organization local to New York, where Williams was based. However, when the matter was raised at the 1910 convention of NELA, at which it was decided that a national organization was what was needed.

Presidents of the EVAA
 1910-1912 William H. Blood, Jr.
 1912-1913 Arthur Williams
 1913-1914 Frank W. Smith 
 1914-1915 John F. Gilchrist
 1915-1916 W. H. Johnson

Edward S. Mansfield, of the Boston Edison Company, became chairman of the Electrical Vehicle Section of the NELA.

References

Trade associations based in the United States
The Dental Manufacturing Company Limited. The Dental Manufacturing Company Limited manufactured dental equipments, motor silencers, and agricultural equipment in London, England in the late nineteenth century. The company existed from 1874 to 1968.

Company history
In the 1890s, L Gardner & Sons made dentists' chairs for the company. Over a period of three years, 106 were produced some lifted hydraulically, and others by a rack and pinion system. In 1914, the company was located at Alston House, Newman Street, London, and produced artificial teeth, dental rubbers, dental chairs, vulcanizers' instruments, and dentists' requisites. It also had offices in Manchester, Glasgow, and Dublin.

References

Dental equipment