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Maritime Electric. Maritime Electric is the supplier of electricity in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Maritime Electric is a public utility, and is regulated by the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission (IRAC) under the Electric Power Act and the Renewable Energy Act. The utility operates two generating stations on the island: the Charlottetown Thermal Generating Station and the Borden Generating Station.

On November 13, 2009, it was announced that the PEI government was in discussion with the province of Quebec, with regard to providing electric power between the two provinces, which could lead to a long-term supply contract with Hydro-Québec, the construction of a submarine transmission line linking PEI and the Magdalen Islands, and, pending Fortis' involvement, the sale of Maritime Electric to Hydro-Québec. This followed the announcement of Hydro-Québec's proposed purchase of most of NB Power's assets two weeks earlier (which failed in March 2010).

See also

 List of Canadian electric utilities

References

External links
 

Electric power companies of Canada
Fortis Inc.
Companies based in Charlottetown
Canadian companies established in 1918
Energy companies established in 1918
1918 establishments in Prince Edward Island
United Consultants Twin Bee. The United Consultants Twin Bee is an American twin-engined light amphibious aircraft of the 1960s.

Development

The Republic Seabee was built between 1946 and 1948, with over 1000 aircraft being sold. The type was rather underpowered and many were later fitted with more powerful engines than the  Franklin 6A8 originally fitted.

In 1960, former Helio company engineer Joseph W. Gigante (1916-2012) designed a twin-engine conversion of the Sea Bee and founded United Consultants Corp in Norwood, Massachusetts, to undertake the manufacturing work on the UC-1 Twin Bee.

The first aircraft flew in 1962 and the type certificate was awarded on 25 June 1965. 23 production examples were delivered between 1965 and 1987.

The UC-1 is a major conversion of the RC-3 Seabee airframe. The single pusher engine is deleted and this allows an additional fifth seat to be fitted beneath the old installation. The twin  Lycoming engines, mounted in tractor configuration, are fitted in the wing, fairly close to the cabin. This required the rear cabin windows to be reduced in size, supplemented by a porthole-type window each side of the rear of the enlarged cabin.

The rights to the UC-1 design were transferred to the STOL Aircraft Corporation. J.W. Gigante advertised the rights for sale during September 2006.

Operational history
The considerable extra engine power of Twin Bee proved to be attractive to private owners, as the aircraft has STOL takeoff and landing ability. 15 of the 23 conversions were currently registered in the United States in April 2009. Other examples are active in Switzerland and the Philippines.

Specifications

See also

References
Notes

Bibliography

External links

 Narrative about the Twin Bee
 Information and images of Twin Bees

1960s United States civil utility aircraft
Amphibious aircraft
Twin Bee
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1962
Flying boats
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
Tweedales & Smalley. Tweedales and Smalley was a manufacturer of textile machinery in Castleton, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, in England. It specialised in ring spinning frames mainly for export.

History
When John Bullough, of Howard & Bullough died in 1891, three of the directors, Edmund Tweedale, Samuel Tweedale and Joseph Smalley decided to set up their own textile machine manufacturing business. They started in John Street, Rochdale. In July 1892 they moved into the new Globe Works, Castleton; the layout and buildings having been designed by Samuel Tweedale. Howard & Bullough operated out of the Globe Works Accrington.

The first product was a ring frames. In February 1893, frames were installed in the Newhey Spinning Mill. A speed frame was delivery in August 1893, in February 1894 a drawing frame and in 1895 a revolving flat carding machine. The product were fast and of high quality, India was an important export market. It is said that at one stage half of all textile equipment there, was manufactured by Tweedales and Smalley. It started producing blowing room equipment in 1912.

During World War I, they produced armaments. An accident in May 1916 killed six people. Tweedales and Smalley resisted trade union recognition until March 1917. There was a strike and government intervention when the partners were forced to concede.

In 1920, the partners handed over the company to a syndicate. The families remained on the board until 1926, when only Walter Smalley remained. The company survived the interwar years by an aggressive export drive, taking major orders from India and Russia.

In 1933, the firm became part of the Textile Machinery Makers Ltd but continued to trade under its own name. Then in 1939, it reverted to producing armaments. This allowed it to retool.

Post war, it exported to new markets in 28 countries including Peru, Brazil and Mexico. TMM became a subsidiary of Platt Brothers Holdings in 1957, who decided to close the Globe works in late 1962. Platt had decided that the market for ring frames was declining so it transferred existing work to Oldham and the Globe Works in Accrington.

At one time the Globe Works covered over  and employed more than 2,000 people. In 1964 it became the northern distribution centre for Woolworths.

Tweedales and Smalley Ltd works band
This was formed in 1943, the instruments being inherited from the St John Ambulance Cadets. The conductor was J H Merrick. The firm bought new instruments in 1945 and Clifton Jones became the musical director and remained to 1955, when Herbert White took over. They competed in many contests with national success.

References
Tweedales and Smalley- Rochdale Observer article

Spinning
Textile manufacturers of England
Engineering companies of England
History of the textile industry
Textile machinery manufacturers
1933 disestablishments in England
Former defence companies of the United Kingdom
British companies disestablished in 1933
4-Vinylcyclohexene. 4-Vinylcyclohexene is an organic compound consisting of a vinyl group attached to the 4-position of the cyclohexene ring.  It is a colorless liquid. Although chiral, it is used mainly as the racemate. It is a precursor to vinylcyclohexene dioxide.

Production
It is produced by buta-1,3-diene dimerization in a Diels-Alder reaction. The reaction is conducted at 110 - 425 °C at pressures of 1.3 - 100 MPa in the presence of a catalyst. A mixture of silicon carbide and salts of copper or chromium comprises the catalyst. A competing product is 1,5-cyclooctadiene.

In North America this is produced by Nippon Chemical Texas Inc. in Pasadena, TX.

Safety
4-Vinylcyclohexene is classified as a Group 2B carcinogen by the IARC ("possibly carcinogenic to humans").

References
6. https://nctius.com/op-coproduct-streams/
Cyclohexenes
IARC Group 2B carcinogens
Vinyl compounds
Joseph Dana Webster. Joseph Dana Webster (August 25, 1811 – April 12, 1876) was an American civil engineer and soldier most noted for administrative services during the American Civil War, where he served as chief of staff to both Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman.

Career
Webster was born in New Hampshire in 1811. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1832 and worked as a civil engineer. He joined the U.S. army in 1838, serving as 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Topographical Engineers. He fought in the Mexican–American War and by 1853 was captain of the U.S. Engineers. He resigned from the Army in 1854.

A few years later the outbreak of the Civil War brought Webster back into the service of the army. On June 1, 1861 he was appointed major in the U.S. Army Paymasters. In September he became chief of staff to Ulysses S. Grant. On February 1, 1862 Webster was appointed colonel of the 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment, but remained as Grant's chief of staff through the battles of Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, and Shiloh.

On the eve of the first day's fighting at Shiloh, Webster was instrumental in massing the artillery in support of Grant's last line of defense near Pittsburg Landing. On April 4, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln appointed Webster to the grade of brigadier general of U.S. volunteers, to rank from November 29, 1862. In early November 1862, Webster was assigned as the superintendent of railroads in the Department of the Tennessee.  He next served as the Chief of Transportation for the Army of the Tennessee, during the siege of Vicksburg, and later for the entire Military Division of Mississippi.

When William T. Sherman became commander of the Military Division of Mississippi he selected General Webster as his chief of staff. Webster served Sherman in this capacity through the Atlanta Campaign, March to the Sea and the Carolinas Campaign. On March 13, 1865, Webster was brevetted to major general of U.S. volunteers Webster resigned from the volunteers on November 6, 1865. On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Webster for appointment to the grade of brevet major general of volunteers, to rank from March 13, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on March 12, 1866.

After the war he worked as a collector for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Webster died at Chicago, Illinois on March 12, 1876 and was buried as Rosehill Cemetery.

References

1811 births
1876 deaths
People from Hampton, New Hampshire
Burials at Rosehill Cemetery
People of Illinois in the American Civil War
People of New Hampshire in the American Civil War
Union army generals
Radium ore Revigator. The radium ore Revigator was a pseudoscientific medical device consisting of a ceramic water crock lined with radioactive materials.  It was patented in 1912 by R. W. Thomas. Thomas was working at the time as a stock salesman in Arizona but, by 1923, had moved to southern California to begin manufacture of his patent. In 1924, following several successful advertisement campaigns that left him unable to keep up with demand, he sold his operation to Dow-Herriman Pump & Machinery Company, selling thousands of the devices in the 1920s and 1930s.

The Revigator was intended to be filled with water overnight, which would be irradiated by the uranium and radium in the liner, and then consumed the next day.  

The manufacturer provided the following instructions: "Fill jar every night. Drink freely … when thirsty and upon arising and retiring, average eight or more glasses daily."

This was marketed as a healthy practice which could prevent illnesses including arthritis, flatulence, and senility.
 
The Revigator contained carnotite K2(UO2)2(VO4)2·3H2O.  Water stored overnight in a vintage Revigator was analyzed by ICP-MS and radiation detectors.  Although the water contained high levels of radon, a Mount St. Mary's University study posited that the health risk from radiation was probably low relative to the other causes of mortality at the time. The water also contained levels of arsenic, lead (due to the fact that it had a lead spout), vanadium, and uranium that pose a health risk.

See also
Radithor
Radioactive quackery

References

External links
Museum of Quackery, article on the Revigator
For that healthy glow, drink radiation

Radioactive quackery
Steel plate construction. Steel plate construction is a method of rapidly constructing heavy reinforced concrete items.

Development
The method was developed in Korea in 2004 at a steel fabricator.

Construction method
Each assembly has two parallel steel plates joined by welded stringers or tie bars. The assemblies are then moved to the job site and placed with a crane. Finally, the space between the plate walls is filled with concrete. The method provides excellent strength because the steel is on the outside, where tensile forces are often greatest.

Construction with this method is accomplished roughly twice as fast with as other methods of reinforced concrete construction, because by constructing at specialized off-site fabrication facilities it avoids tying rebar and constructing forms on-site. Because of the rapid construction time, the cost of large-scale projects can be significantly decreased when this method is used.

Application
The method is of special interest for rapidly constructing nuclear power plants, which use large reinforced concrete structures, and typically have long construction times, with high costs.

References

Construction
Prefabricated buildings
Reinforced concrete
Gold number. The gold number is the minimum weight (in milligrams) of a protective colloid/lyophilic colloid required to prevent the coagulation of 10 ml of a standard hydro gold sol when 1 ml of a 10% sodium chloride solution is added to it. It was first used by Richard Adolf Zsigmondy in 1901.

An electrical double layer is normally present on the gold sol particles, resulting in electrostatic repulsion between the particles. The sodium chloride ions disrupt this electrical double layer, causing coagulation to occur.

The coagulation of gold sol results in an increase in particle size, indicated by a colour change from red to blue or purple. The higher the gold number, the lower the protective power of the colloid, because a greater amount of colloid is required to prevent coagulation.

The gold number of some colloids are given below.

References

Colloidal chemistry
Wiking Helikopter Service. Wiking Helikopter Service GmbH was a German helicopter operator, specialising in providing offshore helicopter transportation around the North Sea and Baltic Sea.

Overview 
Wiking was specialised in offshore winching of passengers to vessels and wind turbines. Since the start in 1975, Wiking had been providing its services to the maritime pilots "Lotsenbrüderschaft Weser and Jade" in the German Bight. 

Wiking Helikopter Service also was an Airbus Helicopters and Leonardo Helicopters Customer Support Center and provides maintenance services on the Leonardo AW139 and Airbus Helicopters H145 helicopters in Europe.

In October 2022, Wiking filed for bankruptcy and was partially taken over by German helicopter operator Northern Helicopter NHC.

Fleet 
As of June 2022, WIKING Helikopter Service operated the following helicopters:

3 Leonardo AW139
4 Airbus Helicopters H145

References

External links 
 

Helicopter airlines
Defunct airlines of Germany
Companies based in Bremen (city)
Lake Kepwari. Lake Kepwari is a man-made reservoir located in Cardiff, in the South-West region of Western Australia, about  south-east of Collie.  "Kepwari" is a Noongar word meaning "playing in water".

Description
The lake is a former open-cut coal mine formerly known as Western Five, part of a mining lease operated by Wesfarmers Premier Coal from 1970 until 1996.  It is  long,  wide and up to  deep. It covers  and holds about  of water.

Since 2003, rehabilitation work on the site has been undertaken to develop it as a community aquatic recreation facility. It has taken about five years to fill with water from Collie River South. In 2008, the state government allocated 3.29 million for the recreational development of the site.

Its opening has been delayed, however, due to public safety concerns about the low pH levels (pH 4.5) in the water. The acidity is believed to be due to ground water leakage at its deeper points. The ground water contains high levels of iron which oxidises and causes acidity levels to rise.

In 2009, the government called for submissions for an environmental impact assessment relating to the effects of reconnecting Collie River South to the lake, which is intended to create a flushing effect. The river is upstream from Wellington Dam and was diverted around the southern edge of the site throughout the mining operations.

It was officially opened in December 2020 by Premier Mark McGowan. The 5.2 million campground and boating facilities were described as part of a larger 23.3 million investment in infrastructure in the area to make it a tourism hub.

Facilities
The lake has a boat ramp and parking for trailers along the shoreline. Water skiing is permitted in the lake along kayaking and swimming. Shelters and gas barbeques are also found near the boat ramp. Fishing is permitted in the lake and redfin perch and marron are both commonly caught. There are some campsites in the area, but booking is required.

References

Reservoirs in Western Australia
Artificial lakes of Australia
Shire of Collie
FOG-MPM. FOG-MPM (fiber optics guided multiple purpose missile) is a missile built by the Brazilian company Avibras. Its range is about 60 km. The weight is about 34 kg. Its main use is as an anti-tank, anti-fortification and anti-helicopter missile. FOG-MPM is guided by optical fiber technology.  The FOG-MPM is very flexible, can be launched from ground vehicles (Astros II MLRS), ships and helicopters, and is immune to electronic measures.

Development
Work on the development of FOG-MPM or MAC-MP (fiber optics guided multiple purpose missile – missile anti-car multi-purpose) was initiated in 1985 by Avibrás and unveiled in 1989. The program is funded by the company itself, with all the components produced in country. In 1989 there were three test launches; in 1992, there were 8.

The missile has a length of 1.50 meters and is 18 centimeter in diameter, weighing 33 kg (24 kg initially). It has a range of about 10 km to 20 km, relaxed in later versions. The speed is 150–200 m/s with a cruising altitude of 200m. The hollow charge warhead can penetrate rolled homogeneous armor 1,000mm thick. A weapon operator can be trained in 8 hours in the simulator made by Avibrás.

One version has a cruising altitude of less than 150m and range of 20 km. In the 1980s, Avibrás was offering the missile at U.S. $30,000 each for a batch of 1,000 missiles. A version with a range of 60 km was submitted in July 2000.

See also

References

Anti-tank guided missiles of Brazil
Guided missiles of Brazil
Military equipment introduced in the 1980s
RF Engines. RF Engines Limited of Newport, Isle of Wight, UK was founded in 1999. RF Engines (RFEL) develops products based on high performance, digital signal processing techniques that enable fast moving events or fleeting, hopping signals occurring in the radio spectrum to be identified and acquired in real-time for subsequent analysis.

RFEL's products have a variety of applications, including in the design of efficient wireless communication (satellite and terrestrial) networks, test and measurement instrumentation, homeland security surveillance systems, bespoke wideband receivers/transceivers and in systems to detect signals from fast moving missiles or other military threats.

RFEL's customers are mainly 'Tier 1' companies in each of its main markets, including Thales, Qinetiq, Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (Germany), UK Ministry of Defence, Rheinmetall (Germany), CEA (France), Agilent (Switzerland) and LIG Nex1(Korea),

As of 2009 RFEL was bought by Rheinmetall and renamed to Rheinmetall Electronics UK.

Academic links
RFEL is sponsoring students focusing on MSc degrees at the University of York with two special awards of £1,500 each that will be presented to graduates of the DSP course: one for 'excellence in theoretical signal processing' and secondly for 'excellence in signal processing design'.

Awards
 Smart award in 2002
 Start up of the Year in 2004 European Electronics Industry Award
 Embedded System Innovation of the Year in 2006 Elektra European Electronic Awards
 South East Business Award 2008 for Innovation and Creativity
 Queen's Award for Innovation 2009

References

External links

Companies based on the Isle of Wight
Richard G. Smith (engineer). Richard G. Smith (October 22, 1929 – March 14, 2019) was director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center from September 26, 1979, to August 2, 1986. Born in Durham, N.C., in 1929, Smith was educated in Alabama schools. After graduation from Decatur High School, he attended Florence State College and Auburn University. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Auburn in 1951.

Smith became a member of the rocket research and development team at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, in June 1951. He transferred to NASA in July 1960 when the Development Operations Division of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency became the nucleus for the establishment of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center.

Smith served in positions of increasing responsibility at the Marshall Center. He held various assignments in the former Guidance and Control Laboratory and in the Systems Engineering Office prior to being appointed deputy manager and later manager of the Saturn Program. In January 1974 Smith became director of science and engineering and served in that position until he was named deputy director of the Marshall Center in 1974.

On August 15, 1978, Smith accepted a one-year assignment as deputy associate administrator for Space Transportation Systems at NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. He served as director of the Skylab Task Force appointed by the NASA administrator to represent NASA preceding and following the reentry of Skylab.

Smith was a member of the NASA Executive Development Education Panel, and he also served a three-year term as a member of the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council.

For his contributions to the Apollo Lunar Landing Program and the Skylab Program he received the NASA Medal for Exceptional Service in 1969 and the NASA Medal for Distinguished Service in 1973. In January 1980 he received NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal for his management of the Skylab Reentry Program. In September 1980 he was awarded the rank of meritorious executive in the Senior Executive Service. In June 1981, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of science degree by Florida Institute of Technology. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate of science degree by his alma mater, Auburn University, on December 9, 1983.

Smith's administration covered the completion of the Space Shuttle buildup, the launch of 25 shuttle missions and the beginning of the planning effort for the original Space Station Freedom. Smith retired on Aug. 2, 1986.

References

This article incorporates public domain text from NASA

1929 births
Directors of the Kennedy Space Center
Rocket scientists
2019 deaths
University of North Alabama alumni
Auburn University alumni