omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Dickie Davis (British Army officer). Major General Richard Roderick Davis,  (born 2 August 1962) is a retired British Army officer and author who has worked extensively in sub-Saharan Africa. He is currently the Managing Director of Nant Enterprises and a Special Advisor to the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation.

Military career
Educated at Bloxham School, Davis studied for a degree in civil engineering at the Royal Military College of Science before attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and being commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1984. Following service as a junior officer he attended the Army Staff Course gaining an MSc in Defence Technology. He served as commanding officer of 22 Engineer Regiment in which role he was deployed to Kosovo and subsequently to West Yorkshire to provide firefighting cover as part of Operation Fresco. In June 2003 he set up and led the first UK Provincial Reconstruction Team in Mazar-e-Sharif, Northern Afghanistan. The team established a ceasefire between the rival warlords Atta Muhammad Nur and General Abdul Rashid Dostum and started a disarmament process. Davis subsequently returned to Afghanistan as the ISAF Chief Engineer between 2006 and 2007, and again as Chief of Staff, Regional Command South (Kandahar) between 2009 and 2010. Davis commanded the Army Recruiting and Training Division from 2011 until 2013. His final military appointment was Director General Personnel from which he retired in 2015.

Davis retains a number of Honorary appointments. He is a Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers and Honorary Colonel of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia).

Works 
Davis has taken to writing in his retirement. His works include:

 (contributor)

References

1962 births
British Army major generals
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Living people
Royal Engineers officers
Military personnel from Hampshire
Recipients of the Commendation for Valuable Service
SWEPOS. SWEPOS is a support system for accurate measurement of Swedish geography using a network of fixed reference stations which gather GNSS data. The SWEPOS system permits mobile GPS/GLONASS receivers to receive detailed positioning data down to the centimeter level. The SWEPOS network of reference stations began as a co-operation between the National Land Survey of Sweden and Onsala Space Observatory.

References

External links
SWEPOS

Global Positioning System
GLONASS
Air cavity system. Air cavity system (or ACS) is a modern marine hull design concept based upon capturing air beneath a vessel's hull to reduce drag and increase speed and fuel efficiency.

How it works

The system works by trapping a layer of air bubbles beneath the ship's hull. A dedicated system or an air blower generates air bubbles that pass nonstop under the ship's surface. Along the bottom of the hull, air bubble outlets are located at different sites equally on both the sides of the boat's center.
A layer of bubbles is formed by blowing air at a constant rate, reducing the drag and resistance between the boat and the water.

Operational use 
ACS is used on the Russian Serna- and Dyugon-class landing crafts.

See also
Froude number
Hull (watercraft)
Ship resistance and propulsion

References

External links
 Air Lubrication system
 

Marine propulsion
Boat types
Nautical terminology
Naval architecture
Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering. The Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE) is a research unit funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia), incorporating University of Coimbra and University of Minho as hosting institutions in Portugal. The Unit is organised in three research groups, addressing the topics of construction technologies in historical materials and masonry, steel and mixed materials, and concrete. 
In summary, ISISE aims at promoting innovation and sustainability, with a close link to the construction sector industry. The most relevant focus areas include:
 Characterisation of building materials
 Constitutive and structural modelling
 Characterisation of structural behaviour
 Inspection, assessment and monitoring of existing structures
 Safety evaluation of structures
 Development of an integrated life-time structural approach and tools for monitoring of existing structures
 Design of sustainable structures
The Institute is involved in several Advanced Educational Programs, including two Erasmus Mundus International Masters, funded by the European Commission, four PhD programs, as well as 5 advanced MSc programs.

Evaluation by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
In the latest (2014) Evaluation of R&D Units by FCT, ISISE was rated as Excellent.

References

External links
Official website

Research institutes in Portugal
Multidisciplinary research institutes
University of Coimbra
University of Minho
Dorado Software. Dorado Software is a multinational information technology company specializing in the development, licensing, and support of network management software. Dorado develops and maintains the Cruz product suite, which provides infrastructure and service lifecycle management for heterogeneous and multi-technology environments.

Cruz
Dorado's Cruz product suite combines a range of management functions in a single console and also automates the deployment and management of network devices including routers, switches, PCs, servers, storage and security appliances.  Cruz product features include automated configuration, change management, monitoring the health and performance of assets, trend reporting, network traffic analysis, service provisioning, and managed service provider features.

Dorado has an OEM relationship with other companies such as Dell and CommTelNS that private-label or embed its technology.  Notably, Cruz serves as the basis for Open Manage Network Manager which is sold by Dell EMC as a means of managing their various lines of switches and/or network equipment from other vendors such as Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, etc.

History 
Dorado was founded in 1998 in El Dorado Hills, California as a provider of application development environments for OEM element management systems (EMS). The company used this experience to build a multi-vendor management system that evolved into the suite of Cruz products.

See also 
 Communications service provider
 Infrastructure management services

References

Further reading

External links 
 

Telecommunications companies of the United States
Telephony software
Software companies based in California
Software companies of the United States
Hitkarini College of Engineering and Technology. Hitkarini College of Engineering and Technology (abbreviated HCET or HCET Jabalpur) is a private technical institute located in Jabalpur, India. It is the second-oldest private engineering institute of the Mahakoshal region. It is a subsidiary of a historic educational society, the Hitkarini Sabha. The college is affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal and All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi.

Campus
In 2000, HCET shifted from its old campus to a new campus building, which is located on top of a hill (now known as Hitkarini Hills) just  from the Jabalpur Airport (also known as Dumna Airport). Since then, HCET has the largest infrastructure among the private Engineering institutes of Jabalpur. The college has a Central Library having more than 20,000 books. HCET is located in "Dumna" close to IIITDM Jabalpur, University of Jabalpur and the College of Material Management, Jabalpur. "Dumna" area is a popular sub-urban hilly area in Jabalpur because of its natural greenery and the Dumna Nature Reserve Park. The college campus houses a separate building for the Hitkarini Dental College and Hospital and shares its own part of the infrastructure with the Hitkarini College of Architecture and Town Planning, both being the child institutes of the same governing organization, the Hitkarini Sabha.

Courses
HCET Jabalpur has 10 departments and an engineering workshop. The academic departments in HCET Jabalpur include the following:
 Engineering Chemistry
 Engineering Mathematics
 Engineering Physics
 Civil Engineering
 Computer Science & Engineering
 Electrical Engineering
 Electronics & Communication Engineering
 Humanities
 Information Technology
 Mechanical Engineering

References

External links
 Official Website
 Hitkarini Sabha's Website
 AICTE KnowYourCollege Website

Engineering colleges in Madhya Pradesh
Education in Jabalpur
Hummel Aviation. Hummel Aviation is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Bryan, Ohio and founded by James Morris (Morry) Hummel in 1983. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of plans and kits for amateur construction.

The company was formed in 1983 to produce Hummel's initial Hummel Bird design. The plane was named by Jack Cox in a Sport Aviation magazine article reviewing the design. On 9 July 1995 Hummel was involved in an aircraft accident when a bolt broke in the aileron control system of the Mini-MAX he was flying. Hummel was seriously injured and designed the Hummel UltraCruiser shortly thereafter as a consequence of a religious revelation he had during his recovery. The UltraCruiser prototype was started in 1999 and was completed in June 2000. In April 2002 a new version of the UltraCruiser was designed for larger pilots, the Hummel UltraCruiser Plus. Another derivative model for larger pilots, the Hummel H5, was the most recent addition to the company's line.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
1983 establishments in Ohio
American companies established in 1983
Manufacturing companies established in 1983
Williams County, Ohio
Foxcon Aviation. Foxcon Aviation & Research Pty Ltd, (usually just Foxcon Aviation) is an Australian aircraft manufacturer based in Mackay, Queensland that was founded in 1995. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of light aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft.

The company was formed "to manufacture extremely competitive high performance light aircraft at an affordable price." Working in composite materials, the company has expanded its space over the years and added a climate-controlled vacuum bag molding capability, plus sandwich construction molding jigs.

Although the Foxcon Terrier 100 was at one time produced, the company's sole current product is the Foxcon Terrier 200, powered by a Subaru EA81 automotive conversion engine or Rotax 912ULS aircraft engine, although a four-seat Foxcon Terrier 400 is under development.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of Australia
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Companies based in Queensland
Mackay, Queensland
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1995
Australian companies established in 1995
Manufacturing companies established in 1995
Telescopic Bridge, Bridgwater. The Telescopic Bridge (locally known as the Black Bridge) in Bridgwater, within the English county of Somerset, was built in 1871 to carry a railway over the River Parrett. It has been scheduled as an ancient monument and is a Grade II* listed building.

The retractable bridge was built in 1871 to the design of Sir Francis Fox, the engineer for the Bristol and Exeter Railway. It carried a railway siding over the river to the coal yard and docks in the Port of Bridgwater, but had to be movable, to allow boats to proceed upriver to the Town Bridge. Part of the railway siding followed the route previously used by a horse-drawn tram which had later been converted to a mixed gauge rail system. An  section of railway track to the east of the bridge could be moved sideways by a traverser, making space so that the main  girders could be retracted, creating a navigable channel which was  wide. It was manually operated for the first eight months, and then powered by a steam engine, reverting to manual operation in 1913, when the steam engine failed. The Bristol and Exeter Railway, including the branch line and bridge, was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1876.

The bridge was temporarily immobilised during World War II and last opened in 1953, and the traverser section was demolished in 1974, but public outcry at the action resulted in the bridge being listed as a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and the rest of the bridge was kept. It was later used as a road crossing, until the construction of the Chandos road bridge alongside it, and is now only used by pedestrians. Parts of the steam engine were moved to Westonzoyland Pumping Station Museum in 1977, and other parts of the bridge mechanism to Didcot Railway Centre.

References

1871 establishments in England
Bridges completed in 1871
Bridgwater
Grade II* listed buildings in Sedgemoor
Grade II* listed railway bridges and viaducts
Railway bridges in Somerset
Retractable bridges
Scheduled monuments in Sedgemoor
Derek Booth. Derek Blake Booth (born 7 April 1953), is an Anglo-American aristocratic academic and geologist. Booth is heir presumptive to the Booth baronetcy.

Education and career
Educated at Hampshire College, Amherst (B.A. in Literature, 1974), University of California, Berkeley (B.A. in Geology, 1978), Stanford University (M.S. in Geology, 1980) and the University of Washington (Ph.D. in Geological Sciences, 1984), Booth was Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth & Space Sciences at the University of Washington, before joining Stillwater Sciences (Past President).

Booth, an affiliate professor of the University of Washington and an adjunct professor of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management (UCSB), is senior editor of Quaternary Research.

Family
Of Anglo-American aristocratic descent, Booth married Elizabeth Dreisbach on 28 June 1981, and has two children, including a son, Colin Booth (born 1982), heir-in-line to the baronetcy. 

Dr Booth divorced in 2000, and married secondly, on 24 June 2006, Dr Stephanie Louise Moret with whom he lives in Santa Barbara, California.

References

Living people
1953 births
People from Beverly Hills, California
People from Santa Barbara, California
American people of English descent
American people of British descent
Derek
Younger sons of baronets
Hampshire College alumni
University of Washington College of the Environment alumni
Stanford University alumni
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
American geologists
Hans Wangensten Paus. Hans Wangensten Paus (born 26 July 1891 in Trondhjem, died 1975), often known as H.W. Paus, was a Norwegian road engineer and Director of the roads department at the Directorate of Public Roads. He is also known for authoring several works on the history of road engineering in Norway.

He studied engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology 1914–1919 and graduated as a civil engineer. He also became a commissioned officer in the Norwegian Army in 1916. He worked at the Norwegian Public Roads Administration for his entire career. He was an engineer in Nordland and Oppland before he was employed at the Directorate of Public Roads in 1937. In 1949, he became director of its most important department, the roads departments, and served in this position until he retired in 1961.

He was a son of the noted railway engineer captain Tollef Lintrup Paus (1843–1915), and a member of the Paus family.

H.W. Paus was also noted as an historian of road engineering in Norway, and was also interested in heraldry and genealogy.

Honours
Knight First Class of the Order of the Polar Star
King's Medal of Merit in Gold

Publications
H.W. Paus, Norges vegdirektører og vegsjefer, 1956, second and extended edition 1962
H.W. Paus, Militæres innsats i norsk veibygging : en historisk oversikt, in Norsk Militært Tidsskrift 10/1964
H.W. Paus, Norges generalvegmestre : generalvegmesterperioden 1665–1824, 1966
H.W. Paus, Norges vegbestyrere : vegbestyrerperioden 1824–1864, 1969

References

1891 births
1975 deaths
Directorate of Public Roads people
20th-century Norwegian engineers
Norwegian Army personnel
Knights First Class of the Order of the Polar Star
Recipients of the King's Medal of Merit in gold
Hans Wangensten
Norman Cross (multihull designer). Norman Cross ( – August 14, 1990) was a Canadian multihull sailboat designer.

Career
A design engineer by profession, Cross worked for Ford Motor Company, then spent 16 years with General Dynamics' Convair Division in their department of wind-tunnel model design and towing basin testing. He spent much of his life in San Diego, California, beginning to design multihulls in the 1950s, starting with catamarans. His full-time multihull development work began in 1968.

Designs
Cross was responsible for at least the following designs:
Cross 10.5
Cross 18
Cross 24 (1963) and later Cross 24 MkII
Cross 26 (1960s or before) and later Cross 26 MkII
Cross 27 ("stretched Cross 26 MkII")
Cross 28
Cross 30
Cross 31 and later Cross 31 MkII
Cross 32R
Cross 34 and later Cross 34 MkII
Cross 34R ("stretched Cross 32R")
Cross 35
Cross 36
Cross 36R
Cross 37
Cross 38 (1985)
Cross 39
Cross 39R ("stretched Cross 36R")
Cross 39RC
Cross 40RC
Cross 40
Cross 40R
Cross 42 and later Cross 42 MkII
Cross 44 ("stretched Cross42 MkII")
Cross 45R
Cross 46 and later Cross 46 MkII
Cross 48 Model-B
Cross 49
Cross 50
Cross 52
Cross 52R
Cross 78R (late 1980s)

References

Multihull designers
Canadian designers
20th-century Canadian engineers
1910s births
1990 deaths
Ed Horstman. Ed Horstman is an American naval architect and multihull sailboat designer based in the West Coast of the United States.

Early life 
Horstman was born in Kalispell, Montana.  He made his way from Montana to California via the U.S. Air Force where he was trained as a helicopter mechanic before serving 4 years in Korea.  After the war on the GI Bill Ed attended the Northrop Institute of Technology where he  earned a bachelor of science degree in Aeronautical Engineering.

Career 
Horstman worked for aviation giants like Boeing, Douglas Aircraft (on the A4 program), and North American Aircraft where he did wind tunnel tests for the XB-70 supersonic bomber. 

He designed his first trimaran after seeing an ad clipping for Arthur Piver trimarans. He wrote to Piver requesting information on his 35-foot trimaran, but never received an answer. A  friend, said, "You're an engineer, why don't you design one."  

Before starting, Ed took two courses on hydrodynamics from the University of Southern California before building a scale model out of foam with removable amas to determine the maximum beam and buoyancy. The model did not have a movable rudder and, when a gust of wind hit the model hard and it turned into the wind, he knew he got the design right. When he could not find a mathematical model to predict the stress on the beams, Horstman again built models of the beams and put them through a battery of stress tests until he was satisfied that his scantlings were strong enough.  

He constructed his first trimaran, a 40-footer with $600 that he borrowed from his grandmother in 1961. Although influenced by Piver's designs, Horstman diverged by using Boeing technology to make flush-decked sailboat ""with accommodation in all three hulls—the dreadnaught class of trimarans"

References

Multihull designers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Kalispell, Montana
Northrop University alumni
American naval architects
RPC12. The RPC12 (Remorqueurs Portuaires et Côtiers de 12 tonnes de traction au point fixe, "Harbour and Coastal tugboat, 12-tonne bollard pull") is a type of harbour tugboat operated by the French Navy. They utilise Voith propulsion to develop a 12-tonne bollard pull.

Design and description
The RPC12 has been classified into three sub-types: the original version, called "Type A" (comprising Fréhel and Saire), was designed as a dual-purpose tugboat capable of supporting shipping operations both in harbours and off the coast. After the two first units, the design was simplified, while retaining most functionalities, to reduce cost, yielding the "Type B" (comprising Armen, La Houssaye, Kéréon, Sicié and Taunoa). The nine remaining units constitute the RP12 type, which is further simplified to operate only within harbours (comprising Lardier, Giens, Mengam, Balaguier, Taillat, Nividic, Port Cros, Le Four and Eckmühl). Because of these differing capabilities, the RPC12 of both types are classified "auxiliaries", with an "A"-prefixed pennant number, while the RP12 are considered "yard vessels", with the corresponding "Y"-prefixed pennant numbers.

The latest in the series, Rascas, is an improved high-sea ship with better sonic isolation and air conditioning, or use in tropical waters, and a different radar.

Ships

Citations

External links

 Remorqueurs côtiers de type Fréhel, French Ministry of Defence.

Tugboats of France
Auxiliary tugboat classes
Ship classes of the French Navy
Derek Kelsall. Derek Kelsall (15 May 1933 – 11 December 2022) was an English multihull sailboat designer latterly resident in New Zealand.

He began his career in surveying and in the oil industry, but found the lure of boats too great to ignore. Born in north Wales on 15 May 1933, he died in Thames, New Zealand on 11 December 2022, at the age of 89.

Designs
A partial list of Kelsall's designs follows.
Toria (1966)
Trifle (late 1960s)
 Tonga 39 ft catamaran

References

1933 births
2022 deaths
Multihull designers
Place of birth missing
Perdio Radio. Perdio Radio was a British electronics company (Perdio Electronics Limited) founded by Derek Willmott (born 4 January 1924) and Joyce Willmott in 1955. Former RAF pilot Derek Willmott was a DECCA researcher developing RADAR applications and was already an inventor, with designs for multiple miniaturisation applications in consumer electronics, including designs for portable personal tape players (similar to the later success of Sony's Walkman) and small radios and televisions. The newly available transistors allowed the Willmotts to enter the market with Perdio, producing the PR1 in 1957. A 5 Transistor design meant a highly compact and efficient unit which led on to production of 56 models bearing the Perdio name. Perdio also produced the Portarama Television set currently on display in Londons Science Museum along with a 'Spinny' radio.

In 1962, the name changed to Perdio Electronics Ltd, Bonhill Street, London, EC2 (when Perdio became a public company) and opened a factory on Pallion Trading Estate in Sunderland.

Perdio went into receivership in 1965. By 1965, Perdio also owned: Kenure-Holt Electronics and Electric Audio Reproducers ("EAR") Ltd.

References
"The Setmakers" A history of the UK radio and television industry. BREMA 1991
http://www.jamesbutters.com/perdiopiccadilly.htm
Radio! Radio! by Jonathan Hill; Sunrise Press; 3rd Revised edition (1 Dec. 1996) 
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/perdio_portorama.html
http://www.radiomuseum.org/m/perdio_gb_en_1.html
https://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=6949

Electronics companies of the United Kingdom
Electronics companies established in 1955
1955 establishments in England
Electronics companies disestablished in 1965
1965 disestablishments in England