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Fred R. Low. Fred R. Low (April 3, 1860 – January 22, 1936) was an American mechanical engineer, long-time editor of the journal Power, and an international figure in journalism and engineering.

Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Low received regular schooling until the age of 14, when it was stopped due to a severe illness. He was a self-made man, who started his career in the industry in 1874 as a clerk in the Boston office of the Western Union Telegraph Company, where he was taught telegraphing and stenography.  He made it chief editor of the engineering journal Power in 1888 and served on that post for 42 years.

After serving on the city council from 1901 to 1903 and council president from 1905 to 1906, Low served as mayor of Passaic, New Jersey, in the year 1908–09. He was president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1924-25 and was awarded an honorary doctor of engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Low died at his home in Passaic, New Jersey, after being critically ill for several years.

Selected publications 
 Fred R. Low, Power Resources, Present and Prospective. 1924.

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1860 births
1936 deaths
American mechanical engineers
American editors
New Jersey city council members
People from Chelsea, Massachusetts
People from Passaic, New Jersey
Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Engineers from New Jersey
William L. Abbott. William Lamont Abbott (February 14, 1861 – February 20, 1951) was an American mechanical engineer, chief operating engineer of Commonwealth Edison, president of the board of trustees of the University of Illinois, and president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1926–27. He advocated burning coal to warm the planet.

Youth and early career 
Abbott was born in Morrison, Illinois in Whiteside County as son of Asa McFarland Abbott and Sarah (Sperry) Abbott. He obtained his MSc in mechanical engineering in 1884 from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

After his graduation in 1884, Abbott started his career as machinist and draftsman in the industry. In 1885 in cooperation with F. A. Wunder he founded Wunder & Abbott Illuminating Co, one of the first arc-lighting companies in Chicago, which supplied arc lighting service in the central business district of the city.

Further career 
The company Wunder & Abbott Illuminating, eventually, was bought by the Chicago Edison Co., the predecessors of Commonwealth Edison. From 1888 to 1894 Abbott was president and manager at the National Electric Construction Company. In 1894 he joined Commonwealth Edison, where he made it chief operating engineer. He retired in 1935, after 50 years in the industry.

Abbott served as President of the Board of Trustees at the University of Illinois. In the year 1926-27 Abbott served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 1942 he was awarded the Washington Award by the Western Society of Engineers. The University Power Plant of the University of Illinois, which entered service on September 1, 1940, was named after him.

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1861 births
1951 deaths
American mechanical engineers
Engineers from Illinois
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Leaders of the University of Illinois
People from Whiteside County, Illinois
Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Charles Piez. Charles Piez (September 24, 1866 - October 2, 1933) was an American mechanical engineer, manufacturer, and president of the Link-Belt Co. He was president of the Electric Company, and vice president and general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC). He is also known as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers from 1930 to 1931.

Biography
Piez was born in Mainz, Grand Duchy of Hesse, the son of Jacob Piez and Katherine (Liebig) Piez, both naturalized American citizens. He emigrated with his parents to the United States, and attended public schools in Manhattan, New York City. He entered the School of Mines of Columbia University in the class of 1888. Due to financial reverses in the family he worked for a year, and graduated with the class of 1889.

After graduation Piez started his career in industry as an engineer draftsman at the Link-Belt Engineering Corporation in Philadelphia under James Mapes Dodge. He worked his way up to chief engineer, general manager, and eventually vice-president until 1906.

In 1906, the Link-Belt Engineering Corporation merged into the Link-Belt Co., and Piez was elected president. Piez held the position of president until 1917. After the outbreak of World War I, Piez was appointed vice-president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC). He represented the EFC on the priorities board of the War Industries Board. In 1917, he was also appointed manager of the United States Shipping Board, succeeding Rear-Admiral Frederic R. Harris. In 1919, Piez forbade the Seattle ship manufacturers from meeting workers demands, triggering the Seattle General Strike. Piez was singled out as a prime target of the strike. The action was unsuccessful. Until his retirement in April 1933, Piez served as chairman of the board of the Link-Belt Corporation.

In 1925-1927, Piez served as President of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association. From 1930 to 1931, he served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

He died on October 2, 1933, in Washington, D.C.

Selected publications
 Charles Piez. Personal reminiscences of James Mapes Dodge, 1916

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1866 births
1933 deaths
American mechanical engineers
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Immigrants to the United States
Conrad N. Lauer. Conrad Newton Lauer (1869 – 1943) was an American mechanical engineer, general manager at Day & Zimmerman, Inc., chairman of the Philadelphia Gas Works Co., and 51st president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1932–33.

Biography

Youth, education and early career 
Lauer was born on November 25, 1869, in Three Tuns, Pennsylvania, in Montgomery County to Herman Lauer and Margaret Lukens (Clayton) Lauer. His grandfather John G. Lauer had settled there around 1850, having emigrated from Stuttgart, Germany.

In his native county Lauer attended public and private schools, and subsequently received his technical training under private tutors. In 1893 he started his career in the industry as clerk at the Link-Belt Company in Philadelphia, now the FMC Corporation, and worked his way up to superintendent until 1902. In those days he assisted several consulting engineers with the introduction of scientific management methods.

Later career 
In 1902 Lauer joined as industrial engineer the new engineering company Dodge & Day, founded by Charles Day and Ken Dodge, son of James Mapes Dodge. In 1916 the company proceeded as Day & Zimmerman, Inc., where Lauer was appointed secretary and general manager. In the 1920s Lauer was appointed chairman of the Philadelphia Gas Works, and he later served as chairman of the board of the Philadelphia Gas Works Co.

In the 1930s Lauer was also Vice-President and Director of the United Gas Improvement Company, and a Director of the Welsbach Company, of Baldwin Locomotive Works, and of Sharp and Dohme, Inc.

In 1929 Lauer was the donor of the Hoover Medal, named after and first awarded to Herbert Hoover. In 1930 Lauer was awarded an honorary M.E. degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology. In 1932-33 he served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Lauer died on August 2, 1943.

Selected publications 
 Conrad Newton Lauer. Engineering in American industry; the development of industry in these United States during one hundred and twenty years. Volume I and II. McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1924.
 Conrad Newton Lauer. John Ericsson, engineer, 1803-1889, Newcomen Society American Branch, 1939.
 Conrad Newton Lauer. William Penn's Philadelphia--in 1840, Newcomen Society American Branch, 1940.

Selected articles
 Conrad N. Lauer. "The Importance of Cost-Keeping To the Manufacturer," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 22.3 (1903): 47–57.
 Lauer, Conrad Newton. "Plant Engineering as a Service to Production Management." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 119.1 (1925): 97-102.

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1869 births
1943 deaths
American mechanical engineers
Columbia University alumni
People from Upper Dublin Township, Pennsylvania
Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Engineers from Pennsylvania
Alien Space Battle Manual. Alien Space is a science fiction board wargame published by Gamescience in 1973 that simulates space combat as seen in the Star Trek television show.

Gameplay
Alien Space is a two-player game in which each player chooses one of eight different ships and engages in space combat. Each ship has a secret weapon that the other player is unaware of until it is used. There is no map. Instead, ship counters are placed on any flat surface, and the physical distance between the counters is measured for movement and combat effects.

Publication history
In 1972, Lou Zocchi designed and released Star Trek Battle Manual, a space combat game based on the Star Trek television show that featured an illustration of the iconic USS Enterprise on the cover. However, Zocchi did not have a license from the trademark holder Paramount Pictures; when Paramount objected, Zocchi was forced to recall all unsold copies of the game. Zocchi revised the rules to omit all references to Star Trek, increased the number of ship models from 3 to 8, and released Alien Space Battle Manual through his publishing company Gamescience in 1973.

Several years later, Zocchi identified a loophole in Paramount's trademark and successfully acquired a license through Franz Josef Designs to utilize Star Trek ship designs and certain Star Trek races, including the Klingons. Zocchi proceeded to revise the rules of the game Alien Space Battle and rebranded it as the Star Fleet Battle Manual, which was released in 1977.

Reception
In Issue 3 of The Space Gamer, Steve West was impressed with the game, commenting "The game is quite fun [...] It is played with pure skill, no die rolling involved."

In the inaugural issue of Ares Magazine, Greg Costikyan was not overly enthusiastic but admitted "Alien Space is not for the hard-core simulations freak, but it's certainly a pleasant way to kill an afternoon." He concluded by giving the game an average rating of 6 out of 9.

In his 1977 book The Comprehensive Guide to Board Wargaming, Nicholas Palmer commented that even without overt reference to Star Trek, Alien Space was still a "small Star Trek-based game." Palmer liked the surprise element of the game, since each ship had "surprise secret weapons unknown to the other players."

In Issue 44 of Strategy & Tactics, game designer Sid Sackson thought this game had many "unique weapons systems ... [and] imaginative concepts" but warned that the game had to be played "on the floor of a fairly large room."

Other reviews and commentary

1972 edition 
Panzerfaust #53 and #61

1977 edition 
Campaign #81
Games & Puzzles #69

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Board games introduced in 1973
Gamescience games
Cobalt WASD. Cobalt WASD is an action video game developed by Oxeye Game Studio and published by Mojang Studios released on 30 November 2017 for Microsoft Windows.

Gameplay 
The player plays as either a "Metalface" or a "Protobot". The Metalfaces try to defend the bomb-sites, while the Protobots try to attack and plant a bomb. When the Protobots plant the bomb, the Metalfaces must try to defuse the bomb before it explodes. The Protobots win when they kill all of the Metalfaces, and the Metalfaces win then they defuse the bomb. At the end of each round, players can choose to buy armor, weapons, or vehicles. While the game mainly focuses on the online multiplayer game mode, there is a mode where the player can play against offline bots.

Development
Cobalt WASD is a separate stand-alone spin-off of Cobalt. The developers saw that the original game was too complex for some players and its higher price point discouraged some players, so they wanted to make a completely different game. They decided to make a spin-off of Cobalt, focusing on just one game mode.

Reception 
Eurogamer found Cobalt WASD to be a "very funny and competitive multiplayer game". PC Games N called it a "2D version of Call of Duty's Search and Destroy game mode".

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2017 video games
Action games
Indie games
Linux games
MacOS games
Mojang Studios
Multiplayer video games
Video games developed in Sweden
Windows games
Patrick Fennell. Patrick Fennell (1842–1917) was an American locomotive engineer, union member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and writer, whose verse as "Shandy Maguire", among others, was a staple of the Locomotive Engineers Journal, and other trade and union publications.

In May 1909 he was a guest of the United Kingdom's Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen at their triennial conference, in Liverpool, along with W. S. Carter, President of the American Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen. Their tour of England concluded with a special train to take them from London to Southampton.

Born in 1842, he died around age 75 in 1917.

His book Recitations, epics, epistles, lyrics and poems, humorous and pathetic was dedicated:

Selected publications
Recitations, epics, epistles, lyrics and poems, humorous and pathetic. (1886, Oswego, N.Y. : R.J. Oliphant, printer; reprinted 2012, Hardpress Publishing, )
Random rhymes and rhapsodies of the rail (1907, Cleveland, O., The Cleveland printing Co.; reprinted 2012, Rarebooksclub.com, )

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1842 births
1916 deaths
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen people
American male writers
American locomotive engineers
Rochambeau Worsted Company Mill. The Rochambeau Worsted Company Mill is a historic textile mill complex at 60 King Street in the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island.  Set between King Street and the Woonasquatucket River, it is a three-story brick-clad steel frame structure, built about 1923.  It was the third mill in Rhode Island in which a French system of textile processing was implemented.  The business was established in 1922 by the Lepoutre Brothers, French immigrants who had first begun operations at the Lafayette Worsted Company in Woonsocket, and operated until 1956.  It was thereafter occupied by the Imperial Knife Company, which operated here until 1987, manufacturing tableware.

The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence, Rhode Island

References

Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Providence, Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Providence, Rhode Island
Textile mills in Rhode Island
Paul Aaron Langevin Doty. Paul Aaron Langevin Doty (May 30, 1869 – March 3, 1938) was an American mechanical engineer, vice-president and general manager of the St. Paul Gas Light Co., president of St. Paul Trust and Savings Bank, and investor. He was the 53rd president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1934–35.

Biography

Family and education 
Doty was born in Hoboken, New Jersey as son of William Henry Harrison Doty and Anna (Langevin) Doty in 1869. He was a seventh in line descent from Edward Doty, Pilgrim passenger in the Mayflower in 1620, and one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.

Doty obtained his MSc in mechanical engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1888. For his graduation Doty made experiments on the naphtha engine, of which the results were published in The Iron Age magazine.

Further career 
After his graduation in 1888, Doty started the first half of his career in the gas industry. In 1904 he was appointed vice-president and general manager of the St. Paul Gas Light Company, the Edison Electric Light and Power Company of Saint Paul, Minnesota. This lasted until September, 1917, when he was appointed Major of the general staff of the U.S. Army.

In 1910 Doty had also been elected President of the Business League of St. Paul. He had joined the Minnesota National Guard, where in 1916 he obtained the rank of Brigadier General and Commissary General. In the late 1910s he was also appointed vice-president and managing director of St. Paul Trust and Savings Bank, After his serves at the U.S. Army he was appointed chairman of the Minnesota Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers and Land Surveyors.

In 1922 he had accepted the Democratic nomination for Member of Congress from the fourth district of Minnesota, but the Republican Oscar Keller took the seat. In 1923 Doty was appointed president of the St. Paul Association of Commerce.

In 1917 he served as Vice President of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and in 1934–35 as its president. In 1934 Dorr also returned in U.S. Government service one last time as regional reconditioning supervisor with the Home Owners Loan Corporation, supervising the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

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1869 births
1937 deaths
American mechanical engineers
American investors
Stevens Institute of Technology alumni
People from Hoboken, New Jersey
Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Engineers from New Jersey
Rudstone. Rudstone is a type of carbonate rock.

The Dunham classification (Dunham, 1962) did not consider grain size as a criterion for the description of carbonate lithologies. In an attempt to rectify this perceived deficiency, Embry & Klovan (1971) introduced the terms rudstone (grain supported) and floatstone (matrix supported) for coarse-grained allochthonous carbonates. Following a survey of the use of the Dunham classification, Lokier and Al Junaibi (2016) clarified the definition of a rudstone as "a carbonate-dominated rock where more than 10% of the volume is  grains larger than 2 mm and these grains support the fabric of the rock."

References 

Limestone
Robert B. Gaither. Robert B. (Bob) Gaither (August 12, 1929 – August 18, 2012) was an American mechanical engineer, professor and chairman of the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Florida College of Engineering, and the 100th president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1981-82.

Born in Ontario, Canada, Gaither attended Curtis High School, and obtained his BSc at Auburn University in 1951. After serving in the US Navy as bomb disposal officer on a destroyer for 3.5 years, he obtained his MS in 1957 and his PhD in 1962 in mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois. Gaither served his further career from 1962 to 1992 as professor and chairman of the department of mechanical engineering at University of Florida College of Engineering. In the year 1981-82 he served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

In 1981 the University of Illinois awarded him a Distinguished Alumni Award, and in 1993 the American Society for Engineering Education awarded him a Centennial Medallion.

Selected publications 
 Ernest T. Smerdon, and Robert B. Gaither, "Using Technology to Solve Environmental Problems," in: Serial Information: Engineering Issues: Journal of Professional Activities, 1974, Vol. 100, Issue 4, Pg. 273-288

References

External links 
 In memoriam: Bob Gaither, In Memoriam, News. September 21, 2012.

1929 births
2012 deaths
American mechanical engineers
Auburn University alumni
University of Illinois alumni
University of Florida faculty
Scientists from Ontario
Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Honda EV Concept. The Honda EV Concept vehicles are a series of two concept electric cars created by the automobile division of Honda, designed with cues to historical Honda products. The Urban EV Concept made its debut at the 2017 International Motor Show Germany in September 2017, while the Sports EV Concept debuted at the Tokyo Motor Show a month later.

Common features
The front and rear ends feature screens that display messages to other motorists or the battery status. Other common styling details include the shape and configuration of the headlights, taillights, and front grille; matte black rub strips on the sides; and the blacked-out A pillars. The "Honda Automated Network Assistant" is a Honda-created artificial intelligence system that, according to Honda, "learns from the driver by detecting emotions behind their judgments."

Urban EV

Built on a new platform, the Urban EV Concept's exterior design is an homage to the first generation Honda Civic and is about the same length as the Honda Fit. The car features rear-hinged suicide doors. Yuki Terai is credited with the exterior design. 

"We have come up with this cute-looking front, as well as simple and soft plane designs. Cars are becoming more high-tech, but they become friendlier to people,"  
"We want to make these cars simple and easy to understand." Jun Goto, Sports EV Concept designer

The interior fits four adults, with the front passengers seated on a single bench seat. The dashboard is decorated in wood trim with a long digital screen as the instrument and infotainment panel. On the upper door panels are additional screens that display feeds from the side-view cameras. Fumihiro Yaguchi was the interior designer.

Production version 

The production version of the Urban EV Concept is released in Europe later in 2019, and then was later released in Japan in 2020. The target market for the Urban EV Concept is as a short-range commuter. Because of its target as an urban commuting vehicle, a release in the United States is quite unlikely.

In February 2019, a pre-production prototype was unveiled, with the production version shown during the Geneva Motor Show and in May Honda announced the production vehicle to be named Honda e. Production and sales has started in late 2019.

Sports EV

According to Honda, the Sports EV Concept "combine[s] EV performance and artificial intelligence inside a compact body with the aim to realize the joy of driving with a sense of unity with the car." Its exterior is inspired by the Honda S600. It shares the front and rear lights, as well as the dash, with the Urban EV. It features two seats and is meant to "embod[y] the 'beautility' of a sporty car." Due to the short six-month development schedule, the interior of the Sports EV shown at TMS 2017 was not finished.

Makoto Harada was the project leader and exterior designer of the concept.

Awards 
Automobile magazine awarded both cars with the 2018 Concept of the Year.

2018 Car Design Award ‘The Best Concept Car’

References

External links

  (Urban EV)
  (Sports EV)

Urban EV Concept
Electric concept cars
41st Flight Training Squadron (JASDF). The  is a training squadron of the 3rd Tactical Airlift Group of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) based at Miho Air Base in Tottori Prefecture, Japan. It is equipped with 13 T-400 aircraft. The squadron trains JASDF pilots who will go on to fly large jet aircraft like the Kawasaki C-1, Kawasaki C-2, KC-767 and E-767. 

As of 2017 there are plans to move the squadron to Hamamatsu Air Base in Shizuoka Prefecture.

Tail markings

The squadron's aircraft bear a stylized "41" as their tail marking.

Aircraft operated
 T-400 (1994 - )

References

Units of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force