omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Charles Hawksley. Charles Hawksley (1839–1917) was a British civil engineer.  Hawksley was born in Nottingham, England in 1839 and was the son of civil engineer Thomas Hawksley. He studied at University College London and after graduating entered into apprenticeship with his father's firm, which had been established in 1852 and specialised in water related projects. From 1857 Hawksley was, with his father, an adviser to the Great Yarmouth Waterworks Company and in 1866 became a partner in his father's firm. Hawksley worked extensively in the water industry and clients included the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company, Sunderland and South Shields Water Company, Consett Waterworks, Weardale and Shildon District Waterworks and Durham County Water Board. Hawksley, with his father, built the Catcleugh Reservoir in Northumberland for the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company between 1899 and 1905. In addition to his work on reservoirs, pipes and other infrastructure for the water companies he also undertook work for the Bishop Auckland District Gas Company.

Hawksley became a member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers in 1897 and would serve as their president in 1911. He also served as the 38th president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1901 to November 1902.  In holding that office he followed in the footsteps of his father who had been the 16th president from December 1871 to December 1873. On 12 July 1907 Charles Hawksley established the Thomas Hawksley Fund on the centenary of his father's birth to provide a lasting memory for Thomas who had died in 1893.  The fund was given to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, of which whose council he was a member, which used it to provide an annual lecture and medal the first of which was presented on 5 December 1913.  Hawksley gave £4000 to Imperial College London's department of civil engineering which was used to construct a hydraulics laboratory shortly after the First World War.  Charles Hawksley died in 1917. The Institution of Civil Engineers awards the Charles Hawksley Prize in his honour.

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Open Source University Meetup. The Open Source University Meet-Up was a student developer organization sponsored by Sun Microsystems that educated its members about open-source technologies through technical demonstrations, access to web courses, and discounts on Sun Certification.

History
Sun started the Open Source University Meet-Up as part of its program to help connect students in computer science to its technologies. Typically led by a campus ambassador or on-campus volunteer, Open Source University Meet-Ups exist in many countries.

Purpose
The Open Source University Meet-Up was a place for Sun to connect student developers to Sun’s wide array of open source software platforms, following Sun’s initiatives to open-source all of its software technologies. As a whole it also helped give software developers, students, and other interested people an opportunity to learn more about open source software.

See also
MSDN Academic Alliance

References

External links 
 
 OSUM Network 
 http://www.uleth.ca/notice/display.html?b=302&s=10721 
 http://www.iowaosum.com

Sun Microsystems
Academic organizations based in the United States
Free and open-source software organizations
Ben Klemens. Ben Klemens (born April 10, 1975) is an Australian economist, author, and co-host of the podcast 'Pod, Paper, Scissors'. He works for the US Treasury Department and was previously a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center on Social and Economic Dynamics. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from Caltech. 

Klemens is the author of the proposal to the Unicode consortium for the Falafel emoji, which will be appearing across web platforms in 2019.

Statistical computing
In the realm of statistical computing, Klemens has done extensive work on statistical analysis for large data sets and non-traditional models such as agent-based models. He developed an innovative library of statistics functions for C, named Apophenia, and has written a textbook on statistical computing, Modeling with Data.

Software patent policy
Klemens has also worked on the policy aspects of computing, and in particular the issue of software patents. He has argued in a book entitled Math You Can't Use () and a law review article that intangibles such as computer code and mathematics should not be patentable subject matter. 

Klemens was previously the executive director of End Software Patents, an advocacy group that has lobbied to eliminating software patents and has organized around the Bilski v. Kappos case that was decided by the Supreme Court in 2010. He is a featured expert in the documentary Patent Absurdity: How Software Patents Broke the System (2010). His writings on the subject have appeared in the op-ed sections of The Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, and The Washington Post. He has occasionally commented on broader issues of technology policy and patent law.

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Living people
Australian technology writers
Australian science writers
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Ball chain. Ball chain or bead chain is a type of chain consisting of small sheet metal balls connected via short lengths of wire.

The balls are hollow and have two small antipodal holes. These holes accept a short length of wire deformed on the end like a rivet so that the end is bound inside the ball. The wire is then connected to another ball using the same method. Many of the balls and wires are joined together to form a chain. Because of the connection method, the chain can swivel on itself unrestrictedly, which helps prevent kinking. However, the chain has a relatively low strength.  Ball chains are also sometimes known as snake link or toilet chain.

The most common ball chain accessories are connectors. Each end of a connector is able to surround a ball at the end of a chain and snap over its wire connection, which holds it secure. These can be used to connect two lengths of chain, or to connect the ends of the same chain to form a loop. The connectors require no tools to apply or remove and are reusable. 

Other common accessories include other terminations similar to the connectors, but with a different connection on one end, such as a screw hole for semi-permanent affixing of a chain.

Common uses of ball chain are for pull cords on light fixtures and ceiling fans, keychains, and as retaining chains for things such as counter pens, and dogtag chains.

Typical width is size 3, or , steel ball chain. In the jewelry industry, pure 925 sterling silver may be in , , , , and  ball chain.

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John Gray (locomotive engineer). John Gray was an early English steam locomotive engineer who introduced several innovations in locomotive design during the 1830s and 1840s. John Gray's origins were thought to be unknown but he appears to have originated from Newcastle. John Gray was born 29 August 1810 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England.

Career

Innovations
In 1838 he was working for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway where he was the first engineer to use the balanced slide valve on locomotives, and later applied a form of expansion gear. In 1840 he was appointed locomotive superintendent of the Hull and Selby Railway where he became the first locomotive engineer to use long-travel valve motion.

Locomotive superintendent
In 1845 he was appointed locomotive superintendent of the Croydon Dover and Brighton Joint Committee, which then operated the pooled locomotive fleets of the London and Croydon Railway, the South Eastern Railway and the London and Brighton Railway. On the dissolution of this committee and the formation of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1846 Gray was appointed Locomotive Superintendent at Brighton works. However in 1847 he was dismissed from this post as a result of problems over the late delivery of locomotives from Timothy Hackworth.

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19th-century English engineers
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Henry Newton Knights. Henry Newton Knights MBE (1872 – 31 October 1959) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.

Business
Knights, a resident of Dulwich in south east London, started an engineering business in 1908. In 1911 he purchased the Astbury Engineering Works, Peckham, as a going concern. During the First World War he manufactured Stokes bombs for the British Army. He was also active in the Volunteer Force, the home defence organisation, holding the rank of captain. He was awarded the MBE in the 1918 Birthday Honours. In 1918 he was one of the founding directors of the British And South African Insurance Corporation. In the following year the new company merged with the British and Australasian Insurance Company to form the Greater Britain Insurance Corporation, with Newton Knights as chairman. He resigned in March 1921.

Local politics
He entered local politics, and was elected to Camberwell Borough Council as a member of the Conservative-backed Municipal Reform Party. He was mayor of Camberwell in 1913–1914.

He was co-opted on 15 October 1918 onto the London County Council by the Municipal Reform party to represent the Dulwich division of the Borough of Camberwell.

He held the office of Sheriff of the City of London in 1920 – 1921.

Member of Parliament
He was elected as a Coalition Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Camberwell North at the 1918 general election.

Illness and bankruptcy
In April 1921 his family issued an appeal for information on his whereabouts when he failed to return from a visit to Folkestone a week earlier. He was eventually discovered a week later on a roadside between Dymchurch and Hythe, having suffered a nervous breakdown and unable to give any account of his movements. Admitted to a Kent nursing home, he resigned as sheriff a month later. In June 1921 he informed the North Camberwell Unionist Association that he would not be fit to stand as a parliamentary candidate at future elections. In July 1921 he was judged bankrupt and it emerged in court that £10,000 excess profits duty had been charged against his business, and that he owed £56,000 to creditors while having assets of only £3,150. Newton Knights explained that much of the loss could be attributed to his unsuccessful speculation on the metal exchange. He had also not been able to pay for the hire of the state coach while serving as sheriff of the city. As an undischarged bankrupt, Newton Knights was ineligible to sit in the Commons, and resigned his seat on 9 January 1922 through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

Death
He died at Morden College, Blackheath in October 1959 aged 87, and was cremated at Eltham Crematorium.

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Metallole. Metalloles are metallacycle derivatives of cyclopentadiene in which the carbon atom at position 5, the saturated carbon, is replaced by a heteroatom. In contrast to its parent compound, the numbering of the metallole starts at the heteroatom. Some of these compounds are described as organometallic compounds, but in the list below quite a number of metalloids are present too. Many metalloles are fluorescent.  Polymeric derivatives of pyrrole and thiophene are of interest in molecular electronics.
Metalloles, which can also be viewed as structural analogs of pyrrole, include:

 Arsole, a moderately-aromatic arsenic analog
 Bismole, a bismuth analog
 Borole, a boron analog
 Furan (oxole), an oxygen analog
 Gallole, a gallium analog
 Germole, a germanium analog
 Phosphole, a phosphorus analog
 Pyrrole (azole), a nitrogen analog
 Selenophene, a selenium analog
 Silole, a silicon analog
 Stannole, a tin analog
 Stibole, an antimony analog
 Tellurophene, a tellurium analog
Plumbole, a lead analog
 Thiophene, a sulfur analog
 Titanole, a titanium analog
 Zirconole, a zirconium analog
 Ferrole, an iron analog

See also 
Metallacyclopentanes

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Francis Blake (inventor). Francis Blake Jr. (December 25, 1850 – January 20, 1913) was an American inventor.

Biography
Francis Blake was born in Needham, Massachusetts on December 25, 1850, the son of Caroline Burling (Trumbull) and Francis Blake, Sr.

In 1879, he invented a carbon microphone for use in the telephone, and patented it shortly after Thomas Edison invented a similar microphone that also used carbon contacts. Blake used a carbon button design that initially would not stay in adjustment, but with later improvements proved to be workable. Alexander Graham Bell hired Blake and put him to work with Emile Berliner who also invented a carbon microphone. The improved Berliner-Blake microphone was standard with the Bell company for many years. Blake also improved the construction of the microtome, and photographic shutter.

Blake worked on the United States Coast Survey from his teenage years through early adulthood (1866-1878). He was a physicist and an amateur photographer.

In 1874, Blake married Elizabeth Livermore Hubbard (1849-1941) whose father provided land in Weston, on which Blake designed and built an elaborate house where he conducted his electrical experiments. They had two children: Agnes (Blake) Fitzgerald (b. 1876) and Benjamin Sewall Blake (b. 1877).

Blake was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1900.

He died at his home in Boston on January 20, 1913.

Patents
 Canadian patent 10021 for telephone transmitter, granted May 28, 1879, voided March 3, 1887 because of failure to manufacture telephone parts in Canada.
 US patent granted in 1881

References

 Lewis Coe, The Telephone and its Several Inventors, McFarland Publishers, 1995.
 Elton W. Hall, Francis Blake: An Inventor's Life, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2004

External links
 Blake Transmitters
 Telephone Museum newsletter The Pole Line, May 2004 issue 
 Blake website

Engineers from Massachusetts
19th-century American inventors
People from Needham, Massachusetts
1850 births
1913 deaths
Philip Dawson. Sir Philip Dawson (6 October 1866 – 24 September 1938) was a British electrical engineer, volunteer soldier (lieutenant-colonel), Conservative politician and MP.

Life
Following education at Ghent and Liège Universities, Dawson became a member of the Institutes of Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineers. He became a partner in the firm of Kincaid, Waller, Manville and Dawson, consulting engineers. He worked on dock developments and electrical supply and traction projects throughout the British Empire, on the continent of Europe and in South America. He was engaged in the electrification of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway, and was awarded the George Stephenson Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Gold Medal by the Institute of Transport. Dawson developed an ability to converse in French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Russian.

In 1902 Dawson moved to Sydenham, South London. He received a commission in the Volunteer Force, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and becoming commanding officer of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

During the First World War Dawson worked for the Ministry of Munitions, and was a member of the Water Power Resources Committee of the Board of Trade.
In 1919 he was made a chevalier of the Belgian Order of Leopold for technical services rendered during the war, and in the 1920 Birthday Honours was knighted by George V for his work with the Disposal and Liquidation Commission.

He became involved in Conservative politics, and was elected to the London County Council as a member of the Conservative-backed Municipal Reform Party, representing Lewisham West in 1919.

In 1921, Sir Edward Coates, the sitting Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham West, died suddenly. Dawson was elected as Conservative MP at the ensuing by-election. He held the seat at successive elections until his death in September 1938.  He was described as being on the "right centre" of the Conservative Party.  In 1935 his opposition to the Government of India Act nearly led to break with the party.  Dawson was an admirer of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, and in April 1938 he became chairman of the newly formed Anglo-Italian Parliamentary Committee.

In June 1927 Dawson operating from St. Stephen's House, Victoria Embankment, Westminster, S.W.1., prepared a report, addressed to Sir Felix J. C. Pole, General Manager, Great Western Railway, Paddington Station, W.2.  entitled Electrification of the Main Line Taunton to Penzance and Branches West of Taunton.

In September 1938 he attended the Inter-Parliamentary Business Congress in Warsaw. On his journey home he was taken ill with a heart complaint, and died in a Berlin nursing home on 24 September, aged 71.

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GADS. GADS may refer to:

 GRAP2, GRB2-related adapter protein 2 involved in leukocyte-specific protein-tyrosine kinase signaling
 Gateway Algorithms and Data Structures
 Generating Availability Data System, US power plant information 
 Gilliam Asperger's disorder scale, a diagnostic tool for Asperger syndrome
 Goose Air Defense Sector, an inactive unit of the United States Air Force
 Gate Assignment Display System, a decision support system for managing airport ground operations
Wairau Hydro Scheme. The Wairau Hydro Scheme is a canal based hydroelectric project proposed by TrustPower on the Wairau River in Marlborough, New Zealand.  The $280 million project would divert up to 60% of the river through  of canals to generate up to  of electricity.

Resource consents 
Resource consents for this project were granted in 2008.  This decision was appealed to the Environment Court, which in 2010 decided in favour of the project. However, TrustPower put the project on hold in 2012, due to low electricity prices combined with rising construction costs. Consents for the scheme lapsed in 2021.

See also
 List of power stations in New Zealand
 Electricity sector in New Zealand

References

External links
TrustPower website

Proposed hydroelectric power stations
Buildings and structures in the Marlborough District
Proposed renewable energy power stations in New Zealand
InMage. InMage was a computer software company based in the US and India. It marketed a product line called Scout that used continuous data protection (CDP) for backup and replication. Scout consisted of two product lines: the host-offload line, which uses a software agent on the protected servers, and the fabric line, which uses an agent on the Fibre Channel switch fabric. The software protects at the volume or block level, tracking all write changes. It allows for local or remote protection policies. The first version of the product was released in 2002.

Product details 
Scout features a capacity optimized CDP repository. The continuous approach allows for near zero backup windows, any point in time restores, second level RPOs, both within the datacenter and across datacenters. The target volume is kept updated either synchronously or asynchronously based on the product line. The retention logs allow for any point in time recovery to the user specified retention window. Scout also features application failover support in a disaster recovery.

The 6.2 release of the Scout supported on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP UX. It also supports VMware, XenServer, Hyper-V, Solaris Zones and a few other server virtualization platforms.

Both server and application failover is supported for the Microsoft Windows. Application Failover supports Microsoft Exchange, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Microsoft SQL Server, File Servers, Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle, MySQL among others.

The 6.2 release series supports both clustered and non clustered operation.

Scout integrates with traditional tape backup software to enable longer term retention on tape. Scout integrates with Microsoft's VSS APIs for SQL, Exchange, Hyper-V consistent snapshots. It also integrates with Oracle, DB2, MySQL, and Postgresql consistency APIs.

Company
InMage was founded in 2001 by Dr. Murali Rajagopal and Kumar Malvalli as SV Systems. Microsoft Corporation acquired InMage in 2014.

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Microsoft acquisitions
Backup software
Storage software
Former Microsoft subsidiaries
Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform. Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) is a software rasterizer and a component of DirectX graphics runtime in Windows 7 and later. It is available for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 through platform update for Windows Vista.

WARP can be used when no compatible hardware is available, in kernel mode applications or in a headless environment, or for remote rendering of Direct2D/DirectWrite for Remote Desktop Connection clients.

WARP is a full-featured Direct3D 10.1 renderer device with performance on par with current low-end graphics cards, such as Intel GMA 3000, when running on multi-core CPUs. To achieve this level of rendering performance, WARP employs advanced techniques such as just-in-time compilation to x86 machine code and support for advanced vector extensions such as SSE2 and SSE4.1.

WARP supports Direct3D 11 runtime and is compatible with feature levels 10_1, 10_0, 9_3, 9_2, and 9_1; in Direct3D 11.1 runtime, WARP additionally supports feature levels 11_0 and 11_1.

In Windows 8, WARP provides functionality for the "Microsoft Basic Render Driver" which replaces kernel-mode VGA driver. In Windows 8.1, WARP has been updated to support feature level 11_1 and tiled resources.

In Windows 10, WARP has been updated to support Direct3D 12 at feature level 12_1; under Direct3D 12, WARP also replaces the Reference rasterizer.

In Windows 11, WARP was updated to support feature level 12_2 (DirectX 12 Ultimate) with variable rate shading, sampler feedback, mesh shaders, and DirectX Raytracing. Microsoft releases recent versions of  as a downloadable NuGet package, which can be side-loaded by applications and can work with the redistributable Direct3D 12 runtime (Agility SDK).

References

External links
MSDN - Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) Guide

DirectX
Windows 7