omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
SandCraft. SandCraft, Inc., was a Silicon Valley–based fabless semiconductor design company designer of microprocessors that were used as computing engines in electronics products utilizing the MIPS architecture and a series of RISC CPU chips.  The markets targeted were consumer electronics, office automation, and communications applications, including Nintendo game consoles.

On 29 July 2003, SandCraft, Inc. was acquired by Raza Microelectronics Inc, which, in turn, was acquired by NetLogic Microsystems in 2008, which itself was acquired by Broadcom in 2012.

Name
SandCraft was named as such because sand represented silicon, the critical substrate in microprocessors, and craft to denote a design house.

History 
Norman Yeung founded SandCraft, along with Mayank Gupta as chief architect in 1996.  Microprocessors with Floating point units were designed verified and contracted out to Asian manufacturing based on MIPS IV, with 64 bit instruction sets, and a later processor called SR71000, which was at the time the world's highest performance MIPS processor.  They incorporated superscalar, multi-staged pipeline design, and big/little endian support modes.

References

 https://old.hotchips.org/wp-content/uploads/hc_archives/hc10/2_Mon/HC10.S2/HC10.2.2.pdf

1996 establishments in California
2003 disestablishments in California
American companies established in 1996
American companies disestablished in 2003
Computer companies established in 1996
Computer companies disestablished in 2003
Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct computer companies based in California
MIPS architecture
HMS Endeavour (1781). HMS Endeavour was a 14-gun fore-and-aft rigged schooner of the Royal Navy, purchased from private owners in 1782 to assist in the British military effort during the American Revolutionary War.

Endeavours dimensions were small and light in keeping with other vessels of her class, with a gundeck length of , beam of  and 118 tons burthen. She was fitted after her purchase with 14 four-pounder guns.

Her purchase cost is unrecorded.

References

Bibliography
 

Schooners of the Royal Navy
1780s ships
Streamliners (Illinois Terminal Railroad). The Streamliners were a fleet of three streamlined electric multiple units built by the St. Louis Car Company for the Illinois Terminal Railroad in 1948–1949. They operated primarily between St. Louis, Missouri and Peoria, Illinois in the late 1940s and early to mid-1950s. They were the last interurban cars manufactured in the United States.

Design 
The St. Louis Car Company constructed all three sets. Each equipment set comprised three cars. The cars were constructed of fluted aluminum and were painted in a royal blue paint schene. 

Each car was independently powered by four General Electric 1240A2 traction motors, producing  each, and this allowed for a top speed of .
These traction motors were supplied with traction current via overhead wires, reaching the unit through a trolley pole.

The twin axle bogies for the sets were manufacturer by General Steel Casting's.

Service 
The streamliners represented a last attempt by the Illinois Terminal to regain lost passenger traffic and were the first new passenger cars the railroad had ordered since 1918. The Illinois Terminal began teasing the new streamliners in 1947, but did not announce the order until May 1948. Its original plan was to place all three in service between St. Louis and Peoria. The first new train in service was the City of Decatur, which began operating between St. Louis, Missouri and Decatur, Illinois (not Peoria) on November 7, 1948. It was the first through service offered by the Illinois Terminal between those two cities.

By March 1950 all three sets were in operation. The other two, the Fort Crevecoeur and Mound City, were on the St. Louis–Peoria route as originally planned. All three trains offered parlor and "À la carte" dining service. The two streamliners made the trip in 4 hours 40 minutes, forty minutes faster than conventional interurbans on the route. Poor patronage led the Illinois Terminal to withdraw the City of Decatur in August 1950; the equipment was reassigned to the Peoria run. The new service was named Sangamon, which was the railroad's original choice in 1947.

All three sets were withdrawn by 1956 when passenger service on the Illinois Terminal ended.

See also 
 Electroliner

Notes

References

Further reading

External links 
 
 Illinois Traction Terminal Collection, McLean County Museum of History

Electric multiple units of the United States
St. Louis multiple units
North American streamliner trains
Vehicles introduced in 1948
Hot hardness. In materials engineering and metallurgy, hot hardness or red hardness (when a metal glows a dull red from the heat) corresponds to hardness of a material at high temperatures. As the temperature of the material increases, hardness decreases and at some point a drastic change in hardness occurs. The hardness at this point is termed the hot or red hardness of that material. Such changes can be seen in materials such as heat treated alloys.

References

Hardness tests
Solid mechanics
MPMC. Massively Parallel Monte Carlo (MPMC) is a Monte Carlo method package primarily designed to simulate liquids, molecular interfaces, and functionalized nanoscale materials.  It was developed originally by Jon Belof and is now maintained by a group of researchers in the Department of Chemistry and SMMARTT Materials Research Center at the University of South Florida.  MPMC has been applied to the scientific research challenges of nanomaterials for clean energy, carbon sequestration, and molecular detection.  Developed to run efficiently on the most powerful supercomputing platforms, MPMC can scale to extremely large numbers of CPUs or GPUs (with support provided for NVidia's CUDA architecture).  Since 2012, MPMC has been released as an open-source software project under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3, and the repository is hosted on GitHub.

History
MPMC was originally written by Jon Belof (then at the University of South Florida) in 2007 for applications toward the development of nanomaterials for hydrogen storage.  Since then MPMC has been released as an open source project and been extended to include a number of simulation methods relevant to statistical physics. The code is now further maintained by a group of researchers (Christian Cioce, Keith McLaughlin, Brant Tudor, Adam Hogan and Brian Space) in the Department of Chemistry and SMMARTT Materials Research Center at the University of South Florida.

Features
MPMC is optimized for the study of nanoscale interfaces. MPMC supports simulation of Coulomb and Lennard-Jones systems, many-body polarization, coupled-dipole van der Waals, quantum rotational statistics, semi-classical quantum effects, advanced importance sampling methods relevant to fluids, and numerous tools for the development of intermolecular potentials. The code is designed to efficiently run on high-performance computing resources, including the network of some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world made available through the National Science Foundation supported project Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE).

Applications
MPMC has been applied to the scientific challenges of discovering nanomaterials for clean energy applications, capturing and sequestering carbon dioxide, designing tailored organometallic materials for chemical weapons detection, and quantum effects in cryogenic hydrogen for spacecraft propulsion.  Also simulated and published have been the solid, liquid, supercritical, and gaseous states of matter of nitrogen (N2) and carbon dioxide (CO2).

See also

References

External links
 

Monte Carlo particle physics software
Science software for Linux
Computational physics
Monte Carlo methods
Theoretical chemistry
Stochastic models
Molecular modelling
Free software programmed in C
Carl Countryman. Carl Countryman (August 19, 1946 – October 26, 2006) was president and Chief Engineer of Countryman & Associates of Menlo Park, California.

Countryman was most recognized for designing a number of complex and effective microphones for performance. He is best known for the E6 earset and Type 85 Direct Box. His work was nominated for the 2002 Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards.

Countryman engineered a number of devices that enabled the multimedia and psychedelic art scenes of the 1960s and 1970s. Multimedia artist Tony Martin (artist) cited Countryman's custom electronics as key to his cybernetic feedback art in the 1960s. Countryman's electronics coupled photosensors, microphones, and other electronics in two briefcases Martin could use as he staged shows in different cities. Martin cites Countryman's electronic innovations as crucial to his art. In the early 1970s, his piano pickups enabled the Grateful Dead's Keith Godchaux to use Steinway and Yamaha grand pianos as part of their famous Wall of Sound. The pickups worked similarly to condenser mics, allowing the musicians to produce "truly brilliant" sound compared to microphone amplification, according to Owsley Stanley. The pickup technology used the piano string itself as part of the circuit. The technology, developed for the Grateful Dead, became a part of many musical performers' rigs. Other custom amplification included a clavichord pickup built for keyboardist Jim Lowe.

References

External links
Countryman & Associates

American audio engineers
Microphone manufacturers
1946 births
2006 deaths
Engineers from California
Engineers from San Francisco
20th-century American engineers
Audio equipment manufacturers of the United States
MESI (company). MESI  is a measuring medical devices manufacturer. They develop and produce medical devices for diagnostics purposes and are the maker of MESI mTABLET, a predictive medical assessment platform for healthcare with extensive AI.

History
MESI was founded in 2009 by Jakob Šušterič, an electrical engineering student at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. The company is based in Slovenia, with a branch in London.

X Prize Competition
Their design of a wristband that collects individual's data and a smartphone application which sends it to a physician who can then prescribe therapy based on a broader range of information, won the company a finalist place in the Tricorder X PRIZE competition.

Notes

References

External links

Manufacturing companies of Slovenia
Manufacturing companies established in 2009
Mobile software
Slovenian companies established in 2009
Lower Jurala Hydro Electric Project. Lower Jurala Hydro Electric Project is a major on-going Hydro Electric Project near Mulamalla Village, Atmakur Mandal, Jogulamba Gadwal district, Telangana.  The project construction was started in 2008, planned to completed it by 2014. But due to the delay it may completed by end of 2015. There will be 6 units, each can produce 40 MW power. The first unit was synchronized in December 2013 and the second unit was synchronized in January 2014 and connected to the grid.

Due to the quality issues in gates, along with units 1&2,unit-3 nearing erection completion and assemblies in various stages were inundated on 30 July 2014 late night flood water released from Jurala Project.

Units 3 and 4 were commissioned and declared of commercial operation of 40 MW each unit on 28 July 2016 confirmed by Mr. Venkata Rajam, COD Hydel,  Telangana State Genco.

See also

 List of hydroelectric power station failures

References

External links
 http://tsgenco.telangana.gov.in/
 http://www.varksengineers.com/ongoing.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20130531061601/http://www.cea.nic.in/archives/hydro/proj_mon/proj_status/jun12.pdf
 http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/states/jurala-power-project/article6266917.ece
 http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/ts-genco-commissions-unit-34-of-lower-jurala-hydroelectric-project/article8928676.ece

2014 establishments in Telangana
Dams in Telangana
Hydroelectric power stations in Telangana
D-Motor LF39. The D-Motor LF39 is a lightweight liquid cooled side-valve four-stroke flat six 4 litre petrol aircraft engine, produced by D-Motor in Deerlijk, Belgium.  It is a derivative of the flat four D-Motor LF26.

Design

The LF39 produces  and has a dry weight of . The power curve is virtually linear from 50 kW @ 1920 rpm to 91.55 kW @ 3100 rpm. Just like its smaller sibling, the LF26, this direct-drive aero-engine has a side-valve (flathead) valvetrain. The engine has port injection, a dry sump lubrication system, and dual ignition.

Development
With the aid of funding from the Belgian government, the D-Motor LF39 was developed from the LF26. The company encountered problems with the casting of the flat-six cylinder block and there were further problems with the flywheel/alternator, but these were solved using a lighter flywheel with neodymium magnets.

The 2014 expected price was €17,800.

In September 2014, EDM Aerotec announced the results of test flying the engine in their EDM Aerotec CoAX 2D/2R coaxial rotor helicopter, saying, "We are glad to present the 6 cylinder in action. After more than 100 hours testflying ... the coax helicopter equipped with the 6 cylinder... (proved) a perfect combination according to the test pilots." and added, "Another 6 cylinder has been installed in a test plane in Belgium".

Applications
EDM Aerotec CoAX 2D/2R
Hungaro Copter
Niki Kallithea
Niki Lightning

Specifications
Reference: D-Motor

See also

References

External links
 

Boxer engines
2000s aircraft piston engines
D-Motor aircraft engines
Aviation in Virginia. Virginia's first aeronautical event was in Williamsburg, Virginia, when a balloon flight was launched from the College of William & Mary using wine spirits for fuel.

Events 

Thaddeus S. C. Lowe and the Union Army Balloon Corps during the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War
 3 September 1908 - Orville Wright flew the first heavier than air flight in Virginia from Fort Myer.
 Late 20th Century: SST flights of the Concorde from Dulles International.

Aircraft Manufacturers 
 Dynamic Aviation

Aerospace 
 Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems.
Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Airports

Commercial Service 
Washington Dulles International Airport provides international air service.

People
David M. Brown Astronaut from Arlington Virginia who flew in STS-107 mission.
Richard E. Byrd, Polar aviator

Organizations 
  Virginia Aeronautic Historical Society
 Virginia Airport Operators Council

Government and Military
All flight operations in Virginia are conducted within FAA oversight.
The Virginia Department of Aviation manages state airport policy.
The Virginia Air National Guard is the Air Reserve Component of the U.S. Air Force.

Museums 
Virginia Aviation Museum Richmond.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, part of the National Air and Space Museum, opened 2003
Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, Virginia
Air Power Park in Hampton, Virginia

Gallery

References 

 
Transportation in Virginia
Weslake A80. The Weslake A80 is a  liquid cooled, two-stroke, opposed piston, 1332 cc Diesel aircraft engine, produced by Weslake.

Design and development
This opposed piston aero-engine appears superficially similar to a true flat-four "boxer" engine, but is actually significantly different. It has two ported cylinders with a crankshaft at each end and four pistons in total. This engine is similar to the prototype Diesel Air engine, which was built for Diesel Air by Weslake, but which has to date failed to reach volume production.

Each crankshaft is linked by an idler gear to a centre shaft.

Applications
none to date

Specifications
Reference: Coulson

See also

References

External links
 

Two-stroke diesel engines
Aircraft diesel engines
Opposed piston engines
Mirage Aircraft Corporation. Mirage Aircraft Corporation is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Prescott Valley, Arizona. The company specializes in the provision of homebuilt aircraft plans for amateur construction.

The company markets plans for the Mirage Celerity that was designed by Larry Burton and first flown in 1985. Burton died suddenly of a heart attack in 1994 and Mirage Aircraft continued the sale of his aircraft design. Kits for the Celerity and the fixed gear Mirage Marathon variant are provided by Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co.

The company was originally located in Tucson, Arizona and later relocated to Prescott Valley, Arizona.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Homebuilt aircraft
Manufacturing companies based in Arizona
Wheelmap.org. Wheelmap.org is an online, worldwide map for finding and marking wheelchair accessible places, developed by the German nonprofit organisation Sozialhelden e.V. Anyone can find and add public places to the map and rate them according to a simple traffic light system. The map, which is based on OpenStreetMap, was created in 2010 by a team around social entrepreneur Raul Krauthausen to help people who use wheelchairs or wheeled walkers to plan their days more easily. Parents pushing a baby carriage can also benefit from the Wheelmap information. Currently almost 600,000 public places worldwide can be found on the map. About 300 new places are added on a daily basis. Wheelmap is available on the website and as an app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

Tagging 
Anyone can mark Points of Interest (bus stations, restaurants, cinemas, museums, banks, government offices, etc.).[3] according to their wheelchair accessibility on Wheelmap. A simple traffic light system is used to rate the wheelchair accessibility of a place: The markings are inserted by using the simple traffic light system:

Places that have not yet been rated on their wheelchair accessibility are marked gray. They can be marked quickly and easily by anyone, without  prior registration. Registered users can add photos or comments with further details about the wheelchair accessibility of a place Registered users can add images to a location and write a comment with further details about the wheelchair accessibility of the place.

Wheelmap.org focuses on the relevant accessibility information and is not limited to wheelchair specific locations, such as therapy centers or toilets. Instead, wheelchair users should be include in everyday life, focusing on public places of daily life including cafes, clubs, theaters, and basic public services, including public transportation, government offices and banks. Similar to Wikipedia, the user enters the information such that everyone helps to grow this tool from the bottom up.

Awards 
 2010 The INCA (Innovative and Creative Application) Award 
 2011 Vodafone's Smart Accessibility Award
 2011 Werkstatt N - Award of the Council for Sustainable Development (Germany)
 2011 As one of the 365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas (founded by the federal government and the BDI
 2012 World Summit Award (section mobile-inclusion & Empowerment)
 2013 Zedler-Price for free knowledge (Wikimedia Germany)
 2014 The first European Award for Social Entrepreneurship and Disability (title Highly Commended by the Jury to Raul Krauthausen for the project Wheelmap.org)

References

External links 
 
 
 Wheelmap on facebook
 Wheelmap.org at the Website of Handicap International (de)
 Wheelmap  at the site of the German Wheelchair Sports Association (a part of the National Paralympic Committee Germany)
 Wheelmap.org Video clip at Focus (German magazine) online
 About wheelmap.org (de) - B.Z. (newspaper)
 About wheelmap.org - article in The Sydney Morning Herald (in 2011)

Android (operating system) software
Web Map Services
Transportation planning
Accessibility information
German travel websites
OpenStreetMap
Forsmo Bridge. The Forsmo Bridge (Forsmobron in Swedish; also Forsmo järnvägsbron, the Forsmo railway bridge) is a railway bridge over the Ångerman in Northern Sweden.

Details 

The railway bridge was built in 1912. It is a riveted steel-truss-arch railway bridge, 263m long and 50m high. It is located on the Main Line Through Upper Norrland. The 104m main bridge span is linked by hinges to the two side spans.

In 2002, a study was done to see if the bridge could be upgraded to handle freight trains with a 25 tonne axle load. It was determined that a total replacement of the upper superstructure with new longitudinal and cross beams will allow for 30 tonne axle loads and give the bridge a service lifetime of 100 years.

References 

Railway bridges in Sweden
Nanobottle. Nanobottles are hollow bottle-shaped particle with the maximal dimension smaller or comparable with 1 micrometer. They can be used for storing and distributing various chemical compounds, for example, inside the human body.

Laboratory synthesis
Carbon nanotubes capped at one end may be regarded as nanobottles. They can be produced by cutting nanotubes, which are typically capped as both ends after the growth.

Nanobottles were also fabricated in a three-step process: First, voids were created in aluminium foils. Then a thin layer of non-Al material, such as carbon, germanium, silicon, silica or hafnia, was deposited into the voids, and the surrounding matrix was etched away.

Alumina nanobottles were produced in one step by electrochemical anodization of aluminium foil in phosphoric acid: Pores were etched in Al by the acid, and their inner surface was oxidized in the process. Then the Al matrix, but not the oxidized aluminium, was etched away by the acid. The transition from pore creation to Al etching was achieved by controlling the pulse profile of the anodization voltage. The entire synthesis took about 2 hours. The resulting nanobottles had a volume of ca. 10−7 liters.

Hollow silica nanospheres have been produced hydrothermally from a tetraethoxysilane-based gel mixture in a Teflon-lined autoclave at 100 °C within 3 days. Subsequent calcination at 550 °C for 5 hours removed the organic components from the spheres and created single holes (mostly) in them, yielding spherical nanobottles.

Arrays of gold nanobottles have been fabricated by combining optical interference lithography with thin film deposition. Their dimensions could be tuned by varying the lithography optics and the film thickness.

Natural occurrence
Carbon nanobottles carrying planetary gases, mostly argon, were found in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites.

Potential applications
Nanobottles can be filled with various chemical compounds, which can be used for transporting those compounds in the human body. They can be moved around by magnetic field, after adding a magnetic compound into the bottle content. Encapsulating rare-earth compounds in nanobottles. may result in new phosphors, where the rare-earth ions are separated by the bottle walls, suppressing the concentration quenching of light emission from those ions.

Regular two-dimensional arrays of metallic nanobottles may find applications in plasmonic devices, whose resonant frequency depends on the nanobottle geometry.

References

Nanoparticles by morphology