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Egon Scheibe. Egon Scheibe (28 September 1908 – 26 September 1997) was a German aviation engineer who, among other things, developed the Scheibe Bergfalke glider.

Life and career
Egon Scheibe was born in Munich on 28 September 1908, the son of a bookbinder. He studied there at the gymnasium and the Technical University; beginning in 1928, while a student of aircraft construction, he worked on the models Mü-4 to Mü-13 of the Akaflieg München (Munich Academic Flight Group). After graduating in 1933, he worked in sport gliding until 1935. From 1935 to 1937, when he passed his master's examination in aircraft construction, he was chief of aircraft construction at the Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt (German Experimental Agency for Aeronautics, one of the predecessors of the German Aerospace Center), working at the Luftwaffe testing centre in Rechlin, then from 1938 to 1945, despite never becoming a member of the Nazi Party, he worked in the Air Ministry in Berlin developing new aircraft.

After World War II, he at first built bicycles, mini-cars and motorised tricycles, developed the Mü-13E Bergfalke design in Tyrol, then in 1951 in Dachau founded Scheibe Flugzeugbau, originally in a barracks at the former Telefunken plant. The first Bergfalke was produced the same year, and the company also produced the Spatz single-seater. Beginning in 1957, Scheibe turned to pioneering the development of powered gliders. By his 80th birthday, Scheibe Flugzeugbau had produced some 2,200 aircraft. Scheibe continued to be actively involved in the company to an advanced age, focussing on further development of single- and two-seater powered gliders. There were usually between 50 and 60 employees.

He died two days before his 89th birthday.

Work
Scheibe's 1930 work with Akaflieg was a major part of the "Munich School" of sailplane construction. He pioneered the use of steel tubing in glider construction.

After the war, his Mü-13E, continuing the Akaflieg series numbering, was the first post-war high-performance German sailplane. He was one of the most important developers of motorised gliders and originated the touring motor-glider.

References

Engineers from Munich
1908 births
1997 deaths
German aerospace engineers
Technical University of Munich alumni
Acromag. Acromag, Inc. is a company that manufactures embedded computing, process instrumentation, and distributed I/O products.

Established in 1957, Acromag built its reputation designing critical measurement instrumentation equipment for the petrochemical and aerospace industries. It now designs analog and digital control products for the industrial I/O and defense markets.

Acromag's experience in designing industrial I/O has paved the way for solutions to ground loops, RFI/EMI noise, and temperature drift. Many products are available with agency approvals such as UL, cUL, FM, CSA, CE, ATEX, and others to assure precise operation in hostile environments.

The company has three product divisions: Embedded Computing Solutions, Process Control and Automation Solutions and Contract Manufacturing Services. Its product lines focus on manufacturing, military, scientific, public utility, and transportation applications.

History
Acromag was founded in 1957 by Henry Patton, a pioneer in the development of solid-state magnetic amplifiers. Expanding from its first location in Detroit, Michigan, (now Southfield), Acromag headquarters currently reside in Wixom, Michigan.

It acquired Xembedded, LLC (formerly XycomVME) in 2012.

Process Instrumentation and Embedded Board Innovations
1960s  Designed and manufactured temperature transmitters and thermo-electric metal testers
1970s  Rack-mount I/O systems and field-mount transmitters
1980s  Remote data acquisition systems; Exorbus and VMEbus I/O boards
1990s  μP-based signal conditioners; Industry Pack modules and carrier cards
2000s  Distributed I/O; PMC modules, PCI and CompactPCI I/O boards, reconfigurable FPGA modules
2010s  USB-configured instruments; XMC modules, VPX boards, industrial PCs
2016  Offer contract manufacturing services

References

Technology companies established in 1957
Engineering companies of the United States
1957 establishments in Michigan
Companies based in Oakland County, Michigan
Golly (program). Golly is a tool for the simulation of cellular automata. It is free open-source software written by Andrew Trevorrow and Tomas Rokicki; it can be scripted using Lua or Python.
It includes a hashlife algorithm that can simulate the behavior of very large structured or repetitive patterns such as Paul Rendell's Life universal Turing machine, and that is fast enough to simulate some patterns for 232 or more time units. It also includes a large library of predefined patterns in Conway's Game of Life and other rules.

References

External links
 

Cellular automaton software
Cross-platform free software
Lua (programming language)-scriptable software
Software that uses wxWidgets
Mahmoud Balbaa. Mahmoud Saad Balbaa (born 30 January 1952) is an Egyptian engineer, businessman and former minister of electricity and energy in the Qandil cabinet.

Career
Balbaa was a member of the now disbanded National Democratic Party. An engineer by training, he was appointed head of the Egyptian Electric Holding Company in 2011. Therefore, he was the man in direct charge of the electricity of the country. He stated in February 2012 that Egypt was ready to supply additional power to the Gaza Strip if the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas would sign off on the deal. He also worked closely with the former minister of electricity and energy Hassan Younes to realize Banha's electricity generation projects, which would be provided and installed by a coalition of Japanese companies, such as Hitachi and Toyota.

He was appointed the Egypt's minister of electricity and energy in August 2012, replacing Hassan Younes. He was one of the senior figures in Egyptian holding companies and independent figures appointed to the ministerial post in the cabinet. Balbaa was replaced by Ahmed Imam in a cabinet reshuffle on 5 January 2012.

References

20th-century Egyptian engineers
21st-century Egyptian politicians
1952 births
Living people
Electricity and energy ministers of Egypt
National Democratic Party (Egypt) politicians
Qandil Cabinet
People from Damanhur
CLUSTER. Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research (CLUSTER) is a collection of twelve European universities which focus on science and engineering. There are joint programs and student exchanges held between the universities. The focus of the network is courses and study programmes, the goal being to offer students attractive exchanges between the best institutes of technology in Europe, along with dual degree partnerships at second- and third-cycle level, joint funding applications for courses and study programmes, exchanges for benchmarking purposes and approaches to policy issues at EU level.

President of CLUSTER is Tanja Brühl, the president of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.

Members

Active members 
The participating universities are:

Associate members 
Although the number of Cluster members has remained stable over the years, the network is creating new connections with leading universities outside Europe. These associated members are:

References

External links
CLUSTER

College and university associations and consortia in Europe
Engineering education
International organizations based in Europe
Science and technology in Europe
Technology consortia
Abdel Qawi Khalifa. Abdel Qawi Khalifa is an Egyptian engineer, academic, former governor of the Cairo province and former minister of water and wastewater utilities, a ministerial office established in August 2012.

Education
Khalifa holds bachelor of science and master of science degrees in civil engineering both from Ain Shams University in Cairo. He also received a master of science degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He obtained a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Windsor in Canada.

Career
Khalifa is a university professor. He has a long experience in the fields related to water projects management and civil engineering. He served as a consultant for the hydraulics and sediment research institute at the Egyptian ministry of public works and water resources from 1988 to 1990. Then he dealt with business activities, being the owner of Khalifa Consulting Engineers (KCE) office from 1990 to 2004. He is back again to share the KCE company from 2013 until now.

He worked in the public sector and served as chairman of the Egyptian Holding Company for Water and Wastewater at the Ministry of Housing from 2004 to 2011. Khalifa was appointed governor of Cairo in April 2011. He was the first Cairo governor to be appointed after the Egyptian Revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak on 11 February 2011. Khalifa served in the post until August 2012.

Khalifa was appointed minister of utilities, drinking water and sewage in August 2012 as part of the cabinet led by Prime Minister Hisham Qandil, and was an independent minister. His tenure ended on 17 July 2013 when the interim government led by Prime Minister Hazem Al Beblawi was formed.

References

21st-century Egyptian politicians
Ain Shams University alumni
Egyptian businesspeople
Egyptian engineers
Government ministers of Egypt
Living people
National Democratic Party (Egypt) politicians
Qandil Cabinet
University of Windsor alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Governors of Cairo
Swanson School of Engineering alumni
Ekolot JK 01A Elf. The Ekolot JK 01A Elf is a Polish mid-wing, single-seat motor glider, designed by Jerzy Krawczyk and produced by Ekolot of Krosno. Production has ended, but when it was available it was provided as a complete ready-to-fly aircraft or as a kit for amateur construction. It was superseded in production by the improved Ekolot KR-010 Elf.

Design and development
The JK 01A Elf was designed by Krawczyk, based on the earlier work of American designer Alex Strojnikun. It features cantilever wings, a single-seat enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from composites. Its  span wing has an area of , flaperons and provides a glide ratio of 26:1. The standard engine used was a  JPX D-320 two-stroke, but this engine is no longer available and any small horizontally-opposed engine in the  range can be used. An engine of this power provides a takeoff run of . The propeller used has a folding design to reduce drag and the fuel tank fitted has a volume of . The landing gear uses dual, close-set mainwheels and a smaller nosewheel, with no wingtip wheels.

The company provides complete ready-to-fly aircraft and kits which offer the aircraft in various states of completion.

The first flight was made on 8 July 2006. There is no evidence of production beyond 2007/8.

Specifications (JK 01A Elf)

See also

References

External links
Official website archives
Official photos

2000s Polish sailplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Ekolot aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2006
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Honing oil. Honing oil is a liquid, solution or emulsion used to aid in the cutting or grinding of metal, typically by abrasive tools or stones, and may or may not contain oil.  It can also be called machining oil, tool oil, cutting fluid, and cutting oil.

In the context of hand blade sharpening, honing oil is used on a sharpening stone to protect the stone, carry away the debris (swarf), and to more efficiently produce a keen edge on a metal blade such as a knife. In a machine shop it also carries away excess heat and depending on composition, may prevent unintentional tearing and welding of the metal. Or when used with materials such as soft copper, it may have extra additives to prevent stone loading, or metal deactivators to prevent staining of copper containing alloys. To achieve maximum cutting rates and abrasive life with petroleum (mineral) based machining oils when honing difficult materials like stainless steel, a higher level of surface active lubricity agents are combined with sulfur extreme pressure additives. Industrial honing oil is typically available in large quantities, home knife honing oils in small bottles.

Background 

There are many different kinds of honing oils to suit different needs.  It is important to use the appropriate solution for the job. In the case of knife sharpening, motor oil is too thick or heavy and can over-lubricate or clog a sharpening stone, whereas WD-40 is too light an oil and will not carry the metal filings plus stone dust (collectively known as swarf) away from the stone, and clog it. Not using any oil at all will also clog or glaze the stone, again reducing its cutting power. Historically sperm whale oil, Neatsfoot oil, and other animal fats were popular.

Oils were once exclusively used in part because the high carbon steels of the time, such as 1095, could rust using simple water-based solutions, and the term honing "oil" is used today even for water based honing solutions.

Commercial honing oil, light sewing machine oil or, in a pinch, heavier oil thinned with paint thinner (white spirit) or kerosine is suggested by veteran Swedish wood carver Wille Sundqvist. He further suggests "Kerosine alone works well on fine, hard stones."

Composition 

The two most common classes of honing oil are petroleum based (typically mineral oils), and non-petroleum (typically water or vegetable oil or animal, such as neats foot oil or whale oil) based.  Common additives include chlorine, sulfur, rust inhibitors, and detergents.

Honing oil has just the right consistency for sharpening stones. It will not gum it up nor glaze it, and it will provide just enough lubrication to avoid wearing out the stone prematurely. Importantly, it is also used to "float" off generated swarf and thereby prevent clogging of the sharpening stone, which would diminish its future cutting ability.

References

External links 
 Knife Maintenance and Sharpening, by Chad Ward, eGullet Culinary Institute

Grinding and lapping
Knives
Sharpening
Oils
Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company. The Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company is a private company chartered by Section 182.70 of the Wisconsin Statutes. The company is responsible for organizing the flow from most of the upper Wisconsin River tributaries, and this flow affects the economy and ecosystem of the entire river. Its member companies are the owners and operators of dams along the Wisconsin River, such as paper manufacturers and utility companies with hydroelectric facilities on that river. The company is located in Wausau, Wisconsin. They include:

NewPage
Domtar
Packaging Corporation of America
Wisconsin River Power Company
Alliant Energy
Wausau Paper
Expera Specialty Solutions
Wisconsin Public Service Corporation
According to its charter, the company is to maintain
nearly a uniform flow of water as practicable in the Wisconsin and Tomahawk rivers by storing in reservoirs surplus water for discharge when the water supply is low to improve the usefulness of the rivers for all public purposes and to reduce flood damage.
The reservoirs it operates
shall be located north of township 37 north in or along the Wisconsin River, and in or along any tributary of the Wisconsin River that discharges into the river at any point north of the south line of township 23 north.

The company was founded by an act of the Wisconsin State Legislature in 1907, as an outgrowth of several previous attempts to organize cooperative use of the water resources in the upper Wisconsin River basin.
The company owns and maintains 21 reservoirs on the Wisconsin River and its tributaries. Sixteen of these reservoirs are natural lake reservoirs, and five are artificial reservoirs. Of the five artificial reservoirs, one is on the Wisconsin River: Rainbow Flowage. The other four are on the Willow River, Tomahawk River, Spirit River, and Big Eau Pleine River, all of which are western tributaries of the Wisconsin.

See also

References

Wausau, Wisconsin
Companies based in Wisconsin
Economy of Wisconsin
The Winds of Kitty Hawk. The Winds of Kitty Hawk is a 1978 American made-for-television biographical film directed by E. W. Swackhamer about the Wright brothers and their invention of the first successful powered heavier-than-air flying machine, the Wright Flyer. It's a tribute to the brothers and was broadcast on December 17, 1978, the 75th anniversary of their famous 1903 first aeroplane flight. It is one of several made-for-television films about historical people in aviation produced in the 1970s, including The Amazing Howard Hughes, Amelia Earhart, and The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case.

Premise
The film presents the brothers' lives in dramatic vignettes sometimes historically rearranged.

At the start of the 20th century,  bicycle mechanics Wilbur and Orville Wright, begin tinkering with gliders on the windy sand dunes of  Kitty Hawk.  Three years and dozens of crashes later, the Wright brothers solve the technical problems that had stumped the best engineers in the world, and succeed in making the first successful powered flight.  Ironically, their success marks only the beginning and not the end of their struggle.

The film makes a claimer at the beginning stating that dramatic license had been taken but for the most part their story is told chronologically.

Home Media
In 2012, the film became available on DVD from MGM Limited Edition.

Cast
Michael Moriarty as Wilbur Wright
David Huffman as Orville Wright
Tom Bower as William Tate
Robin Gammell as H.A. Toulmin
Scott Hylands as Glenn Curtiss
John Randolph as Alexander Graham Bell
Kathryn Walker as Katharine Wright
Eugene Roche as Bishop Milton Wright
John Hoyt - Professor Samuel Langley
Joseph Bernard - Mayor of New York, George B. McClellan Jr.
Lew Brown - Harlan Mumford (banker)
Carole Tru Foster - Agnes Osborne
Dabbs Greer - Ace Hutchin
Mo Malone - Elizabeth Mayfield
Robert Casper - Man
Tom Lawrence - Doctor
Ross Durfee - William Howard Taft
Charles Macaulay - 2nd Genteral
Frank Farmer - Mr. Newell
Steffen Zacharias - Fisherman
Laurence Haddon - 1st General
Ari Zeltzer - Tom Tate
Vaughn Armstrong - Reporter
Marie Todd - 
Gerald Berns - Reporter

See also
Wright Flyer
The Wright Brothers (1971 film)

References

External links
The Winds of Kitty Hawk at IMDb.com
allmovie/synopsis; The Winds of Kitty Hawk
Winds of Kitty Hawk; Aveleyman
Sample of Charles Bernstein's score to the film(Period Orchestral - 1904 flight) and others

1978 television films
1978 films
1970s biographical drama films
American aviation films
American drama television films
American biographical drama films
Films set in the 1890s
Films set in the 1900s
Biographical television films
Cultural depictions of the Wright brothers
Films directed by E. W. Swackhamer
1970s American films
1970s English-language films
English-language biographical drama films
John L. Gainer. John L. Gainer (born July 19, 1938) is an American chemical engineer and co-founder and former chief scientific officer of Diffusion Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology and pharmaceutical company based in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. Professor Gainer retired from his position as Chief Science Officer of Diffusion Pharmaceuticals in March, 2020. Gainer pioneered investigation into the mechanism of action underlying oxygen diffusion-enhancing compounds (ODECs) and invented the subclass of ODECs known as bipolar trans carotenoid salts. The lead compound of this class is trans sodium crocetinate (TSC) which Gainer invented while a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Virginia.

Education and career
Gainer earned a BS in chemical engineering from West Virginia University in 1960, and a PhD in chemical engineering in 1964 from the University of Delaware. He later accepted a professorship in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. In the early 1970s, he studied the prediction of diffusion rates of gases in liquids and began to investigate oxygen diffusion in biological systems, focusing particularly on the cardiovascular disease atherosclerosis.

While at the University of Virginia, Gainer invented TSC by modifying certain natural products, including saffron, resulting in the creation of a novel single trans isomer carotenoid salt. Using animal models, he then investigated the activity of TSC, exploring his theory that the drug would increase the transfer of oxygen through blood plasma into hypoxic tissues. The drug's clinical promise became evident when Gainer and colleagues demonstrated that TSC could improve survival in animal models of severe hemorrhage while reversing the drop in blood pressure that accompanies the loss of large amounts of blood. From his work with animal models, Gainer also predicted that TSC held promise for the treatment of cancer, stroke, myocardial infarction (heart attack), and other diseases associated with hypoxia and ischemia (a lack of oxygen delivery to tissues). He was awarded the first of over a dozen patents on ODECs and TSC in 2000.

Awards and honors
Gainer became professor emeritus in chemical engineering at the University of Virginia in 2005. He has been a member of the International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue since 1973, the year that the society was formed. He received the University of Virginia Alumni Association's Distinguished Professor Award and the Outstanding Teacher Award from the Southeastern Section of the American Society for Engineering Education. The Virginia Healthcare Innovators "Medical Product or Device" award went to Gainer and Diffusion Pharmaceuticals in 2012, honoring his and the company's work on TSC.

References

American chemical engineers
1938 births
Living people
West Virginia University alumni
University of Virginia faculty
Nanoc. Nanoc is a Ruby-based website compiler that generates static HTML. It supports compiling from various markup languages, including Markdown, Textile, and Haml. It can generate and lay out pages with a consistent look and feel. Nanoc is not a content management system, however it acts somewhat like one.

Advantages of Nanoc 

In comparison to other static site generators, Nanoc has a modular architecture.

Differences from traditional content management systems 
Although Nanoc sometimes acts as a content management system (CMS), there are many differences.
 Traditional CMSs must assemble the webpage every time a user requests it. Static HTML pages are pre-assembled and as such do not have to be re-assembled.
 CMSs run using a server-side language, which exposes the CMS to all the vulnerabilities of the language. Since Nanoc compiles websites to static HTML, the only vulnerabilities are that of the web server itself.
 The content managed by a CMS can usually be changed at any time through a web interface. Since Nanoc must recompile the website at every change, it is more difficult to modify a website.

References

External links 
 Official project website
 

Command-line software
Compilers
Free static website generators
John McCallum (naval architect). John (Ian) McCallum (13 Oct 1920 – 15 Feb 1995) was a Scottish naval architect. He was the Chief Ship Designer for the  Queen Elizabeth the Second liner, which was built by John Brown & Company where he was also Technical Director. He also became the Chief Ship Surveyor of Lloyd's Register of shipping (1970–81).

McCallum was born on 13 October 1920, to parents Hugh Beith McCallum (Engineer and Old Contemptible) and Agnes Falconer Wood McCallum (née Walker). He was Educated at Allan Glen's School in Glasgow and at the University of Glasgow, graduating with a First Class degree in Naval Architecture. 

McCallum was subsequently  apprenticed to John Brown & Co, Clydebank, between 1938 and 1943. He became Junior Lecturer in Naval Architecture at the University of Glasgow during 1943–44. In 1944 he began a long period with Lloyd's Register, first in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1944, Glasgow in 1949 and London in 1953. He was Lloyd's Chief Ship Surveyor from 1970 until his retirement in 1981.

References

1920 births
1995 deaths
British naval architects
People educated at Allan Glen's School
Engineers from Glasgow