omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Family of Improved Load Bearing Equipment. Family of Improved Load Bearing Equipment (FILBE) is a series of equipment used by the United States Marine Corps for personal load carrying.  It comprises the backpack and various attachments carried by an individual Marine in the field.  The FILBE was designed as an improvement over the prior ILBE system that was not compatible with the newest body armor systems.

The FILBE consists of the following components:

 USMC Pack System
 Main Pack, NSN 8465-01-598-7693
Frame, NSN 8465-01-600-7844
Shoulder Harness Assembly, NSN 8465-01-600-7938
Hip belt, NSN 8465-01-600-7870
Main Bag
 Assault Pack
 Assault Pouch
 Sustainment Pouch (qty. 2)
 Hydration Pouch (qty. 2)
 Hydration Carrier
 Hydration Bladder System (CamelBak)
100 oz. Hydration Bladder
Tube Kit
Tube Holder
Hydration Bite Valve with Cover
 Sternum Cinch
 Sub-Belt (known as "Girth Hip Belt")
 Repair kit
Toaste Ellipse Cordloc
Grimloc
GTLL Split-bar
1" Male Techno Grab (qty. 2)
1" Female Snap-on Repairable (qty. 2)
 USMC Pack Instruction Card
 Chest Rig
 USMC Chest Rig Assembly
 Harness Assembly
 USMC Chest Rig Repair Kit
Attaching Strap Assembly (for MTV/SPC)(2 pair)
IMTV/PC Attaching Strap Assembly (2 pair)
1" Quick Attach Surface Mount (6 each)
1" Single Bar Repairable, Male (2 each)
1" Waveloc Repairable, Female (2 each)
1" Waveloc Repairable, Male (2 each)
 USMC Chest Rig Instruction Card
 USMC Equipment Pouches
 9mm 15 Round Magazine pouch
 M16/M4 Speed Reload Magazine pouch
 M16/M4 Single/Double Magazine pouch
 40mm Grenade pouch
 Pop-up Flare pouch
 M67 Grenade pouch
 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW)/Utility pouch
 12 Gauge Shotgun Shell pouch
 Multi Grenade pouch
 Dump pouch
USMC Holster
USMC Corpsman Assault System
 Medical Assault Pack
 Medical Sustainment Bag
 Modular Medical Pouch
 Medical Thigh Rig
 Medical Inserts
Narc Pouch
Medium Pouch (Qty. 2)
Large Pouch (Qty. 2)
Small Reversible Pouch (Qty. 2)
Medium Reversible Pouch (Qty. 2)
Elastic Panel (Qty. 2)
Double Pocket Panel
Triple Pocket Panel
Stacked Pocket Panel
Individual Water Purification System

See also 
 All-purpose lightweight individual carrying equipment (ALICE)
 Improved load-bearing equipment (ILBE)
 Interceptor body armor (IBA)
 List of United States Marine Corps individual equipment
 Modular lightweight load-carrying equipment (MOLLE)

External links 
 “Purchase Description, Family of Improved Load Bearing Equipment” (draft), United States Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, Massachusetts  (1 May 2012)  (retrieved 30 June 2014)

References

United States Marine Corps equipment
Personal military carrying equipment
Vikram Joshi. Vikram Joshi (2 February 1977 – 14 April 2018) was an Indian quizzer and quizmaster who won the World Quizzing Championship (WQC) 2014. He was the first winner who wasn't based in England. In the 2013 contest, he stood 9th.

Named after the scientist Vikram Sarabhai, Joshi was born and raised in a scholarly Konkani Saraswat family based in Mumbai. Academically meritorious throughout, he studied Instrumentation Engineering at Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology (VESIT), followed by a master’s in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Virginia. Soon after he worked at Sun Microsystems in Boston before returning to India, where he worked as a creative media professional.

After his WQC win, Joshi appeared in the eighth season of Kaun Banega Crorepati (an Indian television game show based on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) as one of the experts on the 'Triguni' lifeline (similar to the Three Wise Men lifeline on the US edition)

Joshi had been a quizmaster on several university quizzes, including ones at IIT Bombay, IIT BHU, and IIM Indore.

In 2018, he hosted the first National Elections Quiz conducted by the Election Commission of India.

Joshi was first diagnosed with lymphatic cancer in 2011. He died on 14 April 2018.

References

Quiz championship players
1977 births
2018 deaths
Sportspeople from Mumbai
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Game players from Maharashtra
Energy4All. Energy4All facilitates the creation and development of community energy in the United Kingdom, based on the experience gained in the creation of the UK's first wind co-op, Baywind Energy Co-operative. It has gone on to raise over £40m on behalf of the co-operatives and community benefit societies through community share offerings.

Energy4All is a private limited company established in 2002 that has helped create 24 community energy projects, including Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative and Boyndie Wind Farm Co-operative, which, along with Baywind, own Energy4All.

One of the co-operatives it has created, Energy Prospects Co-operative, specialises in taking early stage co-operatives through the development and planning application stages to the point where a community share offer, managed by Energy4All, can be launched to fund the project.

Energy4All won an Ashden Award in 2012.

Energy4All was elected to the board of REScoop the European Federation of renewable energy cooperatives in 2017 and is a participant in the MECISE  project to develop a European cooperative energy investment fund.

See also
Wind power in the United Kingdom
Community wind energy

References

External links
energy4all.co.uk

Community electricity generation in the United Kingdom
Co-operatives in England
Energy cooperatives
Wind power companies of England
World War I Aeroplanes Fokker D.VII. The World War I Aeroplanes Fokker D.VII is an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Herbert Kelley and produced by World War I Aeroplanes Inc of Poughkeepsie, New York. When it was available the aircraft was supplied in the form of plans for amateur construction. The aircraft is a replica of the First World War Fokker D.VII fighter aircraft.

Design and development
The Fokker D.VII features a cantilever strut-braced biplane, a single-seat open cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear with a tailskid and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft fuselage is made from welded steel tubing with the wings constructed from wood, all covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its biplane wing configuration has a span of . The acceptable power range is  and the standard engine used is a  Mercedes-Benz powerplant.

The aircraft has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of .

Specifications (Fokker D.VII)

References

Fokker D.VII
1990s United States sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Replica aircraft
L. Ken Jones. Dr. L. Ken Jones is the chancellor of Lubbock Christian University in Lubbock, Texas.  Dr. Jones served as the fifth president of LCU from 1993 until 2011 when he was named chancellor. L. Timothy Perrin succeeded Dr. Jones as president of LCU. In addition to being chancellor, Dr. Jones also took on the interim role of President of the LCU Foundation in 2014.

Early career
Jones began an engineering career in 1974 as a civil engineer in hydrology subsection for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  A year later Jones moved to Perry, OK, to be an area engineer for the Soil Conservation Service from 1975 until 1978 when he accepted an assistant professor of agricultural engineering position at Oklahoma State University.

Jones switched his career goals from engineering to ministry in 1982 when he became the pulpit minister for North Garland Church of Christ in Enid, OK, for six years. In 1988 Jones moved to Lubbock, Texas, to serve as pulpit minister at Sunset Church of Christ.  Jones then became president of Lubbock Christian University in 1993, where he served for eighteen years, making Jones the longest sitting president in LCU’s history. Jones stepped down from the presidency to pursue more public speaking opportunities as LCU’s first Chancellor in 2011.

Publications
Dr. Jones authored The Ultimate Leader (2002) and Leadership after God’s Own Heart (Star Bible 1999).

Education
Dr. Jones received his Agricultural Engineering bachelors (’73), masters (’74), and Ph.D. (’81) from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK.

In 2013 Dr. Jones earned his Emotional Intelligence Certification, Leadership Coaching Certification, and Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training.  He frequently speaks on leadership at churches, educational groups, businesses, and major corporations, and he often hosts leadership seminars.

Personal life
Dr. Jones, born and raised in Oklahoma, has a particular interest in farming and ranching. His son continues to ranch for the family business near Cordell, Oklahoma. Other hobbies include reading, writing, and speaking.

References

Living people
Lubbock Christian University faculty
Oklahoma State University alumni
American members of the Churches of Christ
Academics from Tulsa, Oklahoma
People from Lubbock, Texas
People from Perry, Oklahoma
Year of birth missing (living people)
SV Highflyer. The Highflyer is a British sailing ship, built in 1861 as a Blackwall Frigate, that in 1880 became the first ship to deliver Portuguese immigrants from the Azores Islands to Hawaii. It was preceded by two ships that brought immigrants from the Madeira Islands, making it the third ship to participate in the Portuguese immigration to Hawaii.

See also
 Portuguese immigration to Hawaii

References

Victorian-era passenger ships of the United Kingdom
Portuguese immigration to Hawaii
Building Performance Database. The Building Performance Database (BPD) is an anonymized database that contains energy use intensity data for hundreds of thousands of buildings in the United States. It is built by the Department of Energy in the United States and maintained by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Users can examine specific building types and geographic areas, compare performance trends among similar buildings, identify and prioritize cost-saving energy efficiency improvements, and assess the range of likely savings from these improvements.

History

Prior to its launch, the BPD was described in a conference presentation by Elena Alschuler and Cody Taylor from October 2012. and another presentation by Alschuler in May 2013.

The BPD was launched in June 2013 with data from over 60,000 commercial and residential buildings.

A factsheet put out by the White House Press Room on May 28, 2014, cited the Building Performance Database as an example of a success story, saying that it has exceeded a milestone of 750,000 building records, making it the world's largest public database of real buildings’ energy performance information.

Data and API

The BPD has an application programming interface (API) that can return the energy use intensity for any group of buildings defined by an API request. The BPD contains business proprietary and confidential information, and all data is anonymized and can only be analyzed in aggregate. The API can be accessed using Python, Ruby, or cURL.

References

External links

Building energy rating
Energy conservation
Online databases
Budig glider. The unusual German Budig glider participated in the second (1921) Rhön competition, though without distinction.  It was later fitted with a low power engine, making it probably the first powered glider.

Design and development
The Budig glider was a single seat biplane or sesquiplane of unequal span and chord with three forward surfaces supported on a pair of box section booms. The upper foreplane was claimed to provide automatic stability and carried an elevator behind it, though Flight remarked that "It is difficult, from the illustration, to make out exactly what this arrangement is  supposed to do." The pilot sat at the upper wing trailing edge, completely exposed at the front of a short central fuselage which supported a rectangular fin.

By 1923 a small,  BMW horizontally opposed motorcycle engine had been added, mounted in pusher configuration behind the pilot who now sat at the leading edge of the upper wing behind a more substantial nose. It drove a very small diameter propeller.  To accommodate the powerplant the central rear fuselage was replaced by rearward extensions of the booms, assisted by another, finer pair from the upper wings, which carried twin rectangular fins with a second elevator surface between them.

The little engine probably did not have enough power to get the Budig airborne but was used to maintain altitude or decrease the sink rate; launches were made with the usual bungee cord catapult. Nonetheless, Flight noted it as " probably the first glider with an auxiliary engine to fly".

Specifications

References

1920s German sailplanes
Motor gliders
Aircraft first flown in 1921
Biplanes
William Tyree. Sir Alfred William Tyree OBE (4 November 1921 – 25 October 2013) was an Australian engineer and businessman, recognized for his impact on the Australian engineering, manufacturing and power industries.

Life
Tyree was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1921. He obtained a Diploma of Electrical Engineering at Sydney Technical College. He established Tyree Holdings, a manufacturer of electrical transformers. By the early 1960s he was the largest manufacturer of transformers in the southern hemisphere. In 1969, he sold the business to Westinghouse Electric Company. Tyree left manufacturing and pursued philanthropic and humanitarian interests.  He returned to manufacturing, founding the Tyree Group of Companies.

Tyree was described as an engineering dynamo. In a six-decade career, he led the way in Australian electrical transformer manufacture and created the modern energy landscape. He was an advocate for nuclear energy, working on it with Westinghouse. He died in 2013, in his 92nd year.

Honours
In the 1971 Birthday Honours, he was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire "for philanthropic services". He was knighted in the 1975 New Year Honours "for services to the community".

In 2001 he was awarded the Centenary Medal.

References 

 Transforming electricity By Ajai Raj Cosmos Online 14 June 2012
 The Sydney Morning Herald on 29 October 2013

External links
 History of Tyree Industries

1921 births
2013 deaths
Australian engineers
Australian businesspeople
Businesspeople awarded knighthoods
New Zealand emigrants to Australia
Australian Knights Bachelor
Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Carbon tissue. Carbon tissue is a gelatin-based emulsion used as a photoresist in the chemical etching (photoengraving) of gravure cylinders for printing. This was introduced by British physicist and chemist Joseph Swan  in 1864. It has been used in photographic reproduction since the early days of photography.

Carbon materials marketing began in 1866 by Joseph Swan which he subsequently sold to the Autotype Company in 1868. His ready-made tissues were in three colours black, sepia and purple-brown. This method was used in Europe and USA throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th. This market was almost closed in the 1950s although some companies produce small amount of carbon tissue and transfer papers for monochrome and three-color work until around 1990

Method 

The gelatinous emulsion is applied to a paper backing, and is rendered sensitive to light when immersed in a 3:4%  solution of potassium bichromate. After drying, it is ready for use. The carbon tissue is first exposed to a film positive. In those areas where the carbon tissue has received the most light (i.e., non-image areas and highlights) the emulsion becomes thick and hard, and the thickness and hardness decreases with decreasing exposure to the light source, the emulsion being thinnest and softest in image areas corresponding to shadows and solids. After developing the carbon tissue, it is adhered to the surface of the copper-plated cylinder.

A solution of ferric chloride etchant is applied to the surface of the cylinder, where it eats away the copper through the carbon tissue. In the highly exposed areas, where the carbon tissue photoresist is thickest and hardest, the etchant takes a long time to eat through the hard emulsion, while in the least exposed, thinnest regions the etchant eats through the resist into the copper very quickly. Thus, in a given period of etching, the cells etched into the copper will be deepest (and thus will print the darkest) in those regions where the etchant has eaten through the quickest, while the cells etched into the copper will be the shallowest (and thus print the lightest) in those regions where the etchant has eaten through the slowest.

Usage 
Carbon tissue resists were the first chemical etching media, but have been replaced by photopolymers, and chemical etching as a whole is being increasingly replaced by electromechanical engraving and computer-to-cylinder laser-cutting processes. (See Gravure Engraving.)

Carbon tissue resists have also been used extensively for the manufacture of photostencils in screen printing.

See also 
 Carbon print

References 

Photographic processes dating from the 19th century
History of photography
19th-century photography
PDA (cyclecar). Pickering, Darby and Allday Ltd (PDA), was a British automobile manufacturer from 1912 to 1913. They built the PDA Cyclecar at their works in Birmingham, equipped with V2-engines from various manufacturers. Approximately 15 units were built.

References

 David Culshaw & Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalogue of British Cars 1895-1975. Veloce Publishing plc. Dorchester (1997). .

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Defunct companies based in Birmingham, West Midlands
Manufacturing companies based in Birmingham, West Midlands
1910s cars
Cyclecars
Jeffrey Umland. Jeffrey Umland is the Chief Mechanical Engineer of NASA's InSight mission. He previously served as the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Curiosity Rover at NASA's Mars Science Laboratory.

Background
Umland received his B.S. and Ph.D in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1985 and 1991, respectively. In April 2014, he received the University's Clifford C. Furnas Memorial Award for achievement and distinction in science and engineering.

Mission achievements
As the Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Curiosity MSL mission, Umland and his team were able to successfully land the rover on the surface of Mars on August 5, 2012. He led the project's mechanical engineering technical development during the mission. Umland also lead his team to invent the rover's "Sky-crane".

Prior to MSL, Umland was the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's structural dynamics lead for the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), which flew on STS-99.

Currently, Umland is the Chief Mechanical Engineer for NASA's InSight mission, which is expected to launch in March 2016 and land on Mars in September 2016.

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American mechanical engineers
University at Buffalo alumni
NASA people
Operational Silo Test Facility. The Operational Silo Test Facility (OSTF) is a former United States Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile launch facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, United States. It was a developmental launch site for the silo-based Titan and Atlas missile series.

The site was originally constructed for Titan I tests. On 12 December 1960, a fully fueled Titan was lifted to the surface in preparation for launch when the silo elevator collapsed. The missile fell back down into the silo and exploded, damaging the facility so badly that it was abandoned. The first launch of a silo-based missile would take place  to the northwest inside the Silo Launch Test Facility (SLTF).

The OSTF complex also included silos for launching Atlas E and F missiles; coffin types for the former and elevator types for the latter. Atlas testing began rather ignominiously when Missile 27E exploded at liftoff on 7 June 1961, putting OSTF-1 (also designated Site F or 576 Foxtrot) out of use for seven months. The facility went on to host another nine Atlas E launches before being decommissioned in 1966.

Operational tests were designed as practice drills for ballistic missile crews and also engineering tests of the missile and silo equipment—they would travel to Vandenberg Air Force Base and launch a randomly selected missile from the inventory, which was then equipped with telemetry and Range Safety destruct packages. Some launches tested reentry vehicles or Nike-Zeus target missiles.

OSTF-2 (also designated Site G or 576 Golf) hosted seven Atlas F launches between 1962 and 1965. This facility received its own baptism of fire on 4 October 1963 when Missile 45F tipped over at liftoff after one engine failed to start. Damage to the silo was not that serious and it hosted the final Atlas R&D flight two months later. Then on 2 April 1964, a repeat disaster happened when Missile 3F failed in virtually identical fashion to 45F. This time OSTF-2 was not used again for six months, after which it hosted the finale Atlas ICBM test, Missile 106F, on 8 January 1965 and was then decommissioned from service.

Gallery

References

Bibliography

External links

Vandenberg Space Force Base
Launch complexes of the United States Space Force
1960 establishments in California
Robinson & Price. Robinson & Price was a British automobile manufacturer based in Liverpool (Lancashire) from 1905 to 1914.

In 1905 and 1906 two models were manufactured - a 6 hp with a single-cylinder engine, and a 10/12 hp with a two-cylinder engine. The success was low, and only small numbers were built.

In 1913, the company introduce a single-cylinder model, the 6/8 hp. Production ended at the start of the First World War in 1914.

References

Sources
 Harald Linz und Halwart Schrader: Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie . United Soft Media Verlag GmbH, München 2008, .
 Nick Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 3 P–Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, .
 David Culshaw & Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalogue of British Cars 1895–1975. Veloce Publishing plc. Dorchester (1999). .

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Defunct companies based in Liverpool
British companies disestablished in 1914
1900s cars
1910s cars