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Wright StreetAir. The Wright StreetAir is a low-floor single-decker electric bus design built by Wrightbus in Ballymena, Northern Ireland in 2016 and 17. An integral product based on a single-deck variant of the Wright StreetDeck chassis, the StreetAir replaces the Wright Electrocity in Wrightbus' product range.

History 

The StreetAir was initially revealed in August 2016 as the replacement for the Wright Electrocity. It is based on a single-deck, all-electric version of the Wright StreetDeck integral double-decker bus. The StreetAir was available in a single 10.6 metre length weighing 18 tonnes. 

The body design of the StreetAir is based on the Wright Eclipse Urban. The StreetAir was available with electricity conduction via overnight (plug-in), inductive (through the road surface) or conductive (with a pantograph) methods.

The first six StreetAirs entered service with Lothian Buses in October 2017,  aside from a single prototype vehicle trialled with bus operators in London.

A similar model to the Streetair, the GB Kite range was launched in September 2021, following the launch of the double-deck Wright StreetDeck Electroliner and Hydroliner range earlier in the year. This replaced the Wright Streetair.

Unbuilt variants 
When the StreetAir was first launched in August 2016, it was also offered as a double-decker bus based on the Wright StreetDeck and as a shorter-wheelbase single-decker bus based on the Wright StreetLite WF as opposed to the longer door-forward StreetDeck chassis. The short wheelbase variant was intended to replace the Wright StreetLite EV, with a number of drivetrain improvements over the previous model. None of either variant had been built by the time Wrightbus entered administration in September 2019, and both were dropped from the Wrightbus range after they exited administration.

References 

Electric buses
Low-floor buses
Midibuses
Vehicles introduced in 2016
StreetAir
Heinrich August Meissner. Heinrich August Meissner (, January 3, 1862 – January 14, 1940) was a German engineer who was largely responsible for the railway network in the Ottoman Empire, and later helped manage the network in Turkey. He attained the high-ranking honorary title of pasha in the empire.

Personal life
Meissner was born in Leipzig in 1862. He studied at the Dresden University of Technology. Interested in the public works being planned in Turkey, he studied the Turkish language, and at the age of 24 moved to the Ottoman Empire. Meissner died in 1940 in Istanbul.

Railway work

Early works
Starting in 1886, Meissner served in a number of important posts related to civil engineering in the Ottoman Empire. He worked on railways in southern Bulgaria, Macedonia, Antalya and Thrace.

Hejaz and Baghdad railways
Meissner was invited to manage the construction of the Hejaz Railway, the largest public works undertaking in the empire. In the eight years from 1900 to 1908, he was able to build the main section, from Damascus to Medina, including the Jezreel Valley railway. In 1904 he received the title of pasha from the Sultan for his work on the railway, stretching only from Damascus to Ma'an at the time. After the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, the Hejaz Railway project was abandoned, and Meissner moved on to the Baghdad Railway project, funded by the German Empire.

In 1910 Meissner was chosen to manage the Aleppo section of the railway, and later moved on to Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) for the Baghdad section.

World War I
In World War I, Meissner served under Djemal Pasha, who was his personal friend from their time in Mesopotamia. He helped build the Ottoman military railway system in Palestine in the war. After the war he went back to Germany.

After the war
In 1924 Meissner was invited by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to continue his railway work. He oversaw the reconstruction and maintenance of many railway lines in Turkey and later taught at the Istanbul Technical University.

See also
Ottoman Palestine railways
 Eastern Railway, Ottoman WWI line, Tulkarm to Hadera and Tulkarm to Lydda; connected to Jezreel Valley, Jaffa–Jerusalem, and Beersheba lines
 Railway to Beersheba or the 'Egyptian Branch', Ottoman WWI line headed towards the Suez Canal; two lines: (Lidda–) Wadi Surar–Beit Hanoun, and Wadi Surar–Beersheba
Mandate Palestine & Israel railways
 Palestine Railways, government-owned company and rail monopolist in Mandate Palestine (1920-1948)
 Rail transport in Israel
 Israel Railways, the state-owned principal railway company in Israel   
 Coastal railway line, Israel, main line in Mandate Palestine and Israel
Syria and Jordan
 Chemin de Fer de Hedjaz Syrie (CFH), successor to the Hedjaz Railway in Syria
 Hedjaz Jordan Railway (HJR), successor to the Hedjaz Railway in Jordan

References

Bibliography
 
 

German railway mechanical engineers
Engineers from Leipzig
1862 births
1940 deaths
Pashas
Barry Cecil Beech Mole. Barry Cecil Beech Mole MBE (20 September 1927 – 24 November 1999) was a British civil engineer.

Beech Mole was awarded an MBE in the 1986 New Year Honours.  His previous positions included deputy borough engineer for Abingdon Council, at Chipping Sodbury, and for Aldridge Urban District Council.

References 

1927 births
1999 deaths
20th-century British engineers
British civil engineers
Members of the Order of the British Empire
People from Walsall
Manipur Technical University. Manipur Technical University is a state university located in Imphal, Manipur, India. The first state university in Manipur, it was established through the Manipur Technical University Act, 2016 on 23 April 2016, and was formally inaugurated by the Governor of Manipur, V. Shanmuganathan on 5 August 2016.

The university offers B.Tech. courses in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering and Computer Science Engineering.

Departments 

 Civil Engineering
 Computer Science Engineering
 Chemistry
 Electrical Engineering
 Electronics & Communication Engineering
 Humanities & Social Science
 Management
 Mathematics
 Mechanical Engineering
 Physics

References

External links
 

Universities in Manipur
Education in Imphal
2016 establishments in Manipur
Universities and colleges established in 2016
State universities in India
Journal of Propulsion and Power. The Journal of Propulsion and Power is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on aerospace propulsion and power. The editor-in-chief is Joseph M. Powers (University of Notre Dame). It is published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and was established in 1985.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 1.362.

See also

References

External links

English-language journals
Engineering journals
Academic journals established in 1985
Bimonthly journals
Academic journals published by learned and professional societies
Avionics Services Caçador. The Avionics Services Caçador is a Brazilian multi-role MALE unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed from the Israeli IAI Heron with transfer of technology.

The Caçador was developed by Avionics Services with support from a local IAI subsidiary that supplied know-how and technology. IAI Brasil acquired forty percent of the company, keeping Avionics Services under the benefit of the national law on "Strategic Defense Company" that requires two thirds of non-foreign ownership.

Specifications

References

Unmanned aerial vehicles of Brazil
Unmanned military aircraft of Brazil
2010s Brazilian military reconnaissance aircraft
2010s Brazilian military aircraft
Medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles
Taifun. Taifun may refer to:

Military and transportation
Taifun 9M15, a Soviet prototype anti-tank missile
Taifun, German WWII Thermobaric weapon system
Taifun (rocket), German anti-aircraft rocket system
Taifun (radar), Soviet system used in Sukhoi Su-15
Messerschmidt Taifun, a 1930s German aircraft (Bf 108)
Valentin Taifun, 1980s sailplane
Soviet trawler Taifun, also known as USS Penetrate (AM-271)
Taifun, 8m sailing boat in which Norway won gold in the 1912 Olympics
Wings of Change Taifun, an Austrian paraglider design

Film and music
Typhoon (1933 film), Original title Taifun

See also
Typhoon (disambiguation)
Freedom 38. The Freedom 38 is an American sailboat, that was designed by Gary Mull and first built in 1989.

The Freedom 38 is a development of the Freedom 36.

Production

The boat was built by Tillotson Pearson in the United States for Freedom Yachts, starting in 1989. The design is out of production.

Design
The Freedom 38 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a free-standing fractional sloop rig, an internally-mounted spade-type rudder and a fixed fin wing keel. It displaces  and carries  of lead ballast.

The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar 3GM diesel engine of .

The boat has a PHRF racing average handicap of 144 and a hull speed of .

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

Keelboats
1980s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Gary Mull
Sailboat types built by Pearson Yachts
Hexagonite. Hexagonite is the red to pink, lilac to purple manganoan variety of tremolite.  A rare amphibole, it can be transparent, translucent, and rarely opaque.

Properties
Hexagonite is pleochroic, potentially displaying varying shades of blue, violet, purple, or red. It is also known as "mangan-tremolite", since the manganese imparts the mineral's unique colors.  Pink, lilac, and purple are the most common colors.  Hexagonite has been successfully faceted.

Chemical formulae and history
Tremolite was discovered in 1789. Hexagonite, a varietal form of tremolite, has a Mohs hardness of 5.0-6.0.  Like tremolite, it is a calcium magnesium silicate hydroxide with the formula: Ca2Mg5 (Si8O22) (OH)2.

The mineral was given the name, hexagonite, because its crystal structure was believed at one time to be hexagonal.  Since then, however, it has been found to be monoclinic.

Occurrence
The mineral is found primarily in the Balmat-Edwards zinc district of Edwards, St. Lawrence County, New York, United States.  It was also found in the Czech Republic in the Chýnov caves.

References

Calcium minerals
Magnesium minerals
Amphibole group
Dennis Hong. Dennis Hong is an American mechanical engineer and roboticist.

Career 
Hong is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hong is also founder of RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory).

Awards and nominations
 2007 NSF (National Science Foundation) CAREER Award
 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, 3rd Place 
 2009 Popular Science Brilliant 10
 2009 Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award
 2009 Forward Under 40 honoree by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Alumni Association
 2011 “Louis Vuitton Cup” Best Humanoid Award
 2015 Gilbreth Lectureship, NAE (National Academy of Engineering)
 2015 Hyupsung Social Contribution Award

References

External links
 RoMeLa

American mechanical engineers
American roboticists
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Purdue University College of Engineering alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni
Seoul High School alumni
1971 births
Living people
Engineers from Los Angeles
People from Seoul
American people of South Korean descent
Gibraltar Wave Farm. Located on the east side of Gibraltar, on a former World War II ammunition jetty, the Gibraltar Wave Farm is the first commercial, grid-connected wave energy power station in all of Europe. The project utilizes the devices of Eco Wave Power Ltd, an Israel-based wave energy company. The wave farm was initially launched with an estimated peak capacity of 100 kW in April 2016 and plans for expansion to 5 MW within the next years. The project is operating through a 25-year PPA (power purchase agreement) between Eco Wave Power, the Government of Gibraltar, and the Gibraltar Electricity Authority. Upon completion, it is expected generate 15% of the total electricity consumption of Gibraltar. The project is funded, in part, by the 2014-2020 European Regional Development Fund, in order to put the country in line with the EU's renewable energy goal: 20% energy generated from renewable power by 2020. The project is also funded by private investment groups.
As of February 2018, the Gibraltar Wave Farm accrued 15,000 grid connected hours (and counting), a new world record for wave energy plant.

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony took place on May 26, 2016.

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo cut the ribbon, and stated to GBC press, "At last we are seeing the grid fed with renewable energy, something that was long overdue ...But it's even more exciting than that. This is the first time, in the whole of Europe, that a renewable wave energy system is linked into an electricity grid. The Gibraltarians are here pioneers in our partnership with Eco Wave Power..."

Minister of Health, The Environment, and Climate Change Dr. John Cortes confirmed the technology, "This is clearly working. I think that the future is bright and the future, like the past all those 6 million years ago, is in the power of the sea all around us."

Gibraltar's Director of European Programmes, Charles Collinson, stated, "...And I hope that we are able to collaborate in future expansion of this project."

Technical description

Converter consists of three main functional parts: mechanical, hydraulic and electric systems. Mechanical system serves for wave energy receipt on floaters and its transmission to hydraulic cylinders. Hydraulic system transforms mechanical energy from the sea to hydraulic fluid pressure and to force of hydraulic motor rotation, which transfers moment of rotation to generator. Generator is part of converter electrical system. It receives
moment of rotation and transforms it to electrical power. "

Gallery

References

Wave farms
Power stations in Gibraltar
Augusta-Priolo. The petrochemical complex of Augusta-Priolo (called Polo petrolchimico siracusano in Italian) is a vast industrialized coastal area in eastern Sicily including the territory of the municipalities of Augusta, Priolo Gargallo and Melilli. Main industrial activities are oil refining, processing of oil derivatives and energy production.

The complex, whose beginnings date back to 1949, has produced significant environmental problems for the coastline and the entire area, as well as health issues and an increased death rate. The area is therefore often dubbed triangolo della morte (triangle of death).

Among the companies in the region are ExxonMobil, Sasol, Erg, Polimeri Europa and Syndial.

See also
 Triangle of death (Italy)
 Angelo Moratti
 Port of Augusta

References

External links

Chemical industry in Italy
Petrochemical industry
Pollution in Italy
Petroleum industry in Italy
Province of Syracuse
SLP Engineering. SLP Engineering, also known as Sembmarine SLP, is a construction company in Lowestoft that builds gas platforms for the North Sea and offshore industry.

History
Sea & Land Pipe Lines Ltd was founded on 7 March 1967. SLP Engineering was based in London. In the company was Sea and Land Pipelines (Production). Another division was SLP Fabricating Engineers.

On 23 September 2009, the company was visited by the Princess Royal. In November 2009, the company entered administration; at the time the company employed around 900 people. It was owned by Smulders of the Netherlands, then bought by SembCorp Marine in October 2012 for £2.5m.

Structure
It is a subsidiary of SembCorp Marine, an EPC constructor. The site in Lowestoft is situated off the A12 in the Port of Lowestoft.

See also
 Consafe Engineering of Scotland, builds accommodation modules for North Sea platforms

References

External links
 SLP Engineering

North Sea energy
Steel companies of the United Kingdom
Structural steel
Companies based in Suffolk
Lowestoft
Manufacturing companies established in 1967
Non-renewable resource companies established in 1967
British companies established in 1967
Freedom 42. The Freedom 42 is an American sailboat, that was designed by Gary Mull and first built in 1987. The design is out of production.

Production
The boat was built by Tillotson Pearson in the United States for Freedom Yachts.

Design
The Freedom 42 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a free-standing fractional sloop rig, an internally-mounted spade-type rudder and a fixed fin keel. It displaces .

The boat has a PHRF racing average handicap of 102 and a hull speed of .

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

Keelboats
Sailboat type designs by Gary Mull
Sailboat types built by Pearson Yachts
Glenn A. Burklund. Glenn Arthur Burklund (June 27, 1924 – October 5, 1998) was an American inventor and Republican politician who served one term in the Virginia General Assembly representing Fairfax County, Virginia, in the 28th House District.

Early and family life
Born in Paxton, Illinois, Burklund attended the University of Illinois and studied engineering but never received a degree. He served in the United States Navy from July 22, 1943, to January 5, 1946. In the Navy, he honed his mechanical abilities, such that after discharge he was able to set up his own research laboratory and sell it. He married Margaret Orosz (1926-)

Career
Burklund received several patents for inventions, five involving textiles. He moved to Northern Virginia and worked for an electronics firm. He also worked as a gunsmith. Burkland was active in the National Rifle Association of America, the Fairfax County Gun Club, and in the local Republican Party. Burklund ran once for elective office, and was elected in 1961 to the part-time position of state Delegate. He became one of several delegates representing Fairfax County, polling fewer votes than Democrats John C. Webb and Hobart K. McDowell Jr. but edging out Democrat Dorothy Shoemaker McDiarmid.

However, Burklund became embroiled in at least two controversies, and the party withdrew its support by the 1963 primary. The first controversy involved his request that the Fairfax library censor three films screened during national library week, particularly one which he thought failed to acknowledge controversy concerning evolution (the local American Legion commander objected to the other two as communistic). Also that July, Burklund led a Fairfax County-based faction opposed to the Arlington County Republican faction of Jack Corbet for chairman of its 10th district committee, which led to a brawl. McDiarmid was thus again elected to represent District 28.

Death
Burklund retired to Axton, Virginia. He died on October 5, 1998.

References

1924 births
1998 deaths
Republican Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
People from Paxton, Illinois
Politicians from Fairfax County, Virginia
People from Henry County, Virginia
United States Navy sailors
20th-century members of the Virginia General Assembly
Thomas H. Wright. Thomas H. Wright (October 24, 1873 – June 4, 1928) was a teacher and electrician. While working for Portland General Electric, he designed the electrical lighting for the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon.

Early life 
Wright was born on October 24, 1873, to George and Eliza Wright. He had two older siblings, Jane and Samuel Wright, and was raised on a dairy farm in northern Iowa, near Fort Dodge. At the age of 17, Wright traveled to Portland, Oregon, to experience life in the West.

Upon arriving in Portland, Wright worked odd jobs: building houses, loading and unloading ships at the Port of Portland, and teaching in the Portland Schoolhouse for 6 months from 1892. On February 21, 1893, the following opinion article was published in the Oregonian newspaper:Thomas Wright has brought new inspiration to the education system.  [...]  In addition to the required English and Mathematics courses, he has provided a refreshing addition of Practical skills, most notably Construction.  He is a firm believer of the "hands-on" method of instruction, and has taken his classes on a number of botanical field-trips, most centered around the discovery of edible plants.

Lewis and Clark Exposition 

In 1893, Wright was hired in the Portland General Electric's new City-Eastside Electric Light Plant. In 1904, as preparations for the Lewis and Clark exposition were underway, Wright advised Portland General Electric to consider lighting the fairgrounds, which would give it a greater standing in the eyes of Portland and the world. The company was not well respected by major eastern stockholders, which had limited its growth, and would need greater funding if it was to build another generator to power the fairgrounds. Henry H. Goode, the president of Portland General Electric, traveled to New York in the spring of 1905, so stockholders would invest a total of three thousand dollars to build a new plant.  Wright, meanwhile, was put in charge of designing the electrical plans for the fairgrounds. When Goode returned confirming that the money was available, construction began on Wright's plans.

Many of the lighting technologies of the World's fair had never been implemented in such a scale before the fair, including the incandescent lights around Guild's Lake and the Forestry Building, and large searchlights on top of the fair's Government building.

Later life 
After the fair, Wright continued to work as an electrician. On June 2, 1928, Wright fractured his skull, after falling while repairing electrical cables.  He died two days later, in Portland, Oregon, and was buried in Lone Fir Cemetery.

Legacy 
In the book Bringing Power to Ideas, the Portland General Electric Company recognized the influence that Wright had had on their company's continued prosperity throughout the twentieth century.

References 

1873 births
1928 deaths
Educators from Portland, Oregon
People from Fort Dodge, Iowa
American electricians
19th-century American educators
Accidental deaths from falls
Accidental deaths in Oregon
Burials at Lone Fir Cemetery
Sanford E. Thompson. Sanford Eleazer Thompson (1867–1949) was an American engineer and consultant to the U.S. government and private sector. He is considered one of the key figures of the American scientific management movement, which emerged in the Progressive Era.

Education and early career
Thompson was trained as a civil engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1889. He was initially employed in construction and hydraulic engineering before becoming an independent consultant from 1896 to 1917.

He entered the United States Army Ordnance Corps as a lieutenant colonel in 1917.

Work with F.W. Taylor and the time study

Thompson was a key ally of Frederick Winslow Taylor and was important in the development of Taylor's time studies, particularly in the building industry.

To accompany Taylor's Harvard College lectures, Thompson delivered an advanced course on time studies.

With Taylor, he co-wrote Concrete Costs (1912), a goal of which was to distil different kinds of manual labor into comparable Unit Times data.

Years later, Lyndall Urwick wrote of Thompson that 'To him belongs the credit for perfecting the "tool" of management, and to him is attributed the invention of the decimal-dial stop-watch.'

Consultancy career
When peace returned, Thompson established another consultancy, Thompson and Lichtner, of which he was president from 1925 through 1949.

He was president of the Taylor Society in 1932.

During World War Two, Thompson acted as a consultant to the U.S. Secretary of War, Henry Lewis Stimson.

Notes and references

Further reading
F.W. Taylor and Sanford E. Thompson, Concrete Costs (John Wiley & Sons, 1912)
Lyndall Urwick, The Golden Book of Management: A Historical Record of the Life and Work of Seventy Pioneers (1956)

1867 births
1949 deaths
American management consultants
American industrial engineers
American civil engineers
20th-century American engineers
United States Army Ordnance Corps personnel
United States Army officers
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Harvard University faculty