omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Robert Dudley Best. Robert Dudley Best (1892–1984) was a British manufacturer deeply involved with the Modern design movement in and immediately after the interwar years. He took over Best & Lloyd, his father's light industrial engineering works in Birmingham, having previously trained as a metal designer at art school in Düsseldorf. He went on to design the Bestlite, an iconic Bauhaus-styled desk lamp that remains in production and was used by Winston Churchill in Whitehall.

Best was an early apostle of the posture therapist F.M. Alexander of the Alexander technique, campaigned for better art-school education for industrial apprentices, and was a founder of the Common Wealth Party in 1942. His social circle included a group of Birmingham artists and intellectuals including Prof. Philip Sargant Florence and others associated with Birmingham University. He also befriended Nikolaus Pevsner during Pevsner's 15 months in Birmingham between 1934-5, and hosted the first visit of Walter Gropius to the Midlands after Gropius's departure from Germany in 1934.

Best wrote prolifically, though only one of his books was published in his lifetime: Brass Chandelier, his history of his father's experiments with metal manufacturing and promotion of progressive German pedagogic ideas, which Pevsner reviewed in the Architectural Review.

Best's history of his own early life and that of his younger brother Frank, both of whom served in the First World War, was published posthumously in 2020 as From Bedales to the Boche.

References

British industrial designers
British industrialists
1892 births
1982 deaths
Common Wealth Party
20th-century industrialists
George Radin. George Radin (January 22, 1931 – May 21, 2013) was an American computer scientist. He gained his BA in English Literature from Brooklyn College in 1951, followed by an MA from Columbia University in 1952 and an MSc in mathematics from City University of New York in 1961. In 1963 he got a job with the  IBM Advanced Computer Utilization Department, where he helped develop the PL/I programming language and design the OS/360 and TSS/360 systems. In 1980, he was appointed an IBM Fellow.

References

American computer scientists
IBM Fellows
1931 births
2013 deaths
Brooklyn College alumni
Intelsat III F-1. Intelsat III F-1 was a communications satellite intended to be operated by Intelsat. Launched towards geostationary orbit in 1968 it failed to achieve orbit.

Design

The first of eight Intelsat III satellites to be launched, Intelsat III F-1 was built by TRW. It was a  spacecraft equipped with two transponders to be powered by body-mounted solar cells generating 183 watts of power. It had a design life of five years and carried an SVM-2 apogee motor for propulsion.

Launch
Intelsat III F-1 was launched on the maiden flight of the Delta M rocket, flying from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch took place at 00:09:00 UTC on September 19, 1968, with the spacecraft bound for a geosynchronous transfer orbit.

It was to go in operation above the Atlantic Ocean in time to relay broadcasts of the next month's Olympics in .

Twenty seconds after liftoff a fault became apparent in the gyroscope used to monitor the rate at which the rocket pitched over. Control of the rocket was subsequently lost, with it beginning to disintegrate around 102 seconds into the flight. At 108 seconds after launch the rocket was destroyed by range safety.

See also

 1968 in spaceflight

References

Intelsat satellites
Spacecraft launched in 1968
Satellite launch failures
Intelsat III F-2. Intelsat III F-2 was a communications satellite operated by Intelsat. Launched in 1968 it was operated in geostationary orbit at a longitude of 24 degrees west for around eighteen months.

Spacecraft 
The second of eight Intelsat III satellites to be launched, Intelsat III F-2 was built by TRW. It was a  spacecraft, with its mass reducing to  by entry into service as it burned propellant to reach its final orbit. The satellite carried an SVM-2 apogee motor for propulsion and was equipped with two transponders powered by body-mounted solar cells generating 183 watts of power. It was designed for a five-year service life.

Launch 
The launch of Intelsat III F-2 made use of a Delta M rocket flying from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch took place at 00:32 GMT on 19 December 1968, with the spacecraft entering a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Intelsat III F-2 subsequently fired its apogee motor to achieve geostationary orbit. It was operated at a longitude of 24° west, over Brazil; however it ceased operations after only a year and a half in orbit, in mid-1971.

Orbit 
Intelsat III F-2 remains in a graveyard orbit as an orbital debris. As of 7 February 2014, it was in an orbit with a perigee of , an apogee of , inclination of 13.73° and an orbital period of 26.60 hours.

See also 

 1968 in spaceflight

References 

Intelsat satellites
Spacecraft launched in 1968
Korres Engineering. Korres Engineering, founded by architect and engineer Dimitris Korres in Athens, mainly focuses on design, consulting and subcontracting for civil engineering projects. It particularly specializes in complex structure relocation, while other branches undertake customized engineering tasks and vehicle design and development. Over the last two decades, it has completed dozens of challenging relocations of structures which include several ancient and medieval monuments and heavy structures such as an 1800-tonne 3-storey stone building of the Hellenic Railways Organization.

Vehicles developed include a 1000cc motorcycle (1989), a series of cars (P1 to P4, since 2002) featuring Korres's patented suspension system, combining high performance with extreme off-road capabilities, and D3, a city car design for disabled drivers, proposed in 2012.

In December 2020, Korres Engineering participated in the development of ventilators for COVID-19 patients.

The project 4
Korres P4 (or Project 4), the final/production version of the aforementioned series, was introduced in 2013. This combination of an exotic sports car with an extreme all-terrain vehicle, is powered by a 7-liter 505 hp GM engine, has a top speed of   and can reach  in 3.8 seconds.

References 
L.S. Skartsis, "Greek Vehicle & Machine Manufacturers 1800 to present: A Pictorial History", Bookstars, Athens (2013)

External links 
Korres Engineering website
 
Korres P4 (report)
Korres project D3
Ventilators for Covid-19 patients

Companies based in Athens
Car manufacturers of Greece
Motorcycle manufacturers of Greece
Intelsat III F-3. Intelsat III F-3 was a geostationary communications satellite operated by Intelsat. Launched in 1969 it was intended for operations over the Pacific Ocean; however, it spent most of its service life over the Indian Ocean at a longitude of 63 degrees east.

The third of eight Intelsat III satellites to be launched, Intelsat III F-3 was built by TRW. It was a  spacecraft, with its mass reducing to  by entry into service as it burned propellant to reach its final orbit. The satellite carried an SVM-2 apogee motor for propulsion and was equipped with two transponders powered by body-mounted solar cells generating 183 watts of power. It was designed for 5 years of service life.

The launch of Intelsat III F-3 made use of a Delta M rocket flying from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch, which was conducted by NASA, took place at 00:39:00 UTC on February 6, 1969, with the spacecraft entering a geosynchronous transfer orbit. Shortly after launch, Intelsat III F-3 fired its apogee motor to achieve geostationary orbit. 

Intended to be operated over the Pacific Ocean at a longitude of 174° east, Intelsat III F-3 was moved to the less important Indian Ocean slot at 63° east after only three months in orbit due to concerns regarding its reliability. The satellite was only regarded as partially operable; however, it remained in service until April 1979, before being decommissioned in December of that year.

At the end of its service life, Intelsat III F-3 was raised into a higher orbit to reduce the probability of it colliding with an operational spacecraft. As of February 3, 2014 it remains in orbit, with a perigee of , an apogee of , inclination of 18.63 degrees and an orbital period of 28.25 hours.

See also
Deh Mandro

References

Spacecraft launched in 1969
Intelsat satellites
Crypton (fabric). Crypton is a name for a patented technology for the treatment of fabric to prevent it from becoming stained and to resist and inhibit the growth of bacteria.  It is commonly used in the upholstery industry, and is popularly used in hotels and on cruise ships.  Fabrics which are subjected to this technology become what the manufacturer describes as "Crypton Super Fabrics", and become able to resist penetration by water such that any water-based liquids which are applied to the fabric do not soak into it and do not penetrate any material underneath (such as a cushion).  Crypton contains no volatile organic compounds nor formaldehyde.  It was developed in 1993.

References

Technical fabrics
Auger. Auger may refer to:

Engineering
 Auger bit, a drill bit
 Auger conveyor, a device for moving material by means of a rotating helical flighting
 Auger (platform), the world's first tension leg oil rig; see Big, Bigger, Biggest
 Earth auger, a drilling tool or machine used for making holes in the ground
 Wood auger, a drill for making holes in wood (or in the ground)

Science and technology
 Auger effect, an electron effect in physics
 Auger electron spectroscopy, an analytical technique using the Auger effect
 Auger shell or auger snail, a common name for shellfish of the family Terebridae
 Auger therapy, an experimental radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer

Other uses
 Auger (surname)
 Auger Hill, a hill in Antarctica

See also
 Pierre Auger Observatory, an international cosmic ray observatory
 Augur (disambiguation)
 Agar (disambiguation)
VA-38 (U.S. Navy). VA-38 was an authorized Attack Squadron of the U.S. Navy, established on 1 March 1967 and disestablished on 1 October 1968.

The squadron’s administrative assignment was to Commander Fleet Air, Jacksonville. However, it appears VA-38 existed only on paper. The squadron was established while the A-7A Corsair II was being introduced to the fleet and may have been programmed to be a new A-7A attack squadron. However, according to the CNO publication Allowances and Location of Navy Aircraft, the squadron was not assigned aircraft. The only records on the squadron are the CNO messages establishing and disestablishing the unit.

See also
 Attack aircraft
 History of the United States Navy
 List of inactive United States Navy aircraft squadrons

References

Attack squadrons of the United States Navy
Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons
Adelaide Metro 4000 class. The Adelaide Metro 4000 class, also referred to as A-City trains, are electric multiple unit trains built by Bombardier Transportation (later Alstom) in Dandenong, Victoria for the electrified Adelaide rail network. They are the only class of operational electric trains in South Australia, running services on the Gawler, Seaford and Flinders lines.

The design shares similarities to the V/Line VLocity and Transperth B-series trains, also built by Bombardier.

History 
In March 2011, Bombardier Transportation was awarded a contract to build 22 three-carriage trains for the Adelaide rail network, that was in the process of being electrified. The first of the Adelaide trains was delivered in July 2013, and entered service on 23 February 2014 on the Seaford and Tonsley (now Flinders) lines. The last was completed in October 2015.

When they were ordered, it was proposed that the Gawler line would be electrified, which would allow the trains to access Adelaide Metro's Dry Creek depot. However, before they were delivered, that project was temporarily cancelled. Whilst light maintenance was performed at their primary stabling point at Seaford Meadows, heavy maintenance needed to occur at Dry Creek. When required, each train was hauled there from Adelaide station by a pair of 3000 class railcars. This movement was ceased once the Gawler line was electrified in 2022.

In June 2019, a further 12 train sets were ordered for the Gawler line electrification, the first of which was delivered in mid-late 2021 and entered service on 4 March 2022.

Note

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External links 
 

Bombardier Transportation multiple units
Alstom multiple units
Electric multiple units of South Australia
Train-related introductions in 2014
Transport in Adelaide
25 kV AC multiple units
Value range analysis. In computing, in particular compiler construction, value range analysis is a type of data flow analysis that tracks the range (interval) of values that a numeric variable can take on at each point of a program's execution.
The resulting information can be used in optimizations such as redundancy elimination, dead code elimination, instruction selection, etc., but can also be used to improve the safety of programs, e.g. in the detection of buffer overruns. Techniques for value range analysis typically use symbolic analysis extensively.

Value range analysis is often implemented in the Intel C++ Compiler and is implemented in GCC.

References 

Static program analysis
Compiler optimizations
Model E. Model E or E-model or variant, may refer to:

Aircraft
 Ace Model E Junior Ace, an interwar sport aircraft
 Burgess Model E, a pre-war aircraft
 Curtiss Model E, a 1911 aircraft
 Fike Model E, a 1970s light aircraft
 Wright Model E, a 1913 aircraft

Automotive and road transport
 AJS Model E, an interwar motorcycle produced after the AJS Model D
 BSA Model E, an interwar motorcycle
 Ford Model E, a research and development division of Ford Motor Company, focusing on electrified vehicles

Automobiles
 Cadillac Model E, a 1905 runabout automobile
 Doble Model E, an interwar steam automobile variation of the Doble steam car
 Tesla Model E, the intended name for the electric vehicle that was renamed the Tesla Model 3
 Honda e, an electric car by Honda

Other uses
 Comptometer Model E, a version of the Comptometer mechanical calculator 
 Vickers Model E machine gun, a WWI aircraft machine gun

See also

 Class E (disambiguation)
 E-Type (disambiguation)
 E (disambiguation)
 5 (disambiguation)
 ME (disambiguation)
 Model (disambiguation)
QR National 5020 class. The 5020 class are a class of diesel locomotive built by UGL Rail, Chullora for Aurizon in 2010-2024.

Design
In November 2010 ordered 25 Locomotives As 5020 class haul coal trains in the Hunter Valley. They are a heavy haul variant of the UGL Rail C44aci, with C44aci models being a medium weight, power improved version of the heavy haul UGL-GE C40aci Aurizon 5000 class.

References

Aurizon diesel locomotives
Co-Co locomotives
Diesel locomotives of New South Wales
Railway locomotives introduced in 2010
Standard gauge locomotives of Australia
Diesel–electric locomotives of Australia
Sunnyclist. Sunnyclist is the name of a series of "green" vehicles created by Enermech (formerly Energomichaniki Kritis), a Herakleion, Crete-based company involved in Green energy projects. Introduced in September 2013, the first model utilized various combinations of solar, electric, and human powers. The vehicle has been presented in a series of Greek and European exhibitions; it is a three-seater, features a light aluminum frame and a sun-tracking solar panel on the roof, and has a maximum speed of 50 km/h.

In October 2015, an improved version was presented, which has not been produced to date. In February 2022 a four-wheel design was introduced, intended for production, while the company also introduced a three-wheel solar powered bicycle, which entered production in the same year.

External links
Company website
Sunnyclist in Dutch auto catalog
Sunnyclist introduction
Report about Sunnyclist award 
Sunnyclist in European Venture Summit
Sunnyclist four-wheel design

References
L.S. Skartsis, "Greek Vehicle & Machine Manufacturers 1800 to present: A Pictorial History", Bookstars, Athens (2013) 

Car manufacturers of Greece
Solar-powered vehicles
Hybrid electric vehicles
Charles E. Sporck. Charles E. Sporck (November 15, 1927 – October 12, 2024) was an American engineer and company manager. He was best known for his role as chief executive officer and president of National Semiconductor from 1967 to 1991. The New York Times described Sporck as "a founding father of Silicon Valley".

Education and early career
Sporck was born in Saranac Lake, New York, in 1927.  Sporck studied mechanical engineering at Cornell University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1950. He then worked for General Electric.

He started work at semiconductor division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument in 1959, where he rose to the position of General Manager.

At National Semiconductor
In 1967, Sporck was recruited by National Semiconductor, which was at that time struggling financially. Under his leadership the company focused on mass production of low cost computer chips and became very successful; for a time the company was "the largest chip maker in Silicon Valley".

The company's fortunes declined in the 1980s when more competitively priced chips manufactured in Asia entered the American domestic market. 
He retired in 1991, and was succeeded by Gilbert F. Amelio.

Death
Sporck died on October 12, 2024, at the age of 96.

References

1927 births
2024 deaths
Engineers from New York (state)
Cornell University alumni
People from Saranac Lake, New York
Zhongding. Zhongding International Construction Group Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as ZICG)  is a Chinese construction and engineering company formed from the Zhongding International Construction Group Co., Ltd.  The company is listed among the 250 largest international construction contractors in 2013, having recorded international contracting revenue of US$275.4 million.

One of the company's long time overseas operations is its subsidiary in Nepal, where it has been active since 1996.

Another important overseas market is Algeria. Since the early 1990s, an affiliated company, the Pingxiang Coal Group has worked in Algeria on dozens of medium and large projects.   The construction by Zhongding of a sewage system in Oran in 2008 was used as an example in a Financial Times article titled "Algeria turns to Chinese knowhow". Also in Algeria it along with Jiangling Motors Group sought to build a special economic zone for 30-50 Chinese enterprises to establish manufacturing of automobiles, construction materials, and other products.  However, a change in the Algerian foreign investment law required a local co-investor hold a majority stake in such kinds of investments, which stymied the project, putting it on hold.

In a contracting project in Botswana, it was brought on by the Chinese government to build the Gaborone Multi-Purpose Youth Center, a sports center for the youth, given as a gift by China to be used for the 2014 African youth games. Construction started in 2009 and was completed in time for a hand off ceremony in December 2012.

References

Construction and civil engineering companies of China
Companies based in Jiangxi
60th Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards. The  60th Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards  was held on January 8, 2009  at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. CEO of  Verizon Communications, Ivan Seidenberg received the Lifetime Achievement Award

Awardees

Serial Interface and Protocols for Server/VTR control
Harris Corporation
Sony
Delivery Confirmation Systems
XOrbit
Scripps Networks
Development and Standardization of File Formats for Video and Audio
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
Thomson Grass Valley
Pioneering Development of MPEG-4 AVC systems for HDTV
Tandberg Television
DirecTV
Pioneering RF Combiners for Adjacent Channels on Common Antenna Systems
Harris Corporation
Micro Communications Inc. (MCI)
Radio Frequency Systems (RFS)
Ongoing live global HD cinemacasting
Metropolitan Opera Association
Developing HDMI
Silicon Image
Thomson Multimédia
Toshiba
Sony
Matsushita
Hitachi
Philips
Molex
Japan Aviation Electronics (JAE)
Intel
Standardization of the ATSC Digital System
Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service
Advanced Television System Committee
Advanced Television Test Center
Advanced Television Evaluation Laboratory
MPEG-4 AVC Standard
Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG)
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)

References

External links

Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards
2008 awards
2009 in Nevada
January 2009 events in the United States
Heritage Operations Processing System. Heritage Operations Processing System, Heritage Ops, short named HOPS, is a web-based tool for the day-to-day running and management of preserved and heritage railways. The system was developed, from a concept drawn up by Danny Scroggins and Luke Cartey.

Founding and development 
The HOPS Project began early in August 2009 in the rostering office of the signalling department at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway – who embraced the use of the technology. Beta testing began in January 2010 with a small group of volunteers, the group being enlarged later that year. After this period, the system was made available to other UK heritage railways in January 2011.

The purpose of the system is to provide administration tools associated with operating functions on heritage railways, such as staff rostering, timetabling, competence management and document control, etc. The system is used to assist railways in meeting the requirements of government legislation such as the Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006 (ROGS), which were introduced in Great Britain to put the 2004 European Railway Safety Directive into practice. The system assists with competency management (as a requirement of the Safety Management System).

The ethos of the development of the system has been that in the majority of cases, producing large-scale data-handling and storage facilities, with the appropriate level of security, access, backups, etc., would not be economical for an individual railway. A single program, in use by many railway companies, however, would make the investment economical.

The system has grown significantly in the five years it has been in development, mainly in response to feedback from users and demands of the industry,.

References 

Rail technologies
Information systems
Workflow applications
Transportation planning
Public transport information systems
Electrologica. N.V. Electrologica was a pioneering Dutch computer manufacturer from 1956 to 1968, when it was taken over by Philips.

It was started by A. van Wijngaarden, B.J. Loopstra and C.S. Scholten from the Mathematisch Centrum (Mathematical centre) in Amsterdam, when that organisation decided to spin off and commercialise its work on computers.

The most successful computers produced by Electrologica were the Electrologica X1 and the Electrologica X8. Other stripped-down versions of the X8, the X2 to X5, were less successful. 

The Stichting Electrologica (“Electrologica Foundation”) is an organisation dedicated to preserving and spreading the history of computing in the Netherlands.

References

External links 
  
 Tales of Electrologica 

Defunct computer hardware companies
Science and technology in the Netherlands