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Chak 128 NB. Chak No. 128 NB is a village situated in the Sillanwali Tehsil of the Sargodha District in Punjab, Pakistan. Its neighbouring villages are Chak 130 NB, Chak 125 NB, Chak No. 129 NB and Jahanawala. The village is in a mainly agricultural area. The nearest city is Sillanwali, which is also the Tehsil headquarters and location of the nearest police station.

History 

In the 19th Century, as part of a grand engineering programme of British Government of India, a huge network of irrigation canals were built to settle what was then a piece of scrubland known as the Kirana Bar. Villages were built along canals, and given systematic numbers. The name of the village results from being the 128th numbered village on the North (Shumali) Branch Canal.

Tribes and clans 

Most of the villagers are indigenous to the region, unlike other colony villages, where settlers were brought from other parts of the Punjab. The exception are a community of Mirpuris, originally from Azad Kashmir. The locals refer to them as Mangla Dami (builders of the Mangla Dam).

The rest of the population belongs to various Kirana Bar tribes, such as the Kalyar (Majority), Moand, Khichi, Khokhar etc., while laborers have settled from the adjoining areas of Jhang District. Many residents belong to the Muslim Shaikh community.

Agriculture 

The village relies primarily on agriculture, with the main crops being wheat, sugar cane, cotton, pulses, rice and citrus.

Schools
The village has one primary school.

References

Populated places in Sargodha District
Villages in Sargodha District
Villages in Punjab, Pakistan
Villages in Pakistan
Vector WX-8. The Vector WX-8 was a sports car prototype manufactured by Vector Motors. It was first unveiled at the 2007 LA Auto Show, revealing the development and the company's ambitious intentions of creating a next generation sports car successor to their previous models. Vector claimed the WX-8 may achieve a top speed of  and a zero-to-60 mph time as low as 2.3 seconds for the version of the car equipped with a 10-liter turbocharged engine. This engine was described variously on the company's website as being capable of "1800+ HP", "1850+ HP", and "over 1250 horsepower".

As of August 2018, Vector Motors reportedly was still actively developing the vehicle. It was reported that the company seeks to sell two Vector WX-3 prototypes for US$3.5 million to secure further funding of development operations. Vector's website announced the WX-8 will be equipped with a choice of two potential engines: a 10.0 liter big-block V-8 or an electric/hybrid 7.0 liter small-block V-8. The car was not complete by the time of designer Gerald Wiegert's death in early 2021, with an incomplete prototype model sitting on Wiegert's driveway.

See also 
 Vector W8
 Vector WX-3
 Vector M12

References

External links 
(archived) Vector WX-8 specs

Vector Motors
Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Concept cars
Milltown Dam (St. Croix River). The Milltown Dam (French: Barrage de Milltown) was a hydroelectric dam on the St. Croix River between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada and Calais, Maine, United States. The dam was operated by NB Power from 1881 to 2023.

History

Construction and energy output 
Built in 1881 and modernized in the early 1900s, the Milltown Dam was the oldest hydroelectric dam in Canada before its decommissioning. It was also the first hydroelectric facility built by the New Brunswick Electric Power Corporation. The power house had a capacity of 4 megawatts with 7 turbines. 

Before its decommissioning in 2023, the Milltown Dam accounted for 0.8% of NB Power's total hydroelectricity output. Electricity generated by the Milltown Dam was also exported to the United States, connected to a 69,000-volt transmission circuit owned by the Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative, an electric utility serving Calais.

Removal 
In 2019, NB Power announced its plans to decommission and remove the Milltown Dam, citing the dam's high maintenance cost and low energy output. Although NB Power considered refurbishing the dam, the estimated cost was above $60 million, while the cost of removal would be around $20 million. After receiving approval from the Department of Environment and Local Government, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection in 2022, the decommissioning of the dam began on July 1, 2023.

References

External links

NB Power
Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative

NB Power
Dams in Maine
Dams in New Brunswick
Hydroelectric power stations in New Brunswick
Buildings and structures in Washington County, Maine
1881 establishments in New Brunswick
1881 establishments in Maine
Dams completed in 1881
Barrel nut. On some firearms the gun barrel is fastened to the receiver with a nut, referred to as a barrel nut.

A barrel nut (also known as steel cross dowel or dowel nut) is a specialized forged nut, and is commonly used in aerospace and ready-to-assemble furniture applications. 

It is used to bolt thin sheet metal parts to larger, often billet or forged, parts. The barrel nut is a round slug, or formed sheet metal part with threads perpendicular to the length of the nut. The nut sits in a hole inside the forging and a standard bolt is threaded into the barrel nut from outside the sheet metal. They are preferred over a standard nut and bolt, because they do not require a flange to be machined or forged onto the receiving part, thus reducing weight.

Furniture cross dowel barrel nuts are cylindrical shaped metal nuts (metal dowels) used with furniture connector bolts to join two pieces of wood. The inside threaded hole is unusual in that it passes through the sides of the dowel. To install, the pieces of wood to be joined are aligned, then a bolt hole is drilled through one piece of wood and into the other. A dowel hole is drilled laterally across the bolt hole and the cross dowel is inserted into it. The end of the cross dowel is slotted so that a screwdriver can be inserted to rotate the dowel so that its threaded shaft aligns with the bolt hole. The furniture connector bolt is then inserted into the bolt hole and screwed into the cross dowel until the wood pieces are held tightly together.

Barrel nuts are also common in flat-pack furniture, where long bolts and barrel nuts are used to hold together T joints in chipboard sheets.

References

External links

 

Nuts (hardware)
Turya-class torpedo boat. "Turya class" is the NATO reporting name for a class of hydrofoil torpedo boats built for the Soviet Navy and Soviet allies. The Soviet designation was Project 206M.

Design

The Turya class is a derivative of the . A hydroplane was added forward to increase speed. These boats can operate at 40 knots at sea state 4 and 35 knots at sea state 5. A heavier twin 57 mm gun was added aft in response to NATO fast attack craft being fitted with the 76 mm OTO Melara gun. The boats are fitted with a helicopter type dipping sonar aft. The 533mm (21 inch) torpedo tubes can fire either anti-ship or anti-submarine torpedoes. Export boats were not fitted with dipping sonar.

Ships

Soviet Navy
30 (29 in some sources) boats were built for the Soviet Navy between 1972 and 1976. The Builders were at Kolpino and the Ulis yard in Vladivostok. Three boats remain in service with the Russian Navy.

Caspian Flotilla - 3 boats

Two boats were transferred to the Latvian Navy.

Export
  - 2 boats
 : Cuban Navy - 9 boats (1979–1983)
  - 2 boats (1985-1996)
  - 1 boat (1986–1995)
 : Vietnamese People's Navy - 5 boats

See also
List of ships of the Soviet Navy
List of ships of Russia by project number

References

Notes

Bibliography
 Also published as

External links
Project 206M Shtorm hydrofoil torpedo boats  
Complete Ship List of all Turya class torpedo boats

Torpedo boats of the Soviet Navy
Torpedo boat classes
Hydrofoils
Internal wrenching nut. An internal wrenching nut, (also known as an Allenut or Allen nut), is a cylindrical nut that is internally threaded on one side and has an Allen socket on the other side; the outside of the nut is smooth or has knurling on it.

The Allen socket may be 6 point or 12 point (also known as a double hex socket). They are used where hex or square nuts won't fit.

References

Notes

Bibliography
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Nuts (hardware)
Yuk L. Yung. Yuk-ling Yung () is an American scientist who has been a Professor of Planetary Science at the California Institute of Technology from 1986 to present.

Biography

Education

He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, earning B.S. in Engineering Physics, with honors, and at Harvard University, acquiring a Ph.D. in Physics in 1974.

Specialization
Yung specializes in the physics and chemistry of planetary atmospheres. He has worked on a number of NASA projects including Galileo, Cassini-Huygens, and the Earth Observing System.

Awards
He won the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 2004 and  became the first Taiwanese winner of the Kuiper Award in 2015. He is cited in the American Men and Women of Science.

Research
In an article in journal Science, it was reported that planetary science professor Yuk Yung, along with physics research scientist Tracey Tromp, Assistant Professor of Geochemistry John Eiler,  planetary science research scientist Run-Lie Shia, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Mark Allen, were concerned that leaked hydrogen gas for use in hydrogen cars, in a hydrogen economy, could indirectly cause as much as a 10-percent decrease in atmospheric ozone.

California Institute of Technology report that the leaked hydrogen gas that would inevitably result from a hydrogen economy, if it accumulates, could indirectly cause as much as a 10-percent decrease in atmospheric ozone.

Related scientists
His climate and space research relates to the work of Professor Kenneth J. Hsu (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Dr. Charles A Perry (United States Geological Survey) and Henrik Svensmark (Danish Meteorological Institute), in particular in the field of carbon-fluxing.

Publications
As of 2015, he is the author of more than 300 scholarly papers and two books:
 Atmospheric Radiation: Theoretical Basis, R.M. Goody and Y.L. Yung, Oxford University Press, New York, 1989.
 Photochemistry of Planetary Atmospheres, Y.L. Yung and W. D. DeMore, Oxford University Press, 1999.

References

External links
Yuk L. Yung official site
Dr. Yung’s bibliography

Living people
California Institute of Technology faculty
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Planetary scientists
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ionospheric Occultation Experiment. The Ionospheric Occultation Experiment (IOX) was a remote sensing satellite package that used a dual frequency Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver to measure properties of the ionosphere. IOX demonstrated remote sensing techniques for future United States Department of Defense space systems and helped to improve operational models for ionospheric and thermospheric forecasts.

IOX was developed by the United States Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center and was one of four experiment packages on PicoSAT, which was launched by an Athena rocket in September 2001.

Specifications
NSSDC ID: 2001-043B-02
Mission: PicoSAT 9

Further reading
 Official Abstract
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research: Further Overview of IOX and GPS Receiver August 2002 Workshop
Harvard University: IOX Abstract

References

NASA: Experiment Package 2001-043B-02

Space science experiments
Ionosphere
Satellite meteorology
On Orbit Mission Control. The On-Orbit Mission Control will be conducted by the Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd ground site in Guildford, UK. The United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado will operate a backup ground station for PicoSAT satellite to increase the amount of experimental data.

On-Orbit Mission Control consists of four packages on PicoSat 9:
 Polymer Battery Experiment, a plastic battery technology demonstration  funded by Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
 Ionospheric Occultation Experiment, a horizontal electron density mapping of the ionosphere funded by the United States Air Force and The Aerospace Corporation
 Coherent Electromagnetic Radio Tomography, a vertical electron density mapping of the ionosphere funded by the Naval Research Laboratory
 Optical Precision Platform Experiment, an anti-vibration platform demonstration funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory

Background
Section source: Gunters Spsace Page
The PICOSat satellite is funded out of the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program (STP) and the Foreign Comparative Testing Program which is carried out by the Air Force. 

The PICOSat objectives are flown to operate the four scientific payloads demonstrating and performing vibration damping, battery technologies, and performing ionospheric measurements for DoD weather databases. PICOSat is designed for a minimum of one year of on orbit operations.

Specifications
 NSSDC ID: 2001-043B-04
 Mission: PicoSAT 9
 Size: 67 kg
 Orbit: 800 km circular
 Inclination: 67 degrees
 Externals: gravity gradient boom for stabilization
 Output: 22 watts
 Propulsion: none
Additional source: Gunters

References

 NASA: Picosat Experiment Package 2001-043B-04  On-Orbit Mission Control Main Page

External links
 NASA: PicoSAT 9 Mainpage
 NASA: Coherent Electromagnetic Radio Tomography Mainpage
 NASA: Ionospheric Occultation Experiment Mainpage
 NASA: Polymer Battery Experiment Mainpage

Space science experiments
Hung Cheng. Hung Cheng (; born March 2, 1937), also known as Hong Zheng, is an American mathematician, novelist, and physicist teaching at MIT.

Education 
Cheng received his B.Sc and the Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology, in 1959 and 1961. He had post-doctorate research appointments at Caltech, Princeton University and Harvard University before joining the MIT faculty in applied mathematics in 1965. His doctoral advisor was Leverett Davis, Jr., and his thesis was on spin absorption lines of solids.

Career 
In 1978, he was elected academician of Taiwan's Academia Sinica. He has also served as the chairman of the applied mathematics committee at the MIT Department of Mathematics, and is on the editorial board of the journal Studies in Applied Mathematics. His recent research interests have been directed to the mathematical physics of dark matter and dark energy. In 2017, Cheng received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Technology and Humanity/Humanities from the Chinese Institute of Engineers.

In 2016, Cheng published his first novel, Nanjing Never Cries.

Personal life 
Cheng lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

External links
 Academia Sinica Directory
 MIT Department of Mathematics listing
 Editorial Board of Applied Mathematics Journal
 Physical Review Journals Archive

1937 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
20th-century American physicists
21st-century American mathematicians
21st-century American physicists
American people of Taiwanese descent
California Institute of Technology alumni
Harvard University staff
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
Princeton University people
Lower Bhavani Project Canal. Lower Bhavani Project Canal is a  long irrigation canal which runs in Erode district in Tamil Nadu, India.  The canal is a valley-side contour canal, fed by Bhavanisagar Dam and irrigates 2.07 lakh hectares of land. The main canal feeds Thadapalli and Arakkankottai channels which irrigate the cultivable lands. The canal was the brainchild M.A Eswaran, member of the legislative assembly of the Erode constituency in the early 1950s.

Opposition to Concrete Lining 
In 2013, the government of Tamil Nadu took up the project of the concrete lining of the LBP canal, however, it was dropped after farmers heavily opposed it. Now again after several years, the government has planned to start this project , by just referring to renovation works which include concrete lining. According to many farmers, if the project gets started, it will severely affect the recharge of underground water, thereby posing a serious threat to the whole agriculture ecosystem and domestic water supply system and directly affecting lakhs of farmers and ordinary citizens living in the districts of Erode, Tiruppur and Karur. According to them, groundwater will not be replenished and the entire region will be turned into a desert.
 
Some farmers support concrete lining, but majority of farmers living in this region oppose concrete lining. These districts receive low rainfall and are classified as semi-arid regions and this canal is the only source of water for all the people living here. Several Panchayats and Municipalities depend on this canal for domestic water supply. Massive demonstrations and protests were also held against this concrete lining.

References

See also
Kalingarayan Canal

Erode district
Canals in Tamil Nadu
Gobichettipalayam
Bhavani River
HMAS Vigilant. HMAS Vigilant (later known as HMAS Sleuth and HMAS Hawk) was an auxiliary patrol boat serving with the Royal Australian Navy during the Second World War. Notably it was the 120th ship built by the Cockatoo Island Dockyard and the first aluminium ship built in Australia.

History
PV Vigilant was a prototype ship designed and built at Cockatoo Island Dockyard in 1937–38. The hull and wheelhouse were constructed entirely of aluminium to save weight. As a result, the  ship had a total displacement of only 106 tons.

It was built for the Department of Trade and Customs, intended for use patrolling waters to the north of Australia in conjunction with the Kuru. It was initially based at Townsville.

Naval service
The ship was still undergoing sea trials when it was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy in October 1940, commissioning as HMAS Vigilant on 12 November 1940. It was classed as an auxiliary patrol vessel. It was initially equipped with a 3-pounder QF gun but this was replaced with a 20 mm Oerlikon. As well as the mounted gun, it carried a variety of light arms including a Bren light machine gun.

Vigilant was transferred to Darwin, Northern Territory in 1941 and was used for protecting the harbour approaches. During the Bombing of Darwin, Vigilant engaged some of the attacking aircraft with its 20 mm Oerlikon and later assisted in picking up survivors from the water in Darwin Harbour.

Vigilant, with a hold capacity of 7 tons, played an important role in the Battle of Timor from May 1942 and made several supply trips to the island. During one of these supply voyages, it assisted in the search for survivors from HMAS Armidale. During this time, it also resupplied corvettes operating in the Timor Sea with depth charges.

HMAS Vigilant was renamed HMAS Sleuth on 17 April 1944 and HMAS Hawk on 13 March 1945. Hawk was paid off on 12 November 1945.

Post-war service
After the war, the ship was returned to the Department of Trade and Customs as PV Vigilant, and served as a whaling patrol ship off Western Australia until 1965. Despite attempts to save the ship for preservation, it was scuttled off Sydney in April 1966.

Legacy
Vigilant Close in Bentley Park, Queensland is named after HMAS Vigilant.

Following an overhaul of the RAN battle honours system, completed in March 2010, the RAN decided that, in recognition of the vessel's wartime service, future ships named HMAS Vigilant would be entitled to carry the honours "Darwin 1942–43" and "Pacific 1942–43".

Gallery

References

Patrol vessels of the Royal Australian Navy
1938 ships
Scuttled vessels of New South Wales
Albion press. The Albion press is a model of early iron hand printing press, originally designed and manufactured in London by Richard Whittaker Cope (d. 1828?) around 1820.

History 
The Albion press worked by a simple toggle action, unlike the complex lever-mechanism of the Columbian press and the Stanhope press. Albions continued to be manufactured, in a range of sizes, until the 1930s. They were used for commercial book-printing until the middle of the nineteenth century, and thereafter chiefly for proofing, jobbing work and by private presses.

Francis Meynell often used an Albion to proof pages of his designs for Nonesuch Press books, and printed some small books and ephemera using the press. Printers still predominantly using an Albion Press in the United Kingdom to publish limited fine press editions include Ian Mortimer's I.M. Imprimit, and the St James Park Press of James Freemantle.

After Cope's death, Albions were manufactured by his heirs and members of the Hopkinson family (trading initially as 'Jonathan and Jeremiah Barrett' and later as 'Hopkinson and Cope'), who are said to have improved the design. From the 1850s onwards Albion presses were manufactured under licence by other firms, notably Harrild & Sons, Miller and Richard, and Frederick Ullmer Ltd. The toggle-action, and the distinctive shape and 'crown' finial of the Albion, make it instantly recognizable.

References

Stone, Reynolds. The Albion press. London: Printing Historical Society, lc104173786
Photos of Albion Press in McCune Collection

Letterpress printing
Ferroxyl indicator solution. Ferroxyl indicator, or rust indicator, is a solution containing potassium hexacyanoferrate(III), phenolphthalein and sodium chloride. It turns blue in the presence of Fe2+ ions, and pink in the presence of hydroxide (OH−) ions. It can be used to detect metal oxidation, and is often used to detect rusting in various situations.

Formula 
It can be prepared by dissolving 10g sodium chloride and 1g potassium hexacyanoferrate(III) in distilled water, adding 10 cm3 phenolphthalein indicator, then making up to 500 cm3 with distilled water.

References

Chemical tests
Corrosion
Abingdon Motorcycles. Abingdon Motorcycles was a British motorcycle manufacturer in Tyseley, Birmingham between 1903 and 1925. It was renamed AKD (Abingdon King Dick) in 1926 and produced single cylinder motorcycles until 1933, when they concentrated on "King Dick" mechanics' tools.

History
The tool and chain manufacturers Abingdon Engineering was founded in 1856 and started making motorcycles in 1903, when the industry was still very new, with engines from a number of manufacturers before the company developed their own Abingdon four-stroke 350 cc single and 794 cc V-twin engines, which were used by Ariel and Invicta. Much of the production was exported to the Commonwealth countries. One innovation introduced by Abingdon was the first telescopic shock absorber. Motorcycles of the day often had no front suspension or some form of springs, but Abingdon devised the "Abingdon Spring Fork", a coil sprung, telescopic shock absorber.

The First World War halted production but they continued in 1919 with the V-twin and 499 cc and 623 cc single cylinder motorcycles.

The company was renamed AKD (Abingdon King Dick) in 1926 and concentrated production on 147cc to 346cc single cylinder  motorcycles until 1933, when they decided to concentrate on their successful range of "King Dick" mechanics' tools.

King Dick tools
The Abingdon King Dick tool company still exists, and sponsors the Castrol-Honda British Supersport Motorcycle squad. The company still manufactures its range of King Dick brand mechanics tools in the UK.

Sources

See also
 Abingdon (1922 automobile)
List of motorcycles of the 1910s
List of motorcycles of the 1920s

External links
 Motorcycle Classics article on 1912 Abingdon King Dick: The King of Birmingham
Video of 1911 Abingdon motorcycle running
Abbots Tools: Official Seller of King Dick Tools 

Motorcycle manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Automotive tool manufacturers
Tool manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Birmingham, West Midlands