omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Cawnpore–Barabanki Railway. Cawnpore–Barabanki Railway (C–B) (1943-1953) (earlier called Cawnpore–Burhwal Railway (1894-1943) was a railway in northern India.
It was managed as part of the East Indian Railway, and was worked by the Bengal and North Western Railway and the Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway.

History 

Cawnpore–Burhwal Railway was sanctioned for construction in October 1894 to provide a link between the metre gauge railways, north of the Ganga river with the Rajputana-Malwa Railway system. The construction was commenced in November 1894. The line was constructed alongside the broad gauge from Cawnpore via Lucknow to a junction with Bengal and North Western Railway at Burhwal 160 km away. The metre gauge line between Burhwal and Daliganj on the Lucknow–Bareilly Railway was opened on 24 November 1896. The line was later extended to Barabanki. The line was 29 km long. The metre gauge Cawnpore-Aishbagh section of the Cawnpore–Burhwal Railway (metre gauge link) was opened for goods traffic on 25 April 1897. The line was 72 km long.

In Oudh and Rohilkhand railway and Cawnpore–Burhwal railway there were no curves of a shorter radius than , except on the Cawnpore–Burhwal railway where the sharpest curve has a radius of .

The Railway was essentially the common stem of the Bengal and North Western Railway and Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway networks. The Cawnpore–Burwhal Railway was renamed the Cawnpore–Barabanki Railway around 1943. The Cawnpore–Barabanki Railway was transferred to the North Eastern Railway on 27 February 1953.

Conversion to broad gauge 

The CBR was converted to  broad gauge in 2014.

References

Transport in Kanpur
Metre gauge railways in India
Defunct railway companies of India
Railway companies established in 1894
Railway companies disestablished in 1943
Railway companies established in 1943
Railway companies disestablished in 1953
History of rail transport in Uttar Pradesh
Transport in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh
Hamilton Owen Rendel. Hamilton Owen Rendel (1843–17 September 1902) designed and installed the original raising mechanism of the Tower Bridge while working for Sir W. G. Armstrong Mitchell & Company of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Family
Rendel was a member of a notable family of engineers. His father, James Meadows Rendel, was a civil engineer who married his mother, Catherine Jane Harris. His siblings were:
 Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel (1829–1918) – civil engineer
 George Wightwick Rendel (1833–1902) – naval architect and civil engineer
 Emily Frances Rendel (1836–1897) married Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen in 1862.
 Emily Catherine Rendel (1840–1921) married Clement Francis Wedgwood in 1866
 Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel

A cousin, James Murray Dobson, became resident engineer of the Buenos Aires harbour works in the 1880s and 1890s.

Career
Rendel took his degree at Cambridge University, and immediately after leaving started at the Armstrong, Mitchell and Company at Elswick, Tyne and Wear, where he later became head of the engineering department. 

His brother Stuart was managing Armstrong Mitchell's London office and Hamilton was given the role of managing the project to build the hydraulic equipment operating Tower Bridge.

He retired in early 1902 due to ill health, and died later the same year on 17 September 1902 as he was visiting his sister Mrs. Wedgwood at her residence The Lea, in Barlaston, Staffordshire. He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery in London.

Tower Bridge hydraulics

The mechanism was powered by pressurised water stored in several hydraulic accumulators. Water, at a pressure of , was pumped into the accumulators by two  stationary steam engines, each driving a force pump from its piston tail rod. The accumulators each comprise a  ram on which sits a very heavy weight to maintain the desired pressure.

References

1843 births
1902 deaths
Engineers from Tyne and Wear
Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery
Questionaut. Questionaut is a short educational video game developed by Amanita Design for the BBC. It's a point-and-click adventure game meant for English speaking children of school age. It is supposed to exercise their knowledge in English, mathematics and natural science.

Gameplay 
Players control an aeronaut who tries to get with his balloon as high as possible to get a hat which belongs to his friend Vodník. But the balloon loses its air and the aeronaut has to land on levitating planets. There are creatures on these planets who are specialized in some way (English language, mathematics, chemistry, etc.). The player has to solve a simple problem and then answer questions from the subject in which is the creature living on the planet specialized. Each of these questions have three possibilities. When the player chooses the right answer, the balloon gets some air but if he/she chooses wrong the balloon loses its air. When the player gets enough air, the balloon gets him to a higher planet.

Development
Amanita Design developed Questionaut on BBC's commission. Amanita Design received questions that were to be included in the game and requested for it to be set in different environments, but the developers otherwise had creative freedom.

References

External links 
 Game page at Amanita Design website
 Play Questionaut at Amanita Design website

Browser games
Educational video games
Point-and-click adventure games
Flash games
Freeware games
Indie games
Windows games
Amanita Design games
Video games developed in the Czech Republic
2008 video games
Single-player video games
BAM Energy Group. BAM Energy Group (formerly BAM Solar Power) is a photovoltaic system systems installer based in Miami, Florida.  The company provides design, installation, monitoring and maintenance services for solar energy.

In January 2010, BAM installed the first solar electricity system on a cruise ship, Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas. The installation covered a surface area of 21,000 sq. ft. (1950 m2) on deck 19 and cost . In January 2011, BAM installed an 80 kW system on RCL's Allure of the Seas, covering the largest area to date on a cruise ship - 2000 square meters. The system powers the shopping district, cost , and used Uni-Solar durable BIPV laminates designed to withstand foot traffic and marine conditions.

External links

Photos of the Oasis installation

References

Solar energy companies of the United States
HP 9845C. The HP 9845C from Hewlett-Packard was one of the first desktop computers to be equipped with a color display and light pen for design and illustration work.  It was used to create the color war room graphics in the 1983 movie WarGames.

Features

The attached HP 98770A color display enabled the color graphics with its own CPU and separate power supply, a vector generator based on the AMD2900 bit-slice architecture, graphics memory with three planes of  each, the connection interface to the mainframe consists of a direct data bus attachment, and a light-pen logic.   were available.

The system is a big-endian 16-bit architecture, the BPC, with roots in the HP 2116A which were one of the first 16-bit microprocessors created.

The display showed 8 soft keys on the lower end of the screen, 39 alignment controllers behind a door enabled fine tuning of color convergence.

The speed of the builtin BASIC language was accomplished by implementing time critical parts of it in CPU microcode.

A builtin tape cartridge device with a capacity of 217 kB and transfer speed of 1440 bytes/s enabled storage of data.
Average access time for the unit is 6s and a rewind end to end takes 20s.  The directory is stored in r/w memory to enable quick access.

See also 
 HP 9800 series HP desktop computer product line
 HP DC100 - DC100 tape format and drive
 LDS-1 (Line Drawing System-1)

References

External links 
 hpmuseum.net: HP Computer Museum, 98x5 Computers Selection
 archive.org/bohemiae.com: HP 9845B - Summary
 uni-stuttgart.de: 9845B/C CE Handbook (.pdf 2009-08-17)

9845C
Computer-related introductions in 1980
9845C
Computers using bit-slice designs
16-bit computers
Jean Hubert (aircraft designer). Jean Hubert (4 November 1885 – 2 November 1927) was a French aviation pioneer and aircraft designer. He was the Chief Engineer of Société des Avions Bernard ().

Biography
Jean Hubert was born in Saint-Vaast-la-Houghe in France. He attended school in Cherbourg then at the Institut Industriel du Nord, where he graduated in electrical engineering.

In 1908, he was one of Wilbur Wright's first passengers in his first French flights at Auvours. He expanded his experience in aircraft design at the Esnault-Pelterie Aircraft Company, then at Breguet Aviation.

At the beginning of World War I, he volunteered as a pilot in Avord Air Base, then he designed several prototypes of fighter and bomber aircraft and helped to establish an aircraft factory for producing Caudron G.3s and SPAD XIIIs.

After the war, he joined Société des Avions Bernard where he designed several aircraft prototypes.

One of his prototypes, the Bernard SIMB V.2, piloted by Florentin Bonnet won the flight airspeed record on November 11, 1924 with 448.171 km/h. When he died in 1927, his Oiseau Tango prototype was renamed "Ingénieur Hubert" in his honor.

A version of his Bernard 190 prototype dubbed "Oiseau Canari" was used in the first successful French aerial crossing of the North-Atlantic in 1929.

Airplanes designed by Jean Hubert

 Bernard SIMB V.1 Racer. One built, 1924.
 Bernard SIMB V.2 V.1 with shorter span. One built, 1924. The V.3 was a proposed development with retractable undercarriage. 
 Bernard SIMB AB 10 Revision of AB.C1, 1924.
 Bernard SIMB AB 14 Fighter. One built, 1925.
 Bernard SIMB AB 15 Fighter. One built, 1926.
 Bernard 18 Eight seat transports. Two built, 1927.
 Bernard 190  Ten seat transports, Fourteen built, 1928 (first flight).

References

1885 births
1927 deaths
People from Manche
French aviation pioneers
Aviation inventors
French aerospace engineers
École centrale de Lille alumni
Burials at Batignolles Cemetery
Thejus Engineering College. Thejus Engineering College is a private engineering college situated in Vellarakkad, Thrissur District of Kerala, India. Thejus Engineering College, a project of Cheruvathur Foundation was established in the year 2009. The College is affiliated to University of Calicut, approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and sanctioned by Govt. of Kerala.

References

Engineering colleges in Thrissur district
All India Council for Technical Education
Colleges affiliated with the University of Calicut
Universal Engineering College. The Universal Engineering College (UEC) is a private engineering college functioning under the management of the Universal Educational Trust. College was started in 2011 by a group of successful industrialists and business personalities to contribute to the society and its development realising that only Education can transform the society for a better living. UEC is situated in Irinjalakuda,  Thrissur District of Kerala, India. The college is approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) New Delhi, and affiliated with APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Kerala (APJAKTU). UEC is registered under the trust for the purpose of conducting various programs in engineering courses and related research activities.

The campus is known for its discipline, well equipped laboratories, well qualified and experienced faculty members with the best administration and governance. Other salient features of UEC are syllabus supplements, platforms for skills and gap bridging, healthy teacher – student relationships, mentoring, Forums for social outreach, community involvement etc. In a very short time span UEC has carved a niche among the student community by its excellent results in University examinations, student friendly campus with a perfect blend of innovation and research.

Location 

Universal Engineering College is situated at Vallivattom near Vellangallur, Irinjalakuda alongside the Thrissur-Kodungallur state highway. The Campus sprawling over 10.14 acres of scenic landscape near the historical Muzris land, has been laid out to create a unique learning environment.

Academic offerings

Library 
Institution has a very large library with an area over 400 m2 and with more than 15000 books comprising both Indian and international authors. Newspapers and previous university question papers are also available. Books are classified as per Dewey decimal classification scheme for easy access. The library is fully automated using the software called KOHA to help in searching availability of books and details of transactions of students in the library. 60 seats are arranged in reference section. Browsing, printing and photocopying facilities are provided in the library. UEC have a digital library with 40 computers for providing the staffs and students to learn at their own comfort and convenience. Students can access and read the eBooks and E-journals using the digital library.

Vision 
Provide excellent engineering education, imparting skill development and innovation ecosystem to create engineers that cater to the needs of the society with strong ethical values.

Mission 

 Qualified faculty and intact infrastructure, bestow creative and innovative engineering education.
 Equip the students with competent and cutting edge technologies.
 Mould the students to meet the changing challenges with a global outlook.
 Inculcate moral and ethical values among students so as to serve the needs of society.

References

Engineering colleges in Thrissur district
All India Council for Technical Education
Colleges affiliated with the University of Calicut
Shri Shankaracharya Engineering College. The Shri Shankaracharya Engineering College (SSEC) is a private engineering college in Chhattisgarh, India. The college offers education in Bachelor of Engineering and MBA.

History
The college, established in 2007, is the second engineering college added to the chain of college/schools managed by SGES, following Shri Shankaracharya College of Engineering and Technology.

See also
 Shri Shankaracharya College of Engineering and Technology
 Shri Gangajali Education Society
 Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University

References

External links
 SSEC home page

Engineering colleges in Chhattisgarh
Education in Bhilai
Educational institutions established in 2007
2007 establishments in Chhattisgarh
Kirobo. Kirobo is Japan's first robot astronaut, developed by University of Tokyo and Tomotaka Takahashi, to accompany Koichi Wakata, the first Japanese commander of the International Space Station. Kirobo arrived on the ISS on August 10, 2013 on JAXA's H-II Transfer Vehicle Kounotori 4, an unmanned resupply spacecraft launched August 4, 2013 from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center. A twin to Kirobo, named Mirata, was created with the same characteristics, and stayed on Earth as a backup crew member.
The word "kirobo" itself is a portmanteau of  , which means "hope" in Japanese, and the word  , used as a generic short word for any robot.

Development
Kirobo was developed by a collaborative effort between Dentsu, the University of Tokyo's Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Robo Garage, Toyota, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). The University of Tokyo and Robo Garage worked on the robot hardware and motion generation, Toyota created the voice recognition function and Dentsu created the conversation content and managed the project. VoiceText of Hoya Service provided speech synthesis.

Features
Kirobo is approximately  tall,  wide and  deep. It weighs about  and speaks Japanese.

The robot's capabilities include voice and speech recognition, natural language processing, speech synthesis and telecommunications, as well as facial recognition and video recording. Kirobo is specially designed to navigate zero-gravity environments and will assist Commander Wakata in various experiments. It's main goal is to see how well robots and humans can interact, hopefully leading the way to robots taking more active roles in assisting astronauts on missions.

World records
Kirobo set two Guinness World Records after it returned to Japan, following an 18-month stay on board the International Space Station:

First companion robot in space 
Highest altitude for a robot to have a conversation

See also
 CIMON, floating robot deployed on the ISS by Airbus,
 Robonaut
 Robonaut2, semi-humanoid robot deployed on the ISS by NASA

References

University of Tokyo
Robots of Japan
2013 robots
International Space Station
JAXA
Humanoid space robots
World record holders
Streaker (rocket). The Streaker is a rocket invented by SpaceDev. It is designed to be a low-cost launch vehicle.

History

SpaceDev, the world's first commercial space exploration company, was founded in 1997 by Jim Benson, as a result of a merger between Integrated Space Systems of Southern California and a defunct publicly traded corporate shell. In August 1998 SpaceDev acquired all patents, intellectual property, test results, and documents that had been produced by the bankrupt American Rocket Company (AMROC). Some of these documents would later be used to create the SpaceDev Streaker.

In April 2003, SpaceDev announced the creation of the Streaker as part of a propulsion program based on the hybrid motor of the SpaceShipOne, a vehicle created by Scaled Composites. SpaceDev also received an Air Force Research Laboratory contract to develop the SpaceDev Streaker Hybrid Upper Stage rocket, one of two used in the vehicle. The Streaker was expected to undergo first launch in 2007–08.

Propulsion method
The Streaker is propelled using High Performance Mass Fraction hybrid common core boosters, which will use HTPB and nitrous oxide as fuel. The two motors involved in this system are the Hybrid Upper Stage motor and the SpaceDev Streaker Small Common Booster motor, which will produce 20,000 and 120,000 pounds of thrust respectively. Both motors are used in the SpaceDev Dream Chaser. Other important components include a Common Core Booster and a hybrid transfer stage.

Design and testing
The Streaker is designed to offer quick response launches of payloads in the 1,102-pound class to low Earth orbit but can support loads of up to 2,204 pounds. The goal of the Streaker is to achieve a launch cost of under US$5,000,000 per launch. An additional SpaceDev facility was built in Poway, California in order to design and test the Streaker.

See also
SpaceDev Dream Chaser
Trailblazer (satellite)

References

Space launch vehicles of the United States
Shuichi Nosé. was a Japanese physicist.

Nosé is best known for his two 1984 papers in which he proposed a method to specify the temperature of molecular dynamics simulations. This method was later improved by William G. Hoover and is known as the Nosé–Hoover thermostat.

Publications

References 
Obituaries:
 
 
 "Nosé Shuichi, In Memoriam" by William Graham Hoover

External links 
 The recipient of the 3rd Science Prize of IBM Japan (Japanese) - Awarded for Nose's thermostat.
  - Some of notes of Nosé before his death are available.

1951 births
2005 deaths
20th-century Japanese physicists
Academic staff of Keio University
Kyoto University alumni
People from Kyōtango
MV Algorail. Algorail was a lake freighter owned and operated by Algoma Central. The ship was built by Collingwood Shipyards in Collingwood, Ontario and was launched in 1967. The ship sailed on the North American Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway delivering coal/coke, aggregates, slag, iron ore/oxides, salt, fertilizers, grain products, gypsum, quartzite, or sand. The ship was laid up in 2016 and sold for scrap in 2018.

Description
The ship was  long overall and  between perpendiculars with a beam of . The ship has a maximum draught of  and a Saint Lawrence Seaway draught of . Algorail had a gross tonnage (GT) of 16,157 and a deadweight tonnage (DWT) of 23,320.

Algorail was powered by four Fairbanks-Morse 10-38D8-1/8 diesel engines driving one shaft. The engines were rated at  combined. The vessel was also equipped with one  bow thruster and one  stern thruster. The ship had a maximum speed of . The ship had four holds, 17 hatches and is equipped with a  discharge boom that can swing 105 degrees to either side of the ship and discharges 3,810 tonnes per hour.

Service history
The ship was constructed by Collingwood Shipyards at their yard in Collingwood, Ontario with the yard number 189. Algorail was launched on 13 December 1967, christened on 1 April 1968 and completed that month. The second freighter of the name was registered at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario for Algoma Central. A self-unloading bulk carrier, she is one of the last lake freighters built in the traditional two-superstructure style, with the bridge at the bow. The ship sails on the North American Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway delivering coal/coke, aggregates, slag, iron ore/oxides, salt, fertilizers, grain products, gypsum, quartzite, or sand.

On 6 October 1972, Algorail collided with the pier at Holland, Michigan loaded with a cargo of salt. The pier tore a  hole in her bow, which caused the vessel to sink. The ship was refloated, repaired and put back into service. On 20 April 1999, Algorail ran aground at Green Bay, Wisconsin in the Fox River. The ship was undamaged, but attempts by two tugboats to free the ship damaged the docks at Green Bay. On 25 June 2013 she ran aground with a shipment of salt in the Saginaw River. Zilwaukee Dock Manager Jim Cnudde cited Algorails running aground as an indication that greater efforts should be made to keep the river dredged. The ship was freed after unloading some of her cargo into a barge. The ship was laid up at the end of 2016 and did not see service in 2017. In 2018, Algorail was sold to International Marine Salvage for scrap and towed to Port Colborne, Ontario to be broken up.

References

1967 ships
Great Lakes freighters
Algoma Central Marine
Transport in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Ships built in Collingwood, Ontario
Jaikumar Radhakrishnan. Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (born 30 May 1964) is an Indian computer scientist specialising in combinatorics and communication complexity. He has served as dean of the School of Technology and Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, where he is currently a senior professor.

He obtained his B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science from Rutgers University, NJ, USA, in 1991 under the guidance of Endre Szemerédi. His first research paper, titled "Better Bounds for Threshold Formulas", won the Machtey Award for best student paper at the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) in 1991. His areas of research include combinatorics, graph theory, probability theory, information theory, communication complexity, computational complexity theory, quantum computation and quantum information science.

He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in the category of Mathematical Sciences in 2008, India's highest honour for excellence in science, mathematics and technology.

Other awards/honours
Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, since 2007.

References

1964 births
Living people
20th-century Indian mathematicians
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Science