omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
DB Class 82. The DB Class 82 was a goods train tank locomotive with the Deutsche Bundesbahn in Germany, that was built in the period after the Second World War and was intended for shunting and normal rail services. They were to replace the ten-coupled state railway (Länderbahn) engines and also the accident-prone Class 87 DRG Einheitslok (standard locomotive).

It was the first of the DB's so-called Neubaudampflokomotiven or newly designed steam locomotives, and was built by the firms of Krupp and Henschel in 1950 and 1951 and also by the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen in 1955. Although they were ten-couplers, the 41 engines were also suitable for lines with tight curves such as the Hamburg Harbour railway. To improve curve running the first and last axles were fitted with Beugniot levers. The last two examples were also equipped with Riggenbach counterpressure brakes, which enabled their operation on steep lines. The locomotives were able to haul 800 tonne trains at up to 70 km/h.

Deployment 
The engines were predominantly employed in the marshalling yards at Bremen and Hamm as well as on the harbour lines of Emden and Hamburg. The 82s could also be seen pulling mainline trains up the steep inclines of the Westerwald and in the Black Forest on the Murg Valley Railway.

Retirement began as early as 1966, the final locomotive depot being Bw Koblenz-Mosel, where the last one was withdrawn in 1972.

Preserved 
Locomotive 82 008, the last of class withdrawn, has been maintained at Bw Neumünster since early 2003 by the Rendsburger Eisenbahnfreunden.

See also
 List of DB locomotives and railbuses

References

External links 
 Class 82 (German)
 Rendsburger Eisenbahnfreunde site
 Photograph and technical data

82
0-10-0T locomotives
082
Krupp locomotives
Henschel locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1950
Standard gauge locomotives of Germany
E h2t locomotives
Freight locomotives
William McCune. William Walker McCune (December 17, 1953 – May 2, 2011) was an American computer scientist and logician working in the fields of automated reasoning, algebra, logic, and formal methods.

Biography
He was best known for the development of the Otter, Prover9, and Mace4 automated reasoning systems, and the automated proof of the Robbins conjecture using the EQP theorem prover.

In 2000, McCune received the Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning. In 2013, Automated Reasoning and Mathematics - Essays in Memory of William W. McCune was published in his honour.

References

External links 
 Prover9 software
 William McCune home page
 Updated version of Prover9 software

2011 deaths
1953 births
American computer scientists
Putzmeister. Putzmeister is a German manufacturer of concrete pumps and other equipment for pumping, distributing and placing concrete, mortar and other high-density solids, and for preparing, temporarily storing, processing and transporting these materials. The firm is headquartered at Aichtal, and is the largest in its field. It also provides pumps for a wide range of different materials, for example slurries, fly ash, sewage, compost and water.

Putzmeister is German for "Plaster Master" (Putz Meister). In 2017, the company had 3,000 employees worldwide.

History
Putzmeister was founded by Karl Schlecht in 1958. Schlecht designed a mortar machine based on his diploma thesis at the University of Stuttgart.

In 1986, Putzmeister 52Z's were used in the Chernobyl nuclear accident, pumping over  of concrete to entomb reactor number 4, setting a world record at the time for volume pumping.

During the 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents at the Fukushima plant, multiple Putzmeister concrete boom pumps were flown to Japan from locations around the world. After the initial success of a M58-5 unit, additional M62-6s and 70Z's were transported to Japan on-board chartered Antonov An-124s, the world's second largest cargo plane. The 70Z is the world's largest boom pump, able to reach over , and able to be controlled remotely from  away. The pumps will be deployed to try to stabilise the four reactors with additional water pumping capacity.

In May 2008, Putzmeister reached a world record in vertical concrete pumping (), via their specially designed concrete pumps type BSA 14000 SHP-D, in building the Burj Khalifa. In 2008, Putzmeister broke its own record by pumping concrete to a height of more than 700 m at Burj Khalifa.

As the largest German-Sino transaction ever, at the end of January 2012 Putzmeister was sold to the Chinese Sany Heavy Industries, the construction-equipment maker run by China's richest man Liang Wengen.

Products 
 Concrete Placing Systems
Concrete pump
Truck-Mounted Concrete Placing Boom Pump
 Boom Pump Product Range: 20Z-Meter, 28Z-Meter, 31Z-Meter, 32Z-Meter, 36Z-Meter, 38Z-Meter, 38Z-5-Meter, 39Z-Meter, 40Z-Meter, 42Z-Meter, 47Z-Meter, 51Z-5-Meter, 56Z-Meter, 63Z-Meter.
 "C" Valve (BRF model designation)
 "S" Valve (BSF model designation)
BSA Trailer Pumps: BSA 100 Series, BSA 14000 Series, BSA 21000 Series.
 Truck-Mounted Line Pumps: City Pump CP 2110 HP, City Pump CP 2112H, City Pump CP 2116H, VS 50 PTO, VS 70 PTO, VSP 70.
 Thom-Katt Trailer Pumps: TK 7, TK 20, TK 40, TK 50, TK 60, TK 70.
 Mortar Machines
Shotcrete Machines
Tunneling and Mining Equipment
 Industrial pumps

Gallery

References

External links
 Beka Putzmeister Chile

Companies based in Baden-Württemberg
Construction equipment manufacturers of Germany
Manufacturing companies established in 1958
Manufacturing companies of Germany
2012 mergers and acquisitions
Sany
1958 establishments in West Germany
Andreas Baalsrud. Andreas Baalsrud (5 March 1872 – 23 January 1961) was a Norwegian civil engineer.

He was born at Stavern in Vestfold, Norway. He took his education at the Christiania Technical School and Zurich Polytechnicum. He was hired by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration in 1891, and worked as district engineer in Vest-Agder from 1912 to 1919. From 1919 to 1945 he served as director of the Norwegian Directorate of Public Roads. Baalsrud married to Christine Andrea Christofersen (1878–1956). They were the parents of newspaper editor Terje Baalsrud (1914-2003).

References

1872 births
1987 deaths
20th-century Norwegian engineers
Directors of government agencies of Norway
University of Oslo alumni
People from Larvik
Directorate of Public Roads people
Association of Canadian Engineering Companies. The Association of Consulting Engineering Companies (also known as ACEC - Canada, and formerly the Association of Canadian Engineering Companies) is an association of 600 independent engineering consultancies across Canada.

Its members offer professional engineering services to the public and private sectors worldwide. Based in Ottawa, its mission is to promote a business environment that recognizes and rewards Canadian consulting engineering companies' expertise and contributions to society.

Its members are independent consulting engineering firms as well as twelve affiliated provincial and territorial member organizations. Members range in size from single-person operations to multinational companies.

It publishes a serial magazine, the Canadian Consulting Engineer.

References

External links
http://www.acec.ca/ Official site

Business organizations based in Canada
LAK-9. The LAK-9 Lietuva () was an open-class competition sailplane produced in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. It was based on the LAK BK-7 that had been produced in small numbers since 1972. Like it, the LAK-9 was a conventional sailplane design with a high-set cantilever wing and a conventional empennage. The landing gear consisted of a retractable monowheel and a tailwheel, and construction throughout was of fibreglass.

The type came to the attention of the West when a LAK-9 was flown in the 1976 Gliding World Championships in Finland, the first entry by the Soviet Union since 1968. Piloted by O. Pasetnik, it was withdrawn from competition due to aileron damage.

The fourth batch to be produced was designated the LAK-9M (for "Modernised"), and a motorglider version was also produced.

Specifications (LAK-9)

See also

References

External links

About LAK-9 in www.lizdas.lt (lithuanian lang.

LAK aircraft
1970s Soviet sailplanes

High-wing aircraft
Motor gliders
Aircraft first flown in 1976
Langley Twin. 

The Langley 2-4, variously described as the Langley Monoplane or Langley Twin was a twin-engine utility aircraft built in the United States in 1940. Named in honour of Samuel Pierpont Langley, the aircraft was designed to make use of non-strategic materials in its construction and thereby avoid any shortages brought about by war. Its design was conventional - a low-wing cantilever monoplane with twin tails and tailwheel undercarriage. The manufacturing process, however, was unorthodox, and the aircraft's structures were built up from mahogany veneers bent over moulds and impregnated with vinyl and phenol resins to make them hold their shape. The use of metal for structural elements - even in fasteners - was thereby almost completely avoided.

Two prototypes were constructed, one with 65 hp (49 kW) engines, and another with 90 hp (67 kW) engines. The second machine was purchased by the United States Navy and evaluated as the XNL-1, but the navy did not order the type. Once the United States entered the war, it transpired that the resins needed for construction were in far shorter supply than the metal that would have been needed to produce an aircraft by conventional means, and the project was abandoned. The XNL-1 was sold as war surplus, and, following an accident in 1965, its wings, engine nacelles, and main undercarriage were mated to a Stinson 108 fuselage to create a one-of-a-kind homebuilt aircraft named the Pierce Arrow.

Specifications (2-4-65)

References
 
 
 
 aerofiles.com

External links
 Personal website of "Pierce Arrow" owner

1940s United States civil utility aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1940
K. S. Rangasamy College of Technology. K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology (KSRCT) is an autonomous engineering college, affiliated to Anna University, Chennai, near  Thiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, south India. The foundation stone of the college was laid in 1994, by Lion Dr K. S. Rangasamy, the institution offers 14 
undergraduate and 11 postgraduate programmes and draws students from every state in India. It is a part of the KSR Group of Institutions.

History
The foundation for the college was laid in 1994. In the college name K stands for Karuveppampatti and S for Sennimalai Gounder, the father of Lion Dr. K. S. Rangasamy (chairman, KSRCT)

Campus
K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology (KSRCT) is located on campus of over  with a built-up area of more than 12 lakh square feet. It has the ninth largest intake of students in ancient times (as per AICTE approval) of the self-financing engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu.

Accreditation
Programmes at KSRCT have been accredited by All India Council for Technical Education 
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) of the University Grants Commission (UGC) has accredited the university with a 'A++'. However, some of the programs offered by KSRCT are not accredited by such bodies.
KSRCT was certified with the ISO 9001:2000 (E) on 28 December 2001, by RWTUV, a German-based external ISO certifying agency. It is one of the earliest institutes to be awarded this certificate, and all the activities and processes of the departments comply with the ISO 9001:2000 (E) standards.

Academics

Undergraduate courses

 B.E. Mechanical Engineering
 B.E. Civil Engineering
 B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
 B.E. Electronics and Communication Engineering
 B.E. Mechatronics Engineering
 B.E. Computer Science and Engineering
 B.TECH. Information Technology
 B.TECH. Food Technology
 B.TECH. Textile Technology
 B.TECH. Biotechnology
 B.TECH. Nano Science & Technology
 B.TECH. Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
 B.TECH. Computer Science and Business Systems
 B.E. (Computer Science and Engineering) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
 B.E. (Electronics Engineering) VLSI Design and Technology

Postgraduate courses
 M.E. Industrial Safety Engineering
 M.E. Computer Science and Engineering
 M.E. VLSI Design
 M.E. Structural Engineering
 M.E. Power Systems Engineering
 M.TECH. Nano Science & Technology
 M.TECH. Biotechnology
 M.TECH Data Science
 M.TECH Food Technology
 M.TECH Textile Technology
 M.B.A.

The college has signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with industries to facilitate industrial exposure for students and faculty.
The college has the facility of National Instruments Center of Excellence (NICE).

References

External links
 K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology official site

Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu
Colleges affiliated to Anna University
Education in Namakkal district
Engineer reconnaissance. Engineer reconnaissance is the reconnaissance operations performed by combat engineers to enable forward movement of own troops, in war usually over territory previously occupied by the enemy. The activity includes provision of reconnaissance instructions on the intended route for which a commander needs an engineer reconnaissance report, identification of road and bridge symbols, posting of safe transit notices for identified bridge capacities, estimation for time and materials required to effect route repair, and performance of demolition reconnaissance to identify intended enemy demolitions.

Consequence of little or no route reconnaissance and engineer reconnaissance leads to hurdles in operational mobility and tactical frontal assault, leading to defeat or wipe out as it happened to Pakistan in the Battle of Longewala against India.

See also
 Route reconnaissance
 Military tactics
 Obstacles to troop movement 
 Types of military tactics
 Types of military operations
 Types of military strategies

References

reconnaissance
Maneuver tactics
Reconnaissance
Fleshlight. The Fleshlight is a brand of artificial vagina, oral, or anal sex toy. It is a masturbatory aid, which is used by inserting the penis into its opening.

Product history 

The Fleshlight was designed by Steve Shubin, who was granted a patent in July 1998 for his invention, as a "device for discreet sperm collection" and it is marketed by Interactive Life Forms, LLC. It is named for the flesh-like material used in its inner sleeve, as well as the plastic case that houses the sleeve, which is fashioned to look like an oversized flashlight. The inner sleeve is available with a vulva, anus or mouth orifice, in colors representing a variety of skin tones as well as see-through, and 48 different internal textures. 

Alongside their classic collection, Fleshlight also introduced the 'Freak' and 'Alien' collections, which modelled Fleshlight's on fantasy or sci-fi style designs that shied away from the conventional pornographic models traditionally used. 

In 2019 the Quickshot Launch was released.

Similar products 
The Fleshlight Girls brand consists of masturbation sleeves molded from the bodies of pornographic actresses. A device called the Fleshjack is a spinoff marketed to gay men. The Fleshjack Boys brand consists of masturbation sleeves and dildos molded from the bodies of gay pornographic actors. 

In 2017, Fleshlight collaborated with Dutch sex-tech manufacturer KIIROO to develop Fleshlight Launch, an interactive device that was able to move a Fleshlight sleeve, whilst also syncing with adult entertainment or corresponding female toys.

References

External links 

 

Sex toy manufacturers
Products introduced in 1998
American inventions
Male sex toys
Z-drag. A Z-Drag or Z-Rig is an arrangement of lines and pulleys, effectively forming a block and tackle, that is commonly used in rescue situations. The basic arrangement results in pulling the hauling end 3 times the distance the load is moved, providing a theoretical mechanical advantage of three to one.
In actual practice the advantage will be reduced by friction in the pulleys or carabiners. The advantage will also be reduced if the  pull on the hauling end is not parallel to the direction the load moves in. The name comes from the fact that the arrangement of lines is roughly Z-shaped. Besides the mechanical advantage to pulling, it also uses only part of the total length of the rope for the block and tackle arrangement.

The typical configuration (see diagram) uses two single pulleys and two Prusik knot loops or other suitable friction hitches. These Prusiks provide fixed attachment points on the rope that can be moved when slightly loosened. The first Prusik knot is attached to the "traveling pulley," allowing it to pull on the load. The second Prusik knot is used to hold the position of the rope and is referred to as a 'progress capture device' or ratchet. Because the tension on the line stores energy and could present a dangerous flying hazard if the rope were to break. It is also advisable to attach a towel or soft object (such as a life vest) to the end of the line near the connection to the object being pulled, to act as padding, and/or a damping device. 

Borrowed from rock climbing, the Z-Drag is considered an important tool in whitewater rescue and is used primarily for the recovery of pinned boats. It is also considered a useful tool in many types of rope rescue, such as crevasse rescue, because of its simplicity, and is commonly used for lifting systems that don't require much more mechanical advantage.  It also serves as a method for tightening the rope in a Tyrolean traverse, where the other end is fixed to a stable object.

See also
Trucker's hitch - another 3-fold advantage system using single loops
Mechanical advantage

References

General references
 Swiftwater Rescue: A Manual for the Rescue Professional 
 Whitewater Rescue Manual: New Techniques for Canoeists, Kayakers, and Rafters 
 River Rescue: A Manual for Whitewater Safety 
 Swiftwater Rescue 

Safety equipment
Ropework
Swiftwater rescue
The Heathcote School. The Heathcote School was an 11-18 comprehensive school in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. The school was founded in the 1950s. It was awarded Specialist Engineering College (English specialist school) status. The school was situated in Shephall. Typically in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s students would leave to work at British Aerospace, GEC Marconi, Ferranti or one of the other large engineering firms based in or around Stevenage. There were usually about 1000 pupils at the school.

It had workshops for metalworking, carpentry, and cookery and science labs, all to encourage both boys and girls in the trade of engineering. In the mid 1980s a computer laboratory was built with around 20 RML480Z computers to encourage the learning of basic computer engineering both in hardware and software.

The school had student government, the school council, which was established in 1969. Two representatives from each tutor group were elected to represent the views of the tutor group in the council meetings.

Form groups were named after famous Roman roads. They were Akeman, Ermine, Fosse, Icknield, Stane, Watling and Dane, which was added in 2002. 

In 2007 Hertfordshire County Council issued statutory notice for the closure of The Heathcote School in August 2012. The last intake for year 7 students was in 2008. Keystage 3 students transferred to other local schools in 2010. Keystage 4 students remained at the school until it closed in 2012.

References

External links
Heathcote School website

1950s establishments in England
2012 disestablishments in England
Defunct schools in Hertfordshire
Educational institutions disestablished in 2012
Educational institutions established in the 1950s
Schools in Stevenage
Spirale. Spirale is a French government programme to develop an early warning system which will use infrared satellite imagery to detect the flights of ballistic missiles during their boost phase, just after launch. SPIRALE is an acronym which stands for "Système Préparatoire Infra-Rouge pour l’ALErte", literally "infrared preparatory system for alert".

The demonstrator system includes two  microsatellites and an alert and monitoring ground segment.  The satellites have been launched by Ariane 5 on 12 February 2009.

References 

Missile defense
Spacecraft launched in 2009
Satellites of France
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Iași. The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Energetics and Applied Informatics is an academic division of the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi, Romania, devoted to study and research in electrical engineering.

History

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering was founded in 1910, as the first school of its kind in Romania. The first dean and founder of the faculty was the famous professor Dragomir Hurmuzescu. A statue (bust) sits in the front of the faculty building today.

In 1938, the school, later transformed in electrical preparation institute, was acknowledged as a faculty of the Iasi "Gheorghe Asachi" Polytechnic School.

In 1942, the name is changed to "Faculty of Electro-mechanics", including 2 classes. A class for electrical engineering, and a class for mechanical engineering. From 1948, the faculty changed its name to "Electrical Engineering Faculty".The name of the faculty today is "Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Energy and Applied Informatics"

In 1957, the class of electro-mechanics was created. In 1960, the class of Energetics was created, and in 1995 a hybrid class was created called "Economics Engineering", class that blends electrical and economics curricula. The last class added was in 2003, the class for Industrial Programming.

To this day, the faculty is a member of the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi.

References

External links
Faculty of Electrical Engineering 

Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași
Electrical engineering departments
NIMS. NIMS may refer to:

 National Incident Management System, used in the United States to coordinate emergency preparations and responses
 National Institute for Materials Science, a Japanese research institution
 National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, a research institution in South Korea
 Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, a device on the spacecraft Galileo
 New Indian Model School, a group of schools in United Arab Emirates
 Nihon Institute of Medical Science, a medical university in Saitama, Japan
 NIMS University in Jaipur, India
 Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, a medical university in Telangana, India
 NUST Business School (formerly NUST Institute of Management Sciences), Pakistan 

Nims may refer to:

 Nims (river), in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, left tributary of the Prüm
 Arthur Nims (1923–2019), United States Tax Court judge
 Daryl Nims (1923–1996), American politician in Iowa
 John Frederick Nims (1913–1999), American poet
 Kenny Nims (born 1987), American lacrosse player
 Nirmal Purja, Nepalese mountaineer known as Nims

See also
NIM (disambiguation)
NIMH (disambiguation)
Mehdi Bahadori. Mehdi N. Bahadori (Persian: مهدی بهادری‌نژاد) (born 1933, Tehran) is a professor of mechanical engineering at Sharif University of Technology.  His research specialties include  solar energy applications and passive cooling of buildings.

Education
Bahadori got his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tehran in 1956; his Master of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1959;  and his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1964.

Bibliography
Publications by Bahadori include:

Books

Articles

References

External links
 Mehdi Bahadori's Homepage

1933 births
Living people
Academic staff of Sharif University of Technology
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Date of birth missing (living people)
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni
University of Tehran alumni
Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame recipients in Engineering
Academy of Sciences of Iran members