omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Peter LeComber. Peter George LeComber (or Le Comber) FRS FRSE (19 February 1941 – 9 September 1992) was a British solid-state physicist and academic. With ten patents to his name, he is in part responsible for the development of items such as flat-screen televisions and solar power cells. He worked closely with Walter Eric Spear FRS in the development of Amorphous silicon and the creation of solar panels.

Life
He was born in Ilford on 19 February 1941. His father was largely absent during his early years, serving in the Middle East during the Second World War. He attended Becontree Heath Primary School. Following a scholarship at age eleven, he studied at South East Essex Technical College and then Leicester University, graduating BSc in 1962 and then undertaking a Ph.D. From 1965 to 1967, he conducted studies at Purdue University in Indiana, USA. In 1967 he returned to Leicester University as a lecturer in Physics.

He met Walter Eric Spear whilst working in Leicester and together they went to the Carnegie Laboratory of Physics, Dundee University in 1969 to establish the study of non-crystalline solids. In 1984 he was the recipient of the Duddell Medal. In 1984, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 1992, shortly before his death, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.

In 1986, Dundee University created a personal chair in Solid State Physics for him, placing the university in a critical position in the development of semiconductors.

He died of a heart attack on 9 September 1992, aged 51, whilst on a trip to Switzerland to celebrate his thirtieth wedding anniversary. As a close personal friend, Spear wrote his obituary. Spear's own research career was effectively ended by LeComber's sudden death.

Family 
He married Joy Smith around 1963.

References

1941 births
1992 deaths
Alumni of the University of Leicester
Academics of the University of Leicester
British physicists
20th-century British inventors
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Academics of the University of Dundee
Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing. Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (commonly shortened to IVM) is a Nigerian automobile manufacturer headquartered in Nnewi, Anambra, Nigeria. It was founded by Chief Innocent Chukwuma Nwala. Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing is nicknamed Pride Of African Roads.

According to the company, 70% of its car parts are produced locally, while the rest are sourced from Japan, China, and Germany.

Among IVM's vehicle models are the five-seaters Fox (1.5-litre engine) and Umu (2-litre engine) as well as the mini-bus Uzo.

History
On 20 May 2022, Innoson presented its first "Keke". Kekes are three-wheeled motor vehicles and the main means of transport in Nigeria. They have so far been imported from the Far East and usually cost about 800,000 Naira or 1,600 Euros. Innoson announced a selling price of 500,000 Naira or 1,000 Euros. The production capacity is 60,000 "Kekes" per year. This is to be increased by a new production plant in Owerri in Imo State on a plot of land of 150,000 square metres. The domestic production of the ubiquitous trikes in Nigeria is expected to have a positive impact on Nigeria's trade balance and labour market.

On 11 September 2024, Innoson unveiled its first locally made electric vehicle.

Products
IVM Caris, compact sedan based on the Forthing Jingyi S50
IVM G20 Smart, compact MPV based on the Keyton EX80
IVM Ikenga, compact MPV based on the Weiwang M60
IVM Capa, MPV based on the Forthing CM7
IVM G5T, mid-size crossover based on the Forthing T5L
IVM G6T, mid-size SUV based on the Foday Landfort
IVM G40, off-road vehicle based on the Beijing BJ40
IVM G80, mid-size SUV based on the Beijing BJ80
IVM Carrier 4WD, mid-size pickup truck based on the Zhongxing Grand Tiger TUV
IVM Granite, mid-size pickup truck based on the Zhongxing Terralord
IVM Mini Bus, microvan based on the Keyton M70
 IVM G5, SUV based on the Gonow G5

Other Products 
Tricycle

Plastics

Tyres

Global Presence

Innoson vehicles are being used in some West African countries like: Mali, Sierra Leone and Ghana.

Brand Ambassador
Mercy Eke, the first female winner of reality show Big Brother Naija, is currently the brand ambassador for Innoson Vehicles.

Innoson New Logo 
A Nigerian Youth Osuolale Farouq was invited by the company CEO Innocent Chukwuma after he re-designed and shared an improved and attracting logo for Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing on Twitter.

Future Plans
On 1 October 2020 the CEO Innocent Chukwuma Nwala while celebrating Nigeria at 60 spoke about the future of IVM. He said the country is all ready for the world of electric cars and IVM is ready and prepared for that change.

References

External links
 Innoson Vehicles
 Innocent Chuckwuma, ce Nigérian qui a décidé de produire des voitures sur place (Video) 

Companies based in Anambra State
Motor vehicle manufacturers of Nigeria
Nigerian brands
Jet Pocket Top 210. The Jet Pocket Top 210 is a French paramotor that was designed by Phillippe Jeorgeaguet and produced by Jet Pocket of Chantelle, Allier for powered paragliding. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The Top 210 was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules as well as European regulations. It features a paraglider-style wing, single-place accommodation and a single  Solo 210 engine in pusher configuration with a 2.9:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller. The fuel tank capacity is .

As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot. Inflight steering is accomplished via handles that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw.

Reviewer Rene Coulon wrote in 2003 that the line of paramotors produced by the company were, "reliable, light, yet powerful, well balanced statically and dynamically."

Specifications (Top 210)

References

Top 210
2000s French ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
James Thomas Brownlie. James Thomas Brownlie (23 June 1865 – 13 October 1938) was a British trade unionist and politician.

Born in Port Glasgow, Brownlie was educated at Wason’s Academy in Paisley.  He became an apprentice blacksmith, then changed to an engineering apprenticeship.  In the late 1880s, he moved to London to work at the Royal Arsenal, and became active in the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE).

Brownlie first came to prominence as a member of the executive of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society from 1899.  He became active in the Labour Party, for which he stood, unsuccessfully, in Govan at the January 1910 general election.  In 1913, he was elected as Chairman of the ASE; when this was reformed as the Amalgamated Engineering Union in 1920, he became its first president.  In this role, he chaired a joint committee of engineering unions which, in the aftermath of World War I, negotiated the 47-hour working week.  During this period, he also served on the National Advisory Committee on War Output and the executive of the International Metalworkers' Federation.

At the 1918 general election, Brownlie stood in Crewe, taking second place with 43.8% of the vote.  From 1919, he served on the executive of Ruskin College, and he also sat on a number of government committee in the 1920s, including the Balfour Committee on Industry and Trade.

Brownlie retired from his trade union posts in 1930.  He stood for Labour at the Sunderland by-election in 1931, taking 39.8% of the votes cast, but did not stand in the general election later the same year.

References

1865 births
1938 deaths
Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates
Presidents of the Amalgamated Engineering Union
People from Port Glasgow
Jet Pocket Top 80. The Jet Pocket Top 80 is a French paramotor that was designed by Phillippe Jeorgeaguet and produced by Jet Pocket of Chantelle, Allier for powered paragliding. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The Top 80 was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules as well as European regulations. It features a paraglider-style wing, single-place accommodation and a single  Per Il Volo Top 80 engine in pusher configuration with a 2.25:1 ratio reverse-turning gear box reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller. The fuel tank capacity is .

As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot. Inflight steering is accomplished via handles that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw.

Reviewer Rene Coulon wrote in 2003 that the line of paramotors produced by the company were, "reliable, light, yet powerful, well balanced statically and dynamically."

Specifications (Top 80)

References

Top 80
2000s French ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Jet Pocket Top Must. The Jet Pocket Top Must is a French paramotor that was designed by Phillippe Jeorgeaguet and produced by Jet Pocket of Chantelle, Allier for powered paragliding. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The Top Must was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules as well as European regulations. It features a paraglider-style wing, single-place accommodation and a single  Zenoah G-25 engine in pusher configuration with a 2.9:1 ratio belt reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller. The fuel tank capacity is .

As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot. Inflight steering is accomplished via handles that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw.

Reviewer Rene Coulon wrote in 2003 that the line of paramotors produced by the company were, "reliable, light, yet powerful, well balanced statically and dynamically."

Specifications (Top Must)

References

Top Must
2000s French ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Science Fiction Thinking Machines. Science Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by American anthologist Groff Conklin. It was first published in hardcover by Vanguard Press in May 1954. An abridged paperback edition titled, Selections from Science Fiction Thinking Machines was later published by Bantam Books in August 1955 and was reprinted in September 1964.

The book consists of twenty-two novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, together with an introduction and bibliography by the editor. The stories were previously published from 1899-1954, in various science fiction and other magazines.

Contents
Note: stories also appearing in the abridged edition annotated A.
"Introduction" (Groff Conklin)
"Automata: I" (S. Fowler Wright)
"Moxon's Master" (Ambrose Bierce)
"Robbie" (Isaac Asimov) A
"The Scarab" (Raymond Z. Gallun)
"The Mechanical Bride" (Fritz Leiber)
"Virtuoso" (Herbert Goldstone) A
"Automata: II" (S. Fowler Wright)
"Boomerang" (Eric Frank Russell) A
"The Jester" (William Tenn) A
"R. U. R." (Karel Čapek)
"Skirmish" (Clifford D. Simak) A
"Soldier Boy" (Michael Shaara)
"Automata: III" (S. Fowler Wright)
"Men Are Different" (Alan Bloch) A
"Letter to Ellen" (Chan Davis) A
"Sculptors of Life" (Wallace West)
"The Golden Egg" (Theodore Sturgeon) A
"Dead End" (Wallace Macfarlane) A
"Answer" (Hal Clement)
"Sam Hall" (Poul Anderson) A
"Dumb Waiter" (Walter M. Miller Jr.) A
"Problem for Emmy" (Robert Sherman Townes) A
"Selected List of Tales About Robots, Androids, and Computers" (Groff Conklin)

Notes

1954 anthologies
Science fiction anthologies
Groff Conklin anthologies
Vanguard Press books
Fiction about artificial intelligence
Waves4Power. Waves4Power is a Swedish-based developer of buoy-based Offshore Wave Energy Converter (OWEC) systems. Ongoing research and development is done in collaboration with Chalmers University of Technology. A partnership with Dutch engineering specialist BnD-Engineering in 2021 aimed to commercialize and deploy the system on a global scale.

The device is a floating buoy with a long vertical tube containing a "water piston"; this is out-of-phase with the passing waves allowing power to be generated.

A demonstration plant was installed in February 2016 at the Runde Environmental Centre in Norway. This was connected via sub-sea cable to the shore based power grid. It was the first grid connected wave energy project in Norway, on 2 June 2017 and rated at 100 kW.

In November 2017, testing of the WaveEl 3.0 was halted a month early due to damage to the anchor. This device went through 12,000 hours (almost 1½ years) of survivability demonstration, providing power into the Norwegian electricity grid for around 4,000 hours. The buoy was  in diameter. 

In 2018, ongoing long-term grid-connected testing of a 100 kW Wave-EL prototype at Runde was reported.  

In 2020, the company received a grant from the EU funded Interreg Ocean DEMO project, enabling it to access the grid-connected test berths at EMEC for three years. The plan was to have six WaveEL devices connected via a hub, and have the device certified by a classification society. However,  these tests have not happene

In 2022, Waves4Power signed a memorandum of understanding with PLN Indonesia Power to develop wave energy parks.

References 

Renewable energy
Wave energy converters
Jet Pocket. Jet Pocket (formally known as Air PLUM) was a French aircraft manufacturer based in Chantelle, Allier and later in Fourilles. It was founded by Phillippe Jeorgeaguet, who was world paramotor champion in 1999 and 2000. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of paramotors in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules and the European microlight category.

The complete company name was La société Air PLUM, but its marketing positioned its Jet Pocket paramotor brand name ahead of the company name and it was most often just called Jet Pocket.

The company was founded in 1989 and seems to have gone out of business in 2010. It claimed to have been the first company to commercialize the concept of the paramotor in 1989. Reviewer Rene Coulon wrote in 2003 that "like many of their colleagues, Jet Pocket think that the quality of their products and the internet act as a substitute for a marketing plan."

Company paramotors were flown to first place in the World Paramotor Championships in 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000, as well as winning many other championships.

Company producers included the Zenoah G-25-powered Jet Pocket Top Must, the Solo 210-powered Jet Pocket Top 210 and the Per Il Volo Top 80-powered Jet Pocket Top 80.

Aircraft

References

External links
Company website archives on Archive.org

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of France
Ultralight aircraft
Paramotors
DPHP. Di(2-propylheptyl) phthalate (also known as bis(2-propylheptyl) benzene-1,2-dicarboxylate, di(propylheptyl) orthophthalate, or DPHP) is an organic compound with the formula C28H46O4. It is a phthalate and is the diester of phthalic acid and the 10-carbon branched-chain alcohol 2-propylheptanol. This colorless, viscous liquid is used for softening PVC plastics and is a general purpose PVC plasticizer. It possesses very good plasticizing properties and may be used as a direct replacement for DEHP and DINP in many applications.

References

Phthalate esters
PolyMet Mine. The PolyMet Mine or NorthMet Mining Project is a proposed mining and processing operation in the NorthMet Deposit in northeastern Minnesota, United States,  south of Babbitt, Minnesota.  The project is controversial with potential environment effects being a major concern.

Summary
 Three open pit mines are planned with the deepest being about 700 feet. Grinding, separation and Sulphite
 Excavated material not desired (waste rock) would be stored next to the pits in large, 20-story high piles
 The hydrometallurgical process of flotation and autoclave leach the ore
 Tailings, the leftover sand-like particles of rock that have been stripped of their economic metals in flotation, will be collected and pumped in slurry form to the tailings basin.
 Some reclamation is planned and financial assurance plans are being made.

Potential benefits

Profitable business operation for Polymet Mining Corporation (corporate offices in Ottawa Canada) and major investors such as Swiss giant Glencore
Taxes for local and state revenue
Copper, nickel, and other minerals
Up to 500 direct full-time jobs

Concerns and potential problems

There are 275 million tons of proven and probable reserves grading 0.79 percent copper equivalent with Measured and Indicated Mineral Resources of 694. Large million tons grading 0.74 percent copper equivalent. Large quantities of overburden, waste rock, and processing tailings will be generated.
While some water processing is planned, elevated levels of mercury and aluminum are expected.
Contaminated waste water is planned to be contained. If leakage occurs, drainage would be through Partridge River, the Embarrass River, the St. Louis River, to Lake Superior.
operations would permanently affect 912.5 acres of wetlands
4,016.3-acre decrease in vegetation and wildlife habitat in the NorthMet Project area
Canada lynx habitat is a particular concern

References

External links
Minnesota DNR PolyMet site 
Go PolyMet company-sponsored site

Copper mines in the United States
Environmental impact of mining
Mining in Minnesota
Gary Myers (lawyer). Gary Rowland Myers (born January 1, 1944) is an American attorney and politician who specializes in military law.

Education
Myers attended the University of Delaware where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering in 1965. Myers then attended the Penn State Dickinson Law. Myers was on the editorial board of the Dickinson Law Review and was published there as well as in the Journal of the Patent Office Society. He graduated in 1968.

Career
Myers became a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association in 1968 and the District of Columbia Bar in 1972.

After passing the bar, Myers volunteered during the Vietnam War and was a captain in the Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1969 to 1973. He was among those who participated as defense counsel in the court-martial of Captain Ernest Medina. His work in the My Lai Trials, a result of the My Lai Massacre, was portrayed in the book Medina by Mary McCarthy.

Following his years in JAG Corps, Myers spent three years as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center from 1974 to 1976. In 1977, he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, where he represented the 21st district for one term.

In 1987, in the case of the United States v. Scott, Myers became the first lawyer in American history to use DNA evidence in a military court-martial. Cpl. Lindsey Scott, a member of the United States Marine Corps who was accused of rape, was eventually found not-guilty. Myers' work was portrayed in the Ellis Cohen book, Dangerous Evidence, published in 1995. In 1999, the book was adapted into a made-for-television film, Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story, and Myers was portrayed by Canadian actor Geordie Johnson.

Later, Myers represented clients in the Abu Ghraib Detention Center case stemming from an incident during the Iraq War. His work in the Abu Ghraib case was recounted in the Philip Zimbardo book, The Lucifer Effect.

Myers also represented Marines in the Haditha Killings, which occurred in 2005. Mr. Myers' work in the Haditha case was featured in the PBS documentary, Frontline.

Myers is a partner at the Military Law Practice of Gary Myers, Daniel Conway & Associates in Weare, New Hampshire.

In March 2022, Myers ended his 52-year career as an attorney at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

Awards and honors
In 1968, his article, Industrial Protection of Pre-Production Disclosures, earned him the award for the Most Outstanding Law Review Article in the nation in the field of preventive law.

References

University of Delaware alumni
American lawyers
Dickinson School of Law alumni
Living people
1944 births
People from Weare, New Hampshire
20th-century members of the Virginia General Assembly
Shanmuga Industries Arts and Science College. Shanmuga Industries Arts & Science College (SIASC) was established in 1996 by Shanmuga Industries Educational Trust, Tiruvannamalai

Programs
Shanmuga Industries Arts and Science College offers a variety of courses aimed at educating students about engineering. Courses of study include:

U.G. Courses:-
 B.A., Tamil
 B.A., English
 B.Sc., Mathematics
 B.Sc., Physics
 B.Sc., Chemistry
 B.Sc., Biochemistry
 B.Sc., Biotechnology
 B.Sc., Microbiology
 B.Sc., Electronics Science
 B.Sc., Computer Science
 B.Sc., ISM (Information System Management)
 B.C.A., (Computer Application)
 B.Com., (General)
 B.Com CA., (Computer Application)
 B.Com FA., (Finance & Accounts)
 B.Sc Bio-Technology
 B.B.A., (Business Administration)

P.G Courses
 M.A., Tamil
 M.A., English
 M.Sc., Mathematics
 M.Sc., Physics
 M.Sc., Chemistry
 M.Sc., Microbiology
 M.Sc., Computer Science
 M.C.A., (Approved by AICTE)
 M.Com

M.Phil., Programme
 M.Phil., Tamil
 M.Phil., English
 M.Phil., Mathematics
 M.Phil., Physics
 M.Phil., Computer Science
 M.Phil., Microbiology
 M.Phil., Commerce
 M.Phil., Chemistry *

Ph.D., Programme
 Ph.D., Tamil*
 Ph.D., Physics*
 Ph.D., Chemistry*
 Ph.D., Microbiology
 Ph.D., Commerce

References

External links
 Official Website

Education in Tiruvannamalai district
Tiruvannamalai
Educational institutions established in 1996
1996 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Colleges affiliated to Thiruvalluvar University
Academic institutions formerly affiliated with the University of Madras